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THE UMASS LOWELL
Serving the Student Body Since 1976
September 13, 2016
UMass Lowell holds 15th anniversary rededication ceremony for 9/11 victims
In This Issue UMass Lowell police log
Jessica Kergo
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Connector Staff
Classic Game Review: ‘Double Dash’
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Final River Hawk Scores Team
Score
Overall Record
Volleyball at Boston College
L 3-2 5-5
Men’s Soccer at Quinnipiac
W 2-1
Volleyball vs. Rider
L 3-0 5-4
Volleyball vs. Fairleigh Dickinson
W 3-2
5-0
5-3
River Hawks win fifth straight, down Quinnipiac 2-1 UMass Lowell Athletics
HAMDEN, Conn. – Wuilito Fernandes (Praia, Cape Verde) scored two goals as the UMass Lowell men’s soccer team notched its fifth straight win with a 2-1 victory at Quinnipiac, on Saturday afternoon, to mark the program’s longest winning streak in the Division I era. “It was a good performance overall,� remarked Head Coach Christian Figueroa. “We made some good adjustments at the half. It was a game where we dictated play for the majority of the game other than a couple minutes here and there.� The River Hawks opened the scoring in the 53rd minute, when Carlos Ruiz (East Boston, Mass.) sent in a cross from 30-yards out and Fernandes flicked on a header from just beyond the penalty spot and inside the left post to freeze Brian Westerman. Just moment before the tally, the duo almost connected, but Fernandes’ header went wide. Fernandes added his second tally on the afternoon in the 66th minute, off of great passing from Ivan Blaskic (Zagreb, Croatia) and Ivan Abramovic (Zagreb, Croatia). From just beyond midfield, Blaskic sent a ball to Abramovic on the top of the 18-yard box and he sent over a pass to Fernandes, who was able to send it in under the sliding Westerman.
In honor of the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, UMass Lowell held a memorial ceremony to commemorate the seven members of the campus community who tragically lost their lives that fateful day. At approximately 9:30 a.m. Friday morning the remembrance service began outside Leitch Hall. The ceremony took place under a tent, just in front of the 9/11 memorial to the right of the building. Among those of attendance were friends and family of the victims, Chancellor Jacquie Moloney, UMass Lowell students and other members of the Lowell
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Margaret Hatch, John Ogonowski’s widow, stands at the memorial after the ceremony.
community. Beginning the ceremony was a presentation of the colors by the Air Force ROTC Honor Guard and the Lowell Fire Department. Next,
Moloney introduced the first speaker, a member of the UMass Lowell campus ministry to begin the services with words of comfort. During his speech, Gary Gumu-
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‘War Dogs’ review: “We kinda liked it!� Andrew Sciascia Connector Staff
Ever ask yourself where tax dollars are spent by the federal government? Todd Phillip’s film “War Dogs,� the true story of how two pot smoking nobodies in their twenties were contracted with the biggest arms deal of the Iraq War, may just make you wish you’d never asked. Based on Guy Lawson’s Rolling Stone article “The Stoner Arms Dealers,� which was later adapt-
ed into the novel “Arms and the Dudes,� this picture gives a dramatized take on the biography of David Packouz (Miles Teller), who joins childhood friend Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill) in establishing a fraudulent arms dealing business with hopes of getting rich quick and abandoning his job massaging old men in Miami. Get rich quick schemes? Someone getting in too deep with shady people and doing questionable deeds? Have we seen this before?
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chian, a pastoral intern, stated that “the fellow who coined the phrase, ‘time heals all wounds’ never suffered such a tragedy,� highlighting the
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Packouz (Teller) and Diveroli (Hill) as ill-prepared for their meeting as audiences were for what this movie would bring to the table.
“21â€? or “The Wolf of Wall Streetâ€? are just two examples. This is one of the most classic plotlines ever put to film. The silver screen is oversaturated with good guys trying to get by and just happening upon relationships with dangerous people. At the end of the day it’s two idiot young adults selling guns to the government. In Packouz’ own words from the film, “What could go wrong?â€? A whole heck of a lot. But, surprisingly enough, things only go poorly for the bonehead protagonists. The film itself holds up relatively well. Before going into the positives, it is important to address the elephant in the room when it comes to this movie: the marketing for this film was appallingly misleading. The trailers are chalk full of one-liners, hilarity and foolishness, the posters poke fun at genre contemporaries like “Scarfaceâ€?, and it stars Miles Teller from ‘Project X’ and Jonah Hill of “21 Jump Streetâ€? fame. And yet the movie itself barely qualifies as a comedy. Is that to â–ş See “Jonah Hill,â€? page 4