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CMASS organizes event to promote UM sustainability Students discuss how economy affects health By Sorelle Mbakop Collegian Correspondent
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International students prepare for Thanksgiving holiday on campus UMass organizes feast at Blue Wall on Thurs. By Patrick MacCormack Collegian Correspondent
For many students at the University of Massachusetts, Thanksgiving is a time for a break from classes and heading home for a long weekend. But international students on campus have to seek out other alternatives. “I know a bunch of kids from Puerto Rico that go home for the break, but I think most international students stay back,” said Karan Choksi, an international student studying at UMass. Choksi is a junior economics major who hails from Mumbai,
India. He is one of the 345 international students at the University, according to Undergraduate Admissions. Choksi, who is friends with other international students, says that many of them do not get to see their families during the holiday break. Choksi considers himself lucky to have family in the New England area. Every year he ends up in a different place, whether it be with friends in Boston or family in Connecticut. Of the 14,000 students that live on campus at the University, most will go home this week for Thanksgiving break. According to UMass’ website, schoolsanctioned housing will close Wednesday at 6 p.m., just like it
does every November. “It’s easier now that I live off campus,” Choksi said. He added that not being restricted by the 6 p.m. departure time is beneficial because he can avoid the $150 dollar fine students who don’t check out of their room on time incur. According to Undergraduate Admissions, 50 countries are represented by the international student population at UMass. For those who do not return to their home countries or have friends nearby, the University does offer a Thanksgiving Day feast. The International Programs Office at the University encouraged families in Amherst to host a see
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In an effort to educate the University of Massachusetts community on healthy, sustainable eating habits, the Center for Multicultural Advancement and Student Success hosted a community-building event titled “Half Empty or Half Full: What is Sustainability?” Friday in Wilder Hall. The theme of sustainable eating was chosen because, according to Joyce Vincent, associate director of CMASS, “UMass has gained recognition for our Sustainable UMass (program), premature gardens, supporting local farmers and promoting good eating habits.” Vincent said the event was chosen because November is considered Native American/ Indigenous Heritage Month and there is a large Native community on campus focusing on health and diets this year. “We thought we would focus on sustainable foods and American consumer culture as a means of supporting the focus
of the Native community, and also creating an annual bridge program between the Center for Multicultural Advancement, Sustainable UMass, permaculture gardens, Stockbridge agriculture disciplines, public health, anthropology, sociology, economics, pre-med, nursing and legal studies,” Vincent said. “In other words, a future interdisciplinary collaboration with cross cultural connections for our campus.” Those who attended the interactive event, which was designed by the undergraduate staff of the Cultural Enrichment Office at CMAS, were separated into three groups – families, observers and reporters. Those who played the role of families were given a paper with their budgets, size of their families and dietary restrictions. The families, which were from different socio-economic statuses, were then asked to plan out purchases of a week’s worth of groceries from Walmart, Stop & Shop or Whole Foods with their given constraints. The observers had to watch the families’ behavior when deciding what to buy at different stores and also watch their interaction see
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Senator says GOP Yazidi refugees spark debate airstrikes set report is ‘garbage’ upU.S.cover for escape B y C hristi Parsons Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — A top Republican took aim at his GOP colleagues on Sunday for issuing a report that largely absolved the Obama administration for its handling of the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, dismissing the accounting by the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee as “full of crap.” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that in compiling its report the committee accepted a “complete bunch of garbage” and allowed more finger-pointing within the administration about responsibility for the fatalities at the consulate. “I’m saying the House Intelligence Committee is doing a lousy job policing their own,” Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “This report puts all
the blame on the State Department and absolves the intelligence community,” he said. “When the Department of Defense committees looked at it, the Department of Defense was held blameless. At the end of the day, everybody is pointing fingers to everybody else.” Other Republican members of Congress suggested that the Benghazi debate end. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. said he thinks it’s time to “move beyond that.” The back-and-forth followed the Friday release of the latest report about the attacks that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other embassy officials. The House review found that the administration did not intentionally mislead people about how the attacks unfolded, despite the fact that its early statements turned out to be see
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By Roy Gutman McClatchy Foreign Staff DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — In a picnic grove nestled in wheat and cotton fields just south of Diyarbakir, municipal officials have set up a refugee camp for more than 4,000 Yazidis who fled the threat of genocide when Islamic State extremists captured their cities in
early August. U.S. airstrikes provided the cover for Yazidis to escape the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, but it was the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known by its Kurdish initials as the PKK, that set up a security corridor and guided them to safety through Iraqi Kurdistan and later to Turkey. Now the local branch of Turkey’s ruling party is accusing the PKK and
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Khalef Suleman, center, has one wish: “Not to return to Sinjar.”
Diyarbakir city officials of using the Yazidis to promote the PKK’s cause. The party has a big following in Diyarbakir, though many families resent its recruiting methods, impressing young men to join them in the mountains. Local observers say the camp couldn’t have been set up the without support from the PKK, which is banned in Turkey but still wields influence in this and other Kurdish towns, mainly through local political proxies. The camp, Turkish officials say, appears to be a PKK demonstration project, with plans for a Kurdish-language school. And they are not happy. Municipal authorities see the camp “as their duty,” said Huseyn Aksoy, the Ankara-appointed provincial governor. “Well, they don’t have such a duty.” The Justice and Development Party (AKP), the religious party that rules Turkey, says the Yazidis are being used.
“These poor, abandoned, friendless Yazidis are being manipulated and exploited,” said Serif Aydin, the AKP’s deputy chairman in Diyarbakir province. He blames the local PKKaligned party, the Kurdish Democratic Regions Party, which controls most of the locally elected offices. Yazidis are ethnic Kurds whose heterodox religion borrows from Zoroastrianism, early Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Their reverence for Malak Tawas, the peacock angel, has earned them the accusation of devil worship by Islamist extremists such as the Islamic State. For the PKK, with its Marxist-Leninist roots and a deep-rooted hostility to organized religion, that would make the Yazidis all the more welcome as guests. Local officials said there was nothing nefarious about the camp. Authorities “felt a real need to stand by them ... see
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AROUND THE WORLD JERUSALEM — An Israeli border policeman was charged with manslaughter on Sunday in the shooting death of a Palestinian teenager during a protest in the West Bank, a rare case in which a member of the security forces has been prosecuted for killing a Palestinian. The charges, brought after forensic findings showed that the youth had been hit with a round from the policeman’s rifle, contradicted earlier claims by the military and police that no live fire had been used. The incident occurred during stone-throwing protests on May 15 outside Ofer Prison, where Palestinians are jailed near Ramallah. Four Palestinians were hit by gunfire during the protest and two were killed, Nadim Nawara, 17, and Muhammad Salameh, 16. In their initial responses, the army and police said that troops had used nonlethal crowd control weapons such as rubber bullets, teargas and stun grenades, and had not fired live ammunition at the protesters. However, video from surveillance cameras at a local warehouse showed Nawara and Salameh falling to the ground after they were shot as they passed by, not during clashes with Israeli forces. Fakher Zayed, the warehouse owner, said that there had been no confrontations at the time after protesters had been scattered by tear gas. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said in response that the film had been doctored and that the border police had responded appropriately to protesters who had hurled stones and Molotov cocktails. An army spokesman said that video had been “tendentiously edited” and did not reflect the violence by the protesters. Medical reports showed that the teens had been hit by live rounds, and a bullet recovered from Nawara’s backpack after it left his back was later handed over to the Israeli authorities. Traces of Nawara’s blood were found _ on the bullet, and fragments of the same round were found in his body during an autopsy. The bullet was traced by investigators to an M -16 rifle used by the border policeman, who had denied firing live ammunition. On the day of the shooting, the policeman, whose name was not disclosed under a gag order, had been stationed with other officers at a position overlooking a road with the task of dispersing protesters with rubber-coated bullets. According to the charges, a group of protesters including Nawara hurled stones at the officers from 60 to 80 yards away, and several minutes later the policeman loaded a live round into a clip intended for use in firing rubbercoated bullets. The officer fired at Nawara “with the intention of causing him grievous bodily harm, anticipating the possibility that he might be killed,” the indictment said. The policeman was not indicted in the fatal shooting of the other teenager killed in the incident.
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wrong. No one gave an order to the U.S. military to “stand down” in their efforts to save the Americans in the consulate, as some have claimed, the report concludes. Like previous reviews, the investigation determined that the State Department didn’t have enough security at the compound to begin with and needed CIA assistance to get the situation under control. Though the new report reached many of the same conclusions as previous reviews, it drew new attention because it was generated by House Republicans. In his interview on “Meet the Press,” Flake said his concern about Benghazi was how the administration portrayed it, especially when a top Obama adviser went on television shortly after the attack. Susan Rice, an Obama aide who is now the national security adviser, said the attack arose from a popular protest against an anti-Islam video made in the U.S. and not a premeditated terrorist attack. The administration later said otherwise. “I’ve always thought the biggest problem with Benghazi is how it was cast by the administration and the remarks that Susan
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Rice just really threw in the face of what we knew was going on,” he said. “But with regard to the other things that were addressed by this report, well, yes, I thought for a long time that we ought to move beyond that.” Graham said he was looking forward to the work of another House committee, the Select Committee on Benghazi, to dig further into the matter. The committee is the eighth such government panel to investigate the incident. Meanwhile, a House Democrat called Friday’s House Intelligence report the result of a “two-year exhaustive investigation.” “It was released by the Republican chairman of the Intelligence Committee and had the support of all the Republicans and Democrats on the committee,” said Rep. Adam Schiff of California. “It’s designed to be the definitive word on what happened from the intelligence community’s point of view.” “It reminds me of a lawyer’s maxim that, if the law is not on your side, emphasize the facts. If the facts aren’t on your side, bang on the table,” Schiff said. “I think we heard Lindsey banging on the table quite a bit this morning.”
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Thanksgiving dinner for international students. “Far away from home, these students really appreciate a taste of American home life during the Thanksgiving holiday,” international student advisor Richard Yam said in a press release. The Thanksgiving dinner this year will be served at Blue Wall on Thursday. According to Ken Toong, executive director of Auxiliary Enterprises, said this is the third year that Dining Services has served Thanksgiving dinner. They served 150 people last year. “We have a very nice menu including local, freerange turkeys with all the trimmings along with local sweet and red potatoes,” he said. According to the weekly dining schedule on the UMass Dining website, no dining halls will be open until Sunday. The only eatery left open by the University on Friday and Saturday will be Harvest, located in the campus center across from Blue Wall. In addition to finding plans every year for Thanksgiving, Choksi said one downside of being an international student is missing holidays in his own
Ken Toong, executive director of Auxiliary Enterprises, said this is the third year that Dining Services has served Thanksgiving dinner. They served 150 people last year. country. The University, for example, does not give days off for the New Year in India. “New Years was two weeks ago,” Choksi said. He mentioned that had he been home he would have gotten together with his entire family. But for many international students, being at UMass during the holiday season provides them with the opportunity to experience a traditional, American holiday. “Thanksgiving meant nothing to me, I just knew that it was a holiday,” Choksi said, adding Thanksgiving was relatively foreign to him before he was a student in the United States. Patrick MacCormack can be reached at pmaccorm@umass.edu.
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Charlotte Mills speaks on sustainability at UMass on campus. with reporters. The reporters were allowed to interact with the families and understand the motives behind the food purchases families made. “Beginning this (activity), we all knew it was going to focus around grocery shopping,” said Charlotte Mills, an undergraduate staff member at the Cultural Enrichment Office. “As we started looking at all the different factors that play into a person’s choices, we took into account all these different issues when we were designing the activity. “We were trying to figure out budget, social situation and statuses. We realized that there are a lot of underlying issues. So we thought, ‘Why don’t we (include) those issues we have encountered in the activity? Why don’t we make those the center of this program and instead use the grocery component as just a way to facilitate this conversation?’” The activity was designed for students to understand why different families from different socio-economic statuses are unable to feed their children with the same
type of food. Working class families had to purchase food items that were not necessarily the healthiest, but very filling. Meanwhile, wealthier families were able to incorporate more vegetable and fruits into their diets and provide their children with balanced meals. “The food you eat has a huge impact on your ability to function in society,” said Yisheng Pan, an undergraduate staff member of the Cultural Enrichment Office who also participated in the planning of the activity. “For kids especially, say you are in a working
class family and your parent can’t buy the healthiest food, you end up eating a lot of processed food like chips, drinking a lot of soda and eating a lot of cookies, and that is just not good brain food. It is going to hinder you in school “So, because you were not able to get good nutritional food your entire life, that (may) influence your future. Because your parents were working class, you (may) also be working class in the future.” Pan said not only are healthy eating habits vital to every child’s success, but educating people on the social issues of why some children are not able to perform at their best is just as important. “Because we are college students and we are here learning, we are all someday going to be leaders of some sort in all these various fields,” Pan said. “So, we should be aware of these things so maybe we can actually decide to do something that will make some changes.” Sorelle Mbakop can be reached at smbakop@umass.edu.
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GOP weighs responses to immigration action By Michael A. Memoli and Lisa Mascaro Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress are unified in their desire to fight President Barack Obama’s action to protect more than 4 million immigrants from deportation and ease rules for up to 1 million more. They just can’t agree on how to do it. Should they shut down the government? File a lawsuit? Or is there a more measured approach that could showcase Republican leadership, such as passing a legislative alternative? “We’re working with our members and looking at the options that are available to us,” House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, said Friday. “But I will say to you that the House will, in fact, act.” Here’s a look at their leading options. ––Do nothing - for now. The heaviest lift for Republican leaders would be to persuade their members to take a deep breath and hold their fire. They could launch committee hearings and investigations into Obama’s actions - one is set for early next month - but
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otherwise shift to different priorities. That would mean working with Democratic leaders to pass a socalled omnibus appropriations bill by the Dec. 11 deadline to fund the government until next October, lifting the risk of another shutdown. Before the president announced his executive action, leaders on both sides supported an omnibus bill, which would let the Republican majorities start fresh in January on their agenda and begin sending legislation to the president. Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says that by breaking congressional deadlock and pursuing a proactive, not reactive, agenda, Republicans will secure a better footing to rein in the administration’s policies. Conservative lawmakers and allied outside groups call such an approach dead on arrival. “Inaction is not an acceptable response,” said Michael Needham, chief executive of the conservative group Heritage Action, in a statement urging lawmakers to deny funding for the president’s program. “Anything less will amount to a blank check for Obama’s unlawful amnesty program.” – Use the budget process. Even before Obama unveiled his
plan, some Republicans wanted to reject the nearly 10-month omnibus bill and agree to only shortterm extensions of government funding to keep the lights on until early next year. That would put off fears of a holiday shutdown, but let Republicans retain leverage to try to force Obama to back off his new proposals. It would also give the party more to gauge public reaction. If Obama’s plan proves to be a political flop, there might be greater public support for efforts to cut funding for government immigration programs. The downside for Republican leadership is that a short-term spending bill forces the party into another round of fiscal fights when they’d rather be advancing legislation on taxes and trade. A few hard-core conservatives advocate inserting language to halt Obama’s immigration plan into the upcoming spending bill, even if it triggers another shutdown. But most Republicans seem to oppose such a drastic step. – Censure or impeach Obama. Impeachment has been mentioned as an option - but more often by Obama supporters who cite the threat as an example of Republican overreaction. That’s not to say
Republicans haven’t floated the idea, or at least refused to rule it out. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, says it would be better to censure the president. Such a rebuke would be rare, and largely symbolic. The only president to have been censured, Andrew Jackson, later had the action expunged. King also says the House could pass a resolution of disapproval of the new policy, which would be a similarly symbolic gesture and could be done relatively soon. – Go to court. House Republicans filed a lawsuit Friday against the president for failing to enforce part of the Affordable Care Act, which they cite as an example of executive overreach. Boehner has not ruled out expanding that suit to include the executive action on immigration. Even senators who supported a 2013 bipartisan Senate immigration bill, including Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, prefer this option. “Probably the best approach is to challenge the president in court,” she says. But legal experts say such lawsuits are typically rejected by the courts, which tend to stay out of power struggles between Congress and the White House.
– Pass an immigration bill. Obama and other Democrats have said Republicans who oppose his decision to take executive action could address those concerns by passing their own legislation. But that’s unlikely given divisions inside the GOP. After the Senate bill on immigration passed last year, the House refused to consider it, preferring to take what Boehner has called an incremental approach. Discussions among House Republicans that began in earnest after Obama’s re-election in 2012 largely fell apart when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia lost his re-election primary race in June. But leaders say they may yet take up immigration in the new Congress. “Let’s start moving immigration legislation that we like,” said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., suggesting bills on border security, HB-1 visa reform and seasonal labor. “We should start picking the things that are important and see if the president wants to veto those things. I think it’ll make it a lot clearer who’s trying to work to a solution and who’s not.”
receive the same treatment we would give them. The state does nothing to help them maintain their culture and their religion. We would,” he said. Whether Turkish Kurds could do much to enhance Yazidi culture is debatable. Erenci admits he had to ask refugees whether he should set aside a place for them to worship. The answer was no, because their only temple is in Iraqi Kurdistan. Still, local officials are certain the Yazidis are better off under their control rather than the Turkish government’s. “Yazidis are very sensitive people. They feel safer with us,” said Zubeyde Zumrut, the chairwoman of the Democratic Regions Party for Diyabakir province. That’s true, Erenci said, even if running the camp is an outsize expense for Diyarbakir, which lacks the money to fix its potholed streets. The city budgeted only $8.5 million for the next year to cover all expenses for the 4,100 refugees. By late October it still hadn’t installed wood stoves for the cold nights. The infirmary is stretched, and even the laundry facilities seem inadequate. The city has appealed to international donors to help pay the bill. “In our camps, needs might not be provided for in their entirety, but their culture and faith will be preserved,” Erenci said. That translates into a plan to set up a school that will teach in Kurdish. The stress on language is deliberate. Kurdish isn’t taught in Turkish public schools, though it could be if the PKK and the Turkish government agree to a peace deal. Although Arabic is
widely spoken among Yazidis, it won’t be taught. “Because they have been subjected to massacres by Arabs, they don’t want to learn it,” Erenci said. Erenci denies that teaching in Kurdish is part of a political agenda. “We are not going to give them ideological training,” he said. But he acknowledged the camp could be seen as a pilot project to emphasize Kurdish language and culture. Determining how the refugees feel about the camp is difficult. Erenci sat nearby as one, Ibrahim Khlaef Suleman, 59, told of his flight from Iraq, leaving behind a two-story mud-brick house, the family car and 200 sheep. Suleman praised Erenci’s assistance and criticized the government. But he didn’t see how the camp could help with his most difficult problem: how to reunite his family, some of whom
remained in Iraq while others crossed into Turkey. The children “have no passport,” Suleman said. “They have no permission to cross the border. And I have no confidence in the Turkish government.” According to Erenci, 90 percent of the families here are divided, and he doesn’t know what he can do. “It is out of our control,” he said. After their nightmare escape, what the refugees want most is peace. If he had one wish in life, Suleman said, it would be “not to return to Sinjar.” The reason, he said, is “it’s possible we will be massacred by Arabs.” Another former Sinjar resident agreed. “All we want,” said Khidir Hadji Saleeh, is “to live in a place where there is peace, peace and peace.”
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Ethnic Kurd minorities wash clothes at a camp set up by Kurds for Yazidis in Turkey. to put our arms around them, not just as Kurds but as human beings,” said Erkan Erenci, the camp director. So they sent buses to the Iraqi border to pick up the Yazidis, rustled up hundreds of plastic tents, commissioned local firms to build latrines, arranged for food deliveries and set up a communal kitchen and an infirmary. For Yazidis, who lost their homes and possessions and saw their families scattered, it was shelter after their world had collapsed. But the camp ran afoul of Turkish authorities. Because
its residents weren’t registered with national authorities, they couldn’t gain free access to state hospitals. Turkey wanted its national disaster-relief agency to take over. Diyarbakir authorities are determined to prevent that from happening. “Camps set up by the state are more like prisons,” said Erenci, who has a background in administration and a record as a political activist. He accuses the government of being insensitive to the Yazidis’ culture and religion. “This government is of the Sunni faith. But the people here are Yazidis. So they would not
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For-profit colleges driving student debt While student debt is a new enrolling students are growing problem across the far more likely to default on nation, in no sector is its impact student loans than they are to graduate. Stefan Herlitz This is, however, unsurprising. It’s a tale common on society seen more severely throughout the for-profit colthan for-profit education. lege industry – an industry Institutions, such as the predicated on the idea the best University of Phoenix, ITT educational outcomes occur Technical Institutes and DeVry when 100 students enroll, all University are for-profit colleg- take out massive loans, 90 es. To anyone who ever watch- drop out, 24 default on their es television, these names loans and 10 graduate. Of all are extremely familiar, likely industries, higher education is because the institutions spend among the least conducive to exorbitant sums of money on for-profit operation As in the advertising. The University of current system, the best way to Phoenix alone spent $655 mil- maximize profits is to recruit as lion on marketing in 2011, a many students as possible, load number made even more inter- them with debt and provide as
“The for-profit college business is a predatory, malicious scourge on society without any redeeming qualities, one that truly ought to be brought to an end.” esting when one considers it is nearly impossible not to be admitted should one apply. Most importantly, while for-profit colleges only enroll 22 percent of students nationwide, 44 percent of students who default on their student loans come from for-profit colleges, according to U.S. News. For-profit colleges are, quite bluntly, malicious marketing schemes that recruit desperate people looking for a college education, load them with debt, provide a subpar “education” and leave them to drown in student debt with a nearly worthless degree, if that. While this may sound like an exaggeration, it really isn’t. The University of Phoenix’s Detroit campus only has a 10 percent graduation rate, a rate less than half its disturbingly high student loan default rate of 26.4 percent. Across the University of Phoenix system,
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Long wait for executive action on immigration finally over President Barack Obama is right to issue executive orders providing protection
Jose Miguel Leyva to millions of undocumented individuals. First, the moral case for doing so is exceptionally strong. This protection will not be granted to people who just jumped over the border fence. It will apply to people who have been in this country for years and years: They are our friends and neighbors, who have worked beside us and for us, and whose children go to school alongside ours. These people are, in some real sense, no longer
undocumented immigrants; they are undocumented Americans. They do not deserve to live in constant fear that their lives will be uprooted and their families torn apart. And second, the political case for protecting immigrants is also powerful, since Republicans in Congress time and time again have refused to take action on this issue. This lack of action on the part of Congress has been disturbing and disappointing. It has forced millions of people to continue to live in fear and in the shadows. Obama’s own record on immigration has been spotty, at best. In fact, he has
deported more immigrants than any president before him. But he began to see the light two years ago when he granted protection to the “Dreamers,” the children who came over here when they were very young. Now he wants to expand on that, and conservatives are attacking him on two grounds. They constantly cite the need to “secure the border” before they will consider enacting reforms to benefit those already here. But Congress has already poured billions into securing the border since 9/11, and those measures, along with the Secure Fence Act of 2006, have greatly
reduced the number of people caught crossing into this country. The other criticism that conservatives make is the charge that Obama is acting illegally. They are focusing on his past opinions about the feasibility and constitutionality of reform and his prior hesitance to grant protection to millions of immigrants. Rather than viewing this as sinister, a more generous explanation is that it shows he has an open mind and an open heart. Those are good qualities to have in a president—and in any moral human being. Jose Miguel Leyva is a freelance writer and journalist living in El Paso, Texas.
cheap an education as possible, a method which goes against everything higher education ought to stand for. Congress needs to pass legislation to prohibit federal student aid to for-profit institutions, or at least put stringent academic requirements in place for institutions accepting such aid. Federal and state prosecutors should pursue these institutions for predatory recruiting practices and false advertising, and all institutions of higher learning should be required to disclose their graduation rate, default rate and average student debt prominently on all promotional materials. The for-profit college business is a predatory, malicious scourge on society without any redeeming qualities, one that truly ought to be brought to an end. Stefan Herlitz is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at sherlitz@umass.edu.
Do you have a social allergy? We can all be annoying sometimes. Even our friends and loved ones can irritate us. With all good times come bad times. And with all
Karen Podorefsky positives come negatives. It’s a part of life, and so is dealing with these circumstances. Many people don’t even realize habits they have, and if they’re not aware of them, it’s difficult to fix. I would want someone to tell me if I have a habit that annoys those around me, so I think it is important to do the same. Alerting someone of a recurring bothersome action could be intimidating because you don’t want to upset them, but there are ways to do it lightly or even indirectly. “I’m Sorry, I’m Allergic to You” by Elizabeth Bernstein in The Wall Street Journal on July 1 explains how annoying habits can affect a relationship and ways to cope with it. I have found that depending on my relationship with the person, their irritating habit could be unnoticeable to me, but noticeable to others, just as if it were my own habit
that I don’t realize. These “social allergens,” a term used by experts “to describe behaviors or habits that drive others nuts,” vary among people based on their background, whom they associate with or habits that weren’t nipped in the bud at a young age. Bernstein puts some of these annoying habits into perspective: “Imagine a heehaw laughter. A knuckle cracker. A braggart who always tries to one-up you. A person who thinks loud belching is a compliment to the chef.” If an action is a one-time thing, it’s bearable, but when they happen on the regular, it can be as irritating as a fly buzzing in your ear. It’s the repetition that gets to us, just like what triggers allergies, which is why Bernstein compares dealing with these habits to allergens. As students, we face little human allergens all the time, from a roommate who is too loud, to the person breathing a little too loudly behind you in class or to a professor who says “um” way too much. Whether we let them become bothersome is up to us. According to Dr. Michael
Cunningham, there is four main groups of social allergens: uncouth habits, egocentric actions, norm violations and actions that are both intentional and directed personally. A psychologist and professor of communication at the University of Louisville, Cunningham says the groups depend on “whether the behavior is intentional or not, and whether directed personally at an individual or not.” Uncouth habits are unintentional and aren’t directed personally. Chewing with your mouth open or talking loudly – two behaviors commonly observed in the Dining Commons – aren’t meant to offend others, but they happen. Egocentric actions aren’t always intentional, but they are directed personally. When a classmate asks what grade you got, or if someone takes your food, they certainly affect your taste of the person in a negative way, but the individual might not realize that it was wrong to do. The behavior affects you, even when the person isn’t thinking about you – they want to better themselves through comparisons, or in the latter example a mild form of thievery.
Norm violations “encompass offensive behaviors that are intentional but impersonal. Examples include smoking right outside the front door, talking in a theater during the show or texting while driving.” Even with the campus smoking ban, I’ve seen students blatantly walking around with a cigarette, not necessarily to provoke others (or maybe they do want to prove a point), but because they need to smoke then and there. The last social allergen is as intentional as it gets because it is directed at a person essentially on purpose. Someone might not realize their rude commands or backhanded comments, but if they thought about the phrasing before they spoke, it could be avoided or rephrased to come across less harsh. We usually notice these behaviors in people with whom we spend the most time because despite seeing the positive qualities in these people, society sometimes seems to focus more on the negative, and that’s what we let affect us. Think about it, even though it seems wrong, people look for the negatives in others to find the positives in themselves. But
we also are able to forgive friends more than the random people who we don’t care as much about. It’s inevitable that in every friendship and romantic relationship, each party will be irked by a recurring quirk of the other. “When they persist, the allergy gets worse, and the whole thing eventually can start to symbolize something larger that is wrong in the relationship,” Bernstein said. When you are able to control your reactions, deal with it, make a joke out of it or inform the person that what they are doing bothers you, and not let it get to you, you know the relationship is fully worth it and functional. This isn’t to say every relationship is perfect. If a habit doesn’t stop, it is still possible to be friends with the person, but you just have to learn to tolerate it and laugh it off. Or, simply approach the individual and say, “I really value you and don’t mean to make you feel embarrassed, but this is something that is affecting me.” It likely affects others too, and one line could work wonders. Karen Podorefsky is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at kpodoref@umass.edu.
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Newest Dragon Age game is brilliant and ambitious
‘Inquisition’ packed with plenty of fast-paced fun By Alessandro Arena-DeRosa Collegian Staff
BioWare, the company made famous for its memorable and emotional games such as “Mass Effect” and “Knights of the Old Republic,” released the latest entry in the Dragon Age series last week, “Dragon Age: Inquisition.” The fantasy role-playing game, or RPG, takes the varied landscape and grand stakes of the first “Dragon Age: Origins” and combines it with the polished mechanics and lively combat of “Dragon Age II.” The combination creates a truly epic chapter in the Dragon Age series, connecting faces, themes and locations old and new. With well over 60 hours of gameplay, a vast number of hubs to explore and quests to complete, and nine detailed and memorable companions to take with you on your journey, “Inquisition” is the most ambitious and successful game in the Dragon Age franchise. “Inquisition” starts off in the middle of a disastrous explosion, which wastes no time destroying the peace talks to end a grand war between Mages and their captors, the Templars. The explosion also ripped a hole into the otherworldly Fade known as the Breach, allowing demons to pour out. The game then allows you to customize your character by choosing from four of the world’s races, all of which impact on the way you are treated and the options you are given throughout the story. Unfortunately, “Inquisition” lacks the opportunity to discover your hero’s past, and instead jumps right into the story, where a mysterious mark on your hand allows
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The latest entry in the Dragon Age series will impress fans with its massive world and brilliant characters. you to close the small breaches around the town of Thedas. Needless to say, the plot of saving the world from demons, starting an inquisition to restore order and ending the civil war are the highest stakes we’ve seen in any “Dragon Age” game, but it has a brilliantly crafted story to back it up. One element BioWare games are most popular for are companion characters. These characters not only serve as allies in combat and discussions with the world’s many characters, but also have stories all their own and can be anything from your rival to your lover. Characters like the helpful and peaceful elven mage, Solas, the childlike mastermind, Sera or the hilarious, hulking Qunari Iron Bull, make up just
some of the colorful personalities in the game. The characters have some of the best and varied Companions yet, all accompanied by beautiful stories and a masterful voice cast. You can recruit to these Companions to join your Inquisition at your base of operations, in addition to your three advisers who serve as pseudo-companions and stay at your base to manage much of the Inquisition’s operations. The Inquisition’s base, a grand castle in the mountains, serves as an interesting location where you can trade with merchants, bring in rare materials and manage which sub-missions your advisers will go on. While the sub-missions are a bit cum-
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bersome to manage, they add a layer that truly makes you feel like the commander of an army. The missions and quests are varied and brilliant, taking place in diverse environments ranging from rolling hills to grand palaces. foreign powers, criminal syndicates, Templars driven mad by a mysterious stone known as Red Lyrium, and the hordes of demons make up a repertoire of grand enemies. Combat is also as polished as ever, combining the strategic choices required to fight tough enemies and the fast-paced action and visually interesting combat that made “Dragon Age II” successful. Every quest, dialogue, book and enemy is packed with lore and world-building elements that bring the player in and make them care about the world. Returning players of the Dragon Age series will be delighted by the return of old locations and characters, such as the grand Castle Redcliffe or the quick-witted dwarf Varric. New players will also be caught up rather quickly, but will miss out on a few surprises for old fans that make the game that much better. Expert voice acting, gorgeous graphics, sweeping landscapes and a soundtrack that conveys a wide breadth of emotions ties all of this together. “Dragon Age: Inquisition” is a masterpiece among RPGs, and has something for everyone. If you are the type who adores RPGs, dialogue and lore, I highly recommend playing the first two games in the series to get the absolute most out of the experience. If you are just looking for a memorable RPG to get you through Thanksgiving or winter break, look no further, because “Inquisition” really has it all. Alessandro Arena-DeRosa can be reached at aarenaderosa@umass.edu.
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Graham’s Dance Company gives ‘Lammily,’ the real Barbie? powerful performance at the FAC Stores are stocking a By Erica Weiss
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Dance enthusiasts and community members alike celebrated the Martha Graham Dance Company’s diverse program of company classics and new works at the Fine Arts Center last Tuesday. As stated in the show’s program, the Martha Graham Dance Company, founded in 1926 by American dance revolutionary Martha Graham, has made it its mission to “foster Graham’s spirit of ingenuity. The company is actively working to create multiple points of access for audiences.” This mission was realized in a showcase of four different pieces. The evening started out with the Graham classic, “Diversion of Angels,” introduced by Janet Eilber, the Martha Graham Dance Company’s Artistic Director. This piece, she explained, was Graham’s portrayal of the three stages of love, represented by three girls in colored dresses. These themes were present in the movement as the girl in yellow, representing flirtatious, adolescent love, jumped around with a happy and energetic air about her, while the lady in white, mature love, remained poised and stable in her long and unmoving balances. Finally, the woman in red, romantic love, streaked across the stage with long, expansive slides and leaps that had a feisty vibe, well suited to her passionate character. Despite their strong technique, the appearance of the non-featured dancers, however, distracted from the theme of the piece and limited the space available to the three lead dancers. The second piece of the night, “Lamentation Variations,” was a reinvention by three contemporary choreographers of one of Graham’s most famous solos about grieving, known as “Lamentation.” It premiered in New York on Sept. 11, 2007, as a tribute to the lives lost in the terrorist attacks six years earlier. The first section, choreographed by Larry Keigwin, included four dancers clad in nude leotards and shorts, original video footage of Graham’s solo and haunting audio of the dance pioneer talking about her piece. The stage and the mood of the section were dark, but that darkness made the connection and interaction between the four bodies on stage more powerful, with the male dancers expertly controlling their bodies and those of the lone female partner in incredible lifts. The second section of “Lamentation Variations,” choreographed by Richard Move, was, like the original piece done by Graham,
a solo done by one woman in dark clothing. However, in this piece, the dancer was confined to one strip of light on stage that stretched from one side to the other. Despite the confines of her space, her dancing was powerful and controlled, with an energy that went beyond her movement. The final section of this piece, created by Bulareyaung Pagarlava, featured the entire company. This section featured frequent synchronized moments when one or two dancers would break from the group, creating a stunning visual effect. The most powerful moment of this section was when all the dancers slowly melted to the floor one by one, leaving just one couple wrapped in an embrace. That particular moment captured all of the grief and anguish of the original “Lamentation,” 9/11 and today. After intermission, the show returned with another piece that has been in the company’s repertory since 1947: “Errand Into the Maze.” This piece, as Eilber explained, is loosely based on the Greek myth of Theseus, but with a woman entering the maze to conquer a minotaur of her own: a man. The strong partnering in this piece, however, was at the expense of the woman being portrayed as weaker than the man, up until the end when he is miraculously vanquished. The rope used in the piece to represent the maze could have been utilized more effectively by the woman as a weapon against her foe rather than simply having her stand in frozen terror at crucial moments. However, other props, such as a stick the man carried that gave the illusion of a Minotaur stature, were used to better purpose. The final piece of the evening was a 2014 work also based on Greek mythology called “Echo.” This work, choreographed by Andonis Foniadakis, was inspired by Narcissus, a man in love with his own reflection, and Echo, the sprite who loves him but can only repeat the words of others. Love and echoes of movement were present in the circular light pattern and flowing choreography that made the dancers look like they were floating in the pond where Narcissus saw his reflection. Sadly, the supporting dancers in the piece again seemed superfluous, there to repeat rather than enhance the themes of the piece. Regardless of who was on stage at any given time, it was clear the dancers were extremely versatile. From the sharp lines and contractions of the original Graham choreography to the flowing, ethereal quality of the new works, the audience noted and appreciated the range and skills of the dancers. Erica Weiss can be reached at enweiss@umass.edu.
doll for the average girl By Erica Garnett Collegian Staff
With the holidays just around the corner, 19,000 pre-ordered Lammily dolls will be gifted to little girls. The doll, also known as the “normal Barbie,” was released last Wednesday for sale, creating a mixture of rejoice and criticism, as expected by the creator of the doll, Nickolay Lamm. Lamm, a graphic artist and researcher whose work is regularly featured in The Huffington Post, found his inspiration for creating the Lammily doll while undertaking what he refers to as the “Body Measurement Project.” The Lammily doll is a natural-faced brunette in an ombré denim shirt, jean shorts and white sneakers. She has a 5-foot 4-inch height, a 31-inch waist and a shoe size of 7.5. These measurements are based on the average 19-year-old American woman’s body, calculated from the data at the Center for Disease Control. She is alarmingly stockier, shorter and more tomboyish than her 1950’s predecessor, Barbie. The quintessential American doll, created by the Toy Company Mattel in 1959, has a face coated in makeup and ludicrous measurements that would disallow her to digest her food – if she ate that is. Her 18-inch waist on her 5-foot 9 frame would allow for only half of a liver and a couple inches of intestines, based on data by Rehabs.com, a site dedicated to combating mental health in America. With her six-inch ankles, three inches smaller than the average woman’s, and three inch feet, bipedalism would be out of the question for Barbie. In a quest for realistic depiction of a woman’s body for young American girls, Lammily also comes with stickers that include acne, blushed cheeks, freckles, moles, scrapes, bruises, scars, mosquito bites, stretch marks and cellulite. As these are common imperfections on the average female body, they are generally being criticized as overdoing the attempt at being accurate and overreaching the boundaries of what a doll should function as. In Lionel Shriver’s article for The Guardian titled, “Sorry Lammily, Your Dumpy Looks Won’t Fool Many Little Girls,” she said, “But why did Lamm stop there? How about herpes sores and genital warts, a malignant-looking breast lump,
diarrheal dribble from when Lammily’s last dose of laxatives worked a bit too well, a big plastic pool of bulimic sick, since this doll may be told she’s lovely just the way she is, but she doesn’t believe it?” She continues this comedic critique by raising the point the peel on and off property of a sticker may reinforce as unrealistic of an assumption in little girls as a Barbie not having it in the first place could. Lamm defends his doll and the stickers, saying, “You know, people were saying this whole project was a joke from the beginning, so I have no doubt some people will take it as a joke. But I hope there are enough people who believe what I believe. I think 25 percent to 30 percent will think the stickers are stupid and the rest will think it’s good.” While adults have their fair share of opinions about the doll, the true test of Lammily’s capability is among her targeted audience – little girls. In a recently conducted experiment done among second grade girls and boys, featured in an article by Time Magazine, the Lammily doll was preferred widely among the students. Students were given both a Lammily doll and a Barbie doll and asked a series of questions about the tw,o such as which one they would rather own, what are the differences they see between the two and what they both look like they do. It was undeniably heartwarming when most students said Lammily looked like “their best friend’s big sister” or “their own sister,” and as equivocally comical when eyes rolled and perplexed facial expressions surfaced to the question of what Barbie does for a living. Lammily’s professions ranged but were arrived at much quicker. Many said she could be a teacher. When asked which one they would rather own, nearly every student said they would rather own Lammily but they also included they already owned the Barbie used in the study. Overall, the Lammily doll was meant to provide little girls with the realistic notion of a body that they may grow into following puberty. In an attempt to be maybe, overly accurate, some argue the boundaries were pushed, others are in favor of this doll daring where none have gone prior. With a marketing slogan of “Average is beautiful,” Lamm, said, “I wanted to show that reality cool. It’s not perfect but it’s really all we have. And that’s awesome.” Erica Garnett can be reached at egarnett@umass.edu.
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SEMINOLES get open,” Clark said. Although it was Clark who took control in the second half, Trey Davis’ jump shot off an inbounds pass from Derrick Gordon put UMass up 42-41 with 16:41 left. Michael Ojo converted a layup with 10:44 remaining to tie the game at 51-51; however Florida State could not take the lead following that sequence. It was Hinds who shot the free throws following the missed Rathan-Mayes 3-pointer in the final minute, as he hit a single free throw to make it a two-possession game to put the Minutemen up by four, 71-67. Hinds scored nine of his 15 in the second half. “It was a good win. It all started on the defensive end.
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We wanted to come out and pressure the ball. We wanted to make them take bad shots and cause turnovers and that’s what we did,” Hinds said. The Seminoles opened the game on a 12-3 run in the first 3:51 and it looked like UMass was going to be in for another long day following Saturday’s 81-68 loss against Notre Dame. The Minutemen slowly clawed their way back into the game, as Gordon made a pair of free throws at the 8:25 mark to tie the game at 21. Sunday’s game featured nine ties and seven lead changes. Rathan-Mayes led Florida State in scoring with 22 points while 7-foot-3 center Boris Bojanovsky finished with 18 points off the bench.
The Seminoles’ leading scorer, Aaron Thomas played 15 minutes in the first half, but was taken to the hospital at halftime with an undisclosed injury. Lalanne finished with 14 points and nine rebounds, making it the second straight game he’s failed to record a double-double after doing so in UMass’ first three games. Despite the Minutemen’s strong start to the season winning four of their five games within a 10-day stretch, Kellogg believes that his team still has a long way to go and have much to improve on. “We’re still a work in progress,” he said. Andrew Cyr can be reached at arcyr@ umass.edu, and followed on Twitter @Andrew_Cyr.
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Micheletto said. “When you see that image staring back at you, you have to make some decisions to change what you see or continue down that path.” It will be a quick turnaround for UMass, and it’ll have to face the same Vermont team again, in the second half of a home and home series on Tuesday. “I hope people continue to give us a chance to prove what we’re worth,” Micheletto said, “because tonight was certainly not a good representation of that.” Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday night at Gutterson Fieldhouse in Burlington, Vermont. Ross Gienieczko can be reached at rgieniec@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @RossGien.
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His final points of that run, a 3-pointer, extended UMass’ lead to 62-57. While Esho and Lalanne remained on the bench due to foul trouble, Clark increased the tempo, initiating offense on drives and opening up spacing throughout the floor. Clark was one of UMass’ top scoring options, something Kellogg said he hoped would become the case throughout the season. Clark’s averaged 12.5 points over 26.5 minutes in his past CADE BELISLE/COLLEGIAN two games. “You guys know how I Donte Clark has emerged as a key contributor off the bench in his first year am, I’m kind of rough on with the Minutemen. The freshman scored 15 points in 28 minutes Sunday. the younger guys,” Kellogg said. “It takes a while to get in my good graces with the new players and I think he’s done that quickly … he has a natural instinct for the game on the offensive end that’s hard to teach.” Donte Clark, “Yeah, I’m definitely getUMass guard ting more comfortable playing with these guys,” Clark only 17 minutes, giving way “It felt good out there,” said. “I know I just have to to Coleman. It was the first Coleman said. “I was just get open and make shots extended action for the red- patiently waiting for my shirt freshman this season. time to be called and I was when they pass it to me.” While Clark helped “I’ve been trying to get called out there to come do extend the lead, it was Hinds him some minutes,” Kellogg some things and I felt like I said. “Tonight he proved, did a pretty good job.” who closed it out. After playing only 12 min- you know what, just go Kellogg acknowledged utes against Notre Dame, ahead and put him in.” following the game that the Hinds scored 15 points on Coleman matched up victory showed “character,” alongside saying his team needed it fol5-of-10 shooting in 25 min- defensively utes Sunday. He scored nine Lalanne against a Seminoles lowing a difficult loss the day of UMass’ final 13 points and team which featured a Boris before. It also proved UMass started the scoring run with Bojanovsky (7-foot-3, 240 – which has more depth than a pair of acrobatic layups pounds), Michael Ojo (7-foot- a season ago – can rely on its after beating his defender on 1, 292 pounds) and Kiel bench for longer stretches in 1-on-1 moves to slither into Turpin (7-feet, 240 pounds). important games. Yet Kellogg felt the 6-foot- “When everybody conthe paint. His final five points came 7, 200-pound Coleman per- tributes, everybody feels at the free throw line and formed admirably. good,” Clark said. “As long “I thought he played well, as we stay together, we’ll be iced away the victory. Coleman’s role didn’t he rebounded the ball, he did good.” show up offensively – he a nice job defensively and he only scored two points in gave us some valuable min- Mark Chiarelli can be reached at 24 minutes – as much as it utes off the bench,” Kellogg mchiarel@umass.edu and followed did defensively. Esho played said. on Twitter @Mark_Chiarelli.
“Yeah, I’m definitely getting more comfortable playing with these guys. I know I just have to get open and make shots when they pass it to me.”
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game like that,” Vermont coach Kevin Sneddon said. “It’s difficult. I have all the respect in the world By Ross Gienieczko for John and his staff and Collegian Staff certainly their players … The Massachusetts hock- It was just one of those ey team suffered its worst games where the puck had defeat since 1976 Saturday eyes.” Playing on the second night against night of a tough Vermont, when ack-to-back the Catamounts Vermont 11 bagainst nationalpummeled the ly ranked oppoMinutemen by UMass 1 nents, UMass a final score of (3-7, 1-6 Hockey 11-1. East) was domi “We certainly need to nated in all three areas of apologize to our fans,” UMass coach John the game. Goaltending was Micheletto said after poor, the defense was abysthe game. “It was a poor mal and the Minutemen response without any never had a chance to establish any offensive pushback.” “I have not been in a presence.
UMass was overwhelmed by the depth Vermont brought to the table. Seventeen different players recorded points for the Catamounts (8-3-1, 6-3-1 HEA), including at least one player from all four forward lines. Malcolm McKinney notched a hat trick to lead the offensive barrage, Rob Darrar was credited with three assists and Brady Shaw had a quiet two-goal night. Vermont was 4-for-5 on the power play in the game. “That’s our team, really,” Sneddon said. “It’s always nice to see all our guys step up and get the job done.” While Friday night’s 5-3 loss against Boston College
was a competitive, back and forth affair, Saturday’s was anything but. Three goals in the first period put Vermont up 3-0, and the onslaught only continued from there. Starting UMass goaltender Steve Mastalerz was replaced by Henry Dill at the start of the second period, but the move had no effect. Vermont added three more goals on Dill in the second period, and the game was effectively over halfway through the frame. In the third, the goals kept coming. Without really pressing too hard, the Catamounts scored five times in the period. At one point, with about three minutes left, Vermont play-
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“We certainly need to apologize to our fans. It was a poor response without any pushback.” John Micheletto, UMass coach ers stopped shooting and instead opted to cycle the puck around the boards. Mastalerz, Dill and third stringer Alex Wakaluk combined to post a save percentage of .645. Mastalerz gave up three goals as the starter; Dill allowed five in relief and Wakaluk surrendered three more as the closer. The lone goal for the Minutemen came from Ben Gallacher, assisted by Zack LaRue. Incredibly, Gallacher and LaRue each finished
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Jabarie Hinds (15 points) provided a spark off the bench, along with Donte Clark and Zach Coleman, in UMass’ 75-69 win Sunday over Florida State.
UM defeats FSU to Bench play key avoid losing streak for Minutemen Clark, Hinds score
15 points apiece By Mark Chiarelli Collegian Staff
UNCASVILLE, Conn. — The Massachusetts men’s basketball team is accustomed to relying on its starting unit for significant production in the early stages of a young 2014 season. But in Sunday’s 75-69 victory over Florida State, the Minutemen couldn’t rely on the same formula that resulted in three wins to start the season. Center Cady Lalanne and Maxie Esho fought foul trouble in the second half while starting guard Derrick Gordon injured his foot in the second half and missed the last eight minutes of the game. UMass coach Derek Kellogg had little choice but to integrate his bench into crucial minutes. And a mixed and matched combination of role players answered the challenge in the victory. “It gave us a little confidence and swagger
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against a big, physical team like that. They’ve kind of had our number the past few years and today we matched By Andrew Cyr their physicality and athletiCollegian Staff cism,” UMass coach Derek UNCASVILLE, Conn.— Kellogg said. With 44 seconds remaining, It wasn’t the usual cast Florida State guard Xavier of characters that impressed for UMass Rathan-Mayes took a 3-pointer as the UMass 75 tonight, as its collective audience bench carat the Mohegan ried the way FSU 69 Sun Arena held its in the victory. breath. Reserves Donte Everything about Rathan- Clark and Jabarie Hinds Mayes’ shot was perfect: the each led the team in scoring release, the trajectory, even with 15 points. the follow-through. The only Clark scored 13 of those thing that went wrong was points in the second half, all the result, as the shot fell coming within a span of six halfway through the net only minutes, 40 seconds. During to trickle its way out, pre- that same stretch, Cady serving the 70-67 lead for the Lalanne was the only other Massachusetts men’s basket- Minutemen to score. ball team. “He’s starting to get a lit The Minutemen made five tle more comfortable and we of their next six free throws have more confidence in him in the final 29 seconds of … Hopefully he becomes that the game to secure the 75-69 next option for us,” Kellogg win against the Seminoles said. on Sunday afternoon in “I’m definitely more conthe Hall of Fame Tip-Off fident playing with these Tournament. guys. I know I just have to “It showed some character from the team to go see SEMINOLES on page 7
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UMass overcomes Seminoles’ height
with a +1 plus/minus rating in a game that saw UMass outscored by 10 goals. It was the worst defeat for the Minutemen since Nov. 23, 1976 when UMass fell 11-0 to St. Anselm. After the game, Micheletto spoke about how the team looked and how they have to challenge themselves to improve. “When you get the mirror held up in front of you on a bad day, it’s not pretty,”
back,” Kellogg said. UMass returned to the win column just a day after losing its first game of the season to Notre Dame, 81-68. “It also let us know that there’s other guys on the roster that can do some things. My job is going to be to facilitate and continue to get those guys more involved.” Guards Jabarie Hinds and Donte Clark and forward Zach Coleman combined to play 77 minutes, score 32 points and reel in nine rebounds. Kellogg played the trio of reserves – his first three rotational players off the bench – throughout a second half in which the Minutemen clung to a slight lead. Clark was especially instrumental in leading UMass to a victory. He finished with 15 points on 3-of-9 shooting in 28 minutes, but assumed the role left behind by Gordon. Clark scored 11 of UMass’ 13 points from the 13 minute, 39 second mark in the second half to the 6:59 mark. see
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After an opening 53 seconds of scoreless play Sunday, sophomore Brittany Brown connected on a 3-pointer to give Florida State an opening 3-0 lead over the Massachusetts women’s basketball team. The Seminoles never looked back for the remainder of the game, as they pulled away for a 73-47 victory over UMass in the final game of the Hospitality Hill Challenge in Denton, Texas. Florida State’s offense, which averaged over 95 points per game coming into the matchup, had four players finish with doubledigit points against the Minutewomen (2-3). One bright spot for UMass was Rashida Timbilla, who contributed 15 points, six rebounds and finished 7-for10 from the free throw line. Despite having success down low in their previous two games – both wins –the Minutewomen were outrebounded 48-35 and outscored 30-22 in the paint. Turnovers continued to plague UMass as it totaled 22 giveaways, resulting in 25 points for the Seminoles. In comparison, Florida State totaled 14 turnovers.
UMass defeats North Texas
half, the Minutewomen outscored the Mean Green in the final frame 35-23 to pull away in a game that had seven lead changes. Kim Pierre-Louis led the way offensively for UMass with 18 points on an efficient 8-for-12 shooting. The senior led the Minutewomen in scoring for the second-straight game and for the third time in the first four games of the season. Pierre-Louis has contributed double-digit scoring efforts in every contest so far this season. Kymber Hill added to UMass’ attack with 10 points and 10 rebounds to notch her first career double-double. Hill also led the team in rebounds for a second-consecutive game. The Minutewomen dominated the glass Friday, holding a 47-25 rebounding advantage. Along with Hill, Timbilla was active on the boards, grabbing nine rebounds. Senior Emily Mital (nine points) and redshirt junior Amber Dillon (eight) led UMass’ bench play to give the Minutewomen a 22-11 advantage in bench points. The duo finished a combined 7-for-10 from the free throw line. After UMass took a 44-39 lead with just under six minutes to go in the game, North Texas went on a five-point run behind Breisha Wynn, who scored all five of the ensuing points. But the Minutewomen closed the game on a 12-2 scoring run. UMass will have a week off until its next game when it faces Central Florida.
UMass opened the Hospitality Hill Challenge with a 54-36 North Texas. The win gave the Minutewomen their second consecutive triumph, coming off their first victory of the season against Maine Wednesday night. It marked the first winning streak for UMass since last November. After trailing by two Frank Corona can be reached at points at the end of the first fcorona@umass.edu.
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Kim Pierre-Louis led UMass with 18 points in Friday’s 54-36 win vs. North Texas.