The Massachusetts Daily Collegian: October 27th, 2016

COSTUMES & SUSTAINABILITY

FOOD

Have a green Halloween in 2016 Investigating steak and lobster dinner

By Jessica Chaiken Collegian Staff

It’s that time of year again when the leaves start to fall, the pumpkins make their debut, and the spirit of Halloween is in the air. It’s also the time of year when Americans spend nearly $8.4 billion in consumer sales for Halloween, roughly $83 dollars a person according to The National Retail Federation.

According to the same article at the NRF, 69.1 percent of people are planning to celebrate the holiday in some degree whether it be by handing out candy, decorating their home and yard, dressing up, trick-or-treating, or throwing or attending a party. Regardless of the festivities, it’s plain to see that costumes tend to be what Americans, and many college students, seem to dish out the most cash on an outfit they’ll most likely never wear again.

So why spend so much money on one day of the year? That average of $83 spent per person could go to so much more, such as 20 cups of coffee, or even 10 burritos. So if

you’re looking to deliver on your Halloween costume this year without breaking the bank, the most efficient solution would be to wear a sustainable costume.

Sustainable costumes are both cheaper for consumers and better for the environment. Instead of going out and spending a fortune on your costume, you may already have everything you need right under your nose.

One convenient place you can start your search is in your own closet. Many costumes can be achieved by wearing simple articles of clothing. If you have a striped shirt, you could easily be a mime, a bandit, or even a pirate, requiring little other accessories.

Even a flannel could serve as a useful costume, possibly a lumberjack or a cowboy.

Many costumes depicting characters from TV shows or movies are often simple to recreate with clothes you already have. If you have a suit, you could even go as one of the presidential candidates, an all too popular theme this year.

Zombie Pubcrawl

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A deep dive into ‘All Treats, No Tricks’

By Emily Johnson Collegian Staff

It’s a typical sight on Halloween: college students in costumes planning an evening of festivities. But at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, October 31 also marks the annual “All Treats, No Tricks” dinner, when all of the dining commons transform into a spirited, spooky affair and serve lobster.

On Monday night from 5 to 9 p.m., the dining commons will host a special dinner with lobster, grass-fed grilled steak, chicken chesterfield and baked macaroni and cheese. New to the annual dinner, retail dining locations Blue Wall and Roots Cafe will offer special meals as

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Another, maybe less appealing, place you can look is your trash. I wouldn’t recommend trying to use a banana peel or last weeks’ dinner, but the plastic and cardboard in your trash can come in handy.

The cardboard boxes from 30 racks can be very useful. Secure together enough cardboard, add some paint, and with a little artistic talent you can be anything that is rectangular. Using this idea, you can easily be anything from a juice box to a robot.

Plastic bottles can be utilized as well. If you take two liter bottles and strap them to your back, you can have a makeshift jet pack. Or to be even lazier, you can just go as “garbage” and wear whatever you can salvage.

Pun costumes are also an easy way to get away with wearing what you already have. You can use a cereal box from the trash and be a “cereal killer,” cover a sweatshirt in candy wrappers to be a “candy rapper,” or even be witty enough

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But the question remains: why lobster every single year?

UMass Dining and fishermen in Maine teamed up 15 years ago to serve the first lobster dinner. According to Executive Director of Auxiliary Enterprises Ken Toong, other universities celebrate the holiday with festivities in the dining commons, but no other school has a lobster bake. UMass’s dinner is one of the biggest celebrations.

“It is an urban legend that someone sponsored this; it is not the case,” Toong said.

Some students still seem to believe the rumor that Bill Cosby sponsors the event, despite the fact that there is no truth to this claim. Cosby is an alumnus of the university, but has no involvement or relation

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to put a quarter on your back to be a “quarterback.”

You can even make a completely compostable costume from things in your backyard.

Using twigs, leaves, and whatever else you can find, you can be anything from simply camouflaged, to a tree fairy.

But if making a costume isn’t your thing, there are still other sustainable ways to dress up for Halloween this year. You can take a trip down to the local thrift store and see if anything strikes you. Thrift shops usually have some interesting outfits, and even costumes to choose from. This is still a sustainable way to dress up since you are just recycling clothes rather than having to buy new costumes. And if all

of this still doesn’t help you decide what to be, buying a used costume or clothing off of eBay still qualifies as being sustainable.

There are so many possibilities for being kind to yourself and the environment – in a season where everything else is spooky – this year by wearing a sustainable costume for Halloween.

So next time you’re about to take a trip to Spirit Halloween or whatever pop up Halloween store appeared in your town this year, think again. Sometimes you don’t have to look too far to find what you’re looking for, you just need a little creativity and inspiration.

Jessica Chaiken can be reached at jchaiken@umass.edu.

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to this tradition.

Jacklyn Giampa, a junior studying psychology, has never been to the event but said, “I do think it’s weird that we still have a man such as Bill sponsoring anything for us. Especially as liberal as UMass is.”

“Everyone says the lobster dinner comes from Bill Cosby, but I don’t think it’s from him,” Elena Lopez, a UMass senior studying comparative literature and Spanish at UMass, said.

“I heard it was funded

by Bill Cosby but didn’t really believe it,” said Devrim Dereli, a senior who studies electrical engineering.

So, to put rumors to rest: Bill Cosby has nothing to do with this dinner.

The Halloween dinner is special for Toong, whose birthday is Oct. 31.

For the past few years, he has celebrated with students in the dining common and plans to do so at Hampshire Dining Commons this year.

During a four-hour period of time last year, the dining commons served 14,000 lobsters. This year they expect to serve anywhere between 13,000 and 15,000 lobsters.

The hard-shell lobsters are caught in the gulf of Maine on Halloween morning. Hard-shell lobsters have “better flavor,”

said Christopher Howland, director of purchasing and marketing of auxiliary enterprises.

In addition to the special dinner, students will be entertained while they eat. At each dining common, there will be fortune telling, pumpkin painting, table magic, make-yourown caramel apple and a DJ. The first 100 students to arrive at each dining common will receive a gift.

Students and dining common staff are encouraged “to come in costume,” said Garett DiStefano, director of residential dining services auxiliary enterprises.

From 5 to 7 p.m. there will be a costume contest,

with the first prize winner receiving a $100 gift certificate, second prize winner receiving a $75 gift certificate and third prize winner receiving a $50 gift certificate.

The Princeton Review recently ranked UMass Amherst as the best campus food, so this event is an opportunity to celebrate “the greatest dining experience,” said Toong.

A popular event, the dinner promotes a safe, yet exciting way to celebrate Halloween for the campus community. As Toong says, it is “one of the most anticipated dining events every year.”

Emily Johnson can be reached at emilyjohnson@umass.edu.

DRINK

Zombie Pubcrawl: an unofficial and undead review Entertainment and libation reanimated

By Madeleine Jackman Collegian Staff

By Chad Stoughton Collegian Correspondent On Saturday, Oct. 22, zombies, or people dressed like zombies, overtook the bars in Northampton. A horde of nearly 1,000 zombies were participating in the annual Zombie Pubcrawl, shambling between six of Northampton’s drinking and dining establishments: Sam’s Pizza, Toasted Owl, Platform, Hugo’s, Diva’s Nightclub and the World War II Club.

For this special investigation, we disguised ourselves as zombies and mingled amongst the decomposing mob. We heard tales of the origins of the undead, drank zombie blood and even summoned a ghost. Now, for you, the curious commoner, the aspiring reanimator, the occasional occultist, we submit an unofficial review.

Toasted Owl Tavern Chad: When we first got off the bus in Northampton, I wasn’t entirely sure we were in the right place.

Mad: I pointed out four different zombies to you right off the bus, including a guy with an arrow sticking out of his stomach. Then there were the two girls who crossed in front of us covered in fake blood, and the nurse zombie walking right in front of us, to the same bar, with a bloody handprint on her pants, but you didn’t notice any of them.

Chad: It was dark. I noticed once we got into the Twisted Owl. Mad: To be honest, I was a little nervous myself on the bus that we would be the only ones dressed up, but once at the Toasted Owl, we were surrounded by zombies who went all out with ridiculously intricate costumes. I realized that my quickly applied black eyeshadow was not up to par.

Chad: People really did put a lot of effort into their costumes. I felt inadequate with my dirt/makeup combo.

Mad: Looking around the bar, there were your regular ol’ zombies, basketball player zombies, chef zombies, cowboy zombies, and my personal favorite, Mona Lisa zombie with her zombie painter.

Chad: Even the guy who came to the bar without a costume was covered in fake blood by the time we arrived.

That or he was bitten.

Mad: Well that was one of the great things about the zombie community - regardless of how undead you looked, people were very welcoming. We did add some red lipstick “cuts” on our necks in the middle of the bar to fit in more.

Chad: I forgot we did that

literally in the middle of the bar.

Mad: The bartenders went all out with their costumes as well. The three of them were really effectively managing the large crowd, and were super friendly, despite the fact that they didn’t have any Halloween themed drinks.

Chad: The bar itself was fairly large, though the crowd was larger on this particular night. They had a good selection of beers on tap at reasonable prices.

Mad: It’s important to mention that the designated hours for this bar were from 7 to 8 p.m. so most people who were there were older than the college-age crowd.

Chad: The earlier bars did draw an older crowd than I had expected but that didn’t stop them from making some great zombie costumes. In fact, I thought some of them were better than the ones the younger zombies wore.

Mad: Oh, I definitely think that the majority of those costumes were more impressive. Did you notice that the zombies didn’t all move together to the next bar? It wasn’t like the zombie apocalypse I’d always dreamed of where everyone travels en masse.

Chad: Well, despite their diet, zombies are not a hive mind. There is no rigid zombie schedule.

Mad: I think it was more that there was no zombie leader. They followed the schedule posted on the Facebook event, more or less, but there was no zombie king or queen initiating it.

Chad: Zombies are an egalitarian society, they have no need for leaders of subjects. There is only the good of the collective and the collective was everywhere.

Including at our next stop, Platform.

Platform Mad: I got excited walking up to Platform because you could see inside of the bar. All of the zombies in line were very chatty, and we were all admiring the white cloth laden tables with fancy cheese fondue fountains on top.

Chad: Then, in reality, we all got crowded into a dark sports bar.

Mad: True, once we actually got inside there was a closed door to the right for the private event with fondue and then all of the zombies gathered in the bar area to the left.

Chad: I think we saw some of the most convincing zombies at Platform. All walks of undead life were represented, like zombie clowns.

Mad: And a zombie Ronald McDonald, specifically.

Chad: Zombie presidential candidate, zombie park ranger, zombie pirate, zombie Luigi, zombie army, zombie bride, zombie priest.

Mad: Didn’t he get kicked

out of the private event after venturing to the fancy side?

Chad: Yes, and he didn’t even get any fondue.

Mad: He was the brave zombie leader we deserved.

Chad: The one thing I will say is that Platform was the most expensive place we went to.

Mad: Incredibly expensive, but probably less than everyone spent on their zombie costumes.

Chad: I don’t know, I economized by using actual dirt for my costume. As a result, I could afford an extra tequila shot.

Mad: I was disappointed that they didn’t have any Halloween drinks though.

Chad: To be fair, most of the places we visited didn’t. The MADELEINE JACKMAN/COLLEGIAN only bar that had one ready to go was Hugo’s.

The Northampton event brought hordes of the not-quite-living to a variety of watering holes for spirited recreation.

Hugo’s Mad: By the time we got to Hugo’s, I felt like we had some zombie camaraderie going on. We walked in and immediately recognized a small zombie cohort who we’d talked to in line at Platform.

Chad: Were they the ones that recommended we try the “Zombie Black Heart” Jell-o shots?

Mad: No. But we did take the shots with them. And we toasted to zombies.

Chad: What did you think of them?

Mad: I personally love black licorice. It reminded me of the Greek liquor, Ouzo, but in Jell-O form, so I was a happy camper zombie. Plus, I was just happy to be in a bar that had themed Halloween drinks, and these shots were only a dollar each.

Chad: I honestly don’t care for Jell-O in general, and licorice is genuinely horrifying.

Mad: I respect your opinion, and that I got to finish the rest of your shot.

Chad: Their other themed drink, the “Zombie Blood Cocktail”, was really good though.

Mad: It was pretty good. It was red and sweet, and when I asked the bartender what was in it, she muttered out something along the lines of Sprite, Gin, and cran. Then she gave up, pointed to the only other bartender there, and said, “It’s a secret, and she’s taking it to her grave.”

Chad: I wish she was dressed as a zombie. It would have set me up for a really great undead joke.

Mad: We could have said, “You’ve already been to the grave and back.”

Chad: Yeah, like that, but better.

Mad: Overall Hugo’s was the smallest place we went to, and the 75 person maximum was a little bit of a pain for some people who had to wait outside, but I really liked the laid back atmosphere.

Chad: Hugo’s was honestly my favorite bar of the night. It was a great change

of pace from the expensiveness of Platform. It was a small, cozy bar with cheap but good drinks.

Mad: And pool tables.

Chad: Which we never got to use.

Mad: After not using the pool tables, we left Hugo’s, sat on a porch swing, you almost got hit by a car, and then we went to Diva’s. The best part of that was that I saw the driver and ran, and you just kept walking.

Chad: I looked right at him, I thought he would slow down.

Mad: Which proves that I would last longer in a zombie apocalypse than you.

Chad: My plan for a zombie apocalypse is to deck myself out in the nicest equipment I can find, get bitten and be the best zombie. If the world’s going to end, I’m going to be on the winning team.

Diva’s Chad: The line for Diva’s was probably the longest of the night, especially since you forgot to bring a jacket.

Mad: Sorry about that, and thanks for sharing. It was worth it though since Diva’s is closing this week.

Chad: That is too bad.

Once we got inside, we went up to the bar to see if they had a Halloween themed drink.

Mad: They didn’t, but this did lead to the cutest part of the night. The bartender offered to create a Halloweenthemed drink for us, asking us how sweet we like our drinks, how bitter, etc. She ended up throwing together a light blue cocktail that had blue curacao, club soda and a mystery third ingredient.

Chad: It had a pale blue look with no distinct smell. I thought it was great that the bartender was able to come up with a unique drink on the spot like that.

Mad: After taste testing it, I asked her what the name was and she asked what it tasted like. The first thing that popped into my mind

was “The Ghost” because of its slightly transparent appearance and its combination of being slightly bitter and effervescent, like how I imagine Casper.

Chad: The name was appropriate. It had a slightly sour taste, carbonated but not overwhelmingly flavorful, almost like a Gin and tonic with a bit more sweetness.

Mad: I think you should be a little more supportive of the name than “appropriate.”

Chad: What do you mean?

Mad: You should say it was brilliant.

Chad: Okay, it was brilliant.

Mad: But then the absolute best part was when the zombie next to us asked what we were drinking. She ended up ordering three “Ghosts,” one for her and two for her friends. So essentially we helped create a now-famous Halloween cocktail for Diva’s.

Chad: Yep, a famous drink that only one particular bartender knows about at a club that is closing this weekend.

Mad: Get ‘em while they’re hot!

Chad: By this point in the night the crowd had shifted significantly. Diva’s brought in a much younger group of zombies. The dance floor was filled with college students.

Mad: And last-minute ripped t-shirts.

Chad: To be fair, we did a lot of our zombification on the bus.

Mad: Diva’s time was designated from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m., so that probably explains why the younger zombies were coming out.

Chad: It was also a nightclub.

Mad: It was also the last place we got to go inside.

World War II club Chad: We got to the World War II club about half-way through their designated start time, which was midnight to 2 a.m.

Mad: However, they

stopped letting in people at 1 a.m., so we missed the cutoff by about five minutes.

There were a lot of cold and disgruntled zombies waiting outside for Ubers. It was like “Night of the Living Dead” but none of the zombies managed to get past the bouncer.

Chad: That pretty much sums it up. Our experience at the World War II club, or rather next to it, was cold yet bonding and a lot longer than I would have liked to wait for an Uber.

Before we conclude, we would like to give some shout-outs to people who made a mark on our October evening: • The guy who almost ran over Chad.

• TomTom, a loving father who slept through his son’s 2 a.m. call.

• The guy whose security company called him to tell him his house was being broken into. We hope you’re doing alright.

• The people at McDonalds who made small talk at 3 a.m. and never once commented on the fact that we had zombie makeup on.

• The man outside the World War II club whose constant good-natured giggling brought lighthearted humor to the cold, cold wait.

Madeleine is glad, however, that he was not one of the people dressed as a clown zombie.

• The Uber surcharge algorithm.

Overall, the Zombie Pubcrawl was a really entertaining event at some of Northampton’s finest establishments. These bars are all places that are great visiting on a normal night, but it’s worth it to make this specific trek out to the bar crawl. It truly is a unique experience to look around a crowded bar and see a bunch of zombies from all of walks of life laughing together, throwing back beers.

Madeleine Jackman can be reached at mjackman@umass.edu.

Chad Stoughton can be reached at cstoughton@umass.edu.

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H E A LT H

Allergies on Halloween: tips to stay safe & sweet

Navigating candy to avoid reactions

By Tara Branch Collegian Correspondent

Halloween can quickly spiral into a nightmare like those depicted in the movies, all because of one simple thing: candy. Candy, the very thing that keeps children afloat during the holiday.

The motive behind the walking, knocking and dressing up, the official currency of the evening.

Candy, and all the other spooky treats that are handed out, can cause panic among parents and children dealing with food allergies and a lack of information about allergens.

Kids and even adults with allergies may find this time of the year potentially dissatisfying and worrisome. The initial question of “trick or treat?” has to be followed with “Does this have any allergens?” According to Medical News Today, some of the most common allergens are eggs, milk, fish, nuts from trees (hazelnuts, almonds and walnuts), wheat and peanuts.

CNBC found that last year the most popular candies on Halloween were Reese’s, M&M’s, Snickers, Hershey’s and Kit Kat’s. All five of these candies either contain or are manufactured in a plant that also processes at least one of the most common allergens.

The labels on these candies aren’t always legible or may not exist on miniature-sized candies.

Because of this, it’s no shock that parents and children are a little hesitant to reach passively into a bucket of potential danger. However, there recently have been innovative movements in

Halloween culture that are starting to combat these issues.

For starters, another color has been added to Halloween’s pallet - teal.

Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) developed the Teal Pumpkin Project. They recognized that one in every 13 children in the U.S. have a food allergy, making this night a bit difficult. Participants in this project place a tealpainted pumpkin outside their home on Halloween to signify that they are an allergen-free household. They opt for nonfood treats such as glow sticks, vampire fangs, pencils, bouncy balls and

go out and enjoy themselves.

What does this mean for college students since Halloween candy will be just as common around campus? As always, it is important to read the labels of candy and do not accept any treat that is unpackaged or lacking an ingredients list.

Dining halls often have festive meals that aren’t typically served during the regular school year.

Students should be sure to read the ingredient labels before digging into anything Halloween or fall themed. If you aren’t sure about an allergen,

The labels on these candies aren’t always legible or may not exist on miniature-sized candies. Because of this, it’s no shock that parents and children are a little hesitant to reach passively into a bucket of potential danger.” stickers. Kids and parents can leave worry free.

Another benefit of treats like these is that they last much longer than a candy ever could.

I look fondly upon Halloween even though my younger brother has severe peanut and tree nut allergies.

While trick-or-treating with him, I always assume the role of protective sister.

During the annual candy swap, I’d get to hoard all of his peanut-filled delights while willingly giving him some of my most prized non-nutty candies. We both would rather have a pencil decorated in pumpkins than a trip to the emergency room. There are fun ways to spice up Halloween for a kid with allergies, rather than tell them not to

ask a chef at the dining hall.

If you’re a friend cooking up a dessert for everyone, make sure that you are certain of what goes into it. You might even want to keep a recipe or list of the ingredients just in case someone requests it.

Halloween is a holiday where reality is put on pause for a night and people can dress up as whatever they please.

Par ticipants should remember that underneath the wrappers are allergens and underneath the costumes are people who could react poorly to them. Stay safe this Halloween.

Tara Branch can be reached at tarabranch@umass.edu.

DRINK

Nine great candy cocktails

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By Jessica Chaiken • ½ an ounce of Vodka and smaller portions.

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Tootsie Roll shot inspired cocktails.

Sour Patch Kids So in spirit of the sea • ½ an ounce of Vodka Cocktail son of ghouls, ghosts, • ½ an ounce of coffee witches, warlocks and • 1 ounce of strawber- liqueur bringing you back to the ry Vodka • ½ an ounce of orange days of candy galore, • 1 ounce of sour apple juice here are a few candy pucker As strange as it inspired drink recipes, • 1 ounce of watermelsounds, this shot is a created by American on pucker popular one.

Bartender’s School, to • 1 ounce of sweet and These are just a few keep the tradition alive: sour mix drink recipes to help You can make it your you keep the Halloween Butterfinger cock- own and vary the flavors sweets tradition alive, tail of pucker to your liking. and maybe start a new • 1½ ounces of butter- If you’re not really a tradition of your own. scotch schnapps cocktail person and pre • 1½ ounces of fer a quick-fix for drink- Jessica Chaiken can be reached at Bailey’s Irish cream ing, there are also many jchaiken@umass.edu.

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ALBUM REVIEW

Sick of calm, relaxing ambient music? Try ‘4 Rooms’

By Jackson Maxwell Collegian Staff

Until 1986, Pripyat, Ukraine was a model Soviet small city.

Designed to house workers for the massive Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it was filled with modern apartment complexes, well-supplied schools and recreational facilities for adults and children alike.

Flourishing and growing more populated by the year, it seemed to be something out of a government-sponsored advertisement.

On April 26, 1986 though, everything changed in an instant.

In the early hours of the morning, a stress test that was being conducted at the power plant went horribly wrong. A series of explosions caused a graphite fire that burned for over a week, releasing massive amounts of radiation into the surrounding area and the atmosphere.

Of course, nowhere was more affected than the town of Pripyat itself, which was completely evacuated the following day, its 50,000 residents never to return.

Today, Pripyat remains completely abandoned, essentially unchanged since the day it was evacuated 30 years ago.

Its apartment complexes, playgrounds and facilities have slowly disintegrated, at the mercy of the elements.

It was in this environment that Danish artist Jacob Kirkegaard decided to record “4 Rooms,” an album whose sole instrument is the room in

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which it was recorded.

“4 Rooms,” which was released as an album in 2006, is heavily influenced by “I am Sitting in a room,” a 1969 piece by American artist Alvin Lucier. In that piece, Lucier recorded himself saying “I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now/I am recording the sound of my speaking voice.”

Lucier then replayed the just-finished recording, and recorded the recording being played inside the room. He did this repeatedly until his voice had become an almostmechanical hum, completely

devoid of any human qualities.

More than he was recording his own voice, Lucier was recording the room he was in, and the way it ended up shaping the sounds he played inside of it.

Intrigued by this concept, Kirkegaard chose to apply it by simply recording the ambient noise in some of the larger, more derelict facilities of Pripyat, and recording the playback repeatedly.

Comprised of four pieces named after the rooms in which they were recorded “Church,” “Auditorium,”

“Swimming Pool” and “Gymnasium” - “4 Rooms” is an extraordinary example of the flexibility of sound and how one’s perception of art can be completely changed by the environment in which they experience it.

The unsettling, dramatic reverberations of “Church” sound like they’re being made by a choir from hell.

“Auditorium” is more subdued, with the poor acoustics of the room constraining the sound into an incredibly narrow space. Bouncing off one another, the sound waves settle into a constant ringing that

the drone on “Gymnasium” are metallic and uninviting.

Restless, the noise often verges on becoming shrill, interrupting the record’s otherwise cool exterior with a buzz that often approximates an air raid siren.

As with all great ambient works, “4 Rooms” bends the listener’s normal concepts of an album. Though the four pieces are quite distinct from one another, by the end of, say, “Swimming Pool,” you may be certain that you’ve only been listening to one piece the whole time, when three separate ones have actually played.

Where it differs from normal ambient music though, is in its mission. Brian Eno once said that his landmark 1975 work, “Discreet Music” (often seen as the first modern ambient album,) was composed with the idea that music could be “part of the ambience of the environment just as the color of the lights and the sound of the rain were parts of that environment.”

In the case of “4 Rooms” though, the music is the environment itself. No tour of Pripyat - one of the most surreal places on Earth - could give anyone a clearer picture of its atmosphere than Jacob Kirkegaard gives the listener on “4 Rooms.”

It may not be the most conventionally scary piece of music in the world, but it has a way of ringing creepily in your head long after its final sounds have withered away.

can be soothing or torturous, depending on the listener.

Appropriately, “Swimming Pool” sounds like it was recorded underwater. If you listen hard enough, you can hear the eerie, deeply distorted sound of the years-old contaminated water lapping up against and dripping down the decaying walls of the pool. The sounds of the water, distinct at first, slowly blend in with the drone until the two are impossible to discern from one another.

“Gymnasium” is easily the creepiest of the four piec- Jackson Maxwell can be reached at es. Rather than smooth and jlmaxwell@umass.edu and followed on even soothing, the edges of Twitter at @JMaxwell82.

ALBUM LIST

Ten unexpectedly terrifying records across 10 genres

By Alexander Beebe

for his innovations in the vaporwave genre, James Ferraro is constantly tinker How does something like ing with different sounds. The music have the ability to be ominous tone of this R&B terrifying? album stems from its collage Music is subjective, so the style production, industrial, emotions it can bring out vardark ambient soundscapes ies from person to person. But and Ferraro’s purposefully what specific characteristics off-time, shoddily mixed vocal does a composition, or sound delivery. in general, have to possess in order to evoke fear?

Comus - “First “Dissonance” is probably Utterance” the most agreed-upon answer to this question, which leads Genre: Freak Folk many people to assume that On its celebrated debut genres defined by harshness album, Comus provided the are the only ones capable of world with some of the most being scary. manic, unhinged and bizarre The goal of the following folk music the world had ever list is to disprove that idea heard. The energy of the and show that any genre of band’s eccentric performancmusic can spook your pants es, paired with the album’s off depending on how it’s dark lyrics give the music a made. So without further suffocating and overwhelmado, here are 10 creepy and ing level of intensity. scary albums from 10 different genres.

John Coltrane - “Om” Collegian Staff

almost sound violent, which is odd considering how the themes of the album are very spiritual. Though likely unintentional, the chanting and shrieks of agony from Coltrane’s saxophone make for a truly unsettling listen.

Dälek - “Absence” Genre: Abstract Hip Hop No other artist in hip-hop makes music the way Dälek does. Influenced by genres as diverse as shoegaze, noise, drone, dark ambient and industrial, the production on “Absence” is a caustic amalgamation of distorted grit. It transforms the album’s boom bap beats into a nightmarish sonic terrain straight out of a decaying dystopian world.

Racebannon - “In the Grips of the Light” Genre: Mathcore

Both mathcore and screamo are such inconsistent genres “Om,” released in 1968, is that it is easy for any band one of the strangest albums of either to turn heads, but Genre: Alternative R&B John Coltrane ever recorded. Racebannon has always taken Although mostly known His unending improvisations things to a level all its own. On

James Ferraro - “NYC, Hell 3:00AM”

Genre: Free Jazz

this record, discordant playing meets amplified noise for a chaotic sound that’s supplemented by rambling lead vocals.

The Knife - “Shaking the Habitual” Genre: Electronic The Knife’s music always had its share of eccentricities, but nobody expected the duo to embrace these as fully as they did on this 2013 double album. A 19-minute drone track and a 10-minute song comprised of deep moaning and creaking machinery stand in stark contrast to the album’s few danceable cuts.

some of the most disturbing music ever. The heavily processed vocals are as cold and mechanical as the sparse and rippling instrumentation of each track. Definitely something that will have one looking over their shoulder.

mances, showcasing repetitious guitars that mercilessly pummel listeners into the ground and Michael Gira’s nearly inhuman growls, in which he condemns society for its greed.

Diamanda Galás “Plague Mass”

The Conet Project - “Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations”

Genre: Spoken Word This live album is largely vocal-based, as long sections of the performance are a cappella and spoken word, and the presence of instruments throughout is minimal to begin with. Diamanda Galás sounds utterly possessed as she performs howling scat vocals and hysterically wails in the style of opera.

Genre: Field Recordings

This is an almost five-hour compilation of recordings of mysterious radio stations believed to have been used by governments to communicate with spies. The recordings all have very rough audio quality and open with insanely Throbbing Gristle eerie chimes and music box - “D.o.A: The Third jingles before robotic voices and Final Report of say a series of numbers. I Swans - “Public Throbbing Gristle” personally find this to be the Castration Is a Good Genre: Industrial creepiest album ever because Idea” of the fact that these stations Though this was only its Genre: Post-punk are actually real, and some second album at the time, by the time “D.o.A: The Third The heaviest album of all can even still be tuned into all and Final Report of Throbbing time and it’s not even metal. these years later.

Gristle” was released in Swans stripped their sound 1978, Throbbing Gristle were down to its most primal Alexander Beebe can be reached at already noted for creating essence for these live perfor- asbeebe@umass.edu.

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Horrifying flicks not typically recognized as horror Devoid of poltergeists, but still just as petrifying

I’m just not smart enough to convey what makes “Persona” so great. A 1966 black-and-white Swedish film (don’t scroll up now), “Persona” focuses on the relationship between nurse Alma and Elisabet, who has become mute for unknown reasons. For the vast majority of the film, only these two figures occupy the screen, and Ingmar Bergman often shoots their faces as they overlap each other.

We are two people locked inside one body, and that conflict between the outer and inner-self fills us with constant dread. A strong influence on my beloved “Mulholland Drive,” “Persona” reflects on our inability to convey our true selves to others and our fear of what they might think if we find the ability to do so.

By Nate Taskin Collegian Staff

There are few people on God’s green earth that make me sadder than the ones who only watch horror movies in October.

Sure, Halloween might be the best holiday in the world this side of Passover (the best Seders are the spooky ones!), and those toothy jack-o’-lanterns and falling leaves set a perfectly eerie tone.

Still, why deny yourself one of the world’s greatest pleasures for 11 months of the year?

Since I am sure, dear reader, that you are overwhelmed by the litany of listicles from Buzzfeed, Bustle, Answers.com, and the other usual suspects about 10 horror movies you absolutely must watch this month, I propose a slight change of pace.

Here are some great movies not traditionally recognized as part of the horror genre even though they can still chill you to your core.

There’s not a single ghost, ghoul, goblin, or serial killer with a pathological hatred of horny teenagers in any of these movies, yet all of them find a way to keep you up at night just the same.

“We Need to Talk About Kevin”

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From ‘Melancholia’ to ‘Mulholland Drive,’ there are plenty of thrills to be found beyond the movies often associated with the horror canon.

Ted Haggard – who was later caught with a male escort and a whole bunch of crystal meth – preach against the evils of homosexuality, it becomes much more terrifying when one considers the fact that he’s preaching this message to an audience of millions.

The moment that raises the hairs on my neck the most though, is when one of the kids at the camp sheepishly admits his affection for “Harry Potter,” and all of the children glare at him as if he’s Lucifer in the flesh. Eat your heart out, “Children of the Corn.” See this movie so that we’ll all know how to deal with Ted Cruz once he rears his weaselly face again in 2020.

of the leading experts say that it’s just a phase – that it’ll pass. Only one woman (Kirsten Dunst) seems to pay it any attention. She’s alienated her friends and family. Every piece of food tastes like poison.

Interests that once inspired passion now feel like chores. A looming void envelops her world, and, try as she might, she cannot shake the feeling that the apocalypse is just around the corner. And you long for it to come. Depression sucks.

Is the monster born or is it created? This question is central to “We Need to Talk About Kevin.”

After her sociopath son has committed a school shooting that results in dozens of deaths, Eva (played by cultural treasure Tilda Swinton) must reflect on her experiences with the titular Kevin and see where she went astray.

The film does not take the cliché “blame the mother” route one might expect in these types of narratives. “Kevin” deconstructs horror tropes in a way far removed from the smugness of “Funny Games” or “The Cabin in the Woods.” The film meditates on the meaning of “monster” and the true horror that comes from our inability to process their existence. We have been introduced to many monsters in 2016, and besides maybe Peter Thiel, they don’t have horns and fangs.

if “Mulholland Drive” isn’t the best movie ever, then it comes pretty close.

A plucky actress (Naomi Watts) arrives in Los Angeles and “Jesus Camp” becomes embroiled in a love affair with a mysterious woman involved It’s a little surprising that in duplicitous activities. The way more documentaries aren’t shown she processes these events may at horror marathons. After all, prove too much for her psyche to doesn’t the knowledge that this handle. This synopsis is only… stuff is actually going on lend sort of what the movie is about. itself to an even greater degree of A phantasmagoric trip into terror? dreamland, “Mulholland Drive” Maybe we can only handle our is about the way we process the fears when they’re told via meta“Mulholland Drive” shame, guilt and regret that our phor rather than the genuine artipast actions invoke with us. Lynch cle. In any case, “Jesus Camp” From “Eraserhead” to “Twin has unzipped our brains and focuses on a fundamentalist Peaks,” most of David Lynch’s shown us all of the ugly, haunted Christian summer camp in North filmography deserves a spot on ids that have poured out, and we Dakota and uses this congregation this list. Never weird for weirdas a focal point to discuss how ness’s sake, Lynch’s movies are are horrified by what we see.

“Melancholia” evangelicalism has developed and filled with surreal, abrasive imag“Persona” Nate Taskin can be reached at taken hold of American politics.

A planet named “Melancholia” ery and deeply screwy psychology.

While it’s a little funny to see is hurtling toward the earth. All Forgive me for the hyperbole, but There’s a good chance that ntaskin@umass.edu.

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TELEVISION RETROSPECTIVE

‘Over the Garden Wall’ Five great zombie comedies comes alive beautiful and existential Genre again with laughter

Beloved miniseries explores unknown

By Aakanksha Gupta Collegian Correspondent

By Owen McCarthy Collegian Correspondent

If there’s one thing that encapsulates the spirit of Halloween, it’s the imagination that spawns from our relationship and fascination with the unknown.

No television series understands this better than Patrick McHale’s Emmy Award-winning “Over the Garden Wall.” A former writer and creative director on the infamously popular “Adventure Time,” McHale has proven his ability to tell unique, compelling stories through animation – and nowhere are his talents better showcased than in this deceptively simple miniseries.

The story begins with teenaged Wirt (Elijah Wood) and his younger half-brother Gregory (Collin Dean) finding themselves lost in a mysterious forest not so subtly named “The Unknown.”

With help from a gruff and ominous Woodsman (Christopher Lloyd) and an overbearing bluebird named Beatrice (Melanie Lynskey), the two boys traverse this strange and dangerous world in search of a way back home.

“Over the Garden Wall” explores how our fears and curiosities can often lead us astray when we too hastily predict a situation. Often times, the show’s narrative purposely withholds evi-

dence or plants false information to make reveals all the more effective. Something that appears sinister at first may turn out to be perfectly harmless, while something seemingly amicable and welcoming may be revealed to be malevolent in nature.

Most importantly, the miniseries does not rely on cheap jump scares and predictable backstories to feed into our fears. Instead, it targets a fear plenty of people share: that of the unfamiliar, of the unknown. After all, what can be more frightening than not knowing what lies ahead?

There are different approaches to facing the unknown, which the characters’ personalities represent.

Gregory embodies optimism in the face of danger and despair, despite it sometimes impeding his view of reality. Wirt, on the other hand, errs on the side of caution, leading him to act more cynical and guarded toward the unknown. Aside from their charming dynamic, the brothers’ opposing outlooks on the strange world around them help to blur the line of what is truly real and what is in their heads.

“If dreams can’t come true, then why not pretend?” one line in the show’s theme song asks. From the opening sequence, this theme rings true throughout the entirety of the 10-episode miniseries.

We couldn’t help but consider the role of the truth (or lack thereof) in facing the unknown. What do we do to cope with the situation? How do we provide ourselves with reassurance? These are overarching questions in “Over

the Garden Wall.”

The show taps into a nostalgic aspect of childhood, the tendency to use one’s imagination to provide answers for the unanswerable questions of reality. “Over the Garden Wall” thrives off imagination, referring to it poetically as “the loveliest lies of all.”

This reminds the audience about the importance of imagination and positive thinking in the face of adversity, while still acknowledging them as “lies” that are separate from the real world.

All in all, Halloween is a time for imaginations to run wild, for costumes to be donned and fears to be looked in the eye – things “Over the Garden Wall” achieves beautifully.

Wirt, Greg and Beatrice each go through transformations at different points of this whimsical adventure.

This results in a unique friendship between the three, pushing them to bond as they journey through this storybook world together.

We later learn more about what makes each character tick, allowing us to understand the complexity of their personalities.

This heartwarming miniseries will leave you with some important lessons about feeling lost, and a desire to see more. “Over the Garden Wall” has earned its place among the ranks of beloved evergreen fairytales – for both old fans and the uninitiated, it’s well worth the watch.

Aakanksha Gupta can be reached at aakankshagup@umass.edu.

Owen McCarthy can be reached at ommcarthy@umass.edu.

Lucy Matzilevich Collegian Correspondent Movies that attempt to make viewers scream and laugh rarely seem to do well.

Few filmmakers have been successful at synthesizing horror and comedy into a single dynamic entity that doesn’t rely on overbearing amounts of crude humor to cover up their lack of originality. Comic zombie movies may prove to be the most underrated genre of all time due to their limited success in infusing humor into a postapocalyptic setting.

However, beneath the wreckage of an infected film genre remain a few exceptional survivors.

“Zombieland” “Zombieland” embodies the true spirit of a comic zombie movie by incorporating the irony of finding comic relief within a society ravaged by death. The story stars Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), who finds himself an unlikely survivor given the opportunity to live out a hero complex only previously recognized through Xbox.

The offbeat monologue, unlikely partnership of painfully adolescent Eisenberg and gun-toting Woody Harrelson and wondrously random yet satisfying appearance of Bill Murray put “Zombieland” at the top of the list. Abigail Breslin delivers a great performance as the only child character while delivering some of the crudest lines of the film.

An ingeniously developed ensemble makes the viewer question whether the real

danger resides in the hordes of brain-hungry zombies or the terrifying idiosyncrasies of the remaining human survivors.

“Dead Snow” “Dead Snow” chronicles the fate of a group of friends whose trip to a lodge in the mountains quickly turns bloody when they accidentally awaken the fallen army of zombified Nazis.

While the film’s plot is action-packed in a constant stream of near-death experiences and limited dialogue, sudden spurts of humor through its soundtrack and story set it apart from its competition. The Norwegian film offers a tasteful distribution of blood and guts that highlights some especially ingenious methods of injury, including a ball-of-yarn style unraveling of small intestines snagged by a tree branch.

“Shaun of the Dead” “Shaun of the Dead” combines British stereotypes with a zombie-infected setting to create a comic masterpiece. Shaun (Simon Pegg) along with his best friend, mother, drunken stepfather, ex-girlfriend and hipster rival become entrapped in an English pub by a zombie mob, resulting in a hilariously bungled attempt at survival.

Penelope Wilton delivers an especially memorable performance as Shaun’s mother by nailing the transformation from a soft-spoken British woman to a killer member of the undead.

“Warm Bodies”

Set in the abandoned airport of a post-zombie apocalypse, “Warm Bodies” tells the endearing love story of R (Nicholas Hoult), a zombie who saves the life of human named Julie (Teresa Palmer).

After eating the brain of Julie’s boyfriend, R becomes her protector from an army of hypothalamus-hungry creatures. The two quickly develop a relationship through an awkward exchange of grunts, stunted communication and an imploding sexual tension between living and dead.

Unlike most of the movies in its genre, the film develops the unique concept of reversing the zombie infection through love and willpower, opening the floor for philosophical debate on what really makes us human.

“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” retells Jane Austen’s classic novel with guest appearances from the living dead. The film finds its humor intrinsically as the search for a husband continues throughout the apocalypse. The zombie war is thus woven in effortlessly allowing the plot to unfold in full with a few added dramatic elements.

Comic justice is delivered as 18th century high-society women with weapons stuffed into their corsages pause to eliminate a zombie infestation from the ballroom.

“Warm Bodies” is the edgy paranormal romance Lucy Matzilevich can be reached at that “Twilight” failed to be. lmatzilevich@umass.edu.

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Not ready for Oct. 31?

We’ve got you covered Outfit tips to get fabulous quickly

By Samantha Gonda Collegian Correspondent

The leaves have changed. The air is cold.

And Halloween is right around the corner. If you’re clueless on what to wear this Halloweekend and are living on a limited budget, here’s a list of ten costume ideas containing pieces you probably already own or can find around the house.

Sushi To dress as a piece of sushi all you need is either a white dress or t-shirt and you have your rice, a pink pillow to act as the salmon and a black belt signifying the seaweed, to keep the pillow strapped onto either your stomach or your back. To make this a couples costume, all your partner needs is a Kikkoman soy sauce shirt that can be purchased off Amazon for under $15 (and will exist all throughout the year as a wardrobe staple and conversation starter).

Animals Dressing as a black cat or a bunny is a Halloween classic for a reason. All you need is a dress or any outfit in the color of your animal (gray for a mouse, orange for a fox, brown for a deer, etc.), eyeliner to draw whiskers on your face and a headband for the ears of whichever animal you choose (which can be easily printed off the internet and glued onto cardboard or a headband).

Poison Ivy (the Marvel character) Some

artistic

skills

are necessary to become this infamous Batman villain. But for the outfit all that’s necessary is a green floral dress, bodysuit or shirt. For the makeup you’ll need to emphasize the green petals and thorns around your eyes to really lock in the look.

As far as the fiery red hair goes, a wig is always an option. But if that approach is too expensive and you’re willing to commit to temporary red hair spray dye – that’s definitely a detail that will pack an extra punch.

Brawny man This fun and practical costume consists of simply a red and black flannel (think lumber jack vibe) medium- dark wash jeans and a roll of paper towels. Extra points for facial hair of any kind – it really adds to the rugged look.

Pineapple or Pumpkin Whether you love piña coladas or pumpkin spice lattes, this costume is the perfect way to show off your favorite drink and leave the Halloween costume stress behind.

All you need is a yellow dress if you’re going to be a pineapple, orange if you’re going to be a pumpkin and a green headband with either flowing leaves to make the crown of the pineapple or a stem and vine for the pumpkin.

Supplies for these extra details can easily be found at a local craft store or repurposed from old containers and paper around the house with a couple coats of green paint.

Facebook This epitome

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funny Halloween puns. It simply includes writing the word “book” somewhere on your face and leaving the rest to common sense.

Rosie the Riveter To embody this feminist icon all you need is a denim shirt, red bandana, red lipstick, flexed arm and a fierce attitude.

Single Lady (Beyoncé) If you like this costume (put a ring on it) by wearing a black bodysuit with black stilettos and some kind of glove on your left hand (bonus points for sparkles). Be sure to practice your best ‘Single Ladies’ strut as well!

Jay Gatsby All you need to become Jay Gatsby is to wear a suit and fedora or bow tie and walk around with a champagne glass calling everybody “old sport.”

It’s also important to occasionally stare off into the distance muttering softly about a green light and Daisy.

‘Sons of Anarchy’ biker To dress as the newest prospect for the SAMCRO gang wear black pants, a grey shirt or flannel, white sneakers and a leather jacket. Call all of your friends “brother” and if you’re really feeling inspired by the role get a few friends to dress as other characters and go as the whole SAMCRO crew.

Samantha Gonda can be found at sgonda@umass.edu.

TOURISM

Things to do in ‘witch city’ Take in everything Salem has to offer

By Gina Lopez Collegian Staff

Come the month of October, Salem, because of the 1692 witch trials fandom, becomes a tourist hotspot for both spooky endeavors and Halloweeninspired activities alike.

Despite the town’s somewhat small area and quaint attitude, every year when the leaves begin to change and the pumpkin spice craze hits everyone by storm, something changes. The small town with fewer than 45,000 people north of Boston becomes a metropolis for witches, goblins and vampires alike. It makes a metamorphosis from its everyday suburban charm into a real-life Halloween town.

Because sorting through this fantastically-themed madness can become something of a cobweb, here’s a guide for all things fall-themed, horror-inspired and costumeencouraged in Salem.

Activities Salem Witch Museum The Salem Witch Museum is one of the most popular attractions in Salem – and rightfully so because of its pursuit in examining and preserving the memory of those killed in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Museum visitors can experience the historical relevance and brevity of the situation through 13 life-size stage sets, realistic figures, spooky lighting and a stirring narration as they witness the mystique of the Salem Witch Hunt.

style wax museum with 50 London-made wax figures.

The figurines in the museum specifically depict important and historical people and situations from Salem’s founding in 1626 though the horrors of the Witch Trials in 1692.

favorites and live entertainment including rock, salsa, country, jazz and big-band groups.

Trolleys

Artists Row is a stretch of open storefronts featuring Salem’s best artists with a festival-type atmosphere. Here you can find things like an assortment of expressive ceramic pumpkins, handcrafted wooden wonders and charismatic vendors happily chatting about their own masterpieces.

Friendship of Salem Ship The Friendship of Salem Ship commemorates Salem as a part of the post-colonial trade.

The ship is docked at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site – a dock established in 1938 as the first such site of its kind in United States.

Sailing schedules for the ships next take off can be observed at the Friendship of Salem Facebook page.

Places to eat Tavern in The Square

The Witch House is another very popular museum in the heart of Salem. As a matter of fact, it’s the only home in Salem with direct ties to 1692 as it was home to the famous witch trials Judge Jonathon Corwin. The Witch House prides itself on being far spookier than its counterparts, existing in candlelit cottages at forest of Salem’s edge.

The house was moved 35 feet to its current location when the street was widened in 1940.

Tavern in The Square offers your typical pubstyle atmosphere with the addition of Halloween flair in the haphazardly draped cobwebs and shrunken skulls balancing on the restaurants chandeliers. Menu favorites include a variety of year-round drafts and hard ciders and the ‘bid dig fries,’ which can be most easily described as extremely loaded waffle fries for extremely hungry guests.

The Salem Wax Museum offers an experience similar to that of other wax museums, with a haunted twist. Here you can find an open, gallery-

Artists Row

Signature trolleys that look as if they were taken right out of a picture book are an ultra-touristy alternative to trotting around town on foot. And if you’re looking to cover more ground with the guide of an expert, consider a trolley ride that will allow you to observe things from a different perspective and Moravian Book Shop possibly even stay dry and Gift Gallery from the rain (as a coastal town, Salem can often be Moravian Book Shop chilly and damp). and Gift Gallery houses a large variety of books, Salem Spins ghost tours, quirky souvenirs and even tasty treats Salem Spins is a bike for onlookers to admire share program that and bring home to family offers both rental bikes members. The Moravian for the day and a more Book Shop features an environmentally friendexpansive collection of ly approach to travelMoravian stars and stars ing around town. Salem of Bethlehem.

Spins operates out of the Hawthorne Hotel and the Coffee and Treats Boston Harbor Cruises ferry office.

The Witch House

Salem Wax Museum

Shopping

Jaho Coffee and Tea

Jaho Coffee and Tea offers a menu compete with “Zodiac teas” if you’re feeling astrological and their signature scarlet espresso with “hints of spicy dark chocolate, hazelnut and coconut notes” which produces something of a crème brûlée finish. This shop is famed for their artisanal coffees and roasts.

Witch’s Brew Café Witch’s Brew Café offers a rustic-meetsmedieval feel with brunch, lunch, dinner, dessert and coffee options. Some of the café’s specialty desserts include: ‘lemon ripieno’ which is lemon sorbetto served in the natural fruit shell and the ‘mini New York Cheesecake’ flavored with a hint of vanilla – which is simply what it sounds like.

Overnight Stays

Not ready to leave Salem? Popular inns and hotels in Salem include The Merchant which is the epitome of eclectic style and charm, The Salem Inn Rockafellas which offers a historical Rockafellas is a crowd stay with antique fixtures, favorite – at times as much and the Salem Waterfront as a two-hour wait – so Hotel and Marina for a reserve your table early! seaside view.

The restaurant prides itself on its reliable com- Gina Lopez can be reached at bination of bar food gmlopez@umass.edu.

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Two arrested for Major fair is a major key to success Southpoint murder Suspects fled to Phoenix, Arizona B y N ujhat Purnata Collegian Staff

ry after the fact to murder.

The arrests came after investigators learned that the duo, who are believed to be brothers, had left Massachusetts on a bus bound for Phoenix, according to an email from Carey.

Both men will now make appearances in an Arizona court to see whether they intend to challenge their extradition back to Massachusetts.

Jose M. Rodriguez, 31, died on Oct. 15 as a result of multiple gunshot wounds in a fatal shooting that left another 28-yearold male, whose name was not released by authorities, critically injured. The second male received treatment at UMass Medical Center in Worcester and was eventually released.

Two arrests have been made in connection with the double shooting at the Southpoint apartments, according to information released by District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Mary Carey.

Soknang Chham, 33, of New Salem, has been arrested by the United States Marshals Service last evening near Flagstaff, Arizona on a warrant charging him with one count of murder and one count of armed assault with intent to murder.

Soksot Chham, 35, also of New Salem, has been taken into custody as well on the Nujhat Purnata can be reached at charge of being an accesso- npurnata@umass.edu.

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Nick Warner, a freshman sustainable food & farming major, talks to an advisor at the majors fair in the Campus Center on Oct. 26, 2016.

UMass ranks in top Sustainability forum draws low turnout 50 green schools Attendees discuss Honor given by the Princeton Review B y Elizabeth W allace Collegian Staff

ing factor to the ranking, according to UMass’s press release.

The Princeton Review cited the existence of a sustainability-focused degree program. UMass’s School of Earth and Sustainability (SES) in the College of Natural Sciences offers 18 undergraduate degrees and five graduate degrees.

Established this spring, SES is intended to “serve as a central hub for a suite of academic programs, research, innovation, outreach and extension activities focusing on finding solutions to the complex, global environmental challenges of the 21st century,” according to the press release announcing the school’s creation.

T he guide also noted the Chancellor’s Sustainability Advisory Committee (CSAC) as a factor in the ranking.

Sustainable UMass, which works to raise awareness about sustainable initiatives on campus, is another factor that impacted the ranking, according to the Princeton Review.

Additionally, Princeton Review recognized UMass for its commitment to 100 percent of new construction being LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, certified.

Brosnan-Smith credits the sustainable movement to students, and SGA is already looking toward the future.

“A lot of our success comes from the involvement and determination of students who pressure administration to change the University’s unsustainable practices. Moving forward we would like to see the University abandon the plastic, single-use water bottle branded ‘UMass’,” Brosnan-Smith said.

For the second year in a row, the University of Massachusetts has been ranked in the Princeton Review’s Top 50 Green Schools.

Ranked 41st in “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 361 Green Colleges,” UMass is recognized for its alternative transportation options, use of local, organic food and sustainable initiatives including a sustainability-focused de g ree prog ram and Sustainable UMass.

UMass was ranked 21st in last year’s guide.

The guide cites UMass’s bike-friendly community, including the Student Government Association’s Bike Share Program, as one of the reasons for UMass’s ranking. Another reason is that SGA is in the process of implementing compost stations around campus.

“Our University is making incredible strides towards sustainability with the implementation of the Bike Share Program; we’ve recently added 10 new bikes, and expanding the accessibility of composting with new outdoor receptacles,” said SGA Secretary of Sustainability Ainsley Brosnan-Smith.

As previously reported

by The Daily Collegian, the SGA appointed a Bike Share Manager, and they have plans to increase the number of bikes in the program to 38 within the next six months.

The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA), which is free to ride for UMass students, is another alternative transportation option that contributed to UMass’s ranking.

Additionally, the guide notes the use of local, organic food, citing that 14% of the food budget is spent on natural ingredients. In August, UMass Dining topped the Princeton Review’s ranking for Best Campus Food, and the fresh, local ingre- Elizabeth Wallace can be reached dients were a contribut- at erwallace@umass.edu.

avenues for change

By Jackson Cote Collegian Correspondent

What was supposed to be a forum that would inform students about sustainable projects going on around campus turned into an intimate discussion due to lack of attendance. The discussion was held by University of Massachusetts sustainable staff and faculty members, as well as students involved in the UMass EcoRep Program, and centered on what sustainability avenues the university should pursue.

The discussion was held in the Integrative Learning Center on Wednesday night.

Planned presenters, including representatives from Campus Planning, UMass Dining, Physical Plant and the UMass School of Earth

and Sustainability, engaged in a casual, Q&A-style discussion with the Eco-Rep students who organized the event.

Eco-Reps is an academic course that educates enrolled students on issues regarding sustainability and environmental literacy.

Students are then tasked with raising awareness about these issues with the rest of the campus community.

“Climate change is obviously a big thing we learn about,” said Tyler Sellner, Eco-Rep student and Fellow of the UMass Sustainability Fellowship Program. “ So sustainability, I think, offers a hope and a solution.

I decided I’d like to be part of a solution to what we’re learning about.”

Brittany Florio, senior Sustainability Coordinator for UMass Dining and presenter at the forum, discussed the various sustain-

able initiatives she is currently overseeing, most prominently, UMass Fresh, a program that provides customized meals to students.

Meals are prepared by the UMass Dining Culinary Team, who use local and organized produce from the UMass Permaculture Gardens and student farms.

“The benefits of UMass Fresh are to support the local farming community, to increase the UMass community access to regional food, and to address food insecurity on the UMass campus,” said Florio.

Darci Connor Maresca, assistant director of the School of Earth and Sustainability, is taking a more “behind the scenes” approach to campus sustainability. Maresca discussed the influx of job opportunities in the field of sustainability. She is working to establish an undergraduate major in sustainability, as

well as a MS PHD Program, in order to provide students with the necessary level of education for these career positions and the skills to effect change in the field of sustainability.

“I’m really passionate about not just doing it because it sounds good, but doing it because the world needs people like this,” Maresca said. “Making sure we design a program so that when they leave they are effective change makers.”

UMass Eco-Reps’ next event is a day-long symposium for sustainability student leaders. The symposium will be hosted at the Integrative Learning Center on Nov. 5 and aims bring together over 100 students from 25 colleges across New England to further address campus sustainability issues, ranging from waste reduction to green housing.

Jackson Cote can be reached at jkcote@umass.edu.

Trump aims to win Black vote at rally

By Tim Funk and Jim Morrill before Election Day and as Americans. “School choice is the country.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promised a “new deal for black America” Wednesday at Charlotte’s Spirit Square.

Speaking to a mostly white audience, he talked about launching a new “urban renewal” in America’s inner cities and unlocking the “potential” of the AfricanAmerican community.

“Here is the promise I make to you whether you vote for me or not: I will be your greatest champion,” he said, addressing the black community.

“We keep electing the same people over and over and they keep coming back to the African-American and the Hispanic community and keep talking about what they’re going to do. ... I will never, ever, take the AfricanAmerican community for granted. Never ever. Unlike Hillary Clinton.”

He also claimed that Democrat Hillary Clinton would start an intervention in Syria “that could lead us into World War III.” Trump’s appearance came less than two weeks

polls show the presidential race tightening. Clinton still leads by 5.6 points nationally, according to Real Clear Politics polling average.

The GOP nominee touched on familiar subjects including immigration, taxes, health care and plans for a $1 trillion investment in national infrastructure.

But he kept returning to another theme that he first addressed during a Charlotte rally in August: how his policies would benefit “the inner cities.”

Speaking a few blocks from where riots followed last month’s police shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott, Trump criticized what he called “uneven justice.” He promised that justice would be applied “fairly and equally and without prejudice” with safe neighborhoods.

“I want every poor African-American child to be able to walk down the street ... and not be scared,” he said.

“Safety is a civil right. The problem is not the presence of police but the absence of police. ... We must work with our police, not against them.”

Trump said his policies on immigration, trade and education all would benefit black

the greatest civil rights issue of our time,” he said.

Some black leaders dismissed what he called Trump’s “false promises.”

“It sounds like a desperate, last-minute political trick,” said Sen. Joel Ford of Charlotte. “If he was serious, his organization and the businesses he owns would reflect those values, and AfricanAmericans who’ve worked for him over the years would be coming out of the woodwork singing his praises.”

Trump trails Democrat Hillary Clinton by 2 points in Real Clear Politics’ latest poll average for North Carolina.

Before taking stage, Trump held a roundtable discussion backstage with North Carolina faith and community leaders backstage. Eight African-Americans sat in a horseshoe. Trump told them he’s been accepted well by the black community.

“The response has been unbelievable,” Trump said about enthusiasm from black Americans.

Trump was introduced by Leon Threatt, a Republican running for Congress in the 12th District. He’s bullish about Trump’s chances in North Carolina and across

“I’m pretty confident that he’ll win this thing in a landslide,” Threatt said. “And I think we’ll see something similar across the nation. It’s looking real good. And I think the American people are ready for that.”

Trump appeared in Washington earlier Wednesday for a ribbon-cutting at his new Trump Hotel.

At Spirit Square, he was on the same stage where three days before, Chicago’s Second City lampooned both him and Clinton in a performance called “Unelectable You.” U.S. Rep. Alma Adams, a Charlotte Democrat, criticized Trump in a statement released by the Clinton campaign: “Donald Trump’s campaign is built on a foundation of harmful prejudices and economic policies which only benefit millionaires like himself while leaving hardworking North Carolina families behind. ...

“It is clear that the only ticket in this election that values the success of all people in this country is ClintonKaine.”

Clinton returns to North Carolina on Thursday for a rally at Wake Forest University with the first lady.

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Islamic State loyalists kill 26 Afghan civilians after kidnapping dozens KABUL, Afghanistan — Gunmen kidnapped and killed 26 civilians, including children, in an isolated central province in the latest violence attributed to loyalists of Islamic State in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.

Officials in Ghor province said the civilians were abducted Tuesday outside the provincial capital of Ferozkoh during fighting between the gunmen and Afghan security forces.

The gunmen were Taliban insurgents who now claimed allegiance to Islamic State, the militant organization based in Iraq and Syria that has carried out several bloody attacks in Afghanistan, officials said.

Ghulam Nasir Khadeh, the provincial governor, said by phone that authorities in Ferozkoh had received 26 bodies of more than 30 who were abducted on Tuesday. The whereabouts of the others were not immediately known.

The Taliban denied involvement in the incident.

Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the insurgent group, called it “shocking.”

Fazlulhaq Ehsan, head of the provincial council in Ghor, said the civilians were shepherds and farmers from the Tajik ethnicity.

The leader of the gunmen, whom officials identified as Faruq, was killed in the fighting with security forces. Faruq was a wellknown outlaw in the province, one of Afghanistan’s poorest, who swore allegiance to Islamic State about a year ago, officials said.

Islamic State in Khorasan – the militant group’s branch in Afghanistan and Pakistan – has been blamed since last year for a series of kidnappings of members of the Hazara ethnic minority, who are targeted by the Sunni Muslim extremists because they are Shiites.

Earlier this year, Islamic State claimed responsibility for bombing a massive Hazara protest in the capital, Kabul, which killed more than 80 people. This month, the group also attacked a Shiite mosque in Kabul, killing at least 18 people.

Even as Islamic State’s bases in Iraq and Syria come under pressure by government forces in both countries, the militant group has shown its ability to carry out massive violence, particularly in South Asia. On Monday it claimed responsibility for a raid on a Pakistani police academy that left more than 60 people dead in the northwestern city of Quetta.

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By Ben Steverman Bloomberg News

NEW YORK — For wealthy Americans, a big win by Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8 could get pretty expensive.

Clinton is proposing higher taxes on Americans who make more than $250,000, including a 4 percent “fair share surcharge” on incomes of more than $5 million a year. She’s also trying to limit the ability of the rich to lower their tax bills through clever planning.

This has made the election a hot topic at accounting and advisory companies that cater to the wealthy. The election “dominates the conversations we have with clients today,” said Brian Andrew, chief investment officer at Johnson Financial Group.

Changing tax laws is easier said than done. Even if the Democratic presidential candidate defeats Donald Trump, she’ll probably be negotiating any tax bills with a House of Representatives still controlled by Republicans.

Democrats would get free rein to set tax policy only if a big Clinton win helps them gain control of the Senate, which is teetering, and the House. The likeliest scenario is divided government, in which the House will thwart any substantial tax increase, said Joe Heider, founder of Cirrus Wealth Management in Cleveland.

Still, “there’s a growing concern (among Republicans) that this could become a wave election,” Heider said.

Clinton proposes raising revenue by $1.4 trillion over the next decade.

Almost all of that burden falls on the top 1 percent of taxpayers, according to the Tax Policy Center.

The top 1 percent’s aftertax income would fall by an average of 7 percent.

Trump, by contrast, would cut taxes by $6.2 trillion over the next 10 years, with the top 1 percent getting almost half that benefit and a 13.5 percent boost to their after-tax income.

Advisers to the wealthy are ready to take evasive action if Democrats make big gains.

“We have to be quick enough to pull the trigger after Nov. 8,” said Alan Kufeld, a CPA and tax partner at PKF O’Connor Davies LLP, who says most of his clients have a net worth of $25 million to $1 billion. “You have to have a plan that is very fluid.”

The rich tend to have more financial flexibility than other taxpayers.

If taxes look like they’re going up, they have a few cards they can play. One common tactic is being smart about when to receive income and when to recognize losses and take deductions. To cut the taxes you owe next April 15, for example, you can try delaying income to future years while taking as many deductions and losses as you can this year.

“If you’re going to sell something, sell it next year so you have an extra year to pay the tax,” said Richard Rampell, a CPA and principal at MBAF in Palm Beach, Fla. But a big win by Democrats could turn that conventional strategy on its head, Rampell said.

Instead of trying to minimize this year’s tax bill, you might try to take as much income as possible in 2016 _ for example, by selling a winning stock _ rather than risk paying higher taxes on that

money in 2017 or 2018.

There’s a huge question mark hanging over all these tax matters. When would any tax increase be implemented? Ordinarily, a tax bill passed in 2017 would go into effect in 2018, giving the wealthy plenty of time to prepare. The biggest fear is a tax increase passed in 2017 that’s retroactive to the beginning of the year, said Michael Kassab, chief investment officer at Calamos Wealth Management.

It’s happened before. In 1993, a tax bill passed at the beginning of Bill Clinton’s administration affected earnings that same year.

If it happens again, the wealthy may have only the last several weeks of 2016 to get ready for higher taxes.

“There really is no way to know,” said Brittney Saks, a partner at PwC based in Chicago. “It’s that uncertainty that’s making people uncomfortable.”

If Clinton gets her plan through, taxes would get more complicated and harder to avoid. She has proposed new rates on capital gains, so that taxpayers pay higher rates if they hold an investment for less than six years. She’d also give people less flexibility to lower their tax bills with common strategies. For example, she would limit the ability of the wealthy to itemize deductions, with the exception of charitable deductions. She’d also require a minimum effective tax rate of 30 percent on incomes over $1 million the Buffett Rule, named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett, a Clinton supporter, who declared it isn’t right that his secretary should pay a higher tax rate than he does.

Municipal bonds should remain a tried-and-true method for wealthy investors to lower their tax burden. While munis tend to yield less than other bonds, their income generally isn’t taxed. If capital gains tax rates go up, Heider said, investors might also think about investments they can buy and hold for longer periods of time, such as real estate.

There’s good reason to wait and see what actually passes Congress.

“Even if Hillary Clinton is elected president, and even if there is a Democratic Congress, it’s not so easy to change the tax laws,” said Paul Ambrose Jr., a law partner at Cullen & Dykman LLP in Hackensack, N.J., who specializes in estate tax planning. It might not be easy to get lawmakers, worried about their own political futures, to go along with a tax increase.

And not every wealthy person would be affected by a tax hike.

“Just because tax rates may go up next year, it doesn’t mean your tax rate is going up,” said Tim Steffen, director of financial planning at Baird.

For example, Clinton’s proposals largely spare high-earning professionals if they have few taxable investments and few deductions.

So while advisers are vigilant, they’re warning clients not to make any big moves until the political future is clearer. Most of all, they say, people shouldn’t let worries about taxes override sound strategies.

“Basic economics should always drive decisions,” Heider said. “Tax benefits, or tax avoidance, should always be secondary.”

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times

CAIRO — Monther Etaky’s wife was breast-feeding, and in desperate need of nutrition. He spent five days hunting for yogurt to give her _ anything to keep her and their 2-month-old son alive _ then gave up.

The streets outside their apartment were a 24-hour-aday death zone of exploding bombs and whistling mortars.

“Warplanes with machine guns fly all the day, all the night, shooting just to say to people, ‘We are here, you can’t sleep because we are exploding all the day around you, you can’t move, any small light we can target,’” said Etaky, a graphic designer and photographer from Aleppo _ a city that has become the dark emblem of Syria’s more than 5-year-old civil war.

“I just watch him all the night and try to calm him,” he said of his son.

Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Earth, an architectural treasure settled in the Bronze Age that endured the rule of Hittites and Romans, Mongols and Ottomans.

Once Syria’s most populous city, it is still home to about 1.5 million people in the west and 250,000 in the east.

But residents tell of water pipes gone dry, hospitals without blood-pressure medication, underfed schoolchildren too hungry to focus on their lessons. Schools and hospitals have moved into basements in hopes of escaping the shelling.

“We live in a state of terror all the time,” said Mohammed Abu Jihad, of eastern Aleppo. “Even when we sleep.”

The battle for the city pits Islamic extremists and anti-government rebels, entrenched in eastern Aleppo, against the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his Russian allies in the western part of the city.

U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry has called for a war crimes investigation into the bombing campaign, and last Friday the United Nation’s human rights chief, Zeid Raad Hussein, said Aleppo has become “a slaughterhouse.” He told the U.N.’s Human Rights Council that attacks on eastern Aleppo “constitute crimes of historic proportions.”

Russia recently announced a pause in airstrikes on rebel-controlled parts of Aleppo, and last Friday the Syrian government opened a corridor for those wanting to leave the city. But fighting has been halted before. A cease-fire was declared in September.

It lasted about a week.

What has it been like to live through a siege that has captured the world’s horrified attention? By telephone, Facebook messenger, WhatsApp and Skype, several of them told their stories.

The first is Etaky.

Etaky said he and his wife, Walaa, 25, moved to an abandoned apartment in the Saif al-Dawla neighborhood three years ago after their own house was bombed. Now they’re stuck on the front line in the battle for Aleppo.

He sent a map on WhatsApp shaded red in the west, green

in the east. His apartment is smack in the middle.

They have no running water, and the well water, undrinkable, is for bathing and washing. Bottled water costs $4.

They have electricity about two hours a day and rely on flashlights and candles at night. He has rigged chargers for his cellphone and other devices to a car battery and mounted a solar panel to his balcony.

Without power, their refrigerator has become a cupboard, and he asks his grandmother for survival tips from the olden days: how to use salt, for instance, to preserve meat.

If they survive until winter, he asked, what will they do for heat?

“Civilization is gone,” he said.

Etaky volunteers with Space of Hope, a nonprofit center with a bunker playground where he taught photography “living, playing and sleeping underground.”

The center offered only a brief respite from the war.

One day the children were playing with balloons. When one popped, the sound sent a girl into hysterics.

Many of the children are war orphans. They clamored for copies of photos Etaky took, so he ordered a Polaroid. It never arrived, and Etaky has been unable to reach the center for a month because of the airstrikes. His wife talks about decamping to the countryside. Just for a little while, if the roads ever open again. He worries about abandoning extended family and friends.

“I can’t leave this place.

I lost more than 50 friends here. It’s a place I love,” Etaky said as the evening call to prayer sounded through a window.

One friend, 36-year-old Shamel Ahmad, was killed by a barrel bomb that struck his family’s car just down the street from Etaky’s apartment. Ahmad’s pregnant wife, who was injured, gave birth to their daughter and died. Etaky worries about his own wife.

“I can’t decide what I should do: Take her out of Aleppo and then back to Aleppo? Should we stay together?” he said, his dark eyes troubled behind boxy brown glasses. “A lot of my friends _ they are talking about leaving. Most of them just need to take a breath.

If it’s possible to go out of Aleppo ... “ Warplanes thundered overhead, and the baby bawled.

“There is the machine gun,” he said.

Mohammed Abu Jihad works as a pharmacist and surgical assistant at Hayat Hospital, the official-sounding name for a makeshift hospital medical facility tucked in the basement of an apartment building in east Aleppo. He fears it could be attacked at any moment, especially since the ceasefire ended and Syrian forces began dropping “bunker buster” bombs capable of penetrating below-ground shelters.

Recently, one struck outside the building’s door.

“Two hospitals already have been hit by these kinds of bombs,” he said. One person was killed and three injured.

“But we can’t do anything

about it.”

Abu Jihad, 26, also works at two other hospitals _ all of them short on staff, equipment and supplies. Hayat has about a month’s supply of anesthesia left. Every day as he leaves for work, he worries about his monthold twin girls, Marwa and Mariam.

“If I go to work and I come back, I might find my house bombed, God forbid,” he said. Still, “my wife doesn’t stop me from going to work.

She knows the house is no safer than the hospital.”

Each day at Hayat, two doctors treat about 50 people.

This year it has already been hit with a rocket, phosphorous gas and the bunkerbuster bomb, he said.

One case that moved him deeply was that of a 9-yearold boy, Ahmed Ahmed, brought in after an airstrike.

“He was alive, but he didn’t have his eyes. His family died under the rubble,” Abu Jihad said. The boy, covered in ash, was silent as they anesthetized him and removed his damaged eyes.

In the past the hospital sent such complicated cases to Turkey. That’s not possible now.

“He will suffer a lot,” Abu Jihad said.

The little girl’s face was coated with blood and dust when Mohammed Seddaway lifted her from the rubble in her green T-shirt. A bomb blast had buried her parents.

“We didn’t have any equipment. We didn’t expect to pull anyone else alive.

The last child was pulled out after eight minutes. It was almost a miracle,” he said.

Seddaway is one of about 110 Syrian civil defense workers, or White Helmets, who are trained in basic first aid and respond to airstrikes and bombings. Some Aleppo residents praise them as heroes. Others accuse them of being opposition fighters.

Seddaway disputes that.

“We are not soldiers. We just help people,” he said.

On the day he pulled the little girl from the rubble, she gazed up at him and, using an honorific, said, “Uncle, I love you.”

Seddaway, 25, who has a newborn at home, took stock of the girl and her two young brothers, who also survived, and the wreckage of their home _ a red sofa, a shattered television, a doll. He started to cry.

“I felt like they were my own children, or my brother’s children. And I felt, what fault did they have in this?” he said.

The White Helmets operate a fleet of battered ambulances, delivering the injured to a beleaguered hospital Seddaway described as overcrowded and dirty. “It smells like blood,” he said.

Seddaway earns about $100 to $150 a month, not much given that the rice and eggplants his family subsists on cost $5.50 a pound. He also works part time as a cashier to supply his infant son’s formula and diapers. Formula costs $40 a can and is in such short supply, he started feeding his son Fisal a gruel of watered-down cookies, leaving him thin and weak.

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“I have not seen ‘The Hunger Games.’ Not enough class warfare for me.” - Barack Obama

The racial history of cannabis

With legalization of recreational mar- drug into this country.” ijuana on the Massachusetts ballot this This rhetoric was swallowed easily year, there has been great talk (not least despite its contradictory nature. Many people were not even aware that the Christin Howard cannabis in their cough syrup and the dreaded marijuana of degenerate immiof which has been in The Massachusetts grants were in fact the same plant.

Daily Collegian) of the benefits, issues, Regardless, marijuana control quickfears and history of marijuana legaliza- ly became a political focal point, one that tion. However, what has neglected to was synonymous with border control be addressed is the unmistakable racial and negative stereotypes of Mexicans. history of the cannabis plant and the Marijuana was often purposefully used role that this history plays in the current as a tool to search and arrest Mexican (or mass incarceration of Blacks and other Mexican-looking) people. people of color.

By the turn of the 20th century, mari John Hudak, author of the new book, juana already had a bad name, but it was “Marijuana: A Short History,” has done the hard-hitting Harry Anslinger who extensive research into the background was almost single-handedly responsible of marijuana and, in an interview on for outlawing the drug. He took the racNational Public Radio, divulged some of ist rhetoric before him and brought it to the history of marijuana in the United new heights, brilliantly including it in States. his denouncements of the drug.

Beginning in the 18th century, hemp Anslinger, who was a prohibitionist was used in the United States as an and vehemently against all mind-alterimportant cash crop. In the 19th century, ing substances, took on the task of vilifycannabis itself began to be prescribed as a treatment for a slew of diseases, including insomnia, opioid addiction, insanity, excessive menstrual bleeding, cholera, alcoholism, leprosy and anthrax to name a few. Yes, many of these may seem ridiculous, but suffice it to say that marijuana was being used and prescribed widely across the United States without any stigma. ing marijuana in the eyes of the white Meanwhile, Mexico was growing and public. He purported that marijuana using cannabis at higher rates than the turned people into psychopaths and killUnited States, although they referred to ers and made people insane. the plant as marijuana.

His real focus however was on his After the Spanish American War in claim that marijuana was primarily used 1898, Mexican immigration to the United by the “darkies” (as he called Blacks States began to climb rapidly. This was and Latinos), and made them even more very upsetting to certain members of the degenerative than they already were. population. The fact that Mexicans were He said, “There are 100,000 total mariproducing a mind-altering substance juana smokers in the U.S., and most are (regardless of the fact the U.S. was also Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and enterproducing and using it) was easy fodder tainers. Their satanic music, jazz and against these new immigrants. swing results from marijuana use. This As Hudak states, “marijuana gave marijuana causes white women to seek individuals and media organizations in sexual relations with Negroes, entertainparticular an opportunity to vilify these ers and any others.” He also said, “Reefer new Mexican immigrants, and to say makes darkies think they’re as good as that they were lazy and that they were a white men.” Anslinger capitalized on the problem and that they were bringing this racist fears of Blacks and Hispanics and

the sexist rhetoric of the time to push marijuana as an agent of evil and a corruptor of white sensibilities.

Anslinger’s rhetoric about marijuana led to its outlawing in 1937 and later to its categorization as a Schedule I drug.

The idea that marijuana turned people “savage” and was directly tied to the minority races continued into the 20th century. This would ultimately peak in the 80s when the “war on drugs” began.

The war on drugs primarily targeted Black and minority groups, despite the fact that they use marijuana and other drugs (even cocaine) at the same rate as white people.

Today, the effects of the war on drugs are shocking. Although Blacks make up only 12.3% of the population and Hispanics only 17% of the population, they make up 57% of those jailed in federal prisons for drug related offenses, despite the fact that these groups use and sell drugs at comparable rates.

It is not surprising then that today, although Blacks and whites use marijuana around the same rate, Blacks are nearly 4 times more likely to be arrested on marijuana charges nationwide. In certain places like Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota, Blacks are 7.5-8 times more likely to be arrested on marijuana-related charges.

While this discrepancy is a commentary on the systematic racism of our police and court system, it is also directly related to the racial rhetoric of drugs, particularly marijuana, that has marked our country’s discourse on substances for well over a century.

The legalization of weed is not just a victory for stoners, hippies, modern medicine and fans of continuity of substance laws, it is also a huge step in easing the racial history of the plant. It is the first step to abolishing the war against drugs which has caused such huge issues in minority, and also in white, communities. As you consider Question 4, please also consider the reasons behind marijuana’s outlaw in the first place.

“While this discrepancy is a commentary on the systematic racism of our police and court system, it is also directly related to the racial rhetoric of drugs, particularly marijuana, that has marked our country’s discourse on substances for well over a century.”

Christin Howard is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at christinhowa@umass.edu.

Live up to the legacy of Halloween As a college student, I seem to The Celts used the festivities always be searching for camarade- of Oct. 31 to respond to their fear rie with my classmates. All the “big of the winter. The response they staged was an indulgent celebraBecky Wandel tion of all the horror the winter might bring to them. During these ideas” I have about this campus, and festivities, the Celts were known to all the articles I write about it, end make bonfires, prophesize by way up focusing on my pursuit of amity of apple-bobbing and dressing up with my peers: “Finding together- as the ghosts they thought were ness with strangers,” as one editor lurking about. Halloween was a celput it.

Forgive me then for my redundancy, but Halloween is coming up and I just have to write about togetherness again.

The history of Halloween indulges me here, as it began as a festival of human solidarity – against ghosts. Two thousand years ago, the ancient Celts of Ireland celebrated their New Year on Nov. 1. That day marked the end of the prosperous summer and the beginning of the long, dark winter – a truly dangerous season for a people so dependent on the land. ebration; a night where a terrified On the eve of this great transition community, emboldened by the high from prosperity to poverty, from life of festivity and the invincibility of to death (the night of Oct. 31), it was fellowship, invited the very thing it believed that the channels that sepa- feared the most to meet its members rated the living from the dead were face-to-face. On Halloween, togethopened. Ghosts unearthed them- er, the Celts ordered the inexorable selves to wreak havoc on the human to come. world, and humans banded together Okay, I may be getting a little over bonfires, dancing and divina- histrionic here, but you can’t blame tion to face them. me, it’s Halloween. Ghost stories,

“We, like them, will spend the night of October 31st in the thralls of festivity and we, like them, will invite death and fright, in the forms of adventure and costume and risky behavior, to our parties to dance.”

dramatic performances and selfindulgences are included, right?

My point is that Halloween, the holiday we will all be celebrating this weekend, is no different than the dramatic, high-stakes Halloween that the Celts celebrated so many years ago. We, like them, will spend the night of Oct. 31 in the thralls of festivity and we, like them, will invite death and fright, in the forms of adventure, costume and risky behavior, to our parties to dance.

It is only the mythology that has changed.

You see, the Celts were afraid of famine, of head-hunting warriors and of being conquered by the Roman Empire, that’s why they celebrated Halloween. So then why do we? What are we so afraid of ? What bump in the night, what shadow of winter, what herald of doom, haunts us?

I’ll let you figure that one out.

But while you’re working on it, don’t forget to enjoy your Halloween.

And don’t miss your chance this year to imagine you and your friends as those eternal Celts: backs to the wind and eyes on the moon, standing together, facing what they fear the most and beckoning it closer with the promise of a most gruesome party.

Becky Wandel is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at rwandel@umass.edu.

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On Feb. 7, 1994, Michael Jordan shocked the world of sports by coming out of his

Anthony Ferranti retirement to play professional baseball. He signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox minor league program and played one season, putting up 51 RBIs, three home-runs and maintaining a batting average of .202. Although his professional baseball career is incomparable to his impact on the game of basketball, Jordan showed the world that if you have enough spectacular fame in one professional sport, you can give another one a shot.

Fast forward 22 years, and one can find the next dualsport celebrity athlete launching himself into the spotlight, but this time with far less of an impact. At the beginning of August, the 29 year-old Tim Tebow announced that he would try his luck in professional baseball. He signed a contract with the New York Mets this September and currently plays for the Scottsdale Scorpions, an Arizona Fall League team. The Mets hand-

sional world of baseball. The last time he played baseball was in his junior year of high school, and yet Tebow expects to pick up the game again like riding a bike. Not only has he been away from the game of baseball for over 10 years, but Tebow has not played in an NFL game in four years. It takes years of hard work and dedication for baseball players to finally make it to “The Show.” If Tebow never made it big in the NFL, he would have had no shot at a baseball career. What Tebow neglects to realize is that despite being in the spotlight of the sports world for several years now, he does not have the athleticism to match his fame.

Given that no one can persuade Tebow away from the baseball diamond, let us consider his early career statistics with the Arizona Fall League as of right now. In his seven games and 24 at-bats, Tebow has a shallow .083 batting average with a total of two hits and eight strikeouts; he is among the worst hitters on the team.

Given his horrendous stats, I would consider Tebow’s professional baseball career as a publicity stunt rather than a

“It can certainly be argued that the Mets are more interested in Tebow-generated revenue than his athletic performance, which is a shame to the sport of baseball.” ed out an impressive $100,000 signing bonus when Tebow signed his contract, which in my opinion is an embarrassment.

Let me start by saying that unlike Michael Jordan’s basketball career, Tebow’s professional career in the National Football League was never very impressive. Despite finishing a notable college career with three Heisman Trophy nominations (one awarded) and breaking five National Collegiate Athletic Association statistical records, Tebow failed to carry his talent over to the NFL. In fact, many would call his career a failure despite his fame. During his time with the Denver Broncos, Tebow launched himself into the spotlight, setting an NFL Draft record for jersey sales.

But Tebow never put up numbers on the field to back up his popularity. When Peyton Manning came into the picture, Tebow was traded to the New York Jets where his career began to slide downhill. In the spring of 2013, the Jets released him after he only threw eight passes that season. Later that year, the New England Patriots signed Tebow but released him when making roster cuts at the end of August 2013. In 2015, Tebow signed with the Philadelphia Eagles but was released before the official season began after competing for the third-string quarterback spot.

After an embarrassing career in the NFL, Tebow must be crazy to think he will have any success in the profes-

pursuit of passion. After all, his first passion was always football.

Many sports analysts have come forward to discourage Tebow from playing baseball, and few seem to be supportive of his choice. Among them is ESPN baseball analyst Keith Law, who attacked not only Tebow but also the Mets organization, saying, “chasing celebrities is no way to run a player-development department, and organization or a league. Everyone involved in the decision should be embarrassed when they’re done counting their money.” My guess is that Law is referring to the Tim Tebow jersey sales that will spike if he has even a shred of success in Major League Baseball. It can certainly be argued that the Mets are more interested in Tebowgenerated revenue than his athletic performance, which is a shame to the sport of baseball.

Tebow does not belong in the game of baseball. He gave football his best shot and failed professionally. Now that he is suffering with the consequences of a lousy NFL career, he wants to bring attention to himself by trying out baseball. I always thought of Tim Tebow as more of a celebrity than a professional athlete.

My recommendation to him would be to take some acting classes if he wants to stay in the spotlight and pursue a career of fame.

Anthony Ferranti is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at aferranti@umass.edu.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Minutewomen host St. Joseph’s in Rudd finale GK Babin reigning Atlantic 10 DPOW

By Mollie Walker Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts women’s soccer team welcomes the Atlantic 10’s number one seed in Saint Joseph’s to Rudd Field for its last home game of the regular season Thursday afternoon.

The Hawks (14-1-2, 7-0-1 Atlantic 10) has been cozy at the top of the A-10 standings for the entire season.

It’s lone loss dates all the way back to Aug. 26 against Rutgers.

Since then, St. Joes have enjoyed a 15-game unbeaten streak and were recently ranked first in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) MidAtlantic Poll this week.

“I think we have a good knowledge of Saint Joes,” UMass Coach Ed Matz said.

“We’ve watched a lot of game film.”

UMass (3-9-3, 1-5-2 A-10) heads into Thursday’s match emerging from their third win of the season, celebrating a 3-0 senior day victory over Virginia Commonwealth.

The Minutewomen put up their most goals in a single game, breaking their 10-game winless streak.

After senior day, UMass increased its tally of goals on the season to nine, while the Hawks travel to Amherst with a total of 41.

Though offensively the differences are apparent, on the defensive end the two teams are rather evenly matched, with the Minutewomen allowing the same amount of goals scored as the Hawks.

“We have to be aware that they have two very special players,” said Matz. “So we’re just trying to be aware

BRENEMAN but Coach O’Brien helped coach tight ends and it’s the same with Coach Whipple.

He’ll pull me aside and help me out with stuff. Playing for O’Brien was a really neat experience. He was definitely what you call a player’s coach, he was fun to play with.”

However, it wasn’t at Penn State where O’Brien mastered the art of the tight end positon. Under the guidance of Patriots Coach Bill Belichick, O’Brien thrived as New England’s offensive coordinator in 2011, where he utilized a two tight-end offense with Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez.

During the 2011 season under O’Brien, Gronkowski had his best statistical season posting career-highs in receptions (90), receiving yards (1,327) and touchdowns (17). That year Hernandez added 79 catches for 910 yards and seven touchdowns.

“The tight end position became cool when the Patriots had Gronk and Hernandez,” Breneman said. “It kind of became a cool position at that point – everyone wanted to become a tight end at that point.”

Breneman added, “It’s

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“We have the offensive player of the week against the defensive player of the week.

Cassidy has been very special for us. She makes some outstiding saves; shes going to have to be on her game tomorrow.”

Ed Matz, UMass coach of them at all times.”

St. Joe’s forward Dakota Mills leads the Hawks with 13 goals this season, while also adding four assists.

This past week, Mills was named to the Top Drawer Soccer’s team of the week after scoring a combined three goals and two assists against Richmond and Duquesne.

St. Joseph’s senior Emily Gingrich also holds a prominent place in the Hawk’s offensive game with 11 goals and three assists this season.

She claimed the prestigious titles of the A-10 Offensive

player of the week and Top Drawer Soccer player of the week within one day of each other.

Goalkeeper Cassidy Babin will be the other weekly award-winner on the field for UMass having recently been named the A-10 defensive player of the week after her career-high nine saves in a shutout against Duquesne.

“We have the offensive player of the week against the defensive player of the week,” Matz said. “Cassidy has been very special for us.

She makes some outstanding saves; she’s going to have

Cassidy Babin made a career-high nine saves in UM’s shutout over VCU Sunday. to be on her game tomorrow.”

Matz expressed his concern about the weather conditions predicted for game time and how Babin would handle standing in one place for a while and then being forced to act quickly and make a save.

“It’s hard to not only be

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just an important part of an offense. It used to be like the tight end was the easiest position to play – like anyone could play tight end – but now you need a playmaker at tight end because you can confuse the defense a lot. A lot of times too, we start the game with Travis [Reynolds] and I in the game. Teams think we could be lining up and running the ball down their throats, and then we split out and Travis and I play wide receiver, and [opponents] have their big package in the game, so they have their big linemen and linebackers in and we are running routes on them.

That’s the thing, it’s that teams don’t know what you are going to do because we are versatile.”

As a tight end, Breneman knows he’s going to be asked to do a lot of different things from lining up out wide as a receiver to aligning next to the offensive line as a run blocker in a threepoint stance. Although he prefers to play in the slot – what he did with Ford at Cedar Cliff High School – he knows that to be a successful tight end, you have to have the ability to do it all.

“Whenever your hands

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Adam Breneman currently leads all FBS tight ends with 44 receptions. in the ground, the defensive ends have a tendency of trying to jam you up at the line, which can be tough to get off sometimes. I pretty much go everywhere.

“Being a good tight end, you have to be able to do everything. Sometimes it creates more mismatches

when your hand is in the dirt – the defense could think you are staying in to block. But wherever they ask me to be – the backfield, out-wide, wherever – I try to do the best I can.”

facing an offensive powerhouse like Saint Joes, but when you’re standing a lot of the game and then you have to make a point-blank save, it can be difficult.”

Mollie Walker can be reached at molliewalker@umass.edu and followed on twitter at MWalker2019.

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us to make some noise against them,” Iacobellis said. “I think if we just stick to our game and stick to the systems that we’ve been taught and just bring the energy and do the little things right we should have no problem.”

Back for his 23rd season manning the BC squad, Jerry York has had quite a bit of success against the Minutemen recently, including earning his 1,000 win as a collegiate coach against UMass in an 8-0 blowout last season on Jan. 22. The Eagles beat the Minutemen 7-0 in their only other contest last year.

“I think it’s just like I said, [doing] the little things,” Lee said. “If we’re competing, if we’re winning battles and stuff like that [and] make it a tight game, we’ll see what happens.”

BC’s two losses this season came against Wisconsin

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and Air Force, however its most recent game resulted in a 2-2 tie with Merrimack.

Sophomore Chris Brown leads the Eagles with seven points (3 goals, 4 assists.

UMass’ second line of Dominic Trento, Jonny Lazarus and Lee will be one to watch this weekend as all three are atop the Minutemen’s point totals, having combined for 14 points in their first four games.

“We’re all close friends off the ice and we’re just trying to translate it on the ice,” Lee said. “[I] think we attract each other out there and we just need to use each other, make plays and have fun,” Lee said.

Puck drop for both games at Mullins Center is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Ryan Ames can be reached at rames@umass.edu, and followed on Twitter @_RyanAmes.

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

MLB

Alcohol odor discovered on Jose Fernandez’s boat Late Marlins pitcher passed away in Sept.

By Julie K. Brown Miami Herald

Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez and two of his friends who perished in a violent boat crash off of South Beach last month all had a strong odor of alcohol on them when their bodies were recovered by divers, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained by the Miami Herald.

The toxicology tests for the young men are complete but have not been released by state investigators, citing an exemption in the public records law for open criminal investigations. Nor have the autopsies been released.

It’s not known what charges, if any, could be brought in the case since the affidavit states the crime(s) under investigation are Boating Homicide While Intoxicated and Vessel Homicide.

Those criminal charges are brought when there is someone to charge. No other suspects are mentioned in the affidavit.

The warrant, released

by the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office Wednesday, also alleges that investigators found evidence that the driver of the vessel was running at a high rate of speed and with a “recklessness” that was “exacerbated by the consumption of alcohol.”

The All-Star pitcher died Sept. 25 when his 32-foot SeaVee named “Kaught Looking” slammed into the Government Cut north jetty before dawn. Two others on the boat with him, Emilio Jesus Macias, 27, and Eduardo Rivero, 25, were also killed.

It’s not yet confirmed that Fernandez was piloting the boat.

The crash remains under investigation by the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, which asked prosecutors to draft the warrant in order to search the boat, and examine its GPS and two engines.

A spokesman for the Commission initially said that there was no evidence that alcohol was involved in the crash, and that the boat was not owned by Fernandez, but by a “friend” of the Marlins.

Later, when pressed by

the media about those statements, they back-pedaled, saying that they were in error. On Wednesday, they tried to further clarify their initial comments, saying that they “referred to the initial review of the vessel and debris field, which did not yield any evidence of alcohol or drugs on board the vessel.”

Investigators have not indicated what the trio was doing, or where they were going when their boat, headed south, plowed at a high speed into the dark rocks that jut east into the ocean from South Pointe Park after 3 a.m. But Fernandez was at American Social Bar & Kitchen in Brickell before the crash.

Fish and Wildlife investigators said they found a receipt for alcohol from the bar in the pocket of one of the men, who is not named.

The receipt had a time and date stamp, the affidavit said.

The associate medical examiner who conducted the autopsies said all three men had water in the lungs and trauma consistent with a boat crash, the affidavit noted. However, the cause of

death was not mentioned.

Michael Moore, a Miamibased Maritime attorney, said that even though there may not be anyone to criminally charged in the case, investigators are likely investigating whether anyone is criminally negligent and therefore, could be held responsible in a civil lawsuit.

“The main question here is who was driving, obviously that’s the person most negligent, but even if Fernandez wasn’t driving, he may be negligent by virtue of entrusting someone who was intoxicated to drive the boat, which was his,” Moore said.

Marlins President David Samson declined to comment, saying that they will wait until the investigation is complete.

After the crash, Fish and Wildlife spokesman Lorenzo Veloz said that he had been on Fernandez’ boat several times, but that Fernandez had not been captain. Records show that Fernandez registered his ownership of the vehicle in 2015.

Robert Klepper, a spokesman for the fishing commis-

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Members of the Miami Marlins gather to pay their respects to the late Jose Fernandez after him and two friends were killed in a boating accident. sion said the agency “has no record of any stops conducted on the vessel involved in the accident, nor any record of citations or warnings on any of the victims. Vessel stops are not normally documented unless a citation or warning is issued for a violation.”

Following the crash, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio asked the Coast Guard and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to take a new look at the jetty, which has been the site of many other boating

accidents. Boaters have said that at high tide, the rocks are often submerged in the tide and difficult to see, even though they are marked by buoy lights.

The Coast Guard, which conducted a review of the jetties at Government Cut last year and deemed them safe, said they would undertake another navigational examination of the jetties.

Some boaters are urging the Coast Guard to place lights on both the north and south jetties.

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From O’Brien to Whipple, Breneman always thriving

TE leads nation with 44 catches on season

By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

Quarterback and lifelong friend Andrew Ford wasn’t the only one who tight end Adam Breneman reached out to before joining the Massachusetts football team.

Prior to his decision, Breneman, a transfer from Penn State, reached out to his former college coach and current Houston Texans coach Bill O’Brien prior to enrolling at UMass to gather his thoughts on playing in Minutemen coach Mark Whipple’s tight end-friendly, prostyle offense.

“Right before I came here, I had reached out to [O’Brien],” Breneman said after Tuedsay’s practice. “We don’t talk a lot, obviously because we are busy, but we stay in touch. He recruited me for half a year and I played for him.”

“I reached out to him and he told me to go for it. I told him ‘hey, coach, I’m thinking about going to UMass and playing for coach Whipple.’”

“He said, ‘playing for coach Whipple will be the best thing you could ever do.’ I did it and it’s been working out pretty well since, right?”

Despite UMass’ (1-7) inconsistencies on both sides of the ball this year, Breneman has remained a constant threat and is statistically having one of the best seasons of any tight end in the nation.

Breneman currently leads the Football Bowl Subdivision in receptions for tight ends with 44, is third in receiving yards (484) and tied for fifth in touchdown recep-

tions (four). His numbers lead the Minutemen in both receptions and yards, while he trails only Andy Isabella in touchdown catches.

“All I try to do is catch the ball,” Breneman said, laughing. “It’s something that I like to take a lot of pride in – just catching the ball and not dropping any passes.”

“I always say the opportunities are so precious of getting the ball thrown your way, you know? But there’s a lot [that goes into it], Andrew does such a good job of keeping his eyes downfield. We just kind of have this thing where we know where each other is going to be at all times.”

Aside from the well-documented high school connection between him and Ford, it’s been Whipple’s system that’s been a perfect fit for Breneman. Whipple, who’s had success with numerous tight ends from former Minutemen Jean Sifrin and Rodney Mills to current Seattle Seahawk Jimmy Graham, has taken advantage of Breneman’s versatility, lining him up in different positions all over the field.

“Coach Whipple’s system is awesome,” Breneman said. “To be able to play in this kind of system – being used the way I am, moving all around – is just so fun to play in.

I’m getting the ball a lot. I just try to make plays, whatever they ask me to do. It doesn’t even feel like I have that many receptions, but I guess I do ... It’s a combination of a lot. The offensive line is blocking well. Whenever you get that combination together with this kind of system we play in, good things happen, especially at the tight end position.”

But as successful as Breneman

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Adam Breneman played under current Houston Texans coach Bill O’Brien at Penn State, who he reached out to before coming to UMass. has become in Whipple’s offense, the 6-foot-4, 250-pound tight end owes a lot of that to his time with O’Brien on the Nittany Lions.

In their lone season together at Penn State in 2013, Breneman appeared in 11 games, hauling in 15 receptions for 186 yards playing alongside New York Jets second-round quarterback Christian Hackenberg.

Breneman was tied for second most receiving touchdowns (three) on the Nittany Lions, trailing only Jacksonville Jaguars Pro Bowl

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wide receiver Allen Robinson.

“It helped a lot,” Breneman said when asked if playing for O’Brien helped with the transition to UMass.

“Playing for Coach O’Brien was unbelievable. He was a great coach.

I obviously wasn’t happy when he left for the NFL, but playing for him for a season – I still keep in touch with him, sometimes, now – was awesome. I learned so much about his football knowledge. Him and coach Whipple are kind of similar in that sense – their knowl-

edge about offense and coaching.”

Aside from the NFL background, both Whipple and O’Brien share a common connection that they both played and coached at Brown.

O’Brien was Whipple’s inside linebacker coach in 1994, while the previous year he served as the team’s tight ends coach while Whipple was finishing up his final year at New Haven.

“It’s kind of cool,” Breneman said. “We obviously had our tight ends coach at Penn State, see

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FOOTBALL

Minutemen host UNH, BC UM faces FCS Wagner in first Hockey East action in final home game Sat.

UMass finished last in HEA in 2015-16

By Adam Aucoin Collegian Staff

By Ryan Ames Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts hockey team will be right back to work just three days removed from a hard-fought 3-2 loss to No. 6 Quinnipiac, when welcomes New Hampshire and Boston College in its first two Hockey Association matchups of the season this weekend.

On Friday, UMass (2-2-0) hosts UNH (1-3-0) and will be looking to get back into the win column against a Wildcat team that has gotten off to a slow start this year.

In its first four games, UNH has only recorded one victory, beating Clarkson Oct. 15, but have lost to Bentley, St. Lawrence and Colorado College thus far.

The Minutemen had a solid outing against the Bobcats despite being outshot by a 46-19 margin in the loss. Forward and captain Steven Iacobellis believes the strong play of goaltender Nic Renyard can give UMass a boost heading into these next two games.

“One of the biggest positives was I think Renyard had an unbelievable game,” Iacobellis said. “He was really solid for us back there and he gave us some energy and some life.”

Junior Patrick Lee echoed Iacobellis’ statement about the play of their goalie Tuesday night.

“I think the big positive was definitely how Nic Renyard played,” Lee said.

“He got a chance to play and he played really well.”

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Shane Bear awaits a pass in UMass’ 3-2 win over Army last Friday at Mullins.

“(UNH) is a fast team, they’re skilled kind of similar to us. I feel like as long as we work hard and do the details instead of kind of playing a pond hockey game, I think well be fine.”

Patrick Lee, UMass forward Led by coach Dick Umile, who is in his 27th season behind the Wildcat bench, UNH enters this game looking for their first win against the Minutemen since the 2014-15 season when they beat UMass 5-2.

Last season, the Minutemen tied the Wildcats in both meetings by scores of 6-6 and 2-2. The first tie was a memorable game for UMass as it scored four-unanswered goals in the third period to earn the tie, erasing a 6-2 deficit heading into the final period.

“They’re a fast team, they’re skilled, kind of similar to us,” Lee said about UNH. “I feel like as long as we work hard and do the details instead of kind of playing a pond hockey game,

I think we’ll be fine.”

The Wildcats will be without last season’s top scorer, Andrew Poturalski, who turned pro with the Carolina Hurricanes this past summer, but do return with star players Tyler Kelleher and captain Matias Cleland.

Saturday, the Minutemen will face a new-look Eagles (4-2-1) team as many of their top players from last season departed the program.

Alex Tuch, Ian McCoshen, Steve Santini, Miles Wood, Zach Sanford and stud goalie Thatcher Demko all left for the National Hockey League during the offseason.

“They’ve lost some of their good players so there’s some opportunity there for see

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2016 was always going to be a tough season for the Massachusetts football team. From day one, there was no disputing that fact.

The season represented many things for UMass (1-7). From being the Minutemen’s first independent season to taking on three Southeastern Conference opponents to finding replacements for its two biggest offensive threats in Blake Frohnapfel and Tajae Sharpe; wins were going to be hard to come by.

UMass will be the first to admit the first eight games of the season haven’t gone the way it had planned, and will now look to salvage what is left of the season with four games remaining.

Marred in a fivegame losing streak, the Minutemen hope to get back on track as they take on Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) opponent Wagner (4-3, 2-1 Northeast Conference) Saturday at McGuirk Stadium.

The Seahawks come in with a strong defense led by an exceptional pass rush.

Sophomore linebacker Quintin Hampton is tops on the team with five sacks, while defensive lineman Jordan Baskerville is close behind with three sacks.

UMass will need to have strong protection by the offensive line if it wants to find success Saturday.

The Minutemen struggled with this earlier in the season, which was epitomized by allowing eight sacks against Boston College, but as the season progressed

“Getting a win in their last home game is definitely something Coach [Whipple] has been preaching to us.”

Andrew Ford, UMass quarterback the results have been better. In last week’s 34-28 loss to South Carolina, the team allowed just one sack.

Right guard Michael Boland knows it will be important for the offensive line to keep up that play this week.

“Every week it’s important to prepare like we did for the last,” Boland said.

“We need to get ready for their blitzes and the trouble they cause up front. They have a bunch of good guys on the defensive line, a bunch of 1-A transfers, so they’ll be ready to go for sure.”

UMass quarterback Andrew Ford has been impressed with the improvement of the unit protecting him and expects that to continue this weekend.

“I think this past weekend was our offensive line’s best game,” Ford said. “I think each and every week they are getting better [and] more comfortable, which is huge for our offense. So we are just going to keep going and I have high expectations for our offense and they’re going to come through.”

Ford has been impressiv e in his seven appearances throwing for 1,364 yards and 16 touchdowns. The man on the receiving end of many of those throws has been tight end Adam Breneman.

Breneman has been strong during his first year in Amherst as he leads all

Football Bowl Subdivision tight ends with 44 receptions.

Despite the fact that the Minutemen have had a tough season, most people would think a matchup against an FCS opponent would be a welcome sight for a struggling UMass team. The Minutemen are viewing this game as any other game on the schedule.

“Our guys looked at the tape. They’re [Wagner] tough,” UMass Coach Mark Whipple said. “We never really brought being [FCS] up. They’re pretty good, so we have to play and take care of our business and do whatever we can to get a win.”

Saturday will be Senior Day for UMass and the team is focused on making the last time the seniors suit up at McGuirk special.

“Getting a win in their last home game is definitely something coach (Whipple) has been preaching to us,” Ford said. “That’s something, as underclassmen, what we are trying to do – send these seniors off on the right note.”

Kickoff is set for noon at McGuirk Stadium on Saturday.

Adam Aucoin can be reached at aaucoin@umass.edu, and followed on Twitter @aaucoin34.