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Professor appeared on three episodes

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Calvin and Chloe Satterfield push carts full of belongings into a dorm room in Southwest Residential rea Sunday afternoon.

SGA hires new vice president L ily Wallace to be officially confirmed

By Jack Martin

Collegian Correspondent

Student Government Association president Anthony Vitale hired Lily Wallace, senior political science and BDIC major, as his vice president on Dec. 20, filling a vacancy left by former vice president Nick Rampone.

Wallace currently serves as acting vice president of the SGA. She will speak in front of the Senate on Jan. 30 to be officially confirmed as vice president. In her new role, she will serve as Vitale’s chief advisor. She will also be the mediator to the University’s area governments. `She was hired as the undersecretary of university policy last year and also

worked as the front desk manager at the SGA office.

“Lily is extremely qualified for this position and has terrific plans for our organization,” Vitale wrote in an email sent by the SGA. After Rampone resigned to study abroad in Shanghai, China, an application was made available to all UMass students. Eight students applied and were interviewed by Vitale. A hiring committee made up of senior members of the SGA reviewed each application and assisted Vitale in choosing an appointee.

Wallace said she applied for the position because she wants to help create policies that affect campus life.

“Being a political science major, I’m really interested in policy,” she stated.

“What’s really going to help students down the line is institutionalized policy.”

Wallace said her main

goal of this semester is to work with registered student organizations to build relationships and ensure that no organization feels isolated.

Wallace worked as a DJ trainer and a radio host at WMUA. She said she understands that some organizations may feel isolated from the SGA, so she is excited to reach out to organizations to better understand their needs.

She said her work with different student groups on campus was a reason she was chosen for the position. Aside from working with WMUA, she works for the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, which seeks to “foster an informed, caring and supportive campus community for students of all backgrounds and beliefs,” according to its web page.

Wallace also works with the Real Food Challenge, which calls for 20 percent

of the University’s food to be from local, economic and humane food sources by 2020.

She believes her work on campus diversity was another major contributor in Vitale’s decision to hire her.

“I think it’s important to support our fellow students in creating a campus climate that supports compassion and understanding,” she said.

Wallace, along with other students, helped create the UMass Interfaith Alliance, which plans social events to connect students to a religiously diverse group of people.

For the past three years she has been a resident assistant for Crampton Hall’s Nuance: Multicultural Student Program, which “strives to give its residents see

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Congessional Republicans to find health care compromise

By Lesley Clark McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wants Congress to move quickly this week to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, but congressional Republicans are far from a consensus on a repeal-and-replace effort that won’t leave millions of their constituents without insurance.

Monday, two senators who have cautioned colleagues to delay repeal until they’ve settled on a replacement will announce an alternative plan to give states the choice to keep the health care law or be granted flexibility to expand

Medicaid and other coverage options.

That alternative, from Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Bill Cassidy, R-La, runs counter to the plans on the table, including one from Trump’s health secretary nominee Tom Price, known as the “Empowering Patients First Act.” That would offer tax credits, encourage the use of health savings accounts and urge states to develop high-risk pools.

“I’m not saying that it’s perfect, but it’s important that we put specific proposals on the table,” Collins said on the Senate floor about the plan she will advance this week. Repeal without replace-

ment or repeal with a delay, as some lawmakers have suggested, would send insurance markets into a tailspin, she said.

In addition to Price’s plan, Republicans have considered House Speaker Paul Ryan’s “A Better Way.” Ryan’s plan would also offer tax credits to help people pay for insurance, and he wants to overhaul Medicare, which Trump has promised not to cut.

Complicating the situation, Trump’s pledge for “insurance for everybody” conflicts with what many fiscal-minded Republicans intend to do and the yawning gap between congressional conservatives and their president on the

issue is something Democrats are eager to exploit.

“I guess we have to wait for President Trump’s Twitter to figure out what the Republican plan is going to be,” said Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M. He is a member of Democratic leadership, which has sought to highlight Republican contortions over finding a solution. “They’re all on different pages and when they try to clean it up they contradict each other all over again,” Lujan said.

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For students and professors, winter break is an opportunity for rest and relaxation.

For one University of Massachusetts professor, he had the opportunity to be featured on national television testing his trivia knowledge and making big wins.

English professor and associate dean Joseph Bartolomeo appeared for a three-day run on “Jeopardy!” which began on the Jan. 5 episode.

Bartolomeo, who joined the UMass English faculty in 1986 and is now an associate dean for the College of the Humanities and the Fine Arts, won on his first and second appearances.

On his third appearance that aired on Jan. 9, the final round was on “19th century notables.” The clue was “Calling him a redheaded madman, in 1889 a group of his neighbors signed a petition to ban him from his home in Arles, France.”

Bartolomeo answered the hint correctly, which was Vincent Van Gogh.

However, he lost by $604.

By the end, Bartolomeo managed to salvage $38,500.

“I wish I had been a little more deliberate on the last day,” Bartolomeo said with a laugh. “Hindsight is 20/20.”

In early 2016, Bartolomeo was among a pool of around 70,000 people who took the online test and made it past the qualifying round, according to a news release sent by Associate Director of UMass News and Media Relations Daniel Fitzgibbons. From that pool, about 3,000 were selected for auditions and 400 people from that group were invited to appear on the show.

Following his audition which took place in New York in June, Bartolomeo flew to Los Angeles to tape his appearances in late September.

During his appearance, Bartolomeo faced question of varies categories such as American literature, Canadian lakes and the career of Rita Moreno.

“To me, the category that drew a complete blank on me was Brazilian cuisine,” Bartolomeo stated with a laugh.

A strategy that Bartolomeo implemented to get the most answers see

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UMass Hult team to go to semi-finals Competition takes place in March

By Stuart Foster Collegian Staff

The winning team of the Hult Prize competition at the University of Massachusetts will compete at the semi-final level of the competition in San Francisco this March.

The Hult Prize is an entrepreneurial competition focused around socially beneficial business ideas, with each year’s competition focusing around a major issue. This year’s challenge is to create an enterprise that would “restore the rights and dignity” of 10 million refugees by 2022.

The winning team’s idea was called Slate, and would serve primarily as a “social, professional network” for refugees, according to team member Penelope Martin, a sophomore economics and finance major.

“Our plan is to get those refugees and connect them to the outside world, where there’s a plethora of companies and corporations looking for their skills,” said Martin. “We’re kind of like LinkedIn in the sense that we’re matching people with different job opportunities, but we also provide a social network for refugees.”

Martin said refugees would be able to use the website to communicate

with each other about their experiences and form unique online networks.

If Slate wins the overall Hult Prize competition, they will be awarded with $1,000,000 in start-up funding to pursue the implementation of their design.

Kyle Pandiscio, another member of the design team and a marketing major, said the target camp for the project is the Zaatari refugee camp in north Jordan, where there is some access to internet and wi-fi.

“At Zaatari, 83 percent of refugees actually have access to the internet,” said Pandiscio, who is a sophomore studying marketing.

Liam Reilly, a sophomore marketing major, said that he and the other groupmembers were a successful team because of their close friendship.

“We worked as a good sounding board for each other,” he said.

Reilly added that he thought the competition felt more competitive this year than last, when the group also participated. While the competition last year featured twelve teams, half of them were required to participate for a Residential Academic Program the three were in.

This year, there were ten teams participating, all of whom were doing so voluntarily.

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China ready for cooperation with President Trump BEIJING — Confronted by the challenge of Donald Trump’s presidency, China is signaling that it’s ready to work with the new administration and has already taken a few policy steps that may help fend off criticism over access to its markets.

The official Xinhua News Agency congratulated Trump on his inauguration and said it hoped for “win-win” cooperation with the U.S.. An editorial run by state-backed newspaper China Daily took a similar tone, saying the world’s two largest economies should work together toward “an updated, more desirable version of globalization.”

Last week, China revealed a plan to relax restrictions on foreign investment in longclosed areas of the economy such as banking, securities, futures, mutual funds and insurance. A senior official last week said China is prepared to enhance cooperation with other countries to protect intellectual property rights, a major issue for U.S. and European companies that complain about their technologies being copied and their brands faked.

Ning Jizhe, China’s statistics chief and deputy head of the top economic planning body, used his Friday briefing on 2016 economic data to congratulate Trump and say he hoped the new president keeps moving China-U.S. cooperation forward. The Ministry of Commerce last week said it’s willing to work with the new U.S. administration to help promote healthy trade development and economic ties, echoing President Xi Jinping’s speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos that warned against trade wars and protectionism.

But Xinhua’s article congratulating Trump also laid out the areas China regards as off limits: “China’s resolve to safeguard its defining core interests in Taiwan and the South China Sea islands has always been strong,” it said.

Xi has a strong domestic imperative not to appear weak before a Communist Party congress late this year, at which several top leaders are due to be replaced. Policymakers also have pledged more focus on ensuring financial stability.

Trump opened his presidency with an “America first” appeal, saying the U.S. will “bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth.”

“For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries, while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military,” he said.

He didn’t mention China by name in his inaugural address, in contrast to his campaign rhetoric in which he accused it of raping America and cheating on trade.

Trump so far hasn’t followed up on his pledge to label China a currency manipulator. His choice for treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, agreed at his a Senate confirmation hearing that China has shifted recently from efforts to weaken the yuan. He did say, however, that he is willing to apply the manipulator label if warranted.

What to expect for the first 100 days of Trump

By Michael A. Memoli Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s unorthodox quest for the White House was fueled by his disregard for convention and the nagging sense that he - and ultimately his supporters - were underestimated and disrespected.

Now sworn in as the 45th president, Trump and his team are determined to deliver quickly on promises - on the economy, health care, tax reform and immigration - that critics told him he could not possibly fulfill.

During his campaign, Trump embraced the notion of a first-100-day flurry in which he would quickly put his stamp on Washington. In a major speech in Gettysburg a few weeks before the election, he articulated three broad priorities: ending “corruption and special-interest collusion” in Washington, protecting American workers and restoring security and “constitutional rule of law.”

On his first day in office, he said he would take more than a dozen specific actions to advance priorities: introducing a constitutional amendment to impose congressional term limits, starting to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and canceling federal money going to so-called sanctuary cities, among others.

Other legislative priorities would require congressional support: simplification of the tax code, a major infrastructure bill and tax credits for child and elderly care.

“If we follow these steps, we will once more have a government of, by, and for the people,” he said.

Trump’s transition team developed what it calls a Day 1, Day 100 and Day 200 action plan for campaign promises, devised by 14 implementation teams that Trump aides say devoted 135,000 hours to the task.

Building a border wall with Mexico - one of the new president’s signature campaign pledges - alone required multiple agency action plans because of the complexity of the endeavor.

The transition made priorities of four other broad areas: “Buy America,” women and children, intellectual property and currency manipulation.

Separately, the new administration has been coordinating with Republican leaders on how

to take advantage of the congressional calendar to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, start the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and later push tax and entitlement overhauls and ramp up immigration enforcement through the appropriations process ahead of a late-April deadline.

“That’s a first 100 days that I’m not sure any other conservative president has hit those kind of major milestones,” said James Wallner, vice president of research for the Heritage Foundation, which has consulted closely with the Trump team.

Trump takes office in a far different environment than President Barack Obama encountered eight years ago. Then, an economy still in free fall required an urgent response on multiple fronts - preparing an economic stimulus package, debating a rescue of the auto industry and devising a response to the housing crisis, among other domestic priorities.

Trump inherits a relatively stable and growing economy and no crises demanding his immediate attention, giving him and his team more freedom to roll out an agenda on their own terms.

But many conservatives view the task of reversing Obama’s agenda as urgent on its own. Republican lawmakers are primed to send scores of bills to Trump’s desk as he also considers executive actions to speed a rightward turn in government. His White House is eager to leverage his reputation as a take-charge, decisive executive like his campaign did.

But like many of his predecessors discovered, the playbook that delivered him to the White House is not easily adapted to an office that has confounded even the most prepared and popular occupants. And meeting the expectations he built - and even raised over the course of his transition has added to the complexity of the job.

“It’s not learning how to hit a 98-mile-an-hour fastball coming from a Triple-A ball club. It’s learning how to hit a 1,200-mile-anhour fastball,” said Terry Sullivan, executive director of the White House Transition Project, who has closely studied presidents’ first 100 days.

The round-numbered benchmark for a president’s early days harks back to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s

first term, when Congress helped usher in his New Deal to combat the Great Depression. Since then, it’s become an almost inevitable measure of a president’s early success.

New presidents typically enjoy an early honeymoon period in which to advance the priorities articulated in their campaigns.

But even though Trump enjoys Republican majorities in Congress eager to work with him on his key issues, he also assumes the office as the least popular new president in decades.

Still, presidencies that have stumbled most in the early days owed their misfortune not to any deficit in public support, but to their own decisions, Sullivan said. Most often, problems arise when a new president succumbs to temptation to react to events, squandering the most precious resource a president has: time.

“There are an enormous number of things clamoring for the president’s attention, and none of them are unimportant,” he said. “If he’s not moving his agenda forward, it’s not standing still, it’s drifting away.”

The kind of instant response to criticism Trump prides himself on often asymmetric attacks to the ones launched against him - are another classic trap presidents can fall into, Sullivan said.

“If all you’re doing is reacting, then you’re not leading,” he said.

Trump used his only public remarks Saturday, during a visit to the CIA’s headquarters in Virginia, to complain about media coverage of his first day. Later, his press secretary delivered a statement accusing reporters of engaging “in deliberately false reporting.”

Maintaining good relations with Republicans whom Trump has not been reluctant to target when they have questioned his policies or statements - will be essential to success.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, speaking at the Heritage Foundation this week, predicted that there would be fits and starts in the relationship between Trump and conservatives. He advised them to keep those disagreements in perspective.

“Every time Trump does something you’re not quite comfortable with, close your eyes and think two words: ‘President Clinton,’“ he said.

Trump will refuse to release tax returns

By Billy House Bloomberg News

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will refuse to release his tax returns, abandoning a campaign promise that he would do so after an audit of them is finished, an aide said Sunday.

“The White House response is that he’s not going to release his tax returns.

We litigated this all through the election. People didn’t care. They voted for him,” Kellyanne Conway, counsel-

or to the president, said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Conway had been asked on the TV program about a White House petition posted Friday demanding release of the tax returns. There are well over the 100,000 signatures required to meet the threshold to get a White House answer.

Conway dismissed the observation about the signatures. She said people don’t care about tax returns from Trump, the nation’s first billionaire president, and are

focused on what their own tax returns will look like while the Republican is in the White House.

“People want to know they will get tax relief,” she said.

After Conway’s remarks, the website WikiLeaks called on leakers to provide it with copies of Trump’s tax returns.

WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign published thousands of e-mails and internal documents hacked from the Democratic National Committee and top advisers to Clinton.

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JEOPARDY! correctly was to mash the buzzer repeatedly.

“There’s sort of a sweet spot for ringing in when Alex Trebek finishes reading the question. They flash a light which is not visible to the audience at home,” Bartolomeo said. “And that’s the moment when you need to ring in and sometimes I got there first and sometimes I didn’t.”

Bartolomeo became a viewer as a child when he started to watch the show with his mother. He also played the board game version of “Jeopardy!” as a child with his family.

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“I suppose I realized then that I was pretty good at retaining obscure facts,” Bartolomeo said.

“The whole experience was a…bucket-list item that I thought I’d never get to check off,” Bartolomeo said.

While Bartolomeo waits for his check to arrive, he plans to use some of the money to buy a new guitar.

“Now, I will associate [the guitar] with the ‘Jeopardy!’ experience,” he said.

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

HULT PRIZE fully thought-through and definitely good ideas,” said Reilly. “I think it was definitely more competitive this year than last year.”

The three said that a goal for Slate before the next level of the competition in March would be to have a website prepared.

Reilly said he wanted to prepare a prototype which is currently in development, while Martin said it was important to form partnerships with organizations that had worked with refugees before.

“We plan on reaching out to many people and building a sustainable and accurate network,” she said.

Pandiscio mentioned that some of the judges

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at the preliminary level had worked with refugees around the world and offered the team to speak with them to gain further insight with them.

Reilly also said that the name came from the idea of a “clean slate.”

“When you’re a refugee, you lose your job, your house, your neighbors and all that,” he said. “Our mantra at this point is also to erase the stigma.”

Martin said that while this process is new to all of them, they are looking forward to developing the project going into the March competition.

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

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an insight into current issues of social justice and diversity,” according to the building’s web page.

She also wants to address LGBTQIA issues, like adding more gender neutral bathrooms on cam-

pus.

Wallace said her work in civic engagement will help her become an effective member of the executive cabinet.

Jack Martin can be reached at johnmartin@umass.edu.

HEALTH CARE and it didn’t come up in his inaugural address, Trump addressed repeal in one of his first acts as president.

He signed an executive order Friday that reiterates his administration’s intent to seek “the prompt repeal” of the 2010 law that has extended health care to 20 million Americans. But the executive order itself notes that regulations can be changed only through the traditional process of “notice and comment,” which can take months or even years.

And it will require his political appointees to be in office, which has yet to happen, particularly as Senate Democrats look to slow the nomination of Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., Trump’s choice for health and human services secretary. Price goes before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday for a confirmation hearing.

Trump has said his administration has a health care plan “very much formulated down to the final strokes.” But his promise a week ago of “insurance for everybody” has Republicans with an eye on fiscal restraint worried that he’s promising more than they can deliver.

Vice President Mike Pence sought last week to clarify Trump’s words, telling CNN that Trump is talking about “making insurance affordable for everyone.”

Price also distanced himself from Trump’s pledge.

He said at a Senate hearing that he was committed to seeing that Americans have “access” to health care coverage, which Democrats point out is not the same thing as guaranteeing coverage.

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pledge would suggest “a much more expansive plan than he even talked about on the campaign trail or than any of the proposals coming from Congress,” said Larry Levitt, senior vice president for special initiatives at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

“We’re in a period of very little clarity.”

Many of the Republican plans would limit guaranteed insurance to people with continuous coverage.

None of the plans have come up for a vote, nor have they been “scored” by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which provides Congress with economic and budgetary analysis, Levitt said.

“It’s hard to forge a consensus when you know legislation is going nowhere,” Levitt said of congressional Republicans whose health care bills would have been vetoed by President Barack Obama. “They’ve had time, but very little incentive to make the tough trade offs that are required.”

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who has been among a number of senators urging colleagues not to uproot the law without offering an alternative, acknowledged the disarray, but said he expects Republicans to coalesce around a plan now that Trump has been sworn in and his team is moving to Washington.

“I don’t think there’s been much communication between the players,” Corker said. “They’ve been operating in New York partially, in Washington, partially. I’m hopeful that once they get here, we’ll get a little more synthesized about where we’re going to go.”

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Foul play called against Women learn how to run FBI child porn website for office following march

By Kevin Krause The Dallas Morning News DALLAS — When Daryl Glenn Pawlak logged into a large child pornography website and downloaded images using his work computer, he was charged with receipt and possession of child pornography.

The operator of the website that was exploiting children, however, was not arrested.

That’s because it was the FBI. And federal prosecutors are defending the agency’s decision to secretly hijack and peddle child porn for two weeks as part of a sting operation.

During that time, tens of thousands of images of child pornography were uploaded to the site.

“Not only was the government the largest distributor of child pornography ... it was also the largest exploiter of children,” Pawlak’s attorney said in a court filing.

“This conduct is the essence of outrageousness, and a serious need for deterrence exists.”

The case has ignited debate among legal scholars and defense attorneys about internet privacy and the FBI’s decision to keep such a website up and running while more children were harmed.

Dozens of defense attorneys have filed motions to suppress evidence from the controversial child pornography sting, called Operation Pacifier. In some cases, federal judges have granted those motions. But most attempts to get charges thrown out have failed, legal experts say, even though some judges have ruled that the government violated the law and acted inappropriately.

Joining legal challenges nationwide, Pawlak’s attorneys are trying to get the charges dismissed, arguing that the government went too far by using a single warrant in Virginia to hack the computers of people all over the country, including his client.

The American Civil Liberties Union compared it to Operation Fast and Furious, a failed sting operation run by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives beginning in 2009 that resulted in 2,000 firearms winding up in the hands of criminals.

In that case, ATF allowed people to illegally buy the guns to traffic to Mexico in the hopes of tracking them to Mexican drug cartel leaders. But that didn’t happen, and instead the agency lost track of the guns, including two that were found at the scene of the 2010 murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

The FBI declined to comment about Operation Pacifier. The U.S. attorney’s office in Dallas said in court filings that it acted within the law and that dismissing the case would give people like Pawlak a “free pass” for trolling the web for photos and videos of children being sexually abused.

“The FBI’s process here should be encouraged, not deterred,” a prosecutor in Dallas said in a court filing.

Defense attorneys say the matter will eventually be resolved in the appellate courts, if not the U.S. Supreme Court.

Historically, the government has taken down such websites immediately.

Douglas Anderson, chair of the University of North Texas’ philosophy and religion department, said the government was conducting a cost-benefit analysis, weighing damage to children against catching people who download child porn.

He said he was surprised children were used in such a

calculation.

“It’s a moral conundrum for anyone who takes the view that we are committed to protecting them in all ways,” Anderson said.

“They’re weighing it against these kids’ lives.”

World opinion says we have a basic duty to protect children, Anderson said.

“You’d have to have something pretty overwhelming to offset damaging more people,” he said. “It would have to be awfully extreme to allow even one child to be harmed.”

The FBI in early 2015 seized, controlled and monitored a child pornography website on the “dark web” called Playpen for about two weeks.

Playpen began operating around August 2014 on the Tor Network, a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows users to browse the internet anonymously using free software.

A username and password were required to view the images. A foreign law enforcement agency’s tip led the FBI to Playpen’s server, authorities said.

In February, the FBI obtained a search warrant from a federal judge in Virginia that allowed the agency to run Playpen for up to 30 days on a governmentcontrolled server.

Agents hacked into the computers of people who logged into Playpen and accessed its content. Agents were not authorized to rummage through a computer’s files or search other content, court records said.

Pawlak, 39, created a Playpen account in September 2014 and accessed the website more than 300 times, prosecutors said. In less than a second, agents knew what computer the Burleson man was using.

That led to the two child pornography charges against him.

Pawlak was indicted on July 6 in Dallas and remains free on bond. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for later this month.

Several men were charged with similar offenses in federal court in Houston under the same FBI operation, including a former pediatrician at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

“The FBI took quick action to locate otherwise anonymous child predators and received the blessing of two federal judges to conduct the short-term, monitored operation that was authorized by a warrant,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jamie L. Hoxie said in court records filed in Pawlak’s case.

During the operation, numerous users were identified, leading to child pornography charges against about 180 people nationwide, including those producing images, court records show.

At least 49 children were rescued from abuse, authorities said.

Pawlak works at North Texas fracking sites that drill for natural gas for his job in the energy industry, according to court documents. Prosecutors say he used his work-issued laptop computers to view and download child pornography. He accessed the images from August 2014 to May 2015, according to the indictment.

Pawlak spoke to an FBI agent on the phone when agents searched his home in October 2015, court records show. He “made clear that his interests in children” and child pornography “go far beyond the FBI’s limited, monitored operation involving the Playpen website,” Hoxie said in a court filing.

Pawlak told agents he

first viewed child pornography in 2012 when a work colleague sent it to his work email, records show.

“Thereafter, Pawlak’s interest in child pornography continued due to a perceived element of danger or excitement,” Hoxie said in a court filing. “He preferred to view child pornography depicting girls that were between 7 and 11 years old.”

The FBI found hundreds of child pornography images from his current and former work computers, records said. Pawlak is charged with receipt and possession of child pornography.

“Pawlak sought out child pornography, including images depicting young girls the same age as his own daughter being raped and sexually humiliated by grown men,” Hoxie wrote for the government.

Hoxie said that while the technology the FBI used was “somewhat novel,” it was within the bounds of the law.

“The FBI received the rare opportunity to make a dent in the otherwise impervious community of child predators using Tor to victimize children,” she wrote.

Steven Jumes, Pawlak’s attorney, wrote in a Dec. 28 motion to dismiss the indictment that the FBI hosted an estimated 22,000 images, videos and links of child pornography that more than 100,000 people accessed.

“The government has taken leaps and bounds over the line of acceptable investigative techniques when it exploited and re-victimized thousands of children without taking any precautions to minimize the harm to them,” Jumes said in the motion. “Congress has long recognized that each viewing of child pornography revictimizes the child.”

The harm to victims is lifelong, he said, because it’s impossible to completely eradicate all copies of the images.

“The line of what constitutes ‘going too far’ has been so offensively disregarded that such outrageous conduct can only be said to violate due process,” Jumes wrote.

Jumes also said in the motion that dismissing the case against his client “admittedly puts the court in the position of rewarding an indicted wrongdoer.”

But he said he’s asking for a dismissal not to reward Pawlak but to “uphold the integrity of law enforcement action.”

The government denies its conduct was outrageous.

“The reality the FBI faced was that taking down the Playpen site, without catching its thousands of users, would not stop the child-pornography problem,” Hoxie wrote in a court filing.

But a federal judge in the state of Washington ruled in November in an Operation Pacifier case that the government’s conduct was exactly that.

U.S. District Judge Robert J. Bryan wrote that the government improved the child porn website’s “technical functionality” and that it “re-victimized hundreds of children” by keeping the website online.

“The government used the child victims as bait to apprehend viewers of child pornography without informing the victims and without the victims’ permission - or that of their families,” Bryan wrote in his ruling.

However, the judge declined to dismiss the charges in the case, saying the government acted in good faith and did not violate search and seizure standards.

By Vera Bergengruen McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - The day after the Women’s March brought half a million people to Washington, 500 women from across the country spent Sunday learning how to run for office.

The candidate training held by EMILY’s List, the largest Democratic women’s group in the country, focused on overcoming the “intimidation factor” when navigating political campaigning, especially for women of color. It was the group’s largest training event.

“We still have ceilings to break, even inside our Democratic Party,” said Muthoni Wambu Kraal, senior director of state engagement and development at EMILY’s List.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., told the women about breaking through as the first Indian-American woman in the House of Representatives.

“As a woman of color in particular, barriers are high.

They’re very high,” she said, encouraging women to pursue their point of view in elected office.

“It’s important, not only because of the color of our skin or anything like that, (but) because of the experience that we bring in from our different perspectives,” she said. “Don’t think that because you’re not connected to the wealthiest people in the world that you can’t run for office.”

The Women’s March drew millions of protesters in cities across the country and the world, rallying against President Donald Trump’s

agenda and for a range of progressive causes.

After the training - during which they chanted “Fired up!

Ready to run!” one of former President Barack Obama’s campaign slogans - many women said Trump’s election had energized them to pursue leadership positions.

“This election taught me that you really don’t have to have a long resume to run and to win,” said Whitney Logan of Kansas City. “It’d be nice to have voices in Congress and in state legislatures and on school boards and on city councils that represent their constituents, and aren’t insecure because their resume isn’t six law degrees from Georgetown.”

With a 2-year-old at home and a part-time job as a psychotherapist, she says she realizes it will be difficult.

But the networking from the march and Sunday’s training gave her the push to pursue what she dreamed of doing when she was younger.

Logan said after she recently ran into her thirdgrade teacher, who reminded her that as a 9-year-old, she wanted to run for president someday.

“I had completely forgotten about that,” she said, laughing. “We have lawmakers back home in Kansas and Kansas City who are vulnerable, and for good reason. Now I feel like I have the tools to do something.”

Unlike many of the women at the training, Blanca Rosales admitted that she had not always wanted to seek office.

The election changed that.

“I had thought, ‘I’m only 22. I’m not qualified for anything.’ But today reminded me that that’s what women

often do,” said Rosales, who lives in Arlington, Va., but wants to go back home to San Antonio and become involved in local government.

“We always wait to feel more ready, more qualified. But men, they don’t think twice.”

Michelle McLeod, 50, of Germantown, Md., said she spent much of her life working as an organizer, but now wants more.

“I mean Nancy Pelosi was 47 when she first ran for Congress, you can decide at any stage to run,” she said.

McLeod said she became an activist after she was discharged from the Navy because of her sexual orientation before the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. She wants to return to San Diego, where she served, and run for office.

“I want kids to hear from their government that it’s OK to be who you are,” she said, adding that she was alarmed that Trump’s White House website had been scrubbed of any mention of LGBT. While the term is absent, the the website remains incomplete.

EMILY’s List President Stephanie Schriock said the next four years, under a Trump administration and a Republican-controlled Congress, must balance “holding the line” on women’s issues like abortion and continuing to push for equal pay and paid family leave.

“We recognize that we have an administration and a Congress that absolutely intends to roll back everything that we have succeeded in getting in the last decades,” she said. “We want to push forward on these progressive policies in states where we can, in cities where we can.”

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Trump is gutting journalism with Twitter The firestorm that ensued after Buzzfeed’s release of a dossier, alleged to contain information about Russia’s longterm “cultivation” of President Donald Trump, was remarkable.

James Mazarakis

An irate Jake Tapper, correspondent of CNN, challenged Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith, calling their publication “irresponsible journalism.” Though, Smith and his reporters insist that we live in a new age that must engage with better with audiences: “If you’re going to report on a document, the presumption is that you share the document with your audience.”

Perhaps to a stickler on traditional journalistic ethics, Buzzfeed made an error of judgment; whether that judgment was for the greater good is for time to tell. But CNN and other mainstream media outlets have done far worse than Buzzfeed in damaging journalistic integrity. For example, the media’s relentless attention to President Trump’s Tweets in the place of actual quotations poses an unprecedented challenge to journalistic ethics: are these Tweets really news?

Even though the dossier is gradually receiving more endorsements of credibility, Tweets continue to be a source of supplemental information. The Twitter account used by Donald Trump, @realdonaldtrump, is allegedly controlled by the President himself—though there is no proof that his staff, including senior counselor Stephen Bannon, does not write

them for him. Given that Twitter is not fully secured, the dangers of reporting on these Tweets are endless. If a hacker can enter the State Department, one could almost certainly hack Trump’s Twitter and put out a provocative, but believable Tweet to advance some kind of conflict or interest.

Yet these Tweets are used by CNN and other outlets as though Trump had spoken them at a press conference, and in doing so they are hurting their own access to information. In one CNN article entitled “US Spy Chief Rejects Trump’s Attacks Over Russia Dossier,” it states, “Trump confirmed on Twitter he had received a call from Clapper.”

If major news outlets are relying on Twitter for facts, they are wasting an opportunity to hear it from the President and ask a follow-up question. If the practice continues, transparency will be damaged day by day.

Even if we are to give the President the benefit of the doubt, mainstream media outlets need to recognize that these tweets are not filtered. Most standard forms of communication with the White House requires a level of advisory not to send out confidential, false, or endangering information before making an appearance; even if it fails, there is an attempt to

stay honest.

Twitter has no such filter. Journalists need to be able to analyze these Tweets with a degree of critical thinking in order to justify reporting on them. There needs to be a vigorous effort to check the President on facts and motivations. By setting the impression that the Tweets are quick and reliable texts, they are allowing President Trump to be the unquestioned gatekeeper of all White House news.

What is most disturbing is the lack of self-reflection upon these mainstream media outlets. James Comey’s controversial letter to Congress eleven days before the election put this very hypocrisy on display.

Despite the letter being a non-story since the beginning of its conception, Comey is blamed unilaterally for his poorly-timed request to bring in former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s emails considered “pertinent” to the investigation of Clinton’s email server.

Comey certainly bears some responsibility. But by Tapper’s logic, the information contained in the letter did not make any confirmed proclamations, and while it was an event to note, there was extensive news media about the event riddled with speculation and mixed messages from unconfirmed leaks.

There is reason to believe this fumble

“At a time when faith in news media is at an all-time low, we need news platforms to lift each other up, not hold others to hypocritical standards.”

had deep consequences. Statistical journalists at FiveThirtyEight studied panel surveys—polls that follow up with specific respondents—and discovered that late deciders flocked to Trump in the days leading up to the election. Whether that had anything to do with the media’s constant spinning of the letter, then misleadingly describing the occasion as a “reopening” of Clinton’s case, is not known.

Tapper touts CNN’s decision to withhold the dossier as a testament to their journalistic ethics. What were they doing during the Comey affair? Was that story worth beating to the pulp? And what is ethical about depending on the President’s self-satisfying social media account for vital information?

I digress, because the point is not to paint CNN as “fake news” either. At a time when faith in news media is at an alltime low, we need news platforms to lift each other up, not hold others to hypocritical standards. Buzzfeed may or may not be correct in its thesis to use transparency to fight anti-fact parties, but there is no moral high ground. News should not be afraid to try everything and help each other find out how to best report the news effectively in the 21st century.

But for now, if the President’s aim is to dismantle the idea of “facts” and discredit the platforms of his political opponents, the mainstream media is falling for it. Hard.

James Mazarakis is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at jmazarakis@umass.edu.

Life in prison better answer than death penalty On Jan. 10, 2017, Dylann Roof was sentenced to death for killing nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Church more than a year ago.

Emilia Beuger Prior to the verdict, Roof had been found guilty of thirty-three counts.

This high profile case and its verdict of capital punishment in a federal case have led to a renewed debate of the death penalty in the United States. Some have asked, “does he deserve that death penalty?” No. He does not and neither does anyone else. What criminals like Dylann Roof, those who have committed heinous crimes, deserve is life in prison.

Dylann Roof, repeatedly throughout his trials, did not express any regret for what he did. While incredibly disturbing and sickening, killing this man will do little to right the wrongs of his crimes and hatred.

He is a hateful person, who deserves to be locked up for life, but putting him to death is not the right way to punish him.

Life in prison without a possibility of parole takes away a criminal’s livelihood.

They are unable to participate in society, they must spend the rest of their life pondering their crimes, and they will be unable to live a normal life.

The death penalty, while a permanent decision, lasts only for a few moments. The criminal is able to escape their punish-

ment through death.

Although Dylann Roof’s conviction has been corroborated with much evidence, some people convicted and sentenced to death are not the true criminals. The permanent punishment of the death penalty has led to people being wrongly executed.

Some argue that capital punishment deters crime; that by making an example of one criminal, it will reduce similar crimes. Of leading criminologists, 88 percent do not believe that capital punishment deters crime.

From an economic standpoint, it is cheaper to keep a criminal in prison for life than to execute them. Some believe that killing an inmate is c h e a p e r than keeping them alive, but the costs of lawyers, court hearings and more end up costing taxpayers more.

Donald McCartin, a judge who has sentenced nine men to death row and is known as The Hanging Judge of Orange County, has said that, “It’s 10 times more expensive to kill them than to keep them alive.” He sees it as a waste of time and money as well as prolonging the agony of the victims’

families.

The families of the nine people massacred by Dylann Roof did not support the decision to sentence him to death. A study showed that the death penalty “adversely affects families of victims and defendants.”

Families report not feeling closure from the death penalty. These families have been through hell and back; many just want to see the criminal locked away. Nothing will ever bring back their loved ones and nothing will ever make up for their losses, and the death penalty adds more to that pain.

Most of Europe does not support the death penalty.

One hundred and forty countries in the world have abolished the death penalty, either in law or in practice. Lessening support by the rest of the world is for good reason. Examples like the case in Oklahoma, where the lethal injection did not kill Clayton Lockett immediately, instead causing him to die of a heart attack forty minutes after the injection, have sparked discussions about the constitutionality of the event. What happened to Mr. Lockett could be seen as cruel and unusual punishment, an act prohibited by

“The United States is behind other developed nations in its way of thinking and I fear that cases like Dylann Roof’s will reinforce the American belief in the death penalty.”

the Constitution.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, right? Then why support the death penalty? The United States is behind other developed nations in its way of thinking and I fear that cases like Dylann Roof will reinforce the American belief in the death penalty. But there is some hope.

In March 2015, 56 percent of Americans supported it for murder. But, according to a recent report in September 2016 from Pew Research Center, 49 percent of Americans support the death penalty for a murder conviction, while 42 percent oppose it. I hope that this trend continues.

No matter how hard it is to reject the eye for an eye thinking in Dylann Roof’s case, killing him is not the answer. It is difficult.

It is difficult to swallow that this man is not sorry for what he did. I understand that.

But the death penalty is not to be used to make a statement.

The United States should not be killing its criminals, no matter what they have done. The death penalty is not an absolute and it is not the answer. What Dylann Roof did was a heinous, malicious hate crime.

He has ruined the lives of so many with his hate.

His life would be better ruined with a punishment in the form of life in prison, not with his life ending to escape his crime.

Emilia Beuger is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at ebeuger@umass.edu.

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FILM REVIEW

Hardly anything in ‘Rogue One’ scores a direct hit ‘Star Wars’ film fails to stand on its own

By Nate Taskin Collegian Staff

Lightsabers! AT-ATs! Darth Vader! That pig-man and his scrotum-faced friend from Mos Eisley! “I’ve got a bad feeling about this!” Those are phrases and words you all recognize, right? They’re familiar, yet they’ve been placed in a new setting, which automatically makes them good!

This logic, much like that used by “The Force Awakens” before it, is that if “Rogue One” cannibalizes enough iconography from the previous “Star Wars” films, it can disguise its appalling absence of character development, story structure or sense of direction. Like a squealing piglet, “Rogue One” suckles at the teat of its mother franchise. Since it could never survive on the strength of its own merits, it clings to its superior forebear in the hopes that some form of narrative nourishment can trickle into its starving mouth.

It tells a story whose ending we already know: the delivery of the Death Star plans— blueprints that reveal a gaping Achilles’ Heel of a planetkilling WMD—to the Rebel Alliance. This pre-determined conclusion is not inherently a problem—we all (hopefully) know how “Titanic” ends as well. Yet given “Rogue One’s” failure to enrich the “Star Wars” universe in any meaningful way, the predictability of its outcome only adds to its sense of irrelevancy. Imagine filler chopped off at the beginning of “A New Hope” extended into its own feature-length movie.

“Rogue One” fancies itself a heist film despite the fact that it presents zero clear objectives behind said heist. The Rebel Alliance recruits career criminal Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones)

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Felicity Jones and Diego Luna, pictured above, are given little to work with in ‘Rogue One,’ a film that fails to emerge from the shadow of its parent franchise. to confront her estranged father—an Imperial scientist (I would say that the always awesome Mads Mikkelsen is underused here, but so is everyone else) who has intimate knowledge of the Death Star’s operations. Meanwhile, her partner, Cassian Andor, (Diego Luna) has been ordered to kill her father so that the secrets are not leaked.

One would think Cassian’s goal to kill Jyn’s father would inspire some great conflict between the two, right? Wrong.

“Rogue One” has no real understanding of narrative consequence. Scenes shuffle along in perpetual disconnection. Actions between characters may bounce off each other, yet there’s no relationship to what came before. The

plot is a never-ending series of “and then this happened.”

The result is an elaborate excuse to retread territory already visited time and time again. For the foreseeable future, our summer and winter movie seasons will be defined by “Star Wars.” These are our lives now. Disney and Lucasfilm have an opportunity via this “Star Wars Anthology” series to explore new ground and build on this beloved universe’s lore.

Instead, it clings desperately to what was already established decades before. There is a whole galaxy at its disposal, yet “Rogue One” drifts back and forth between the same tired hotspots—both literally and narratively.

Nowhere does “Rogue

One”’s fear of growth feel more insidious than its horrific CGI resuscitation of Peter Cushing—the long-dead actor who played Grand Moff Tarkin in the original “Star Wars.”

Tarkin’s cartoonish, artificial visage is the ugliest CG character—on both an aesthetic and moral level—in any “Star Wars” film. Yes, worse than Jar-Jar. They actually had the nerve to bring an actor back from the dead without his consent and then reanimated his hollow digital corpse in the name of brand-recognition.

“Rogue One” is so fundamentally terrified of new ideas that it literally zombifies relics from its past.

Yet it doesn’t even seem to realize the appeal behind what it leaches off of, as demonstrat-

minutes after I left the theater.

Not a single moment exists within the movie where there is a real sense that the characters have learned something or had their viewpoints changed.

Jyn does not have any real conviction in the rebel cause… until the movie decides that she does. Characters don’t trust each other…until they do.

While I admire the film’s insatiable bloodlust at its climax, these character deaths hold no impact because there was barely a “character” to begin with—just a thinlysketched outline of a real being. The film follows the “Game of Thrones” principle where it believes a “shocking” death can substitute for a lack of any meaningful pay-off.

Perhaps even more appalling than that dreadful pun mentioned above—an more emblematic of “Rogue One’s” nostalgia-fixation—is when Vader ignites his lightsaber in a space shuttle hallway to massacre defenseless rebel soldiers. This scene, greeted with cheers from my audience, serves no narrative purpose beyond to make Vader “look cool.” It’s as if Kylo Ren himself—a warped, juvenile fanboy who worships the cloaked Sith Lord with an almost religious reverence - directed this self-indulgent, tone-deaf nonsense.

“Rogue One” does not deserve intense scorn or ridicule. The feeling it most conjures up is disappointment. It clings to its host like parasite, made even worse by the fact that it fails to understand what made its mother series so great in the first place.

Presented with an opportunity to explore, “Rogue One” refuses to leave the nest.

ed by its complete mishandling of Darth Vader. To give you an idea of how little “Rogue One” actually understands its properties, the film actually forces James Earl Jones to utter, “be careful you do not choke on your aspirations” as he executes his infamous force choke on an underling. Vader is callous and cold-blooded, not a moustache-twirling pundropper.

In spite of my problems with “The Force Awakens,” the new characters were not among them. New additions like Rey, Finn, and Kylo Ren had fully fleshed-out personalities and (somewhat) clear motivations. This is not the case with Jyn, Cassian, and Nate Taskin can be reached at Orson Krennic—names that I ntaskin@umass.edu and followed on had to look up on IMDB five Twitter @nate_taskin.

MUSIC

The best new music you may have missed over break Three releases that flew under the radar

By Jackson Maxwell Collegian Staff

Smack in the middle of the music businesses’ two peak release-heavy periods—generally SeptemberOctober and March-April— the holiday season is, aside from the occasional surprise, typically quiet in terms of new music.

Yet the past five weeks or so have seen a startling outpouring of it—from Run the Jewels’ surprise release of their endlessly anticipated “Run the Jewels 3” on Christmas Eve, to Nine Inch Nails’ early release of their “Not the Actual Events” EP on Dec. 22.

While those high-profile offerings are certainly worth a look, there was also a great deal of new music that seemed to fall under the radar of most.

From Grouper’s magnificent “Paradise Valley” single to ambient godfather Brian Eno’s return to the genre, here are a couple of those winter break releases you may have missed.

Grouper – “Paradise Valley” 7” With Liz Harris—who has been writing surreal, impenetrable folk songs under the pseudonym Grouper for over a decade

now—things are never straightforward. Online rumblings of an imminent 7” single from the Oregonbased artist had begun in November, but Harris, whose online presence is— to put it generously—minimal, offered little in the way of corroboration of these rumors.

This caginess is a sizable part of what made “Paradise Valley,” which appeared suddenly on Dec. 21, initially so rewarding.

The other part, of course, was the music itself.

Containing two of Harris’ most dazzling compositions to date, “Paradise Valley” is disappointing only in its brevity, easily clearing the formidably high bar of Harris’ most recent release, 2014’s “Ruins.”

A theme of purification runs through the single.

Harris opens its A-side, “Headache,” by singing “my mother once told me/ she walked into the ocean” over gentle but assertive guitar strums. She whispers “I’m clean now” to start the B-side of the same name, which is built over a gorgeous riff that washes over the listener like a wave.

Harris’ return to the six-string marks a dramatic, but not unwelcome shift in the scope of her art from “Ruins.” On that record, she utilized the

piano to create a sense of remarkable intimacy, making the listener feel as if they alone were watching Harris perform the songs in her house.

With her invocations of the horizon and ocean in “Headache” and hypnotic fingerpicking on “I’m Clean Now,” Harris presents something that is only constrained by the listener’s imagination.

Though it stands as probably her most accessible work to date (if you’re willing to bend your definition of “accessible”), “Paradise Valley” doesn’t sacrifice one ounce of otherworldliness to accommodate a few intelligible lyrics. For Grouper—who has consistently redefined what a pop song can sound like--it’s a tantalizing step into the unknown.

Orchid Mantis – “Flashbulb Memory” Atlanta musician Thomas Howard, on his Bandcamp page, describes Orchid Mantis as a project of “found sounds, tape collages, and songs about forgetting.”

“Flashbulb Memory,” the project’s most fully realized effort to date, manages to pull off something quite rare: an album that actually lives up to its creator’s description.

Its eight tracks merge

beautifully hazy sound collages into stratospheric pop songs about leaving people, places and frames of mind behind. Playing out like memories, the various strands of songs like “Everything Always Gets Old” appear suddenly and fade away just as quickly, all blending in to the warm haze of tape hiss that engulfs the entire album.

Though “F lashbulb Memory,” released Dec. 30, goes all in on its lo-fi, found-it-in-your-attic sound collage aesthetic, its more impressive tracks sound more fit for stadiums than bedrooms. In the chorus of “Leaving,” Howard cries “Save me somehow/‘cause I don’t know how/soon you will be/leaving me” over synth swells that wouldn’t sound out of place in “Titanic” and drums that could fill the Grand Canyon.

Even “Leaving” though, takes a backseat in scale to the monumental “Somewhere You’ve Been Before.” Taking the idea of nostalgia and blowing it up to Christopher Nolansize cinematic proportions, Howard’s voice booms, carrying the song with a grandiose, charismatic authority not seen since perhaps the earliest days of U2.

Though coyly released the day before New Year’s Eve, “Flashbulb Memory”

feels like an album that yearns to be explored.

Though patchy at times, it’s more expansive moments provoke the kind of catharsis other widescreen “alternative” pop groups (Bastille, fun.) could only dream of creating.

Brian Eno – “Reflection”

to completely transform based on the mindset in which you hear it, it’s great illusion being that those differences are all in your head.

“Reflection,” released Jan. 1, is more than just an elusive piece of music though. Alongside the typical album, Eno created a “Reflection” app, which utilizes algorithms to create what Eno describes as an “endless and endlessly changing version of the piece of music.” Through this, not only can the listener interpret the piece as they please, they can change it based on these interpretations.

Though not as sonically immersive as some of Eno’s classic ambient works of the late 70s and early 80s, “Reflection” is groundbreaking as a work of art.

Though virtually every piece of music attempts to be relatable to its listener, “Reflection” allows itself to be entirely transformed by the listener.

Tranquil enough to serve as background music, but complex enough to engage with on numerous levels, “Reflection” is a fascinating work by a legend who refuses to stop thinking far outside of the box.

A reflection can be virtually anything. Two people can look at the same reflection, and come away with completely different interpretations of what they saw, depending on their mindset. Brian Eno’s “Reflection” is a creation whose purpose is to channel that idea. Though ostensibly a 54-minute soundscape of keyboards, vibraphones and bells, “Reflection” can take on any number of roles.

The instrumentation that bubbles around the surface of “Reflection” defines the piece more than the unceasing drone that lies at its heart. The minimal, immaculatelyproduced statements that ripple across its surface brilliantly blur the line between major and minor tones. They may seem calming and serene, blending perfectly into the background of your day. Just as easily though, they can Jackson Maxwell can be reached at throw you off, leaving you jlmaxwell@umass.edu and followed feeling unsettled. It seems on Twitter at @JMaxwell82.

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HOROSCOPES Jan. 20 - Feb. 18

Welcome back to school, everyone! I’m surprised they tricked so many of you into coming back.

pisces

Feb. 19 - Mar. 20

I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but the “Fast and Furious” movies are very loosely based on your life. It’s true!

aries

Mar. 21 - Apr. 19

taurus

Apr. 20 - May. 20

gemini

May. 21 - Jun. 21

Here’s a neat little challenge: See how far in the semester you can go without buying any books! My personal best is three weeks.

Today, you are too sexy for: your shirt, Milan, New York, Japan, my party, your car, your hat, and the very concept of love.

When you get to your new classes, avoid sitting in the first five rows. That’s the designated splash zone.

cancer

Jun. 22 - Jul. 22

Break’s over! Now it’s just constant hard work from here on out. Have fun!

leo

Jul. 23 - Aug. 22

Today is a good day to sleep in and skip all your classes. Trust me on this one. The first class is always just filler stuff.

virgo

Aug. 23 - Sept. 22

It’s officially a pop-punk kind of day. You have been warned. Prepare your earplugs.

libra

Sept. 23 - Oct. 22

scorpio

Oct. 23 - Nov. 21

The question I get asked the most is: “Can the dolphins hear us when we cheer?” The answer is, “Yes they can!”.

Warning: Deadlines in the mirror may be closer than they appear.

sagittarius

Nov. 22 - Dec. 21

Learn your new schedule quickly. There will be a test on it later. I hope it’s multiple choice.

capricorn

Dec. 22 - Jan. 19

What’s your favorite major? Let me know in the comments below!

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Minutewomen can’t hold on

15 point lead fades away in the fourth

By Jamie Cushman Collegian Staff

After the first 30 minutes of Saturday’s game against George Washington, the Massachusetts women’s basketball team appeared primed to take down one of the top teams in the Atlantic 10, leading by 15 entering the fourth quarter.

Unfortunately for UMass (9-12, 3-5 A-10), the shots stopped falling, and the passes stopped connecting. Ten minutes, 10 turnovers, seven missed shots, and zero points later, the Minutewomen and the Colonials were headed to overtime.

The offensive woes continued into the extra frames for UMass as the Minutewomen tallied just seven points—all from the free throw line—over two overtime periods before ultimately falling to GW (13-6, 6-1 A-10) 60-54 (2 OT).

UMass coach Tory Verdi took pride the Minutewomen’s effort compared to the 55-38 loss to St. Bonaventure on Thursday.

“It’s a tough game. I’m really proud of our effort. If we played half as hard when we played St. Bonaventure, we would have won that game,” Verdi said.

“We didn’t score very many points, seven points in the last 20 minutes,” Verdi said. “I think Leah coming out of the game that hurts us too. We don’t have a point guard who can run us, and we couldn’t really execute appropriately, but I’m proud of our effort.”

The UMass offense looked unstoppable in the third quarter. Tallying 21 points in a period that was capped with a 3-pointer from senior walk-on

Megan Burke with seven seconds remaining in the quarter, but that would prove to be the final Minutewomen field goal of the day.

“I just think that we got tight and for whatever reason, couldn’t put it in the basket, and it’s something we’ve got to work on,” Verdi said.

“Honestly things weren’t dropping, we were making too many mistakes, there was no flow to the offense, and so it was the turnovers and everything, it just wasn’t working,” senior Alyx Stiff said.

Stiff powered the UMass offense, finishing with a teamhigh 18 points off 6-of-10 shooting from beyond the arc.

“Honestly my game plan is just go in and I’m just going to go score,” Stiff said. “I’m going to score, I’m going to play defense, and I’m going to do what I can. If my shot’s falling, I’m going to keep shooting it. If it’s not, I’m going to drive it, and it kept falling, so I kept shooting it.”

The Colonials actually appeared to win the game at the end of the first overtime period when they added another second chance putback, but after a review the referees waived off the basket.

GW could have finished the game in regulation if they knocked down any of the large number of open 3-pointers they missed, finishing at 9-of44 from beyond the arc.

For a second straight game the Minutewomen were dominated on the boards, with GW winning the rebounding battle 58-35, including 30 offensive rebounds.

“When you look at our personnel, Maggie is 6’2” and the next tallest player is 5’9”,” Verdi said. “But we’ve got to do a better job of when we’re in front of people, we’ve just got to drive them back. We’re

there, but we just don’t drive them back, and we’ve got to be a little more aggressive in that regard.”

Forward Lexi Martins put up a game-high 25 points for the Colonials to go along with 10 rebounds.

Freshman Hailey Leidel added a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Minutewomen, but she also finished with nine turnovers.

Burke earned her first start of the season, playing a season-high 20 minutes and tallying a season-high six points from a pair of 3-pointers.

“It’s just cool, it’s a different experience, and it’s just something that you take advantage of and you make the most of it,” Burke said.

Verdi attributed Burke’s start to the hard work she has been putting in at practice.

“I’m playing those who come to practice every day and work hard. Those who work the hardest for us in practice will play for us here at the University of Massachusetts,” Verdi said.

Stiff had high praise for what Burke has accomplished since walking on to the basketball team in her senior year after playing four years on the UMass women’s soccer team.

“I’m so proud of her,” Stiff said. “She works hard every single day at practice and she plays a really big role on our team even though she doesn’t typically play a lot of minutes.

But the last few games she’s done a lot of great things for us, and we just all are so proud of her.”

The Minutewomen return to action on Wednesday when they travel to La Salle for a noon tipoff.

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

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“I think Deeky made a freshmen mistake. You don’t go clobber down on a guy when you got three fouls in the second half,” Kellogg said. “I was keeping him out there hoping that he wouldn’t pick up his fourth. So that part of it wasn’t good.

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I thought Brison [Gresham] was ok at the five, I thought Ty [Flowers] was decent.

They just didn’t make like those winning championship plays that maybe an older junior or senior makes.”

Saturday’s result is obviously not what Kellogg was hoping for and he realizes the need for his team to keep grinding if they want

to find any form of consistent success for the remainder of the season.

“So, instead of being 3-4 and having a little bit of a swag, we have to get back to the drawing board and get better and continue to work,” Kellogg said.

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Wischow finished with 11 saves.

Putting together a complete 60 minute effort continues to be a struggle for this young Minutemen team, however Carvel and Pigozzi still walked away with some high-points in

this otherwise underwhelming contest.

“I didn’t mind our effort tonight,” Carvel said. “I thought our guys competed hard.”

“I think here and there we let some goals in that we wish we could take back,”

Pigozzi said. “Overall I felt our energy was there and overall we were decent tonight.”

Ryan Ames can be reached at rames@umass.edu or on Twitter @_RyanAmes.

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Patriots advance past PIT More growing pains for UMass Brady and Belichick earn seventh SB bid

By Ed Bouchette Pittsburgh Post-Gazette FOXBOROUGH, Mass. _ Another AFC championship game against the New England Patriots, another failure by the Steelers.

New England will go to the Super Bowl for a record ninth time after crushing the Steelers, 36-17, Gillette Stadium on Sunday night.

Tom Brady passed for three touchdowns and 384 yards for the Patriots, who are now 3-0 against the Steelers in AFC title games, all in this century, all with Brady at quarterback.

This was their most lopsided win of the three.

No quarterback or coach has won five Super Bowls.

New England’s Brady and Bill Belichick can become the first.

The Steelers were on their way to tying their secondworst loss ever in the playoffs until Cobi Hamilton caught a 30-yard TD pass from Ben Roethlisberger with 3:36 left in the game. A two-point pass after the TD to DeAngelo Williams made it 36-17.

While the Steelers defense gave up all those yards passing, Ben Roethlisberger and his offense could not produce touchdowns. They had a first down at the one foot line in the second quarter and wound up with a field goal. They reached the New England two in the fourth quarter and came away with nothing.

Their offense lost halfback Le’Veon Bell late in the first quarter with a groin injury and he did not play after that.

Williams replaced him.

Also, Roethlisberger got little help from his receives.

Hamilton dropped one pass in the end zone and when he

caught another in the fourth quarter, it was discounted because he had run out of bounds and back in first.

Eli Rogers lost a fumble that led to a New England score and there were other drops by the Steelers’ receivers, including a deep one by Sammie Coates.

Roethlisberger completed 31 of 47 passes for 314 yards, one touchdown, one interception and he was let down by his receivers. The Steelers managed just 54 yards rushing.

New England, which led 17-9 at halftime, stretched it to 20-9 when Stephen Gostkowski nailed a 47-yard field goal with 9:59 to go in the third quarter.

LeGarrette Blount, who rushed for 18 touchdowns during the regular season, pounded home from the one with 2:44 to go in the third to pump the Patriots’ lead to 27-9. On that eight-play, 88-yard drive, Brady completed a perfect crossing pass to Chris Hogan for a 39-yard gain. Blount carried nearly all the Steelers defense with him to the one on the next play after they stopped him at the nine.

After the kickoff, Eli Rogers caught a three-yard pass from Ben Roethlisberger and promptly fumbled at the Steelers 28. Four plays later, Brady threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Julian Edelman and it was 33-9 New England after a missed PAT. Gostkowski’s 26-yard field goal with 6:24 left made it 36-9.

The Steelers squandered a touchdown late in the second quarter and trailed 17-9 at halftime.

Brady had an open field day against the Steelers in the first half when he threw for 222 yards. He threw two touchdown passes to Chris Hogan, one in each quarter. Hogan had nine catches for a postseason New England record of 180 yards after three quarters.

His second TD carried 34

yards and came on a flea-flicker. Brady handed off to Dion Lewis up the middle, Lewis turned and pitched it back to Brady. With safety Mike Mitchell biting on the play, Hogan was wide open to catch the touchdown pass.

New England led 17-6 with 7:43 to go.

The Steelers had scored earlier in the second quarter on a five-yard touchdown run up the middle by DeAngelo Williams, who replaced Bell.

It appeared they scored again when Ben Roethlisberger threw a third-down pass to Jesse James from the 19. The officials ruled touchdown, but replay showed he was down at the one-foot line.

With the injured Bell still on the sideline, Williams ran to the left for a one-yard loss. On second down, he had no chance as the Patriots collapsed the Steelers line and Williams lost three yards. A third-down pass to Rogers was off the mark and Chris Boswell, who earlier missed an extra point, kicked a 23-yard field goal with 1:39 left in the first half.

Brady threw a touchdown pass to Hogan and Stephen Gostkowski kicked a 31-yard field goal as the Patriots ran out to a 10-0 lead after one quarter.

The Patriots made it look easy on the first series of the game. Brady, who had all time to throw, picked apart the Steelers, including a 41-yarder to Julian Edelman, who stiffarmed Artie Burns to elude one tackle and got around Lawrence Timmons for another.

However, on third down at the 13, Malcolm Mitchell dropped Brady’s pass smack in his hands that would have been a first down and New England turned to Gostkowski, who kicked a 31-yard field goal for a 3-0 lead.

Young core is still developing for UM

It’s been nothing short of a roller coaster ride through the first 20 games of the 2016-17 season for the Massachusetts men’s basketball team.

While there have been flashes of excellence for stretches that has given UMass (12-8, 2-5 Atlantic 10) a glimpse of what’s to Andrew come for its future with its Cyr talented young core, the final product is still far from completion.

Saturday’s 71-68 last-minute loss against Fordham will certainly be one the Minutemen look back on as one that got away. But when looking at the season as a whole, isn’t this what was expected of UMass?

Talented, yes. However, the growing pains, turnovers, experiments with different lineups, shot selection and lack of execution has unsurprisingly plagued the Minutemen with about twothirds of the season in the rearview mirror.

“I think Luwane [Pipkins], [DeJon Jarreau] and Brison [Gresham] have gotten more of an opportunity and are doing pretty well,” UMass coach Derek Kellogg said after the loss to Fordham.

“I’m not sure exactly what the learning curve is supposed to be, but if they learn how to win and make winning plays in those stretch runs, I think their curve has been great.”

“Chris [Baldwin] and Ty [Flowers] haven’t played quite as much to continue to make those strides, just because it’s

league play. A lot of teams in our league play, a 6-5 fourman or a stretch four, which they’re still figuring out how to cover.” “[Jarreau] had three pretty good passes to Brison and then it was kind of there, not there. [Jarreau] turned it over on that one when the game was kind of in the guts. They were out there for a couple of those long rebounds we didn’t get.”

“I do think they’re improving,” Kellogg said.

In addition to the freshmen, the Minutemen’s returning role players and Zach Lewis, have all fairly stayed the course.

Rashaan Holloway has taken a significant—and expected—step forward and has emerged as one of the top big men in the conference. In A-10 play, Holloway has seen his production improve to 15.3 points per game and ranks sixth in the conference with 7.9 rebounds.

C.J. Anderson and Lewis have been the go-to guards off the bench for Kellogg and both average over 20 minutes per game. Malik Hines has also taken another step forward on both ends of the floor while Seth Berger, in a limited role, continues to do things that don’t translate to tangible statistics.

Donte Clark has struggled as of late, but returned to form with 17 points against the Rams. Prior to the Fordham game, Clark had scored double-digit points in three of the Minutemen’s last four games in A-10 play.

“We’ve had a couple of those games so hopefully we make a change instead of trying to think back on what we could have done,” Clark said when asked if this was a game the Minutemen will think back on as one that slipped away.

With the Minutemen projected to finish 10th in the conference in the preseason polls, and after Sunday’s slate of games are tied with Duquesne for the second-worst conference record. UMass visits last-place Saint Louis on Wednesday and hosts George Mason Saturday.

In a conference like the A-10, veteran play usually prevails more than it does in the Power 5 schools where high-caliber, one-and-done, NBA-bound freshmen can steal the show.

This team is different than the one’s Kellogg has recently coached. Over the past four years, he’s had senior leadership and presence that have been the focal point of his teams. From Chaz Williams to Cady Lalanne to Trey Davis, each of the past three seasons has featured a dominant senior that’s been the catalyst when things aren’t going as planned.

This year, it’s been more of a collective effort. Different players on different nights have stepped up and contributed in ways they never have done before.

Entering this year, not many expected a return to the NCAA tournament. However, an NIT bid, an achievable goal for this year’s team, is still on the table if the Minutemen can accelerate the pace of their growth and maturity.

While it’s hard to call any season a transition season in college basketball, the 2016-17 version of the Minutemen are doing just that without any seniors on its roster.

UMass is still searching for its ability to finish games more than anything right now. But again, this change was never expected to happen over night.

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

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Minutemen fall to Fordham in Turnovers plague UM the final seconds at home 71-68 in its loss to the Rams UM can’t overcome mistakes in A-10 loss

Tough trend for UMass continues on Saturday

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Down 69-68 with six seconds left in the game, the Massachusetts men’s basketball team found themselves in a situation they know all too well with the game on the line in the waning seconds.

UMass (12-8, 2-5 Atlantic 10) had an inbound pass under its own basket. Guard DeJon Jarreau scanned the court for an open Minutemen player and with seconds ticking off the five-second inbound pass clock, he took a chance with a high lob pass into the post to center Rashaan Holloway.

Fordham (9-11, 3-4 A-10) forward Chuba Ohams flanked the 6-foot-11 Holloway and tipped the pass out of reach from the big man. Fellow Rams forward Christian Sengfelder would come up with the ball and with it end UMass’ chances of victory as Fordham went on to top the Minutemen 71-68 at the Mullins Center Saturday afternoon.

UMass had a plan going into that late-game play, but couldn’t execute when they needed it the most.

“It came down to a last [out-ofbounds, under the basket] play that we’ve worked on in practice. I’m not sure what happened, I haven’t really watched the tape yet,” Minutemen coach Derek Kellogg said. “The object was to get either Donte [Clark] the ball on the wing and have him drive it or over the top to Rashaan. We elected to go over the top to Rashaan, and unfortunately, I’m not sure what happened; he didn’t come up with the ball or whatever.”

That play was a microcosm of the defensive effort the Rams dis-

With the exception of a few short moments toward the beginning and end of its game against Fordham Saturday afternoon, the Massachusetts men’s basketball team played catch-up for the majority of the 40 minutes of play as UMass fell 71-68 to the Rams.

Fordham is not an offensive juggernaut by any means; however UMass’ 19 turnovers allowed the Rams to maintain the lead throughout the game. The Rams (9-11, 3-4 Atlantic 10) scored 28 points off of turnovers, on average this season UMass has given up 13.15 points when they’ve turned the ball over.

This has been an unfavorable trend for the Minutemen (12-8, 2-5 Atlantic 10) most of the season.

Entering the game against Fordham, UMass led the A-10 in turnovers with 285, an average of 15 per game. With Saturday’s game, that total is now up to 304.

DeJon Jarreau has committed the most turnovers on the Minutemen with 62 and Donte Clark is not far behind with 58.

Of Jarreau’s 62 turnovers, eight came in the loss to Fordham, a season-high for the freshman point guard.

The Rams’ strength this season has been their defense and the team’s 14 steals showed that.

According to Fordham head coach Jeff Neubauer, that defense was crucial to defeating the Minutemen.

“Well that is a big part of our defense, we’re second in the country in steals and so we got 14 today,” Neubauer said. “Our average is about 11. But that’s huge for us, we

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Minutemen suffer 19 turnovers in the home defeat to Fordham on Saturday. played against UMass on Saturday.

Fordham had 14 steals on the day, leading UMass to 19 turnovers on the day. Coming into the game, the Rams were fourth in the nation in steals per game.

Defense is something that Fordham coach Jeff Neubauer prides his team upon.

“We’re very limited offensively, so we’re just trying to grind it out with our defense,” Neubauer said.

“I think the last six minutes of defense, I think as well as we did all year. In a lot of games, we’ve really started well defensively, especially in our last game against VCU and this game it was the final six minutes that our guys were tough.”

Although the Minutemen outrebounded the Rams 32-31 in the game, it was Fordham’s ability to secure offensive boards that played a major role in topping UMass Saturday as they bested the Minutemen in that category 15-8, including a 9-3 advantage in the second half.

Minutemen guard Donte Clark and his teammates were frustrated when they were able to force the Rams into shots they wanted them

to take, but Fordham came away with the ball.

“It’s definitely a terrible feeling to play as hard as we did and them get the rebound,” Clark said.

The top performer on the boards was Sengfelder who had nine rebounds, including five offensive rebounds. Sengfelder also paced the Rams offensively with a gamehigh 20 points. Guard Javontae Hawkins, who leads Fordham in points per game this season, chipped in 18, while Prokop Slanina had 13.

UMass was paced by Clark who had 17 points and eight rebounds in 32 minutes of play. Jarreau followed him with 11 points, along with three steals, and Holloway had 10 points and seven rebounds.

The Minutemen’s late-game bid to take control was halted by two of its starters, Holloway and Jarreau, finding themselves in foul trouble with four personal fouls with 9:45 to play. Kellogg had to get a little creative with his lineups to preserve the duo for the end of the game, but he thought those that filled in did an admirable job. see

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have to do that, we have to steal the ball, so our pressure was effective.”

Fordham’s ability to effectively steal the ball contributed to UMass’ 19 turnovers; however errant passes and silly decisions on the part of the UMass backcourt arguably is what held the Minutemen back.

“Obviously 18 turnovers … It felt like we had fast breaks turn into turnovers going the other way, especially in the first half,” Coach Derek Kellogg said. “In the second half we executed better against that kind of funky zone.”

“We had some good things from some guys, but 16 turnovers from our starting back court, which is way too many.”

These mistakes loom even larger given the fact that the Minutemen shot 51.1 percent, their best shooting performance in conference play thus far.

“I mean we’ve had a couple of those games so hopefully we make a change instead of trying to think back on what we could of did instead next game just doing it,” Clark said.

The focus on making smarter decisions with the ball and limiting the number of turnovers already makes up the majority of practice for UMass according to Kellogg.

“Well we focus on turnovers and shot selection about 70 percent of the practice right now,” Kellogg said. “So we have to probably do a better job of working on that. You know they kind of run at the ball and you have to make basketball plays and decisions. I think it’s a good defense for how they want to play. But I thought in the second half we kind of picked it apart. It was more not making the right play a few times and defensively coming up with those long rebounds.”

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

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Strong start for UMass Eagles soar past Minutemen 6-1 Boston College shows doesn’t last against BC great skill on offense UM loses momentum early and can’t recover Ryan Ames Collegian Staff The Massachusetts hockey team came out of the gates against Boston College Friday night fast and with a purpose.

UMass (5-17-1, 2-9-1 Hockey East) put the pedal to the medal for the first five minutes of the game, pressuring BC (15-9-2, 10-3-1 HEA) goalie Ryan Edquist with extended offensive zone time.

Unfortunately for the Minutemen, that was the only positive aspect of a 6-1 drubbing at the Conte Forum.

“As a coach it’s a little frustrating tonight because we’re seeing certain mistakes being made,” UMass coach Greg Carvel said. “Again, you can have breakdowns and still be able to recover and find ways to prevent the teams from scoring.”

David Cotton broke the deadlock for the Eagles at 12:32 of the first period tapping the puck into a wide open cage following a great pass from linemate Austin Canngelosi.

Less than two minutes later, freshman Julius Mattila doubled BC’s lead to two when he snapped a one-timer that eluded Minutemen starting goaltender Ryan Wischow.

That tally proved to be the gamewinner as UMass only found the back of the net once off a nifty deke and shot from Minutemen senior Ray Pigozzi at 7:53 of the middle frame.

“I don’t think so,” Pigozzi said if he thought their two goals killed the momentum at the start. “When you play teams as skilled as that your margin of error has to be very

small to stick with them. We had few mental lapses there and they were able to capitalize. I don’t think it killed our energy.”

“In a breakdown situation to me the defense has to cover the backside for the goalie, and hopefully the goalie can handle the shot from the strong side,” Carvel said referencing the first Eagle goal.

BC scored once more before the first buzzer sounded giving the Eagles a commanding three goal lead heading into the second period.

With time winding down, BC sophomore Chris Brown corralled the puck in the right corner and flung it out in front of Wischow where it hit a few bodies and found twine. The goal came with only five seconds left and was a back-breaking marker for UMass’ confidence level.

“I think the third [BC goal] with five seconds, the guy just threw the puck out of the corner and it hit Trento,” Carvel said.

It concluded a period that looked promising, but ended with a fluky goal and the Minutemen in a significant deficit after only 20 minutes of play.

“What I saw in the first period is what I saw in the second and third,” Carvel said. “They do a good job, they’re a skilled team. They get pucks to the net, we don’t get pucks to the net. It’s now a skill teams defend so well, it’s hard to get the puck to the net. It takes skill to get the puck to the goaltender, and they do a good job with that.”

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Kyle DaLuz Collegian Staff No. 10-ranked Boston College struck for six goals against the Massachusetts hockey team Friday evening at Kelley Rink at Conte Forum for an easy 6-1 victory over the Minutemen.

UMass (5-17-1, 2-9-1 Hockey East) was outshot 46-13 for the contest and 14-1 in the first period.

The Eagles (15-9-2, 10-3-1 HEA) scored a pair of goals less than two minutes apart and a backbreaking tally with less than five seconds remaining in the period to give them a three-goal lead at first intermission.

Nic Renyard (28 saves) replaced UMass goaltender Ryan Wischow in net for the second period and Boston College and the Minutemen exchanged goals in the period.

The Eagles high-powered offense struck twice in the final period, with Michael Kim’s tally coming just 57 seconds into the third and JD Dudek put the finishing touches on the BC triumph at 16:14.

“Six to one is pretty lopsided,” UMass coach Greg Carvel said. “I didn’t mind our effort. The guys competed. But our margin for error is slim. They’re a skilled team. They do a good job. They get pucks to the net. Again, our margin for error is very minimal.”

Perhaps the most alarming stat of the night resides in the special team’s department. The Minutemen were on the power play four times and mustered just one shot – a Jake McLaughlin wrist shot from just inside the

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Minutemen surrender three goals in the first period in loss to Boston College. blue line which was an easy save for freshman goalie Ryan Edquist (12 saves). Boston College was 0-for-5 on the man advantage with eight shots. “(It’s) very (frustrating),” Carvel said. “We had 13 shots in the game. The power play has been ineffective for a long time and we spend a lot of time all week long working on it. It takes skill to get pucks to the net and we’re lacking in that area.”

Ray Piggozi showed off some his skill when he toe-dragged past an Eagle defender and snapped a wrist shot by the glove of Edquist to give UMass its lone goal of the evening midway through the second. It was Pigozzi’s fourth goal of an injury-ridden 2016-17 campaign and his second in the last three games.

Steven Iacobellis found the streaking Pigozzi on the play, good for an assist and his team-leading 14th point of the season. It was the 80th point of his career in a Massachusetts sweater, good for 28th all-time in the UMass scoring history.

Scott Savage scored the fourth

Eagles goal of the night at 17:02 in the second period off a feed from Chris Brown, who tallied his third assist of the night on the play.

Boston College had six different scorers, as Savage, Brown, Austin Cangelosi (goal, assist), David Cotton (goal, two assists) and Julius Mattila each notched multi-point games.

“I thought our guys competed hard, but our margin for error is extremely thin, especially against skilled teams,” Carvel said. “I thought that was the case tonight.

We had two breakdowns in the d-zone and they quickly capitalized and I think three goals where they just found ways to throw pucks at the net that found their way to the back of the net.”

“It was nice for us,” BC coach Jerry York said. “A workman-like effort, finally rewarded with some goals. You get more confidence when you score goals. That will only help us down the road.’’

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