Massachusetts Daily Collegian: March 9, 2015

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‘Definitely a lot more tame’

Design Building to break ground Project to take up part of Lot 62

By Colby Sears Collegian Correspondent The University of Massachusetts will see a new addition to its campus when construction begins on the $52 million Design Building April 1.

With a projected completion date of January 2017, the building will occupy parts of parking lot 62 next to the Studio Arts Building.

More than half of the lot’s parking spots will be eliminated to make room for the four-story, 87,200 square foot space.

“It’s going to be a very exciting new building,” said UMass Project Manager Burt Ewart. “It’s being

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Residents of the Townehouses talk with police officers on the edge of the Townehouse Apartments Saturday. There were no visitors allowed in the complex.

Blarney Blowout results in six arrests, responsible revelers and no large crowds

By Patrick Hoff and Aviva Luttrell Collegian Staff

Police, University of Massachusetts and Town of Amherst officials reported a “successful” Blarney Blowout Saturday evening, with only six arrests and no serious injuries or property damage.

Amherst Police Chief Scott Livingstone said although there were many gatherings across town, students acted responsibly and no large crowds for med.

Additionally, approximately 6,000 students filled the Mullins Center during the afternoon for the free “Bring the Spring!” concert, featuring Juicy J, Ludacris and Kesha.

Many said the atmosphere differed greatly from last year’s event, during which police in riot gear arrested 55 students at off-campus apartment complexes. “(It’s) definitely a lot

more tame, I would say,” said sophomore Samantha Ng. “I don’t think there’s any comparison,” Livingstone said, adding there were very different circumstances this year.

Police, including officers from 14 different law enforcement agencies, spent the day engaging with students positively in North Amherst neighborhoods. Both entrances to the Townehouse Apartments, where the celebration has traditionally taken place, were completely blocked off by police. Only students with a valid parking permit were allowed to enter.

“I think a lot of the U n ive r s i t y students knew what to expect,” Livingstone said.

Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Life Enku Gelaye said the main focus this year was on prevention, and University officials tried to communicate that message as broadly and as

early to the student body as possible.

Amherst Town Manager John Musante thanked students for rising to the occasion, saying respect and cooperation was mutual.

Officials also considered the “Bring the Spring!” concert a success.

People began lining up outside of the Mullins Center shortly after 10 a.m. to get the best seats for the show.

“I have more friends going to the concert (than going to a party),” said Sam Guenzburger, a sophomore mathematics major, who declined to comment how long he’d been waiting to be one of the first people in line.

“I was kind of excited to see Kesha, and now Ludacris. I mean, I’m not a big fan of either of them, but I think it’s cool. They’re famous.”

Most students said they came to the concert instead of going to a party in the area because the concert

was free, and it featured artists they wanted to hear.

“I’m not really going to pass up a free concert,” said Mary McAvoy, a freshman english major. “Kesha – like we used to listen to Kesha in middle school.

This is basically the middle school dreams coming true. And it’s free, so … it’s a huge concert, so why not.”

The show, which lasted four hours, was relatively calm. Security was a constant presence, patting down students as they filed into the Mullins Center and standing around the arena as the artists performed, but only intervened when necessary.

Students were mostly optimistic that the concert would help to alleviate some of the problems that plagued the first weekend of March last year.

“I think it’s going to be smaller than in past years,” Guenzburger said. “I think see

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designed as a modern showcase of timber technology.”

Ewart said the “super sustainable” building will be the first timber structure built on the UMass campus in generations, utilizing high-tech wood technologies made possible by the Environmental Bond Bill passed by state legislature in 2014.

“We have old timber buildings but they’re ancient … technology has changed a lot,” he said.

The building will house three areas of study from three separate colleges, according to Ewart. These include the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from the College of Social and Behavioral see

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Spring Concert lineup released The University Planning Council released the lineup for Spring Concert Sunday night, which includes Timeflies, Hoodie Allen and Chance the Rapper.

The UPC’s website launched a video at 9 p.m. announcing the artists to perform at the concert on Sunday, April 19. The video also announced that students will be able to get tickets at the Mullins Center starting March 23.

Timeflies is a music duo that consists of producer Rob Resnick and vocalist Cal Shapiro. Their genre includes hip-hop, pop, electro, R&B and rap element, and performed for the first time in Boston in 2007.

Hoodie Allen is a hiphop artist who released his first official EP titled “All American,” and his debut studio album, “People Keep Talking,” was released in Oct. 2014.

Chance the Rapper is a hip-hop artist who has released mixtapes, the most recent being “Acid Rap,” in

April 2013, which was strongly praised by music fans and critics. He also has appeared on Childish Gambino’s mixtape, “Royalty,” in July 2012.

Bianca Surjawan, a junior, is the current Executive Director in UPC. She said students were given the opportunity to vote, which was through Campus Pulse at the beginning of the year.

“UPC chooses these artists from what genre won the voting selection, which fell under the pop, hip-hop, rap,” she said in a message to the Daily Collegian. Surjawan also said the artists available to perform were limited because it was busy for artists performing at Coachella that weekend.

Spring Concert is held annually at the University of Massachusetts. Past acts have included the Goo Goo Dolls, Jay Z, Third Eye Blind, Cobra Starship and Big Sean.

Tickets will be on sale for $10 with a UMass ID, $25 for students with a Five College ID and $45 for the general public.

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Amherst Fire department trains group of UMass students

Volunteers have drills every Thursday night

By Andy Castillo Collegian Staff

Reed Allen was on a stretcher in an ambulance, hooked up to a pulse oximeter – a device used to track a patient’s heart rate. Around him, students learn about the proper response procedures to emergency cardiac situations.

“When stuff goes downhill, they call us,” said Allen, a University of Massachusetts senior studying public health who also works as an Emergency Medical Technician in Springfield. He is with the Amherst Fire Department’s North Station, home of Engine Company 3, an auxiliary force of the department that is composed entirely of UMass student volunteers.

The group holds weekly drills on Thursday nights, which include training in fire ventilation and hose line operations, emergency medical procedures and apparatus driver training. Outside in the cold, students are learning how to properly raise ladders and haul tools up to rooftops using ropes. Another group is upstairs inside of the station learning how to tie knots.

“It’s real world training in an environment you can afford to make mistakes in,” said Ben Savage, a history major who has been on the force for about two years. “It’s a really good time, you make friends you’ll have for the rest of your life.”

The student force is split up into five different companies, with each one working one overnight shift per week so that Engine 3, the company’s specified firefighting apparatus, is always manned.

During weekends, the force runs 24-hour shifts.

“I’ve seen everything from drunk college students to fires and fatal accidents,” said Robert Coffman, deputy chief of the company and a senior studying building construction technology.

“We certainly do our fair share of calls.”

Coffman completed the Massachusetts Fire Academy through AFD about two years ago, and is finishing his EMT certification this year.

“It runs the gamut,” Amherst Fire Chief Tim Nelson said. “They respond to all emergencies – fire, medical, auto accidents, burst pipes and lost hikers.”

The department runs about 5,700 calls per year, of which roughly 75 to 80 percent are EMS related.

“They provide an important support function for us,” Nelson

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Members of the UMass Auxiliary Student Force train at the AFD North Station. said. “Fire and rescue service is spread too thin.” very labor intensive, at an incident, The auxiliary force began durwe can run out of people quickly – ing spring semester 1953, after they provide a resource that keeps the permanent force from being see AFD on page 2

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AROUND THE WORLD MOSCOW — Russian investigators have arrested two men from the restive North Caucasus region as suspects in the brazen slaying of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov more than a week ago, the Russian Federal Security Service chief announced in a televised statement Saturday.

FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov identified the two men, Anzor Kubashev and Zaur Dadayev, in a rare television appearance on state-run Channel 1.

But he did not announce any charges and disclosed little else about the case other than that “necessary investigation activities are currently in progress.”

Although Nemtsov allies hailed the first reported progress in the investigation of his Feb. 27 killing, the accusations against suspects from the Caucasus region suggested that authorities are pursuing the theory they put forth just a day after the contract-style hit – that it was motivated by enemies of Russia trying to destabilize the country.

Nemtsov, 55, the most visibly outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down as he walked along a bridge with his 23-year-old Ukrainian girlfriend, model Anna Duritskaya, just before midnight after dining at a fashionable Red Square restaurant. The shooting occurred just yards from the Kremlin wall along the Moscow River embankment, an area usually under intense surveillance.

Duritskaya was compelled to stay in Moscow for three days after the slaying for interrogation but fled to her parents’ home in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, as soon as police said she was free to go. She left under escort by a Ukrainian diplomat and her lawyer, skipping her slain lover’s funeral that drew thousands to central Moscow on Tuesday.

Ukraine’s prosecutorgeneral reported that Duritskaya had been placed under protection Friday after reporting to police that she had received a death threat from “unknown persons.”

She was being guarded as a witness in the Nemtsov murder investigation, Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin said in statement posted on his office website.

Security camera footage from the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge where Nemtsov was felled by four gunshots to the head and torso was aired on TVC, a Moscow television network. The footage showed a man jumping into a passing car that sped away seconds after Nemtsov was shot. The killing wasn’t visible on the security tape because a snow plow parked on the bridge obstructed the view from the camera – even though there was no snowfall that night.

Fellow opposition coalition leader Ilya Yashin said he welcomed news of the arrests but called on the federal agency to disclose more results of the investigation, which was ordered

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there still will be a lot of students at Blarney, but I think it will be more under control and less crowded than last year.”

Sid Parasnis, a freshman computer science major, said, “I’m glad they have the concert instead of just having students roaming the streets free. I would probably be on the street right now walking around, but I’m at the concert right now, so I guess it worked already.”

The downtown bars also played a role in keeping things orderly.

According to Musante, six bar owners volunteered to open their establishments late at 4 p.m. He

said this was very helpful, as there were no calls for service to the downtown area until late in the afternoon.

There were a total of 19 students treated on site for various medical issues at the concert, and one student was transported to Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton.

“We consider that a success, as well,” Musante said.

Aviva Luttrell can be reached at aluttrel@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @AvivaLuttrell. Patrick Hoff can be reached at pphoff@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Hoff_Patrick16.

Jaclyn Bryson, Catherine Ferris and ALEC ZABRECKY/COLLEGIAN Marie MacCune also contributed to Students gathered in small groups across Amherst, but no large crowds congregated during Saturday’s festivities. this report.

Obama learned of Clinton’s emails from news report

By Jim Puzzanghera Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said he first learned from news reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton used a private email account while serving as his secretary of State.

“The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency, which is why my emails, the BlackBerry I carry around, all those records are available and archived,” Obama said in excerpts of an interview with CBS News that aired Sunday. “I’m glad that Hillary’s instructed that those emails about official business need to be disclosed.”

Obama’s first comments on the controversy came as a leading Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, said Clinton should speak publicly about Clinton’s emails or risk damaging her potential 2016 presidential campaign.

“She is the leading candidate, whether it be Republican or Democrat, to be the next president and I think she needs to step up and come out and state exactly what the situation is,” Feinstein said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I think from this point on the ... silence is going to hurt her.”

Clinton’s only comment came on Twitter last week: “I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”

The State Department is reviewing 55,000 pages of her emails to determine whether they can be released to the public.

Feinstein added that the regulations on personal email use were unclear during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of State, from 2009 to 2013.

Colin Powell, who served as secretary of State from 2001 to 2005 under President George W. Bush, told ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” that he didn’t retain any of the work emails he sent from a person-

al account during his tenure.

A federal law enacted in November requires the preservation of work emails from private accounts of government officials.

The Clinton controversy dominated discussion on Sunday TV talk shows, with Democrats, including Feinstein, defending her use of private email as legal.

The New York Times reported last week that Clinton used a private email account for her work messages. Then The Associated Press reported that Clinton had exclusive control over her email through a private server linked to her New York home.

A key Republican on Sunday reiterated his concerns that Clinton has not turned over all relevant emails regarding her role in the U.S. response to the fatal 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

The State Department has turned over some emails to the House Select Committee investigating the Benghazi attack, which left four Americans dead, including the ambassador. But the panel’s chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that “there are gaps of months and months and months” between emails.

There were no emails from a trip Clinton made to Libya in October 2011 in which she was photographed en route in sunglasses looking at her handheld device – a picture that has been published in recent days with articles about the controversy, Gowdy said.

“It strains credibility to believe that if you’re on your way to Libya to discuss Libyan policy that there’s not a single document that’s been turned over to Congress,” he said.

Gowdy’s committee said last week that it had subpoenaed Clinton’s personal emails related to the attack.

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The new building project will occupy parts of parking lot 62.

Sciences, the College of Humanities and Fine Arts’ architecture department and the Department of Environmental Conservation’s building construction technology program from the College of Natural Sciences.

Designs include a twostory courtyard with a large

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skylight on the first floor and an outdoor courtyard and green roof on the third floor. The building will also have classrooms, studios, labs, lounges, function spaces, a library and a café.

Featuring wood frame construction rather than steel and concrete construction types common in the

area, the building will have a reduced carbon footprint and be able to maximize its use of renewable materials.

Approximately 70 new spots have been created in a new lot next to French Hall on Thatcher Road to accommodate lot 62 permit holders. Parking Services is also calling for an additional 40 permit holders to be relocated to alternate parking areas.

The entire lot will be closed temporarily this summer for steam pipe and other infrastructure work, but is expected to cause minimum disruption. Three rows of parking spaces, those closest to Clark Hall, will remain open throughout construction.

Colby Sears can be reached at csears@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @colbysears.

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UMass Auxilary Student Force members train on ladder operations. the fire chief at the time recognized the need for additional manpower to support campus operations. Despite the lack of equipment, the student force quickly became an established part of AFD. In 1975, the North Fire Station opened, which could house eight student firefighters for overnight

shifts.

Today, Engine 3 is composed of about 25 members, all of whom undergo a strenuous interview process before being accepted as firefighters.

According to Matt Rakoski, a lieutenant on the student force, the group is a continuation of public service learned in

boy scouts. Many of the members plan to fight fires full-time after college.

“I definitely want to be a career firefighter,” said Coffman. “100 percent.”

Others like Bailey Ingalls, who is a sophomore studying biochemistry and Spanish and is also on the UMass women’s hockey team, are in the company because of family tradition.

“My dad was a firefighter,” she said. “When you’re driving the engine, it fulfills every 6-year-old craving you’ve ever had – it’s the best feeling in the world.”

Interested students can find more information and fill out an application at www.afde3.com.

Andy Castillo can be reached at acastillo@umass.edu.

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Thousands honor 1965 Selma in bridge crossing Weekend marks 50th anniversary of event

By Matthew Teague, Ann Simmons and Matt Pearce Los Angeles Times

SELMA, Ala. — Thousands of marchers, many singing “We Shall Overcome” or “This Little Light of Mine,” turned out Sunday to retrace the steps their forebears took half a century ago on the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge.

The route was the same, but the conditions were far different. Instead of enduring tear gas and billy clubs on what came to be known as Bloody Sunday, the weekend’s visitors crossed the bridge with smiles and songs.

On the weekend marking the 50th anniversary of the demonstration that led to the Voting Rights Act’s passage, some marchers locked arms and some knelt to pray as they crossed the bridge – named for a Confederate general who was also a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

The March 7, 1965, protest had been planned to go from Selma to Montgomery but was delayed by law enforcement violence.

Marchers reached Montgomery on March 25, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed demonstrators at the state Capitol steps.

On Sunday, Claudia Mitchell, 62, came from her home in Montgomery, about 50 miles east, and took photos of her daughter Temisha at the foot of the bridge. Mitchell had joined the 1965 marchers as they entered Montgomery, and remembers many of them staying at her parents’ house at night.

“We couldn’t even stay in the hotels then,” Mitchell said. “So I’m here to commemorate that day.”

Sunday started with fiery sermons at Brown Chapel Church, where the 1965 marchers based themselves. Several speakers, including U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and the Rev. Al Sharpton, called for restoration of the Voting Rights Act, which was weakened by a 2013 Supreme Court ruling, Shelby County v.

Holder.

In a 5-4 decision, the court struck down a key part of the act that required Southern states to seek federal approval before changing their election laws or redrawing districts.

“This may be the most important case of our generation,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said in an interview. “They gutted the act.”

The congregation at Brown Chapel included Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama’s nominee to suc-

Thousands wait downtown to march in Selma, Alabama Sunday.

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ceed Holder as attorney general.

In a fiery speech, Sharpton said, “We know why they went across that bridge, and there’s still some bridges we have to cross.”

In a less figurative way, Sharpton and his fellow dignitaries didn’t make it on time for Sunday’s planned midday bridge crossing. With the Secret Service and other security infrastructure that had accompanied Obama on Saturday gone, Sunday’s crowds overwhelmed authorities. By midday, the bridge was packed with people.

Alabama state troopers and local police tried to persuade demonstrators to make room for motorcades.

Rose Sanders, a local civil rights activist, grabbed a bullhorn.

“Please everybody, I’m pleading with you, clear the bridge,” she said. She burst into laughter at the futility of her plea.

“We’ve never had this many people in Selma. You’re gonna have to forgive us! We don’t know what we’re doing!” Sanders said.

Although various dignitaries didn’t get to the head of the line, many aged people who had walked with King in 1965 did. They led the way across the bridge.

“This is no party, this is no picnic,” the Rev. William Barber shouted into a bullhorn at the head of the line. He gestured to the elderly original walkers. “What they had was discipline. Somebody say discipline!”

“Discipline!” the crowd responded.

Several helicopters and at least one drone hovered overhead, and marchers waved at them from the bridge.

Back at Brown Chapel, Holder urged state legislatures “to lift restrictions that currently disenfranchise millions of citizens convicted of felonies” and added that his expected successor, Lynch, who is also black, “will continue to fight aggressively on behalf of this sacred right.”

On the bridge, a group of exconvicts carried a banner that read, “Formerly incarcerated people – we demand our civil and human rights.”

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People raise their arms as they march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Holder also drew applause by nodding to current controversies in Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere across the U.S. He noted that the activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was killed in Marion, Ala., in 1965, was an unarmed black man.

“We will march on,” Holder said, calling on listeners to “challenge entrenched power.”

On the bridge, numerous groups chanted, “Hands up, don’t shoot” and “I can’t breathe,” references respectively to Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York City, unarmed black men killed in confrontations with police.

A large contingent of Latino marchers carried placards and called for more rights for immigrants. Jasmine Contreras, 27, of Clanton, Ala., came with a group called the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. “We are just here to bring attention to the need for fairness,” she said.

Louis McCarter, 65, of Birmingham, found some peace and shade under the bridge with his 10-year-old granddaughter, Chelsea.

McCarter remembers the bad times in Birmingham, he said.

He brought his granddaughter to Selma to see where much of the civil rights struggle took place.

“Our lives are better because of

this,” he said.

Donald Harris, 66, chairman emeritus of the men’s Division of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Push Coalition, led one of two busloads of Rainbow Push supporters from Chicago to Selma.

All the way, he said the travelers had discussed the significance of Bloody Sunday and the importance of passing the torch of the civil rights struggle to the younger generation.

The group included seniors who marched in 1965, he said. “We don’t know if any of us will be back here again.”

Patrick O’Neill, wearing a T-shirt that bore King’s image, stood among Sunday’s swarm of people on the bridge. Around his neck, O’Neill wore a sign reading: “I’m sorry.”

He runs a branch of a Christian pacifist organization called Catholic Worker House in North Carolina.

“I feel I need to accept responsibility for my privilege as a white male,” said O’Neill, 58. “I didn’t want to make it complicated. Just two words of repentance.”

Elvira Carter, 48, of Butler, Ala., overheard him. “I just want to shake your hand,” she said.

“It’s good to see someone apologizing,” Carter said. “It’s not your fault. It’s not mine. But thank you.”

Sister of Flight 370 pilot Harvard professor speaks takes on critics a year later on abolishing nuclear arms No flight data or debris ever found

By Julie Makinen Los Angeles Times

BEIJING — As Sunday’s anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 approached and the Malaysia government prepared to issue an interim report on its investigation, the sister of pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah issued an impassioned defense of her brother, calling him a “man of integrity.”

“As things stand today, with no tangible evidence to show, NO ONE, be you politician, scientist, aviation expert, plane crash investigator, pilot, retired pilot, media or whoever else ...

NONE OF YOU have a right to blame Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah for any wrongdoing,” Sakinab Shah said in a statement released online.

With no flight data recorders from the plane found, nor any debris, much speculation has centered on Shah and whether he deliberately crashed the aircraft. Flight MH370 was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished, and all 239 people aboard, including Shah, are presumed dead.

Sakinab Shah, 53, said she prayed this “bizarre mystery will unravel soon,” and dismissed speculation that her brother’s marriage was troubled and that provided motivation for him to crash the aircraft.

Under rules of the International Civil Aviation Organization, Malaysia must release an interim report on the anniversary of MH370’s disappearance. The Malaysian-led investigation team was put together last April with specialists from the U.S., Australia, Britain, China, Singapore, Indonesia and Singapore, and experts from Boeing and Inmarsat, a British satellite communications firm.

The report is expected to discuss investigations into the plane itself, its crew and passengers and the information that led experts to believe the jet crashed off the western coast of Australia in the Indian Ocean. One critical question is whether the aircraft’s communications equipment and transponder were deliberately shut off as the Boeing 737 left Malaysian airspace and entered Vietnam’s jurisdiction.

For months, four sonarequipped boats searching for MH370 have methodically swept a section of the Indian Ocean 1,000 miles off Australia.

The complexities of the search are hard to overstate – the area is remote, with water depths of more than 18,000 feet. The search area encompasses underwater mountains, crevasses, ridges and 6,000-foot sheer cliffs, formations that could obscure airplane debris.

The $93 million effort is being funded by Australia and Malaysia.

The ships are looking for anything that “stands out” from the sea floor.

Investigators have divided those sonar contacts into three classes – level 3 objects stand out from the surroundings but have low probability of being significant; level 2 are objects with “more interest” but still unlikely to be significant; and level 1 constitutes something of “high interest” that warrants immediate further investigation.

So far, over 100 objects have been classified at level 3, and more than 10 at level 2, including some that have the dimensions of shipping containers that might have fallen into the sea. But nothing to date has rated level 1, investigators say.

If the survey ships do find something of immediate interest, investigators have said they have a plan “on the shelf,” ready to activate.

If the search turns up nothing by May, Australia, Malaysia and China will have tough decisions to make about how to proceed.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott this week said there was “hope and expectation that the ongoing search will succeed,” though he cautioned: “I can’t promise that the search will go on at this intensity forever.”

Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia said this week they would test a new method of tracking long-haul flights such as MH370. The new system allows planes to be tracked every 15 minutes, rather than the current 30 to 40 minutes.

Lecture previews April UN review

By Rachel Ravelli Collegian Correspondent A Harvard professor of English and American literature stood before a crowd at Amherst College Thursday to justify the abolishment of nuclear weapons.

Elaine Scarry, author of “Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom,” argued that nuclear bombs are a violation of the social and constitutional rights of Americans. Her lecture was given in preparation for the 2015 United Nations Review Conference on April 27 in New York City, when international leaders will discuss drafting a timetable to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons.

The meeting also intends to persuade the four ‘rogue states,’ including India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan, to join other nations in disarming their nuclear weapons and weapons technology. This year marks 70 years since the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan to end World War II, an event that Scarry said is overlooked as an obvious example of nuclear tragedy.

Scarry displayed statistical figures demonstrating the immense disproportionality of American and Russian nuclear defense. Of the 16,400 nuclear armaments worldwide, 15,300 belong to America and Russia, and

1/100th of America’s arsenal would be enough to kill 1 billion people within the first month. She contended that public health leaders require such statistical compassion in order to create any sort of open dialogue on nuclear abolition.

Scarry projected slides displaying the geographical impacts of a nuclear bomb on cities such as Rotterdam and Moscow, and used graphs to discuss how long it would take to disarm nuclear arsenals. For example, it would only take four years in England. She also showed Magdalena Egue’s drawing, “Rendering of Floor of the World,” which depicts how fear is the “trap door” located at the foundation of nuclear crisis.

Another example of the thickening dialogue is in Vincent Intundi’s “African Americans Against the Bomb,” which Scarry passed around the room. Scarry explained that African Americans have broad civil rights empathy toward nuclear non-proliferation because of the potentially racist nature of the use of nuclear weapons.

Scarry said modern media hasn’t revealed enough historical facts to prompt an effective revolt by the American people. In 1995, 78 countries pleaded to make nuclear weapons illegal. However, America answered that these weapons do not violate the philosophy of the United Nations, United States hegemony, the Vienna Convention or the Constitution.

She told the audience

that although America has not used their nuclear arsenal since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there have been at least 10 under-discussed instances when America was on the verge of releasing them. DwightEisenhower considered using them against Berlin, Richard Nixon sent them toward Vietnam over Russian territory and in the early 1990s, America blackmailed Iraq by surrounding their territory with them.

“Nuclear weapons are comparable to the half-crazy idea that artificial intelligence could retaliate against us because they’ve become able to eliminate us but we cannot eliminate them,” Scarry explained.

The Congressional declaration of war in the U.S. Constitution states that America doesn’t need consent or dissent to use its weapons. Scarry described how the right to bear arms is distributed equally among each of us but does not capture the entire scale of freedom. She said that everyone has the power to dissent as soldiers have in the past.

In 1971, 33,000 American soldiers deserted Vietnam under their own will.

“In summary, nuclear proliferation eliminates mutual aid, aims to massacre millions and establishes an architecture of nongovernance,” Scarry said.

“Each of us can contribute to the defense of our country and individual rights.”

Rachel Ravelli can be reached at rravelli@umass.edu.

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‘Blarney’ strategy sets concerning precedents Nearly all stakeholders in the outcome of Amherst’s annual ‘Blarney Blowout’ lauded this year’s prevention policies as “successful.”

Zac Bears Fewer arrests and limited property damage characterized the daytime celebration of public drinking compared to last year’s, which attracted national attention with pictures of thousands of students gathered and clashing with Amherst and University of Massachusetts police who used chemical munitions to disperse crowds in multiple locations.

Judging by the outcomes – few arrests, a calmer atmosphere and no violence between police and students – months of planning by the Office of Student Affairs and Campus Life seems to have paid off for administrators, keeping a lid on yet another PR nightmare. But combined with policies instituted around this year’s Super Bowl, UMass and the Town of Amherst have set concerning precedents for future events.

Increased police presence, park-

ing below the surface Saturday, and that the overwhelming police presence barely kept a lid on the event.

That just serves to reinforce the stereotype that UMass students are rowdy and respond only to heavyhanded tactics.

In fact, the number of arrests this year was comparable to previous ‘Blowouts.’ At the third unified media advisory event of the day with University, town and police officials, Town Manager John Musante reported that there were only six ‘Blarney’ related arrests on March 7, far below the 70 combined arrests and summonses from last year’s event.

In 2013, only six people were arrested after what was described as a “full-scale riot” of more than 2,000 people by MassLive reporter Patrick Johnson. Police did not use chemical munitions. Similarly in 2012 according to Larry Kelley recorded fewer than 20 arrests and citations on his blog, Only in the Republic of Amherst.

Local officials and media outlets cite major property damage resulting from March 8, 2014, but no solid figures have been released

“APD didn’t learn from its mistakes. It created an environment where it would be impossible to make the same mistakes.” ing bans and guest restrictions recommended by the $150,000 Ed Davis Report were justified, but not to the extent employed Saturday.

Police from across Western Massachusetts dropped a dragnet north of Amherst Center from morning until dusk, particularly in problem areas like Fearing St., Phillips St., Townehouses, Brandywine and Puffton Apartments. Hundreds of officers from over a dozen local departments, including Easthampton, Ludlow and Chicopee, as well as Massachusetts State, Amherst and UMass police were stationed across town.

Parking bans and guest restrictions presented a barrier to prospective UMass community members, with one anonymous commenter on a recent Collegian story saying that a Division I NCAA team may lose the chance to land a top recruit, and current students who choose not to purchase expensive campus parking passes.

The major difference between 2014’s ‘Blarney’ and previous events was a breakdown in policing. The Davis Report highlights that a police commander moved in on a large crowd in Brandywine without enough officers and contrary to crowd control procedure.

Officers also started out in riot gear, posted around town in the militarized uniforms that have become too common for public servants and defenders. They created conditions for confrontation but didn’t have the manpower to quell it.

One solution would be to train officers on crowd control and station local plainclothes units in problem areas. Another is to bring in hundreds of officers from around the region, limit rights to peaceable public assembly, cut off drivers from commonly used parking and strike fear into the town’s population so no crowd will ever form.

APD didn’t learn from its mistakes. It created an environment where it would be impossible to make the same mistakes.

Some may criticize this analysis by saying that conflict was simmer-

regarding what was destroyed and how much it cost. And as Rebecca Everett of the Daily Hampshire Gazette reported, no one arrested or charged relating to last spring’s event was ever convicted of a crime.

Most concerning, however, is the cost of ‘Blarney’ prevention.

Starting last summer with $150,000 on the Davis Report, the University spent hundreds of thousands of dollars more to host a free concert with Kesha, Ludacris and Juicy J, big name celebrities with big price tags. Whether Amherst shouldered all costs of increased policing and new video cameras isn’t clear. Neither town officials nor University administrators have been transparent about the costs of prevention.

The big questions we’re left with after this year’s ‘Blarney’ are not the same as last year’s, but they are just as important. Was a threeday lockdown of a large swath of Amherst necessary to prevent what was at its worst an eight-hour event? Must we now spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to achieve the same results?

No. Move the spring concert to ‘Blarney’ weekend, plan ahead and charge money for the tickets. If the acts are good, thousands of students will pack the Mullins. Continue to train Amherst and UMass officers on community policing and crowd control tactics. Reduce the number of guests allowed in UMass dorms from four to two for Friday and Saturday; there’s no need for four days of 24-hour security. Don’t restrict parking campus-wide, which makes it difficult for indebted students without parking passes to go to on-campus jobs.

Saturday was a promising start to the end of ‘Blarney,’ but again, the brunt of most policies fell on students, the members of the community who can least afford it.

That’s a troubling lesson to set for the years to come.

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

Striving for fairness in Ferguson and beyond The report released by the Justice Department last week regarding the unfair targeting of African Americans by the Ferguson Police Department raises ques-

Isaac Simon tions about the amount of power held by law enforcement.

While some will continue to disagree and argue that the case of Michael Brown and Eric Garner are isolated incidents, not representative of any larger racial motives, the racism of the Ferguson Police Department cannot be overlooked.

One email from one Ferguson police officer to another stated that Barack Obama would not hold office for long, saying, “What black man holds a steady job for four years?” Another report, this one from June 2012, cited a man who, at the time, was trying to lobby the government to give his dogs welfare. His reasoning: “mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English, and have no friggin clue who their Daddies are.”

Not only were these emails sent during regular business hours when both parties involved were on duty, but none of these messages were flagged as inappropriate or reported to higher officers of authority. Instead, “the emails were usually forwarded along to others.”

What is equally troubling is that this rise in police enforcement is not in response to a rise in crime. This unconstitutional policing that has been documented is a direct result of the need for revenue.

In Ferguson, the unemployment rate is twice as high for African Americans as it is for whites – currently at a dismal 16 percent compared to 8.4 percent. Meanwhile, 25 percent of African Americans live below the poverty line. Of that 25 percent, less than half have access to broadband internet and other modes of communication, utilities which for most people

are common place.

Within the region, African Americans make up 67 percent of the total population. Between 2012 and 2014, blacks made up 85 percent of the traffic stops, and 92 percent of cases that received warrants. African Americans also make up 90 percent of citations and 93 percent of arrests. All of this perpetrated against a race whose population composes less than 70 percent of the city.

In Ferguson, African Americans are held to a different standard. Blacks are, as Ta-Nehisi Coates writes, “twice as likely to be searched during a stop, twice as likely to receive a citation when stopped, and twice as likely to be arrested during the stop.”

The problem is that blacks are 26 percent less likely to be caught obtaining contraband than whites, a

tion amongst members of the police department, in which they are encouraged to increase revenue through fines and fees. An increase in traffic fines and solicitations often translates into greater respect amongst fellow officers. “Wonderful” is how one city manager responded to the statistics.

African Americans have fallen victim to unfair discrimination in Ferguson. This discriminatory force comes in the form of Tasers and dogs which are used against African Americans in unnecessary circumstances. In one specific instance, an officer deemed one African American as suspicious because he was walking away from law enforcement. He stopped the man in his tracks, performed a pat down and then proceeded to frisk him. The

“Not only do the Ferguson police fail to express remorse, but they manage to take their explanation one step further: blaming the African American community for the problems of the inner city.” troubling statistic that in no way reflects the actions of the Ferguson Police Department.

Racism was used as means to generate revenue. For 2015, it is projected that $13.26 million will be collected in the form of general fund revenues.

Of the anticipated $13 million, $3.29 of it is expected to come from “fine and fee revenues.” The amount of general fund revenue from fees and fines has increased over time and now exceeds the 10 percent threshold, a troubling statistic in a city strapped for cash.

General fund revenue as a portion of the city budget remained stagnant at 12 percent from 2010 to 2011 but it rose to 18 percent in 2012 and to 23 percent in 2014. It is important to note that not only are these numbers rising, but this increase is a result of competi-

pat down concluded that the man was not carrying any weapons proving that the officers ‘suspicion’ was misplaced. When the man heard the dispatcher comment on his, “outstanding warrants,”—a term that is completely ambiguous because the kind of warrant, whether it be failure to pay a fine or “something more serious” remained unclear— he ran away. The officer then proceeded to release his dog which bit the man. Ironically enough, the officer’s justification for releasing the dog was the fear that he was carrying a weapon. This of course defeated the purpose of the pat down. This situation, much like other situations, depicts law enforcement exercising its own power in unjust ways.

Members of the Ferguson police force had this to say when they met with federal investigators:

“Several Ferguson officials told us during our investigation that it is a lack of ‘personal responsibility’ among African American members of the Ferguson community that causes African Americans to experience disproportionate harm under Ferguson’s approach to law enforcement. Our investigation suggests that this explanation is at odd with the facts.”

With a statement like this it is clear that the police department stands by its actions and its record of injustice. Not only do the Ferguson police fail to express remorse, but they manage to take their explanation one step further: blaming the African American community for the problems of the inner city.

In the case of Brown, officer Darren Wilson was acquitted before he could stand trial. It also didn’t help that the prosecution came to argue on behalf of Wilson’s defense. While ‘hands up, don’t shoot!’ has panned itself into a civil rights anthem for the 21st century, the distasteful comments from law enforcement like the one depicted above only add fuel to the fire.

The police department’s collective decision to defend its policies while still managing to blame African Americans is in no way unique. When a grand jury declined to indict the NYPD officer responsible for the death of Eric Garner, Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association said that officer Pantaleo was, “a model of what we want a police officer to be.” These disheartening comments do not change the reality we live in, nor does they allow justice to prevail in an unjust society.

In Ferguson, race has become a means of raising revenue. The police have become infallible, playing by a separate set of rules that places them above the law they took an oath to enforce.

Isaac Simon is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at isimon@ umass.edu.

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Kesha, Ludacris and Juicy J ‘Bring the Spring’

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Kesha’s set was on the shorter side, but the “Bring the Spring” concert was generally well-recieved by students.

By Sutton Bradbury-Koster Collegian Staff

Kesha, Juicy J and Ludacris performed at Mullins Center Saturday for the first-ever “Bring the Spring” concert.

Juicy J performed a series of songs from his newest album “Stay Trippy.” He performed solo tracks such as “Bounce It” and “Bandz a Make Her Dance.” He also played a variety of songs in which he is the featured artist, including “Dark Horse”

by Katy Perry and Usher’s “I Don’t Mind.” These songs brought much delight to the audience, many of whom

were less familiar with Juicy J’s solo work.

“The Juice Man,” the self-proclaimed nickname of Jordan Houston, did an excellent job keeping the crowd energized. His kinetic flow and stage presence lent itself to this endeavor.

He began small by having audience members sing lyrics back at him but quickly escalated to throwing handfuls of cash into the crowd followed by “pairs of fresh J’s,” or Air Jordan sneakers.

After throwing even more money and shoes, including the pair he was wearing, he invited some 20 members of

the crowd onto the stage to dance with him for a few songs.

Next up was Ludacris.

Assisted by the stellar DJ Infamous providing the beats and his “partner in rhyme,” Lil Fade, Ludacris gave a performance to remember. His excessive levels of energy were notable as soon as he took stage.

Moreover, he held this energy throughout his entire hour-long performance.

Ludacris, given name Chris Bridges, performed a careerspanning set. He played songs such as “What’s Your Fantasy,” from his 1999

Kesha performed a career-spanning set, energizing the audience with hits like “Tik Tok.” debut album, “Incognegro” to his more recent hits such as “How Low” from his most recent 2010 album “Battle of the Sexes.” Like Juicy J, Ludacris also performed songs in which he was the featured artist, such as Taio Cruz’s “Break Your Heart” and Usher’s “Yeah.”

Although he performed for longer than expected, Bridges’ segment was met with the most accolades from the audience. His energy and interaction with the crowd was unrivaled.

Finally, Kesha took the stage following a 25 minute intermission. The lights

went out, the crowd roared and two figures wielding katanas appeared on stage.

From the start, it was obvious her performance would be unique. The two gentlemen dancers assisted Kesha throughout her performance, helping make songs into skits and entertaining the crowd to no end.

Kesha’s repertoire included songs from across her short discography. She performed tracks spanning from her chart-topping single “Tik Tok,” to her most recent collaboration with Pitbull, “Timber.” Each song featured either some new

costume, prop or an interesting combination of the two.

Fueled by sex and glitter, quickly becoming a staple of Kesha’s on-stage persona, the energy resonated through the crowd.

For a free concert, audience members should have little to complain about.

While Kesha’s segment was admittedly short and Ludacris’s perhaps a bit long, the concert was enjoyable and contributed to a quiet “Blarney” weekend at UMass.

Sutton Bradbury-Koster can be reached at sbradburykos@umass.edu.

ALBUM REVIEW

Noel Gallagher relies on his strengths on ‘Chasing Yesterday’

By Jackson Maxwell Collegian Staff

In his commentary for the music video portion of Oasis’ “Time Flies” greatest hits collection, Noel Gallagher can be heard openly laughing at the absurdly over-the-top video for “Stand By Me,” a single off of the band’s 1997 album, “Be Here Now.” One gets the sense that even he, the sole songwriter at the time, cannot believe how bombastic Oasis was during that period.

But, he can only mock it so much seeing as it was his own drug-fueled excess that fueled the 16-ton monolith that was “Be Here Now.” He can poke fun at the Russell Brandesque rock-star trappings of Oasis at its peak, then turn around and release a solo album called, of all things, “Chasing Yesterday.”

If you had only two words to describe Oasis’ music, “chasing yesterday” would not be a poor choice. It was music that specialized in looking backwards. “Definitely Maybe,” its peerless 1994 debut, flawlessly channeled the simplicity of punk, the grandeur and hooks of the Beatles, the big riffs and fantasia of glam and the psychedelia and arrogance of the Stone Roses.

Behind it all was Gallagher, the man who essentially tossed off one of the most ubiquitous songs of the last 20 years in “Wonderwall,” and stood – sometimes quietly, sometimes not so quietly – behind his cocky frontman brother, Liam, who so brilliantly emphasized all the emotional ticks in Noel’s songs.

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On the newest album from his band, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Noel Gallagher hints at new sounds, but ultimately fails to embrace them.

So the question is, has time changed Gallagher at all? The answer is, unsurprisingly, no. Though “Chasing Yesterday,” released March 3, has some moments of surprising sophistication, these 10 tracks have enough of the stadium-rock banger-DNA to appease even the most casual Oasis fans. That Gallagher can write a great rock song has never been in question.

It is the question of whether he can apply the hooks and melodies that naturally

tumble forth from his pen to more than meat-and-potatoes structures that remains unanswered.

On “Chasing Yesterday,” Gallagher does toy with some new ideas. But just when it seems he may stumble on something new and revelatory, he backs away and returns to his well-worn safe zone of big, anthemic rock.

So “Chasing Yesterday” ends up being a mostly satisfying endeavor, but it’s a record that has the unrealized potential to

be something far greater.

Predictably, “Chasing Yesterday’s” finest track is its least self-conscious one.

“Lock All the Doors,” with its loud wall of guitars and fist-in-the-air chorus has the pure adrenaline of vintage Oasis, with little nuances that reward repeated listens and make it more than a simple headbanger.

“The Girl With The X-Ray Eyes” doesn’t have the most imaginative lyrics – “she shot me to the sun/like a bullet

few people can make a pile of cheesy clichés like “You Know We Can’t Go Back” sound as fun and artistic as he can.

Opener “Riverman” is one of the album’s most diverse songs, incorporating Gallagher’s typical mid-tempo stadium rock ambiance with elements of sax-driven progrock. Though each side of the track is pleasant enough on its own, they don’t mix too well together, as it seems that Gallagher himself is unsure of what element he wants to dominate.

This uncertainty pops up again on the lengthy “The Right Stuff,” a song that runs along nicely, but never quite finds its purpose. But at least it has some sense of finesse, unlike the dreadful boogierawk of “The Mexican” and the tired, predictable “In the Heat of the Moment,” two tracks that set the album back considerably.

If anything can be gathered from this record, it is not that Noel Gallagher is necessarily “chasing yesterday.” He is a man who’s comfortable where he is, mining the musical territory that has granted him such phenomenal success over the last 20 years. But he is also a man looking to expand his horizons.

The unfortunate aspect of “Chasing Yesterday” is that, when he tries something new, he only does so hesitantly and half-heartedly. So, Gallagher is not really chasing yesterday. If anything, he’s chasing tomorrow.

from a gun.” But, with its classic, Beatles-esque psychedelic atmosphere, it is a song that plays right into Gallagher’s strengths, giving him the confidence to pull it off with admirable ease.

“You Know We Can’t Go Back” has enough shimmery guitars, lyrics about “the moon and stars” and “onehorse town(s)” to be an early2000s pop-punk radio hit. But, considering that Gallagher was one of the template-set- Jackson Maxwell can be reached at ters for radio rock in the 2000s, jlmaxwell@umass.edu.

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“Blarney Blowout” is a widespread event of UMass students. A Barney Blow–out is a purple dinosaur who just went to the salon.

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leo

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Sprite’s the beverage and sprite’s the mythical creature: Only one is available in vending machines, both share that lemon–lime flavor.

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Aug. 23 - Sept. 22

It’s nice Juicy J threw $5,000 into the audience, but the $6 you actually got will never bring back that five hours of your life.

Being thrown one Air Jordan at a concert allows you to understand the materialistic meaning and despair of life.

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There’s something weird about calling and asking for a whole order of “boneful wings.”

Do you think music played from a bugle would taste like a salty corn snack to those with synesthesia?

You never really grow up, you just stop calling Sometimes you just find yourself sober and them “chicken fingers” and start calling them alone in the nosebleed seats at noon on a “boneless wings.”

Saturday watching Kesha, contemplating life.

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Ever imagine what a chicken would look like with human legs? His feet would be so big!

How come it’s strange to name your child Fido but okay to name your dog Jeffrey?

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The weather is getting warmer. Make sure to leave eggs around campus so a strong mate can fertilize them in time for Easter.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Kellogg not happy with energy Coach disappointed with starting lineup

By Mark Chiarelli Collegian Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Derek Kellogg had seen enough.

The Massachusetts men’s basketball coach turned to his bench, pointed, and five substitutes stood at once.

On the court was a floundering UMass starting lineup, and Kellogg wouldn’t stand to watch it anymore.

The Minutemen trailed George Washington by 28 points with 18 minutes, 21 seconds remaining in an eventual 87-65 loss. It was their largest deficit of the game, and guard Derrick Gordon had just committed a turnover.

Kellogg wanted energy and fire and a unit on the floor which would play as just that, a unit. What Gordon, Trey Davis, Donte Clark, Maxie Esho and Cady Lalanne had shown up to that point was anything but those qualities.

So he took them all out at once.

“Yeah, the message was I’m looking for energy,” Kellogg said. “And a little pop per say, or a little wherewithal to make a push, try to make a run.”

The unit sat on the bench for four minutes, 41 seconds before Kellogg substituted them all back in. It was arguably the lowest point in a day littered with them.

“I was just looking for a little more energy,” Kellogg said. “There was just not a lot of flow or fluidity to what they were doing out there,

so maybe a change would get some energy and give us a few baskets to chip away at it a tad.”

Was the message received?

“We were out there embarrassing ourselves, to be honest,” Gordon said.

“He did it for a reason. We weren’t playing together, we were playing lackadaisically and like we just really didn’t want to play. I don’t blame him for doing what he did.”

“We were giving up shots,” Lalanne said. “We weren’t capitalizing on offense. We just weren’t doing it. He was trying to spark it up a little bit to go on a little run.”

Sounds like a resounding yes.

The Minutemen (17-14, 10-8 Atlantic 10 Conference) have lost five of their last six games since ripping off six straight wins in February.

At one point, the team had an outside chance at making a late push to the NCAA tournament bubble. Now, the prospects of making a run within even the conference tournament seem slim.

Following the loss to the Colonials, Kellogg said he was concerned with what he saw.

“Talk is cheap at this time of year, and there’s not a lot of time for us to practice,” Kellogg said. “It’s really gut-check time. Look in the mirror, I’m going to try to do everything I can to win a championship. I’m confident they’re going to come around and do that.”

Lalanne sounded less sure.

“I’m hoping that guys are still trying to make something happen,” he said.

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“The flukiness of the goal within the first minute of the game was a difficult obstical.” on from there. Notre Dame led 6-0 after two periods, and the game was effectively over.

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Derek Kellogg watches from the sideline in a 56-53 loss against Richmond.

“We’ll get back to campus and check on guys’ heads tonight.”

Gordon also said the team’s disjointed performance Saturday was concerning.

“Yeah, definitely. It’s up to the point right now in the season where it’s too late to be arguing or yelling and all that. It’s either going to be put up or shut up. We’re at the point where it’s win or go home. Our season could keep going for the next couple weeks or our season could be over Thursday. It all depends on how badly we want it.”

“Right now it’s like do you even care,” Lalanne said. “It’s win or go home.

If you really care about this you’ll try not to lose. Win and play as long as you can.

Are you really 10 toes in.”

Kellogg acknowledged it’s a poor time for his team to not play well. The Minutemen struggled offensively and compounded the problem by allowing George Washington to hit 14 3-pointers.

But by the second half, what was most evident was the despair and frustration on the UMass faces. Lalanne said that there’s a question looming in the locker room of whether players truly want it, based off the attitude of the team.

It didn’t look like a team that had the answers, and it’s running out of time to find them, as the Minutemen are the No. 8 seed in the Atlantic 10 tournament and face La Salle Thursday at noon.

“We’ve got to win four games in four days,” Gordon said.

“We’ve got to play backto-back-to-back. I think we can win the whole thing, but everybody has to have that same mindset. I still think we can do it. A couple players were there, but this is definitely a heat check. We’ll see who wants to continue playing and who wants their season to end.”

Mark Chiarelli can be reached at mchiarel@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Mark_Chiarelli.

Minutewomen slay Dragons at home Defense leads UM to win over Drexel

By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

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The Minutewomen are allowing 4.3 goals against per game this season. defender Kate Farham added three to the same category.

“I definitely thought that was going to be an area we could 9 capitalize on,” McMahon said.

4 “If there’s one big thing that, as a team, we are able to rally ourselves on, it’s the rides and our ability to pick up ground balls. That’s been huge for us and we need to continue that moving forward.”

Attack Erika Eipp played her best game of the season and paced the Minutewomen’s offense with three goals and a pair of assists on the afternoon.

Eipp leads all scorers with 14 points on the season. Her nine goals are only second to Hannah McCarthy (13) while her five assists are the most on the roster.

All three of her goals came in the second half against Drexel and were unassisted. The first came

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Over the past couple of seasons, it’s been the offense that’s been the focal point of the Massachusetts women’s lacrosse team’s success.

Despite being ranked second in the nation in team defense, that unit was often overlooked by the two-headed offensive monster in Katie Ferris and Sam Rush that spearheaded the Minutewomen attack.

Defensee was – and still is – the backbone to UMass’ system. Now the group is finally getting the attention it deserves.

The Minutewomen (6-0) defeated Drexel 9-4 on Friday at McGuirk Stadium marking their third straight game allowing four goals or fewer, and the fourth time in six games that the team UMass has achieved that mark.

Drexel “We definitely created a lot of havoc on the ride and got the ball back,” UMass coach Angela McMahon said.

“Fortunately our defense is very strong and has put us in position to win games, but I do think that we are going to find that (offensive) game and it’s all going to click.”

UMass held the Dragons to just 12 total shots and forced 26 turnovers in the winning effort. Drexel was 13-for-26 on clear attempts, and struggled with the Minutewomen’s ride, as it couldn’t generate many quality offensive possession all game.

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one minute, 51 seconds into the final frame to put UMass ahead 5-1. After a pair of goals from the Dragons to cut the lead to just two goals, Eipp answered the call once again, beating goalkeeper Teresha Bradley (14 saves) to put the Minutewomen ahead 6-3.

“At the end of the first half, and early second half the game was back-andforth, and she was the one that really broke it open,” McMahon said, “She got us some big momentum and had some really pretty goals. She’s a finisher. She’s able to get good looks inside because she’s really patient.

“If we can do more of that as a team, I think that we are going to be in a better position to beat teams.

Her final goal came with 2:13 left in the game – UMass’ ninth of the contest.

The Dragons (1-5) came out hot from the start as Joelle Hartke snuck one past Rachel Vallarelli, who

had six saves on 10 shot on goal attempts, off of an assist from Milan White.

The Minutewomen defense locked in and didn’t allow a goal for the remainder of the half holding the Drexel offense to just three shots.

Katie Ott, Nicole Trosst, Sarah Crowley, Rory Sadoff, Callie Santos and Eileen McDonald all had a goal apiece for UMass.

Although the Minutewomen recorded 30 shots, McMahon still believes that her team needs to improve the quality shots the team is taking, especially when it comes to shots on cage.

“I kind of sound like a broken record talking about shooting every game but we need to keep working on that,” McMahone said.

“We’ve been focusing a lot on that and hopefully we’ll be able to improve with it.”

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

Sunday’s game also was the last game in the careers of four UMass seniors. Mastalerz, Steven Guzzo, Oleg Yevenko and Zach LaRue all skated for the last time for the Minutemen, while fellow seniors Troy Power and Mike Busillo did not play in the game.

“The biggest emotional low right now is that we weren’t able to extend the seniors’ Massachusetts careers,” Micheletto said.

“I’m thankful for how hard they worked, and how hard they tried to lead us and push us to a better level.

While Notre Dame will move on to the Hockey East quarterfinals against No. 4 UMass Lowell, the Minutemen enter an offseason full of question marks.

Yevenko, who’s drawn interest from several NHL teams and attended summer development camps with the Boston Bruins, New Jersey Devils and New York Islanders, is now free to sign with a professional club at any time.

Returning Talent Most of the key contributors offensively are expected to return including defenseman Brandon Montour, and forwards Dennis Kravchenko, Steven Iacobellis and Frank Vatrano. But questions about goaltending, defense and depth will follow UMass into the offseason.

“The returning group gives us an outstanding opportunity to make noise in the league next year,” Micheletto said.

Kravchenko finished the season as the Minutemen’s leading scorer. The freshman center scored 10 goals and added 23 assists in his first year of college hockey, and figures to play an important role as a top six forward again next year.

Vatrano also had a breakout year in his first full season with UMass. His 18 goals led the team, and he added 10 assists as well.

Montour joined the team midway through the season and brought a dynamic presence to the blue line.

He scored three goals and notched 17 assists in 20 games, averaging exactly one point per contest.

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

COLONIALS was 7-for-10 from 3s alone, finishing with 21 points.

Five different Colonials players scored in doubledigits.

“That was pretty aggravating,” said UMass center Cady Lalanne. “They were just kicking up and every shot they put up they made.

That was pretty annoying.”

Donte Clark led UMass with 12 points, while Jabarie Hinds and Maxie Esho added 11 each.

Kellogg said the team is trying to do too much, and that he’s seen players pressing some at the end of the season. He said at this point, it’s about getting his players to commit to getting

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back to basics and making a run in the conference tournament.

“It’s a gut check time, honestly,” Kellogg said.

“It’s a gut check time.

It’s time for the players to say ‘Do you want to make a push down there in Brooklyn and see if we can make something happen?’ That’s the push. And I think we got some talent in there, I think the guys are good kids. But you have to dig down deep now and say ‘Where are we at?’

Mark Chiarelli can be reached at mchiarel@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Mark_Chiarelli..

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HOCKEY

UMass eliminated from HE tournament Irish bounce back, take series 2-1

Minutemen’s season.

UMass (11-23-2) was doomed from the start of the pivotal game three.

Thomas DiPauli beat

By Ross Gienieczko Minutemen goaltender Collegian Staff Steve Mastalerz with a long After the Massachusetts wrist shot just 48 seconds men’s hockey team won the into the first period and longest game in NCAA his- the goal set the tone for a night of frustory Friday night 4-3 off the stick Notre Dame 7 tration and disappointment for of Shane Walsh, it seemed a sub- UMass 0 UMass. It was one Mastalerz par season might probably should be salvaged with a playoff upset in the first have saved, as he got his glove on the puck but could round.

But Notre Dame ral- not reel it in. lied to a 5-3 win Saturday, “The flukiness of the and closed out the series goal within the first minute Sunday night in dominat- of the game was a difficult ing fashion, knocking obstacle,” UMass coach off UMass 7-0 to end the John Micheletto said. “It

was going to be tight checking and low scoring the way they wanted to play on their home ice, and to have that go in that early certainly puts them at the advantage.”

The Minutemen struggled to find their legs and gain any footing offensively throughout the night, but especially early in the game. UMass got just three shots through to the net in the first period. “(Notre Dame) took the air out of the ball, so to speak,” Micheletto said.

The Irish (17-17-5) were bigger, faster, more skilled and more disciplined.

DiPauli (two goals), Peter Schneider (three assists) and Vince Hinostroza (two

assists) led the way offensively, but team defense from Notre Dame was strong. The group limited the Minutemen to just 23 shots on the night, and few of them had any hope of beating goaltender Cal Peterson, who earned the shutout.

“Especially tonight with the grind of a three game series with the additional overtimes Friday night, it’s more and more difficult to try and play against their style when you’re in the hole,” Micheletto said.

The second period proved disastrous for UMass. After DiPauli made it 2-0 with another long wrist shot Mastalerz whiffed on, the wheels came off for the

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UMass ended its season on Sunday night in a 7-0 loss against Notre Dame.

Minutemen. Mastalerz left the game midway through the second after a scary collision that looked like it resulted in a lower body injury.

you still have to put the ball in the back of the net.”

These failed chances car Trailing by two goals ried over from the second with three minutes and third quarters where remaining in Saturday’s UMass was outscored 6-2 road game against No. despite winning the faceoff 16 Albany, it appeared battle for the first time this the Massachusetts men’s season and seeing optimislacrosse team tic looks on the was well on its Albany 10 attack. way to its fifth Blaze Riorden straight loss to UMass 9 made 21 saves for open the season.

Albany, includ With a goal ing eight in the and an ensuing third quarter. Coming out faceoff win later however, of the first intermission in UMass quickly found itself a 3-3 tie, Cannella said that in position for one last shot at a comeback attempt with Riorden’s play in the middle two frames were key in eight seconds remaining.

But the Minutemen (0-5) the Great Danes’ success. ran out of time Saturday “He made some really good after an attempted pass to saves,” Cannella said about Dan Muller was deflected in Riorden. “I don’t think we the waning seconds, clinch- shot particularly well but ing a 10-9 Great Danes’ vic- you give him credit for making those saves.” tory.

“We didn’t have a time- In a low-scoring affair on out so there was no game both sides, Lyle Thompson plan, we just tried to push catalyzed Albany’s attack the ball toward the cage,” with one goal and six UMass coach Greg Cannella assists. Seth Oakes and said of the final play. “Ryan Connor Fields added three Izzo actually made a really goals apiece for the Great good look and tried to cross Danes. the field to Dan Muller as The Minutemen’s offense the sender but (they) just on Saturday was led by knocked the ball down.” multipoint performances Down 9-5 heading into from Hegarty and Muller. the final quarter, the While Hegarty finished Minutemen outscored with his second career hat Albany (2-1) 4-1 over the trick, Muller recorded two final 15 minutes of regula- goals and an assist in the tion. loss.

After UMass attacker A redshirt sophomore, Peter Lindley and Muller Muller was forced to sit out scored goals around anoth- all of last year due to a preer Great Danes tally, Nick season injury. In his return Mariano initiated the to action in 2015, Muller Minutemen’s late-game has tallied five goals and comeback attempt with his four assists through five 10th goal of the season with games. three minutes, one second According to Cannella, left.

Brendan Hegarty then although he would like to tallied UMass’ third unan- see more consistency from swered goal to cut the defi- Muller as the season wears cit to one with eight sec- on, the attacker has had a significant impact on onds left.

“Our guys have fought UMass’ offense this year. back in all the games that “He’s really been a force we’ve played so far, so I’ve on the field,” Cannella said been encouraged by that about Muller. “Dan is as all year,” Cannella said. steady as they come. He’s “They’ve never given up, gained a ton of experience and he’s made a bunch of they’ve never quit on us.”

Despite the Minutemen’s plays for us over the last success in the final frame, few games.” it also marked a quarter of UMass’ next attempt at missed opportunities and earning its first win will be tough breaks on the offen- at home against Quinnipiac sive end. UMass had four on Tuesday, March 10 at 3 shots ricochet off the post p.m. during the span.

“Guys get good looks so Anthony Chiusano can be reached at yeah, it’s frustrating for achiusano@umass.edu and followed them,” Cannella said. “But on Twitter @a_chiusano24.

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The Minutemen fell to No. 8 in the Atlantic 10 and will play No.9 La Salle in the first round of the conference tournament on Thursday at noon.

UMass drops regular-season finale Charles E. Smith Center Saturday afternoon. And it WASHINGTON, D.C. — never felt that close.

The Massachusetts men’s “It snowballs sometimes,” basketball team unraveled UMass coach Derek Kellogg against George Washington. said.

Like an avalanche, it “I thought our effort was didn’t take much to set it off. good for a while, and then when we got some body A blown defensive blows thrown, assignment here, we didn’t counter a missed pass GW 87 back. Those body offensively there. turned into A string of poor UMass 65 blows big blows and possessions multiwhen those big plied the anxiety and stress growing along the blows start hitting you it’s UMass bench like snow pick- tough to recover.”

The loss dropped UMass ing up steam.

Some UMass players (17-14, 10-8 Atlantic 10 stomped their feet, others Conference) behind the yelled in frustration. Coaches Colonials within the conpointed and frantically tried ference, guaranteeing the to adjust, but it didn’t matter. Minutemen No. 8 seed in Once the Colonials real- the upcoming Atlantic 10 ized what sat in front of tournament, which starts them – a fragile, listless Wednesday. They’ll face La Minutemen team – they capi- Salle Thursday at noon. talized, igniting on a prolific Prior to Saturday’s game, shooting run, storming down Kellogg spoke of the importhe mountain at a UMass tance of simply playing well team stuck in the cross hairs. in preparation for the con The Minutemen were bur- ference tournament. Instead, ied, stuck, trapped – helpless the Minutemen lost convincunder the weight of grow- ingly. ing offensive pressure from “Yeah, I’m concerned a George Washington. When it little bit,” Kellogg said. “We was all said and done, the haven’t played well. It just Colonials were the victors, doesn’t seem like it’s all one 87-65 in front of 3,867 at the moving part right now … it’s

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Late-game surge comes up short

By Anthony Chiusano

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M E N ’ S L AC RO S S E

Falling at the finish line

By Mark Chiarelli

Henry Dill replaced him in goal and struggled. The Irish scored on their first two shot attempts on the freshman, and the rout was

“I thought our effort was good for a while, and then when we got some body blows thrown, we didnt counter back.”

Derek Kellogg, UMass coach some things that I kind of wish weren’t going on right this second.”

On Saturday, George Washington (20-11, 10-8 A-10) barely missed.

The Colonials went 9-of-10 on 3-pointers in the first half, scored the final 18 points of the frame and led 50-28 at halftime. The Minutemen actually led 14-9 with 11:42 remaining in the first half, but a 12-2 George Washington run – sparked by three different 3-pointers – stunned UMass.

Even then, the Minutemen didn’t officially fold, at least not yet. They cut the Colonials deficit to 3 and trailed 32-27 at one point.

But George Washington persisted.

Colonials reserve Paul Jorgensen nailed a 3-pointer and UMass forward Maxie Esho committed an offensive foul. Yuta Watanabe answered with a 3-pointer, Jorgensen hit another jump

shot and it was suddenly 40-27 with 2:56 remaining.

It got worse.

UMass committed two turnovers, allowed two more 3s to Watanabe and didn’t score a point over the final 4:37. The half ended fittingly, with UMass guard Derrick Gordon taking an ill-advised jump shot with nine seconds left instead of holding for the last shot.

The lapse allowed the Colonials one more possession and guard Kethan Savage took advantage, dribbling coast-to-coast for an easy layup as the half ended. It was 50-28, and a total implosion.

“That was a first half that I’d like to forget,” Kellogg said. “I thought the wheels came off on both ends of the floor.”

By game’s end, George Washington was 14-of-18 on 3-pointers and shot 60 percent from the field. Watanabe see

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