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Monday, October 5, 2015

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AROUND THE WORLD ISLAMABAD — Mullah Abdul Salam Akhund was the first of nine Afghan Taliban cabinet ministers arrested by Pakistan’s security services in early 2010 as part of a CIAdriven crackdown.

Akhund, the Taliban’s shadow governor for Kunduz, was released three years later with most of the other detainees so that they could persuade Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader, to engage in peace talks with the U.S. and Afghan governments.

The Taliban’s former foreign minister, Mullah Mohammed Hassan, also was released.

The two veteran militants now have something else in common: They were in charge of the Taliban forces that overran the strategic northern Afghan city of Kunduz last week.

Afghan forces eventually retook the town, but the assault culminated in the apparent American bombing of the local hospital, killing at least 22 people.

Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security claimed last week that Akhund had been killed in a U.S.-led NATO air strike on Kunduz, but the Taliban’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, has denied the report.

The release of Akhund and Hassan was part of a diplomatic maneuver that led to the opening last year of a Taliban representative office in Doha, capital of the Persian Gulf emirate Qatar. Taliban officials based there have since been at the forefront of diplomatic exchanges, leading to the first direct talks in August between the insurgents and the Afghan government.

But a scheduled second round of talks in Pakistan was canceled on July 31, after the Afghan government announced that Mullah Omar, the Taliban’s founder, had died two years earlier.

The fighting at Kunduz has been a public relations coup for the man named to succeed Omar, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, and defied predictions by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that Omar’s death would mean the demise of the insurgency.

Kunduz was the first city to be retaken by the militants since U.S.-led multinational forces invaded Afghanistan 11 years ago.

“The fall of Kunduz boosted Taliban morale ... and marked the extended tactical power base of the militants from south-southeast to north Afghanistan,” said Jan Achakzai, a former spokesman for the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, a Pakistani political party with close ties to the Taliban.

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bemusement, asking if they could throw away empty alcoholic cans in the bin. A couple of students even threw a football through the golf cart, with Amorin’s permission.

“I think it’s a really good idea. Kids throw their bottles in there instead of on the ground,” said Victoria Griswold, a sophomore majoring in natural resources and conservation. “They’re being practical about the littering situation.”

Aufill, who said that students inherently wanted to recycle, was backed up in his efforts by students who wanted to prevent pollution and keep their spaces clean.

“I think it’s a great thing for the environment and also a great thing because the tailgate was really gross last year,” said Stephanie Murray, a sophomore journalism major.

The Game Day Challenge was one of the first events in the new Sustainability Month at UMass, through which UMass has already held a

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Students grill food and play cornhole at Saturday’s tailgate. “zero waste” event with the College of Natural Sciences.

Upcoming events include a sustainable Halloween costume sale Oct. 22-23 and an annual Eco-Rep Trash Sort which will be held Oct. 13.

In addition, there will be many discussions regarding Sustainability topics as the month goes on.

Looking to the future of the Game Day Cleanup

DISPENSARY Narkewicz alluded to the community’s overwhelming support, citing that the town voted 84 percent in favor of opening the dispensary. He also said that the large contingent of government officials at the ceremony reflects NETA and Northampton’s positive relationship.

The mayor noted that NETA is a boost to the local economy, citing the fact that it brought in 25 high-paying jobs and that people from all over the region come to Northampton to visit the center and receive their medication.

“For people who are concerned that this is just peo-

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Challenge, Aufill was optimistic.

“I’d like to see another zero waste event at something this big,” he said. “We’re already doing so much in terms of recycling, but we can always look to the future and do more.”

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

Umberger and Sup cite the use of predictive models, such as biologically realistic physical models of the human skeletal system and predictive computational simulation to aid their robotic limb design on amputee subjects.

This allows the researchers to closely replicate and experiment, in order to optimize the function and characteristics of the robotic piece, making it easier for it to integrate successfully and easily with the amputee’s body.

They have created their first prototype that is targeted below the knee and above the ankle.

“We also have developed initial computational models for amputee subjects to run the prosthetic simulations with the prototype,” Umberger said.

The expectation criteria they propose to make their designs advanced is the focused implementation of two powerful features. The first feature is

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extending the gate cycle of the robotic leg that is usually missing in an amputee, and injecting power into it.

The second feature is reducing the pressure distribution within the socket of the lower leg. Both researchers agree that these are the tradeoffs required to reduce physiological demands in design and minimizing the physical load on the amputee’s body.

Supp and Umberger said that, with three years progress, they “hope to achieve the goal of implementing these features as well as developing a refined computational methodology when robotic hardware continues to advance and new materials emerge within the rehabilitation prosthetics market.”

Tanaya Asnani can be reached at tasnani@umass.edu.

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ple wandering in and buying marijuana, that’s really not what this is,” Narkewicz said regarding the tight security surrounding the location.

To get inside NETA, which is located at 118 Conz St. in an inconspicuous one-story renovated office building, patients have to be buzzed in through the front door, where there is a surveillance camera and a speaker to talk to them.

Patients then enter a sort of waiting area, where their medical marijuana card and ID are both thoroughly checked, after which, they are let in.

Awaiting the valid cus-

tomer is essentially a variety of options and features.

Everything is brand new, from the polished wood paneling to the multiple high-definition TVs projecting close-up images of different strains of cannabis.

Customers were lined up well over an hour before the ceremony started. They can approach the counter like in any other store and simply order what they want.

In a glass display embedded in the counter is an extensive variety of strains with a display nugget for each, with several of the store’s vape pens also exhibited.

Gabe Smith can be reached at gabrielsmith@umass.edu

Israeli government shuts off Jerusalem’s Old City to nonresident Palestinians due to violence

By Maher aBukhater and Batsheva soBelMan Los Angeles Times

JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities took the extraordinary step of banning nonresident Palestinians from the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday as increased violence gave rise to concerns that a third intifada, or uprising, may have begun.

Tensions continued to simmer in Jerusalem and the West Bank as two Israeli victims of a stabbing attack were laid to rest and Palestinians clashed with police and soldiers.

Hundreds of Israeli police patrolled the streets and neighborhoods of East Jerusalem and the Old City and clashed with residents throughout the city. The worst violence was in the neighborhood of Issawiya, where a 19-year-old Palestinian, alleged to have stabbed an Israeli youth, was shot and killed by police.

The move to limit entry to the Old City, Jerusalem’s ancient tourist and market hub, was described as “a drastic measure” by police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

The order barred access on Sunday and Monday - the last two days of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot - to Palestinians who do not live in the Old City. Israeli citizens, local residents, tourists and students were exempt.

Police set up barricades at gates leading to the Old City, where about 40,000 people live, most of them Palestinians.

Police also barred Muslim men under 50 from entering Al Aqsa mosque compound, which has been a center of tension the past three weeks. Police had entered the compound the night before and removed dozens of Palestinians who were

keeping a vigil in the mosque in anticipation of visits by Jewish extremists the next day.

Israel captured the Old City and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed them. Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of an independent Palestine.

The Palestinian Authority called for international protection for the Palestinian people against what it termed Israeli attacks, while some officials described the violence as signs of a third intifada.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the phone Sunday evening to discuss the latest events in the area.

Abbas, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, urged Ban “to speed up efforts to provide international protection to the Palestinian people before things get out of hand.”

Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that his government will no longer abide by the 1993 Oslo accords as long as Israel does not honor them.

Sultan Abu Einain, a leader in Abbas’ Fatah party, told Palestine TV that the events in the West Bank and Jerusalem “are signs of a third intifada.”

His sentiment was echoed by some Israeli analysts.

Writing in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, journalist Nahum Barnea described the developments as a third intifada.

“It is important to call it by its name,” he wrote.

The first intifada broke out in December 1987 and lasted until the start of the Oslo peace process. The second intifada

broke out in September 2000 and lasted until 2005, after Abbas’ election as president of the Palestinian Authority.

Hanan Ashrawi, member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, accused the Israeli government of “deliberately creating a situation of violence and instability that threatens to spiral out of control.”

Two fatal attacks on Jews in recent days have increased tension.

Two Jewish men, one walking with his wife and infant and the other rushing to his aid, were stabbed to death Saturday in Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli officials and news reports said.

The suspected killer, a 19-year-old Palestinian law student from Ramallah, was shot to death by police officers.

Earlier in the week, a husband and wife were shot to death on a West Bank road while driving in a car with their four children, who were unharmed.

The Palestinian who was shot by police on Sunday was identified as Fadi Elwan.

Police said he had a knife and had stabbed and wounded an Israeli youth.

Elwan’s family disputed the police account and said he was going to pray at Al Aqsa mosque when he was chased by an angry mob of Israelis who wanted to kill him, prompting him to run toward the police patrol before he was shot several times and killed.

Video of the incident show Elwan being chased by men who appear to be ultra-Orthodox Jews shouting, “Shoot him, shoot him.”

Police later raided Elwan’s home and briefly took his father and uncle into custo-

dy for questioning. Clashes broke out throughout the day between residents of the neighborhood and police.

A number of people were arrested and some wounded, according to Red Crescent accounts.

In addition to the violence and clashes in Jerusalem, Palestinians also clashed with Israeli soldiers and settlers in various areas of the West Bank.

Jewish settlers reportedly attacked a Palestinian home just outside Ramallah late Saturday, prompting clashes with its residents and other Palestinians.

Farther north, a large Israeli army unit raided the Jenin refugee camp early Sunday to arrest a Palestinian militant, but ended up clashing with residents and destroying the Palestinian’s home without arresting him.

Nader Irsheid, director of the Jenin hospital, said 22 people were brought to his hospital with gunshot wounds, mainly to the lower parts of their bodies.. He said two people with serious injuries were transferred to a hospital in Nablus.

Israeli soldiers set up checkpoints around Ramallah and Nablus and nearby villages, restricting and delaying movement on West Bank roads. Long lines of cars were seen at checkpoints and hours-long delays were reported.

Settlers also attacked Palestinian commuters on West Bank roads and set fire to fields, Palestinians said.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official in Nablus, said 200 cars were damaged by Israeli settlers and several acres of land planted with olive trees were set on fire.

Israeli Intelligence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yisrael Katz said in

an interview that Israel might be forced to launch another “Defensive Shield,” the name of a military operation Israel waged in the West Bank in 2002 after a wave of suicide bombings.

Israeli officials have vowed to restore security in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the West Bank.

“Our enemies know how to hurt us, but will not defeat us,” said President Reuven Rivlin. “The fight against terrorism requires determination and inner fortitude.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held urgent security consultations with top army, police and intelligence chiefs upon his return from the United States and was set to convene a security cabinet meeting Monday evening.

The attacks that left four Israelis dead in 48 hours prompted fierce criticism against Netanyahu from his political opposition, with hawks slamming him for being lax on Palestinian violence and doves for not promoting a policy to engage Palestinians.

Former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called for a halt to the monthly transfer of tax revenue Israel collects for the Palestinian Authority, and suggested revoking travel permits for Palestinian officials. He also said Palestinian attackers should be put to death and their family’s homes should be demolished..

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog called for coupling security measures with diplomatic efforts to harness what he called a “genuine regional desire” for change. “If this government cannot provide security for its citizens it should draw the conclusions,” he said.

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Doctors Without Borders closes Afghan hospital, says US military may have committed war crime

By Ali M. lAtifi And W.J. HennigAn Los Angeles Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — The medical charity Doctors Without Borders closed its hospital in the Afghan province of Kunduz on Sunday, and charged that a suspected U.S. airstrike that killed 22 people there appeared to have been a war crime.

The closing was a blow to the embattled northern province where more than 400 people have been injured in the last week in fighting between Afghan security forces and the Taliban. The group took control of the provincial capital briefly last week.

The Pentagon said there are three investigations into the airstrike, one by the Defense Department, one involving both the United States and Afghanistan, and one by NATO. Pentagon officials have thus far said only that a U.S. airstrike Saturday morning may have caused collateral damage.

Doctors Without Borders said it would be satisfied only with an investigation by an independent, outside authority.

The aid agency called the

bombing, which went on for more than an hour, horrifying and said it had informed U.S. and Afghan officials of the hospital’s GPS coordinates before the strike occurred.

Doctors Without Borders said Sunday that the death toll had risen to 22 - 12 staff members and 10 patients, three of them children.

Dozens of others were injured.

“Under the clear presumption that a war crime has been committed, (Doctors Without Borders) demands that a full and transparent investigation into the event be conducted by an independent international body,” the organization said in a statement on its website. “Relying only on an internal investigation by a party to the conflict would be wholly insufficient.”

Senior Pentagon officials said the three investigations that have been launched are centered on whether the U.S. military knew the hospital was nearby when an AC-130 gunship opened fire, and whether the clinic was being used by the Taliban to launch attacks.

Thus far, no U.S. or Afghan personnel have been

able to gain access to the hospital because the area remains contested, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Sunday. He called the situation “confused and complicated.”

The investigations will be “full and transparent,” Carter said. “There will be accountability, as always in these incidents, if that is required.”

U.S. defense officials said small teams of U.S. and Afghan special forces were pinned down by Taliban gunfire Saturday morning near the hospital and called in an AC-130 to pound the area with fire.

The AC-130 Spectre is a heavily armed groundattack aircraft outfitted with turrets and mounted Gatling-gun style auto cannons that fire rounds powerful enough to rip apart tanks.

Defense officials said that because it was an intense fire exchange with the Taliban, it remains unclear if the AC-130 was responsible for the hospital’s damage or if it came from elsewhere.

But victims inside the hospital said the strikes continued even after the agency contacted military officials

and informed them of the hospital’s position.

Gen. John Campbell, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has been in constant communication with Carter and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani about the incident.

Carter said he said he has not instructed Campbell to halt airstrikes in Afghanistan.

“General Campbell will take whatever actions he thinks are appropriate,” he said. “Right now, he is focused on the investigation and supporting the Afghan security forces.”

Campbell is scheduled to appear before Congress to discuss the campaign in Afghanistan and probably will discuss what happened at Kunduz.

Local and international bodies, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations and the public health ministry, have condemned the hospital attack.

Afghan forces say Taliban fighters holed up in the facility were firing at government and U.S. forces, but Doctors Without Borders has disputed these claims.

The charity “is disgusted by the recent statements com-

ing from some Afghanistan government authorities justifying the attack on its hospital in Kunduz,” the organization’s general director, Christopher Stokes, said in a statement issued late Sunday. “These statements imply that Afghan and U.S. forces working together decided to raze to the ground a fully functioning hospital – with more than 180 staff and patients inside – because they claim that members of the Taliban were present.

This amounts to an admission of a war crime.”

He added that the claim “utterly contradicts the initial attempts of the U.S. government to minimize the attack as ‘collateral damage.’“ For Kunduz residents, basic staples are still hard to come by and many people are afraid to leave their homes. The hospital’s closing is another setback in a week when fighting has left the people waiting for a return to normal.

Wahidullah Mayar, spokesman for the ministry of public health, said the hospital helped reduce the strain on government hospitals, which saw dozens of patients over the last week.

“We have been able to deliver much-needed medical aid to Kunduz but the (Doctors Without Borders) hospital was an important medical site and its damage will have a major impact on the delivery of additional health services to the people of Kunduz,” Mayar said.

Since the hospital opened in 2011, it has earned a reputation among the people of Kunduz and northern Afghanistan as the best facility in the region.

Mohammad Yar, 28, knew the hospital was the best choice when he was asked to transport two young men injured in the ongoing fighting.

“It’s the name everyone in the North knows, so I thought they would be in good hands there,” he said.

Like much of the rest of Kunduz, Yar spent the most of the past week, so he was unaware of the airstrike on the hospital.

“I only recently heard about it and I can’t believe it,” he said. “They should have come out happy and healthy, that’s why I sent them there.”

Yar has not received any word from the two men since Friday.

Vatican to fire High school shooting plot foiled in gay theologian Northern California by detectives dpA

ROME –– A Vatican theologian who told a Milan newspaper he is gay will not be allowed to continue working in his professional capacities, a Vatican spokesman said Saturday.

Krzysztof Charamsa, an assistant secretary of the International Theological Commission who teaches at the Pontifical Gregorian University, told the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera he was gay.

“I would like the Church and my community to know who I am: a homosexual priest, happy and proud of my own identity,” Charamsa said.

Catholic Church teachings

hold homosexual acts as sinful and “contrary to the natural law,” and Charamsa is the first theologian with an active Vatican role to identify as homosexual, Corriere della Sera reported.

Charamsa, a native of Poland living in Rome for 17 years, has also said that he has a partner.

“The time has come for the Church to open its eyes to gay believers and recognize its suggested solution of complete, lifelong abstinence is inhumane,” Charamsa said.

A three-week bishops’ synod begins Sunday in the Vatican to discuss questions of marriage and family. The meeting is expected to deal with sensitive social issues

By rong-gong lin ii Los Angeles Times

A day before a gunman in Oregon killed eight classmates and his college writing teacher, sheriff’s detectives in Northern California’s Tuolomne County foiled a plot by students to go on a shooting rampage at their high school near Yosemite National Park, authorities said.

The Summerville Union High School students, all male, had detailed plans that “included names of wouldbe victims, locations, methods in which the plan was to be carried out,” Sheriff Jim Mele told reporters at a news conference Saturday.

The targets included other

students and faculty members.

The boys confessed, Mele said, according to the Modesto Bee and KCRATV. Three were arrested Wednesday and a fourth detained Friday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit assault with deadly weapons, a statement provided by the sheriff’s office said.

“They were going to come on campus and shoot and kill as many people as possible at the campus,” Mele told the Bee. The suspects were overheard by other students talking about their plans.

Detectives later found evidence that the suspects

planned to act during an upcoming campus event, the news organizations reported.

“Students noticed suspicious activity, and ... they felt uneasy enough to go to staff,” the sheriff said in televised remarks.

The names of the suspects were not released because they are juveniles.

No weapons were found by detectives, but the students were planning to obtain them, the news organizations reported. No specific motive was disclosed.

The high school serves students in Tuolumne, about three hours east of San Francisco.

With a population of

fewer than 2,000 people, Tuolumne’s heyday was during the Gold Rush era, and it later became known for logging operations.

Tuolumne is now home to the Black Oak Casino, operated by the Tuolumne band of Me-Wuk Indians, a federally recognized tribe.

There have been several attacks on and around school campuses in California in recent years.

In 2014, Elliot Rodger, 22, a Santa Barbara City College student, went on a killing rampage that left six University of California, Santa Barbara, students dead. Rodger then shot himself inside his car after exchanging gunfire with deputies.

Utah congressman challenges Kevin South Carolina hit with floods McCarthy for House speakership

By MArcus e. HoWArd Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah says he’s running for speaker of the House, challenging fellow Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, whose lock on the job appears vulnerable because of his own words a few days ago.

Chaffetz, appearing on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace, said he would bridge the divide between centrist and hard-right Republicans and be a fresh voice for change the country is seeking.

“He’s been in existing leadership for years and years, and the strife and divide is getting worse,” Chaffetz said of McCarthy.

“It’s not getting better.”

In challenging the No. 2 leader in the House, Chaffetz is expected to face a steep climb to the powerful position that is second in line to succeed the president.

McCarthy’s job as House majority leader and his prior service as majority whip have placed him in close contact with party conference members who will decide the winner. He also has been a helpful fundraiser, including for his conservative col-

leagues.

But it remains uncertain whether he will win the support of an influential group of hard-right conservatives who played a part in House Speaker John A. Boehner’s decision to leave Congress at the end of the month.

McCarthy’s recent comments about the GOP’s intentions in probing former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in relation to the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, were widely viewed as a gaffe, even among Republicans, and have left him vulnerable.

“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” McCarthy said Tuesday on Fox News. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee. A select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable.”

Democrats pounced on the remark as proof that the GOP’s Benghazi inquiry is politically motivated. Several fellow Republicans repudiated McCarthy’s words, which he has retracted.

But the comments have handed a potent weapon to Democrats ahead of Clinton’s high-profile Oct. 22 appearance before the com-

mittee. The Benghazi attacks killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.

Chaffetz, 48, said the GOP needs to reform the way it selects its leaders and committee chairs. On political matters, he said he supports current budget caps but would like to spend more on military, veterans’ affairs and cancer research. And he said he is not in favor of raising the debt limit without also reining in government spending.

Still, Chaffetz acknowledged that McCarthy probably has the votes to be nominated for speaker. Chaffetz would, he said, support whomever the full House eventually selects but would fight to win.

“I want a speaker who speaks,” Chaffetz told Wallace.

“We need somebody who’s out there, who is actually going out there and making the case to the American people, talking to the Senate about what we need to do and going on the national television shows and winning that argument. We don’t seem to win the argument and that’s a problem.”

Chaffetz, a former political aide and businessman,

was first elected to Congress in 2008 after defeating an incumbent Republican in the primary.

Not known to be camera shy, Chaffetz has since been a frequent guest on political talk shows.

As chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, he has criticized the performance of the Secret Service and accused the IRS of targeting conservative groups. And his questioning of Planned Parenthood’s activities in the wake of controversial undercover video footage have helped to reignite strong emotions on the issue of abortion.

McCarthy’s spokesman declined to comment on Chaffetz’s announcement.

Rep. Daniel Webster of Florida also has announced his candidacy for speaker.

Boehner, who has struggled to keep the party’s factions together, announced his intention to retire just over a week ago. The unexpected news set in motion a potential reshuffling in the House Republican leadership. The GOP’s closed-door leadership election is scheduled for Thursday, before a full House vote later this month.

By AndreW sHAin The State (Columbia, S.C.) COLUMBIA, S.C. — A slow-moving storm in South Carolina left parts of Charleston underwater and dumped a more than a foot of rain on parts of Columbia.

The rainfall submerged lowing-lying traffic intersections around Columbia.

Richland County declared a state of emergency Sunday, which allows the county to seek help from state emergency officials and buy emergency equipment and supplies.

Roads were closed all over the Midlands. State officials told drivers to stay home - even if there was little rain in their part of South Carolina.

“We’ve got another day of this at least,” said Derrec Becker, a spokesman for the state Emergency Management Division.

At least four people across the state died in incidents related to the storm that started late last week.

The latest was a motorist on U.S. 378 in West Columbia who died in floodwaters Sunday, an emergency official said.

In Columbia, the city received hundreds of calls

requesting rescue and evacuation. Creeks overflowed into neighborhoods and shopping centers.

Between 3:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Sunday, the Columbia Fire Department had rescued people in at least 50 vehicles throughout the capital city.

Flooding is widespread in Columbia.

After soaking Charleston with nearly two feet of rain since Thursday, the storm shifted northwest overnight and drenched the Midlands.

At least three dams had failed in Richland County by 9 a.m.

The Forest Lake, Arcadia Lake and Lake Dogwood dams had been affected by rising waters that were creating pressure, Lewis said.

Columbia Fire Department spokesman Brick Lewis said he did not know of any injuries related to broken dams, but he said the department was generally busy helping people trapped in homes and cars across town. The first dam breaks were reported after dawn.

“The rainfall totals that have come in are causing the waters of these lakes to flow over the dams and just give way, “he said. “It is putting pressure on the dams.”

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Open Letter to Chancellor Subbaswamy: On Friday, Sept. 4, the University of Massachusetts welcomed thousands of first-year students to their new home. Many of these students will take up a number of leadership positions on campus throughout their undergraduate experience. Dozens, if not hundreds of them will become resident assistants and peer mentors.

So it is quite disturbing that while the Graduate Employee Organization – the union that represents and protects thousands of graduate student-workers – welcomed these future leaders with information about the ongoing fight for the basic, common-sense right of RAs and PMs to not be fired without “just cause,” you welcomed thousands of new graduate student-workers by making light of the poverty wages that the administration continues to pay our graduate student-workers.

While GEO was advocating for the fair working conditions of undergraduate student-workers, you addressed hundreds of incoming graduate student workers at the graduate school’s first-ever comprehensive Graduate Student Orientation. As you well know, your words speak directly to a variety of constituencies. So when you told the congregation of graduate student-workers that they had “taken an oath of poverty, for the next five to seven years,” you announced to every graduate student-worker, past, present, and future, to the incoming and returning undergraduate students and to all faculty and the extremely marginalized University support staff, that the chancellor of the state’s “flagship” institution is content with the poverty wages that the University pays its graduate-student workers. These workers conduct the University’s world-renowned lab research, teach the overwhelming majority of undergraduate student courses and just about all of their discussion sections.

These preliminary days of the and failed to answer numerous presidential campaign may have elementary questions. dominated news coverage to a Far from damaging his campaign, Trump’s supporters seem Lucas Coughlin to relish such moments, proffering them as evidence of his nauseating extent, but they have dissimilarity from Washington’s at least been edifying. elite. This is because Trump’s The two unconventional candidates who have generated the supporters are, for the most part, most excitement, Bernie Sanders not typical GOP voters.

Republicans have long relied and Donald Trump, owe their on the suburban, white collar success to the same populist fervor. The anti-establishment demographic for votes and donamentality that often grips the tions, and the “establishment” American public is generally a types such as Mitt Romney and

As the body that represents the collective bargaining interests of graduate student-workers, the GEO works very closely with the graduate school, department faculty and administrators to make UMass the destination of choice for people all over the state, the country and the world. Unfortunately, we are also keenly aware of the arguably criminal practices of discrimination and sexual harassment that characterize the experience of far too many graduate student-workers in just about every UMass school, college and department. These discriminatory practices often involve threats and intimidation around access to the poverty wage assistantships that too many faculty and administrators see fit to leverage for power and exploitation.

“Trump’s values, which have been noticeably malleable throughout his campaign, veer far further to the left than the typical Republican, other than immigration.”

Sadly, we cannot say that we are surprised at your apparent endorsement of the poverty-wages UMass pays its graduate student-workers. Your words mirror the negotiating position advanced by the administration during its last contract negotiations with the GEO. Whereas the GEO fought to bring graduate students-workers out of poverty, proposing a 15 percent wage increase over the next three years, the administration fought to keep graduate student-workers deep in poverty, offering a mere 9 percent increase over the same period. With a chancellor who willfully strengthens the stereotype that graduate student-workers deserve poverty wages, the GEO’s ability to negotiate a 10.5 percent wage increase over three years is a remarkable feat.

healthy sentiment, but in this case it has manifested itself in two questionable figures.

In a tumultuous global situation, both Trump and Sanders have focused almost exclusively on domestic issues. The extent of Sanders’ foreign policy, to my knowledge, has been to suggest that other countries like Saudi Arabia fight ISIS in our stead.

The “issues” section on his website lists only one foreign policy oriented position – his support for the Iran deal.

Sanders has avoided putting himself in positions where he is speaking about foreign policy, likely because he has nothing of substance to say. This is another clear area of contrast between Sanders and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, but this may constitute an advantage for Sanders.

Clinton’s record as a secretary of state is basically a failure, and she has been embroiled in scandals revolving around her tenure in that role. All of this is compounded by her image as a jet-set elite who is out of touch with average voters.

Trump, too, might superficially seem to be a member of the elite, but his status as a political outsider, his penchant for blunt speech and his visibility as a former reality television star are the basis of his appeal.

Like Sanders, he has focused on domestic issues, namely immigration.

Trump, however, has not entirely avoided global issues.

In a recent interview with Hugh Hewitt, he failed to distinguish between Hamas and Hezbollah,

We are not writing this letter to draw attention to a political gaffe or a public relations error. We are writing to make you aware of the harmful message your words conveyed. Regardless of your intent, you can be certain that your words have had the effect of emboldening those who would – and do – exploit, discriminate and abuse their positions of power through access to poverty wage fellowships and assistantships.

We demand a candid, serious, and public dialogue with GEO and the entire UMass community about the poverty wages that you endorse, and that far too many faculty and administrators believe graduate studentworkers deserve. We believe that you owe the entire UMass Amherst community answers to some very pressing questions: • • • •

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John McCain have struck a chord with their moderate values. Trump, meanwhile, has garnered support from blue-collar workers, as well as from apolitical types who appreciate his cultural persona.

Trump’s values, which have been noticeably malleable throughout his campaign, veer far further to the left than the typical Republican, other than immigration. He is, in fact, in agreement with his counterpart on the left in Sanders regarding socialized healthcare, capital gains taxes, “assault weapons” bans, and campaign finance reform, among other things.

And it was Trump, not Sanders, who referred to CEO pay as “disgraceful” a few days ago. The greatest contrast between these two candidates is superficial: Sanders’ speeches are essentially a litany of policy points unrefined by any rhetorical flash or personal anecdotes.

Trump, meanwhile, focuses on no specific policy outside of immigration. National Review writer Charles C.W Cooke wrote that, in his speech in Alabama, Trump “offered up falsehoods and wild generalizations, fading any details that he attempted to recall into vague “somethings” and “just abouts.”

If Trump were to delineate any actual policy, he and Sanders might begin sounding very much alike.

Lucas Coughlin can be reached at lmcoughl@umass.edu.

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‘Under the Influence’ explores a legend’s inspirations New documentary The film ultimately illuminates Richards as a talented rock star who never tries to be available on Netflix

By Isaac sImon Collegian Staff

Keith Richards is an anomaly. His legend has come to supersede him.

Plenty of people know about his excessive drinking and drug use, sexual promiscuity and various run-ins with the law –and, of course, his unexplainable persistence and steadfast devotion to The Rolling Stones as maestro to Mick Jagger for more than 50 years.

But none of this is explored in Morgan Neville’s “Under the Influence,” a new documentary about the acclaimed rocker that’s now available to stream on Netflix.

The film was made while Richards was putting together “Crosseyed Heart,” his first solo album in more than 20 years.

“Under the Influence” employs a unique style, capturing Richards as both traditional individual while also easygoing and level-headed. Often times, Richards is calm and relaxed.

With that being said, he knows when to be serious and get down to business. We come to understand Richards as someone who is deeply fascinated with the origins of his own music, someone who is forever grateful for the blues and the artists who influ-

someone else ... His mannerisms give off a relaxed confidence, as if he perfectly understands the reason for why he plays music.

enced him.

And those influences – Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy, Chuck Berry, Lead Belly, Robert Johnson and, of course, the great Muddy Waters – are as indelible as they are inspiring. These artists became the basis for Richard’s musical foundation.

In fact, Neville includes old footage of the Rolling Stones performing their own version of “I Just Want to Make Love to You,” a song originally recorded

by Waters himself.

While the film manages to devote a lot of attention to Richards’ influences, it provides little insight in to Richards’ past. His love of family, the relationship he rekindled with his father, and the evolution of his offspring – are all biographical elements left until to the end.

Through the story we learn that he left home at 17 years old without his father’s permission and has been on the road ever since, always calling the stage his true home.

Richards’ first glimpse of the United States came as a boy when he heard

Elvis Presley on the radio.

Presley provided Richards with a sense of possibility amidst the bombed-out, rubble-filled England of the late ‘40s. That, along with his mother’s favorites such as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, helped provide the melodic spark for which Richards has been forever captivated and inspired.

Lately, Richards’ center of attention has moved to the studio, where he worked to construct “Crosseyed Heart.” Here we see a Richards who pays great attention to detail, knows immediately when something works and when it doesn’t. To paraphrase Tom Waits – who is noted musician and friend of Richards and appears at several stages throughout the film – when all of the musicians are tuning up in the studio, what happens next is totally unpredictable.

Everyone is waiting for the magic to happen. For me, this was the most fascinating aspect of the film, because fans are used to seeing Richards as a member of the Rolling Stones

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‘Under the Influence’ honors Keith Richards’ musical individuality and the diverse group of artists who inspired him. and perceive him only in relation to his fellow band members. Here, when we see Richards in the studio, the entirety of the spotlight is on him.

The film ultimately illuminates Richards as a talented rock star who never tries to be someone else. He displays his cheerful wit as he chain-smokes cigarette after cigarette, ending almost every sentence with deep distilled laughter. His mannerisms give off a relaxed confidence, as if he perfectly understands the reason for why he plays music.

Richards, 71, talks about the concept of growing up and how he believes it can never be achieved. He says, “You’re not grown up until the day they put you six feet under.” That seems telling, especially when so many people never know how they are supposed to act, or how quite to be an adult.

“Under the Influence” is a well-made, enjoyable film. It documents Richards’ musical individuality while illuminating the respect and admiration he has for his own influences. Richards’ calm and

composed manner seems to suggest that he is certain of nothing, especially music.

The half century he has devoted to his art seems to suggest a level of resilience not found in most walks of life. According to Richards, “Music is at the center of everything. It’s something that binds people together, through centuries, through millennia, it’s indefinable and no ones ever going to have the answer to it, but it’s great fun exploring.”

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New Order’s shaky return ‘Survivor: Second Chances’ Album is true to premiere dry but satisfying form, but unwieldy

By Jackson maxwell Collegian Staff

When I first heard that the current edition of New Order – minus founding bassist Peter Hook – had announced its first album of new recordings in a decade, with a guest list that included The Killers’ Brandon Flowers and Iggy Pop, I winced.

What did Bernard Sumner, New Order’s guitarist and singer, and his remaining bandmates have left to prove? The band’s timeless ‘80s hits – like “Blue Monday,” “Temptation” and “Bizarre Love Triangle,” to name a few – changed the very fabric of independent music. Plus, the band’s previous post-reunion albums – 2001 s “Get Ready,” 2005 s “Waiting For The Sirens Call” and even 2013 s outtakes collection, “Lost Sirens” – were quite good.

While those three albums were, at times, a bit lyrically suspect, they were fluid and natural in their embrace of a sort of maximalist, synthaddled guitar rock. More than anything, the trio – minus keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, who has returned to the fold for “Music Complete” – evolved seamlessly back into the pop music zeitgeist without batting an eye.

So, minus its erstwhile bassist, could New Order spin its magic twice in two decades?

“Music Complete,” released Sep. 25, offers neither a definitive yes or no. With Gilbert back on board, the band spends much of this album re-visiting the club-ready electronics that cemented its reputation so emphatically.

Rather than the engaged

frontman of a muscly, suddenly socially conscious rock band as he was in the 2000’s, Bernard Sumner has returned to his place as a disengaged, unreliable narrator. Rarely offering more than a few, pointed lines over the album’s driving, bass-heavy rhythms, Sumner largely cedes the spotlight to the always-remarkable beats of Stephen Morris, Gilbert and the band’s new bassist, Tom Chapman.

The songwriting is undoubtedly strong in places, with Sumner wisely offering many of the album’s biggest hooks to guest vocalists with greater ranges than his own.

Brandon Flowers was essentially born to belt out the gorgeous, universe-sized chorus to closer “Superheated,” and La Roux’s Elly Jackson makes the eight-minute “Nothing But A Fool” worth the whole trip, molding her more dramatic exhortations perfectly with Sumner’s more muted delivery.

To her credit, Jackson also gives “People On The High Line” – which could have easily been plucked right out of the playlist at an early ‘90s English club – a boost; giving the dance-floor piano runs and funky bass genuine zest.

Elsewhere, the band sounds surprisingly formidable when emulating its own early work.

“Plastic” is a relentless dance number, with the hardest hitting electronics the band have laid to tape since the ‘80s. Sumner’s lyrics, as ever, are vague and spotty, but as always with New Order, it matters little.

“Plastic” is a song built much more for becoming lost in and hypnotized by than it is for over-analyzing. The band then throws strength upon strength with the following song, “Tutti Frutti.”

Intermittently featuring an absurd “Spanglish” spokenword voiceover, it’s the sort of flashy, bass-powered, cornball disco the band has always been so ridiculously good at.

So yes, New Order is still unquestionably a creatively vital unit. The issue with “Music Complete” though, is how over-eager the band is to prove that to its audience. The album is a whopping 64 minutes, 7 minutes longer than any other album in its discography, and more than 20 minutes longer than any of the albums from the band’s ‘80s heyday.

The album’s length makes material like the otherwise fascinating spoken-word collaboration with Iggy Pop, “Stray Dog,” feel completely unnecessary. Even some of the album’s strongest tracks, like “Nothing But A Fool,” feel far longer than they need to be. And while Chapman does a fairly admirable job in filling the giant shoes of Hook, Hook’s melodic flexibility and aggressive lines are missed during those long stretches where Chapman merely holds down the fort.

“Music Complete,” with its Peter Saville cover art and total ‘80s aesthetic, does sometimes feel like a true return to form for a band that has held so much sway in pop music’s recent history. But by the time the last bits of Flowers’ stadium-sized vocals on “Superheated” finally fade out, ones gets the feeling that New Order could have made the same point, just as effectively, with an album that was maybe half as long.

Jackson Maxwell can be reached at jlmaxwell@umass.edu and followed on Twitter at @JMaxwell82.

Promising start for show’s 31st season

By Tyler movsessIan Collegian Correspondent

Everyone loves a good comeback story. In this year’s edition of “Survivor,” the producers turned the casting process to the fans. Months before the show began, fans could select from 30 candidates who should appear on “Survivor Cambodia: Second Chance.” All of the candidates were one-time players who did not win and felt like they had more to give to the game since the first time.

This is the first time that there is an all-returning cast of “Survivor.” Many contestants are returning after a long way away from the game. In fact, even the runner-up of the very first season, Kelly Wiglesworth, is back 15 years after his first adventure with the show in Borneo.

Immediately, there is a clear division between both tribes, and an apparent new school versus old school dynamic. The new school plays the game much faster as far as socializing and strategizing, while the old school prefers to get settled in on day one.

This first episode felt really bland, because in every contestant’s confessional – a one-on-one in which they tell the audience their thoughts about the game – contestants kept reiterating that it was “a blessing to get a second chance at the game” and that they would “fix [their] mistakes from the first time.”

Yes, I understand that you

don’t want to make the same blunders. Can we please move on? I’m aware that the title is “Survivor: Second Chance,” but every time these contestants opened their mouths it felt like they were shoving that “second chance” down the viewers’ throats.

The biggest drag of the episode was tribe life. There was not much going on other than introductions and the building of shelter and fire, which are obviously important in order to survive with nine other people in the woods, but ultimately made for pretty boring TV. This year, two tribes have been randomly assigned – Bayon in pink and Ta Keo in green. At Bayon, Jeremy Collins quickly makes an alliance with all of the better competitors, which include Keith Nale, Andrew Savage, Joe Anglim and Tasha Fox. Meanwhile, Stephen Fishbach is reliving his nightmare from “Survivor: Tocantins.” He is a brainy “Survivor” super-fan with a lot of brawn.

At one point, contestant Kelley Wentworth decides to go look for the idol. Instead of finding the hidden object, she finds a clue, which reveals the idol’s location at the challenge site. This twist definitely added a new element to the objective of obtaining the idol, an exciting development seeing as, in recent seasons, it has been far too easy to retrieve.

It is good that the producers brought back the first challenge from the first season, “Quest for Fire.” The tribes have to lead a raft through water and light a

series of torches, then one person has to use planks of wood and rope to create a pole long enough to reach a key so they can open the fence and light the final torch to win immunity.

Wiglesworth played in this challenge the first season and lost, and faced the same struggles here.

Wentworth snatched the idol from underneath the raft while everyone focused on the pole. None of Bayon knows about it and their idol remains unclaimed.

Hopefully they will re-hide it at camp because idol plays can be very exciting if the objects are in the right hands.

At the Ta Keo tribal council, it quickly became apparent who was on the chopping block. Ta Keo were divided between the Vytas Baskauskas and the fiery Brazilian from Season 25, Abi-Maria Gomes. Gomes says that her second chance story is all about growth, but it seems that she often annoys her tribe. However, when voting time arrived, Baskauskas was ousted 6-4.

This was one of the drier premieres in the show’s history, but I still have high hopes for the season once the second chance element simmers down a bit and we can actually get into some more hardcore gaming. We’ll have to wait until next time to see if keeping Gomes pays off for this tribe, although it seems unlikely that it will.

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

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UMass scores two goals on set pieces

By Jamie Cushman Collegian Staff

With just 10 seconds remaining in Sunday’s game and trailing by a goal against Richmond, Massachusetts women’s soccer forward Megan Burke didn’t have much time to think as she rushed to take a corner kick.

“I was nearest to the ball and I just tried to hit it the best I could,” Burke said.

Burke’s quick cross then found the head of senior defender Rebekka Sverrisdóttir, who knocked it in the goal with three seconds left in regulation, sending the game into overtime and the MAKOTO YABUSAKI/COLLEGIAN UMass (4-3-3) bench into frenThe Minutewomen celebrate Rebekka Sverrisdottir’s game-tying goal with three seconds left in regulation Sunday. zy.

Sunday’s back-and-forth game against the Spiders (3-6-1) the edge of the penalty area. made multiple impressive something that could have ended in a 2-2 draw, extending Smith won the race against runs to put the Spiders attack been prevented.” the Minutewomen’s unbeaten Richmond goalkeeper sopho- in a position to score, but finSunday’s draw wrapped streak to five games. With more Katie Brennan to the ished her crosses. Prillaman up a four-and-a-half-week both of its goals ball and ripped threatened to score nearly home stretch, with the coming off corner a shot that was every time she touched the Minutewomen finishing 4-0kicks, UMass took UMass 2 saved and deflect- ball before converting in the 1. UMass now looks to carry advantage of the ed straight to red- 67th minute. its recent success into its road lack of height on Richmond 2 shirt freshman “(Prillaman) was a handful schedule as the team prepares Richmond’s roster.

Marissa Milazzo, whenever she got the ball,” to travel to face George Mason “They were who missed the Matz said. “I thought we gave on Thursday. short,” UMass coach Ed Matz open net wide left. Milazzo has her too much space and too “There’s so much parity in said. “Richmond was a short missed some time this season much respect.” team, but we have been workthe A-10 now that whenever with a hip flexor injury.

Richmond then took the ing on (headers). I think the you go on the road, the home “That’s a ball that should lead on poor defensive play last goal was just scored with team’s always going to have a lot of heart and determina- have been finished,” Matz by the Minutewomen. After the advantage, so we have to said. “Whether she was a lit- a failed cross by the Spiders, tion.” overcome that,” Matz said.

UMass struck first in the tle bit rusty or her technique UMass missed multiple oppor“Every game we have 63rd minute when junior just wasn’t that good, that’s a tunities to clear the ball out of from here on out is not an play that she should finish and their zone.

Alyssa Fratarcangeli’s shot Instead the ball found easy match. Every team in this deflected wide to earn a cor- when she gets a couple full conference is very, very good ner kick. Senior Jackie Bruno weeks of practice in her and freshman Keaira Clark about then delivered a nice cross into more conditioning, hopefully 18 yards out and she delivered and it’s very hard to win on a perfect shot into the top right the road,” Babin said. “We just the box and senior Danielle she’ll finish that.”

The Spiders’ first goal came corner of the net in the 86th have to prepare 10 times better Farano finished the play with courtesy of Lexi Prillaman minute, setting up the late than any games in the past a headed goal. and just have a good perforThe goal came after a just minutes later, off an assist heroics from UMass.

“It was a great shot, it was mance on Thursday.” missed chance in the first half from Ashley Riefner. The two when Minutewomen Bruno caused havoc in the UMass a very good shot,” UMass goalkeeper Cassidy Babin said. Jamie Cushman can be reached at delivered a lob pass in front of defensive zone all day. senior Madison Smith right to Besides the assist, Riefner “But at the same time, it was jrcushman@umass.edu.

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in the game when quarterback Blake Frohnapfel (32of-42, 363 passing yards and three touchdowns) placed a perfectly executed pass to Marken Michel in the backright corner of the end zone from five yards out.

Michel (113) was one of two UMass receivers with over 100 receiving yards, with Sharpe notching 159 yards and a touchdown on 15 receptions – the latter which was a school record.

Michel’s first touchdown came on a 57-yard post with 10:29 left in the first quarter to give UMass an initial 7-0 lead. Sharpe’s score came with 9:28 remaining in the second quarter when Frohnapfel rolled out to his left before finding his top receiver from six-yards out to make it 14-0.

FIU’s Thomas Owens scored on a one-yard fade over cornerback Randall Jette to cut the deficit to

14-7. The Panthers again made it a single-possession game with 20 seconds remaining in the third quarter on a one-yard run from Alex Gardner.

Following Owens’ touchdown, UMass drove 39 yards on nine plays to set up a Logan Laurent 48-yard field goal to give it a 17-7 lead heading into halftime.

Laurent, who was named starting placekicker on Friday, had his first attempt blocked from 19 yards out.

“It was great to be in that locker room down there when everyone is so excited,” Frohnapfel said.

“That’s the reason why you play football. Moments like that, the atmosphere, because winning is a lot of fun.”

“We were having a hard time on offense moving it, so I felt pretty good that those guys would be able to stop the run like they did.”

he expects both Kitching and Holines to return to the lineup “soon” to reinforce the defensive line.

Kitching practiced on a limited basis last week before being ruled out Saturday.

Saturday’s win over the Panthers marked the Minutemen’s first nonconference victory in the program’s four-year history in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

“We had a lot of close ones in the time I’ve been here but it feels good to get it done our senior year,” Santos-Knox said. “It’s a great feeling.”

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Marken Michel (10) hauls in his second touchdown catch of the day in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game.

Reserve linebacker John Robinson-Woodgett led the Minutemen with nine total tackles. He also recorded a sack and was a key component of UMass’ front seven that used a series of blitzes and schemes to put pressure on FIU and disrupt quarterback Alex

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McGough, who finished 22-of-34 for 115 yards and a touchdown.

The Panthers’ 188 yards of total offense was the least amount the Minutemen have allowed this season.

UMass put the final nail in the coffin with seven minutes, 11 seconds remaining

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physical so it wasn’t just speed. I’m proud of everyone up front because they answered the call.”

The UMass defense as a whole forced eight punts and held the Panthers to 5-of-15 on third down conversions.

Getting off the field has been a bit of an issue for the unit to start the season, and just last week against Notre Dame, the Fighting Irish converted on 8-of-13 third downs against UMass.

Santos-Knox said Saturday’s execution on defense was “exciting” to watch unfold and proves beneficial moving forward, no matter the injury situation.

Mark Whipple, UMass coach “We had a game plan coming in and we executed it,” Santos-Knox said. “To force as many punts as we did and to have all the different people step up as they did, it’s incredible and it shows how resilient this team is.”

UMass coach Mark Whipple said that the defensive line’s shorthanded pieces all had an encouraging week of practice heading into the matchup with the

Panthers, which gave him confidence in the unit.

“We were having a hard time on offense moving it, so I felt pretty good that those guys would be able to stop the run like they did,” Whipple said. “Did I know it would happen that way? No, not really.

But those guys have hung together and we had a good week of practice and I think it really showed up on the field today.”

Whipple added that

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Freshman Austin Plevy recorded a goal and an assist in Saturday’s exhibition against Dalhousie.

Ryan Badger added a goal at 12:59 into the third period to take a 4-0 lead.

UMass will open its regular season Friday night at Colorado College at 9:37 p.m.

Freshmen impress While the final score may not be of the utmost importance, Saturday’s exhibition did offer a chance to get a first glimpse at the incoming freshmen on the roster for the Minutemen.

And for Chukarov, Fyer and Plevy, the first impressions were encouraging.

“It’s good to get a game in where it doesn’t necessarily count, to get used to the college speed and get used to the atmosphere,” Plevy said after the game.

A 6-foot-3 seventh round NHL pick of the Buffalo Sabres, Chukarov assisted on two goals, including the primary helper on Plevy’s first period score. Fryer (also 6-foot-3) recorded two assists as well, and together the two used their size and range to form an effective defensive pair.

Plevy, a freshman from Langley, British Columbia, was the star of the night offensively. His first period strike was slotted neatly into the top right corner of the net. In the second period, he showed good awareness to find Burchett near the Dalhousie net. Plevy delivered a perfect pass that Burchett slammed into the open goal. He spent most of the night skating as a wing on a first line centered by Iacobellis and featuring senior Shane Walsh on the other wing.

Goalies erase mistakes Saturday was a strong showing from all three UMass goaltenders, who probably handled more action than Micheletto would have liked.

Renyard, a freshman from Victoria, British Columbia,

started the game and made eight saves in the first period, including a pair of stops on clean breakaways for the Tigers that happened just minutes apart.

“It was a little bit of a jump from the Alberta League to the college level but I thought our guys made it really easy for me out there,” Renyard said. “(The defense) cleared the rebounds and played real well defensively to make it easy for me.”

Dill, a sophomore who split time with Steve Mastalerz last season, came in for the second period and made 14 saves of his own, including another breakaway stop. In the final frame, Wakaluk made several bigtime stops on high-quality scoring chances.

After the game, Micheletto said he will make a decision on Thursday on who will start in net for the opener against Colorado College.

Injury update After Saturday’s win, Micheletto provided injury updates on sophomore forward Dennis Kravchenko and junior defenseman Brennan Baxandall.

He said that while Baxandall sustained his injury more recently than Kravchenko, both were considered day-to-day and neither injury was considered long-term. They both could play at Colorado College if they progress this week, according to Micheletto.

Kravchenko is the top returning offensive producer for the Minutemen. He scored 10 goals and assisted on 23 more last season as a freshman. With the departures of leading goal scorer Frank Vatrano and Anaheim Ducks second draft pick Brandon Montour, Kravchenko figures to be heavily relied upon to be an offensive spark for UMass.

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Senior wide receivers Tajae Sharpe (15 receptions, 159 yards, one touchdown) and Marken Michel (seven receptions, 113 yards, two touchdowns) shined in UMass’ first win of 2015 Saturday at McGuirk Stadium against Florida International.

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Freshmen star in Sat. exhibition UMass hosts Dalhousie, goalies post 4-0 shutout By ross GienieCzko Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts hockey team beat Dalhousie 4-0 Saturday night at the Mullins Center in the Minutemen’s season-opening exhibition game, but the final score was not of any interest to UMass coach John Micheletto.

“We scored some goals, kept some goals out. (Nobody) got seriously injured and everyone that was healthy got to play,” Micheletto said.

“I guess we checked all the boxes that an exhibition game has got to check.”

Saturday’s game was a one-sided affair, at least on the scoreboard. The Minutemen received strong offensive performances from freshmen Austin Plevy, Ivan Chukarov and Callum Fryer, and a combined shutout from goaltenders Nic Renyard, Henry Dill and Alex Wakaluk.

But as to be expected in the preseason, there was some sloppiness from both teams.

Plevy finished an opportunity on an odd-man rush at eight minutes, 29 seconds into the first period, with assists from Chukarov and senior captain Steven Iacobellis to take the 1-0 lead. Renyard followed with several strong saves to keep the Tigers off the board in the first period, including stopping two breakaways UMass allowed.

In the second period, Iacobellis doubled the Minutemen’s lead after slapping home a rebound in front, and minutes later Plevy found Keith Burchett open alone by the Dalhousie net to make it 3-0.

In the final frame, the tempo and energy of the exhibition was noticeably down though. Wakaluk faced a barrage of quality scoring chances from the Tigers, but preserved the shutout with 11 saves. Freshman see

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UMass front seven steps up despite injuries, lack of size in Sat. victory

By Anthony ChiusAno Collegian Staff

It wasn’t pretty, but the Massachusetts football team escaped Saturday’s game against Florida International at McGuirk Stadium with its first win of the season, 24-14.

Paving the way for the Minutemen’s sloppy, penalty flag-laden victory on an overcast day that mirrored UMass’ newly-debuted gray alternate jerseys, was an unexpected source: a strong performance from the Minutemen’s front seven and its injury-depleted defensive line.

The Minutemen (1-3) defense recorded three sacks and applied timely pressure on Panthers (2-3) quarterback Alex McGough en route to limiting FIU to 188 total yards on offense and picking up a UMass offense that was plagued by missed opportunities early and often Saturday afternoon.

The Minutemen entered Saturday’s matchup without starting nose tackle Robert Kitching and starting defensive end Sha-Ki Holines, to go along with the limited play of defensive back Kelton Brackett (nursing a knee injury) and Tuesday’s news that starting free safety Khary Bailey-Smith would miss the remainder of the season (knee).

Star ting fullback/tight end Rodney Mills and blocking tight end Brandon Howard also donned street clothes and missed Saturday’s game due to injury.

But senior linebackers John

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Linebacker John Robinson-Woodgett led the Minutemen’s defense with nine tackles and added a sack in Saturday’s victory.

“Those guys have nothing but heart. I’ve said it, these guys are tremendous players and they fight every single play. They might be undersized but you can’t test someone’s heart by looking at them.”

Jovan Santos-Knox, UMass linebacker Robinson-Woodget (a team-high nine tackles, one sack) and Jovan Santos-Knox (six tackles, one sack) led the way while a makeshift defensive line often consisting of a combination of linebackers Trey Seals and Kassan Messiah, and defensive linemen Enock Asante and Peter Angeh utilized a mix of speed and physicality to make up for a lack of prototypical size.

“Those guys have nothing but

heart,” Santos-Knox said about the defensive line’s performance against FIU. “I’ve said it, these guys are tremendous players and they fight every single play.

They might be undersized but you can’t test someone’s heart by just looking at them. These guys fought very hard the entire game and everyone had a great game.”

He added: “We also were see

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Despite what the final stat sheet says, Saturday’s performance for the Massachusetts football team looked a lot like the color of its new alternate uniforms – gray.

But it was enough.

UMass (1-3) wrapped up its nonconference schedule with a 24-14 win over Florida International in a penalty-filled frenzy in the first game back UMass 24 at McGuirk Stadium 2015.

FIU 14 in Saturday’s win was also the first nonconference victory for the Minutemen since they made the jump to the Football Bowl Subdivision.

The two teams combined for 20 penalties resulting in a total of 183 yards. Both UMass and the Panthers (2-3, 0-1 Conference USA) each had 10 penalties, but it was Florida International who suffered the worst of it (110 penalty yards) compared to the Minutemen’s 72 yards.

Although both UMass coach Mark Whipple and his players acknowledged there was plenty to clean up, getting the first win of the season was enough to negate all of the miscues and mistakes the Minutemen made throughout the day.

“Words can’t even put it into perspective how I feel,” UMass wide receiver Tajae Sharpe said.

“I’m still trying to live in the moment and enjoy this win. It just feels so great, all this hard work, it just all sinked in.”

“It was a good day for us, Whipple added. “Coach (Tom) Masella and the defensive staff did a really good job. The kids really battled all week in practice. They put a great plan together and most importantly the kids really executed it. So it was a good win for us.”

With defensive tackles Sha-Ki Holines and Robert Kitching out due to injuries, the Minutemen were forced to move defensive end Peter Angeh to nose tackle while Enock Asante made the start in replacement of Holines.

Asante, making his first career start for the Minutemen, finished with a pair of tackles while the undersized Angeh recorded a third-down sack for a loss of seven yards for his lone tackle of the day.

“Those guys have nothing put heart. I’ve said it, these guys are tremendous players and they fight every single play,” senior linebacker Jovan Santos-Knox said. “They might be undersized but you can’t test someone’s heart by just looking at them.

These guys fought very hard the entire game and everyone had a great game.” see

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UMass cleans up tailgate Former soldiers

speak on IsraeliPalestinian strife

By Danny CorDova Collegian Correspondent

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UMass fans gather before Saturday’s football game at the tailgate in parking lot 22, located across from the Southwest Residential Area.

Challenge ushers in Sustainability Month

By Stuart FoSter Collegian Staff

In a parking lot teeming with people at Saturday’s UMass football tailgate, Steve Amorin attempted to drive his golf cart through a massive crowd of students and alumni.

Minutes before, Amorin had managed to part a sea of people so that he could drive through, as tailgaters threw their empty beer cans into the trash cans placed on the back of the golf cart.

This time however, Amorin had no luck.

Confronted with a mass of unmoving people, the most he could do was convince some of the crowd to move back, just enough for him to

put the golf cart in reverse and turn around.

“It’s a bit of a mad house,” the senior natural resources and conservation major said.

At every home football game held at McGuirk Stadium, the University of Massachusetts takes part in a Game Day Challenge, in which it competes with other schools in the Mid-American Conference to see which school can recycle the most at tailgate events.

Last year, UMass placed second in the conference per capita, collecting 2,170 pounds of recyclable material. However, Benjamin Aufill said that ranking highly in the competition is not the major incentive for UMass.

“It’s more the act of doing things to encourage recycling than winning an award,” Aufill, the sustain-

“We are encouraging people to recycle.

Encouragement is not an order, it’s better if the people want to do it.”

Benjamin Aufill, UMass sustainability communications and marketing manager ability communications and marketing manager of UMass, said.

After last year’s Homecoming game created huge amounts of trash, UMass started participating in the Game Day Cleanup Challenge. Amorin said that volunteers kept the parking lot spotless last year and that the positive results were an incentive to hold more events this year.

On Saturday, approximately 25 volunteers participated in the Game Day Challenge, mainly by driving golf carts with trash cans placed on the

back through large crowds, allowing people to throw away recyclables. After the crowd cleared out, the volunteers moved in again to collect all the trash they couldn’t clean up during the Tailgate.

“We are encouraging people to recycle,” Aufill said.

“Encouragement is not an order, it’s better if the people want to do it.”

As Amorin drove the golf cart through the crowd, it seemed that students enjoyed the process. Most of them looked on at the cleanup with see

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of Palestine and its consequences led a shift in his views that favors the cooperation of others and nonviolent strategies to influence political and social change.

“Our mission is to build the social infrastructure that supports free Palestinian people living in peace next to free Israeli people, communities of Palestinians and Israelis working together through nonviolent means to promote peace,” BenAssa said.

Examples of joint projects that Ben-Assa participated in include demonstrations at the Israeli parliament against an order to demolish a Palestinian village school that was built with European funds.

Ben-Assa has also engaged in demonstrations for the removal of a roadblock that prevented the Palestinian village of Shufa from cultivating its farms and teaching nonviolence tools to train people to release tensions against the Israeli military during demonstrations.

“We believe that such communities can serve as a role model for both people, demonstrating through action that there is a real alternative to the cycle of violence,” Ben Assa said. “We believe that disseminating such activities widely can and will affect attitudinal change at the societal level and policy change at the political level.”

Combatants for Peace, a group consisting of former Israeli soldiers and Palestinian freedom fighters, will hold two consecutive events in the Pioneer Valley area to discuss efforts toward building lasting peace in the region.

Four members of the group will speak Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Franklin Patterson Hall in Hampshire College, and Oct. 8th at 7 p.m. at the Congregation B’nai Israel in Northampton.

These events are part of a United States tour to educate Americans about the organization’s anti-occupation work.

Combatants for Peace was formed in 2005 by former Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters who, at one point, had taken an active role in the cycle of violence in Israel and Palestine.

T he org anization strongly believes that only through nonviolent actions can each side understand the national aspirations of the other, and help solve conflict plaguing the two regions.

The goal of the organization is, through dialogue and reconciliation, to terminate the Israeli occupation of Palestine, halt Israeli settlement projects and to establish a Palestinian state, alongside the State of Israel.

Uri Ben-Assa, who is the co-director of Combatants for Peace, once held the rank of captain in the Israeli army and the Israeli reserves.

His firsthand experience Danny Cordova can be reached at of the Israeli occupation dcordova@umass.edu

UMass researchers look to NoHo medical cannabis improve prosthetic limbs shop celebrates opening Professors earn grant for project By tanaya aSnani Collegian Correspondent Two University of Massachusetts researchers are using resources and funds they received to conduct research in improving prosthetics for lower limb amputees through mechatronics, robotics and kinesiology.

Associate profes sor Brian Umberger of the Department of Kinesiology and assistant professor Frank Sup of the Mechatronics and Research Laboratory recently received a $630,331 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation and a $20,000 grant from the National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research at

Stanford to carry out their research initiative.

“Since this involves the combined efforts of the Department of Kinesiology and Mechatronics, we want to understand how humans and robots work together, especially in the case of addressing human immobility with robotics,” Sup said.

This area of research is rehabilitation robotics, chosen by the researchers because of the many problems faced by amputees that can be addressed by introducing a replacement prosthetic into human life.

Sup described how there was “a great risk for developing ulcers and sores” and how psychological experiences that can affect amputees negatively often arise out of the difficulty the body experiences in adapting to poorly designed prosthetics. This makes the creation

of effective prosthetics very challenging.

Because of this, their work uses an understanding of biomechanics and human locomotion to design a robotic lower limb prosthetic that eases the physical and psychological challenges amputees must face while adapting their bodies to the device. The prosthetic is also designed to help amputees embark on a transition to an entirely new lifestyle.

Sup and Umberger direct their research to help as many people as possible, by addressing the average cases of lower limb loss.

Supp and Umberger hope to accomplish this by designing the prosthetic in a way that will especially help older adults be more tolerant to the physiological toll wearing a prosthetic takes. see

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Local officials speak at Friday ceremony

By GaBe Smith Collegian Correspondent New England Treatment Access, which is the first medical marijuana dispensary to open in Western Massachusetts, celebrated its official grand opening ceremony Friday.

The facility, which is located in Northampton, had already treated patients for a week. But with the formal commencement of business operation, members of the local media and government had their first chance to see and smell what many have been waiting for anxiously.

The ceremony was brief and to the point. It included statements from NETA’s regional director Leslie Laurie, patient Michelle

Kaskey, Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz, and NETA’s executive director Arnon Vered.

Northampton’s Police Chief Jody Kasper, Fire Chief Duane Nichols and members of the Board of Health were also in attendance.

“Our goal is to make sure people receive their needed care no matter the political push back,” Laurie said, referring to the ongoing national debate on the use of marijuana both medically and recreationally.

“I could get up and walk if I took a puff of some good pot,” said Mark Ceria, who has suffered from chronic nerve pain in his legs for over a decade that has confined him to a wheelchair.

“I’m on oxycodone, and Lyrica and 10 different other drugs. I want to try some really good marijuana to change my life without the fear of being arrested,”

he said.

Ceria hopes to join NETA’s growing list of patients. The Holyoke native said the drug helps alleviate his pain, which gives him a sense of wellbeing.

In his public remarks, Vered referred to medical marijuana as a safe alternative to opioids. Kaskey said that it’s important that patients have another choice when trying to treat themselves.

To many, including Kaskey, it was not a surprise that Northampton was the home Western Massachusetts’ first dispensary.

“I’m appreciative but not surprised, it’s a reflection of the town’s compassion and open mindedness,” Kaskey said during the ceremony. see

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