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SGA creates MinuteMarshals policing program Initiative to go into effect starting this spring

By Anthony Rentsch Collegian Staff

When former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis released a report in September advising the University of Massachusetts on ways to deal with large, crowd-related disturbances, he specifically focused on incidents such last spring’s “Blarney Blowout.”

Among his proposals was a call for a system of community policing. The MinuteMarshals program, a student-led initiative from Student Government Association senator Stefan Herlitz and Speaker of the Senate Sïonan Barrett, is a response to that call.

“We are never going to change stu-

dents drinking,” Barrett said. “But we can change the way we interact and how safe we are.”

The program is an effort to incorporate peer-to-peer de-escalation techniques at large student gatherings.

“It is about helping students celebrate safely,” Herlitz said.

The MinuteMarshals will be composed of a core group of about 30 paid, undergraduate students who will attend large student gatherings and practice active bystandership.

This includes, but is not limited to, warning students about the risks of having open containers, informing students when police issue a dispersion order and generally advising students to act responsibly.

The role of these students does not stop here. They will also be tasked with providing positive social messaging to peers and community

members beforehand by knocking on doors and using social media to create a safe atmosphere around these gatherings. “(This model) is effective because it is coming from students themselves,” Barrett said.

In addition, the MinuteMarshals program will make service grants available to Registered Student Organizations. Similar to the Mullins Center cleanup, in which groups can apply to pick up trash after an event in return for funding, RSOs can apply to send at least 10 members to receive training for and work at a gathering in return for about $350, making it one of the highest paid fundraisers on campus.

Sally Linowski, assistant dean of students and staff coordinator of the MinuteMarshals, is especially excitsee

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Police clear an area of Brandywine during “Blarney Blowout” on Saturday, March 8.

A day to reflect

SGA releases an official statement on Davis report Students aim to prevent ‘Blarney’

By Stuart Foster Collegian Correspondent

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Community members gathered to discuss and express their thoughts on the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri on Tuesday in the Cape Cod Lounge.

No severance given to Darren Wilson Mayor to diversify Ferguson police

dents and law enforcement and encourage more officers to reside in Ferguson.

In a message directed at activists continuing to proBy Steve Giegerich test the death of Michael St. Louis Post-Dispatch Brown, Knowles said that FERGUSON, Mo. — Mayor the city will not award a sevJames Knowles III Sunday erance package to Darren announced measures intend- Wilson, the Ferguson officer ed to increase the minority who resigned Saturday nearpresence on the police force, ly four months after shooting open a dialogue between resi- Brown on a Ferguson street.

“As far as the city of Ferguson is concerned we have now severed ties with Officer Darren Wilson,” the mayor said at a news conference. “It is important for us to talk about issues directly related to the city of Ferguson and what issues we can directly address as a city moving forward to bring our community together.”

Knowles said Wilson informed Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson of the resignation by telephone.

A resignation letter was delivered to the city attorney Saturday night, several hours after Wilson’s lawyers released its contents to the news media.

A decision by a St. Louis County grand jury not to file criminal charges against Wilson in Brown’s death sparked renewed rioting Monday night.

Demonstrations in the ensuing days - including proMCT tests at area shopping malls A protester raises her hands in front of police after the grand jury decision. over the holiday weekend -

have remained mostly peaceful.

Jackson, who accompanied Knowles at the news conference, said again that he will not resign.

Contrary to published reports, the mayor said, the city did not give Wilson a deadline to resign. Nor, he added, did the city ask for or pressure Wilson to leave the department.

Knowles listed a series of initiatives the city is undertaking to “bridge the gap” between members of the community “who feel there is a divide between them and law enforcement.”

Chief among those steps is a previously announced civilian review board, comprising residents, business owners and law enforcement, to address grievances arising from interactions between police and residents.

Knowles also said the city will redouble its effort see

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At the last routine Monday meeting of the University of Massachusetts Student Government Association, members read and responded to parts of the Ed Davis report on the 2014 “Blarney Blowout.”

“We just gave our suggestions about what we should do to prevent ‘Blarney,’” said Ryan DiZoglio, a senior political science major and SGA senator.

Jennifer Raichel, a junior environmental science major and chairwoman of the Undergraduate Experience Committee, was a primary author of the official SGA statement re garding “Blarney,” which was read at the meeting.

SGA members were very receptive to Davis’ report, and agreed with the findings, which showed the responsibility for the Blowout as being shared by students, the University, the Amherst Police Department and the UMass Police Department.

“The University’s focus had a big part in the event,” Raichel said, adding the administration sent out an email warn-

ing students to not attend “Blarney” prior to the event, which made students more aware of the occurrence.

The way in which violence escalated during the event was also a major focus of the report.

“Because they had such a small number of officers, they chose to put on riot gear before engaging with students. They felt that they had to use chemical weapons,” Raichel said. Only 24 APD officers and four UMPD officers were initially present at the event. “The real issue was just the violence and arrests,” she said.

“We don’t want our students to be involved with damaging property,” DiZoglio said. “Image here is key. We made national news in the worst possible way.”

Ed Davis, former Boston police commissioner, was hired by the University to research the conditions which led to the “Blarney Blowout” in an attempt to establish necessary precautions to avoid a similar situation next year. The SGA is attempting to use the Davis report to help prevent a similar situation from occurring.

“We have sent the letter out to all relevant parties,” Raichel said. “We’re really looking for more action see

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Ed Davis speaks at a news conference at the University of Massachusetts following the release of his report on Sept. 19.

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AROUND THE WORLD BOGOTA, Colombia — A Colombian army general was released by his rebel captors Sunday in a remote northwestern jungle, setting the scene for a resumption of peace talks that were stopped after insurgents captured the general two weeks earlier.

President Juan Manuel Santos announced Sunday on Twitter that Gen. Ruben Dario Alzate had been released “in perfect condition” with two other hostages. Units of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC, captured them Nov. 16.

The general’s daughter, Maria Paula Alzate, confirmed to Colombian TV reporters that her father had been freed.

Azate made no comment or public appearance Sunday morning. He was set to be flown to the capital, Bogota, for a medical examination at a military hospital and a reunion with his family.

In an interview with Venezuela’s state-owned Telesur network, FARC commander Ivan Marquez said another rebel commander, Pastor Alape, participated in the release.

Marquez thanked the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Cuban and Norwegian governments for their intervention.

Speaking from Havana, where peace talks have been held since November 2012, Marquez called on the Colombian government to agree to a cease-fire to avoid similar incidents that could threaten the peace talks.

The Colombian government has rejected that request, arguing that during abortive 1999-2002 peace talks, the rebels used a cease-fire to improve their military position.

There was no word from either side about when peace talks might resume.

Just before Alzate’s kidnapping, Santos and chief government negotiator Humberto De la Calle complained of rebel intransigence in negotiating peace terms.

Representatives of the Red Cross received Alzate as well as army Capt. Jorge Rodriguez and civilian attorney Gloria Urrego in a remote area on the Atrato River in Choco province, in the northwest of Colombia, according to media reports.

The three were captured by the FARC as they visited a community energy project in Las Mercedes, a village about 25 miles northwest of the regional capital of Quibdo. They had traveled there by boat.

The general, who commands a joint task force in the region, was wearing civilian clothing and was without his security detail at the time of his capture.

A soldier who was traveling with Alzate managed to escape, alerting the government to the kidnapping.

The night of the general’s capture, Santos announced he was suspending the two-year-long peace talks with the FARC until the rebels released their prisoners. Days later, rebel negotiators in Havana announced that they would soon release them.

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Students gathered in large crowds off campus to celebrate “Barney Blowout” this past March. ed about the involvement of RSOs. “It is a creative way to involve students,” Linowski said. “Having RSO leaders as engaged members of the community is a good thing.”

Linowski is also the head of the Walk this Way program, which places groups of undergraduate students around the Fearing Street area on weekend nights to remind students to be mindful of their impact on residents’ of those communities. Between Spring 2013 (when the program was created) and Spring 2014, noise complaints decreased by 50 percent and nuisance house complaints decreased by 55 percent in the Fearing Street neighborhood.

Linowski said the MinuteMarshals program is a combination of Walk this Way and the PrideMarshals, which acted as community police at the University of Massachusetts United Rally last spring.

While the idea for this program came from students, administration will fund the program. The MinuteMarshals will share the $27,000 UMatter at UMass

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grant with Walk this Way, according to Barrett – and, if all goes well, they will help to institutionalize it.

Although the MinuteMarshals are not affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Police Department, there has been collaboration between the two groups. According to Barrett, the UMPD will help facilitate a portion of the two, two-hour training sessions that MinuteMarshals must attend at the beginning of the spring 2015 semester.

Herlitz, Barrett and Linowski are anticipating the Super Bowl will be the first event that uses the services of the community policing force. After that, they expect the group to be present for professional playoff games, tailgating and off-campus student gatherings, including, but not limited to, “Blarney Blowout” and “Hobart Hoedown.”

Besides the obvious impact on the safety of students at large gatherings, Herlitz said community policing programs have proven to decrease the number of citations

and arrests. Barrett and Linowski believe that the MinuteMarshals can go a long way toward ridding the University of the “ZooMass” reputation.

Linowski said that in the past, trying to justify the sometimes destructive student gatherings with the community service done by many RSOs is like comparing “apples to oranges” to the general public. By tying the community service component in directly to the student gatherings, MinuteMarshals has a better shot at changing UMass’ less attractive reputation.

“Students trying to shape these events is a more effective way to change the culture,” Linowski said.

Students interested in applying to be a MinuteMarshal can pick up applications at the Off Campus Student Center. All applicants are encouraged to attend an information session on Sunday, Dec. 7. from 12 to 1 p.m.

Anthony Rentsch can be reached at arentsch@umass.edu.

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from the University.”

Raichel said she hopes police will better plan for “Blarney” next year, if it does occur, and that they can better control the situation through a more mutual relationship with students.

DiZoglio, who is tasked with creating an event separate from “Blarney,” felt that creating safer alternatives to the Blowout is imperative to the effort of preventing the repetition of such events.

“I think the best way and route is to do an event that is similar, but on campus,” DiZoglio said, focusing on one possible event.

The idea, “UMasStock,” was based on the 1969 Woodstock music festival, and would feature local bands.

“I just think this is a better idea,” DiZoglio said, adding that he understood the appeal of “Blarney” to

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“Because they had such a small number of officers, they chose to put on riot gear before engaging with students. They felt that they had to use chemical weapons. The real issue was just the violence and arrests.”

Jennifer Raichel, chairwoman of the Undergraduate Experience Committee students. “If I can go down to ‘Blarney Blowout’ and see something I never have, I’m going to,” he said.

But DiZoglio feels a more creative, constructive event on campus would draw greater numbers of students and help prevent a crisis off campus.

H o w e ve r, funding for something like “UMasStock” will have to come from the University, and there are still some reservations.

“We do not have the money to do an event like this,” DiZoglio said, adding

he realized any alternative event would require significant funding.

For now, however, the SGA is hopeful as a result of the letter they compiled.

“Jen and Kendall have done a lot for it, those girls are amazing for our organization,” DiZoglio said, referring to Raichel and Kendall Tate, Raichel’s cowriter of the official statement. “To put that type of report together is truly amazing.”

Stuart Foster can be reached at stuartfoster@umass.edu.

MIAMI — The 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, which ended Sunday, extended Florida’s increasingly remarkable run: For the ninth straight year, the longest stretch on record, not a single hurricane struck the state.

It’s the kind of lucky streak residents love and forecasters fear.

Forecasters worry about growing public complacency, because when it comes to hurricanes in Florida, calm never lasts. The longest previous respite lasted only five seasons, from 1980 to 1984.

“I would love to set another record next year ... but that is not realistic,” said National Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen.

“This remarkable streak will come to an end, and we have to be prepared that it could happen in 2015.”

The 2014 season also was the second year the Atlantic has remained relatively quiet, said Gerry Bell, lead hurricane forecaster for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center.

That raises the question of whether the tropics are finally easing into a lessactive cycle after nearly a decade of pumping out some of the busiest seasons on record, including a high of 28 named storms in 2005.

Florida was pummeled repeatedly in 2004 and 2005.

“Is it possible we’re coming out of this high-activity period? I don’t know,” Bell said. But the 2014 season, he said, could provide clues that he’ll be looking at.

He also cautioned that “even if the overall season is suppressed, you can get a major hurricane if conditions are conducive for even a week.” Andrew is the scariest example.

The monster Category 5 storm of 1992 occurred in a year that produced just seven storms and only one hurricane - Andrew. But that one storm killed 44 people, destroyed 63,000 homes and caused $25 billion in damage in Florida alone.

In contrast, the 2014 season wrapped up with eight named storms. Six became hurricanes.

Only one, Gonzalo, grew to a Category 4 storm - the first in the Atlantic since 2011 - but it remained far from the U.S. coast.

In May, forecasters had predicted a slow season of eight to 13 storms, with three to six becoming hurricanes and only one or two strengthening to a major storm with winds stronger than 111 mph.

But forecasters were nervous coming off a 2013

prediction that overshot the season: They had predicted an active season with up to 20 named storms, between seven and 11 hurricanes, and up to six major hurricanes. But that year produced just 13 named storms.

Only two, Humberto and Ingrid, became hurricanes - although Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel were blamed for 192 deaths in Mexico and damage estimated at $5.7 billion.

William Gray, the Colorado State University climatologist who pioneered preseason forecasts, called 2013 a bust, blaming the botched forecast on the collapse of a deep current called the Thermohaline Circulation. The current can carry denser, saltier water from the Earth’s polar oceans and help fuel hurricanes.

“Last year was just a really tough forecast. It wasn’t just us. Everybody busted badly. And this year everyone did really well,” said Philip Klotzbach, who works with Gray at the university’s Tropical Meteorology Project.

This season got off to a boisterous start with Arthur, the first named storm, which strengthened to a hurricane as it glided up the U.S. coast. By the time it hit land, dashing Fourth of July celebrations in North Carolina, it had strengthened to a Category 2.

On Aug. 1, Hurricane Bertha crossed the Lesser Antilles as a sloppy, disorganized storm, but grew as it moved across the ocean and hit western Europe with winds over 100 mph, triggering widespread flooding.

In late August, Hurricane Cristobal slammed Hispaniola, where four people drowned. Cristobal was blamed for another drowning in the Turks and Caicos as well as two more off New Jersey and Maryland, where swimmers were lost to rip currents. Dolly hit Mexico as a tropical storm, but quickly fizzled in early September. Within a week, Edouard formed and grew to a Category 3 hurricane.

The storm remained far from shore.

Fay followed, growing to a minimal Category 1 storm and causing a mess in Bermuda, downing power lines and trees and triggered flooding. Just as the island was cleaning up, Gonzalo struck. The season’s biggest storm, Gonzalo grew to a Category 4, but weakened to a Category 2 by the time it reached Bermuda.

Hanna was the last tropical storm of the season, soaking Nicaragua and Honduras in late October.

The monsoon season off West Africa, where Atlantic hurricanes are born, was also mild, as expected.

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to recruit minority officers through a tuition agreement with the police academy.

Ferguson also plans to triple the $100 stipend currently offered to officers who live inside city limits.

Knowles indicated he is not optimistic that Wilson’s resignation and the measures announced Sunday will bring an end to protests over police tactics which, spawned by Brown’s death, have spread nationwide.

“I think people will continue to express frustration and look for change,” the mayor said. “But I hope

people understand that the city of Ferguson has been responsive. We hope that will help bring the community of Ferguson together and I hope others will start to recognize that going forward.”

In a statement issued Saturday night, a group of local activists announced they have no intention of slowing a movement dedicated to what they believe is gaining justice on behalf of Brown.

“While we feel pain and anger along with many other members of the community, we have not participated in

and will not participate in acts of violence against people or damage to local businesses,” the statement says.

“We will continue to protest peacefully and look for ways in which we can help enact changes and improvements in our community. We will continue to try to uplift both Ferguson and the St. Louis area in general.”

From suburban shopping malls, the Michael Brown protest movement shifted to downtown St. Louis and the vicinity of the St. Louis Rams-Oakland Raiders game Sunday afternoon.

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A protestor sits in a car outside the Ferguson police station on Tuesday.

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Experts advise US to make new hydrogen bombs Current explosives are, on average, 27 years old

By Ralph Vartabedian and W.J. Hennigan Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — Two decades after the U.S. began to scale back its nuclear forces after the Cold War, a number of military strategists, scientists and congressional leaders are calling for a new generation of hydrogen bombs.

Warheads in the nation’s stockpile are an average of 27 years old, raising serious concerns about their reliability, they say.

Provocative nuclear threats by Russian President Vladimir Putin have added to the pressure to not only design new weapons, but also to conduct underground tests for the first time since 1992.

“We should get rid of our existing warheads and develop a new warhead that we would test to detonation,” said John Hamre, deputy secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration and now president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “We have the worst of all worlds: older weapons and large inventories that we are retaining because we are worried about their reliability.”

The incoming Republicancontrolled Congress could be more open to exploring new weapons.

“It seems like common sense to me if you’re trying to keep an aging machine alive that’s well past its design life, then you’re treading on thin ice,” said Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chairmanelect of the House Armed Services Committee. “Not to mention, we’re spending more and more to keep these things going.”

Thornberry also offered support for renewed testing, saying,

“You don’t know how a car performs unless you turn the key over.

Why would we accept anything less from a weapon that provides the foundation for which all our national security is based on?”

Some of the key technocrats and scientists of the Cold War say the nation has become overly confident about its nuclear deterrence. The nuclear enterprise, they say, “is rusting its way to disarmament.”

“We should start from scratch,” said Don Hicks, who directed the Pentagon’s strategic weapons research during the Reagan administration. “We have so much enriched uranium and plutonium left from old weapons that we could use it properly for a new generation of weapons.

In the 25 years since the Cold War ended, the U.S. has significantly retreated from the brinkmanship of the arms race, reducing its stockpile from a peak of 31,000 nuclear weapons in 1967 to its current level of 4,804 weapons. Russia has cut its stockpile to about the same size.

After the Soviet Union fell in 1991, the U.S. agreed to an international moratorium on testing, though it never ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. Halting underground tests was seen as a crucial step toward full nuclear disarmament because it would put a high barrier against developing new weapons.

The U.S. allowed much of its weapons complex to deteriorate, particularly production facilities, as cooperation with Russia flourished in the 1990s.

Today, the signs of decay are pervasive at the Pantex facility in Texas, where nuclear weapons are disassembled and repaired. Rat infestation has become so bad that workers are afraid to bring their lunches to work.

“They literally have to keep their lunch bags on a shelf that’s head high so it won’t get eaten,” Thornberry said. “They find them on their computers, in the hallways. It’s a continual problem.”

The buildings at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., are so old that a concrete ceiling recently collapsed into a production area.

The Obama administration has a $60-billion plan to modernize the Energy Department complex and update weapons, including a new type of warhead that cannibalizes components from older weapons.

The device would combine an atomic trigger from one weapon with a thermonuclear assembly from another. Called the interoperable warhead, it would reduce the number of weapons designs from seven to five, on the hopes that it would save money.

The device, which has been derided as an atomic “Frankenbomb,” has prompted criticism from arms control factions. Advocates of a strong U.S. nuclear posture are not big supporters, either.

“Mixing and mashing parts into configurations that have never been tested before is not a good idea, by any means,” said Kingston Reif, director for disarmament and threat reduction policy at the Arms Control Association. “It’s going to cost money that we don’t have for a mission that plays an increasingly limited role in U.S. national security.”

Some of the nation’s top nuclear weapons scientists say a better option is to design new weapons better suited to current threats.

In many ways, the growing nuclear capability of China, coupled with the addition of North Korea, Pakistan and India to the status of nuclear powers, has made deterrence strategy more compli-

cated than during the Cold War. John S. Foster Jr., former director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the chief of Pentagon research during the Cold War, said the labs should design, develop and build prototype weapons that may be needed by the military in the future, including a very low-yield nuclear weapon that could be used with precision delivery systems, an electromagnetic pulse weapon that could destroy an enemy’s communications systems and a penetrating weapon to destroy deeply buried targets.

“After more than two decades, the nuclear deterrent could be in worse shape than we want to believe,” Foster said. “We need to demonstrate the proficiency of our weapons labs and our strategic forces.”

Restarting design and production in the U.S., however, would requires billions of dollars to build new facilities, including a metallurgy plant in New Mexico for plutonium triggers and a uranium forge in Tennessee for thermonuclear assemblies.

In addition, since the mid-1990s, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Energy Department branch that oversees the atomic arsenal, has lost some of the expertise to build weapons.

Most nuclear lab scientists are older than 50, and younger scientists have no experience building a weapon.

Moving ahead with any agenda for producing new bombs will require surmounting large political, financial and technological hurdles, all of which have killed Energy Department attempts in the last two decades to design new weapons.

Norton A. Schwartz, a retired four-star general who served as Air Force chief of staff, said he sensed

little support for a new round of nuclear competition. “I don’t see any appetite for breaking these taboos,” he said.

The political and environmental dynamics of testing - detonations 100 miles from Las Vegas so powerful that casinos would shake - are almost impossible to comprehend in today’s climate.

Siegfried Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and now a professor at Stanford University, said testing could cause another problem. A resumption of U.S. testing would probably prompt other nuclear powers to resume as well, allowing them to catch up with the U.S.’ huge experimental lead.

The U.S. has by far the greatest archive of test data, having conducted 1,032 nuclear tests. Russia conducted 715 and China only 45.

Hecker said the U.S. has so much experience, data and scientific capability that it could build a new generation of weapons without testing.

Advocates of a strong nuclear posture say that’s an option worth pursuing because the nation’s aging weapons cannot go on indefinitely.

Absent an international deal to eliminate every nation’s nuclear stockpile, the U.S. will eventually need new weapons to maintain its deterrent effect, even if it renews some of the fear that gripped the world in the Cold War. “The interesting thing about a nuclear deterrent is that enough of it has to be visible to scare the living daylights out of the enemy,” said Joe Braddock, a longtime Pentagon science adviser and nuclear weapons effects expert. “But if you are not careful, you scare the living daylights out of yourself.”

Alaskans to make marijuana Privacy issues stall infant rules friendly for business screening bill in Senate

By Suzanna Caldwell Alaska Dispatch News, Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska — It’s still unknown what sort of regulations will come out of Alaska’s marijuana rulemaking process, but the Coalition for Responsible Cannabis Legislation wants to help shape them.

“The best thing is to keep the rules as broad as possible and let the market decide who makes it or who fails,” said Bruce Schulte, a marijuana advocate and public relations chairman of the organization.

The group, made up of about half a dozen people with interest in starting marijuana businesses, wants to make sure business voices are represented when it comes to establishing rules for Alaska marijuana sales. Not technically lobbyists, but more organized than the average group of citizens, the group hopes to bring a professional voice to the conversation about how to craft marijuana rules in Alaska.

The idea isn’t to make the process more difficult, but to provide guidance when it comes to making laws that won’t stifle potential marijuana businesses, according to coalition chairman Frank Berardi.

“We want this transition to be as smooth as possible,” he said.

The members of the group are based in both Anchorage and Fairbanks.

The group campaigned in favor of the ballot measure, even registering as a group with the Alaska Public Offices Commission; however, their involvement was low-key. Overall, they contributed about $4,200 to advocate for the campaign.

Schulte said if the measure had failed the group would have disbanded, but with the measure passing, “now the real work

begins.”

Colorado and Washington both had dispensaries in place when legalization passed in 2012, but Alaska has none. Even though medical marijuana passed in Alaska in 1998, the state never set up a system for legally buying or selling the substance.

Ballot Measure 2, an initiative passed by voters in early November, sets up a framework for legalizing, taxing and selling recreational marijuana in Alaska.

When the law goes into effect in February, personal possession of recreational marijuana will be legal.

However, the state has an additional nine months to draft rules allowing marijuana sales. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, or possibly a new marijuana control board if one is created by the Legislature, is in charge of crafting regulations allowing those businesses to open.

The ABC board isn’t expected to begin accepting license applications until February 2016. Until then, the board will write regulations that work with the laws laid out in the initiative - which, according to drafters, were intentionally left unspecific, to allow state to craft Alaskaappropriate rules-and filling in blanks not addressed by the legislature this session.

Included in that rule drafting is public comment. That’s part of where the coalition will come in.

They want to make sure people who have studied the marijuana business are represented in the rulemaking. Schulte said that much like the ABC Board, which has members who work in the alcohol industry, similar business interests should be represented in the marijuana rulemaking process.

“The best thing is to keep the rules as broad as possible and let the market decide who makes it or who fails” Bruce Schulte, public relations chairman of Coalition for Responsible Cannabis Legislation Berardi said the marijuana rules will likely be based on the successes and failures of marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado, with a “uniquely Alaskan twist,” he said.

Schulte said he believes the ABC Board should craft those regulations with public safety in mind, but that when it comes to business the market should be the deciding factor. For example, he said, things like limiting the number of businesses in a certain places, like in Washington state, serves as an “artificial throttle” in limiting businesses, and the coalition would oppose such a measure.

He also said practices like giving out business licenses via lottery, like in Washington, is a misguided approach. People can’t plan for that, he said, leading to a mishmash of businesses. Instead, he thinks businesses that apply for marijuana licenses should have equal weight before the ABC Board.

The cost of entry shouldn’t be too high, either, he said, pointing out that the extreme cost of obtaining a liquor license (which can run to hundreds of thousands of dollars) wouldn’t be practical for the fledgling marijuana industry.

Testing to continue if bill is rejected

By Ellen Gabler Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A bill that would support newborn screening nationwide has stalled in Congress because some Republican senators have privacy concerns about genetic research funded by the legislation.

The senators won’t comment individually, but the Senate Steering Committee has indicated they want a provision added to the bill to require parental consent before genetic research and genomic sequencing could be done on a child’s newborn screening sample.

Nearly every baby in the country is tested for genetic disorders shortly after birth. Blood is collected on a card that is sent to state public health labs for testing, in order to identify conditions that are often easily treatable. The cards are often later used anonymously for research. The senators holding up the bill believe that a child could be identified from such research.

Newborn-screening advocates have said they are willing to discuss ways to more clearly define and limit research but are worried that the focus on the research - just one part of the bill - will derail it from becoming law before Congress ends its lameduck session this month.

“We certainly hope we don’t have to start this process over from scratch in 2015 - this issue is far too important for infants and families,” said Cynthia Pellegrini, senior vice president at the March of Dimes, one of several advocacy groups supporting the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act. The bill, which involves

The senators won’t comment individually, but the Senate Steering Committee has indicated they want a provision added to the bill to require parental consent before genetic research and genomic sequencing could be done on a child’s newborn screening sample. $19.9 million in spending, would reauthorize a 2008 measure that funds many programs supporting the country’s state-run newborn screening systems.

Newborn screening will still continue in all states even if the bill does not pass - as each state operates its own program - but amendments to the bill would not be instituted.

This year both the House and Senate added timeliness measures to the bill after a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation in November 2013 found that thousands of hospitals were sending babies’ blood samples late to state labs.

Those changes will require that experts systematically track and improve the timeliness of newborn screening programs nationwide. The Journal Sentinel found that newborn screening varies widely in quality depending on the state or hospital where a child is born. Other amendments made to the bill include: ––The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be directed to evaluate laboratory quality and surveillance activities, with a focus on timeliness, so state labs can collect and share standardized data.

––The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, would be required to prepare a report within two years that examines the timeliness of newborn screening throughout the country, while also summarizing

guidelines, recommendations and best practices to support a timely newborn screening system.

––A committee of experts that advises the U.S. Health And Human Services secretary would be directed to provide recommendations on improving timeliness in newborn screening programs.

If the bill does not pass in December, funding for that committee would run out in the spring. A new sponsor in the Senate would also be needed, as U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., was defeated in the November election.

The National Institutes of Health funds research done on newborn screening samples, much of which advocates say is crucial to the nation’s public health.

Research is also done by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Newborn screening samples are used for quality assurance testing, to help refine cutoff levels for identifying specific disorders, and other studies on various public health issues.

Requiring parental consent could jeopardize some of this research, advocates say, and could be a logistical challenge for states and hospitals to implement.

It’s unclear which specific research is causing concern, although the Senate committee has said research on DNA has allowed people to be reidentified, even though initially they were anonymous.

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The ‘demon’ inside Darren Wilson During his unprecedented four “Almost always … (stories about hours of uninterrupted, unques- individuals who threaten or attack tioned testimony in front of the police officers) are situated in the black community,” Stamper continZac Bears ued. “So what’s happening at a very subtle level – you don’t have to even grand jury investigating his shoot- express a racist point of view. But ing of unarmed teenager Michael what you’re doing, the meta-commuBrown, Ferguson Police Officer nication of all of that is: If you’re Darren Wilson described Brown’s going to get hurt as a cop, it’s going to face as looking “like a demon.” be at the hands of a black person. It’s He also said he “felt like a five- going to be a male.” year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan.”

This, despite the fact that both Wilson and Brown were 6-foot 4-inches and Wilson was a trained police officer with a variety of potential weapons He wrote in “Breaking Rank,” his at his disposal, including a police car, 2005 book, “I’m afraid this reality has licensed panicky white cops to a flashlight and a gun.

Any person in a violent con- shoot unarmed black men when they frontation has a right to feel endan- should be talking, or fighting, their gered, but a police officer suppos- way out of a sticky situation.” edly trained to handle dangerous and As of 2010, black Americans were potentially violent situations should six times as likely to be imprisoned not feel like a “five-year-old.” No offi- as white Americans, and nearly 2.5 cer I’ve ever encountered has acted times as likely as Latinos. A recent on fear alone, something one would ProPublica analysis of federal crime expect from a panicked civilian, not a data shows young black men are 21 times more likely to be killed by trained fighter.

Yet our media presents Brown as police than white counterparts. And the powerful fighter and Wilson as that is with only incomplete data; the fear-stricken victim, which repre- New York City hasn’t filed reports sents the socialized racism that cre- since 2007, and the entire state of ated the confrontation in the first Florida hasn’t since 1997. Many of place. The idea that black men are the country’s 17,000 jurisdictions dangerous is embedded in almost all don’t file fatal police shooting reports Americans from a young age by the in any instance.

This social epidemic extends to mass media.

Norm Stamper, former Seattle all levels. From a massive change police chief, said in an August 2014 in school suspension policies in the Vice Magazine interview, “Simply Minneapolis Public Schools due to put, white cops are afraid of black racial disparities (blacks make up men.” He argues cops learn discrimi- 18 percent of preschoolers but 48 nation on the job, just like most peo- percent of preschool suspensions; ple learn discrimination from media Yes, it starts early) to the regular and society. harassment a Vassar College profes-

sor faces from campus security and city police, and even the treatment of the President Barack Obama, who has admitted that he has been followed around stores and had women clutch their purses when they share an elevator with him.

This socialized attitude both started with and causes the ever-present institutional racism that people of color face in the U.S. When archconservative Antonin

black cops and few black politicians.

Representation matters. People will respond that race doesn’t matter, and that I’m somehow “viewing people by race rather than individuality.”

No, I’m not doing that. Racists did that for hundreds of years, created a system and I was raised in that system. We have to accept that racists built our system, and that if we are going to live in it, we must accept history and begin to reconcile with it,

“Yes, Wilson was afraid, but that’s because we raised him to think that way.”

Scalia authored a Supreme Court decision stating, “It is the grand jury’s function… only to example ‘upon what foundation (the charge) is made by the prosecutor. As a consequence… the suspect under investigation (has never been) thought to have a right to testify,’” or when FiveThirtyEight reports that only 11 grand juries out of 162,000 federal cases in 2010 refused to indict the suspect, it still does not surprise me that Wilson was able to testify in front of the grand jury and avoid indictment, seemingly beating both precedent and the odds.

“I’ve never seen a prosecutor take such a hands-off approach. There’s a reason why they say prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich. It’s because they can entirely control that process,” Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said.

But the issue at hand here is not just the prosecution of Wilson.

Racists made policy in America for hundreds of years to enormously deleterious effects. One of those effects is that Ferguson has few

not ignore it entirely.

As New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof said in a “Washington Post” interview, “Whites tend to be less aware of the degree to which past discrimination shapes present inequity, and also the degree to which in some spheres, African-Americans — and probably, especially young black men — face continuing bias in law enforcement and the justice system and employment and many other areas.”

And while protestors continue to advocate for systemic change to protect black lives, politicians and media representatives all over the U.S. focus on the violence that broke out after the grand jury refused to indict Wilson. Rarely if ever did the cable news networks remind viewers that actual riots regularly break out after sports events across the country, like those at the University of Connecticut earlier this year, or at other events such as the Keene Pumpkin Festival, where mostly white students rampaged across a New Hampshire town, and it barely earned a mention on national news

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As predicted, the grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. And as expected, chaos erupted and violence swept through the streets. The nation is watching fearfully, wondering how this will unfold. Michael Brown’s family is devastated and wants Wilson to be held accountable.

While all of this is understandable, this moment offers an opportunity to find a better way, one that will honor the memory of Michael Brown and bring peace to Ferguson.

South African novelist Alan Paton writes that if a crime has been done to you, there is only one way to recover, and that is to forgive. It is my experience working in public schools that forgiveness is the only thing that can break the cycle of violence. If this is true between children, how much more applicable is it for adults?

Darren Wilson should reach out to the family of Michael Brown and ask for forgiveness. The same needs to happen between the police department and the black community, to start rebuilding the trust that has been broken. If Officer Wilson would reach out and the family would accept his expression of remorse, the encounter would become a model for the entire world, wherever there are racial and ethnic tensions. It would show that violence need not always be countered with violence, but can be overcome with love, compassion and forgiveness.

If the decision by a grand jury to not indict Officer Darren Wilson on state criminal charges in the killing of Michael Brown didn’t move you to anger and tears, you may lack basic human empathy.

This is a complicated and layered situation.

There are many important angles to it, many serious questions left unanswered and many people hurting on all ends.

I am not concerned with the finer details.

I am not concerned with the autopsy reports and the so-called abrasions, I am not concerned with the criminal record of the young man in question and I am not concerned with the witness reports. I am concerned with a country that doesn’t even deem a black man’s life as worthy of a trial.

I am not interested in the “villain-ization” of Darren Wilson, a singular police officer. I am not interested in the condemnation of rioters.

I am not interested in harmful blanket statements like “f*** the police” or “all the rioters deserve to be shot and arrested.” I am not interested in proving why Michael Brown deserved to live nor am I interested in being asked to qualify black life.

I am not interested in crafting a divisive, black and white narrative that perpetuates the “us vs. them” mentality that is destroying this country.

Look around you. These aren’t riots – this is a rebellion. This is violent resistance to continuous oppression and abuse of authority. This is the pent up reaction to an existence where black life is valued, respected and protected less than white life. Rather, black life in this country is targeted. Time and time again, from “accidental” killings to more blatant police brutality,

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Editorial@DailyCollegian.com it is shown that in this country, being black is crime enough.

This is why I’m not interested in the details.

Yes, they’re important, and I have no doubt they will continue to be the focus of this issue.

They’re more tangible, easier to decipher and more accessible. It’s easy for us to read reports on the actual incident and pick a side. What we struggle with are the real issues, like the fact that racism is not a thing of the past, but alive and well.

Though not as blatant as a “whites-only” water fountain, racism plagues this country with a far more dangerous subtlety than it has in the past. We live in a country where our most relied upon and trusted social structures – politics, education, the economy and the criminal justice system –have a powerful and striking undercurrent of racism and oppression. These are deeply embedded systematic issues, not singular disputes, and if we keep treating them as such we will never be able to incite large-scale change.

We shy away from the larger and more important issues because they’re heavy, murky, complex and most of all, because to address them would be to indict ourselves. We are so quick to blame, yet so unwilling to accept blame and address our accountability.

As it was happening, I could feel that the Ferguson decision was going to be a moment that reverberated in my heart for the rest of my life. I hope that it does the same for you. I take out of this tragedy the reaffirmed will to spend my life fighting for change.

In the words of the great black poet Langston Hughes, “I am so tired of waiting, aren’t you?

For the world to become good, and beautiful, and kind.”

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Even worse, the wealthy easily exploit our racist system to shape politics and policy. Since the late 1960s and due to the Civil Rights Movement, reactionary elites could no longer rely on disenfranchisement to hold political power. They created a new politics of implicit racism, based on “law and order,” Reagan’s welfare queens, and political advertisements deliberately depicting black men as menacing to convince poor and working class white Americans to vote against social programs. They did this mostly by arguing that “welfare” (public assistance) and “food stamps” (nutritional assistance) were created

by Democrats to buy black votes.

This ignores that the majority of recipients are poor whites.

This narrative has once again been adapted to the politics of our time.

The ideas of colorblindness and respectability politics now permeate discussions of race and racial oppression. When the history of slavery and legal discrimination, which only began to end 50 years ago, is brought up, defensive people (usually white) immediately say that one is “pulling the race card.”

As Bianca Williams, professor at the University of Colorado, said, “If you love me, and respect me, than that must include my Blackness.”

The rise of respectability politics compounds the idea of colorblindness or the “post-racial” society.

Respectability politics is the idea that black Americans have to “show” white Americans that they are “worthy of full citizenship rights” by getting blacks to “rid themselves of bad customs and habits,” according to Dissent Magazine.

Ideas such as these are destructive, and have found their way into our institutions at the most personal level, such as restrictions on “unusual hairstyles” for schoolchildren, bra mandates for female parents, vulgarity or cursing prosecutable by criminal codes, or “inappropriate behavior” such as holding a crying baby while on the phone.

Politicians like former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani continue to other the black community by saying “why don’t you cut (the homicide rate)?” and pinning the reduction in NYC’s crime rate on “stop-and-frisk” policies, not local reductions in unemployment and increases in income.

And all of this political deception obscures the lynching that continues to go uninvestigated, like that of Lennon Lacy in North Carolina who was found hanging from a swing set in a supposed suicide.

And just one day after the grand jury decision, police found the body of 20-year-old DeAndre Joshua, best friend of Dorian Johnson who walked with Mike Brown the day he was killed, in his car in Ferguson.

He was shot to death and set on fire.

Darren Wilson said, “I have a clean conscience,” in his first interview with George Stephanopoulos.

No person should have a clean conscience after killing another. Only systematic devaluing of black life can account for that lack of empathy and humanity.

I do not blame Darren Wilson for having socialized racism. I blame him for acting on it. I do not blame all police officers for having socialized racism. I blame them when they act on it. Yes, Wilson was afraid, but that’s because we raised him to think that way.

And we’ll all have to live with that.

Zac Bears is the Opinion & Editorial Editor and can be reached at ibears@umass.edu.

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A critical look at the rising cost of kale ‘Food gentrification’ is making kale expensive

By Daniel Maldonado Collegian Correspondent

In a culture where diet trends come and go, it is difficult to find out which ones will stick. Today, the leafy green on everyone’s menu, kale, has proven to be more than just a temporary fad.

People love it. It’s cheap, healthy, hearty and profitable. There’s even a day named after it, National Kale Day, a day to “eat, grow, and share kale throughout America.”

Farmers like Andrew Korza rely on hearty crops like kale and collards for his business. Korza, who started the Deepening Roots Farm in Amherst, said his baby kale, as well as his baby kale and collards mix, are his most popular products.

“The more people that eat local greens, the better for my farm,” he said.

According to the USDA, the cost of kale has increased by 25 percent since 2011 – from $0.88 a bunch to $1.10. In 2011, kale was sold in approximately 4,700 stores across the country. That number has since increased to approximately 50,700 stores.

However, some may not see this trend as a positive one.

Greens like kale and collards that were once a cheap commodity have become hip, creating a high demand, resulting in culture misrepresentation and unaffordability for the working poor, a phenomenon called “food gentrification.”

Food gentrification occurs when a wealthy community adopts the

While kale is very popular, it is a “super food” that has been cultivated and consumed for over 2,000 years. culinary customs of a not so wealthy community, causing the value of the food to inflate. This can be an actual threat to the diets of many who eat greens regularly as a cultural custom, like African Americans and natives of the Caribbean.

Whole Foods Market came out with an advertising campaign at the beginning of 2014, “Collards Are the New Kale.” This caused turmoil throughout the Internet, with people discussing the issue on Twitter using the hashtag, #foodgentrification.

As the price of kale has gone up by

25 percent since 2011, wages across the nation have remained stagnant.

If collards really do become the new kale, they could also see a higher demand and inflation.

Keely Curliss, an assistant grower for The Food Project based out of Beverly, said, “Nutrients are why they deserve to be popular and they’re easier for farmers is another thing.”

On the East Coast, kale season begins in midsummer and continues until February, making it a very useful and reliable crop for farmers.

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substandard & overpriced options with no middle ground.”

I asked her on Twitter whether she thinks the benefits of greens becoming hip outweigh gentrification, to which she replied, “Nope.

I’m seeing them be priced out of the diets of the working poor in some cities already.”

Although small spikes of inflation in greens may not seem like much to many of us, they are negatively impacting those who use them the most.

“My housemates and I eat kale every week, because it comes with the farm share that we are a part of,” said Josiah Mardell, a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts. “I love it. It’s very healthy, and we can make an endless amount of meals with it,” he said.

Margaret Christie, the special projects director for the non-profit Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture organization of Western Massachusetts has seen a significant change in the way people view kale.

“In the early days of community supported agriculture, farms people used to complain about how they got a whole lot of kale and didn’t know what to do with it,” she said.

“We don’t hear those complaints as much. People know more what to do with kale, because there has been a lot of attention paid to it.”

Farms and local food, as a general subject, are widely seen as a positive on all counts. The high consumer interest of locally grown food is beneficial to the local economy, and to the environment as a whole.

chips and kale soup have also helped to popularize the versatile green.

Mikki Kendall, a well-known feminist writer, and cofounder of hoodfeminism.com, is strongly against the idea of food gentrification and how it affects the African American community. On her Twitter page (@Karnythia) she spoke about food quality and the working poor.

“Food quality matters when we talk about ending food deserts. So does price. And access to familiar ingredients. #foodgentrification,” she wrote. “#foodgentrification Daniel Maldonado can be reached at includes having to choose between dmaldona@umass.edu.

LIFESTYLE

Home for the holidays: living with rules again

How to coexist peacefully after a taste of freedom

By William Hageman Chicago Tribune

We are coming up on one of the watershed moments of a college student’s freshman year; worse than the realization that the “freshman 15” is not an urban myth (except it is more like the “freshman 3”) and more cringe-inducing than seeing a roommate in their underwear.

It is that first holiday break.

The student is returning home to ... well, they are not exactly sure what they will find or how they will be welcomed. They left home a few weeks before still basically a high school kid. They are returning home as an emerging adult, someone entering the real world. “(Students) are straddling two lives at that point,” says Vicki Nelson, founder of College Parent Central (www.collegeparentcentral. com ), a go-to site for anyone with a kid in college. “They’ve had some weeks of being at school, being independent, making their own decisions, coming and going as they want.

Then they come home.

“They’re a different person than when they left, but they want to fit back in. It’s partially the student’s problem and partially the parents’. The students are in between, there’ s a certain nostalgia going home after being away, but at the same time they like the independence. Parents have that same idea: I want to welcome that student back into the family, but I don’t necessarily know that student anymore because my student has changed.”

Maggie Lynch is a sophomore at DePaul University. Last year she returned home for a long break, Nov. 25 to Jan. 7, and was a little hesitant.

“Yeah, sure,” she says. “Because I was living on my own and I was used to a certain type

of freedom, I worried I couldn’t live the way I wanted to. ... I was very concerned going home to my conservative parents because I had developed some liberal ideas.”

Bring home any tattoos?

“No. I wish I did.”

In the end, she says, there were no problems.

She attributes that to the fact that she and her parents had a history of openness and free discussion. Some other relatives raised concerns (“Your hair is black!”), but they were minor issues.

Open lines of communication are the key, before the visit and during.

“I encourage parents and children to talk before the break or when they first come home,” Nelson says. “’What do you want to do?’

‘Here are the family obligations I really want you to do.’”

There are also the hot-button issues --curfew, chores, drinking, having a significant other spend the night. The best way to approach them is to anticipate them and discuss them before things get uncomfortable.

“I think when parents and/or students are blindsided they haven’t thought about this till the student is going out the door and the parent says, ‘You will be home by 11’, then you have a problem,” Nelson says.

Javaune Adams-Gaston, vice president for student life at Ohio State University, suggests that parents also not overschedule the returning student. Offer opportunities-- ‘Uncle Leo has invited everyone to come over and watch football Sunday, want to go?’ but don’t insist. A parent will be disappointed if the kid balks, but they often have their own plans.

Again, these are topics that can be brought up even before the visit begins. Nelson suggests setting up a meeting as soon as the student gets home, discussing the expectations of all parties. Parents need to decide the bottom line of their comfort level. It is still their home, after all. But discussing, not dictating, rules is the

wisest path.

Adams-Gaston says that as part of the changing family dynamic, parents need to move into more of a consultant role rather than be someone simply laying down the law.

That is where the family sit-down comes in.

The trip home does not have to be solely about what is happening in those few weeks, but helping your child navigate this brand new world.

“What it does,” she says, “it puts the parents and students in a new space: ‘I’m not grilling you about what you’re doing. I’m your consultant giving you space to talk about your life.’

Parents should support (the student) and share resources that will help.

“One of the most important things parents can do in terms of development is to help them focus on how to really use resources. Talk about what’s difficult, what the resources are and how they can use them. In four short years they’ll be out in the world.”

Other discussions can revolve around money, grades, college, life in general, on an adult-to-adult level rather than the kinds of discussions that would have occurred just a few months previous, when the kid was in high school.

“Parents are not always good at listening.

We’re better at giving advice,” Nelson says. “So sometimes the solution may be to talk less and listen more. Or just be a sounding board. Let them try out their ideas on you.”

And just as the returning student will be different, so might the parents. They may be testing their wings as empty nesters, staying up later, sleeping in, redecorating, getting tattoos, or just enjoying the additional room at home with one fewer person.

Lynch says that her parents became empty nesters when she moved out, but she did not see any difference in the way they treated each other. She and her two older siblings, though, were another matter.

“When the three kids came home you could

tell they were a little unsure. Like if they were going to the store, they’d ask, ‘Is there anything you want?’ Before it was their way ...

They’d buy what they wanted for us. But then it became more (about making) sure what we wanted. ... They treated us like adults and not like children anymore.”

Parents may have some anxieties about their student’s first return visit. What if he is a vegetarian? How many piercings will she have?

But it could be worse. Their kid might not want to come home at all.

Javaune Adams-Gaston, Ohio State University’s vice president for student life, advises parents not to jump to conclusions.

There could be a lot of reasons behind that.

“Maybe they want to visit a peer, maybe they have an opportunity at school, or to travel, or maybe they’re overwhelmed with work and want to stay,” she says.

Adams-Gaston sees this decision as an excellent opportunity for a conversation between student and parents to see if there is something else going on that the parents need to know about.

“Don’t demand they come home, but invite a conversation,” she says.

Parents also should not take it personally, though the first time it happens it will feel that way, says Vicki Nelson, founder of the website College Parent Central.

“I think it’s fair for parents to share their feelings, ‘Well, I’m disappointed’, without making the student feel guilty,” she says. “That doesn’t mean you bite your tongue. This will be the first Thanksgiving we won’t be together.

That makes me a little sad.”

But consider it another step in the student’s maturation. And, she says, give in on this battle, but make plans for the next break. Ask when she will be home for Christmas.

“Some negotiation will make people feel better,” she says.

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The Minutemen finished 2014 with three wins, their best season since moving up to the Football Bowl Subdivision.

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to run the ball,” UMass linebacker Stanley Andre said.

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By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff going to do well. Unfortunately he did take advantage of us.

For most of the 2014 season, Hats off to him.” the Massachusetts football Following a 44-yard punt team has looked from Brian much better than McDonald that its three wins had Buffalo 41 UMass downed at shown. the Buffalo 1-yard But Friday was UMass 21 line, the Bulls not one of those marched down the days. field on a 17 play The Minutemen dropped drive that took 8:03 off the their season finale against clock that put them up 13-0 in Buffalo 41-21, finishing the the second quarter. Although year with a 3-9 record. the drive wasn’t the decid “Buffalo just played better ing factor in the game, Mark than we did,” UMass coach Whipple said that it definitely Mark Whipple said. “We affected his team. didn’t have an answer defen- “It takes the wind a little sively and we couldn’t get off bit out of your sails. We said the field. They beat us in 1-on- we were going to control the 1 situations.” ball, not turn it over and play Neither team moved the defense and we didn’t do it. ball much in the first half Give credit to Buffalo, they did until three minutes, 10 sec- what they had to do. We didn’t onds left in the half, when finish the game and that’s Buffalo (5-6, 3-4 Mid-American frustrating, also,” he said.

Conference) receiver Devon Bulls quarterback Joe Licata Hughes broke the scoreless tie also took advantage of mulwhen he beat UMass defensive tiple one-on-one matchback Randall Jette in single- ups throughout the game. coverage from 28 yards out to Cornerback Jackson Porter make it 7-0. the next victim when he hit The Minutemen defense Ron Willoughby from 22 yards struggled containing the run, out with 10:30 to go in the third as running back Anthone quarter to make it 20-0. Licata Taylor finished with 237 rush- and Willoughby connected on ing yards on 36 carries and a two plays earlier that drive, pair of touchdowns. Taylor’s the first for eight yards, the most impressive run of the next for 38. day came with 3:19 left in the After being shut out in game when he broke open a the first half, UMass receiver 76-yard run. Taylor’s other Marken Michel took a direct touchdown run came from snap in the backfield from 50 three yards out. yards out with 9:50 remaining “Buffalo is really tough- in the third quarter to cut the nosed and they were going deficit to 20-7. Michel finished

with 64 yards on four carries.

Minutemen receiver Tajae Sharpe had a pair of fourth quarter touchdown receptions, but the game was far out of reach by that time for UMass. The first came from seven yards out while the latter was a 24-yard reception with 1:17 remaining in the game.

UMass quarterback Austin Whipple lost the battle of the quarterbacks finishing 13-of28 with 168 yards and two touchdowns. Licata finished 20-of-27 for 255 yards and four touchdowns.

The Minutemen allowed a total a 548 total yards off offense and struggled to stop the Bulls hard-nose, grind-itout style of play.

It was the second loss in as many weeks for UMass following a season-ending injury to quarterback Blake Frohnapfel against Ball State on Nov. 12.

“I think it just opens a lot of eyes and shows us that we need to become a complete team if we want to win. You can’t just depend on one player (Frohnapfel),” Jovan Santos-Knox said.

Andre, as well as defensive tackle Daniel Maynes and punter Brian McDonald played their last game for UMass on Friday. Andre led the team with 17 tackles while Maynes chipped in with six of his own. McDonald punted eight times for 387 yards and pinned two punts inside the 20-yard line. McDonald also had a career long 67-yard punt in the first quarter.

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played a factor on offense, combining for two goals.

Iacobellis tied the game 1-1 with a power play goal at 17:49 in the opening period. After the game, Iacobellis said that the man-advantage score was a good sign for the Minutemen, whose special teams play on both defense and offense was struggling. Along with Iacobellis’ power play goal, UMass held the Bobcats to 0-for-6 on the man advantage.

“Our penalty kill did an unbelievable job,” Iacobellis said. “Then on the other end, when you get the chance (on the power play) you have to make it count. It was an unbelievable pass by (Patrick Lee) and lucky for me, I had a wide open net.”

Minutemen coach John Micheletto singled out Oleg Yevenko as a crucial player that aided UMass’ success.

“He was a really big factor in tonight’s game leading our defensive corps 5-on-5 as well as on a man down,” Micheletto said. “He doesn’t show up on the score sheet … but his teammates recognized how valuable he was tonight.”

UMass took the lead in the second period after Pigozzi and Vatrano led a 2-on-1 fast break that finished with a Vatrano goal, the redshirt sophomore’s fourth score of the season.

“Their two-man break was a big one,” Micheletto said. “It’s just speed and skill and reading the play appropriately.”

Senior captain Troy Power than extended the Minutemen’s lead to 3-1 in the third period with his second goal of the year.

Although starting the season slow in terms of goal production, Micheletto said that he has been a main factor in UMass’ offense all season.

“I don’t think he’s getting going, I think he’s been going. It’s just that now he’s being rewarded with goals,” Micheletto said. “He works hard, he has an influence on the game even when they don’t show up on the score sheet.”

Ross Gienieczko can be reached at rgieniec@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @RossGien.

Anthony Chiusano can be reached at achiusano@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @a_chiusano24

NFL

Packers top Patriots 26-21

By Tyler Dunne Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The quarterback duel did not disappoint. Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady lived up to the hype.

In the end, the Green Bay Packers were victorious, 26-21, over the New England Patriots.

The Packers improved to 9-3 and are tied for the best record in the NFL. Rodgers finished 24 of 38 for 368 yards with two touchdowns, as Brady went 22 of 35 for 245 yards and two scores.

This one wasn’t all about the quarterbacks, however. The Packers’ defense

stepped up when it had to go against one of the NFL’s top offenses. The unit generated steady pressure throughout a late-game drive, until Mike Daniels and Mike Neal finally broke through for a sack on third down with less than 3 minutes to go. The Patriots’ subsequent field goal attempt was no good and the Packers faced the same exact scenario it did last week at Minnesota.

With the lead and the ball, the Packers had a chance to close it out with 2 minutes and 40 seconds to go.

Eddie Lacy gained 2 yards, 4 yards and on third and 4, coach Mike McCarthy faced a difficult decision.

The Patriots were down to

no timeouts but did still have the 2-minute warning coming.

McCarthy let Rodgers throw and the quarterback knifed a first-down completion to Randall Cobb for 7 yards to close out the game.

Tight end Richard Rodgers (32 yards) and Jordy Nelson (45 yards) caught Rodgers’ two touchdown passes, Nelson’s coming with only 14 seconds left in the first half.

Green Bay was able to make Brady uneasy. In all, Dom Capers’ defense hit Brady six times with the one huge sack.

Running back Eddie Lacy rushed for 98 yards on 21 attempts.

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HOCKEY

UMass splits weekend series with Quinnipiac

Special teams play haunts Minutemen

By Ross Gienieczko and Anthony Chuisano Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts hockey team enjoyed strong special teams play on its way to a comeback victory Friday night against Quinnipiac.

But Saturday night, special teams play was the Achilles heel for the Minutemen, as they fell to the No. 13 Bobcats 3-1.

In the first period, UMass (4-9, 1-7 Hockey East) showed the same upset-minded attitude that led it to victory on Friday,

even after Quinnipiac’s Tim Clifton scored the opening goal on the power play eight minutes, 27 seconds into the period, when he tipped home a Justin Agosta shot.

It didn’t take long for the Minutemen to respond.

Two minutes, three seconds later, sophomore Frank Vatrano netted his fifth goal of the season to tie the game, and the period ended at 1-1.

After a slow start to the season, Vatrano has recorded nine points in his last nine games played.

Senior Oleg Yevenko had the only assist on the goal, his fourth assist of the season and eighth of his career.

Early in the third period, though, a crucial mistake put the Bobcats back on top. Clifton scored shorthanded just 1:47 into the period, and Quinnipiac (9-4-1, 5-1 ECAC) regained the lead for good.

Sam Anas added an insurance goal for the Bobcats at 7:15 of the third period. It was his team-leading 10th goal of the season. Again, it was special teams that let UMass down, giving up another power play goal to give Quinnipiac a commanding two-goal lead.

After killing 6-of-6 powerplay opportunities Friday night in Connecticut, the Minutemen allowed two goals on five chances Saturday. On the opposite

side, UMass scored just once on seven opportunities with the man advantage and allowed the shorthanded goal to Clifton.

Freshman Henry Dill made his second straight start for the Minutemen, one night after his 37-save performance led UMass to victory in Hamden, Connecticut.

Saturday, though, his 27 saves were not enough as his record on the season dropped to 4-5. After entering the season as the backup, Dill has appeared in 10 games and started eight, including all four wins for the Minutemen.

For UMass, it was an anemic night offensively.

Vatrano’s goal in the first

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was their lone tally of the night, and they only managed 18 shots on goal.

Bobcats goaltender Sean Lawrence stopped 17 of them en route to the first win of his season and college career.

Attendance, with students still home for Thanksgiving break, was 1,911. UMass will return to action Friday night at 7 p.m. when it hosts Notre Dame in the first of a twogame series at Mullins Center.

UM wins Friday The Minutemen ended a three-game losing streak Friday night against Quinnipiac after

a 3-2 victory in Hamden, Connecticut.

Steven Iacobellis, Frank Vatrano and Troy Power each contributed goals for UMass in its first winning effort since Nov. 7 against American International College.

After Bobcats’ defenseman Alex Barron opened Friday’s scoring with 15 minutes, 25 seconds left in the first period, the Minutemen scored three unanswered goals to hold off Quinnipiac.

The forward line of Steven Iacobellis, Ray Pigozzi and Frank Vatrano – which has combined for 31 points this season — once again see

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Heartbreaking day for Davis

UM junior guard “It’s definitely misses final shot going to help us. We

By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

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UMass point guard Trey Davis’ last-second 3-point attempt rimmed out and the Minutemen lost to Harvard Saturday at Lavietes Pavillion.

Harvard outlasts UMass in 2nd half

a 75-73 victory.

It was a stunning resolution for the Minutemen, and a heartbreaking result for Davis, who collapsed to the

By Mark Chiarelli Collegian Staff floor. For Davis, the shot car CAMBRIDGE — With ried extra significance as well.

Saturday’s game on the line, Just one day ago, his grandMassachusetts men’s bas- mother, Lila Ford, died. ketball center Cady Lalanne “I really just wanted to win retreated toward the baseline that game for her,” Davis said.

“I knew that shot to attempt the most was coming to important inbounds 75 me. I just wanted play of UMass’ Harvard to make that for young season.

Lalanne took the UMass 73 her. I thought she was going to let ball from the referee it bounce in, but as the Minutemen when I looked up, it didn’t go trailed Harvard 75-73 with two seconds remaining and hesi- in.” tated for a brief moment. He “If you had told me I would then sprinted to his right, tra- have Trey Davis on a lastversing nearly the length of second shot to win the game the baseline before uncorking on the road at Harvard, who a baseball-style pass down the was top 25 to start the season, I’d probably say I’d take it,” floor.

Awaiting Lalanne’s deliv- UMass coach Derek Kellogg ery was UMass forward Maxie said.

Esho, who wiggled free from It was a play the team prachis defender , skied into the tices every practice, according air, snared the ball and rotated to Davis. And much like end180 degrees as he descended to ing for the Minutemen, they came up agonizingly close. the floor.

Now facing the basket, UMass cited numerous Esho quickly peered left. missed opportunities down Awaiting him was Trey Davis, the stretch. The Minutemen who managed enough separa- shot 19-of-29 on free throws, tion to get a clean look at the blew a nine-point lead early in basket. Esho passed to Davis, the second half and allowed who launched a 3-point shot Harvard to score 14 points off that he thought would be the turnovers.

Minutemen guard Derrick game-winner.

But instead of finding the Gordon nearly hit the gamebottom of the net, Davis’ shot winner on the offensive posfound every part of the rim. It session prior to Davis’ missed hit the front, then bounced to 3-pointer. Trailing 74-73, the back before dropping off Gordon drove to his right the cylinder, handing Harvard and launched a floater along

Harvard’s baseline. His shot fell short and Harvard came up with the rebound.

Crimson wing Wesley Saunders, who played the role of savior in the second half, made a single free throw following Gordon’s miss to make it 75-73.

“I had the shot and I just didn’t finish it,” Gordon said.

Saunders finished with 27 points on 10-of-16 shooting in 38 minutes of play. With Gordon guarding him and 38 seconds left, Saunders created enough space using a nifty behind-the-back dribble to make a mid-range jump shot as Gordon fouled him.

The 6-foot-5 senior made his free throw, giving the Crimson a 74-71 lead which broke a 71-71 tie.

“He’s a very good player,” Kellogg said of Saunders.

“He’s a tough player who knows what he’s doing and he’s probably the best player in (Harvard’s) league and maybe one of the better players in New England, if not across the country.”

It was Saunders who guided Harvard as the Crimson chipped away at a UMass lead which expanded to 45-36 with 18:02 left in the second half. He scored four points, tallied two assists and added a steal and a rebound and ignited a 9-0 Harvard run which tied the game at 16:31.

From there, the team’s traded blows in a physical, competitive finish. No team led by more than three points after the 17:21 mark of the second

half.

According to Kellogg, the tight finish was a learning experience for his team, which was playing its first true road game of the season.

“Somebody told me before the game, and I started sweating, that (Harvard) was 52-3 in their last 55 games here,” Kellogg said. “I was hoping we could end that streak.”

Lalanne and Davis led UMass 13 points apiece. Esho and Gordon added 12 each, while Lalanne also chipped in 13 rebounds. He also had six turnovers.

In the early stages Saturday, it didn’t appear like a prototypical road game. UMass fans made up a significant part of the announced 2,195 fans in attendance. It wasn’t until Harvard’s second-half push that the fan support in Lavietes Pavilion evened out.

It was the second close game in as many meetings between the two schools. In 2012, UMass beat Harvard on a buzzer-beater from forward Sampson Carter to win 67-64.

Gordon said the team must use this game as a learning experience moving forward.

“At the end of the day, I’m mad because we lost the game,” Gordon said. “We definitely wanted to win this game. This is a big game for us, and definitely bragging rights. We’ve just got to move forward.”

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CAMBRIDGE — When the scoreboard illuminated triple zeros at Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion, Trey Davis lay face down, motionless on the court.

On the surface, Davis’ shot was just another late-game, heart-breaking miss that any player would have felt helpless about. Only Davis’ shot had much greater meaning to it – it was a moment where life intersected with basketball.

“I just wanted to make that. My grandmother died yesterday and I really just wanted to win that game for her,” Davis said as his lip quivered and his eyes glossed over.

Trailing 75-73 with two seconds left, Massachusetts basketball coach Derek Kellogg drew up one final play to get his sharpshooter an open look. Cady Lalanne inbounded the ball on the far end of the court, made a baseball-style pass to Maxie Esho, who caught and made a chest-pass to an open Davis on the wing. “ I knew that shot was coming to me. I just wanted to make that for her. I thought she was going to let it bounce in, but when I looked up it didn’t go in,” Davis said of his grandmother, Lila Ford.

When the shot left his hands, collectively the sold out crowd of 2,195 watched as it had the makings of being a shot that would have gone down as one of the most exciting shots of Davis’ career.

Davis had a clean look at the rim, only to have it bounce around the rim twice before falling to the hardwood floor.

“I thought it was good, honestly, when he shot it. Our whole team, when we were in the locker room, we all said that we thought it was going in,” Derrick Gordon said. “(The final play) was designed to get him a shot and go up one point on the road. I like to go for it. I have confidence in him,” Kellogg said. “I thought the last shot was definitely in. I didn’t even bat eye.

I’m like ‘Alright, we won.’

were up eight or nine (points) about three or four times and we let that game slip.

It’s just a learning experience for all of us, and the younger guys. Hopefully we won’t let that happen again.”

Trey Davis, UMass guard

Then it missed and you kind blink a few times and move on.”

Davis has struggled to find his shot since scoring a career-high 28 points in the season opener against Siena on Nov. 14. He entered the game shooting 36.4 percent from the field and 27.3 percent form behind the 3-point line.

Prior to his first 3-pointer 2:22 into the game, Davis had missed his past nine attempts dating back to the second half against Notre Dame.

Davis’ only other 3-point game with 7:21 remaining in the first half when he hit a shot that would have been deep for even the best shooters in the NBA. He finished with 13 points and three assists on the afternoon in 30 minutes played.

“It’s definitely going to help us,” Davis said of the loss. “We were up eight or nine (points) about three or four times and we let that game slip. It’s just a learning experience for all of us, and the younger guys. Hopefully we won’t let that happen again.”

Following the game, former UMass player Sampson Carter embraced Davis after shaking his hand and offering words of encouragement. It was Carter who hit a gamewinner the last time the Minutemen and Crimson played on Nov. 13, 2012 in a 67-64 UMass win at Mullins Center.

Davis took in the moment and slowly shook his head.

“I just wanted it to go in,” he said.

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