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DraftKings CEO sheds little light on controversy Robins spoke to students Tuesday

By Mark Chiarelli Collegian Staff

DraftKings CEO Jason Robins shied away from discussing recent controversy sur rounding the daily fantasy sports industry Tuesday night during a speaking event at the University of Massachusetts.

Robins spoke in front of nearly 350 students as a part of a moderated discussion at Mahar Auditorium.

He answered a variety of questions pertaining to the success of DraftKings, which is one of two giants in the rapidly growing daily fantasy sports industry.

But Robins, who said he’d like to see the media noise surrounding companies like DraftKings “dissipate,” spent little time addressing concerns that have recently arisen as the future of daily fantasy sports faces significant questions.

Concerns re garding the legality of daily fantasy sports has prompted individual states to further investigate the industry in recent weeks, as companies such as Boston-based DraftKings and fellow com-

petitor FanDuel handle millions of dollars waged on games each day. The Nevada Gaming Control Board recently ruled daily fantasy sports as gambling that require a state license in order to operate, while the Massachusetts Gaming Commission has looked further into regulating the industry.

Attorney G eneral Maura Healey has also been asked to review fantasy sports companies, but said she will not move to block games held by either DraftKings or FanDuel as of now.

Additional controversy embroiled FanDuel last month after a company employee, Ethan Haskell, won $350,000 in a football contest on the website.

Haskell inadvertently published data pertaining to lineup strategy, and questions arose as to whether he should’ve participated in a game with that information. The company later barred employees from competing in public fantasy games.

Robins declined to comment on FanDuel’s legal matters during the question-and-answer portion with students during Tuesday’s event.

When asked by moderator Charles Johnson about recent attempts by regula-

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DraftKings CEO Jason Robins spoke to nearly 350 students in Mahar Auditorium Tuesday evening. His talk centered on his business and entrepreneurship.

“We were experimenting with different messaging early on. As we’ve grown up as a company, we’ve tried to elevate the brand.”

Jason Robins, DraftKings CEO tors to establish stronger industry practices, Robins said he hoped those practices didn’t interrupt the current experience for customers.

“There will be a need as it gets bigger to put more and more in place for these types of things,” Robins said.

Robins declined to comment further to the Daily Collegian following the hour-long speaking event.

Johnson, who is the associate director at the recently-established Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, which hosted the event, focused the majority of his ques-

tions on Robins’ experiences running DraftKings.

Robins said the company, which was established in 2012 and initially operated out of the spare bedroom of one of the companies co-founders, is one of the “fastest growing companies around” in an industry that has 60 million fantasy sports players.

Part of DraftKings’ success stems from its expansive marketing strategy. A recent Boston Globe report said the company raised nearly $200 million from investors, with at least

some of that money scheduled to be spent on a marketing campaign with the NFL. Robins didn’t specifically mention any campaigns, but said the company has “ramped up” its marketing.

“We were experimenting with different messaging early on,” he said. “As we’ve grown up as a company, we’ve tried to elevate the brand.”

Johnson listed a number of high-profile DraftKings investors, including Major see

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GLU hosts week of events with a SGA votes to fund focus on transgender rights, access speaker fees for Group held a rally, future conference delivered letter Mon.

By Anthony Rentsch Collegian Staff

A group of University of Massachusetts students is attempting to bring attention to rights and access that transgender and non-gender conforming people have on campus.

Gender Liberation UMass has already held a rally, delivered a letter of demands to Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy’s office and dropped a banner, and has more events planned for the rest of the week.

Justin Killian, a junior majoring in women, gender

and sexuality studies, and social thought and political economy, as well as one of the organizers of the week’s events, said that this week would set a precedent in terms of activism of the transgender community on campus.

She said the group has not been united in the past for various reasons, and “this is the first time any trans organizing has happened on campus.”

A little more than a dozen students gathered outside of the Student Union on Monday, chanting and holding up homemade banners.

Several students were also given the chance to speak about the state of affairs

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Students of Gender Liberation UMass hold signs during a rally on Monday in front of the Student Union.

for transgender students at UMass.

After the rally, the group headed to the Whitmore Administration building to hand-deliver copies of a letter of demands.

Killian said that the group intended to surprise administrators by not giving them any advance notice.

“To my knowledge, the administration had no clue who we were – they didn’t even know we existed,” she said, noting that administrators were “taken aback” to see them on Monday.

In the letter, GLU demanded the following: “The overriding of outdated plumbing code restraints on the installation of gender-neutral bathrooms; the speedy implementation of gender-neutral bathrooms campus-wide; the option to opt out of tagged markers on housing profiles and (University Health Services) records that indicate a student’s transgender identity; the implementation of an accountable Title IX procedure for specific acts of violence, overt and microaggressive, against trans students; the hiring of a Title IX coordinator competent in trans issues and aware of violations of Title IX as they pertain to transgender students; administrative push for the advancement of

medically and socially competent in-house transgender health services at (UHS); the hiring of full-time transgender identifying therapists at the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services; requested funding supplied to the Queer People of Color support and social group; the implementation of a University-wide system that includes pronouns on student rosters, as well as a system of accountable review for faculty who do not adhere to the usage of student pronouns; the hiring of a trans woman professor by the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department; and the general increased hiring of trans employees on campus.”

The letter also criticized the University’s history concerning its attitudes toward the transsexual community.

In particular, the GLU’s letter noted UMass’ affiliation with Janice Raymond, who was a professor from 1978 to 2002. GLU accused Raymond of being an important voice of support for policies that led to the denial of critical healthcare to transgender people in 1980.

Co-signing the letter were Students For Justice in Palestine, the Multicultural Organizing Bureau, the see

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Finance committee to supply money

By Stuart Foster Collegian Staff

The Student Government Association senate voted to fund speaker fees for the Women’s Leadership Conference through the SGA’s finance committee funds at a senate meeting Monday.

The vote took place after the finance committee unanimously voted on Oct. 27 against providing the $5,000 required to pay for keynote speaker Angela Lussier.

In a heated debate between the members of the finance committee and the SGA’s women’s caucus, which organizes the conference, there was a large amount of discussion over whether the $5,000 required for the costs of the keynote speaker were an unforeseen cost which could be covered by the finance committee and whether the conference fits the mission statement of the SGA. “The mission of the SGA includes the devel-

opment of leadership and professionalism of underrepresented groups,” said SGA President Sïonan Barrett, a senior journalism major. “Women are that group.”

The women’s caucus approached the finance committee after their original source of funding, the Residence Hall Association, were unexpectedly incapable of providing the funds.

Finance committee Chairman Michael Turner, a senior majoring in economics, said that a lack of revenue generation by the SGA for the event, unclear interest of the student body in the event and the finance committee’s interpretation that the money was not an unseen cost made it impossible for the finance committee to approve the funding.

“This request could have come from any organization, and in any case it would have been rejected,” said Turner.

However, Barrett said the $5,000 required to pay for the speaker fees were an unseen cost to the

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THE RUNDOWN ON THIS DAY...

In 1879, James Ritty patented the first cash register in order to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon.

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Thousands rally against Romanian govt.

BUCHAREST, Romania — More than 10,000 people rallied late Tuesday in Bucharest over last week’s nightclub fire in the capital, with placards decrying government “corruption, greed and apathy” as the death toll rose to 32.

Dozens of victims remain hospitalized, many in critical condition.

Demonstrators demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Ponta and other local and national officials.

The early death toll of 27 rose to 31 on Monday, and another victim died earlier Tuesday from the explosion and fire Friday night in a packed Bucharest nightclub.

According to witnesses quoted in media reports, a fireworks show set fire to a pillar near the stage covered with sound-insulating foam.

The disaster has spurred Romanian authorities to inspect similar venues across the country for safety violations, with many owners including three in Bucharest alone - closing down voluntarily due to unsafe conditions at their clubs. dpa

Uber driver: life in prison MUMBAI, India — An Uber driver in New Delhi was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for raping a passenger in the Indian capital last December.

Shiv Kumar Yadav was convicted last month of the rape, kidnapping and criminal intimidation of a 25-year-old woman who used the taxihailing app to get a ride home from a dinner with friends.

Yadav was given the maximum punishment under the law by a special fast-track court established to deal with rape cases, one of the reforms India instituted in recent years in response to a national outcry over a series of high-profile sexual-assault incidents.

Yadav had been driving with Uber, the San Franciscobased taxi service, for about six months when he picked the victim up from a restaurant and drove her to a secluded area near her home after she dozed off in the car, according to accounts in Indian news media.

He then sexually assaulted her and threatened to insert an iron rod into her body if she told police, prosecutors said. The woman took a photo of the car’s license plate with her cellphone and shared it with police, who arrested Yadav two days later.

The incident prompted New Delhi authorities to temporarily ban Uber and other taxi apps, accusing them of failing to adequately vet their drivers. The company’s India office says it has since implemented more stringent background checks and around-the-clock customer support.

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Correction In the Oct. 29, 2015 edition of the Daily Collegian, Davies DeCesare-Fousek’s name was misspelled in a profile of him.

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Organizing Bureau, the Center for Educational Policy and Advocacy’s Access and Affordability and Executive Staff, Student Labor Action Project, Divest, the Graduate Employee Organization, the Coalition to End Rape Culture, the Residents Assistants Union, the UMass Pride Alliance, QPOC, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (Western Mass Chapter) and the Black Student Union.

According to Killian, GLU had not yet received a response from the administration by Tuesday afternoon.

However, on Monday night, the letter was presented at the weekly Student Government Association meeting. The SGA voted to officially endorse it.

Killian said GLU has a social event planned tomorrow evening at Earthfoods Café. The event, which she said would most likely feature food and music, is an opportunity for students to approach the group and get more information on what they are doing.

A panel discussion is scheduled for Thursday evening in the Stonewall Center. The purpose of the discussion, she said, is to educate people on the issues they are fighting for

and why their demands are necessary.

On Friday, Killian said there will be a Trans Day of Screaming held on the lawn outside of Bartlett Hall.

“It’s an opportunity for people who have been very frequently left out of conversations both in and outside of the queer community about things that concern their well-being to demand that our voices be heard through the loudest way that you can: screaming,” she said. “Whether that’s actual screaming or metaphorical screaming, that’s totally up to the interpretation of the individual.”

Killian said members of GLU would also take over a one-hour radio slot on Sunday to talk about who the group is, what they are doing and why.

While she was unsure what other events the group would put on throughout the remainder of the year, she said she wants to hold an event in honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance on November 17.

Updates on what GLU is doing can be found through their Facebook page, Killian said.

Anthony Rentsch can be reached at arentsch@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Anthony_Rentsch.

At least 37 now sick in Chipotle E. coli outbreak

Washington and Oregon affected

By JoNel Aleccia The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — Cases in a Northwest E. coli outbreak linked to Chipotle restaurants climbed Tuesday to at least 37 sickened in Washington and Oregon, health officials reported.

The new tally includes 25 people in Washington and 12 people in Oregon who have fallen ill with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli. At least a dozen people have been hospitalized in the outbreak that shuttered 43 Chipotle restaurants in the two states. No deaths have been reported.

Ill people ate at five Chipotle sites, officials said. The window of concern now dates back to Oct. 1, Dr. Kathy Lofy, Washington state health officer, said at a Tuesday news conference.

“Everybody who ate at a Chipotle prior to their closure last week could be at risk,” she said. Diners who developed diarrhea, bloody diarrhea or vomiting during that time period should contact their health providers. Case numbers are expected to rise as more victims are identified.

Officials still haven’t identified a common food that links the outbreak cases. Testing could take several more days as investigators determine the particular strain or strains of E. coli _ and the genetic fingerprint of the dangerous bugs.

But health officials say confirmed cases so far have been caused by E. coli O26, which produces the toxins that can cause serious illness in humans.

In Washington, 10 of the 25 confirmed cases are tied to the E. coli O26 strain, Lofy said.

A recent E. coli O26

outbreak was linked to raw clover sprouts in Jimmy John’s sandwiches, but the bacteria also have been implicated in outbreaks tied to ground beef and strawberries or blueberries.

In this outbreak, fresh produce is the most likely culprit, said Dr. Jeff Duchin, health officer for Public Health _ Seattle & King County.

“It’s unlikely to be a meat product,” he said.

“We think the most likely explanation was an uncooked product like lettuce or cilantro.”

But, he added, he can’t say that health officials will identify a specific cause with certainty. Such investigations are difficult because they involve complicated foods with multiple ingredients, he added.

This is the second outbreak involving Chipotle in Washington’s King County in the past three months. In July, five people were sickened with E. coli O157:H7 after eating at the restaurants, including two victims who were hospitalized, health officials said Tuesday. No source was determined in that outbreak, which was not publicly reported at the time.

It is unlikely to be related to the current outbreak, Duchin said.

Officials with the federal Food and Drug Administration have been testing food samples from Chipotle restaurants at the agency’s Bothell laboratory. In addition, investigators have been interviewing people who fell ill and those who didn’t get sick.

With cooperation from Chipotle officials, investigators are reaching out to people who ordered food online to serve as a control group to help determine the cause of the outbreak, said Dr. Katrina Hedberg, Oregon’s state health officer and epidemiologist.

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women’s caucus because they were not aware RHA could not provide the funds until the previous week.

After the women’s caucus was denied the funds from the finance committee, they appealed to bring the vote to the entire Senate body.

Turner then filed an injunction through the SGA Judiciary, which scheduled a hearing on November 19 to determine whether or not the appeal of the women’s caucus is valid through the SGA’s bylaws.

Turner said that the injunction is not about the $5,000 spent through the finance committee, but was rather enacted to determine whether the SGA is a Registered Student Organization, which can receive funding through the finance committee, or an Established Student Organization, which cannot.

Turner said that the SGA’s bylaws occasionally contradict each other in their classification of the SGA. “The implications of this case are actually really huge,” said Barrett, who said that the judiciary ruling that the SGA is not an RSO would allow the SGA to bypass current procedures and fund itself with-

The debate over whether to approve the women’s caucus’ appeal was intense and featured arguments from members of the finance committee that ... the $5,000 represented an eighth of the finance committee’s current budget. out any checks and balances.

Since the judiciary hearing is set on a date after the conference, which will be held on Nov. 15, the $5,000 would be provided to the finance committee’s budget from the SGA’s long term reserves.

Barrett said that the SGA is an RSO because it has a Student Affairs Trust Fund account.

Each female member of the finance committee was either absent from the vote in which the committee rejected funding the speaker fees or abstained due to involvement in the women’s caucus. Every female member of the SGA automatically joins the women’s caucus.

The debate over whether to approve the women’s caucus’ appeal was intense and featured arguments from members of the finance committee that the previous years’ women’s conference only had 50 attendees

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and that the $5,000 represented an eighth of the finance committee’s current budget.

Barrett said in response during the debate that the finance committee is not allowed to take their own budget into account when allocating funding.

“They seem to be breaking their own rules,” she said.

After the Senate voted to allocate the funding, Turner said that while the requests of the women’s caucus did not meet the finance committee’s standards, the senate has different avenues of approach and made an acceptable decision.

“The finance committee made all the right evaluations in this case,” he said.

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

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Nearly 350 students gathered in Mahar Auditorium Tuesday for a presentation by DraftKings CEO Jason Robins.

League Baseball, Fox, the Kraft Sports Group and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. A number of NFL teams also invest in the company, which Robins said is both an “interesting” investment and has had a “positive impact” on NFL franchises.

Robins also said the start-up company is eyeing a global move, and plans to expand into the

United Kingdom in a “short while.”

“I don’t think anybody has truly built a global sports platform,” he said.

“I think we can make this into almost a social network of sorts … if we can do that on a global scale, I think that’s something that’s never been done before.”

Robins said that, ultimately, the key to future success is for the current

pattern of growth within the industry to continue.

“The industry itself is growing incredibly fast,” he said. “As much as we compete with FanDuel and other companies … right now the most important thing is for the overall industry to keep growing.”

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

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Robin Williams’ wife details Obama to make decision his life before suicide in 2014 concerning Keystone XL Actor suffered from Lewy body dementia

By Christie D’Zurilla Los Angeles Times

Robin Williams was suffering from Lewy body dementia and was aware of what was happening to him at the time he committed suicide, his wife Susan Williams explained in an emotional interview that aired Tuesday on “Good Morning America.”

She also said she forgave him for taking his own life.

“Lewy body dementia killed Robin. It’s what took his life,” she said. “And that’s what I’ve spent the last year trying to get to the bottom of: what took my husband’s life.”

The Oscar-winning actor committed suicide on Aug. 11, 2014, at age 63, and talk at the time focused on the depression, anxiety and paranoia he was said to have been suffering. But Susan Williams told “GMA” that in the last week of her husband’s life, doctors were planning to check him into a facility for neuro-cognitive testing.

Asked by ABC News’ Amy Robach whether her husband was “losing his mind”

and whether he knew that, Susan Williams replied, “He was aware of it. He was keeping it together as best he could, but the last month he could not. It was like the dam broke.”

The comedian’s symptoms had been popping up for a while before his death.

At one point, she found him at the bathroom sink with blood all over a towel and a cut on his head. He told her he’d “miscalculated,” she said.

“In November 2013, he had a little gut pain. Next month it was another symptom. It was like this endless parade of symptoms,” Susan Williams said. “And not all of them would raise their head at once. It was like playing whack-a-mole. Which symptom is it this month?, I thought. Is my husband a hypochondriac? We’re chasing it and there’s no answers ... We tried everything.”

And then he was diagnosed. Lewy body dementia, a form of Parkinson’s, is the same disease that afflicted radio icon Casey Kasem, who died in June 2014 after a drawn-out drama that saw his second wife and his three eldest children fighting over his care. It’s the third-most common form of dementia behind Alzheimer’s and vas-

Susan Williams cular dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.

Susan Williams, the comic’s third wife, went public with Robin’s diagnosis several days after his death. “Robin’s sobriety was intact and he was brave as he struggled with his own battles of depression, anxiety as well as early stages of Parkinson’s disease, which he was not yet ready to share publicly,” she said in a statement at the time.

Robin Williams’ assistant was the one who found her boss’ body; Susan Williams said on “GMA” that she screamed the whole 20-minute drive home after getting the news by phone. She got to see her husband’s body before authorities arrived, she said.

“I got to tell him, I forgive you, with all my heart.

You’re the greatest man I’ve ever known,” she said. “You know, we were living a nightmare.”

“GMA” will have more from the interview on Wednesday’s show.

Court hears appeal of Oscar Pistorius’ murder acquittal Athlete absent from hearing Tuesday

By Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times

JOHANNESBURG — The emotion and drama of last year’s murder trial of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius were absent in the prosecution’s appeal to overturn his acquittal Tuesday.

The athlete, who howled in anguish, vomited and repeatedly contradicted himself during his trial, wasn’t in court Tuesday.

Even the victim, Reeva Steenkamp, seemed strangely irrelevant in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Johannesburg, as prosecutor Gerrie Nel argued that it didn’t matter who Pistorius thought was behind a bathroom door when he opened fire in 2013.

The double amputee athlete was acquitted of murder in September 2014 but convicted of culpable homicide, or negligent killing, and sentenced to five years in prison. He was released last month and will serve the rest of the sentence confined to his uncle’s home in Pretoria, which could change if the prosecution wins its appeal and Pistorius is found guilty of murder or ordered to face another trial.

Pistorius fatally shot Steenkamp, his girlfriend, when he fired four hollowpoint bullets through the door of the small toilet cubicle in his bathroom, later claiming he thought she was an intruder.

But the identity of the victim wasn’t important, Nel argued in the appeal.

The main legal argument revolved around whether Pistorius intended to kill whoever was behind the door, even if there was no real danger to his life. Or did he genuinely believe his life was in danger and mistakenly think he was entitled to shoot?

The key question came down to this: Did Pistorius, a gun enthusiast familiar with weapons and ammunition, realize that firing four shots into the cubicle would probably kill the person inside?

Several of the five judges in South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal questioned the reasoning of trial judge, Thokozile Masipa, as they questioned Pistorius’ attorney, Barry Roux.

In South Africa, if a person foresees that his or her actions can kill someone anyone - and proceeds anyway, it is murder, a principle known here as dolus eventualis, or indirect intent.

One appeal court judge, Justice Lorimer Leach, suggested that Masipa made a mistake when she analyzed the issue by failing to address whether Pistorius was aware that firing four bullets would kill anyone within the tiny cubicle.

“The issue was not whether Reeva was behind the door. The issue was (Pistorius) knew a person was in the cubicle. That to me is the primary difficulty that I have,” Leach said.

But Roux argued that the trial judge had looked at Pistorius’ fearful state of mind in her conclusion.

“There stands a man on stumps, he’s vulnerable, he’s extremely anxious. His version is that he believed his life was in danger and he discharged the shots,” Roux said.

Cape Town-based legal analyst William Booth said he believed Nel had the stronger case in the appeal, with Roux appearing to struggle to convince the judges that Pistorius really believed he was under attack.

“If you shoot four shots through a door into a tiny little toilet and you know there’s someone behind that door, surely you must know that some or all of the shots would strike the person behind the door and he could die by one or more of your shots, or by ricochet,” Booth said.

Booth said Masipa didn’t spell out her reasoning clearly enough and appeared to confuse the legal principles, leaving grounds for the prosecution to appeal.

“She didn’t put across very well why she came to the conclusion it wasn’t dolus eventualis and why it was culpable homicide.”

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“We were living a nightmare.”

Leach said the toilet cubicle was so small that there was “no place to hide” from the shots, making it more likely Pistorius did foresee his actions would probably kill or injure the person within. He said that because the door never opened, Pistorius couldn’t have known whether there was a 12-year-old child or a man armed with a machine gun in the cubicle when he opened fire.

Roux contended it was not for the appeals court to overturn Masipa’s conclusion that Pistorius acted in fear for his life.

“If he did not hold a genuine belief, why would he have fired?” he asked. “Something must have happened in that man’s mind that caused him to fire and he explains this.

We have this overly anxious person, incorrectly so, but that’s who he is.

“He’s really scared. He believes the deceased is in the bedroom, that’s the finding. One tries to sit back and think why did then this man fire the shots? It’s unfair then to impute him with no reason and say he’s guilty.”

Nel responded, “What remains is that he had foresight, he reconciled himself and he did shoot.”

He argued that Masipa ignored crucial circumstantial evidence and misapplied the law. “If the court took into account all the circumstantial evidence it would have rejected his version outright,” Nel said.

Legal expert James Grant, who advised the prosecution, said the law around dolus eventualis and selfdefense needed clarification by the Supreme Court of Appeal because of inconsistent judgments over the years.

“There’s no question that this is going to be an important thing in clarifying those issues,” he said.

The appeal court adjourned and reserved its finding. A decision could take weeks or months.

By Sean Cockerham and Lesley Clark

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WA S H I N G T O N — President Barack Obama plans to decide whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline before he leaves office - despite a plea from the company seeking to build the pipeline for a delay.

Obama has put off making a decision on the controversial pipeline for the past seven years, but there is a growing expectation he will reject the permit.

TransCanada, the company applying to build the pipeline, sent the State Department a letter this week asking for a pause in the Obama administration’s Keystone review, potentially until a new president is in office.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday that the State Department is looking over TransCanada’s request to put the review on hold until the pipeline’s route through Nebraska is settled. But Earnest added that, given how long the review has already taken, “it seems unusual to me to suggest that somehow it should be paused yet again.”

Earnest said that Obama plans to make a decision by the end of his presidency, even as the administration

evaluates the company’s request for a delay.

The State Department, which is handling the application because the pipeline would cross the international border with Canada, said it is continuing the review despite TransCanada’s request.

“We’ve received the letter, we’re looking at it and we’re going to get back to them. But while that takes place we’re not going to pause,” said State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau.

Trudeau added that Secretary of State John Kerry “has made clear he wants this done as swiftly as possible.”

Obama is under pressure from environmental groups to reject the pipeline, which would run 1,179 miles from Alberta to refineries in Texas. The government estimates the Canadian oil results in 17 percent more planet-warming carbon emissions than other sources of oil.

The Democratic National Committee is characterizing TransCanada’s request to pause the review as an effort to torpedo Obama’s agenda to fight climate change.

A DNC email called it an “attempt to stall the process until after President Obama leaves office - in the hope that the next president will be a Republican who will allow Keystone XL to move forward as planned.”

Several Republican can-

didates running for president in next year’s election have expressed support for the pipeline. Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders oppose the project.

TransCanada wants the Obama administration to delay the review until the Nebraska Public Services Commission rules on the pipeline’s route through that state. The company asked for the Nebraska approval a month ago and said it wants certainty regarding the path of the pipeline.

“We have tried for seven years to stay out of the political machinations of what this president may or may not do or what a future administration may or may not do,” said TransCanada spokesman Mark Cooper. “We are asking for the decision only to be suspended until after the Nebraska (route approval) process, which is a seven- to 12-month process.”

Cooper noted that the Obama administration put review of the pipeline application temporarily on hold last year while issues were being sorted out in the Nebraska Supreme Court.

“With the utmost respect to the administration and the State Department, we do believe there is precedent for pressing pause,” Cooper said.

Cubans intercepted at sea at highest level in decades Over 4,000 stopped en route to Florida

By Mike Clary Sun Sentinel

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — More Cubans were stopped at sea while trying to reach the U.S. in the past year than at any time since the chaotic rafter crisis of 1994, according to figures from the U.S. Coast Guard.

The 4,462 Cubans picked up on the ocean - heading to South Florida in makeshift vessels often made from wood, inner tubes or polystyrene – and returned to the island is more than twice the number stopped last year.

“This is a pattern that became noticeable last January and February and appears sustainable,” said anthropologist Jorge Duany, who studies Cuban migration at Florida International University.

“It suggests that the future exodus will be quite massive and it is going to continue unabated,” Duany said.

The numbers indicate the strength of a migration surge that began in December, when the U.S. announced efforts to normalize relations with the communist island, according to experts.

Experts also say that many on the island who want to come to the U.S. fear that America’s renewed relationship with Cuba would make getting a visa more difficult, or end the favorable treatment granted to Cuban immigrants.

Under the federal Cuban

Adjustment Act of 1966, all Cubans have the right to obtain legal residency regardless of whether they arrive in the U.S. legally or illegally.

The “wet foot-dry foot” policy, outlined in a 1995 accord, says that any Cuban intercepted at sea would be sent back to Cuba, while those who make it to U.S. soil are allowed to stay.

The number of migrants stopped at sea does not necessarily serve as a precise index of how many Cubans are leaving the island, Duany said.

Many Cubans without visas now enter the U.S. through Mexico after traveling overland from Central and South America.

Others arrive by sea undetected.

The Coast Guard says it has stepped up patrols by boats and aircraft in the waters between Florida and the island. “We’re absolutely noticing the numbers (of migrants), and we have to respond to that to protect our borders,” said Petty Officer Mark Barney, a Miami spokesman.

U.S. Coast Guard officials continue to caution that sea voyages, especially in vessels referred to as “rustics” or “chugs,” are perilous.

“U.S. immigration policies have not changed and we urge people not to take to the ocean in very unseaworthy vessels. It is illegal and extremely dangerous,” Capt. Mark Fedor, the chief of response for the Coast Guard’s 7th District, said in a statement. “Once migrants are interdicted at sea, they will be returned to their coun-

try of origin.”

The crews of the Coast Guard Cutters Kathleen Moore and Marlin returned 85 Cubans to the island on Sunday. All had been picked up at sea in seven separate interdictions aboard various small vessels, officials said.

Aboard the cutters the migrants receive food, water, shelter and basic medical attention before they are dropped off at Bahia de Cabanas, Cuba.

Still, the flow of those hoping for a new life in the U.S. continues. In October, the first month of the federal government’s 2016 fiscal year, 433 Cubans were stopped at sea. That number is higher than any of the previous 12 months.

If that rate continues, the fiscal 2016 total would shatter the total from 2015.

In 1994, faced with a bleak economy and demonstrations in the streets of Havana, thenPresident Fidel Castro told his security forces not to stop any Cubans who wanted to leave the island. Beginning in August of that year, more than 38,000 Cuban “balseros” were picked up at sea, according to Coast Guard figures.

Many were held for months in a sprawling tent city at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The crisis ended with renewed migration accords in which the U.S. and Cuban governments agreed that all future rafters stopped at sea would be returned to Cuba and required to apply for a visa at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana.

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“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” -Jane Austen

Students should reject NYPD on campus It has been 16 months generally commended for since Daniel Pantaleo of the their restraint at large events New York Police Department on-campus. The Patriots winning the Super Bowl certainWilliam Keve ly comes to mind as one of the only times I’ve ever seen choked Eric Garner to death. a show-of-force not end badly The department’s internal for citizens. investigation has produced Let’s contrast this with no conclusion, so far as I can the crowd control record of tell. Today, the NYPD has the NYPD. When a similarly officers patrolling Pantaleo’s challenging situation arose, house for his own protection, namely the Occupy Wall yet he is still employed for the Street Protests in Zuccotti department. It doesn’t matter Park in 2011, police misconthat the medical examiner in duct and unnecessary viothe case ruled Eric Garner’s lence was rampant. A collabcause of death as asphyxia- orative study from multiple tion as the result of a choke area law schools produced a hold. It doesn’t matter that scathing 130 page report of the city of New York paid Eric NYPD conduct ranging from Garner’s family 5.9 million physical violence to intimidollars for Garner’s wrongful dation techniques to illegitideath. It doesn’t matter that mate arrests to the destrucPantaleo had two separate, tion and theft of property on unresolved allegations of the part of police officers. misconduct. It doesn’t matter Riley’s press comments that Pantaleo’s actions are during the interview proclearly videotaped and eascess came off as out of touch. ily available on the internet.

Citing his previous experiApparently, the NYPD still ence, he compared UMass, needs more time to fire or a public institution nearing acquit their officer.

30,000 students, to Columbia Are these the kind of consequences you would want if, University, an urban ivy with God forbid, a UMass student a population of less than 5,000. were to die at the hands of a Columbia does not even have a police department. Riley is member of the UMPD? Pardon me, then, if I don’t trying to walk away from a respect Joseph R. Riley’s top-tier position in the largpromise to students of this est metro police department university that he intends to in the United States to head “run a transparent depart- a university police force, and ment.” No matter what your the two jobs are worlds apart. opinion of the UMPD, I don’t The UMPD’s priority is safethink transparency comes to ty for its students, just like mind as a glaring problem of a regular police department. theirs. It does seem to be one The major difference is that of the many total institution- a university police departal failures of the NYPD, the ment is supposed to prioriorganization from which our tize well-being over justice. transparent savior is com- This is why we have policies ing from. Riley’s other key like Minutes Matter and conissue during his interviews? fidential Title IX reporting.

Community relations. That’s Riley is being asked to adjust hard to take seriously consid- from a platform that emphaering the NYPD’s reputation sizes justice to the point of racial discrimination and in its own community.

Last year, the UMPD were violence to a platform that

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‘Tis the season I would never make an assumption about dition of “All I Want for Christmas is You.” a person based on their taste in music. If you simply do not like Christmas music To quote one Reddit user, “Art is how we and you dread when December comes around, that is one thing. I do not share Daniel Riley your taste in music and cannot understand how your mind works, but like I wrote decorate space; Music is how we decorate earlier: you do you, I’ll do me. However, time.” The way you choose to decorate your if you are, generally speaking, a holiday time is an expression of yourself and is no festivities fan, then you should be embracone else’s business. However, if you are the ing Christmas music with open arms. This type of person who thinks we should wait is not to say that all Christmas music is until Thanksgiving is over to start listening good: I have to stop myself from vomiting to Christmas music, you probably also like when I hear Justin Bieber’s perversion of sadness and hate “Little Drummer puppies.

Boy.” That song Well, maybe is a treasure and not.

But did not need a rap Christmas is the verse: how dare most wonderhe add one. But ful time of the as a whole the year, and now Christmas spirit that Halloween is is infectious, and over, it is time to start hearing “those sleigh like Buddy the Elf said, “The best way to bells jingle-ing, ring ting tingle-ing too”. spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for Why should the joy of Christmas be limited all to hear.” to just one day? Why should the wonder of Christmas transcends its religious roots: the holiday season be limited to just a few it is about more than celebrating Jesus’ weeks? Sure, if we listened to Christmas birth. It has become part of a greater whole music all year, it would not be special when with the other big holidays that fall at the the season came around. But surely there end of the year. It is also about more than is enough jolly spirit in us to spread the American consumerism. It does not exist season to two measly months. We can do it. so that extreme couponers can get some I believe in us. sick deals on things they do not really want “But it’s still autumn: the weather outside or need. The season is one of compassion, isn’t frightful, the fire isn’t so delightful.” giving, warmth and friendship. It has been First of all, it has already snowed here at for centuries. Those values already exist at Amherst. Second, we live in New England, UMass, but the Christmas season amplifies so it may be in the low 70s one day then in all things good in any environment. So put the low 20s on another at literally any time on your headphones, start jamming to holiof the year. If that is not frightful, then I day playlists and have a merry Novemberdon’t know what is.

December.

“But what about Thanksgiving?”

You know what goes well with turkey at Daniel Riley is a Collegian columnist and can be reached Thanksgiving dinner? Mariah Carey’s ren- at dpriley@umass.edu

never condones those actions until the very last resort. He’s going from the hardest policing in the world to some of the softest. Hiring him seems to me like choosing a mixedmartial-arts fighter to run a preschool.

There is more to doing the job of police chief than handling high-profile cases, but I shudder to think how an NYPD officer might have handled the most important student-police interactions of 2014 and 2015 like Blarney Blowout, the Super Bowl, October 2014’s prominent racist vandalism and the fallout after the confidential informant controversy.

I also think it’s important to clarify that this one applicant is not necessarily emblematic of the irreconcilable differences between the crippling dysfunction of the NYPD and the relatively popular UMPD. I am not so much concerned about Joseph Riley as I am his institution.

That’s why student protests over the news of his hiring were so aptly done. The chalk messages don’t indict Riley by name. Instead, they decry his employer.

Unfortunately, student input will not realistically sway the application process, even though it should. The fact that a former NYPD officer is even being considered is proof that UMass is acting without consideration for the well-being of students. The only thing that we can do is speak out against the hiring of Joseph Riley if and when it happens. UMass cannot be allowed to become a subject of the New York police state without allowing students to veto a change that affects them more than anyone else.

“Why should the joy of Christmas be limited to just one day? Why should the wonder of the holiday season be limited to just a few weeks?”

William Keve is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at wkeve@umass.edu

Congress can’t compromise, and it’s all your fault The present state of American politics is overwhelmingly divided along party lines, and Americans often blame their elected leaders for this divide. This makes sense: how else

Frank Schulze could Hillary Clinton claim to a room full of people that the career enemy she’s most proud to have is the Republican party, an entity that roughly half of the country identifies with? How else could Mitt Romney famously denounce 47 percent of the American people as an electorate he does not need, and therefore will not seek?

The president of the United States is ideally supposed to be the president of the entire United States, in the same way that a Massachusetts senator represents the entire Commonwealth and in the same way that the mayor of Boston serves the people of Boston. Contenders for offices like these should not receive massive acclaim for polarizing remarks, but they often do not suffer overwhelming drawbacks from them.

Politicians are put in power by an electoral process. If you have a problem with a politician, then you also have a problem with your fellow citizens that put them in the seat of power. The citizens of this republic are just as responsible for its disunity as their elected

leaders, but that disunity is often expressed as a recent problem. How did we get here? Why can no one compromise anymore?

If you are familiar with statistics, then you have heard of the “long tail” phenomenon. This describes the usual distribution of results from a study or survey, and it can best be understood with an example. You conduct a survey on paper, ask 100 people what their favorite color was, sort like responses into piles, and arrange the piles by height.

The responses for more popular colors, like red, blue, yellow, etc. would comprise the larger piles, but more obscure colors, like magenta, turquoise and Crayola’s “macaroni and cheese” would comprise the smaller ones.

The tall piles of responses are called the “head” and consist of the most popular responses, but the many small piles of obscure responses is what makes up “the long tail.” Hypothetically, if you were using this survey to develop rain boots, you would definitely market them in the popular colors of the “head,” but if only one consumer wants you to produce “macaroni and cheese”-colored rain boots, common sense says you’ll pass, since it’s not profitable.

Apply this concept to American politics and media. In an ideal world where selling news is like selling rain boots, news executives would want to cover stories in a way that seemed un-skewed and divorced from policy

agendas. They would want to feature multiple guests that could cover a story from multiple angles. Why would any mainstream media outlet pander to fringe, absolutist, or divisive interpretations of events? There would be nothing to gain from it. Merely a generation ago, this was the conventional wisdom of the mainstream media.

The Federal Communications Commission required from 1949 to 1987 that holders of a broadcasting license give fair airing of contrasting opinions on matters of public importance. Walter Cronkite, during his long tenure throughout the 1960s and 70s as the leading anchor for “CBS Evening News,” was often referred to as “the most trusted man in America.” The television was how the public interacted with the issues. Now that is not the case.

Now that Americans have the ability to consume and reproduce media through networks like Facebook and Twitter, the mantle of “the most trusted man in America” has been split among many niche personas. Some say Jon Stewart, others say Bill O’Reilly, despite their divergent views. You can, if you like, subscribe to their pages and receive your entire interpretation of the world from a source you are comfortable with.

Some people take this immense trust in fringe news sources a step further and sub-

scribe to pages like “Being Liberal,” “Right Wing News” and other sources whose very titles openly admit their biased interpretation of facts. Once you do this, services like Twitter and Facebook will suggest even more similar pages to subscribe to.

This is how the “long tail” became relevant in American politics. A conventional interpretation of facts has been shortchanged in favor of romanticized, fringe tastes that can easily be shared and spread through the use of the Internet. Each consumer of media has their own customized news feed that only echoes or reinforces what they already believe, and the result is a public with very specific interpretations of how policy should work with little room for compromise. And then they vote.

The other party, Mrs. Clinton, despite how much you disagree with them, is not your enemy. The other party, Mr. Romney, despite their calls for a more generous social safety net, is not chronically entitled. If American citizens continue to favor immature, hyperbolic media that is comfortable with these severe and sweeping generalizations, what will eventually become of the United States of America?

Frank Schulze is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at fschulze@umass.edu

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Beach House releases its second stunner of the year Band stays in stellar form on newest LP

By Jackson Maxwell Collegian Staff

The moments from Beach House’s “Depression Cherry” that have lingered in my mind the most have always been the smaller ones.

Whether it’s when vocalist Victoria Legrand manages to convey an impossibly wide range of crystalclear emotions in a single line, or when a few notes from guitarist Alex Scally crack the beautifully monolithic skies of Beach House’s music like lightning, those moments dissipate quickly, but alter the path of the band’s music tremendously.

Unlike the spontaneous flashes of the band’s 2012 album, “Bloom,” and its 2010 effort, “Teen Dream,” “De pression Cher ry” (which was released on Aug. 28,) felt like an album of songs whose destinations had been sub-consciously transmitted to the listener before they began their journey with the album.

And yet the many instances in which “Depression Cherry” was tossed abruptly off that pre-determined course were its most thrilling.

In that manner, “Thank Your Lucky Stars,” released on Oct. 16 (barely a month and a half after Depression Cherry), certainly shares DNA with its immediate predecessor. It

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Immaculately constructed yet constantly evolving, ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’ is Beach House’s second phenomenal album in two months. is less unified in character than “Depression Cherry,” with Legrand beautifully tossing off shade with a wink (”Perfect in the morning/And you ruin it in the evening,” she coos angelically in “One Thing”) and its looser musicality.

But despite those hints of playfulness, “Thank Your Lucky Stars” also pirouettes effortlessly into far darker territory in its sixand-a-half minute centerpiece, “Elegy to the Void,” and its gut-punch of a clos-

ing ballad, “Somewhere Tonight.”

But despite its more defined emotional extremes, “Thank Your Lucky Stars” still keeps its cards close to its chest, offering the same small moments of startling clarity at its predecessor.

“She’s So Lovely” begins as a gorgeous but unmoored ballad, but is elevated and solidified when Legrand sings the line “castles in the sand,” holding out the “a” in “sand” over the

slow-building progression, as if to emphasize the loosening grip of fantasy over the song.

After four minutes of relentlessly marching forward, “One Thing” decides in its final minute to explore the area it has spent its entire existence marching towards. Scally, in an unusually theatrical move, dramatically slices through “One Thing’s” formidable emotional wall with snarling guitar leads that play off of both their

yet Legrand emerges fully in the album’s final act, “Somewhere Tonight.”

She opens with a fantastical, but lonely picture: “pink and blue were dancing/empty floor, shadows lancing.” But even the certainty of that small picture grows fuzzy with her next line, which she turns into a chillingly, immaculately perfect hook: “somewhere in a ballroom tonight.”

“Somewhere Tonight,” even more so than the actual “Elegy to the Void,” is truly an elegy to a void, a deeply tangible, almost tragic, lament of longing and fantasy that tears out your heart and leaves nothing in return.

“Thank Your Lucky Stars” is a companion to “Depression Cherry” less in sound than feeling. Each album peaks at unexpected times, with little build up.

On both records, Beach House – a band who has always exerted such masterly control of their sound and image – generates catharsis from uncertainty.

For a band to create such an immaculately constructed, yet constantly evolving and fluid album is undeniably impressive.

For a band to release two such, equally independent yet brilliant works in less than two months is nothing short of extraordinary.

surroundings and, as they build, each other.

“All Your Yeahs” morphs – in front of the listener’s eyes – from a tense, unsettled piece to an uplifting, chiming bit of pop. In “Elegy to the Void,” Scally plays the role of “the Void,” enveloping the kaleidoscopic track in layers of terse yet bottomless riffing, pulling Legrand, whose vocals seem to grow more emotionally and physically Jackson Maxwell can be reached at distant as the song wears jlmaxwell@umass.edu, and followed on, down with him. And on Twitter at @JMaxwell82.

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11 essential selections from Bob Dylan’s ‘Bootleg Series’ Career highlights from a rock icon

By Jackson Maxwell Collegian Staff

Digging through the seemingly bottomless recorded archives of Bob Dylan can be an imposing task. But, to make that job a bit easier for the uninitiated, and in honor of this week’s release of “The Cutting Edge 1965-1966” – the 12th volume in his one-of-a-kind “Bootleg Series” of rare and unreleased recordings – here are 11 of the greatest treasures from the series’ 11 previous volumes.

“Farewell, Angelina” Culled from the series’ first release, “Vols. 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991,” this heart-stopping ballad is one of Dylan’s greatest. Recorded in 1965, this post-mortem of a romance lacks the bitter edge of so many of Dylan’s other breakup songs. Coating his heartache in wondrously surreal language (“see the cross-eyed pirates, they’re perched in the sun/shooting tin cannons with a sawedoff shotgun,” “52 gypsies now file past the guard/in the space where the duce and the ace once ran wild,”) Dylan always returns to the line “farewell Angelina” in each chorus, driving the sentiment into both the heads of both the listener and himself like a mantra.

“Like A Rolling Stone” (Live) Featured in both the

fourth and seventh volumes of the series, this 1966 live performance of “Like A Rolling Stone” may be the single greatest of Dylan’s career. Recorded at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, it is the most famous portrait of the abandonment many folk fans felt when Dylan “went electric” and began writing rock songs. As Dylan tunes up, a fan shouts, “Judas,” to the delight of the assembled hecklers. An incensed Dylan sneers, “I don’t believe you,” before telling his backing group (who would later find fame as The Band) to “play it f ***ing loud!” which they more than happily did.

“One Too Many Mornings” (Live) Also from the fourth volume, and that same, infamous concert, this performance of “One Too Many Mornings” was recorded a few minutes before the more legendary “Judas” incident. Though they hadn’t fully turned on him yet, you can almost feel the crowd’s restlessness and anger through Dylan’s tightly coiled, electric take on this 1963 album cut. You can hear the increasing frustration in Dylan’s sneer throughout the song, as his and the crowd’s bewilderment at one another began to simmer to a boiling part.

Hall on Halloween night, 1964, this wonderful rarity is still hilariously relevant half a century later. A firstperson account of a paranoid member of the extreme right-wing anti-Communist John Birch Society, this song features some of the most biting social commentary of Dylan’s career. The performance as a whole captures Dylan at the peak of his role as the most prominent and articulate political voice of a new generation.

“Most Of The Time”

Taken from the series’ eighth volume, which covers 1989-2006 in more detail, this ultra-intimate, acoustic performance puts the version that ended up on Dylan’s 1989 album, “Oh Mercy,” to shame. Dylan spends the track toying with his own self-confidence, proudly detailing his “Dink’s Song” (Demo) ability to forget a lost love Culled from the series’ “most of the time.” Though seventh volume, the he’s told far grander stosoundtrack to Martin ries with just his voice and Scorsese’s Dylan documen- acoustic guitar, this outtake tary, “No Direction Home,” is a perfectly small-scale this recording captures character study.

Dylan before he became “Dreamin’ Of You” “Bob Dylan.” What Dylan’s early take on the folk sta- Also culled from the ple lacks in beauty it more series’ eighth entry, “Tell than makes up for in sheer Tale Signs,” this unreleased urgency and impatience. cut from the sessions for Just one listen shows a bur- Dylan’s 1997 comeback, geoning talent who was des- “Time Out of Mind,” is perate to be heard, and des- completely from left field. tined for far greater things. A surprisingly sprightly, funky song, it features “Mr. Tambourine Man” Dylan embracing the sort (Alternate Take) low-key showmanship he Also from the “No has showed in his more Direction H o m e ” recent live performances. soundtrack, this odd alter- Confident and comfortable nate take of one of Dylan’s even in strange clothes, most iconic, surreal lyri- Dylan is more frontman cal journeys may perma- than narrator here, and the nently shift the listener’s results are strangely tantaperspective on the song. It’s lizing.

rare, especially in his early albums, to hear Dylan’s vocals double-tracked. Yet Taken from the sixth that is how they appear on volume, a recording of an this outtake, with Dylan acoustic performance at uncertainly attempting to New York’s Philharmonic harmonize with himself. It

“Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” (Live)

is a bizarre experience, but it gives Dylan’s pleas extra weight, as if he has a crowd behind him, always ready to echo his vague sentiments.

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Some of Bob Dylan’s best work can be found in this remarkable series. most productive songwriting period. Though singer/songwriter Nico later recorded the definitive version of the song on her 1967 album, “Chelsea Girl,” Dylan’s piano-and-vocals only take has a hard-scrabble charm to it. Looking back on it now, the fact that Dylan was producing material like this practically daily makes this rarity of the period all the more remarkable.

“If Not For You (Alternate Version)”

willing to indulge in just about any and all of his infinite creative impulses.

Some are baffling, but some, like this particular take, are fascinating.

“I’m Not There” Originally released on the soundtrack of Todd Hayne’s 2007 film of the same name, “I’m Not There” is one of the most astounding, mysterious songs from the period covered in the series’ eleventh entry, “The Basement Tapes” sessions of 1967. Having completely withdrawn from public life following a serious motorcycle accident in late 1966, Dylan is at his most ghostly on this piece. His trademark sneer is replaced by a more resigned, patient delivery that struggles to be heard. Dylan is clearly in pain here, but wants to keep it to himself.

A more mournful, countrified take of the bright, spirited opener of Dylan’s 1970 album, “New Morning,” this highlight of the series’ tenth entry is an uncertain one. This tenth entry, “Another Self Portrait,” focuses on the “I’ll Keep It With Mine” recording sessions of “New Taken from the series’ Morning” and its immediate ninth entry, “The Witmark predecessor, the famously Demos,” this scratchy panned 1970 double album, Jackson Maxwell can be reached at demo, recorded in 1964, “Self Portrait.” In these jlmaxwell@umass.edu and followed was written during Dylan’s sessions, Dylan seems to be on Twitter at @JMaxwell82.

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Gorleau named A-10 performer of week

By Tyler Movsessian Collegian Correspondent

The Massachusetts cross country team arguably ran their best race of the season on Halloween, with a second place finish in Saturday’s Atlantic-10 Championship meet in Mechanicsville, Virginia.

But it was senior Ben Groleau who stole the show.

Groleau was awarded with A-10 men’s XC performer of the week, after he finished the course with a blazing time of 24:41.3 (5:01/ mi) to earn second overall.

The rest of the Minutemen followed suit and finished a total of 29-seconds behind first placed Saint Joseph’s.

The Eagles finished with

a score of 77, while UMass ended the meet with a score of 98.

Groleau’s second place finish was the best finish in program history at the A-10 championship meet.

“I was surprised to hear that I had the best performance at this meet in program history. I figured that this program had past A-10 champions,” Groleau said. “I wasn’t really thinking about getting this accolade. I just wanted to perform well for the team.”

The most impressive part of Groleau’s race Saturday was that he was in seventh place at the 3,427 split. He was able to slowly but surely pass runners one at a time, reeling them in closer and

closer. It was a gritty performance by the senior, which was properly represented by the conference accolade.

“I knew I had to get the team in a good position.

Every place mattered,” Groleau said. “There were only five points between second and third place, and just three points between third and fourth place.”

Groleau’s performance Saturday marked his personal best for the season.

Prior to the A-10 championship, his best in an 8k-race came Oct. 2 at the Paul Short Invitational where he finished with a time of 25:55.

He finished 44th overall in that meet..

Groleau, who finished first amongst all UMass

runners, was one of 10 that performed over the weekend. Junior Pablo Tavares finished second amongst Minutemen and 12th overall finishing with a 25:05.7 time.

Daniel Sheldon (17th overall), Samuel Conway (24) and Jay McMahon (43) rounded out the top five performances for them.

“We’ve been working on staying in packs at practice during workouts, but at the end of the day, I have to race for me, and if the other guys can hang on, that’s great too,” Groleau said.

He added: “I think there is a good chance that we can at least repeat this performance if not better.”

Tyler Movessian can be reached at tmovsessian@umass.edu.

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In 2013 with a spot in the conference tournament on the line, UMass traveled to Saint Bonaventure with only 12 players after disciplinary action was taken.

Although the team was shorthanded, it was Morris who delivered, scoring the game winner in a 2-1 victory and clinching a postseason berth.

“We ended up traveling there and I got the game winning goal that secured us into the A-10 tournament that year,” he said.

“That was probably my best moment here on campus, just getting the win and seeing coach Koch tear up because of how happy and proud he was.”

It wasn’t a victory for Ellis that was his favorite moment at UMass, but rather a 0-0 tie against Saint

Louis earlier in the season on the same day Koch was being memorialized with tons of alumni in attendance.

“We usually get worked by them pretty good, so getting the tie we put a lot of hard work into, it was good to get a result that he (Koch) would definitely be proud of,” Ellis said.

Besides these two, Jake Alvaro, Lenoir Sery and Danny Belza will also be honored for their service to the program.

Kickoff is set for noon Saturday at Rudd Field, with ceremonies honoring the senior set to take place before.

Jason Kates can be reached at jkates@umass.edu and followed @Jason_Kates.

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HOCKEY

Minutemen shut out by No. 3 BC Eagles explode for six goals in second period

Travis Jeke and Scott Savage.

Then 11:27 into the second period, the Eagles had increased its lead to 5-0.

That prompted Micheletto

By Ross Gienieczko Collegian Staff to pull starting goaltender Nic Renyard in favor of backup Alex After one of the best starts Wakaluk, although he didn’t in recent memory for the think poorly of Renyard’s perforMassachusetts hockey team, mance in the game.

Tuesday served as a reminder “With the exception of the last that no game in the Hockey East one, I didn’t have a problem with Association will be handed to it.

Nic’s game tonight,” Micheletto No. 3 Boston College played said. like one of the best teams in That leaves a glaring eye on the the country, and another secdefensive play of UMass. ond period meltdown doomed Though the Minutemen landthe Massachusetts hockey team ed 26 shots on goal, BC to a 7-0 blowout loss recorded 33 shots on against the Eagles.

BC 7 goal as the Eagles ben Similar to the efitted from much betMinutemen’s 6-1 UMass 0 ter scoring chances. The loss against No. 13 result was a seven-goal Yale Saturday night, defensive breakdown for UMass didn’t open the game playUMass. ing all that poorly, but once the The 5-0 lead also spurred a floodgates opened for BC, there brawl with 8:15 remaining in was no going back. the second period, just 18 sec Minutemen coach John onds after Colin White’s goal had Micheletto addressed the issue increased the lead to five goals. after the game.

In total, 49 penalty minutes were “We got away from the things assessed, resulting in Minutemen that make us successful for a very captain Steven Iacobellis and BC short period of time,” Micheletto forward Ryan Fitzgerald being said. “It’s something that we’ve ejected from the game. talked about and need to work Each team finished with eight on.” total penalties, however UMass

The first period ended in lead in penalty minutes with 38, a 0-0 tie, but things went south compared to the Eagles 27. quickly for the Minutemen (4-2- Teddy Doherty added a late 1, 0-1-1 Hockey East) once the goal in the second period and second period began. Eight min- another one in the third to proutes into the second frame, BC vide the 7-0 final score.

(6-1, 1-0 HEA) had gained a 3-0 It was another banner night lead off goals by Adam Gilmour, for BC goaltender Thatcher

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A series of UMass players battle for the puck along the boards in a 6-6 tie against New Hampshire Oct. 23.

Demko, who posted yet another shutout early in the 2015 season.

It was the fourth in five games for Demko, and it improved his record to 6-1 on the season. He’s allowed just six goals against all season, and his save percentage sits at a remarkable .964.

His effort helped to cool a previously hot Minutemen offense for the second game in a row, as

MEN’S SOCCER

UMass has now scored just one ule, every Hockey East game goal in their last two games after counts the same towards seeding in scoring 26 in their first five. the postseason tournament. UMass will have a home-and-home next The road ahead week with Connecticut, before pair of matchups against Merrimack Tuesday night’s matchup kicked coming between games against off an important six-game stretch New Hampshire and Vermont. for the Minutemen. They face six Hockey East opponents in a row Ross Gienieczko can be reached at over the next 18 days, and although rgieniec@umass.edu and followed on Twitter it’s early in the conference sched- @RossGien.

FOOTBALL

Seniors look to make one UMass puts its pride on the last impact at Rudd Field line in final four games of ‘15 UM to honor five players before game

By Jason Kates Collegian Staff

On Saturday afternoon, a group of five seniors could potentially be playing their last game for the Massachusetts men’s soccer team.

In the upcoming regular season finale against Fordham, the Minutemen (4-12-1, 3-3-1 Atlantic 10) will honor these players, but will also look to secure a spot in this year’s A-10 conference tournament.

Senior Mark Morris, who leads the team with three goals and tied for the most points (seven), said the team controls its own destiny heading into the last match, and definitely know a lot of emotions will be present.

“Knowing that going out on Rudd for the last time, it’s mixed emotions,” he said.

“I’m definitely going to be a little bit sad when the game ends but hopefully when it’s all over we’ll be excited that we’re on our way to DC for the tournament.”

UMass is currently in seventh place with 10 points, holding a one-point advantage over both Virginia Commonwealth University and George Mason.

For the Rams, they’ll be going up against Dayton, while the Patriots have a date with Rhode Island.

Despite the chance that UMass can still get into the postseason without getting a win, captain Will Ellis doesn’t want it to come to that.

“Definitely excited for the last game of the season, it pretty much is do-or-die, we need a win to fully secure our

way,” Ellis said Tuesday night after practice. “If results go our way we still can make it into the playoffs, but it’d be nice to finish my career at George Mason instead of here against Fordham.”

Both players discussed the coaching changes they have gone through after longtime head coach Sam Koch passed away in the summer of 2014.

Last year, Devin O’Neill took the reigns as interim coach, but the team stumbled its way through the season, going 3-14-1 overall.

But this year, Fran O’Leary was hired, and both Ellis and Morris talked about the adjustments he has brought to the team.

“It’s been a unique situation,” Morris said. “Sam was the one that recruited me, so losing him was tough obviously, and then Devin and I had a good relationship, so losing him as well was tough.”

“O’Leary’s done a great job of getting us focused again and getting us back to the tournament this year and just setting UMass up great for the years to come and putting us back into contention every

year,” Morris added.

In Ellis’ eyes, each coach brought something different to the table.

“Fran is definitely bringing the program to new levels, higher standards and getting the program back to what it was when Sam was the head coach,” Ellis said. “It’s only on the way up from here.”

Through four years, there have been plenty of low moments for the graduating seniors, but the bonds have only gotten stronger through the adversity they faced.

“The passing of Sam and getting through the last year just because of the situation of losing him, all of us became really close and we all stuck it out,” Morris said.

“Playing here with those guys the last four years, every day together, we built friendships that I’d say will last forever,” Ellis added.

With the potential that they’ll be playing their last game as Minutemen, two of the players that have been through it all shared their favorite memories as a part of the program. see

SENIORS on page 7

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Mark Morris (9) is one of five seniors that will be recognized Saturday.

By Anthony Chiusano Collegian Staff

With a loss to Ball State last weekend, the Massachusetts football team’s widely talked about goal of reaching its first bowl game in its Football Bowl Subdivision history was put to rest as its record slipped to 1-7.

Now entering their final four games of 2015, the Minutemen’s focus now shifts toward finishing its season strong and sending its senior class out on a positive note.

“Losing seven games is obviously disappointing and losing out on a chance to make a bowl game is also a disappointment,” UMass quarterback Blake Frohnapfel said Tuesday. “But we have to come out here and get together as a team and enjoy the last four games. They’re games that we can win.”

The Minutemen (1-7, 0-4 Mid-American Conference) open their last stretch of the games this Saturday against Akron (3-5, 0-4 MAC) at Gillette Stadium. The matchup will be followed by games against one-win Eastern Michigan and Miami (Ohio) and Buffalo (4-4).

UMass senior fullback/ tight end Rodney Mills said he’s not worried about a lack of focus among the team following last weekend’s setback. He added that earning late-season wins against winnable opponents would be an important step taken for the future.

“It was definitely heartbreaking that we won’t be able to compete for a bowl game but we have a lot of people in this locker room that value their pride,” Mills said. “We’ve got everybody on the same page and ready

“You always want to do better than the year before. That starts with preparing each week and taking it one game at a time.”

Rodney Mills, UMass fullback/tight end to play.”

“The way that the team responds kind of tells you the character of the team and really who the guys are,” Frohnapfel said.

While finishing .500 and becoming eligible for postseason play is no longer possible, reaching last year’s total of three wins is still plausible for UMass down the stretch.

According to Mills, this target is on the Minutemen’s radar.

“You always want to do better than the year before,” Mills said. “That starts with preparing each week and taking it one game at a time. The goal is definitely to win out the rest of the season and to say we had more wins than last year.”

For the majority of UMass’ large senior class, the next four weeks mark some of the final opportunities to get on the football field. Frohnapfel said the final month of play provides an opportunity to still set the program in a positive direction if the Minutemen can find success.

Mills added that the situation is a fact that the tightknit senior group isn’t overlooking.

“Right now these are the last four guaranteed games of football for anybody no matter how much you believe you are going to the next level,” Mills said. “We are just focusing on putting our all into these last four games and hopefully come out with the best results starting with

Akron this week.”

Capitalizing on opportunities has been one of the Minutemen’s most consistent problems throughout the season in the form of dropped passes, red zone turnovers and failed third down stops.

According to coach Mark Whipple, limiting these mistakes and “executing” will be key in any late-season push UMass hopes to have.

In particular, Whipple pointed at last weekend’s loss to the Cardinals, highlighting key drops from receivers on third and fourth down plays.

“When you have a chance to catch passes and catch interceptions, you’ve got to do it. If you don’t, you lose the game,” Whipple said. “That’s been the thing. If you don’t make the plays at this level, you’re not going to find success.”

Whipple said Tuesday he had no intention of giving any younger players increased playing time just for the sake of giving them experience over the final four games, starting with this Saturday against the Zips.

“The best guys will play,” he said. “We’re still looking to play a good game on both sides. It doesn’t have to be a great game, just a good game.

We’re going to play the best guys we have.”

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