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By Danny Cordova Collegian Staff

Congressmen Joseph Kennedy III of the fourth congressional district and Jim McGovern of the second congressional district spoke to students on issues of concern to young voters at the Commonwealth Honors College event hall Monday.

The visit was part of a series of college tours called “Your Vote, Your Voice,” in which the congressmen visited and spoke to students of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as Clark University and Harvard the same day.

The events were hosted by the College Democrats of Massachusetts.

Students voiced their concerns on the election to Kennedy. Some of the issues included student debt, immigration reform, gun violence, healthcare and income inequality.

“I think it’s really important for us as Democrats to recognize the frustration that we have seen boil up in the course of this campaign,” Kennedy said to the roughly 80 members of the audience. “That frustration, when it comes from the left and the right, these are problems that we have to solve.”

Kennedy highlighted issues within the criminal justice system. According to Kennedy, one in three black males born in the United States are expected

to be incarcerated within their lifetimes.

Kennedy later criticized the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, for offering “anything but solutions.”

He urged to the audience to “finish the job” on Election Day and to ensure that the Democratic candidate and former Secretary of the State Hillary Clinton becomes the next president of the United States McGovern took an opportunity to court Bernie Sanders supporters to vote for Clinton by stressing the progressive platform of the Democratic ticket.

“Because of you,” McGovern told Sanders supporters, “and your involvement in the primary in this campaign, we have the most progressive Democratic platform in the history of presidential elections.”

McGovern went on to explain Clinton is the best choice for progressives. He cited her work in childcare and also stressed the historical significance of having the first female president in U.S. history.

“I have a 15-year-old daughter. For the first time in her lifetime, I could say, ‘you could grow up to be president of the United States’ and actually mean it,” McGovern said.

McGovern also took the time to commend the UMass community in its efforts to combat hunger in Pioneer Valley and the University’s efforts to divest from fossil fuels.

“This campus basically forced this university syssee

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Zoey Arel of Old Colony Regional Vocational High School, and Ella Deane and Paige Eddy of Frontier Regional School participate in an activity at the Women in Engineering and Computing Career Day event in the Campus Center on Monday.

UMB professor talks about Vikings Discussed historical Viking settlements

By Dan Curtin Collegian Staff

Research assistant professor Douglas Bolender spoke about Vikings and their colonization of Iceland, Greenland and North America to about 50 students, faculty and members of the community in Herter Hall at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Monday evening.

Bolender is a research

assistant professor at the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research and the Department of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Northwestern University in 2006 and has conducted fieldwork in Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Hungary and Eastern North America, according to his UMass Boston biography page.

Bolender talked about his field work and experience using satellites and multi-

spectral imagery to try and find more sites of Vikings settlements in North America.

“Many of the efforts to … look for sites have actually contacted us because we do a lot of geophysical work,” Bolender said. “We specialize in finding very hard to find Viking-age sites. One of the problems with that is Canada is big. It’s really, really large. Geophysics and clearing work on a very small scale.”

Part of the talk was about L’Anse aux Meadows, the site of an 11th century

Viking settlement on the island of Newfoundland.

The National Historic Site L’Anse aux Meadows is the only known site established by Vikings in North America, according to its World Heritage United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) page.

Sherrill Harbison, director of the Scandinavian studies program at UMass, introduced Bolender.

“It’s a pleasure to welsee

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Battleground state depends on 1980s voting machines

By David G. Savage Tribune Washington Bureau

HARRISBURG, Pa. — On Election Day, voters in Pennsylvania will be touching the lighted buttons on electronic vote counters that were once seen as the solution to messy paper ballots.

But in the event of a disputed election, this battleground state one of the few that relies almost entirely on computerized voting, with no paper backup - could end up creating a far bigger mess.

Stored in a locked warehouse near downtown Harrisburg, the 1980s-era voting machines used by Dauphin County look like discarded washing machines lined up in rows. When unfolded and powered up, the gray metal boxes become the familiar voting booth, complete with a curtain for privacy.

Much may rest on the reliability and security of these aging machines after an unprecedentedly combative presidential campaign that is ending with Donald Trump warning repeatedly of a “rigged election” and his refusal at last Wednesday’s debate to commit to accepting the results on Nov. 8.

The Republican presidential nominee has specifically targeted Pennsylvania as a state where the election may be “stolen,” despite no evidence to back up such a

claim and several polls showing Democratic rival Hillary Clinton well ahead of him here.

“The only way we can lose,” he said at a recent rally in Altoona, “is if cheating goes on.”

Trump’s talk has put extra pressure on election officials to make sure the voting is free and fair, and the tally is accurate and reliable.

And there is little reason to doubt it will be.

But computer experts say the old electronic voting machines have a flaw that worries them in the event of a very close election.

The machines do not produce a paper ballot or receipt, leaving nothing to be recounted if the election outcome is in doubt, such as in 2000, when the nation awaited anxiously for Florida to reexamine those hanging chads.

“The nightmare scenario would be if Pennsylvania decides the election and it is very close. You would have no paper records to do a recount,” said Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Democracy Program, co-author of a report last year on the risk posed by old voting machines.

About three-fourths of the nation’s voters will be marking paper ballots, most of which will be counted electronically by opti-

cal scanners, said Pamela Smith, president of Verified Voting, a nonpartisan group that has advocated for paper ballots that can be counted electronically and recounted by hand to ensure trust in a close election.

California and most of the battleground states - Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia among them - have switched to voting systems with a paper trail.

By contrast, Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey and South Carolina entrust their votes entirely to electronic touch-screens.

Pennsylvania is among those states that rely almost entirely on computerized voting, according to Verified Voting.

“Pennsylvania is using technology from the ‘80s made by the companies that don’t exist anymore. In computer years, that’s a very long time ago,” Smith said.

Pennsylvania election officials say they are well aware of the challenges.

Gerald Feaser Jr., elections director for Dauphin County, agrees the older voting machines “are not sophisticated,” but he said that may be virtue. “They can’t be hacked,” he said, because they were never connected to the Internet.

“Could the Russians hack our

website on election night? Yes,” he said. But nearly 500 voting machines across the county would be untouched and their vote tallies unaffected, he said.

County election directors like Feaser nevertheless have a duty to make sure each of their voting machines is tested, working properly and programmed correctly for its precinct. Dauphin County has 162 polling precincts around Harrisburg and in the surrounding rural areas. Pennsylvania does not allow early voting, so the election begins at 7 a.m. on Nov. 8.

Marian Schneider, a voting rights lawyer who was appointed last year as Pennsylvania’s deputy secretary for elections, also acknowledges the problem with electronic machines. Still, she says, the “risk of tampering is very low.”

But Andrew Appel, a Princeton professor of computer science, said that given a screwdriver and seven minutes with an electronic machine, he could “install a votestealing program” that would be hard to detect and shift a percentage of the votes.

In states like Pennsylvania, these voting machines “are delivered to polling places several days before the election - to elementary schools, churches and firehouses,” he said. That creates the

risk of tampering. “This is not just one glitch in one manufacturer’s machine. It’s the very nature of computers,” he told a House subcommittee in Washington last month.

Feaser says state and local officials take precautions to ensure machines are kept secure and can’t be tampered with.

But Appel nevertheless recommends that the nation “eliminate the use of paperless touch-screen voting machines” after this year’s election.

Other computer experts acknowledge the problem but do not see it as significant or ominous.

“It’s true they have a potential vulnerability. You can put a bug in the software and switch some votes. But you would be talking about one machine and a few hundred votes,” said Michael Shamos, professor at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. “It’s not a systemic problem. These machines are not connected, and they are tested regularly. I have voted for years on these machines and do not have a security concern.”

In Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh and more than 1,300 voting precincts, election officials do random tests of voting machines on Election Day to check see

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Schwarzenegger: ‘I would’ve run’ for president (if not for that constitutional problem) SACRAMENTO, Calif.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger, likely the only recent exgovernor of California with an international following, always rebuffed the question during his seven years in office: Would you have liked to run for president?

“If I’d been born in America, I would’ve run,” Schwarzenegger said in an interview for the latest edition of the magazine Adweek. “Because now?

This was a very good time to get in the race.”

Schwarzenegger, of course, could not have run under almost all legal interpretations of the U.S. Constitution’s “natural born” clause for eligibility to serve as president.

Still, it rarely stopped the speculation, most notably after his well-received 2004 speech to the Republican National Convention. The GOP governor was touted shortly afterward by backers of a proposed constitutional amendment to open up presidential eligibility.

Schwarzenegger announced earlier this month that he will not vote for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, though he is replacing the businessman on the newest iteration of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice.” And though he still dabbles in politics, including an Oct. 5 return to Sacramento to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the state’s landmark climate change law, Schwarzenegger has largely returned to his Hollywood career.

“You have to set yourself apart, whether it’s policy or movies,” he said in the magazine interview.

“How do you make them remember you?”

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tem to divest in anything dealing with fossil fuels,” McGovern said. “And my hope is that it’s contagious and it pours all across the country.”

McGovern compared the election results to the Brexit results. He mentioned that polls on Brexit showed that the likely scenario was that the United Kingdom would remain within the European Union.

“We need to get people out and we need to get young people out,” McGovern

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said. “If they don’t turnout, then (Trump) wins.”

Some students agreed with both Kennedy and McGovern in their concerns if Trump is elected president.

“Personally, I worry about that if (Trump) loses the election, then Donald Trump may refuse to concede,” said Trevor Perkins, a freshman political science major. “That’s kind of a bedrock pillar of democracy that we accept the legitimacy of our elections.”

“Not many people my age want to get involved in politics,” said Viraj Ayar, a freshman economics and political science major. “Personally, whatever your views are of the two candidates running for president, you have these congressmen coming down and reaching out to regular students.”

Danny Cordova can be reached at dcordova@umass.edu, and followed on Twitter @DannyJCordova.

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come today a colleague from UMass Boston,” Harbison said. “His findings will allow us to reinterpret sites associated with prominent settlers such as Erik the Red and Leif Erikson” Bolender’s presentation featured a slideshow and included pictures of sites he had been a part of including work on BBC’s “Viking Unearthed.”

The session was sponsored by the German and Scandinavian studies program at UMass Amherst, and funded by the Barbro Osher Pro

Suecia Foundation. The name of the talk was “The Vikings Age Colonization of the North Atlantic and the Importance of being First.”

A section of Bolender’s talk explored the motivations behind why so many people would move to place with inhospitable environments.

“I want to come back to this question of why would people first move into someplace like Iceland in the … thousands and shortly then push on to an environment that’s even more marginalized

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than Iceland and continue to push into new areas,” Bolender said.

Bolender answered his own question by explaining there were more opportunities the earlier someone arrived at settlement.

“I’m taking a couple of Scandinavian classes,” said Nicholas Wolley, a senior economics and psychology double major.

“For settlements, it’s best to be there early.”

for tampering or irregularities.

“We randomly select 20 machines and pull them out of service,” said Mark Wolosik, county election director. “We have an independent lab test them. We have been doing this since 2008 and haven’t found any problems,” he said.

Election officials and most party leaders — Republicans and Democrats - reject Trump’s talk of the election being “stolen” or “rigged.”

In Pennsylvania, polling places have a judge and two inspectors - representing the two major parties - to watch over the voting. And each side can have three designated “poll watchers” monitor them. They may challenge a voter who does not live in the area or is not who he says he is.

“There are a lot of eyes watching at the polls.

They’re Republicans and Democrats,” said Ralph Teti, a Philadelphia lawyer and a Democrat who for many years represented

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the city’s election board.

“They know the people in the neighborhood. The idea that you can bus people in from outside the area is just absurd.”

Michael Korns, the Republican chairman in Westmoreland County in western Pennsylvania, says he sees “no reason to be concerned” about the fairness of the vote counting.

“I don’t believe there is any danger in the election being ‘rigged.’ That’s just what people say when you lose,” he said.

The election officials do say they would welcome newer voting machines, but the cost is a problem. “The counties can’t afford it.

And these machines have worked well for us,” Feaser said.

In Pittsburgh, Wolosik said election officials were treating this election just like every other. “We hope everything goes well on Election Day,” he said.

“And the election is not close.”

Creepy clowns affect studied International observers by psychologists Dan Curtin can be reached at dcurtin@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @dmcurtin96.

will watch election closely

By Franco Ordonez

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The team of international election experts invited to keep an eye on the U.S. election has seen not any evidence of a potential “rigged” outcome, according to their director.

Donald Trump hasn’t backed off his allegations of a “rigged election” and indicated in last Wednesday’s debate that he might not accept the results of the Nov. 8 vote.

T he inter national observers from the Organization of American States have been monitoring the campaign and media reports since the OAS accepted Secretary of State John Kerry’s invitation this summer to observe the 2016 election — the first time the hemispheric organization has observed a U.S. election.

Gerardo de Icaza, the director of the OAS’ department of electoral cooperation and observation, said they’d looked into some of the reported allegations and had not seen any substantial problems. He called the allegations general and lacking in specificity, which make them more difficult to investigate.

“If the basis of the argument is that there is intent to falsify results, we have not seen any evidence at all of that,” De Icaza said.

“What does ‘rig’ mean?

Does it mean that the electoral system benefits one campaign over the other?

We also have not seen any of that.”

For months, Trump has suggested that the national election would be rigged against him. Democrats and Republicans have also fought over voter ID laws, which require citizens to present some kind of identification at the polls. Supporters say

the requirements protect against fraud, but civil rights groups say they discriminate against low-income and minority voters, and some of the restrictions have been struck down by courts.

Trump also has charged that people are voting multiple times. He says immigrants who are in the United States illegally are voting. And he has said there are millions of people registered to vote who shouldn’t be registered.

His campaign has cited a 2012 Pew Center study that estimated about 24 million voter registrations in the United States are no longer valid or are inaccurate.

“Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day,” Trump tweeted last week. “Why do Republican leaders deny what is going on? So naive!”

He’s not alone in his thinking. Only about 4 in 10 Americans have a high degree of confidence that the votes in the 2016 presidential election will be counted correctly, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

But studies show rigging an election is nearly impossible to do.

A Loyola Law School professor found only 31 known cases of impersonation fraud out of 1 billion votes in all American elections from 2000 to 2014.

“Perhaps because these stories are dramatic, voter fraud makes a popular scapegoat,” wrote the authors of a 2007 report by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School that found fraud almost nonexistent. “In the aftermath of a close election, losing candidates often are quick to blame voter fraud for the results.”

Trump has not gotten much support from his party. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said in a statement that he was “fully confident” in the nation’s elections systems.

The OAS has picked 13 states — including California, Kansas, Georgia and Pennsylvania — and the District of Columbia where some 40 observers will review the electoral process, electoral organization and technology, campaign finance and political participation.

This week, the OAS mission chief, former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla, will travel to Georgia. OAS leaders also will meet with the campaigns, where they’ll be able to gather more feedback on the process and any specific allegations.

De Icaza emphasized that the OAS is simply observing the election and has no authority to intervene. That doesn’t mean it wouldn’t investigate a report of fraud or other problem. It also would report the allegation to the proper federal and local election authorities. But De Icaza said they were not seeing any indication of a significant problem.

De Icaza described the U.S. electoral process as a “strong system” with multiple processes that can resolve problems.

He said the Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns had had equal access to the media. They’ve both had equal opportunities to deploy their campaigns in states throughout the country.

“You have a system that is very transparent, that is very public, that is organized by your friends and neighbors, not by an electoral administration that can be linked to government, for instance,” he said. “You don’t have that.”

By Christine Clarridge The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — What's up with these creepy clowns?

Across the nation, and even across seas, people have been calling police to report being menaced by people in clown costumes. An expert in the field of group psychology at Washington State University says there are several factors that could play into the motives of the "deviant" jesters.

Among them are distress and anxiety, social contagion, a desire to be noticed and stand out and "the wellestablished principle of de-individuation" in which people who feel anonymous or disguised do things they ordinarily wouldn't do.

"The spreading of unusual behaviors is more common at times when there is a lot of tension, conflict and anxiety," said Craig D. Parks, social psychologist and assistant vice provost at WSU. "You may have people who don't like the way the world is going, who feel that their economic situation is not improving or are very upset about the hightension presidential race," Parks said. "All things being equal, that could incline them toward deviant behaviors."

While law-enforcement authorities say that many of the reports have turned out to be hoaxes, The New York Times reported that a dozen people have been arrested.

In Kentucky, a man dressed as a clown was arrested after lurking in the woods. Children in Ohio and Texas have been charged with making clown-related threats to school classmates. A New York City teen told police a clown threatened him with a knife in the subway. In Wisconsin earlier this month, a couple was arrested after police discovered they'd left their 4-year-old child home alone while they went clowning.

Parks said the clown craze is interesting, and not particularly surprising, to social psychologists.

"There are classic aspects to it that we've seen in the past," he said.

Among those aspects is the principle of de-individuation.

"When people are taking part in a riot they may do things, such as set things on fire and tip cars, that they would otherwise think was wrong."

Another factor that's at play could be what Parks called social contagion.

Although traditionally social contagion is more likely to spread among people who have frequent physical contact with each, the internet has altered that aspect of the phenomenon.

Social contagion is when somebody does something unusual, and it affects other people, said Parks.

"People see it and say, 'Wow! I'm going to do that, too," he said.

Copycat clowns are likely motivated by the idea of getting attention and making it into the news.

"If you feel that people aren't paying attention to you, and you want to stand out and you see that people are being written about for dressing like a clown and jumping out and scaring people, this may be a relatively safe way to get attention," Parks said.

Bill Indick, a visiting professor of psychology at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., who specializes in media psychology, agrees that attentionseeking behavior is one explanation.

But at its heart, he says, the clown craze is a media phenomenon.

"That's why it comes in waves," Indick said.

"The media propagates it, creates it, feeds it and at a certain point, gets tired of it. The media then digests it and eliminates it. And just as quickly as it started, it's over."

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Popularity of Obama, ‘Serial’ podcast subject Clinton muscle support Syed asks to be released Democrat Senate hopes from prison after 17 years

By Arit John Bloomberg News Democrats in North Carolina are betting that the conditions are right to retake a crucial Senate seat.

Deborah Ross, looking to unseat Republican Richard Burr, is reaping the benefits of a presidential election year that Kay Hagan lacked when she lost narrowly to Republican Thom Tillis in the 2014 mid-term _ a well-organized candidate at the top of the ticket, increased turnout, and the resurgent popularity of President Barack Obama.

"He's always done all he could do to expand opportunities for students, for workers, and for our families," Ross, a former state legislator, said earlier this month at a rally with Obama. "He's worked hard to lift people up, and that's exactly what I want to do for you as your U.S. senator."

Ross, 53, trails Burr by an average of 2.8 percent points, according to Real Clear Politics. The race is considered a toss-up and is likely to remain deadlocked up until Election Day. But in a battleground state where Clinton's campaign has invested heavily in television advertising and coordinated with local party operatives, the Democratic organizational advantage and dominance on the airwaves may tip the scales.

"The Hillary Clinton team has been a tide that is raising all the boats for every candidate up and down the ballot," said Brad Crone, a Raleighbased Democratic strategist. "The turnout mechanism that she has run is unprecedented; I think more sophisticated than President Obama ran in 2008." Crone said the difference is Clinton's use of data, and that the campaign has targeted "soft Republican" voters, including registered Republicans who live in the same household as an unaffiliated voter.

North Carolina two years ago staged the most expensive Senate race of the cycle as outside groups poured tens of millions of dollars into the fight between Hagan, a first-term incumbent, and Tillis, speaker of the state House of Representatives.

The cycle's focus on national security and the glitch-riddled rollout of Obamacare created a toxic environment for Democrats like Hagan, who avoided the president on the trail.

Democrats tend to do better in presidential elec-

tion years, when turnout is higher. But even with a record-breaking midterm turnout in North Carolina in 2014, when 2.7 million votes were cast, Hagan lost by 45,000 votes.

In 2008, when 4.3 million ballots were cast in the state, Hagan, then a little known local politician, like Ross, was buoyed

by Obama's narrow victory in the state, and beat Republican incumbent Senator Elizabeth Dole by 360,000 votes.

History could repeat in November. Ross and other Democratic challengers like gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper are benefiting from Obama's improved popularity, and Clinton currently leads Trump in the state by an average of 2.5 percentage points in a three-way race that also includes Libertarian Gary Johnson. While Clinton isn't popular in North Carolina, she's less unpopular than Trump, has a better organized ground game, and has spent more on television advertisements. Burr's re-election campaign has relied on the Republican National Committee to supplement its efforts, while Ross and other Democratic candidates are part of a coordinated campaign run by the Clinton campaign, which has 33 offices and 300 paid staffers in the state.

In a bit of bad timing, Burr, 60, was named as a national security adviser to Trump on Oct. 7, minutes before the release of the now infamous "Access Hollywood" video. Burr's been forced to defend his support for Trump in the face of the video, in which Trump brags about being able to grope women, as well as given Trump's stance on Vladimir Putin and Russia. During this month's candidate's debate, the only one between the pair, Burr, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, struggled to explain why the Republican nominee refuses to say that Russia is responsible for the WikiLeaks hacks of Democrats, despite reports to that effect from the intelligence community. "I'm not in a position that I could make a comment on it," Burr said.

Critics also note that Burr waited until late August to begin airing ads in the race, and didn't really begin campaigning until October.

"I am surprised that Senator Burr had the opportunity to define the race early and really didn't take advantage of that," Crone said, adding

that Burr went into June and July with a significant cash-on-hand advantage over Ross.

Burr's slow start gave Ross time to prove to outside groups like the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee that she was worthy of their investment. The DSCC went on the air in North Carolina in September, as did Women Vote!, the independent expenditure arm of EMILY's List. In early October, AFSCME and SEIU started running ads as well, and the League of Conservation Voters announced last week that it would spend $3 million on TV ads.

Two-thirds of of all ads in the North Carolina senate race have come from Democrats, according to data from Kantar Media/ CMAG. That spending has been complemented

by Clinton's own efforts.

As of Oct. 11, Clinton has spent $14.3 million on television ads in the state, at least twice as much as Trump.

The Democratic groups supporting Ross have focused on the same message: tying Burr to special interests and accusing him of using his two decades in Washington, in the Senate and the House, to grow his own personal wealth. "You don't have a lot to run on when you've spent 20 years making Washington work for you, so Senator Burr is resorting to the worst-ofpolitics attacks to save his own career," said DSCC national press secretary said Lauren Passalcqua.

Late last week, in the wake of the multiple accusations of inappropriate sexual conduct against the Republican nominee, Ross' campaign aired its first ad tying Burr to Trump in which a narrator characterizes that alliance as Burr putting "politics and himself" ahead of the interests of North Carolina voters.

Paul Shumaker, a North Carolina GOP strategist and Burr adviser, says neither candidate is eager to discuss their own party's presidential nominee.

"It's clear that there are problems with both candidates, but that's where he is, just like he's not seen Deborah Ross defend Hillary Clinton," Shumaker said. "She's still highly unfavorable, but the Ross people prefer not to talk about Hillary Clinton, they would prefer to talk about Donald Trump."

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Deborah Ross speaks at the home of David and Mellanie Morgan on Aug. 13, 2016 in Albermarle, North Carolina.

By Justin Fenton The Baltimore Sun

BALTIMORE — Adnan Syed, the "Serial" podcast subject whose murder conviction was overturned this summer, is asking for a judge to grant his release as he awaits a new trial.

The petition filed Monday by his defense team says Syed would be no danger to the community and that they have a social worker lined up to help him transition out of prison, where he has spent the past 17 years without any behavior problems.

It also points to the "crumbling" case against him and raises new accusations about his former co-defendant, Jay Wilds, who was a key witness against him at trial.

"Syed has been waiting 17 years to get back into court to prove his innocence," his attorneys write. "With that moment within his grasp, there is no reason to think he would now abscond from justice and risk everything he has accomplished to date."

After failed attempts to overturn his conviction, the case became the subject of the blockbuster "Serial" podcast, which raised questions about the case against him.

It is rare for someone facing a violent crime punishable by life in prison to be released pending trial. But Syed's attorneys say it is allowed under the law, and that Syed is a good candidate for such an exception.

Syed was convicted by a Baltimore jury in 2000 of killing ex-girlfriend and Woodlawn High School class-

mate Hae Min Lee, whose body was found buried in Leakin Park. After years of appeals and following the success of "Serial," Syed's attorneys successfully argued to a city judge that questions over key evidence should prompt a new trial.

The state is appealing, a process the defense says could take years.

Prior to his arrest, Syed had no history of violence, and has been a model inmate while locked up in a maximum security prison over the past 17 years, his attorneys say.

"Prisons are among the most violent places in our society, yet Syed has not been cited for a single violent act in 17 years in that environment," his attorneys write.

De par tment of Corrections records refer to him as an "excellent" worker who "requires minimal supervision" and is "always very respectful to staff." In 2009, he was caught with a contraband cell phone, but has never been cited for a fight or insubordination, they say.

In deciding whether to grant bail, the court takes into consideration whether a defendant is a flight risk - something that is not a concern in Syed's case, his attorneys say.

A significant portion of the petition is spent attacking the state's case, including Wilds, who testified that Syed showed him Lee's body, confessed to strangling her and together they buried the body.

Syed's attorneys say Wilds' story has shifted and changed, and that his credibility will be further undermined by his interactions with law enforcement in recent years.

"Under these circumstances, the nature of the evidence in this case tilts decidedly in favor or releasing Syed before another jury has the unenviable task of sorting through the inconsistencies in the brand-new story that Wilds will inevitably tell," Syed's attorneys write.

Since his testimony, "Wilds has been arrested, convicted or investigated by police more than 20 times," they write, including an "ominous history of being charged for incidents of rage and violence against women."

They pulled police reports involving Wilds and contacted one ex-girlfriend who said Wilds had strangled her out of jealousy.

Wilds did not participate in "Serial," where his account of the events was challenged.

In an interview with "The Intercept," Wilds said he had not been truthful with police about some aspects of his story but maintained that he had helped dispose of the body.

"There's nothing that's gonna change the fact that this guy drove up in front of my grandmother's house, popped the trunk, and had his dead girlfriend in the trunk," Wilds told The Intercept.

Efforts to reach Wilds on Monday were unsuccessful.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016 “There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history is yet to be made.” - Michelle Obama

Question 5 is bad for local community This week, I interviewed margin among educators and Laura Quilter, a local par- parents. So why has this not been raised as a bigger issue?

Edridge D’Souza According to Kopicki, “the wording on the ballot does not ent, librarian and lawyer, sufficiently indicate to someas well as Maria Kopicki, one who hasn’t followed this a local parent, physician issue that this is a very conand researcher. Quilter and troversial proposal and that Kopicki are Amherst commu- it ends the current K-6 system nity members affiliated with that Amherst families and Save Amherst’s Small Schools students love.” A University (SASS) and are worried about of Massachusetts Amherst the effects of the local bal- student registered to vote in lot Question 5. They are con- Amherst would only see that cerned that Question 5 will the proposal aims to give more have harmful effects, not only money to local schools, which to the students attending the seems like a fairly innocuelementary schools but also to ous assertion. What it doesn’t the college students who live mention is the fact that this in the area.

The gist of the proposal is it aims to restructure the Amherst school system. Instead of three small schools, the town will close down two of them to create one large school to hold 750 students. SASS is concerned that with the increase in school size, proposal will continue to raise there will be complications taxes and increase debt for the with the quality of education, next quarter of a century. cost and effect on the students What does the other side and teachers. have to say about this? The The proposal is also mas- pro-Question 5 side claims sively expensive. As Quilter consolidating the elemensays, “The superintendent’s tary school system into one proposal is to make one of larger school will save money the most expensive elemen- due to “operational savings.” tary schools, after inflation However, Kopicki argues that adjustment, in the history of these savings are only by havMassachusetts: $67 million. ing larger grade sizes while This will raise taxes, say, for hiring five-fold fewer teachers instance, my home at $325,000 and custodians. Quilter adds, a year will result in a tax “our website, sassamherst. increase of around $400 a year org, has a tax increase calfor the first 10 years.” College culator. If you email us, we students will also feel this tax can help you learn how much increase, as the tax increase your taxes are projected to will be passed on from apart- increase. For instance, we can ment owners to the students estimate that a $150,000 house who rent the apartments. The would increase its property time frame for this is as soon tax alone by $200 extra every as the coming year. year.”

This tax increase is his- Quilter and Kopicki protorically large and unpopular vide an important insight among the people it claims to into Question 5. Bills like this help. According to Kopicki, a often exploit creative word$33 million debt would affect ing to appear palatable on the Amherst rental values over surface while having strongly the next 25 years, and is actu- negative consequences for ally opposed by a three-to-one the actual communities they

impact. It’s massively unpopular among its supposed target audience and only really seems to be benefiting the administrators.

This bill has something that everyone can oppose.

Fiscal conservatives will appreciate the fact this bill calls for an unnecessary increase in government spending that could otherwise be devoted to improving the existing educational infrastructures.

Liberals should take note of the fact that while the bill appears to be about spending more on education, it ends up spending most on aspects that are tangentially related to education while gutting funding for the core components that would actually matter to students. And perhaps most pertinent to UMass students, the enormous financial toll of this project would substantially increase apartment rentals for the next quarter of a century, assuming costs don’t increase over time.

Question 5 seems like it would help teachers and students. However, when approval for the measure is so low among the teachers and students, it seems that the only members who stand to benefit from this proposal are the administrators.

Massachusetts prides itself for having the best educational system in the nation; Amherst, at the heart of the Five College Consortium, is no exception and we owe it to our national reputation to prevent measures like this from devaluing our children’s futures. For all UMass students who plan to vote locally in Amherst this November, it would be in their best interests, as well as the best interest of the permanent residents of the town, to vote no on Question 5.

Edrige D’Souza is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at edsouza@umass.edu.

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A theory on why drunk people are destructive For use later, I would like to point out the findings of

I either dozed off or entered a supreme meditative state, likely the former, Charlie Giordano but before I was coherently aware, there were people an experiment conducted at starting to congregate. It the Ohio State University, was now about 3:30 p.m. which was reported by the Evidently, some emotionDaily Mail. In it, subjects ally ambivalent text meswere given either a potent or sages asking for people’s very weak cocktail, which for Saturday plans had struck some led to intoxication and others to act as such since they were all told they’d been given a strong cocktail.

The administrators then had the subjects engage in what they called a contest with another patient to see who could withstand a the iron while it was hot, longer electrical shock.

They found those who, and no more than 20 minprior to the experiment, utes later I was watching a answered they agreed with large mass of people standstatements similar to “I ing before me engaging in only act to satisfy immedi- some frivolity replete with ate concerns, figuring the illicitness. A lot of ales, few future will take care of meaningful interactions and itself,” were disproportion- a lot of smashing. ately more likely to want That is the true essence to administer prolonged of what I am writing about shocks on their opponent. here. It is one thing to watch This will be important later. a ton of peers “party” and I am a resident of a cer- then tell people about it. It’s tain residential complex off quite another to sit on your campus. I think without say- patio with a good friend, lising more, there have been ten to some UB40 and gain at times hundreds of people insight into the problems in my backyard smashing that plague mankind. things, so one can easily Anyway, my roommate gather exactly which com- and I watched as three men, whose identities are a mysplex I am talking about.

So when I began living tery to me, began to look in the apartment-complex- a bit antsy. They were all that-will-not-be-named, I drinking beers, seemingly was curious how exactly the having a good time, and events known ubiquitously then they sort of nervously as “day drinks” actually walked over to a wooden chair that had been for some begin.

As it turns out the answer reason left in the middle of is about as bizarre and the festivities. unapologetically silly as I One of the men without could have imagined, per- warning picked the chair up and repeatedly smashed haps more.

It was a Saturday. I was on it to pieces, his accomplice my patio relaxing in one of stomping on those pieces so my pal’s plastic Adirondack as to fragment the seat until chairs. As I sat, it got pretty it was no more than small warm so I decided to get a pieces of wood. bit of glow and took off my I should note that when shirt. This was about 2:30 the smashing was over they p.m. attempted to stir the crowd

into a frenzy with a rousing “F--- that chair” chant, to no avail.

Regardless, I argue these men, as well as all the people I saw hurling full cans of beer into the air, raining unexpected pain down upon others, certainly adhere to the mantra, “I only act to satisfy immediate concerns, figuring the future will take care of itself.”

College party culture, at least so far as I have gathered from attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst for 4.5 semesters, is just a bit odd in truth.

When confronted with an opportunity to converse so as to connect with their peers, who were literally standing all around them, these two men felt it wiser to destroy a piece of furniture.

I can only speculate, but I owe this sort of behavior to wrongly affirmed hypermasculinity, derivative of young men unsure of themselves and uncertain of their communicative capabilities.

I mean this not to belittle people who are socially anxious or insecure about themselves but to critique a culture that prescribes too many young people struggling to find themselves an attitude that would have them binge drink, vandalize, steal and generally be barbaric for the sake of making friends.

The majority of students that attend UMass will not have been to this type of event, nor even care. What I desire of those who have and do is to just be aware of what alcohol does and perhaps gain a firmer understanding of why it is that we as an age group binge drink so often.

“I owe this sort of behavior to wrongly affirmed hyper-masculinity, derivative of young men unsure of themselves and uncertain of their communicative capabilities.”

Charlie Giordano is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at crgiordano@umass.edu.

Why is no one talking about the prison strike in the U.S.?

During the 1968 Presidential organizing across the nation election, amid swelling riots through smuggled cellphones.

Their grievances range from Patrick Malone forced, unpaid labor to the liberal use of solitary conand anti-war dissent, Richard finement. Prisons have been Nixon largely based his cam- quick to crack down on the paign on restoring “law and strikers. But, in spite of the order” in the United States. This backlash, the strike has conrhetoric would eventually cul- tinued for over a month. So minate into a harsh escalation why is nobody talking about of the war on drugs. Nearly 50 it? years have passed and the U.S. The United States curhas witnessed many disastrous rently has the highest incarfailures on behalf of the war ceration rate in the Western on the drugs and the resulting world. We incarcerate nearexpansion of the prison-indus- ly six times as many people as trial complex. It is concerning, China, nearly seven times as then, that Donald J. Trump is many as France and nearly 10 still squawking about “law and times as many as Germany. order.”

Nearly half a million people As it stands, the U.S. is in are imprisoned for non-violent, the midst of the largest prison drug related offenses, with the strike in its 238-year history. prison population disproporThe strike began Sept. 9 and has tionately African-American. continued since, with prisoners Our prisons are overcrowded

and the conditions are deplor- $1, producing commodities for able. Solitary confinement has corporations like Victoria’s been an increasingly common Secret. The American taxpayers shell out $80 billion annually for this practice to continue.

It seems asinine, at this point, to argue that anybody is being “rehabilitated” by this institution. The number of prisoners housed in private facilities rose 37 percent between 2002 and 2009, as those facilities can make a good deal of money turning out repeat offenders.

The prison-industrial practice. Oftentimes prison- complex lies at the heart of many ers in solitary confinement are of the issues America presently tortured with the same meth- faces and it makes sense that the ods used at Guantanamo Bay, backlash has taken the shape including extreme temperatures in the largest prison strike in and forced insomnia. Many of U.S, history. Regardless, the the people subjected to these American public seems to be conditions will attempt suicide. unaware of this. Hillary Clinton Prisoners are forced to work, has only tepidly addressed the either for free or for wages under issue while Trump seems to be

“Nearly half a million people are impriosned for non-violent, drug related offenses, and the prison population is disproportionately African-American.”

demanding further escalation.

Gary Johnson, the libertarian party’s nominee, led the charge for prison privatization when he was governor of New Mexico, which now houses 44 percent of its prisoners in for-profit facilities. The media has done a deplorable job of covering the strike. During the week that the strike broke out, “Harambe” was Google searched 75 times more often than “prison strike.”

The condition of America’s penal system is a disgrace. As the prisons continue to crack down on the strikers, it is clear that something needs to change.

We are witnessing one of the greatest injustices of our time, yet nobody is talking about it.

Patrick Malone is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at pmalone@umass.edu.

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FILM REVIEW

‘Miss Peregrine’s’ a step in right direction for Burton A passable fantasy film affair at best

By Nate Taskin Collegian Staff

It’s nice to see Tim Burton make decent movies again, despite the fact they often fall short of the potential he displayed in the 1990s. After he delivered the dullest possible take on “Alice in Wonderland” coupled with the one-two punch of the asinine “Dark Shadows,” I was worried that he lost his delightfully macabre touch forever.

Yet as soon as he cut the dead weight that is Johnny Depp from his filmography, a marked jump in quality ensued. Now, that is not to say he has started to churn out masterpieces à la “Ed Wood,” yet if a friend were to take “Frankenweenie” or “Big Eyes” out on Redbox, I wouldn’t object to it, either.

His most recent project, “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” based on the novel by Ransom Riggs, is neither particularly great nor overly awful. It’s pretty much the definition of “fine.”

Asa Butterfield plays Jake Portman, who assumes the typical Burton protagonist as the misunderstood pale-skinned brunette lad.

He discovers he has inherited his grandfather’s ability to see Lovecraftian monsters called “Hollowgast.”

(Yes, really. There’s some cheap genocide imagery in this film that seems more a signifier than substance.)

Jake embarks to Wales with his estranged father – wouldn’t be a Burton film without one – to find

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‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’ is based off of the novel by Ransom Riggs about a boy who finds a home away from home after a horrible tradegy. his grandpa’s childhood orphanage. This is no ordinary orphanage though, as it provides a safe haven to children with special – one might even say peculiar – abilities, including a girl with a mouth on the back of her head, a boy with bees in his stomach and two creepy twin Gorgons.

Nevertheless, danger lurks on the horizon when the sinister Mr. Barron (Samuel L. Jackson) threatens to destroy the 1940s time loop that Charles Xavier’s … oops … I mean Ms. Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children

lives inside, and wishes to harvest their eyeballs in order to restore his human form. You may have noticed this plot is more than a little convoluted.

While far from groundbreaking – the film borrows the plot threads of at least half a dozen different young adult narratives – the film still retains a distinctive sense of Burton-y humor and tone, along with his trademark visual flair.

One scene involves one of the Ymbrynes (that’s what the ersatz mutants in this universe are called; don’t ask me why) control-

ling the corpse of another child via a marionette, and I’m impressed that Burton managed to include such a cool, morbid image inside a children’s film.

Shame about the lead though. While I’m sure Butterfield is a nice young man who always eats his vegetables and calls his grandmother and whatnot, he has the charm of wet mud here.

Although Jake, as yet another “Chosen One” (the most tedious archetype in fiction) does not give him much personality to begin with (the more nondescript the hero, the better the audience can

strates her classic smolder. Her eyes have a manic intensity to them that never wavers. We understand immediately this witch is at once deeply unhinged and completely in control of her surroundings. Maybe one day she can star in a movie that deserves her.

Although Burton has given the typical tone-deaf white man response in the face of well-deserved flack over this movie’s lack of diversity, at least the one person of color present is Jackson, who is clearly having a blast. Although it doesn’t have the delightful goofiness of his “Kingsman” performance, Jackson’s campy energy is so invigorating here that it almost makes one forget that the movie’s central conflict is literally about the attempts of a group of white children to keep a black man from disturbing their perfect 1940s utopia.

So, while the movie’s optics are more than a little troubling, I can’t bring myself to actively dislike it. While I realize that my reviews tend to skew on the polarized end of the opinion, this movie is the first in a while where I’m truly torn.

“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” is too imaginative to be a hackwork, and it’s too derivative to be innovative. Maybe someday, Tim Burton can reclaim the former mantle of “tortured genius” that 13-year-old me idolized, but that day isn’t today. Keeping Depp away seems to have set a good trend, though.

project themselves, right?), Butterfield’s near-constant blank face and muted reactions fail to help enrich an already dull doormat, made even more irritating by the constant reminders of his peculiarity. One would think after “The Lego Movie’s” perfect skewering of “the Special” that writers this played-out trope, yet here’s another Chosen One to throw on the pile.

Thankfully, what can be said about Butterfield cannot be said for Eva Green, who is absolutely stellar as always. As the titular Miss Nate Taskin can be reached at Peregrine, Green demon- ntaskin@umass.edu.

TV REVIEW

‘The Get Down’gets down to the nitty gritty of hip-hop

By Steven Turner-Parker Collegian Correspondent

Let me start this review by saying that I am a huge fan of old school hip-hop who loves listening to timeless records that seem to never lose their touch.

From Afrika Bambaataa to Tupac Shakur my taste for old school hip-hop is pretty broad. When I heard about “The Get Down,” created by Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis, I was automatically pumped to watch it.

Adding to the excitement was knowing that Nasir Jones (Nas) was a executive producer for the show as well.

Not only did Nas executive produce for “The Get Down,” he also did a good amount of rhyme writing for the series.

Nas told Rolling Stone magazine, “I don’t know if I’m an expert, but I’m just a super fan of the old school and the golden era, and so it just felt like I couldn’t have asked for a better project to be involved with.” I had very high expectations before watching “The Get Down,” and must say they were all met.

“The Get Down” showcases the culture of hip-hop in a cool, subtle way that anyone can gravitate to. Taking place in the mecca of hip-hop, the Bronx, New York (aka the BX), staying authentic to the culture of those times in the area. Showcasing the wild style people had during the beginning ages of hip-hop from the fashion to the slang, “The Get Down” gives that retro feeling of what it felt like

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‘The Get Down’ is a musical television series set in the 1970s where characters work to tell the orgin of hip-hop’s orgin and the decline of disco. living in the late ‘70s Bronx.

Credit for the show’s authentic sound and look of the Bronx in the ‘70s is due to DJ Grandmaster Flash.

Not only does a younger version of Flash appear in the show (played by Mamoudou Athie), but the man himself also helped the cast members develop their characters by holding a 1970s “boot camp” before filming started,

teaching them how to spin like a DJ, hold a microphone and master the popular dance moves of the late ‘70s.

The story follows a young kid named Ezekiel “Zeke” Figuero (Justice Smith), who is an amazing wordsmith (rapper) and in love with this tenacious girl named Mylene (Herizen F. Guardiola). She has an incredible voice, which she plans on taking

to Manhattan to become a star, but her dream goes against her fiercely religious background. They both want to make it out of the Bronx, a common goal that could either pull them apart or bring them together.

Their relationship throughout the whole six episodes become more appealing as you see them grow as individuals and understanding

member of the crew who has a hard time fitting in at one point during the series then out of nowhere finds his position. Boo-Boo, the tagalong little brother, has incredible energy that comes out at the right moments.

Jaden Smith feels puts himself into Dizzee’s shoes well. Some of the spacy things Dizzee would say felt like something Jaden himself might say. With lines like “Is it just me or is the Bronx getting closer to the sun?” or “This song’s gonna set so many people free,” I felt like I was watching Jaden Smith playing Jaden Smith in a 1970s Afro.

Shaolin Fantastic is a definite standout. He’s an up-andcoming disc jockey learning from the young Grandmaster Flash the art of DJing. When viewers first meet Shaolin they see him as a superhero of south Bronx, hidden in the shadows and jumping across roofs with his smooth moves.

Shaolin is driven to become the great DJ to come out the Bronx to take this new music style up and beyond.

Overall, “The Get Down” is a great piece of television that knows how to pull its audience into the lives of its characters, and educates the people who love hip-hop on the birth of the genre, how the culture was formed and its momentum grew it into what it is now. The show’s new episodes can’t drop soon enough.

their connection. Their arc is explosive and loving at the same time, and I can’t wait to see what’s next for them.

Then there’s Zeke’s crew, who calls themselves “The Get Down Brothers” made up of Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore), Dizzee Kipling (Jaden Smith), Ra-Ra Kipling (Skylan Brooks) and Boo-Boo Kipling (Tremaine Brown Jr.). Steven Turner can be reached at Ra-Ra is the most loyal sturnerparke@umass.edu.

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With that being said, Carvel admits their overall game-plan isn’t revolving around the two talented brothers.

“They’re just two of the twenty players on the ice,” Carvel said. “We’re not going into this game trying to focus on any single

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guy.”

“This team we’re going to play competes at a whole different level. It’s going to be a good learning experience for us.”

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UMass players celebrate a goal by Patrick Lee during the Minutemen’s 3-2 win over Army last Friday. UMass averages 3.3 goals per game this season.

(Wischow) was a little bit ahead. Now we want to give (Renyard) a full game and see what he can do.”

The Bobcats enter Tuesday having lost their last contest 3-0 to Boston University.

Quinnipiac leads the all-time matchup with the Minutemen with a 6-2-2 record, but despite reaching last season’s NCAA National Championship game, the Bobcats tied and then lost a 4-3 overtime affair to Carvel’s St. Lawrence squad in the regular season of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. That was one of just four losses

on Quinnipiac’s schedule.

“You have to give the team a real solid gameplan,” Carvel said. “You can’t go in and hope for the best and just see what happens. If you don’t compete with them – that’s where they’re really good. They play at a good tempo and they really compete hard.

That’s been our focus for the last couple of weeks.

We’re trying to raise our compete (level) to a new level and we’ll have to raise it a couple notches against Quinnipiac.”

Kyle DaLuz can be reached at kdaluz@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Kyle_DaLuz.

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World Series to start Tuesday Cubs last won title during 1908 season

ers in the game who’s having a terrific postseason, hitting .342. Addison Russell is another former top prospect

By Ryan Lewis at shortstop. For the Indians, Akron Beacon Journal third baseman Jose Ramirez has had a slow postseason.

CLEVELAND — For the Shortstop Francisco Lindor first time in 19 years, the has continued his emerWorld Series has come to gence as a superstar. Second Cleveland. All that stands baseman Jason Kipnis, now in the Indians’ way is the dealing with a low ankle best team in baseball and the possibility of a 108-year sprain, is expected to be OK. One issue for the Indians drought coming to an end.

The national expo- deals with Mike Napoli and WALLY SKALIJ/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS sure of this World Series, Carlos Santana, as they’ll primarily because of the lose one of them and the The Cubs clinched their first World Series berth since 1945 on Saturday.

Cubs’ involvement, will designated hitter in Games be immense. According to 3, 4 and 5 under National The Cubs are led by three New York Yankees this seaTickPick, the average ticket League rules. aces. Jon Lester has been son who owns the 103-mph for one of the four poten- Edge: Cubs nearly unhittable this post- fastball. tial Indians home games is season, posting an 0.86 ERA going for $3,862. The average Outfield in 21 innings pitched. Then Edge: Indians cost of a ticket to Wrigley Field is up to $10,590.

The Cubs’ outfield has comes Jake Arrieta, recentBench/manager The Indians will again be some name power as well. ly one of the best pitchers underdogs, this time against One of Terry Francona’s in baseball but one who has a 103-win Cubs team. Here’s favorite players, Ben struggled a bit in October, The Indians have leva quick breakdown of the Zobrist, is in left field. In and Kyle Hendricks, who eraged their outfield and has had a terrific season. matchups. right field has been the bench as much as any team John Lackey is likely fourth Cubs’ major free-agent signin that line. The Indians’ in the league. Cubs manager Infield ing from this past offsearotation, which has been Joe Maddon and Francona son who has had a terrible strong all October, has as represent two of the more The Cubs’ infield is October, Jason Heyward. many question marks as well-respected managers in young and supremely talDexter Fowler roams center answers. Ace Corey Kluber baseball who have embraced ented. Kris Bryant, a Most field. The Indians will conwill throw Game 1. He has many of the enlightened Valuable Player favorite, tinue to leverage the situaan 0.98 ERA this postseason. mans third base and stands tions in their outfield, with Game 2’s starter is depen- views on baseball. Nearly as one of the bright young Rajai Davis, Tyler Naquin, dent on Trevor Bauer’s lac- every decision by Francona stars in the game. Anthony Lonnie Chisenhall, Coco erated finger, and whether has worked out and he has Rizzo, at first, is another Crisp and Brandon Guyer. it be he or Josh Tomlin on won two World Series titles MVP candidate-level slugthe mound. Game 4 is still with the Red Sox. ger in the middle of the Edge: Cubs a complete mystery. Ryan order. Second basemen Merritt, Danny Salazar or Edge: Indians Javier Baez is one of the Starting rotation Kluber on short rest are more intriguing young playamong the options.

Prediction

Edge: Cubs The Indians have proven they can’t be counted out Bullpen The Indians’ backbone despite the odds, which this postseason is led by again aren’t in their favor Andrew Miller, having one in the World Series. They’ve of the best Octobers for a shown a resilience few reliever in recent memory. teams have displayed. But Cody Allen has quietly had they now face baseball’s a strong postseason as well, best club since Opening Day with Bryan Shaw and Dan Otero in supporting roles and as solid of a roster as for a unit that’s picked up you can find. If they can the Indians’ banged-up take down these Cubs, it’ll rotation. The Cubs’ bull- be one of the best underdog PHIL MASTURZO/AKRON BEACON JOURNAL/TNS pen is anchored by Aroldis stories in a long time.

Indians reliever Andrew Miller was named 2016 ALCS MVP after allowing no runs Chapman, the other elite over 7 2/3 innings in four appearances. Miller was traded to Cleveland midseason. reliever traded away by the Cubs in six

NFL

Arian Foster retires QB Geno Smith tears ACL Sunday player from NFL Monday Fourth-year lost job last season

By Adam H. Beasley Miami Herald

Arian Foster ended his football career ended Monday night the way he wanted: On his own terms.

Foster announced Monday that he is walking away from the game midway through his eighth season, writing on Uninterrupted that his body can no longer withstand the demands of what he described as a “gladiator” game.

The Miami Herald has independently confirmed that Foster is indeed retiring, effective immediately.

“There comes a time in every athlete’s career when their ambition and their body are no longer on the same page,” Foster wrote.

“I’ve reached that point. It’s hard for me to write those words because this game has been everything to me.”

“My father always said, ‘You’ll know when it’s time to walk away,’ “ Foster continued. “It has never been more clear than right now.

I’m walking away with peace.”

Foster retires with 6,527 yards and 54 touchdowns, the vast majority of which came with the Houston Texans.

His one year in Miami was derailed by injury. Foster has battled hamstring and groin injuries for much of the season and lost his starting job to Jay Ajayi. He faced the prospect of another rehab after suffering a recent soft tissue injury, ESPN reported, and ultimately decided that he had enough.

Foster acknowledged that it is rare for players to retire midseason and thanked the Dolphins for their support.

His agent, Mike McCartney, wrote on Twitter Monday night: “Congrats to Arian Foster on a great career! What a run he had starting with a magical 2010 season. Proud of both the player and the man!”

Foster added: “This is beautifully violent game and the same reason I loved it is why I have to walk away.

That bittersweet taste will forever linger with me but on my next journey, I get to carry those memories with me. Hopefully. lol”

By Kimberley A. Martin Newsday

Just like that, Geno Smith’s season is over, and most likely so is his Jets career.

Less than 24 hours after Smith’s first start since 2014, an MRI revealed the 26-year-old quarterback tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee while trying to elude a second-quarter sack in Sunday’s 24-16 win over the Ravens.

Smith, who will become a free agent after this season, is scheduled for a second opinion Tuesday with noted orthopedic surgeon James Andrews. But the result is expected to be the same: His year is done. Now, the next step is determining the significance of the tear and his

recovery timetable for next season.

“You hear that, it’s tough luck for the kid,” coach Todd Bowles said on a Monday conference call, before announcing that the Jets (2-5) have named their old starter, Ryan Fitzpatrick, their new one.

After Fitzpatrick replaced Smith against the Ravens, the 12-year veteran used a portion of his postgame news conference to call out Bowles, general manager Mike Maccagnan and owner Woody Johnson for not believing in him and benching him last week.

“I’ve probably played better as an underdog ticked] off,” Fitzpatrick said Sunday.

A day later, Bowles said it’s a “show-me game,” and he didn’t seem bothered by Fitzpatrick’s remarks. “If off is going to stop the turnovers,” he said, “I’m more than happy to have him off the whole time.”

The Jets also have Bryce Petty and rookie Christian Hackenberg, who have been inactive for games. Bowles said he is comfortable with Petty playing, but noted the second-year quarterback needs more than only two weeks of practice reps after being sidelined for a month with a shoulder injury.

“Fitz is our best option to go in and win this week,” said Bowles, who will name his No. 2 quarterback later this week.

It was a foregone conclusion that Smith _ who went 11-18 with 34 interceptions and 41 turnovers in his first two seasons _ wouldn’t be on the Jets’ roster next season. But now his NFL livelihood could be in jeopardy after major knee surgery.

His injury curtailed what could have been a chance to prove to the Jets _ and the other 31 teams _ that he’s still capable of being a starter. The torn

knee ligament also capped an unthinkable stretch of misfortune for the 2013 second-round pick, who lost his starting job Aug. 11, 2015, after his jaw was broken in a locker room altercation with then-teammate IK Enemkpali.

“As an athlete, it’s part of the game and you’ve got to understand people get hurt,” Bowles said. “But he caught a bad break two years in a row. I’m sure he’ll bounce back from it, but it’s a tough part of the business.”

In the 14 months since the infamous punch, Smith lost his job to Fitzpatrick and was the presumptive starter in the 2016 offseason during Fitzpatrick’s sevenmonth contract standoff with the Jets. Smith was demoted when Fitzpatrick signed a one-year, $12-million deal at the start of training camp.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

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HOCKEY

TOUGHEST TEST YET

Defense important vs. No. 6 Bobcats Clifton brothers captain Quinnipiac B y R yan Ames Collegian Staff

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Nic Renyard (29) looks to corral a puck during UMass’ 5-3 win over UConn last season. Freshman Ryan Wischow started the first three games during the 2016-17 season.

UMass to face NCAA runner-up Renyard to get first start in goal in 2016 B y K yle D aL uz Collegian Staff

The first road test of the season is a daunting one for the Massachusetts hockey team.

The Quinnipiac Bobcats (4-2-1) are the sixth-ranked team in the nation coming into Tuesday’s contest, as it welcomes UMass (2-1-0) to the High Point Solutions Arena at TD Bank Sports Center in the first game outside Mullins Center this season for the Minutemen.

Coming off a 3-2 victory against Army West Point Friday night, UMass will look to continue to evenstrength scoring opportunities. Penalty minutes have hurt the Minutemen’s efforts to play on level-ice, with one-third of the opponent goals coming during a man-advantage or greater.

“We need the game to be five-on-five because I think five-on-five we’re not bad,” UMass coach Greg Carvel said. “Our special teams, not surprisingly, have a long way to go. We’re work-

ing on it. We worked on it before practice, we worked on it at the end. As far as the number of penalties you’re going to take, I don’t think anybody can control that. It’s hard to tell even what a penalty is, which is frustrating.

Carvel added: “To me, (the power play) is definitely a glaring issue in our game right now.”

The Minutemen have killed 21-of-24 penalties given this season (87.5 percent), good for fifth in Hockey East and the 18 best in the country. The power play has converted on just 2-of-25 chances (92 percent), with even-strength play being the strong suit of the UMass artillery.

One beneficiary of opposing penalty minutes is freshman Jonny Lazarus.

The second-line winger has registered a power-play goal to go along with his team-leading four points, tied with his line mates Patrick Lee and Dominic Trento.

Tallying 12 of the team’s 30 points this season, all three players have active three-game point streaks heading into Tuesday’s

game, with Trento and Lazarus both providing two assists in the Oct. 21 victory over the Black Knights.

“I think that line is scoring because they’re doing a lot off the (zone) entry,” Carvel said. “They’re scoring a lot off the rush. I think Lazarus has kind of been the key in all of it. Obviously Dominic (Trento) has a few assists but (Lazarus), as a freshman, has really showed poise with the puck to help create these rushes.

Carvel added: “He’s been a real nice surprise this year. He’s probably been the lynch pin to that line which is why they have scored quite a bit.”

For the first time this season, freshman goaltender Ryan Wischow will not start the game between the pipes. Rather, sophomore Nic Renyard will get the start on the road. With three games in five days, the schedule has helped dictate a rotation of goaltenders for the coming week, as New Hampshire and Boston College come to town for Friday and Saturday night matchups.

“Obviously more than

one goalie is going to play,” Carvel said, giving the number of games on the coming docket. “We want to see what (Renyard) brings to the game from the start.

Hopefully he plays well.

Hopefully it’s still a tough decision because we have two goalies playing well instead of two goalies just being OK.” Re nya rd re l i eve d Wischow in the 7-4 loss in the back-end of consecutive games against Colorado College, allowing three goals in 52 minutes, 17 seconds while making 28 saves.

Wischow leads the team in goals against average (2.37) and save percentage (.923), while Renyard led the team in those marks (3.65, .858) last season. “(Renyard) hasn’t really had a fair chance,” Carvel said. “We gave (Wischow) the first game based on where the two goalies were at that time. With the shutout we gave him the start the next night. In retrospect, we probably should have given it to (Renyard).

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After opening the season with a trio of home games, the Massachusetts hockey team will travel to Hamden, Connecticut Tuesday night to battle the No. 6 team in the nation, Quinnipiac.

UMass (2-1) is coming off a solid 3-2 win against Army West Point and will head to the High Point Solutions Arena for a rare Tuesday night match against the Bobcats (4-21).

The Minutemen will face their toughest opponent to date at Quinnipiac and coach Greg Carvel believes their defensive play will be an important factor in determining the final outcome.

“Against really good teams, if you aren’t real good without the puck, they make you pay,” Carvel said. “I’m kind of excited to play a really good team so we’ll see if we can raise our game, if we can understand how important it is, and how well we have to play without the puck.”

The Bobcats enter Tuesday night’s contest following a 3-0 shutout loss courtesy of Boston University, and will be returning to their home ice for the third time this year.

UMass, on the other hand, will be on the road for the first time this season and will be playing its final nonconference game before Hockey East for a while with conference

games starting this Friday against New Hampshire.

In last six games, Quinnipiac has averaged just shy 30 shots per game (29.3), compared to the Minutemen’s 20.3 during the first three games of the season.

“Nobody likes to understand that there’s a difference between shots and scoring chances,” Carvel said. “I’ll give up 50 shots from the wall, I don’t care.

Goalies love it because their save percentage goes up. (QU) does a good job, they throw a lot pucks to the net and they get to the net, that’s part of their game plan.”

Carvel added: “We’ve scored some nice goals making nice plays down the rush, we haven’t scored a lot of ugly, gritty goals and Quinnipiac does, and we need to learn from that and try to do the same.”

UMass has posted impressive numbers on the penalty-kill through its first three games with an 87.5 percentage (21-of24 attempts), yet Carvel thinks there’s still room for improvement.

“Our penalty kill hasn’t been bad. We’re working on it. We worked on it before practice, we worked on it at the end,” Carvel said.

Two players that the Minutemen will surely be keeping an eye on are brothers Tim and Connor Clifton, who were third (43) and sixth (28) in team points last season as juniors. Now seniors, both are leaders on this year’s Bobcat squad as Connor is team captain and Tim is one of the assistant captains.

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Niko Hildenbrand (center) scores in the second period of UMass’ 3-2 win over Army Friday. Hildenbrand is one of eight freshman on the Minutemen.

UMASS ATHLETICS

Minutemen top Boston University in the pool Saturday Collens impresses for Minutwomen

By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

It was another busy weekend for the Massachusetts athletic program with men’s swimming and diving earning its first win of the season, while the Minutewomen tennis team ended its fall season at the ITA regionals.

In addition to the Massachusetts Daily Collegian’s coverage, here’s anything you might have missed:

Minutemen earn first win of season The UMass men’s swimming and diving team picked

up its first win of the season Saturday against Boston University, topping the Terriers 165-135 at the BU Aquatic Center.

Oliver Wyeth was the top performing for the Minutemen, picking up first-place finishes in the 1,000-meter free stroke, 100-meter backstroke and 200-meter backstroke. Owen Wright (50-meter free) and Kyle Stefanides (100-meter fly) also won their heats to round out the swimming portion.

Nolan Burns and Trent Kindvall each took home firstplace finishes in the threemeter dive and one-meter dive respectively en route to UMass’ win.

UMass has a full week off before a tri-meet against IvyLeague opponents Brown and Yale Nov. 5 in Providence.

Minutewomen round out fall schedule The UMass tennis team finished its fall schedule competing at the ITA regionals over the weekend.

Brittany Collens led the Minutewomen with an appearance in the Round of 32, where she fell in straight sets to Penn’s Kana Daniel.

Collens won her Round of 64 match against Stony Brook in three sets (4-6, 6-4, 6-4).

Janja Kovacevic, Ruth Crawford, Ana Yrazusta and Anna Woosley also all advanced to Saturday’s Round of 64, as UMass had a program-high five members compete Saturday.

The Minutewomen are off until Jan. 28 when they host Quinnipiac at home.

A look ahead Although it’s cliché, especially for a team that is no longer eligible to participate in a bowl game, Saturday’s game against Wagner for the UMass football team (1-7) is a “must-win” for the longevity of the program in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level.

Saturday’s game against the Seahawks marks only the second time the Minutemen have played a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) team since making the jump to FBS in 2012. Charley Molnar-led UMass fell to Maine in the Minutemen’s home opener 24-14 Sept. 7, 2013 with former quarterback Mike Wegzyn under center.

After competing deep into

the second half against three Southern Conference opponents in Florida, Mississippi Sate and South Carolina – on paper – the Minutemen shouldn’t have much difficulties on either side of the ball against Wagner. But as UMass fans are already well aware, nothing is ever predictable for the Minutemen.

The Seahawks (4-3, 2-1 Northeast Conference) have played one other FBS team this season, a 42-10 loss to Boston College earlier this year on Sept. 24.

Kickoff from McGuirk Stadium is at noon.

UMass hockey coach Greg Carvel has gone on the record saying he’s not necessarily judging the success of his first year solely based on wins and losses.

Tuesday’s contest against

No. 6 Quinnipiac will be a good test for the Minutemen (2-1-0) to gauge its progression against a top-tier team in college hockey, similar to the level competition they will see in the gauntlet of the Hockey East Association schedule.

The Bobcats (4-2-1), who are the defending Eastern Collegiate Athletic champions, have played six games against HEA teams this season, with two each against Northeastern and Maine with individual matchups with Connecticut and Boston University.

Puck drop from High Point Solutions Arena is set for 7 p.m.

Andrew Cyr can be reached at arcyr@umass.edu, and followed on Twitter @Andrew_Cyr.