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UM student activists fight to ‘Save Student Aid’

By Marie MaccuneCollegian Staff

With a budget proposal by the Republican Party poised to cut $150 billion in financial aid fund-ing, students across the country have joined together under the Save Student Aid coalition. University of Massachusetts students, through the Center for

Education Policy and Advocacy, MASSPIRG and the United States Students Association, are among their numbers. “Save Student Aid was cre-ated out of crisis,” said Filipe de Carvalho, director of the Access and Affordability team for CEPA. “The way that CEPA really got involved was with our affiliation with the United States Student Association,” he added. “I was briefed as a (USSA) board mem-ber at one of our board meetings that there were certain propos-

als rumored at the time to go through – the $150 billion cuts over all and the $90 billion to Pell Grant cuts – and that we needed to mobilize and do something around that.” According to de Carvalho, when those rumors proved true, CEPA got to work with MASSPIRG, reaching out to the Student Government Association to make calls in order to spread awareness as well as gather sig-natures for a petition. L u c a s G u t t e r m a n ,

MASSPIRG’s state board treasur-er, explained MASSPIRG’s role in compiling a photo petition. “We have been working to get photo petitions to build public pressure … among students and VIPs so that they actually see the faces of people who are affected by this,” Gutterman said. He added that the organization even obtained a photo petition from U.S. Representative Jim McGovern. “Most of our campaigns really do focus on this strict mission

where there is a special interest subverting the public interest,” Gutterman said. “In this case, though, in terms of funding pub-lic higher education, there isn’t a clear special interest in the way that there is for the Bottle Bill, for example, so it’s more just advocating for students as our constituency.” USSA hosted its National G r a s s ro o t s L e g i s l at ive Convention two weeks ago in

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As temperatures climb near 60 degrees, fraternities and sororites take to the fields to play flag football as part of Greek Week.

It’s all greek to meUMass confirms Dalai Lama’s visit to campus in Oct.

By anthony rentschCollegian Staff

The University of Massachusetts, Smith College and Amherst College are teaming up with the Mind and Life Institute in Hadley to host the Dalai Lama’s visit to the Pioneer Valley Oct. 23 to 25. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama, is scheduled to speak at both Smith College and Amherst College before giving a culmi-nating public lecture in the Mullins Center on Oct. 25, according to UMass spokes-person Daniel Fitzgibbons. According to a University news release, “The purpose of his visit is to focus on eth-ics and education and specifi-

cally an approach to incorpo-rating care and compassion into the framework of educa-tion from K-12 through post-graduate education world-wide.” This topic has manifested itself as the Call to Care pro-gram, which “aims to address the limited attention in our educational systems for cul-tivating care,” according to the Mind and Life Institute’s website. The Institute was found-ed in 1987 in an effort to reduce suffering and pro-mote human flourishing by “fostering interdisciplin-ary, cross-cultural dialogue between science philosophy, the humanities and traditions that foster rigorous first-per-son contemplative inquiry,” according to a Mind and Life Institute news release. The events at Smith

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Obama honors Professor Peterson

By colBy searsCollegian Staff

After being honored by President Barack Obama last month, University of Massachusetts professor Sandra Petersen will soon be on her way to the White House. Petersen will attend a ceremony in Washington, D.C. later this year to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, along with a $10,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. According to the White House, the PAESMEM rec-ognizes the important role mentoring plays in the devel-opment of science and engi-neering students, particularly in students underrepresented in those fields. Petersen was one of 14 individuals and one organization chosen for the award. “These educators are help-ing to cultivate America’s future scientists, engineers and mathematicians,” President Obama said in a White House press release. “They open new worlds to their students and give them

the encouragement they need to learn, discover and inno-vate.” Petersen teaches in the vet-erinary and animal science department at the University and has served as the execu-tive director and mentor for the Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate since 2003. NEAGEP focuses on increasing the number of underrepresented students who earn Ph.D. degrees in sci-ence, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, subjects, according to its web-site. The alliance is made up of 15 universities and is led by UMass. “The NEAGEP students are the ones who are to be congratulated,” Petersen said of her award in a University press release. “My job is to help move obstacles placed in their way and remind them of who they are when they forget.” Petersen said she and the NEAGEP students are “mutu-al mentors” and she is grate-ful to have the opportunity to know and collaborate with each of them. University officials said the number of research-active faculty members involved in recruiting and mentoring minority students at UMass has increased 1,000 percent

under Petersen’s leadership, rising from 19 in 2003 to more than 200 this year. Enrollment and retention rates for minor-ity students in STEM disci-plines increased, as well. UMass chemistry profes-sor Lynmarie Thompson said in the press release, “Petersen is an inspiring mentor of underrepresented minority students, an excellent com-munity builder and an agent of change at the institutional level.” According to Thompson, letters from students and col-leagues indicate Petersen’s outstanding results as a men-tor, adding that Petersen is a good listener who always makes time for her students

and is good at explaining to students their responsibili-ties. Students also said in their letters that Petersen is “help-ful in a way that you learn how to help yourself as well,” according to the release. The mentors and orga-nizations chosen for the PAESMEM represent the winners for 2012 and 2013. Candidates can nominate themselves or be nominated by faculty and students in their institutions or through professional affiliations.

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

President recognizes her role as a mentor

By anne BlytheThe News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

DURHAM, N.C. — A judge will allow prosecutors to pur-sue the death penalty against Craig Stephen Hicks, the man charged in the Chapel Hill, N.C., shootings that sparked global debate about whether the motive was escalation of a parking dispute or a hate crime perpetrated in cold blood. Hicks, 46, is accused of mur-dering Deah Barakat, 23; his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu–Salha, 21; and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu–Salha, 19. The killings occurred late in the afternoon of Feb. 10 in the Finley Forest condomin-ium complex on the eastern edge of Chapel Hill. On Monday, Jim Dornfried, a Durham County assistant district attorney, provided Judge Orlando Hudson sev-eral reasons for prosecutors’ plans to seek capital punish-ment. Hicks, according to pros-ecutors, retrieved a gun from inside his home on Feb. 10, then went to his neighbors’ door and had an exchange with Barakat. “He pulled out his con-cealed firearm,” Dornfried

said, shot Barakat and then shot the women who were fur-ther inside. The women were still alive, Dornfried said, when the accused shot them again in the head and fired at Barakat on the way out of the condo-minium. As news spread quickly and globally on social media about the violent deaths of the three college–aged Muslims, questions grew about whether the motive for the killings was religious bias. The New York Times reported in February that photos taken the day after the shootings showed that none of the cars that Barakat, his wife or her sister used was parked in Hicks’ assigned space. Federal investigators are conducting an inquiry into whether case evidence sup-ports federal hate–crime charges, which are very spe-cific and difficult to prove. In such cases, where religious bias is alleged, the religion of the victims must be the pre-dominant motivating factor for the crimes for a success-ful prosecution, legal scholars say. Though Durham prosecu-

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Islamabad Turkey and Pakistan, two of the biggest military powers in the Muslim world, have launched a diplomatic initiative in an effort to prevent the conflict in Yemen from exploding into a regional one. The initiative began Friday in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, where Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his Pakistani counter-part, Nawaz Sharif, both voiced concern over the ousting of the Yemeni government by “non–state actors,” a refer-ence to the Iran–backed Houthi rebels who now occupy Yemen’s capital and are pressing an offensive to take the country’s second city, Aden.

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Dubai Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had full knowledge of the provi-sions his country agreed to in its nuclear accord with world powers, a negotiator said, back-ing President Hassan Rouhani against domes-tic critics of the deal. “We will stand by this agreement and will defend it any level,” said Hamid Baeedinejad, the Iranian foreign minis-try’s director of politi-cal international affairs, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency. “The Supreme Leader is fully aware of the decisions and so is Dr. Rouhani.” Khamenei is Iran’s ultimate authority and his approval is needed for the agreement to go through. While he hasn’t commented pub-licly on the framework agreement, the remarks by Baeedinejad, who was part of the negotiat-ing team in Switzerland, indicate that Khamenei has endorsed the accord.

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Intense video game playing spurs calls to police

By Kathleen KirK Collegian Staff

Friday, April 3

9:10 p.m.: Police responded to a 911 call about a sus-picious person ringing the doorbell at a home on Hulst Road. The caller reported looking into the yard and seeing a man standing there. The caller turned on the outside lights and saw new footprints that belonged to an adult and child. A police dog was dis-patched to track a scent. The dog lost the scent and eventually became distract-ed by two people walking a dog.

10:06 p.m.: Police respond-ed to a report of vandal-ism at the Townehouse Apartments. An individual reported his vehicle had been damaged two weeks ago when he saw one of his taillights had been smashed out. He noticed the other taillight had been smashed out that day. The vehicle was parked in a parking lot near his apartment. Police noted that there was no damage to the body of the car, just the taillights. Police have no suspects at this time.

11:47 p.m.: Benjamin Perrett, 24, of Amherst, Nolan Dearent, 22, of Dudley, and John Milos, 22, of Oxford, were arrested on charges of violating the town’s noise bylaw fol-lowing a loud party. Police responded to complaints of loud music, a live band and people inside and outside of a home on Bridge Street. Both residents and guests

were uncooperative with police. Some guests asked if the police had anything better to do. One guest refused to leave the resi-dence after the party and was placed under arrest for contributing to the noise.

Saturday, April 4

12:43 a.m.: Police respond-ed to a noise complaint for a loud party somewhere near the caller’s home on Pelham Street early Saturday morning. Police encountered a large, loud party with music coming from the basement. The residents were fully coop-erative with the police in clearing out the party.

12:46 a.m.: Police respond-ed to a noise complaint of two houses throwing par-ties on South East Street. Residents worked to clear excessive guests from their homes following a warn-ing from police about the potential for future responses.

1:00 a.m.: Police encountered four individuals walking around Amherst Golf Club early Saturday morning. The individuals claimed that it was “neat with the fog being so thick.” Police sent them on their way. 1:09 a.m.: Police responded to complaints of stomp-ing and banging from an apartment in Echo Village on Gatehouse Road. Police found the noise was coming from the residents who were playing video games in their apartment.

1:23 a.m.: Police responded to reports of a disturbance at the Theta Chi house on North Pleasant Street. Four males refused to leave a party and were hanging

around the parking lot. The caller reported that the men were walking toward the Fine Arts Center. One individual spoke with police and explained they had been asked to leave the party and that his friends began to cause a scene by not leaving. Police directed the remain-ing individual to leave the area and he complied.

1:41 a.m.: Police responded to reports of a suspicious motor vehicle on North Pleasant Street and Hallock Street. Two females reportedly fell from the vehicle onto the road. The vehicle had been parked and the females were intoxicated. There were no injuries sustained and the two females did not want to speak with police.

1:51 a.m.: Police were called back to an apartment in Echo Village concerning a noise complaint for banging and stomping. The police found the residents were still play-ing video games but were not acting unreasonably or unruly upon the officer’s arrival. Police advised the residents to keep the noise to a minimum.

2:05 a.m.: Police issued a ver-bal warning to a vehicle oper-ator near North Pleasant Street and Old Town Road about stuffing passengers into the rear cargo area of the vehicle.

10:31 a.m.: Police responded to reports of vandalism to a window at the Theta Chi house on North Pleasant Street. An individual report-ed a pint glass was thrown through a window while he was lying in bed. The indi-vidual is unaware of who did it.

5:20 p.m.: Police responded

to a noise complaint at the Rolling Green Apartments. The caller reported loud bass music coming from the apartment below and stated the problem was ongoing. Both parties had noise issues with each other at different hours of the day and police had a lengthy conversation with the two about the mat-ter. Both individuals agreed to lower the noise during these hours and to attempt to live in harmony.

5:22 p.m.: Police responded to a 911 call from a mother who was concerned because her daughter had too much cof-fee. The caller reported her daughter was agitated and was throwing things around the house.

11:43 p.m.: Police responded to a noise complaint at the Colonial Village Apartments. The caller indicated that their neighbor was yelling and banging on the walls and that they did not believe any-one was with the individual. Police investigated but did not hear anything and no one answered the door.

11:45 p.m.: Police responded to a 911 call about a distur-bance at the Colonial Village Apartments. The caller stated that an intoxicated individual was acting out of control and was threatening people with a knife. The call-er claimed to be at a different apartment number and the call was disconnected. Police called back and noted that the caller sounded intoxi-cated. The caller stated he knew the individual and that he became oddly confronta-tional and was then kicked out of the apartment follow-ing a verbal argument. The caller indicated that there was no longer a problem or a need for police assistance

and confirmed the correct apartment number.

Sunday, April 5

1:00 a.m.: Police responded to a noise complaint at the Boulders Apartment Homes. The caller noted the apart-ment below was having a party with loud music. Police found a small gather-ing and following a warning for noise, they turned down their music.

1:09 a.m.: Police responded to another noise complaint at the Colonial Village Apartments following a report of an individual screaming again. Police did not hear any noise when they arrived.

1:16 a.m.: Police responded to a report of vandalism at Russell’s Liquors after a 911 caller reported two males broke the front window of the store. The owner was called to assess the dam-age and stated nothing was taken.

2:16 a.m.: Police responded to a noise complaint at the Southpoint Apartments. Police found a small gath-ering of females listening to music and drinking. The group was cooperative and turned the music down.

2:35 a.m.: Police responded to reports of a fight at the Rolling Green Apartments. The caller reported a fight between three or four males who were related. The resi-dent later indicated that the roommates were highly intox-icated and that they calmed them down and put them to bed before the police arrived.

Kathleen Kirk can be reached at klkirk@umass.edu.

Police Log: April 3 to April 5, 2015

College and Amherst College will be reserved for their respective communities, according to the release. Details of the lecture at UMass – which Mind and Life Institute President Arthur Zajonc told the Daily Hampshire Gazette is expect-ed to draw 8,000 attendees

– are being finalized. The Dalai Lama’s last visit to the Pioneer Valley came in 2007 when he spoke at Smith College. Anthony Rentsch can be reached at arentsch@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Anthony_Rentsch.

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tors often push for the death penalty as an option, few Durham juries have been asked in recent years to con-sider capital punishment. Prosecutors often use the possibility of death to negoti-ate pleas that avoid the cost, time and emotional strain of a trial. None of the 149 North Carolina inmates currently on death row was convicted in Durham. The homicides happened in a sliver of Durham County that falls within Chapel Hill city limits. Hicks, an unemployed community college student, lived in a second–story unit at 270 Summerwalk Circle. His wife of seven years owned the condominium when they married. Inside, he had a stash of guns that police seized during their investigation, according

to search warrants. In 2013, Barakat’s father bought 272 Summerwalk Circle, a ground–level unit on the north side of the building where Hicks lived, so his son, a dental student at the UNC–Chapel Hill, could live and study there while in school. After a wedding in Raleigh on Dec. 27, Barakat and his new bride made the condo-minium their home. Razan, the younger sister of Yusor, had driven from Raleigh to Chapel Hill the afternoon of the shootings for a dinner date with the two. Family of the couple said they had taken steps early in the year to appease their angry neighbor, who often patrolled the parking lot with a gun in a holster on his hip.

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Washington D.C., which was attended by both de Carvahlo and Gutterman. Both discussed the 9,000 signatures petition-ing the proposed cuts that were delivered to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell by students during the convention. Students attending the convention not only lob-bied against the proposed budget cuts but also for USSA’s Fund the Future Campaign asks. De Carvahlo explained, saying, “Instead of just saying we shouldn’t cut it, we wanted to frame the conversation as we should increase it and invest.” He added that 10 stu-dents were arrested for blocking traffic in front of the Supreme Court while wearing caps and gowns as part of USSA’s Stop the #RaidOnStudentAid Rally. Johannes Raatz, former director and current mem-ber of CEPA’s Access and Affordability team, dis-cussed what the proposed cuts would mean for stu-dents. “It fundamentally makes the higher education less affordable, less accessible and students will end up graduating with higher debt which will put a drag on the economy,” Raatz said. He added when students carry more debt, they delay getting married and buy-ing cars and homes, which further adversely affects the economy. De Carvahlo said, “Anyone who has subsidized loans will literally be pay-ing thousands more on inter-est while you’re accruing it while in school.” According to Raatz,

“The last two years, the Department of Education has netted more than $100 billion in surplus revenue. Basically they’re profiting off of students and there is no explanation for why this is. We could drop the (inter-est) rates down and run the program at cost.” De Carvahlo added that in terms of profitability, the federal student loan pro-gram was the “number three entity in the country” for FY13, behind only Exxon Mobile and Apple. According to de Carvahlo, approximately 8.9 mil-lion students are currently receiving Pell Grants. De Carvahlo said that a goal of Save Student Aid is “to make sure those students are properly accommodated. They are low-income stu-dents, that’s the point of the program and we want to ensure that there will be enough funding for them to finish school.” Raatz compared what’s happening in D.C. to what’s occurring in Massachusetts, saying, “You know a lot of what is happening on the national scale is the corol-lary of what is happening at the state level. “Governor Baker’s pro-posal makes no significant additions to student aid or the Mass. Grants, which is sort of like the Massachusetts version of the Pell Grant, and no additional funding to the schools – and if this gets passed in the House then we are going to see tuition and fee raises here.” Student activists at UMass have been lobbying for higher funding of public education in Massachusetts, too, with the recent Public Higher Education Advocacy

Day which took place at the State House last month. Raatz said, “Here at UMass, our graduates grad-uate with more than $28,000 in debt and that’s average, so there are people with way more.” According to statistical data gathered by USSA, 89 percent of all UMass under-graduates are receiving some form of financial aid through grants or loans. Thirty-six percent of all undergradu-ates at the University receive Pell Grants. De Carvahlo does not foresee the passage of a bud-get reflecting the GOP’s pro-posal as it is now but does believe funding and students are at a significant risk regardless. “Will we see $150 billion cut to student aid? Probably not – or no,” de Carvahlo said. “Will we see $90 bil-lion cut to Pell Grants? No. Can this language be used to reconcile all the different proposals to make signifi-cant cuts? Yes. And with the current (political) climate, I think that it is very possible that we will be having very problematic cuts.” Both CEPA and MASSPIRG are in the pro-cess of planning events before the end of the semes-ter aimed at bringing awareness to the student debt crisis. Josh Odam, a member of USSA and a UMass student who attended the rally in Washington, D.C. did not respond to the Daily Collegian’s request for comment.

Marie MacCune can be reached at mmaccune@umass.edu and fol-lowed on Twitter @MarieMacCune.

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Rolling Stone fell under continued criticism Monday after the authors of a damn-ing outside investigation refused to blame the maga-zine’s primary source for a widely discredited rape story, and a University of Virginia fraternity announced plans to pursue legal action. Virginia’s governor even joined in the criticism, call-ing Rolling Stone’s story an “abject failure of account-ability in journalism.” The fallout comes a day after the venerable alterna-tive magazine retracted and apologized for its November expose about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity after an outside review by the Columbia Journalism School found deep flaws in the story. “The report by Columbia University’s School of Journalism demonstrates the reckless nature in which Rolling Stone researched and failed to verify facts in its article that erroneously accused Phi Kappa Psi of crimes its members did not commit,” Stephen Scipione, president of the Virginia Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi, said in a statement pro-vided to the Los Angeles Times. The fraternity said it planned to pursue “all avail-able legal action” against the magazine. “This type of reporting serves as a sad example of a serious decline of journalis-tic standards,” Scipione said. Neither Police in

Charlottesville nor the Columbia University report found evidence that a rape happened at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity as originally reported in the Rolling Stone story. “The abject failure of accountability in journalism that led to Rolling Stone’s ‘A Rape on Campus’ article has done untold damage to the University of Virginia and our Commonwealth as a whole,” Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said in a Monday statement. “More impor-tantly, this false account has been an unnecessary and dangerous distraction from real efforts to combat sexual violence on our college cam-puses.” On Sunday, the story was removed from Rolling Stone’s website and replaced with a 12,644–word indepen-dent report from Columbia’s esteemed journalism pro-gram found serious lapses in basic journalistic procedure by the magazine. At a livestreamed news conference in New York on Monday, the authors of the Columbia Journalism School report placed the blame on the magazine’s reporting and editorial processes, not on the student, “Jackie,” whose account of the rape failed to hold up to basic scrutiny after Rolling Stone published its story. “This failure was not the subject or source’s fault as a matter of journal-ism,” Columbia University Journalism School dean Steve Coll told reporters. “It was a product of failed methodology. ... We disagree

with any suggestion that this was Jackie’s fault,” he said. Sheila Coronel, a dean of academic affairs at Columbia University, said she and the other authors of the inde-pendent report decided not to fully identify the student known as Jackie even though her allegations of an alleged gang rape at a fraternity house have been widely ques-tioned. “There was no reason for us to make known her true identity,” Coronel said. Although Rolling Stone’s systemic breakdowns in veri-fication and attribution mark one of the ugliest blemish-es in the magazine’s some-times storied history, Rolling Stone’s publisher had no plans to fire any of the edi-tors or the writer involved with the story, a spokes-woman confirmed to the Los Angeles Times on Sunday. The Los Angeles Times requested interviews with Rolling Stone’s publisher, Jann S. Wenner, and its man-aging editor, Will Dana, but through a spokeswoman, both declined to be inter-viewed. The Columbia report’s authors found no instances of fabrication or lying on the part of Rolling Stone, which requested and coop-erated with the Columbia Journalism School’s inquiry. Rather than blame a sin-gle person for the story’s fail-ure — such as the author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely — the Columbia authors instead detailed a systemic journal-istic breakdown at Rolling Stone.

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As the long and somewhat tumultuous Passover week-end came to a close and I pre-

pared to leave my Greenwich Village apartment to catch the bus back to the University of Massachusetts, my sister insisted on a goodbye photo before my departure. She does this quite often whenever I visit home. I know that this ritual will always conclude my stay. The problem is that she doesn’t hold on to the photo. In fact, she barely looks at it. Of course, this doesn’t mean the photo isn’t important or that I let my level of social con-sciousness get in the way of the photo being taken. It does, however, make me think. My sister’s rit-ual is by no means unique. It takes place on Snapchat, the popular social media app that takes photos and videos that can be shared with friends for up to 10 sec-onds. But what is really scary about all of this is that the photo my sister “snapped” to her cell phone contacts is sent away into the stratosphere to people I don’t know and will probably never meet. For my sister, along with the other 30 million active Snapchat users per month, this ritual has become common-place. This Snapchat surge has taken over major parts of the globe from Sweden to Saudi Arabia to Australia. This surge in popularity can be explained. Sixty four percent of Facebook users between 16 and 19 years old have admitted to using the site less, while 54 percent of teenagers admitted in a sur-vey by Tech Times “that their (Facebook) login habits have dropped due to a lack of inter-est.” Snapchat has gone in the opposite direction, with an increase in usage of 56 percent since the beginning of 2014, according to Tech Times. The reasoning for this cur-rent trend is unimpressive. A basic lack of interest does not seem like a plausible justifica-

tion for such facts. Teenagers, now more ever, have grown increasingly impatient. The patience the average teenager once had in order to sign onto Facebook has slowly evaporat-ed. The acts of uploading pho-tos (although people still do it) and writing on people’s walls are no longer seen as conve-nient as sending a photo that is gone shortly after it appears. Moreover, during my brief weekend in lower Manhattan, the number of people who walked the streets with their heads down and concentrating on their phones or stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to take a Snapchat selfie of them-selves amounted to dozens upon dozens of individuals. I never thought I would

live in a world where the act of taking a soon-to-be-evapo-rated photograph of a beau-tiful spring day trumped the option of simply enjoying the weather. I was raised to walk with my head up but everyone around me has conditioned themselves to keep their head down. With patience out the win-dow, it makes perfect sense that 10-second moments would appeal to the average adoles-cent today. With more than 400 million “snaps” sent per day, companies and news organiza-tions have also contributed to this feeding frenzy. Now, before you sit down to watch the Academy Awards, you can follow the Oscars’ Snapchat story on your smart-phone, which has come to act as a “live” prelude to the red carpet show. What is even odder is that many people con-tinue to use Snapchat as they watch the Oscars or any other high-profile national event. The multi-tasking never ends and the insanity continues. During the second night of Passover, a few of my cous-ins were using Snapchat on their phones – only this time, instead of sending or receiv-

ing photos, they were watching the “NYC Story,” Yone of the many live stories featured on the social media app. Perhaps the only reason I found that odd was because all three of them were in New York City. It is as if one’s level of self-enjoyment only extends to the next “snap” received. Although I alluded to this habit being commonplace, it is more than that. Those who use Snapchat incessantly are those who best represent this in-between phase permeating our culture. We want to be active mem-bers of society and yet what is achieved is a type of communi-cation that comes only through a screen. This is especially true when 71 percent of Snapchat

users are under the age of 25. This in-between phase has become one of obligation. Although the

picture my sister sent of me was cute, it wasn’t necessary. Furthermore, the fact that it has become a reoccurring ele-ment of our relationship is a testament to how obligatory the task has become. If one’s entire life is “snap-chatted” for friends, family and the world to see, then that person has a certain responsi-bility to uphold when it comes to producing further Snapchat stories in the future. It there-fore divulges into a cycle of its own. Now, I am not saying that Snapchat and other social media outlets should be done away with. They bring neces-sary attributes to our environ-ment. But when “snaps” make you incapable of living in the moment, it becomes a further disservice to our society. With all of the campus snow now melted, it’s time to better incorporate person-to-person interactions into our daily lives. Snapchat is a platform used to project an image but now it’s time to care about how this image is being projected.

Isaac Simon is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at isimon@umass.edu.

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The coal industry’s assault on public health

1 in 5 premature deaths are attributable to air pollution. Can EPA rules help? On Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a crucial case about

regulating mercury and other toxic air pol-lution coming from coal-fired power plants. At stake is a very dangerous precedent that industry profits are more important than thousands of lives. In late 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency issued its first-ever Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS, to reduce the pollution emitted by power plants. Simply by requiring the worst-polluting plants to match the per-formance and technology of their more responsible competitors, these standards will prevent between 4,200 and 11,000 pre-mature deaths per year. These public health protections already were years overdue because the coal indus-try and its allies tried to derail them from the beginning. In the current court case, the

petitioners _ two industry trade groups and 21 states _ claim that the EPA can’t set limits on toxic air pollution without first consid-ering the financial impact that will have on the industry. Last year, the D.C. Circuit Court rejected this argument. Industry _ in a last-ditch attempt to overturn these pro-tections _ appealed, and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear this case. Air pollution is lethal. The EPA calcu-lated that 1 in 20 deaths in the U.S. each year is related to air pollution, mostly excess instances of heart attack, stroke, lung can-cer and cardiopulmonary disease. Coal-fired power plants are by far the largest industrial source of toxic air pol-lution, responsible for 50 percent of all U.S. emissions of mercury, a potent neuro-toxin particularly dangerous to children. Scientific studies have found that nearly 7 percent of all U.S. women of childbearing age are exposed to mercury at levels that can be harmful for fetal brain development. Many of those whose health is at risk are low-income and people of color. “Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People,” a report by the NAACP, found that the 6 million people living near power plants in America have a per capita income 15 per-cent lower than the U.S. average income, and 39 percent are people of color. The EPA’s emissions standard for power plants represented a huge step forward in protecting all of us from this assault on public health.

With this lawsuit, the coal industry is try-ing to revive an old, dysfunctional approach to environmental protection that Congress scrapped more than 20 years ago. Before the Clean Air Act was amended in 1990, the EPA was paralyzed for decades by wran-gling over which toxins should be regulated and whether controlling them was worth the expense. That system worked well for industry, but failed the American public. In 1990, Congress decided that the EPA could consider the costs when determin-ing how stringent its standards should be. But such estimates should not prevent the agency from controlling hazardous air pol-lutants at all. Nonetheless, coal industry lawyers are now claiming that before the EPA can require power plants to cut their toxic pollution, the agency must weigh the costs of compliance against the benefits. To support this claim, the coal industry dishonestly asserts that the benefits of this particular standard are only $4 million to $6 million. But the technology needed to reduce mercury and other toxic air pollu-tion will dramatically improve air quality,

preventing thousands of non-fatal heart attacks, asthma attacks and hospitaliza-tions and prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths a year. The EPA valued these health benefits at $37 billion to $90 billion annually. This doesn’t even include facets that are too difficult to monetize. How do you put a price tag on reduced cancer risk? Or on a child born healthy, without mercury poi-soning? This case has divided the utility indus-try and states. On one side sit those that refuse to invest in modern pollution-con-trolling technology, putting a higher value on their own short-term profits than on public health. On the other side sit industry and political leaders in clean energy who believe that allowing laggards to operate without up-to-date technology puts those who made the investments at a serious com-petitive disadvantage. Other businesses in America, from dry cleaners to oil refineries, have taken steps to reduce their hazardous emissions. But the coal industry thinks its should be treat-ed differently. A decision for the coal industry would mean thousands of people across our coun-try will continue to fall ill, suffer, or even die prematurely _ all to protect the profits of the worst corporate polluters.

Lisa Garcia is the vice president of litigation for Healthy Communities at Earthjustice. She wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

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“How do you put a price tag on reduced cancer risk? Or on a child born healthy, without mercury poisoning?”

Snapchat syndrome is wasting our time

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Ditch the juice and try fruit-infused water instead

By Haley HarzynskiCollegian Correspondent

After surviving a chal-lenging spin class at the gym, spending hours studying in the library and listening to your professor lecture for an hour and 15 minutes, it’s almost time for dinner when you begin to develop a headache and feel extremely fatigued. Dehydration could be the secret culprit causing these uncomfortable symp-toms. We constantly hear people say, “Always drink more water” or, “Make sure you drink at least six to eight glasses of water every day.” But do you

truly know why water is essential for our health and what might happen if we don’t supply our bodies with enough of it? Making up 60 percent of a person’s weight, water is required to help make every system of the body function properly. Every organ, tissue and cell directly depends on water to maintain adequate health. The body needs to be constantly supplied with enough water to replace the liquids lost throughout the day from breathing, per-spiring due to exercise and excreting wastes through urination and bowel move-ments. Let’s take an in-depth look at some important reasons to drink water: 1. Drinking water helps

to provide you with energy to live life to the fullest. One of the first signs of dehydration is fatigue. A well-hydrated body helps promote good blood circulation and increases oxygen levels in the body. With more circulation and oxygen, the body will have more energy to perform daily tasks, both physical and mental. 2. Drinking water will help energize your mus-cles. Without an adequate amount of fluids, muscle cells have a harder time functioning, which can negatively impact your performance. While it is important to drink water throughout the entire day, it is especially important to stay hydrated while exercising. Whether you take a group fitness

class, go for a run in the town of Amherst or walk around the Recreation Center track, your body will lose a good amount of water through sweating. Always remember to bring a full water bottle when you hit the gym. 3. Drinking water can help control calorie intake and prevent weight gain. Staying hydrated is impor-tant in regulating your metabolism. Dehydration can some-times be mistaken for hunger, so try reach-ing for a second glass of water before a second din-ner plate. Studies show that drinking water before a meal helps to decrease one’s appetite. 4. Drinking water will help hydrate your skin, as well. Your skin acts as

protective barrier to pre-vent too much fluid loss. If you don’t provide your body with enough water, the skin is likely to become dry and flaky and possibly more prone to wrinkles. Water also helps to flush out toxins and remove dirt from deep inside the pores of you skin. Remember to drink more water to help cleanse your skin, giving you a fresh feeling and a clear complexion. Although the ideal amount of water is debat-ed – some people say it’s necessary to drink six to eight glasses, while others say people should drink a gallon of water every day – the important mes-sage is to make it a goal to drink more water than you did the day before. Try to always carry a water bottle

with you wherever you go and preferably make it a reusable one. While foods, especially fruits and vegetables, can provide your body with water, the best way to increase your water con-sumption is to simply drink more water. If the thought of plain water doesn’t excite you, try infusing your water with fruit. I love cutting up strawberries and kiwis and adding these to my mason jar filled with water. Get creative. From oranges and blueberries to cucumbers and limes, toss your favorite fruits into your water bottle and enjoy it consistently throughout the day.

Haley Harzynski can be reached at hharzyns@umass.edu.

Boost water intake for increased health

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Wadiak holds the starting position for the Candle Stick Dipper exercise.

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The final position for the Candle Stick Dipper should be a nice side stretch.

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To finish the heel kick, bring your leg down straight, tapping your toe to the ground.

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Annamarie Wadiak demonstrates the final position of the half cobra push-up.

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For the bicylce kick, bring your left elbow to your right knee and then switch.

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Alternate quickly between the sides, doing as many repetitions as you can.

Tone up before summertime with these four simple moves

By annamarie WadiakCollegian Correspondent

With warm weather rap-idly approaching, it’s crunch time for those looking to get in shape. After a long and cold winter, it can be hard to get back into the swing of things with exercise but with these few, simple moves, you will be on the road to a healthier summer. One exercise you can do to work your triceps and lower back is the half cobra push-up. For this, lay down flat on your stomach on the floor or your exercise mat. Bring your hands next to your chest and close to your body and make sure that your elbows are point-ing straight back, not out to the side. Then, push yourself up into a “half cobra;” your elbows should still be slight-

ly bent but your chest should be off the ground. Lower yourself back to the ground and repeat this movement as many times as you can or play a song while doing it and try to make it through the entire thing. A great abdominal exer-cise that also works your obliques, transverse abs and legs is the bicycle kick. To do this, lay flat on your back on the ground, raise your legs to a 90 degree level, put your hands behind your ears and lift your shoulders off the ground toward your knees. Extend your right leg while raising and turning your right shoulder toward your bent left knee. Bring your right leg back to a 90 degree angle and your shoul-der back to the middle and repeat this on the other side. You can do this move to a

song, as well, or just do as many as you can. One of the most popular body parts to get in shape for the summer is the side mus-cle, or the oblique muscle. To tone up your sides, you can do the Candlestick Dipper. First, kneel with both knees on the ground, then extend one of your legs out to the side so that your foot is placed flat on the ground. Your knee should not be bent and your foot should be in line with the knee that is still kneeling. Next, either fold or press your hands together and extend them up toward the sky. To get the exercise started, go from your verti-cal position and bend from the side of your bent knee until you are as low to the ground as you can without straining too much or falling

over. Try not to lean forward or backward when you do this, but rather extend out to the

side in a straight manner so that you feel the stretch in your extending side. Do a few reps on each side. Fifteen or 20 each will be fine or just throw on a song and switch sides half way through. Heel kicks work your hamstrings and your glutes at the same time. To do these, get on the ground on your hands and knees. Then, get down on your elbows, keeping them under your shoulders with your hands straight out.

Lengthen one of your legs, flexing your foot and point-ing your toes toward the ground. Raise this leg as

far as you can in the air and bring it back to the ground. Repeat this several times on both sides. If you are not a person who enjoys toning or if you want to supplement toning, go for a run or a bike ride. Running from the Recreation Center to Amherst Central High School and back or running from the Rec Center to the Big Y and back can each be about a three-mile run or bike ride. These last few weeks until

summer break should not be a time of crash-dieting, excessive exercise or body image obsession. Getting

fit for the summer should instead be a fun and healthy lifestyle choice. Remember that good appearance starts from the inside out and in order to look your best, you first have to be confident and happy. Have fun with these moves; play some music, go outside, or ask your friends to join in. Enjoy your life – it is almost summer.

Annamarie Wadiak can be reached at awadiak@umass.edu.

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“Getting fit for the summer should be a fun and healthy lifestyle choice. Remember that good appearance starts from the inside out and in order to look your best, you first have to be confident and happy.”

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Glasper ties singles win record vs. FDU

By Arthur hAydenCollegian Staff

Senior captain Chanel Glasper is now tied with Jessica Podlofsky for the most career singles victo-ries in school history after the Massachusetts tennis team defeated Fairleigh Dickinson University 6-1 Saturday. And while her team battled to its fourth straight victory, Glasper’s performance was effort-less. Literally. The Knights fielded a roster of only two doubles teams and five singles players, forfeiting the No. 3 doubles and No. 6 singles matches, allowing Glasper to pick up two victories – including her record tying 74th singles victory – with-out stepping onto the court. Meanwhile, UMass (11-4, 3-0 Atlantic 10) generally dominated play against Fairleigh Dickinson (1-12, 1-2 NEC) who, in contrast to the streak-ing Minutewomen, have dropped four straight matches. The power duo of Ana Yrazusta and Carol Benito started the day by winning at No. 1 doubles, 8-6. Having already secured the doubles point thanks to the forfeit in the No. 3 spot, Aarzoo Malik and Arielle Griffin won their match handily at No. 2 doubles, 8-1. “It was an unusual match,” UMass coach Judy Dixon said. “It was one of those matches where

I think we did enough to win. We didn’t do more than that. We played well enough and we move on.” The core of the Minutewomen’s lineup continued to carry the team as UMass won the No. 2 through No. 5 singles matches in straight sets. Anna Woosley and Benito both pushed their team-high season win totals to 19 matches each, winning 6-3, 6-1 and 6-0, 6-1, respec-tively. Yrazusta and Griffin added singles wins of their own at No. 2 and 3 singles, 6-4, 6-1 and 6-1, 6-0. With the recent strug-gles of day-to-day No. 1 singles player Malik – who is mired in an eight-match losing streak at the top spot after a loss Saturday – the lower portion of the lineup has done more than pick up the slack. This season, the Minutewomen are com-bined 33-10 in the No. 4 through 6 singles matches. “There’s no reason that Aarzoo can’t be winning these matches,” Dixon said. “The only way you can get confidence is to win ... I spent some time with her this morning to refocus her. She has to go out with a belief that every day is a new day.”

Doubles domination

While much has been said about Glasper’s path to history, Yrazusta and Benito are threaten-ing to break a record of their own while fueling the Minutewomen from the No. 1 doubles spot. With 21 doubles victo-ries this year, the unlikely

pairing of the freshman from Spain and the junior transfer from Tulsa are just three wins behind the UMass record for most dou-bles victories in a season. The current record was set in 2008 by Candynce Boney and Masha Pozar. Yrazusta and Benito are 21-5 togeth-er and have won nine of their last ten matches. “(Yrazusta and Benito) would really like to get a national ranking by the end of the year,” Dixon said. “If we win the doubles point, our chances of winning altogether are really big because we’re very strong into the heart and the end of the lineup.” UMass teams coached by Dixon have tradition-ally been formatted to win the doubles point and then secure the victory at the bottom of the lineup,

something that this year’s team has excelled at. The Minutewomen lost only once this year after win-ning the doubles point: a 4-3 defeat against nation-ally-ranked Dartmouth University on Feb. 26.With UMass at full strength, the road to the A-10 cham-pionships looks smooth for the Minutewomen with three matches left against what have traditionally been lesser opponents.But first, Glasper will get her initial chance to break Podlofsky’s record for most career singles victories in UMass’ final conference matchup of the regular sea-son against Rhode Island on Wednesday in Kingston, Rhode Island.

Arthur Hayden can be reached at awhayden@umass.edu.

UMass rolls against weaker opponent

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Chanel Glasper (above) recorded her 74th career singles victory Friday, tying Jessica Podlofsky for the UMass record.

ment.” The Minutemen com-peted in the Sam Howell Invitational the day prior, which was strictly for the long distance runners who haven’t gotten a chance to compete since the fall sea-son. UMass’ best perform-er was sophomore Blake Croteau, who took fourth in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 31:09.61. The goal of the meet was to break in runners who compete in events longer than the

3,000-meter. Many of the athletes who made the trip were underclassmen. “The conditions for dis-tance running that evening were perfect,” O’Brien said. “I thought the runners responded well to the envi-ronment they were placed in to open the season.” UMass looks to contin-ue the positive trend next week when it hosts the Minutemen Invitational.

Nick Souza can be reached at njsouza@umass.edu.

SPRING continued from page 8

By Christopher MArtinezCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts var-sity rowing team built on its impressive record with a gold finish in the 4+ race Saturday, overcoming a strong effort from Boston College, Dartmouth and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during a dual meet between the four schools. UMass also received a second place finish cour-tesy of the second Varsity 8 boat. The race was held at the head of the Charles River, located in Hopkinton, which flows through Eastern Massachusetts. The team that compet-ed in the women’s 4+ race included Kelsey Anderson, Haley York, Carly Zanatta, Grace Bundy and Sam Kolovson, and finished with

a first-place time of 9:42.70, 12 seconds ahead of second-place Boston College. The Minutewomen also had the Varsity 8+ and the second Varsity 4+ teams compete, each managing to secure a third-place finish. The second Varsity 8+ boat participated in a thrill-ing finish, narrowly being beat out by the race’s even-tual winner Dartmouth. The Minutewomen finished with a time of 8:10.90, four seconds behind the Big Green. UMass now looks ahead toward the weekend of April 11 to 12, when they travel to West Windsor Township, New Jersey. UMass will take part in the two-day Knecht Cup, which will be held at Mercer Lake.

Christopher Martinez can be reached at cmart0@umass.edu.

UM captures gold at Charles River

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By Mark ChiarelliCollegian Staff

There’s a chance John Calipari will now make multiple trips to Western Massachusetts next season. T h e f o r m e r Massachusetts men’s bas-ketball coach was elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Monday, less than 48 hours after his bid for an undefeated season at the University of Kentucky fell short in a Final Four loss to Wisconsin. “This is going to be hard

for people to understand, but I’m at a loss for words,” Calipari said in a press release. “I was overwhelmed when I heard the news and so grateful. I would imagine other recipients felt how I feel now: unworthy of such an honor, but appreciative.”  Calipari is one of 11 members of the induction class and will officially be inducted Sept. 11. He becomes the third person directly tied with UMass to earn enshrinement, join-ing Julius Erving and Rick Pitino.

Calipari coached the Minutemen for eight sea-sons and led UMass to an appearance in the 1996 NCAA Final Four. The Minutemen are sched-uled to retire a jersey in Calipari’s honor next sea-son during a 20th anniver-

sary celebration of the 1996 team at a date which is yet to be announced. “This is a great accom-plishment and one that is well deserved,” UMass coach Derek Kellogg said. “It reflects not only what he’s accomplished on the

court but represents the lives he has touched in addi-tion to winning basketball games.” Kellogg played for Calipari at UMass and later coached under him at Memphis. The two have remained close. “From the UMass family, we want to send congrats to coach and his family. We’ve always been supportive of him and 100 percent with him, “ Kellogg said. “Coach Cal has been there for me as a coach, friend and men-tor – all the things a person

who has meant so much to you wants during our rela-tionship.” Calipari’s appeared in six career Final Fours and has done so at UMass, Memphis and Kentucky. This season, he coached a Wildcats team which won 38 straight games before losing Saturday to the Badgers. According to ESPN, Calipari received 18 of 24 votes necessary for enshrinement.

Mark Chiarelli can be reached at mchiarel@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Mark_Chiarelli.

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Courtney Neves (4) participates for UMass track and field in its outdoor season opener Friday in a meet against Boston College and Rhode Island.

UMass encouraged by spring beginning By NiCk Souza

Collegian Staff

Both the Massachusetts men and women’s track and field teams inspired con-fidence in their respective head coaches this weekend, despite middling results. The men’s team finished sixth place at the Yellow Jacket Invitational while the women tied for second at a home tri-meet. Minutewomen coach Julie LaFreniere and assistant coach David Jackson actu-ally had to clear the lanes of snow themselves in order to get the track ready in time for the season-opening tri-meet Friday. While the Minutewomen only managed to tie Boston College and fell to Rhode Island 121-107, it still ended up being well worth it for the team to have the meet, according to LaFreniere. “Because we have such limited time to get meets in before the championship, having this meet was vital for our team,” LaFreniere said. “And I’m very happy with our athletes, we got exactly what we needed from it.” Among the standout per-formers was sophomore Heather MacLean, who post-ed the fourth fastest 1,500-meter time in program his-tory. At 4:31.77, she earned first place in what was her first-ever race in the event.

But according to LaFreniere, she’ll continue to get even better at it. “Our plan is to have her run it at our invitational next week,” LaFreniere said. “She hopefully can come through the 800-meter mark at 2:20 and we are trying to get her to break the school record by the end of this sea-son.” Another somewhat sur-prising standout was fresh-man Colleen Sands in the 3,000-meter run, who fin-ished with a very respectable 10:09.29 time, placing her sec-ond to Courtney Hawkins of URI. She will also be compet-ing in the 3,000-meter stee-plechase for the first time later in the season. “I’m really excited to run the steeplechase for the first time,” Sands said. “I don’t really have goals for it yet, I’m just going to run hard and see what I can do.” Friday was also the first time UMass had some of its best runners back from inju-ry. Senior Courtney Neves took second in the 800-meter run with a 2:18.73 in her first race back close to full health. Also returning from inju-ry was captain Katie Powers. The senior ran the second leg of the 4x400 meter relay that came in second with a split time of about 59 sec-onds. This was a good first step for her but there is still progress to be made, she said.

“I want to get my time down from 59,” Powers said, “I still have a long way to go but I want it. I’ve been deal-ing with some swelling in my ankle but I’m just going to gut it out in this last month.” LaFreniere said she thought the athletes responded well. “The athletes are sore and tired,” LaFreniere said. “No one is going to be fresh when they’re racing at this point in the season but I’m proud of my athletes. They love what they’re doing and today was a good measurement for them.”

Minutemen double up

The Minutemen sent their athletes to two different meets this weekend in the Sam Howell Invitational at Princeton University and the Yellow Jacket Invitational at American International College. For UMass coach Ken O’Brien, the string of posi-tive performances out-weighed the 55-point fin-ish at the Yellow Jacket Invitational. “When taking into account the harsh winter and lack of outdoor prac-ticing, I was pleasantly sur-prised with how our team performed,” O’Brien said. “They exceeded my expecta-tions.” The Minutemen displayed great depth in the sprinting

events starting with the 100-meter dash. Senior Patrick Farnham led the way with a second-place finish and a time of 11.19 seconds. Junior Youssef Elkorchi, who fin-ished fourth with a time of 11.28, followed Farnham as did Corey Adelson, who just missed out on scoring with a 10th-place finish. These four also helped comprise the 4x100 meter relay team that managed to come in second with a time of 43.26. The Minutemen lack a real game-breaking sprinter, but O’Brien hopes their depth will make up for that. Another area of success was demonstrated in the 400-meter dash, with Austin Peters, Deion Arneaud and senior Zack Grube all finish-ing in the top 10. All three athletes ran in the same heat and combined for seven points in the event. In the field events, Greg Copeland and Nicholas Gemino placed third and fourth respectively in the pole vault with a height of 4.1 meters. “These performances sur-prised but I don’t want to say I was underestimating my team because I didn’t know much about them,” O’Brien said. “So I guess I didn’t know what they would do because I hadn’t seen them in a competitive environ-

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Cassidy takes the hill against Siena

By ViCtor PuSateriCollegian Staff

Coming off a week-end series loss against George Washington, the Massachusetts baseball team next heads to Albany, New York to face Siena Tuesday. The Minutemen (5-10, 5-4 Atlantic 10) have had a roller coaster season thus far with more lows than highs but currently find themselves situated in sixth place in the A-10 standings. After losing the first five games of the season, UMass seemed to have got-ten on the right track fol-lowing a sweep in a series against Dayton. In the seven games since however, the Minutemen are 2-5. In its weekend series against the Colonials, UMass won the first game in a Saturday double-header but then lost game two as

well as the rubber match Sunday. Before the Minutemen can focus on their impor-tant upcoming weekend series against A-10 rival St. Bonaventure, UMass will face the struggling Saints (6-15, 3-3 MAAC). And it will do so with Tim Cassidy on the mound. “Cassidy is going tomor-row,” UMass coach Mike Stone said. “We need a good pitching performance from him tomorrow … We will go straight until he needs to come out.” Cassidy is looking to cap-italize on the opportunity as he hasn’t seen much action this year. The redshirt junior has only appeared in three games (0-1), posting a 10.38 ERA in 4.1 innings. He has allowed 12 hits and five runs over those four-plus frames. The last time Cassidy appeared was last Wednesday when UMass played Boston College. Cassidy pitched one inning of scoreless ball in what Stone called a “staff day,” where eight different pitch-ers took the mound for the Minutemen. Pitching hasn’t been the best it could be for UMass,

but looking at the big pic-ture, the offense has strug-gled to score runs. Through their first 15 games, the Minutemen have left a total of 120 runners on base, only have two players hitting above .300 and only hit four home runs as a team thus far. “We have an approach at the plate, I thought we looked better at the plate against George Washington but it’s just a matter of executing, which we haven’t done,” Stone said. A bright spot in the UMass lineup, however, has been centerfielder Kyle Adie. The senior leads the Minutemen and currently ranks sixth in the A-10 in batting average at .373.   Stone has taken notice of Adie’s success, not only at the plate, but also in the field. “He’s one of the pieces that gets us going. He’s a guy who gets on base, he’s speedy, a very good left-handed hit-ter,” Stone said. “He’s also

been doing it in the field. He has been playing great defense in the outfield.” Much like UMass, Siena has struggled mightily for most of this season but heads into  Tuesday  on a two-game winning streak. The Saints are coming off a series against Niagara where they managed to take two of three games, outscor-ing the Purple Eagles 11-4 over the final two matchups. Both teams come into this series struggling on the offensive side as they both are averaging only around three runs per game. The Saints are led by senior third baseman Justin Esquerra who leads the team in batting aver-age (.324) and hits (24). He has added two home runs and nine RBIs through 21 games. Siena also relies on Joe Drpich, who missed the entire fall season due to injury. Drpich currently leads the Saints with three homers and 10 RBIs, while posting a .475 slugging per-centage. Tuesday’s  first pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. Victor Pusateri can be reached at vpusateri@umass.edu.

Minutemen aim for offensive execution

BA S E BA L L

“This is going to be hard for people to understand, but I’m at a loss for words. I was overwhelmed when I heard the news and so

grateful.”John Calipari,

former UMass coach

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“We have an approach at the plate. I thought we looked better at the plate

against George Washington but it’s just a matter of executing.”

Mike Stone,UMass coach