The Massachusetts Daily Collegian: November 10th, 2016

Minutemen enter 2016-17 with blend of young talent and returning veterans in dawn of new era

By Adam Aucoin Collegian Staff

The last time the Massachusetts men’s basketball team walked off the court in a competitive basketball game, it was on the losing end of an 85-70 defeat at the hands of Virginia Commonwealth in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 tournament at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Not only did that loss signify the end of UMass’ season, but it also signified the end of offensive stalwarts Trey Davis and Jabarie Hinds’ Minutemen career, along with center Tyler Bergantino.

With the recruiting class UMass has brought in for the 2016-17 season, the Minutemen look well on their way to replacing the talent and minutes of last year’s graduating class.

UMass brings in five freshmen this offseason, along with guard Luwane Pipkins, a four-star recruit, who sat out last season due to academic ineligibility. The group is highlighted by two four-star recruits, DeJon Jarreau and Chris Baldwin, along with three three-star recruits in Unique McLean, Tyrn Flowers and Brison Gresham.

Minutemen coach Derek Kellogg, who enters his ninth year at the helm of the UMass program, has

Reconstruction

Rashaan Holloway has slimmed down 50 pounds in the offseason and is ready to make impact felt

see that he has a chance to be a special player down the line.”

However the freshmen aren’t the only ones expected to make an impact this year. The Minutemen return a talented group from last year’s team led by junior guard Donte Clark, who averaged 16.1 points per game.

Sophomore center Rashaan Holloway slimmed down in the offseason and looks to make a big difference for UMass as well this year. Juniors C.J. Anderson, Seth Berger and Zach Coleman, who all saw starting time in stretches last season also return to the Minutemen.

With so much youth on the Minutemen roster, Berger knows it will be important for the older guys to provide leadership for the freshmen, who are just beginning their college basketball careers.

“I remember when we came in here my freshman year having those older guys to look up to,” Berger said.

“We want to do the same thing for the younger guys. We just try to lead by example. We can talk and do all that, but I think the best part is letting them visually see how hard we go, how much we communicate on the court, but off the court as well.”

Coming off a 14-18 (6-12 Atlantic 10) finish last seasee

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Louisiana natives DeJon Jarreau and Brison Gresham begin careers in Bay State

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Cyr: Don’t set standards too high

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Despite having a top 30 recruiting class in the nation, don’t expect UMass’ return to glory to happen overnight

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Laying the foundation

Staying together

Homecoming

Springfield native Chris Baldwin returns back to Western Massachusetts to start his career with the Minutemen

been impressed with the play of the freshmen in early practices, but knows they have a long way to go to reach their potential.

“Their propensity to work harder for a longer amount of time has gotten better,” Kellogg said of the freshmen’s progression early on. “I think they’ve started to realize that to win in college or to beat somebody, you have to beat them in all aspects of the game.

It needs to be from the defensive end to the transition game to the half court that I have to outwork this guy. If you can work equal or outwork someone then the talent factor will take over.”

Of the five freshmen, Jarreau has gotten the most attention. Coming out of New Orleans, the guard was ranked as the second best player in the state of Louisiana and 63rd in the nation according to ESPN. Most people expect him to make a big impact early in his time in Amherst whether he is playing on or off the ball.

“He’s got a good demeanor about him both on and off the ball,” Kellogg said. “For a guy who has come into UMass with some pretty high accolades, he’s been able to acclimate to the team. I don’t think he’s tried to overwhelm anybody with his personality or his clippings by any stretch. I think the guys that come in to watch can

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Newly hired women’s coach Tory Verdi ready to set building blocks in rebuilding the program

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New look Minutewomen

With all the roster turnover, UMass women’s basketball looking for different faces to step up in the 2016-17 season

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RECONSTRUCTION CHANGING HIS LIFE

Rashaan Holloway changed his life by losing 50 pounds over the summer, Now he’s ready to prove to the world he’s a changed man

By Andrew Cyr

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ashaan Holloway demands the attention of every pair of eyes in any room he ever walks into. A giant, standing 6-foot-11, weighing 320 pounds – it’s impossible to miss or overlook Holloway when in his presence.

On the outside, the intimidation factor is imminent.

His sheer size alone is enough to instill fear in anyone who crosses his path. However, there’s more than what meets the eye to understand this beast. He’s well-spoken and thoughtful in everything he says. Teammates and coaches adore him and his gentle personality on and off the court.

But as good and dominant a force Holloway is on the basketball court, there was a real possibility he wasn’t going to get the opportunity to play at a high level of Division I college basketball.

His problem is one that millions of people face every day.

At his peak, Holloway was bigger than Vince Wilfork, Warren Sapp and almost every offensive and defensive lineman who’s ever played in the NFL. He was more than 25 pounds heavier than Shaquille O’Neal and had another 50 on Yao Ming.

Holloway’s basketball abilities were never in

his high school career. “Just from the standpoint of how dominant he was for a kid that didn’t shoot the ball a lot. He was just dominant in all aspects of the game – rebounds, blocking shots, making people better.”

After a pair of back-toback postseason runs in the South Jersey Group I playoffs, Holloway, along with his brother Michael, and two lifelong friends Melvin Allen and DeAndre Solomon, led the Cougars to the South Jersey final, before falling in the championship game.

“I knew I was big when I was a sophomore in high school,” Rashaan said. “As you get taller, your weight just starts going up and you learn to play with your body – I was still learning basketball. My junior year I started playing everywhere, and people started enjoying watching me play. I got some college looks and stuff like that. I’d have my standstills some times, where people JUDITH GIBSON-OKUNIEFF/DAILY COLLEGIAN didn’t know if I was going to Rashaan Holloway appeared in 30 games, making 14 starts as a freshman in 2015-16 where he averaged 5.2 points and 3.1 rebounds per game. go to college because of my grades.”

Cassidy said seeing question when determin- His weakness? Something ketball player. He has the some, but it was more of Holloway graduate high ing whether or not he could most people are too scared support to do so, and now his father staying on him,” school was one of his proudhe’s ready to prove to every- his mother, Yolanda, said est moments as a coach. All have a successful career and embarrassed to admit. both at UMass and beyond. “The hardest part is eat- one that he’s a changed man. in a phone interview with the hard work and extra the Massachusetts Daily hours paid off.

His hands and footwork are ing when no one is looking,” Putting in the work in Collegian. “His father was Holloway was going to unprecedented for a man of Holloway said. the classroom like, ‘if you want to get there, college to be a Division I bashis size and physical stature, Holloway knows there’s you have to push yourself in ketball player. and the bare of being a col- no better time than the pres Like most immature academics first.’ His father lege athlete was never the ent to create a name himself issue. and for his future as a bas- high school adolescents, told him basketball meant Becoming a man Holloway never cared much nothing if he didn’t get his for his grades or academics school work done.”

Massachusetts basketand spent the majority of his “As a coach, I really harp ball coach Derek Kellogg time focusing on basketball. academics,” Cassidy said in was on the beaches of Attending Arthur P. a phone interview with the Martha’s Vineyard someSchalick High School in his Collegian. “Like I always tell where between Oak Bluffs hometown of Elmer, New kids, with basketball or any and Edgartown when he got Jersey, Holloway made an sport, if you don’t have the the phone call that would instant impact on the court, grades, I don’t care how good change the outlook of his prioritizing the game he you are.” team. loved over his school work.

With an increased focus Vacationing with his wife “I remember as a fresh- on academics after his Nicole, the Kellogg’s stopped man, I hated school so freshman year at Schalick, at a random beach to take a much,” Holloway said. “I Holloway began making a dip in the water. For whathated being there. I was just bigger and bigger impact ever reason, Derek ventured lazy in the classroom.” on the basketball court. In waist-deep into the water But Holloway’s parents, the summer going into his with his cell phone when he along with his high school sophomore year, he grew got the phone call. coach, Eric Cassidy, knew five inches from 6-foot-3 to It was Rashaan. that in order for him to make 6-foot-8 and that’s when bas- “I answered the phone a name for himself, his bas- ketball took off in his life. and they said ‘we made our ketball abilities could only “His freshman year he decision,’” Kellogg said. “It’s go as far as the work he was couldn’t walk and chew gum weird, like I’m in the water, willing to put in the class- at the same time,” Cassidy he just visited recently, and room. said. “He was one of the I’m thinking ‘this fast?’ and It wasn’t until after his hardest working kids to get they were like ‘I’m coming to freshman year that Holloway where he needed to be.”

UMass!’” took his grades more serious- As Holloway grew, the “I started kicking water ly. Knowing basketball was a weight proportionally foland splashing and said to potential outlet to attend a lowed suit. He was big, but myself ‘this is the best vacaDivision I school and receive it was never an issue that tion ever!’ When you get a a free education, Holloway diminished what he was good surprise like that when took the time to work with doing on the court. you’re in a place like that, tutors and spend time before “He’s by far the best it’s just awesome.” practice studying and work- player I’ve ever coached,” As happy as Kellogg was ing on his homework.

Cassidy said of Holloway, “Coach Cassidy was awe- who scored 1,622 points in see HOLLOWAY on page A6

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HOMEGROWN FRESHMAN SEASON

UMass forward Chris Baldwin comes home to Western Massachusetts to begin his college basketball career with the Minutemen.

By Adam Aucoin

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ack in 1891, a physical education professor and YMCA instructor in Springfield by the name of Dr. James Naismith was looking for a way to keep his students active during the winter months. He nailed up a couple peach baskets and derived a game we call basketball.

Fast forward more than 100 years in the same city and you find a 5-year-old, wide-eyed and excited kid, falling in love with the game Naismith created all those years ago.

Massachusetts men’s basketball freshman forward Chris Baldwin has come a long way in his basketball career, but he still remembers being that young boy in the stands.

“I remember going to

my older brother’s high school games in Springfield, where games were sold out,” Baldwin said. “I just loved the atmosphere; how the gym could get. Seeing him score the ball and do a bunch of things on the court, I wanted to be like my older brother.”

Coming from a city riddled with crime and an unfavorable reputation when he was growing up, Baldwin had to do his best to stay away from the bad influences off the court.

“It was a tough city to grow in,” he said. “There was a lot of trouble out there. There were a lot of influences and it was easy to go the wrong route.”

To escape the struggles of the city around him, Baldwin, like most of the city, turned to what he knew best to keep himself on the

right track.

“Going to the basketball games was the best thing to do,” Baldwin said. “Just going out and seeing a bunch of guys play basketball was better than hanging out all night. It definitely brought the community together.

The Central High games, they would have 3,000 people in there. There were all kinds of people. Young guys, old guys, so it was like a community gathering.”

rience he had when he was a kid.

Baldwin wasted no time making an impact for the Golden Eagles. He was dominant his sophomore year, scoring 15.2 points per game, good for second on the team, while leading the team in rebounds per game (14.8) and blocks per game (5.1). Central finished that year 18-5. The Golden Eagles didn’t have as much success in the win column his junior year, but the 6-foot-8 forward Making his mark still had a solid season averaging 11.8 points per game.

Baldwin grew up on “Being at Central moldSpringfield Central High ed me into the player I am School basketball. It was a today,” Baldwin said. “On the way of life and provided him court, it was a stepping stone an escape from everything for my maturation and off else around him. the court just being around Like his brother before him, the influential people like Baldwin knew he wanted to Principal (Thaddeus) Tokarz make his mark at the school and some of the other assisand provide young people tant principals who are big watching him the same expe- supporters of the basketball program. It was a great process going there.”

During the offseason, Baldwin would play AAU basketball for Mass Rivals on the Adidas Gauntlet to keep his game at a high level and impress scouts.

Baldwin received some Division I offers while at Central, but he wanted to take his game to the next level and become a better man. He decided leaving home would be the only way to do that.

The teenager would make the decision to reclassify to the class of 2016 and transfer to play at Notre Dame Preparatory School in Fitchburg, a small school that has produced NBA players like Steven Adams, Michael Beasley and Ryan Gomes.

For Baldwin, the decision to leave home to go play at Notre Dame Prep was not an easy one.

“I wanted to stay at Central because ultimately I wanted to win a state championship, but I knew in order for me to become a better basketball player, I would

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have to leave,” he said.

Baldwin starred for the Crusaders during his junior and senior seasons, but in the end the results on the court weren’t his main focus.

He knew he had the talent to make it to the next level, but he needed to grow as a man and the change of scenery helped him do that.

“What initially drew me to Chris was his desire to grow as a person,” Notre Dame Prep coach Ryan Hurd said. “He felt that if he had change of scenery, he would accept that challenge. For a long time, there was a sentiment that Chris was lazy and that he didn’t want it as bad as much as other people around him wanted it for him. That upset him and he wanted to prove that that wasn’t who he was a person.”

In Baldwin’s two years at the school, Hurd saw major strides in how the big man carried himself and grew.

“Accountability with four exclamation points after it,” Hurd said, about Baldwin’s growth. “He became personally accountable. It wasn’t okay with him to just be good enough. It wasn’t okay with him to get a C. Things like that stopped being okay with him. He wanted to be the very best person that he could be and I thought that was really awesome.”

Staying home Throughout his high school career, Baldwin had garnered interest from a laundry list of Division I schools, including Connecticut, Boston College, Rhode Island and La Salle, among others. When the time came for him to make a decision early in his senior year at Notre Dame, he narrowed his list down to five schools: Creighton, West Virginia, Temple, DePaul and Massachusetts.

All of these schools had their positives, but for Baldwin one program stood

out. That program is located just over a half hour from where he grew up.

Baldwin knew attending the University of Massachusetts was the right choice for him.

“The way that the coaches recruited me was unbelievable. It was much different than the way other schools recruited me,” Baldwin said. “(Adam) Ginsberg and (Derek Kellogg) made me feel that if something happened on the court and I wasn’t able to play basketball anymore that I would still be a part of the family, and they made it seem as if basketball wasn’t the only priority to them. Being a man was more important than being a basketball player.”

For UMass coach Derek Kellogg, recruiting Baldwin to join the program was a no-brainer.

“I had known of Chris in Springfield for a long time,” Kellogg said. “His talent has never been in question, but I think he matured a lot especially when he went up to Notre Dame Prep and had to get away from the city and just be a man. That’s when a lot of big time programs had taken notice.”

His former coach thought Baldwin made a very mature decision coming to Amherst.

“He was seduced by some high major schools and the idea of all that, but at the end of the day he wanted to be able to share this whole experience with his family and have them close by,” Hurd said. “When you see the commitment that Ryan Bamford and Derek Kellogg have made to men’s basketball, you’re getting that high major experience right here in Massachusetts.”

Baldwin signing with the Minutemen was a bit of a rarity for a top-tier player from Massachusetts. Most elite players from the state typically decide to leave Massachusetts for higher profile basketball programs.

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better than what the rankings indicate.

“We’re definitely better than 10,” McLean said.

“We’re trying to finish in that top three, top five. We definitely have the talent.

Everybody’s versatile.”

With the amount of talent at his disposal that he hasn’t seen in his time with

the Minutemen, Kellogg is not going to confine himself to any specific starting lineup going into the season.

Rather, he wants to feel it out and see who matches up the best.

“I’d like to see the different kind of lineups. I’m not sure who I’ll start quite yet,” Kellogg said. “I want

to do what’s best for this team and this program of playing regardless of age, style that we’re putting the best lineup out there at all times.”

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

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Freshman Unique McLean throws down a dunk during one of the Minutemen’s preseason practices on Nov. 3.

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PRESEASON EXPECTATIONS

Louisiana friends ready to make Don’t expect overnight long-lasting impact in Bay State change for Minutemen

By Philip Sanzo Collegian Staff

In September of 2015, DeJon Jarreau and Brison Gresham had narrowed their choice of schools down to two, the University of Miami and the University of Massachusetts.

With a desire to play together at a school they believed needed them, the two best friends chose UMass.

Unlike many college teammates, Jarreau and Gresham’s relationship extends much further than Amherst. In fact it goes all the way back to the gymnasium of McDonogh 35 in New Orleans.

Neither Gresham nor Jarreau enjoy being too serious away from the court. In fact, their goofy demeanor helped spark their friendship way back when they were freshmen in high school.

“When we first met, it was ninth grade, we both just kind of kicked it because we were both goofy,” Jarreau said. “You meet somebody that is almost the same as you and y’all just start to get cool and y’all just start to hang out. From that, we just went from that type of relationship outside of basketball and carried into basketball.”

Gresham, a three-star recruit, has yet to be cleared by the NCAA and is considered a partial player. This means that he is allowed to practice but is not allowed to play until he is cleared.

Minutemen coach Derek Kellogg said that he has been “pleasantly surprised” with how Gresham has performed in practice.

“He could be really good, he’s done some things that just naturally, I mean he’s like Kevin McHale when

he catches it on the inside, never brings it down, just catch and dunk,” Kellogg said. “And he’s stretches out kind of like guys we’ve had, guys I’ve been around in years past, he just gets long around the rim pretty quickly.”

Jarreau, on the other hand comes into this season as a four-star recruit and the 63rd best player in the country, according to ESPN. Even with all the accolades that Jarreau has accrued in his time at McDonogh 35, Kellogg has described him as “selfless.”

“The one great thing is that the guy who was supposedly the highest rated guy plays kind of selfless in Dekee,” Kellogg said. “In our skirmish we went on a run the other day and he was the first one up cheering. I’m not sure they even know yet, what it means to play more or less. I think they just want to win. And that has been a nice thing to see.”

While Jarreau believes that playing for the team and playing for himself balances out, he recognizes the importance of being humble.

“I think my mom and my past coaches like they always said stay humble and don’t get big headed,” Jarreau said. “So that just kind of came with me when I came to college because I’ve been like that. I was never the type to brag a lot, I just stayed humble and my mom and past coaches taught me that.”

Being the topped ranked recruit on the team has naturally come with the pressure to prove his worth.

Simply having Gresham around has made acclimating to college basketball easier for him.

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because I know all the stuff he does, and he knows all the stuff I do,” Jarreau said.

“We got a connection on the court and every pass I make, he’d catch ‘em. He knows I’m going to give the ball to him and everything so it makes it easier.”

It was not always easy for Gresham though. He did not begin playing organized basketball until he was a sophomore in high school. In hopes of staying out of trouble that had followed him for most of his life, Gresham – standing 6-foot-3 at the time – joined the McDonogh 35 JV basketball team.

“He was sad at first.”

Jarreau said. “There was this one time, I think it was our first game freshman year, he dunked on the wrong goal. And he got way better. Like, I think he’s only been playing basketball for four years now, so that’s a good thing.”

Looking back at it now, Gresham is able to laugh at the moment. He credited Jarreau with helping him improve.

“Really he always just said, don’t think,” Gresham said. “When I first started playing that was always my problem, I used to think too much. He said don’t think just do.”

Between the ninth and 10th grade is when he started to bond with Jarreau on a basketball and personal level.

“I probably think that Dekee really hated me,” Gresham said, laughing.

“He was like the point guard and I probably like the forward but I could not catch a pass. So we just be in there shaking everybody covering the lane dominating and I miss the pass and he’d be like ‘c’mon, Brison, c’mon.’

That’s how we really just started hanging out after school, playing five-on-five, getting better, that’s how we really started being friends.”

Though basketball wasn’t the only thing the two had in common, it allowed them to grow both as friends and players. This would eventually blossom into what Kellogg has called a “sixth sense” on the court.

“From just being around each other, on or off the court,” Gresham said.

“We’ve played so many games, not even having to do with school. We’d just go out at the rec or something and just play, and we just knew each other. I knew what he was going to do probably before he’d even do it, and he knew what I was going to do before I’d even do it.”

The two had determined early on that when they play at the next level it was going to be together. Nine different schools had extended offers to both Jarreau and Gresham, the very first of which being UMass.

Trey Davis, a staple in the UMass program for four years, told Jarreau and Gresham when they visited that by joining the Minutemen, they’d be joining a family.

“Trey Davis, was telling me and Dekee about coach DK,” Gresham said “He was like, once you become a part of this it’s really family forever, and that really meant something to me. Like I felt comfortable when he said that.”

Gresham and Jarreau chose to join UMass as players, best friends and brothers.

Philip Sanzo can be reached at psanzo@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Philip_Sanzo.

have a simple message to fans of the Massachusetts men’s basketball as it pertains to the upcoming 2016-17 season: Give this time.

UMass is going to be good.

The i n s t a n t change in the win-loss column might not come this year and a return trip Andrew to the NCAA Cyr tour nament is almost improbable.

Improvement is going to happen eventually, but give the pieces time to fall into place.

The revitalization of the Minutemen’s program started in 2013 when the University of Massachusetts broke ground on its $28.5 million, 53,000-square-foot John Francis Kennedy Champions Center, a practice facility for both the men’s and women’s basketball teams at UMass.

Minutemen coach Derek Kellogg has already used the facility as a recruiting tool to their players, as evident by the top 30 recruiting class UMass had for the 2016 season. Headlined by a pair of four-star recruits and a trio of three-stars, the Champions Center is already starting to bring talent through its doors.

But as good as DeJon Jarreau, Chris Baldwin, Unique McLean, Tyrn Flowers, Brison Gresham and Luwane Pipkins will be for the Minutemen, it’s rare to see freshmen classes instantly change the discourse of programs, especially in conferences like the Atlantic 10.

Pipkins was with UMass last year as an academic non-qualifier, while Gresham is still awaiting NCAA clearance.

“Sometimes I think that everyone collectively – the older guys and coaches at times – need to remember that (they are freshmen),” redshirt junior forward Zach Coleman said.

“They do so many good things at times; some days they seem like they have it all figured out, and the next day it seems like they don’t.”

“You do have to pull back and remember that they are only freshman, and that there’s five of them,” Coleman added.

In addition to the returning veterans – Coleman, Seth Berger, Donte Clark, C.J. Anderson, Rashaan Holloway and Malik Hines – UMass welcomes Canisius transfer Zach Lewis, an off-the-ball guard who averaged 11 points per game and made 34.5 percent of his 3-pointers during his two seasons with the Golden Griffins.

“We have five freshmen, five guys who haven’t played any Division I min-

utes. And other guys who haven’t played with us at all are Luwane Pipkins and Zach Lewis,” Berger said. “Pretty much half our roster is brand new.

It’s going to take some time but eventually they will. We’re just sticking with it, the biggest thing for us to do [is] just sticking to it until it all falls into place.”

Holloway is going to be the key to the operation. Kellogg expects, and needs, him to be a reliable scoring option in the low post and for him to have the ability to stay on the court and avoid foul trouble. If Holloway is that guy, expect Kellogg to mix-and-match different small ball lineups to open up space for shooters like Lewis, Pipkins and Flowers.

The Minutemen were picked to finish 10th in the A-10 preseason poll, the lowest since they were projected to finished 12th in 2011-12. Clark, who was second on the team in scoring last year with 16.1 points per game, was tabbed to the preseason third-team all-conference.

So how long before Kellogg will have a set rotation?

“I think with this group it’s going to take a while,” Kellogg said. “Some of the young kids are going to mature at different rates. A guy like Luwane Pipkins might mature a little bit faster than (Tyrn) Flowers, and so (Tyrn) might play a little bit less early, and kind of ease his way in a little later in the season. Chris Baldwin may be a little bit slower to catch up on things than say Rashaan or whoever.”

“There’s definitely a learning curve for each player. But we’d like to have [a rotation] by, a few games into conference or halfway into conference play where it’s all clicking and that’s the team that I think we can be.”

We live in a society where we expect instant change, and satisfaction the second we’ve found a solution. UMass’ fans will be excited with how athletic and up-tempo this year’s team is. There will be some dunks that get people out of their seats and they’ll be stretches when the Minutemen won’t miss from 3. And in the same game, they’ll probably do some things that drive the fans insane too.

Remember, these aren’t the same one-and-done freshmen we see flock to schools like Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky or Kansas year after year.

This class is here to stay for a while.

The future is bright for UMass, but don’t expect the return to glory to happen overnight.

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

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Seth Berger hangs on the rim during last year’s Atlantic 10 tournament.

C.J. Anderson is one of four juniors on UMass’ young roster this season.

Donte Clark is UM’s leading returning scorer after averaging 16.1 ppg in 2015-16.

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WOMEN’S BASKBETALL

Verdi ready to take necessary steps to rebuild UMass

By Mollie Walker Collegian Staff

After one of the first practices of the season, the Massachusetts women’s basketball team headed into the locker room to get changed when a simple, three-word message on the white board turned everyone’s heads.

“We will win.”

Those three words were written across the board just as boldly and confidently as head coach Tory Verdi took on his new position in the UMass basketball program.

There is a newfound excitement and anticipation for the upcoming 2016-17 season. Most of it stems from the amount of positive attention Verdi has attracted. But the question still remains: What is there left to do with a team which has struggled season after season?

The road to Amherst The Minutewomen have had just seven winning seasons in the last 35 years, and only one since a winning surge that occurred under Joannie O’Brien, who led the Minutewomen to five consecutive winning seasons from 1994-99.

O’Brien’s era would mark the last consistent success the program has seen.

Since then, the University has employed four different athletic directors, and as of April 9, three different coaches.

“Expectations will be on the rise. Accountability will be apparent and a winning attitude will be instilled,” Verdi said in his introductory press conference at the John F. Kennedy Champions Center on April 14.

Verdi arrived at UMass after spending four seasons at Eastern Michigan, where he accumulated a record of 72-61. Much like the Minutewomen, EMU was a program in the making, and Verdi produced substantial improvement in the team that showed in their record shattering 2014-2015 season.

After going 8-22 in his first season with the Eagles, Verdi turned the program around and led the Eagles to two women’s National Invitation Tournament appearances and the Mid-American Conference championship game in 2015.

The New Britain, Connecticut native prioritized a high-tempo offense, to which the team responded by scoring 2,445 points, the third-most in a single season in school history. The Eagles also dished out 435 assists that year, ranking seventh

overall in program history.

Verdi leaves the Eagle’s program having rewritten the record book with 124 different all-time top performances: The most points in a season (2,549), field goals made (936), rebounds (1,539) and three-pointers made (223).

Before EMU, Verdi spent the 2003, 2004, and 2005 seasons on staff with the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun, reaching the postseason each year. In addition, he spent the 2004-05 collegiate season with Columbia University as their top assistant and eventual interim head coach.

“Where we are right now, it’s a little bit of a rebuilding project,” Verdi said “I’m excited about the challenges that lie ahead and I’m really excited about the players that we have in the program right now, and where we’re going.”

It wasn’t long ago though, that former coach Sharon Dawley seemed just as promising as Verdi, sharing his impressive reputation and track record of being a “program rebuilder.” Both also had made trips to the postseason in the previous two seasons before being hired

by UMass.

But, Dawley never won more than 12 games in a

single season throughout her six years with the Minutewomen, finishing her career at UMass with a 46-133 record.

“This team averaged 68 points per game and only won 12 games last year,” Verdi said in an interview after the team’s first exhibition game of the season.

“But that was last year, we’re talking about this year.”

Working with what he’s got Verdi knows change isn’t going to happen instantaneously, and instead is only focusing on what lies ahead.

Repeatedly, Verdi acknowledged how hard his players work in practice day after day, giving him 100 percent effort every single time.

“I just told them, I said anything is possible, we just have to stick together and believe in one another,” Verdi said. “If we do that we can move mountains together.”

The first full-time male coach in UMass women’s basketball history views his transition to UMass as a rather smooth one, apart from the fact that he’s coming from a full team at EMU to a team with only six healthy bodies with the season starting Friday.

Players expressed their concern about the lack of healthy bodies because of the toll it has taken on them physically. The Minutewomen now are facing the struggle during practice of not having enough players to execute drills in their entirety.

Regardless of how many players he has, Verdi’s appreciation for them and the hard work they’ve showed him has not faltered. His outlook has proven to be infectious, with his players looking at the season in front of them

optimistically and only hoping to do their absolute best.

“I think he already has made a difference,” junior guard Leah McDerment said. “It’s a completely different culture here now.”

The prominent differences that Verdi has instilled in the program is also apparent to McDerment’s co-captain, junior Maggie Mulligan, as well as sophomore returner Jessica George.

“We’re growing,” George said. “Every practice we get see

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Amidst roster turnover, UM looking for players to step up

By Jamie Cushman Collegian Staff

Even the most diehard Massachusetts women’s basketball fans may find themselves unable to name many of the members of this year’s team after a coaching change and injuries have led to a huge shakeup in UMass’ roster.

The group of Minutewomen first-year head coach Tory Verdi will put on the court in the team’s opener at Buffalo on Friday little resembles the team that won six straight games at the end of last season before falling to Fordham in overtime in the second round of the Atlantic 10 tournament.

Of the eight players who received regular playing time last year, only two, Leah McDerment and Maggie Mulligan, start the season healthy and on the roster.

Cierra Dillard and Bria Stallworth, last year’s leading scorers, transferred to Buffalo and Nebraska respectively, Rashida Timbilla, last year’s rebounding leader, graduated, Kymber Hill retired from the program, while both Alyssa Lawrence and

Alyx Stiff start the season injured.

These six players who last year made up 77 percent of UMass’ minutes and 87 percent of the Minutewomen’s points were all expected to be key members of this year’s team before they either left or got hurt, except for Timbilla.

McDerment said it has been difficult for the team to adapt to the large number of changes in UMass’ roster.

“It’s been rough, especially because most of them were unexpected,” McDerment said, citing Hill’s departure from the team and Lawrence and Stiff’s injuries. “It’s definitely been tough but it’s made us stronger and it’s made everyone feel so needed. We know that we have to perform day in, day out, and no one can rest.”

McDerment and Mulligan will both need to contribute more offensively to make up for the considerable losses. While they both started two-thirds of the games and averaged over 20 minutes a game, Mulligan averaged 5.1 points per game and McDerment with 2.8.

“I definitely feel pressure,”

McDerment said. “I know that me and [Maggie] are feeling pressure to be more aggressive and more of a scoring threat than we were, but it’s nothing we can’t handle and I think that we’ve stepped up to the plate already and it’s going to be a different team this year.”

Verdi holds an optimistic view toward the numerous departures from last year’s team, emphasizing the increased playing time for younger players.

“I look at it as those coming into our program have a great opportunity,” Verdi said. “The freshmen have an unbelievable opportunity to step in a role and get experience right off the bat and it’s only going to make us better down the road.”

One of those younger players, Jessica George, has now been thrust into the starting lineup after appearing in less than half of last season’s games, averaging just 3.3 minutes per game.

George has adapted well to the change in her role, saying she has not noticed much of a difference since last season.

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HOLLOWAY knowing he just landed his – literal– biggest recruit as the head coach of UMass, like all good things in life, he was forced to wait.

Arriving prior to the 2014-15 season, Holloway was sidelined his first year on campus with a knee injury that required surgery. He said and did all the right things, learning from his teammates and coaches on top of improving his grades academically.

But as he watched from the sidelines, it took a toll on his body.

“It was tough,” Holloway admitted of the year he was injured. “With that, my weight went up.”

“It was devastating to our whole family at home,” Yolanda added. “As a mom going up there and seeing him with the surgery I realized that he loved the game and that I knew in my heart it was going to be rough on him.”

After reaching the NCAA tournament for the first time in 16 seasons the year prior to Holloway’s arrival, the Minutemen failed to make a return trip to the Big Dance. Holloway went back home, ready to start his career at UMass.

Holloway only scratched the surface with his talent during the ’15-16 season as a freshman where he appeared in 30 games, including 14 starts. Despite making his presence felt while he was on the court, his conditioning and weight limited him to just an average of 11.7 minutes per game.

He’d play well in spurts, but that’s all his body could handle.

It wasn’t until the Minutemen’s 86-74 loss against Davidson midway through the season that Kellogg and the rest of the coaching staff put their foot down to make a change.

“It was kind of after the Davidson game last year when we were in a position to beat them and he had a layup where I don’t think he got above the foam (on the backboard) on the layup and he either got it blocked or he missed it, and then they went on a run,” Kellogg said. “I pulled him aside and I kind of told him, ‘you have to get yourself in shape because that should never happen.’”

Kellogg added: “We came back and kind of weighed him and went over some things. Not to put him on the spot, but just to see where we are at and that was kind of the building spot from that point on. From that point on he really started to taking his conditioning seriously.”

That’s when UMass and strength and conditioning coach Rich Casella made a plan. At the time, Holloway weighed 364 pounds.

“The process itself started with education and then discipline before it evolved to the specifics,” Casella said. “Through trials and tribulations, we kind of found what works for him as opposed to what works for science.”

“Through last season, we had our trials and tribulations again, but once the season was over, it was go time,” Casella added. “He got real focused about his weight loss, real focused about just giving himself to me and allowing me to dictate the path we would travel.”

During the summer, Holloway, with the help of Casella, created a five-day

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workout regiment with a heavy focus on cardio and conditioning. One day was dedicated to steady-state cardio, where he maintained a steady heart rate of 135-165 beats per minute for as long as he could. Another day was for high-intensity interval training, where he would do various cardio drills to spike his heart rate up periodically throughout the workout.

One of the days was geared toward lifting weights, where Casella would put Holloway through a lifting circuit full of rows and presses until fatigue set in. The fourth day was all basketball-related exercise where he would use medicine balls to mimic the fatigue of playing long minutes in the season. The final day was spent underwater, treading water as long as he could.

“He really became my 6-foot-11, 370-pound little brother because we spent so much time together,” Casella said. “Not only would we work out together and train together, we’d walk there and we’d drive there. Our relationship was able to be built through just spending time together. Once things started to get a little more serious, once coach told him what type of role he would have on the team, I started finding different ways to motivate him and try to find different ways to bring it out of him.”

On top of all the drills Casella put Holloway through, the pair would switch it up from time to time. Some days Holloway would create his own workout regiment where he dictated the workouts for the day. If Casella didn’t approve, he added to it until he felt it was difficult enough.

Other days the two would put 20 minutes on the clock and did nothing but box each other out the entire time – pushing and shoving each other until the time was done.

“My relationship with Rich is more than any player-coach (relationship),” Holloway said. “We have a bond; we have a friendship going on.”

For Holloway, accountability was the biggest component to his lifestyle change. Rather than put him on a diet, Casella forced Holloway to send him picture messages of every meal he ate, breakfast, lunch and dinner, to stay on top of what he was putting into his body.

Casella was up at 4:30 a.m. every day setting alarms when to call or text Holloway about making sure he was eating right and drinking plenty of water. On any given day in the summer, Holloway was drinking upward of two gallons of water per day – 16 pounds of pure water weight.

“I think it was super important and I really think it came down to how many times we failed before we succeeded,” Casella said of the difference between putting Holloway on a diet versus making a lifestyle change.

“That lifestyle change with him was probably the biggest difference. Once he flipped that switch and his weight became apparent to everybody else, he became insatiable, and I’m not just talking about in the kitchen, but in every other aspect in his life.”

“When people are look-

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Rashaan Holloway is expected to be UMass’ starting center in 2016-17. ing at you, like after practice when we have our team meals, people were watching me eat so of course I’m going to pick up a salad,” Holloway said. “But when I go to my room, I’m not actually eating salad, I’m not actually eating what I’m supposed to. And it took me a long time to do that. It’s even a struggle for me to do that now, but I’m just more disciplined to that.”

During the summer, Holloway missed only one workout. The next day when the team went in for a lift, Casella made him go outside in the heat of the Amherst summer with a 60-pound weighted vest on.

As the team lifted, laughed together and enjoyed themselves, Holloway was in solidarity doing burpees. The entire time.

“After that he came to me and he only said one word,” Casella said. “We brought it up, I said ‘alright Rashaan, get in here. You missed your workout, you took your medicine, it’s over, it’s squashed.’

He just said one word.”

“I just looked at him and said respect and just kept on walking,” Holloway said.

“That was when I realized I can’t do immature stuff. I can’t miss workouts just because I’m tired. I can’t just do whatever I want to do. He changed that for me.

He made me look at things different. It was almost like he made me workout without the team – like I was selfish for missing the team workout.”

Keeping it off As his sophomore season approaches, Holloway remains the key cog for the Minutemen’s success in 2016-17. In an era full of small-ball, four-guard rotations, the traditional center position has become obsolete in college basketball.

In order for Holloway to be successful, he knows it won’t be how hard he practices or how much extra time he spends in the weight room. It’s about what he eats and what he puts into his body.

To keep tabs on him, Casella makes Holloway weigh himself every day

when entering the facility – something he does for every player on the Minutemen – but for Holloway it’s different than everyone else.

“For Rashaan, it was every day for accountability,” Casella said. “Even though I think he has it intrinsically now, just that little bit to quantify what he’s actually doing on his own time is a big difference maker.”

“I know I have to do more work to make sure it is going down,” Holloway said.

“I proved that to him over time.”

Holloway’s weight-loss journey isn’t complete, nor will it ever be. It’s a 24/7 cycle that requires constant precision and dedication to ensure he’s not slipping into his old habits.

“Don’t get me wrong, it was hard,” Holloway said of the progress he’s made. “I feel like I’ve gotten to a point now where I see something that’s unhealthy, I look at it as nasty. I look at it as nasty.

“So like yeah, I might like to take a little piece of it, but that’s all I need. I look at it as disgusting – that always works for me and it’s still continuing to work for me.”

Holloway plans on playing professional basketball at a target weight of 295 after his career is done with the Minutemen. Even if it isn’t in the NBA, he hopes on playing overseas to support his family, friends and his son, Rashaan Jr. “He now views basketball as his job,” Yolanda said. “He has to work hard to do that because his son is looking up to him. He has the opportunity to prove to himself and his son that he’s the father and the man he should be. He wants to make a career out of this. He knows he has to do best for his son.”

But most importantly, he’s doing this for himself.

“I want to prove this to myself,” he said. “I just want to prove them that I can do that. I want to show everybody that I’m not an invisible person in college.”

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

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as the No. 2 recruit in Massachusetts by ESPN to choose to stay home and join UMass, was a big win for the Western Massachusetts program.

Kellogg is hoping the addition of a so-called Massachusetts guy will open the flood gates for future local recruits to stay in the area.

“I think we’re in a position now where we are a good team with some first-class facilities and a great campus.

I think people are starting to recognize that UMass is one of the top institutions in the country in a place where you don’t have to fly halfway across the country to go to college,” Kellogg said.

“We’ve been involved with some really good kids and we’re not going to get all of them, but I think it’ll be good if we can kind of hold it down a little at home base and have a good group of kids from New England.”

“This is the first time we’ve been able to get a Ty Flowers (Waterbury, Connecticut) or a Chris Baldwin really since I’ve been here and I think that’s important to show how far the program has come and where it’s heading.”

Baldwin’s decision was not based solely on the proximity to his hometown, but it certainly played into his attendance to UMass.

“Distance wasn’t really a thing for me because I’ve been in different public schools and boarding schools, so being away from home wasn’t a big factor,” Baldwin said. “I wanted my parents to see me play basketball and definitely my grandparents.”

On the court, Baldwin has impressed early on in

his time in Amherst and figures to have a pivotal role in the Minutemen’s front court alongside Rashaan Holloway, Zach Coleman and Malik Hines.

Coleman and the other big men have helped the freshman adjust to the college game.

“We’ve been teaching the younger guys about how to be patient and to know where to be on the court and get open in the offense,” Coleman said. “It’s important that we bring them along the right way because we’re going to be counting on those guys a lot this year.

They have to be ready to play and contribute.”

The redshirt junior has been impressed with Baldwin’s play in early practices.

“Chris is very, very vocal and he has a lot talent,” Coleman said. “He’s pretty raw, but he has a lot of good skills around the post and around the rim. Right now he’s in the stage where he needs to start slowing the game down.”

Kellogg knows Baldwin still has a ways to go to reach his full potential, but he thinks the young big is on the right track.

“What I like about him is that brings a lot of energy to practice. He’s verbal. He’s loud. He’s engaging and he’s ferocious on the boards,” Kellogg said. “He’s still a little tentative when we start running plays and sets that he’s not accustom to. I think when he starts being able to play without thinking so much, it’s going to really benefit him down the line.”

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

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Mulligan explained Verdi’s coaching style as much stricter than what she’s used to, but believes it is exactly what UMass needed. The 6-foot-2 forward commended the way he’s been able to pull their six healthy players together.

“Faith in ourselves,” Mulligan said in response to what she believes the team needs the most at this point in time. “As long as we believe in ourselves I think we’re going to go far.”

Verdi admitted that he’s approached this team differently than he has with others, but the kind of team he hopes to put together has not changed.

“We’re going to put a team out on the floor who’s going to be really prepared, they’re going to know their opponents, they’re going to know personnel, they’re going to know what [the other team] does offensively and defensively,” Verdi said.

He added: “We’re going to go out there and try and win every single game.”

The New Britain Sports Hall of Famer thinks the

TURNOVER you might think,” George said, citing the work she put in at practice over the summer.

The other three healthy scholarship players, Ryan Holder, Hailey Leidel and Taylor Tucker, are all freshmen.

Holder and Leidel joined McDerment, Mulligan and George as the two starters in the team’s lone exhibition game before the season officially tips off.

Leidel impressed in last Thursday’s exhibition game against UMass Dartmouth, shooting 6-14 from beyond the arc.

“Hailey Leidel, I knew her when I was at Eastern Michigan, she’s a shooter,

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most important thing his team needs is leadership.

Taking into account the fact that they’re playing a lot of young players at the moment, starting two freshmen and a sophomore who received little playing time last year, the team needs a leader.

The second thing his team needs? Toughness.

“When you face adversity you’ve got to come together, and lots of times when teams face adversity they implode,” Verdi said.

“Our players understand that we expect them to come together and be tough.”

All in all, Verdi hopes to change the expectations of this program.

“The reason why I took this job is to catapult this program into the top 25 in the country,” Verdi said with 19 years of experience supporting his statement.

“We’re going to do that.

It’s a process, but that’s our ultimate goal.”

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

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I recruited her, she chose UMass and then so did I, so we’re meant to be, but she’s special and when she gets it going, she can knock down shots for us,” Verdi said.

George best summed up the challenge facing the Minutewomen as they face the challenge of beginning the season without many of last year’s key players.

“It’s kind of intimidating, especially because they were key players, but at the same time it’s kind of motivation to step up, do what you have to,” George said.

Jamie Cushman can be reached at jrcushman@umass.edu, and on Twitter @Jamie__Cushman.

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Students protest Trump’s victory About 120 people marched in protest

By Stuart Foster Collegian Staff

at Goodell.

Hannah Burbidge, psychology major, said she came to experience an outlet for support and to begin organizing as well.

“A lot of people are saying they’re done with this election and they’re turning it off,” she said. “Most of the country doesn’t have that privilege. I have people I’m worried about that are directly effected by this.”

At this point about 120 people began to march to the lawn between the Student Union and the Campus Center, chanting “love trumps hate,” “this is what democracy looks like,” and “black lives matter.”

When the crowd reached their destination, other groups began to form to watch them, as one passerby shouted, “Trump won, get over it.”

“We’re gonna get a lot of that,” Hartman said. “We need to make sure this is peaceful. We need to unite and not make more enemies.”

Hartman also argued that although Trump won the Electoral College, a victory by Hillary Clinton in the popular vote would compromise the legitimacy of his election, and that the people who voted for her needed to go.

After returning to the Goodell lawn, Hartman told the crowd about plans organized at Temple University to march against Trump’s election, and said a similar event would occur in solidarity at Goodell on Friday at 12:30 or 1 p.m.

A crowd of around forty people gathered on Goodell Lawn quickly turned into a march of more than a hundred people protesting the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States.

Carrying paper signs reading “love trumps hate,” students gathered in a circle came to the center to talk about the next steps for organizing against Trump’s inauguration.

“My mind is a mess right now. The whole country is a mess,” said Kyle Hartman, theater major. “We are fighting for our lives and that’s what needs to be heard.”

Hartman, who said he is a gay white man, said he was “petrified” by the idea of a Trump presidency, citing running mate Mike Pence’s support for gay conversion therapy.

Ryan Frisby, BDIC major, said she came to the gathering out of a need to be around other people still processing Trump’s victory.

“I just felt really devastated and drained by this whole experience,” she said. “It’s really important to see this number of people here and realize the fight isn’t over.”

Frisby said she expected to see organization against Trump’s election begin, and Stuart Foster can be reached at stuartsaid she was happy people foster@umass.edu or followed on Twitter were still processing the result @Stuart_C_Foster.

Town of Amherst hosts vigil Wed. Residents, students stand in solidarity

By Stefan Geller Collegian Staff

Some members of the crowd were hugging and crying as volunteer speakers took turns sharing their thoughts and emotions following the presidential nomination, as well as singing songs to the group.

“I cried. It’s devastating, it’s heartbreaking for everyone I know and everyone I don’t know,” said Sidney Keise, a UMass freshman Spanish major. “This isn’t a man I want holding nuclear codes.”

“It was devastating, it’s disappointing, it’s hurtful; it’s unbelievable to me that we have such denial and such an unaware populace that they could not see that (Trump) is a sociopath.

They could not see that he lies, they could not see that he’s completely what the capitalistic system at its worst could produce,” said Gennah Copen, a resident of Amherst for 36 years. “I feel like I’m at a funeral of my own country.”

“I’m in denial right now a lot,” Cage said.

“We’re not going in a good direction anytime soon,” Shabazz said. “It’s only going downward.”

Around 150 people gathered in the Amherst Town Common for a candlelight vigil on Wednesday night, to stand in solidarity following Hillary Clinton’s defeat to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

The vigil garnered a diverse crowd of town residents, college students, professors, parents and children. “(Fear) is what I’m feeling all around,” said Dr. Amilcar Shabazz, a professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. “I feel a lot of people are feeling very afraid that this is kinda a beginning of a long process of decline.”

The vigil was organized

by Vira Douangmany Cage, a member of the Amherst School Committee, the Amherst NAACP and a University of Massachusetts alumna.

“People needed to come together and needed a time and a place and I was just there to facilitate that,” said Stefan Geller can be reached at steCage. fangeller@umass.edu.

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UMass students react to election results Many surprised with Tues. results

By Jessica Valeriani Collegian Correspondent

U n ive r s i t y of Massachusetts students expressed a range of opinions as the results from the 2016 presidential election were released.

Some students were unhappy with the outcome of Donald Trump taking the presidency.

“I am very shocked,” said Natalie Senior, a junior psychology major. “Growing up in a Democratic area, it’s hard for me to believe that half of the country

can support such a terrible, ignorant person to lead our country.”

“For me personally, as a gay male, it is somewhat terrifying due to the fact that it can really revoke some of my rights,” said Adam Celikmen, a junior kinesiology major.

“I’m honestly more scared for Pence being in office than Trump,” said Ryan Breslow, a junior communication major.

Though some UMass students considered themselves to be Republicans, many were still unable to support the victory of the Republican candidate.

Leigh Pastorella, a sopho-

more political science major and Republican, could not bring herself to support Trump.

“As a Republican, I’m truly embarrassed,” said Leigh Pastorella, a sophomore political science major.

Meghan Kelly, a junior journalism and political science major, expressed happiness toward Trump’s victory.

“I’m not surprised Trump won,” Kelley said. “A lot of people like myself have been supporting Trump over the months but were just too afraid to come forward with it.”

Students also reacted to the outcomes of Question 1

and 2. Question 2, which did not pass, would have authorize the approval of up to 12 new charter schools or enrollment expansions in existing charter schools by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education per year. Question 4, which did pass, will legalize recreational use of marijuana for people 21 and over.

Some students responded positively to the outcome of Question 2.

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Students stand for solidarity outside ILC Around 30 people listened to speakers

By Hannah Depin Collegian Staff

Demonstrators gathered near the Metawampe Lawn outside Blue Wall on Wednesday night for an impromptu rally for solidarity in response to Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election.

Speakers emphasized that the loosely structured event was meant to bring together a community of people left shocked, scared or angered in the wake of the election results, with an emphasis on featuring the voices of people of color. The mood was somber as demonstrators began to arrive, hugging each another and asking, “How are you doing?”

A crowd of approximately 30 people gathered at 7 p.m. when a series of speakers took to the Campus Center steps to address the crowd with a megaphone. Attendance roughly doubled as the event continued and as speakers shared their shock toward the

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People gathered outside the Campus Center on Wednesday night to show solidarity after the presidential election. election results.

“I’m not used to having nothing to say,” said University of Massachusetts graduate student Ro Sigle.

“We are in the thick of a collective trauma… White supremacy is yelling at the top of its lungs now.”

Sigle stressed that those hurt by the election results should try to take time to care for themselves and heal.

“The biggest ‘f*** you’ we can give white supremacy is to reach out to one another and say ‘I’ve got you,’” they added.

Others said that Trump’s ideology is not new but there is a more visible display of the oppression minorities have endured for centuries.

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London: ve dead, 50 injured in tram derailment

By Bill Smith DPA

LONDON — Five people have died and more than 50 were injured after a tram derailed and overturned early Wednesday in a “major incident” in south London’s Croydon area, police said.

“At present, we can confirm five people have, sadly, died following this incident,” British Transport Police said in a statement.

“More than 50 others have been taken to hospital with injuries,” it said, adding that police and accident specialists were investigating the cause of the derailment.

“One person has been arrested in connection with the incident and is currently in police custody,” the statement said.

Unconfirmed British media reports said the person arrested was the tram driver.

Emergency services were called to the Sandlands tram stop in Croydon just after 6 a.m. and worked for more than five hours to free several trapped people.

Andy Roe, the deputy assistant commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, said firefighters had released a number of people and were now “working with Transport for London (TfL) and British Transport Police to lift the tram carriage from the line.”

“My thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of those who have lost their lives today and everyone involved in this tragic incident,” said Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London.

“I am in contact with the emergency services and TfL, who are working extremely hard under very difficult circumstances to get the situation under control and treat those who have been injured,” Khan said.

Peter McKenna, deputy director of operations for the London Ambulance Service, said paramedics had treated “a number of patients at the scene, mainly for minor injuries such as cuts and bruises,” and taken 51 people to two nearby London hospitals.

Several of the casualties “suffered serious injuries,” McKenna said.

“We remain on scene, supporting our emergency service colleagues as they deal with this incident,” he said mid-afternoon.

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QUOTE OF T H E D AY “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”

Barack Obama.

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Greek life to hold fundraiser Kappa Sigma to host ‘Grill for Bill’

By Hayley Johnson Collegian Staff

Members of the University of Massachusetts’ Greek life are hosting a fundraiser event on Saturday, Nov. 12 in Kappa Sigma house on 778 North Pleasant St. to help raise money for a 10-year-old boy in need of a kidney transplant.

The fundraiser, “Grill for Bill,” is for Bill Chu, an Amherst resident, who was diagnosed in April with IgA nephropathy, a kidney disease.

Members of Kappa Sigma and other Greek life groups are planning to assist and hope for a large turnout.

Some of the Greek life organizations include Kappa Sigma, Phi Sigma Kappa, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Sigma Phi, Sigma Sigma Sigma, Pi Kappa Phi and Kappa Kappa Gamma.

“We found out about Bill and his situation a few weeks ago when our neighbors hosted a pancake breakfast for him,” said Cameron Callahan, a sophomore mechanical engineering major and public relations

chair of Kappa Sigma. “We spoke with our neighbors at their event about how they were hoping the pancake breakfast would be a startup for more events to come and we said we would be very willing to put together an event to help Bill and his family out.”

Chu is a fourth grader at Wildwood Elementary. His father, Tu Chu, works fulltime in auxiliary services at UMass. His mother, Han Chu volunteers at the Amherst Survival Center.

“Since he is our neighbor, our members took a very large interest in helping him and his family and we are really hoping we can raise awareness about his situation,” Callahan said. “We can make a difference in our community and we want Bill to know that we, as a community, care about him.”

Around 15 local businesses made donations to the fundraiser. Some of the businesses include Antonio’s Pizza, Insomnia Cookies, Hebert Candies, Taco Bell, Friendly’s and Johnny’s Roadside Diner. Most donations have been made in the form of gift cards along with a gift basket from Hebert Candies, according to Callahan.

With a five dollar donation, unlimited food will be provided. The event will also feature raffles. All proceeds raised are going to Chu’s cause.

Over $15,000 have been raised for Chu, according to the webpage set up through COTA, Children’s Organ Transplant Association, though the kidney transplant surgery costs are estimated at around $50,000.

“The (Children’s Organ Transplant Association) for Bill volunteer team is thrilled with the outpouring of support from the Greek community. The sorority sisters and fraternity brothers at Lambda Phi Epsilon, Kappa Sigma and Kappa Phi Lambda have been very generous with their time in planning fundraising events in honor of Bill,” said Karen Harrington, neighbor and friend of the Chu family.

“The Chu family is deeply appreciative of the kindness shown by the Greek community.”

Harrington has been involved with coordinating some of the fundraising events to help with the costs of Bill’s surgery.

Hayley Johnson can be reached at hkjohnson@umass.edu.

Trump: states should legalize

By Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama don’t agree on much, but they do have one thing in common: Both say that marijuana legalization should be left to the states.

“In terms of marijuana and legalization, I think that should be a state issue, state by state,” Trump said at a campaign event in Nevada last year.

But many pot backers worry that Trump is unpredictable and could easily change his mind, particularly if he appoints a legalization opponent such as New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie or Republican former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as his attorney general.

As a result, legalization supporters say they’ll be ready to apply pressure to make sure Trump keeps his word when he moves to the White House on Jan. 20.

“Reversing course and going against the tide of history would present huge political problems that the new administration does not need,” said Tom Angell, chairman of the pro-legalization group Marijuana Majority.

Along with Trump, pot emerged as the big winner Tuesday. Voters doubled the number of states that allow recreational use of marijuana, with California, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine joining the list that already comprised Washington, Colorado, Alaska and Oregon.

At the same time, voters in Florida, North Dakota and Arkansas approved marijuana for medical use, while Montana residents voted to loosen restrictions on the state’s medical marijuana laws. They’ll be added to the list of 25 states that had voted earlier to allow using pot for medical reasons.

Legalization supporters lost in only one state, Arizona, where voters rejected a plan to tax and sell marijuana to adults.

Winning “eight out of nine is a shocking track record of success,” said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, another pro-legal-

ization group. Kampia was especially pleased with the outcome in Nevada, saying “the third time was a charm” after voters had rejected legalization in 2002 and 2006.

Oregon Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer, one of the top backers of legalization in Congress, said that millions of Americans who backed Trump also supported ending the federal ban on marijuana.

He said the new administration “is going to inherit a landscape unlike any in our history” and predicted that Trump will not interfere with states. He said the new president would have difficulty trying to intervene anyway, with polls showing a strong majority of Americans favor ending federal prohibition of the drug.

“Even if we didn’t have signals from Donald Trump, the fact is that this is where the public has moved,” said Blumenauer, who first promoted legalization as a member of the Oregon Legislature in 1973. “It’s not been the politicians who’ve led on this.”

Kevin Sabet, president of the anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, called the election results disappointing but “not wholly unsurprising” since legalization backers had spent more money than opponents.

“We will redouble our efforts with this new Congress,” Sabet said.

Former Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island, an adviser to Smart Approaches to Marijuana, blamed the defeats on “big marijuana and their millions of out-of-state dollars.”

“We will continue to hold this industry accountable and raise the serious public health and safety issues that will certainly come in the wake of legalization,” Kennedy said.

During the presidential campaign, Trump and Hillary Clinton showed few differences in their positions on marijuana. Both said they had never smoked pot, and both promised to allow states to move forward with legalization as they see fit.

But there was one big difference: Clinton wanted to remove marijuana from the federal government’s Schedule 1 list of the government’s most dangerous drugs, which includes heroin and LSD. That’s something that no U.S. president has ever suggested, and Trump has made no similar proposal.

Trump’s track record remains a worry for many legalization supporters.

In 1990, he called for legalizing all drugs, a position he no longer holds.

And while Trump said many times during the campaign that legalization should be left up to states, he also told a conservative gathering last year that Colorado had experienced “big problems” by legalizing pot: “I think it’s bad and I feel strongly about that.”

Legalization backers are particularly worried about the president-elect’s close allies.

That includes Christie, who is leading Trump’s transition team. During his own presidential bid, Christie pledged to enforce all federal marijuana laws.

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REACTIONS and money needs to be put toward improving the public school system too,” Senior said.

“Instead of adding more funding to public schools, you would be taking away from them,” Celikmen said.

“I understand people in certain areas wouldn’t want to attend a public school but it isn’t a solution to the problem.”

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great thing for our government,” said Victoria Knipe, a junior resource economics major.

Some students disagreed to the approval of Question 4.

“We don’t know the effects it has on brain development yet,” Pastorella said.

“There needs to be regulation.”

“I think it should just stay medical,” said Emily Thompson, a senior public health sciences major. “It’s a way for people to just stay under the influence and not contribute as a member to society.”

Jessica Valeriani can be reached at jvaleriani@umass.edu.

SOLIDARITY Andrew Torres condemned the “vicious cycle of hate and anger” in a poem he performed before the crowd.

In the poem, he said oppression has culminated into a “utopia of catatonia” where “domination is the end game.”

Many expressed a sense of exhaustion with these same cycles of oppression.

“My ass is tired of surviving and f ****** seeing my brothers and sisters fall,” said Mount Holyoke College sophomore Imara White in her address to the crowd.

“Just because we get one Obama, it doesn’t mean the system is working for us. It never was.”

Others delivered more hopeful calls to action, like an audience member who implored, “Ask yourselves what concrete actions you’re going to be able to take once these feelings subside.”

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their email addresses to stay connected with other activists.

“People are going to be emboldened to harass, emboldened to bully,” said UMass grad student Devika Dutt, who attended the event. “But there’s a lot we can do at the community level.”

Ray Sharick, interim graduate program director and lecturer in the College of Education, attended the event in order to maintain that sense of community.

“For me, it’s making sure I stay together,” Sharick said. “Together with people who want to take action.”

“There’s strength in numbers,” said Carol Sharick, director of career and professional development in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

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

Trump victory sets off school walkouts

By Joseph Serna, Matt Hamilton and James Queally Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Protests of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election took place across California on Wednesday, with students at several Bay Area high schools walking out in the middle of class and a throng of young demonstrators taking to the steps of Los Angeles’ City Hall.

The demonstrations _ which mirrored protests from Seattle to Pittsburgh _ followed protests in the predawn hours in which crowds openly disavowed the president-elect, with a few resorting to vandalism.

At Berkeley High School, about 1,500 students _ half the entire student body _ walked out of class after first period began at 8 a.m., Berkeley Unified School District officials said.

Students tweeted “#NotMyPresident” and pledged to unify. Others chanted, “Si, se puede,” Spanish for “Yes, we can,” and waved Mexican flags, according to posts on social media.

“It’s not the first time we’ve had a walkout. We know what to expect, we know what we need to do,” said Berkeley Unified spokesman Charles Burress.

School and district administrators and faculty accompanied the students as they marched from the school through downtown and onto the University of California, Berkeley campus.

“Our primary concern is to make sure they are safe during the school day,” Burress said.

District officials were not making any plans to discipline students, he said.

In Contra Costa County, El Cerrito police cautioned drivers to look out for high school students in the road.

“Students from high schools in west Contra Costa County are conducting walkouts today in various locations over election results,” the department said in a statement. “We urge drivers to use caution if you happen upon any of these groups.”

Similar demonstrations erupted across the nation.

In Oregon, hundreds of protesters blocked traffic in downtown Portland, some burning flags.

Demonstrators in Seattle blocked traffic and ignited a trash bin.

Late Wednesday, antiTrump demonstrations were underway in Boston, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. Many carried signs that repeated a popular phrase from Hillary Clinton’s campaign: “Love trumps hate.”

Earlier in the day, after Trump delivered his victory speech in New York, an estimated 2,000 people rallied at the University of California, Los Angeles, where two separate demonstrations merged into one, said UCLA police Sgt. Miguel Banuelos.

The group marched from the campus through Westwood Village to a federal building on Wilshire Boulevard, Banuelos said.

There were no arrests. About 1 a.m., a Trump pinata was set on fire in a trash can outside a Westwood Boulevard store.

N.J. Omorogieva, 19, said she was heartbroken by the election’s result when she spotted the crowd in Westwood

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The world reacts to Trump’s victory

By Laura King Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s election was greeted around the world Wednesday with widespread expressions of consternation - and no small amount of glee in some quarters - as global leaders scrambled to assuage the shock of his victory in the U.S. presidential election.

Amid a popular explosion of derision and dismay across social media networks, key U.S. allies hurriedly sought to calm plunging financial markets and lay the groundwork for a working relationship with a divisive figure whose leadership many feared would usher in a prolonged era of unpredictability and instability.

The left-leaning French daily Liberation greeted the news with a one-word coinage often echoed elsewhere: “Trumpocalypse.”

The Times of India, that country’s largest newspaper, offered congratulations to the president-elect, paired with a sly use of ellipses to refer to one of Trump’s bestknown vulgarities. “Donald Trump grabs America by the ...” it tweeted.

Confronted with the reality of the world’s most powerful office soon set to pass into the hands of a man who has vowed to tear up trade deals, fence out immigrants and reconfigure global partnerships of decades’ standing, some leaders who had expressed deep misgivings about his candidacy weighed in with congratulatory statements that carried an undertone of teeth-gritting.

Others firmly put pragmatism first, stressing the importance of continuity and calm. Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, who came to power after her own country’s stunning vote in June to exit the European Union, voiced support for continued close ties.

“We are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defense,” May said in a statement.

Trump’s often-stated admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ties to Russia became a campaign issue, particularly when he called on Russia to hack his Democratic opponent’s email. Putin issued a statement Wednesday congratulating Trump and saying he hoped for “cooperating in ending a crisis in RussianAmerican relations,” said the message, which was posted on the Kremlin’s website.

In Germany, where polls had consistently showed

more than 80 percent hoped for a Hillary Clinton win, there was a sense of profound shock. Germany, still shadowed by its own militaristic 20th century past, considers itself to be one of closest U.S. allies.

Opposition to Trump was strong even in his grandfather’s home town of Kallstadt, a rural winegrowing town near the Rhine River. Clinton, who visited Germany numerous times as first lady, a senator, and secretary of state, was extremely popular in Germany.

“Whoever rules this great country with its gigantic economic strength, and its military potential, and its ability to influence cultural issues carries the weight of responsibility that can be felt by almost everyone around the world,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who also noted that the campaign was marked by “at times confrontations that were difficult to accept.”

Merkel had been the target of criticism from Trump from time to time for letting more than 1 million refugees into Germany from Syria, Afghanistan and northern Africa over the last 15 months. She added that American voters had decided that it was Trump who should carry that responsibility. “On the basis of these values, I’d like to extend the offer of close cooperation to the United States,” she said.

For some who watched from afar - especially those already disillusioned by aspects of U.S. foreign policy - the vote offered bitter confirmation that often-stated U.S. ideals were little more than empty words.

“Trump is the true face of the United States without makeup,” Mahmoud Bitar, a Syrian pro-opposition aid worker who lives in Turkey, wrote on Facebook.

“We have a saying: A white dog and a black dog...

Either way, they’re just dogs,” said Nihad Ashqar, a 63-year old retiree sipping coffee in the Old City of Damascus, the Syrian capital.

Some far-right political figures, particularly in countries that have been buffeted by a wave of migrants fleeing war and poverty, reacted with expressions of satisfaction, raising the prospect that Trump’s triumph will embolden homegrown nationalists elsewhere.

“Today the United States, tomorrow France!” tweeted Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s farright National Front and the father of its current leader Marine Le Pen, a presidential aspirant.

With Trump having threatened to scrap one of President Barack Obama’s signature achievements, the historic nuclear accord with Iran, that country’s foreign minister said the new U.S. leader must respect previous commitments.

In China, often a target of Trump’s harsh campaign rhetoric, millions tracked the vote online. By Wednesday afternoon, the election topped the trending list on Weibo, the country’s most popular microblog, with more than 1.17 billion views.

Some posts fretted about Trump’s victory - “the world will not be in peace,” wrote one - while others chided the fallibility of democracy. “We don’t have to go through all the trouble,” wrote one user.

“Lucky.”

Asian stock markets plummeted as Trump closed in on victory. Japan’s Nikkei index plunged more than 5 percent Wednesday and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 2.2 percent.

Trump spent much of his campaign bashing China.

He accused the Communist country of “raping” the U.S., manipulating its currency, and stealing jobs from American workers. He also vowed to yank the U.S. out of the Paris climate change deal, an agreement the two countries point to as a sign of shared goals.

But Chinese tend to take a pragmatic approach to U.S. elections, and often disregard slights made during the presidential campaign.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang on Wednesday said the country would work with the new U.S. president to ensure “steady and sound” ties.

Yin Hao, a Ph.D. engineering student at Guangzhou’s South China University of Technology, tried his best to sound hopeful.

Former President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama “both attacked China before they got elected,” said Yin, who has translated campaign speeches into Chinese since the primaries and posted them online. “Afterward, cooperation between the two countries got closer and trade relations increased.

So maybe Trump will turn back to his business side.”

The news resonated in far-flung hot spots, including the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, a scant 50 miles from the battle to retake Mosul from the militants of Islamic State.

“Trump is going to be tough with terrorists,” said Omar Omar, a Syrian refugee who said his wife in Michigan voted for the Republican. Standing on

a street corner in Irbil’s busy Ainkawa neighborhood Wednesday, Omar said he wasn’t bothered by Trump’s hard-line stance on immigration, Muslims and Syrian refugees.

But Hoshank Adnan, watching the returns at the Irbil Samsung store where he works as service manager, was disappointed. He wanted Clinton to win, citing her longtime experience in world affairs.

“We’re worried,” he said of Trump. “Because he doesn’t have any information about politics.”

In Israel, the rightist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered congratulations, with a message on the prime minister’s official Twitter feed hailing Trump as a “true friend of Israel.” Netanyahu’s tenure has been marked by friction and policy disputes with Obama. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat sent a letter of congratulations, appending a handwritten “Mazal Tov, Mr. President!”

Israeli leftists, though, were worried, saying that Trump’s polarizing style reminded them of Netanyahu himself. “I’m in shock, like after Bibi was elected,” said Yuval Shemesh, a 45-year-old software startup executive, using Netanyahu’s nickname. “It’s a feeling of fear, uncertainty and extremism.

I expect more militancy and less reconciliation.”

In contrast to the warm congratulations from Israeli officials, the reaction from Palestinian officials struck a chillier tone. “We will deal with any president elected by the American people on the principle of achieving permanent peace in the Middle East passed on the two-state solution, Nabil Abu Rudeinah, spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said in a statement.

In the Gaza Strip, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said expectations for the election were low to start.

“The Palestinian people do not count too much on any change in the American presidency, because the U.S. policy toward the Palestinian issue is a consistent policy and based on the bias for Israel.”

In Africa, where Obama’s family roots had been a source of pride, many reacted with shock. In April 2015, Trump referred to South Africa on Twitter as a “total – and very dangerous – mess.”

South Africa President Jacob Zuma congratulated Trump on Wednesday, saying he hoped South Africa could further strengthen its relationship with the U.S.

Protesters block Trump Tower Chicago

By Stacy St. Clair and Nereida Moreno Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Thousands of protesters angry over Donald Trump’s election victory massed outside Trump Tower in Chicago on Wednesday evening before taking to downtown streets in an angry show of opposition to the presidentelect.

Just before 8 p.m., one of several groups of demonstrators made its way to Lake Shore Drive at Jackson Drive and blocked traffic, marching north.

“No Trump, No KKK, No Fascists USA” and “Not my president!” were among chants shouted by the crowd earlier.

Chicago resident Audrey Lava, who is eight months pregnant, wiped away tears as she joined the protest outside the tower.

“I wanted to show my solidarity with people who are

suffering,” Lava said. “And I wanted to show the rest of the world that not everyone in this country supports a fascist.”

The protesters at one point filled all six lanes of North Michigan Avenue. Along the way they received both honks of support from motorists and angry responses from Trump supporters.

“Build the Wall!” one Trump backer yelled at the crowd, referring to the former reality TV star’s promise to build a wall on the Mexican border.

Michael Burke, a resident of Chicago’s Edgewater section, said he believes the president-elect will “divide the country and stir up hatred.”

“I think it’s our constitutional duty to not to go quietly and accept that,” he said. “The tower signifies everything that is ugly and boastful about this hateful man.”

Kathryn Schaffer brought her 3-year-old daughter, Clara, to protest at Trump Tower.

“She’s a little too young to understand all of this, but I don’t know how I’m going to explain that the president of our country can say the things that he says,” she said.

Schaffer said she stayed up all night after hearing the news that Trump had won.

She said the president-elect is not a good role model for her daughter.

“The president is supposed to be a role model for children and somebody that they look up to. I feel like if I stand by my values, I can’t be quiet for the next four years. I have to be a role model if our president won’t be,” Schaffer said.

Early on, about a half-dozen Trump supporters were allowed to stand in front of Trump Tower, while protesters were corralled across the street. Anthony Moreira, of Berwyn, waved an American flag and shouted at the antiTrump protesters to accept the results and go home.

“You’re weak,” he yelled.

“That’s why you lost.”

He said the protesters’ grievances were baseless.

“Trump isn’t a bigot,” he said. “If you look behind the back doors you’ll see blacks, Hispanics, Muslims and all kinds of people working for him.”

Police kept close tabs on the protest. Some officers did little to hide their disdain for the protesters. One wore a large “Trump” button on his hat, while others traded taunts with the protesters.

“You know this is why Trump won,” Officer Jason Lenski said after one protester asked where his KKK hood was. “Because people are sick of liberals.”

The pro-Trump crowd also included Birgitt Peterson, who gained brief notoriety during the campaign when a Chicago Tribune photographer captured her giving a Nazi-like salute as she exited an aborted Trump rally in Chicago.

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MARIJUANA Trump is also close to billionaire Sheldon Adelson, one of the nation’s top Republican donors, who spent millions opposing medical marijuana in Florida.

In June, Mark Kleiman, who served as Washington state’s top pot consultant after voters legalized the drug in 2012, said it would be very easy for Trump to get rid of the nation’s marijuana shops, just by enforcing the federal law that makes selling marijuana a federal offense.

“Look, a President Trump could shut down the legal cannabis industry everywhere in the country with the stroke of a pen,” said Kleiman, who is now a professor of public policy at New York University’s Marron Institute of Urban Management. “All you have to do is take a list of the state-licensed cannabis growers and sellers into federal district court and say, ‘Your Honor, here are the people who have applied for and been given licenses to commit federal felonies.’“ When the new Congress

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while walking home.

“Of course, I joined in,” she said. “To give hugs to people who were overcome by devastation.”

In downtown L.A., a crowd gathered near City Hall and property was defaced, including a fence scrawled with graffiti insulting Trump. About 2 p.m. Wednesday, a crowd of at least 100 young demonstrators flocked to the steps of City Hall.

About 200 people demonstrated near California State, L.A., and 50 more were at Pershing Square, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Norma Eisenman.

There were no arrests.

The mood was more buoyant at the president-elect’s star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, where a small crowd of about 30 Trump supporters gathered early Wednesday to celebrate his upset victory.

Diane Mendez, 23, a Trump supporter who volunteered at a polling place, said she came to celebrate what she saw as a turning point.

“He said he would bring jobs back to America. We all need jobs,” Mendez said.

“Who doesn’t need jobs?”

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convenes in January, Blumenauer said, the next battle will focus on passing new laws to let marijuana businesses fully deduct their business expenses and open checking accounts, allowing them to end their all-cash practices.

“It’s an invitation for money laundering for tax evasion, or for theft,” he said. “This is one that’s going to be solved.”

Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a trade group, said Congress needed to help an industry that was growing quickly and was expected to have a market value of nearly $22 billion by 2020.

After Tuesday’s votes, he noted that more than 60 percent of Americans will now live in states that have approved either medical or recreational marijuana, or both.

“Last night’s results send a simple message: The tipping point has come,” Smith said.

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tainers and tires, police said.

Small fires also prompted the closure of a Bay Area Rapid Transit station.

The crowd broke windows on five businesses and further vandalized another, said Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson. One citation was issued, but no one was arrested, she said.

Protesters also burned Trump in effigy, KNTV reported.

Protests in the Bay Area city were centered downtown and there was a march along Highway 24, where a woman was struck by an SUV. She was taken to a hospital with “major injuries,” California Highway Patrol Sgt. Matt Langford told The San Francisco Chronicle.

At the University of California, Santa Barbara, hundreds marched near the campus, with some chanting, “Not my president.”

One person carried a Mexican flag, according to video posted by the student newspaper, the Daily Nexus.

About 500 students marched through the La Jolla campus of the University of California, San Diego, protesting Trump’s win and chanting his name with an expletive.

Clinton concedes after election loss

By Evan Halper Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton never took the stage on election night at the Javits Center in New York, where she planned to declare its giant glass ceiling had been symbolically shattered. Instead, hours later she stood solemnly alongside Bill Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine at a nearby hotel, where she privately conceded the election.

On Wednesday morning, she offered some words of inspiration to the millions who supported her.

“I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him,” Clinton said. “I hope he will be a successful president for all Americans.”

Clinton expressed pride in the campaign she ran but acknowledged the difficulty of the moment.

“I know how disappointed you feel, because I feel it to,” she said. “This is painful, and it will be for a long time. ... We have seen our nation is more divided than we thought.

“We must accept this result and look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.”

In a ballroom filled with campaign staffers, donors and close friends, she rallied her supporters not to despair, calling on them to fight for the constitutional values “we respect and cherish,” including freedom of expression and freedom of religion. The comments came following a divisive race that was overshadowed

by Trump’s incendiary comments about women, Mexican immigrants and Muslims.

“We believe the American dream is big enough for everyone,” Clinton said. “For people of all races and religions, for men and women, for immigrants, for LGBT people and people with disabilities. For everyone. Our responsibility as citizens is to keep doing our part to build that better, stronger, fairer America.”

“This loss hurts,” Clinton said. “But please, never stop believing that fighting for what’s right is worth it.”

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London: ve dead, 50 injured in tram derailment

By Bill Smith DPA

LONDON — Five people have died and more than 50 were injured after a tram derailed and overturned early Wednesday in a “major incident” in south London’s Croydon area, police said.

“At present, we can confirm five people have, sadly, died following this incident,” British Transport Police said in a statement.

“More than 50 others have been taken to hospital with injuries,” it said, adding that police and accident specialists were investigating the cause of the derailment.

“One person has been arrested in connection with the incident and is currently in police custody,” the statement said.

Unconfirmed British media reports said the person arrested was the tram driver.

Emergency services were called to the Sandlands tram stop in Croydon just after 6 a.m. and worked for more than five hours to free several trapped people.

Andy Roe, the deputy assistant commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, said firefighters had released a number of people and were now “working with Transport for London (TfL) and British Transport Police to lift the tram carriage from the line.”

“My thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of those who have lost their lives today and everyone involved in this tragic incident,” said Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London.

“I am in contact with the emergency services and TfL, who are working extremely hard under very difficult circumstances to get the situation under control and treat those who have been injured,” Khan said.

Peter McKenna, deputy director of operations for the London Ambulance Service, said paramedics had treated “a number of patients at the scene, mainly for minor injuries such as cuts and bruises,” and taken 51 people to two nearby London hospitals.

Several of the casualties “suffered serious injuries,” McKenna said.

“We remain on scene, supporting our emergency service colleagues as they deal with this incident,” he said mid-afternoon.

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Greek life to hold fundraiser Kappa Sigma to host ‘Grill for Bill’

By Hayley Johnson Collegian Staff

Members of the University of Massachusetts’ Greek life are hosting a fundraiser event on Saturday, Nov. 12 in Kappa Sigma house on 778 North Pleasant St. to help raise money for a 10-year-old boy in need of a kidney transplant.

The fundraiser, “Grill for Bill,” is for Bill Chu, an Amherst resident, who was diagnosed in April with IgA nephropathy, a kidney disease.

Members of Kappa Sigma and other Greek life groups are planning to assist and hope for a large turnout.

Some of the Greek life organizations include Kappa Sigma, Phi Sigma Kappa, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Sigma Phi, Sigma Sigma Sigma, Pi Kappa Phi and Kappa Kappa Gamma.

“We found out about Bill and his situation a few weeks ago when our neighbors hosted a pancake breakfast for him,” said Cameron Callahan, a sophomore mechanical engineering major and public relations

chair of Kappa Sigma. “We spoke with our neighbors at their event about how they were hoping the pancake breakfast would be a startup for more events to come and we said we would be very willing to put together an event to help Bill and his family out.”

Chu is a fourth grader at Wildwood Elementary. His father, Tu Chu, works fulltime in auxiliary services at UMass. His mother, Han Chu volunteers at the Amherst Survival Center.

“Since he is our neighbor, our members took a very large interest in helping him and his family and we are really hoping we can raise awareness about his situation,” Callahan said. “We can make a difference in our community and we want Bill to know that we, as a community, care about him.”

Around 15 local businesses made donations to the fundraiser. Some of the businesses include Antonio’s Pizza, Insomnia Cookies, Hebert Candies, Taco Bell, Friendly’s and Johnny’s Roadside Diner. Most donations have been made in the form of gift cards along with a gift basket from Hebert Candies, according to Callahan.

With a five dollar donation, unlimited food will be provided. The event will also feature raffles. All proceeds raised are going to Chu’s cause.

Over $15,000 have been raised for Chu, according to the webpage set up through COTA, Children’s Organ Transplant Association, though the kidney transplant surgery costs are estimated at around $50,000.

“The (Children’s Organ Transplant Association) for Bill volunteer team is thrilled with the outpouring of support from the Greek community. The sorority sisters and fraternity brothers at Lambda Phi Epsilon, Kappa Sigma and Kappa Phi Lambda have been very generous with their time in planning fundraising events in honor of Bill,” said Karen Harrington, neighbor and friend of the Chu family.

“The Chu family is deeply appreciative of the kindness shown by the Greek community.”

Harrington has been involved with coordinating some of the fundraising events to help with the costs of Bill’s surgery.

Hayley Johnson can be reached at hkjohnson@umass.edu.

Trump: states should legalize

By Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama don’t agree on much, but they do have one thing in common: Both say that marijuana legalization should be left to the states.

“In terms of marijuana and legalization, I think that should be a state issue, state by state,” Trump said at a campaign event in Nevada last year.

But many pot backers worry that Trump is unpredictable and could easily change his mind, particularly if he appoints a legalization opponent such as New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie or Republican former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as his attorney general.

As a result, legalization supporters say they’ll be ready to apply pressure to make sure Trump keeps his word when he moves to the White House on Jan. 20.

“Reversing course and going against the tide of history would present huge political problems that the new administration does not need,” said Tom Angell, chairman of the pro-legalization group Marijuana Majority.

Along with Trump, pot emerged as the big winner Tuesday. Voters doubled the number of states that allow recreational use of marijuana, with California, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine joining the list that already comprised Washington, Colorado, Alaska and Oregon.

At the same time, voters in Florida, North Dakota and Arkansas approved marijuana for medical use, while Montana residents voted to loosen restrictions on the state’s medical marijuana laws. They’ll be added to the list of 25 states that had voted earlier to allow using pot for medical reasons.

Legalization supporters lost in only one state, Arizona, where voters rejected a plan to tax and sell marijuana to adults.

Winning “eight out of nine is a shocking track record of success,” said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, another pro-legal-

ization group. Kampia was especially pleased with the outcome in Nevada, saying “the third time was a charm” after voters had rejected legalization in 2002 and 2006.

Oregon Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer, one of the top backers of legalization in Congress, said that millions of Americans who backed Trump also supported ending the federal ban on marijuana.

He said the new administration “is going to inherit a landscape unlike any in our history” and predicted that Trump will not interfere with states. He said the new president would have difficulty trying to intervene anyway, with polls showing a strong majority of Americans favor ending federal prohibition of the drug.

“Even if we didn’t have signals from Donald Trump, the fact is that this is where the public has moved,” said Blumenauer, who first promoted legalization as a member of the Oregon Legislature in 1973. “It’s not been the politicians who’ve led on this.”

Kevin Sabet, president of the anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, called the election results disappointing but “not wholly unsurprising” since legalization backers had spent more money than opponents.

“We will redouble our efforts with this new Congress,” Sabet said.

Former Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island, an adviser to Smart Approaches to Marijuana, blamed the defeats on “big marijuana and their millions of out-of-state dollars.”

“We will continue to hold this industry accountable and raise the serious public health and safety issues that will certainly come in the wake of legalization,” Kennedy said.

During the presidential campaign, Trump and Hillary Clinton showed few differences in their positions on marijuana. Both said they had never smoked pot, and both promised to allow states to move forward with legalization as they see fit.

But there was one big difference: Clinton wanted to remove marijuana from the federal government’s Schedule 1 list of the government’s most dangerous drugs, which includes heroin and LSD. That’s something that no U.S. president has ever suggested, and Trump has made no similar proposal.

Trump’s track record remains a worry for many legalization supporters.

In 1990, he called for legalizing all drugs, a position he no longer holds.

And while Trump said many times during the campaign that legalization should be left up to states, he also told a conservative gathering last year that Colorado had experienced “big problems” by legalizing pot: “I think it’s bad and I feel strongly about that.”

Legalization backers are particularly worried about the president-elect’s close allies.

That includes Christie, who is leading Trump’s transition team. During his own presidential bid, Christie pledged to enforce all federal marijuana laws.

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REACTIONS and money needs to be put toward improving the public school system too,” Senior said.

“Instead of adding more funding to public schools, you would be taking away from them,” Celikmen said.

“I understand people in certain areas wouldn’t want to attend a public school but it isn’t a solution to the problem.”

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great thing for our government,” said Victoria Knipe, a junior resource economics major.

Some students disagreed to the approval of Question 4.

“We don’t know the effects it has on brain development yet,” Pastorella said.

“There needs to be regulation.”

“I think it should just stay medical,” said Emily Thompson, a senior public health sciences major. “It’s a way for people to just stay under the influence and not contribute as a member to society.”

Jessica Valeriani can be reached at jvaleriani@umass.edu.

SOLIDARITY Andrew Torres condemned the “vicious cycle of hate and anger” in a poem he performed before the crowd.

In the poem, he said oppression has culminated into a “utopia of catatonia” where “domination is the end game.”

Many expressed a sense of exhaustion with these same cycles of oppression.

“My ass is tired of surviving and f ****** seeing my brothers and sisters fall,” said Mount Holyoke College sophomore Imara White in her address to the crowd.

“Just because we get one Obama, it doesn’t mean the system is working for us. It never was.”

Others delivered more hopeful calls to action, like an audience member who implored, “Ask yourselves what concrete actions you’re going to be able to take once these feelings subside.”

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their email addresses to stay connected with other activists.

“People are going to be emboldened to harass, emboldened to bully,” said UMass grad student Devika Dutt, who attended the event. “But there’s a lot we can do at the community level.”

Ray Sharick, interim graduate program director and lecturer in the College of Education, attended the event in order to maintain that sense of community.

“For me, it’s making sure I stay together,” Sharick said. “Together with people who want to take action.”

“There’s strength in numbers,” said Carol Sharick, director of career and professional development in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

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

Trump victory sets off school walkouts

By Joseph Serna, Matt Hamilton and James Queally Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Protests of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election took place across California on Wednesday, with students at several Bay Area high schools walking out in the middle of class and a throng of young demonstrators taking to the steps of Los Angeles’ City Hall.

The demonstrations _ which mirrored protests from Seattle to Pittsburgh _ followed protests in the predawn hours in which crowds openly disavowed the president-elect, with a few resorting to vandalism.

At Berkeley High School, about 1,500 students _ half the entire student body _ walked out of class after first period began at 8 a.m., Berkeley Unified School District officials said.

Students tweeted “#NotMyPresident” and pledged to unify. Others chanted, “Si, se puede,” Spanish for “Yes, we can,” and waved Mexican flags, according to posts on social media.

“It’s not the first time we’ve had a walkout. We know what to expect, we know what we need to do,” said Berkeley Unified spokesman Charles Burress.

School and district administrators and faculty accompanied the students as they marched from the school through downtown and onto the University of California, Berkeley campus.

“Our primary concern is to make sure they are safe during the school day,” Burress said.

District officials were not making any plans to discipline students, he said.

In Contra Costa County, El Cerrito police cautioned drivers to look out for high school students in the road.

“Students from high schools in west Contra Costa County are conducting walkouts today in various locations over election results,” the department said in a statement. “We urge drivers to use caution if you happen upon any of these groups.”

Similar demonstrations erupted across the nation.

In Oregon, hundreds of protesters blocked traffic in downtown Portland, some burning flags.

Demonstrators in Seattle blocked traffic and ignited a trash bin.

Late Wednesday, antiTrump demonstrations were underway in Boston, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. Many carried signs that repeated a popular phrase from Hillary Clinton’s campaign: “Love trumps hate.”

Earlier in the day, after Trump delivered his victory speech in New York, an estimated 2,000 people rallied at the University of California, Los Angeles, where two separate demonstrations merged into one, said UCLA police Sgt. Miguel Banuelos.

The group marched from the campus through Westwood Village to a federal building on Wilshire Boulevard, Banuelos said.

There were no arrests. About 1 a.m., a Trump pinata was set on fire in a trash can outside a Westwood Boulevard store.

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The world reacts to Trump’s victory

By Laura King Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s election was greeted around the world Wednesday with widespread expressions of consternation - and no small amount of glee in some quarters - as global leaders scrambled to assuage the shock of his victory in the U.S. presidential election.

Amid a popular explosion of derision and dismay across social media networks, key U.S. allies hurriedly sought to calm plunging financial markets and lay the groundwork for a working relationship with a divisive figure whose leadership many feared would usher in a prolonged era of unpredictability and instability.

The left-leaning French daily Liberation greeted the news with a one-word coinage often echoed elsewhere: “Trumpocalypse.”

The Times of India, that country’s largest newspaper, offered congratulations to the president-elect, paired with a sly use of ellipses to refer to one of Trump’s bestknown vulgarities. “Donald Trump grabs America by the ...” it tweeted.

Confronted with the reality of the world’s most powerful office soon set to pass into the hands of a man who has vowed to tear up trade deals, fence out immigrants and reconfigure global partnerships of decades’ standing, some leaders who had expressed deep misgivings about his candidacy weighed in with congratulatory statements that carried an undertone of teeth-gritting.

Others firmly put pragmatism first, stressing the importance of continuity and calm. Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, who came to power after her own country’s stunning vote in June to exit the European Union, voiced support for continued close ties.

“We are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defense,” May said in a statement.

Trump’s often-stated admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ties to Russia became a campaign issue, particularly when he called on Russia to hack his Democratic opponent’s email. Putin issued a statement Wednesday congratulating Trump and saying he hoped for “cooperating in ending a crisis in RussianAmerican relations,” said the message, which was posted on the Kremlin’s website.

In Germany, where polls had consistently showed

more than 80 percent hoped for a Hillary Clinton win, there was a sense of profound shock. Germany, still shadowed by its own militaristic 20th century past, considers itself to be one of closest U.S. allies.

Opposition to Trump was strong even in his grandfather’s home town of Kallstadt, a rural winegrowing town near the Rhine River. Clinton, who visited Germany numerous times as first lady, a senator, and secretary of state, was extremely popular in Germany.

“Whoever rules this great country with its gigantic economic strength, and its military potential, and its ability to influence cultural issues carries the weight of responsibility that can be felt by almost everyone around the world,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who also noted that the campaign was marked by “at times confrontations that were difficult to accept.”

Merkel had been the target of criticism from Trump from time to time for letting more than 1 million refugees into Germany from Syria, Afghanistan and northern Africa over the last 15 months. She added that American voters had decided that it was Trump who should carry that responsibility. “On the basis of these values, I’d like to extend the offer of close cooperation to the United States,” she said.

For some who watched from afar - especially those already disillusioned by aspects of U.S. foreign policy - the vote offered bitter confirmation that often-stated U.S. ideals were little more than empty words.

“Trump is the true face of the United States without makeup,” Mahmoud Bitar, a Syrian pro-opposition aid worker who lives in Turkey, wrote on Facebook.

“We have a saying: A white dog and a black dog...

Either way, they’re just dogs,” said Nihad Ashqar, a 63-year old retiree sipping coffee in the Old City of Damascus, the Syrian capital.

Some far-right political figures, particularly in countries that have been buffeted by a wave of migrants fleeing war and poverty, reacted with expressions of satisfaction, raising the prospect that Trump’s triumph will embolden homegrown nationalists elsewhere.

“Today the United States, tomorrow France!” tweeted Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s farright National Front and the father of its current leader Marine Le Pen, a presidential aspirant.

With Trump having threatened to scrap one of President Barack Obama’s signature achievements, the historic nuclear accord with Iran, that country’s foreign minister said the new U.S. leader must respect previous commitments.

In China, often a target of Trump’s harsh campaign rhetoric, millions tracked the vote online. By Wednesday afternoon, the election topped the trending list on Weibo, the country’s most popular microblog, with more than 1.17 billion views.

Some posts fretted about Trump’s victory - “the world will not be in peace,” wrote one - while others chided the fallibility of democracy. “We don’t have to go through all the trouble,” wrote one user.

“Lucky.”

Asian stock markets plummeted as Trump closed in on victory. Japan’s Nikkei index plunged more than 5 percent Wednesday and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 2.2 percent.

Trump spent much of his campaign bashing China.

He accused the Communist country of “raping” the U.S., manipulating its currency, and stealing jobs from American workers. He also vowed to yank the U.S. out of the Paris climate change deal, an agreement the two countries point to as a sign of shared goals.

But Chinese tend to take a pragmatic approach to U.S. elections, and often disregard slights made during the presidential campaign.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang on Wednesday said the country would work with the new U.S. president to ensure “steady and sound” ties.

Yin Hao, a Ph.D. engineering student at Guangzhou’s South China University of Technology, tried his best to sound hopeful.

Former President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama “both attacked China before they got elected,” said Yin, who has translated campaign speeches into Chinese since the primaries and posted them online. “Afterward, cooperation between the two countries got closer and trade relations increased.

So maybe Trump will turn back to his business side.”

The news resonated in far-flung hot spots, including the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, a scant 50 miles from the battle to retake Mosul from the militants of Islamic State.

“Trump is going to be tough with terrorists,” said Omar Omar, a Syrian refugee who said his wife in Michigan voted for the Republican. Standing on

a street corner in Irbil’s busy Ainkawa neighborhood Wednesday, Omar said he wasn’t bothered by Trump’s hard-line stance on immigration, Muslims and Syrian refugees.

But Hoshank Adnan, watching the returns at the Irbil Samsung store where he works as service manager, was disappointed. He wanted Clinton to win, citing her longtime experience in world affairs.

“We’re worried,” he said of Trump. “Because he doesn’t have any information about politics.”

In Israel, the rightist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered congratulations, with a message on the prime minister’s official Twitter feed hailing Trump as a “true friend of Israel.” Netanyahu’s tenure has been marked by friction and policy disputes with Obama. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat sent a letter of congratulations, appending a handwritten “Mazal Tov, Mr. President!”

Israeli leftists, though, were worried, saying that Trump’s polarizing style reminded them of Netanyahu himself. “I’m in shock, like after Bibi was elected,” said Yuval Shemesh, a 45-year-old software startup executive, using Netanyahu’s nickname. “It’s a feeling of fear, uncertainty and extremism.

I expect more militancy and less reconciliation.”

In contrast to the warm congratulations from Israeli officials, the reaction from Palestinian officials struck a chillier tone. “We will deal with any president elected by the American people on the principle of achieving permanent peace in the Middle East passed on the two-state solution, Nabil Abu Rudeinah, spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said in a statement.

In the Gaza Strip, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said expectations for the election were low to start.

“The Palestinian people do not count too much on any change in the American presidency, because the U.S. policy toward the Palestinian issue is a consistent policy and based on the bias for Israel.”

In Africa, where Obama’s family roots had been a source of pride, many reacted with shock. In April 2015, Trump referred to South Africa on Twitter as a “total – and very dangerous – mess.”

South Africa President Jacob Zuma congratulated Trump on Wednesday, saying he hoped South Africa could further strengthen its relationship with the U.S.

Protesters block Trump Tower Chicago

By Stacy St. Clair and Nereida Moreno Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Thousands of protesters angry over Donald Trump’s election victory massed outside Trump Tower in Chicago on Wednesday evening before taking to downtown streets in an angry show of opposition to the presidentelect.

Just before 8 p.m., one of several groups of demonstrators made its way to Lake Shore Drive at Jackson Drive and blocked traffic, marching north.

“No Trump, No KKK, No Fascists USA” and “Not my president!” were among chants shouted by the crowd earlier.

Chicago resident Audrey Lava, who is eight months pregnant, wiped away tears as she joined the protest outside the tower.

“I wanted to show my solidarity with people who are

suffering,” Lava said. “And I wanted to show the rest of the world that not everyone in this country supports a fascist.”

The protesters at one point filled all six lanes of North Michigan Avenue. Along the way they received both honks of support from motorists and angry responses from Trump supporters.

“Build the Wall!” one Trump backer yelled at the crowd, referring to the former reality TV star’s promise to build a wall on the Mexican border.

Michael Burke, a resident of Chicago’s Edgewater section, said he believes the president-elect will “divide the country and stir up hatred.”

“I think it’s our constitutional duty to not to go quietly and accept that,” he said. “The tower signifies everything that is ugly and boastful about this hateful man.”

Kathryn Schaffer brought her 3-year-old daughter, Clara, to protest at Trump Tower.

“She’s a little too young to understand all of this, but I don’t know how I’m going to explain that the president of our country can say the things that he says,” she said.

Schaffer said she stayed up all night after hearing the news that Trump had won.

She said the president-elect is not a good role model for her daughter.

“The president is supposed to be a role model for children and somebody that they look up to. I feel like if I stand by my values, I can’t be quiet for the next four years. I have to be a role model if our president won’t be,” Schaffer said.

Early on, about a half-dozen Trump supporters were allowed to stand in front of Trump Tower, while protesters were corralled across the street. Anthony Moreira, of Berwyn, waved an American flag and shouted at the antiTrump protesters to accept the results and go home.

“You’re weak,” he yelled.

“That’s why you lost.”

He said the protesters’ grievances were baseless.

“Trump isn’t a bigot,” he said. “If you look behind the back doors you’ll see blacks, Hispanics, Muslims and all kinds of people working for him.”

Police kept close tabs on the protest. Some officers did little to hide their disdain for the protesters. One wore a large “Trump” button on his hat, while others traded taunts with the protesters.

“You know this is why Trump won,” Officer Jason Lenski said after one protester asked where his KKK hood was. “Because people are sick of liberals.”

The pro-Trump crowd also included Birgitt Peterson, who gained brief notoriety during the campaign when a Chicago Tribune photographer captured her giving a Nazi-like salute as she exited an aborted Trump rally in Chicago.

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MARIJUANA Trump is also close to billionaire Sheldon Adelson, one of the nation’s top Republican donors, who spent millions opposing medical marijuana in Florida.

In June, Mark Kleiman, who served as Washington state’s top pot consultant after voters legalized the drug in 2012, said it would be very easy for Trump to get rid of the nation’s marijuana shops, just by enforcing the federal law that makes selling marijuana a federal offense.

“Look, a President Trump could shut down the legal cannabis industry everywhere in the country with the stroke of a pen,” said Kleiman, who is now a professor of public policy at New York University’s Marron Institute of Urban Management. “All you have to do is take a list of the state-licensed cannabis growers and sellers into federal district court and say, ‘Your Honor, here are the people who have applied for and been given licenses to commit federal felonies.’“ When the new Congress

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election’s result when she spotted the crowd in Westwood while walking home.

“Of course, I joined in,” she said. “To give hugs to people who were overcome by devastation.”

In downtown L.A., a crowd gathered near City Hall and property was defaced, including a fence scrawled with graffiti insulting Trump. About 2 p.m. Wednesday, a crowd of at least 100 young demonstrators flocked to the steps of City Hall.

About 200 people demonstrated near California State, L.A., and 50 more were at Pershing Square, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Norma Eisenman.

There were no arrests.

The mood was more buoyant at the president-elect’s star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, where a small crowd of about 30 Trump supporters gathered early Wednesday to celebrate his upset victory.

Diane Mendez, 23, a Trump supporter who volunteered at a polling place, said she came to celebrate what she saw as a turning point.

“He said he would bring jobs back to America. We all need jobs,” Mendez said.

“Who doesn’t need jobs?”

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convenes in January, Blumenauer said, the next battle will focus on passing new laws to let marijuana businesses fully deduct their business expenses and open checking accounts, allowing them to end their all-cash practices.

“It’s an invitation for money laundering for tax evasion, or for theft,” he said. “This is one that’s going to be solved.”

Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a trade group, said Congress needed to help an industry that was growing quickly and was expected to have a market value of nearly $22 billion by 2020.

After Tuesday’s votes, he noted that more than 60 percent of Americans will now live in states that have approved either medical or recreational marijuana, or both.

“Last night’s results send a simple message: The tipping point has come,” Smith said.

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The Oakland Tribune newsroom and ignited trash containers and tires, police said.

Small fires also prompted the closure of a Bay Area Rapid Transit station.

The crowd broke windows on five businesses and further vandalized another, said Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson. One citation was issued, but no one was arrested, she said.

Protesters also burned Trump in effigy, KNTV reported.

Protests in the Bay Area city were centered downtown and there was a march along Highway 24, where a woman was struck by an SUV. She was taken to a hospital with “major injuries,” California Highway Patrol Sgt. Matt Langford told The San Francisco Chronicle.

At the University of California, Santa Barbara, hundreds marched near the campus, with some chanting, “Not my president.”

One person carried a Mexican flag, according to video posted by the student newspaper, the Daily Nexus.

About 500 students marched through the La Jolla campus of the University of California, San Diego, protesting Trump’s win and chanting his name with an expletive.

Clinton concedes after election loss

By Evan Halper Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton never took the stage on election night at the Javits Center in New York, where she planned to declare its giant glass ceiling had been symbolically shattered. Instead, hours later she stood solemnly alongside Bill Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine at a nearby hotel, where she privately conceded the election.

On Wednesday morning, she offered some words of inspiration to the millions who supported her.

“I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him,” Clinton said. “I hope he will be a successful president for all Americans.”

Clinton expressed pride in the campaign she ran but acknowledged the difficulty of the moment.

“I know how disappointed you feel, because I feel it to,” she said. “This is painful, and it will be for a long time. ... We have seen our nation is more divided than we thought.

“We must accept this result and look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.”

In a ballroom filled with campaign staffers, donors and close friends, she rallied her supporters not to despair, calling on them to fight for the constitutional values “we respect and cherish,” including freedom of expression and freedom of religion. The comments came following a divisive race that was overshadowed

by Trump’s incendiary comments about women, Mexican immigrants and Muslims.

“We believe the American dream is big enough for everyone,” Clinton said. “For people of all races and religions, for men and women, for immigrants, for LGBT people and people with disabilities. For everyone. Our responsibility as citizens is to keep doing our part to build that better, stronger, fairer America.”

“This loss hurts,” Clinton said. “But please, never stop believing that fighting for what’s right is worth it.”

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“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” - J.K. Rowling

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We have the love of humanity in our hearts I originally wrote a very different article for today. It was an article that, if I’m to be completely honest, was based on the

Christin Howard assumption that so many of us had: the assumption that the outcome of this election was already decided.

Today in class, my professor said that he thought the extreme emotional reactions of those around him were a bit overblown.

“It’s not the end of the world,” he said, “I don’t see why so many people are crying in the streets.”

I tried my best to articulate the feeling that has been building in my chest ever since I saw the predictions shift around 10 p.m. last night, and I ended up crying in class. Despite the embarrassment, I am clinging to the hope that at least some of what I said was understandable and conveyed the feelings that are currently shared by so many of us.

I sit here today and I see the man who is to become our Commander in Chief and I weep. I weep because this is a man who has endorsed sexual assault, who has said that as a woman I do not deserve to decide what happens to my body, who has told millions that is okay to lay hands on a woman without her permission, to refer to them as cows and to judge them solely on their physical appearance. I weep because people elected him, because people agree with him.

I weep because this man says that the right to marriage, which the gay commu-

nity has fought for tirelessly for decades, should be reserved exclusively for the majority. I weep because LGBTQIA people are seeing a president come to power who actively denies their rights, who tells them unequivocally that they do not matter and that this country was not built for them.

I weep because people of color (POC), all of them, are being told that they are less than and that the sly rhetoric of unworthiness that has been lurking around the edges of our political discourse long after Jim Crow was abolished is in fact the reality.

I weep for all of the immigrants who will live in fear. I weep for the Muslims who are afraid to practice their religion in a country that has spewed the rhetoric of tolerance since its inception.

I weep because, once and for all, this country – the country we were born in and grew up thinking we could change, thinking we could fight for, thinking we could make better – is looking us in the face and saying, “This place is not for you. This place was not made for you, for women, for immigrants, for gays, for Muslims or POC. Your voice does not matter.”

I weep because the ideas of unworthiness and self-hate that have been instilled in all oppressed peoples have finally been publically vindicated and announced to the world, and, in recognizing my privilege, I acknowledge that as a white American I

cannot even begin to understand the tremendous feelings that those who have been more oppressed than me are having.

We never thought that this would happen. The media never thought that this would happen. The establishment never thought that this would happen. We never believed it could be possible because we have been ignoring the problem that has been festering in our country’s heart for decades. Trump did not spring from nothing and his supporters are not simply racists and bigots that arose to menace the good people of this country.

This phenomenon is also not, as so many people have suggested, exclusively the result of the Republican Party; it is a result of the failings of this government on all sides and in all capacities.

The people who voted for Trump are angry and largely have a right to be. Their economy and their livelihood has been usurped from them just as it has been usurped from us. The same feeling of anger that Bernie Sanders captured and tried to turn into positive change, Trump has captured as well.

Most uneducated, white, working class Americans have felt excluded from politics and they have mostly grown up in places where racist, sexist and xenophobic undertones in their communities and beliefs have not been addressed. It is no wonder than,

“We cannot hope to change, to combat the hatred pouring from across the aisle, with hatred of our own.”

learning of a religion and a faith of peace, of love, of hospitality, of generosity.

I am a Muslim living in a country that, in one night, decided that maybe people like me didn’t belong here.

A country that decided in the moment of truth that we really might have to ban Muslims until we “figure out what is going on.”

I realize that the ban on Muslims wasn’t the key issue of this election and that Muslims are not the only people affected by this. I know there are members of the Hispanic, AfricanAmerican, and LGBTQIA communities that know how I feel. I don’t truly believe that Donald Trump will be able to place a ban on Muslims entering the country, and I’m honestly not worried that any real consequences will come of this, at least personally, solely because of my faith. But at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. What matters for someone like me is that America made a choice, not between liberalism and conservatism and not between a Democrat and a Republican, but between ideas and Islamophobia, between policy and demagoguery, between unity and hate.

And here I was, a Muslim on election night, born and raised in this incredible country, a proud American citizen, feeling like an outsider looking in.

“What matters for someone like me is that America made a choice, not between liberalism and conservatism and not between a Democrat and a Republican, but...between unity and hate.”

Amin Touri is a Collegian contributor and can be reached at atouri@umass.edu.

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

We must stay

A Muslim on election night I’ll admit it: at the start, asking me why my family I was one of those peo- and I support Osama bin ple who thought that this Laden. As I get older, I see the pundits on Fox News Amin Touri asking why it’s always my religion causing the probwould be funny. That we lems, and I hear my high could all watch this guy school classmates wonderbumble his way through ing aloud, “But why are the primaries, saying one they so violent?” You deal ridiculous thing after with the Islamophobia, another and giving late- ranging from the benign to night television the kind of the malicious and from the material it has been miss- simply misinformed to the ing since Sarah Palin. But purely intolerant.

I am no longer laughing.

But I really never From the beginning, I thought that when the time never thought this race was came to choose between really about policy or about progressive ideas against conservative values. A candidate like Donald Trump kind of throws those things out of the window. I’ve always been fairly liberal, always far more aligned with those on the left than those two candidates, both of on the right, but my dis- whom are full of imperlike of Donald Trump was fections, that the one who never about his tax plan, proposed banning Muslims his views on abortion or until we “figure out what is his foreign policy. It also going on” would come out wasn’t just because I was on top. a “wimpy liberal,” as a for- So there I sat, in the cormer high school classmate ner of Worcester Dining Commons, watching the of mine liked to say.

When you’re a Muslim results roll in in utter disin this country, there are belief. My politically-mindcertain things you learn ed side was concerned for to deal with. People ask the country; we had made why you’re not drinking the wrong choice, and a water on a hot day in July, whole host of problems and you have to explain would come from that, what Ramadan is. Middle ranging from a woman’s school rolls around and the right to choose to the first wave of terrorist jokes strength of the economy comes with it, with one kid and everything in between. in my sixth grade home- But putting aside my room telling me “Allah hu political leanings and akbar” – a common Arabic my opinions on legitiprayer phrase meaning mate policy issues, I am a “God is great” – was a ter- Muslim. I had been raised rorist cry, and another as a Muslim my entire life,

looking at the state of our country, that the easiest target for their hate and anger would be immigrants and other marginalized groups. I see this hatred as a fundamental failing of education. A fundamental failing of our leaders (yes even Obama) to address issues of poverty, race and gender within mainstream politics.

Today I woke up to see an incredible number of hate-filled messages. I am not dismissing them. You, especially people who have been marginalized far more than I, have a right to be angry and have a right to hate. I recognize my privilege to have this opinion but I do not believe, cannot believe, that half our country is simply comprised of xenophobes and racists who deserve no empathy. We cannot hope to change, to combat the hatred pouring from across the aisle, with hatred of our own. It is our job to try to understand why this happened, and perhaps to organize and begin to speak to the true problems in this country that have allowed this to happen.

This was a wake up call that it is time for the youth to stand up and stand together.

I saw an electoral map today that showed only the projected millennial votes, and it was a map that was almost entirely blue. We have the power. We have the power to fight for a country that works for everyone. Not for corporations, not for only white men, but for everyone.

I was so excited to cast my Such a will to leave can vote with my country, and manifest itself in many ways elect Hillary Clinton as our other than geographic relocation. Some may simply get Becky Wandel lost. So appalled at the choice of Donald Trump for presifirst female president. But that dent, they’ll use their voices didn’t happen last night and to ring out cries for impeachinstead, I spent most of the ment, and use their time to night being very sad. remind everyone of his past.

My Oma, an immigrant, I’m not saying that his past once told me that the main offenses should be forgiven, as reason she got her full United they should not, but I hold that States citizenship when she to dwell on the ugly hate of his came to America was so she campaign and condemn the could vote. She is 91 years old future of his presidency before and loves Hillary Clinton, and it has even begun is surely to I am so sad thinking of her, be lost. alone in Florida, doubting Others will leave the fray, our country’s capacity for the revert to silence or cynicism, requisite compassion we need to keep the same promises of freedom and equality that welcomed her here almost 60 years ago.

For her and for Clinton supporters everywhere, I am sad. For the innumerous minorities who and bow out of the great feel that their president-elect conversation. For many nondoesn’t care about their safety, Trump supporters, the endurI am sad. For all the little girls ance of 18 months of relentless who just missed their chance vitriol that paid off with such to grow up with a woman in a terrifying ending will prove to have been enough to make the White House, I am sad.

But after we’ve all had our one wish to throw in the towel. chance to grieve and reflect, Who among us “blue voters” a necessary part of this pro- didn’t feel at least a little like cess, it will eventually become that last night? time to move forward from our The point is, we can’t let sadness and address the dis- ourselves get lost – despite how cussions, serious or not, about easy those roads may seem. leaving. It’s been a common This country, this office of the conversation, with Clinton presidency and this man who supporters saying, “I’m mov- will be our president are coming to Canada,” and Trump plicated beasts that require a voters responding, “I’ll help type of scrutiny and mainteyou pack.” Very few of us actu- nance that must be constant, ally have the means to move collaborative and progressive our lives to another country in order to be effective. but even without a plausible It’s in our constitution that “way,” the wide-spread “will” “we the people” will always to leave concerns me. have more power than the

president, so we must use the freedoms which that document affords us to check and interact with him and his office. It is irrefutably true that the only way we can maintain the integrity of our country’s very core – our democracy – is by engaging with it, moving with it and never letting any one man, woman or election discourage us from exercising this essential freedom.

Hopelessness, cynicism and fear are powerful feelings.

Overcome with such feelings, it would be understandable to look at this country as some wild bucking bronco: uncontrollable, unpredictable, dangerous and mean.

But lest we forget that the only way to stay on such a horse would be to bear down, hold tight and fight to take control. This is no exception; the horse may buck, the train might teeter off the rails, but we must stay.

Our country’s heart lives in the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. “The New Colossus” reads, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

That message of welcoming, of America as a home and as a place to stay and thrive and create a life defined by liberty is what this country is all about. Don’t let one man, or one devastating election make you forget this. Don’t leave.

Stay.

“It’s in our constitution that “we the people” will always have more power than the president, so we must use th[ose] freedoms...to check and interact with him and his office.”

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

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The colorful tastes of Four Loko: an unofficial review An inside look at five of the flavors B y Madeleine Jackman Collegian Staff

B y C had Stoughton Collegian Correspondent Gold, black cherry, grape – all flavors synonymous with a disturbing and reemerging trend amongst the drinking-aged people of the United States.

We are talking, of course, about Four Loko. A drink so menacing it was once banned in several states and from a number of college campuses.

Rebranded and reformulated in 2010, it is again on the streets of the Pioneer Valley. For this investigation, we submerged ourselves in the dangerous, sugary and high-stakes world of Four Loko. For you, the concerned citizen, the all too impressionable college dude, we present an unofficial review.

Chad: Alright Madeleine, you wanna open?

Mad: Sure, I want to open by saying on record that I have never had a Four Loko before this review. This endeavor was inspired by a combination of Snapchats that piqued my curiosity, and a challenge made by a member of The Massachusetts Daily Collegian staff.

Chad: What was the challenge?

Mad: We were supposed to try all the flavors of Four Loko. We failed.

Chad: And I’m kind of glad that we did fail. We made it through five out of the eight flavors we could find though, so we didn’t do too badly. The following reviews are dramatizations and excerpts of actual conversations we had while drinking Four Loko.

Mad: Help. I’m drunk on Four Loko and I can’t get up.

Chad: Don’t try this at home.

Mad: I don’t smell that as much as you do. Then again I don’t go to the dentist as often as I should.

I’ve never had a cavity, though.

Chad: Don’t jinx it, we have a lot more of this stuff to get through. I can feel my teeth rotting.

Mad: It’s the carbonated fizzle that makes your teeth tingle.

Chad: I think the real triumph of this drink is that it has finally brought together the taste of bubblegum and toothpaste.

Two flavors that have for too long been too separate.

Mad: So according to the can, this does contain natural flavors. What do you think the natural flavor is?

Chad: As with all of them, ethanol.

Mad: Really? I think it’s the freshly squeezed organic strawberries and farm-fresh lemons.

Chad: I’m still pretty sure it’s the ethanol. That’s a natural flavor, right?

Mad: Whatever happens tonight, whatever flavors are to come, the Caesar salad was good.

Chad: Yes, an excellent pairing – a light salad along with the bright neon pink certified colors of Strawberry Lemonade Four Loko.

Mad: I feel like it’s already turning my cheeks pink.

Chad: Turns out it’s a flamingo-type thing. I feel like it’s starting to taste better.

Mad: So do you enjoy it now?

Chad: No. Toasted to: Natural and Artificial Flavors.

Rating: Chad: 1/10 (Should have stayed banned) Mad: 3/10 (Makes you miss Rubinoff )

Grape

Chad: We decided to pair Grape with our homemade eggplant-fusilli-sourdough Strawberry Lemonade breadcrumb parmigiana because it sounded the most wine-like.

Chad: Oh, I hate that.

Mad: People voluntarily Mad: Why did you just say that out loud in past drink this?

Chad: The smell of it tense? is seriously just giving me Chad: It’s for our future readers. flashbacks of the dentist.

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Contrary to popular opinion, Four Lokos do not contain any caffeine.

Mad: There are no natural flavors in this one. Just artificial flavors and certified color.

Chad: I don’t know what we would do without the color certification board. Is it a board that does that?

Mad: When I grow up and retire from writing drink reviews, I want to be a color certifier. This text is officially midnight black.

Chad: There is no text yet, we’re just talking.

Mad: This flavor tastes like a weird combination of every single artificially grape-flavored candy that I had as a child, and I strongly dislike grape-flavored candy.

Chad: It tastes like a melted freeze pop mixed, somehow, with the same dental smell as Strawberry Lemonade.

Mad: That is an insult to that freeze pop shot we had at McMurphy’s Uptown Tavern.

Chad: Oh, yeah, that was way better.

Mad: I hate this.

Toasted to: Better living through chemistry.

Rating: Chad: 3.5/10 (Still missing Rubinoff ) Mad: 2/10 (Aged like a fine vinegar)

Black Cherry Mad: For dessert, we have the Black Cherry flavor paired with Mochi chocolate ice cream.

Chad: Yum. Oh, that’s gnarly. Like cough syrup.

Mad: It all tastes like strange, carbonated medication, but admittedly this one is tastier than its predecessors.

Chad: Each one I try is better than the last one, but I think that might be because I’m drinking.

Mad: This one is definitely better than the others. It’s not as overwhelmingly fake-sweet.

Chad: I wish there was still caffeine in this.

Mad: The best part is that a lot of people do drink this for the caffeine.

They, to this day, drink Four Loko to get hyped.

Chad: Even though there’s no caffeine anymore.

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Despite being poured into glasses and paired with a homemade meal, Four Loko still tasted like drinking carbonated chlorine.

Mad: Not since 2010. A lot of people don’t realize that though. The placebo effect is incredible.

Chad: Wasn’t there also a bunch of other energy stuff in it?

Mad: Yeah, like guarana.

Chad: Apparently, the FDA threatened to seize Four Loko’s products if they didn’t stop adding caffeine to it. There was a black market for the original formula for a while after that.

Mad: Yeah, Chad, we read the same Wiki article.

I know. It’s only available in 48 states now.

Chad: And the original formula is banned everywhere. At least we still have Red-40.

Mad: It’s a certified color.

like an actual beverage.

Mad: Here’s what fruit punch did: we listened to Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long” and now we have a secret handshake.

Chad: It’s noticeably lacking the dental smell, but it’s still not good.

Mad: I’m still confused about why people drink these.

Chad: It’s about the same quality as an energy drink.

Mad: I’ve never tried an energy drink.

Chad: They’re all pretty terrible.

Toasted to: Elizabeth Warren for President 2020.

Rating: Chad: 4/10 (Tastes like cough syrup) Mad: 5/10 (It’s alright if you don’t think about it)

Gold

Toasted to: Tom Lehrer and his longevity.

Rating: Chad: 4.5/10 (It exists) Mad: 5/10 (Still alright if you don’t think about it)

from Gold. Metallic and tingly.

Chad: Is the railing metal or does it just taste like metal?

Mad: All pools in southern California are lined with gold.

Chad: I literally cannot describe this drink.

Mad: I think my guess was pretty accurate. The caramel flavoring made it sweeter than I expected, though.

Toasted to: Transcending the material plane and entering the realm of the Platonic solids.

Rating: Chad and Mad: We are past the point of judgement In spite of our best efforts, we could not get through the final three flavors, Peach, Watermelon or Sour Apple. However, our inside source in the Four Loko scene has informed us that Watermelon is “the most drinkable.” Despite being based in Chicago, Four Loko is not the drink either of us would recommend to celebrate the Cubs’ victory.

Mad: This is the flavor that we have been holding out for all night. What do you think it will taste like?

Chad: The magical conglomeration of all human endeavor. If there are no Fruit Punch unicorns or rainbows I will Chad: Nice, this one also be deeply disappointed.

Mad: There is a public has no natural flavor.

Mad: It looks like the pool a few blocks from my Strawberry Lemonade one house in California, and if though. It tastes like fruit you go swimming at night punch, but it also makes and you swim to the left staircase, and you lick the Madeleine Jackman can be me want to gag.

Chad: I mean, this one railing under the water, it reached at mjackman@umass.edu. smells like fruit punch. It’s tastes metallic and tingly, Chad Stoughton can be reached at the first one that smells and that’s what I expect cstoughton@umass.edu.

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Chad couldn’t help but express his excitment after smelling his first glass.

The five flavors of Four Loko that were conquered by the early morning.

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