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UMPD arrest man accused of assault and battery Suspect posed as an Uber driver

that the UMPD launched an investigation and revealed that Samuel Texidor, the person arrested, approached a female UMass

By Stuart Foster student on Sept. 3, 2016 preCollegian Staff senting himself as an Uber The University of driver.

Massachusetts Police “Texidor then offered Department arrested a the victim a free ride from Holyoke resident accused Townhouse Apartments to of indecent assault and bat- North Apartments, located tery against a UMass stu- on campus,” read the crime dent, according to a crime alert. “During this drive alert posted on their web- the victim was indecently site. assaulted by the suspect out The crime alert stated side of North Apartments.”

The victim then exited the vehicle, a black 2014 Dodge Charger, after demanding that Texidor stop driving it, according to the crime report.

UMPD’s crime alert said they are continuing to investigate the case and that there are “indications the suspect may have approached others to offer free rides.”

The bottom of the crime alert contained personal safety tips for students, which included verifying an

approaching Uber driver’s license number with the information provided by the app, avoiding walking alone at night and only using well-lit routes after dark.

The alert encouraged people with information that could help move the case forward to contact UMPD or to submit an anonymous witness form.

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

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Suspect allegedly offered to drive UMass student to North Apartments.

Hampshire College to become entirely powered by solar 15,000 panels will be installed by Dec.

By Hannah Depin Collegian Staff

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University of Massachusetts students exercise by Zumba dancing during the Wellness Night at the Hagis Mall on Tuesday.

Hampshire College will install 15,000 solar panels on its campus this fall in an effort to run entirely on solar energy, according to a statement released by the college on Aug. 5.

The panels will be arranged throughout two solar arrays in fields on campus, comprising 19 acres in total. They will be built, owned and operated by the energy company SolarCity, and the college will purchase electricity from SolarCity at a fixed rate, according to the statement.

The system is expected to eliminate 3,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions and cut $400,000 from the college’s electricity bill each year. The system will be connected into

the regional power grid, so that the college will be able to send excess energy to the community, and draw from it on cloudy days, said Hampshire College spokesman John Courtmanche.

“Solar technology is so advanced that we don’t need to be concerned about being able to provide energy,” Courtmanche said.

He estimated that the panels will turn on this coming winter or spring, after construction concludes in December.

“Construction will not affect campus operations,” Cour tmanche added, though construction in one of the fields located at the corner of Route 116 and West Bay Road near Atkins Country Farm will be “highly visible” to the public.

Hampshire is set to see

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Carlson and Ailes College of Nursing receives opioid settle lawsuit crisis intervention training grant

By Stephen Battaglio Los Angeles Times

Fox News and Roger Ailes have reached a settlement in the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former anchor Gretchen Carlson.

Fox News parent company 21st Century Fox also issued an apology to Carlson, who charged Ailes with sabotaging her career after she rebuffed sexual advances and complained about a hostile work environment. Her contract was not renewed in June after 11 years at Fox News Channel.

At the same time the settlement was announced, Fox News also revealed that Greta Van Susteren is leaving the company. Van Susteren was an anchor for 14 years. A person close to the situation who is not authorized to comment said her abrupt exit was due to a "financial disagreement."

Political commentator Brit Hume will take over Van Susteren's 7 p.m. ET hour starting Tuesday.

Van Susteren was a vocal defender of Ailes when sexual harassment charges were first filed against the former Fox News chairman.

The settlement _ which will pay Carlson $20 million according to one person familiar with the terms of the deal _ was announced Tuesday in a statement from 21st Century Fox, which included a full apology.

"21st Century Fox is pleased to announce that it has settled Gretchen Carlson's lawsuit," the company said in a statement. "During her tenure at Fox News, Gretchen exhibited the highest standards of journalism and professionalism. She developed a loyal audience and was a daily source of information for many Americans. We are proud that she was part of the Fox News team.

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500 UMass nurses going to be trained

By Marie MacCune Collegian Staff

With the Commonwealth in an opioid “crisis” according to the state’s Department of Public Health, the University of Massachusetts’ College of Nursing is aiming to do something about it.

A July press release from the University announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded the College an $870,000 grant to train student nurses in screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT). This training, funded by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, is meant to target alcohol and substance abuse.

“One of the reasons (UMass was) attractive is that we’re from a state, and in the proposal we made a point of underlining this, that has a serious problem with alcohol and substance abuse—we’re dealing

with a kind of crisis here,” said Donna Zucker, associate dean for academic affairs for the College of Nursing and principal investigator for the SBIRT program. “If we can educate providers (of care)... then that is a really great opportunity to meet a need in the Commonwealth.”

According to Zucker, SBIRT will officially go live in September and will train students in skills that providers of care would use when they are taking a client’s history or conducting a follow-up meeting with a high-risk patient.

She explained that “brief intervention” deals with how to interview someone about alcohol and substance use, adding that nurses “want to have a sense of collaboration” with clients.

Nurses will be trained in a technique known as motivational interviewing. Zucker said this requires building a rapport with a client while also calling out dangerous or unhealthy behavior such as excessive drinking.

Sally Linowski, associate dean for student affairs and campus life, is serving as the

program’s co-investigator and explained that in motivational interviewing, nurses “meet the person where they are.”

She said student nurses will learn how to guide conversations about alcohol and substance abuse even when people seem resistant.

Linowski described herself as a “health promotion person” who has always been interested in why people use drugs and alcohol and, more importantly, how to help them.

She said lessons learned from her role in bringing the BASICs program, an alcohol screening and intervention system, to campus taught her that “with an evidence-based practice, you really have to stay with fidelity to the model.”

The SBIRT program will rely on the curriculum already developed by SAMHSA. However, she added, you can tailor your conversations to your institution.

Five hundred students will be trained through the program over the course of three years through the program, Zucker said. The nursing students will be working with patients through the

Western Massachusetts Public Health Training Center, the Center for Health Promotion, University Health Services and the Springfield Public Schools. No new classes have been developed as a result of the grant. Instead, the training will be incorporated into pre-existing courses already required by the nursing major.

The program will be overseen by a panel of students called the Student Advisory Committee. According to Zucker, those students will receive appointments once the semester gets started. SBIRT’s Council of Directors will be composed of members of the community including mental health and substance abuse experts.

Christina DiConza, a junior nursing student, said she looks forward to this new training she will undergo this year.

“Prescription drug addiction and opioid abuse have become highly prevalent and problematic in today’s world.

If I, as a future healthcare provider, can in any way work to minimize the epidemic, I am thrilled to be able to do so,” she see

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

In 1927, Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using an image dissector.

AROUND THE WORLD

Obama vows to tighten sanctions on North Korea after missile launch VIENTIANE, Laos — President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to toughen international sanctions against North Korea after its government conducted a test missile launch as world leaders gathered for summits in Asia.

Speaking with reporters after a meeting here with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Obama said that the two agreed to work “diligently together” on the most recent United Nations sanctions against North Korea to close loopholes “and make them even more effective.”

“The entire international community needs to implement these sanctions fully and hold North Korea accountable,” Obama said on the sidelines of a summit of Southeast Asian leaders in his last presidential trip to the continent.

On Monday, North Korea launched three ballistic missiles – a test widely believed to be an effort to garner attention from international summits in Beijing and Vientiane.

Park told reporters that North Korea’s acts were “fundamentally threatening” and that she and Obama had agreed to “respond resolutely” to the defiance of international demands that North Korea end its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

In March, the U.N. Security Council imposed the toughest sanctions in decades on North Korea after it began a round of nuclear and ballistic missile tests. The sanctions subject all cargo in and out of North Korea to inspections, ban exports of natural resources including coal and gold, tighten a weapons embargo and end relationships with outside banks.

Obama believes the U.S. and Korea have to be vigilant in sanctions enforcement, aides said.

“We want to make sure we’re cutting off all the lifelines that North Korea tries to grab onto,” said Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes.

Obama also said the U.S. was still open to the possibility of talks with North Korea if it were to recognize its international obligations and work to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

“The opportunities for us to dialogue with them are there,” Obama said.

The U.S. has no interest in an “offensive approach” to North Korea, he said.

Obama had originally been scheduled to meet on Tuesday afternoon with the controversial new Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, but he canceled that meeting when Duterte threatened to curse at him if he raised questions about Duterte’s human rights record. Obama insisted he would raise that issue, and thus canceled the meeting.

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with the respect and dignity that she and all of our colleagues deserve."

Carlson said in a statement: "I am gratified that 21st Century Fox took decisive action after I filed my complaint. I'm ready to move on to the next chapter of my life in which I will redouble my efforts to empower women in the workplace. I want to thank all the brave women who came forward to tell their own stories and the many people across the country who embraced

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and supported me in their #StandWithGretchen. All women deserve a dignified and respectful workplace in which talent, hard work and loyalty are recognized, revered and rewarded."

Since the allegations by Carlson became public she filed a suit in a New Jersey Superior Court on July 6 - reports have emerged of other women who have worked with the executive in the past also saying that he sought sexual favors in return

for employment opportunities. Ailes has denied those incidents as well.

Ailes resigned on July 21, leaving the influential news division he founded with a $20 million severance package. Ailes was also indemnified by the company for any damages from the lawsuit.

Attorneys for Carlson had said they had been contacted by as many as 20 women who said they were subjected to inappropriate behavior by Ailes.

have the largest on-campus solar energy system among New England colleges and universities, and one of the largest in the eastern United States, according to the statement.

The project, led by Hampshire Colle ge’s E n v i r o n m e n t a l Committee, began in 2014.

The Committee sought to identify areas of campus that would be best-suited for the panels, and was conscious of maintaining ecosystems, according to the statement.

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In this file photo, Roger Ailes is pictured at the premiere for “Kingsman: The Secret Service” on Feb. 9, 2015 in New York City. Fox News and Ailes have reached a settlement in the sexual harrassment suit filed by Gretchen Carlson.

Brock Turner released, registered as sex offender

By Sarah Parvini Los Angeles Times

Former Stanford University student Brock Turner, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman and sentenced to six months in jail, registered as a sex offender in his home state of Ohio Tuesday morning, state records show.

Turner was released from the Santa Clara County Jail on Friday after serving half of his sentence _ a penalty criticized for its leniency.

Early releases are commonly given because of good behavior and because of California’s prison realignment.

Turner, 21, was convicted in March of three felony counts: assault with the intent to commit rape of an unconscious person, sexual penetration of an unconscious person and sexual penetration of an intoxicated person. He attacked an unconscious woman behind a garbage bin on the Palo Alto university’s campus in

January 2015.

At his sentencing, Turner faced up to 14 years in prison. Prosecutors sought a sixyear prison term.

Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky ultimately opted for the lighter jail term of six months and also sentenced the Ohio native to three years of probation. At the time, he said a lengthier penalty would have a “severe impact” on Turner.

Persky is facing a recall campaign over his handling of Turner’s case.

Criticism of the sentence escalated after the unidentified victim’s 12-page, singlespaced letter that she read in court went viral online.

She harshly criticized Persky for giving Turner “a soft time-out, a mockery of the (seriousness) of the assaults.”

“The seriousness of rape has to be communicated clearly, we should not create a culture that suggests we learn that rape is wrong through trial and error,” she wrote. “The consequences

“The consequences of sexual assault needs to be severe enough that people feel enough fear to exercise good judgement even if they are drunk.”

Courtesy of survivor’s statement of sexual assault needs to be severe enough that people feel enough fear to exercise good judgment even if they are drunk, severe enough to be preventative.”

Public outrage over the case has extended to the California Capitol, where lawmakers have passed legislation to expand the definition of rape and to increase punishment for sex offenders.

Faculty and students at the college are applying for grants to conduct research on the impact of solar arrays on farmland, said Courtmanche.

This year, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has its own solar initiative as well. UMass will install 15,576 photovoltaic panels across campus by the end of 2016, according to a statement released by UMass on July 20.

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wrote in an email to the Daily Collegian.

She added that this training will give her an edge postgraduation, saying, “This type of training will provide me with an advantage while looking for a job, as it will be something that sets me apart from other applicants.

However, more importantly, it will enable me to approach patient care scenarios with an un-stigmatized, informed attitude toward drug addiction.”

Linowski echoed this sentiment saying that UMass nurses will be attractive to employers who won’t have to train them in SBIRT, which is considered best practice under the Affordable Care Act and used in hospitals such as Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.

DiConza added that she sees nurses as playing an important role in the opioid crisis.

“Part of the reason I decided to become a nurse was because I find them to be accessible, approachable health care personnel.

Nurses work in numer-

ous environments, allowing them to reach out to a diverse spectrum of people,” she said.

Zucker expressed a similar view saying that this kind of intervention training falls well within nurses’ scope of practice.

“It’s the very first thing they’re taught in their very first nursing class,” Zucker said of communicating with clients.

Zucker, who is an addiction specialist herself and conducts research in corrections, had a personal motivation to study prevention and promote prevention training among her students having seen the debilitating effects of addiction on individuals and communities first hand.

“If you can prevent people from going down the path of substance abuse, it’s a lot easier and more beneficial than dealing with the long road of rehabilitation,” she said.

Marie MacCune can be reached at mmaccune@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @MarieMacCune.

Study: absences in 9 of 10 schools

By Paige Cornwell The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — Nine out of 10 school districts have some students who are chronically absent -- meaning they've missed 15 or more days in a single school year, according to a new analysis of federal data.

At the same time, nearly half the 6.5 million students who were chronically absent in the 2013-14 school year attend just 4 percent of the nation's school districts.

The analysis, the first of its kind from new data from the U.S. Department of Education, signals a need for broad outreach as well as targeted efforts in districts most affected by chronic absenteeism, researchers said.

"It means quite a small subset of schools face a much-higher degree of concentration or number of chronically absent kids than anyone else," said Robert Balfanz, one of the researchers, who works at Johns Hopkins University and leads the Everyone Graduates Center.

The national average for chronically absent students in 2013-14 was 13 percent. In Washington state, the average was nearly 25 percent, the second-highest rate in the U.S., behind Washington, D.C. Washington education officials questioned the rates when the federal education department released the data in June, saying state data is more accurate. The state figures showed that nearly 15 percent of Washington students were chronically absent. The state doesn't consider students chronically absent until they have missed 18 days, which is 10

percent of the school year.

The researchers said they used 15 days as a midpoint for districts that might have a shorter year or year-round school.

Washington state also considers students absent whenever they're out of the classroom, regardless of the reason. Other states use different criteria.

Overall, Balfanz said the researchers were surprised to find the rates were so highly concentrated.

They expected to find a lot of chronic absenteeism in urban districts with large populations of low-income students, but they were surprised to find high rates in a number of small- or medium-sized districts in postindustrial cities, like Albany, N.Y. They were also initially surprised to find that some suburban, affluent districts were among the 4 percent.

And in rural districts, while the number of students chronically absent isn't high, the rate is. In Washington state's South Whidbey School District, for example, 613 students were chronically absent in 2013-14, compared with 9,566 in Seattle Public Schools. However, South Whidbey only has about 1,500 students, so the absence rate was 42 percent, according to the federal definition.

Seattle's was 19 percent.

The researchers say that absences - for any reason can affect student achievement.

"All the best instruction in classrooms doesn't make a difference if kids aren't there to benefit from it," said Hedy Chang, executive director of Attendance Works, an organization that pushes for better policies and practices to improve school attendance.

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Trump camp bets on minority outreach

By Jennifer Jacobs and Kevin Cirilli Bloomberg News

WASHINGTON — Nearly three weeks ago, Donald Trump began a blunt appeal to Hispanics and blacks.

With his “what the hell do you have to lose?” line, his talk of softening his stance on immigrants residing in the country illegally, his trip to Mexico City to express respect for the Mexican people, and his ventures into AfricanAmerican communities in two U.S. cities, he and his campaign strategists have been working to target minority voters.

But are those efforts paying off ?

“In a word, no,” said Hughey Newsome, a black conservative leader and Washington-based business consultant. “I don’t see any changes at all. Based on my circles, African Americans understand that the Democrats take the vote for granted, but that doesn’t mean they trust the GOP, though.”

There have been few polls to indicate whether the Republican nominee is making headway.

Some private polling by a pro-Trump super PAC hasn’t detected a dent with Hispanics in Ohio and Florida, except among small business owners, where he is over 30 percent, according to a person familiar with the polling.

But Trump’s campaign aides still say they’re optimistic.

Democrats have taken the minority vote for granted and now they’re feeling the heat, Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications strategist, told Bloomberg Politics.

“People are saying, here’s a guy who’s asking for our vote. He’s telling us he cares about us. Why doesn’t Hillary Clinton do that?” Miller said. “The guy is a very, very effective communicator. It’s resonating and it’s resonating in a big way.”

Trump received praise for plunging into a downcast neighborhood in Philadelphia to meet with local African-American business and civic leaders, and for venturing to Detroit for his first campaign stop at a predominantly black church over the Labor Day weekend.

This week, the Trump campaign is doubling down on recruitment of minorities, and making a fresh pitch to women, aides told Bloomberg.

Three female surrogates are taking on bigger roles within the campaign: Omarosa Manig ault, who met Trump when she was a contestant on his “Apprentice” reality TV show, will step up outreach to AfricanAmerican media outlets.

A.J. Delgado, a lawyer and conservative commentator with Cuban roots, will push for coverage in Spanish media outlets. And Sarah Huckabee Sanders will work on communications targeted at faith leaders, gun rights supporters, military groups and other voter coalitions, according to sources familiar with the staff changes.

Trump, in an interview with reporters on Monday aboard his plane in between campaign stops in Ohio, said: “I think I’m going to do great with African Americans.

I say it very simply: The crime is through the roof.

Through the roof. People can’t walk down the street

without getting shot. I’ll stop that. There are no jobs. I’m going to bring back jobs.”

The Clinton campaign has been reminding voters of Trump’s skepticism about whether Barack Obama was born in the United States, and reporters on Monday pressed him about the “birther” allegations regarding the nation’s first black president.

“I don’t talk about it because the problem is if I talk about that it dominates the economy,” he said. “The thing that I’m really going to be best at is jobs and renegotiating trade deals.”

Expanding their coalition of minority voters has been a major goal for the Trump campaign _ and every day they’re not adding votes is a big loss, according to GOP strategists who say Trump needs to boost his support among black voters to have a chance at defeating Clinton.

“Trump understands that black voter outreach is not a microwave process,” said Republican operative John Burnett, who is black. “It will take multiple visits to various communities of color by him and surrogates to talk about economic development, education, entrepreneurship, jobs and criminal justice reform.”

Some AfricanAmerican voters may wait to hear what Trump has to say in the first debate with Clinton before making a final decision, said Burnett, who advises the New York GOP. “He must stay consistent and not go off the rails,” Burnett added.

“There is no room for error.”

Last week, there were some rough patches.

After Trump delivered a hardline speech on immigration Wednesday night, despite assurances to National Hispanic Advisory Council he’d act with compassion, at least one of the advisers resigned.

A top Trump adviser on minority outreach, Pastor Mark Burns, sparked criticism from within the black community by tweeting a cartoon of Clinton in blackface. Burns apologized, but in Detroit, the pastor of Greater Faith Ministries, the black mega-church Trump visited Saturday, decided not to let Burns speak.

Inside the church, Trump danced to hymns.

Outside, police had to use horses to break up protesters who attempted to rush the entrance of the church.

Former GOP presidential contender Ben Carson, who has emerged as the most influential African American advising Trump, praised Trump following the visit. “It was excellent. The reception was good,” Carson said.

But the current occupant of Carson’s boyhood home, Felicia Reese, made clear after Trump’s visit there that while she would respectfully meet with Trump, she was still a Democrat. “We were polite. We were cordial.

He’s a guest of the city of Detroit,” Reese told the Detroit Free Press. “Dr. Carson is a native son of our neighborhood and of this house, and he’s always welcome.”

Trump aides on Monday pointed to a New York Times article published Sunday that described

apathy in the black community toward Clinton. In interviews with Bloomberg Politics over the last two weeks,

young

minority

voters expressed a disinterest in both Clinton and Trump. Among a handful of blacks and Latinos who went to Trump’s rally in Austin, Texas, two weeks ago, several of them said in re-interviews Monday that neither Trump nor Clinton has won them over yet.

“I don’t know where I’ll be, but Trump is a definite no,” said Amber Watts, a 34-year-old childcare provider from Austin.

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Bill Cosby, right, is lead into Courtroom A in the Montgomery County Courthouse by one of his aides on Sept. 6, 2016 in Norristown, Pa. Bill Cosby returned to the courthouse for a pre-trial conference and to set a trial date.

DA seeks to have 13 women testify against Bill Cosby

By Steve Zeitchik

“Everyone who looks like me, he’s putting down.

He’s ready to shut us out of the country and send us back where they came from.”

Arnold

Martinez,

a

27-year-old catering cook, thinks Trump sells hate and exclusion and his new rhetoric of late is little more than “pandering.”

But

Clinton

dulls

his

hopes for the future, too.

“The one thing I can kind of agree on is that the establishment, the old political system needs to be done away with and Hillary’s been around for a long time,” Martinez said. He thinks Clinton will campaign hard for minority voters, then do whatever the establishment wants to do once elected.

Kaylin Pratt, a 22-yearold college student from Houston, saw the news coverage of Trump’s visit to the black church in Detroit on Saturday. “Yeah, no. I haven’t changed my mind

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NORRISTOWN, Pa. — As many as 13 of Bill Cosby’s alleged victims could testify in his upcoming sexual assault trial in Pennsylvania if the prosecution has its way.

Montgomery Country District Attorney Kevin Steele, who is trying Cosby on three counts of sexual assault of former Temple basketball player Andrea Constand, filed a motion here Tuesday seeking to have the women testify. He has not named the alleged victims, though he has informed the defense of their identities.

At a pretrial conference, Judge Steven T. O’Neill said he would consider the request at a future hearing.

A trial date of June 5, 2017, was also set at the conference.

O’Neill said he would have preferred ‘to begin earlier but was accommodating lead defense attorney Brian McMonagle’s busy schedule on other cases; O’Neill said he would “work aggressively” to potentially have the trial start earlier.

Though witnesses from unrelated cases are not often allowed in a criminal trial, Steele is pushing to call the women to establish a pattern of behavior he says helps prove Cosby’s guilt in the Constand case.

The defense is likely to argue that the other women

are not relevant to the case at hand, in which Cosby is accused of fondling and digitally penetrating Constand without her consent while she was under the influence of wine and pills in his Cheltenham, Pa., home in 2004.

If the prosecution is allowed to call the other women as witnesses, it would bring to a legal forum what until now has played out predominantly in the media.

The number of women who have stepped forward to say Cosby assaulted them has now reached 60.

Anticipating a media feeding frenzy of sorts if the witnesses’ names are revealed, O’Neill expressed doubts that what for now is an anonymous filing would remain so.

“I don’t know the names and right now I don’t need to know the names,” he said.

But, he added, “the elephant is in the room. We now have 13 unnamed (alleged victims).

We have a courtroom full of the press ... I don’t know the identities can be protected.”

Also in court Tuesday, a conversation Cosby had with the mother of his accuser became the subject of an attimes surreal debate involving Canadians and a parrot.

In 2004 Cosby had a phone conversation with Gianna Constand, Andrea Constand’s mother, while he was in California and she was in

Canada.

McMonagle argued that the recording should be suppressed because, while Canadian law allows for recording a conversation without all parties’ explicit permission, Pennsylvania law does not, and Pennsylvania has the overriding interest relative to another country.

“It’s all nice and warm and fuzzy because it’s Canada,” said McMonagle. “But don’t make it Canada for a second.

Make it Iraq or North Korea.

Do we want Pennsylvania to apply the law of a foreign country?”

McMonagle also argued that Cosby did not know he was being recorded, because he did not realize that a beeping sound heard in the tape signaled a recording device.

Instead, Cosby thought, per an exchange with Gianna Constand, that the sound might be a parrot.

Steele said Cosby had already waived his privacy rights because he knew he was being recorded and had only been joking about the parrot.

O’Neill was skeptical about the latter claim.

“She kept saying it was a good parrot. Maybe it was a really good parrot that could mimic back beeps.”

The recording was set to be played in court later in the day.

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Thirteen killed in Chicago over Labor Day as homicides climb over 500 this year

By Deanese Williams-Harris, Rosemary Regina Sobol, Peter Nickeas and Elvia Malagon Chicago Tribune

protest his meeting with local

African-American

business and civic leaders, the outspoken billionaire candidate was briefly interrupted by Jamar Hightower, 26, the brother of the murdered woman.

“It’s bigger than that,” Jamar Hightower said. “I mean, they’ve got their own police and I mean, they got their own beliefs and it’s freedom of speech and they can think what they want. But at the end of the day, I feel that this man is the only one that’s actually standing up to do something about it.”

He

was

echoing

his

mother, who hesitated at first when asked if she was

supporting

Trump

for president, and after a prolonged pause answered simply: “Yes.”

CHICAGO — Thirteen people were shot to death in Chicago over the Labor Day weekend as the city logged its 500th homicide of the year.

Thirty-one of the 65 people shot over the long weekend were wounded between 6 a.m. Monday and 3 a.m. Tuesday. Nine of the fatal shootings occurred over that period.

Among those shot was Crystal Myer, who was nine months pregnant and was shot in the abdomen on the same block where someone had been killed less than 20 hours earlier. No information on the baby was available. A man she was standing near was left in critical condition in the same shooting around 3:30 p.m. in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

Farther south, a retired pastor from Gary was shot to death outside a senior housing complex in the South Shore neighborhood

around 6:30 a.m. Monday.

Police say the man was found dead, shot in the face outside the Senior Suites of Rainbow Beach near 77th and Exchange around 6:30 a.m. Monday. Residents identified the man as Allen H. Smith, and said they heard him arguing with another man before shots were fired.

Police said they took into custody another resident of the home. No charges had been filed.

The Labor Day weekend was the deadliest of the three holiday weekends this summer. The Memorial Day saw 69 shot, 6 of them fatally, and the Fourth of July weekend recorded 66 shot, 5 of them fatal.

The uptick in shootings in this past weekend’s final hours mirrored the end of the Fourth of July. Gunfire in the final hours of that holiday made up half the entire weekend’s bloodshed.

Police attributed the 11th-hour surge to retaliatory acts, often involving gangs, after a weekend of parties and tense encounters.

Homicides in Chicago this year have risen to levels not seen since the 1990s, when killings peaked at more than 900 annually. The 90 homicides in August tied for the most the city had seen in a single month since June 1996. In the worst previous month - July 1993 - 99 people were slain.

After this past weekend’s violence, homicides now stand at 512 for the year, according to data collected and analyzed by the Tribune. There were 491 homicides all of last year.

Homicides and shootings in Chicago continue to far outpace both New York and Los Angeles, both bigger cities. According to official statistics through late

August,

the

most

recent publicly available, New York and Los Angeles had a combined 409 homicides, well below Chicago’s total.

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Accepting change Last summer, the only about this concept of change. constant in my life was my Change is inevitable and it home. My home included my is a part of life. We cannot always control it nor can Emilia Beuger we fight against it. By fighting against it, we will never move forward nor will we family, my friends, my small find what we are looking for. hometown in Pennsylvania, Focusing on the negativity my job at my mother’s coffee that can come from change shop and the house where I leads one away from the hapspent my entire adolescence. piness that can be found in I was the only factor the change. changing as I left for school I have come to the coneight hours away. I felt that clusion that while change

“Change is inevitable and it is a part of life. We cannot always control it nor can we fight against it.” change was a good thing. I was sad to leave, but I knew I could always go back to my home.

This summer that has all changed. My best friend since I was 6 months old decided on a school fifteen hours away from me. My father found a new job in Pittsburgh. This meant that my family had to move away, leaving behind a home that we had designed.

I arrived home to find a new dynamic and more changes. Soon, my job as a barista would come to an end. I watched as my family scurried to find a new home and to sell our old home. I spent a large part of the summer stuck in my own head, trying to comprehend all of the changes. The place that I had called home, the place that I had some of my best and worst memories, was slipping away. I started to realize that maybe I did not like change. All I had ever wanted was to get out of my small town, and now I felt my heart hurt at the thought of my family leaving it. I definitely did not like change.

It can feel like a lot. It feels like the whole world is ending and that nothing will ever be the same.

This summer, I have been thinking and thinking

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is not my first preference for my life, it is something that I must accept. Once one accepts change, one must see the positives in change.

There is no sense in looking at all of the negatives and not the positives.

A person is not the only thing that changes.

Everything around them is always changing and nothing can be left constant. And finally, while things may change, it is not the change that has affected you, but it is the way you make the most of that change. It may be hard to accept at first, but changes always lead us farther in life. I see change as something that happens for a reason, whether we like it or not.

My family will never live in our old house again nor will they live in my hometown. I will never stay at UMass forever nor will I be staying much longer. Change is difficult, but I know that after this summer everything is going to be okay. And for anyone else who hates change: it gets better with time and understanding.

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

Let me just start off by saying that I Awas, and still am, an avid Bernie supporter.

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I believe in most of his policies and even more in the message of political revolution, the dissatisfaction with the twoparty system, the need to expunge the money in politics and the disingenuousness of politicians.

Of course, as we all know, a Bernie presidency was not to be, and now Democrats are forced to consider a corrupt warmongering politician as our next president.

Many, when faced with this unappetizing reality, have chosen to vote for a third party candidate instead.

On the liberal side this candidate is Jill Stein, an appealing option with her leftist policies, her-well spoken and passionate mannerisms, her authenticity and genuine care and her obvious intelligence. A vote for Jill Stein has become a moral statement for many liberals. It is a refusal to vote for a candidate that does not align with one’s ethical backings and an indictment of the twoparty system.

And still, despite all this, I am not voting for her. And, fellow Liberal millennial, neither should you. A vote for Jill Stein is a show of a flagrant disregard for reality and a willing ignorance of the modes of political change. Even worse, it is a statement about the importance of personal morals over the wellbeing of actual individuals.

U n fo r t u n at e ly, the unglamorous truth of this election cycle is that a democratic vote for Stein is, in essence, a vote for Trump. We need to see how monumentally dangerous Trump is to this country and the world, and see the importance of preventing his presidency even if we must at times sacrifice our own moral comfortability for the good of the nation.

Let’s break it down.

What makes Trump so bad?

He is against abortion, wants to deport illegal immig rants, and stop immigration; he wants to reverse the gay marriage act, and loosen gun laws.

Even this gives him too much credit as a candidate with a discernable platform; in reality no one knows what he actually will do because the man can’t put together a full sentence, much less a coherent plan for America.

He is an unapologetic liar, he is rude, he stands on stage and insults war heroes, veterans and a disabled reporter. He is hopelessly ignorant about

even the basics of important issues, undoubtedly bigoted, completely sexist and to top it off, a shady businessman who has left behind a trail of failed projects (see: Trump University, Trump Steaks, GoTrump. com, Trump Airlines, The Trump Network, and countless others).

However, the real danger in Trump lies in the rhetoric he has used to attain popularity in politics.

Trump represents a sort of national fervor, which, if we all turn our history books back to page 1935, we can clearly see is very dangerous. He presents minority groups as a scapegoat for the disillusionment in America.

He appeals to the uneducated, poor, white American who has felt slighted for decades because he continues to work and can no longer support his family. In reality this is due to, as always, a myriad of factors, not least of which are corporations such as Trumps’ own exploiting its workers and exporting goods to cheaper labor markets.

In addition to the exploitation of uneducated working class folks, Trump’s candidacy has also become a safe space for racists (like the former leader of the KKK who Trump refused to denounce) and anti-intellectuals who latch onto his rhetoric as vindication for their views. This is a group of people who have been increasingly silenced by social justice reform and the mainstream denouncement of bigotry.

In a greyscale world, Trump offers a black and white view of reality, a chance for his supporters to blame their situations on an outside force, a vindication for existing hatred and prejudice.

Now this is bad enough, but this combined with the nationalistic rhetoric that is sprouting up like a long dormant cancer across Europe is particularly frightening. The obvious comparison is best stated by the former governor of New Jersey and GOP heavyweight Christine Todd Whitman, who announced that she would not be voting for Trump. “Trump… is employing the kind of hateful rhetoric and exploiting the insecurities of his nation, in much the same way that allowed Hitler and Mussolini to rise to power,” she said.

No, Trump is not Hitler but he is using these same classic nationalistic sentiments to exploit the working class and gain popularity.

These hateful attitudes are on a rise across the globe.

This is terrifying.

In a world that is so connected, we are managing to forget the lessons of the

mid-twentieth century and continue to box ourselves in, to blame to the outsider, to champion our own greatness and shun others faults.

With real issues like climate change and water scarcity looming on the horizon, it becomes ever important to shy away from the tempting and easy route of national fervor, and instead focus on global unification, the breaking down of borders and promoting social jus-

of the white American.

The LGBT just won a mar riage victory after decades of pain and do not want to go back.

Is it not more of our duty to protect these people than make a moral statement? Is that not what being a liberal is supposed to be about?

I am all for the political revolution, but voting for Stein is not the best thing you can do for that revolution by a long shot.

“In a greyscale world, Trump offers a black and white view of reality, a chance for his supporters to blame their situations on an outside force, a vindication for existing hatred and prejudice.” tice for all groups in all countries.

This f ight ag ainst Trump is so much more than one against one stupid man; it is a fight for what American will be, for what the world will be.

M y vo t e against Trump is more than a high-minded moral statement; it is also a vote for the minorities that could be in danger if he was to become president.

So many of my peers want to vote for Stein simply because they want to make statements such as “I won’t be ruled by fear” and “I must do what is right no matter the consequences.”

Yet, usually the people making these statements are the people who do not have to live in fear and suffer the consequences of those decisions. We are responsible for our choices not just as a moral statement but also with a thought to their impact on the reality of the world and other people around us.

Those who can go along with their moral code in this election are usually those who have the privilege not to be affected by the changes that Trump could very well make.

The reality of a Trump presidency coupled with a highly conservative Congress and brand new Trump-like supreme justices could pose a real threat to real people.

These are people whose lives are already dictated by fear.

They are the Hispanics who see the tide of hatred rising against them, who could face heavy deportation laws, who could be searched and carded just because of their race.

The Muslims who face bigotry and hate for their personal beliefs, who watch as a man stands on stage and says he saw them celebrating after 9/11, tells them he wants to number them, track them. Black people will see their movement and their voices silenced by the g reater issues

Indeed, voting for Stein will accomplish nothing more than making a moralizing statement.

For the political revolution to work, we need a truly organized movement. Bernie was an unexpected and aweinspiring start. He demonstrated that the desire to change the two-party system and the need for political revolution is palpable. Bernie’s movement was just the beginning, and you can continue to be involved without throwing away your vote with Stein.

You can do f ar more good voting for Cong ressmen and suppor ting their causes, getting involved with politics on a local level and continuing to support genuine politicians like Stein and Sanders, than casting one vote for the moral high ground.

So many of us millennials want to make our moral statements, yet when it comes time to actually put real effort into the political process we refuse. I urge you to continue to make your voice heard, continue to be involved in the actual democratic process, not just the circus that comes every four years, this is what is truly important, not your vote for Jill Stein.

You may not be happy with Hillary, but you can at least admit her policies are still left, if center left. It is our responsibility as Americans to see reality, get our heads out of the clouds and keep a truly dangerous man out of office.

If you care about America, vote for Hillary, and then get involved in your local politics. Your vote is not just a statement; it is a decision with real impacts.

Keep a pseudo-dictator out of office and vote for the corrupt politician.

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

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Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Side B’ material is still top-quality Singer’s momentum continues unabated

By Jackson Maxwell Collegian Staff

When I was a teenager, I hated pop music more than anything because of its mass appeal. My inner pretentious Ramones-shirt-wearing punk would sneer at anything with so universal and simple a message as, say, “run away with me,” simply because it was presented so broadly that anyone and everyone I knew could warp it to fit themselves.

While I did realize, as I got older and more open-minded, that this stubborn shallowness would fade, Carly Rae Jepsen was still just about the single last artist on earth I expected would rid me of it entirely.

And yet, it was Jepsen’s 2015 single, “Run Away With Me,” an absolute monster of a pop song if ever there was one, that ended up doing the trick.

Like Jepsen’s talent, “Run Away With Me” is simply undeniable. The most liberating saxophone since “Born to

Run” is merely a set-up for Jepsen, who ends each unforgettable chorus with an ingeniously simple proposition: “run away with me!”

The album it leads off, “E.MO.TION,” is in itself a masterclass of pop. From “Run Away With Me” to the blinding bubblegum-rush of “I Really Like You,” the titanic disco synths of “Gimme Love” and the neon-lit funk ballad “All That,” Jepsen’s vision and complete control of the material remain crystal clear.

Though “E.MO.TION” was seen as a commercial disappointment (it failed to reach the top 15 of the Billboard 200) there was hardly a “Best Albums of 2015” list that didn’t prominently feature the album, Jepsen’s second.

Jepsen rode the wave of gushing reviews to surprising performances at indie havens like the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this summer, but the positive momentum also assisted in the creation of the new postscript to “E.MO. TION,” entitled “E.MO.TION: Side B.”

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“E.MO.TION: Side B” is the perfectly bright postscript to “E.MO.TION.” “E.MO.TION: Side B,” released Aug. 26, is a selection of eight tracks that didn’t make the cut for the original. “Side B,” though, serves to cement Jepsen’s new status as pop’s unlikely chameleon. Each of its eight tracks are just as poised, exuberant and addictive as those on the album they were cut from, with a few highlights that arguably could have stood as singles on the original LP. Foremost among these is the unstoppable mid-album

cut, “Fever.” The love-as-sickness metaphor is far from new, but the urgency with which Jepsen throws herself and her feelings at an unrequited romance can erase any previous example that may exist in your head. Before the explosive chorus, Jepsen croons “So I stole your bike/And I rode all night,” capturing in her ever-elastic vocal range the full spectrum of her pent-up emotions.

The “alright”s she uses to bookend every other line of the

chorus serve the same purpose as the similarly-placed “hey!”s in “Run Away With Me,” a hook that acts more like a personal invitation than a catchy melody.

On the opener, “First Time,” the listener gets the wonderful experience of hearing a close approximation of what it would sound like if Jepsen was the lead singer of fellow ‘80s-worshipping, pop-turnedindie darlings Phoenix. The backing track for “Higher” sounds like it could have been plucked right from Daft Punk’s 2013 blockbuster, “Random Access Memories,” but again, Jepsen manages to work wonders with old ingredients.

Helmed by any lesser talent, “E.MO.TION: Side B” would indeed sound formulaic, as its backing tracks fall short of those used on “E.MO.TION” itself. But Jepsen’s songwriting—something that she, even in the most glowing reviews of her music, doesn’t get enough credit for—is so strong and immediately accessible that it could give even the driest of elevator music backgrounds

some life.

Her skill as a vocalist— sometimes lost in her charm and stage presence—makes an otherwise forgettable “Side B” track like “Roses” worth multiple listens. Over a comparatively minimalist backing track, Jepsen gets to let her voice loose a little, which she does impressively while never venturing into Christina Aguilera territory.

“E.MO.TION: Side B” is a stronger set of tracks than most artists of any genre can string together for their normal releases, let alone a set of outtakes. For Jepsen, it’s a release that doubles down on her status as one of pop’s most natural artists. She can add color to the most drab of backgrounds and give layers of emotional depth to the most sugary of songs. Even in her outtakes, one can easily find their new favorite song.

Jackson Maxwell can be reached at jlmaxwell@umass.edu or followed on Twitter at @JMaxwell82.

Ariana Grande transforms Sianvar pushes boundaries Pop star’s third LP on crushing debut album is her most mature ‘Stay Lost’ is tight, loud and cohesive

By Troy Kowalchuk Collegian Staff

Ariana Grande already had a successful career before her first album, “Yours Truly.”

With her debut on Broadway at 14 years old and her starring roles on the Nickelodeon sitcoms “Victorious” and “Sam & Cat,” Grande had already made a name and image for herself: a child TV star who loves pop music, cat ears and her signature high ponytail.

“Dangerous Woman,” Grande’s third album, completely disregards this image.

Replacing furry ears with leather, Grande begins her transition into a powerful adult artist. “Dangerous Woman,” released May 20, feels honest and compelling as it shares Grande’s honest love experiences through different lenses of pop music.

“Moonlight,” the album’s opener, is a gentle, serene and endearing lullaby. Grande’s vocals blissfully ease across both the song’s twinkly chords and its lightly-plucked strings.

While the album begins sweetly with a lullaby about a relationship, it immediately shifts with the title track, “Dangerous Woman.”

Where “Moonlight” is soothing, “Dangerous Woman” is arousing. Grande’s sweet, atmospheric voice becomes more commanding, powerful and seductive. “Something about you makes me want to do things that I shouldn’t,” Grande proclaims, transitioning to the other major theme of “Dangerous Woman:” eroticism.

The first two tracks are a microcosm of the rest of the album, which finds Grande effortlessly alternating between two roles—the seductress and the lover.

Grande seduces with songs like “Everyday,” “Bad Decisions” and “Side to Side.”

Fast-paced, sexually charged and often accompanied with heavy synths, Grande explores a different side of moonlight on these tracks.

Occasionally, Grande’s sexuality is so prominent that it even begins to push the envelope for mainstream popular music. Grande is able to talk about men in the same way

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On “Dangerous Woman,” Ariana Grande takes control of her femininity. that they often talk about women in music today. She directs their position and here, their job is to satisfy her needs.

Grande’s needs extend much further than sex. Grande the lover finds herself through songs like “I Don’t Care,” “Be Alright” and “Sometimes,” powerful love anthems that are optimistically beautiful.

Similarly on “Into You,” “Touch It” and “Thinking Bout You,” she projects love and adoration through erotic beats and lyrics, but besides these two themes, the most striking point in the album is Grande’s vocals.

Songs like “Into You,” “Touch It” and “Greedy” perfectly exemplify Grande’s vocal range. Even when stripped down over simple chords, her voice is what drives the album. Throughout “Dangerous Woman,” Grande explores the many different sounds of modern pop music, and explores other genres like house in “Be Alright” and trap in “Everyday.”

Grande’s ability to navigate through different influences and sounds while simultaneously creating a cohesive story about relationships through all of them is impressive.

On top of Grande’s vocals, the album’s production details make her songs more unique, polished and enticing. “Greedy” possesses a key change that electrifies the listener as it reaches its climax and its upbeat rhythm carries so much energy that the song can barely contain itself.

“Knew Better/Forever Boy” are two songs, mixed flawlessly together, that tell the story of two relationships. In “Knew Better,” Grande expresses how her lover is unable to love her

the way she expects a man to.

By contrast, on “Forever Boy,” Grande begins to recognize her faults and discuss how she has never truly been able to have a successful relationship or love someone, but proclaims that what she has now is an everlasting love. These two songs, when produced together, showcase Grande’s maturity and her ability to step outside and critique herself in relationships.

Grande’s seamless transition between these two songs is powerful and the perfect representation of what this album has to offer. Here is a woman who is confident in expressing what she wants and expects in a man while espousing an empowering message at the same time. Throughout “Dangerous Woman,” Grande is able to take pride in the emotions she possesses, whether they are of a sexual or more affectionate nature.

“Dangerous Woman” gives the listener an honest impression of every aspect of love.

Grande is empowering women by creating an album about loving herself and being free to express what she truly wants.

“Dangerous Woman” goes against the messages the typically misogynistic music industry offers. On it, Grande takes control, sexualizing herself only when she wants to and portrays human emotion through highly detailed songs and flawless vocals.

Troy Kowalchuk can be reached at tkowalchuk@umass.edu.

In the churning sea of modern experimental post-hardcore, bands throughout the genre have been trying to find something new to call their own.

Diverse rhythms, unexpected progressions and fresh, exciting features have been at the epicenter of many of the albums in one of the most releaseheavy years in memory.

Now, Sianvar has crafted its own statement. Using a blisteringly talented group of some of the scene’s biggest and best musicians, they made a titanic fulllength album filled to the brim with moments of brilliance across the musical and emotional spectrum that feel natural and rock at full throttle.

Conveying emotions and rocking hard are the two clearest goals of “Stay Lost,” the band’s debut album released Aug. 5. The delicate harmony between Donovan Melero’s vocals and the band’s instrumentation strike a unique balance between emotion and technicality, always ending with a delicious tinge of obscurity.

The super-group consisting of Donovan Melero (Vocals, Hail The Sun), Will Swan (Guitar, Dance Gavin Dance), Sergio Medina, (Guitar, Stolas), Joseph Arrington (Drums, A Lot Like Birds) and Michael Franzino (Bass, A Lot Like Birds) is like a melting pot, an ensemble that allows the outspoken styles of each member to come out without restriction, and then meld into a pointed and profound collective of emotionallycharged sounds.

From upbeat, danceable bangers to breathtaking, sexy refrains, there’s something on “Stay Lost” that almost everyone can enjoy.

The pensive lyrics and

Anthony Green-influenced vocals of Donovan Melero add a poignant and palatable edge to Sianvar’s sound that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed since his early work in Hail the Sun, released in 2009.

Melero’s vocal chops have developed to the point where he can maintain his own style across ten wildly different songs, keeping creative diversity on top of an intricate stage of instrumentation that eloquently depicts how each song feels. Hitting on topics like addiction, depression, and relationships, Melero creates potent narratives throughout the album.

With voice modifiers that sound fresh out of a Poltergeist revamp and weightless, fluttering guitar licks from Swan and Medina, “Omniphobia” becomes a spooky, groovy stage for Melero to croon some of the most provocative lyrics off the album.

Melero’s sweet, melodic vocals shine through in songs like “1100 Days” and “Don’t Carry This,” showing a powerful, soft sound.

Perhaps the highlight of Melero’s vocals on “Stay Lost” is in the last minute of “Bedroots.” Taking a sharp turn in a matter of seconds from an especially punchy sound wall, the last minute is like riding a 5/4 time signature rocket ship to another planet.

For every contribution Melero makes to the sound on “Stay Lost,” there is an equal contribution from guitarists Medina and Swan, whose styles are so prominent that a careful ear can depict their differing guitar licks from the first listen. Medina’s tenacious, solo-oriented shredding and Swan’s distorted, funk-busting licks are both noticeably akin to the sounds of their respective bands, and can be enjoyed with particular clarity in split-part bops like “1100 Days.”

The outstanding duality of Medina and Swan accentuates how successful a job Sianvar has done

in showing how a supergroup should play, chugging with every cylinder they’ve got to play the most challenging music they can think of to the best of their ability.

The rhythms of “Stay Lost,” played by Arrington on percussion and Franzino on bass, feel both self-aware and articulate. Arrington puts the concept of simplistic and repetitive percussion to shame, dancing across his set with wild polyrhythms, catchy grooves and a style that can change from light on its feet to heavy-handed at a moment’s notice.

When the alternating roars of Swan and Medina are in respite, Franzino holds down a tight bottom line and fills out the walls of sound. The album would probably have been improved by more of Franzino’s presence during the myriad exchanges of guitar riffs through the album, but the strong presence he has in “Foxholes and Deities” makes up for a lot of the less bass-heavy moments on the album.

Arrington and Franzino do an exemplary job of simultaneously controlling and moving with the band’s collective sound, managing on fractions of seconds to incorporate themselves into the collective shared by Melero, Swan, and Medina.

Unabashedly variable, technically staggering, and profoundly personal, Sianvar’s “Stay Lost” is a culmination of some of the year’s strongest individual musicians in posthardcore, giving their all towards an album creatively, physically and personally. This album is truly proof that you get what you put into something.

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The Minutemen knew they were not going to be able to keep up with the Wildcats’ high tempo offense, and they’d have to play a tight game defensively.

“No, you just try to keep your lines, your zones tight,” O’Leary said. “They have quality all throughout the field. They’ve got quality, hardened, scholarship players all throughout the field. You can manipulate and move the ball—you can move the ball at pace. We just have to keep our zones tight, stay disciplined and for most of the game, we did that.”

UMass has only allowed one goal in the first half of games thus far this season (St. Peter’s last Saturday).

Doing so against teams like Syracuse and UNH proves that at their best, the UMass defense can hold off some of the best offenses.

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O’Leary’s message of getting better everyday and “100 percent” believes that by the time Atlantic 10 conference games roll around, the Minutemen will be fit enough to compete for 90 minutes.

In terms of the season so far, Jess has seen improvement from his defense.

“I think we’ve improved our fitness since the

Syracuse game and improved on mental mistakes as well,” Jess said. “In the second half we kind of made a few mental mistakes that led to the three goals and I think we’ve improved on that after watching film.”

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ity came through at the end.”

While the score line looks like a tough day at the office for the Minutemen— and in many ways it was— O’Leary still maintained a positive attitude about his team and the direction

they are heading in.

“We just keep getting better,” O’Leary said. “We were in a similar situation last year and we still finished strong at the end of the season and our team didn’t fracture. We have a good group of guys here.”

The Minutemen will look to right the ship on the road this Saturday against Boston University with the opening kick set for 7 p.m. in Boston.

Nick Souza can be reached at njsouza@umass.edu.

NFL

Jared Goff to sit out Rams season opener against 49ers Jeff Fisher names Case Keenum QB

By Gary Klein Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Rams’ trade to the top of the draft for quarterback Jared Goff impacted this season’s roster and will affect their roster for years to come.

The best-case scenario was that Goff would be ready to start next week’s opener against the San Francisco 49ers on “Monday Night Football.”

Instead, Goff probably will be on the Levi’s Stadium sideline in a Rams’ sweatsuit.

Coach Jeff Fisher said after last week’s exhibition defeat at Minnesota that second-year pro Sean Mannion would be the probable No. 2 quarterback behind starter Case Keenum against the 49ers.That meant Goff probably would be inactive for the opener because teams have only 46 players on game days and rarely activate three quarterbacks.

Fisher told NFL Network on Tuesday that Goff would, indeed, be inactive.

So while Carson Wentz, the No. 2 pick in the draft, starts the Philadelphia Eagles’ opener, Goff will be a spectator in his return to Northern California, where he starred at California.

Goff, 21, is the secondyoungest player on a Rams team that is one of the NFL’s youngest. The Rams’ two biggest stars _ running back Todd Gurley and defensive tackle Aaron Donald _ are Pro Bowl players beginning only their second and third seasons, respectively.

“Even though we’re young,” Fisher told an audience at a charity luncheon Tuesday, “we’re an experienced young football team.”

Whether the Rams have

enough talent and experience to successfully navigate one of the NFL’s most challenging schedules remains to be seen.

The roster has not been significantly upgraded from last season, when the Rams finished 7-9 and missed the playoffs for the 11th consecutive season.

After trimming the roster to 53 last week, Fisher indicated the Rams would make a few moves before the opener.

“The roster is for the most part 99 percent set,” he said Tuesday. “There are a couple more things we have to do to get ready.”

Re-signing veteran linebacker Akeem Ayers won’t be one of them.

The Rams terminated Ayers’ contract last week, and Fisher had indicated that the door was open for Ayers’ possible return. It closed Tuesday when the Indianapolis Colts signed Ayers, who had been due to earn about $3 million with the Rams.

So add linebacker to receiver and the secondary as major question marks.

Middle linebacker Alec Ogletree will be learning his new position while flanked

by Mark Barron on the weakside and, probably, a rookie such as undrafted free agent Cory Littleton on the strong side.

That vulnerability might be protected somewhat by a Donald-led defensive line that supposedly is on the rise.

The back end, however, could be a liability, as the Rams did little to offset the free-agent departures of cornerback Janoris Jenkins and safety Rodney McLeod.

Trumaine Johnson established himself as a top-tier cornerback last season, but uncertainty surrounds cornerback E.J. Gaines’ ability to avoid injuries that slowed him during training camp.

The Rams’ depth chart Tuesday listed Johnson and cornerbacks Lamarcus Joyner and Coty Sensabaugh as starters in a 4-2-5 scheme.

And as of Tuesday, the Rams had only three safeties on the roster.

The offense is strong in at least one area.

Gurley – the reigning NFL offensive rookie of the year – and Benny Cunningham are a solid combination at running back.

Right tackle Rob Havenstein sat out off-season workouts and nearly all of training camp and the exhibition season because of a foot injury. He returned against the Vikings, which bodes well for an offensive line that will be together for the second consecutive season. Left tackle Greg Robinson, however, remains a question mark.

Rookie Tyler Higbee infuses the tight end corps with his pass-catching skill, but the Rams are still lacking at wide receiver.

Tavon Austin, who recently signed a four-year extension reportedly worth $42 million, and veteran Kenny Britt are the starters. Fourth-round draft pick Pharoh Cooper will be sidelined for the opener because of a shoulder injury. That leaves inconsistent veteran Brian Quick, secondyear pro Bradley Marquez, inconsistent sixth-round pick Michael Thomas and undrafted free agent Nelson Spruce as the backups.

Then there’s Goff, who cost the Rams a total of six picks in the third round or higher in the 2016 and 2017 drafts.

Fisher said that he probably would flip the roles of Mannion and Goff in Week 2.

In the meantime, the Rams will tap into their roster depth for an emergency backup: punter Johnny Hekker.

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quarter, before Florida out- house from a major confer- going to come at us hard, scored the Minutemen 14-0 ence like the Southeastern their defense is really good in the game’s final 11 min- Conference. and we have to play our utes, 14 seconds.

“That was a big thing— best game,” Driscoll added.

Jack Driscoll, who made if you go and play a cup- Comis agreed with his his first career start as cake team week one, and offensive lineman. right tackle after redshirt- then you go play a team “Everyone is saying that ing the 2015 season as a like BC it’s tough because Florida is a great defense, freshman, said that he was you don’t have your bear- but BC ranked number much more pleased with ings. Going down and play- one in a lot of categories how UMass started this ing Florida week one was last year,” Comis said. “I year as opposed to its 48-14 good because it helped get think they have eight guys defeat in Boulder, Colorado our speed down,” Driscoll back from their defense. last season. said.

Obviously they have a dif “Going back to the open- “They had preseason ferent defensive coordinaing game last year, it was a All-American’s, so it’s tor, but they’re going to be blowout against Colorado. good to play against guys good.”

People realized that if we who are going to be very play well as a team, we similar players to BC. You can play with anyone in the know what to expect when Andrew Cyr can be reached at country,” Driscoll said. you have a game like that arcyr@umass.edu, and followed on As a team, the under your belt. BC is Twitter @Andrew_Cyr. Minutemen mustered only 46 yards rushing while the offensive line surrendered four sacks.

“It was promising, but people were disappointed.

You play to win, you don’t play to lose [by 17 points], but there were some good takeaways,” Driscoll said.

“We watched film the next day and now we are onto BC.” Although the Eagles (0-1, 0-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) may not have the depth nor speed that the Gators do in their front-seven, Boston College returns one of the most experienced defenses in the country, despite losing defensive coordinator Don Brown.

The Eagles ranked first in the country in total defense (3,205 yards) and yards allowed per game (254), while trailing only Alabama in rushing defense (994 rushing yards) and third in points scored (183) behind only Wisconsin and Ohio State.

Regardless of the season opening defeat, Driscoll noted how important it JUDITH GIBSON-OKUNIEFF/COLLEGIAN was to open the season against a national power- Jack Driscoll made his first career start Saturday against Florida at right tackle.

NFL

After Bradford trade, Wentz ready to start

By Zach Berman The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADEPHIA — Carson Wentz was in a New Jersey cornfield Saturday morning hunting geese when he received a call from Doug Pederson. The Eagles coach informed the first-round pick what he told the public during a Monday news conference: Wentz is the Eagles’ new starting quarterback beginning with Sunday’s season opener against the Cleveland Browns.

The decision comes after the shocking trade of Sam Bradford to Minnesota one week before the season and after Wentz missed most of the preseason with a hairline fracture in his ribs. But Wentz has been cleared to return – the full clearance came Monday – and Pederson wasted no time turning over the franchise to the player anointed for the role in April.

“The whole time all along, I was just getting ready for whenever this time would come,” Wentz said. “I knew I was ready. I’m confident in myself, I’m confident in this team. I’m excited for it.”

Wentz attempted only 24 passes, completing 12, in the preseason and missed three games and two weeks of practice because of injury. The team had prepared for him to sit this season and develop, but Pederson said the trade offer from the Vikings accelerated the timetable.

Pederson said Wentz was drafted “to take the reins.”

The coach remembered rookie minicamp in May when Wentz had the “wow factor” by making throws from unconventional positions, and the way Wentz

handled different elements of the offense such as run-pass options and zone reads. The optimism continued throughout training camp to the point that Pederson was comfortable trading Bradford one week before the season.

“This is why we drafted him,” Pederson said. “Would the ideal situation be later than sooner? Sure. But right now where we are, we’ve got a good football team around him, got a great defense, special teams, offensive line, good runners. All the pieces are here for him to be successful and for us to win some games.”

Wentz said he must spend the week in the film room, and he imagined the Browns would be creative in trying to flummox a young quarterback.

He also needs to get familiar with the starting offense.

He has not taken any firstteam snaps this summer; his work has mostly come with the third-team offense. So his receivers and offensive line are different faces, and many of them are veterans. Wentz did not sound as if he felt he needed to prove anything to those teammates to engender confidence, and a popular refrain from many teammates Monday was support for Wentz. Pederson spoke with Wentz’s teammates to take their temperature.

“I feel like I’ve earned respect with how I go about my business, how I carry myself,” said Wentz, 23.

Wentz seemed undaunted by any additional pressure that might come his way.

He’ll be the first rookie quarterback to start an opener for the Eagles since at least 1950, and the fans will be energized

about the player the Eagles acquired with the second overall pick in a blockbuster pre-draft trade.

He understands that young quarterbacks often fall victim to “bumps in the road,” but Wentz said he will “take them in stride” and learn from whatever mistakes arise.

Wentz reached out to Bradford this weekend and expressed his appreciation for the veteran, who Wentz said had been a mentor. He had a businesslike conversation with Chase Daniel, who will remain the backup, and they discussed the week ahead without any awkwardness about Wentz’s leaping Daniel on the depth chart.

Pederson said that he planned for Daniel to be the backup and that Daniel understands the decision.

“Any competitor would be a little disappointed,” Daniel said. “But believe me, it’s not going to get in the way of my preparation. It’s not going to hinder me in any way moving forward. Carson’s ready for this, and it’s about him right now. We’re going to move forward like that.”

Pederson assured Wentz that the rookie does not need to worry about the team aborting this plan. There is a full commitment to the former North Dakota State star, and Pederson said the stage is not too big for Wentz.

“I just knew ever since OTAs this summer,” Wentz said. “That preseason game I walked away feeling extra confident with it. It wasn’t pretty by any means, but I didn’t feel overwhelmed or anything. I just felt very confident with it, and now it’s here.”

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CLAWED BY THE CATS

Defense strong in UNH defeat UM permits four goals on 27 shots

By Philip Sanzo Collegian Staff

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Midfielder Henry Steinkamp (12) looks to pass during UMass’s 4-1 defeat to New Hampshire Tuesday at Rudd Field.

Wildcats best UM at Rudd Field Tues.

chances was a problem for UMass, as they were outshot by UNH 27-7 over the course of 90 minutes. The Wildcats also managed to

By Nick Souza Collegian Staff generate nine corner kicks The Massachusetts to the Minutemen’s three. men’s soccer team contin- “You don’t want to be ues to struggle early in the caught up in islands sepseason, suffering its third arating the front, middle loss against an undefeated and back end,” Barrowman said. “Sometimes you just New Hampshire team.

The Minutemen (0-3-1) need to connect on a few continued to show their passes, open up the gaps growing pains in a 4-1 loss and get some space, and to the Wildcats (4-0-0) on that’s something we need Tuesday, not only suffering to do more.” from some offensive issues, The heavy shot disadvantage UMass but also demonf aced be g an strating some early on in the UNH 4 uncharacterisfirst half, with tic lapses on the the Minutemen defensive end.

UMass 1 mounting just “I think we one shot and one just weren’t switched on at times, and a corner, while UNH manlot of their goals came from aged 13 and seven respecus not being fully focused tively in both categories. at times and we ended up Despite being under giving up some goals we heavy duress, goal keepshouldn’t,” freshman for- er Jorge Becerra and the ward Andrew Barrowman defensive back line for UMass managed to keep said.

Producing scoring the game scoreless through

“I think we just weren’t switched on at times, and a lot of their goals came from us not being fully focused at times and we ended up giving up some goals we shouldn’t.”

Andrew Barrowman UMass defender the first half with just two of the Wildcat shots landing on goal.

The scoring did not open up until the second half, when midfielder— positioned at forward—Samuel Asamoah bested goal keeper Andrew Pesci to the ball off of a pass from teammate Alex DeDantis to give UMass a 1-0 lead in the 47th minute.

However, that lead was short lived. Wildcat midfielder Jackson Dickson buried an equalizer less than 30 seconds later.

“That’s a very common theme. After scoring a goal sometimes you end up on a high and you just forget about the game,” Barrowman said.

A miscommunication

between Becerra and a fellow defender led to UNH’s second goal in the 60th minute. Becerra collided with a teammate after making the initial save but Wildcat forward Chris Arling buried the rebound.

UNH would finish the contest with four unanswered goals, capped off by midfielder William Picoux’s goal in the 69th minute to wrap up the 4-1 victory.

“I think they just broke us down over time,” UMass head coach Fran O’Leary said. “It takes a large effort when you spend most of the time chasing the ball, and I think our effort was tremendous, but our qualsee

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FOOTBALL

NFL

Players, coaches, set sights on BC

Rookie avoids any legal punishment

The Massachusetts men’s soccer team kept it close with New Hampshire for as long as it could Tuesday, before ultimately falling 4-1.

UMass (0-3-1) managed to keep UNH (4-0) scoreless through the first half, and even had a brief lead during the final 45 minutes.

The Wildcats relentless offense eventually broke through and all but ended the match when they scored their fourth goal 25 minutes into the second half.

However, the final score does not accurately depict how UMass played for the majority of the match, especially on the defensive side of the ball.

Both senior defender Josh Jess and Coach Fran O’Leary credited the defense for putting forth a tremendous effort.

“I think we played a very good team, a top twenty team today,” O’Leary said.

“You know we let a goal up and we showed a bit of our youth, our naiveté. We worked awful hard to stay in the game.”

Only 35 seconds after Samuel Asamoah scored the go-ahead goal in the 47th minute, Jackson Dickson

scored the equalizer for the Wildcats.

The rest of the half consisted of UNH running up the score with three more goals from William Picoux, Chris Arling and Alex Valencia.

UMass managed to keep the Wildcats at bay despite their intimidating offense prior to permitting three goals.

In the first half, UNH generated 13 shots, two of which were on goal, but were unable to get any past goalkeeper Jorge Becerra.

The Wildcats totaled 27 shots by the match’s end.

“All together as a whole we really held it down,” Jess said. “Just at times things break apart and we’re just going to have to get back to the drawing board, watch some tape and try to plug those holes again.”

Jess believes a part of the reason why the Minutemen’s defense faltered near the contest’s conclusion was pure fatigue. UNH controlled the vast majority of possession time, effectively controlling the pace of the game.

“I think a lot of it is due to fitness and that is something that we are continuously working on,” Jess said. “To do what we do, to press like that all game, it takes a lot out of you and we know that and we just have to get back together see

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UNH outshot the Minutemen 27-8, giving UMass its first home loss of the year.

Minutemen take no moral Cowboys RB Elliott will victories in loss to Florida not face abuse charges

By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

By Clarence E. Hill Jr.

As well as the Massachusetts football team may have played Saturday night against at-the-time No. 25 Florida, the Minutemen still weren’t satisfied.

There were certainly many positives that UMass (0-1) can hang its hat on, but at the end of the day the Minutemen realized they failed their mission down in the “swamp”: come away with a victory.

“There’s no moral victories, no matter how well you play against a Top 25 team,” quarterback Ross Comis said Tuesday after practice.

“We had a chance to win the game, we just didn’t make the plays when we needed to.”

No domestic abuse charges will be filed against Dallas Cowboys rookie running back and fourth overall draft choice Ezekiel Elliott, the Columbus, Ohio prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.

The investigation is complete.

“After reviewing the totality of the evidence, the City Attorney’s Office, Prosecutor Division is declining to approve criminal charges in this matter for any of the 5 alleged incidents. This is primarily due to conflicting and inconsistent information across all incidents resulting in concern regarding the sufficiency of the evi-

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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Coach Mark Whipple addresses reporters after practice Tuesday evening.

Comis finished 9-of-17 for 141 yards with zero turnovers in his first collegiate start.

“I wasn’t as nervous as I thought I would be; I think I was more excited when I got out there,” Comis said.

“I think the fourth-and-14 to Jalen really got me going and got the offense in rhythm as well. I think we played

well and in the fourth quarter they just had fresh guys coming in and out, and were able to get some pressure on us.”

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dence to support the filing of criminal charges,” the release said.

Elliott’s father, Stacy Elliott, tweeted the following: “My son has been vindicated! Truth has prevailed! If he had violated one of OUR core values I personally would have had him charged! [hashtag] Justice”

July 17 to July 22 of this year.

Upon completion of the initial investigative phase, the complaint was evaluated by a prosecutor. The evaluation called for follow up with several witnesses and a closer examination of all the evidence presented.

After reviewing all of the evidence, the prosection decided not to go forward with any charges against Elliott.

Elliott has maintained no wrongdoing in statements to police. The Cowboys have stood by Elliott throughout this process.

Tiffany Thompson filed a police report that included allegations of domestic violence by Elliott on five separate occasions from

After reviewing all the evidence, the prosecution decided not to go forward with any charges against Elliott.

Despite Tuesday’s ruling in Ohio, the NFL is still investigation the matter. Elliott could still be punished by the league.