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Janet Yellen to speak at UMass Thursday evening Lecture to be held in Fine Arts Center

By ColBy SearS Collegian Staff

Janet Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve, is set to visit the University of Massachusetts Thursday evening to deliver the 19th annual Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture.

The event, which is scheduled for 5 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, is free and open to the public, though advance tickets are required for admission. The talk is presented by the Department of Economics.

“We’re looking for somebody who typically is well

known, somebody who has done great achievements as an economist and somebody we believe will give a talk that will be of broad interest to the University … and Janet Yellen meets all those criteria,” said economics professor and former department chair Gerald Epstein.

Yellen, 69, is the first woman to head the Federal Reserve. Though having written on many macroeconomic issues, she is an expert on unemployment with a concern for social issues like the labor market and inequality.

Alumnus Israel Rogosa and others established the Philip Gamble Memorial Lectureship in memory of Philip Gamble, an econom-

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ics faculty member from 1935 to 1971 and department chair from 1942 to 1965.

The endowment fund has supported the lecture series, which features a prominent economist each year, since its inception in 1995.

“This lecture has established itself as one of the premier university economics lectures given because of the stellar group of people we’ve been able to attract,” said Epstein.

Choosing whom to invite as a guest speaker ultimately comes down to the department chair, currently Professor Michael Ash. The chair consults with the department, allows faculty to suggest potential can-

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didates and then comes to a final decision with the department’s governing body, or executive committee, according to Epstein.

Yellen and her husband George Akerlof, who presented the Gamble Lecture in 2012, have both taught at the University of California Berkeley, where Ash received his Ph.D. in economics. Akerlof was also Ash’s dissertation adviser when he studied there.

Epstein said there is a “strong connection” between UMass economics, Akerlof and Yellen, whom he referred to as a “brilliant, first-rate economist.”

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Janet Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve, will speak at UMass Thursday at 5 p.m.

Construction to benefit campus

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Nine projects are currently underway

By Tanaya aSnani Collegian Correspondent

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Pamela Dutta, associate director of student legal services, smiles while the coffee event brings international students together on Tuesday.

Select Board appoints David Ziomek as temporary Amherst town manager Election follows death of Mu sante

By Brendan deady Collegian Staff

The Amherst Select Board elected an interim town manager to replace John Musante, the former town manager who died suddenly on Sunday.

Four members voted to instate David Ziomek as the interim town manager, the top executive position in Amherst’s government, at an emergency Select Board meeting last night. Ziomek was the assistant town manager for Musante and is the director of conservation and development.

After the meeting, Select Board Chairwoman Alisa Brewer said that how long Ziomek will be interim town manager and any future process related to hiring a new town manager were

not a topic for consideration so soon after Musante’s death, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

Deborah Papel, the new acting assistant town manager, said that the community response has been heartwarming.

“People all over town have reached out to our officials offering condolences. It shows just how much of an impact John (Musante) had on this town,” Papel said.

Ziomek also told the Gazette that Musante was very excited for two new projects on the horizon. Musante was involved with bringing a solar project to a capped landfill on Belchertown Road and getting a community health program into the Bangs Center.

Ziomek added that the Select Board would continue Musante’s vision for the town.

The Select Board recently voted to grant Musante a pay

In the wake of Musante’s death, many of his colleagues have commended him for his fiscal management skills and dedication to his community. increase in August as a result of his strong performance as town manager, according to the board’s website.

The board conducts an annual performance review of the town manager to gauge a person’s effectiveness at the position. Musante received strong marks in every category of evaluation, especially long-range planning, fiscal management and general expectations.

In the wake of Musante’s death, many of his colleagues have commended him for his fiscal management skills and dedication to his community.

Musante became the town’s finance director in 2004 and was one of three

finalists for the manager’s position in 2006. Before working in Amherst, Musante was the finance director in Northampton and the budget director and chief of staff in New Bedford. He also previously worked as the town manager in Lenox.

Paramedics were called to Musante’s home Sunday morning where he was found unresponsive. The results of a medical examiner report to determine the cause of death are still pending. Musante, who was a husband and father, died at age 53.

Brendan Deady can be reached at bdeady@umass.edu or followed on Twitter @bdeady2.

For students at the University of Massachusetts, construction has become a consistent part of everyday life.

The past five years have featured ceaseless construction to various buildings and facilities across campus.

James Hunt, communications manager for the office of Facilities and Campus Services, explained the reasoning behind continuous construction on campus.

“Ongoing construction is necessary for different reasons,” Hunt said.

Construction provides the University with the best facilities available so that it can satisfy its academic goals, enabling UMass to be at the frontier of the

“education marketplace.”

Giving UMass cuttingedge facilities thus indirectly attracting the “best and brightest of professors and students,” Hunt said.

For example, one of the nine construction projects currently in the works is the John Francis Kennedy Champion’s Center. The center, which will house the new training court for both the men’s and women’s basketball teams, is designed to “attract the best and brightest players,” Hunt said.

The $24 million, 56,500 square foot facility will be the new location for the recruitment and training of UMass basketball players, replacing the old court at the Mullins Center that was also used by clubs.

Construction is also the best means for ongoing preservation, Hunt see

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THE RUNDOWN ON THIS DAY...

In 1913, Roland Garros becomes the first person to fly over the Mediterranean Sea.

AROUND THE WORLD OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Gilbert Diendere, the brigadier general at the head of Burkina Faso’s coup, on Tuesday refused to surrender power in the face of mobilization by the army on the streets of Ouagadougou.

Diendere told a press conference he remained president of the military council created by the presidential guard when it seized power last week and that the council “remains valid” as the organ governing the country.

He pledged to continue negotiating with the army, but insisted the presidential guard would defend itself if attacked.

Diendere was holding urgent talks with army chief Pingrenoma Zagre to avoid bloodshed, local radio station Omega FM reported.

Some tanks were seen on the streets of Ouagadougou. Soldiers patrolling the streets told anti-coup demonstrators to go home as an assault by the army was imminent.

An army deadline of 10 a.m. (10:00 GMT) for the presidential guard to surrender passed without incident.

LONDON — A British court on Tuesday convicted a man dubbed a “ginger extremist” of plotting a chemical attack and planning to kill Prince Charles to pave the way for ginger-haired Prince Harry to become king.

Mark Colborne, 37, a self-confessed admirer of Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik, said he planned to carry out an attack “for the Aryan people.”

He was convicted of preparing terrorist acts on Tuesday, after a jury had failed to reach a verdict in May. Prosecutors cited evidence from Colborne’s diary in which he said he planned to use a sniper rifle to kill Prince Charles.

He also acquired chemicals, dust masks, funnels, syringes and gloves that he planned to use in a cyanide attack, prosecutors said.

Colborne denied the terrorism charges and told the court his diary notes about his plans were “angry rants” that he wrote while skipping his medication for depression.

The court heard that Colborne felt he was “marginalized” as a white, ginger-haired man.

He wrote in his diary that he wanted to become a “military terrorist” and “strike at the hearts of the dark-haired, dark-eyed Caucasian race,” the BBC reported earlier.

RENOVATION said, citing the $36.5 million renovation of South College as an example. “(The building) has roots in practically the University’s founding,” Hunt said. Through construction, UMass aims to relocate some of the humanities departments from their previous dilapidated surroundings into a more modern setting.

In addition, the new building will be more accessible for handicapped faculty and students.

Hunt explained that the construction projects collectively aim to develop a sustainable, green physical environment at UMass to prepare for the University’s future.

In 2009, a directive was passed by former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to foster sustainable design and architecture through construction at state universities. Since then, UMass

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has tried to embody the principle of the directive through all of its construction measures.

For example, the installation of the Robsham Visitor’s Center solar parking lot canopy will provide charging stations for electronic vehicles through harnessed solar power. The recently constructed Integrative Learning Center also features a green roof as well as a highly efficient water handling system.

Not only are such construction projects good for the planet, Hunt said, but they are highly “economical and require less (money) to maintain.”

AMANDA CREEGAN/COLLEGIAN Regular improvements to the University also pro- The solar panels currently being installed in the Robsham Visitor’s Center parking lot will power electric vehicles. vide future students and researchers with a source learn from construction, Old Chapel and the inte- a UMass press release. of future studies concern- Hunt explained. rior of the Integrated UMass steam distribution ing how energy efficient Other projects due Science Building, as well system, located in Morrill, and sustainable buildings will also be updated. function in comparison before 2018 include the as the new construction to older buildings. Thus, renovation of Furcolo of a Physical Sciences Tanaya Asnani can be reached at there is an opportunity to Hall, the interior of the Building, according to tasnani@umass.edu.

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chair of the Board of Governors in February 2014 and serves as chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve System’s main monetary policymaking body.

She has also served as president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and chaired both the Council of Economic Advisers and the Economic Policy Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development After g raduating summa cum laude from Brown University in 1967 with a degree in economics, she received her Ph.D. in the same subject from Yale University in 1971.

Yellen has taught as an assistant professor at Harvard University, served as an economist with the Board of Governors and

been on the London School of Economics and Political Science faculty.

Other achievements include a Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale, an honorary doctor of laws degree from Brown and an honorary doctor of humane letters from Bard College.

“We’re very honored that she’s coming here and we’re hoping that the whole campus learns from her talk and is really looking forward to her visit,” said Epstein, who also thanked the Rogosa family for their support.

Joseph Stiglitz gave the first Gamble address in 1995. Thomas Piketty, Alan Blinder, Akerlof, Elinor Ostrom and Gretchen Morgenson, among others, have given the lecture in years past.

Colby Sears can be reached at csears@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @colbysears.

Cosby seeks top defense attorney Aides search for Philadelphia lawyer

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and laura MCCrystal The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — Representatives for Bill Cosby have quietly contacted prominent Philadelphiaarea criminal defense lawyers to gauge their willingness to defend him, sources say – a step that signals the comedian’s expectation he could soon face charges in Pennsylvania stemming from a decade-old sexual assault allegation.

At the same time, a lawyer for the accuser in that case – former Temple University employee Andrea Constand – said Tuesday that her client would be a willing participant in any effort to

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revive the investigation that was first shuttered 10 years ago.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman has so far kept silent on whether her office has reopened the criminal investigation into Constand’s claim.

But the moves in both Cosby’s and Constand’s camps offer the strongest indication yet that both parties are preparing for a possible courtroom showdown.

Should charges be filed, it would be the first time Cosby, 78, has faced prosecution on allegations from any of the more than 40 women who in the past year have publicly accused him of sexual misconduct.

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Pope Francis arrives in U.S. President Obama welcomes pontiff

By Christi Parsons, MiChael a. MeMoli and noah BierMan

Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis arrived from Cuba on Tuesday to start a sixday, three-city tour of America, his first official visit to a nation bitterly divided on global warming, income inequality and other contentious issues that the popular pontiff is likely to champion.

President Barack Obama and his family, as well as Vice President Joe Biden and his grandchildren, welcomed Francis with handshakes and an honor guard at the military’s Joint Base Andrews, just outside the capital.

A crowd of well-wishers chanted, “Ho ho! Hey hey!

Welcome to the USA!” The 78-year-old pope clutched his white skullcap, called a zucchetto, in his hand as a stiff wind whipped his white hair and cassock.

He and Obama conversed but did not speak to the crowd before Francis climbed into a modest Fiat sedan and, waving from the window, was driven off to spend the night at the Vatican’s diplomatic mission, leaving Obama on the runway.

The brief red carpet ceremony was a heady departure from staid White House protocol, one that reflects the global celebrity and unusual appeal of the first Latin American pope.

Officials are bracing for record-sized crowds, traffic nightmares and bustling vendors when the pontiff rides in his open “popemobile” near the White House, when he celebrates Mass at cavernous Madison Square Garden in New York City, and when he presides over an open air Festival of the Families on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, among other stops on a packed itinerary.

For Francis, the visit marks an important effort to revitalize the American Catholic Church, which has been weakened by the sexual abuse scandal and challenged by parishioners who hold more liberal views on contraception, gay marriage, and other social issues.

The Argentine-born pope also has a unique opportunity to reach Latinos, the fastest growing group of Catholics in America, who are giving

churches their vitality.

U.S. political leaders, in turn, have tried to capitalize on Francis’ immense popularity and moral authority, seizing issues that align most closely with their own agendas.

In his 2 years as pope, Francis has stressed alleviating poverty and saving the Earth more than traditional teachings against abortion and for traditional families.

As a result, when he visits the White House early Wednesday as his first official stop, he will face some Americans whom previous popes almost certainly would have avoided.

Obama has invited several pro-choice Catholics, transgender activists and advocates for gay marriage to join a reception on the South Lawn, despite their doctrinal differences with Francis, who recently called the rise of LGBT equality “a new sin against God.” While some U.S. critics expressed outrage at the invitations, a Vatican spokesman denied reports that the pope’s aides had objected. The Vatican “never comments on those invited by a head of state to be present for a welcoming ceremony of the pope,” said Father Thomas Rosica.

But Vatican officials have hinted that Francis may use his address to both houses of Congress on Thursday – the first pope to do so – or another stop in Washington to speak about the sanctity of life and his opposition to capital punishment, issues where he is at odds with Obama.

“This pope is a very independent figure, and we know from his previous travels that we don’t know what he’s going to say until he says it,” said Charlie Kupchan, a top national security adviser to Obama. “And in that respect, we are fully expecting that there will be some messages with which we may respectfully disagree or have differences.”

For all his popularity, Francis will fuel a controversy Wednesday when he canonizes Father Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Franciscan missionary who established the California mission system that helped transform the West.

The ceremony, conducted in Spanish in recognition of Latinos’ growing role in the church, will mark the first such ceremony on U.S. soil, and

Serra will be only the 11th Catholic saint with connections to the United States or the colonial era, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

But making Serra a saint has angered some Native Americans who point to the mission system’s use of floggings and imprisonment for those who tried to leave, and to the spread of deadly diseases among the natives.

Serra’s supporters say he should be judged as a man of his times, who had flaws but tried to protect native peoples from rape and other crimes by Spanish soldiers.

Obama and Francis met in March 2014 at the Vatican, and the pope subsequently helped broker a diplomatic detente between the United States and Cuba that ended more than five decades of official estrangement when diplomatic ties were restored this summer.

Obama came away from that first meeting speaking of empathy, of the “ability to stand in somebody else’s shoes and to care for someone even if they don’t look like you or share your philosophy.”

The two leaders also agree on the need to slow the burning of fossil fuels to combat climate change, to do more to reduce poverty and income inequality, and on the need for reforming immigration and prisons to ease suffering.

During planning for the papal visit, administration officials could scarcely hide their hopes for what it might mean for their joint agenda.

“On many of the bigticket items,” Kupchan said, “like climate change, like fighting inequality, like fighting poverty, like reaching out to people in distress and people in need, his essential messages will resonate very much with the president’s agenda. And in that respect, we are hoping that his moral authority helps us advance many of the items that we take to be very high on our policy agenda.”

C o n g r e s s i o n a l Republicans, who failed to advance a vote Tuesday to outlaw abortion after 20 weeks, have seized on Francis’ focus on the sanctity of life and his defense of other conservative church doctrine, including opposition to same-sex marriage.

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month, Ferman noted that prosecutors have “a responsibility to review past conclusions” when new information comes to light. It was not clear Tuesday if Cosby’s representatives – in seeking to hire a local lawyer – were merely reacting to Ferman’s statement or they had been notified of her plans.

Nonetheless, the comedian is preparing for any possibility, according to sources aware of discussions his representatives have had with at least two Philadelphia-area attorneys.

Atlantic City-based lawyer Edwin J. Jacobs – noted for defending mob figures including alleged Philadelphia boss Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi – confirmed that he had recently discussed the Montgomery County case with Cosby’s camp.

But he said he is not currently representing the comedian and otherwise declined to comment.

Jacobs represented Cosby earlier this year in an investigation by New Jersey authorities of claims lodged by Lili Bernard, an actress who had appeared on “The Cosby Show” in 1991.

In May, she accused him of drugging and raping her decades ago during an appearance in Atlantic City.

That investigation fizzled when the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office determined her alleged assault occurred before New Jersey eliminated its statute of limitations on rape in 1996.

Similar time limits have bedeviled other potential cases. Nearly all of the women who have come forward to accuse Cosby have

alleged assaults that occurred decades ago.

Constand’s case – which falls within Pennsylvania’s 12-year statute of limitations on felony sexual charges – is a rare exception. Now 42 and living in Toronto, she reported to police a decade ago that Cosby drugged and molested her in his Cheltenham mansion in 2004.

Bruce L. Castor Jr., who was the Montgomery County District Attorney at the time, declined to prosecute, citing a lack of evidence to support her allegations.

Legal experts have said, however, that Constand’s case may have grown stronger in the years since. They cited the dozens of new accusers and Cosby’s own sworn statements – made during a 2005 deposition but released only this summer – on his

relationship with Constand.

Cosby has repeatedly denied any sexual impropriety with Constand or any other woman.

Troiani, Constand’s lawyer, has declined to say whether she or her client has been contacted by Montgomery County prosecutors. Both are bound from discussing their allegations against Cosby by a confidentiality agreement they signed as part of a 2006 civil settlement with the comedian.

But in an interview Tuesday with People Magazine, Troiani went further than she has, saying Constand would be willing to participate should a new case be filed.

“I think she’s a very strong lady,” Troiani said. “She’ll do whatever she needs to do, whatever they ask of her.”

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“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people’ll pay your price.”-John Updike

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We shouldn’t have to pay Team-based learning fails to provide a real alternative for unpaid internships

The summer is meant to be a time away from school. Some students choose to work a summer job, while some decide to spend every day at the beach. Some ambitious

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students get internships in their field of study to keep them busy over the summer, a practice that is highly recommended by a variety of instructors.

The trouble with internships, however, is that they’re often unpaid, meaning you’re doing part-time work for no compensation. Ignoring financial worries, this seems pretty unfair – until you consider that the University of Massachusetts allows you to get credits for your internships.

Last spring, I was ecstatic when I got a summer internship at The Daily Hampshire Gazette. As a journalism major, I was excited to move my skills from the classroom and from The Daily Collegian to a full-time newsroom where I would be reporting on a variety of issues.

I marched into an adviser’s office to fill out any paperwork that I would need to receive credit for my work, and she pulled out a form with the words “Continuing and Professional Education” at the top. I was confused, because I knew that CPE was a

students pay just for tuition each semester, so I can see how the University is spinning it. But students rack up bills over $20,000 for the privilege to attend UMass during the fall and spring semesters, and teachers are always telling us the importance of internships. So why are we punished when we try to put our experience towards our education?

After consideration, I elected to foment a personal rebellion: UMass would not receive a dime from me for this internship, but I would glean important experience from my time at the Gazette. I could still put my time there on my resume, and I could still learn a lot from my time in their newsroom – it just wouldn’t be on my academic record.

For me, this was a fine solution. I have enough room in my final two semesters to complete all my necessary credits. But there are some students that can’t academically afford to do an internship over the summer and not get credit for it. They have to gather whatever they can in order to complete their studies.

And sometimes these students can’t financially afford to attend UMass, taking

Ever since the day I colored the school bus purple in my 1st grade classroom,

Alex Pratt I knew I was different—the kid next to me colored his blue. The moral of this twosecond story is that everyone is different, which is a simple enough concept to grasp even for 1st graders.

In my experience with teachers throughout elementary, middle, and high school, catering to the needs of different kinds of learners seemed to be a difficult but worthwhile task. Yet, now a as junior at UMass, this problem seems to have slipped quietly into obscurity, if not total absentia.

Why? Surely we are all just the same purple-bus and bluebus kids we used to be, still holding our own individual preferences for certain learning styles that work best for us. In my experience, I see my fellow students doing for themselves what their previous teachers could not. Through utilizing resources such as office hours, SI sessions and the LRC tutoring program, students with all types of learning styles seem to be finding ways to succeed while taking the same lecture-based courses. Yet this is not the image that UMass sees.

In the last few semesters, courses labeled as TBL or Team Based Learning courses have been popping up in Spire with increasing frequency. As stated in the university’s description of the program, “The main purpose of TBL is to change the classroom experience from acquiring course content and concepts in a lecture-based format to applying course content and concepts in a team format.”

The description goes on to outline in detail exactly how the course is different from traditional group work, claiming to weed out the “social loafers” of the classroom community

If I wanted to work with others, I went to an SI Session or got together with classmates. The lectures themselves were dull and completely demotivating for note-taking. When the lecture is always there online, why should anyone take the time to write it all down again?

We did not come to the UMass campus to listen to recordings of our professors, we came to engage, be present, and have the ability to ask questions when necessary. TBL claims to provide that engagement, but when there are 100 students in a group-classroom, it is far more enticing to simply fly under the radar during class and watch the lecture later than to fight for the total attention of the professor with each of your peers.

It seems us “social loafers” have won once again despite the iRAT and tRAT -Individual/ team readiness assessment tests, designed to motivate students individually.

But the ineffectiveness of these assessments is easily explainable; they simply do not happen. In fact, in neither of my TBL classes were these assessments ever even mentioned at all. Consequently, just last night I did the entirety of an assignment given to my table of 9 individuals to split, and when the professor came around to review our work, it was given a quick glance and a thumbs up. How is that student-professor relationship improving again?

I do not believe that TBL is a terrible learning platform, but rather an unnecessary attempt at fulfilling a grade-school dream of catering individually to hundreds of different people. In fact, I learned just as much as I did in other traditional classes in my TBL classes, but only because they were in reality nothing more than cumbersome and stressful forms of those traditional classes.

“We did not come to the UMass campus to listen to recordings of our professors, we came to engage, be present and have the ability to ask questions when necessary.”

“Students rack up bills over $20,000 for the privilege to attend UMass during the fall and spring semesters, and teachers are always telling us the importance of internships. So why are we punished when we try to put our experience towards our education?” program for people who couldn’t fit a traditional college schedule into their lives.

Nevertheless, I looked at the form and listened as the adviser explained the process of getting credit for my internship.

I was on board until she told me it would cost $200 per credit for the summer.

“Do you need the credits to graduate?” she asked me, as I looked at her genuinely confused.

I shook my head, and she recommended that I only sign up to get two credits per semester so as to save myself money.

When she was done talking, I thanked her, and left her office to process the information. Essentially what UMass was requiring me to do was enroll as a student over the summer – as if enrolling in 30 credits in the spring and fall weren’t enough.

For the record, I don’t blame my adviser at all. She merely is doing her job and walking me through the process of how I would go about getting credit for my summer internship.

Now $400 is barely half of what in-state

and motivate each student to excel while cooperating effectively with others. In other words, the scene set is an undeniable Kodak moment for the cover of the Alumni Magazine.

Having already completed one TBL Physics course and begun a TBL Resource Economics course, I’ll provide a quick run-down of how the typical TBL structure has worked in my experience. Before class, students watch a series of YouTube-esque videos that function as a voiced-over slideshow in place of a traditional in-person lecture.

Once in class, the professor provides students (grouped at tables of 9) assignments to complete during class. These assignments were often practice problems in my physics

out massive loans to attend the flagship university of the Commonwealth. How is it fair to ask them to pay for credits on an unpaid internship? Even if they can afford it, the principle of the matter is unfair – students shouldn’t have to shell out more money for something that instructors often label as a requirement for getting a job after college.

I still have the paperwork my adviser gave me, completely blank except for the fields she signed and filled in. To anyone who asks about my internship, I rave about how much I learned, how much I loved working in a full-time newsroom and working alongside professional reporters on a daily basis. And if the inquirer happens to be a UMass student, I warn them against the twisted system of getting credit for a summer internship.

Patrick Hoff is managing editor at the Daily Collegian. He can be reached at pphoff@umass.edu or followed on Twitter at Hoff_Patrick16.

course, but the in-class portion of my Resource Economics class is entirely devoted to a semester-long, joint statistical analysis project. Without a few key issues I’ll mention soon, it would seem as though this approach at least functions as it is described. A traditional class generally consists of a lecture and what could be called out-of-class work, whether it is an essay, problem set, or lab report.

It would then follow that a “flipped” class would be exactly the opposite. This is not the case with TBL. In both my TBL classes, we were assigned extensive out-of-class assignments in addition to the required lecture videos, while in class we often worked on assignments that could not possibly be finished in the allotted time. I do not mean to complain about being given homework. In fact, 90 percent of the knowledge I gained was a direct result of that homework, which would be fine in a traditional setting. In TBL, however, I came to question what the point of showing up to class was at all.

Alex Pratt is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at ajpratt@umass.edu.

Is the U.S ready for President Sanders?

While I’d like to play the optimist, and say yes, I’m going to be realistic and say we’re far from ready.

Why? Because adorable, kind-hearted, champion-for-the-people Bernie Sanders will tear apart what our Founding Fathers and the generations that Noosha Uddin followed have held most dear – the entire political system. He is, in essence, a left-wing independent under the guise of the Democratic Party. And it seems like every vice we talk about in politics today – from infinite rises in tuition to the amount of spending for defense – conglomerates in Sanders’s campaign.

Personally, I love it. I love that there’s finally a candidate that’s taking the most liberal stance on virtually every issue in the U.S. However, as the NY Times called him “The Socialist Senator”, back in ’07 it’s too soon to say how he’ll do in the primaries.

It all comes down to how the system is run today, in which big businesses are dubbed “too big to fail” and many of our policies run in favor of them; in which as one of the most developed countries in the world our wage gap is among the highest; in which veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan face inadequate care back home; in which climate change is still a debated topic in Congress whereas the rest of the world has taken preventative action for it; in

which the rights of a woman’s body is somehow everyone else’s business but hers; and so on.

There’s no question about it – there’s a lot to reform. The fact that Sanders is hitting all these points and more in his campaign and is offering arguably radical solutions is more than anyone frustrated with the way life is nowadays could dare hope for.

Sanders gives hopefuls a voice with his extensive political agenda. But from what I’ve seen from the GOP debates – by some crack in the conventional pirouettes of the cosmos or what I hope was just a hack in the polls Donald Trump is leading in the Republican primaries, making me fear for Bernie’s political future. Trump’s success is a reflection of the people encouraging him, people who are just as fed up as the rest of us but who hold a vastly different idea of reform.

And let’s not forget; sentiments here in New England are not representative of the rest of the country. As a whole, we’re too traditional, too religious and too hesitant for an independentturned-Democrat as president.

But as a first-time voter in the 2016 presidential elections, my vote’s still reserved for Bernie.

Noosha Uddin is a Collegian columnist. She can be reached at nuddin@umass.edu

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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

“There is history in this place/There are dragons to be chased.” - Lou Barlow

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Brace The Wave: A conversation With Lou Barlow

By Jackson Maxwell Collegian Staff

Though Lou Barlow’s reactions to the events in his life may not be as raw as they once were, his minimalist chronicling of the peaks and valleys of human relationships and desires are still just as passionate and intimate as they were two decades ago.

Barlow, the legendary co-founder and bassist of Massachusetts rock institution Dinosaur Jr., and singer/guitarist of the equally venerated band Sebadoh, recently moved from southern California to western Massachusetts, where he recorded his stellar second solo album, “Brace The Wave.”

Released on Sept. 4, “Brace The Wave” revisits the lo-fi, acoustic guitar and ukelele-only sound of his earliest work with Sebadoh. The resulting record – seemingly a small statement at a scant nine songs and 30 minutes – is a reminder of why Barlow’s output remains so influential.

got two kids, a lot of stuff ’s happened. I mean it’s not that crazy; ‘oh, yeah it’s 30 years.’ I mean especially to think of the beginning, when Dinosaur Jr. recorded our first record, which was really in 1985, the year after I graduated high school. So yeah, 30 years, sounds about right.

As you said, you guys have been together longer, in this sort of incarnation, than you were originally. How have the dynamics within the band changed?

I don’t know, I mean it’s just a matter of being older and much more tolerant. I mean, for me personally, I think I’m a much stronger person than I was when I was younger and I’m not as sensitive. I think we have a unique dynamic and I think now that we’re older, I’m happy to have anything with anyone.

You know, I really appreciate those guys. I appreciate their importance in my life. I appreciate J. revisiting this and allowing this to happen, you know, that was a big step for him to take and he took it. I’m grateful for that. You need to be philosophical about it now. But, back in the day, when it was my day-to-day troubles, it was hard.

COURTESY OF RACHEL ENNEKING You moved from California back to western Mass., and the instrumentation on Lou Barlow’s second solo album, “Brace The Wave,” revisits the lo-fi, acoustic guitar and ukelele-only sound of his earliest work with Sebadoh.

“Brace the Wave” is primarily made up of acoustic guitars and ukulele. I hate to use And of course the lyrics a lot of equipment to do One of the songs in particu- of like my first draft of lyrics such a cliché term, but do you consider are very intense and the it, a lot of really expenthis a sort of “back to your roots” record, lar, “Lazy,” had been around when I got done, so they were for a while and then other ones sort of vague drafts; just the approach is really intimate sive equipment. So digital so to speak? words that felt the best right and I thought ‘I need one recording has become a lot came together quite recently. more song on this record to more accessible for people away.

I guess it is, but if I stayed in really finish it.’ You know, so it makes perfect sense It was sort of meant to Justin Pizzoferrato, who worked on the California I probably would’ve nine songs, then it’ll be a that it would become more be a sketch I guess at first, three most recent Dinosaur Jr. records, made an acoustic record. I half an hour long and it big I think. and then when I listened to it produced “Brace the Wave.”

What sort of guess I didn’t think about it What’s your most fond memory from your that way, I mean, coming back style did he have as a producer? Did he once or twice I thought ‘Well, can be an LP. So, the last days in Amherst? song on the record, which Sebadoh was on the road for a while proyou know what?

This sounds mostly let you do your own thing, or was it to where I grew up is a big deal. is called “Repeat,” was moting “Defend Yourself,” do you guys great.’

And then being able to go to more collaborative?

We played all of our I mean, there are things vaguely inspired by Sufjan have any new material in the works?

Easthampton and record with Stevens. that are very specific to me.

It was very collaborative.

I someone that I know really well and have recorded with mean, he engineered the last I think that for a casual lisbefore was pretty necessary. three Dinosaur Jr. records, tener yeah, it would be vague When you wrote these songs, did you There’s definitely something which meant that he was for sure, but they all mean know they would be part of a solo album? very familiar about record- there day to day recording. something specific to me, but Or did they just not feel right for Sebadoh ing with a ukulele in western And, he communicates with J they’re just not as explicit I or even Dinosaur Jr.?

(J. Mascis., Dinosaur Jr.’s lead guess as a lot of the stuff I Massachusetts.

I guess I didn’t really guitarist and vocalist) about write. think about it, I just really what J. wants and I told him How did the songs on this new record what I wanted and we worked Was there anything you were listening to wanted to record. I had a come about? bunch of ideas and I sort of together towards that goal. that inspired you? took stock of the ideas that Well, they all have their I had at that moment and One of the highlights of the record is the Well, at first I thought own story I guess. One of them I had recorded primar- song “Moving.” You’re known for your the record was going to be took the most viable ones. ily in California in my garage more direct lyrics, but the lyrics in that an EP but then I ended up I guess there were some – the song “Wave” – and then song are a bit more vague. Was there with eight songs and then things that I started to do I finished the vocals when I anything you were trying to convey with I thought it would be really for this record that, once ALLAN FOSTER/FLICKR good to do one more song. I got a little ways into it I got here to Greenfield. And, that track in particular?

And at the time, this was thought ‘you know what, Lou Barlow performs with the Missing Men in Columbus, OH in 2009.

I had the song “Moving,” Yeah. I mean, a lot of times like December or January, maybe I should save this, which I also had a very basic idea for that I had recorded in what will happen is I’ll do lyr- I had gotten the new Sufjan saving this would be betNo, we don’t. We’re actu- early shows in Amherst.

California and jelled out the ics for a song and I’ll start out Stevens record and the ter than if it had a band ally playing in Europe in Dinosaur Jr. is essentialrest of it when I got here to big and then get very, very record has songs with a behind it.’ a few weeks and then I’m ly from Amherst. I mean, So there wasn’t much specific as I work on the song. lot of deliberate picking in Greenfield to my house. going to begin recording I’m not, I’m from Westfield thought as far as that goes, With that song, it looked kind them. you know, maybe some a Dinosaur Jr. record. I originally. Dinosaur played things are better suited to guess with Sebadoh ide- our first show, when we ally I would’ve started the were actually called Mogo, a solo record. record months ago, but it at the Amherst Common.

We played multiple shows There’s been a huge revival in the sort didn’t happen. at the Blue Wall at UMass. of cassette culture and bedroom pop sound that you embraced early in your Dinosaur Jr. is celebrating their 30th J. went to UMass, I think solo career. Is it strange to see that all anniversary in December with a week- he was briefly a roommate long stand at the Bowery Ballroom. How with one of the Pixies. these years later? does that feel?

I think Frank Black and Joey Santiago No, it makes sense. I Oh, I don’t know, man. (of the Pixies,) went here. mean, certainly with the way that digital recording I mean, I could say that I has almost kind of democ- never thought that would Yeah, I think Joey and ratized the whole record- happen, but that doesn’t J. might’ve actually been ing process. Because when really mean much, of roommates very briefly.

I started doing it, there was course I never thought Although I didn’t go to a huge gulf between a four- it would happen, I didn’t UMass, I was constantly track recorder and what think I would live to be 49. driving from Westfield to was considered a legiti- A lot of stuff was really UMass to hang out with my mate studio recording. A outrageous to me when friends and to play shows.

I was younger, when the I mean, UMass was a huge huge gulf.

And then also there was band was starting. part of the early years of But I mean, I’ve spent Dinosaur Jr. the financial thing as well, it was also financially pro- 10 years since we started COURTESY OF RACHEL ENNEKING hibitive, so to really be able our reunion, I’ve been in Jackson Maxwell can be reached at to make a recording in your the band now longer than jlmaxwell@umass.edu and followed In an interview with the Collegian, Barlow talked “Brace The Wave,” his Amherst roots and Dinosaur Jr. house, it would still require I was originally. Now I’ve on Twitter at @JMaxwell82

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FIELD HOCKEY

Minutewomen enjoying recent homefield success UMass 3-1 to start five-game stretch

By Matthew ZackMan Collegian Staff

After playing four games in the past 10 days, the Massachusetts field hockey team will take the next seven days to regroup before the final game of its five-game home stand against Stanford University on Sunday.

The recent stretch of home games has resulted in success for the Minutewomen (5-3, 1-1 Atlantic 10). Despite losing a double overtime heartbreaker to Richmond University this past weekend, UMass is 3-1 on the home stand and looks to add another win against the Cardinals, a non-conference opponent.

Coach Carla Tagliente has enjoyed her team’s break from traveling and believes that home field advantage has positively impacted her team over the last few games.

The team has a four game road trip coming up that

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runs approximately halfway through October, but Tagliente has and will continue to embrace playing at home.

“It’s been nice,” she said.

“The last game was obviously disappointing, but I don’t think we played horrible or that bad. We didn’t play as well as we had been prior to the Richmond game, but I do think that the home field advantage and comfort of playing at home has shown through.”

Spending another week at home will benefit the team as well, but in a more subtle way.

“We are not going to do that much more than we usually do, but we get a little bit more time to prepare. It’s nice to have an entire week and not have to cram things together,” Tagliente said.

Tagliente is pleased that she can use the time to thoroughly cover numerous details in practice and on video, citing more time to break things down instead of covering a lot in one day.

The extra practice and video review time will be especially important for

the team as they prepare for a more concentrated league play schedule. It will also present members of the young team opportunities to step up.

“It would be great if we could get some more people involved in scoring.

Right now I’m just more concerned about us getting more goals,” Tagliente said.

At this point in the season, the Minutewomen have leaned on Melanie Kreusch, Sarah Hawkshaw and Nicole Miller for goal production. However, over the last few games, players such as Shauna RankinByrne and Izzie Delario have recorded goals as well. Tagliente hopes that they can remain consistent goal scores.

While all of these players were on the team last season, UMass graduated several veteran leaders.

Although this is the case, Tagliente believes her current team is leaps ahead in terms of where her team was at this point one year ago.

“We have had good young leaders that have been stepping up,” she

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Izzie Delario (9) defends against a UMass-Lowell player on Sept. 11 at Gladchuk Field. UMass won 4-2. said. “If we look season by season in comparison to last season, we are further along than where we are last season in terms of stats, record and how we are playing,” She added: “Hockey is

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hockey and any team can beat another team any given day. I don’t really think that the lack of performance in some games correlated to lack of leadership or experience.”

The Minutewomen will

continue to take it day by day for now as they prepare for Sunday’s game, which is set to begin at 12 p.m.

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their entire starting eleven was comprised of juniors and seniors, while at any given time we’re starting four or five young guys.

He added, “While the results may not reflect it right now, I think they have some valuable games under their belt, which should help when conference play kicks off in a couple of weeks.”

Although the underclassmen have played a bigger role than usual, there has been no shortage of conJUDITH GIBSON-OKUNIEFF/COLLEGIAN tributions from upperclassUMass goalkeeper Bardia Asefnia attempts to catch a ball versus Hartford. men. Junior Matt Pease remains a staple in the back for the Minutemen, trailWith the offense scor- back four or the goalkeeper. ing only Merklin for most ing just four goals through Again, it’s just important minutes played with 701. eight games, O’Leary that collectively we don’t Pease’s contributions knows that there is pres- concede goals. I think we’ve haven’t gone unnoticed, sure on the defense to given up two goals in our according to O’Leary. keep UMass in games. last two games, we got a “Matt’s been fantastic.

“I think there’s always result in one of them, and He’s a quiet, calm leaderwe’ve come close in the ship guy on the field, he pressure because if you’re other. Once a couple goals brings a calming presence not scoring goals in bunch- go in, I think we’ll be fine.” to the other guys,” he said es, there’s always a little “He goes about his work added pressure on the Jason Kates can be reached at in a quiet fashion, but he’s team, collectively,” he said. jkates@umass.edu and followed a big part of our defense.”

“It’s not so much the @Jason_Kates.

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Bruno (16) dribbles the ball in a game last season versus Cornell. She finished her career with 11 goals. with it and the side effects that came with my medication it was a little scary,” she said. “I caught it relatively early though, so I’m hoping with the medication I can get rid of it soon.”

The Staten Island, New York, native was very frustrated when she was given the news she would miss the rest of the year. Bruno was very durable throughout her three previous seasons, missing just two games last year with a foot injury that affected during the season. The foot injury required surgery last January and sidelined her for all preseason activities in the spring.

“I was finally cleared to play in June and I was excited to get back out there,” she said. “Unfortunately not long after, the positive test came back. That was pretty rough because I want to play more than anything. Having to sit out and not do anything is never what any athlete wants to hear.”

The senior was able to make one appearance in a match this year against New Hampshire, but felt very tired and after she went back to the doctors, she was ruled out for the season.

“These girls are like my sisters. I would do anything for them, and I know they have my back like I have theirs.”

Jackie Bruno, UMass forward Bruno acknowledged the support she has received from her teammates and coaches as she looks to become healthy once again.

Like her, coach Ed Matz and her teammates did not have much knowledge of Lyme disease at all, but after having conversations with the doctors and being informed, they have been in full support of their friend in her battle.

She added that it hurts a little bit more that it happened during her final year as a Minutewoman.

“It sucks a little bit extra,” Bruno said. “Being in this program for four years and getting so close to my coaches, the team and my class especially, I wish I could have went out with a bang with my class, but all I can do is be supportive and wish the best for them whether I’m on the field or not.”

Bruno wants to get back into practice soon to help

anyway she can and help the team improve even if it can’t be on the field.

In her absence, Bruno has been very impressed with what she has seen from her teammates.

“A lot of youngsters have stepped up to the plate,” she said. “They have a lot on their shoulders and I think they have all adjusted well to me not being there. As we start getting more wins, they are gaining more confidence and getting more comfortable, so I have a lot of hope for what’s to come.”

With her career at UMass at its end, Bruno is thankful for all of the people that helped her along the way.

“I always tried to instill that family vibe,” she said.

“These girls are like my sisters. I would do anything for them, and I know they have my back like I have theirs.”

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Fitzpatrick to remain starter By kiMBerley a. Martin Newsday

Todd Bowles isn’t about to disrupt team chemistry – not even for a healthy Geno Smith.

The Jets coach reiterated Tuesday that Ryan Fitzpatrick will remain his starting quarterback, even after Smith returns.

Smith’s jaw was broken in two places after he was cold cocked in the locker room Aug. 11 by then-teammate Ikemefuna Enemkpali.

Smith not only lost his starting job to Fitzpatrick, but he was given a six-to-10-week recovery timetable.

His return, however, is fast approaching. But that has little effect on Bowles, who put to rest the possibility of a quarterback controversy.

“Ryan is our starting quarterback right now,” Bowles said on a conference call. “I mean, we’re going good, we have good chemistry going and everything else. Geno understands that. And, as we go, Ryan’s our quarterback. And we’ll go forward from there.”

The same day as the Smith-Enemkpali alter-

cation, Bowles said he wouldn’t go back to Smith if the offense was running smoothly with Fitzpatrick.

“If the other guy is playing well, and the boat is going right, and there are no waves ... and we’re 4, 5, 6, 7-0? Yeah, you’re not coming back to start,” Bowles said on Aug. 11.

On Tuesday, a day after his blitz-happy Jets defeated Andrew Luck and the Colts, 20-7, on Monday Night Football, Bowles left no doubt that Fitzpatrick is the guy.

“Ryan’s the starter,” he said.

Last week, Smith said he’s set to have his final X-ray in “a week or so” to determine whether he’s healthy enough to participate in team drills without restrictions, as well as live game action. And for the first time since the incident, Smith admitted he’s still upset by the punch.

“I’m extremely (angry),” he said. “But I have to keep my temper down. I can’t exhibit that in the locker room, I can’t exhibit that on a daily basis. I just feel for my family more because they enjoy seeing me out

there.”

If Fitzpatrick and the Jets (2-0) continue to impress, there’s a chance Smith will be relegated to the sideline for much longer than he expected.

“He has to get reps in practice,” Bowles said of the third-year quarterback.

“He has to read defenses all over again. It’s like the start of training camp. When you haven’t read the defenses and set the fronts and called out blitz protections and everything like that, that takes a minute. So once he gets back into that flow, I think it’ll start coming back to him pretty good.”

But, again, Bowles made it clear that Smith’s return won’t impede Fitzpatrick’s progress.

“Ryan will get all the first-team reps,” Bowles said.

Smith expressed confidence in his ability to lead the offense but he also said, “I’m in a different position now, so you’ve got to be realistic about things. I’m not trying to sit here and say I’m demanding certain things. I’m just working to get healthy. And then, you’ve got to see the rest.”

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FIGHTING A DIFFERENT BATTLE

Jackie Bruno speaks out on Lyme disease Senior has UM career cut short

By AdAm Aucoin Collegian Staff

JUDITH GIBSON OKUNIEFF/COLLEGIAN

Jackie Bruno (16) played in only one game this season, and will be sidelined for the remainder of the year after suffering from Lyme disease.

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Every athlete looks forward to his or her senior year. It’s the culmination of all the hard work that’s been put in over the years and signifies the end of competing with friends you’ve bonded with for the last four years.

For Massachusetts women’s soccer forward Jackie Bruno, her senior season ended all too soon.

The senior was given the news she never wanted to hear, when she was told she would be out for the rest of the 2015-16 season with Lyme disease, effectively ending her UMass (3-3-2) career.

According to WebMD, Lyme disease is a bacteri-

al infection transmitted by deer ticks infected with the Borella burgdorferi bacteria.

Typical symptoms include rash at the site of the bite, lack of energy, general pain, and weakness in arms and legs, among other symptoms.

Bruno says the issue started after last spring semester.

“I was feeling really fatigued when I got home after last semester,” Bruno said. “I went to get blood tests, thinking I was just anemic and I needed to up my iron, but after a lot of tests and visits to a rheumatologist they told me that I tested positive for Lyme.”

Bruno thinks she was bitten by a tick around where she lives, leading to her infection.

“I didn’t really know much about it at all at first and after researching all the side effects that come see

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FOOTBALL

UM defensive unit UMass WR Jalen Williams arrested steadily improving early Sunday morning in Amherst Minutemen aim for more consistency

By JAson KAtes Collegian Staff

Get better every game.

Those are the words Massachusetts men’s soccer coach Fran O’Leary has been preaching to his team since the beginning of the season.

Over the last three games, it appears that those words have resonated with the Minutemen (1-7), especially the defensive unit.

After beginning the season with six straight losses, three of which UMass allowed at least three goals, the Minutemen have allowed just four goals in their last three contests.

O’Leary believes his team has made great strides defensively the last few times out, and spoke about the concept of playing defense as a whole unit.

“If you look early in the season, we took a few heavy losses,” he said.

“I think for the last couple of games we’ve been very solid, so now we’re getting

into consistency. I think we look at it as team defense, so from front-to-back we’ve become a lot more consistent and that’s why we’re able to put in some competitive performances.”

While many college soccer teams opt to play a veteran group of defenders, O’Leary has decided to go in the other direction. Freshmen Dylan Cranmer and Brandon Merklin, as well as sophomore Zach Samson, have all received valuable minutes in the back for UMass.

Merklin is just one of four players who have started all eight games for the Minutemen, and leads the team in minutes played with 702. Samson has started in four of the six games he has featured in, and was responsible for assisting on UMass’ game-winning goal it its 2-1 win last week over Hartford.

“I think our young guys have done a great job for us, especially since it’s new to them,” O’Leary said.

“They’re going up against some experienced players, I think against UNH their entire starting eleven see

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The Minutemen will look to the underclassmen for bigger defensive roles.

Senior suspended indefinitely by UM

By Anthony chiusAno And Andrew cyr Collegian staff

WWLP.com reported Monday night that Massachusetts football senior wide receiver Jalen Williams was arrested this past weekend and has been suspended from the team.

According to WWLP, Williams was charged with Breaking and Entering of a vehicle and larceny under $250 early Sunday morning around 1:30 a.m. Documents showed Williams was one of two individuals, along with Ruben Encarnacion, to be pulled over on North Pleasant Street for a reported break-in.

The document said the two suspects broke into the vehicle and left once its alarm had sounded.

Police then found the victim’s social security card and debit card next to the car and later stopped the vehicle that Williams and Encarnacion were in, finding another debit card that belonged to an additional person.

Neither Williams nor Encarnacion could explain why the debit card was in the car.

Williams told WWLP that he did not steal anything and was pulled over because he “fit the descrip-

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Jalen Williams (80) was suspended from the team after being arrested Sunday morning for breaking and entering into a vehicle and larceny under $250. tion of a suspect Amherst Police were looking for.”

According to WWLP, Williams said he argued with the police officer while in the back of the police car, leading to the officer abruptly braking as Williams’ head slammed against the car window.

Williams did not play in the Minutemen’s first two games of the season, as he’s been battling a “bad” quad injury, according to UMass coach Mark Whipple. He is coming off a 2014 season in which he recorded 20 receptions for 307 yards and four touch-

downs.

Larry Franklin no longer a member of UMass football team UMass’ defense has lost depth at the linebacker and safety position with the departure of Larry Franklin, who left the team for personal reasons, according to a report from Matt Vautour of the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

Franklin, who transferred from Vanderbilt before the start of 2015, played in the Minutemen’s season-opener against Colorado where he record-

ed two tackles in UMass’ 48-14 loss.

Franklin played two seasons for the Commodores before leaving the team in 2014 with the departure of head coach James Franklin to Penn State.

The 6-foot, 210-pound Vero Beach, Florida native stayed at Vanderbilt and received his degree before arriving in Amherst in 2015.

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

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