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Students line before the snap during a game of football played outside of the Southwest Residential Area during a snowstorm on Monday.

Jon Stewart plans to leave ‘Daily Show’ Comedy Central to lose another satirist

By Scott Collins Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — With Jon Stewart leaving his post on “The Daily Show,” the joke may be on Comedy Central.

The departure of Stewart – who announced on Tuesday that he will exit his signature mock-news program sometime later this year – presents the 24-yearold cable network with one

of the biggest quandaries in its history, far beyond the immediate question of who might succeed him.

Combined with the loss last year of Stewart protege Stephen Colbert, Viacomowned Comedy Central will be bereft of two major stars who brought in a constant stream of attention and ad dollars. Stewart’s shop – working under the banner of the host’s production company, Busboy Productions – has also served as a key talent incubator for the channel, giving rise to the careers of Colbert, Steve Carell,

John Oliver, Larry Wilmore, Lewis Black, Michael Che and many others.

“Revenues from ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ made it financially feasible for Comedy Central to take risks on new shows,” said Lisa Rogak, whose Stewart biography, “Angry Optimist,” was published last year. “Without that money flowing into the coffers, the channel will be more hesitant to develop anything but the most cheaply produced shows ... It’s a huge blow.”

Jeffrey McCall, a media studies professor at DePauw

Serving the UMass community since 1890

University, agreed: Stewart “was clearly the tentpole for the entire channel,” he said.

“He was appointment viewing for his viewers, many of whom would otherwise have not bothered to find Comedy Central on the cable lineup.”

The effect will be greatest among the young, well-educated and affluent viewers who see Stewart as a house critic of the Beltway and media elites.

The heat is on Michele Ganeless, the Comedy Central president now see

In light of the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, Max Page, an architecture and history professor at the University of Massachusetts, shared his critiques of the current approach to historic preservation and his ideas to enhance it Wednesday afternoon in Goodell Hall.

During his faculty lecture, “The Arc of Memory: Bending the Future of Historic Preservation,” Page spoke of the importance of preservation and its impact on the world as more than a practice of

restoring history.

“Preservation matters more than ever,” said Page, “It touches on our personal memories and therefore links us to the river of time, revealing history’s best moments. It can present us to the world that before us our ancestors created.”

In the United States, the continued preservation of historic sites and buildings connected to American ancestry has been made possible by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, said Page. In the last 100 years, the U.S. has moved from focusing on preserving historic sites to preserving architecturally important buildings, a shift that Page explained see

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Astronomy Club Religion questioned in triple homocide Victim’s father: It to extend scope was a ‘hate crime’

Plans include make over and relocation

By Colby Sears Collegian Correspondent The University of Massachusetts Astronomy Club, currently in its fourth year on campus, aims to not only expand as an organization but also to eventually relocate away from the Orchard Hill Observatory.

Founded in 2011, the club is now made up of about 100 members with a variety of majors. Club president Dylan Pare, who is responsible for organizing general meetings and research talks, helms the club alongside Vice President Benjamin Rizkin and Treasurer Patrick Drew.

Pare, a 20-year-old sophomore astronomy major from Lowell, has been interested in the field since high school. He now

works with the department of astronomy’s Professor Grant Wilson and Professor Daniel Wang, researching data processing algorithms and analyzing magnetic fields in other galaxies, respectively.

“We welcome anyone from any major who has an interest in amateur astronomy,” Pare said, encouraging prospective members to come observe planets, galaxies and binary stars.

“Even if you haven’t done any astronomy before, just see what it’s all about. It’s a lot of fun and you’ll be able to see a lot of cool space objects.”

Drew operates the Orchard Hill Observatory telescope Thursday nights for weekly open house nights. “I answer attendees’ questions and take requests for objects to look at…I trained all last spring semester and started operating it last fall,” he said.

The dome’s 16-inch primary telescope, along with a few secondary telescopes, is available for use on Saturdays as well, while Pare is in charge of the building. Observations begin after dark and last about two hours, dependsee

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By Jane Stancill and Jay Price

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The father of two of three students shot to death in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Tuesday says the shooting was a “hate crime” based on the Muslim faith of the victims.

Chapel Hill police said Wednesday morning that

a dispute about parking in the neighborhood of rented condominiums may have led Craig Stephen Hicks to shoot his neighbors, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and AbuSalha’s sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh, N.C. But the women’s father, Dr. Mohammad Abu-Salha, who has a psychiatry practice in Clayton, N.C., said that regardless of the precise trigger Tuesday night, Hicks’ underlying animosi-

ty toward Barakat and AbuSalha was based on their religion and culture.

“This has all the signs. It was execution style, a bullet in every head,” Abu-Salha said Wednesday morning.

“This was not a dispute over a parking space; this was a hate crime. This man had picked on my daughter and her husband a couple of times before, and he talked with them with his gun in his belt. And they were uncomfortable with him, but they did not know he would go this far.”

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UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor addresses hundreds of mourners gathered on the campus on Wednesday.

Abu-Salha said his daughter who lived next door to Hicks wore a Muslim head scarf and told her family a week ago that she had “a hateful neighbor.”

“Honest to God, she said, ‘He hates us for what we are and how we look,’“ he said.

Police charged Hicks with three counts of firstdegree murder. “Our preliminary investigation indicates that the crime was motivated by an ongoing neighbor dispute over parking,” said police spokesman Lt. Joshua Mecimore. “Hicks is cooperating with investigators.

Hicks appeared in Durham County District Court on Wednesday morning and asked for a public defender.

Chief District Court Judge Marcia Morey told Hicks there would be a probable cause hearing on the charges on March 4 and sent him back to the county jail to be held without bail.

Barakat was a doctoral student in UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Dentistry.

The sisters were North Carolina State University students.

Chapel Hill police found all three victims dead at the scene, after responding to a report of gunshots at 5:11 p.m. Tuesday.

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In 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded in Springfield, Illinois after a series of race riots.

W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the original founders.

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Mexico

MEXICO CITY —

Authorities said Friday that an abandoned crematory in an outlying area of Acapulco had yielded 60 bodies, a horrific discovery that came after neighbors complained of fetid odors.

The bodies had been

embalmed, authorities said, suggesting that the matter was negligence by the former owner of the bankrupt Cremations of the Pacific facility and had no link to organized crime.

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South Africa

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SpaceX launches satellite from Cape Canaveral Satellite will watch for ‘solar storms’

By Scott Powers Orlando Sentinel

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Wednesday into a clear sky colored by a setting sun, sending a satellite into space to monitor solar storms that can wreak havoc on Earth’s power and communication systems.

The 6:03 p.m. launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station came on SpaceX’s third try this week, and this time Florida provided a postcard-quality environment for launch. As the rocket rose, the sunset transformed the horizon backdrop into a stripe of rainbow pastels, from pink through blue, for it to pass through.

“The Falcon takes flight, propelling the Deep Space Climate Observatory on a million-mile journey to protect our planet Earth,” declared NASA commentator Michael Curie.

However, out to sea, the weather did not cooperate.

Because of heavy seas in the Atlantic Ocean, SpaceX canceled its plan to try to land the used first stage of the rocket on an unmanned barge and instead soft-landed it in the water, just a dozen yards from its target.

A little more than a

half-hour after launch, the rocket carried the DSCOVR satellite to its first parking point about 125 miles into space.

“Everything has gone just as planned,” Currie said after the satellite reached its orbit.

During nearly four months, NASA intends to slowly move the satellite much farther, eventually reaching a spot almost a million miles from Earth, or roughly four times the distance to the moon.

At that point, the gravitational forces of the sun and Earth are in equilibrium, allowing the satellite to follow the Earth around the sun while keeping a constant watch on the sun and the Earth’s sunny side.

There, the refrigerator-sized satellite will give NASA, the Air Force and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data about events such as geomagnetic storms caused by changes in solar wind. The goal is to give scientists more detailed understanding to provide regional warnings about how the storms might affect power and communication systems.

The satellite was first built for a previous mission and repurposed by NOAA. Initially built in 1998, it was intended to observe Earth only, in a program proposed by then-Vice President Al Gore to monitor global

warming.

The original program was scrapped by President George W. Bush. A few years ago NOAA convinced NASA to bring the satellite out of storage and reconfigured it as a solar-storm monitor.

Nonetheless, it retains its ability to monitor Earth’s climate, detailing ozone and aerosol amounts, cloud height, vegetation and ultraviolet reflection by the atmosphere.

Gore, who attended the launch, sent a note to NASA after the satellite was deployed, saying it will “further our understanding of Earth and enable citizens and scientists alike to better understand the reality of climate crisis and envision its solutions.”

DSCOVR will be replacing a NOAA satellite in roughly the same spot in space called the Advanced Composition Explorer, which was prone to signal disruptions from the very solar storms it was deployed to cover.

Consequently, the ACE satellite provides some data on major storms, but not enough, said Douglas Biesecker, NOAA DSCOVR project scientist.

“DSCOVR will not have that problem,” Biesecker said. “It will be more robust.”

SpaceX was unable to land its rocket, which was supposed to be an unofficial

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off the launch pad on Wednesday. highlight for the mission.

SpaceX hopes to be able to soft-land rockets to reuse them. A first attempt in January failed.

“The drone ship was designed to operate in all but the most extreme weather. We are experiencing just such weather in the Atlantic with waves reaching up to three stories in height crashing over the decks,” said a news release

by SpaceX. So the company decided to bring it down in the water.

Later SpaceX founder Elon Musk posted on Twitter, “Rocket soft landed in the ocean within 10m of target & nicely vertical!

High probability of good

droneship landing in nonstormy weather.”

He also tweeted that the drone barge would be redesigned to better handle bad weather.

SpaceX got the launch off at its last opportunity, due to the position of the moon. Wednesday’s was the company’s third attempt in four days.

Tuesday’s launch was scrubbed because winds blew at 100 knots at an altitude of 25,000 feet pretty much all day. SpaceX didn’t bother to try Monday, when it rained almost all day.

On Sunday, a radar glitch scrubbed the launch with less than three minutes left in the countdown.

South African schoolboy being stripped naked by a group of white teenagers, then being tied to a bed and sexually assaulted with a toothbrush and mop handle as they hurl racist slurs.

Photos of the incident

at a high school in South Africa’s Northwest province appeared on the front page of a local newspaper.

On Friday, four suspects,

aged 14 to 19, appeared in court to answer to what the director of the South African Institute of Race Relations, Frans Cronje, has labeled “a new low for race relations.”

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Yemen

SANAA — Shiite Muslim

rebels in Yemen on Friday dissolved the country’s parliament and announced they would set up interim bodies to run the country and the government, a move that opponents said amounted to a coup.

The move marked a peril-

ous new juncture in what has been a tumultuous halfyear in Yemen, a poor but strategic country that sits at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Armed men loyal to the rebel Houthi movement filled the streets of the capital, Sanaa, following the announcement, and the city was calm but tense.

Yemen has been roiled

by uncertainty in the two weeks since the Houthis seized the presidential palace and put President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi under house arrest, leading him and his Cabinet to tender their resignations.

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Police worked early into the morning trying to piece together what happened.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Wednesday called on law enforcement to address speculation about a possible bias for the shootings. CAIR is a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization.

The victims’ bodies were sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Raleigh, friends posted.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

As news of Tuesday’s killings spread through the international Muslim community, many turned to Facebook and Twitter to share their grief. A Facebook community – Our Three Winners – was started early Wednesday to share news and memories of the students.

“Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan AbuSalha have returned to their Lord,” the community’s creators state. “They have set an example in life and in death.”

Twitter posts speculated the slayings might be a hate crime.

“Three Muslims murdered tonight in Chapel Hill, NC by a man because they were Muslim. What a sad night in America,” one person tweeted.

Barakat and Abu-Salha were married Dec. 27. AbuSalha’s Facebook photo – posted two days ago – shows her smiling as her father twirls her around the dance floor at her wedding.

She was scheduled to graduate in December with a degree in biological sciences from NCSU, according to a university release, and she graduated in 2011 from Athens Drive High School in Raleigh, N.C. Her sister Razan Abu-Salha graduated from Athens Drive in 2013 and was studying architecture and environmental design at NCSU. Barakat, a SyrianAmerican, majored in business administration and management at NCSU before enrolling at UNCChapel Hill in 2013 to pursue his doctorate in dental sur-

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“This has all the signs. It was execution style, a bullet in every head.

This was not a dispute over a parking space: this was a hate crime.

This man had picked on my daughter and her husband a couple of times before and he talked with them with his gun in his belt. And they were uncomfortable with him, but they did not know he would go this far. ” Mohammad Abu-Salha, father of two of the victims gery.

Both he and Abu-Salha advocated for global dental health, providing care and supplies to people in the United States and the Middle East. On Jan. 29, Barakat posted a Facebook photo of a Durham project that gave dental supplies and food to more than 75 homeless people this year.

Barakat was scheduled to travel with 10 other dentists this summer to Reyhanli, Turkey. There, they planned to treat Syrian refugee students for urgent dental needs, pass out toothbrushes and toothpaste, and support Turkish dentists and clinics.

Hours after the shootings, more than $8,200 had been donated to the online campaign for “Project: Refuge Smiles,” which Barakat was spearheading.

The UNC-Chapel Hill School of Dentistry and the SyrianAmerican Medical Society are helping to organize the trip.

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was equally important but less satisfying.

“We have lost something from this being much more focused on architectural preservation,” Page said.

Architectural preservation, however, is not immune to the effects of the current rules and regulations of preservation. According to Page, these rules and regulations restrict what can be done with preservation in terms of further architectural development. Page provided the example as a slide of an old barn with a solar panel fitted onto its roof and explained preservationists would not approve of the changes made to enhance the use of the barn due to its inclusion of modern development.

“Too often preservationists have been against development,” said Page.

“We should be wanting to build new buildings now (and add elements) to compliment the old ones so that we can save them fifty years later.”

Page also explained the construction of modern buildings created opportunity for preservation today

as well as in the near future.

“95 percent of all buildings in the U.S. today were built in the last 50 years,” said Page, “If we want a better sustainable world, we will then have to ask ourselves of the intent of (the buildings) and learn to work with them to preserve them (for the future).”

Preserving new buildings for future generations to reuse is a part of the progressive preservation movement outlined in Page’s lecture. He said that if people are truly committed to global sustainability, they will have to save and reuse buildings because it takes several decades for newer structures to become as sturdy as older buildings.

Page also discussed the issue of preserving sites and structures with connections to dark historical events, using Germany’s concerns with their historic buildings from World War II as an example. He explained in order to overcome the dark past of the old structures, there have since been several creatively designed buildings in Germany. The World

War II structures have also remained to provide a sense of justice, which, according to Page, is part of what defines historic preservation.

“I want to suggest that historic preservation is a service of collective memory, but it should also be a service of collective justice,” said Page.

Page ended his lecture with a photograph of a broken bust with a hand attempting to put together its pieces.

“I kept looking at this as it bothered me; it seemed to be a metaphor of our elusive desire to repair,” said Page, “We can’t heal all the injuries of the past, but it seems to me that the central purpose of preservation is to hold us there in those places with creativity and passion and make us understand who we are.”

Following his lecture, Page received the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor bestowed to faculty on campus.

Elizabeth Kane can be reached at erkane@umass.edu.

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‘Flexibility’ wanted Erdogan ups efforts against rival Turkey seeks to cut The two once collaborated to defang a to deal with ISIS ties with former ally common enemy: the secularist army that Congress asked for consent to use force

By Kathleen Hennessey and Michael A. Memoli Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama asked Congress on Wednesday to formally authorize military operations against Islamic State militants and sought the ability to use ground troops in limited situations, though he said that long-term deployment of U.S. ground forces isn’t necessary to defeat the terrorist organization.

The draft resolution seeking authorization for use of force says the extremist group poses a “grave threat” to Iraq, Syria and stability in the region as well as U.S. national security interests.

“Its barbaric murders of so many people, including American hostages, are a desperate and revolting attempt to strike fear in the hearts of people it can never possibly win over by its ideas or its ideology because it offers nothing but misery and death and destruction,” Obama said Wednesday afternoon.

The U.S. has been conducting military operations against the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, for months, primarily airstrikes. The administration has asserted that Obama already has legal authority for those operations under authorizations passed by Congress in 2001 and 2002. But Obama has said he would prefer to have explicit congressional backing.

The resolution, written in consultation with key lawmakers, would authorize the use of the military against Islamic State, related groups and “any closely related successor entities” for three years.

The language places few limits on the type of operations Obama or a future president could wage – a permissiveness that is likely to be a point of contention, particularly among Obama’s fellow Democrats. Several leading Democratic lawmakers have said they want to see tighter restrictions.

The measure bars the use of U. S. troops for “enduring offensive ground operations,” apparently leaving room for short-term, targeted offensive missions as well as the use of ground troops for longer-term “defensive” purposes.

It “gives us the flexibility we need for unforeseen circumstances,” Obama said.

Yet, he added, “it is not the authorization of another ground war like Afghanistan or Iraq. The 2,600 American troops in Iraq today largely serve on bases. And yes, they

face the risks that come with service in any dangerous environment, but they do not have a combat mission.”

The new proposed resolution would repeal the 2002 authorization that sanctioned the invasion of Iraq, but leaves in place the broader authorization for the use of force against al-Qaida, which Congress passed in 2001 after the Sept.

11 attacks.

In a letter sending the document to Congress, Obama repeated his statement that he would like Congress to pass a new resolution updating and replacing that authorization as well, but said lawmakers should deal with the current matter first.

“Enacting an AUMF that is specific to the threat posed by ISIL could serve as a model for how we can work together to tailor the authorities” for a new resolution against al-Qaida and its successors, he wrote.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called the proposal a “serious and thoughtful draft,” but did not comment on its specifics.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who was among the House Democrats who worked most closely with the White House on the draft, called the ground troops language “overly broad” and questioned the decision to leave in place the “blank check authority” of the 2001 authorization.

“It makes little sense to place reasonable boundaries on the executive’s war powers against ISIL while leaving them unchecked elsewhere,” he said in a statement.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, agreed, saying that leaving the 2001 resolution untouched “would fail to meet the goal set by the president last summer when he argued that that the old authorization should be refined and ultimately repealed.”

A resolution Schiff wrote as well as one passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last December when Democrats still had a majority in the Senate, would have ended the 2001 authorization in three years.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor Wednesday that the chamber “will review the president’s request thoughtfully.”

Republican senators plan to meet Wednesday evening on the issue.

ASTRONOMY ing on attendance.

Pare hopes to build upon the Astronomy Club by organizing telescope construction and repair workshops for members who own their own telescopes. Although he has yet to finalize the details for this service, Pare said it would be a significant expansion for the club.

The club is only able to meet in the observatory if weather permits, however.

Cold temperatures often cause the dome to freeze over, which is why Pare is working to install a heating coil around the edge of the building to prevent it from freezing in the future.

Located at the highest point on the UMass campus just past the Orchard

By Onur Ant Bloomberg News ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reinforcing the foreign front in his global war against his former ally and now biggest rival, the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen.

In a victory against Gulen last week, the country’s banking regulator seized control of Bank Asya, an Islamic lender that Erdogan alleged helps finance the imam’s network.

As government-picked managers arrived at the bank’s Istanbul headquarters, Erdogan was busy lobbying Mali’s President Ibrahim Keita to shut down the cleric’s schools in Africa.

“So far there is a visible success in weakening the Gulen movement in Turkey, but such a success is not seen on the international front,” said Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, director of the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. in Ankara. “The plans to take over the Gulen network of schools, particularly in Africa, can be the first step in damaging the group abroad.”

While international scrutiny of Turkey has focused on a corruption probe, a deteriorating relationship with Israel and the fight against Islamic State extremists, few things have consumed Erdogan more than Gulen.

The two once collaborated to defang a common enemy: the secularist army that had managed to keep Islamists from power since modern Turkey was founded close to a century ago. Gulen built a global empire to promote Turkey as a world power and, in many places, became the country’s face abroad. Now Erdogan is mobilizing the resources of the Turkish state to dismantle that message and replace it with his brand of political Islam.

Gulen’s half-a-centuryold movement runs more than a thousand schools,

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Hill residential area, the observatory is surrounded by a mass of trees that significantly reduces visibility from the building’s dome. Pare said the foliage limits the amount of sky that can be seen.

“There has been talk of actually moving the observatory to an open field that would be just north of campus … that would have more open skies, but I’m not exactly sure what’s going on with that,” said Pare, who first heard about this prospect last fall.

If the observatory were to stay in its current location, Pare said he is unsure if the trees around it could be taken down or moved.

The building was first constructed in 1965.

hospitals and other charities in more than 150 countries, most of them in former Soviet countries and Africa, but also in the U.S. According to Erdogan, Gulen has established a state-within-the-state in Turkey and is collaborating with foreign powers to undermine him and weaken Turkey’s economy.

“The Gulen movement established a strong foothold in Central Asia before Turkish entrepreneurs arrived, and the same thing with Africa,” Jonathan Friedman, a Turkey analyst at Stroz Friedberg, a global risk consultancy, said by phone from London on Feb. 4. “It’s a real loss for Turkish soft power to go and start shutting down these schools, which I think have helped extend Turkish influence.”

Erdogan said last month that Gulen’s supporters were working with Israeli intelligence service Mossad.

Gulen said in an op-ed published by New York Times on Feb. 3, titled “Turkey’s Eroding Democracy,” that Erdogan’s assault against his movement was meant to justify increasing authoritarianism.

After becoming president in August, Erdogan vowed to step up his campaign against Gulen’s network as head of state and used foreign visits to that end. Last month in Addis Ababa, Erdogan warned Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn about Gulenist schools in the region.

“We are telling heads of state where we go that these should be shut down because of their intentions and that our ministry of education can provide the same service,” Erdogan said at a press conference in Ethiopia’s capital, according to state-run Anadolu news agency.

Erdogan got a lukewarm response to his overture in Ethiopia, where Desalegn said they would provide “guidance” to Gulenist schools provided that their goals have evolved over time, Anadolu reported.

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Colby Sears can be reached at csears@umass.edu.

had managed to keep Islamists from power since modern Turkey was founded close to a century ago. Gulen built a global empire to promote Turkey as a world power and, in many places, became the country’s face abroad. Now Erdogan is mobilizing the resources of the Turkish state to dismantle that message and replace it with his brand of political Islam.

Education Minister Nabi Avci presented a plan to Cabinet on Jan. 29 to bring Turkish schools abroad under the control of a staterun foundation.

Although Erdogan and Gulen are both self-declared pious Muslims, the president hails from a movement that wants Islam to play a greater role in politics.

Gulen says his movement has no interest in entering politics, though critics say he attempts to exert political influence subversively through his followers in the bureaucracy.

Milli Gorus, an Islamist political movement that Erdogan hails from, accused Gulen of backing Turkey’s secularist military in 1997 when the country’s generals caused the collapse of a government led by then Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, once Erdogan’s mentor. A decade later, Erdogan and Gulen became allies when prosecutors went after the military.

The falling out came as Erdogan extended his power over Turkey’s institutions after elections in 2011, lurching into a full-blown public conflict when prosecutors backed a probe into alleged government corruption in 2013. The corruption investigation was made public after the government announced a plan to shut down exam preparation schools in Turkey, sparking protests from Gulenists who run many of them.

Erdogan has since mobilized state institutions from the judiciary to financial

regulators. Companies and newspapers linked to Gulen were slapped with fines and journalists from the group’s media networks were arrested. Turkey is also awaiting response from the U.S. over its request to extradite Gulen, Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan said Feb. 9. Gulen has been based in Pennsylvania since 1999.

T he gover nment replaced the officers and prosecutors involved in the corruption probes that rocked Turkey over the past year and ensnared former ministers. Erdogan backed a purge that saw thousands in the police force and justice ministry removed from their positions.

Bank Asya, one of the biggest listed companies linked to Gulen, came under direct attack from Erdogan, who said last September that the bank was “already bankrupt.”

Erdogan’s use of diplomatic channels to dismantle Gulen’s network may come at a cost for Turkey in terms of reputation and influence, according to Pinar Elman, a Turkey analyst at the Polish Institute of International Affairs.

“The effort to shut down Gulenist schools brings to mind the question of whether Turkey is wasting diplomatic capital,” she said.

“It’s unclear if Turkey has a network to replace the one that was established by Gulen.”

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tasked with finding the right successor to lead the network’s No. 1 late night show.

“It’s a seismic shift for sure, for late night and for Comedy Central,” she said in an interview Wednesday.

But she added: “Comedy Central has always been in the business of reinventing itself ... The brand has never been stronger.” She said network policy prevented her from discussing financial specifics.

The network still has a number of popular and acclaimed shows, including “South Park,” “Key and Peele” and “Inside Amy Schumer.” Comedy Central boasts of being the No. 1 network in late night among young men – a hard-to-reach demographic that advertisers will pay top dollar to attract.

It’s also one of the most widely distributed cable channels in the U.S., with 97.3 million subscribers.

And through customers’ cable and satellite TV bills, it earns a relatively rich 22 cents per month on each subscribers, up 10 percent from 2014, according to research firm SNL Kagan.

On the other hand, Stewart and Colbert were two of the big reasons Comedy Central could command that kind of money.

(Ratings for the show are down about 13 percent year to date, but it’s drawing a respectable 2.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen.)

“Stewart’s departure will hit a reset button for the network,” said Brad Adgate, an analyst with ad firm Horizon Media in New York.

Stewart had hosted a short-lived MTV show in the early 1990s but was struggling to find his proper niche when he took over “The Daily Show” in 1999.

That show’s original host, Craig Kilborn, had left to do a late-night program on CBS. Under the tutelage of Stewart and writer Ben Karlin, “Daily Show” became a must-see for the media elite, with the host railing against what many saw as political and journalistic hypocrisy during the era of 9/11, the Iraq war and beyond.

Comedy Central has indicated that it intends to keep the “Daily Show” brand alive, albeit with a new host. The network, which makes around a quarterbillion dollars annually in subscriber fees alone, has shown it will pay well for talent. According to reports, Comedy Central shelled out around $6 million annually to Colbert and between $25 million and $30 million per year to Jon Stewart.

But it remains to be seen how the show might adapt to fit that personality. Ranking high on the list of possible successors is John Oliver, the British-born comic who rose to prominence as a “Daily Show” correspondent and won plaudits as

a guest host when Stewart took time off to make his feature film, “Rosewater,” in 2013.

But Oliver left to do his own mock-news show for HBO, “Last Week Tonight,” which has garnered critical acclaim. Oliver said recently he has no plans to leave.

Carell would be a big get for Comedy Central, but his film commitments would likely not allow him to contemplate doing a nightly TV show. Helms, a former “Daily Show” correspondent, has won new fans with his roles on series such as “The Office” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” although it’s an open question whether he could carry the show by himself.

Cast members such as Samantha Bee, Jason Jones or Aasif Mandvi could be possible successors. Or the network could go with an outside pick or an unknown.

Whoever gets the nod, the “Daily Show” will be different.

Ganeless said she plans to take her time. “We don’t want to find Jon Stewart Lite,” she said. “Everything is on the table.” That includes a host who might come from either outside or inside the current talent roster.

“We have to find the next evolution of ‘The Daily Show,’“ Ganeless said.

“What does ‘The Daily Show’ after Jon Stewart mean?”

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Brian Williams wasn’t ‘mistaken.’

He lied.

If you haven’t heard, right time. Good journalonce-re putable NBC ists will wait patiently to Nightly News anchor be in the right place at the right time, or work diliIan Hagerty gently to get in position to capture the right moment.

Brian Williams has apolo- It takes someone despergized publicly for claiming ately seeking attention he was on board a Chinook to lie like Williams did. I helicopter that was shot by imagine that as soon as he enemy fire during the U.S. learned of the other heliinvasion of Iraq in 2003. copter being shot, he was What you may not have jealous he wasn’t inside noticed is that Williams of it; especially when he hasn’t admitted to lying found out the occupants about the reality of the of the damaged chopper incident, only claiming had survived. You might that he was mistaken. empathize with Williams’ Williams posted this desperation to become sucapology: cessful and well known.

“I feel terrible about It’s too bad he lied last making this mistake, espe- week, after already achievcially since I found my ing fame, trust and notoOWN WRITING (sic) about riety. the incident from back in Williams also inspect‘08, and I was indeed on ed the impact area of the the Chinook behind the downed chopper. He witbird that took the RPG in nessed the damage and all the tail housing just above associated with it, yet he the ramp. Because I have claims to have accidentally no desire to fictionalize my associated himself. You’d experience (we all saw it think that as an experihappened the first time) enced journalist, Williams and no need to dramatize has the ability to put himevents as they actually self aside when covering a

“The fact remains that he lied. And we can’t trust him to bring us our news any longer.” happened, I think the constant viewing of the video showing us inspecting the impact area – and the fog of memory over 12 years – made me conflate the two, and I apologize.”

Sure, it’s reasonable to say people tend to be a bit forgetful and mix up certain memories over the course of just over a decade, but honestly, don’t you think he would have remembered a helicopter crash?

I don’t remember all of the details of my life; nobody does. I do, however, remember the most significant instances I’ve experienced in my life. I don’t remember all of my junior year of high school, but I remember crashing my friend’s car into the back of a Durango on I-95.

I remember the air bags exploding into my face and the feeling of friction burn on my forearms.

How can we possibly expect that Williams simply mixed up the details of such a dramatic incident?

Sometimes people block out and forget traumatic experiences, but I’ve never heard of someone absorbing another person’s. Is he the first telepathically empathetic journalist? No. I think it is completely safe to assume that Williams lied intentionally, and that he had a reason.

The news today is competitive. Reporters constantly strive to find the most captivating, heart wrenching or amazing stories. To become known and respected as a journalist, it can require one to be in the right place at the

breaking story. It is absolutely essential for a reputable journalist to be able to detach him or herself from a news story so that an incident can be reported with as little bias as possible. How then, did a veteran journalist manage to fail the simplest test and most serious ethical concern seen in news media?

The answer is clear, Williams is a liar, and he knows it. The type of apology he issued was written to admit nothing. His apology only expressed sorrow for a brief “mental lapse” that he created. I don’t believe him for a second.

As an aspiring journalist, I feel nothing but contempt for Williams’ actions.

Even if you do believe his excuse: can you possibly trust the reporting skills of a journalist who can’t even remember if he was in a helicopter crash?

And whether by lack of memory or by fallacy, what else has he gotten wrong over the years? We need to trust the words of our journalists as much as we can, and his credibility is ruined.

On Tuesday this week, NBC suspended Williams without pay for six months. I think he should have been fired. Maybe he only lied once, and maybe most of Williams’ reporting over the years has not been a waste for his viewers, but the fact remains that he lied. And we can’t trust him to bring us our news any longer.

Ian Hagerty is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at ihagerty@ umass.edu.

MGM should pay to move Springfield treatment center forced out by casino

In early August 2014, police arrived at a one-car

Sam Fountain accident on I-91 in Hatfield, Mass. The car, carrying two injured passengers, one male and one female, had struck the median before coming to a halt on the highway, causing only minor injuries. The male, 20 years old, was able to walk out from the vehicle and speak to officers, telling them he was on his way home from a bar and that it was his girlfriend who had been driving the car. However, she was unconscious in the passenger seat. Officers reported the male smelled of alcohol and upon searching the car, noticed an open liquor bottle along with 17 beers in the back of the car. The man was arrested for operating under the influence of alcohol. This was his third offense for drunken driving.

He was already driving with a suspended license. A year earlier at age 19, he was also arrested for disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and assault and battery on a police officer stemming from an altercation at a bar in Deerfield. This past month, he was sentenced to 18 months to be served at the Hampshire County House of Corrections.

Sadly, this story is not novel to anyone who reads news blogs or watches local news stations. The details may vary, but the overall story arc rarely does – a young person with substance abuse issues gets in trouble with the law, repeats his offense, goes to prison, is released, falls back into similar patterns of behavior and spends a significant portion of their life behind bars.

In Massachusetts, however, there are efforts being made to break this cycle and potentially reverse tragic outcomes in the lives of hundreds of offenders. The Western Massachusetts Correctional Alcohol Center in downtown Springfield, known colloquially as “Howard Street” is one of these options. A part of the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department, the WMCAC houses 164 men and 18 women and combines prison time with substance abuse treatment, recovery and community engagement.

The program believes in the disease theory of addiction,

of inmates have substance abuse issues and 95 percent have no marketable skills, programs like the WMCAC are especially important because they create ties to the community that inmates can utilize once they are back on out the streets.

The future of the WMCAC is in question, however, as a result of recent real estate acquisitions for the MGM Casino Springfield development project. Both the facility itself and the property have been sold to MGM, and the program has been given until March 1 to vacate. The Hampden County Sheriff has

“I am cautious of giving MGM a blank check of public opinion regarding the impact on the community. Programs like the WMCAC are of utmost importance when considering relocation of businesses and residents in the South End.” promoting abstinence as a route to recovery and using Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous as key tools. The program is intensive and focuses on community integration through their “escort” program in which inmates are brought out to community AA and NA meetings with a program “escort.” The directors of the program believe making strong ties to the community with inmates helps ensure recovery and aid in the transition once their time is served.

Hampden County Sheriff Michael Ashe is a loud proponent of the WMCAC, saying it provides, “dignity and worth to every human being.” Sheriff Ashe also has stated that because 98 percent

the state, MGM must meet several legal obligations, including allocations of jobs for Springfield residents and diversity requirements for hiring with baselines for minorities, women and veterans. MGM must also fulfill good faith agreements to include the community and local legislature during the development of the casino.

I am not an opponent of the MGM Springfield project.

MGM will bring thousands of jobs to a city with over 10 percent unemployment, and will generate hundreds of millions of dollars in capital for the state, which can in turn be used for public services such as education and public infrastructure. I am, however, cautious of giving MGM a blank check of public opinion regarding the impact on the community.

Programs like the WMCAC are of utmost importance when considering relocation of businesses and residents in the South End. It would be a shame and a disgrace if the program were forced to shut down as a result of the development of a casino, which at least symbolically represents the sort of addiction and negative behaviors the program is trying to reverse in its inmates.

The $7.5 million needed by the center to relocate fully functionally is a steep price and I don’t believe it should be paid for completely by the casino. They should at least contribute, however, to the costs, especially considering they may contribute some of the center’s future residents.

stated that over $7 million is needed to relocate the program at full capacity, which is far beyond their given budget. The acquisition is a small part of the real estate recently purchased by the MGM in Springfield’s South End. As of January 5, MGM has purchased $42.6 million in South End real estate, all in preparation to commence building of the $800 million casino. The real estate investment proceeded rapidly after a ballot initiative attempting to block the casino project was voted down in November.

The initiative was defeated 59 percent to 41 percent in an election that saw campaign spending promoting the bill eclipse the opposi- Sam Fountain is a Collegian columtion $12 million to $600,000. nist and can be reached at sfountain@ As part of their contract with umass.edu.

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FILM REVIEW

‘The Walking Dead’ waxes A most atmospheric ‘Year’ end belies the poetic on spring premiere Quiet tension of narrative

Trippy, introspective hour studies death

By Alexander Frail Collegian Staff

The following article contains spoilers for the fifth season of “The Walking Dead.”

“The Walking Dead” always had a knack for surprising me. Just when I think the apocalyptic drama might’ve dried up its poetic well, the program opens with a strand of nonchronological, blurry shots of indefinite objects or people. They’re disorienting. They’re confusing and unsettling. But they always inject the following hour with a wondrous, ominous dread that you just can’t shake.

Season five’s midseason premiere, “What Happened and What’s Going On,” marks a new pinnacle for the show’s creativity. Quick, light-soaked shots reveal a grave, fuzzy audio crackles out Father Gabriel’s (Seth Gilliam) eulogy and then the real shocker arrives: bloodied Lizzie and Mika smile into the camera, breaking the fourth wall with a haunting gaze. “It’s better now,” they tell us.

Of course, Lizzie and Mika died way back in season four. Their inexplicable return had me doing double takes. For the rest of the episode, I was scratching my head.

Showrunner Scott M. Gimple, who penned the episode, unspools this mystery in agonizing fashion throughout the midseason premiere. As Rick (Andrew Lincoln) leads Michonne (Danai Gurira), Glenn (Steven Yeun), Tyreese (Chad Coleman) and Noah (Tyler James Williams) back to Noah’s old home, Tyreese reassures Noah on the drive. When they arrive, Noah realizes he’s too late.

The compound is overrun, his family dead.

Distracted by a photo of Noah and his brother, Tyreese tragically gets bitten. The moment really caught me off guard. Sure, “The Walking Dead” has killed its characters erratically before. “Killer Within” even saw two main characters go at once. But I never thought the show would kill someone barely an hour after Beth (Emily Kinney) was killed.

The bite happens early.

As such, the episode hinges upon that moment, and then the poetry comes off the screen magically, like nothing I’ve seen on “The Walking Dead.” As Tyreese slips into unconscious, a slew of dead characters surround him in a frightening hallucinatory trip. Lizzie and Mika console him. And slowly, the mysterious cold open comes into focus.

Bob (Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.), Martin (Chris Coy) and Beth all appear to Tyreese.

He barely utters a word at first. Coleman offers a heartbreaking performance, allowing the pained realization to wash over him in the silence. This silence allows the dead to taunt him – Martin reminds Tyreese of their cabin conversation – or to console him. All the while, Coleman gives a stellar performance in near silence.

Greg Nicotero, who also directed the incredible season five premiere, “No Sanctuary,” delivers yet again. He splices these hallucinations together with seamless clarity and unnerving erraticism.

When the scariest apparition appears in the imposing form of the Governor (an eternally missed David Mor rissey), Nicotero frames the posthumous villain from a low angle shot.

With just a glimpse, dread rushed back to me. Even from the grave, the specter of the Governor looms.

Nicotero really excels late in the hour. The blood loss from the bite metas-

tasizes Tyreese’s mental state. His visions grow more imposing, more erratic. Clever crosscutting suggests Lizzie and Mika hold Tyreese’s hand, while Rick and Co. actually yank it outright to amputate the bite.

It’s at once horrifying and profound.

As I said, I never expected “The Walking Dead” to bump off another character so soon after Beth died. I suppose that’s what the writers suspected. So, hats off to them. However, throughout the episode, I was more surprised at how accepting I was of Tyreese’s demise than I was at the fact that he was bitten.

Coleman’s performance stunned me. I can’t deny that. The problem lies in the character’s lack of depth throughout each season. As I sat there, marveling at Coleman’s acting, I realized the show would be little different without Tyreese. Beyond saving Judith in season four and an interesting grapple with morality, he offered little to the narrative’s advance or to the program’s intrigue.

So while I loved Coleman, I was fairly indifferent toward Tyreese.

The midseason premiere was a beautiful entry to “The Walking Dead’s” increasingly impressive canon. No one has gone so beautifully into that good night as Tyreese does.

Coleman’s acting stole the hour. Meanwhile, Gimple’s writing and Nicotero’s direction ensured yet another entertaining hour.

In the grand scheme, however, I’ll remember “What Happened and What’s Going On” as little more than a poetic death study. The cold open releases an air of intrigue sustained for the whole hour, but it kept me engaged with its style at the expense of its substance.

Alexander Frail can be reached at afrail@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @AlexanderFrail.

By Nathan Frontiero Collegian Staff

We hear breathing on a black screen. A runner pants heavily before the camera reveals him jogging around New York City on a winter morning. He’s fit and keeps a strong, even pace. He wears a determined expression on his face. The sound of his breath fades beneath the soulful piano stabs of Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues.” Before we learn anything about this man, we get the sense he’s worked hard for everything he has.

The man is Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac), owner of heating industry newcomer Standard Oil. He is unfailingly self-righteous and dead-set on success. The film posits him as its protagonist but never confirms the moral authority that he frequently claims. Abel states he strives to “take the path that is most right,” but writer-director J.C. Chandor keeps “A Most Violent Year” morally ambiguous.

The year is 1981 – the historically violent time from which the film takes its name – and “A Most Violent Year” thrives by establishing a bleak mood. Bradford Young’s cinematography mostly desaturates the colors, especially for outdoor scenes, to create an appropriately dated look. This particular winter in the city looks unforgivingly cold even when the camera steps indoors. Young brings bolder, warmer hues back in for interior scenes, but the colors maintain an eerie, uncanny quality.

The framing of scenes also emphasizes the tense, confrontational interactions between Abel and his competitors. Young and Chandor tightly frame individuals in conversation.

People looking to the left of the frame are placed in the far right of the shot, and people looking to the right are placed in the far left.

This arrangement makes

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Jessica Chastain delivers a compelling performance as Anna. each exchange between characters feel that much more aggressive. Industry rivals are literally as close to one another as possible without sharing the frame.

These aesthetic choices keep the audience on edge.

Alex Ebert’s unsettling score perfectly integrates with the film’s eerie visuals. The mostly electronic music is murky and haunting. Deep, foreboding synthesizers drone over occasional strings. The film’s ominous aural tone matches its narrative arc. This is a film that broods. It’s a slow burner in the best sense of the term. The music lends a feeling of immense gravity to otherwise elusive scenes.

Every solemn cue seems to foreshadow some Faustian doom for Abel as he stalks toward the goal of expanding his business.

“A Most Violent Year” kept me engaged, even as it refused to lay all of its cards on the table. This is largely due to stellar performances from the co-stars.

Oscar Isaac deftly balances Abel’s intimidating, hellbent exterior with his nervous, skewed conscience.

His speech is as careful and measured as his stride. He keeps his eyes blank when instructing new hires in the art of the sell. He is both the clearest audience proxy and the most suspicious character in the film. Isaac tremendously conveys this dichotomy.

Jessica Chastain is equally compelling as Abel’s wife,

Anna. Her character is more sparsely written than Isaac’s, but she sinks just as deeply into the role. She disappears behind Anna’s pragmatic aura. Anna is magnetic in her unpredictability. Chastain’s character moves according to her own close-to-the-chest agenda and the actress is magnetic. It’s horrifying and exhilarating to watch her and Isaac go at each other’s throats.

I wish the film’s payoff was as thrilling as its buildup. Chandor, Isaac and Chastain held me completely captive, but I couldn’t shake the feeling upon leaving the theater that something was missing. “A Most Violent Year” creates a stark, claustrophobic atmosphere. It repeatedly left me guessing as it inched towards its big final moment. But that moment never comes.

Chandor cooks up an intriguing ideological stew without painting the masterstroke of his thesis. The film disappears like a wisp on the wind. Its energy sputters out by the time the final shot cuts to black. For a film that nearly promises a violent consummation of the tension that pervades its plot, “A Most Violent Year” bows on an oddly quiet note. The film has plenty to love yet still left me wanting more. Maybe I’m just as greedy as the oil-mongers.

Nathan Frontiero can be reached at nfrontiero@umass.edu.

FILM REVIEW

‘Mortdecai’ misplaces sophistication, not priceless paintings Another big misfire from Johnny Depp

By Matthew Hlady Collegian Correspondent Director David Koepp attempts to fuse classically dry English humor with American slapstick in “Mortdecai,” a film about an English, aristocratic, bumbling bankrupt art thief, and the result is decidedly disappointing. Despite a loaded cast including Johnny Depp (Mortdecai), Gwyneth Paltro (Johanna Mortdecai) and Ewan McGregor (Inspector Martland), the comedy is so pathetic, it made my funny bone frown and the plot so predictable that it could have been put into last week’s horoscope. The jokes are asinine, the acting over the top (even for Johnny Depp) and the English fetishism that Koepp markets was tired a decade ago. The film is so horrendous that I cannot even bring myself to mock it. It would be like kicking a wingless pelican.

After a tiresome narrative introducing the main characters, we discover Mortdecai

and his wife owe over eight million pounds to the Queen.

As luck would have it, an art conservator is murdered and the priceless painting she was restoring is nabbed.

However, an unseen person knocks the thief unconscious and the painting is stolen again. Arriving at the scene, Inspector Martland is baffled and is forced to request Mortdecai’s services to find the painting, considering his extensive career in art trafficking. Mortdecai agrees under the condition that he receives a 10 percent finder’s fee.

Koepp seems to be trying to bring something of Inspector Clouseau through the role of Mortdecai, yet makes the same mistake as “The Pink Panther” reboots did. He dumbs down the character’s wit and replaces much of it with unimaginative ridiculousness. The film revolves around American perceptions of English stereotypes (e.g. idiotic nobility, lower class people all sounding like they’re from Liverpool or London and excessive manners) and static characters. It’s as if

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A funny script and interesting narrative elude master art thief, Mortdecai. the director was banking on Americans finding everything British hilarious without much consideration for making an actual film.

The movie is littered with expensive shots and animations for transitions between geographic locations that serve no purpose except to interrupt the action. Some of the shots and much of the music are reminiscent of James Bond, and I would guess it is intended to be funny. It’s not. There are no interesting angles or light-

ing, the dialogue is bland and even the film’s one Wilhelm scream feels flat.

The only entertaining character in the entire fiasco is Mortdecai’s manservant, Jock Strapp (Paul Bettany).

While the name lacks in originality, his reserve and competence balances out his master’s ridiculousness, while his stoic manner of coping with Lord Mortdecai is humorous. For once, the stereotypical politeness works. Even so, the repetition of this and several other

formulae became dull an hour into the film.

In a comedy of this type, one would expect eccentric performances. Since eccentricity is Johnny Depp’s calling card, the role of Charles Mortdecai is appropriate for his brand of farcical body language. However, his long list of comedic and dramatic accolades mean nothing in the grim face of a script that seemed hell-bent on sinking the ship.

We know Johnny Depp for his role of Jack Sparrow.

That is the type of performance that the public seems to have been begging of him ever since, hence his casting in this film. Since it’s his specialty, it is easy to forget the performances he gave in “Finding Neverland” and “Sweeney Todd.” Instead of balancing his repertoire with more serious films, his career seems to be dragging him further into the dark side of comedy, desperately driving him to abysmal shows such as this.

The only recent instances of Mr. Depp’s successful exuberance were as The Big Bad Wolf in “Into the

Woods” and as Tonto in “The Lone Ranger.” The roles smacked of Sparrow, albeit toned down some.

He has demonstrated his capacity as a serious actor even recently in “The Rum Diary,” which revolves around another middling script, yet he appears to be desperate and falling into films like “Mortdecai” and “Transcendence.” Why, I could not say.

As fine a cast as this film has, it is lacking in almost every other way. The wit is, on occasion, clever and the sets and locations are lovely.

Those are this film’s only redeeming features. I was nearly ecstatic to leave the cinema at the end. The bland soundtrack, lackluster plot, insipid characters and juvenile gags spell one sentence: Do not see this film. I can only pray that this debacle does not murder the actors’ careers. The best that I can hope for is that the bad publicity will keep them in the public eye until they land a decent role.

Matthew Hlady can be reached at mhlady@umass.edu.

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toward the end of the season if he continues to show consistency.

“A guy like Steve is a veteran presence, he’s played an awful lot of college hockey games,” Micheletto said. “In a stretch run to have another veteran voice in the lineup is important.”

On the injury front Dealing with health issues, Steven Iacobellis’ and Troy Power’s weekend availability is still unclear, Micheletto said at Tuesday’s practice.

Micheletto seemed optimistic about Iacobellis, who was medically cleared for Monday’s practice and “seems to be in good shape.” The sophomore, who is tied for third on the team in points (19), missed UMass’ two games

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Caroline Raymond makes contact in a game against Boston College. The senior led all UMass pitchers with 10 wins last year.

Minutewomen 4th in preseason poll

By Jamie Cushman Collegian Staff

As the Massachusetts softball team prepares for its 2015 season, secondyear coach Kristi Stefanoni has a simple but ambitious goal for the team – win the Atlantic 10 conference tournament.

“Our goal from day one has been, everything we are working toward, is to qualify and win the conference tournament,” Stefanoni said.

Amherst is set to host this year’s A-10 tournament, and winning the team’s first conference title since 2012 would be even sweeter if it were to come at home, but Stefanoni knows there’s a lot of work to be done to make that moment a possibility.

It’s Stefanoni’s first year as head coach, but she essentially served that role last year as the interim

coach following the passing of Elaine Sortino, a member of the UMass Hall of Fame. But she appears primed to return UMass softball to its winning ways after a lackluster 16-22-1 season last year. “(Last year) I learned what kind of coach I am.

What kind of coach I can be. I learned a lot about myself and what it will take to bring this team back to national prominence,” Stefanoni said.

For that to happen, the Minutewomen will need to see improvement from their pitching staff, which is set to return all four members from last year’s roster. Aiding their development will be new pitching coach Kaitlin Inglesby, who was a two-time AllAmerican during her four years as a pitcher for the University of Washington.

Last year, Stefanoni filled in her lineup cards with many younger players, and this year will be much of the same. Two

freshmen – pitcher Meg Colleran and infielder Gianna Hathaway – will be asked to contribute in their first season in Amherst.

“What I tell a lot of the freshman is, ‘you’re too good and you’re too strong to not challenge for a starting position and it only makes the team better,’” Stefanoni said. “It will make the future for the program better and it’s going to make them as players a lot better if they can get in right away.”

The team enters the 2015 season with high expectations after being ranked fourth in the A-10 preseason coach’s poll, but don’t tell that to senior pitcher Caroline Raymond.

“We try not to care too much about what other coaches say,” Raymond said. “I think we know what we’re capable of and our coaches know what we’re capable of, so it’s a matter of just working on our own stuff and not worrying as much about what

other people think of us.”

UMass to open season in Houston The Minutewomen will be travelling to Houston for the first time in order to take part in the Houston Hilton Plaza Invitational.

The softball-filled weekend will feature five games in three days, including matchups against Stephen F. Austin, McNeese State, Houston, DePaul and Northern Iowa.

“I’m excited for it. I think there’s great competition there and it’s going to get us ready to face the conference and even better competition later in the season,” Stefanoni said.

Raymond believes the team is more than ready to get the season underway.

“We’ve been stuck in a gym for a really long time, so we’re excited to just get on some dirt and play.”

Jamie Cushman can be reached at jrcushman@umass.edu.

L I T T L E L E AG U E BA S E BA L L

Jackie Robinson West stripped of title

By Bob Ford Philadelphia Inquirer Taney wasn’t robbed. Las Vegas wasn’t robbed.

New Albany, Ind., West Dundee, Ill., Lansing, Ill., and Chicago Rosemoor and all the other teams beaten

by Jackie Robinson West on the way to the United States championship of Little League Baseball weren’t robbed.

Jackie Robinson West was robbed.

The kids who played for that team were robbed on Wednesday when their championship was stripped and what they were robbed off was their childhood.

Through no fault of their own, they were made to feel part of something wrong instead of something wonderful and they learned, perhaps for the first time, there is little in this world that can’t be ruined by adults trying to make it better.

In a very real way, Little League Baseball had this coming because children shouldn’t be turned into mini-adults for the vicarious gratification of the people in charge. Eleven-to-13year olds shouldn’t be playing tournament sports on television. They shouldn’t be cattle-chuted into a setting so fraught with supposed importance that only one team finishes happily and all the others finish

crying. Is that really what kids should be feeling about sports when they are in middle school?

Stephen D. Keener, the CEO of Little League Baseball, handed down the ruling on Wednesday and he said the right things about how excruciating the decision was to make, and how his biggest worry was the effect it would have on the Jackie Robinson West players.

That’s fine, but my problem is more basic.

Children’s sports shouldn’t have a CEO. When they do, that’s where the trouble starts. If there are television contracts to negotiate, and coaches who dream of seeing themselves running a team on nationwide TV, and parents who view that sort of exposure as a golden ticket to the future, that’s when the adults go crazy.

It appears that Jackie Robinson West officials, including coach Darold Butler, gerrymandered the neighborhood boundaries that separate that league from other nearby leagues in order to recruit talented players. The boundaries are redrawn every so often in all districts and regions, sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not so much, and there are often disagreements between leagues.

Those are supposed to be

settled by someone in the local bureaucracy and, in this instance, the kids were let down by a district administrator who signed off on eligibility forms that he knew weren’t right. But, hey, we’ve got a team here that might go places.

And did they ever, including the White House, where President Obama congratulated the kids from his hometown and the first solely African American team to win the U.S. championship.

Representatives of some other leagues in the Chicago area, who knew exactly where the JRW kids lived and went to school, complained about the eligibility issue, but Little League Baseball took a look at the documentation presented by the district and didn’t look any further. One of the complaints was brought by nearby Evergreen Park, a suburb that borders Chicago’s South Side and was eliminated by Jackie Robinson West in sectional play by a score of 43-2 ... in four innings.

I don’t know what other motivations might be at work here – jealousy, revenge, personality clash, whatever – but 43-2 is a pretty good motivator, too. That is not a score achieved by a coach whose first mission is to promote sportsmanship

and a respect for the game.

(Of course, maybe the team was that good. After the sectional round, its three wins in the Illinois state tournament were by a combined score of 53-3. Nevertheless.)

Eventually, there was a preponderance of evidence that Little League Baseball couldn’t ignore after the allegations didn’t go away – and after proud suburban mayors and political representatives couldn’t contain themselves from tweeting about their individual “hometown” heroes who somehow played for JRW – and a real investigation resulted in Wednesday’s action.

It’s sad. That’s all it is.

Sad. The kids just wanted to play baseball. The adults wanted to turn the baseball into something more, something bigger, something too important to be merely a game. The mistake would be assuming that Jackie Robinson West officials are the only ones that recruit or play around with league boundaries. It just happened they did it so well that people didn’t like it. They just happened to go all the way, and, as a result, Little League Baseball was forced to bring them all the way back.

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this past weekend due to an undisclosed injury.

As for Power, Micheletto said he hasn’t practiced since leaving Friday’s game against Northeastern after taking an elbow to the head in the first period. The senior captain has 14 points this season.

“Troy’s still on a dayto-day evaluation basis,” Micheletto said. “We’ll continue to monitor that every day.”

Friday’s matchup will begin at 7 p.m. at Mullins Center, and Saturday’s contest is also set for 7 p.m. at Tsongas Center in Lowell.

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

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UMass bench into euphoria.

Hinds initial reaction?

Time lock down on Posley.

“Right after the shot, I was just thinking. ‘Posley, Posley Posley,’” Hinds said. “I was just looking for him. If he got ball I just wanted to make him put up a contested hard shot.”

Thanks to Hinds’ effort, Posley didn’t get the last shot. Instead Cumberbatch misfired on a forced 3-pointer and the Minutemen’s bench stormed the court and mobbed Hinds in elation.

It was reminiscent of the way St. Bonaventure’s students crowed the home floor after knocking off then-No. 21 UMass last season.

“We got them back. We got a little out of character. We were going to their fans, and stuff like that, taunting them,” Gordon said. “We were just so caught up into the moment, we were happy.

I didn’t care how we won the game, as long as we won the game that’s all I was worrying about.”

Lost in the lategame heroics was the Minutemen’s stifling defensive effort, particularly on 7-foot center Youssou Ndoye. After dominating for 14 points and 13 rebounds in the teams’ first meeting Jan. 3, Ndoye was held to just four points, seven rebounds and five turnovers after being doubleteamed throughout the game.

“Cady did a better job of forcing him off the

block and Tyler did a good job of banging with him for a few minutes,” Kellogg said.

The Minutemen took a 30-23 lead into intermission after arguably its strongest defensive half of the season.

UMass forced 11 first-half turnovers and held the Bonnies to 34.5 percent shooting from the floor.

The M i nu t e m e n opened the game with five straight defensive stops.

After trading baskets throughout the middle half of the period, UMass closed the half on a 10-2 run in which five different Minutemen scored, and held the Bonnies without a basket for over four minutes.

A promising first half for UMass turned ugly in the second as the Bonnies opened the half on an 18-5 run over eight minutes to take a 41-35 lead.

Davis led the Minutemen with a quiet 12 points, eight of which came in the second half.

Lalanne added 10 points and five rebounds. Posley scored a game-high 13 points for the Bonnies, while Cumberbatch and Wright scored, 12 and 10 points, respectively.

UMass will try to extend its winning streak to six games when it hosts Duquesne at 4 p.m.

Saturday.

Nick Canelas can be reached at ncanelas@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @NickCanelas.

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HOCKEY

Minutemen ready for rival River Hawks

Home-and-home series this weekend B y Anthony C hiusano Collegian Staff

It’s not often a college hockey team faces the same opponent three consecutive times, but that’s the challenge Massachusetts faces this weekend in preparation for No. 16 UMass Lowell.

A week after UMass (9-18-1, 4-13-1 Hockey East) defeated the River Hawks 5-2 in their first head-tohead matchup of the season, the Minutemen once again host UMass Lowell Friday in a nonconference affair before traveling to the Paul E. Tsongas Center Saturday night.

According to freshman Dennis Kravchenko, the

scheduling quirk presents an equal test for both teams as they try to make adjustments based on the opening matchup. He added that the familiarity that comes from studying each other’s 5-on-5 play heightens the importance in converting on special teams play.

“It’s a grind as each team starts figuring out the other guys’ abilities and good things that each other does,” Kravchenko said. “Power play and penalty kill is where you really need to dominate and put the puck in the net.”

Kravchenko was a key contributor in UMass’ victory last Saturday, tallying a goal and an assist, extending his point streak to a career-high five games.

Redshirt sophomore Frank Vatrano added two goals

in the Minutemen’s second five-goal performance in their last three games.

Vatrano finished with a team-high nine shots against the River Hawks (16-10-3, 9-7-2 HEA). After being denied on several scoring opportunities close to the net by UMass Lowell goaltender Kevin Boyle in the opening period, the forward finally capitalized on his chances in the final two periods.

“I got a lot of chances against Lowell,” Vatrano said. “And when you start getting chances early in the game, it starts to build a lot of confidence. I finally bared down my opportunities and it was great to be rewarded by that.”

While UMass’ offense found success against UMass Lowell’s backline,

Minutemen coach John Micheletto said an encore of UMass’ strong defensive outing Saturday will be important in limiting the conference’s second-highest scoring team.

“It’s about continuing to try to keep teams on the perimeter when they’re in our zone, blocking shots when we get an opportunity to and then making them earn 200 feet of ice by not turning the puck over in bad areas,” Micheletto said. “That’s been our mindset all year, it’s just a matter of making sure there’s consistent execution.”

The Minutemen blocked 19 shots Saturday and only allowed two third period goals, both coming via the power play.

Steve Mastalerz backed

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Frank Vatrano (13) celebrates after scoring a goal vs. UMass-Lowell. up his defense with 28 saves in net. After beginning the season 0-7 in his starts, the senior has earned UMass’ last two wins.

While Micheletto said that he plans to continue using a two-goalie tandem

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Minutemen win in stunning fashion

to a thrilling 55-53 win over St. Bonaventure at Reilly Center, extending UMass’ winning streak to five games and launching B y N ick C anelas Collegian Staff them into a four-way tie for first place in the Atlantic OLEAN, N.Y. — It hasn’t 10 standings. been the kind of year

“It means Jabarie Hinds a lot. Not just had probably St. Bona 53 for me, but for imagined. my teammates The junior UMass 55 and the coacht r a n s f e r ing staff,” Hinds from We s t said.

Virginia’s much-antici- Said UMass coach Derek pated debut season for the Kellogg: “That gives him Massachusetts basketball some confidence to feel team has been trying at some value to the team. best. He’s battled inconsis- Sometimes in games like tency, fallen in and out of these you just need some the starting lineup, and has guys that can make some seen his minutes fluctuate shots.” along with his nightly pro- It was the Minutemen’s duction. most improbable and emo The divergence in Hinds’ tionally charged victory good games compared to of the season. They bathis bad can be madden- tled a six-point deficit that ing. He keyed consecutive seemed much larger given wins with strong second their offensive struggles half performances at Saint throughout the game’s Louis and Fordham, but final minutes. They were followed that up with three pressing, forcing shots points on 1-for-6 shooting and uncomfortable against Sunday against La Salle. the Bonnies suffocating On Wednesday night, the defense. good Hinds came through But UMass, possession with the biggest shot of his by possession, chipped UMass career. away and used a combina The guard knocked tion of foolproof execution 3-pointer with 8.6 seconds and some good fortune to left to lift the Minutemen break through and silence

the hostile crowd of 3,786.

“If you’re going to have a good year and go on a winning streak in this conference, you’re going to have to have some lucky breaks,” said Kellogg, who called the win his team’s biggest of the season.

“We’ve had a few and a couple that didn’t go so well. As we started to play a little better we’ve had a few bounce the right way.”

A Dion Wright jumper with five minutes, 14 seconds left in regulation gave St. Bonaventure its biggest lead of the game, 51-45.

The teams traded baskets and the Minutemen found themselves back down six points with 2:45 to play.

That’s when UMass’ frantic comeback began.

Cady Lalanne finished a layup to make it 53-49, then Derrick Gordon went to the free-throw line for a one-and-one grabbing a rebound off a Bonnies miss. Gordon hit the front end, but missed the second. Andell Cumberbatch corralled the rebound, but Trey Davis stole the ball and drove the hoop before being fouled on his way to the rim.

Davis hit both free throws. Hinds locked down on Marcus Posley defen-

sively and forced a tough shot to give the Minutemen a chance at a go-ahead bucket. Gordon drove to the hoop and fed the ball to Lalanne underneath.

The senior center up-faked once, then was stripped and the Bonnies regained possession clinging to a one-point lead with 23 seconds left.

St. Bonaventure’s inbounds play was designed to go to Posley – it’s best free-throw shooter.

Cumberbatch was looking for Posley to pop to the corner, but instead the guard cut left and went right. An errant pass by Cumberbatch wound up right in the hands of Gordon.

“It was like all I had to do was pop right there and it came right to me,” Gordon said, later adding, “God works in mysterious ways. I missed that last free throw and Trey got the rebound, made two free throws. Then the ball just magically comes my way.”

Said Posley: “It was a miscommunication.”

Gordon swung the ball out to Davis, who flipped it to Hinds. Hinds buried the contested shot and sent the see

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First road trip of the season for UM

By Jason Kates

Donte Clark (0) and Trey Davis (12) lead the Minutemen upcourt in a game vs. La Salle on Feb. 8.

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Destination Chapel Hill versus UNC

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with Mastalerz and freshman Henry Dill – who’s started 19 games this season – he acknowledged the impact that Mastalerz can have on the Minutemen

into the offensive end,” he said. “Early offense is fantastic between Bitter and (Joey) Sankey and (Luke) Goldstock, that’s their starting attack.”

“All the defensive midfielders that they play were offensive guys in high school, so they all want a piece of it. They haven’t even played three of their top midfielders in the first two games.”

Mariano knows it will take a full team effort to keep the game within reach, especially considering the firepower the Tar Heels bring to the table offensively.

“I think we just gotta have a great time of possession,” Mariano said.

“Face-offs are a big key for our game, and if we win them, we usually keep the ball for long periods of time. We just gotta get the groundballs as much as we can and try to outtough them.”

While there weren’t many positives to take out of their opening defeat, the Minutemen will have to take the fight they showed in the second half of that game and apply it to this weekend’s contest.

“We kept playing as the game went along. You’re down 7-3 and 11-3, and it winds up 12-7,” Cannella said. “You’re fairly even in the second half in terms of scoring, so with a team especially like North Carolina, you have to be able to withstand a knockout punch, because it’s coming.

“Hopefully you settle into a game where you feel confident you can play in and play well the rest of the game. This is a real powerful team on offense, and they’re solid defensively, so the same challenges that were presented to us against Army will be present again this weekend.”

After suffering a season-opening defeat to No. 20 Army 12-7, the Massachusetts men’s lacrosse team will look to earn its first win of the year against No. 5 North Carolina Saturday afternoon in Chapel Hill, N.C. Despite facing their second ranked opponent in its second game, Coach Greg Cannella said the number next to a team’s name does not intimidate his squad.

“I don’t think the rankings really mean anything in preseason,” Cannella said, referring to the fifthranked Tar Heels. “But hopefully it prepares us for what lies ahead with the rest of the schedule.

Everybody on our schedule can beat us, and we can beat everybody.

“When you play a tough schedule typically early in the year, I think we always do, this year is no different. We want to be able to have those guys feel relaxed playing and be confident going into the contest.”

“Every week is a tough game no matter who you play,” Sophomore Nick Mariano said. Mariano, who recorded a hat trick and an assist in the opening game versus the Black Knights, said the team needs to “take it one game at a time and hope for the best.”

For this weekend, UMass will have to be at their best defensively against UNC, which has exploded for 34 goals in its first two games of the season.

Led by senior Jimmy Bitter, who has tallied seven goals and four assists so far, the Tar Heels are tied for third best scoring offense in the nation and are averaging 17 goals per game.

Cannella knows it will be a major task trying to slow down UNC’s highoctane attack.

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