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Student leader Profile: the iPhone Guy David Maraniss

revisits Detroit

Journalist discusses new book at ILC

By ShelBy AShline Collegian Staff

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UMass junior Derrick Andrews works on a broken iPhone for his self-run business ‘Amherst iPhone Repair’ in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library on Wednesday.

Derrick Andrews splits time between communtiy service and entrepreneurship

By DAnny coRDovA Collegian Correspondent The Daily Collegian is running a weekly series this semester which profiles student leaders on campus and highlights their impact on the community. If you wish to nominate someone you feel is making a significant impact on campus, please email your suggestion to news@dailycollegian.com.

Derrick Andrews is a junior accounting major at the University of Massachusetts. Andrews also owns and operates his own business, Amherst iPhone Repairs, and is the vice president of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

Tell me a little bit about yourself and your work on campus.

A couple of years ago, when I was a freshman, I

needed my phone fixed and I went to Amherst iPhone Repairs. When I met the kid who worked there, I asked him how he got involved and how I can fix phones like he does because that was something that I really wanted to do. He was a senior and didn’t know what he was going to do with the business. I ended up buying it and took it to a new level by revamping the website, did some more marketing that almost doubled the numbers he had and expanded the business to Providence College, University of Rhode Island, Westfield State and now my little brother’s high school. So, I took something small and made it into something bigger, which was something I really wanted to do. I really love sports.

I’ve played sports all of my life. I’m in a fraternity on campus, Tau Kappa Epsilon.

I’m the vice president and

we do a lot of community service-based projects.

as expensive the next time around.

Can you tell me a little more about your business?

What are your responsibilities in maintaining your business?

My method of contact is either through my website, amherstrepairs.com, or email to set up appointments in convenient locations for (customers). I usually meet at the UMass library or I’ll pick the phone up from my client’s dorm and return it within the hour. That is how we operate our business; we pick up your phone and you get it right back on the same day. No time away from your phone; it’s really convenient for the people. A lot of people drop off their phones before class and pick it up right after class; doing whatever they want. If they have multiple problems with their phone, we would give discounts to the next repair so it’s not

I’m the only guy who really works there. So I pretty much do everything, whether it’s managing the website, managing all of my advertisement through my social media. One of my good friends, my social media girl, she pretty much does everything there. I send her pictures and tell her when to post and she does that. I do all of the repairs. I teach myself to do them all. If someone comes to me with a device that I have never seen before, then I’ll look it up to make sure I know exactly what I am going to be doing and what’s going on. I like to have a good grasp on what I see

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A crowd of more than 75 students and faculty members filled room N301 in the Integrative Learning Center yesterday evening to see guest speaker David Maraniss, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of 11 books.

His lecture began at 4 p.m. and focused on the content of his most recent book, “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story.”

Having grown up in Detroit, Maraniss reminisced fondly about his memories of Detroit-made 1950s automobiles and drinking locally-produced Verners ginger ale and explained that he set out to honor his childhood memories through his book, while also showing readers how Detroit changed the United States.

“What I at first sought to do is to honor what Detroit gave America, which is enormous,” Maraniss said.

He went on to list the city’s notable contributions: Motown music, cars built by GM and Chrysler, labor unions such as the United Auto Workers Union “that helped build the working class into the middle class in this country” and events that were influential to the civil rights movement.

From there, Maraniss said he knew he wanted to tell the history of a time period when Detroit’s influence was strong, specifically between 19621964. He compared the research process to “the four legs of a table,” a philosophy that drives his work in journalism as well.

The first leg requires that the journalist or writer go to the place he or she wants to write

about and experience it.

Maraniss said he traveled to his hometown eight times during his research, a process he said initially depressed him due to the deterioration of the city.

“I thought I could sit down in the middle of the street and read ‘War and Peace’ and not get hit by a car,” Maraniss joked.

Many of the houses he remembered from childhood had been demolished and what remained was in a state of decay.

For the second leg, Maraniss worked on finding historic documents, especially letters and diaries. Thirdly, he conducted interviews, though he said he inevitably encountered sources whose memories were uneven and unreliable.

Lastly, Maraniss said he sorted through myth to find the real story of Detroit. The four legs of his research process, all intensive in their own respects, combined to bring readers the city’s full story and – figuratively speaking – produced a functional table.

“I like to sit like an oil rig and go as deep as I can (into a story),” Maraniss said. However, Detroit’s story could not be complete without mention of the city’s decay.

“Everything decays,” Maraniss said bluntly.

A failing housing market, businesses that were more concerned with short-term gains than the wellbeing of their workers and an increased amount of freedom through cars caused people to leave the city.

Regardless, Maraniss is hopeful for the future of Detroit and feels that its importance should not be underestimated.

“I think it’s on its way to being a city of hope,” he said, explaining that Detroit is attracting “foodsee

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Haymarket Cafe to abolish tips, raise wages this year

Owner hopes to lead local campaign

By Anthony RentSch Collegian Staff

Peter Simpson wants to make a statement about minimum wage.

Simpson, who owns Haymarket Cafe in Northampton, plans to abolish tips for his staff and raise their wage to at least $15 per hour, he told the Daily Collegian Friday.

Simpson, whose cafe gets its name from Haymarket Square in Chicago – the location of an 1886 labor rally in support of the eight-hour workday that turned violent – hopes to create a local $15-per-hourminimum-wage campaign as he prepares to bump up the wage floor for his employees.

His plan is to start at $14 per hour this November

and increase pay by a dollar each year until he hits $17 per hour in 2018.

Simpson also has a goal of limiting what he called “wage discrepancy” between the wait staff and those who work in the kitchen, which is why he’s moving to abolish tipping in November.

In order to cover the increased wages and the elimination of tips, Simpson plans to increase prices at the Haymarket – by 10 percent in the cafe upstairs and by 20 percent in the restaurant downstairs.

He said increasing his prices by that much was an intimidating prospect at first. But once he began to think about it in terms of higher labor costs being the norm and needing to raise prices to cover the difference, he accepted it.

Kirsi Leminen, who

works in wait staff at the Haymarket Cafe, said the roughly two-dozen employees support the plan. She said the increased wage and elimination of tipping would provide her with a more “sustainable income.”

Leminen also said the wait staff (which might lose a little bit of money because they earn tips, whereas the kitchen staff does not), was okay with moving toward equal compensation levels. She added that having similar wages in the store would make it possible for employees to cross train and help out in other areas of the business.

It’s an idea that Simpson said he has been looking at for the past four or five months. He said the pending compensation changes are reflective of recent acasee

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Staff at the Haymarket Cafe in Northampton will receive $14-per-hour starting in November.

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THE MASSACHUSETTS DAILY COLLEGIAN

Thursday, September 24, 2015

CALENDAR

WEEK END

FRIDAY INDUSTRIALIZING TRADE IN AFRICA Adam Elhiraika, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), will speak on the Economic Report on Africa 2015 and will argue for a strategy of industrialization through trade. Event starts at 3 p.m., 3rd floor, Gordon Hall

PLUGGED IN: ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE An exhibit focusing on art in the digital age featuring keynote speaker, Anne Umland of the Museum of Modern Art. 4pm-7pm, ILC, exact room TBD

SATURDAY CELEBRATING SHAKESPEARE

The Center for Renaissance Studies hosts this conference celebrating William Shakespeare. 9a.m. to 4p.m., Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, 650 East Pleasant St.

FRIENDS OF HOWARD ZIFF JOURNALISM REUNION The Journalism Department will dedicate a Howard Ziff Photo Gallery in the department. Boston Globe Columnist Kevin Cullen is the Keynote Speaker. 3pm9pm,4th floor ILC,Room

MASSPIRG hosts Kick Off meeting Students urged to join grassroot group

By Anthony Rentsch Collegian Staff

lessness” that many activists feel.

“They really believe in the power of grassroots organizing and taking a nonpartisan stance, which are both core values for our organizations as well,” Gidfar said.

Many of the student speakers also relayed stories of how they got involved in MASSPIRG and what kind of work they had done with the organization previously.

Senior Shawna Upton, state board chairperson and vice-chairperson of the University of Massachusetts chapter, said she got involved her freshman year, working to get students to register to vote.

“I realized how much of an impact I could actually have,” she said.

Looking at this year, Gutterman was optimistic about how many people would work with MASSPIRG’s different campaigns. He estimated that out of the 128 people that signed the sign-up sheet at Wednesday night’s meeting, roughly half would stay involved with the organization.

Gidfar also complimented the group on its success in achieving its goals.

“They are very focused on picking smart, strategic achievable goals and then really good at organizing the UMass community and the student community to build actual power and get things done,” he said.

After the speakers had finished presenting, campaign coordinators led breakout sessions, where they talked with attendees about their goals for the year as well as plans for the first events of the semester.

Gutterman said students seemed genuinely interested during his Higher Education and Student Debt breakout sessions and wanted to get involved.

Rep. Ellen Story, D-Massachusetts, who was scheduled to speak at the event, was not able to attend due to travel constraints, according to Gutterman.

Roughly 130 students packed into the Cape Cod Lounge Wednesday night for MASSPIRG’s Kick Off meeting to hear speakers discuss their experiences with organizing, as well as the five campaigns that the group is championing this year.

Back in April, MASSPIRG announced it would focus on saving antibiotics, textbook affordability, higher education and student debt, hunger and homelessness and solar energy for the 2015-16 academic year.

On Wednesday, attendees heard from each campaign coordinator about their previous accomplishments and goals for the future.

MASSPIRG’s Save Antibiotics campaign played an integral part in pressuring McDonald’s to commit to using chicken meat free of antibiotics within the next two years.

This year, coordinator Julia Seremba, a sophomore, told students the campaign was looking to lobby Subway to commit to antibiotic free meat.

“If Subway goes, everyone will fall in line,” said senior Lucas Gutterman, chapter chairperson and coordinator of the Higher Education and Student Debt campaign. “This would be the lynch pin.”

Other campaign goals include getting governor Charlie Baker to commit to getting 20 percent of state’s energy from solar power; educating students about their options to deal with college debt and confronting the issue on a policy level; working with the W.E.B. Du Bois library and professors to increase the use of open source textbooks and securing resources for the hungry and homeless, both locally and at the federal level.

Mansur Gidfar, communications director of Represent.Us, an organization he described as a “nonpartisan anti-corruption organization,” told attendees that nonpartisan grassroots organizing is the Anthony Rentsch can be reached at key to combat the “sense arentsch@umass.edu and followed of hopelessness and power- on Twitter @Anthony_Rentsch.

HAYMARKET

demic thought that moving to a $15 per hour minimum wage is feasible.

Robert Pollin and Jeannette Wicks-Lim are co-director and assistant research professor, respectively, at the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Re s e a r c h Institute. In January, they published a paper titled “A $15 U.S. Minimum Wage: How the Fast-Food Industry Could Adjust Without Shedding Jobs.”

The paper focused on how the fast food industry could handle a national federal minimum wage increase to $15 over the span of four years without resorting to employment cuts. According to WicksLim, the industry would be able to handle it through lower turnover rates, increases in sales growth and gradual price increases over the four years.

More importantly, she said, the paper’s findings imply that such a minimum wage would be feasible in other sectors of the economy as well, since fast food currently employs the highest proportion of low wage workers.

“I suspect that a business in Northampton could move toward a $15 minimum wage,” said WicksLim, citing the state’s above-average $9 per hour minimum wage and Northampton’s economy.

Pollin also said Simpson’s Haymarket’s sales could go up if he advertises the change as an ethical business move.

“There is something to be said for ethical business because there are ethical customers out there,” Pollin said.

However, Simpson, Wicks-Lim and Pollin believe that it’s possible the Haymarket Café could take a hit at first, especially since Simpson said there are no other businesses in Northampton that will be transitioning

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to similar increased minimum wage and no tipping plans.

“The first bump in prices is hard and I recognize that,” Simpson said.

The initial price increase could be especially difficult, according to Mukunda Feldman, owner of Northampton Coffee, as customers are looking for local coffee shops to have similar prices to those of chains, such as Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks.

“That’s just crazy, but that’s the reality that we are in,” Feldman said.

“Hopefully if there is enough exposure people will understand that (the reason behind the price increases is) a good thing and people will continue to support the business.”

The price increase could be one reason holding other businesses back from integrating similar compensation plans.

Feldman, while he said that he supports the $15 minimum wage movement, did not indicate whether Northampton Coffee was considering increasing its wage floor.

However, Simpson is hoping that other local businesses will follow his lead. He is considering closing the Haymarket Cafe early at some point in November to celebrate its 24th year in business and to hold a panel discussion about the $15 minimum wage movement. He added he would like to see the creation of a workers’ guild in Northampton.

Wicks-Lim also mentioned that there is a bill to implement a $15 minimum wage for fast food and big box retail stories being considered by the state legislature. The bill was referred to the committee on Labor and Workforce Development in January.

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

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SUNDAY HOWIE DAY CONCERT Bangor singer-songwriter best known for his 2003 hit “Collide” will perform this weekend at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton. Show starts at 7 p.m.

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Lucas Gutterman addresses the crowd at MASSPIRG’s Kick Off meeting.

ies, techies and artists” which produce the same creative energy that the city witnessed in the 1960s.

Following the lecture, Maraniss answered questions from the audience and signed copies of “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story,” which was offered for sale at the event with discounted student rates courtesy of Amherst Books.

In addition to his new book which was pub-

lished this year, Maraniss has written biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Al Gore. He has focused on eclectic topics from baseball to the Vietnam War, always providing historical accounts through detailed research.

As a journalist, he works as the associate editor of The Washington Post.

Shelby Ashline can be reached at sashline@umass.edu or followed on Twitter @shelby_ashline.

FACULTY JAZZ RECITAL Faculty jazz concert by Jeff Holmes and friends celebrating Billie Holiday and Billy Strayhorn, featuring vocalist Dawning Holmes. 4:30pm, Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall JUDITH GIBSON-OKUNIEFF/COLLEGIAN

Maraniss discusses his book “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story” Wednesday.

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am doing because if I don’t, then it’s not going to produce good business.

What is your vision of the business for a couple of years down the line?

My vision at the start was to take something that already existed and expand it outwards. I have already established the business at Westfield State, URI and Providence College. One thing that I could see myself doing is creating the parent company to have more students in colleges contact me so I could set up programs for them to start the business (on) their campuses. I could see that happening in the future.

Getting right to your campus involvement, you mentioned that you were involved with Tau Kappa Epsilon. Could you tell me more about that experience?

It has been the best experience of my college career.

It has given me a home on campus. It has given me a friend group that I can trust. It has given me opportunities to reach out to the community in a way I wouldn’t have done before.

We work with the Amherst Survival Center. We do a lot of work for St. Jude Children’s Hospital, which is a great cause. We also do a lot of personal fundraising so we don’t have to spend too much money off of our pockets. On the 28th of September, we are going to have a car smash, so we are going to bring our car on campus and take a whack at it. Donations are going to the St. Jude Children’s hospital. It’s been a great experience; it has given me more leadership qualities about myself than I could have imagined getting out of a college organization. I am the vice president now. This summer, the organization sent me to Colorado where I met up with 72 different chapters across the country and participated in leadership training. We went through different workshops to help develop our leadership and management abilities. It was especially helpful for me going into my business field and being an organizational leader.

As vice president of Tau Kappa Epsilon, what are your responsibilities?

Our president takes care of our officers and then we have chair members do different things like run fundraising, social, academic events. I am in charge of

“Find your niche. Figure out how to be happy. If you find something that makes you happy, then do it. If you haven’t found something that makes you happy, try making others happy because a lot of times you’ll find even more happiness by helping out others.

If you want to get more involved in the community, the biggest thing you could do is ask questions, ask questions, and ask questions. The only reason why I still have my business is because I asked a guy how to fix iPhones. If you want to change your life in a drastic way, reach out and ask questions.

Other people have the answer and you just need to find what satisfies you.”

Derrick Andrews all the committees. I am pretty much the co-chair of the committees and I help out with the president when he needs help with the different officer positions. Another thing that I do, which is not really a responsibility of mine, is getting my hands in everything I can and make sure everything is going smooth because your name is on everything when you’re on top of the pack.

How did your involvement on campus help you grow personally?

The experience formed me more as a person because when I walk around, I could walk around knowing that this is a place where I belong. People recognize and accept me. The greatest feeling is when someone comes up to me and says, “Hey, you’re the iPhone guy” or, “You’re the guy who fixed my phone.”

It’s reaching out and making a brand for yourself on campus. It’s really satisfying knowing that people can come up to you and say those sorts of things. It gives you more of a community base and you’re giving something back and they appreciate it.

Any plans for the future?

Mainly the iPhone repair business. It’s just a college thing for me to make money to pay off student loans. But now that I started to expand the business, I’m going to see where the next two years take me with the four other businesses I’ve started in four different campuses. If they do really well, then I could see myself trying to further expand it into an actual organization that I could call my own. As of right now, it seems like I’m

on a two-year plan to make my money while I’m here and sell these businesses when I graduate. As far as my career afterwards, I am studying accounting right now, and I really enjoy it. I definitely see myself starting a firm some point in the future.

Are there anymore plans to give back to the community?

With the fraternity, we do a lot to help out the community. There is much time for other stuff outside the organization. For instance, reaching out and talking to the newspaper has given me the opportunity to reach out to a good community, getting my name out and hoping to meet some new people.

How would you encourage other students to give back to the community?

Find your niche. Figure out how to be happy. If you find something that makes you happy, then do it. If you haven’t found something that makes you happy, try making others happy because a lot of times you’ll find even more happiness by helping out others.

If you want to get more involved in the community, the biggest thing you could do is ask questions, ask questions, and ask questions. The only reason why I still have my business is because I asked a guy how to fix iPhones. If you want to change your life in a drastic way, reach out and ask questions. Other people have the answer and you just need to find what satisfies you.

Danny Cordova can be reached at dcordova@umass.edu.

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European Union leaders discuss migrant crisis Agreement reached for future plans

By Henry CHu Los Angeles Times LONDON — European Union leaders tried to restore some integrity to their group’s name by agreeing early Thursday on new measures to alleviate the continent’s migrant crisis despite deep rifts that have opened up between member nations.

After weeks of name-calling and finger-pointing, the heads of government of the 28 EU countries pledged to allocate more than $1 billion on improving conditions at camps for Syrian refugees in the Middle East, to discourage them from coming to Europe.

The leaders also agreed to work on better securing the bloc’s perimeter and setting up EU-administered facilities in front-line countries such as Greece and Italy to register and fingerprint new arrivals.

The emergency summit in Brussels lasted nearly seven hours and was conducted in a “better than expected atmosphere,” European Commission President JeanClaude Juncker said.

But rancor remained over a contentious proposal to resettle 120,000 refugees across the continent – barely a quarter of the total number of asylum seekers who have already crossed into Europe this year. The plan was approved by EU government ministers Tuesday through a rare majority vote rather

than the usual consensus, over the angry objections of four Eastern European countries.

Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia has openly vowed to resist the plan, though EU law requires compliance.

“We won’t implement this decision because we think it can’t work,” Fico said Wednesday before the emergency summit in Brussels.

“We always rejected it as nonsense.”

Such defiance elicited a blunt rejoinder from President Francois Hollande of France, one of the EU’s founding nations.

“Those who don’t share our values, those who don’t even want to respect those principles, need to start asking themselves questions about their place in the European Union,” Hollande said.

The sharp words illustrate the tensions that the migrant crisis has unleashed and that threaten to unravel some of the EU’s most significant achievements, such as free movement across borders. In the past few weeks, several countries, including Germany and Hungary, have reintroduced border controls to try to check the influx of asylum seekers.

The flow of people seems unstoppable. As many as 6,000 people from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other war-torn nations are landing every day on a handful of Greek islands to begin a trek into the heart of Europe, an arduous quest for sanctuary through the Balkans

to wealthier nations such as Germany and Sweden.

Nearly 500,000 refugees and migrants have arrived in Europe this year; almost 3,000 have died making the attempt. Germany, the favored destination of many because of its welcoming attitude and generous benefits, expects to take in up to 800,000 – and possibly even 1 million – refugees this year.

To stem the tide of asylum seekers, European leaders announced they would beef up patrols along the EU’s external borders, to help front-line states such as Greece and Italy where the migrants first make landfall.

“The current chaos at our external borders must end,” said EU President Donald Tusk. “Proper management and control of our external borders is our common responsibility. It would be unfair to put all the burden on Italy or Greece or other countries.”

The leaders also decided to allocate about $1.1 billion in EU funds to help the Middle Eastern countries sheltering Syrians who have fled the civil war in their homeland.

While Europe squabbles over how to deal with hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan have collectively taken in millions of them.

“The measures we have agreed today will not end the crisis, but they are all necessary steps in the right direction,” Tusk said, adding: “Tonight we have a common understanding that we cannot continue like we did before.”

Opinion Editorial THE MASSACHUSETTS DAILY COLLEGIAN

Thursday, September 24, 2015

“I get angry about things, then go on and work.” - Toni Morrison

Are public school dress codes teaching girls not to ‘distract’ boys?

Misconceptions about Planned Parenthood funding Over the past few the argument that tax dold e c a d e s, c o n t r ove r- lars should not go toward sy regarding Planned funding abortions, Title X prohibits federal funds Katrina Kervin to be used towards aborParenthood has popped tions. Medicaid, under very up on television screens restricted circumstances, and frequented newspaper does allow government headlines more often than money to fund abortions. not. As they have been for These exceptions, as outdecades, pro-life groups and lined in the 1977 Hyde multiple right wing politiAmendment, are only in cians are attempting to decases of rape, incest or to fund Planned Parenthood.

Just this past Friday, the protect the life of a mother House of Representatives during a dangerous preg– currently controlled by nancy.

Republicans – successfully As a woman being rep-

“Regarding the argument that tax dollars should not go towards funding abortions, Title X prohibits federal funds to be used towards abortions.” passed the Defund Planned Parenthood Act, 248-177.

If the bill is passed by the Senate, as it most likely will be, President Barack Obama has vowed to veto it. Republicans have threatened to shut down the government if that situation arises.

It’s true that Planned Parenthood receives over $500 million per year from federal funding, which is quite a significant amount.

This money is largely a combination of federal and state funding. The narrative that pro-life groups and many Republican politicians have been pushing out has the intention of manipulating right wing followers into outrage about their tax dollars going towards abortions.

“I don’t want my tax dollars going towards something against my religious beliefs/something I don’t believe in” is the type of statement we hear on the news frequently. From highly-edited videos put out by anti-abortion groups to misleading and disproved statements made by presidential candidates such as Carly Fiorina, the intentions are clear.

It’s important to know what that government money is actually used for. According to Planned Parenthood, the majority of services which the nonprofit organization provides annually are for STI/STD testing and treatment, coming in at 42 percent. Thirty four percent of what the nonprofit organization does is to provide contraceptives and nine percent of their services goes towards cancer screening. Only three percent of the services provided are abortion-related.

Federal funding for abortions come from two major programs; Title X and Medicaid. Regarding

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resented by a Congress which is 80 percent male, I’m dejected but not surprised by the possible shutdown. What people need to take into consideration is the consequence of defunding. According to the Los Angeles Times, it is projected that upwards of 650,000 women – mostly from lowincome areas – will lose access to care.

This means a loss of access to sex education, pap smears, mammograms and cervical cancer screening, STD testing and treatment and, most importantly, birth control. Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of birth control and sex education in the country. Losing the ability to acquire birth control is bound to increase the rate of unplanned pregnancies, which will ultimately lead to more abortions. These include unregulated and unsafe illegal procedures.

Women deserve the right to a safe procedure in a place where they are allowed to discuss and make choices about their own bodies with trained professionals present to answer questions and provide support.

Having a male-dominated legislature frequently attempting to take away the control which we as women have over our own bodies and hinder our access to medical care grows more and more frustrating but it will not discourage those who have fought and will continue fighting for women’s rights.

It came to my attention recently dress for other people. Moreover, that public school dress codes are it assumes that the sexualization is trying to restrict girls more than the fault of the girl and not the person sexualizing her.”

Karly Dunn Many arguments against this idea express that women are just generboys. To gain perspective, I looked ally more provocative than men and at the code of conduct for East dress accordingly because of it. But Longmeadow High School here in is this really true? Movies and teleMassachusetts for issues with the vision shows portray women as sexdress requirements. At first, I didn’t find any problems.

But I now realize that was the problem.

I’ve been trained to follow the rules of policy ever since I attended public school in second grade.

I always made sure my shorts weren’t too short and my tank tops were more than one inch in width, just because I was doing what I was told.

Upon rereading the school’s dress code policy, I noticed that ual beings who detract focus from seven out of the eight dress restric- men at work. I think this misogynistions were directed toward girls. I tic view of women not only affects then researched the dress codes of how men view and treat women in Monson and Amherst High School real life society, but also how we and found similar results. Now, this teach girls to act and tell them to is something worth being angry dress.

Public schools’ sexist dress poliabout. These codes are training girls to not distract boys and to cies are enabling the stereotypes make sure we conform to the stereo- associated with women’s clothtypical prejudices we are subjected ing, behavior and sexuality to be ingrained in the minds of elemento.

Everyday Feminism explains in tary level kids, and these stereoan article, “It assumes that they types stay there beyond high school

“Many arguments against this idea express that women are just generally more provocative than men and dress accordingly because of it.

But is this really true?”.”

graduation. I am a victim of such thoughts.

In schools, girls should not be responsible for being “modest” just to make sure boys are comfortable and focused. And there is no “pressure” for girls to dress sexually.

Girls don’t dress just for the attention of boys and clothes today do not resemble the modesty the Puritans embodied centuries ago.

In today’s culture, showing shoulder and thigh is not something we should be looking down upon and we’re hurting the self esteem of girls in schools at an early age by portraying that sense of body shaming. We’re not influencing modesty of student focus as a collective here. We’re shaming women’s bodies and favoring male education.

As The Guardian said, “Sending the message to students that girls’ outfits provoke male behavior is a dangerous slippery slope.” It’s true.

A girl shouldn’t be responsible for a boy getting distracted in school. We shouldn’t be teaching girls to dress “modestly” for the benefit of boys’ education. We should be teaching boys to exercise self-control.

Karly Dunn is a Collegian contributor and can be reached at kdunn@umass.edu.

Katrina Kervin is a Collegian contributor and can be reached at kkervin@umass.edu.

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UMass student participates in New York Fashion Week as a collective intern on behalf of elite stylist Marc Jacobs Coffee, fashion, chaos and traffic B y R ichaRd N guyeN Collegian Correspondent From fetching Americanos to witnessing the chaos ensuing backstage, my internship for Marc Jacobs simultaneously concluded with his spring/summer 2016 collection on the stage of the Ziegfeld Theater during New York Fashion Week.

Although the collection is only shown for a mere 15 minutes, countless hours and hard work are put

into making sure everything runs smoothly. For my part in that process, I spent the bulk of my time at the Marc Jacobs Headquarters in SoHo, part of lower Manhattan.

It was there where I met and watched many people from the industry come together to put on this massive production.

One of those people was Katie Grand, who, as with all of Jacobs’ runway shows and campaigns, was the stylist for the spring/summer 2016 collection. Grand and Jacobs have collaborated for over 10 years, and it shows

when watching them work together. I observed how Jacobs would create his collection, from meticulously picking the trims to modifying the jackets to his liking.

Anita Bitton was the casting director for the show and has worked with Jacobs before. She casted for designers such as Alexander Wang, Balenciaga, and Giles.

Narrowing down hundreds of models to the mere 62 that appeared in the show is no easy feat and leaves room for unpredictability. The role of the casting director is to have the

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Models gather backstage in their patriotic outfits while waiting to walk on the runway at this year’s New York Fashion Week.

eyes of the client in mind to choose the right girls to present to them. Some girls are not available for the show, or they get canceled minutes before hitting the runway. There is never a guarantee in fashion.

The girls that did walk the show however, stomped down runway and gave it their all. Supermodels such as Adriana Lima, Joan Smalls and Kendall Jenner were among the cast of 62, and were no strangers to walking for Jacobs. Newcomers to the show included Veronika Vilim, Emily Ratajkowski and Kiki Willems.

Getting to the Ziegfeld Theatre in and of itself was complete chaos in unforgiving metropolitan rush hour. There was no way that any car could take us to the show on time, so 10 of us ran to the Broadway-Lafayette subway station with hair accessories and jewelry in hand, hopped onto the B train heading uptown, and hoped that we could get to the venue on time.

As we went backstage, it was glamorous and chaotic. Models were getting undressed, eye shadow was still being blended, and the clothes hadn’t arrived to the theater just yet. Panic erupted trying to find out where in the city the 18-wheeler truck that contained all the clothes was. After a moment, the clothes final-

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Finding the right models and booking them presented difficulty and uncertainty. ly arrived and thus began the scramble to put the models into their looks.

The girls then lined up in the order they were to appear on the runway, with both Jacobs and Grand making sure every accessory was in place, and every pin was on. The lights of the theater dimmed down, and the first girl was out. Her route was to walk on the red carpet, pose for photographers, walk through the theatre lobby, up the escalators, and into the main theatre where she would walk in front of editors, bloggers, and celebrities.

I received this internship opportunity through the fashion public relations agency, KCD, who produce many fashion events in New York, London and Paris. With clients such as Alexander

Wang, Givenchy, Victoria’s Secret and of course Marc Jacobs, KCD is well-known in the fashion industry for its high-grade fashion events.

Working as a collection intern was both exhausting and wonderful. Standing up all day and night was a skill that was to be learned on the job. I got to experience a collection firsthand, which not many people can say. Organizing the show looks and creating the looks board was a great experience to see how well a team can work under pressure. We all felt each other’s pain and we all connected in some way.

Despite all the long hours and stress, if I was given the option to do this again, I would say yes in a heartbeat.

Richard Nguyen can be reached at richardnguye@umass.edu.

TECHNOLOGY

Facebook’s anticipated ‘dislike’ feature is not an automatic like Potential harm to community By eRica gaRNett Collegian Staff

When logging onto Facebook, users can bet to be more surprised by the content on their news feed than anything else. The company will occasionally decide to change the homepage slightly enough to be disorienting. However, the 11-year-old social networking powerhouse will soon be testing a heavily anticipated “dislike” feature as the biggest fundamental change to the website in some time.

The push for a dislike button originated from Facebook’s approximately 1.5 billion users wanting a better outlet to express empathy and align themselves with their friends who might have shared something tragic in their life.

“If you’re expressing something sad…it may not feel comfortable to ‘like’ that post, but your friends and people want to be able to express that they understand,” Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark

Zuckerberg said in the Wall Street Journal.

That prompts the question as to why the button wouldn’t say “empathy” or “affirming” in lieu of “dislike.”

UMass senior Rachel Bae believes the button should say “dislike” on it to present users with a direct opposite to their other option of “like.” She also purposes that Facebook users be given the ability to choose whether or not they give their posts the opportunity to be disliked, which could be enabled in a security feature. When asked if Facebook users needed agency over the “like” button as well she didn’t seem to think so.

“If the ‘dislike’ button is executed well then it is going to be a success,” Bae said.

While the intentions of Facebook are coming from a “good of the community” mindset, there is trepidation that the “dislike” feature will be misused and abused as a joke. Emmaline Conti, a UMass junior, believes the dislike feature is not going to be used constructively, especially among teenagers who won’t take the intended

use seriously.

Conti sees the feature as “a sign of acknowledgement even if you have nothing to say,” and ultimately believes it is a good idea only if people use it in the right way.

Zuckerberg is very mindful of the critique Facebook has received for becoming a hub of bullying and other negative social interaction.

“Hopefully we’ll deliver something that meets the needs of our community,” Zuckerberg said in a New York Times article.

Senior Allan Brooks doesn’t believe there will be as much of a negative consequence as the anticipation of the feature is arousing.

“Most of the people I am Facebook friends with, I would like to keep,” Brooks said. He added that he thinks most people ultimately won’t resort to using the feature.

There is a definitive possibility that people will shy away from the feature out of not wanting to be offensive or because the “dislike” option doesn’t frame their emotion well enough. In this case, the logical outlet would be to use a good old fashioned comment. Yet, in an article for Boston’s

NPR News Station, WBUR, Zuckerberg addressed comments saying Facebook users are uncomfortable commenting because of pressure of what to say and fear of not being witty.

If people want to express their emotions entirely, then the only way to fully do so is

“There is denial in every aspect of social media in the way these networks were constructed. Even not liking something on Facebook, technically implies a dislike.” by taking the time to comment, not constricting their spectrum of emotion into the binary of likeability. In that case, Zuckerberg and his team are wasting their time developing this feature when they could have been spending it proactively addressing the bullying on Facebook or continuing the VR-focused standalone video app they are in the early stages of developing.

Other options to a “dislike” feature include a neutral sense of acknowledgment as purposed by WBUR writer Ethan Gilsdorf, alluding to Zuckerberg’s main goal.

Since 2009, the “like” button/thumps up sign has become a currency full of superficial social capital that people assign excessive importance to. In addition to the thumbs up graphic being derogatory to certain cultures, it subsequently deposits an uneasy feeling to the user clicking the button and an enigmatic feeling to the user on the other side of cyberspace, receiving a notification that their dog’s death is surely liked.

This idea is not restrictive to Facebook, though.

Every social media has its own infamous symbol instantly accompanying any social action. Instagram has its heart, Twitter shines it star, swiping right on Tinder equates to swiping up on Reddit. There is denial in every aspect of social media in the way these networks were constructed.

Even not liking something on Facebook, technically implies a dislike. Can we not handle any lack of attention

so much to the point where we need to invent another button to try and feel something? Another option mentioned by Gilsdorf would or course be to remove all ability to participate in liking and disliking all together and just comment.

Maybe it isn’t a matter of what buttons we should be inventing, hitting or doubletapping, but the content we are reacting to and posting.

Social media is an ingeniously designed platform that gives users freedom to post essentially whatever they want. This obviously leads to good and bad, ultimately making every personal a post a risk. Whether it is a selfie, a photo of loss, or a status, users are posting a piece of themselves out there for social critique.

That being said, feel free to dislike this article. It is within your rights to do so.

I am posting my thoughts and opinions as a journalist out into the world to be read, understood, rejected or agreed upon. The comment space below is there for a reason.

Erica Garnett can be reached at egarnett@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @GarnettErica.

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UMass to compete in Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown

Eighteen teams set to race on Friday

By Nick Souza Collegian Staff

Two weeks after hosting the Minuteman Invitational to start their seasons, the Massachusetts men and women’s cross country teams will journey to Franklin Park in Boston on Friday for the Coast-toCoast Battle in Beantown.

Friday’s meet will provide stiff national competition for both teams. In attendance for the men’s side will include No. 3 Syracuse, No. 15 Georgetown, No. 24 Providence and Florida State, who is just one spot outside the national rankings.

The women’s side includes No. 4 Georgetown, No. 8 Providence, No. 19 Syracuse and No. 25 Dartmouth.

The coaches for both the Minutemen and Minutewomen are taking this weekend’s opportunity to test their respective teams against the nation’s top teams. UMass women’s coach Julie Lafreniere said she finds it difficult to contain her excitement for the upcoming meet.

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tunity for our young team, which currently has only two seniors on it, to get some inter-regional exposure,” Lafreniere said.

“There’ll be some different colored uniforms they’ll be chasing.”

While she is enthusiastic, Lafreniere realizes UMass isn’t ready to contend on the same level as some of the teams lined up to compete in the race.

However, she remains optimistic that this meet can be a first step in getting to the top at the national stage.

Although the Minutewomen were a little slower than expected in their opening meet Sept. 12 – in which they finished fourth out of six teams in the Minuteman Invitational – the return of runners Heather MacLean and possibly Natalie Mako (g ame-time decision) should bolster the lineup.

Freshman Alexa Livingstone, who finished first for UMass in the women’s 5k run, will need to build on their performances from her first college meet. The Minutewomen will also rely on senior Carly Zinner to continue to be a model of consistency and for sophomore Colleen Sands to show improvement in her second year.

“I want our runners to be mentally prepared to step it up against better runners, and that will bring the best out of them as long as they don’t shy away from it,” Lafreniere said.

“I expect that our team will be very excited and get carried along, I don’t want them to be afraid of the completion.”

No place like home for the Minutemen The Minutemen have a majority of their athletes that reside in-state, which gives them a level of familiarity with Franklin Park.

Eleven of UMass’ 16 members attended high school in Massachusetts.

While this could be seen as an advantage, Minutemen coach Ken O’Brien is hesitant to agree.

“I’d like to think that it’ll give us a big advantage, but because the course is a loop, national caliber runners who may start conservatively will grow more comfortable the second time around,” O’Brien said, “It is such a popular course for northeast schools that the home course advantage is minimal.”

The course will be fast, and although UMass run-

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UMass finished fourth out of six teams in in the Minuteman Invitational on Sept. 12. ners having seen it before in college and high school races, the “home” advantage is negligible. Still, O’Brien has kept the overall goal for the team relatively lofty.

Last year the Minutemen finished 13 th in the race and this year, with a talent pool that appears to be deeper, O’Brien said he’d like to see the team finish in the top 10.

“We’re expecting a

slightly better performance with a race under their belts now. We hope that with the race and 10 days of practice, they will handle the end of the race a little better and the pack will keep a little closer together,” O’Brien said.

The Minutemen will look for a performance from sophomore Sam Conway similar to that in the home opener when he led the Minutemen as

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try some things because of leadership. Communication is a big thing whenever you go on the road.”

Although there aren’t any high expectations for UMass, Frohnapfel believes playing Notre Dame is a good measuring stick to see where the Minutemen really are, especially coming off of a 25-23 collapse against Temple last weekend at Gillette Stadium.

“For UMass coming up from FCS to FBS the past couple years, playing Notre Dame is

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Rodney Mills lays in the endzone after catching a touchdown pass in UMass’ 25-23 loss to Temple on Sept. 19.

Tuesday’s practice he said the tightly-fought battle provided plenty of positive takeaways coming off the Minutemen’s disappointing 48-14 loss to Colorado in their season-opener.

UMass senior wide receiver Tajae Sharpe added that it didn’t take long for the Minutemen to regain their focus in the pivotal week before their matchup with the Fighting Irish.

“The next day after we finished watching the film, we were past it all,” Sharpe said. “You can’t get too low on any type of loss and can’t get too high after any victory. We just moved past it.”

Sharpe added: “Playing against Notre Dame, they have a lot of history at that school.

They have a great team, a great defense and it’s going to be exciting. You always want to play against the best to see how you rank up.”

their top runner, and sixth overall in the UMass Cross Country Invitational. Senior Ben Groleau will be relied on as one of the experienced runners to handle the pressure of a meet this magnitude as well.

Friday’s race will begin at 3:30 p.m. for the 8k and at 4:15 p.m. for the open 5k.

Notre Dame (3-0) hosts UMass coming off a 30-22 victory over then-No. 20 Georgia Tech. Following quarterback Malik Zaire’s season-ending ankle injury the previous week against Virginia, redshirt freshman DeShone Kizer stepped into the starting role under center and completed 21-of-30 passes for 242 yards and a touchdown.

Senior running back C.J. Prosise complemented Kizer with 198 rushing yards and three touchdowns against the Yellow Jackets. Prosise, the Fighting Irish’s special teams player of the year in 2014, has earned the brunt of the carries with starting running back Tarean Folston suffering a season-ending ACL tear against Texas on Sept. 5.

Zaire and Folston headline a group of six Fighting Irish that have already been sidelined for the remainder of 2015 due to injury, including four starters.

However, with depth at every position, Whipple said the Notre Dame’s health situation won’t be a major factor Saturday.

“It doesn’t look like they’re too injured to me,” Whipple said.

“They recruit pretty good, they have a lot of guys. Their special teams guy (Prosise) is averaging 150 (yards)… They’re really talented and that’s a credit to their staff with what they have for players.”

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playing the top of the top,” Frohnapfel said. “After playing Temple, a borderline top-25 team last week, and seeing we went toe-to-toe with them for 12 rounds… It’s kind of a measuring stick for yourselves, if we can compete with these teams it gives you confidence in what you’re doing and to the program as well.”

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there has been a constant theme at practices throughout the week: finishing.

“Finishing from crosses, finishing from long range shooting, we’ll work some set pieces tomorrow,” O’Leary said. “I’d like to see the same team that’s come the last three games and put in very competitive performances, but just become a little more clinical in the penalty area.”

good spirits, and a light atmosphere at the end of practice Wednesday would seem to confirm that.

“I like this team,” O’Leary said.

“This is a resilient group of guys.

A lot of teams right now would be coming apart at the seams.”

After the pair of weekend matchups, the Minutemen will turn their attention to Atlantic 10 conference play, which begins Saturday, Oct.

“I like this team. This is a resilient group of guys.

A lot of teams right now would be coming apart at the seams.”

Fran O’Leary, UMass coach The four goals scored by the Minutemen this year have come off the feet of four different players. Ty Goncalves, Lenoir Sery, Kevin Boino and Samuel Asamoah have all found goals for UMass, and along with leading assist man Alex DeSantis, they will be relied on to provide more on the attack.

Despite struggling offensively, O’Leary noted the team has remained a close-knit group in

3 at Saint Joseph’s. Only games played in-conference will affect UMass’s standing toward the A-10 conference tournament.

Friday’s game against Brown is set to kick off at 4 p.m. while Sunday’s matinee is slated to begin at 4:30 p.m.

Ross Gienieczko can be reached at rgieniec@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @RossGien.

MLB

New York Yankee legend Yogi Berra dies at age 90

TORONTO — Yogi Berra, whose uncommon gifts as a player and common man’s persona made him a legendary figure in Yankees history and delighted generations of baseball fans, has died at the age of 90.

“It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that Yogi Berra passed away Tuesday night,” the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center sent out via Twitter Wednesday. Berra broke into the majors with the Yankees exactly 69 years ago on the day of his passing.

“While we mourn the loss of

our father, grandfather and greatgrandfather, we know he is at peace with Mom,” said a statement from Berra’s family. “We celebrate his remarkable life, and are thankful he meant so much to so many. He will truly be missed.”

A three-time AL MVP-winning catcher and 10-time world champion playing in pinstripes from 1946-1963, Berra also managed the Yankees and Mets to a pennant and received World Series rings as a coach for both New York clubs.

And yet, Berra’s influence crossed from the ballpark into

popular culture with his homespun observations on life _ a collision of grammar and thought that came to be known as Yogi-isms.

Some were directly attributable, such as “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” Berra’s quote about managing the 1973 Mets from last place in August to the NL championship.

During his 1972 Hall of Fame induction speech, Berra reprised one of his oft-quoted gems by thanking “everyone who made this day necessary.” As the collection of malapropisms and off-beat statements grew, Berra had a ready line

about them: “I really didn’t say everything I said.”

Born on May 12, 1925, in St. Louis to hardworking immigrant parents, Lawrence Peter Berra grew up in that city’s Italian-American neighborhood known as “The Hill,” playing baseball, soccer and football.

His best friend who lived across the street, Joe Garagiola, would also become a Major League catcher and a noted broadcaster.

With legendary teammates such as Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Phil Rizzuto, Berra was part of the Yankees’ record five consecutive

world championships from 1949-53, winning MVPs in ‘51, ‘54 and ‘55.

From 1948-58, Berra averaged 25 home runs and 102 RBI per season.

Known as a bad-ball hitter, Berra was still a disciplined enough lefthanded swinger to hit 358 home runs with just 414 career strikeouts.

In 1950, a year he finished third in the MVP voting, Berra batted .322 with 28 homers, 124 RBI, and struck out just 12 times. When asked about that astonishing statistic, Berra said simply: “I didn’t like to strike out.

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Seeking a little bit of luck UMass prepares for battle at historic South Bend Saturday

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Blake Frohnapfel has thrown for 618 passing yards and four touchdowns this season.

In preparation for its game against Temple last week, Massachusetts football coach Mark Whipple said the Owls were the best team UMass has seen in his two-year stint since returning to the helm of UMass.

Now in their third week of the regular season, following a 25-23 loss to Temple last Saturday, the road doesn’t get any easier for the Minutemen.

UMass (0-2) will travel to South Bend, Indiana this Saturday to face No. 6 Notre Dame, the Minutemen’s highestranked opponent since its move to the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2012. While UMass players said they’ve approached the program’s first-ever matchup with the Fighting Irish no differently than in past weeks, quarterback Blake Frohnapfel acknowledged the added significance of the game.

“For UMass coming up from FCS to FBS the past couple years, playing Notre Dame is playing the top of the top,” Frohnapfel said.

“It’s kind of a measuring stick for yourselves. If we

can compete with these teams, it gives you confidence in what you’re doing and to the program as well.”

Frohnapfel said last week’s matchup with Temple – who came into Gillette Stadium at No. 26 in the nation following wins over Penn State and Cincinnati – instilled confidence in the Minutemen despite its inability to seal a victory.

UMass took its first lead of the game against the Owls Saturday with one minute, 20 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter courtesy of a 16-yard passing touchdown to running back Jamal Wilson.

But on the ensuing extra point attempt, Blake Lucas’ kick was blocked at the line and returned to the opposite end zone by Temple for two points. The Owls then regained the lead permanently on a field goal by Austin Jones with 12 seconds left.

Following the game, Frohnapfel said it was “unbelievable” how the EMMET FARNAN / THE OBSERVER final plays of Saturday’s loss unfolded. However, at C.J. Prosise ran for 203 yards and three touchdowns on 22 carries in Notre Dame’s 30-22 win over Georgia Tech last Saturday. see IRISH on page 7

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UM with only four goals on season

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Joe Montana, Tim Brown, Paul Hornung, Jerome Bettis, Lou Holtz, Rudy Ruettiger.

Those are just a select few of a laundry list of legends that have roamed the sidelines in historic South Bend, Indiana at the University of Notre Dame.

On Saturday, the Massachusetts football team will have its turn to take the field with one of the most iconic programs in college football history.

UMass (0-2) will have its hands full against No. 6 Notre Dame (3-0) as the Fighting Irish are the highestranked opponent the Minutemen have played in program history.

Although both players and coaches are treating this weekend as any other road game, center Matt Sparks realizes how unique of an opportunity the trip to Notre Dame is as a fan of the game of football.

“It’s hard not to get caught up in that,” Sparks said. “Just being a fan of (college football), you have to remember that you’re there to win.”

“You have to treat this like it’s a business trip and approach it the same way,” UMass quarterback Blake Frohnapfel said. “Then again, this is a pretty good experience and not many people have a chance to do that, so I want to enjoy it as much as I can.”

UMass is no stranger to playing in hostile environments against perennial college football powerhouses. Since joining the Football Bowl Subdivision, the Minutemen have traveled to “The Big House”

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The Minutemen defense held Temple to 67 rushing yards on 37 carries last Saturday.

“Then again, this is a pretty good experience and not many people have a chance to do that, so I want to enjoy it as much as I can.”

Blake Frohnapfel, UMass quarterback at Michigan Stadium, Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium and Penn State’s Beaver Stadium. Michigan (No. 1) and Penn State (No. 2) have the two largest venues in college football.

UMass coach Mark Whipple said the offense has been working on silent snap counts this week at practice to help deal with the crowd factor.

The Minutemen are using last year’s trip to University Park, Pennsylvania as a reference point to handle the aurora of playing on the road against the Fighting Irish.

“A lot of the guys playing against Notre Dame played (against Penn State) so there’s not going to be a lot that’s new or a surprise. It’s just exciting to play in that kind of atmosphere,” Sparks said.

Frohnapfel agreed with Sparks, saying the preparation has been same week in and week out regardless of the opponent.

“We have to do it the same way no matter who we are playing, whether it’s Penn State or Notre Dame, no matter who it is,” Frohnapfel said.

“You can’t change the routine and everything is the same really.”

With a total of 15 seniors that are starters, Whipple said bringing an experienced, veteran group makes the trip that much easier.

“Yeah, no question (it makes it easier),” Whipple said. “That doesn’t mean you are going to win or play better. It may help you a little bit, you may be able to be a little more open to some things and see

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An inability to finish chances doomed the Massachusetts soccer team in a 1-0 loss against New Hampshire Saturday.

In fact, a lack of goal-scoring ability has crushed the Minutemen (1-7) all season long. They’ve been shut out five times, scored more than one goal just once (a 2-1 win against Hartford on Sept. 16) and have tallied just four total goals in eight games this season.

But according to UMass coach Fran O’Leary, these offensive struggles are not due to a lack of chances.

“When you get concerned is when you’re not creating chances,” O’Leary said. “We’re working hard to create them and we need a little bit more concentration and a little better luck and I think the goals will start to come.”

The Minutemen will need those goals to show up this weekend when UMass takes on a hot Vermont team Friday afternoon and a battle-tested Brown team on Sunday.

The Catamounts (3-3-1) enter Friday’s matchup winners of two straight, and O’Leary had high praise for them after Wednesday’s practice.

“Up front, they have two very good strikers. So their strength is really their attacking players,”

O’Leary said.

O’Leary also praised Vermont’s defense and coaching and said the Minutemen would not be gifted any chances against the Catamounts.

Instead, they’d have to manufacture them.

Defensively, the burden for stopping a Vermont attack that’s scored nine times in the last four games will fall on UMass’ back four. Matt Pease, Brandon Merklin, Matthew Mooney and Dylan Cranmer were all players O’Leary singled out as key players in keeping the Catamounts at bay.

“UVM’s just a big, strong, fast team,” Mooney said. “We have to make sure they stay in front of us at all times and not let them run the channels on us.”

The focus on Sunday will shift to Brown (3-2), as the Bears enter having lost two in a row, although one of them was against No. 7 Clemson. Prior to its losing streak, Brown had notched wins against a strong Providence team, as well as Quinnipiac and Holy Cross.

Although they’re facing two quality opponents, scoring opportunities should present themselves for the Minutemen over the course of the weekend. The Bears have allowed six goals in their last two games, while Vermont has let in 12 goals over its seven games this season.

When the chances come, UMass will need to take advantage of them if it expects to come out of the weekend with a win, and as a result, see

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