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Economist Thomas Piketty speaks at UMass Talk covers foreign and American economics

By William Keve Collegian Correspondent Hundreds filled the University of Massachusetts’ Student Union Ballroom past capacity on Thursday to hear a lecture by French economist Thomas Piketty. Seats were filled, and the walls were lined with spectators all waiting to hear Piketty speak on austerity, world tax structures and his No. 1 best-selling book, “Capital in the 21st Century.” Introductions

by Provost Katherine Newman, as well as economics department Chair Michael Ash, preceded the speech.

“This is an amazing gathering,”

Newman said. “How often do you see a crowd like this to have a serious discussion in economics? It does not happen every day. We are thrilled.”

Ash defined Piketty as, “The man who coined the term 1 percent.”

“My book is primarily about the history of wealth and income distribution,” Piketty said. In fact, “Capital in the 21st century,” studies global dynamics of income and wealth inequality in over 20 countries, going back as far as the 1700s.

Piketty’s presentation centered on three main points: the return of a patrimonial society in Europe and Japan; the future of wealth concentration and income inequality in the United States.

The first two points were addressed briefly before American

economics dominated the lecture.

However, the world-renowned economist hit some key points on the rest of the world.

“Under plausible assumptions, wealth concentration might reach or surpass 19th-century levels,” Piketty said.

While this may sound like a good thing, Piketty said the feudal monarchies of Europe and Japan held wealth in their country that would make Wall Street executives jealous when adjusted for inflation. Essentially, Piketty’s point was that the capitalist system designed to replace monarchies is no longer doing a better job – the rich are actually getting richer than the kings see

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French economist Thomas Piketty spoke in the Student Union Ballroom on Thursday.

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Turning over a new leaf

Hampshire DC to source more local produce Project to promote food sustainability

By Cecilia Prado Collegian Staff

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The UMass campus is changing as the leaves turn shades of red, yellow and orange just in time for autumn.

Protests continue in Hong Kong Students refuse to abandon Mong Kok

refused to comply.

Protest leaders hoped occupiers would abandon a protest site in the gang territory of Mong Kok, on

By Stuart Leavenworth the Kowloon side of Hong McClatchy Foreign Staff Kong, to consolidate with HONG KONG — A week protesters who have occuafter students started occu- pied plazas and streets near pying public spaces in the government complex in three points in Hong Kong, Admiralty. But many Mong some protest groups agreed Kok protesters either didn’t Sunday to give up some of believe the call to retreat, or their ground, but hundreds took issue with the strategy. of rank-and-file occupiers “Mong Kok is totally dif-

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Protestors man a barricade in Mong Kok near the main protest site.

ferent than Admiralty,” said Kelvin Cheung, 23, a supporter of the students camped along Nathan Avenue in Mong Kog. “We think it is wrong to give up this place just because the government allowed the Triads to cause trouble here,” Cheung said, referring to the gangs thought to have caused a melee Friday in Mong Kok. The anti-authoritarian nature of the protests has propelled thousands of Hong Kong residents, most of them young, to take to the street in mass defiance of the Chinese government and the city’s local government. But it also made it harder for student leaders and their supporters to persuade street activists to retreat and consolidate elsewhere, if only for their own safety.

Some student leaders were convinced that police would use deadly force early Monday if steps were not taken to reopen some thoroughfares to traffic before the morning rush hour.

After taking a vote, a core group of occupiers reportedly voted to retreat from Mong Kok, on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong, where crowds of angry men started attacking protesters Friday, demanding that streets be reopened.

Despite that vote, some protesters refused to leave the site and hundreds remained there early Monday. There was similar defiance to a call by student leaders to end a human blockade in front of the offices of Hong Kong’s chief executive late Sunday.

The day before, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying went on TV to warn that police have been ordered to uproot the protesters by Monday.

“The government and the police have the duty and determination to take all necessary actions to restore social order so the government and the 7 million people of Hong Kong can return to their normal work and life,” said Leung, whose ressee

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Hampshire Dining Commons will be the first on-campus eatery at the University of Massachusetts to obtain most of its food and produce from local sources.

These plans are part of the UMass Healthy and Sustainable Food System Initiative, a pilot project expected to transform the dining hall into a model for food sustainability.

A report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations stated the agricultural sector is the second highest source of greenhouse gases in the country. According to the UMass Dining website, the Healthy and Sustainable Food System Initiative has already taken several measures to decrease the environmental consequences caused by agricultural practices. This is funded by a grant from the Kendall Foundation, which is used to invest in responsible farms and businesses in the New England region.

Rachel Dutton, the sustainability manager of UMass Auxiliary Enterprises said creating partnerships with local farms rather than with large industries is a step toward increasing food quality and promoting

environmental responsibility. “(Local farmers) live here and are deeply invested in the land that they work on,” Dutton said.

“The fact that these establishments are within near distance makes it easier for UMass to ask them to change their practices if necessary.”

The Healthy and Sustainable Food Initiative System mentioned on its website that this program will serve as an experiment to build a large network of regional growers and distributors, community members and departments around campus.

According to the UMass Sustainability website, the Hampshire project will help to reduce the carbon emissions produced during food production and oil-dependent food transportation known as food miles.

According to Dutton, sourcing local foods has a variety of environmental, health and economic benefits that regular organic foods don’t.

“The concept, ‘Organic’ has a very specific meaning,” Dutton said. “Organic farming may still involve large-scale industrial practices. It does not offer a full answer to the environmental problem.”

Hampshire already sources about 30 percent local produce from supporting farms and see

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Students can expect more local foods in Hampshire Dining Commons.

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THE RUNDOWN ON THIS DAY...

In 1979, John Paul II met Jimmy Carter, making him the first pope to ever visit the White House.

New rule will make prescription drug refills harder to get Many fear effects of painkiller abuse

AROUND THE WORLD

By Blythe Bernhard

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities have found six graves that may contain the bodies of more than 40 university students who went missing a week ago after clashing with local police in the violent state of Guerrero.

The semiofficial National Human Rights Commission said Sunday that experts will conduct DNA tests in an attempt to identify bodies found in the graves. It was not yet clear how many bodies were present.

Guerrero state Health Minister Lazaro Mazon said nine bodies, burned beyond recognition, were recovered from the muddy pits in the first series of exhumations. He said it could take two weeks before identifications are made. Later, state prosecutor Inaky Blanco said 28 bodies had been recovered, in various conditions.

Parents who have been demanding the return of their children attempted to reach the site of the makeshift graves, near a slum on the outskirts of the city of Iguala, about 80 miles south of Mexico City. They and supporters blocked major highways in the area for several hours.

“You took them alive, we want them returned alive,” read a huge banner unfurled across the highway that leads from Mexico City to Acapulco.

On Sept. 26-27, Iguala city police attacked a group of students rallying to protest against government policies. Six people were killed, more than two dozen injured and more than 50 students vanished. About 15 students eventually were found hiding in their homes, but 43 remained missing. Within days, 22 police officers were arrested for what prosecutors said was use of excessive force.

Parents and surviving students have said they last saw some of the missing being taken away by police. Several parents offered up license plate numbers of the police vehicles that took away their children.

Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre said the local police department was thoroughly penetrated by criminal organizations, at whose behest the police may have been acting.

He said that after the the graves were found, an additional eight people were arrested. He did not identify them.

If the graves turn out to contain the students, it will suggest that they were summarily executed by their captors, be they police or cartel criminals.

And if that proves true, it would constitute the most egregious human rights atrocity in the 2-year-old government of President Enrique Pena Nieto and one of the worst in recent years.

The students were from a rural university in the town of Ayotzinapa, near Iguala. They had a contentious relationship with authorities and often spearheaded demonstrations.

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ST. LOUIS — It’s going to be more difficult to refill prescriptions for the most popular painkillers starting Monday, when new federal rules move products with hydrocodone into a stricter drug class reserved for the most dangerous and addictive substances.

In approving the change, the Drug Enforcement Administration cited the 7 million Americans who abuse prescription drugs and the 100,000 overdose deaths from painkillers in the last decade. Hydrocodone combinations, including Vicodin, Lortab and Norco, now account for more prescriptions than any other drug, with more than 130 million filled each year.

Proponents of the new rules believe many prescriptions go to younger people for recreational use because they are less likely to suffer from arthritis or other chronic pain conditions.

But many doctors, pharmacists and patients say the rule change effectively punishes people suffering from pain conditions because a small minority of the population abuses the drugs. The changes will be most burdensome for patients with cancer, disabilities and those who live in rural areas or in nursing homes, advocates say.

“For some patients who are legitimately using hydrocodone products for pain, this will be more challenging for them,” said Amy Tiemeier, associate professor at St. Louis College of Pharmacy. “For physicians, the hassle will make them think twice about whether it’s really necessary to prescribe this drug or maybe they should prescribe something else that has less addiction potential.”

The changes mean: -Prescriptions for hydrocodone combination painkillers can be only for a 30-day supply.

-No refills will be allowed.

-Each prescription must be handwritten by a doctor, not called in or faxed to a pharmacy.

-Only doctors can write the prescriptions, not nurse practitioners, physician assistants or other midlevel providers.

“This is going to have a big impact on our practice,” said Dr. Robert Swarm, chief of pain management at Washington University in St. Louis. “Every time you prescribe a medication the doctor has to sign a piece of paper, and the patient has to get to the pharmacist. In a lot of situations that’s difficult to put together.”

Previously, doctors could prescribe a 30-day supply of hydrocodone combination drugs with up to five refills.

Under the new classification there is some flexibility for post-dating prescriptions to allow for a 90-day supply, and doctors may be able to call in emergency short-term prescriptions for an injury or other acute need. But pharmacies don’t have to agree to those concessions, doctors said.

“The spirit of (the new rule) is every time the medicine is dispensed, the doctor is supposed to make a conscious review of the case and a decision to write a new prescription,” Swarm said.

That could lead to more emergency room visits or an even bigger black market for people seeking painkillers.

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And patients who decide to self-medicate with over-thecounter drugs run the risk of liver damage from taking too much.

Now there won’t be many options for prescription painkillers in the less restrictive classifications. Tylenol with codeine won’t be as tightly controlled, but the drug’s effects are more variable and potentially more risky compared to hydrocodone products, Swarm said.

The tighter restrictions place a logistical and financial burden on patients with cancer and those with limited mobility by requiring more frequent doctor and pharmacy visits, patient advocates said.

“It’s a quality-of-life issue for patients with cancer,” said Keysha Brooks-Coley, director of federal relations for the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network. “Patients will have more difficulty in accessing these types of drugs that they need. Patients deal with pain even when they finish treatment.”

Before the 1990s, chronic pain was not widely recognized as a legitimate medical condition, and doctors were stingier with prescriptions of narcotics. Improved advocacy and research led to the idea of pain management as a medical and quality-of-life issue for many patients with chronic health conditions.

Laws governing narcotics became less restrictive, particularly for the long-term use of the drugs. But at the same time, prescription painkiller addictions and overdose deaths soared.

Now the medical community is again questioning the need for addictive pain medicines. In a new position statement, the American Academy of Neurology took a hard stance against the use of the drugs for many patients.

“The risk of death, overdose, addiction or serious side effects with prescription opioids outweigh the benefits in chronic, non-cancer conditions such as headache, fibromyalgia and chronic low back pain,” reads the group’s statement.

The group cited research showing that half the patients who take the drugs for three months will still be on them in five years, and said there is no evidence that the drugs are effective at maintaining pain relief longterm. The nonprofit National Safety Council is now telling doctors to recommend ibuprofen, an anti-inflammatory medicine, over prescription pain relievers in what it considers a safer and more effective choice.

When the government solicited public comments for the rule change, slightly more than half were supportive. Those opposed were mostly pharmacists and patients who use the drugs.

Many pharmacists supported less drastic changes to combat abuse of prescription drugs, including improvements to electronic monitoring programs. Missouri is the only state in the country that doesn’t track prescriptions, which allows pharmacists to identify doctors and patients who abuse the system.

The National Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Association commented that the new rule will have unintended consequences because “the sheer number of people affected by addiction is much smaller in comparison to the number of people suffering with life-altering, disabling, serious chronic pain who need access to pain relief.”

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Thomas Piketty’s lecture drew in hundreds of students, faculty and members of the community. used to be.

Not all of Piketty’s comments on the world economy were negative, however.

He said the middle class in Europe has gotten three times as rich as it was in 1930. And that is adjusted for inflation as well. Standards of living have drastically improved for most employed, educated people in the west.

This led Piketty into a greater point about the United States – Americans are way too pessimistic about the economy.

“The good news is rich countries like America are still rich. America is still the strongest economy in the world. It is the government that is poor,” Piketty said, referring to the skyrocketing national debt, which currently stands upwards of $17 trillion.

Piketty went onto explain that the national debt isn’t well understood by Americans, or anyone else

for that matter. When considering a government’s net wealth, one needs to consider its assets. Although the United States holds more debt than any other nation, it also possesses the most assets.

Piketty’s research went on to show that if the U.S. leveraged its assets against its debt, it would actually be in the black. This term means there is a financial statement that ends with a positive assessment. If everything owned by the government was sold — schools, post offices and military bases — the country could pay off the debt and actually make a profit. “(The United States) could do the same just by selling of one-fifth of all private wealth, ” he said, meaning that if the U.S. realistically wants to pay off its debt, it would need to take 20 cents from every dollar

owned by citizens in the U.S. to do it.

After the lecture, Piketty took time for book signings.

He also took questions on many subjects, including what should be done with the revenue that a progressive tax would generate.

“It depends on the country. There are countries like France for instance that have more revenue than other welfare states in Europe.

And here I would probably use the revenue to lower the labor tax,” Piketty said. “In countries where the welfare state is less developed, like in the US or in Japan or China, I would use progressive tax revenue there instead. The answer really depends on the country, but the money must be used to fight income inequality.”

William Keve can be reached at wkeve@umass.edu.

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Hospitals on the lookout for deadly Ebola virus in US

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Fear of outbreak after Dallas patient

By Greg Gordon McClatchy Washington Bureau

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Police officers wait near the Mong Kok protest site in the early hours of Monday morning. ignation has been sought by protest leaders.

Yet police took no action to roust the protestors by 6 a.m. Monday, either at Mong Kog or other protest sites, meaning that traffic would remain disrupted as rush hour starts. It is not known why Leung did not deliver on his ultimatum.

Leung’s comments also did little to reduce turnout Saturday night at a mass demonstration in the downtown area of Admiralty, where protesters have blockaded his office and other government buildings. It was one of the largest mass demonstrations yet during the tumultuous week, with tens of thousands of people gathering to hear speeches and support what has been called the “umbrella movement.”

The turnout showed that the students still have strong popular support in Hong Kong. But many residents are frustrated about disruptions to transportation and commerce. Those frustrations could grow as commuters return to work Monday aftr a holiday week.

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last week to enter into talks to end the protests, but only with Carrie Lam, Leung’s No. 2. They then shelved the talks after Friday’s violence in Mong Kok and a perceived lack of response by police against the attackers.

On Sunday, the Hong Kong government offered to reopen talks if barricades were removed. A top official, Executive Councillor Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, also said in a television interview that the government and police would be willing to investigate how the police handled clashes in Mong Kok and elsewhere. That a demand from a leading protest group, the Hong Kong Federation of Students.

“For the sake of the government and police’s credibility, I believe they will handle the matter in a fair manner,” Ip said, according to a translation provided by the South China Morning Post.

Pro-democracy groups seem divided on whether they should make concessions before talks start, or only afterward. Each day, the pressure grows on them

to make concessions in their own interest.

On Sunday, the president of the University of Hong Kong made an impassioned plea for protesters to protect themselves.

“I am making this appeal from my heart because I genuinely believe that if you stay, there is a risk to your safety,” said Peter Mathieson in a statement.

“Please leave now: You owe it to your loved ones to put your safety above all other considerations.”

In Hong Kong and internationally, there is debate over whether the core protesters understand the risks of defying the Hong Kong government, which reports to the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.

In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, a leading China expert warned that Hong Kong’s protesters may be tempting the same response that the CCP unleashed against students in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

“For the demonstrators themselves, there is a danger,” wrote Orville Schell, director of the Center on

U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. “They can become too intoxicated by a feeling of invincibility, of marching in history’s current, especially once their movement gathers sufficient force to occupy a highly symbolic seat of power like Central in Hong Kong.”

In Hong Kong, not all observers think the students are unaware of the risks they are taking.

Francis Moriarty, a longtime Hong Kong journalist and commentator, said the students are anything but naive.

“I think that is paternalistic nonsense,” Moriarty said in an interview Sunday.

“They know what they are doing. They are ready for the consequences. These are educated students. They know about what happened in 1989.”

Moriarty said it is reasonable to ask whether students are making wise decisions by continuing to occupy protest sites. In urging students to retreat, he said, community leaders should also insist that police avoid excessive force in removing them.

tion or other industries.

The Hampshire project will additionally contribute to the vision of the Real Food Challenge, a student initiative signed by the University which aims to serve at least 20 percent healthy and ecologically sustainable food.

Currently, the University invests over $1.8 million on regional, sustainable

and responsible farms and small businesses, according to the UMass Dining website. It also works with multiple programs such as the Permaculture Garden, the Student Farm, the Sustainable UMass Action Coalition and the Food Recovery Network.

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businesses around New England, such as the UMass Student Farming enterprise. However, the program’s website recently released a list of food items that they hope to start sourcing locally, prioritizing meat and dairy products. It also plans to reduce the amount of corn syrup, red meat and processed foods offered on the menu.

It is expected only locally sourced beef will be provided on campus by the end of the year. This is a significant step for UMass given the previous studies published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States Journal, suggesting meat production accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than transporta-

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Cecilia Prado can be reached at sprado@umass.edu.

WASHINGTON — When patients walk into the Biloxi (Miss.) Regional Medical Center burning with fever or displaying nausea symptoms these days, emergency room staffers face a potentially crucial moment.

Like at other hospitals across Mississippi, they’re on the lookout for people who recently traveled from West Africa - or have been in close contact with someone who did - and might be carrying the deadly Ebola virus that is raging through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

After a hospital in Dallas initially sent an Ebola victim home, risking the spread of the infection to at least 50 others with whom he had contact, federal and state health officials are working to ensure that anxious medical staffers at hospitals nationwide are prepared to identify and isolate those with highly suspicious symptoms.

“The key issue is to identify them as quickly as possible,” Mississippi’s state epidemiologist, Dr. Thomas Dobbs III, said in a telephone interview. “Even before they come into the emergency room would be ideal. And then to isolate them immediately to limit potential transmission.

Individuals exposed to Ebola patients before isolation are going to be considered contacts and will need to be monitored.”

Biloxi hospital officials declined on short notice Friday to estimate how often they are confronted with walk-in patients presenting flulike symptoms resembling the early stages of Ebola. Should they identify such a patient, those attending the new arrivals have been advised to immediately don protective gear to avoid coming in contact with the suspicious patient’s body fluids.

Mississippi hospitals don’t have the ability to confirm presence of the disease in blood tests, Dobbs said. As a result, they won’t learn for a day or two - the time it takes for a courier to deliver blood samples to a laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta - whether the stricken patient has Ebola.

The preparations by health-care providers across mostly rural Mississippi, considered to face a lower risk than states with big cities and more frequent airline flight connections to Africa, underscores the gravity with which U.S. officials view the worsening epidemic overseas and its potency as a national security threat.

“I’m confident that we are doing everything we can to prevent an Ebola outbreak in the United States,” Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said in a statement. “I’m not overconfident. Things can go wrong.

But I do think we have the most highly trained professionals on the face of the earth.”

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said the state’s top health officer, Dr. Mary Currier, has assured him that the Department of Health “has been working to guarantee all the various components are in place and that we are prepared to respond to a possible Ebola

case should it occur.”

“I understand the concerns of Mississippians with the recent news of a man in Texas being diagnosed with the Ebola virus,” Bryant said.

Bryant’s office said state agencies involved in the preparations will brief the governor on Wednesday at the State Emergency Operations Center.

The disease is surging through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone faster than health authorities have been able to respond.

While current estimates put the number of those afflicted in the thousands, the CDC has said that its worst-case computer model showed that, absent an effective response, 1.4 million people in Liberia and Sierra Leone will contract it by Jan. 20.

Michael Osterholm, head of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, likened the worsening epidemic to a forest fire that has been allowed to burn unattended for days.

In an article in Politico last week, he wrote that West African migrant workers who help with the harvest from May to October are now likely to spread the disease to as many as a half dozen neighboring countries.

In the coming weeks, Osterholm said, they will travel from their villages, crossing borders along little-known trails. They’ll take temporary jobs in gold mines and plantations, and illicit charcoal-production operations, he said. They may be infected and not know it, because the virus’ incubation period extends up to 21 days before symptoms appear.

Mississippi remains an unlikely destination for Ebola victims.

Dobbs said that while a few health-care providers and other state residents returned from West Africa over the summer, travel restrictions seem to have halted such trips.

Mississippi church groups that arranged missions to West Africa last year appear to have canceled any plans to do so this year, he said.

Nonetheless, Dobbs said his office has been preparing Mississippi medical providers for the Ebola threat for months, since the CDC began warning about the latest outbreak in Africa.

“We have a step-bystate guide for what to do if an Ebola suspect walks through the door,” he said.

“We have links and information and guidance for every step of the chain for identifying who’s at risk, identifying what testing needs to be done, and all procedures in the hospital, including isolation, environmental care, waste disposal.”

Dobbs also is preparing for worst-case scenarios that could involve quarantining anyone exposed to an Ebola patient until the 21-day incubation period passes.

Another component, he said, would entail monitoring any workers who were exposed to an Ebola patient without wearing protective equipment so that “they could not subsequently transmit the disease if, in fact, they do become infected.”

“We’re worried enough to be prepared,” Dobbs said, “but we’re not panicked.”

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Bury the CI program War on terrorism can only be ended morally This University has a problem. Instead of helping our most vulnerable stu-

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police district, “one of the most glaring findings was the lack of training for officers,” wrote co-author Dr. Jon Shane.

Another example occurred in 2008 when a 23-year-old Florida State University student named Rachel Hoffman was apprehended at a traffic stop for possession of 25 grams of marijuana and a few capsules of ecstasy. Instead of letting her go through the regular avenues of justice, and perhaps receive help along the way, the Tallahassee Police Department offered her a way out: an intricate “buybust operation,” in which she would buy 1,500 ecstasy pills, two ounces of cocaine and a gun from two convicts.

Lacking manpower and training, the two narcotics officers who devised the plan were unable to stop the two men from executing her later that night.

The incident, which received national news coverage, resulted in “Rachel’s Law” being enacted in Florida.

The law mandates increased training and rules for confidential informant (CI) officers, while provisioning additional rights for the accused. To date, Massachusetts has no equivalent law.

The UMass Police Department has neither the resources nor the training to effectively carry out a confidential informant program, to say nothing of the ethical wrongs involved in doing so. Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy’s news release contains some problematic language: he has suspended the practice, but does not rule out its return. If the CI program does come back, its changes will be superficial and its questionable premise will remain intact. For the sake of safety and accountability, students should demand this misguided five-year project come to an end.

dents – those in the throes of addiction – the University of Massachusetts Police Department has turned them around as informants, keeping them immersed in drug transactions and forcing them to help convict their friends.

The UMPD’s mission statement, which provides for “a safe environment in which to live, learn and grow,” rings hollow to those who are aware of its practices. In light of the recent Boston Globe exposé, the campus police have shown incompetence – at best. At worst, they are complicit in the death of a young man.

Who conceived this policy, and why does the University seem to think the student body will accept its return in any form? In cases of drugs like heroin, addiction specialist referrals and parental notification are good ideas on their own, but they must be combined with actual common sense programs that protect students at risk instead of facing them with the dangers involved with informing.

If the student, referred to in the Globe as “Logan,” hadn’t been an unwilling pawn of the UMPD, he may have been able to get the rehabilitation he needed.

What kind of policy results in campus police helping a student conceal heroin use from his own family? When you find a needle in a student’s room, you don’t just sweep it under the rug.

A three-year investigation published in 2011 by the American Civil Liberties Union found that New Jersey’s statewide practice of using confidential informants suffered from inconsistencies and fatal flaws, often leading to dismissals of tainted cases, decreased public trust and Steve O’Neill is a Collegian contribuwrongful convictions. Even in tor and can be reached at stevenoa professional metropolitan neill@umass.edu.

In regards to fighting that have taken place at terrorism, morality and Guantanamo Bay have legality have been recur- gone unnoticed? Can we really not see the obvious Bryan Bowman effects of these actions?

Torture further inspires ring issues generating fundamentalism and radicontroversy since the com- calism while breeding symmencement of the “global pathy for Al Qaeda and U.S. war on terror.” The ques- resistance. If you say that tion has been posed time you support torture, look and time again: why should up pictures from the Abu the United States adhere Ghraib Prisoner of War to legal and human rights (POW) detainment center when confronting extrem- and see if you can stomach ists in the war on terror, them. God only knows what especially seeing that these other horrors have gone fundamentalists disregard undocumented behind the our own basic human walls of Guantanamo Bay rights? The issues of drone and elsewhere. strikes, torture, mass gov- It has also been argued ernment wiretapping and that you cannot defeat an indefinite detainments of immoral enemy morally: prisoners without charges a preposterous, unfounded or conviction were raised claim. Instead, we should as examples of topics fuel- consider that perhaps we ing debate around the cannot win a vague ideonation. logical war solely with the So, why shouldn’t the force of arms. We must United States torture sus- rather attempt to address pected terrorists, rain hell- the root cause of the idefire missiles into Middle ological conflict, someEastern villages aimed at thing that has largely been terror targets or use mass ignored. domestic surveillance to If we want to win the war gather intelligence? Well, on terrorism, we must seek even if you have no sympa- to stem the tide of extremthy for those who support ism and eradicate the ideas terrorism, there are both and sentiments behind blatant, moral and strate- terrorism, not necessargic flaws in these policies ily eradicate the terrorists that not only violate the themselves with violence. very principles that our Not because they don’t great nation was founded deserve to be, but because on, but further perpetuate violence, warfare, occupathe seemingly never end- tion and oppression breed ing war on terror. hatred and radicalism and Torturing people further exacerbate the root accused of having connec- cause of extremism. tions to terrorists not only Perhaps the best examis a despicable violation ple of how this strategy of human rights, but also has backfired is the polis an ineffective, counter- icy of “targeted” drone productive strategy in con- strikes. Although these fronting terrorism. Do we strikes often take out terthink this barbarism gets ror organization leaders, it swept under the rug and is not a smart strategy to has no repercussions? Do confront the fundamental we think the gut wrench- problem of terrorism as a ing photos coming out of whole.

Abu Ghraib were not seen In 2012, an article was by the Iraqi people and the published in the New York rest of the world? Do we Times called “How Drone think the horrific events Strikes Help Al-Qaeda,” in

which a Yemeni lawyer and politician warned, “When a U.S. drone kills a child, the father will go to war with you guaranteed. Nothing to do with Al-Qaeda.” The article, written by Ibrahim Mothana, a correspondent on the ground in Sana, Yemen, also described how U.S. missile strikes are breeding hatred for America and sympathy for an otherwise unpopular extremist faction, Al-Qaeda and their counterparts.

This is happening not only in Yemen, but also in Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, further deepening the conflict in a violent positive feedback loop.

But aside from the strategic mistakes this policy and others like it are, U.S. drone missile campaigns have also yielded horrific humanitarian and moral consequences.

Military rhetoric perpetuated by neoconservatives and democrats alike, is that these strikes are “strategic” and “surgical,” but in fact, the civilian carnage that comes with drone strikes is beyond what can justifiably be called “collateral.”

The first U.S. drone strike in Yemen killed one terror target, but also left 14 women and 21 children dead – murdered in the eyes of their neighbors and countrymen. Yet, the headlines across America and the west celebrated the elimination of the one Al-Qaeda affiliate, while ignoring the massive casualties and destruction in the region and the ensuing results that have followed.

According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the 10-year U.S. drone strike campaign has killed roughly 900 civilian adults and 200 children in Pakistan alone, and estimated that 2,400 people total have been blown to bits in Pakistan.

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have carried this out since the commencement of the drone war in 2004.

If you could meet any of these people, hear their shrieks of agony, see the mangled corpses of schoolchildren, listen to the wails of their parents or look into the eyes of a confused and heartbroken orphan, you could not possibly support this kind of warfare.

We support torture and bombing because we have dehumanized the people of the Middle East. We don’t care about their lives and are indifferent to their suffering. We use words like “militants,” “extremists,” “combatants” and even “terrorists” to strip these people, as well as the innocent people unfortunate enough to live in the same place as them, of their humanity. In doing so, we have alienated potential friends and allies and have pushed people into joining the other side.

Not only can we win the war on terror morally, we must. It is the only way.

Over a decade of warfare, bombings, torture, invasion and occupation certainly have not worked.

The loss of thousands of American soldiers, our friends, our neighbors, our parents, our children, along with hundreds of thousands of foreign civilians and soldiers has not yielded peace.

Despite what the banner erected behind George W. Bush on that infamous aircraft carrier proclaimed, our mission is far, far from being accomplished. We must change our outlook and strategy if we want to stop this seemingly perpetual cycle of violence, and end the evil institutions of torture and human rights indifference.

Bryan Bowman is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at bbowman@umass.edu.

Fight against climate change must be driven by the people Activism-inclined actor Leonardo DiCaprio stood before the UN Climate Summit

Benjamin Clabault in New York on Sept. 23 urging world leaders to face the threat of climate change. His words, while certainly well intentioned, erroneously suggested a shared feeling of helplessness among ordinary citizens.

The impending disaster of global warming, he asserted, “has grown beyond the choices individuals can make,” a dangerous claim that fails to recognize humanity’s main hope in the present struggle: a shared sense of universal responsibility.

While officials are unique in their ability to affect immediate change through public policy, they will remain reluctant to do so as long as they know the majority of the people they represent would oppose any drastic measures that jeopardize tangible economic interests.

A 2013 report published by the Pew Research Center found only 54 percent of people around the world even consider climate change a major threat. Perhaps more worrying is that residents of the United States, the current dominant economic power, and China, the world’s most populous nation, fell considerably below this average, at 40 percent and 39 percent, respectively. And it’s not as if these people are too dumb to understand the science; economic and cultural factors have simply clouded their views.

Referencing last month’s People’s Climate March, DiCaprio claimed in his speech, “the people have spoken.” But the majority has not.

While 400,000 people demanding change represented a positive development and sent major ripples across the surface of the human community, convincing governments to act against the will of their people will never be a realistic objective. DiCaprio could not have

been more wrong in abdicating individuals of responsibility in the struggle to save our planet.

In this case, as in any other, the seeds of social change lie dormant in the hearts of the people, and it is the people who must act. The necessary alterations to global society will not be easy to achieve, however, because they entail the complete overhaul of a materialist consumer culture, fermented in the stills of capitalism that promotes the ceaseless aspiration of a lifestyle well beyond anything sustainable on a wider scale.

The problem with capitalism is that it presumes, and thereby reinforces, an excessively negative view of human nature. Western thinkers have long erred in their judgments on this crucial subject because they insist on an absurd binary that categorizes humans as intrinsically good or inherently bad.

Sixteenth-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes,

for example, batted cleanup for the “bad” team, describing humankind as existing in a “constant condition of war of everyone against everyone.”

John Locke inversely insisted that people co-exist in a state of nature and act out of reason rather than their passions. To assume an “either-or” mentality is to fail to recognize the essential malleability of human nature.

By attempting to harness self-interest for the sake of the public good, capitalism reinforces the most negative aspects of human nature, promoting the selfish endeavor to obtain material wealth over ideals like cooperation.

Climate catastrophe is looming, and we will have to abandon our culturally imbued selfishness if we are to make the necessary societal changes to protect our very existence.

This problem is not going to fix itself, and the markets are certainly not going to fix it either. As long as people prioritize their own progress in

the capitalist economic system over the welfare of the planet, a solution will remain incredibly hard to come by.

Luckily, assuming that people are naturally capable of rationality, there is hope that people can realize, on an individual basis, that prioritizing the protection of our ecosystems is not only necessary for the survival of the planet, but will almost certainly lead to greater personal happiness.

There has been much contention over the years about the relationship between wealth and happiness. In the 1970’s, economist Richard Easterlin found that a country’s wealth does not equate to the happiness of its people beyond a certain threshold.

Among individual Americans, a recent study found that once people make $75,000 annually, they feel no greater happiness on a daily basis, and I would surmise that the pleasure they derive from living a comfortable life comes from the material culture we live in that

promotes external rather than internal sources of joy.

While this wealth-happiness relationship remains contentious, studies have proven that compassion brings an intrinsic happiness to individuals. By taking this lesson to heart, people can come to accept that prioritizing the practice of empathy over the accumulation of wealth will bring greater happiness, and promoting the protection of the planet represents the ultimate act of compassion.

Climate change is a real threat, and taking the necessary steps to fight it might seem nearly impossible given the current state of humanity.

But by accepting the malleable nature of the human psyche, it is very possible to imagine a world united by a sense of universal responsibility and it is this train of thought that gives us reason to hope.

Benjamin Clabault is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at bclabaul@ umass.edu.

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Craft Center presents chance for creativity

Staff trains students in various art forms

By Erica Garnett Collegian Correspondent

Looking to make a special gift for your partner or parents for the holidays? Maybe you were thinking of a leather journal for yourself or even a handmade Halloween costume. The Craft Center offers all creative students the tools, materials and guidance necessary to turn your inspiration into a work of art.

Situated in the Student Union, the Craft Center is alive and vibrant, with artwork lining the walls and the constant pounding of an orchestra of hammers from one of the daily classes going on.

The staff is equally energetic. Director Paula Hodecker has worked in the Craft Center for 17 years, and is the fifth director to run it since its establishment in 1971. A former student of the University of Massachusetts, Hodecker graduated with a degree in Fine Arts in 1989.

She recalls going into the Craft Center during her time as an undergrad, but never imagined that she herself would run it one day.

Hodecker regards the job experience as a combination of “art, business, teaching, programming, customer service, organization and development.” The staff is trained

in craft categories such as batik, bookmaking, beading, leather working, photography, sewing, silk painting, silver working and stained glass. Button making, henna and mask making, though not categories of their own, are also available as well as any student’s independent endeavor.

There are roughly 2,800 registered members of the Craft Center. With help from the Student Union and various other student organizations, the center strives to be as involved with campus life as possible. People of all skill types are welcomed by the Craft Center, whether they have any experience or none at all. Becoming a member, using the space to craft in and the guidance from the staff is all free. The cost of the materials and workshops are the only expenditures required.

Hannah French, a fourthyear staff member, is in charge of overseeing the book making and paper marbling classes. She said she loves the unique environment the Craft Center provides.

“Once you register as a member, you get three things: a space, tools and assistance,” she said. “It doesn’t feel like a job.”

Her co-workers, Trisha Vosburg, a senior, and Arya Mohanka, a junior, echoed similar sentiments. Vosburg has worked at the Craft Center for three years, and

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The UMass Craft Center held an open house Sept. 8 where students participated in demos of available projects. said she uses it as an escape from the stress of academic work.

Mohanka, the overseer of sewing for four semesters, said she helps students with everything from bags, clothes-making classes, altering clothes and helping graduate students make curtains.

“It’s the best job I will ever have,” she said.

Hodecker also enjoys working with the students who walk in every day as

well as the various other clubs that collaborate with the Craft Center. This year, the Craft Center partnered with the Woman of Color Leadership Network for a henna and button-making program, the North Village for a garden share program and the W.E.B. DuBois Library to help host a paper-marbling workshop.

The Craft Center also has a close relationship with the Office of Family Resources

providing free monthly arts and crafts programs for children of staff and faculty at the University for the past 17 years.

This semester, the Craft Center plans to collaborate with the Engineering Department to teach a firstyear seminar for freshmen alongside Professor David McLaughlin called “Physical Computing for Everyone.”

The purpose of the class is for students to combine their

knowledge of computer programming and electronics in designing and building art projects, ranging from electronic jewelry to a pet collar as an interactive and creative approach to teaching.

“People don’t take as much of an advantage as they should,” Hodecker said. “We hardly ever say no and if we can’t accommodate you right away we will find a time.”

Erica Garnett can be reached at egarnett@umass.edu.

TECHNOLOGY

Choosing the Levono product best for your budget

Users can purchase a laptop, a tablet or both

By Griffin Lyons Collegian Correspondent

Laptop computers are an essential part of any college student’s career, but one laptop does not fit all. Students have different needs when it comes to portability, performance and style. Luckily, Lenovo has made laptops for every kind of user.

Lenovo offers a range of models, most notably their ThinkPad and IdeaPad lines. Each laptop is designed with a different user in mind. Now it is just up to the student to determine which one is best for them.

Lenovo N20p Chromebook The N20p continues Lenovo’s commitment to experimentation with form. Starting at $329.99 on Lenovo’s website, the Lenovo N20p Chromebook offers users the company’s take on Google’s Chrome OS. The laptop’s touchscreen control and a hinge allow the keyboard to fold back 300 degrees for a lap mount or tentstyle display.

Pros: The N20p offers Google’s suite of online apps for working and web browsing, using the faster 802.11ac standard for Wi-Fi connectivity. This means users will be able to use services like Google’s Drive apps, as well as use web streaming services

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Lenovo’s line of Yoga laptops lets users have the best of both worlds with a laptop that turns into a tablet. through the Chrome browser. In regards to external connections, it comes with one USB 2.0 port, one USB 3.0 port, an SD card reader and a micro-HDMI port to compensate for its limited 16 GB storage.

Cons: The limited range of the 300-degree hinge places the N20p in an odd place compared to other laptops with more flexibility, even within Lenovo’s own lines of computers. Chrome OS’s reliance on Internet connectivity may also make this a deal-breaker for students with limited wireless options at home, or thanks to the troubled rollout of Eduroam at the University of Massachusetts campus. The flexible hinge and

touch functionality distinguish the N20p from its competitors to an extent, but compared to relatively less-expensive competing Chromebooks, that may not be enough to sway budget-minded students.

Lenovo Yoga 2 11 Starting at $569, Lenovo’s 11-inch model of the Yoga 2 combines a budget laptop design with the multi-form functionality of Lenovo’s popular Yoga line of laptop-tablet hybrids. The Yoga 2 11 is meant to compete with other similarly priced models in the PC category that Lenovo itself made popular.

Pros: Lightweight, affordable

and running Windows 8.1 for 64-bit machines, the Yoga 2 11 can take the same traditional, tentstyle kiosk, or tablet shapes as its bigger, more powerful counterparts in the Yoga line. For those who enjoy Lenovo’s Chiclet-style keyboards, that same design is present in the Yoga 2 11.

Cons: The Yoga 2 11’s screen is not in the higher resolution that is rapidly catching on with buyers and lacks full HDMI and Ethernet ports. More practiced users may be dissatisfied with the performance of the laptop’s CPU – a current-generation Intel Pentium chip – and may want to consider investing more money in one of the more powerful processors for the Yoga 2 11.

charger too. Lenovo’s lines of ThinkPad PCs offer more variety in price and detail, but outside of its lack of a touchscreen, the L440 is representative of the ThinkPad line’s offerings.

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finished with 128 yards on 25 carriers, ran in his only touchdown giving UMass a 41-14 lead with exactly two minutes left in the first half.

However, on the ensuing possession, Miami drove down 68 yards in nine plays to score and cut the lead to 20 going into halftime.

“We’ve got to learn to play with a lead,” Whipple said. “Credit Miami, their kids played hard and came back.”

Frohnapfel’s biggest mistake came with 10:42 remaining in the fourth quarter when he tried to lob a pass over Miami’s Marshall Taylor, only to have his pass intercepted. Seven plays later, RedHawks quarterback Andrew Hendrix hit Sam Martin from 16 yards out to

make it 41-35.

On the next UMass drive, Abrokwah fumbled in its own territory giving Miami the ball on the Minutemen’s 45. Hendrix capped off the ensuing drive with a touchdown on a quarterback sneak and Miami took a 42-41 lead.

Hendrix finished 32-for58 with 437 passing yards and four touchdowns. He also ran for 92 yards on 13 carriers, snapping Miami’s 21-game losing streak, which was the longest in FBS football.

The Minutemen’s next chance to get their first win comes next Saturday when they play another winless opponent at Kent State.

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

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FIELD HOCKEY

Kreusch leads UM to third straight win

By Tyler Fiedler Collegian Staff

Freshman Melanie Kreusch had the best game of her young career in the Massachusetts field hockey team’s win over Saint Francis on Sunday.

Kreusch completed a hat trick including a late-second half goal to clinch a 3-2 Minutewomen victory.

After trailing 1-0 and being outplayed for most of the first half, the Minutewomen (5-7, 3-1 Atlantic 10) scored two goals to take the lead with under 12 minutes to play.

The Red Flash tied the game roughly two minutes later, but Kreusch provided the game-winner in the 69th minute to hand Saint Francis (8-1, 2-1 A-10) its first loss of

the season.

It was even more significant for Kreusch because her father traveled all the way from Belgium to watch his daughter score all three of UMass’ goals.

“It feels fantastic,” Kreusch said. “I can’t really describe it, having my dad in attendance, it was just all perfect.”

Kreusch has become a trusted goal scorer for the Minutewomen in 2014. She’s scored four goals in the last two games and leads the team with five goals for the year. “(Kreusch) has played great hockey all year,” UMass coach Carla Tagliente said.

“She has really been able to come into her own and help us all season.”

UMass scored on three of its seven penalty corners, an

area that the Red Flash – who finished 0-for-2 on penalty corners – are usually dominant in, according to Tagliente.

Following the game, Tagliente said that beating the previously-undefeated team will energize the Minutewomen as they continue their A-10 schedule.

“This win was a big confidence booster,” Tagliente said. “We have now won three conference games in a row, it does wonders for our confidence.”

Before making its comeback in the second half, UMass nearly took a lead before halftime, but two potential goals were waved off. The first goal was a shot from outside the circle that was called back even though it appeared to have hit the Red Flash goal-

keeper. The second instance was waved off because the referee called a penalty corner before the goal went in.

“I told them to put the first half behind them,” Tagliente said. “We had a couple calls waved off but we rebounded really nicely.”

After dropping their first A-10 game on Sept. 26, the Minutewomen have rattled off three straight wins, allowing them to move up to a second place tie in the A-10, despite being 5-7 on the season.

UMass travels to Saint Joseph’s on Friday for its next conference game. The game is slated to start at 3:30 p.m. at Ellen Ryan Field.

Tyler Fiedler can be reached at tfiedler@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Tyler_Fielder.

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UMass was stopped short at the 2-yard line as time expired in a 42-41 loss on Saturday after coach Mark Whipple elected not to spike the ball.

UM blows 27-point lead to Miami (OH) Minutemen fail to

a questionable decision by Minutemen coach Mark Whipple at the very end of the game which could haunt UMass for some

By Andrew Cyr time.

Collegian Staff Trailing by a point with Up to this point in the one minute, 13 seconds left, season, it seemed the UMass quarterback Blake Massachusetts football Frohnapfel was embarked team found every possible on an 80-yard drive with zero timeouts in an attempt way to lose a game.

Whether it was a missed to rescue his team. With field goal at the end of reg- the help of a fourth down ulation or a blown double- conversion and defensive pass interferdigit lead – which ence penalty happened on two Miami 42 on a third-andseparate occalong situation, sions – heartUMass 41 UMass drove break and frustradown to the tion always finds three-yard line a way to linger with the with three seconds left on Minutemen.

Saturday’s 42-41 loss to the game clock.

Miami (OH) – which fea- Initially, it appeared tured a 27-point lead van- that all Frohnapfel needed to do was spike the ball to ish – was no different.

But the biggest take- stop the clock and allow the away wasn’t UMass’ inabil- field goal unit an opportuity to close games. Instead, nity to tie the game on a the bigger question coming 22-yard field goal attempt. out of Saturday’s game was Only Frohnapfel didn’t

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spike the football.

He instead hurried his team to the line to run one final play, to win with a touchdown and not a field goal. Frohnapfel found running back Shadrach Abrokwah on a pass into the flats, but Abrokwah was tackled at the two-yard line as time expired on the clock.

“We were putting it in (Frohnapfel’s) hands. It was the same play we’ve scored a couple times on,” Whipple told MassLive after the game. “With three seconds, we could have probably spiked it.

But they were scrambling around and we just took a shot at it.”

“I was only thinking about time running down. I just ran the play he called,” Frohnapfel said. “I was hoping he would call that play in that situation and go for it.”

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“I just ran the play he called. I was hoping he would call that play in that situation and go for it.”

Blake Frohnapfel, UMass quarterback Green, it was going to be hard for Frohnapfel to replicate his 589 yards and five touchdowns performance. But he threw four touchdowns in the first half against Miami and led UMass to a commanding 41-21 halftime lead.

Although Frohnapfel’s numbers speak for themselves, it was his ability to spread the ball to different receivers in the first half that impressed the most, as each of his touchdown passes found a different receiver.

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efore people start jumping the gun, let me first start by saying that I disagreed with Massachusetts football coach Mark Whipple’s decision in the final seconds of Saturday’s 42-41 loss against Miami (OH).

Trailing by a point with one minute, 13 seconds left, UMass quarterback Blake Frohnapfel led an 80-yard drive Andrew with zero timeouts left.

Cyr Frohnapfel carried the Minutemen to the 3-yard line with three seconds left on the game clock.

From there, all Frohnapfel needed to do was spike the ball to stop the clock and give the field goal unit an opportunity to win the game on a 22-yard attempt.

But instead of spiking the ball, Frohnapfel hurried his team to the line to run one final play to go for the touchdown.

Frohnapfel connected with running back Shadrach Abrokwah on a pass into the flats, but Abrokwah was tackled at the 2-yard line as time expired on the clock, resulting in another gutwrenching – and seemingly avoidable – defeat for the Minutemen.

Had I been in Whipple’s shoes I would have spiked the ball and brought out the field goal team to attempt the potential game-winning kick.

The NCAA rule states that if there is less than three seconds left on the game clock, then a team must run a play and isn’t allowed to spike the ball.

But, because there was three seconds left, Whipple could’ve chosen to spike it.

After going back and re-watching the 27-point lead slip away from the Minutemen, I can understand Whipple’s decision.

Whipple doesn’t trust his kickers. Plain and simple.

On the season, UMass kickers are just 2-for-5 – Blake Lucas is 2-for-4 and Matt Wylie missed his only attempt – including a missed 22-yard chip shot against Vanderbilt three weeks prior that would have sent the game to overtime.

It’s also worth noting that Lucas missed an extra point earlier in the second quarter.

Although Lucas had been perfect on PATs prior to missing one earlier in the game, the missed extra point was still looming in Whipple’s mind from earlier in the game.

“We just put it in Froh’s hands,” Whipple told MassLive after the game.

“Not the kickers.”

Wasn’t it odd that he referred to his quarterback by nickname while Lucas was simply mentioned as “the kicker?”

Whipple thought that putting the ball in Frohnapfel’s hands gave UMass a better chance of winning the game rather than kicking this field goal.

Frohnapfel’s been everything for the Minutemen’s offense this season. The transfer quarterback is 134for-248 (54 percent) for 1,860 yards with 15 touchdowns and five interceptions. Last season UMass quarterbacks totaled for 1,887 yards and just nine touchdowns for the entire season.

Whipple took a gamble and lost. A gamble, with a team that’s 0-6, isn’t going to sit over well with Minutemen fans for a long time coming.

It’s still far too early in his tenure back to start reading the “Fire Whipple” pleads, but it’s decisions like these that make you wonder if a more conservative approach could have given UMass its first win of the season.

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

MEN’S SOCCER

Minutemen fall to Saint Joseph’s in Atlantic10 opener Colville scores lone goal in 87th minute

good teams do. We just can’t afford to make mistakes like that.”

Initially, the Minutemen held strong against the

By Nicholas Casale Hawks (6-2-3). UMass (1-8, Collegian Correspondent 0-1 Atlantic 10 Conference) The Massachusetts men’s struggled to get a foothold soccer team needed to hang in the first half as Saint on for just four more min- Joseph’s was led by sophoutes in a rain-soaked match more midfielder Sam Irvin, Saturday against Saint who controlled and posJoseph’s to force overtime. sessed the ball well.

But in the 86th minute, the However, despite a numHawks pressed up field and ber of well-placed passes created one final over the top of chance.

Junior the Minutemen forward Mark St. Joe’s 1 backline, intelColville latched ligent and hardonto a through-ball UMass 0 nosed defending from teammate kept the Hawks Emmanuel Temeh from creating and deftly lifted the ball over anything clear cut.

UMass goalkeeper Ryan The best chance of the Buckingham, effectively kill- first half came from UMass ing off the game, 1-0 for Saint in the 36th minute when Joseph’s at Rudd Field. junior Mark Morris inter For UMass senior captain cepted a pass and charged Matt Keys, it was an all too in on goal only to have his familiar ending. one-on-one effort snuffed out “It was the same story,” by Hawks’ goalkeeper Bobby Keys said. “We lapsed for Edwards. just a minute and we were Play noticeably picked punished, but that’s what up in the second half as

players gained their footing. Apart from the late goal, Saint Joseph’s closest chance came in the 58th minute when Colville beat two Minutemen defenders down the right wing, cut inside, and took a hard shot that was covered up by Buckingham.

UMass responded with a handful of quick attacks down the right side led by junior midfielder Will Ellis, who constantly looked to whip crosses into the box in search of his on-rushing forwards, but ultimately to no avail. After the 86th minute goal, the 6-foot-4 Keys was moved up front, but not even the big target could break down the well-disciplined defense of the Hawks.

The poor field conditions surely played a part in the match, making it difficult for players to keep their footing and control passes.

But Keys made it clear that they don’t want to look for excuses for the loss.

“Playing in rain like that is always difficult, but

both teams play in it so it’s not like either side had the advantage over the other,” he said. “At the end of the day, they just played above us.”

It was a disappointing start to conference play for the Minutemen, who were outshot 18-8 in the game.

“The most important thing is to not get down on ourselves,” interim coach Devin O’Neill said. “When you lose it’s easy to question what we’ve been doing, and to our guy’s credit they haven’t. But we need to focus on the positive things we did and try and get those positives going in the next few games.”

UMass will look to rebound on Wednesday night when it takes on Hartford at 7 p.m. The Minutemen will then return to conference play on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. against Virginia Commonwealth University.

Nicholas Casale can be reached at ncasale@umass.edu.

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Sophomore defender Josh Jess looks for an open teammate in UMass’ raindrenched 1-0 loss to Saint Joseph’s on Saturday.