By AnitA KumArMcClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton launched her long-expected cam-paign for the White House Sunday, attempting for a second time to become the first female president in the nation’s history. “I’m running for presi-dent,” Clinton said in a video posted on her new campaign website. “Everyday Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion.” In the two-minute video, a group of Americans diverse in race, age and sex-ual orientation talk about

a series of changes occur-ring in their lives – getting married, having children, moving, finding a job and retiring. Later in the video, the

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Red wax hardened on the pavement outside the Student Union and white balloons floated into the sky as University of Massachusetts students gath-ered to honor the victims of the Kenyan massacre Thursday eve-ning. On April 2, Al-Shabaab, a Somali-based terrorist group, attacked the Garissa University College in Kenya. The gunmen killed 147 people including stu-dents attending the university. Doxa Asibey, vice president of UMass’s African Student Association and a kinesiology major, explained ASA’s motiva-tion to hold the vigil, saying,

“If something affects Kenya, it affects all of Africa. So we come together and we invite everybody else because we are an associa-tion not just of Africans but the whole UMass community.” She added, “We thought it would be cool to invite everyone and make it outside so if you’re just walking by you can join as long as you’re here to show respect.” Asibey’s plan to have students walking by join the event proved successful as the initial group of about 25 students grew to more than 40 by the end of the vigil. ASA members handed out red candles and white balloons to attendees as symbols of lives lost and hope for a better tomorrow. Before speakers took to the megaphone, students held a moment of silence in remem-brance. Shaheen Pasha, a professor of

international journalism at the University, discussed her reac-tion to the news of the massacre, saying it affected her in the dif-ferent roles that she has: mother, professor and journalist. She said that as a mother, “I can’t imagine, you know, send-ing you all off to school and then you don’t come back.” She called the news “heart-breaking.” Pasha also said that “as a pro-fessor, it really hit home.” She continued, “We really love our students.” Pasha said her reaction as a journalist was not so much fueled by sadness, but rather by anger. She talked about how little media coverage the mas-sacre received, drawing a stark comparison to the international community’s strong reaction to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo offices in France.

In terms of news coverage and world attention, she said, “You all deserve better.” Pasha called on students to change the dialogue that is being given to them, saying, “Students will make the awareness grow.” She encouraged them to sup-port organizations covering the issues important to them, saying major news organizations will take notice and change. Economics Professor Mwangi wa Githinji, a Kenyan native, thanked students for coming out. “It’s important that we rec-ognize beyond just the numbers that they were people and have stories,” he said. He also told the crowd that it was important to put the acts of violence into context. “What are the underlying factors?” he asked. Githinji explained the long

history of tension between Kenya, Somalia and Al-Shabaab, pointing out the marginalization of the Somali people in Kenya and economic disparity in the region. According to Githinji, this “makes it more complicated than a terrorist attack of Muslims against Christians. If you don’t understand that complexity you can’t solve the problem.” David Chesire, a Kenyan student studying economics at UMass, spoke to the crowd saying that his first reaction to the news was that “It’s actually ridiculous.” He continued, saying, “I real-ized, you can’t make sense of a senseless act. One thing you can do though as a community is stand together.” Marie MacCune can be reached at mmac-cune@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @MarieMacCune.

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UM in process of making changes to dorm security

By StuArt FoSterCollegian Staff

Two and a half years after the alleged 2012 gang rape in a Southwest Residential Area dormitory, University of Massachusetts Residence Hall Security has implement-ed improvements to dormi-tory security technologies. After the sexual assault, the University hired a third party consultant, the Business Protection Specialists, to create a report suggesting upgrades to cam-pus security. These updates are still being enacted, even though campus security policies have not changed. “I think the University has taken marked steps toward

the concerns laid out by the consultant,” said Jim Meade, the residence hall security manager who has overseen many of the ongoing chang-es. The BPS report consisted of 41 general recommenda-tions, with 85 recommenda-tions when sub-categories are included. Some of the changes made by UMass include improvements to residence hall doors, adjust-ments that make reporting by campus security more effi-cient and improvements to security cameras, especially where lighting is a problem. One of the most wide-spread changes has been in the way security monitors sign in residents. The pen and paper method is actively being replaced in many resi-dence halls by an electronic

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Saudi-led airstrikes do very little to reverse rebel gains

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JIZAN, Saudi Arabia —From their post on a rocky hilltop, two Saudi border guards man a .50-caliber machine gun and use bin-oculars to scan the dry scrubland that separates this kingdom from its war-torn neighbor to the south, Yemen. The scene before them appeared peaceful on Friday: The craggy peaks that rise beyond a riv-erbed were spotted with goats, cows and families of baboons. But later that day, mortar rounds fired

into Saudi territory from Yemen killed three soldiers and injured two others sta-tioned along the frontier, state media reported over the weekend.

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UNITED NATIONS –– Chinese, Russian and Saudi Arabian defense spending increased the most last year while U.S. spending fell, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. China’s defense spend-ing rose 9.7 percent from a year earlier, to $216 billion, and Russia’s increased 8.1 percent, to $84.5 billion, the research group said in its annual report on global defense spending adjusted for inflation. Saudi Arabia had the biggest percent-age increase among the top 15 spenders world-wide, rising 17 percent, to $80.8 billion. While the U.S. remains by far the world’s larg-est military spender, its defense spending in 2014 fell 6.5 percent, to $610 billion, reflecting a 20 per-cent decrease since 2010, according to the report. The report focuses on countries that spend more than 4 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. The figures reflect intensifying global tur-moil. Russia’s March 2014 annexation of Crimea sparked a conflict in Ukraine, and tensions simmer over territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas. Saudi Arabia continues to arm militants in Syria, joined a U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group, and last month launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen. The data do not reflect the sharp fall in oil prices in late 2014, and it’s unclear what effect that may have, the institute said in the report. Many oil-producing countries in the Middle East such as Saudi Arabia are expected to be able to withstand any effects because of the “strong financial reserves” they accumulated during several years of high oil prices. That’s not the case for Russia, which planned its spending increase before the start of the crisis in Ukraine. Russia already has cut its planned spend-ing for this year in con-sideration of its battered economy, the institute said. Russia still expects to have a substantial increase in total military spending for 2015 – about 15 percent in real terms – to $66 billion).

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Saudi-led coalition began airstrikes March 25 against rebels known as the Houthis who have seized large parts of Yemen. The Saudi Defense Ministry said that its forces returned fire, and that 500 Houthi fighters have been killed in the clashes. “Our border is a red line,” said Lt. Col. Hamed Alahmari, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry guards who patrol the highly porous frontier that stretches about 1,000 miles through moun-tains and desert. Officials in Saudi Arabia, the region’s Sunni Muslim power, say the air campaign is dealing a decisive blow against the Houthis, whom they view as tools of aggres-sion used by Shiite Muslim-led Iran in an expanding proxy war. Coalition airstrikes have destroyed fighter jets, bal-listic missiles, antiaircraft guns and other military hardware belonging to the Houthis and their allies, who have taken control of large parts of Yemen. However, residents say the airstrikes have done little to reverse the territo-rial gains of the insurgents and restore exiled President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi to power in the quickly frag-menting country. Security experts ques-tion whether the coalition can achieve its goals through airstrikes alone. Saudi offi-cials have not ruled out sending in tanks, artillery and other ground forces massed along the frontier. But Saudi leaders appear wary of such a move against the Houthis, hardened guer-rillas who belong to an off-shoot of Shiite Islam known as Zaidism. International aid agen-cies warn of a spiraling humanitarian disaster. The fighting has killed at least 643 people, displaced more than 100,000 others and laid waste to Aden, the commer-cial hub where Hadi took ref-uge before fleeing last month to Saudi Arabia. Al-Qaida’s Yemen branch has capitalized on the chaos to extend its territorial reach and stage a prison break that freed a scores of supporters, including a senior militant

leader. Saudi Arabia and its allies have become increasingly concerned by what they view as an aggressive cam-paign by Iran to project its influence across the region, which they do not believe the United States is taking seri-ously enough. The Obama administration’s pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran has added to the growing mis-trust of U.S. intentions. Iran is a major sponsor of the governments in Syria and Iraq and of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Coalition members view the Houthi uprising as another attempt by Tehran to put its clients in charge of Arab capitals, this time in Saudi Arabia’s backyard. Pro-Hadi fighters claim to have captured two Iranian military officers who were advising the insurgents during fighting in Aden on Friday. Reports from Yemen said the officers were mem-bers of an elite unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, charg-es Tehran also denied. Leaders in Iran have denounced the Saudi-led military campaign with increasing vitriol. In a speech Thursday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, lashed out at the government formed by Saudi Arabia’s new king, Salman, which he characterized as “inexperi-enced youngsters” who had replaced their predecessors’ restraint with “barbarism.” U.S. officials believe that Iran is providing some mili-tary aid to the Houthis and have increased the logisti-

cal support, intelligence and weapons they are con-tributing to the Saudi-led campaign. But they do not believe that Iran is directing the Yemeni militia. Far more important to the Houthi campaign, they say, are the bases, military equipment and fighting power provided by elements of the Yemeni armed forc-es who are still loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former strongman deposed in 2012. Saddam Abu Asem, a commentator whose col-umns have appeared in a number of Yemeni news out-lets, said the coalition cam-paign is winning the Houthis support among residents who no longer consider Hadi a legitimate president because he invited airstrikes that are killing the country’s people and destroying its infrastructure. But he said the relentless bombardments and a block-ade on Yemen’s air and sea ports have weakened the pro-Houthi forces, who also face growing domestic pres-sure over soaring food pric-es, fuel shortages and power cuts. “There is talk that these parties are looking for a way out of the crisis,” Abu Asem said. Naif Qanes, a member of the “revolutionary commit-tee” assigned by the Houthis to run the government, said the insurgents are ready to take part in any talks that could lead to a solution and “stop these barbaric assaults against Yemen.” Houthi leaders say such talks cannot take place in any of the countries involved in the bombings. Analysts have suggested that Oman, the only member of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council that is not taking part in the airstrikes, could provide a neutral venue. The Saudis and their allies insist that the Houthis recognize Hadi’s legitimacy and surrender the arms they have taken from the state. But they recognize that he has limitations, including a lack of charisma or an effec-tive power base, according to analysts who are close to the region’s leaders.

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Historians keep changing their views of Lincoln

By ChuCk RaasChSt. Louis Post-Dispatch

WASHINGTON — Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator from Illinois who was shot by assassin-John Wilkes Booth 150 years ago Tuesday, has been evolv-ing in myth and memory. As recent scholarship and events have shown, the Civil War and Lincoln’s struggle to abolish slavery are part of a continuum that continues with today’s struggles over equality and race. With the anniversary of his death approaching, historians and moviemak-ers are taking a fresh look at Lincoln’s words, actions, his considerable abilities as a communicator and his unique relationship to black Americans. Racial flash-points in Ferguson, Mo., and in North Charleston, S.C., where white police officers shot black men to death, demonstrated that the same racial divisions confronting Lincoln in 1865 continue to plague the country today. Ceremonies commemo-rating the assassination’s anniversary are plannedat the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., and at Ford’s Theater and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The election of Barack Obama, another son of Illinois, who frequently quoted Lincoln in his 2008 campaign, was supposed to mark a pivot into post-racial politics. But Obama’s presi-dency has rehashed many of the same issues that con-fronted Lincoln. “All generations rethink Lincoln, and for this genera-tion, it’s about rethinking the meaning of freedom in a moment that is decidedly not the post-racial moment some expected with the elec-tion and re-election of the nation’s first black presi-dent,” said Martha Hodes, an author and professor of history at New York University. Hodes said Lincoln’s memory was hitched to “resonating current events” and “renewed calls for jus-tice.” Other historians agree, pointing to ongoing political fights over voting rights. “Lincoln was murdered not because he issued the Emancipation Proclamation nor because he expedited the passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slav-ery throughout the land, but because on April 11, 1865, he publicly called for black voting rights,” said histo-rian Michael Burlingame of the University of Illinois at Springfield. Booth, in the audience

for that speech, vowed then to kill Lincoln, said Burlingame, author of the 2008, two-volume: “Lincoln: A Life.” “It seems to me appropri-ate that we consider Lincoln as much a martyr to black civil rights as Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers ... or any of the other champions of the civil rights movement of the 1960s,” Burlingame said. Lincoln has not always been viewed that way, as Lincoln scholars explained during a late March sympo-sium at Ford’s Theater. After the adulatory “cult of Lincoln” in the 1950s, “a big change took place,” said Richard Wightman Fox, a history professor at the University of Southern California. In the 1960s and 1970s Lincoln’s memory was pushed aside. Historians and civil rights activists questioned whether Lincoln was fervent enough in his push to abolish slavery, irre-spective of the obstacles he faced in institutionalized slavery and a more overtly racist 19th century. Liberal scholars began viewing Lincoln as “unfor-tunately linked to the war-fare state and so Vietnam and other factors entered into this declining adula-tion,” Fox said. “Lincoln never faded from view,” Fox said. “It is just that opinion about him became entirely less favor-able.” For African-Americans, that devaluing of the Lincoln legacy began dur-ing the Great Depression, when blacks were dispro-portionately suffering, said Edna Greene Medford, chair of the history depart-ment at the historically black Howard University in Washington. Lincoln suddenly became a symbol of disappointment. “These former slaves recalled what life was sup-posed to be and what it was not,” Medford said. “They were saying, ‘Lincoln freed us, but he didn’t give us anything but our freedom. We needed land, we needed more opportunity.’ “ But the connection with Lincoln “never totally dies out,” Medford said. “Because remember in 1963 and Martin Luther King, and that march to the (‘I Have a Dream’) speech goes to the Lincoln Memorial. And (King) talks about emancipation and how peo-ple are still suffering.” Medford said that today, many black Americans “understand the complexity of the man and are under-standing more what Lincoln was about, why he did what he did” as a leader in a more overtly racist era in American history.

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ic fairness – the theme that will be the backbone of her campaign. “America has fought their way back from tough economic times,” she said. “But the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.” Clinton will travel this week to Iowa, a critical state where she finished a humiliating third in the 2008 caucuses, to begin holding a series of small-er, less-scripted events at coffee shops and in living rooms. She will visit New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, the other states that open voting for a Democratic nominee, later in coming weeks. In recent months, she has recruited staff in the early nominating states who had been working as volunteers, and she opened a campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y. Clinton begins what she hopes is a 19-month jour-ney to the White House with enormous strengths. She has one of the best-known names in U.S. poli-tics in part because of her husband, former President Bill Clinton. She has a large network of allies with the ability to raise millions of dollars quickly. She has a relatively clear field for the Democratic nomination. She has enormous weak-nesses too. She remains a polarizing figure who con-tinues to be dogged by mul-tiple investigations into her

conduct. She has been crit-icized as an out-of-touch Washington insider who received hefty paychecks for speeches and remains tied to the nation’s biggest corporations. Her place in history as the first female candidate to seriously compete for the presidency will both help her and hurt her. When she ran last time, Clinton avoided talking about her personal experi-ences, especially those as a woman, saying that she was running because she was the best-qualified can-didate. But this time, she is expected to share more personal anecdotes and focus on issues that might appeal to women, including affordable child care and access to health care. Clinton, 67, leads the Democratic field by over-whelming margins with some polls showing her as much as 50 points ahead of potential rivals. But recent polls show she may be vulnerable against some Republican candidates after seeing a drop in her numbers when questions were raised about her fam-ily foundation’s acceptance of foreign donations and her use of a private email account to conduct govern-ment business while she was secretary of state. She also faces a Republican Party deter-mined to defeat her. Two Republicans – Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and

Rand Paul of Kentucky – have announced candida-cies in recent weeks. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is expected to announce his on Monday in Miami. Republicans have painted a possible Clinton presidency as a third term of the Obama administra-tion. Obama, her one-time rival, asked her to serve as secretary of state. Several possible Republicans can-didates talked about the “failed policies of the past” after her announcement Sunday. On Saturday, in response to a question at a news con-ference in Panama, Obama said Clinton would make an “excellent president.” But some in her party continue to push for a more liberal candidate who would embrace “big, bold, economic populist ideas” including debt-free college, expanding Social Security, clean-energy jobs, and reforming Wall Street. Others considering a run for the Democratic nomination are indepen-dent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee. Some are lobbying Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to run, but both seem increasingly unlikely to do so.

system. “Everyone is still allowed four guests a night,” Meade said. “What has changed is that instead of pen and paper, people are being signed in by computers.” Meade expects the laptops to be fully implemented in residence halls by next fall. He said that the cost of imple-menting the policy has been roughly $55,000. The improvements to security cameras have been primarily made in areas such as the North Apartments, where lack of light makes identification more difficult. The high turnover rate in student jobs, particularly security monitors, makes changes to training tech-niques a constant occur-rence because of the number of new employees who need training for those positions. “Some of the recommen-dations are ongoing because

there’s a new population,” Meade said. The 2012 sexual assault, which occurred after a Pierpont Residential Hall resident, who did not know three of the alleged rapists, signed them in as guests, has drawn much attention to Residence Hall Security’s guest policies. Despite this attention, the guest policies have not been changed. Meade said that he continues to stress the dan-ger of signing strangers into residence halls to parents during the summer. “In this environment, you need to understand your actions have consequences for a bigger home,” he said. Some large universities have stricter guest policies than UMass. Both Boston University and New York University require off-cam-pus guests to leave a pho-

tographic form of identifica-tion with the security guard on duty. Boston University requires this of on-campus guests as well. Both universities allow no more than three guests per resident at a time, and limit the total amount of times residents can have guests during late hours. New York University allows no more than six of these nights per month, and Boston University allows no more than seven overnight visits per semester. However, Meade did not rule out eventually changing the University’s guest policy. “There may be more changes to the guest policy down the road,” he said. For now, the focus is primarily on changing residential infrastructure and security technologies. Continual improvements to residential infrastructure will occur over the summer. These include improvements to security cameras and improving access control in residential entrances with poor security layouts. The expected cost of these improvements, according to Meade, will most likely exceed $400,000. “I have a great student work force,” he said. “Quite a bit has been done by folks across campus.”

Stuart Foster can be reached at stu-artfoster@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Stuart_C_Foster.

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Turkey recalls Vatican envoy

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VATICAN CITY — Armenians were the vic-tims of “the first geno-cide of the 20th century,” Pope Francis said Sunday, prompting Turkey to recall its Vatican ambas-sador home to Ankara. Similar remarks from the Catholic leadership in the past have triggered protests from Turkey, which denies that the mass deportation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I was genocide. Armenians say up to 1.5 million people were killed. “In the past century, our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies,” Francis said at the start of a remembrance mass in St Peter’s Basilica for the 1915-16 mass slaughter of the Armenians. “The first, which is widely considered the first genocide of the 20th century, struck your own Armenian people, the first Christian nation, as well as Catholic and Orthodox Syrians, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Greeks,” Francis said. The pope said the other two genocides of the last century “were perpetrated by Nazism and Stalinism” and went on to say the world is in the midst of another genocide, the per-secution of Christians in the Middle East. The leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Supreme Patriarch Karekin II, thanked the pope at the end an the elaborate ser-vice. “The Armenian geno-cide is an unforgettable and undeniable fact of history, deeply rooted in the annals of modern history and in the com-

mon consciousness of the Armenian people. Therefore, any attempt to erase it from history and from our common memory is doomed to fail,” Karekin said. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan also attended the mass at the Vatican. “With these celebra-tions in St Peter’s, the Holy Father has sent a vigorous signal to the internation-al community,” namely “that uncondemned geno-cides represent a danger for all of humanity,” he told Italian news agency ANSA. “It is the responsibility not only of the Armenian people and the universal Church to recall all that has taken place, but of the entire human family,” Francis said in a writ-ten message delivered to Armenian religious and political leaders after mass. Turkey, the succes-sor state to the Ottoman Empire, says both Turks and Armenians were killed during the war and accuses Armenia of inflat-ing the number of people who died. The deporta-tions were said to be for security reasons. It is not the first time that the Vatican has used the word “genocide” to describe the events of 100 years ago. On Sunday, the pope quoted a joint 2000 decla-ration from his predeces-sor, John Paul II. At the time, the Turkish Foreign Ministry criti-cized the papal remarks as “unacceptable” and warned the Vatican against “making steps that could have irreparable consequences on our ties.” “What is expected from the papacy, under the responsibility of its spiri-tual office, is to contribute to world peace instead of raising animosity over his-torical events,” the minis-try said.

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Website monitors China internet control

By stuArt leAvenworthMcClatchy Foreign Staff

BEIJING — The Chinese Communist Party operates out of a vast walled-off compound, known as Zhongnanhai, near Beijing’s Forbidden City. It is here that party leaders oversee the Great Firewall – China’s 24-hour control of the Internet. Some 5,900 miles away, in a cottage in Berkeley, Calif., the staff of China Digital Times tries to poke holes in the Great Firewall. Every day, they col-lect, translate and publish many of the censorship direc-tives the party sends to state media. They aggregate break-ing news deemed “sensitive” by China’s rulers and high-light the code words Chinese people invent to get around the censors. “There is no way you could take all these critical voices and party directives and put them together on one website in China. It would be taken down immediately,” said Xiao Qiang, chief editor of China Digital Times and an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley. “But out-side the Great Firewall you can do that. And that is what we do.” Since Xiao founded China Digital Times in 2003, it has become a go-to site for English speakers wanting to keep up with China’s Internet and its 640 million “netizens.” But China Digital Times doesn’t cater only to English speakers. After China blocked access to the site in 2006, Xiao made plans for a Chinese-language site, which he launched in 2011. China blocked that site as well, but Xiao said his team uses a vari-ety of methods to make China Digital Times accessible in China. These include email lists, social media and “mir-ror sites” that can’t easily be blocked. Imagine confronting Goliath with pebbles, and you have some sense of China Digital Times. China is thought to employ as many as 100,000 people to monitor and remove posts it finds objec-

tionable. China Digital Times has six, spread from California to Washington, D.C., and Vancouver in Canada. In a typical posting, China Digital Times reported Wednesday that censors have instructed media not to play up coverage of recent explo-sions at a factory that produc-es paraxylene, a highly toxic chemical. “Do not place news of the Zhangzhou, Fujian PX explo-sion in lead story sections of news agency websites,” the directive read. Several web-sites quickly complied. Xiao, 53, took an unlikely route to digital activism. Born in northern China, he came to the United States in 1986 to obtain a doctorate in astro-physics from the University of Notre Dame. Like so many Chinese students of that time, Xiao’s studies were interrupted by China’s suppression of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square. Sitting in a Berkeley cafe recently, Xiao recalled how his emotions welled up after learning the government had opened fire on so many young people. “At that moment, I really wanted to do something,” he recalled. “And the only thing I could do was – go back.” Two days later, Xiao flew from Indiana to China, where he spent weeks listening to sto-

ries from his shaken country-men, including survivors of Tiananmen. The experience changed him, he said. He soon lost interest in astrophysics. When he returned to Notre Dame, he said, his doctorate adviser had dropped him for skipping out. Xiao moved to New York, where he found a job with a fledgling group, Human Rights in China. He served as the group’s executive director for more than a decade after 1991. Late in 2001, he woke up one day to learn that the MacArthur Foundation had awarded him a “genius” grant. The timing was apt, he said, because he was feeling burned out and in need of something new. According to Xiao, it was Orville Schell, a China spe-cialist who then was dean of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, who convinced him to come west to teach. Their collaboration led to the founding of China Digital Times. The organization’s six team members are split between the Chinese-language and English-language sites, with producers of the latter some-times drawing from the for-mer. “Every day, there is just so much out there – a vast ocean of content,” said Sophie

Beach, who edits the English-language site. She said the job requires tag-teaming in differ-ent time zones, night and day, to keep up with the news cycle. Xiao said the websites have an annual budget of “less than a million” – largely from foun-dation grants – which makes it a lean operation – too lean for Xiao’s taste. He says it is “an uphill struggle” to raise money, but he keeps doing it because of feedback from readers. Many of those readers, said Xiao, share his perspec-tive that the current Chinese regime feels insecure and is cracking down as a result. “If the economic situation goes well, they can hang on for another decade or longer,” he said. “But they know they are in trouble. The legitimacy of the regime is in question.” For Xiao, political reform in China can’t happen soon enough. Because of his human rights work, Beijing forbids Xiao from returning to China, even to visit his family. While that didn’t matter to him a few years ago, Xiao said his 80-year-old father is now ill and unable to visit him in the United States. Asked about China’s future, Xiao had this to say: “I have no fear China will be unable to change. What I fear is that I will not be able to see my father before he dies.”

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On Sept. 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the “Munich Agreement,” a deal with Adolf

Hitler that was supposed to mean “peace in our time.” The agreement allowed Hitler to keep the “Sudetenland” in hopes that such a concession would lower ten-sions and prevent war. As everyone knows, the agreement failed to secure a lasting peace and, by allowing Hitler to arm himself and strate-gically position his troops, probably aided the Axis war effort. That is the danger of a bad deal with a bad regime. If the United Kingdom, France and other powers had simply gone to war earlier, World War II would have likely ended sooner and with fewer casu-alties. Hitler’s Final Solution would not have stretched as wide as it did, and the world would have been better off for it. The question we must ask ourselves in regards to the emerging framework of an Iranian deal announced by President Barack Obama’s administration, is simple: is this our generation’s Munich Agreement? Personally, I am unsure, but the parallels between contemporary Iran and Nazi Germany are scary to say the least. Both are fascistic regimes, headed by anti-semitic, anti-democratic leaders. Like pre-war Germany, Iran has been position-ing itself for regional territorial gains. Its influence in post-war Iraq helped give rise to ISIS through exploding sectarian tensions. Its involvement in the Syrian Civil War, in an effort to hold that country for Assad, has led to countless deaths. Recently, Iranian-sponsored rebels have made strong gains in Yemen. And of course, through Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran has ensured decades of death and high tensions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Iran wants influence – through power and land – a new Persian Empire of sorts. The Holy Grail to build an empire in our age is nuclear technology. Even if a nation does not use the bomb, it serves as an incredible deterrent. Other states would think twice about acting against Iranian military expansion. The world energy market would become unstable. Saudi Arabia and Egypt would go nuclear in a matter of time, mixing an unstable region with apocalyptic weapons. Is it possible that Iran’s more liber-al youth will reform the society before it builds the bomb? Hopefully, and per-haps the bad actors who head the Iranian government are actually serious about restraining their nuclear capabilities in exchange for sanctions relief. I wouldn’t hold my breath though. I’ll judge the Iranian leadership on their words and actions, both of which have been anti-American for decades. There is no easy way out, which is why it is hard for anyone to fully oppose this deal rather than just pointing out its potential dangers. Our three options amount to more sanctions, the deal or war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants more sanctions, and is prepared for war if that must be a last resort. While President Obama has been called the new Chamberlain, others have made the comparison that Netanyahu is the Winston Churchill of our time, warn-ing about the dangers of appeasing a dangerous state. Time will only tell, but to be sure we get the best deal possible, Congress must approve any final agree-ment and reduction in sanctions. The skepticism of Congress, on both sides of the aisle, will hopefully serve as a deter-rent to a bad deal.

Nicholas Pappas is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at napappas@umass.edu.

Iran deal is a bad one

You need to try Emotional Freedom Tapping You might dismiss what I’m about to tell you as some weird hippy-voodoo junk, but read on

because I promise this is at least worth trying. I was skeptical of Emotional Freedom Tapping when I first heard about it too. The name makes me think of circle time in kindergarten where everyone talks about “just being yourself.” EFT did come with all those words like “self-love,” “inner peace,” “confidence” and “acceptance.” I was vaguely aware of how desper-ately I’ve needed all of that, but it seemed like it was too easy if EFT would bring me all of that. My boyfriend told me about EFT weeks ago after he tried it to help him through a mountain of homework. Basically, it’s “an emotional version of acupunc-ture” that uses tapping points on the body combined with a short mantra that focuses the mind on whatever is causing stress. There are about eight tapping points: the side of your hand (where you begin the tapping pro-cess) the top of your head, the side of your eye, underneath your eye, right above your lip, on your chin, beneath your collarbones and underneath your arm. I’d rec-ommend watching a video demon-stration on YouTube or Googling an image of the points. The side of your hand is the setup point. While tapping two fin-gers against this point, you say the phrase “even though (insert stress/concern/ailment) I deeply and completely love and accept

myself.” Then, you continue through the points with your focus on the stress and your mantra. That completes a round. It sounds cheesy, I know. When my boyfriend asked me to try it, citing the hundreds of times I’ve felt overwhelmed and stressed this semester, I dismissed it in the same way I’ve dismissed all of those self-love articles telling me I need to call myself beautiful in the mirror every morning. But then we started doing some research and came across story after story of people who have used tapping for everything from acne to anxiety. They talked about feeling relieved and even sleepy once they stopped, and then in the

days afterward they almost imme-diately noticed a change. The story that finally con-vinced me was from a woman’s blog about her experience using tapping for her eating disorder. It was uncanny how similar she sounded to me — about her lack of self-love, about feeling like she was going to be mentally ill forever and about the whole idea of EFT tap-ping before she tried it. Apparently, this woman did a tapping mantra about every part of her body that she disliked and continued to focus on getting rid of her eating disorder. When she was done, she actually felt ill and vomited — not something I was

hoping would happen in my expe-rience — but from that day on she began to love herself and feel truly recovered. I was convinced. At least, I fig-ured there was no harm in try-ing. I tried tapping on March 28 in my dorm room. I wrote up a list of everything that was caus-ing me stress and each body part that I disliked. Over and over I started repeating my mantra for each individual thing. I felt ridicu-lous at first, but as I started focus-ing on everything that was giving me stress I started getting tearful. Each “I love myself” felt like a desperate reach for a lifeboat. I wanted peace so badly. I must have done at least 20

rounds before I began feeling over-whelmingly tired. I decided I need-ed to stop and lay down imme-diately, and as I turned to walk toward my bed my vision turned black and I felt myself losing track of the ground beneath my feet. I fainted. Yes, I literally passed out. I came to just a moment later, but it takes a lot to make me faint, and I was freaked. As I sat there sipping water, I realized I really didn’t feel differ-ent mentally. I was disappointed — I knew this seemed too good to be true and I couldn’t cure anxiety and disordered eating by hitting my fingers against my temple, but a part of me was hoping I was

wrong. The next day I went to my class-es and as lunchtime rolled around I started to feel extremely hungry. Because of a bad habit from my days with an eating disorder, I usually skip lunch and ignore the small pangs of hunger. But that day I felt famished and I didn’t want to skip, so I ate lunch. And then I ate lunch the next day. And the next day. That little voice of protest just didn’t seem so loud anymore. In fact, anything that had been causing me stress didn’t seem so loud anymore. I found myself accepting workloads with more confidence, dealing with club conflicts with more patience and remaining dry-eyed and collected when an overwhelming amount of responsibilities hit (that one is a huge deal—I’m notoriously overemotional and it doesn’t take much to make me cry). When I start to feel stressed about something, I take just about 30 seconds to tap on it and I feel OK again. Whether it has been a placebo or not, I don’t care. Something has changed since I tried EFT and I can’t describe how incredible it is to realize that I’m finally start-ing to get the peace that I’ve been struggling over for years. If you’ve never heard of tap-ping, I really recommend you look up how to do it and try. If worse comes to worst, you waste half a minute. But I think if you really take it seriously and try, you could be surprised with what it can do for you. Kate Leddy is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at kleddy@umass.edu.

Kate Leddy

“When I start to feel stressed about something, I take just about 30 seconds to tap on it and I feel

okay again.”

Nicholas Pappas

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A look at Spring Concert

By Sarah GamardCollegian Staff

The University of Massachusetts will host the 2015 University Planning Council Spring Concert, featuring acclaimed artists Timeflies, Hoodie Allen and Chance the Rapper, Sunday at 7 p.m. at Mullins Center. Doors open at 6 p.m. Spring Concert is an annual event at UMass, with past headliners including the Goo Goo Dolls, Jay Z, Third Eye Blind, Cobra Starship and Big Sean. According to Bianca Surjawan, executive director of UPC, students were given the opportunity to vote via Campus Pulse for what music they wanted to hear at the event. UPC then chooses artists based on the genre with the most votes, which was hip-hop and rap. Timeflies first formed in 2010, and the group com-bined hip-hop, rap, R&B and techno. The duo includes producer Rob Resnick and vocalist Cal Shapiro. Resnick and Shapiro began their career together in a different band called The Ride, where Rob Resnick — also known as “Rez” — was the drummer and Shapiro free styled. Timeflies released its debut album, “The Scotch Tape,” in 2011. Its sopho-more effort, “After Hours,” was released in 2014 and fea-tured collaborations with the likes of T-Pain, Fabolous and Katie Sky. Hoodie Allen is a hip-hop artist from Long Island, New York. Known off stage as Steven Markowitz, Hoodie

Allen began his career as a “frat-rap” artist and won MTV’s Best Music on Campus Award in 2009. One of his prominent hits was the 2010 track, “You Are Not a Robot,” which he followed with the “All American” EP in 2012. “All American” made No. 10 on Billboard’s Top Albums chart. His latest release, 2014’s “People Keep Talking,” features collabora-tions with the likes of Ed Sheeran and Alex Wiley. Chance the Rapper is a highly acclaimed hip-hop artist who has been fea-tured in songs such as Justin Bieber’s “Confident,” Madonna’s “Iconic” and Childish Gambino’s mix tape, “Royalty.” Born Chancellor Bennett, his primary interest has been music since high school. In his senior year of high school, he used a 10-day break to record his debut mix tape, “10 Days,” which was uploaded to the Internet in 2012. The album caught atten-tion from Forbes Magazine and then the largely popular rapper Childish Gambino —

also known as comedian and actor Donald Glover — who invited Chance the Rapper to be the opening act in his 2012 tour. His groundbreaking mix tape, “Acid Rap,” came out in April 2013. It features popu-lar songs including “Cocoa Butter Kisses” and “Juice,” and led to a performance at Lollapalooza in 2014. He is one of the artists following in the footsteps of Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus, who are pushing a new sub-genre of progressive hip hop that features influences of rap, techno, soul, R&B and jazz. Student tickets are only available at the Mullins Center Box Office with a valid student ID. The cost for undergraduates is $10. Tickets for UMass alumni and other Five College stu-dents are $25, and tickets for the general public are $45. Parking at Mullins Center is $10, and only cash is accept-ed.

Sarah Gamard can be reached at sgamard@umass.edu.

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Dopapod brings intriguing mix of genres to the Valley

By Stephanie murrayCollegian Correspondent

For those looking to get their Thursday night funk fix, Dopapod will be coming to the Pearl Street Ballroom in Northampton this week. The Brooklyn-based quartet will make a Pioneer Valley stop to play its unique blend of funk, jazz and progressive rock as a part of its spring tour. Dopapod prides itself on being a grassroots band. It got its humble start in college basements and has since shared bills with like-minded bands such as Umphrey’s McGee. Dopapod’s unique blend of sounds has been picked up on by critics like Taraleigh Weathers of Huffington Post, who raved, “Dopapod is a band that can make me dance even when I don’t feel like dancing.” Dopapod, which formed in Boston and has since settled in Brooklyn, is cur-rently touring the coun-try, and is slated to stop in at the famed Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee this June. It is promoting its new-est release, “Never Odd or Even,” which dropped in November. Partnering with producer Jason Randall, the band produced an album that shows how its music has matured. Later this spring Dopapod will play shows

with fellow jam band and UMass favorite Twiddle on its way to the Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, Illinois. The quartet has also played at other jam-band friendly festivals across the coun-try, such as the Frendly Gathering in Vermont and Pennsylvania’s Peach Fest. Dopapod is a group that blends live-sounding genres like funk, jazz, soul and afro-beat, with the influ-ence of electronic genres like trance. The band seam-lessly mixes these styles to create an infectious sound all its own. The members of Dopapod each attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, and cite a wide variety of influences on their music, from Phish to Frank Sinatra. One of the band’s stand-out tracks is a highlight from “Never Odd or Even” titled “Present Ghosts.” It offers a fresh balance

of funk and rock that is upbeat enough to dance to but somehow still feels low key. The catchy hook in the beginning carries through-out the song. Some of the band’s other strong tracks include “Onionhead,” “Turnin’ Knobs” and “Flipped.” Each of these lengthy tracks transitions fluidly between genres, taking the listener on a tour of Dopapod’s diverse skill set. The band has been grow-ing its fan base since the release of its debut album “Radar” in 2009, and shows no sign of slowing down. Funk duo Soule Monde will share the stage with Dopapod in Northampton Thursday night. The Vermont-based duo of Ray Paczkowski and Russ Lawton is sure to bring good vibes to Pearl Street as well. Concert-goers should expect an impressive light show paired with an intimate performance. The band has often been praised for its comfortable interaction with the audi-ence. That factor, coupled with the quartet’s genuine love for the music they are playing, is bound to trans-late to an electrifying per-formance. Thursday’s show starts at 7 p.m. at the Pearl Street Ballroom in Northampton. Tickets are available for $13 online or $15 at the door.

Stephanie Murray can be reached at stephaniemur@umass.edu.

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Death Cab for Cutie delivers the necessary goods on ‘Kintsugi’

By JackSon maxwellCollegian Staff

There’s something incredibly reassuring in the fact that, on its first record in four years, Death Cab for Cutie hasn’t changed a bit. Although former lead guitarist Chris Walla did assist in the creation of the record, “Kintsugi” is the first Death Cab album with someone other than him producing. That honor was given instead to Rich Costey, who has applied a blindingly glossy, radio-ready finish to records from the likes of Muse and Foster the People. But, before you start crying, “sell outs!” keep in mind that this is Death Cab for Cutie. It had a chart-topping album seven years ago, before popular high school students started wearing big glasses and having arguments that fea-tured each person trying to assure the other that they are the most awkward. Costey’s ultra hi-fi production immediately marks “Kintsugi,” released March 31, as a natural fol-low-up to the band’s last effort, 2011′s deeply polar-izing “Codes & Keys.” Like “Codes & Keys,” “Kintsugi” is an effort that’s both here and there, alternating between cliché and origi-nality, warm familiarity and cold detachment. Like its predecessor, it has songs that will make

hearts swell, and songs that lose their luster after a single listen. So, in terms of consistency, it is right along the lines of “Codes & Keys,” but musically, “Kintsugi” beefs up on the electronics. Perhaps to compensate for Walla’s departure, synthesizers dot the landscape of the album, interjecting melody or harmony where a lead guitar previously would have contributed. But even with the increased electronic pres-ence, which does benefit from Costey’s production, on “Kintsugi” there is no dramatic rebirth for the band. “Kintsugi” is just

Death Cab for Cutie sound-ing like Death Cab for Cutie should in 2015. One thing to take note of is Ben Gibbard’s return to the sky-gazing confes-sional method of songwrit-ing that made Death Cab for Cutie the indie institu-tion it is today. On the gor-geous opener, “No Room In Frame,” Gibbard, after vividly describing the land-scape stretched out in front of him, sings, “this high-way lived in mind/it takes me back to the place that made me.” The song screams, “remember why you love us??” but it is a sales pitch that is a pleasure to buy

right into. The guitars snake beautifully around Gibbard’s disclosures, with the rest of the band mold-ing itself around the song just as easily. “Black Sun,” the album’s lead single, is a tricky little piece. On the one hand, it’s textbook Death Cab, featur-ing guitars that are twisty, but stop just short of being angular and lyrics that are dark, but stop just short of being too morbid — “there is death upon the vine/there is fear in the eyes of your father/and there is ‘yours’ and there is ‘mine.’” But despite the nifty elec-tronics that emerge in the solid chorus, the song feels

oddly hollow and grey. It is comforting territory, but without significant input from Walla it lacks the sort of depth listeners have come to expect from the band. Same goes for The Cure-aping track, “Little Wanderer,” which explores long-distance relationships with Gibbard’s familiar, lit-erary sense of melancholy, but has a certain glossy emptiness to it. But ironically, it is when Gibbard goes all-out schmaltzy that “Kintsugi” reaches its peak. “You’ve Haunted Me All My Life” is powered by an acoustic riff that is so prominent in the mix you feel like you’re going to be crushed by the weight of it. The chorus and production are pure, radio-friendly cheese, but the sort that Gibbard’s always excelled in. He’s on similarly fine, heartstring-tugging form on the unaccompanied acoustic ballad, “Hold No Guns.” “My hands hold no guns,” he desperately tells a distant, seemingly retreating partner. Like in

most of Gibbard’s finest songs, the romance here is close to perfection, but has a constant thorn in its side that keeps it spinning perennially off its axis. “Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)” keeps with the album’s running 1980s theme. But unlike “Little Wanderer,” which owed its blueprints to the gloomy, arena-sized musings of The Cure, “Good Help,” with its danceable rhythms and bright chorus, owes more to bands like the Tom Tom Club. “Everything’s A Ceiling” echoes INXS with its big synths, cosmic guitar leads and stargaz-ing lyrics, while “Ingenue” features a climactic drum fill that inevitably brings to mind Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” So, “Kintsugi” is neither a step forward nor a step backward. Without Walla, Death Cab has indeed been diminished, but it’s not entirely out of the game. When surrounded by the right musical backdrop, Gibbard’s lyrics can still stop time without dipping into melodrama. Though it may no longer echo the times as perfectly as they did a decade ago, Death Cab for Cutie still has a place in 2015’s musical landscape. By just sound-ing like itself, the band still stands out as one of rock’s most reliable craftsmen of glossy but emotionally sub-stantial stories.

Jackson Maxwell can be reached at jlmaxwell@umass.edu.

Veteran band sticks to its strengths

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Death Cab for Cutie performs live at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in August, 2006.

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Chance the Rapper is headlining this Sunday’s Spring Concert at the Mullins Center.

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Second inning plagues Minutewomen

By Jamie Cushman Collegian Staff

A disastrous second inning for the Massachusetts softball team in which it surrendered six runs, effec-tively ended Sunday’s 6-0 loss to Fordham before it barely even begun. “We just allowed it to get away in all areas just by slumping our shoulders a little bit and maybe mental-ly giving up,” UMass coach Kristi Stefanoni said. “That was the inning that defi-nitely did it for us and after that we were able to settle in pretty good. “We would probably still be playing this game if that inning didn’t happen.” But unfortunately for the Minutewomen, the second inning did happen. After senior first baseman Bridget Lemire dropped a routine popup to open the frame, senior pitcher Caroline Raymond walked the next batter. Raymond then commit-ted an error of her own on an errant throw to third base after fielding a hard ground ball hit right back at her. This loaded the bases for the Rams’ Sydney Canessa, who broke the game open with a grand slam. A single and two walks loaded the bases again for redshirt junior Rachel Gillen, whose single up the middle knocked in the final two runs of the game.

“We had a plan and I believe we were following it very well but just that one inning they got all those runs and we didn’t come back,” UMass shortstop Quianna Diaz-Patterson said. The Minutewomen tal-lied seven hits Sunday but were unable to plate any runs. “We just got a couple spots in the lineup that aren’t coming through with runners in scoring posi-tion,” Stefanoni said. “We’ve got to work on (hitting) pitches in different locations so that way, when there are runners in scoring position, we can somehow figure out a way to get them through.”

UMass drops two Saturday

The Minutewomen failed to build off the momentum of winning three games last week, losing game one of Saturday’s doubleheader, 12-4. Like early in Sunday’s game, Raymond strug-gled with her command in Saturday’s opener, issuing six walks over five innings of work. Lemire shined at the plate, playing a role in all four UMass runs. Her dou-ble in the fifth inning scored Diaz-Patterson, putting the Minutewomen on the score-board. She then scored a run of her on an ensuing double from Taylor Carbone. Lemire plated two more in the seventh inning with a two-run home run, her fifth

of the season. Fordham took control of game two immediately after senior Paige Ortiz hit a grand slam in the first inning. The Rams added another four runs in the sec-ond, taking firm control of the game before cruising to a 13-3 victory that lasted just six innings due to a mercy rule. Freshman Meg Colleran struggled on the mound for the Minutewomen, dropping her record to 1-8 for the sea-son and bringing her ERA to 6.09. Lemire added her second homer of the day in the fifth inning, accounting for the Minutewomen’s final run of the day. Despite dropping three games to Fordham, Stefanoni still believes she has a strong team; she just needs them to prove it soon. “They are a good team,

they’ve shown flashes of it throughout the year,” Stefanoni said. “So now is a big test for them. How are you going to bounce back, you got to drop failure real fast in this game and be bet-ter for Tuesday.” UMass now has a busy week ahead of it, playing seven games over seven days. The week begins with a doubleheader at Rhode Island on Tuesday before returning to Amherst for a doubleheader against Marist on Thursday and a three-game series with St. Bonaventure over the week-end. Tuesday’s games offer the Minutewomen their best chance to gain some ground in the conference standings, facing a struggling Rams team (1-26).

Jamie Cushman can be reached at jrcushman@umass.edu.

Fordham completes sweep vs. UMass

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Quianna Diaz-Patterson takes a lead off third base in UMass’ 6-0 loss to Fordham Sunday.

“We just have to shoot the ball better. We’ve been getting opportunities and open looks but we just have to start canning them.” UMass’ struggles on Saturday weren’t limited to the offensive side how-ever, as its 15 conceded goals on defense marked its highest total since Feb. 28 against Brown, when the Minutemen lost its fourth straight to open the season, 18-12. In cage, senior Zach Oliveri and freshman D.J. Smith split time, finish-ing with a combined seven saves. After Oliveri failed to stop any of the first six shots taken against him, he was replaced by Smith midway through the sec-ond quarter. Oliveri later returned and finished with one save and eight goals allowed. Despite early struggles, UMass once again height-ened its play in the final quarter, as it did in its 10-9 loss last weekend to Fairfield. The Minutemen outscored the Hawks 5-2 in Saturday’s closing 15 min-utes to bring the deficit back to single figures. Hegarty and Andrew Sokol each scored two goals during UMass’ late run as

Whiteway also added his second of the day.   But according to Hegarty, the Minutemen must display this intensity more consis-tently over the course of a game. “We’ve been trying to preach that all week, just trying to play with a sense of urgency all game,” Hegarty said. “We have to play at that pace for the entire 60 minutes.” While Saturday’s loss to Hartford – its last non-conference matchup of the season – didn’t count toward UMass’ position in the conference standings, the Minutemen currently find themselves out of the CAA playoff picture, sitting in fifth place. With two games remain-ing however, UMass will try to position itself within the top four teams that qualify for the CAA tournament. Both upcoming match-ups against Drexel and Delaware will be played in Amherst. “We’ve got Drexel com-ing in and Delaware the next two weeks and they’re both must-win games for us,” Hegarty said.

Anthony Chiusano can be reached at achiusano@umass.edu and fol-lowed on Twitter @a_chiusano24.

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offense produced five runs behind timely, two-out hit-ting. Second baseman Rob McLam put UMass on the scoreboard in the bottom of the third with a two-out RBI single to take the 1-0 lead. McLam finished 2-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs and a walk. He picked up his second RBI of the game in the seventh with a one-out double. In the bottom of the fifth with the bases load-ed, junior Mike Geannelis broke the game open with a bases clearing, two-out double that gave UMass a 4-0 lead.

UMass salvages double-header

Two-out scoring and clutch hitting was also key for the Minutemen in the second game of Saturday’s double header. After blowing a 3-1 lead late in the opening matchup, a game that UMass ended up losing 4-3, the bats came alive in the back end. The Minutemen’s offense powered nine runs on nine hits, with six of the runs coming with two outs. Vinny Scifo went 3-for-4

with two RBIs on two-out base hits. “In the first game I felt we were trying to do too much with it,” Scifo said. “The sec-ond game we were just try-ing to meet the ball, put it in play and make their field-ers work. Mainly put good swings on the ball with run-ners in scoring position.” Senior Kyle Adie contin-ued his strong season, deliv-ering a two-run triple in the bottom of the third to double the Minutemen’s lead. After the bullpen failed to hold the lead in game one, it answered with an impres-sive combined performance from pitchers Ryan Venditti and Ben Panunzio. Starter Ryan Moloney only lasted 31/3 innings and left the game with runners on first and sec-ond. But Venditti came in and got out Moloney’s jam with help from right fielder Adam Picard, who ended the inning by throwing out a runner at home. Venditti pitched three more innings, striking out six and allowing one run off a solo shot from St. Bonaventure third basemen Thad Johnson. Panunzio finished the game with two

scoreless innings. “That’s exactly what we needed,” Stone said. “You know when your starter doesn’t go very long, you need guys to step up and do the job and those guys did the job.”

UMass drops series opener

After taking a 3-1 lead into the eighth inning, UMass surrendered three runs to the Bonnies in a 4-3 loss in Saturday’s first game of a double header at Earl Lorden Field.Conor LeBlanc pitched six innings and allowed one run, reliever Kevin Lacy ran into trouble in the eighth, loading the bases for St. Bonaventure. A passed ball and sacrifice fly tied the game and a throwing error by Scifo gave the Bonnies the lead. Lacy, who surrendered just one run on the season in previous relief appearances, took the loss and fell to 0-1. St. Bonaventure starter Connor Grey encountered early trouble and after three innings, the Minutemen led 3-0. But the junior settled into a groove and finished with 62/3 innings and 12

strikeouts. LeBlanc was equally effective, but with a different style. He struck out just four but also did an excellent job keeping hitters off balance. The first few innings were riddled with weak ground balls and hitters had a tough time squaring him up and making any type of solid contact. The first inning was a classic example of Stone’s “smallball” philosophy. Two hits, a sacrifice bunt, a passed ball and sacrifice fly gave the Minutemen a 2-0 lead, with Bryce Maher and Adie each hitting singles and coming around to score. But Thad Johnson start-ed off the sixth inning with a double for St. Bonaventure and came around to score on a Tyler Bell RBI single to put the Bonnies on the board. St. Bonaventure took the lead for good in the eighth inning and Johnson pitched two scoreless innings in relief to pick up the save.

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

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The Minutemen went 15-31 last year, including a 5-10 record in one-run games. This year, however, UMass is off to a better start than in past seasons. The Minutemen are 8-11 but 7-5 so far in the Atlantic 10 – well on its way to pass-ing the 11 conference wins it notched in 2014. “It gives us a lot of momentum,” shortstop Vinny Scifo said. “It’s tough falling behind and working your way back. When you get a good start, it’s easier to take it into the next game.” In game two of Saturday’s doublehead-er, Scifo was 2-for-2 with runners in scoring posi-tion and two outs with an RBI double in the second inning and RBI single in the third. His efforts helped give UMass an 8-4 lead after just three innings; the four-run difference represented the winning margin in the game. “I tried to stay short and quick to the ball, basically meet the ball rather than over-swing,” Scifo said. Scifo spoke of a mes-sage Stone gave the team after its series-opening loss to the Bonnies Saturday morning: simplify.

“Coach mentioned it after our first game this week… we just had to be prepared with two strikes and not try to do too much,” Scifo said. Senior centerfielder Kyle Adie also shined with two outs and runners on base. The team leader in hits and batting aver-age doubled in the second inning and tripled in the third of game two Saturday, driving in three runs. On Sunday, it was Geannelis and redshirt senior Rob McLam with the big hits. McLam put the Minutemen on the board in the third inning, sin-gling to right field with two outs and a runner in scor-ing position. He added an RBI double in the seventh inning with a runner on second to restore UMass’ four-run lead after the Bonnies struck for a run in the top half of the inning. With this much clutch hitting going around, the Minutemen are off to their best start in confer-ence play since 2012 when UMass started 8-4 in the A-10.

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

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Vinny Scifo was 2-for-2 with runners in scoring position in Saturday’s game two win over St. Bonaventure.

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only needed to play 41:37 Sunday as backup Leigh Henjes recorded two saves and didn’t allow a goal in her 18-plus minutes of action. “I really like where our team is at,” McMahon said. “We have to keep build-ing but overall I’ve been so happy with the way we are spreading the wealth on offense. I think it’s real-ly going to make us that much harder to stop.” Aside from the eight combined goals from Eipp and Murphy, Tiernan, Nicole Troost, Sarah Crowley, Callie Santos, Abby Walker, Mary Randazzo, Holly Turner, Rory Sandoff, Allison Ryan and Eileen McDonald

each scored a goal for the Minutewomen. While Sunday’s win was another quality per-formance for UMass, McMahon believes the weekend drip down to North Carolina was an even better bonding expe-rience for the team, which plays two games on the road next weekend along with the A-10 champion-ships on the horizon. “It was a big trip for us,” McMahon said. “It pre-pared us for our next week-end with two games on the road and being together.” Andrew Cyr can be reached at arcyr@umass.edu, and followed on Twitter @Andrew_Cyr.

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Erika Eipp finished with three goals and three assists, tied for a team-high, in Sunday’s road victory over Davidson.

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Redshirt senior Rob McLam (7) high-fives his teammates after he crosses home plate Sunday. McLam had two RBIs to help lead the Minutemen to a 5-1 rubber match victory over St. Bonaventure.

UM wins rubber game behind spot start from junior Brandon Walsh

By Victor Pusateri and ross Gienieczko

Collegian Staff

Three weeks after its last series win, the Massachusetts baseball team defeated St. Bonaventure Sunday afternoon in its rubber match, 5-1. In its last two rubber games before Sunday, UMass (8-11, 7-5 Atlantic 10) lost both to Virginia Commonwealth and George Washington and were outscored 16-2 in the two contests com-bined. Brandon Walsh got the nod for the Minutemen as projected starting pitcher Andrew Grant was a last-minute scratch due to hip discomfort. UMass coach Mike Stone downplayed the injury’s severity and said Grant would start Monday’s game against Harvard. Sunday was Walsh’s first start of the season after he pitched 22/3 innings in two games with a 6.75 ERA. He impressed with seven innings of one-hit ball, allowing one run and finishing with five strikeouts en route to earning his first win of the sea-son. “It’s a big difference, you have to use all of your pitches as a starter, coming in relief is a little different, just coming in throw-ing hard, throwing strikes,” Walsh said about the transition from reliever to starter. “Keeping them off balance in the begin-ning is the goal as a starter.” “Brandon gave us a tre-mendous performance on the mound,” Stone said. “We didn’t really know what we were going to get with him because he hasn’t really pitched that deep.” Walsh got comfortable early and credited the defense behind him in helping out. “I think I did pretty well,” Walsh said. “It was pretty easy, the defense was making a bunch of plays behind me so as a pitch-er, it’s a confidence booster when you have eight guys behind you playing defense.” The junior pitcher didn’t need much offensive support, but got plenty of it as the Minutemen’s

Timely hitting paces UMass past Bonnies

By ross GienieczkoCollegian Staff

There are many things that go into consistently winning base-ball games. Starters have to go deep into the game more often than not, relievers must get big outs with runners on base and defense and baserunning both have to be fundamentally sound. But none of these elements have the impact that hitting with runners in scoring position does. Take a look at the top teams at any level of baseball. It’s evi-dent the key to winning games in bunches is executing in big moments. This weekend against St. Bonaventure, the Massachusetts baseball team took advantage of its opportunities with runners on base – particularly with two outs – to take two of three games against the Bonnies and win its first true home series of the year. “We’ve done that a lot,” UMass coach Mike Stone said after Sunday’s 5-1 win. “It shows a lot of character and toughness to be able to execute with two outs.” In Sunday’s rubber match, UMass sophomore Mike Geannelis came up to bat in the bottom of the fifth with the bases loaded, two outs and the Minutemen up 1-0. It was an opportunity that could define the weekend – a hit would put UMass well on its way to victory and a series win, while an out would energize St. Bonaventure and let starter Brandon Schlimm off the hook after running into trouble. Geannelis belted a bases-clearing double to deep right field to break the game open for the Minutemen. “(Geannelis) was struggling all weekend to put good swings on the ball and he finally settled down,” Stone said. “He took a couple good swings, barreled up on the ball and found a hole in the outfield.” It was the type of moment that makes a difference between winning games and losing them. It was also the type of execu-tion the 2014 UMass team seemed unable to provide consistently.

By andrew cyrCollegian Staff

At this point of the season – and every sea-son for that matter – the Massachusetts women’s lacrosse team’s outcome is basically decided after the first whistle of the game. The script goes as fol-lowed: UMass wins open-ing draw con-trol, passes the ball around, scores within the first few minutes and from there on, dominates the remainder of the game. Sunday’s contest against Davidson was no different as the Minutewomen won handedly, 19-4, in North Carolina. Their 19 goals was the most they have scored in a single game this season. Amy Tiernan scored just 40 seconds into the game, leading a 13-goal first half for UMass which coach Angela McMahon

said was one of the team’s best performances of the season. “It was a great game and our whole entire team played great for the entire game,” she said. “We set the tone for the entire game and that started with the draw controls and pos-sessions.” Hannah Murphy and

Erika Eipp both led the M i n u t e w o m e n with six points apiece. Murphy finished with five goals and one

assist while Eipp had three goals and three assists. Thirteen different play-ers scored for UMass (12-1, 4-0 Atlantic 10) and nine of its 19 goals came with assists. “Execution-wise it’s been the finishing,” McMahon said. “We are getting all different types of looks on cage. We are becoming more dynamic and not just looking for

the same kinds of opportu-nities and it was a big plus to see how many of those goals today came from assists.” She added: “When the ball’s in the air, it makes it really tough for goalies to make saves.” Davidson (4-8, 1-3 A-10), which is in its first year in the conference, received a pair of goals from Emily Rademacher while Nicole Pettiglio and Christine Molinari each tallied one apiece. The Wildcats first goal didn’t come until 10 minutes, 53 seconds into the game and Molinari’s goal was their only one of the second half. UMass dominated in all phases offensively as it had the advantage in shots (35-to-15), groundballs (18-to-10) and draw controls (16-to-10). It was also a per-fect 16-for-16 on clears. Goalkeeper Rachel Vallarelli (four goals allowed and four saves)

W O M E N ’ S L AC R O S S E

UMass loses third straight

By anthony chiusanoCollegian Staff

The struggle on offense continued for the Massachusetts men’s lacrosse team in its 15-8 defeat at Hartford Saturday. Now on a three-game losing streak, UMass (3-8, 1-2 Colonial Athletic A s s o c i a t i o n ) hasn’t reached double digits since its 12-8 win over Penn State on March 14. “Our guys were poorly coached,” Minutemen coach Greg Cannella said after Saturday’s loss. “We didn’t do a good job at get-ting our guys ready to play this week as a staff. That really falls on my shoul-ders.” UMass took the first lead of the game off a Peter Lindley goal three minutes, 25 seconds into the first quarter. After the Hawks (7-4, 3-1 America East Conference) then tied the

game two minutes later, Dan Muller recorded his 10th goal of the year to recapture the advantage. But Muller’s tally with 5:48 left in the opening frame was the last time

the Minutemen held control, as Hartford answered with a 13-1 run that lasted into the first four min-

utes of the fourth quarter. During this stretch, UMass went through two scoring droughts of 17 and 22 minutes. The Minutemen’s lone goal in this time came from Grant Whiteway in the second quarter, momentarily put-ting a halt to a 6-0 Hawks’ run. According to Cannella, familiar problems with possession control limited UMass on the attack. The Minutemen handily lost the

battle for faceoffs (17-to-10) and ground balls (36-to-20), allowing Hartford to estab-lish control in the middle two quarters. “We couldn’t win faceoffs, we couldn’t get ground balls and again, we were poorly coached,” Cannella said. “We couldn’t get any-thing going. We got bul-lied.” Sophomore attacker Brendan Hegarty added that failing to capitalize on the scoring chances they did receive has hindered the Minutemen during their four-game streak of scoring less than 10 goals. “It’s disappointing not putting up the numbers we want,” Hegarty said. “We try to get 10-plus (goals) a game but the past few games, we haven’t been executing well enough to do that.

Struggles continue on offense for UM

M E N ’ S L AC R O S S E

Hartford 15

UMass 8

Minutewomen dominate Davidson in NC road trip “We couldn’t get anything going.

We got bullied.”Greg Cannella,UMass coach

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UMass 19

Davidson 4

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