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Fire guts home on Tamarack Drive The homeowners were not harmed Devyn Giannetti Collegian Staff

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The Amherst Fire Department cleans up after a fire that caused serious damage and killed two dogs at 29 Tamarack Drive on Wednesday, Nov. 2.

A house on Tamarack Drive in Amherst was gutted by a fire Wednesday afternoon. Two dogs were killed in the incident, according to a press release from the Amherst Fire Department. The owners, Anthony and Anna Bond, were not in the house at the time of the fire.

According to the release, a preliminary investigation determined that the fire likely began in a bedroom on the second floor and was coming out of the roof once fire officials arrived, but is not believed to be suspicious. A passer-by reported the incident shortly after noon via a 9-1-1 call, and an

alarm box was then pulled to summon on-duty and offduty personnel.

The cause of the fire is still unknown and investigators will return later this week.

Because of the size of the fire, a second alarm was called for back-up as the Northampton Fire Department had one truck on site and the Belchertown Fire Department had one ambulance standing by with dozens of police and firefighters on the scene.

Crews put out a significant amount of the fire in order for them to search the house for any occupants. After no person was found, the crew exited the house because the roof started to cave in.

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Mother of Eric Sinacori sues UMass Obama chides FBI Accuses school of a for Clinton probe breach of contract

By Stuart Foster Collegian Staff

The mother of Eric Sinacori, a University of Massachusetts student who died of a heroin overdose three years ago, filed a civil lawsuit against the University for an alleged breach of conduct.

Francesca Sinacori, of Whitehouse Station, N.J., is seeking $5 million from UMass, alleging that the police program which used her son as a confidential informant violated her right to be informed about her son’s disciplinary record and drug use, according to a MassLive article.

The lawsuit also seeks $1 million from Jesse Carillo, a 27-year old graduate student charged of distributing heroin and involuntary manslaughter, for “willful, wanton or reckless conduct”

which led to Eric Sinacori’s death. A police officer identified as “John Doe” is also listed as a defendant in the lawsuit.

Eric Sinacori was arrested after selling LSD and MDMA to an undercover police officer. The University of Massachusetts Police Department later recovered a hypodermic needle from his room.

The breach of conduct alleged by Francesca Sinacori refers to, according to MassLive, the UMass Student Code of Conduct, which stated that violations of UMass alcohol and drug policies by a student under the age of 21 would result in a notification of the student’s legal guardians.

However, Sinacori’s involvement in the UMPD’s confidential informant program prevented his parents from being notified of his record, keeping them in the dark.

The complaint against

the University says that UMPD were not trained to recognize drug addicts and did not make an effort to help Sinacori, according to Masslive.

The complaint also alleged that the actions of UMPD put Sinacori at further risk, by immediately arresting a drug dealer after Sinacori had bought drugs from him. The complaint said this made it clear to people in the “UMass drug scene” that Sinacori was cooperating with law enforcement, according to Masslive.

The complaint also says that an undercover police officer returned $700 to Sinacori after confiscating it from his room during his initial arrest, and alleged that Sinacori used the money to buy drugs.

UMass Executive Director of Strategic Communications Ed Blaguszewski said UMass does not comment on pending legal matters and that the confidential informant

program was suspended by the University after learning about Sinacori’s involvement.

“Subsquently, the Un iversity permanently ended the confidential informant program in January 2015, following a comprehensive, three-month review by an 11-member campus working group,” he added.

While the UMPD had previously referred to the confidential informant program as a “core component” of their drug enforcement strategy, the ending of the confidential informant program appears to have had little impact on drug arrests at UMass, which did not see an uptick in drug arrests after that point.

Francesca Sinacori is being legally represented

by Northampton attorneys David Hoose and Luke Ryan.

Stuart Foster can be reached at stuartfoster@umass.edu or followed on Twitter @Stuart_C_Foster.

SGA introduces compost pilot program Tests out six new bins around campus

By Stefan Geller Collegian Staff

In an effort to encourage more students at the University of Massachusetts to stop throwing away their compostable material, the Student Government Association’s Secretary of Sustainability, Ainsley Brosnan-Smith, launched a compost pilot program earlier this month to expand outdoor composting on campus.

The temporary program will test out six new compost containers in highly trafficked areas on campus.

Brosnan-Smith, along with four others in the SGA, use bikes with attached trailers to sort through the bins and transport the compost to a

compactor in the Campus Center, which is then taken to Martin’s Farm in Greenfield.

“I just kept taking pictures of all these trash cans overflowing with compostable containers, and I was like this doesn’t make sense,” said Brosnan-Smith, a junior with a dual major in natural resource conservation and sustainable food and farming.

Brosnan-Smith plans to present the program’s results to advisory committees on campus in an effort to either receive funding for what would become a student business or for the program to be incorporated with waste management.

The bins are located outside of W.E.B. Du Bois Library, outside of Thompson Hall, outside of the Whitmore Administration Building, in

front of the Student Union entrance, on the west side of the Student Union facing the pond and between the Integrative Learning Center and Blue Wall.

“Why throw away these compostable materials? Why are we investing more of our money in something that’s just getting thrown away?” said Brosnan-Smith.

According to the UMass website, the University composts over 1,400 tons of food waste each year in the dining commons and cafes, making composting the largest recycling stream on campus. Earlier this month, UMass was ranked 41st on the Princeton Review’s Top 50 Green Colleges.

However, Brosnan-Smith doesn’t believe that students on campus are embracing sustainability enough.

“We’re just throwing away money to say that our cam-

pus is sustainable but we’re not actually practicing it.”

Still, Brosnan-Smith believes that thus far the program is working well and is optimistic about its future.

“I was like I know this is something I could improve, and it’s been working and I’ve kind of done it. It’s not permanent yet but it seems on the way to permanence, which is great.”

When compostable materials are thrown in the trash they are transported to a landfill where they decompose and release methane into the atmosphere, a greenhouse gas that can trap up to 25 times more radiation in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over a 100 year period, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Stefan Geller can be reached at stefangeller@umass.edu or on Twitter @StefanGeller.

By Christi Parsons and Sarah D. Wire Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama faulted the FBI on Wednesday over its handling of the investigation into whether newfound emails are related to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s private server, condemning the bureau for falling short of standards.

“There is a norm that when there are investigations, we don’t operate on innuendo and we don’t operate on incomplete information and we don’t operate on leaks,” Obama told NowThis in an interview. “We operate based on concrete decisions that are made.”

The remarks were Obama’s first public reaction to FBI Director James B. Comey’s decision last week to make the review public just days before the election.

He did not mention Comey by name and cautioned that he wasn’t trying to interfere with the investigation. Nonetheless, his comments constituted an extraordinary departure for a president who has held his fire on the FBI’s actions in a variety of cases, citing a longstanding precedent of presidents trying not to influence federal investigations.

Clinton’s campaign, most Democrats and even some Republicans excoriated Comey for re-injecting the emails into the forefront of the presidential race. More than three months earlier, Comey said his agents had completed their investigation into whether Clinton mishandled sensitive government information and concluded that they did not have enough evidence to recommend charges.

“When this was investi-

gated thoroughly the last time, the conclusion of the FBI, the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was that she had made some mistakes but that there wasn’t anything there that was prosecutable,” Obama said.

Others said Comey, who notified lawmakers of the new review in a brief letter Friday, should have released more information about it once he decided to go public. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, demanded that the director release more about the probe and complained that much of what was publicly known came from media reports.

Comey has agreed not to seek subpoenas or take other investigative steps in probes related to either Clinton or Donald Trump so close to the presidential election, a federal law enforcement official confirmed. That applies to an investigation involving the Clinton Foundation charitable organization and another into whether Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, had improper business dealings with Ukraine.

Justice Department officials worried that taking public investigative steps could affect the outcome of the November elections, and Comey agreed with that determination in both cases, as first reported

by The New York Times.

Such actions would also have violated longstanding agency guidelines prohibiting law enforcement action or public statements about investigations within weeks of an election.

The new FBI probe comes at a critical moment not only for Clinton but see

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In 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Girl’s remains found in concreteladen tote bag in home

By Vernal Coleman The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — The remains of a 4-year-old girl were found inside a plastic-tote bag filled with concrete at an Everett, Wash., home last week, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said.

An investigation by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the child’s approximate age, while the sheriff’s office says the remains are about 4years old. The child’s identity, as well as the cause and manner of her death, remain under investigation, the department said.

Detectives with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office discovered the remains on Saturday while serving a search warrant at a home in the 12600 block of East Gibson Road.

The department began investigating in October after receiving a tip from a relative of the girl expressing concern about the child’s apparent disappearance.

Other members of the girl’s extended family told investigators they believed the girl died while under supervision of her biological mother, the department said.

According to investigators, the mother and her then-boyfriend “panicked” after finding the child dead. Instead of reporting the death, relatives told officers the couple placed the child’s body in a container inside their home at 15800 Admiralty Way. The couple poured concrete into the container after the body began to decompose, the department said.

The two then kept the container for several years after the incident, subsequently moving it to a relative’s residence after leaving the residence at Admiralty Way, the department said.

In the years since, the child’s mother gave family members differing accounts of how her daughter died, the department said. Despite telling her family, the woman never reported the girl’s death to authorities, the department said.

No arrests have been made and the circumstances surrounding the girl’s death and the disposal of her body remain under investigation, the department said.

Distributed by MCT Information Services

QUOTE OF T H E D AY “Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”

George Carlin

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Fire crews remained at the house until 7 p.m., according to the press release.

After returning to the home, the owners worked with their insurance agent to find alternative housing.

One firefighter was treated at the scene for heat exhaustion.

There was severe damage in the second floor and attic, with some damage on

the first floor, along with heavy smoke and water damage throughout the house, according to the press release.

The fire was mostly out by 1 p.m., according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

Devyn Giannetti is the Collegian managing editor can be reached at dgiannetti@umass.edu or followed on Twitter @Devyn_Giannetti.

This years’ polls mirror 2012 polls

By David Lauter Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Charles Franklin is hardly a household name, but for a few minutes Wednesday, the full spotlight of the 2016 presidential campaign focused on the veteran pollster and political scientist as he unveiled the latest results from his closely followed poll of Wisconsin voters.

When he announced the verdict: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump 46 percent-40 percent _ almost identical to the margin the poll had found in early October sighs of relief from Democratic activists could be heard from Brooklyn to Santa Monica, Calif.

For Democrats, who, as a tribe, seem more inclined to election-season night terrors than their Republican foes, these are anxious days.

After the final presidential debate last month, they had begun to pinch themselves and talk of landslides.

No more. In recent days, once high-flying polls for Clinton have come back to earth.

Indeed, in an ironic _yet, in hindsight, predictable fashion, the 2016 campaign, after all the controversy and twists, is ending in a familiar way, almost identical to the last days of the race four years ago. The Democratic nominee is moving down the final stretch with a small lead while the Republican scrambles to find a way to flip blue states.

That scenario is testimony to the tremendous pull that partisanship exerts over presidential elections, almost regardless of the specifics of the candidates.

In a closely divided country, it means yet another contest that will leave many voters feeling whiplash.

Even though far fewer polls have been conducted this year than in the last election, social media has made them more available and ubiquitous than ever.

News headlines highlight the variations from one survey to the next _ the inevitable product of the laws of probability _ driving many voters to distraction as they check Twitter for the latest bulletin.

But interviews with leading pollsters in both parties Wednesday found widespread agreement on several points: _ Although Trump seems all but certain to perform better with blue-collar white voters than Mitt Romney did four years ago, those gains are being offset by losses among suburban, collegeeducated voters, especially women. _ The lineup of states may shift slightly from 2012 _ Clinton may win North Carolina, which President Barack Obama lost, but lose Ohio, which Obama carried _ but Trump, so far, has not been able to break the Democrats’ hold on the states they need for an electoral majority. _ Last Friday’s news from FBI Director James B. Comey that agents would be examining additional emails that may be related to Clinton has had a small, but mostly transient, influence on the race. _ And Clinton holds a lead

roughly similar to Obama’s 4-point margin of victory from four years ago.

Some polls, of course, continue to show a path to victory for Trump. A tracking poll

by ABC and The Washington Post, which last week showed Clinton holding a double-digit lead, now finds her and Trump tied at 46 percent.

And the University of Southern California/Los Angeles Times “Daybreak” tracking poll, which has consistently shown a better result for Trump than most other surveys, gave him a 5-point lead, 47.8 percent to 42.4 percent.

In both parties, however, experienced pollsters don’t see the race that way.

Neil Newhouse, who served as Romney’s chief pollster four years ago, said Comey’s news “put the brakes” on what was starting to look like a runaway victory for Clinton, but that she was still ahead by 2 to 4 percentage points.

“Hillary is still likely to win,” Newhouse said, even if that means “limping across the finish line.”

On the Democratic side, Anna Greenberg, whose firm polls for many of the party’s Senate and congressional candidates, called the race “pretty stable.”

“There has been narrowing, which was to be expected. Trump was always going to consolidate more Republicans, and I don’t think Clinton was ever going to win by 10 to 12 points” _ as some surveys had shown in the days after the final presidential debate Oct. 19 _ she said.

The big impact of a tighter race, she and Republican pollsters said, could be to improve the chances of Republicans in down-ballot races by encouraging GOP turnout.

Indeed, the Wisconsin poll, released by Marquette University Law School, found that the Senate race between Republican incumbent Ron Johnson and former Sen. Russ Feingold had narrowed to a near tie. Other Senate races, such as those in North Carolina, Indiana and Missouri, also appear headed to extremely close finishes, with control of the chamber up for grabs.

But, as is the case in Wisconsin, Trump appears to be running several points behind the Republican Senate candidates in most key states.

In Florida, for example, most polls show Sen. Marco Rubio headed for re-election even as the presidential race in the state remains very close.

Data on early voting in Florida shows a strong upsurge among Latinos. That almost certainly benefits Rubio, whose political base is in Miami’s Cuban-American community.

But a high turnout for Rubio among Latinos also seems likely to help Clinton.

Strategists in both parties cite polls showing a significant number of CubanAmerican voters who are Rubio-Clinton crossovers, driven from Trump by what they perceive as animus toward Latinos.

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not only for Clinton but also for Obama, who is focused intently on electing her to succeed him in the Oval Office.

With his legacy hanging in the balance, he has been on the campaign trail nearly every day this week on behalf of the Clinton campaign, telling voters that all of the achievements of his term in office could be wiped away if he is succeeded by Trump. He plans to travel at least three more days before the election.

And in interviews, Obama is trying to reassure voters who have concerns about the transparency of a Clinton administration.

The news that the FBI may once again be looking at her use of a personal email server has given new life to concerns about whether she would comply with principles of openness and

transparency if she were president.

Clinton campaign officials say they’re not worried about the effect of the Comey announcement on the electorate.

“If we’ve seen any impact from Jim Comey’s letter, it is to be a motivating factor for our supporters,” senior advisor Jennifer Palmieri said Wednesday.

She said the campaign has set records for fundraising in the past few days.

At the same time, Democrats argue, Comey’s announcement raises concerns that may be baseless.

It’s only right that Obama should call it into question, said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

“It’s a subtle way for the president to say that the Department of Justice poli-

cies are sound and ought to be followed,” said Schiff. “I don’t think he was trying to be overtly critical of the director. ... I don’t feel anyone in the administration thinks this was a good call.

The view of the attorney general and other top lawyers in the Department of Justice is broadly shared in the administration.”

White House spokesman Eric Schultz argued that Obama’s remarks did not reflect any change in White House position.

“We do take seriously the longstanding norms and customs” that have historically limited what law enforcement can say about a pending investigation, Schultz said.

Those norms are designed to limit “speculation and yes, innuendo,” he said.

Student groups organize #NoDAPL market fundraiser From 12 to 4 p.m. on Goodell Lawn B y H annah D epin Collegian Staff

The Native American Student Association and Divest UMass will host a fundraiser and rally in solidarity with the Dakota Access Pipeline protestors tomorrow on Goodell Lawn, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Student Farmers’ Market.

The #NoDAPL Standing Rock Solidarity Farmers Market and Fundraiser will run from noon to 4 p.m. and feature vendors, music, speakers and educational materials about the ongoing Dakota Access Pipeline resistance movement.

“As an environmental justice group, we are in

solidarity because this is a human rights violation,” said Mica Reel, an organizer for UMass Divest.

Reel said that a 1:30 p.m. speak-out rally will feature the voices of indigenous students and anthropology professors Sonya Atalay and Paulette Steeves .

The proceeds raised during this event will be donated to the Sacred Stone and Red Warrior Camps, the sites of the protests in North Dakota.

“This is a moment for everyone to come together to spread the word and show our support for the incredible front line leadership defending the right of native tribes to their water and way of life,” read a call to action on the event’s Facebook page.

In September, protestors began seeking to halt the construction of the

$3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, which was set to transport oil across four states. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other environmental activists believe the pipeline would pose a threat to safe water access and ecosystems, as well as run through sacred lands.

“The pipeline is more th an an environmental issue. Native American communities have been oppressed, marginalized, and colonized throughout history,” said Reel.

The idea for this fundraiser originated a few weeks ago from Divest, who contacted the Native American Student Association to organize.

“We didn’t see a lot of talk about [DAPL] on campus,” Reel said.

Hannah Depin can be reached at hdepin@umass.edu.

Johnson-Feingold race in Wisconsin neck and neck

By Bill Glauber Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MILWAUKEE — One of the longest, most competitive U.S. Senate races in Wisconsin history is going down to the wire.

Democrat Russ Feingold holds a 1-point lead over Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, according to Wednesday’s Marquette University Law School poll.

Feingold was backed by 45 percent of likely voters surveyed, and Johnson was supported by 44 percent, with Libertarian candidate Phil Anderson garnering 3 percent support.

“Clearly, a 1-point race is inside the margin of error.

It’s right on the knife’s edge and could go either way,” poll director Charles Franklin said.

Sensing that the tilt of power in the U.S. Senate could be at stake in Wisconsin, outside thirdparty groups have poured into the race in the closing days. At least a dozen such groups are currently on air.

Johnson’s surge was likely keyed by his advertising push in early September in which he went positive while conservative groups piled on Feingold. Three weeks ago, the Marquette poll showed Feingold with a 2-point advantage.

Johnson has trailed Feingold in every Marquette poll going back more than a year. In a midNovember 2015 survey, Feingold had an 11-point

edge over Johnson among registered voters. In that poll, one out of three voters had no opinion on Johnson when asked if they had a favorable or unfavorable view of the candidate.

The landscape has clearly changed.

Feingold’s lead went from double digits into upper single digits in the late spring and summer, Franklin said, and narrowed to lower single digits most of the fall.

“This is a good example of a long-term slow shift in voters,” Franklin said.

“With Johnson, you see it with him becoming more familiar to voters. His ‘don’t know’ rate, which had been a good deal higher than Feingold’s, has come down.

But as it’s come down he has built up more favorable attitudes, rather than less favorable attitudes toward him.”

Franklin said the changes in voter attitudes have turned “a race that was very lopsided a year ago, into one that is very competitive now.”

The two candidates have solid support within their parties _ Johnson backed by 86 percent of Republicans and Feingold backed by 85 percent of Democrats.

Among independents, Johnson had 46 percent support to Feingold’s 40 percent. Last month, independents favored Feingold by 7 points.

The candidates still rate well with voters, despite

an onslaught of negative advertising.

Half the voters describe each candidate as honest.

Forty-five percent describe Johnson as someone who “cares about people like me,” compared with 49 percent for Feingold.

Johnson is viewed favorably by 43 percent, unfavorably by 40 percent, with 18 percent unable to offer an opinion. Feingold’s favorable rating is at 46 percent, unfavorable at 42 percent, with 12 percent lacking an opinion.

Brian Reisinger, a Johnson spokesman, said: “This race is a dead heat, and the momentum is clearly with Ron Johnson.

Wisconsinites are closer than ever to sending Sen. Feingold back to California _ for good.”

Reisinger was echoing Republican criticism of Feingold for a teaching stint at Stanford University.

Michael Tyler, a Feingold spokesman, said: “With less than a week to go, Russ has the clear advantage heading toward Election Day. Wisconsinites are already voting in record numbers to combat the millions Sen. Johnson and his billionaires like Diane Hendricks and the Koch brothers are dumping into Wisconsin with negative attacks in a last ditch effort to keep him in Washington to protect their interests.”

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GOP aides predict they will Bill Cosby’s lawyer says his control House and Senate blindness prevents fair trial

By Shawn Zeller CQ-Roll Call

WASHINGTON — Republican Capitol Hill aides believe they will retain their congressional majorities in next week’s elections, even as they expect their party’s presidential candidate, Donald Trump, to lose, according to CQ Roll Call’s latest Capitol Insiders Survey.

Fifty-one percent of the Republican aides who took CQ Roll Call’s poll say their side will hold 51 or more Senate seats come January, while another 21 percent predict a 50-50 split. And only one Republican aide who responded expects the Democrats to win the House.

The survey was emailed on Oct. 24 and filled out by 212 aides, of whom 98 are Republicans, 110 are Democrats and four are independents.

Staff members had until Oct. 31 to respond, so some were able to factor in FBI Director James B. Comey’s announcement that his agency was reviewing new emails relevant to the FBI’s previously closed investigation of the private email server that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used while she was secretary of state.

Other aides had responded prior to Comey’s announcement Oct. 28. So even before that bombshell gave Trump new hope, the GOP aides were staying cool.

“I think what they’re saying is that we’ll be all right.

Parties go through changes.

This one is a unique change because Trump is an unusual candidate, but we’ll come out of this,” said Jeffrey Taylor, a former chief of staff to ex-Indiana GOP Rep. David McIntosh. Taylor is now managing partner of the lobbying firm U.S. Government Relations Intl.

Still, the responses underscore the rift that has arisen between the Republican base and its establishment in Washington. While Trump won the GOP primaries with ease and has lately drawn close to Clinton in the polls, a plurality of GOP respondents, 38 percent, said they planned to vote for a third-party candidate this year. Only 30 percent committed to Trump, and 18 percent said they’d back Clinton The staffers are also standing by their party leaders in Congress, with 81 percent of Senate GOP aides approving of the job Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is doing and 83 percent of House aides approving of the job Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin is doing.

That’s despite Ryan’s nowopen feud with Trump and the efforts of right-wing media outlets to discredit the speaker.

Forty-one percent of GOP House aides who took the poll say the dispute has damaged Ryan’s standing in the House Republican Conference. But only 9 percent of them believe another Republican should challenge Ryan for the speaker’s job, and only 6 percent say he should step aside.

“The disconnect between aides on the Hill and the Republican electorate is illustrative of the broader issue in 2016: The electorate has a general distrust of Washington, D.C.,” said Lisa Camooso Miller, a partner at Reset Public Affairs who was once a spokeswoman for former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois.

“The aides are working their tails off so they see it differently. That’s understandable.”

But to Democrats, it sounds like denialism.

“After this election, they are going to have three parties _ the Paul Ryan-John Kasich-Marco Rubio wing, the Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton wing, and then the Trump people,” said Steve Elmendorf, who served as an aide to ex-House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri and now runs the lobbying firm Elmendorf Ryan.

“They need to figure out who’s leading the party and where it needs to go.”

Across the parties, the aides who filled out the survey agree on two things: Trump is going to lose and Republicans will retain control of the House. Not a single Democratic aide said Trump would win, while only 13 percent of the Republicans said he will.

But Democrats are more confident of a Senate victory than Republicans are, with 86 percent predicting they’ll control 51 seats or more and an additional 7 percent expecting a 50-50 split.

By Steven Zeitchik Los Angeles Times

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby’s blindness will impede his ability to receive a fair trial and should lead to a dismissal of the sexual assault charges against him, his lawyers argued in court Wednesday.

“He is physically impaired. He cannot see,” the attorney, Angela Agrusa, said, as Cosby sat nearby with a walking stick at his side.

“We can’t test his memory, because he can’t see,” she said, noting that the condition would hamper Cosby’s ability to counter evidence against him.

The comments came as pa rt of a bid by the entertainer’s lawyers to have the case against him involving Andrea Constand thrown out on the grounds that the alleged incident happened too long ago.

Of the approximately 60 women who have stepped forward in the past two years to accuse Cosby of sexual assault, many cite instances that date as far back as the 1960s and 1970s, putting them beyond the statute of limitations.

The Constand case, though, is different. The former Temple University basketball staffer accused Cosby of assaulting her at his Pennsylvania home in 2004, leading the Montgomery County district attorney at the end of 2015 to charge the entertainer with three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

Cosby’s attorneys are seeking to get the charges tossed.

“There was an 11-year delay,” Agrusa said.

“What is gone because of (it)?” Agrusa asked rhetorically, noting the death of a potential witness and Cosby’s worsening sight.

Cosby’s lawyers argue that the case is only being brought now because of politics.

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele ran and won last year on a prosecuteCosby platform.

During the campaign, Steele’s “cause celebre became attacking Mr. Cosby, stating publicly his opponent has not been aggressive enough,” Agrusa said Wednesday.

But the D.A.’s office has maintained that it simply didn’t have enough evidence earlier, and that charges were brought in December 2015 because details from a 2005 civil deposition were only unveiled the previous summer.

That position on Wednesday was underlined by the judge in the case, Steven T. O’Neill, who questioned Agrusa aggressively.

“Your argument is they (prosecutors) knew or should have known (the contents of the deposition) in 2005 or 2006,” he said.

“I’m having a hard time figuring out how that applied in 2015.”

O’Neill also questioned Agrusa on the blindness issue.

“You’re saying because

he doesn’t have sight he doesn’t have memory,” the judge said. “That’s a big leap.”

It remains a question whether Cosby is in fact near-blind, as the defense has maintained. The prosecution said Wednesday it does not accept that contention.

As he has on other days, Cosby walked in to court Wednesday holding the arm of an assistant, who has often sat behind him during the hearings.

Cosby’s eyesight has become a public focus as well, as some have expressed skepticism about the purported condition, particularly after a photo surfaced earlier this year showing Cosby exiting an airplane in Los Angeles without assistance.

At one point during Agrusa’s argument Wednesday, Cosby stood up from his chair and appeared unsteady, as the assistant and lead attorney Brian McMonagle quickly helped him.

“Is he OK?” O’Neill said before calling for a short recess.

Though perhaps unintentional, the moment fit into a larger attempt to humanize Cosby. “My client is not a meme _ he’s a human being,” Agrusa said during her argument, noting he was being “vilified by a “merciless” public.

But O’Neill waved that aside. “I don’t know what the public thinks. And I don’t intend to do any kind of investigation,” he said.

The saga of the Chinese spies and the stolen corn seeds

By Del Quentin Wilber Tribune Washington Bureau

DES MOINES, Iowa — It was a chilly spring day when an Iowa farmer spotted something odd in his freshly planted cornfield: a short, bald Asian man on his knees, digging up seeds.

Not just any seeds - special inbred seeds, the product of years of secret research and millions of dollars in corporate investment, so confidential that not even the farmer knew exactly what he was growing.

The Iowa resident approached the trespasser, who grew flush and nervous, stammering something about being from a local university. When the farmer diverted his attention briefly to take a phone call, the stranger bolted to a waiting car and sped away.

That curious encounter eventually led to an exhaustive five-year federal investigation and prosecution into one of the most brazen examples of Chinese economic espionage against the U.S., a crime that annually costs American companies at least $150 billion.

The FBI pulled out all the stops to catch the spies.

Agents obtained surveillance warrants from the nation’s secret intelligence court, planted GPS-tracking devices on cars, trailed operatives from airplanes and bugged their phones.

The probe culminated in October with a threeyear prison sentence for Mo Hailong, 47, a Chinese citizen and U.S. legal resident who works for a Chinese conglomerate.

Federal officials say the prosecution of Mo, also known as Robert Mo, sent a message to China and others that economic espionage will not go unpunished.

But outside experts say the case also revealed the difficulty, and sometimes futility, of bringing justice to

those responsible for feeding China’s ravenous appetite for U.S. intellectual property.

Mo, who is being treated for a rare form of cancer, received a sentence that was even more lenient than the maximum five years laid out in his plea deal. Five others indicted in the plot remain free in China, out of the reach of U.S. law enforcement. And though the FBI suspected the Chinese government was involved in the thefts, it was never able to prove the link.

Worse, even though the scheme was exposed, Chinese companies almost certainly got their hands on some of the lucrative seeds.

Five years before his arrest, court records show, Mo was being praised by his superiors for the quality of seeds he already had stolen.

“You have to have some kind of stick to get them to think twice,” said Melanie Reid, professor at Lincoln Memorial University’s Duncan School of Law. “Because these investigations can be quite complicated and many of the players are in other countries and protected from U.S. prosecution, it is unclear whether these types of cases are making a dent. Theft of trade secrets is not only promoted

by Chinese government policies and state-backed companies, but it also reflects their societal attitude toward intellectual property. They simply don’t see stealing U.S. trade secrets as a crime.”

Some U.S. law enforcement officials echoed those observations, saying there is no clear evidence on the ground that such prosecutions have slowed China’s quest for U.S. secrets.

But they say doing nothing isn’t an option either, and they note that aggressive prosecutions against other forms of espionage by Chinese, such as cyber hacking, appear to have deterred

such acts.

The Mo case highlighted the challenges of such prosecutions, which often span the globe and require the assistance of scientists, analysts, linguists and corporate executives who can be wary about cooperating for fear of disclosing their trade secrets.

Proving the Chinese government was involved in the theft was seen as critical to deterring future attempts, but not surprisingly, China refused to cooperate or turn over information and suspects for trial.

According to a review of court filings and interviews with U.S. law enforcement and FBI officials, some of whom spoke about the case for the first time, the investigation got a kick-start because the farmer jotted down the license plate number of the rental car.

He reported the incident to DuPont Pioneer, the global agriculture giant that owned the seeds. The Johnston, Iowa-based company used the rental car license number to identify Mo, and then passed along the information to FBI Special Agent Mark Betten of the bureau’s Des Moines office.

Betten soon learned that a local sheriff’s deputy had spotted Mo and two other men acting suspiciously near a second Iowa seedtesting field, this one used by Monsanto, an agricultural corporation headquartered near St. Louis.

Mo’s appearance in two such testing fields operated by separate companies _ more than 85 miles apart _ sparked Betten’s curiosity.

The agent did some sleuthing and discovered that Mo had recently mailed to his home in Florida 15 heavy packages containing “corn samples.”

Betten also learned that Mo was the U.S.-based director of international busi-

ness for Beijing Dabeinong Technology Group, also known as DBN, a Chinese conglomerate that sells seeds through a subsidiary called Beijing Kings Nower Seed Science & Technology Co. Both are considered to have close ties to the Chinese government. Mo’s sister was married to DBN’s billionaire chairman.

The interest in Iowa seed was plain: China’s demand for corn is expected to outstrip supply in the next decade. To close that gap, China would benefit from planting better corn seed _ like the kind being produced

by Pioneer and Monsanto.

Creating robust seeds requires the breeding of two pure “inbred” lines of seed to craft a “hybrid” that is later sold to the public.

Developing a single inbred can cost as much as $30 million to $40 million in laboratory testing, field work and trial and error; companies evaluate scores of inbreds to develop a single hybrid.

Though he worried his supervisors would balk at an investigation involving something seemingly as mundane as corn seeds, Betten ramped up the probe.

By 2012, agents were trailing Mo as he sped across Iowa, Indiana and Illinois.

Following the spy was not easy because he sometimes engaged in counter-surveillance maneuvers, such as driving slowly, then fast, making U-turns and watching traffic for possible tails.

“You have to be careful trailing someone in farm country,” said Betten, a Nebraska native who speaks in a clipped Midwestern accent. “Cars kick up a lot of dust and can be seen from a long way off.”

Betten and other agents watched as Mo visited agriculture supply stores and purchased Pioneer and Monsanto seed, stashing it in a rented storage locker. The

store clerks never should have sold the seeds to Mo and his colleagues because they had not signed required contracts with the companies.

A few weeks later, Mo and two Kings Nower employees wheeled five large boxes destined for Hong Kong into a FedEx store in suburban Chicago.

After the men left, agents swept in. They discovered 42 bags of hybrid seeds in the boxes; each bag was marked with its own code, presumably to help identify the contraband. The FBI replaced the seeds with others already commercially available in China and shipped them on their way.

Stepping up their surveillance, the agents listened to secretly recorded conversations of two Kings Nower employees _ Lin Yong and Ye Jian, both Chinese citizens who live in China _ discussing their crimes as they crisscrossed farm country in search of seeds.

“These are actually very serious offenses,” Lin told Ye, according to Justice Department transcripts of secretly recorded conversations.

“They could treat us as spies,” Ye said.

“That is what we’ve been doing,” Lin replied.

After six weeks of seed gathering, Ye and Kings Nower’s chief operating officer, Li Shaoming, tried to spirit their haul to China. As they were departing Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Sept. 30, 2012, customs officers searched the men and their luggage and found thousands of stolen seeds, much of it hidden in resealed boxes of microwave popcorn.

Meanwhile, customs agents stopped another of Mo’s associates trying to cross the border into Canada and found corn seed hidden in his luggage too.

The men were allowed to leave the country, but the seeds were seized.

To bring criminal charges, the FBI first had to genetically test the seeds to prove they were the product of U.S. trade secrets. It took the bureau nine months to iron out the agreements with Pioneer and Monsanto to conduct the tests at an independent lab. “Neither Pioneer nor Monsanto understandably wanted the other to have their secrets,” let alone a Chinese company, Betten said.

The tests revealed that many of the seeds were inbreds belonging to both companies. In December 2013, agents arrested Mo at his home in Boca Raton, Fla. By then, the other defendants were outside the U.S. Calls to the Chinese embassy in Washington were not returned, nor were messages and emails left with DBN and Kings Nower.

Pioneer declined to comment on the case. Monsanto said in a statement that it fully cooperated with the FBI and is pleased “this matter has been concluded.”

Mo pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal trade secrets. Subdued and apologetic at his Oct. 5 sentencing, Mo removed his wirerimmed glasses to wipe away tears, saying that he had “destroyed everything I had wanted” in life.

Looking down at Mo, U.S. District Judge Stephanie Rose said she felt bad for the man’s plight but hoped her sentence would send a message to China that it needed to halt its economic espionage. She cited the crime’s cost and reviewed the investigation’s extensive history, the secret warrants, wiretaps and the tens of thousands of pages of court filings she had reviewed.

To think, she said, this “all started with a man in a field.”

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To the Editor: The Dakota Access Pipeline is the latest chapter in a long war of colonial violence against Native Americans – a war that has been ongoing since first contact and largely waged without interruption.

The pipeline has created a groundswell of resistance, bringing together the largest coalition of native tribes in over 100 years, led by members of the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies. Beginning in April, the self-identified Water Protectors have formed two camps, Sacred Stone and Red Warrior, to oppose the construction of the pipeline and defend their right to self-determination.

The movement on the ground has made it clear: This is the final straw, and they are not going anywhere. The camps, and the global #NoDAPL solidarity movement they have spurred, have coalesced around the rallying cry of indigenous leaders: Mni Wiconi, or “Water is Life.”

As a group of students committed to climate justice, UMass Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign recognizes that as we take action against the climate crisis, we must center the struggle of those who have been marginalized by the social and economic systems responsible for its creation. This must include the ongoing struggle of Native peoples against cultural and environmental genocide at the hands of the corporate American state. Climate change and the greed of the fossil fuel industry threaten our collective futures, but frontline communities have been waging this struggle for hundreds of years and are facing its violent realities today.

This disparity is illuminated by the fact that the Dakota Access Pipeline was originally proposed to run through the water supply for the predominantly white community of Bismarck. After it was determined that this posed risks to that community’s water, the pipeline was redirected through Native lands, sacred burial sites and water sources.

Pipeline construction began in violation of federal treaties and without meaningful consultation from tribal governments or a full environmental impact analysis.

Today, the Standing Rock Sioux express the same concerns as the residents of Bismarck, yet they are being confronted by an increasingly militarized police force and are being arrested en masse. The local Morton County sheriff’s office, along with federal and corporate security forces, continue to attack the nonviolent resistors with rubber bullets, attack dogs and pepper spray. Native voices are being silenced, not heard.

This demonstrates the reality brought to the forefront of public consciousness by the Movement for Black Lives that the police mantra of “protect and serve” does not, and has never, applied to all populations. The police are an agent of discipline and erasure, upholding the principles of settler-colonial capitalism that our nation was founded on.

We must reckon with the ways this erasure is happening in our local institutions and communities: Native American student enrollment at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst has almost steadily declined for 17 consecutive years. In our conversations of climate change and social transformation, we must listen to and elevate the voices of indigenous peoples in our communities. We must constantly question whether and how they are being represented in our institutions.

Our solidarity with the Water Protectors at the Sacred Stone and Red Warrior Camps is first and foremost about supporting the fight for self-determination, sovereignty and survival. We hope to mobilize this conviction this Friday, Nov. 4th, from 12 to 4 p.m. when the Native American Student’s Association and Divest UMass host a #NoDAPL Solidarity Farmer’s Market on the Goodell Lawn. There will be an arts and crafts sale, performances by local artists and a “speakout” featuring the voices of Native professors, students and activists. We hope to raise money and consciousness while collectively standing in solidarity with the movement led by the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies in North Dakota.

The Water Protectors on the ground at the Sacred Stone and Red Warrior Camp have made a call to action to allies all over the world. The Five College Community can answer this call by donating directly to the camps and by coming to the event on Friday, as well as continuing to spread the word and hold local actions for the #NoDAPL resistance.

Together, we must shut down this pipeline and highlight the long-marginalized voices and experiences of Native Americans in their ancestral homeland.

UMass Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign and the Native American Student Association

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The impulse is altruis- Ghana. Lured by the false tic: Travel to a developing promise of an education for country and help communi- their children, families send them to these homes but in Laura Handly most cases, the donations from volunteer tourists go ties in need. Many young directly to the owners and people participate in short- the children are no better term service trips that are off. largely targeted at enthu- Aside from explicit corsiastic, unskilled students. ruption, voluntourism It is undoubtedly true that students who go on these trips benefit from the experience, but what is more problematic is the notion that these service invariably meets the needs groups also aid the local of wealthy tourists before communities that they’re the needs of local communi“serving.” It’s important ties. Most volunteers lack to consider who actually time and skill, so many proprofits from the burgeoning grams create short-term industry of voluntourism. projects that make the vol This $173 billion industry unteers feel like they’ve is rife with for-profit com- made a difference. These panies that commercialize projects don’t address the charity in the developing fundamental issues that world. Orphanages have communities face. Building become tourist attractions, schools in Haiti does not with families being torn create qualified teachers, apart for profit. Friends- nor does the construction International and The of hospitals reform broUnited Nations Children’s ken healthcare systems.

Fund (UNICEF) are lead- These issues are systemic ing a campaign against this and must not be abandoned growing sector of tourism when vacation is over. in Cambodia, which they Furthermore, voluntoursay endangers children ism breeds dependency. In and families. Similar cases situations where commuhave been documented in nities receive short-term Nepal, South Africa and aid, local industries pro-

viding similar services suffer. Rather than creating the infrastructure necessary for self-reliance, these nearsighted voluntourist projects often make these groups more vulnerable to poverty and more dependent on foreign aid.

The situation is further complicated by the demographics of this relationship, with most voluntourist sights located in sub-Saharan Africa and most voluntourists are white students coming from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. It’s not a coincidence that this looks a lot like colonialism.

Supporting organizations that undermine local economies, reinforce power inequalities and exploit local populations is violence disguised as concern.

Short of extensive research regarding the long term impacts of particular volunteer projects, and personal development of a transferable skill set, the world would be better off if you traveled simply as a tourist or just stayed at home.

“These issues are systemic and must not be abandoned when vacation is over.”

Laura Handly is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at lhandly@umass.edu.

Yogurt gets political I’m not here to talk about the election. I think that by now, we have exhausted all

Ruwan Teodros political conversation that we can handle. Clinton is a liar, Trump is a train wreck and some people just want some Bernie Sanders back in their lives.

While dodging some of the more explosive articles in The New York Times that are addressing last-minute thoughts on the election, I came across an article about Chobani yogurt.

Oddly enough, the article also happens to be about refugees.

Many students, like myself, have griped about the yogurt that the University of Massachusetts dining halls serve, based on the claim that it is not healthy or nutritious enough. Don’t get me wrong, I love the pink and purple gelatinous yogurt that they serve with some granola sprinkled on top, but plain Chobani yogurt is my all-time favorite and ultimately has more nutritional value, so shoveling down tons of it comes with less guilt.

So how do we connect yogurt and the refugee crisis? It begins with Chobani’s founder Hamdi Ulukaya, a Turkish immigrant of Kurdish descent, who lived out the classic immigrant

success story. He bought a nonoperational yogurt factory in upstate New York, bought another facility in Twin Falls, Idaho and now has over 2,000 employees making Greek yogurt that is sold to the masses.

Ulukaya began his successful business in New York in 2002, making and selling feta cheese inspired by a family recipe. He would go on to buy a local dairy factory that had closed

made him the target of racist attacks on social media and articles on far-right websites. One conservative website published a story entitled “American Yogurt Tycoon Vows to Choke U.S. with Muslims.” Breitbart, another conservative news vehicle, began publishing a number of injurious articles about Chobani as well.

Seeing this, I began to really think about all the unkindness in the world. Forget this ridiculous election in which the two contenders for the presidency have spent more time attacking each other’s personal lives than tackling real issues.

They have received enough attention as it is. I grew sad as I read the NYT article, thinking about all the people focused on bashing a man who is simply trying to spread some kindness in the world.

I didn’t think there would ever be a link between yogurt and immigrants. I also never thought that society would be so determined to drag each other down or that yogurt could become a political hot topic. I for one have developed a newfound respect for Chobani, and not just because I’m sick of the pink and purple yogurt.

“Ulukaya has made it his life’s mission to help alleviate the refugee crisis in any way that he can.”

down by taking an $800,000 loan out from the Small Business Administration.

While building his new business, Ulukaya realized that he needed more manual assistance and recruited refugees from a nearby town to work at Chobani.

He gave a talk this year and said, “The minute a refugee has a job, that’s the minute they stop being a refugee.”

Ulukaya has made it his life’s mission to help alleviate the refugee crisis in any way that he can.

An immigrant himself, Ulukaya employs more than 300 refugees at his factories, started a foundation to assist migrants and traveled to the island of Lesbos in Greece to see the crisis firsthand.

Ruwan Teodros is a Collegian The effort Ulukaya has columnist and can be reached at made to help refugees has rteodros@umass.edu.

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Cushman Market: brewing coffee for over 100 years With fantastic egg sandwiches to boot

By Jessica Chaiken Collegian Staff

To an outsider, the little blue shack next to the railroad on Pine Street in North Amherst seems like just another local general store. But to anyone that has given this place a chance, it is a rustic little market and café, serving some of the best egg sandwiches in Amherst.

Cushman Market and Café is one of the most unique and homey places to grab a coffee and a sandwich in Amherst. Their décor and location scream “hipster” to any newcomer, but Cushman has a long history that dates back over 100 years.

George Cogswell purchased the land that Cushman Market is located on back in 1892. Cogswell initially built a grocery store in that space, and ever since then it has remained a market. Originally, at the end of the 19th century, the Cushman Village area was a busy and industrial location in the city of North Amherst.

Over the years, the Cushman Village area has changed to fit the needs of current residents. What was once a booming and industrial area of North Amherst is now primarily residential, with Cushman Market as one of the last standing reminders of the past. Though it has changed

owners over the years, Cushman Market still has the same country store feel that it had over a century ago.

Cushman Market was closed for two years starting in 2003 after nearly facing a mandatory re-zoning. It has since then been bought by new owners, Pete Sylvan and Rebecca Schwartz.

Sylvan and Schwartz both still own Cushman Market, and have thus far successfully been running both the café and the market.

Cushman Market is small but stocked with both essential groceries and uncommon brands of food, along with some interesting trinkets to browse. They also sell a unique selection of beer and wine. But the real draw to Cushman Market is the café in the back.

The market has several entrances, but for direct access to the café, you can use the back door. From the second you open the door to the Cushman café, you are instantly greeted with the smell of freshly brewed coffee and the sounds of calming coffeehouse tunes.

The café is small but quaint, and has plenty of seating both inside and outside. Cushman offers a calm place to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee or get some homework done, with its rural wood undertones and earthy vibes.

In addition to the inviting atmosphere, Cushman offers a menu with a wide array of drinks. They have over a dozen types of tea,

and several different blends of coffee, along with the option to have your coffee prepared in a variety of different ways.

Cushman also has a large menu featuring plenty of breakfast and lunch options. They pride themselves on their dish called the “HOBO,” which they refer to as an “ultimate bowl of goodness.” The HOBO is a bowl of roasted potatoes covered in a variety of toppings, depending on the option you choose.

Their omelets and egg scrambles are also popular and cheap options. But some of their finest creations rest in their egg sandwich combinations, for a grand total of only about $5. They have a variety delicious egg sandwiches, with NORMAN WALSH/FLICKR everything from pesto, goat cheese and tomato, to avo- The Cushman Market and Cafe has a cute, colorful and welcoming display sign which matches the ambience inside. cado, pepper jack and chipotle sauce.

So next time you’re in the mood to get away from mainstream Amherst without going too far, give Cushman Market a try.

Their atmosphere, local feel and food and drink are certainly worth a trip.

Cushman Market and Café is open seven days a week, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. They are located at 491 Pine Street in North Amherst, and have plenty of parking in the back and across the street.

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

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Benefits of knowing how to properly read a food label UMass provides easy-to-read labels

By Lucy Matzilevich Collegian Correspondent

Although many people ignore the clutter of numbers and percentages found on the back of every food and beverage package, food labels can help make a huge difference in the quality of life we live. Aside from weight watching, food labels give us direction in figuring out how to fuel our bodies for early-morning energy, late-night studying and before or after a workout. At the University of Massachusetts, the labels are made even simpler.

All the parts of a general food label are listed in terms of Percent Daily Value (DV). This percentage represents the amount that one serving contributes toward meeting the requirements of a nutrient per day, based on a 2,000-calorie diet.

Serving size most often differs from the amount found in a package, so nutritional information usually needs to be adjusted accordingly.

Food labels aren’t just calorie calculators; they provide vital information about the nutritional value

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UMass Amherst clearly displays the important food information, like allergies. of what we are putting in our bodies. Many incidences of fatigue or a weak immune system are due to a micronutrient deficiency.

Over half of all Americans are deficient in vitamin E, folate, calcium, magnesium and vitamin A. Keep in mind that foods with over 20 percent DV are considered high in that particular nutrient, while less than five percent is considered low.

Just like on regular food labels, the food labels in the dining commons have their ingredients listed in order from highest to lowest weight per serving.

Servings are written in

healthfulness scale so students can get a quick gauge of the nutritional value and compare options.

The food labels in the dining commons are also extremely accommodating to students with allergies. Common allergens are listed in red at the bottom at the bottom of each label. Freshman nursing student Katherine Dos Santos makes daily use of the food labels in the dining hall to avoid ingesting foods containing nuts and soy, both of which she is allergic to.

“One of the deciding factors for me coming to UMass was that they labeled all of their food and made it very easy for me to see what I was able to and not able to eat,” Dos Santos said.

“They also have a lot of soy free options.”

Falling asleep in class?

Trying to pull an all-nighter? Having trouble getting through a workout?

Reading a food label may help you make a choice that improves your performance in one of the following areas.

terms of ounces or number of pieces. UMass labels list the quantities of calories, sugars, proteins and sodium. Be wary of terminology. Corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, fruit juice concentrate, maltose and dextrose are all types of sugars.

At the top right corner of every food label are markers that indicate whether a dish is vegetarian, vegan, halal, whole grain, sustainable or grown locally, making it easy for students with certain dietary restrictions to grab food without poring Late-night snack over the small print of each label. Each UMass food If late nights at the label also includes a green library have you reaching

for a midnight snack, choose a low-calorie option that contains minimal amounts of protein, fiber and fat.

While it’s a myth that latenight eating is radically unhealthy, foods that are high in these ingredients may cause indigestion later in the night. Foods that are high in protein also contain the amino acid tryptophan, an amino acid commonly rumored to cause drowsiness.

Energy When looking for a quick boost of energy, many of us find ourselves gravitating towards sugary snacks or caffeinated beverages.

Choosing foods rich in iron (greater than 20 percent DV) may boost energy levels by allowing more oxygen to bind to cells and travel throughout the body. Pair it with foods rich in vitamin C to increase iron absorption for even better results.

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er recovery. The fat will slow down the absorption of both so the benefits last throughout the duration of a workout.

Despite the commonly held belief that you need to refuel the body with all the carbs you burned off, an ideal post-workout meal consists of protein-loading, not carb-loading. Most people eat a larger meal after working out, so take advantage of a post-workout dinner to consume some of the macro and micronutrients you may have missed throughout the day.

Food labels are meant to serve as a guide to healthy living, not a handbook.

What’s most important is getting the nutrients you need while gradually eliminating some of the added substances that you don’t.

Fluctuations in metabolism, activity level and even the weather can affect the amounts of nutrients and calories a person needs at any given time, so confining yourself to a rigid diet is neither healthy nor safe.

For pre-workout, eat a mix of carbs, protein and a little bit of fat before working out. Carbs will provide energy, while protein will prevent breakdown of Lucy Matzilevich can be reached at muscle and allow for fast- lmatzilevich@umass.edu.

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Cubs rally in 10th inning, win first World Series since 1908

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CHICAGO — After waiting since 1908 for a World Series title, the potential for misery became even more acute for the Cubs when they failed to close out a victory after needing only four outs to fulfill their long-awaited quest.

From manager Joe Maddon’s use of the pitching staff to Javier Baez’s failed one-out bunt attempt with a 3-2 count and the goahead run at third base in the ninth inning, the Cubs absorbed enough pain to last another century.

But the wait was well worth the ultimate reward Wednesday night when the Cubs rallied for two runs in the 10th inning after a 17-minute rain delay to take an 8-7 victory over the Indians in Game 7 that accomplished their mission that started in spring training.

The Cubs became the first team since the 1979 Pirates to overcome a 3-1 Series deficit by winning their final two games on the road.

They did so after blowing leads of 5-1 and 6-3, with the biggest punch occurring when fatigued closer Aroldis Chapman surrendered a two-run, gametying homer to Rajai Davis that caused Progressive Field to shake.

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Shaw. Then pinch-running rookie Albert Almora Jr. showed the smarts of a veteran when he tagged and advance to second on Kris Bryant’s deep fly to rightcenter field.

Indians manager Terry Francona walked Anthony Rizzo and Addison Russell intentionally and paid the price. Ben Zobrist poked a double down the left-field line to score Almora with the go-ahead run, and Miguel Montero followed Russell’s walk with a poked RBI single past a drawn-in infield.

Before the playoffs started, Maddon reminded his players that there would be some setbacks. That proved true, especially when Chapman, pitching for the third consecutive game despite throwing four innings and 62 pitches during that stretch, allowed a two-run, game-tying home run to Rajai Davis with two out in the eighth.

The Cubs put the goahead run at third with one out in the ninth, but Baez fouled a bunt attempt on a 3-2 pitch for the second out.

Shortstop Francisco Lindor then ranged far to his left to take a hit away from Dexter Fowler and leave Jason Heyward stranded at third.

It was an ominous sign when starting pitchers Jake Arrieta, John Lackey and Jon Lester walked from the dugout to the bullpen before the start of the third _ before starter Kyle Hendricks settled down to retire seven consecutive batters.

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Kris Bryant makes contact with a single in the top of the fourth inning of Wednesday night’s game 7 at Progressive Field in Cleveland.

But Hendricks was pulled after walking Carlos Santana and falling one out short of qualifyin g for the victory with a 5-1 lead. Instead of summoning left-handed reliever Mike Montgomery, Maddon called on Lester, who threw six innings and 90 pitches on Sunday.

A 25-foot single and throwing error by catcher David Ross, who entered the game at the same time as Lester, set the stage for a two-run wild pitch that

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taking the issue of UMass’ slow starts lightly.

“That’s one of the areas that we’ve got to learn,” Carvel said after Tuesday’s practice. “There’s too many games where we haven’t been ready to compete.”

Carvel added: “I think the game against UNH was an example. We were down just 1-0 after the first period, but I didn’t like our game. I didn’t like our compete (level).”

Coming into this Friday’s game against Connecticut, the Minutemen will be facing a team in the Huskies (3-2-3, 1-1-0 HEA), who has outscored their opponents 11-7 in the opening period.

All four of UMass’ losses this season have come when they have trailed at the end of the first period.

Meanwhile, UConn has yet to lose when ahead at the end of the first frame.

According to Minutemen junior forward Patrick Lee, who is tied for the team lead in points with six (four assists, two goals), a strong first period can impact the team on a psychological level as well.

“You just get into a rhythm when you start the game well,” Lee said. “You just build confidence and

just get into a roll, almost a routine. If it doesn’t start well you’re just second guessing yourself the rest of the game.”

Another major indicator of UMass getting off to a strong start is when they have scored the first goal.

This is a trend that tends to hold true across all of college hockey, and has been supported through the first six games for both the Minutemen and the Huskies.

Both wins for UMass have come after scoring the first goal, while all four losses have occurred after conceding it. The record for UConn when scoring the first goal is 3-0-2, while it drops to 0-2-1 when it is scored against them.

Carvel also agrees that the first goal can be indicative of how the rest of the game will go.

“Usually the team that scores first is the team that came ready to play,” Carvel said. “Therefore it usually carries for the rest of the 60 minutes. So, it’s definitely a stat we need to pay attention to.”

Lee also stressed the importance of getting on the board first and what it can do for the team – especially

raised eyebrows about why Hendricks was pulled after only 63 pitches and why Lester was used despite making only three previous relief appearances in his entire career.

Lester settled down and allowed only one hit until Jose Ramirez hit singled off the glove of shortstop Russell with two out in the eighth.

Before the game, Maddon said he believed Chapman was good for about 30 to 40 pitches despite his heavy

given Friday’s game will be played at the Mullins Center.

“It’s huge,” Lee said. “At home it’s really important to get that first goal and really get the crowd into it and stuff like that, and I feel the team really builds off that.”

Given that the Minutemen have only produced four goals in the first period so far this season (tied for lowest in the conference), UMass could really use improvement in this area if it hopes to beat the Huskies.

“I think if we get a couple more shots in the first and start testing their goalie and try to get a couple of dirty goals to get our offense going, then everything else will just flow from there,” Lee said.

While anything can happen throughout the course of a hockey game, it’s safe to assume that whoever comes out of the first period looking better on Friday will have a major advantage.

For the Minutemen, to capture their first Hockey East victory of the season, the first 20 minutes could be the difference maker.

Nicholas Souza can be reached at njsouza@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @nicksouza27.

workload.

But Chapman’s tripledigit fastball dipped some and Brandon Guyer ripped a double to right-center to score Ramirez. Then Davis homered on a 97 mph Chapman fastball to tie the game at 6.

The Cubs held a 6-3 lead thanks to home runs from Dexter Fowler, Baez and Ross. In addition, rookie Willson Contreras snapped a 1-for-18 rut when he ripped a two-out RBI double to cap a two-run fourth.

Redemption was even greater for Baez, who was in the midst of a 4-for-26 slump and committed two errors in the first three innings.

Baez, who was swinging wildly at pitches out of the strike zone in a slump reminiscent of his 2014 rookie season when he struck out 95 times in only 213 at-bats, ripped an opposite-field home run to right-center to knock out once-dominant Indians starter Corey Kluber leading off the fifth.

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Although there is no NCAA stat for high-quality scoring chances, the Minutemen have kept pace with the opposition’s opportunities to capitalize close to the net.

“I don’t like the fact that we’re getting out shot handily,” UMass coach Greg Carvel said following Tuesday’s practice.

“We need to have more of a shot-first mentality, which we don’t. At the same time, I know we give up a lot of CAROLINE O’CONNOR./COLLEGIAN shots. A lot of them are insignificant and from the Dominic Trento (left) is tied for first on UMass with six points this season. outside.

“That’s part of it. We’ve Goaltenders Nic Renyard .906 save percentage) and got to get pucks to the net and Ryan Wischow both Adam Huska (2.59, .938) because we’re not a high saw ice time over the week- could start Friday. skilled team and we have end as each started a game Regardless of who is in to get a higher volume of at Mullins Center. net, UMass will look to put pucks to the net.”

Center Dominic Trento, Wischow started in together a full 60 minutes who leads the team with six Friday’s 4-1 loss to UNH, for the first time in conferassists in as many games stopping 27 shots in net, ence play this season and this season, admits that while Renyard allowed the team is hopeful that foroffensive zone turnovers seven goals and made 29 mula will lead to success in and a lack of shots on net saves in the loss to BC. the win column come puck has led to struggles in find- To this point, it is drop at Mullins. unclear which goalie will ing the back of the net.

“That’s what we’re try “I think if we can clean be between the pipes Friday ing to learn as a team – how night and have the task of that part of our game up to maintain a certain level shutting down the UConn we’ll do a lot better in terms and maintain it for a full 60 of scoring goals,” Trento (3-2-3, 1-1-0 HEA) offense. minutes,” Carvel said. “We

“They’re going to comsaid Tuesday. “I think it’s have to grow in that regard pete all week in practice always good to get pucks to and see which guy is on for sure. For the first time the net obviously – that’s how you score goals. As far top,” Carvel said. “It’s too I think I’d like to see some more desperation out of as scoring chances goes, I early to tell.” think we’ve been doing a The Huskies are aver- our team, we need to learn. pretty good job with those. aging 3.1 goals and 32.4 We need to win the game It just comes down to capi- shots per game. UConn is and we have to learn quick talizing on other team’s led by four players that how to do that.” mistakes and we get our have registered four goals “I think with the talopportunities, capitalizing through eight games – ent we have in the room on those. If we keep doing Tage Thompson, Evan and the system we have in that going forward the Richardson, Karl El-Mir place, if we play a full 60 and Spencer Naas. goals will come.” minutes, wins will start to The entirety of Trento’s Like the Minutemen, the second line, featuring wing- Huskies fell to Quinnipiac come with that,” Trento ers Patrick Lee (two goals, – falling to the Bobcats 5-2 – said. four assists) and freshman and are coming off a week- Puck drop from the Jonny Lazarus (two goals, end split with Notre Dame Mullins Center is set for 7 p.m. Friday. three assists), are atop the in Indiana.

UMass stat sheet as the Both Huskie goalies have team’s point leader’s head- posted impressive numbers Kyle DaLuz can be reached at ing into the third weekend this season, as Rob Nichols kdaluz@umass.edu and followed on of the season.

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Goncalves, Jess send Minutemen to postseason Win over Rams clinches A-10 tournament berth

ues to improve on.

The first came off a penalty shot by senior midfielder Ty Goncalves for his fourth goal of the season in the 55th minute.

By Thomas Johnston The second goal came off a corCollegian Staff ner kick, in which Goncalves put The Massachusetts men’s soc- the ball in the box for senior cer team is postseason bound, defender Josh Jess to head into as it sealed a spot in the Atlantic the net for his fourth goal of the 10 tournament with a 2-0 victory season. over the Fordham Wednesday O’Leary was happy with the afternoon. way his team executed set pieces “We were picked to finish in throughout the game.

10th place in the A-10 in the pre- “That’s played a big part in season,” UMass coach us,” O’Leary said. “The Fran O’Leary said in a of the service is UMass 2 quality phone interview after good and the boys are the game. “To clinch a hungry to attack the Fordham 0 ball. We had some good playoff berth a terrific accomplishment. (The opportunities today.” team) deserves it. The It was the seniors have really stepped it up defense who once again stepped for us.” it up for UMass. Goalkeeper After a scoreless first half, Jorge Becerra, who was recently the Minutemen (7-7-3, 4-1-2 A-10) named A-10 defensive player of offense came alive in the second. the week, didn’t let a goal get past Both of their goals came off set him. This is the sixth time in the pieces, an area the team contin- last eight games the Minutemen

keeper has had a clean sheet.

O’Leary see’s Becerra’s play as the reason the team continues to win games.

“The team that keeps clean sheets and stops the opponents from scoring will win the game,” O’Leary said. “That’s played a huge part for us lately.”

This game was a physical contest with the referee consistently blowing the whistle for penalties.

Fordham committed 13 penalties throughout the game to UMass’ nine. Tim Steuk, Rashid Nuhu and Matt Miller all received yellow cards for Fordham, while Casey Hamill received one for Minutemen.

The UMass team bench was assessed a yellow card in the first half, in an event O’Leary called “minor.” Even with the physicality and all the yellow cards assessed, neither team was assessed a red card in the match.

“When you’re playing against a really good team it happens,” O’Leary said. “It was a hotly-

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UMass celebrates Josh Jess’ game winner in its 1-0 overtime win over Virginia Commonwealth Oct. 22. The Minutemen face La Salle in their regular season finale this Saturday afternoon. contested game with two good teams competing. They were the second place team (in the A-10 conference). It was the regular intensity of a conference game.”

The Minutemen take on La

Salle in their final regular season contest this Saturday at 1 p.m. in Philadelphia.

Thomas Johnston can be reached at tjohston@umass.edu.

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UM to host UConn Fri. at Mullins

STARTING STRONG

By Kyle DaLuz

First period cruicial in HEA play

By Nicholas Souza

Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts hockey team is still in search of its first Hockey East victory of the season after dropping the first two conference games at the Mullins Center last weekend to New Hampshire and No. 5 Boston College.

Friday night presents another opportunity for UMass (2-4, 0-2 Hockey East Association) to defeat a conference opponent at its home rink with Connecticut coming to Amherst.

The Minutemen have been outshot handily over the course of the first six games, registering 125 shots on goal to the 210 they have allowed.

In Saturday’s 7-4 loss to BC, the Eagles doubled the UMass shot total 36-18 – an 18-shot advantage CAROLINE O’CONNOR/COLLEGIAN for the road team.

The Minutemen share a few words before their 7-4 loss against now No. 5 Boston College last Saturday night at Mullins Center. see HUSKIES on page 7

Collegian Staff

For the Massachusetts hockey team, this past weekend served as an affirmation that falling behind early and then trying to climb back into contention is no way to win a hockey game.

Against New Hampshire, the Minutemen (2-4-0, 0-2-0 Hockey East Association) spotted the Wildcats the first two goals en route to a 4-1 loss last Friday, while surrendering the first five goals to Boston College the following night in a 7-4 loss. Four of those combined seven goals came in the first period, where UMass is at minussix in overall goal differential (23 goals surrendered, 17 scored) so far this season.

While the season is still young, Minutemen coach Greg Carvel isn’t see

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FOOTBALL

UMass face Trojans, Neal Brown Saturday afternoon Troy defense has forced 14 interceptions in 2016

By Adam Aucoin Collegian Staff

Back in 2002, Troy coach Neal Brown was lining up outside the numbers at McGuirk Stadium catching passes from quarterback Jeff Krohn with the Massachusetts football team en route to an 8-4 season. The coach of that UMass team was current head coach Mark Whipple.

Fast forward 14 years and Brown and Whipple meet again; this time on opposing sidelines as the Minutemen (2-7) take on the Trojans (6-1, 4-0 Sun Belt) at Veterans Memorial Stadium this Saturday.

Outside of his playing days, Brown owes a great deal for his current coaching position to Whipple, who gave him his start in coaching as a graduate assistant coaching tight ends and offensive linemen with the 2003 UMass team.

Whipple admits there is a different feeling when he’s coaching

against a close friend.

“It’s probably the bad thing. It happens some,” Whipple said after Tuesday’s practice when asked about coaching against his friends.

“You’re trying to win the game, so it doesn’t really factor into it.

I want success for him, not just Saturday.”

For the first time in six weeks, the Minutemen are coming off of a win as they topped Wagner 34-10 last Saturday.

Quarterback Andrew Ford is happy with how UMass played last Saturday, but still feels like the team has room to improve.

“It was a good team win. From start to finish we played almost 60 minutes, so it was probably our best game,” Ford said. “I still feel like we left a lot of plays out there, so obviously we want to improve going into this week.”

“It’s a lot more relaxed in the locker room,” wide receiver Andy Isabella added on the team morale after the win. “Guys aren’t nervous and looking at each other like ‘what’s going on.’”

Some of the mistakes the Minutemen got

“They just do a lot of things really well. There’s not just one guy back there doing it. They have 11 guys flying to the ball all over the place. When you have a defense like that, the breaks go your way.”

Andrew Ford, UMass quarterback away with last week against the Seahawks they will struggle to get away with this week against a Troy team, which is strong on both sides of the ball and is coming in riding a five-game winning streak. The only blemish the Trojans have on their record right now is a tightlycontested 30-24 loss to unbeaten No. 2 Clemson.

“This is a really talented football team; one of the best we’ve played all year” Ford said. “We know that it’s going to take our best game and our best week of preparation. We don’t even look at their schedule. We just see their record and they’re a really talented football team.”

On the defensive side, Troy has been one of the best teams in the nation causing turnovers.

strong on defense, but their offense has been equally strong, if not better. Troy is 24th in the nation in points per game with 37.6 points per game. The biggest standout on its offense has been running back Jordan Chunn, who has rushed for 816 yards and seven this season.

The Minutemen have been strong in their own right on offense recently, scoring 28 points or more during the last three games, but they know it will take their best effort to keep up with the Trojans offense.

“Our defense is going to be up to the task and we know we’re going to have to score a lot of points,” Ford said. “That doesn’t change our preparation. If we have to score seven and win the game 7-0 or we have to score 50, we just have to score one more point then them.

However many more that is, we’re going to ready for it.”

Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m.

Saturday.

The Trojans currently sit tied for tenth in turnovers caused with 18 this season. Their pass defense has been especially strong with 14 interceptions, led by cornerback Blace Brown who has four.

“They just do a lot of things really well. There’s not just one guy back there doing it,” Ford said.

“They’re just a collective unit and they have 11 guys flying to the ball all over the place. When you have a defense like that, the breaks go your way and that’s why they can create so many turnovers.”

Whipple added: “They’re wellcoached and they know the offensive concepts. They’re very opportunistic and when the ball hits their hands, they hang on to it and Adam Aucoin can be reached at make plays.” aaucoin@umass.edu and followed on Not only have the Trojans been Twitter @aaucoin34.