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Students burn US flag at HC Election results led to extreme protests B y B enjamin K ostyack Collegian Correspondent

The results of the 2016 Presidential election led a group of about 150 students from Hampshire College to burn the American flag in the middle of campus at night on Nov. 11.

“I don’t think anyone here was angry about [the flag burning],” said junior Aaron Rollins. “Emotions were running high after the election and people weren’t happy. We don’t support anything about Donald Trump.”

Some students felt that this move was appropriate considering what had transpired just days before.

“Those students were just voicing their anger, the same anger we all have right now,” said

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“Our country collectively agreed on electing a man who preaches hate and disrespects women and minorities. I think it made sense that we are not happy with our country right now, and that’s how we expressed it.”

Hampshire College is considered an aggressively free-thinking liberal arts school, where written evaluations are provided to students rather than letter grades.

In an email to students, President of Hampshire College Jonathan Lash expressed his sadness at the election result.

“I am particularly concerned about members of community who felt themselves specifically targeted during a hateful campaign by repeated racist, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, and misogynistic statements. see FLAG

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Vinh Nguyen, left, mechanical engineering third year graduate student, and Ahanna Ugorji, sophomore electrical and computer engineering major, play pick up soccer in Boyden gym on Sunday Nov. 27.

Hundreds gather to protest the MI prepares for removal of the American flag voting recount VFW organized the peaceful rally Sun.

By Christina Yacono Collegian Staff

An estimated 300 veterans, families, and protestors gathered by the Hampshire College entrance on West St. this past Sunday to protest the college’s decision to stop flying the American flag on campus.

On Nov. 18, the president of Hampshire College, Jonathan Lash, made a statement to the community explaining that Hampshire College first made the decision a couple weeks ago to fly the flag at half-staff to allow the campus community to express “grief over the violent deaths being suffered in this country and globally” and to also facilitate more diverse dialogue about the flag as a symbol.

Then, on the Veteran’s

Day following the presidential election, a student took down and burned one of the flags on campus. This incident, along with some of the campus communities’ discontent and hurt over the flag being raised at half-staff, called for the president to decide not to fly any flags on campus for now.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 754 organized this peaceful rally in response to protest the college’s decision.

“Regardless of what happens, the flag deserves some respect,” said Shutesbury resident Greg Steve, who attended the event with his daughter and wife, carrying three military burial flags of their family members.

The event started at 1 p.m. and continued on until about 2:30 p.m. The rally was centered around a stage setup across from the Hampshire College

entrance sign, but spilled across the street. Speakers took turns sharing anecdotes and poetry of war and grief, accompanied by repeated cries to raise the flag.

Many of the protestors were veterans and family members who served or had family members serve in the military.

Speakers at the event included Northwestern District Attorney Dave Sullivan, State Commander of the VFW Massachusetts Brian Martin, retired Sergeant Micah Welintukonis, Massachusetts State Representative John Velis of the 4th Hampden district, Springfield City Councilor at Large Kateri Walsh, and Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno.

The crowd chanted slogans such as “raise our flag” and “God bless America” as they waved their flags around in uni-

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The rally was civil except for a Donald Trump supporter that was led off site, and a Hampshire college student who responded to the protest by making obscene gestures when the protesters attempted to take a group picture.

Sarno joined the protest in order to make people aware of “the veterans and the ultimate sacrifice of our veterans and what this flag stands for [and] that [Americans] can still continue discussion here, but the opportunities that [Americans] have is because of what our veterans have done.”

Many others at the protest also agreed with the mayor’s view.

Coming as far as from Wre n t h a m , p ro t e s t o r Christopher Shannon said that although people can hate everything about the United States, the American flag should not be desecrated.

“We’re here to tell the college kids that if you have a reason to fight for something, stand up for the reason, and not for the fabric of this country,” said Shannon.

VFW organizers stressed that they had obtained permission from President Lash to hold this event, which was located on private college property, and expressed gratitude towards Hampshire College in speeches.

Chief organizer of the event Victor Núñez Ortiz wanted to “educate the school that we can do a peaceful protest without violence,” and said he thought they had succeeded.

On Sunday, Nov. 27th, hundreds of protesters gathered at Hampshire College to protest the decision of the taking Christina Yacono can be reached at cyacono@umass.edu. down of all American flags across campus.

By Kathleen Gray Detroit Free Press

LANSING, Mich. - If a recount of the nearly 4.8 million votes cast in Michigan for president on Nov. 8 takes place, county clerks’ offices around the state will become crowded with passionate and highly vested eyewitnesses.

The campaign for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton said Saturday night that it will participate in a recount of votes after Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president, officially requested a recount on Friday in Wisconsin and has promised to do the

same in Pennsylvania and Michigan.

The Michigan Republican Party and the campaign of Republican president-elect Donald Trump, who holds a 10,704 lead over Clinton in the state, are looking for volunteers to be observers of the hand recount in the 83 counties where the votes were cast.

Michigan’s Board of Canvassers is scheduled to certify the state’s election results at 2 p.m. Monday.

After the certification, Stein has until Wednesday to request a recount

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Black Friday shopping done mostly online

By Shan Li Los Angeles Times Consumers increasingly turned online during the Black Friday weekend, boosting traffic at the start of the holiday shopping season.

Nearly 109 million people shopped from their computers and mobile devices from Thursday through Sunday, while about 99 million went to traditional stores, , according to a survey from the National Retail Federation, a trade group. Last year, shoppers were more evenly split, with 103 million browsing online and 102 million in stores.

“The story of the weekend was online increasing over instore,” said Pam Goodfellow, principal analyst at Prosper Insights and Analytics, which

analyzes data for the trade group.

Some shoppers, of course, did both. That drove the total number of shoppers during the four-day weekend to more than 154 million - up from 151 million in 2015, the survey said.

Shoppers spent an average of $289.19, down from $299.60 last year, the survey said. Matthew Shay, chief executive of the trade group, said some promotions were steeper than in 2015. This year, 36 percent of shoppers reported that all of their purchases were sale items; last year, 11 percent of consumers said so.

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In 1943, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to map out strategy concerning World War II.

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We saw a candidate mock people with disabilities and deal in anti-Semitic innuendo, heedless of the pain and harm he caused,” said Lash.

Danielle Obermeyer, a freshman at Hampshire College, said that as a feminist she was offended by the election of Trump.

“The elected president openly brags about sexually harassing women, and that is not O.K.,” she said.

“Me and so many other

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian

government forces Sunday made major advances in the divided city of Aleppo, threatening to drive a wedge through the rebel-held eastern sector, state media, a monitoring group and official sources said.

Meanwhile, more than 4,000

civilians fled into the Hanano district, which fell to the government Saturday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Local activists said many others were on the move in Aleppo, trying to get to areas less affected by government shelling and airstrikes.

It is the first time that large

numbers of civilians have crossed to government-held areas since eastern Aleppo came under siege in July, despite intense airstrikes on the east and lack of food and health care.

Government ally Russia announced the opening of safe corridors for civilians on several occasions and has accused rebels of preventing people from leaving Aleppo.

The United Nations, howev-

er, has said security issues and fear of arrest by government forces were deterring people from leaving.

Rebel official Yesser alYoussef spoke bitterly about what the opposition sees as a lack of adequate outside support.

“Whoever has aircraft can win, and whoever has antiaircraft weapons can resist, but those who permit aircraft to bomb cities while banning anti-aircraft weapons have decreed that (President Bashar) al-Assad will remain,” said Youssef, spokesman for the Nour al-Din al-Zenki rebel group, said.

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But the only answer to that would be to give up after the Beatles. I only had two alternatives.

Give up or carry on.”

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feminists are terrified to see what the next 4 years hold for us.”

The school replaced the flag for Veteran’s Day and commenced their ceremony, but after facing backlash from the decision to fly the flag at half-mast, Hampshire College has decided to temporarily cease flying the flag.

“I don’t think this is a time to give up,” said senior Alexander Fraker. “This is more of a time for unity,

and coming together as one. We can’t let evil take over this country.”

According to the Hampshire College website for counseling services, the school was offering services to students who were upset about the election. The University of Massachusetts also offered students similar services.

Benjamin Kostyack can be reached at bkostyack@umass.edu.

Missing woman found in California “heavily battered”

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missing for weeks

By Emeralda Bermudez Los Angeles Times

Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman who was missing for three weeks, was found on the side of a road Thursday chained and “heavily battered,” according to police dispatch logs.

Police are looking for two women they believe are the kidnappers.

Papini woman was found bound by restraints along Interstate 5 in Yolo County.

Officials were called about 4:30 a.m. after Papini flagged down a motorist. She two was treated for injuries and reunited with her husband,

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The Redding RecordSearchlight quoted dispatch logs from the California Highway Patrol, which said Papini was “heavily battered” and “chained to something.”

On ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said detectives are hoping to get more information from Papini about her abduction soon.

“Obviously she was emotional and quite upset, but elated to be freed, and so we were able to get some information from her,” Bosenko said. “Then, in the days following this, we will be following up with her.”

Officials said they were looking two women last seen driving a dark SUV and

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through the Michigan secretary of state. If that happens, a tedious and expensive process will begin to hand-count the 4,799,284 ballots cast in the presidential race in the state.

The secretary of state’s office said it is researching how federal law affects the schedule to complete a recount, but it expects that a recount would have to be done before Dec. 19 when the Electoral College, including the Michigan’s electors, meets in state capitals. to cast its votes for president, said spokesman Fred Woodhams.

To cover the cost, Stein, as the person requesting the recount, will have to pay $125 per precinct – 6,300 in Michigan – for a cost of $787,500. She’s raised more than $6 million toward a $7 million goal to pay for the three recounts, and for legal costs expected to accompany the process.

Trump is hanging on to a 306-232 Electoral College lead over Clinton, with the winner needing 270 to win the race. Clinton’s lead in the popular vote is more than 2 million votes.

The results of the election would have to be reversed in all three states to change the outcome of the race, which Stein and even Clinton’s campaign acknowledge is an unlikely scenario. In Wisconsin, the margin of Trump’s victory over Clinton was 27,257. In Pennsylvania, the margin was 68,236 votes.

While Clinton campaign counsel Mark Erik Elias said in a post on Medium Saturday that the campaign had been quietly looking at the election results to see if there was any outside interference, “we had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology.”

As a result, they had not planned to ask for recounts, but now that Stein has requested a recount, Elias said, “we feel it is important, on principle, to ensure our campaign is legally rep-

resented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in order to monitor the recount process itself.”

One problem the campaign saw was that many states, including Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, audit the results of the election by canvassing a sampling of precincts. But Michigan does not.

“This is unfortunate,” Elias said. “It is our strong belief that, in addition to an election canvass, every state should do this basic audit to ensure accuracy and public confidence in the election.”

Stein, who received only 51,643 votes in Michigan, said in a recent video on her Facebook page that she doesn’t like either Trump or Clinton, but wants to ensure the integrity of the election.

Meanwhile, the state Republican Party is seeking volunteers and using the possibility of a recount to raise money for the party.

“The Michigan Republican Party has been in touch with the Re publican National Committee and the Trump campaign and we are prepared to recruit volunteers, train them, and monitor all recount efforts to ensure that it is done in a fair and legal way,” Ronna Romney McDaniel, chairwoman of the Michigan party committee, said in an email to supporters Saturday.

“And please ... donate whatever you can to help us fight back.”

And Scott Hagerstrom, director of Trump’s campaign in Michigan, also asked supporters in an email to continue their volunteer work and help by observing recounts across the state.

“We know that many on the progressive left will continue to work to discredit this election and reverse it, if possible,” he said. “A recount where we look the other way and do not participate, is their only chance. We stand ready to make sure every vote is counted properly.”

believed armed with a handgun.

Officials said they were not aware of a motive for the kidnapping and did not provide details on Papini’s injuries or whereabouts. Bosenko also said it was not clear whether Papini knew her abductors.

The Redding resident disappeared Nov. 2 while jogging in the small town of Mountain Gate in Shasta County.

Her husband reported her missing after he came home from work and found that she hadn’t picked up their children from day care. Her cellphone and headphones were found near where she had last been seen, about a mile from her home, investigators said.

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‘SNL’ star says show is biased

By Rob Tornoe The Philadelphia Inquirer

Last week, Presidentelect Donald Trump ripped “Saturday Night Live” on Twitter, calling the sketch comedy show “one-sided” and “biased.”

One cast member says he has a point.

Michael Che, who hosts the show’s “Weekend Update” segment, told Esquire magazine that despite trying to remain balanced and take on both sides, the show has seemed to shift leftward.

“Oddly, I agree with him,” Che said. “We try to write that way. But I do agree with him. I think the show should show all views and we make a conscious effort to do so.”

Che referred to a recent sketch involving liberals in denial over Trump’s election wanting to move into a “bubble” protecting their progressive ideas from other forms of thinking.

“That was a great sketch poking fun at ultra-liberals,” Che said.

“SNL” has done a number of skits during the election campaign that have hit the left. In one, the host of “Black Jeopardy” is surprised that a white Trump support has a lot in common with the other black

contestants. In another, white New York liberals melt down on election night as it becomes clear Trump is going to win.

But with an election that was as polarizing as the one we just went through, Che said both Democrats and Republicans have backed into their own corners and no longer have any desire to find the middle ground.

“It’s very tribal in America, especially now,” the comedian said. “So if you’re a liberal, you’re liberal about everything. You have your mind made up before you’ve even heard the details, you know?

When you read the headline, you already know the story.”

“If you’re conservative, it’s the same thing,” Che said. “That’s why this election was so polarizing.

Nobody was saying, ‘Both of them have things I like, but I’m considering one over the other.’ It’s always, ‘I hate this guy.’ Or, ‘I hate this lady.’ It was split. So with big, heavy issues, they have their minds made up and they’re angry about it because they think if you give up one thing you’re giving up everything.”

High-profile homeless man has large fan base

By Gale Holland Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES –– Ceola Waddell Jr. has what may be the most eye-popping digs of any homeless man in Los Angeles.

A video tour of his living room sofa and loveseat, porcelain toilet and zebraskin slipcovers has been seen 1.4 million times on Facebook. His fans make pilgrimages to the tentlined strip beneath the 110 Freeway near the Coliseum - he calls it “Paradise Lane” - to take selfies.

His quarters are so spacious that another homeless man pays him $25 a week to rent a tent, sandwiched between the “guest room” and a third mattress and headboard. Waddell, who also goes by Mr. Dice, calls it his Airbnb.

“I was walking by and I saw the little sign, ‘For rent,’“ said the tenant, Anthony Garcia.

But what delights Waddell’s followers does not sit well with the city, whose sanitation crews have twice dismantled and carted off his handiwork. Last week, workers removed a refrigerator with an “abundance of rotting food,” “explosive mate-

rials” and other unhealthful things, said Bureau of Sanitation spokeswoman Elena Stern.

Two days later, Waddell had scavenged neighborhood castoffs and rebuilt most of the setup, with flourishes that include ceramic planters with paper orchids, a surfboard and a hot dog stand.

“I refuse to let the city beat me down to what they think a homeless person’s profile is, living on cardboard,” Waddell said. “This should be a landmark.”

A year ago, city elected leaders called for homelessness to be declared a state of emergency. Plans released in February by the city and county were approved this month by voters. They passed a $1.2 billion bond issue for new homeless housing. But the construction will take 10 years, and housing homeless people in the meantime is moving slowly.

Sanitation crews receive reports of 100 to 200 camps a week, and the number keeps rising.

“Our main priority always is to get unsheltered homeless individuals off the streets and into housing,” said Los

Angeles Homeless Services Authority spokesman Tom Waldman.

Mayor Eric Garcetti’s spokeswoman, Connie Llanos, said: “We know that none of these strategies will solve our homelessness crisis overnight, but Mayor Garcetti is committed to ensuring that the crisis is solved as quickly as possible.”

Stern said Waddell refused homeless services, including temporary housing. Waddell declined to speak to City Councilman Curren D. Price Jr. when the councilman visited homeless camps under freeway bridges in his South Los Angeles district, Price’s spokeswoman said.

“There’s been a great deal of public safety and public health concern from neighbors in the area, as well as LAPD and the Sanitation Department,” said the spokeswoman, Angelina D. Valencia.

Waddell says he wants housing, noting that a car recently left the freeway and crashed, pinning a homeless woman in her bedding. Two men with a pistol tried to rob him in see

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Ceola Waddell Jr., a homeless man whose street name is Mr. Dice, has recreated a very elaborated apartment life on 39th Street underneath Freeway 110 and calls it “Paradise Lane,” in Los Angeles.

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Flight disrupted Breitbart plans on going global

by Trump fan B y D avid N g Los Angeles Times

By Pamela Lehman The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) ALLENTOWN, Pa. Several minutes into a flight last Tuesday bound for Allentown, Emma Baum said she was shocked when a man sitting near her began yelling at the passengers about President-elect Donald Trump, calling them “Hillary bitches.”

Baum’s posted a 45-second video to Facebook under the title “Didn’t take long to notice that I’m back in ‘Merica ... “ By week’s end, the video been shared more than 3 million times as of Friday night. Baum was thrust into the spotlight of political discourse with dozens of calls from national media.

The Delta Air Lines flight was traveling from Atlanta.

Delta, on its Twitter page, apologized for the incident.

Baum, 21, who lives in Belize in Central America, said she was on her way to her hometown in Quakertown to visit her family.

She said she first noticed the man while waiting for the flight to board. The man chanted Trump’s slogan several times in the airport terminal, shouting that the president-elect would “make America great again.”

As they boarded the plane, Baum said she was seated next to the man and he again said several things about his support of Trump.

Baum said that before the flight took off, she switched seats with someone behind her so he could sit next to his traveling companion.

Before the flight took off, Baum said she told the man she had been out of the country and asked him about the presidential election. As he

jumped out of his seat to talk to her, she told him she was going to record him with her cellphone.

“He said, ‘Go ahead! I want to tell everyone about Trump. I hope it goes viral,’“ Baum said.

In the video, the man claps his hands, shouting to the passengers, “How many people, man?” He loudly claps his hands to a mostly silent audience.

One woman off-camera says, “We can’t hear you,” and the man points and claps.

“Donald Trump, baby!” he says. “We got some Hillary bitches es on this plane?

“Trump! It’s your president,” the man yells.

Baum said she was concerned about the man’s behavior, and after several minutes, a flight attendant approached the man and took him off the plane. But the man later returned, she said.

“When he came back in, he said, ‘This is what I get for being a patriot,’“ Baum said.

There were no further outbursts from him during the flight.

After the flight landed, Baum said she reported the man’s behavior to airport security and police. Both asked for copies of her video to identify the man.

She said her family had told her about the “craziness” of the election. But Baum, who is licensing the video, said she had no idea it would receive so much attention.

“I did have some people messaging me asking if I was anti-white, and that was disappointing,” Baum said.

“I just put it up and didn’t expect any of this.”

WADDELL JR. his bed. “This is not going to be the end of my life,” he said.

Waddell said he first became homeless at age 14 in Memphis, Tenn., where police nicknamed him “Dice” because he didn’t run when they busted craps games. He’s the seventh of eight children of an alcoholic mother. His sisters tried to turn him into a Cinderella to clean up their messes, he said.

He sang soul covers in a bar band before arriving in Los Angeles in 1983, where he did a brief turn as a clothing salesman before deciding he could not work for others. He moved between the streets and pay-by-the-week hotels, depending on the success of various hustles and sales jobs, including, briefly, drug sales. For 10 years, he lived inside with a girlfriend, but when she died, he lost their shared income, landed back on Skid Row and six months ago arrived at the underpass, he said.

His Internet fame has been rejuvenating, Waddell said, as well as his newfound talent for interior decoration: “I enjoy the hype, like anybody else.”

On a recent Saturday, he pulled up on his beach cruiser towing a shopping cart that bore a bathtub he’d rescued from a junk heap. “This is my Jacuzzi,” he said.

A Mercedes, BMWs and a Lexus pulled up in front of his camp for pre-Thanksgiving handouts of tamales and home-cooked turkey dinners. These grass-roots feeding operations, often run by churches, have been another sore spot for city and homeless service officials, who say they gener-

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ate trash and make it easy for people to remain homeless. Some neighbors say people are hiding in the tents to deal drugs or run prostitution rings.

Rose Sanders, who came to distribute free shoes, said she was homeless until 2014, and the people are truly needy. “People here are really homeless,” Sanders said. “It’s not an easy transition.”

The next day, as Rams fans streamed into the Coliseum, the Dice Dog stand opened for business.

“Dice dogs, dice dogs, what you gonna do when the dog bites you?”

Waddell, wearing a white fedora, chef ’s jacket and cellophane gloves, sang out as he sliced peppers and onions onto hot links sizzling on a propane stove.

Jose Padilla, 28, of Colton, and Juan Villa, 23, of Riverside lounged on the sofas with oversize beers, praising Waddell’s pricing: $2.50 a dog.

“Fool, at the movie theater one little wiener link costs $6,” Villa told his friend.

Neighbors from nearby homes came by for a smoke or to arrange to barbecue later with Waddell. A few parents pulled their children close, but other passersby yelled encouragement. “It’s a whole house!” one child said.

“I still don’t get it, what’s so fascinating about this place,” Waddell said.

“I decided I wanted to live like everybody else, make me something nice that I wanted to come home to.

“If I was in the Arctic I’d make me an igloo.”

Many consider Breitbart’s style offensive. Stories that have generated heat include an opinion piece about the Confederate flag titled “Hoist it High and Proud”; one about the European refugee crisis titled “Political Correctness Protects Muslim Rape Culture”; and numerous stories on crimes committed by illegal immigrants.

“They’re a really wellfunded blog that seems to favor conspiracy theories,” said Lee Wilkins, a professor who teaches media ethics at Wayne State University and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

“I don’t condemn them because they do bad journalism. I don’t think they do journalism at all.”

Breitbart has defended its more fiery articles as constitutionally protected polemics designed to trigger overly sensitive liberals - or “snowflakes” in Breitbart parlance.

They point out that they have also produced real reported pieces - with a conservative world view - including stories on the California drought and border security from its Texas bureau.

The company operates out of a nondescript office building on the Westside.

To avoid unwanted public attention, it keeps a low physical profile: There is no name or sign on the door to indicate that Breitbart is a tenant. A giant photographic portrait of Andrew Breitbart greets visitors at the entrance.

A recent visit showed that Breitbart retains its start-up flavor, with mostly young reporters typing on laptops. The door to the main conference room is emblazoned with the hashtag #War - a mantra Breitbart instilled in his team. The company even has a mascot: the honey badger, the carnivore and YouTube star known for its tenacious attitude and thick skin - qualities that the newsroom has adopted as its own.

Most of Breitbart’s staff is spread around the country, and in London and Jerusalem. Among Breitbart’s immediate goals is to expand into France and Germany to capitalize on growing nationalist sentiments stemming from Europe’s immigration crisis and growing doubts about the European Union.

“I’m already interviewing people there,” said Alexander Marlow, the site’s editor in chief.

“Both of them have big elections that are looking similar to Brexit and the rise of Trump in the U.S., in which you have a popu-

list nationalist movement gaining credibility.”

France will hold its presidential elections next year, with Marine Le Pen, leader of far-right National Front party, having declared her candidacy. Germany will hold national elections next year.

Marlow was a 21-yearold student at the University of California, Berkeley, when Andrew Breitbart hired him as his first employee. He became editor in chief in 2013 and now works mostly in Washington He said one of Breitbart’s objectives is to court millennial conservatives, a demographic that he feels Fox News and other conservative outlets overlook.

“I think the conservative media has been derelict,” he said. “I’m not trying to trash talk them when I say this, but they have done nothing to cultivate young people.”

Marlow sees an opportunity to lure Trump supporters put off by Fox News’ ambivalent take on the Republican candidate, since “so much of their audience feels betrayed by how they covered this presidential race.”

As result, he said, Breitbart is experiencing a surge in readership.

The site drew 19.2 million unique visitors in October, up nearly 50 percent from October 2015, according to data from ComScore.

Breitbart easily beat other conservative news sites The Daily Caller and The Blaze, whose October unique visitors were 10.2 million and 5.8 million, respectively.

Breitbart’s own data paint an even more robust picture. It estimates it has 1.8 billion page views so far this year, an increase from about 1 billion views for all of 2015.

Those figures still pale in comparison to mainstream sites like CNN and Fox News, which have unique visitor traffic triple that amount or more.

But Breitbart said it is confident it will continue to grow its readership even after the election bump.

Traffic is vital to Breitbart because like many news sites, it supports itself mostly with advertising revenue, Solov said. Breitbart works with a number of networks to produce ads on its articles and video clips. He said the company employs a sales manager who oversees a staff of three.

Breitbart also generates revenue from its online store - you can buy a tank top with the logo “Border Wall

Construction Co.” - but it

declined to elaborate.

LOS ANGELES –– Ten Breitbart’s closeness years ago in Westwood, to Trump caused a major a small army of young schism at Breitbart this employees in T-shirts and year, when editor-at-large shorts huddled over their laptops, determined to Ben Shapiro resigned, launch a news site that claiming that Bannon would shake up the world had betrayed Andrew of conservative media.

At first, the site started Breitbart’s legacy by cozyby Andrew Breitbart was ing up to the Republican a simple news-aggregation candidate. site. But in a few short Bannon’s appointment years it developed into an idiosyncratic voice to the White House has combining original been harshly criticized by reporting, incendiary members of both parties commentary and outright who have latched on to trolling, in keeping with the rambunctious spirit some of Breitbart News’ of its founder, who died more outlandish headlines in 2012. As its popularity to denounce him as an grew, many condemned anti-Semite and the site its rhetoric as extremist, xenophobic, sexist and a itself as white nationalist. platform for hate speech.

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Bannon, the site’s execu “We are a nationalist tive chairman, was a key website. How the word figure in Trump’s cam‘white’ got tacked on is paign and has been named chief White House stratepart of a coordinated gist. media smear campaign,” For Breitbart, that Marlow said. “We like could mean a direct line to the White House, a that we have a border level of media access - we don’t want to cede unprecedented in modour country to unelected ern times. While some global bureaucrats. It has believe the site will turn into an extension of the nothing to do with skin Trump administration, tone.” leaders at Breitbart see Breitbart employs a its presumed access as an number of minorities opportunity to compete not only with conservative and women in prominent rivals like Fox News, but editorial positions. In a also the rest of the media, recent article, its London which they consider to be dishonest about a lefteditor in chief Raheem leaning bias.

Kassam praised Bannon Breitbart doesn’t disfor hiring a “brown guy” cuss its inner workings from “a Muslim family and finances. It doesn’t have digital subscriptions to run his London operaand makes most of its tion.” money selling advertising.

Breitbart News said Now that it has become that while it maintains a a household name and a political lightning rod, pro-Trump stance, it won’t mostly for its pro-Trump shy away from criticizing coverage leading up to the the future president if he election, there is intense deviates from his platcuriosity about who exactly these bad boys form. (and girls) of the right “Our readers expect us are: How does Breitbart to be tough on him and make money? What is its media strategy? And will honor his commitments to the firestorm over Bannon voters,” said Joel Pollak, hinder its business ambisenior editor at large tions? and in-house counsel at In a series of interviews, leaders sounded Breitbart.”If we’re not confident and unapolotough on Trump on living getic. As a company, it is up to his promises, then aiming for no less than our readership will be the world.

“The goal is to become tough on us.” a global news network,” said Larry Solov, the company’s president and chief executive.

L.A. might seem to be an unlikely home to such an outspokenly conservative publication, given the city’s heavily liberal leanings. But both the founder and CEO of Breitbart grew up together in Brentwood. Solov was persuaded to join the company during a trip to Israel they took together as adults.

He said Breitbart is looking to expand into TV, though not necessarily on its own cable network, and will increase its editorial staff, which now employs about 100 people.

They will focus heavily on covering the new administration.

“We think we are going to be the best place for coverage of Trump,” BRIAN VAN DER BRUG/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS Breitbart News CEO Larry Solov on Nov. 17, 2016 in the Breitbart offices in Los Angeles, California.

Solov said.

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THE RU N D OW N ON THIS DAY...

In 1943, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to map out strategy concerning World War II.

AROUND THE WORLD

FLAG BURNING

We saw a candidate mock people with disabilities and deal in anti-Semitic innuendo, heedless of the pain and harm he caused,” said Lash.

Danielle Obermeyer, a freshman at Hampshire College, said that as a feminist she was offended by the election of Trump.

“The elected president openly brags about sexually harassing women, and that is not O.K.,” she said.

“Me and so many other

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian

government forces Sunday made major advances in the divided city of Aleppo, threatening to drive a wedge through the rebel-held eastern sector, state media, a monitoring group and official sources said.

Meanwhile, more than 4,000

civilians fled into the Hanano district, which fell to the government Saturday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Local activists said many others were on the move in Aleppo, trying to get to areas less affected by government shelling and airstrikes.

It is the first time that large

numbers of civilians have crossed to government-held areas since eastern Aleppo came under siege in July, despite intense airstrikes on the east and lack of food and health care.

Government ally Russia announced the opening of safe corridors for civilians on several occasions and has accused rebels of preventing people from leaving Aleppo.

The United Nations, howev-

er, has said security issues and fear of arrest by government forces were deterring people from leaving.

Rebel official Yesser alYoussef spoke bitterly about what the opposition sees as a lack of adequate outside support.

“Whoever has aircraft can

win, and whoever has antiaircraft weapons can resist, but those who permit aircraft to bomb cities while banning anti-aircraft weapons have decreed that (President Bashar) al-Assad will remain,” said Youssef, spokesman for the Nour al-Din al-Zenki rebel group, said.

MCT

QUOTE OF T H E D AY “It’s hard to follow my own act.

But the only answer to that would be to give up after the Beatles. I only had two alternatives.

Give up or carry on.”

- Paul McCartney

feminists are terrified to see what the next 4 years hold for us.”

The school replaced the flag for Veteran’s Day and commenced their ceremony, but after facing backlash from the decision to fly the flag at half-mast, Hampshire College has decided to temporarily cease flying the flag.

“I don’t think this is a time to give up,” said senior Alexander Fraker. “This is more of a time for unity,

and coming together as one. We can’t let evil take over this country.”

According to the Hampshire College website for counseling services, the school was offering services to students who were upset about the election. The University of Massachusetts also offered students similar services.

Benjamin Kostyack can be reached at bkostyack@umass.edu.

Missing woman found in California “heavily battered”

Rebels’ Aleppo defenses crumble as 4,000 civilians flee to Hanano Woman had been

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missing for weeks

By Emeralda Bermudez Los Angeles Times

Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman who was missing for three weeks, was found on the side of a road Thursday chained and “heavily battered,” according to police dispatch logs.

Police are looking for two women they believe are the kidnappers.

Papini woman was found bound by restraints along Interstate 5 in Yolo County.

Officials were called about 4:30 a.m. after Papini flagged down a motorist. She two was treated for injuries and reunited with her husband,

RECOUNT

Keith.

The Redding RecordSearchlight quoted dispatch logs from the California Highway Patrol, which said Papini was “heavily battered” and “chained to something.”

On ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said detectives are hoping to get more information from Papini about her abduction soon.

“Obviously she was emotional and quite upset, but elated to be freed, and so we were able to get some information from her,” Bosenko said. “Then, in the days following this, we will be following up with her.”

Officials said they were looking two women last seen driving a dark SUV and

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through the Michigan secretary of state. If that happens, a tedious and expensive process will begin to hand-count the 4,799,284 ballots cast in the presidential race in the state.

The secretary of state’s office said it is researching how federal law affects the schedule to complete a recount, but it expects that a recount would have to be done before Dec. 19 when the Electoral College, including the Michigan’s electors, meets in state capitals. to cast its votes for president, said spokesman Fred Woodhams.

To cover the cost, Stein, as the person requesting the recount, will have to pay $125 per precinct – 6,300 in Michigan – for a cost of $787,500. She’s raised more than $6 million toward a $7 million goal to pay for the three recounts, and for legal costs expected to accompany the process.

Trump is hanging on to a 306-232 Electoral College lead over Clinton, with the winner needing 270 to win the race. Clinton’s lead in the popular vote is more than 2 million votes.

The results of the election would have to be reversed in all three states to change the outcome of the race, which Stein and even Clinton’s campaign acknowledge is an unlikely scenario. In Wisconsin, the margin of Trump’s victory over Clinton was 27,257. In Pennsylvania, the margin was 68,236 votes.

While Clinton campaign counsel Mark Erik Elias said in a post on Medium Saturday that the campaign had been quietly looking at the election results to see if there was any outside interference, “we had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology.”

As a result, they had not planned to ask for recounts, but now that Stein has requested a recount, Elias said, “we feel it is important, on principle, to ensure our campaign is legally rep-

resented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in order to monitor the recount process itself.”

One problem the campaign saw was that many states, including Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, audit the results of the election by canvassing a sampling of precincts. But Michigan does not.

“This is unfortunate,” Elias said. “It is our strong belief that, in addition to an election canvass, every state should do this basic audit to ensure accuracy and public confidence in the election.”

Stein, who received only 51,643 votes in Michigan, said in a recent video on her Facebook page that she doesn’t like either Trump or Clinton, but wants to ensure the integrity of the election.

Meanwhile, the state Republican Party is seeking volunteers and using the possibility of a recount to raise money for the party.

“The Michigan Republican Party has been in touch with the Re publican National Committee and the Trump campaign and we are prepared to recruit volunteers, train them, and monitor all recount efforts to ensure that it is done in a fair and legal way,” Ronna Romney McDaniel, chairwoman of the Michigan party committee, said in an email to supporters Saturday.

“And please ... donate whatever you can to help us fight back.”

And Scott Hagerstrom, director of Trump’s campaign in Michigan, also asked supporters in an email to continue their volunteer work and help by observing recounts across the state.

“We know that many on the progressive left will continue to work to discredit this election and reverse it, if possible,” he said. “A recount where we look the other way and do not participate, is their only chance. We stand ready to make sure every vote is counted properly.”

believed armed with a handgun.

Officials said they were not aware of a motive for the kidnapping and did not provide details on Papini’s injuries or whereabouts. Bosenko also said it was not clear whether Papini knew her abductors.

The Redding resident disappeared Nov. 2 while jogging in the small town of Mountain Gate in Shasta County.

Her husband reported her missing after he came home from work and found that she hadn’t picked up their children from day care. Her cellphone and headphones were found near where she had last been seen, about a mile from her home, investigators said.

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‘SNL’ star says show is biased

By Rob Tornoe The Philadelphia Inquirer

Last week, Presidentelect Donald Trump ripped “Saturday Night Live” on Twitter, calling the sketch comedy show “one-sided” and “biased.”

One cast member says he has a point.

Michael Che, who hosts the show’s “Weekend Update” segment, told Esquire magazine that despite trying to remain balanced and take on both sides, the show has seemed to shift leftward.

“Oddly, I agree with him,” Che said. “We try to write that way. But I do agree with him. I think the show should show all views and we make a conscious effort to do so.”

Che referred to a recent sketch involving liberals in denial over Trump’s election wanting to move into a “bubble” protecting their progressive ideas from other forms of thinking.

“That was a great sketch poking fun at ultra-liberals,” Che said.

“SNL” has done a number of skits during the election campaign that have hit the left. In one, the host of “Black Jeopardy” is surprised that a white Trump support has a lot in common with the other black

contestants. In another, white New York liberals melt down on election night as it becomes clear Trump is going to win.

But with an election that was as polarizing as the one we just went through, Che said both Democrats and Republicans have backed into their own corners and no longer have any desire to find the middle ground.

“It’s very tribal in America, especially now,” the comedian said. “So if you’re a liberal, you’re liberal about everything. You have your mind made up before you’ve even heard the details, you know?

When you read the headline, you already know the story.”

“If you’re conservative, it’s the same thing,” Che said. “That’s why this election was so polarizing.

Nobody was saying, ‘Both of them have things I like, but I’m considering one over the other.’ It’s always, ‘I hate this guy.’ Or, ‘I hate this lady.’ It was split. So with big, heavy issues, they have their minds made up and they’re angry about it because they think if you give up one thing you’re giving up everything.”

High-profile homeless man has large fan base

By Gale Holland Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES –– Ceola Waddell Jr. has what may be the most eye-popping digs of any homeless man in Los Angeles.

A video tour of his living room sofa and loveseat, porcelain toilet and zebraskin slipcovers has been seen 1.4 million times on Facebook. His fans make pilgrimages to the tentlined strip beneath the 110 Freeway near the Coliseum - he calls it “Paradise Lane” - to take selfies.

His quarters are so spacious that another homeless man pays him $25 a week to rent a tent, sandwiched between the “guest room” and a third mattress and headboard. Waddell, who also goes by Mr. Dice, calls it his Airbnb.

“I was walking by and I saw the little sign, ‘For rent,’“ said the tenant, Anthony Garcia.

But what delights Waddell’s followers does not sit well with the city, whose sanitation crews have twice dismantled and carted off his handiwork. Last week, workers removed a refrigerator with an “abundance of rotting food,” “explosive mate-

rials” and other unhealthful things, said Bureau of Sanitation spokeswoman Elena Stern.

Two days later, Waddell had scavenged neighborhood castoffs and rebuilt most of the setup, with flourishes that include ceramic planters with paper orchids, a surfboard and a hot dog stand.

“I refuse to let the city beat me down to what they think a homeless person’s profile is, living on cardboard,” Waddell said. “This should be a landmark.”

A year ago, city elected leaders called for homelessness to be declared a state of emergency. Plans released in February by the city and county were approved this month by voters. They passed a $1.2 billion bond issue for new homeless housing. But the construction will take 10 years, and housing homeless people in the meantime is moving slowly.

Sanitation crews receive reports of 100 to 200 camps a week, and the number keeps rising.

“Our main priority always is to get unsheltered homeless individuals off the streets and into housing,” said Los

Angeles Homeless Services Authority spokesman Tom Waldman.

Mayor Eric Garcetti’s spokeswoman, Connie Llanos, said: “We know that none of these strategies will solve our homelessness crisis overnight, but Mayor Garcetti is committed to ensuring that the crisis is solved as quickly as possible.”

Stern said Waddell refused homeless services, including temporary housing. Waddell declined to speak to City Councilman Curren D. Price Jr. when the councilman visited homeless camps under freeway bridges in his South Los Angeles district, Price’s spokeswoman said.

“There’s been a great deal of public safety and public health concern from neighbors in the area, as well as LAPD and the Sanitation Department,” said the spokeswoman, Angelina D. Valencia.

Waddell says he wants housing, noting that a car recently left the freeway and crashed, pinning a homeless woman in her bedding. Two men with a pistol tried to rob him in see

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Ceola Waddell Jr., a homeless man whose street name is Mr. Dice, has recreated a very elaborated apartment life on 39th Street underneath Freeway 110 and calls it “Paradise Lane,” in Los Angeles.

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Flight disrupted Breitbart plans on going global

by Trump fan B y D avid N g Los Angeles Times

By Pamela Lehman The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) ALLENTOWN, Pa. Several minutes into a flight last Tuesday bound for Allentown, Emma Baum said she was shocked when a man sitting near her began yelling at the passengers about President-elect Donald Trump, calling them “Hillary bitches.”

Baum’s posted a 45-second video to Facebook under the title “Didn’t take long to notice that I’m back in ‘Merica ... “ By week’s end, the video been shared more than 3 million times as of Friday night. Baum was thrust into the spotlight of political discourse with dozens of calls from national media.

The Delta Air Lines flight was traveling from Atlanta.

Delta, on its Twitter page, apologized for the incident.

Baum, 21, who lives in Belize in Central America, said she was on her way to her hometown in Quakertown to visit her family.

She said she first noticed the man while waiting for the flight to board. The man chanted Trump’s slogan several times in the airport terminal, shouting that the president-elect would “make America great again.”

As they boarded the plane, Baum said she was seated next to the man and he again said several things about his support of Trump.

Baum said that before the flight took off, she switched seats with someone behind her so he could sit next to his traveling companion.

Before the flight took off, Baum said she told the man she had been out of the country and asked him about the presidential election. As he

jumped out of his seat to talk to her, she told him she was going to record him with her cellphone.

“He said, ‘Go ahead! I want to tell everyone about Trump. I hope it goes viral,’“ Baum said.

In the video, the man claps his hands, shouting to the passengers, “How many people, man?” He loudly claps his hands to a mostly silent audience.

One woman off-camera says, “We can’t hear you,” and the man points and claps.

“Donald Trump, baby!” he says. “We got some Hillary bitches es on this plane?

“Trump! It’s your president,” the man yells.

Baum said she was concerned about the man’s behavior, and after several minutes, a flight attendant approached the man and took him off the plane. But the man later returned, she said.

“When he came back in, he said, ‘This is what I get for being a patriot,’“ Baum said.

There were no further outbursts from him during the flight.

After the flight landed, Baum said she reported the man’s behavior to airport security and police. Both asked for copies of her video to identify the man.

She said her family had told her about the “craziness” of the election. But Baum, who is licensing the video, said she had no idea it would receive so much attention.

“I did have some people messaging me asking if I was anti-white, and that was disappointing,” Baum said.

“I just put it up and didn’t expect any of this.”

WADDELL JR. his bed. “This is not going to be the end of my life,” he said.

Waddell said he first became homeless at age 14 in Memphis, Tenn., where police nicknamed him “Dice” because he didn’t run when they busted craps games. He’s the seventh of eight children of an alcoholic mother. His sisters tried to turn him into a Cinderella to clean up their messes, he said.

He sang soul covers in a bar band before arriving in Los Angeles in 1983, where he did a brief turn as a clothing salesman before deciding he could not work for others. He moved between the streets and pay-by-the-week hotels, depending on the success of various hustles and sales jobs, including, briefly, drug sales. For 10 years, he lived inside with a girlfriend, but when she died, he lost their shared income, landed back on Skid Row and six months ago arrived at the underpass, he said.

His Internet fame has been rejuvenating, Waddell said, as well as his newfound talent for interior decoration: “I enjoy the hype, like anybody else.”

On a recent Saturday, he pulled up on his beach cruiser towing a shopping cart that bore a bathtub he’d rescued from a junk heap. “This is my Jacuzzi,” he said.

A Mercedes, BMWs and a Lexus pulled up in front of his camp for pre-Thanksgiving handouts of tamales and home-cooked turkey dinners. These grass-roots feeding operations, often run by churches, have been another sore spot for city and homeless service officials, who say they gener-

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ate trash and make it easy for people to remain homeless. Some neighbors say people are hiding in the tents to deal drugs or run prostitution rings.

Rose Sanders, who came to distribute free shoes, said she was homeless until 2014, and the people are truly needy. “People here are really homeless,” Sanders said. “It’s not an easy transition.”

The next day, as Rams fans streamed into the Coliseum, the Dice Dog stand opened for business.

“Dice dogs, dice dogs, what you gonna do when the dog bites you?”

Waddell, wearing a white fedora, chef ’s jacket and cellophane gloves, sang out as he sliced peppers and onions onto hot links sizzling on a propane stove.

Jose Padilla, 28, of Colton, and Juan Villa, 23, of Riverside lounged on the sofas with oversize beers, praising Waddell’s pricing: $2.50 a dog.

“Fool, at the movie theater one little wiener link costs $6,” Villa told his friend.

Neighbors from nearby homes came by for a smoke or to arrange to barbecue later with Waddell. A few parents pulled their children close, but other passersby yelled encouragement. “It’s a whole house!” one child said.

“I still don’t get it, what’s so fascinating about this place,” Waddell said.

“I decided I wanted to live like everybody else, make me something nice that I wanted to come home to.

“If I was in the Arctic I’d make me an igloo.”

Many consider Breitbart’s style offensive. Stories that have generated heat include an opinion piece about the Confederate flag titled “Hoist it High and Proud”; one about the European refugee crisis titled “Political Correctness Protects Muslim Rape Culture”; and numerous stories on crimes committed by illegal immigrants.

“They’re a really wellfunded blog that seems to favor conspiracy theories,” said Lee Wilkins, a professor who teaches media ethics at Wayne State University and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

“I don’t condemn them because they do bad journalism. I don’t think they do journalism at all.”

Breitbart has defended its more fiery articles as constitutionally protected polemics designed to trigger overly sensitive liberals - or “snowflakes” in Breitbart parlance.

They point out that they have also produced real reported pieces - with a conservative world view - including stories on the California drought and border security from its Texas bureau.

The company operates out of a nondescript office building on the Westside.

To avoid unwanted public attention, it keeps a low physical profile: There is no name or sign on the door to indicate that Breitbart is a tenant. A giant photographic portrait of Andrew Breitbart greets visitors at the entrance.

A recent visit showed that Breitbart retains its start-up flavor, with mostly young reporters typing on laptops. The door to the main conference room is emblazoned with the hashtag #War - a mantra Breitbart instilled in his team. The company even has a mascot: the honey badger, the carnivore and YouTube star known for its tenacious attitude and thick skin - qualities that the newsroom has adopted as its own.

Most of Breitbart’s staff is spread around the country, and in London and Jerusalem. Among Breitbart’s immediate goals is to expand into France and Germany to capitalize on growing nationalist sentiments stemming from Europe’s immigration crisis and growing doubts about the European Union.

“I’m already interviewing people there,” said Alexander Marlow, the site’s editor in chief.

“Both of them have big elections that are looking similar to Brexit and the rise of Trump in the U.S., in which you have a popu-

list nationalist movement gaining credibility.”

France will hold its presidential elections next year, with Marine Le Pen, leader of far-right National Front party, having declared her candidacy. Germany will hold national elections next year.

Marlow was a 21-yearold student at the University of California, Berkeley, when Andrew Breitbart hired him as his first employee. He became editor in chief in 2013 and now works mostly in Washington He said one of Breitbart’s objectives is to court millennial conservatives, a demographic that he feels Fox News and other conservative outlets overlook.

“I think the conservative media has been derelict,” he said. “I’m not trying to trash talk them when I say this, but they have done nothing to cultivate young people.”

Marlow sees an opportunity to lure Trump supporters put off by Fox News’ ambivalent take on the Republican candidate, since “so much of their audience feels betrayed by how they covered this presidential race.”

As result, he said, Breitbart is experiencing a surge in readership.

The site drew 19.2 million unique visitors in October, up nearly 50 percent from October 2015, according to data from ComScore.

Breitbart easily beat other conservative news sites The Daily Caller and The Blaze, whose October unique visitors were 10.2 million and 5.8 million, respectively.

Breitbart’s own data paint an even more robust picture. It estimates it has 1.8 billion page views so far this year, an increase from about 1 billion views for all of 2015.

Those figures still pale in comparison to mainstream sites like CNN and Fox News, which have unique visitor traffic triple that amount or more.

But Breitbart said it is confident it will continue to grow its readership even after the election bump.

Traffic is vital to Breitbart because like many news sites, it supports itself mostly with advertising revenue, Solov said. Breitbart works with a number of networks to produce ads on its articles and video clips. He said the company employs a sales manager who oversees a staff of three.

Breitbart also generates revenue from its online store - you can buy a tank top with the logo “Border Wall

Construction Co.” - but it

declined to elaborate.

LOS ANGELES –– Ten Breitbart’s closeness years ago in Westwood, to Trump caused a major a small army of young schism at Breitbart this employees in T-shirts and year, when editor-at-large shorts huddled over their laptops, determined to Ben Shapiro resigned, launch a news site that claiming that Bannon would shake up the world had betrayed Andrew of conservative media.

At first, the site started Breitbart’s legacy by cozyby Andrew Breitbart was ing up to the Republican a simple news-aggregation candidate. site. But in a few short Bannon’s appointment years it developed into an idiosyncratic voice to the White House has combining original been harshly criticized by reporting, incendiary members of both parties commentary and outright who have latched on to trolling, in keeping with the rambunctious spirit some of Breitbart News’ of its founder, who died more outlandish headlines in 2012. As its popularity to denounce him as an grew, many condemned anti-Semite and the site its rhetoric as extremist, xenophobic, sexist and a itself as white nationalist. platform for hate speech.

Bannon, who is on a Others laughed it off as leave of absence from the a journalistic lightweight catering to a far-right company, wasn’t availfringe. able for comment, but No one’s laughing anyBreitbart leaders have more. As Donald Trump gone on the counteroffenprepares to take office as president, the Breitbart sive.

News Network stands to “We think we were become one of the most influential in the election influential conservaand people are resentful tive media companies in the country. Stephen K. of it,” Solov said.

Bannon, the site’s execu “We are a nationalist tive chairman, was a key website. How the word figure in Trump’s cam‘white’ got tacked on is paign and has been named chief White House stratepart of a coordinated gist. media smear campaign,” For Breitbart, that Marlow said. “We like could mean a direct line to the White House, a that we have a border level of media access - we don’t want to cede unprecedented in modour country to unelected ern times. While some global bureaucrats. It has believe the site will turn into an extension of the nothing to do with skin Trump administration, tone.” leaders at Breitbart see Breitbart employs a its presumed access as an number of minorities opportunity to compete not only with conservative and women in prominent rivals like Fox News, but editorial positions. In a also the rest of the media, recent article, its London which they consider to be dishonest about a lefteditor in chief Raheem leaning bias.

Kassam praised Bannon Breitbart doesn’t disfor hiring a “brown guy” cuss its inner workings from “a Muslim family and finances. It doesn’t have digital subscriptions to run his London operaand makes most of its tion.” money selling advertising.

Breitbart News said Now that it has become that while it maintains a a household name and a political lightning rod, pro-Trump stance, it won’t mostly for its pro-Trump shy away from criticizing coverage leading up to the the future president if he election, there is intense deviates from his platcuriosity about who exactly these bad boys form. (and girls) of the right “Our readers expect us are: How does Breitbart to be tough on him and make money? What is its media strategy? And will honor his commitments to the firestorm over Bannon voters,” said Joel Pollak, hinder its business ambisenior editor at large tions? and in-house counsel at In a series of interviews, leaders sounded Breitbart.”If we’re not confident and unapolotough on Trump on living getic. As a company, it is up to his promises, then aiming for no less than our readership will be the world.

“The goal is to become tough on us.” a global news network,” said Larry Solov, the company’s president and chief executive.

L.A. might seem to be an unlikely home to such an outspokenly conservative publication, given the city’s heavily liberal leanings. But both the founder and CEO of Breitbart grew up together in Brentwood. Solov was persuaded to join the company during a trip to Israel they took together as adults.

He said Breitbart is looking to expand into TV, though not necessarily on its own cable network, and will increase its editorial staff, which now employs about 100 people.

They will focus heavily on covering the new administration.

“We think we are going to be the best place for coverage of Trump,” BRIAN VAN DER BRUG/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS Breitbart News CEO Larry Solov on Nov. 17, 2016 in the Breitbart offices in Los Angeles, California.

Solov said.

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The President who never got a break

Media overload leads to anxiety I open up my computer and log to pick for his cabinet, but why must onto Facebook. I am scrolling and we spend so much time and energy scrolling, and all I see are news analyzing every single person who walks in and out of Trump Tower?

Emilia Beuger Psychologists say that negative articles and opinion pieces. But what news can lead to stress, anxiety, and, is the real news? Why is NBC taking if it is constant, violent news covup most of my news feed? I’m now erage, even possible post-traumatic at the doctor’s office. CNN is on the television. Heads talk and talk and stress disorder. Viewing negative talk. Just like they are meant to. But news 24/7 can lead to impacts on while they talk, are they really even your own life and your perceptions saying anything? Are they just like of the world. All of the negative the recent Kristen Wiig episode of news and the guessing that the news SNL with the robotic talking heads on Anderson Cooper? Am I experi- is doing can create extreme amounts encing media overkill at this point? of anxiety, especially for me.

Yes. This exists outside of the election.

Now, I can barely allow myself News is not like this just because of to read the New York Times homepDonald Trump or a recount. This is age. I cannot sit for more than five minutes and watch the news. I avoid not because of the 2016 election. This scrolling through Facebook. I can’t. has been happening and this is the And why’s that? Because the media peak of this issue with news. has become a monster. This monster As a person who wants to stay sucks you in. This monster makes informed, yo u anxit is almost ious, excited, impossible depressed, to try to even though it doesn’t even stomach know the full all of this story.

The informaamount of covtion that erage exceeds isn’t really information. The news the amount of actual information.

As a child, the news scared me. is getting very good at saying a lot All of the violence and events cov- without saying anything at all. It ered made me afraid and nervous. As scares me that I’m only seeing talkI grew older, I became more accustomed to watching the news to be ing heads and articles that regurgiinformed. I started reading newspa- tate the same information over and pers and scanning headlines on the over. It makes me worry that there web. I watched TV news. I knew that are things that are missing and it TV newscasts have to wait for events makes me worry because they are to happen, and in the meantime, they are trying to fill the empty space. reporting while they do not know Now one could argue that news has anything or much at all. always been this way. But there is So where is someone supposed too much coverage, and not enough to get their news and information depth. Not only do I see this in TV nowadays? With fake news, guessing media, but I also see it in newspapers and online. I read and read, and yet news, and this repeat news, where can someone get answers? How can still learn nothing.

It has taken this election for me you get information without being to finally say that it is too much. It stressed and scared? Well, your is too much to see all of these things guess is as good as mine. happening, but they’re not really happening. The anxiety that the news makes me feel is not real. Sure, Emilia Beuger is a Collegian columnist and can we do not know who Trump is going be reached at ebeuger@umass.edu.

It will be left to the his- who, for the past eight years, torians and scholars to was belittled and delegitidetermine President Barack mized by a Congress so corrupt and incompetent that Isaac Simon there reached a point where there was only so much this Obama’s place in history. President, or any president For the rest of our lives, in such a position, could do. people will be trying to accu- The election of 2008 rately assess Obama’s leg- depicted candidate Obama is acy in relation to the lega- an inaccurate light. People cies of other presidents. But said he was a Muslim, when whether people choose to in reality he has strong look upon this part of our Christian faith. Then, there history favorably or unfa- was the birther question, in vorably is not of the utmost large part spearheaded by impor tance.

President the current President-elect.

Obama made many mistakes It turned out that he was and disappointed millions born in Hawaii, and upon of people, including myself receiving the long-form verat some points. This much sion of his birth certificate, is true. But he is also the The New York Times pubPresident who was never lished a photo of it on the given a break. front page of their news When Obama came onto paper. People called him a the national scene, he was a socialist who was trying to fresh face. He wasn’t even a subvert the United States United States Senator when Constitution and follow in he delivered the keynote the footsteps of Marx and address at the Democratic Lenin. Nothing could have National Convention in 2004. been further from the truth.

The speech he gave that He renewed the Bush tax night, viewed by millions cuts, bailed out the finanof people, struck a chord cial sector in the hopes with myself and the rest of of preventing yet another this nation when he proud- recession, and passed the ly declared that, “There is Affordable Care Act, his signot a liberal America, and nature piece of legislation, a conservative America, which ended up costing $947 there is the United States billion and gave even more of America. There is not a Black America and a white America, and Latino America and Asian America, there is the United States of America.” There power to private insurance is irony here. As Obama will companies. The irony here soon depart from the White is that people want to call House, he will step down the law “government-run from leading a country that health care”, when there in many ways has never is very little government been more divided. For it involved. In 2009, Obama was the 2016 election that was opposed to same-sex solidified how polarizing marriage. For the past eight people’s politics are. The left years, he has remained a has moved further left, and centrist Democrat. The naythe right has moved further sayers believed that this right. Racial tensions are at country would run rampant an all-time high, the Islamic with illegal immigrants. The State has massacred tens of reality of the situation tells thousands of innocents and a very different story, showthreatened the lives of many ing a President who has more, and the Syrian civil deported more immigrants war has claimed the lives than any other President in of over 400,000 civilians and American history. Illegal is about to enter its sixth immigration is at net-zero, year. and yet this belief managed I am not suggesting that to persist. these events happened as In an interview with a direct result of Obama’s Charlie Rose following the presidency, but as the lead- inception of his second er of the free world, they term, Obama mentioned how happened under his watch. one of the failures from his As a candidate, he vowed first term was that it wasn’t to end the wars in Iraq and all about getting the policy Afghanistan, and “to have right. Obama believed his all US troops out of Iraq Presidency was more imporwithin 16 months of tak- tant than that. Perhaps we ing office, which would be should understand him in about May 2010.” He failed ways other than just policy. to keep that promise, and Obama has been hailed a sent an additional 100,000 masterful orator. Whether it troops to Afghanistan in be his delivery, or his calm his first term alone. He also and collected nature, one vowed to close Guantanamo can’t help but sit in amazeBay. It has remained open. ment at the ease and proHis further implementa- fessionalism he has shown tion of the drone campaign during these past two terms. has raised legitimate con- Whether it be at the State of cerns by American citizens the Union or at the White with regards to viewing the House Cor respondents’ United States as a global Dinner, not even his most empire. Arguments of this popular detractors and nature are completely valid. opponents doubted his abilBut he is also a President ity to speak to the masses.

“It scares me that I’m only seeing talking heads and articles that regurgitate the same information over and over.”

He took with him to the Oval Office a sense of humor and the ability to crack a joke, but more importantly, an ability to listen and connect with voters. Although I am to a certain extent speculating, much of this seems to be part of his character. Some of it, though, he needed to acquire in part because the opposite would never be an option. If he had a bad temper or the ability to easily lose his cool, he would have been branded as a stereotypical “uppity black man”.

I was in 8th grade when this country elected Obama as the first AfricanAmerican President of the United States. But it was a title that came with its challenges and a subject he never fully tackled in depth.

It is also something this country never fully accepted, especially if we are to understand slogans such as “Make America Great Again” as meaning nothing more than “Make America White Again.”

In the end, he did the best he could with the time he had. He passed a stimulus package to help put millions of Americans back to work.

He bailed out the financial industry. He gave twenty million Americans healthcare who hadn’t previously had it. He oversaw a Supreme Court that proclaimed gay marriage a right, not just in a few states, but in all 50. He lifted the trade embargo with Cuba and passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act for women. He watched unemployment go below five percent and the stock market rebound to where it was before the Great Recession.

Say what you want about the man who will become our 45th President, but I can’t help but believe that America will miss Obama, if not for his policies, then certainly for his character.

In an interview with David Remnick, Obama had this to say about our time on this earth: “I think we are born into this world and inherit all the grudges and rivalries and hatreds and the sins of the past. But we also inherit the beauty and the joy and goodness of our forebears.

And we’re on this planet a pretty short time, so that we cannot remake the world entirely during this little stretch that we have. But I think our decisions matter.

At the end of the day, were part of a long-running story.

We just try to get our paragraph right.”

“I can’t help but believe that America will miss Obama, if not for his policies, then certainly for his character.”

Isaac Simon is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at isimon@umass.edu.

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FILM REVIEW

‘Moonlight’ an emotionally devastating masterpiece Barry Jenkins’ powerful second feature astounds

By Nate Taskin Collegian Staff

“Who is you, Chiron?” asks his distanced friend and brief lover.

The answer, according to “Moonlight,” is one that is in constant flux. Chiron’s sense of self and his relation to others – his absent father and trapped mother, his surrogate parents, his employee and surrogate son, his tormentors and lone friend – always pivots in relation to his age, location, emotions and the way he fills his space. His perspective constantly shifts based on where he stands, the area he occupies and the body he inhabits. And the viewer moves with him.

“Moonlight,” a film that even the most excessive hyperbole still seems to undersell, examines these intersections of identity – be it race, masculinity, queerness or overall sense of self – and how they form a man who contains multitudes.

The film tracks Chiron, a gay Black man (though he only really understands the former about himself midway through), across three periods of his life. In a sense, “Moonlight” features three protagonists rather than one – all who occupy the same body at different stages.

As a boy, we see “Little” (a diminutive moniker given by the boys who harass him daily) navigate a world that punishes him for being different. He can’t place why yet, though it reflects in his loner status and his inability to connect with others.

With a missing father and a guilt-ridden, crack-addicted mother (Naomie Harris) who loves her son but does not know how to express it, Little finds solace in the embrace of Juan (Mahershala Ali)

sun, streetlights, stars and moon, and the way these colors gleam on their faces highlights every crevice, wrinkle, baggy eye circle and laugh line.

Though there are obvious differences in subject matter, “Moonlight” echoes my beloved “Carol” in the way it depicts the closeted experience as a constant anchor that exists to drag you down into an abyss untouched by the watchful moon’s glow.

While I cannot speak with authority to the way Chiron’s race relates to his sexuality, there are episodes in Chiron’s schoolyard and home life experience that feel achingly familiar. Imagine lying to the world as survival tactic – where 10-inch boots stomp on your neck and every microaggression is an icepick jabbed into your skin. And the moment you try to lift the boot or bat away the icepicks, they only press down harder.

Many critics (mostly white, mostly straight, let’s be honest) have referred to “Moonlight” as a DAVID BORNFRIEND/A24 definitive depiction of the queer Delicate characterization, resonant themes and pure technical brilliance make ‘Moonlight’ cinematic poetry: subtle, aching and glowing. Black male experience, as if they would ever refer to “Boyhood” as an essential portrayal of the and Teresa (Janelle Monáe, who of their interests and rejected by creep up on him. may or may not be of this earth). hegemonic society as a whole for Three different actors – Alex straight white male experience.

The pair provide a safe haven their appearance, both Chirons Hibbert, Ashton Sanders and Jenkin’s film is really one richlyfor Little from the terrors of the must perpetually exist on the Trevante Rhodes in that order – layered narrative among many, outside world. As Juan holds Little fringes of their communities. play this central figure, and feel and its raw passion and magnifibeneath the Floridian waves, he The film’s adolescent Chiron is at once distinct and linked togeth- cent craftsmanship open the door becomes baptized anew, and with perpetually shunned by peers dis- er by a singular essence. None of to many more stories both intrinsithe guidance and validation of gusted with his perceived abnor- them say more than one or two cally similar and fundamentally Juan and Teresa, Chiron can claim mality, and they lash out when sentences at a time, yet each actor different. his birth name with pride even if he has the audacity to stand up carries the weight of their previ- “Moonlight” uses Blackness, he cannot fully cleanse himself of to them. There is no better way to ous incarnation, and we see this masculinity and queerness as a past baggage. destroy someone than to have the burden and blessing in the eyes of means to explore the multi-faceted Chiron shares his name with person they love to do the work Little, Chiron and Black as they experience of the neglected and the most famous centaur from for you, and Chiron learns this the stare out into the sea. the othered, all told through the Greek mythology, and it fits him hard way when he displays vulner- In just his second feature, direc- eyes of a child with three names well. The mythical Chiron, a soul- ability to someone he should not tor Barry Jenkins demonstrates who doubtless will adopt more as ful philosopher and stargazer, has have trusted. with near-perfection his ability to he grows and discard the ones he little in common with the bravura The adult Chiron, now a drug harmonize the thematic, the tech- no longer needs. and toxic masculinity that defines dealer who goes by “Black,” has at nical and the emotional. Actors his fellow centaurs. Unable to fit least attempted to shed his former are bathed in blue, yellow and pur- Nate Taskin can be reached at in amongst their kinsman because self, yet the past still finds a way to ple hues reflected from the ocean, ntaskin@umass.edu.

‘Arrival’ delivers hopeful, empathy-driven vision of the future

By Nate Taskin Collegian Staff

In a time when the future looks pretty abysmal, I needed a movie like “Arrival.”

Do not fall for its marketing campaign. Paramount sold it as yet another alien invasion flick where a nondescript Other has vowed to destroy humanity because it’s just in their nature (see the apocalyptic alarmism of “Independence Day,” “Battle: Los Angeles” or “Signs” for further examples). “Arrival” has far loftier ambitions. Here is a film that values communication over isolationism, intercultural exchange over xenophobia and empathy over violence.

Massive, football-shaped UFOs have appeared all over the Earth. Not even the world’s leading scientists can pinpoint a methodology for their placement. Once contact is established between humans and their guests, little sense can be made of the visitors’ whalelike moans.

Through a joint effort from all of the world nations, a crack team of linguists and physicists have made it their mission to forge a dialogue with the aliens and discover whether their intentions for Earth are benign or sinister.

Still, the impulse to jettison diplomacy and fire upon the (seemingly) incomprehensible foreigners always looms over negotiations.

In narratives like these, it’s almost always the strong man who saves the day, or the jaded Navy SEAL or the assassin with a tortured past.

The hero’s self-worth is often measured by the number of headshots he successfully hits.

Not so in “Arrival.”

In this film, Amy Adams plays Dr. Louise Banks, a linguist so talented that she makes Noam Chomsky look like Pauly D. Perhaps my favorite character introduced this year, Banks commits to understanding the aliens beyond just what they have to offer, providing a phenomenal model of compassion. Adams, an actor always shamefully undervalued, finds a sublime blend between fierceness and vulnerability.

Denis Villeneuve has always been a hit-and-miss filmmaker. His previous two features, “Sicario” and “Enemy,” were uneven thrillers that still demonstrated technical skill, memorable imagery and wild creativity. Meanwhile, “Incendies” and “Prisoners” were David Fincher-lite garbage thudding with self-importance despite

having little to say. If “Arrival” were the only movie of his that I saw, I would have assumed he were one of Hollywood’s hidden masters.

Which is not to sell the man short, as “Arrival” is a technical astonishment even without its resonant thematic heartbeat. Villeneuve and cinematographer Bradford Young bathe the frame in earthy gray tones frequently cut by swaths of bright light. There’s a constant sense of discovery in the tensest moments, and the team’s gradual ascent into the spaceship echoes the introduction of the dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” in terms of sheer wonder.

This year marked the 20th anniversary of Roland Emmerich’s paean to American exceptionalism, “Independence Day” (with a cash-grab sequel to compliment it, of course). Afforded no motivation beyond a quasireligious desire for genocide, that film’s aliens existed to destroy or be destroyed. JeanLuc Godard once said that the best way to criticize a movie is to make another movie. Based on that principle, “Arrival” acts as an excellent refutation.

With the recent election of a Cheeto-skinned white nationalist shyster to one of the highest positions of power in the

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Amy Adams’ lead performance is one of many things to love about ‘Arrival,’ a science fiction film with deep humanity. world, it’s hard to not feel an eerie prescience in “Arrival.”

When the first answer – either in policy or in rhetoric – to any foreign entity is force, even when they pose zero threat, it’s troubling, to put it mildly, to see that mentality reflected in media.

“Arrival” has a different vision of the future – one more in line with the humanism of “Star Trek” than the jingo-

istic pomp of “Independence Day.” The most important ingredients are empathy and understanding. Uber-macho displays of force solve nothing.

We must strive to build connections with what we don’t understand, even give into instinctual fear. You could regard the aliens of “Arrival” as analogues to the way society-at-large treats people of

color, Mexicans, LGBTQ+ folk, Muslims, immigrants, refugees or any other marginalized group in America, and the message is still the same. Understanding divides requires a fundamental change in the way one thinks, even if that change feels frightening, threatening and, well, alien.

Nate Taskin can be reached at ntaskin@umass.edu.

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screen against UVM goalie Stefanos Lekkas just over two minutes into the game.

Defenseman Shane Bear followed up with another goal (his third of the season) just over a minute later as he wristed a shot in from the slot putting UMass up 2-0 by the end of the first period.

However, the game quickly turned in favor of the Catamounts as the second period progressed. The two goal lead dissipated for the Minutemen in less than two minutes.

“I think our defense just wasn’t making the plays that it was making in the first period,” Carvel told WHMP after the game. “I thought our defense did a really nice job of making plays to break their fore-

check, an adjustment we made in our game plan from playing them a couple of weeks ago. I thought our defensemen in the first period were very good, and in the second period not so much.”

An odd man rush by UVM helped lead to the Catamount’s first goal as forward Derek Lordemeier scored his third of the season. Unfortunately, a penalty on UMass defenseman Ivan Chukarov still had to be served. This led to the second goal on the power play for UVM by sophomore Craig Puffer, tying the game at two.

In the third period Puffer scored his second goal of the game on yet another power play giving the Catamounts the 3-2

lead.

UVM’s empty net goal with just three seconds left in regulation put the game on ice for the Catamounts.

The Catamounts would go on to win the tournament, and while the Minutemen finished fourth Carvel still came away feeling positive about the results for UMass.

“When it was time to practice and it was time to play the games our guys were focused,” Carvel said to WHMP following the tournament. “That’s a really good sign and that wasn’t the case earlier in the season. What we’ll take away is that we played two top 20 teams.”

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

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Michigan could still be alive in national championship race

Wolverines on the outside looking in

By Mark Snyder Detroit Free Press

The buildup to Saturday’s showdown between No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Michigan was billed in many circles as an unofficial College Football Playoff quarterfinal.

The winner would likely secure a spot in the final four, resting at No. 2 with, at most, one game remaining before the Dec. 4 announcement.

The loser would have two losses and likely be on the outside. That’s probably where Michigan sits now after losing to the Buckeyes 30-27 in double overtime, without another game to impress the CFP selection committee, which will meet this week for the penultimate rankings, revealed

Tuesday and then for the final announcement Sunday.

It seems cut-and-dried.

But in the hands of 12 individuals on the committee with no real defined criteria on choosing the four College Football Playoff teams, the 10-2 Wolverines still have a chance.

The best evidence? The committee’s own rankings the past two weeks.

Michigan was 9-0, ranked No. 3 entering its Nov. 12 game at Iowa. The Wolverines lost on the road, 14-13, and ... stayed No. 3.

The next week, Michigan hosted Indiana without U-M’s starting quarterback, Wilton Speight, and the offense struggled in the 20-10 win. There was no indication at the time Speight could return and bring the offense back to its previous form.

Yet the committee kept the Wolverines No. 3.

“The committee continues to be impressed with

the Michigan team, who’s the only team in the current rankings to have three wins against current CFP Top 10 teams (and) continues to be very impressed with Michigan’s defense,” selection committee chair Kirby Hocutt said after those rankings emerged. “So we discussed the quarterback situation, we’re aware of it but obviously that did not change our opinions, our decisions that Michigan is the No. 3 ranked team in college football this week.”

So, now, with U-M losing in double overtime on the road to a team ranked ahead (Ohio State) _ and with the same 10-2 record and wins over the two teams playing for the Big Ten championship next week (Penn State and Wisconsin) _ plus a win over a team playing for the Pac-12 championship (Colorado) - there’s a decent case to be made for Michigan among 2-loss teams.

Assuming the selection committee approaches the rankings the same way they have and there’s no guarantee because all conversations and individual voting is private. Michigan will probably land just outside the top four.

That’s where the FWAANFF Super 16 poll placed U-M today, at No. 5.

Of course, with a fourteam playoff, that’s not enough. But it puts the Wolverines in an interesting spot.

No. 1 Alabama will get in, even if the Tide lost the SEC title game to Florida.

No. 2 Ohio State will get in at 11-1 because it has no more games.

But Clemson and Washington, the only two other one-loss teams and the likely No. 3 and No. 4 teams entering Tuesday’s College Football Playoff rankings reveal, still have title games to play - Clemson in the ACC

against Virginia Tech and Washington in the Pac-12 against Colorado.

If one loses, or both lose, the door opens and the No. 5 team, presumably Michigan, enters the conversation as apparently the best of the two-loss teams.

Michigan would still have a strong resume with three Top 10 wins. The Wolverines would have lost on the road to the No. 2 team in double overtime, with a recovering quarterback who clearly would be much healthier by the time the semifinals are played Dec. 31.

Yet that scenario seems like a long-shot for one reason: Politics.

The selection committee was empowered by the conference commissioners.

And placing Michigan in the Top 4 along with Ohio State would mean ignoring the Big Ten, ACC and/or Pac12 champion and devaluing their championship games.

While the conference championship is only supposed to be a consideration in the case of a razor-thin margin between teams, it would be a tough precedent to set, putting two teams from the same conference in, neither who played in the Big Ten title game.

Michigan had chances on Saturday for assistance, primarily if Penn State had lost to Michigan State, allowing OSU to be the conference champ, etc. But the Wolverines also had control of their destiny in their own game, with many failed chances to beat Ohio State.

They didn’t. And now they will need a Hail Mary for that small chance.

“You see two heavyweight teams go into double overtime, I think that speaks volumes for a chance at the playoffs,” Speight said after the game.

On Dec. 4, we’ll see how loud it resonates.

NFL FOOTBALL

Patriots rally to beat the Jets on the road Sunday New York chokes on the final drive

By Andy Vasquez The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Early in Sunday’s game, the Jets reminded everyone why this team was expected to contend for a playoff spot.

Their stars carried them to a lead against the mighty Patriots. Ryan Fitzpatrick and Brandon Marshall finally connected. Defensive ends Leonard Williams and Sheldon Richardson made Tom Brady’s life very difficult.

And then, the final minutes of the fourth quarter _ winning time _ the Jets reminded everyone why they’re not a very good football team.

Cornerback Darrelle Revis got burned for three touchdowns, including the go-ahead score and Fitzpatrick fumbled the ball away on the potential game-winning drive as the Patriots beat the Jets, 22-17, at MetLife Stadium.

The loss officially eliminates the Jets from contention in the AFC East. They’ll likely be eliminated from playoff contention altogether within the next two weeks.

It’s also the latest gut punch in a season full of them, because for much of the fourth quarter the Jets were in prime position to pull off the stunning upset.

With 10:17 remaining in the fourth quarter, Fitzpatrick fired a pass into the back right

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Tom Brady reaches Milestone on Sunday becoming the fifth Quarterback in NFL history to surpass 60,000 career passing yards. corner of the end zone toward Quincy Enunwa. As the ball reached its apex, it seemed too deep for Enunwa to haul in.

But the receiver grabbed the ball with both hands and came down backside first. Jets fans celebrated, until the officials ruled Enunwa out of bounds.

But moments later, MetLife Stadium erupted with noise.

The replays being played inside the stadium showed that Enunwa had gotten his entire rear end in bounds - the equivalent of getting both feet in. Four years after the “Butt

Fumble” the Jets had a “Butt Touchdown” to give them a 17-13 lead.

It didn’t stand up, however and Revis is a big reason why.

Just two years ago, Revis was the Patriots’ star cornerback who helped them win a Super Bowl. But Brady targeted him on the final drive and found Malcolm Mitchell, who beat Revis for an eightyard touchdown with 1:56 left to give New England a 22-17 lead.

Fitzpatrick had the ball and a chance to win the game for the Jets - getting a measure

of redemption for a frustrating season. But he fumbled on second down and the Patriots recovered, ending the Jets hopes.

Fitzpatrick finished 22-of32 with two touchdowns and no interceptions. Enunwa had five catches for a career-high 109 yards and a touchdown.

Back in the preseason, when there was hope and the Jets talked openly about being playoff contenders, the Fitzpatrick/Marshall connection was supposed to be the propulsion behind their offense. In 2015, when the Jets

won 10 games, Marshall and Fitzpatrick combined for one of the best seasons in franchise history.

But both entered Sunday suffering through miserable seasons. Fitzpatrick was benched after six weeks of awful quarterbacking; he only got his job back because Geno Smith was injured in his first game as Fitzpatrick’s replacement. Marshall meanwhile, has been a non-factor for the Jets; he entered Sunday with more drops on the season than touchdown catches.

But early in the game,

Fitzpatrick and Marshall finally figured it out. Fitzpatrick connected with Marshall for four catches and 53 yards in the first quarter alone. On the first play of the second quarter, Fitzpatrick found Marshall for a one-yard touchdown to give the Jets a 10-0 lead. It was Marshall’s first touchdown since a Week 5 grab at Pittsburgh.

Meanwhile, the defensive line harassed Brady. They hit him often and sometimes hard early. Brady, who missed two days of practice because of a knee injury, looked especially uncomfortable in the first half when he completed only 3-of-9 passes.

It was all going quite swimmingly for the Jets until early in the second quarter when Fitzpatrick found receiver Robby Anderson. The rookie made a nice catch, and a beautiful spin move for a 25-yard gain. But Anderson fumbled the ball at midfield, and the Patriots recovered. It was a play that allowed the Patriots to get back in the game.

A few moments later, Brady cashed in with a touchdown. He found Mitchell, who burned Revis - hey, not every struggling high-profile Jet got it together on Sunday.

Brady milestone: Brady became the fifth player in NFL history to reach 60,000 yards passing when he found receiver Julian Edelman for an 18-yard catch in the second quarter. He trails only Dan Marino, Brett Favre, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees in all-time passing yards.

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HOCKEY

UMass hockey comes up just short in Belfast

Minutemen finish last in the Freindship Four

“I thought it was a great play by (Iacobellis) to get the puck out to Plevy. It’s just unfortunate we couldn’t get more of that in overtime,” Carvel said to WHMP. After SLU climbed back to tie and force overtime, UMass had an opportunity to win the game following a five minute major on Saints’ Nolan Gluchowski--who also suffered a game misconduct with less than two minutes to go in regulation for contact to the head on Iacobellis as he crossed mid-ice.

Unfortunately, the Minutemen came up empty as they finished the tournament with just one power play goal despite a combined 13 chances for the weekend.

By Nick Souza Collegian Staff

While it will go down officially as a loss and tie, the Massachusetts hockey team finished the weekend in fourth place out of four in the Friendship Four hockey tournament in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

For UMass (3-7-2, 1-5-1 Hockey East) and its coach Greg Carvel, the consolation game on Saturday against Saint Lawrence carried a little more emotional fervor than your typical third place game.

Carvel played for SLU (8-4-4, 5-0-2 ECAC) during his career as a collegiate player, and coached his alma mater for five years before taking over as head coach of the Minutemen.

“I said in a separate interview that this was going to be the most hotly contested consolation game you’ll ever see,” Carvel told WHMP following the game. “You could see that from the beginning of the game. You could see that from the Saint Lawrence players that they still had a little anger from the players that I left.”

While it is officially recorded as a 2-2 tie, because it deter-

UMass can’t finish what it started against Vermont The Minutemen opened the tournament against their conference foe the Catamounts (8-3Defenseman Shane Bear scored the second of two UM goals in 4-2 loss to Vermont during the opening game of the tournament.

2, 4-2-1 HEA). This was a game mined the third place finisher of goaltender Kyle Hayton giving from Griff Jeszka past Hayton that also counted toward Hockey with 10:30 to go in the first peri- East conference play, and despite the tournament, the Saints and SLU the unofficial win.

UMass decided the winner via The most unfortunate aspect od. The Minutemen then created another strong start, UMass ultiof the technical loss for the their second 2-0 lead of the tour- mately fell 4-2. shootout.

The shootout took six rounds Minutemen is they did not trail nament on a power play goal from The Minutemen opened scoring early in the first period to decide the winner when SLU the Saints through 65 minutes of Austin Plevy (his fourth goal of with a goal by Jeszka (his third the season) assisted by senior senior Drew Smolcynski beat regulation and overtime play. of the season) as he used the Minutemen goalie Ryan Wischow, UMass opened the scoring captain Steven Iacobellis less defenseman in front of him as a and forward Ryan McDougall was with freshman forward Niko than two minutes into the second see BELFAST on page 7 unable to answer against Saints Hildenbrand deflecting a pass period.

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FOOTBALL

Multiple comeback attempts not enough for Minutemen UMass loses to Hawaii 46-40 to finish season

By Andrew Cyr Collegain Staff

Despite overcoming two doubledigits deficits Saturday night, the Massachusetts football team’s late comeback effort fell short at Aloha Stadium as UMass fell to Hawaii 46-40 in its final game of the 2016 season.

Trailing 40-26 with 12 minutes, 55 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, the Minutemen (2-10) orchestrated a 16-play, 75-yard touchdown drive what ended in a 1-yard run from fullback John Robinson-Woodgett to bring UMass within one score.

Following a three-and-out from

the Rainbow Warriors (6-7) on the ensuing drive, UMass answered with an 18-yard touchdown run from Marquis Young (19 carries, 117 rushing yards), which tied the game at 40 after Mike Caggiano’s PAT. However, Hawaii, which clinched bowl eligibility with the win, answered with a 56-yard touchdown from quarterback Dru Brown to Keelan Ewaliko with 3:52 remaining.

The Minutemen were stopped on the Rainbow Warriors’ 21-yard line on 4th and 11 when Andrew Ford’s pass fell incomplete to Bernard Davis.

Ford finished Saturday’s game 24-for-38 with 342 passing yards and three touchdowns.

Trailing 24-13 at halftime, UMass overcame its Achilles heel

for most of the year by scoring on back-to-back drives in the third to give the Minutemen their first lead of the game, 26-24, with 7:46 left in the quarter.

The first came via a 39-yard pass from Ford to wide receiver Andy Isabella, while Jalen Williams scored the second on a reception from 27 yards out.

Starting in nine games for UMass, Ford finished the season with 26 touchdown passes, breaking Blake Frohnapfel’s previous Minutemen-FBS record of 23, which he set in 2014.

The loss dropped UMass to 10-50 (.167 winning percentage) in its fifth complete year in FBS, and 8-28 (.222) in the second go-round for coach Mark Whipple with the Minutemen.

The Rainbow Warriors

answered UMass’ third-quarter scoring drives with a 16-0 run over their own. Hawaii forced a safety to tie the game at 26 after center Fabian Hoeller made a back snap from the Minutemen’s 11-yard line with 4:31 remaining in the quarter.

Brown connected with Dylan Collie from 31 yards out for his fourth touchdown pass with 2:28 remaining in the third quarter as the Rainbow Warriors regained the lead 33-26. One the first drive of the fourth quarter, Diocemy Saint Jude scored on a 40-yard touchdown run to give Hawaii a twoscore lead.

Brown threw for 311 yards and five touchdowns on 22-of-30 passing attempts. Saint Juste lead the Rainbow Warriors’ ground attack with 122 yards on 14 carries.

Both teams exchanged scores

in the second quarter with Hawaii opening the game on a seven-play, 74-yard scoring drive that lasted 3:49 after it received the opening kickoff.

Logan Laurent and Rigoberto Sanchez each hit 37-yard field goals in the opening quarter to give the Rainbow Warriors a 10-3 lead.

Adam Breneman scored his team-leading eighth touchdown reception with 13:58 remaining in the second quarter. Laurent also made a 38-yard field goal later in the frame.

Steve Casali led all Minutemen players with nine tackles, while Da’Sean Downey and Colbert Calhoun each forced fumbles.

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

BASKETBALL

UM outlasts Harvard Crimson for fourth victory Donte Clark comes through in final minutes B y Andrew C yr Collegain Staff

After the Massachusetts men’s basketball team and Harvard battled back and forth for all of Saturday afternoon’s contest, there was little doubt who UMass would turn to with the game on the line.

Trailing 54-53 with just under four minutes remaining and the shot clock approaching zero, Donte Clark heaved up a 3-point shot with a hand in his face in front of the Minutemen bench in an act of last-second desperation.

“I just put it up there,” Clark said. “It was a prayer and it went in.”

Clark’s 3-pointer gave UMass a lead it would hang onto for the rest of the game with the Minutemen topping the Crimson 70-66 in the latest thriller of the

growing Massachusetts rivalry.

“It seems like all of our games against UMass have been tough, hard-fought, possession-by-possession games where we both have gone down to the wire to pull games out or to have some gut-wrenching losses,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said.

Following a Siyani Chambers 3-pointer to give Harvard a 54-50 lead, Clark answered with a 3 of his own to cut the deficit to one with 5:49 remaining, as Clark would go on to score 16 of his game-high 29 points during that final stretch.

“That’s Donte as our leader,” said Zach Lewis (10 points), who was the only other Minuteman to score in double digits. “We expect that from him, I mean he had a great game today, but we expect that from him.”

Although Clark’s late-game baskets lifted UMass (4-1) to victory in front of 3,320 at Mullins Center, his best play may have come on his only missed free

throw of the game.

After the Minutemen watched their eight-point lead with 1:26 whittle down to one after a Corey Johnson 3-pointer and four free throws from Seth Towns, Clark stepped to the free throw line with 14 seconds left with the chance to ice the game.

Clark made the first, but after missing the second he corralled his own rebound despite being the only UMass player in the lane matching up against four Harvard (1-3) defenders.

He sunk both of his free throws after he was fouled, securing a two-possession lead and the win for the Minutemen.

“I was definitely the first person to know (that I missed it),” Clark said. “I took off like I was in a track meet. I knew it was going left, so I just went and got it.”

“There’s no excuse for that,” Amaker added. “It shouldn’t have happened. Give Clark credit for recognizing the opportunity

to make that big, winning play.”

“He made big plays at Holy Cross, he made big plays today and I’m anticipating that he’s going to have to make big plays in probably about 15 more games with the way college basketball is going,” UMass coach Derek Kellogg said. “I’m happy to have him.”

Both the Minutemen and the Crimson struggled to find any rhythm for the majority of the first half. At the under-12 media timeout, UMass was shooting just 4-for-15 from the field (1-of-9 from 3) with Harvard shooting 4-for-13 (0-for-2) itself.

The Crimson went on a 10-2 run midway through the first half forcing Kellogg to call a timeout with 8:23 remaining after a Seth Towns 3-pointer and a Chamber strip-and-steal fastbreak layup that gave Harvard a 21-17 lead.

Towns finished with a teamhigh 17 points for the Crimson, while Henry Welsh (12) and

Chambers (11) followed behind.

Zena Edoswomwan, Harvard’s leading scorer and rebounder from last year, added five points and 10 rebounds in 23 minutes off the bench.

Lewis’ floater to beat the buzzer sent the two teams to the locker room tied at 32 after an ugly first half. The Minutemen shot just 38.2 percent from the field (13-for-34), including a dismal 2-of-15 clip from 3-point distance.

Luwane Pipkins, who’s been one of UMass’ most solid contributors this season, shot just 3-for12 from the field and 0-of-6 from 3-point range. He finished with eight points while also adding a pair of rebounds and assists.

“I’d say we’re happy to come away with a win today against a team that every year it seams to come down to the last minute and a half, two minutes of the game,” Kellogg said.

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