Massachusetts Daily Collegian: March 4, 2015

Opinion: ‘Blarney’ guest policy is too harsh and was announced too late.

-Charlotte Hoff

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Amherst’s newest breakfast establishment, Bread & Butter, features a vegan and gluten-free menu and recently opened last week.

Local eatery puts new spin on breakfast

By Isaac Burke Collegian Correspondent The latest addition to the restaurant scene in Amherst, Bread & Butter, opened its doors last week to bring locally sourced breakfast to a flock of hungry customers.

Bread & Butter has been both a “passion and a dream” for owner Brian Knox and his wife Jaime.

“I’ve been doing breakfast for the last 10 years, and I love it,” Knox said. “There’s something nice about being able to cook someone’s first meal of the day, especially if you can

make it nicer than normal.”

Knox moved to Amherst in 2001, and has had a career working for local restaurants such as Amber Waves, The Black Sheep and for three years, had a stint as the head chef at the University of Massachusetts sorority Sigma Delta Tau. Most recently, he was the sous chef at The Lone Wolf, before he decided he wanted to start his own restaurant.

“I think it was really once my wife and I realized we were having a baby, that we realized it was time to take that plunge and go into business for our-

selves,” Knox said.

“Controlling our own destiny,” he believes, was what motivated him to go out on his own.

Construction for Bread & Butter began over two years ago and has involved a number of people including contractors, local metal sculptor Kamil Peters, a childhood friend of Jaime Knox and a major contributor to the design of the restaurant’s interior. Though the projected opening date for the restaurant was in November, there were some delays.

According to Knox, it was

‘40 Years, 40 Artists’ in final week of its exhibit World-renowned artists featured

By Rachel Ravelli Collegian Correspondent The University Museum of Contemporary Art, located in the basement of the Fine Arts Center, is marking the final week of its sixweek exhibition, “40 Years, 40 Artists,” which celebrates the 40th anniversary of the museum on campus.

Created in 1975, the museum strives to bring contemporary international art onto the University of Massachusetts campus. And with this year marking an important anniversary, it is calling for the recognition of former artists affiliated with the University.

The museum has received 46 donations – six more than it had aimed for – from world-renowned artists who have participated in both exhibitions and education programs at UMass. Many of these artists trained in the museum itself.

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The museum was created in 1975 to bring contemporary international art to the UMass campus.

UMCA hopes this collection will open dialogue about ideas which challenge contemporary society.

Famous for his politically provocative pop art, Andy Warhol is the exhibition’s only featured artist who was never directly affiliated with UMass. His paintings are a gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. In 2007, the foundation made a donation of

28,543 of Warhol’s photographs to 183 colleges across the nation, 150 of which went to UMass.

“Andy Warhol has been attracting much of the exhibit’s attention,” said Amanda Urquhart, a UMass art student. “These pieces are important yet relatively unknown.”

Each of the exhibit’s artsee

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built to look like a barn that used to house the Amherst Trolley, and is uniquely decorated with polished cement surfaces for both the bar and the tables. Knox said over 8,000 pounds of concrete went into the dining room surfaces alone.

Knox added that the chairs came from an Easthampton elementary school, while the wood for the benches and booths came from the Albion Paper Mill in Holyoke. One long bench against the window was originally a support see

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Serving the UMass community since 1890

Neil Forbes, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts, has been awarded a five-year, $1.56 million grant from the National Institute of Health to research and develop strains of the salmonella bacteria that can target and kill cancer cells in tumors.

“It could lead to a way to treat cancer, specifically breast cancer,” said Forbes, who has been working with salmonella since 2001.

These salmonella work by invading cancer cells through the cell membrane, according to Forbes. Once the salmonella have detected they have entered cancer cells, it opens up, releasing its contents inside of the cancerous cells.

The contents of the sal-

monella vary between two options. One of the possibilities to be contained in the salmonella is peptides, which seek to interrupt the activities between two intra-cellular proteins, the enzyme protein phosphatase 1 and the regulator NIPP1.

“When you interrupt that interaction, it typically leads to cell death,” Forbes said.

The salmonella could also carry a genetic material which, once inside the cancer cell, converts into short hairpin RNA. shRNA then attempts to silence two regulatory genes, NIPP1 and EZH2.

Forbes hypothesized this could revert cancer cells to a state in which they would be unable to metastasize, or spread throughout the body.

While salmonella is typically toxic in humans, the see

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Forbes has recieved a $1.56 million grant from the National Institute of Health.

House GOP gives up the fight on Homeland Security

By Lisa Mascaro Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Congress ended the latest crisis over funding the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday after Speaker John A. Boehner switched course, abandoning the GOP’s strategy of trying to tack on restrictions to President Barack Obama’s immigration plan.

Conservatives were outraged that the embattled speaker declined to continue their fight against the immigration actions that many Republicans view as an overreach of executive authority.

They staged a series of procedural votes to prevent final approval. But the bill’s final passage allows GOP leadership to move away from a prolonged standoff that threatened the party’s image as Homeland Security funds were set to expire at the end of the week.

The vote was 257-167 after Boehner was forced to leave his conservative flank behind and reach across the aisle for support from Democrats led

by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi – something Boehner has been reluctant but repeatedly forced to do on major legislation.

“I am as outraged and frustrated as you at the lawless and unconstitutional actions of this president,” Boehner told his majority, as he announced his decision early Tuesday at a private meeting, according to a person in the room not authorized to discuss the session on the record.

But facing another midnight Friday deadline to fund the department or risk a shutdown, giving in was the best course of action, he said.

“I believe this decision – considering where we are - is the right one for this team, and the right one for this country,” Boehner said.

Just 75 Republicans voted to approve the measure; no Democrats opposed it.

Obama was expected to swiftly sign the bill into law.

The Senate, under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., approved the measure last week in a bipartisan

vote, leaving Boehner few options. The bill will fund the big Homeland Security Department, which oversees the nation’s vast domestic security and anti-terrorism apparatus, through Sept. 30.

The sudden change of course arrived none too soon for Republican leaders who endured criticism for failing to control their majority now that the party has control of Congress for the first time in eight years.

The strategy of using the funding bill to force Obama to back down on his immigration plan has consumed the first two months of the new Congress, escalating the party’s tough rhetoric against Latinos and other minority groups the party is trying to court in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.

That approach failed in the Senate, where Democrats blocked repeated attempts by McConnell to advance the legislation with restrictions on Obama’s plan to protect from deportation up to 5 million see

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immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.

“Unfortunately, the fight was never won in the other chamber,” Boehner said.

“Democrats stayed united and blocked our bill, and our Republican colleagues in the Senate never found a way to win this fight.”

Boehner tried to persuade his rank-and-file to turn their attention to the court fight over Obama’s plan, which was temporarily halted this month by a Texas judge. The administration is fighting the

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judge’s order.

“The good news is that the president’s executive action has been stopped, for now,” Boehner told Republicans in the closed session. “This matter will continue to be litigated in the courts, where we have our best chance of winning this fight.”

But that offered no salve to the GOP’s conservative flank, which has been dissatisfied with Boehner’s tenure as speaker. They staged a series of procedural maneuvers, including forcing a par-

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ists demonstrate their own way of challenging culture as they explore identity among capitalism and industrialism. Some pieces advocate environmentalism, such as Sheron Rupp’s “Innisfree Garden,” which uses nature, shape and passage to consider transient human presence among greater landscapes.

Other pieces, such as Jefferson Pinder’s “Invisible Man,” examine issues of race and class in America.

Pinder, like other artists in this exhibit, links notable literature to his own perspective by expanding interpretations of identity struggle. Such pieces are not only political statements like Warhol’s, but rather they explore mind, truth and identity through simple observations.

“These pieces are important yet relatively unknown.”

Amanda Urquhart, UMass art student Some artists used local influences. Joel Sternfeld’s “East Meadows” photographs depict nature clashing with human consumption in Northampton.

“All of the artists were here for the opening,” Urquhart said. “So it was a unique opportunity for students to collaborate with helpful professionals.”

Exhibitions by the UMCA are open to the public and are free of charge and “40 Years, 40 Artists” will run until March 8.

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

tial reading of the bill, as a floor fight broke out between Republicans. Some have grumbled that another leader may be better - though they have been unable to coalesce around an alternative choice.

“We need to stand up, use the power of the purse,” said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who led the floor challenge.

“It’s disappointing,” said Rep. Luke Messer, R-Ind. “I hoped we’d be able to continue the fight.”

“We just have to keep fighting on all levels to prevent

illegal executive amnesty,” added Republican Rep. John Fleming of Louisiana.

A funding cutoff would have furloughed some Homeland Security employees but forced most others to work without pay. The department oversees the Border Patrol, airport screenings and other crucial security programs, and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson had pleaded with Congress to provide stable funding.

More pragmatic

Republicans appeared relieved that the potentially damaging episode was over, for now, as they party tries to return to its agenda.

“Having a clean DHS bill will allow us move forward on not only this issue but other issues here in the future,” said Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif. “My thought has always been that we do not think what the president has done is constitutional, but that is something we should address in an immigration bill.”

Boston Marathon jury chosen, trial to begin Alleged bomber may face death

By Richard Serrano Tribune Washington Bureau BOSTON — Ten women and eight men, all of them Boston-area residents, were selected Tuesday afternoon as jurors and alternates to hear the case of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – the trial at last getting underway after two months of jury selection and repeated attempts to move the case out of Boston.

The panel members, almost all of them middle-aged, are to report Wednesday morning to the federal courthouse on Boston Harbor, not far from the finish line of the April 2013 bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others. It remained

unclear who are jurors and who are alternates; that distinction will not be announced until the end of the trial.

A pool of 64 potential jurors was brought into Judge George A. O’Toole Jr.’s courtroom, filling the benches as nine security officers, in suits and ties, positioned themselves around the room.

Tsarnaev, 21, in a brown sport coat, his hair shaggy, his beard thin, rarely looked at them.

One by one, the judge called the jurors’ numbers and asked them to take seats in the jury box. The judge then told them, “You have now been selected.”

He ordered the 18 jurors to return in the morning to be sworn in, and to hear opening statements in the trial against Tsarnaev, a Russian immigrant.

One of the jurors was described as being halfIranian, while the others

were white. Some were unemployed; one works as a house painter. All said they would be willing to put Tsarnaev to death if they found him guilty in the capital case being tried in federal court.

Massachusetts does not have a state death penalty, and polls in the state show a large number opposed to capital punishment.

If they do find Tsarnaev guilty, the trial would go into a sentencing phase, and the panel could vote on whether to put him to death for the worst terrorist attack in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001.

As the jurors left the courtroom and the security officers cleared the area, Tsarnaev stood and continued to look down.

He then was led away.

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“That was a fun challenge getting it in here,” he said.

In addition to these salvaged seats, the doors leading into the kitchen came from the Greenfield District Courthouse.

“I even got an email from a retired judge from Greenfield who said he was looking forward to coming in and seeing these doors being repurposed,” Knox said.

However, the furnishings are not the only locally sourced things at Bread & Butter. Knox is a member of the Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, a South Deerfield non-profit organization that helps connect farmers to buyers.

“We get a lot of stuff direct from local farms,” Knox said.

“Handing cash directly to the farmer, to the guy who picked (the produce) is nice. It’s really nice to meet the guy or the family who grew your food instead of it just showing up on a truck.”

All that local produce is prepared in-house to make some of Bread & Butter’s most popular specials. Among them is their own pork belly, prepared with a maple syrup

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and Sriracha, and their most popular dish, a duck confit hash that takes 10 hours of slow roasting to prepare.

Bread & Butter also caters to vegan and gluten-free customers in Amherst.

“We have a pancake that’s both vegan and gluten free,” Knox said. “Breakfast can so easily be gluten free. As long as you’re making it from scratch, you can pretty much make almost anything gluten free.”

Also on the health-conscious menu is a vegan omelet and a tofu scramble.

Knox said the response to the restaurant’s launch has already been “ridiculously busy,” and the owners also expect to be getting a liquor license soon to boost their Friday night menu.

“It’s been more than we ever imagined,” he said. “We look forward to being able to really offer Amherst everything we have.”

Bread & Butter is open every day from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., and reopens on Friday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Ann and Peter Zimmerman live down there road in Leverett and were excited to check out the “buzz” about the new restaurant.

Isaac Burke can be reached at iburke@umass.edu.

Since opening a week ago, Bread & Butter has experienced busy days, according to the owner.

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strain being used to kill these cancer cells has been shown to be safe through animals and humans, and, unlike normal salmonella, targets cells in tumors.

“We do it by manipulating their genetics,” Forbes said.

Forbes said salmonella is being used in these experiments because the bacteria can be manipulated, and can be bio-engineered with relative ease.

The study of salmonella’s potential to prevent disease is a new field, with the earliest papers on the subject having only been published in 1997.

While salmonella has already been shown to be able to place the necessary peptides and genetic material into cancer cells, the NIH grant will cover researching and developing salmonella that can enter tumors.

“The grant is for experiments to show salmonella will silence target genes in tumors and that peptides will eliminate metastasis,” Forbes said.

The NIH is one of the premier sources for biomedi-

cal funding. But achieving funding from the NIH is an extremely competitive process. Funding right now is very tight, and it is difficult for most applicants to successfully achieve it.

“I’m very proud of having succeeded in a competitive funding environment,” Forbes said.

The $1.56 million grant will cover research over the next five years, and will mainly be used to pay students and researchers working on these experiments during the next half decade.

There are still many obstacles which stand between the current salmonella cells and an effective cancer treatment, but Forbes believes the bacteria could be very helpful in preventing the spread of cancer throughout the body.

“It could be very helpful for women who have breast cancer and fear its recurrence,” he said.

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

Obamas are pushing to West Virginia gov. vetoes bill help educate all girls banning abortion at 20 weeks

By Ellie Silverman

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama announced Tuesday that the administration will expand a program to help adolescent girls across the world receive an education.

The Let Girls Learn initiative will build on a U.S. Agency for International Development campaign launched last year to provide an education to the more than 60 million girls not in school. Existing government programs address topics such as education, leadership, nutrition and protection against gender-based violence and forced marriages.

“I want to make sure that no girl out there is denied her chance to be a strong, capable woman with the resources that she needs to succeed - that no girl is prevented from making her unique contributions to the world,” President Obama said. “Every child is precious.

Every girl is precious. Every girl deserves an education.”

The president and first lady said this issue is personal to them because they are the parents of two daughters.

“I see myself in these girls.

I see our daughters in these girls,” Michelle Obama said.

“And like all of you, I just can’t walk away from them.

Like you, I can’t just sit back

“I see myself in these girls. I see our daughters in these girls. And like all of you, I just can’t walk away from them. Like you, I can’t just sit back and accept the barriers that keep them from realizing their promise.”

Michelle Obama, First Lady and accept the barriers that keep them from realizing their promise.”

The Peace Corps will look for ways to overcome barriers that prevent girls from completing their educations, including the cost of a uniform, school fees or a lack of textbooks, Peace Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet told reporters Monday night.

The organization’s nearly 7,000 volunteers in more than 60 developing countries already work with communities through grass-roots training, Hessler-Radelet said.

“Peace Corps volunteers are in a unique position to break down barriers to girls’ education at the community level,” Hessler-Radelet said.

“They speak the local language, they understand the local culture.”

The program will start with 11 countries the first year: Albania, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Georgia, Ghana, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Togo and Uganda. More countries will

be included the following year, according to the White House.

As part of the new initiative, Michelle Obama will travel to Japan and Cambodia later this month. She said she will meet with Akie Abe, the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Japan. In Cambodia, she said she will meet with Peace Corps volunteers and visit a local school.

President Obama’s budget recommends $250 million in new and reallocated money for girls programs worldwide, including education, said Tina Tchen, the first lady’s chief of staff.

USAID already invests $1 billion annually in international education, and the organization has helped train more than 300,000 teachers worldwide and provide more than 35 million textbooks and teaching material in a single year, said Susan Markham, USAID’s senior coordinator for gender equality and women’s empowerment.

By Maria L. La Ganga Los Angeles Times

West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin vetoed legislation Tuesday that would ban abortions at 20 weeks’ pregnancy, noting that the law would not pass constitutional muster.

It was the second time in two years that the Democrat vetoed bills that would make it more difficult for women to access abortion services.

“As reflected in my voting record during my time in the Legislature, I believe there is no greater gift of love than the gift of life,” Tomblin said in a written statement. “As governor, I must take into consideration a number of factors when reviewing legislation, including its constitutionality.

“At the start of the regular session, I urged members of the legislature to consider a compromise that would help us establish legislation that would pass constitutional muster,” he continued.

“Having received a substantially similar bill to the one vetoed last year on constitutional grounds, I must veto House Bill 2568.”

T he Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act provides no exceptions for rape or incest

and threatens to strip medical licenses from providers who perform abortions after 20 weeks. It is based on the premise that fetuses feel pain 20 weeks after conception, which is in dispute.

Federal judges have stopped similar pre-viability abortion bans in Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Arkansas and North Dakota.

On Tuesday, abortion rights groups hailed Tomblin’s action and derided the bill as cruel and unconstitutional.

“The governor has recognized that politicians aren’t medical experts, and they shouldn’t be interfering in the decision a woman has made with her doctor and family,” said Jennifer Dalven, director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. “Even if we disagree about abortion, we can agree that it’s better that each woman can make her own decision with those she trusts.”

Legislators need only a simple majority to override Tomblin’s veto.

“These cruel and dangerous measures are part of a broader effort to completely ban safe and legal abortion, and they are deeply unpopular with the majority of Americans,” said Cecile Richards,

president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “We’ll continue to fight these attacks on behalf of the patients who rely on us, no matter what.”

According to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights, states have enacted 231 laws restricting abortions in the last four years alone, a steep jump since the 2010 midterm elections. Just 26 were enacted in 2014, a Guttmacher report said in January, down from 70 in 2013.

“Nonetheless, the midterm election results provide good reason to be concerned about a renewed focus on restricting abortion in the upcoming 2015 legislative sessions,” the Guttmacher analysis said. “Republicans will now control both legislative chambers in 30 states, three more than in 2014.”

In Boise, Idaho, a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing abortion-inducing medication through telemedicine passed in the Idaho House on a party-line vote, according to The Associated Press. House lawmakers voted 55-14 on Monday.

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‘Blarney’ guest policy harsh and announced late My boyfriend and I met in high school, and this weekend will mark our three-year anniversary. He

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goes to school in Florida, and bought plane and bus tickets at the beginning of January to come visit me. It was perfect timing because his spring break starts Friday.

Then, about two weeks ago, I received an e-mail from the University of Massachusetts forbidding guests this upcoming weekend who aren’t UMass students.

I expected a change in the guest policy similar to ones from previous events, where we could only have

way that an exception could have been made based on the circumstances.

I have talked to a number of people about my dilemma and many of them have agreed that my feelings are warranted. When I told people about the argument I made, they were surprised that no exception was made.

Others have spoken of facing similar dilemmas, proving that this weekend is not all about “Blarney Blowout” – many students had prior plans. I highly doubt that the decision of such a large guest policy change two weeks before the “biggest party of the school year” was such a last minute decision. Students have a voice at this

“Students have a voice at this school, and the University shouldn’t impose new policies on us without adequate warning.” two non-UMass guests, but a policy this strict shocked me.

I talked to my residence director last Tuesday and explained my situation. I told her he would be arriving Friday afternoon, March 6, and asked if there was any way that an exception could be made given my situation and the short notice that was provided.

She put in a request to make an exception to the modified guest policy.

However, three days later, I received an email that said that despite my argument, no exceptions to the guest policy were going to be made.

Even better, the University’s alternate solution for me was to have my boyfriend get a hotel room in the university hotel, which costs about $150 a night, making it seem as though the result of the decision was primarily to make more money.

Unless the University would like to reimburse my boyfriend for the expenses of the trip, such a response is unacceptable, considering how long it waited to announce the new guest policy.

The University should not punish someone who has clearly advocated for herself, and shown based on the sincerity and legitimacy of her request – not to mention a strong academic record – no desire to participate in the festivities this weekend. There must be a

school, and the University shouldn’t impose new policies on us without adequate warning.

Let me make this clear, I’m all for following the rules and don’t often make requests to be an exception to the rules. However, my boyfriend spent close to $500 on tickets to get here, all of which is non-refundable at this point. He made the travel plans because this is the only time of the entire year that he can visit and I had said he would be able to stay here at UMass in my dorm. I am a freshman, so my only knowledge of “Blarney Blowout” is all hearsay, and it was almost impossible for me to know that this change in the guest policy was coming.

I understand the necessity for tighter restrictions, but what was wrong with a less strict modification to the guest policy, such as only being able to have two non-UMass guests?

And why should everyone, including some like myself who hadn’t even been accepted to UMass at this time last year, suffer for the actions of a small group of people?

These restrictions will not prevent UMass students from indulging in “Blarney.” So why implement such a harsh policy that will affect those who have no desire to participate in Saturday’s revelry?

Smartphone surge follows historic net neutrality decision To say that the past week was a momentous one in technology would be a catastrophic under-

nonetheless signal a period of monumental transition and change in technology and its relationship with society.

Johnny McCabe Ironically, the net neutrality decision and the statement. In the imme- smartphone announcediate wake of Lenovo’s ments have something else disastrous Superf ish in common – neither one security leak, which put was a surprise. Rumors millions of American leading up to the vote left consumers at risk of little doubt about which malicious activity, the way the FCC’s metaphoriFederal Communications cal wind would blow, while Commission took a land- leaks are as anticipated in mark vote last Thursday morning on approving net neutrality, a policy based upon reclassifying wireless internet as a public utility rather than a product, placing it in the same category as water and electricity.

Shortly thereafter, the the consumer tech indusMobile World Congress in try as they are on a subBarcelona featured both marine with a screen door.

Samsung and HTC, each Pundits and politicians of which revealed their alike have been reactrespective flagship devices ing to the FCC’s drastic for the next generation of pro-consumer decision for smartphones: the Samsung weeks, while big telecoms Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 like Comcast and Verizon Edge, and the HTC One are already warming up M9, respectively. While their lobbying engines to these occurrences are only fight the regulation that thematically linked, they would prevent them from

throttling data and granting tiered-payment access to content all across the internet. The legal battles ahead will unquestionably be long, drawn out and arduous, but they set a powerful precedent for the way in which consumers think the internet should function in society.

Samsung and HTC, in a completely different context, represent much the same progress toward the well-being of their con-

“While these occurrences are only thematically linked, they nonetheless signal a period of monumental transition and change in technology and its relationship with society.”

like Apple. Meanwhile, the HTC One M9 seems by all accounts to be simply an improved iteration on last year’s M8, keeping the allaluminum unibody design and gorgeous panel while doubling down on a beefy set of up-scaled internals and a brand new rear-facing camera.

Neither of these manufacturers has created the phone to end all phones – there is still plenty of room for improvement on many different fronts. Nor is the FCC’s Title II regulation perfect – the road to a free and open internet is beset by greed and corporate interests all along the way. While smartphone development can hardly compare to national policy, the two are both part of a larger, inevitably positive trend toward consumers, and toward the incredible potential of technology and the internet to integrate into society.

sumers. With the GS6, Samsung has finally abandoned their commitment to awful, slimy feeling plastic.

The phone’s 5.1 inch Super AMOLED display, protected by Gorilla Glass 4 on the front and back as well as a real metal frame around the sides represents an attention to build qual- Johnny McCabe is a Collegian ity that is unsurprisingly columnist and can be reached at inspired by competitors rjmccabe@umass.edu.

Charlotte Hoff is a Collegian contributor and can be reached at crhoff@umass.edu.

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Don’t worry over spring break fees Deals on flights and tips on hotels

By Nedra Rhone The Atlanta Journal-Constitution It’s time to start thinking about spring break travel, and this year there is good news and bad news, according to Hopper.com. The good news is overall prices for spring break flights are down about 8 percent compared to 2014, but you will pay up to 40 percent more for flights to the most popular destinations. Here are a few tips to help you save: You can save some money by traveling to destinations like Miami, Puerto Vallarta, Cabo, Hilo (Hawaii) and Montego Bay, which saw the biggest price drops from last year. Acapulco, Daytona Beach, Bermuda, Pensacola and San Juan are all more expensive this year.

Flying on a Tuesday will save you five percent, according to Hopper data, while a Friday or Saturday departure will cost 18 and 19 percent more, respectively.

The best dates to travel are this week or April 20. The more expensive weeks are the week of March 23 and March 30. If you are traveling during the more expensive weeks, a trip to a city in Florida or Myrtle Beach would be your most affordable option.

For travel outside the U.S., consider San Juan, Cabo or Montego Bay. Try to book at least two weeks in advance and as always, monitor prices for fluctuations to make sure you are getting the best deal.

Hotel deals are heating up as well. Here are just a few to consider when you are making your travel arrangements: Best Western: Now through March 15, Best Western Rewards members who stay two separate times can choose a gift card for travel or shopping. Choose gift cards from Amazon, Best Buy, iTunes, Dunkin Donuts and more, in addition to saving up to 20 percent at participating Best Western hotels when you book the best value rate at bestwestern.com.

Register for Best Western Rewards and the free pro-

motion at bestwestern.com/ spring.

Red Roof Inn: Use the promo code 618909 when booking a room at the renovated Red Roof Inn hotels to get up to 20 percent off with their Snowbirds promotion.

For millennial travelers: Millennials represent 20 percent of international travelers and big hotel brands have responded with accommodations that appeal to this group including new entrants such as Moxy (Marriott), Tommie (Commune Hotels) and Radisson Red, as well as more locations of existing millennial friendly hotels such Aloft (Starwood), Andaz (Hyatt), CitizenM and Hotel Indigo (InterContinental Hotels).

Millennials visiting New York have discovered the affordability of Pod Hotels, which offers high-tech amenities, public spaces and more for a low price point. Pod 39 is on East 39th Street and Pod 51 is on East 51st Street. Each offer fun communal spaces and access to walking tours and dining options.

Loews Hotels & Resorts: A new partnership between the hotel brand and the children’s network, Sprout, offers families a fund deal. Guests traveling with children five and under will enjoy perks including: custom Sprout themed activity books upon arrival; Sprout placemats to color and play on at all three-meal restaurants and the chance to try out the new Sprout Channel Cubby Tablet preloaded with full Sprout show episodes, music videos and recommended apps.

You can also reserve a Sprout Dream Stay Welcome Package, which includes a custom Sprout backpack, toothbrush, water bottle, activity book and mini Chica Plush toy. Sprout-branded wristbands will allow kids to eat for free at hotel restaurants. You can reserve it now through October 2015 by calling 1-800-23-LOEWS or visiting www.loewshotels.com.

The package is not available at Loews Hotel Vogue, Loews Regency Hotel, Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando or Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort.

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Retrospective designs featured on the runways at Milan Fashion Week Fall/winter 2015 collections debued B y R ichard N guyen Collegian Correspondent Fashion is a swinging pendulum, and what was in style “back in the day” can come back in style any time.

That was the unofficial theme of Milan Fashion Week, which took a retrospective approach to fashion as designers referenced the past for their fall/winter 2015 collections and runway looks.

The show concluded on March 2, having lasted for a week.

Jeremy Scott, creative director of Moschino, was influenced by 1990s urban style for his 2015 collection. Puffer jackets and outerwear “re-twisted in a new way,” were some of the themes that came up when he spoke to Style. com. From neon puffer jackets, to Looney Tunes embroidered knit minidresses, Scott embraced the urban vibe of New York City. His cheeky finish to the collection featured evening gowns that were made to look like someone spray painted all over them.

Versace is a brand that epitomizes Italian fashion and for this upcoming season, Donatella Versace did not disappoint. The collection only used the five colors: Red, yellow, green, blue and black and Donatella paid homage to the old Versace, back when her brother Gianni Versace was the creative director of Versace from the 1980s to the late 1990s.

One of the jackets in the fall/winter 2015 collection was reminiscent of Gianni’s 1992 collection titled “Miss S&M.” Donatella wasn’t trying to copy what her late brother had done. Rather, she wanted to infuse the old with the new. She managed to incorporate hashtags, emojis and other digital

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Passersby, sporting “street style” looks, make their way to Milan Fashion Week. symbolism in a tasteful way by placing the beaded Versace logos over the finale looks.

From a sexy blast to the past of Versace, comes Dolce & Gabbana for the future – motherhood. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana had three models that were mothers walk the runway with their children. Not many designers do that. Also,

reported by Style.com.

Dean and Dan Caten of DSquared2 also drew from their past collections this season. The two brothers have a knack for dramatic presentation on the runway that was noticeably toned down in their presentation. Past designs include an abandoned island with a waterfall, mud on the runway and a winter paradise. This sea-

Fashion is a swinging pendulum and what was in style “back in the day” can come back in style any time.

Dolce & Gabbana favorite, Bianca Balti, walked the runway while very pregnant.

The collection itself was very feminine, with sleek cuts and lace galore.

There was also a reoccurring theme of embroidery throughout the collection.

Domenico’s nieces created drawings, and he used those drawings as embroidery on some of the dresses and skirts in the collection. The rose was also a common motif throughout the collection, as Stefano’s mother’s rose scented perfume was the influence, as

kid goes camping” vibe. In addition, models wore geometric bodysuits underneath their clothes, so that when skin was exposed it was made to look like they were tattooed.

The short-lived Creative Director for Emilio Pucci, Peter Dundas, showed he can learn from the past as well. Dundas’ final collection for Pucci was some of his greatest hits with the brand, while both still keeping the Pucci print motif and also adding something new. The ombré-dyed mini body-con dresses, that were previously in his fall 2010 collection, made a reappearance, expect this time Dundas rendered different astrological signs on the clothing that matched with the model. He also brought a sexy rock-and-roll edge to colorful iconic Pucci prints.

When a new designer takes over a well-known brand as the creative director, they hope to make a lasting impact, and it seems the next creative director at Pucci has a large past to live up to.

son only featured a simple staircase, a pink runway and a spotlight that led the models down the runway.

According to Yahoo. com, the twins were also influenced by their Canadian heritage for their collection. The collection had a tribal glamour feel to it, and with a mishmash of styles in the collection, what could have been a visual nightmare managed to work. Military embroidered jackets lined with fur gave it that earthy edge, while the blinged-out jewelry and opera gloves Richard Nguyen can be reached at gave the clothes a “rich richardnguye@umass.edu.

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Cady Lalanne (25) and Maxie Esho (1) will be honored prior to Wed. game. their tenures are done at UMass.

And while the two have been through the ups and the downs together, embarking on their journeys together is something the two pride their relationship on.

“It’s been really nice.

Me and him came together and we are now leaving together. Some other guys game with us and we’ve

seen a lot of people leave,” Esho said. “You can say it’s been a journey we’ve been on together since we’ve been here and it’s been really nice. I don’t think I’d want to pick another player to do that with.”

Esho and Lalanne’s families will be in attendance at Mullins Center for the first time in their careers. Esho’s family

is making the trip from Washington D.C., while Lalanne’s mother and sisters are making the trip up from Orlando, Florida.

Esho currently sits at 991 career points and doing so on Senior Night is something that would make it a night to remember – Lalanne also hit the 1,000-point club early this season on Feb. 4 against Fordham. However, Esho is still trying to remain focused on the task at hand.

“That would be a really nice thing to do. I didn’t even know I was closing in on 1,000 points honestly,” he said. “I just want to win, so I mean getting the win would be even bigger than those nine points, but it would be really nice to get that 1,000th point.”

Both players will be honored before the game.

Tip-off from Mullins Center will be at 7:30 p.m. against Richmond.

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

MLS

Potential lockout coming to MLS No new agreement reached on Tuesday

By Don Ruiz The News Tribune TUKWILA, Wash. — The Seattle Sounders have begun game-week preparations for a weekend in which there may be no games.

While the Sounders trained Tuesday for their scheduled Major League Soccer opener Sunday against the New England Revolution, captain Brad Evans was in Washington, D.C., with other union representatives for collective bargaining with the league.

If no new agreement is reached soon, there could be a lockout or strike before the planned start of the MLS season Friday, when the Chicago Fire visits the defending champion Los Angeles Galaxy.

The players’ top issue is some form of free agency, while the league hasn’t offered what is considered an acceptable version.

Back in Tukwila, the Sounders admit that the topic is unavoidable.

“I’m sure it’s on their minds,” coach Sigi Schmid said. “One thing that I’ve held back on as a coach is

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I don’t want to go in there and say, ‘All right, here we go, let’s go,’ and then all of a sudden it’s not let’s go for a while. I want to wait until that all gets resolved. I think everybody will feel better from both sides.”

Schmid, of course, is management. But several of his players took similar stances Tuesday.

“It’s in the back of everyone’s head, but the only thing that we can control at this point is how we prepare for Sunday,” veteran defender Zach Scott said. “We have no control over what happens in the boardroom. We have great leadership in there, and hopefully something gets done. For both sides, the best possible outcome is the games go on.”

The Sounders will push forward with that assumption, as Schmid set this agenda for the week ahead.

“Dot all the I’s, cross all the T’s kind of thing,” he said. “Just make sure that we’re where we want to be defensively in terms of covering and closing gaps. I think in preseason there’s been a couple of times we’ve taken what I would call soft goals that we didn’t need to take.

And making sure that we’re sharp offensively, meeting with the guys so they under-

The MLS season is currently scheduled to begin on March 7th. stand exactly what their role is and what our expectations are of them.”

One thing the Sounders will not do until a new CBA is signed is make any roster moves, because the new agreement is likely to address relevant issues such as the number of players on the first-team roster, and the relationship between the MLS teams and their USL affiliates.

“We want to get a clear picture and then we’ll make some decisions,” Schmid said. “We’ll know how everything’s working between the Sounders and S2 and all of those things _ call ups and loans down and how all that

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gets affected _ and then we’ll make some decisions.”

The Sounders are scheduled to return to training Wednesday, which also is the final day scheduled for talks between the union and the league.

“We all are training hoping that everything is going to get figured out,” goalkeeper Stefan Frei said. “Trust me: I know that no professional athlete wants to go through double-days in preseason and then get that dessert _ that home opener _ taken away from them. So we’re all hoping things are going to get worked out and we can play in front of our fans.”

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gotten on balance and really got going. We’re going to continue to take a look at that and try different ways to stop him as well as the team.”

Richmond enters on a four-game winning streak which includes wins over Virginia Commonwealth University and George Washington. They play a match-up zone defensively and look to score offensively without upping the pace of the game.

It’s a style which contrasts with UMass’ ideal style of up-tempo play.

“I’m trying to figure out what pace is the best, how fast to go and how to play,” Kellogg said. “It’s two similar but contrasting styles,

if that makes sense. We’re both looking to put points on the board but we’re trying to do it in different ways.”

The Spiders are currently tied with the Minutemen within the conference after scuffling out of the gates.

“They’re shooting the ball a little better, they’re making shots,” Kellogg said. “I do think it’s a little more free-flowing and the ball’s moving faster.

I think the guys have become more comfortable in their defensive process.

They’ve gotten a little better in a lot of different areas.”

Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the Mullins Center. UMass will honor

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was a key member off the bench, appearing in all 32 games and making his lone start in the second-round game against Tennessee.

But when the two were both asked to reflect on their time at UMass, they each had a similar message – the journey went by in the blink of an eye.

“Yeah it really is kind of weird,” Lalanne said when asked about how fast his career went by. “Me and Maxie actually talked after the game on Saturday and it just feels like we got here the other day. It feels kind of weird but it’s been a fun ride.”

“It doesn’t seem like a long time because it went by so fast. I know I’ve been here for a while but I think when you are enjoying yourself a long time can go by like that,” Esho said.

Both Esho and Lalanne’s friendship goes well beyond the basketball court. The two have been close over their five years together and both plan to keep in contact well after

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Celtics have no choice but to make playoff push

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’ll be the first to admit I was the train conductor when it came to the locomotive that was tankapalooza for the Boston Celtics in the 2013-14 season.

The idea of having one of our beloved Boston sports teams “tank” for a better draft position was exciting to me.

But rooting for losses?

Andrew What kind of sports Cyr fan roots for that?

The Patriots won their first Super Bowl when I was in the first grade and I grew up in the decade of Boston sports dominance.

Four Super Bowls for the Patriots, three World Series trophies, a NBA final win and a Stanley Cup all during that span is stuff that only the people of Philadelphia and Cleveland can envision in their wildest dreams.

This area is pretty spoiled.

Not to mention all of those runs were phenomenal events and probably took more years off my life than I’d like to admit, but that’s a story for a different day.

Back to the Celtics.

No matter how much fun I’m having watching the 5-foot-9 Isaiah Thomas run around like a madman averaging 21.8 points per game over his first five in green, the Celtics are in the worst possible place they could possibly be in – the wasteland between “legit contenders” and “not bad enough to get a good pick.”

Remember that wasteland where the billboard was in the “Great Gatsby?”

That’s where the Celtics are.

I never thought my 11th grade English curriculum would ever come back to help me in life, but I guess I stand corrected.

By the way, Thomas’ 109 points through five games, is second most all time behind the 113 both Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett scored over their first games with the Celtics. Hattip to radio play-by-play announcer Sean Grande for that stat. He truly is one of the best stat-tweeters there is.

Boston’s only two games back from the eighth playoff spot and only 2.5 games behind the Miami Heat who currently hold the seventh

seed in the Eastern conference. However, along with the Celtics and Heat, the Nets, Pistons, Pacers and Hornets all have legitimate shots to make a push toward the playoffs.

The West playoffs are going to be unreal this year – I truly believe the top eight seeds can beat any other team on any given night. If the West playoffs are considered the NCAA tournament, call the race for the East seven and eight seeds the NIT. What makes this fascinating is that the Celtics are doing this without a household name on the roster.

Jae Crowder, Evan Turner and Brandon Bass playing significant roles? Not to knock them, but those are the kind of players you want coming off your bench if you’re a legit contender.

Also in a column coming soon – why Avery Bradley would be the best sixth man in the NBA. The Celtics are almost getting too much out of Brad Stevens. He’s surviving – and in some cases, thriving – with the reject toys in a world dominated by electronics and video games. He get’s the most out of these B or C-level players possible. And it’s proven to be effective.

That being said, the joy of tanking is all over.

They’re too good to fall to the lottery again. They have no choice but to make it exciting for fans and make a run to the playoffs. Might as well try to milk every last drop of this possible.

The NBA is by far the worst league for developing late round picks. Yes, the NBA only has two rounds, however it’s fairly uncommon you see success stories of second round picks becoming stars. The NBA is a league where if you don’t score big in the top-five picks in the draft, you’re straight out of luck.

The NBA is a star-driven league and outside of the few obvious gems at the tops of big boards, the chances of getting a franchise-player exponentially decrease.

So Celtics, make it fun for us while you still can.

I’m done with this losing crap – one year was more than enough for me.

Isn’t it fun to be spoiled?

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

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“It’s the light at the end of the tunnel.

We played a lot of games that could have ended our season, so it adds a level of excitement.”

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Demetrius Dyson (22) sits in a defensive stance in a 82-74 win against Fordham on Feb 28. seniors Maxie Esho and Cady Lalanne before the game on Senior Night, and both players will have family members in attendance

for the pregame ceremony.

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

Sharon Dawley, UMass Coach so we’re going in tournament ready and we’re pretty psyched about it.

No matter what the result is for UMass Wednesday, there is no denying the strides forward that this team has made. This season marks the first time since the 2009-10 season, and the first time in Dawley’s tenure, that the team has gone over 10 wins in a season.

“This team is very resilient and no matter what they stay positive,” Dawley said. “This team

does a good moving to the next game and has gotten so much better over the course of this season. All of these things make us so excited for this tournament opportunity.

Tip-off is at 4:30pm at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia, with the winner facing No. 5 Richmond in the second round on Thursday.

Adam Aucoin can be reached at aaucoin@umass.edu.

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The final goodbye UMass vs Richmond WEDNESDAY 7:30 P.M. MULLINS CENTER

Esho, Lalanne to play final game at Mullins Center

By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

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Cady Lalanne became the 47th player in UMass history to score 1,000 points on Feb. 4, in a 78-72 win against Fordham.

There are two players on the Massachusetts men’s basketball team’s roster which stand out above the rest in terms of ability to erupt a crowd and change the pace of a game with the blink of an eye.

So it’s only fitting that the pair – Cady Lalanne and Maxie Esho – are playing in their final home game together Wednesday night against Richmond on Senior Night.

The two came through the program together five years ago prior to the 201011 season and have both been key contributors in helping UMass make a name for itself again.

Whether it was key plays each made during the team’s NCAA tournament run last season, or making ESPN Sportscenter’s Top 10 plays with emphatic dunks, both Esho and

Lalanne have made their share of contributions to the Minutemen over the last four years.

“It sneaks up on you fast.

It’s even surreal leading up to it. It came up on us kind of quick but they’ve meant a lot to our program and they’ve done some really great things here,” UMass coach Derek Kellogg said.

“It’s been a long time.

They’ve spent about 20 percent of their life here.

Just watching those guys go from being skinny, athletic guys on the recruiting trail to growing into men is something special for a coach.”

The pair have started every game this season for the Minutemen and Esho (11.6 points per game) and Lalanne (11.5) are the top leading scorers respectively. Lalanne was also a starter on last year’s tournament team while Esho see

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Maxie Esho currently leads the Minutemen with 11.6 points per game.

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Both teams 10-6 in conference play

UMass to play St. Bonaventure Wed.

Minutemen, Richmond Minutewomen ready for battle for No. 5 seed A-10 tournament to begin

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Trey Davis said the Massachusetts men’s basketball team’s coaching staff had an assignment for him.

They needed Davis to be more of a defensive presence, to assert himself on both ends of the floor.

The guard worked on his defense all season and is slowly starting to see the results.

Over his last three games, Davis is averaging 2.3 steals per game. He had four in an 82-71 loss to Saint Joseph’s last Wednesday and back-to-back steals Saturday against Fordham.

And while Rams point guard Mandell Thomas had 29 points in the game, it was Davis’ two steals which jumpstarted the victory.

“I’m just trying to be more aggressive on the defensive end,” Davis said. “(I’ll) do whatever to help the team.”

Now, another difficult defensive assignment awaits Davis and the Minutemen.

UMass hosts Richmond Wednesday night in its final regular season home game of the season. The Spiders are led by diminutive point guard Kendall Anthony, who is averaging

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The UMass bench celebrates during an 82-74 win over Fordham on Feb. 28.

16.4 points per game.

“I’m just going to try to play smart,” said Davis on defending Anthony. “I’m taller so I’ll keep my hand (up) and keep my distance and put up a hand up on shots.”

Luckily for Davis, who is a junior, guarding smaller scorers was once something he had to do every day in practice. He was former UMass guard Chaz Williams’ understudy for his first two seasons in Amherst.

“I think I know what I’m doing against smaller players,” said Davis of guarding the 5-foot-8 Anthony.

“He’s not as fast as Chaz (who was 5-foot-9) and I’m about the same height.

Davis said that he saw on tape that Anthony prefers to shoot more pull-up jump shots than Williams,

and prefers to score off the dribble. UMass coach Derek Kellogg went one step further, saying Anthony’s adept at initiating contact in the paint.

Kellogg also said Anthony looks to score within Richmond’s motion offense, but he’s also an unselfish player. While Davis will defend Anthony at certain junctures, Kellogg made it clear he’ll need multiple players to slow him down.

“We’re going to mix it up quite a bit,” Kellogg said.

“He’s the one guy I think you have to give different looks to. Maybe a longer, athletic guy and a smaller, quicker guy. Switch a little bit, try to keep him off balance.

“The last couple of games’ (opponents) have see

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With the calendars turned to March, there’s only one thing on the mind of college basketball players, coaches and fans: tournament time.

The Massachusetts women’s basketball team begins its postseason journey in the Atlantic 10 tournament Wednesday with a first-round matchup against St. Bonaventure.

UMass (11-17, 5-11 A-10) comes into this game as the No. 13 seed while the Bonnies (15-14, 5-11 A-10) are the No. 12 seed.

The Minutewomen faced St. Bonaventure twice back in January and came up short both times, losing 65-53 in the first matchup in Olean on Jan. 3, and 77-57 back home at Mullins Center on Jan. 31.

Despite their struggles with the Bonnies this season, UMass coach Sharon Dawley is confident in reversing this trend.

“They got a lot of easy shots in their games against us this season, especially the game at UMass,” Dawley said. “As long as we play better man-to-man defense, make them take tougher shots and win the rebound war, I’m confident that we can win this game.”

“As long as we play better man-to-man defense, make them take tougher shots and win the rebound war, I’m confident that we can win this game.”

Sharon Dawley, UMass coach If the Minutewomen want to change their fortunes, they will have to slow down the two players that have hurt them the most, which according to Dawley are forward Katie Healy and guard Nyla Rueter. Healy dropped 25 points in their first contest and 14 in the next game while Rueter added up 22 in the second contest.

Both Healy (14.0 points per game) and Rueter (10.8) are the only Bonnies averaging double figures for the Bonnies. Hannah Little follows closely at 9.2.

The Minutewomen will also need to receive more than the usual production they get out of forward Kim Pierre-Louis. More players will have to step up for the team to be successful in the tournament if they want to have a shot at advancing.

Cierra Dillard ended the season on a high-note, as she scored up 20 points on Senior Night, making it the third time this season she has crossed that threshold.

Her effort against Rhode Island on Sunday

earned her A-10 co-rookie of the week honors.

A Clean Slate

Although Dawley’s seen much more success in conference play this year than in the past two seasons combined, she fully embraced the opportunity to get a fresh start in the conference tournament.

“It’s the light at the end of the tunnel,” Dawley said. “We played a lot of games that could have ended our season, so it adds a level of excitement at the end of the season when you need that push through when you might be fatigued.”

She credits the loss against Dayton on Feb. 26 as the best game the team has played all season, talking about how UMass held the Flyers to only 69 points. A few days later, the Flyers scored 95 against Saint Louis.

“I am very confident in my team right now,” Dawley said. “Our defense is sound right now and we have played great recently, see

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