The Massachusetts Daily Collegian: January, 23rd 2017

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Professor wins on ‘Jeopardy!’

Professor appeared on three episodes By Danny Cordova Collegian Staff

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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. Although the new Trump White House website does not list health care as one of the administration’s “top issues,” see

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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. “All of the ideas were see

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