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5K Dash & Dine donates funds to survival center Organizers hope event will grow

By Melisa Joseph Collegian Correspondent

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The new athletic director, Ryan Bamford, of the University of Massachusetts was announced Tuesday afternoon at the Football Performance Center.

By Mark Chiarelli Collegian Staff

U n ive r s i t y of M a s s a ch u s e t t s Vi c e Chancellor John Kennedy stood before an assembled audience at the Football Performance Center and finally answered a question he’s presided over for nearly two months.

“When we launched the search back in February, I was asked by one of the reporters in this room, ‘What are you looking for in the next athletic director?’” Kennedy, who chaired the search committee tasked with hiring the next athletic director at UMass, said.

“After checking with the boss, I said we need someone who can be the face of UMass athletics and can sell the power and value of athletics to the University community, the Commonwealth and

beyond,” he added.

Tuesday, the University officially put a name to that sought-after face, naming Ryan Bamford as the seventh full-time athletic director in UMass history.

“When this (job) came open, my eyes became wide open and I was really excited to just learn more about it,” said Bamford, who donned a grey suit and maroon tie. “I have told people in this industry that I’ve never been in a rush to be an AD. I want to be at the right place at the right time, and I think this was it for me. UMass has tremendous opportunity and potential, and this for me was a home-run fit.”

Bamford arrives after four years at Georgia Tech, where he was an associate athletic director and oversaw football, men’s basketball and baseball.

Previously, he worked at

Yale University.

It’s unclear when Bamford will officially begin at UMass, but he anticipated a mid to late April start. He’ll replace John McCutcheon, who left UMass in January after serving as athletic director for 11 years.

Bamford, along with Kennedy and UMass chancellor Ku m b l e Subbaswamy, all spoke Tuesday.

Subbaswamy hailed the 36-year-old Bamford as a “rising star” within the college athletics community, while Kennedy called the hire a “game changer.”

“With the appointment of Ryan Bamford as our athletic director, we’re embarking on a whole new era for UMass athletics,” Subbaswamy said. “An era that will be filled with promise and prominence.”

Subbaswamy lauded

Bamford’s enthusiasm throughout the process.

Bamford said his excitement for the position grew as he learned more about the school.

But Bamford also acknowledged challenges that exist at UMass, chiefly surrounding the football program. He pointed to the football program as the “centerpiece” to the success of UMass athletics moving forward.

The program has won only five games in three seasons since joining the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2012, and is entering its final season as a member of the Mid-American Conference.

Following 2015, the school will move forward as an independent as it searches for a permanent home.

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Serving the UMass community since 1890

In an effort to raise money for those in need at the Amherst Survival Center, the University of Massachusetts will host its annual UMass 5K Dash & Dine race on April 11 at the Southwest Residential Area. The event will kick off at 11 a.m., with registration held beforehand at 9 a.m.

Online registration ends April 10.

Both the UMass community and the general public are invited to participate in the race. Tripper O’Mara, one of the project managers of the event, said the race this year will feature its first “Fun Run” for children under eight years old. O’Mara said the purpose of this is to “encourage even more families in the area to attend.”

The event will begin at the top of the Southwest horseshoe and end at the Berkshire Dining Commons where racers will be treated to a complementary lunch at the end of their race. As it approaches its sixth year, the Dash & Dine has been considered “a great way for everyone to give back to the community,” while also encouraging “participants to live a healthy and active lifestyle,” according to O’Mara.

From past years, both the local community and the UMass community have shown support for this event.

Last year, the race had over 2,000 participants. This year, organizers hope that number will grow to as many as 3,000 participants.

But the number of participants is not the only thing the organizers are hoping will grow in numbers. Last year, the race raised over $6,000

“It’s great to see everyone. Student, faculty, staff and the local community come together to support a great cause, have fun and eat as well.”

Tripper O’Mara, Project Manager to benefit the survival center, and organizers are hoping to raise even more money this year for the cause. To raise additional funds for the center, the race will also be selling raffle tickets for giveaways that will have prizes from local gyms, retail locations, spas and restaurants.

But for O’Mara, just getting involved in this event is worthwhile.

“It’s great to see everyone. Students, faculty, staff and the local community come together to support a great cause, have fun and eat well,” he said. O’Mara and the race committee not only encourage runners to participate, but O’Mara added that “walkers … wheelchairs and strollers are always welcome as well.”

Tickets for the race cost $5 for members of the UMass community and $20 for the general public. Net proceeds from the event will be donated directly to the survival center. Those interested in registering for the event can do so at www.runumass. com/register.html.

Melisa Joseph can be reached at mjoseph@umass.edu.

Germanwings plan crashes in French Alps; no survivors Airliner began falling after reaching cruising altitude

By Matthew Schofield McClatchy Foreign Staff

BERLIN — A German passenger jet that crashed Tuesday morning in the Alps in southern France, killing an estimated 150 passengers and crew, climbed for 44 minutes to reach its cruising altitude but remained there for only about a minute before it began to lose altitude, officials say.

The descent into the ground lasted just eight minutes.

The plane, an Airbus 320 flown

by Germanwings, was en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Dussedorf, Germany, with 144 passengers, some of whom likely had paid as little as $32 for their seats. The French Interior Ministry placed the time of the crash at about 11 a.m. local time.

The ministry said it appeared that all passengers, the two pilots and four crew members died. Wreckage was found scattered in bits in the mountains at about 6,000 feet.

The nearest town was Barcelonnette,

a small French village known for hiking and skiing amid rugged mountain terrain. Photos of the area from near the crash site show steep and snow-covered peaks, the rocky terrain interrupted only by dense mountain forest. There are few roads in the region.

In European media reports, local residents reported hearing a sound that made them think of an avalanche or one of the supersonic fighter jets that sometime train in the area.

At a news conference in Cologne, Germany, Germanwings officials said that the pilot had 10 years of experience with Lufthansa, Germanwings’ parent company, and that the plane had been given a thorough check in 2013 and a technical check on Monday.

They said that the flight left Barcelona at 10:01 a.m. and reached its cruising altitude of 38,000 feet at 10:45 a.m. The officials at the press conference said the plane maintained that altitude for one minute before beginning the eightminute descent that ended in the crash.

They said that at this point they had no explanation for the descent.

Initial reports indicated that 45 of the dead were Spanish, while 67 were German.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed her nation soon after the news broke.

“This is a time and an hour of great sorrow and great grief. We should be thinking about people who have lost relatives and also friends,” she said.

There was no initial report on the cause of the crash. Germanwings reported that the plane had been in service since 1991, having been purchased

by Lufthansa.

Germanwings posted an announcement and updates on the crash on Twitter: “UPDATE: We are sorry to confirm that flight 4U9525 has crashed on the flight from BCN to DUS over the French Alps. It is a A320 aircraft. On board were 144 passengers and 6 crew members. Lufthansa and Germanwings have connected a telephone hotline (on freephone number 0800 11 33 55 77) to inform relatives of passengers and look after (them). All employees of the Germanwings and Lufthansa are deeply distressed and their thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the passengers and crew.”

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In 1965, Civil Rights Activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully completed their 4-day 50 mile march from Selma to the capital in Montgomery, Alabama.

AROUND THE WORLD KIEV, Ukraine — A U.S. resolution in favor of arms shipments to Ukraine was welcomed Tuesday by the government in Kiev and condemned as a call for war

by Russian lawmakers in Moscow.

“I thank US House of Representatives for a resolution calling to provide Ukraine with military assistance. Important that it is bipartisan,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said on Twitter.

A resolution passed Monday in Washington urges President Barack Obama’s administration to provide “lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine before it is too late” and criticizes the “tepid” U.S. response to Ukraine’s request for military aid. dpa Distributed by MCT Information Services

Journalist and aide to presidents dies at 84 Jerry Warren dies due to pneumonia

By David Colker Los Angeles Times

Jerry Warren was the top editor of the San Diego Union, and Union-Tribune after a merger, for a combined 20 years.

But before that, it was he who faced journalists as the White House’s deputy press secretary during the Richard Nixon presidency. Indeed, Warren often handled the highly contentious morning press conferences in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

“How can you describe that empty feeling in your stomach that keeps gnawing away at you?” he said of the press conferences in a 1974 Los Angeles Times interview.

Warren, 84, who was able to build a respected newspaper career after that time and later turned to studying spiritual matters, died Friday at a hospital in Arlington, Va. He had late-stage cancer, said his daughter, Mia Johnson, and died of pneumonia.

Warren was assistant managing editor at the Union in 1969 when he got an offer to become deputy press secretary. “It was a challenge that doesn’t come along very often,” he said in the Times interview. “Not too many people have an opportunity to work for a president.”

Phemie Davis, who was married to Warren during his time in the White House,

said that unlike many in the administration, Warren had friendships with reporters.

“He was the only journalist in the group of top aides,” Davis said in an interview Saturday.

“He had a special relationship with the press that the rest of the administration didn’t enjoy.”

But Warren’s relationships with the press came under strain as the Watergate scandal worsened. And Davis said Warren was devastated when he learned the truth of how much Nixon was personally involved in the scandal.

“When it turned out that so much he was told wasn’t true,” she said of her former husband, “it was very, very hard.”

He was born Gerald Warren on Aug. 17, 1930, in Hastings, Neb. His father was a school superintendent and his mother was a teacher.

Warren graduated from Saint Edward High School in Saint Edward, Neb., and went on to the University of Nebraska, earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1952. He spent four years in the Navy and in 1956 enrolled in a Copley journalism training program in San Diego, according to a report in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

After a stint as a reporter, Warren was made an editor.

“He understood copy and best of all, he got along very well with reporters and people,” said former editor Peter Kaye, quoted in the U-T on Saturday.

In 1975, after working at the White House through

Nixon’s 1974 resignation and into the Gerald Ford administration, Warren returned to San Diego at the invitation of the Union’s owner, Helen Copley, to become editor.

The paper’s circulation increased during his time at the helm, and he oversaw some controversial stories, including an expose of the Roman Catholic diocese.

There were stumbles too, including pressing reporters to get more information on a grand jury investigation into the city’s mayor in 1984.

When some of the information reported in the paper turned out to be inaccurate, he saw himself as “an accessory, if not the godfather of that mistake,” he said in a 1995 U-T interview.

Warren retired in 1995.

Moving to Virginia, he became more involved with the Episcopal church, enrolling at the Virginia Theological Seminary, where the vast majority of students were many decades younger.

“He lived in the dorm,” Johnson said, by choice. “My father was able to develop close relationships with people of all ages and all walks of life. I’m sure he got along brilliantly.”

In addition to Johnson, who lives in New York, Warren is survived by his son, Ben, who lives in El Centro, Calif.; and two grandchildren.

Both of Warren’s marriages ended in divorce.

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an aircraft incident in Europe since July 17, when Malaysian Airlines 17 crashed after being shot down over southeastern Ukraine, killing 298.

An official report into the cause of that fatal crash noted that the plane was taken down by a highspeed projectile. Ukrainian and Russian officials have blamed each other for being the source of that projectile.

Last week, a Dutch television station reported that metal fragments found by their reporter in the wreckage had been analyzed and found to be from a BUK, a Russian anti-aircraft system.

Germanwings is one of several European carri-

ers offering no-frills flights around the region. At the time of the crash, its website was offering flights from Germany for as little as 29 euro ($32) to 39 euro ($43) “to destinations all across Europe.” The airline website uses the slogan “surprisingly low-cost flights.”

There was no indication, however, that the accident had anything to do with the low-cost nature of the flight or the airline, especially as to date budget airlines in Europe appear to have good safety records. Germanwings is considered the third largest air carrier in Germany.

Lufthansa called the accident “a dark day.”

Pentagon is not Ukraine in favor of new US required to divulge resolution on arms delivery execution details dpa

By Carol Rosenberg Miami Herald

Pentagon prosecutors don’t have to divulge the intended method of execution of the accused mastermind of the USS Cole bombing, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Lawyers for Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, 50, asked the judge in August to order the government to identify how it would carry out capital punishment in the case of the Saudi who allegedly orchestrated alQaida’s suicide bombing of the U.S. Navy destroyer off Yemen Oct. 12, 2000.

Seventeen American sailors were killed in the blast, and dozens more were wounded.

No trial date has been set. Richard Kammen, a capital defense attorney, argued that the method of execution might be relevant in selecting U.S. military officers for Nashiri’s jury. Kammen invoked a series of botched U.S. executions by lethal injection and said panel members might be “good with killing” on the battlefield or in an airstrike but might be put off if the plan is “to take him out to a big tree and hang him.”

In his two-page ruling, the judge, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, agreed with a prosecutor who argued in August that the request was premature because Nashiri has neither been convicted nor received a sentence.

The legal motion sought the “protocols and procedures” for a proposed execution, the method, planned site and how the executioners would be trained.

Spath left as an open question whether any such documentation exists at the Pentagon, which last carried out a military execution in 1961 by hanging an Army private for rape and attempted murder of a child.

According to the rules for the war court President George W. Bush created and President Barack Obama reformed, the Secretary of Defense designates the method of execution.

“Federal jurisprudence holds the protocols are not relevant until an execution date is established, a date unknowable . . . at this point in time in the process of conducting this trial,” Spath wrote.

KIEV, Ukraine — A U.S. resolution in favor of arms shipments to Ukraine was welcomed Tuesday by the government in Kiev and condemned as a call for war

by Russian lawmakers in Moscow.

“I thank US House of Representatives for a resolution calling to provide Ukraine with military assistance.

Important that it is bipartisan,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said on Twitter.

A resolution passed Monday in Washington urges President Barack Obama’s administration to provide “lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine before it is too late” and criticizes the “tepid” U.S. response to Ukraine’s request for military aid.

The resolution, which is

not legally binding, argues that “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forcible takeover of Crimea last year emboldened him to expand his aggression in eastern Ukraine.”

Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Pe skov, refused to comment on the resolution. But Alexei Pushkov, the hawkish chairman of the lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, warned that Moscow would react if the United States decides to send arms.

“This would be a massive rise in the level of confrontation,” he was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.

Duma deputy Frants Klintsevich warned that arms shipments would kill off the Minsk peace agreements and that the resolution amounts to “a direct call for war.”

Ukrainian politicians, in contrast, reiterated their call

for military aid.

“We do need this precision weaponry and our armed forces in the south in particular need to be modernized,” Refat Chubarov, the leader of the Crimean Tatars, told a committee of the European Parliament.

Chubarov urged lawmakers not to forget Crimea and demanded that the Western sanctions be linked to Russia’s annexation of the Black Sea peninsula.

“The war against Ukraine started with the occupation of Crimea and the war against Ukraine may only be ceased with the liberation of Crimea,” he said.

Since April, more than 6,000 people have been killed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine between government forces and pro-Russian separatists.

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Fraternities lobby against Anti-gay initiative render campus rape investigations Calif. officials powerless

By David Glovin Bloomberg News

College fraternities and sororities, concerned that students accused of sexual assault are treated unfairly, are pushing Congress to make it harder for universities to investigate rape allegations.

The groups’ political arm plans to bring scores of students to Capitol Hill on April 29 to lobby for a requirement that the criminal justice system resolve cases before universities look into them or hand down punishments, according to an agenda reviewed

by Bloomberg News.

“If people commit criminal acts, they should be prosecuted and they should go to jail,” said Michael Greenberg, leader of 241-chapter Sigma Chi, one of many fraternities participating in the legislative push.

The Fraternity &Sorority Political Action Committee, or “FratPAC,” and two other groups will ask Congress to block colleges from suspending all fraternities on a campus because of a serious incident at a single house.

In addition, the Greek representatives want a rule against “any mandate” for chapters to go co-ed.

These Washington efforts come as colleges have shut fraternity chapters or required them to admit women after sex-assault allegations. Activists representing rape victims say that universities don’t take complaints seriously. A new documentary, “The Hunting Ground,” singles out fraternities for creating an environment that enables assaults.

Yet there’s a growing backlash from critics – including some Harvard and University of Pennsylvania law professors– who say university sexual-assault proceedings are stacked against the accused.

The U.S. Education Department requires colleges to investigate complaints and discipline students found responsible for sexual assault. University disciplinary boards can take action, including suspensions or expulsions, far more quickly than courts and, unlike criminal proceedings, don’t require a finding “beyond a reasonable doubt.” To sanction a student, allegations must be found more likely than not to be true.

“Campus judicial proceedings” should be deferred “until completion

DIRECTOR views those types of situations not as challenges, but as opportunities.

“Obviously, the football piece,” said Bamford when asked about those challenges. “I’m not going to shy away from that in terms of conference alignment. I think it’s important for us right now as we move into an independent in 2016 to raise the profile for football because that’s going to help us to get into a conference.”

Bamford has experience working with an FBS football program. Georgia Tech is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, one of the premier conferences in college athletics.

Subbaswamy said UMass football is at a “critical stage.”

The University recently renovated McGuirk Stadium and constructed the multimillion dollar Football Performance Center.

“In fact, from the very beginning as we put out a

of criminal adjudication (investigation and trial),” according to an e-mail sent to students selected to lobby for fraternities.

Joelle Stangler, the University of Minnesota student body president, said the fraternity groups’ efforts are “extremely problematic.”

“Adjudication on campuses is incredibly important for victims and survivors, to make sure they receive some sort of justice,” said Stangler, who has worked with a Minnesota advocacy group for sexualassault victims.

Ten-year-old FratPAC, which has raised about $2.1 million in donations for congressional candidates, invites students every year to Capitol Hill to lobby for tax breaks for fraternity houses. In 2012, it fought against federal anti-hazing legislation.

Two other groups – the North-American Interfraternity Conference, which represents 74 national fraternities, and the National Panhellenic Conference, which represents 26 sororities –will join FratPAC’s lobbying effort.

Fraternities and sororities are concerned about assailants going unpunished and victims lacking support services, as well as the rights of students facing a disciplinary process “that is not fair and transparent,” said Washington lobbyist Kevin O’Neill, who is FratPAC’s executive director, in a statement on behalf of the fraternity and sorority groups.

“Fraternities and sororities intend to be a leader in offering ideas for how Congress can provide a safe campus for all students,” O’Neill said.

Along with activists, Greek groups will be taking on many college administrators, who say they need campus proceedings to keep potentially dangerous students off their campuses before criminal cases are resolved.

“Imagine a situation where a young women is sexually assaulted, and it has to go through the state judicial process,” said Mark Koepsell, who heads the Association of Fraternity/ Sorority Advisors, which represents faculty and administrators. “Meanwhile, the alleged perpetrator is walking around campus.”

The Washingtonbased Student Affairs Administrators in Higher

Education, a trade group, will oppose the Greek group’s agenda.

“The criminal justice system has been a virtual failure in its ability to address sexual assault,” said Kevin Kruger, president of the group. “It’s a really, really, really bad idea.”

Jennifer Waller, executive director of the Association for Student Conduct Administration, which represents the staff of sexualassault hearings, said the goal of campus proceedings is to weigh whether a student violated university rules, not the law. The accused has a right to present a defense, she said.

Dozens of men have filed lawsuits claiming they have been unfairly treated in campus hearings. Fraternity groups also point to cases of what they call a rush to judgment against Greek houses.

University of Virginia suspended activity at all houses after Rolling Stone magazine published a since-discredited article in November claiming fraternity members had gang-raped a student. On Monday, police in Charlottesville, UVA’s home, said they found no evidence supporting the Rolling Stone account and were suspending their investigation.

Beginning April 27 in Washington, the fraternity groups will provide two days of training to the student lobbyists, who will then split into small groups for visits with lawmakers and their aides. Members of congress, including recipients of FratPAC donations, will speak at its April 29 dinner.

In her summary of the Greeks’ positions, Jennifer Kilian, director of member services for the interfraternity conference, said the student lobbyists will also call for more data and education about sexual assault and new prevention programs.

“Students and alumni participating in the Greek Hill visits will be lobbying on the unified position fraternities and sororities have adapted (sic) on Title IX issues,” Kilian said, referring to the federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of gender, in an e-mail to those selected to lobby.

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“I want people to understand how important it is to be a Minuteman or Minutewomen, and understand how important we are for this Commonwealth.”

Ryan Bamford, athletic director job search announcement, we said that we would prefer FBS-level experience, because clearly we’re in a transitional state having made the investments that we made in football,” he said. “Having major experience in a good football conference, a football school, is a big plus – almost a necessity.”

Bamford said he didn’t shy away from promoting his FBS experiences in the interview process, but is also excited to work with other programs on campus. He said Georgia Tech didn’t have lacrosse, soccer or hockey programs, something which he missed.

Ultimately, Bamford said his goal upon arriv-

ing on campus is to forge as many relationships as he can as he acclimates himself to the University.

He said the department’s devotion to the UMass brand stood out, and the goal is to take athletics to the next level.

“I want people to understand how important it is to be a Minuteman or Minutewomen, and understand how important we are for this Commonwealth,” Bamford said.

“We’re building something special, it needs to be all hands on deck.

I can’t do it alone, this is about UMass.”

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

Proposal rebukes same-sex intimacy

By Hailey Branson-Potts, Patrick McGreevy and Emily Foxhall Los Angeles Times

Over the decades, California has chiseled out some of its most colorful laws at the ballot box.

There have been proposed initiatives seeking to allow public schoolchildren be able to sing Christmas carols, to require drug testing of state legislators, to outlaw divorce and to divide California into six states.

But the proposed initiative submitted by a Huntington Beach attorney that would authorize the killing of gays and lesbians by “bullets to the head” – or “any other convenient method” –is testing the limits of the state’s normally liberal attitude on putting even the most extreme ideas on the ballot if enough signatures are collected.

The proposed initiative has been met by a firestorm of anger, yet there appears to be nothing that can stop it from being given a formal name and advancing to the signature-gathering process.

For a fee of $200, Matthew McLaughlin submitted what he called the Sodomite Suppression Act to the state attorney general’s office, which has little choice but to give it a ballot-worthy name, summarize its effects and set the clock running for gathering signatures.

“Mr. McLaughlin’s immoral proposal is just the latest – and most egregious –example of the need to further reform the initiative process,” Assemblyman Evan Low, D-Campbell, said.

Some of California’s most controversial laws have been given life through the initiative process, though some lived only briefly. A 1996 initiative legalized marijuana for medicinal use, a law that still stands. Two years earlier, voters approved the socalled Save Our State initiative, which denied a public education and other benefits

to those in the country illegally– a law that was quickly declared to be illegal.

Two lawmakers said they were so revolted by McLaughlin’s submitted initiative that they have proposed a bill that would increase the fee for filing a ballot measure from $200 to $8,000.

“We live in California, the cradle of direct democracy, but we also need a threshold for reasonableness,” said Low, who co-authored the legislation with Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica.

But to get on the ballot, McLaughlin and any supporters he has would have to collect more than 365,000 signatures in 180 days, a high bar even for well-financed efforts.

“In California, this has the same chance as a snowball’s chance in hell,” said Jaime Regalado, professor emeritus of political science at California State University, Los Angeles.

Kurt Oneto, a Sacramento attorney who specializes in the initiative process, said Attorney General Kamala Harris does not have the ability to turn down McLaughlin’s proposed ballot measure, regardless of how she might feel.

“The state gets serious initiatives that are submitted and we get silly ones, and every now and then we get ugly ones like this,” Oneto said. “I would submit this is probably the ugliest one I remember.”

McLaughlin’s proposal calls same-sex intimacy “a monstrous evil” and says it would be better for gay people to die than for Californians to “be killed by God’s just wrath against us for the folly of tolerating wickedness in our midst.”

It also would make the spreading of “sodomistic propaganda” punishable by a $1 million fine, 10 years in jail or deportation from the state.

And it would ban gay people from holding public office.

If the proposal collected enough signatures, it would be placed on the November

2016 ballot. If voters were to approve it, the decision on whether to make it a law would ultimately rest with the courts, which have overturned measures approved by the voters, including Proposition 8, which barred same-sex marriages.

McLaughlin could not be located for comment. The address he lists with the state bar is a postal box at a Beach Boulevard strip mall, his phone goes straight to voicemail and no one came to the door at the downtown Huntington Beach address where he is registered to vote.

The state bar shows that McLaughlin’s law license is active and that he graduated from the University of California, Irvine and then George Mason University School of Law. A Huntington Beach attorney with the same name and identical academic background submitted an initiative more than a decade ago that would have allowed public school teachers in California to use the Bible as a textbook.

“Even if you don’t believe its teachings, you’ll agree that it includes rich usage of the English language,” McLaughlin told the Los Angeles Times in a 2004 interview, saying that the Bible helped him become an honor student at Costa Mesa High School.

Earlier this month, the California Legislature’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus filed a formal complaint against McLaughlin with the State Bar of California, asking that he be investigated.

An online petition at change.org calling for McLaughlin to be disbarred had more than 17,000 signatures Monday.

Dave Garcia, director of policy for the Los Angeles LGBT Center, said that anybody who signs McLaughlin’s proposal and “calls for the murder of gay people” should expect that “their names are going to be made public.”

‘He’s not the shooter,’ says suspect’s lawyer in Ferguson

By Matt Pearce Los Angeles Times

The attorney for the man charged with shooting and wounding two police officers outside the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department said Tuesday that authorities have arrested the wrong person.

The attorney for Jeffrey Williams, 20, said his client is innocent despite disclosures in court documents that Williams’ arrest came after a police informant secretly videotaped him talking about firing the shots.

“I’m confident in what my client has told me, which is that he’s not the shooter,” St. Louis attorney Jerryl Christmas told the Los Angeles Times. “I don’t think they’ve got the right person in custody. I think the real perpetrator is on the loose ... they’re still out there.”

Christmas said that until he can depose the confidential informant used by police, “I don’t put any merit” to officials’ claims about Williams in the new court documents.

“He reassured me that he did not fire a gun at anyone, he never told anyone that he fired a gun,” Christmas said.

Williams, who lives near Ferguson, faces life in prison if convicted of carrying out the March 12 shooting, which came as a protest was winding down outside the police

station.

No one reported seeing who fired the shots, which came from a hill overlooking the station. One officer was wounded in the shoulder, the other on the side of his face.

(Both officers were treated and released from the hospital on the same day.)

When officials announced Wi lliams’ arrest a few days lat er, they were coy about what led investigators to him.

According to court documents first obtained and published by Yahoo News on Monday, a confidential informant contacted police to say Williams had claimed involvement in the shooting during a phone conversation.

Police gave the informant a hidden camera, which the informant used to record Williams talking about the shooting as they drove around northern St. Louis County and around the site where shell casings were found, according to a police affidavit filed in support of a search warrant.

“The suspect then told the (confidential informant) that he discharged a handgun at unknown individual(s) from an area which was consistent with the location of the fired cartridge casings,” the affidavit says. “Through an additional conversation, the suspect acknowledged that he

remained in possession of the handgun used in the assault.”

Officials found a .40-caliber handgun on the floor of a bedroom at Williams’ home that matched shell casings at the scene, according to the court documents and St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch’s account of the case.

Williams is charged with two counts of first-degree assault, one count of shooting from a vehicle and three counts of armed criminal action. Officials said Williams fired the shots from a 2003 Pontiac Grand Am that had been spotted on video driving by the police station shortly before the shooting.

Williams’ attorney, Christmas, said Williams was beaten by police when he was arrested, a claim St. Louis County police have strongly denied.

At the news conference announcing Williams’ arrest, officials said it was unclear whether he was intentionally targeting police or he was aiming at someone in the crowd over a personal dispute.

A photographer for the St. Louis American newspaper confirmed seeing Williams among the demonstrators earlier in the evening, hanging out toward the back of the action.

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“That’s why I’m different. I can sense the slightest human suffering.” - George Costanza

Think before you tweet

Why we need to discuss mental health

A few weeks ago, for- high school, three years mer Red Sox pitcher Curt ago, smack in the dawn of Schilling drew media Twitter, the 400 members in my graduating class Steven Gillard were sitting in the auditorium rehearsing the graduaattention after respond- tion ceremony. A pregnant ing to Twitter users who classmate of mine who I tweeted obscene messages didn’t know personally about his daughter. When walked across the stage Schilling congratulated and I saw the opportunity his daughter for commit- for a timely joke. I whipped ting as a pitcher to Salve out my phone and sent Regina University in Rhode into the Twittersphere, Island, users chimed in “Graduating while pregwith a variety of tasteless nant is a good look.” jokes, prompting Schilling Soon after, it was my to release the names and turn to walk across the occupations of some of the stage, and as I walked up men. One man, a radio host to it I could feel my classat Brookdale Community mates eyes buried into the College, was suspended, back of my head. Through and another lost his job as an auditorium filled with a ticket-seller for the New smartphones, word had York Yankees. spread quickly of my tweet.

While the Schilling story Some people thought it was has since blown over, a funny. Others thought it similar story occurred this was offensive. A couple of week when Bloomsburg my smarter friends told University baseball play- me I was an idiot. As I er Joey Casselberry was walked across the stage, I

“While I am absolutely a fan of off-color humor, I think it’s something that should be done off-the-books, not on the web where anything you say can be saved for eternity.” kicked off the team after referring to Little League baseball star Mo’ne Davis as a “slut” on Twitter.

While Davis has since expressed her desire to have Casselberry reinstated, Bloomsburg University has refused to do so.

Social media is often used as a form of venting.

You’re angry, upset, fed up, so you type out a tweet or a Facebook status and hit send. After you finally have your thoughts out there, you feel better – people can finally understand how you’re feeling; you’re no longer quite so alone in your emotions, and that’s a comforting thing.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s looked back on previous social media statements and cringed at the idiocy of them. Whether it was an expletive filled rap lyric or a depressing statement subtly aimed at the girl I was crushing on, many of the things I once posted to social media baffle me to this day.

Luckily, most of the statements I’ve made on social media have been fairly innocuous, more embarrassing than harmful to my reputation. However, on more than one occasion I’ve posted borderline offensive content to social media that I thought was funny, only to shortly delete it after being met with backlash.

In the last few weeks of

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realized that since all my friends had seen my tweet in a matter of minutes, the girl who was the target of my insensitive joke would undoubtedly see it too.

Fortunately, I was able to delete the tweet from my phone before it erupted into anything bigger, which would have almost certainly ended with me in the Dean’s office for cyberbullying another student.

It’s easy to get caught up in the moment when there’s an opportunity for a good joke. While the comments directed toward Curt Schilling’s daughter and Mo’ne Davis were in poor taste, I don’t think they represented any real malevolence or disdain. And while I am absolutely a fan of off-color humor, I think it’s something that should be done off-the-books, not on the web where anything you say can be saved for eternity.

The Internet is and should be a haven for free speech, but there is a difference between expressing your opinion and inconsiderately attacking a father or a 14-year-old girl. Say what you want on Twitter, but if you represent an organization or a university, expect to deal with the consequences.

By the time you have I take this matter extremefinished reading through ly seriously and wish to see this newspaper, someone in a change in public perception soon. In my life, I have Nicholas Trieber felt the direct effects of three suicides. When I was 13, my America will have commit- mother’s best friend comted suicide. mitted suicide, leaving her In 2013, somebody com- family, including her three mitted suicide in America teenage children, wondering every 12.8 minutes, mak- what they could have done to ing suicide the 10th lead- prevent it. ing cause of death for At 18, a friend and forAmericans. As a community, mer high school classmate we need to acknowledge just of mine committed suicide, how present suicide is in which left many questions our lives, and as individu- unanswered: What was als, we need to work on bet- wrong? What made you do tering ourselves. As part of these endeavors, we need to eliminate the negative stigma that surrounds mental health discussions. We need to acknowledge that mental health is just as important as physical well-being and that seeking help is not an admittance of weakness.

For so many people, it this? Why? His death left a seems like image is every- community in shock. After thing. People want to fit in that experience, I tried to at any cost – we wear the become active in suicide prenewest fashions even if we vention, but didn’t know how don’t like them, we go to the to begin. I thought that offergym to get the ideal body ing a helping hand to those but we never discuss men- who seemed to need it was tal health. In my opinion, enough. once we start discussing On Jan. 1, I got the news mental health and accepting that one of my classmates therapeutic treatments as from high school had passed the norm, suicide rates will away. Not many details were plummet and people will feel known, but one thing was more comfortable seeking clear: it was suicide. For help and solving problems the first time in my life, I rather than ending them out knew that a change needed of fear. to happen and it needed to be

immediate. In that moment, I realized that just being nice and lending a hand wasn’t enough.

I logged onto the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s website and searched for ways to make a change. The website enlightened me. It has tabs on what to do if you feel suicidal, if you know somebody who needs help and it also provides links for survivors of suicide attempts and for those who know someone who has taken his or her own life.

“We need to acknowledge that mental health is just as important as physical well-being and that seeking help is not an admittance of weakness.”

Letters Letter to the Editor: An open letter from the UMass Amherst SGA to Chancellor Subbaswamy, Vice Chancellor Sheehan, and Auxiliary Services: Since their implementation, students and student businesses have been pushing for Dining Dollars to be extended for use at student businesses, just as the YCMP swipe program has been traditionally allowed.

In this endeavor, the UMass Student Government Association wholeheart-

about going to a walk to witness those who have been hurt, but there is always a hopeful vibe to these walks.

As a participant of several of the walks, I can safely say that they are not as sad as one imagines. Discussions focus on how to prevent suicide and how to spread mental health awareness.

Because so many of the people who attend the walks have been hurt by a friend or loved one’s death, they spread hope and optimism rather than despair.

I was extremely pleased to see that the UMass community voted to raise student fees by $7 to add extra staff for the Center for Counseling and Psychological Help.

This change is one step in the right direction, but by no means does it solve the larger issue that exists off campus as well. When we go home for summer and winter breaks, we need to spread this message of acceptance to everyone in our home communities in order to build a world where people feel safe discussing their problems and feel comfortable seeking help. Please consider attending the AFSP campus walk and if you see somebody who needs help, help them.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention holds overnight walks in cities and campus walks in colleges across the country. On March 29, there will be an “Out of the Darkness” campus walk to raise awareness of the AFSP at the University of Massachusetts track and field. I encourage every student on campus to attend.

Registration starts at 9 a.m.

By attending, students will be able to see those who have been directly and indirectly Nicholas Trieber is a Collegian affected by suicide. contributor and can be reached at It seems grim to think ntrieber@umass.edu.

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edly endorses and supports the Center for Student Business’ efforts in its negotiations with Auxiliary Services to create an updated Memorandum of Understanding, one which includes making Dining Dollars available for use at student businesses.

The SGA acknowledges that the effects of Dining Dollars at student businesses are, at this moment in time, partially unclear, and thus supports a temporary MOU, with a duration of one year.

During this time, the Dining Dollars program should

be usable at student businesses, at the same withholding rate (eight percent) as intended with the YCMP program. Under this MOU, the Center for Student Business and Auxiliary Services may evaluate the Dining Dollars program and work toward a longer-term and more sustainable MOU, which would best serve the interests of the students of the University.

Student businesses are an integral part of the student experience at UMass. The inclusion of the Dining Dollars program at student

businesses would best allow them to enhance entrepreneurial experiences for undergraduate students while providing high-quality, sustainable foods across campus.

Signed, Sïonan Barrett, Speaker of the Undergraduate Student Senate Stefan Herlitz, Secretary of University Policy and External Affairs

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Steven Gillard is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at sgillard@umass.edu.

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Local soup kitchen aims Time is ticking for the climate author writes to help feed the hungry Local for political change

MANNA provides 12,000 meals yearly B y Emily Johnson

Collegian Correspondent

On a warm Wednesday night down in the basement of Edwards Church, the MANNA soup kitchen’s headquarters is operating like any other night. In its 29th year of operation, the organization serves over 12,000 free meals annually to the Northampton area and is a cog within the community.

It started in 1986 at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Bob Saalfrank, the current program director of MANNA, began volunteering cleaning floors and setting up tables. In 1991 he took over as coordinator, and in 2001, he took over the chef duties.

Saalfrank and his crew of volunteers work every Wednesday and Saturday, including Thanksgiving and Christmas. There are 120 meals for each day in the winter, which includes take-out meals, the leftover food that individuals are allowed to leave with.

As Saalfrank’s so-called sidekick, Laura Kowal puts in 12 hours a week at the soup kitchen and is now in her fifth year as the prep cook.

The number of volunteers fluctuates each day.

The doors open at 5:30 p.m. for coffee and desserts, and at 6 p.m. a meal, like last Wednesday’s BBQ chicken, steak fries, mac

and cheese casserole and cream of spinach soup, is served buffet-style with an assortment of breads on six long tables. The doors close at 7 p.m., but some of those who come in to eat will help clean after the meal.

Saalfrank and his volunteers get to know the individuals who come in for meals on a personal level. While serving, they often crack jokes with one another as though it is a family dinner. Ishmael Rolle, a 17-year old student at Northampton High School, volunteers three hours mopping, dishwashing and cleaning walls for community service hours.

He hopes to continue coming back, because he enjoys helping those who are now “familiar faces.”

Saalfrank emphasized that many of those that come in for a meal are not homeless, but cannot afford a grocery bill, and some just come for the social ingredient to the meal. Fifty-six-yearold Paul Chandler said, it is a “different situation for every individual.

Everyone has their own story.”

He was homeless for a while before finding out about the soup kitchens in the area. He said the meals are “more for the community than the homeless.”

Most of the food comes from the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.

In 2011, Manna began receiving donations from the Big Y of Southampton

and the Stop and Shop in Northampton. River Valley Markets also contributes to the augmentation of meals. Because most of the food is delivered last minute, Saalfrank tends to be “creating a meal on the fly.” They take donations at any time.

For their holiday meals, 700 people are served and 200 receive at-home deliveries from volunteers.

On Thanksgiving, turkey and ham, supplied by the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, is served.

Fitzwilly’s Restaurant of Northampton also donates pork loins for the program’s Christmas dinner.

The program holds an annual fund, which replenishes its $18,000 yearly budget. There are also an assortment of fundraisers including the doorto-door campaign Shelter Sunday and stores like Ten Thousand Villages, part of whose profits go to MANNA on certain occasions.

There is a free meal for hungry individuals in Northampton almost every day.

Besides Edwards Church’s Wednesday dinner and Saturday meal from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., St. John’s Episcopal offers a meal from noon to 1 p.m. on Mondays and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish offers meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Emily Johnson can be reached at ejohnson@umass.edu.

By Sarah Gamard Collegian Staff

Local writer and political activist Don Ogden has a goal of resolving the problem of local climate change.

In his newly published collection, “Bad Atmosphere: A Collection of Poetry & Prose on the Climate Crisis,” Ogden criticizes the forces behind what he calls “Corporate America” and urgently calls readers to become more actively conscious consumers.

“From cradle to grave, we’re indoctrinated to be a consumer,” Ogden said in an interview with the Massachusetts Daily Collegian.

“There’s so much coming at us nowadays, we don’t have time to just think and reflect on things,” he said. Ogden illustrates this philosophy in many poems found in the collection.

He also heavily references “The World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity,” a document signed by about 1,700 scientists addressing humans’ effects on the environment, which he first encountered in the 1990’s.

The urgency and power of the message inspired Ogden to fight against climate change.

He was so impressed by the warning, he printed it out on little leaflets and passed it on to people and handed it out whenever possible.

Ogden conveys the same message in his book, where he believes that nearly two decades later, the world still has only another decade,

maybe two, to reform before the prospects for humanity are immeasurably diminished. His book reads differently than the generic step by step guides and skips right to the immediate state of the situation.

He agrees that change has begun at a micro-level and validates the importance of little efforts.

However, he emphasizes the big picture by saying, “I think people need to be aware that while it’s important to do those things, those things are nothing compared to the scale of the kind of trashing of the planet that corporations are doing and the governments are doing.” Ogden recommends we should “just be conscious as much as possible.”

In spite of the gloominess of the climate crisis, Ogden said there is hope, but it requires “getting out in the streets and organizing with your friends and acquaintances.” He believes that “people lead, and others will follow.”

Political activism is very prevalent in the Pioneer Valley, a major progressive region in the United States.

Ogden emphasizes the importance of this by saying, “It can’t take a few generations.

We don’t have the time.

“It may take a worsening of mega-storms and environmental situation for things to really turn around,” he said.

Revolution is not a possibility in his mind because guerrillas would be easily stopped by government powers. The best method is nonviolent protest, which for Ogden comes from publishing politically-charged poetry. Ogden agrees that many

of the more “established” poets disapprove of political poetry, but it may be the most powerful and provocative kind of writing.

“Outreach has always been, in my mind, the most important thing to do,” he said.

As a New York native, Ogden describes his 30 or so years of residency in Western Massachusetts as a place conducive to getting in touch with the natural world. His own house is hand-built from recycled materials found from somewhere in the valley. Though writing is his preferred form of self-expression, Ogden has been politically active in other ways.

Ogden and his associates started Mass Earth First!, an environmental movement that advocated non-violent direct action, such as filling the tanks of bulldozer with sugar. Ogden is also involved with the movement to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline, which spreads awareness of the dangers of fracking. He is also involved with the local eco-friendly radio broadcast, the Enviro Show.

The Enviro Show, stationed in Florence on Valley Free Radio 103.3 FM, is reaching its 10th anniversary this August. It airs every other Tuesday from 6 to 7 p.m. and is rebroadcasted every Thursday at 2 p.m.

“It was just sort of a logical extension to have a radio show to spread the word because there’s only so many leaflets you can hand out and tables you can do,” Ogden said.

Sarah Gamard can be reached at sgamard@umass.edu.

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“Normcore” movement gets it foot in the door Fashion movement reinvents the basics

By Joseph V. Amodio Newsday

There was a time when it was a pretty safe bet that shoe brands like Birkenstock and Dr. Scholl’s would never, ever be used in the same sentence with terms like “trendy,” “stylish” or “#luvvvv.”

But now fashion lovers have joined the mix, thanks to the so-called “normcore” movement, a recent trend in which fashionistas are supposedly paring down to nondesigner basics _ faded denim, hoodies, white socks _ giving shockingly ordinary looks a stylish cache all their own.

How many are actually doing this is uncertain, but brands are running with the idea, especially in footwear, where designers have been tinkering with down-market looks since 2013, when Giambattista Valli dreamed up a Birkenstock-inspired sandal with gold studs and Celine released a fur-lined version.

“It’s like the most comfortable sandal in the world is having a stylish renaissance,” Vogue.com contribu-

tor Katherine Bernard noted at the time.

That’s for sure. Comfort is all the rage this spring _ like at Marc Jacobs, where updated Dr. Scholl’s looks hit the runway, and at DKNY, where platform sandals are a fantastic sporty-boho-jetsetter hybrid. Other brands are so dorky they’re kind of cute. Before you know it you’ll be craving granola. Or wondering whatever became of those shower slides you left to mildew in your college dorm room.

Here, some of our favorite ugly duckling shoes, done up in prints and metallic finishes like never before, having a surprisingly swan moment.

The Nature’s Divide flatform from Clover Canyon pops with the brand’s signature bold colors and photographic prints; $297, available in late March at shopbop.com.

Coach’s “Turnlock” shower slide, in cream or orange pebble leather, has a 1 {-inch platform and rubber sole; $275 at select Coach stores and coach.com.

Joe Fresh floral sandals; $24 at Joe Fresh, Roosevelt Field and Manhattan, and joefresh.com.

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Classic shoe styles like Birkenstocks are influencing modern trends and inspiring major fashion designers. ring runway dazzled in the “Vera” leather platform sandal, with Velcro straps and funky frayed edges; $150 at select DKNY stores and dkny. com.

Podiatrist William Scholl started with an arch support in Chicago in 1904, and in the ‘60s created a wooden sandal inspired by vintage clogs spotted on his travels.

Today, the new Meringue Collection by Dr. Scholl’s ($88 to $108) features slides, wedges and gladiator flatforms as lightweight and frothy as their name _ these, $87.99 at Nordstrom, nordstrom.com and drschollsshoes.com.

The Birkenstock family started making shoes more than 230 years ago in Germany, helping set the

standard in comfort footwear.

Here, Birkenstock’s “Gizeh” sandal, in patents, metallics or sleek mirror green; $94.95 at birkenstockusa.com in April.

Aerin’s “Addie” anklestrap sandals feature sheepskin straps with snakeskin accents and a rubber sole; $268 at select Bloomingdale’s and bloomingdales.com.

MICHAEL Michael Kors Sawyer flat sandals offer a bit of flash with snakeembossed metallic leather straps and rubber sole; $135 at select Bloomingdale’s and bloomingdales.com.

Simply Vera Vera Wang footbed sandals, in gray, black or blush, are designed with man-made materials, a padded footbed and gem accents; $59.99 at kohls.com.

Loeffler Randall’s “Cat Slide” sandals with an “ink floral” watercolor-print leather Velcro strap and molded footbed; $195 at shopbop.com.

Mephisto’s “Helen’ sandal comes in tangerine calfskin, platinum leather and more, with contoured footbed and “Soft Air” technology for joint-friendly shock reduction; $138.95 at nordstrom. com.

Etienne Aigner’s Anja wide strap buckle sandal in pale gold mirrored leather; $285 at Etienne Aigner, Manhattan, and etienneaigner.com.

Very “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” these Hunter rubber slides go from institutional to in style with vivid shades of sky blue or watermelon; $80 at nordstrom.com.

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help.

“And that was my call to action, to say to people, ‘Come be part of this, let’s build something together.’

So when we get into the right league for us, we can hit our mark.”

It won’t be easy, either.

According to the Faculty Senate’s Ad Hoc Committee on FBS football, the audited football budget in 2014 was $7,238,764. As a member of the MAC, UMass received a portion of the conference’s overall revenue share.

It won’t have that as an independent.

“It’s going to be huge because you don’t have a conference revenue share,” Bamford said. “You don’t have a piece of the pie.

That’s going to be one of our greatest challenges.

And that’s where I think we have to be creative.”

What UMass believes it

has is a young, inspired college administrator ready to get creative. It believes that Bamford’s experience with football, combined with his commitment to building relationships, will carry UMass athletics to national prominence – something it’s only flirting with right now.

It won’t be easy, that’s clear, as UMass has a number of football-related hurdles to jump. But both Bamford and Subbaswamy are ready to take on those challenges.

On Tuesday, one thing was for certain. Football is here to stay, and the future of UMass athletics could very much hinge on its success.

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

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Derrick Gordon averaged 9.8 points and 4.9 rebounds per game this season with the Minutemen.

“And we play a little bit differently. At the end of the day it was something that we talked about and he’s going to find a new place.”

As of now, UMass will return starting guards Trey Davis and Donte Clark, as well as guards Jabarie Hinds, Demetrius Dyson and C.J. Anderson.

The team will also welcome recruit Luwane Pipkins, who plays point guard.

Kellogg said that despite Gordon’s loss, he’s looking forward to working with his roster next year.

“I actually love the team we have coming back because we have a group of guys who are committed to UMass basketball,” Kellogg said. “I’m feeling good about having a group of guys who are all rowing the same way.”

When asked about the balancing of roles within the team, Kellogg said he was “fortunate” to have the guys he has in his system.

“You try to get the right kids who fit your system and how you coach and take on your personality,” Kellogg said. “It’s a world

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erate interest while doing so. According to Bamford, those building blocks are already in place.

“We have a great head coach, I think people at UMass and in this region know Mark Whipple is the right guy for the job,” he said. “He’s been tremendously successful. I’ll be honest with you, that for me alone was a huge selling point just to have him here.”

But can it sell enough for fans to make the yearly trips to Gillette Stadium worthwhile again? Or better yet, can it sell conference commissioners on inviting UMass to be a member?

“As an independent, it’s hard,” Bamford said. “Our schedule is going to be tough the next couple of years and we have to manage a little bit of expectation in that. But we need

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of instant gratification so it becomes a little difficult at times to get young people to buy into certain situations … I’ve been fortunate to have the right kids in the program.”

Kellogg said Gordon will remain on campus throughout the rest of the semester and will then take an additional course in the summer to meet graduation requirements.

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

PHOENIX — League owners voted unanimously at the NFL’s Annual Meeting on Tuesday to approve a new rule which will allow a spotter in the press box to communicate with officials and stop a game if he sees a player who appears to have concussion-like symptoms.

Had that rule been on the books as recently as two months ago, it might have altered the outcome of the Super Bowl.

It was in the fourth quarter of that game when Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman caught a 21-yard pass and was hit hard by Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor. He appeared dazed after the hit, but he returned to the huddle and did not leave the game. Edelman wound up catching the game-winning touchdown.

The Competition Committee analyzed that sequence of events in proposing the new rule.

“The Edelman situation was a play we looked at and it was part of the issue,” chairman Rich McKay said on Monday.

“There were a couple of other plays that go back a couple of years that we

looked at and really it came a little bit from the health and safety committee just saying, ‘We’ve got the ATC spotters, they’ve got a really good vantage point, they’ve got technology in their booth, they’re communicating pretty well with our trainers and doctors and we’ve got a pretty good rhythm going there, why would we miss a player where a player shouldn’t come out?’

Maybe this becomes the fail-safe.”

Prior to the rule being adopted, trainers in the press box were able to alert medical staffs to something that might have been missed on the field.

“This [resolution] now allows the ATC spotter to communicate directly with the game officials through their wireless communication system,” NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino said Monday. “He can say, ‘We have to get 82 out of the game.’ So it will happen before the next snap.

He’ll communicate with a member of the officiating crew and that game official will immediately stop the game. If the play clock is running, they will stop. They will freeze. The player will be escorted to

the sideline and the medical staff will attend to him if they need to on the field.

Or they will take him off to the sideline to attend to him. Then everything will start up again.”

McKay said he doesn’t think the new rule will interfere with the flow of the game.

“We do not expect this to be a rule that gets used a lot,” he said. “We expect it to be a fail-safe when people just don’t see this player and the distress the player may have had, the ATC spotter does and stops the game.”

Four other safety-based rules also were approved on Tuesday, including: –The broadening of the prohibition on peel-back blocks to include all offensive players and not just those inside the tackle box.

–Protection of wide receivers as defenseless players in the “immediate continuing action following an interception.”

–The elimination of chop blocks by running backs outside the area originally occupied by a tight end.

–The addition of a penalty for defensive players pushing their teammates when the opposing team is in a punt formation.

Hernandez trial advances

By Jenny Wilson The Hartford Courant FALL RIVER, Mass. —A Bristol, Conn. cousin of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez testified in detail Tuesday about the crazy, erratic, PCP-induced behavior of the two other men charged with murder in the 2013 Odin Lloyd homicide, but her memory failed her when she was asked to recall details about conversations she had with her relatives after the slaying.

Jennifer Mercado, 41, flashed a bright smile at Hernandez, 24, when she took the witness stand.

Forced to testify at her cousin’s murder trial under a grant of immunity from prosecution, Mercado often said, “I don’t remember,” in response to Bristol County Assistant District Attorney William McCauley’s questions.

Under cross-examination by defense lawyer Charles Rankin, however, Mercado’s memory seemed much stronger, as she told jurors how Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz – the two Bristol men with whom Hernandez is accused of killing Lloyd –acted when they smoked PCP-laced marijuana blunts. Hernandez used to smoke with them, but he only smoked marijuana, Mercado said.

Wallace, and occasionally Ortiz, used to stay at Mercado’s family house in Bristol. When Wallace was high on PCP, “he acted crazy, erratic,” Mercado said. “He would sometimes scream, mumbo jumbo that wasn’t even English.”

She told the jury that Wallace, while under the influence, would call her names, bang on the door of her home and scream expletives.

“And you remember that fine?” McCauley asked Mercado about the drug testimony, which came after lengthy exchanges under direct examination in which the witness had trouble recalling details from the spring and summer of 2013.

The lead prosecutor implied several times throughout

Mercado’s more than three hours of testimony that she was being selective in her memory.

“What accounts for your better memory on this question and your lack of memory on other questions?” he asked, after she answered a question about Wallace and Ortiz’s drug use.

Defense lawyers, as part of their strategy, have tried to implicate Wallace and Ortiz in Lloyd’s death by highlighting their use of PCP – or “angel dust” – a substance known to cause violent behavior.

Both Wallace and Ortiz have criminal records that include the use or possession of PCP. Hernandez, an admitted marijuana user, has no prior drug convictions.

Rankin asked Mercado to testify about Wallace and Ortiz’s behavior while high on PCP in spring 2013. He asked her specifically about the night of June 16, 2013, hours before Lloyd’s killing, when she saw them leave her home in Bristol before driving north to meet Hernandez in North Attleborough, Mass. They were sweating and acting “jittery,” Mercado said, after testifying that the men used to “sweat profusely” and act crazy or jittery while under the influence of PCP. In an effort to refute the suggestion that Wallace and Ortiz may have been high on PCP the night of the slaying, McCauley played surveillance footage of the two men arriving at Hernandez’s house around midnight on June 17, 2013, three hours before Lloyd’s time of death. The footage, from a driveway surveillance camera, shows them walking back and forth around the car, occasionally rummaging inside of it, and putting on extra layers of clothing. They do not appear to exhibit signs of aggression.

After playing the video, McCauley asked Mercado if Wallace and Ortiz’s behavior appeared consistent with what she had observed when they were under the influence of PCP. He men-

tioned that they were not screaming or shouting.

“Yes,” Mercado replied.

“The jitteriness, the walking back and forth, changing clothes, is consistent.”

Court adjourned Tuesday before prosecutors and defense attorneys finished questioning Mercado.

The cousin lives at 114 Lake Avenue in Bristol, a home searched multiple times during the Lloyd investigation. At one point, she described police as having “wrecked my home and pointed guns at me” when they executed a search of the house. Hernandez’s cousin, Tanya Singleton, also lived at the Lake Avenue house with her husband, T.L. Singleton, who is now deceased. T.L. Singleton was a close friend of both Wallace and Ortiz, Mercado testified Tuesday.

Tanya Singleton, charged as an accessory in the case, is accused of helping Wallace flee south to Florida days after the killing.

Prosecutors have established in prior testimony that both Wallace and Hernandez started using new phone numbers after Lloyd’s death. On Tuesday, McCauley asked Mercado about a text message she received from an unknown number the week after the slaying that gave her instructions to do something. The message was sent around the same time of Singleton and Wallace’s road trip south.

Mercado said she remembered the text message, but could not recall its contents.

She said she called the number and spoke to someone, but she could not remember with whom she spoke.

When McCauley showed her grand jury testimony to refresh her memory – and to point out an apparent contradiction with what she told jurors Tuesday – Mercado told him that the statements she made to the grand jury were based on prosecution documents provided to her at the time, not her own memory.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Gordon announces he will transfer Kellogg says it’s a mutual decision

By Mark Chiarelli Collegian Staff

Massachusetts men’s basketball guard Derrick Gordon has one year of eligibility remaining and hopes to display his talents in a prominent, featured role next season.

On Tuesday, both Gordon and UMass decided that it won’t be with the Minutemen.

The redshirt junior is leaving the team with the goal of transferring to another program. He plans to graduate this year, and is eligible to join another

program immediately.

“We had a great conversation and what really came out of it is that he’d like a little bit of a change of scenery,” UMass coach Derek Kellogg said when reached by phone Tuesday night. “He’d like to be more involved as a feature player on the basketball front and he thought a change of scenery would be good – and I agree. It was a mutual decision to let him graduate and find a place which might fit in a little bit better basketball-wise.”

A year ago, Gordon announced he was openly gay, becoming the first openly gay Division I men’s basketball player. Gordon

said his decision to leave had nothing to do with his sexuality in an interview with ESPN. “I appreciate everything that the coaches and my teammates have done for me,” Gordon said. “As far as me leaving, it has absolutely nothing to do with my sexuality. In fact, everyone could not have been more supportive with my situation.”

Instead, Gordon told the Daily Hampshire Gazette he simply wasn’t happy with his role.

“Throughout the whole year I wasn’t really happy,” he said. “I felt that I could be contributing a lot more and doing a lot more for

the team and unfortunately it didn’t work out … It was just one of those situations where I wasn’t happy. It was better to go ahead and leave. It’s a good thing I have one year of eligibility where I can go anywhere I want to and play right away.”

Gordon averaged 9.8 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 28.4 minutes per game last season. He’s admittedly eyed an NBA career, but at 6-foot-2 is considered an undersized shooting guard.

“I thought Derrick was great for us,” Kellogg said.

“I had no problems with his basketball game and where he was at. One of the

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Defense keys winning streak

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Derrick Gordon gets into a defensive stance against La Salle on March 12. things he said was he wanted the opportunities to, at some point, take care of his family. And he thought to do that, he had to be a

Goaltender Zach Oliveri deflects a shot against Quinnipiac on March 10. It was one of his 10 saves in the 18-5 UMass win.

Improved unit helps UM win 3 straight

By Anthony Chiusano Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s lacrosse team fell one play short in a 10-9 loss against Albany on March 7, dropping its record to 0-5 at the time. But in retrospect, the tightly-contested game against the thenNo. 16 Great Danes marked the beginning of a Minutemen turnaround.

Since the Albany loss, UMass (3-5, 1-0 CAA) has won three straight by an average of more than six goals per game.

The Minutemen have had great success offensively, scoring 18, 12 and nine goals respectively in the winning streak. But the main difference for UMass during this stretch has been its performance defensively.

The Minutemen have limited their opponents to singledigit goals in each of their last three games. These improvements were on full display in UMass’ most recent win, a low-scoring 9-7 victory over Hofstra Saturday.

The Minutemen finished 13-for-15 on clear attempts in the win and limited the Pride to two goals over the final 21 minutes. After Hofstra scored a pair of goals to cut the deficit to two with less than six min-

utes remaining, the UMass defense stood strong and established possession to close out the game.

“We were solid down the stretch and pretty disciplined in what we wanted to do,” assistant coach Craig McDonald said. “It was a team effort. Not just the defense but the offense did a good job and we did a good job with ground balls all over the field.”

While head coach Greg Cannella mostly works with the Minutemen attack, McDonald is responsible for defensive preparations. According to junior defender Kyle Karaska, the Minutemen’s defensive corps has bought into McDonald’s system, which has allowed them to gel as a group.

“He has really put in a good defense, something that really fits us and that we’re real comfortable running,” Karaska said. “In the beginning of the year, we were really struggling to keep things together and get everyone on the same page, but recently we’ve really strung everything together.

We’ve been on the same page and have been executing brilliantly.”

McDonald said the team’s chemistry has been apparent during UMass’ three-game winning streak. He added that the Minutemen’s tough schedule – UMass opened its

2015 season facing four ranked opponents in five games – has aided in the defense’s growth.

“We ran into some tough teams early on there and we’ve done a good job of growing in every game and every practice (since),” McDonald said. “It’s just the guys meshing together and really growing together as a unit.”

Junior goalie Zach Oliveri has been at the forefront of the Minutemen’s defensive charge. After starting the season poorly, he’s posted a save percentage of .789 in the last three wins and finished with 13 saves against Hofstra.

“He’s turned it on amazingly, we couldn’t ask more from him,” Karaska said of Oliveri’s recent play. “He’s really just staying on his head every game. He’s really making us look a lot better than sometimes it looks.”

But Oliveri credited Karaska and the defensive play in front of him for his recent success, saying they have done a good job of setting him up for easy saves.

“They really gave me shots that I would like to see,” Oliveri said. “They did a great job of keeping it tight and forcing outside shots. Hats off to the coaches on both ends for preparing us well.”

Defensive stops are likely to be a major theme in the Minutemen’s next game

on Saturday against No. 18 Towson, the nation’s fourthranked defense.

The Tigers have allowed an average of 7.33 goals per game and have limited opponents to less than 10 goals in seven of eight games this season.

“They’re a great team and they always give us a battle,” Oliveri said. “It’s going to be a dogfight.”

UMass is no stranger to Towson’s aggressive defense.

In last year’s conference matchup, the Tigers prevailed 6-5 at Garber Field. However, Karaska said he believes the Minutemen’s offense will find greater success this time around.

“I have faith in our offense to really put it past these guys,” Karaska said. “And I think our defense is going to hold down the fort and really shut down their offense.”

Karaska added that in a matchup where possession time will prove crucial, the outcome will be determined by the “hustle stats,” notably groundball pickups and faceoff wins.

“I really think the game is going to be won on ground balls, toughness and just who executes on both sides of the ball,” Karaska said.

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

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UMass meets football head on

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guy where a lot of different plays are run for or the offense runs through you to a certain extent.

here was no shying away from the McGuirk Stadiumsized elephant in the room Tuesday.

The University of Massachusetts’ new Athletic Director Ryan Bamford called it the “centerpiece” for future UMass athletics success, while Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy said the University has reached a critical stage in the life cycle of one particular sport.

Yes, we’re talking football.

U M a s s officially Mark Chiarelli a n n o u n c e d the hiring of Bamford as the school’s seventh full-time athletic director in history on Tuesday in a lively introduction ceremony at the Football Performance Center.

The marching band played, cheerleaders were in attendance and Subbaswamy even presented Bamford with his own basketball jersey – handing over a No. 24 UMass jersey, the same number Bamford wore when he played collegiately at Ithaca College.

Excitement danced through the air and the administration beamed with pride in its newest hire, as Subbaswamy referred to Bamford as a “rising star.” There was ample discussion about the prosperous future of UMass athletics.

And football was at the forefront.

The relationship between football and the UMass community hasn’t always been harmonious.

The jump to FBS hasn’t yielded favorable results on the scoreboard, but has resulted in substantial financial investments such as the Performance Center itself and has created friction between the University’s Faculty Senate and administration.

In other words, it’s been a challenge.

Bamford knows it.

Subbaswamy knows it too.

And neither shied away from the importance of

making football work moving forward, as Bamford takes over as athletic director.

“When looking at the needs of the position and what qualities we need to take the entire athletic department to new heights, Ryan checked every box,” Subbaswamy said in an address Tuesday.

Presumably, the football box was bigger than the rest.

Bamford arrives in Amherst after working as an associate athletic director at Georgia Tech, where he oversaw football.

That experience working within the Atlantic Coast Conference was crucial throughout the search process, according to Subbaswamy.

“In fact, from the very beginning as we put out a job search announcement, we said that we would prefer FBS-level experience, because clearly we’re in a transitional state having made the investments that we made in football,” he said. “Having major experience in a good football conference, a football school, was a big plus – almost a necessity. That was clearly one of the boxes.”

Bamford is leaving a football program ingrained in one of the strongest football conferences in the country that’s embedded in the football-crazy southeastern United States.

What he’s taking on is a football program that has only one year left in the Mid-American Conference, struggles to generate sustained interest and is fully preparing to take on life as an independent starting in 2016.

“Obviously the football piece, I’m not going to shy away from that in terms of conference alignment,” Bamford said when asked to elaborate on some of those challenges. “I think it’s important for us right now as we move into an independent in 2016 to raise the profile for football because that’s going to help us get into a conference.”

His goal, he says, is to find a permanent home within three to four years.

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