Massachusetts Daily Collegian: April 14, 2015

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Professor Margaret Riley, department of biology, gives a lecture in the Bernie Dallas room of Goodell Hall on general resistance to antibiotics. Riley also received the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor that a student or faculty member can achieve at UMass.

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HackUMass hosts 36-hour conference over weekend

By Emma SandlErCollegian Staff

University of Massachusetts students piled into the Integrated Learning Center for the second annual HackUMass hackathon this past Saturday. HackUMass is a free, 36-hour coding conference where partici-pants design, create and execute original ideas through software and hardware projects. Last year’s inaugural event attracted about 100 people and

focused on hardware creations like a robotic arm. But this year, an estimated 500 people gath-ered from across Massachusetts and surrounding states to col-laborate in teams or individu-ally on projects using both hard-ware and software. After the opening ceremony in the Student Union Ballroom, an “idea jam” was held where orga-nizers helped individuals form groups. That’s where Luke Leonard, 14, of Amherst, Trevor Campbell, a freshman chemical engineer-ing major, Charles Husselbee, a junior accounting major, Jared Rand, an MBA student at UMass

and Jari Roznovjak, a Clark University student studying abroad from the Czech Republic, met. They decided to work on a proj-ect dubbed “Tinder for tutors” by Rand, who runs a tutoring web-site already. The project’s concept was that a parent or student can add fil-ters to the kind of tutor they are

looking for, designating experi-ence, price and more. Resulting tutors will appear one at a time like on the dating app Tinder and the user can swipe right or left indicating their interest. Using languages like PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and

MySQL meant the team had dif-ficulty getting data to communi-cate back and forth, according to Rand. “With web programming, we have five different languages and you have to code in each different one and communicate different things and in that sense it’s com-plicated and we’ve been strug-gling to wrap our minds around

the process of communicating the data back and forth,” Rand said. Each of the participants’ moti-vations were firmly grounded in fun and gaining experience. Husselbee said, “(I wanted) to step out of my boundaries and my comfort zones and I found that with this group of young bright minds … I have been able to have a successful time trying to incorporate new skills and actually using it in a practical basis.” Husselbee, Campbell and Leonard didn’t have experience

UM Motorsport Club hosts largest student-run event

By ChriStina yaConoCollegian Staff

The University of Massachusetts Motorsport Club is working to bring the largest fully student-run event to campus once again with its annual car show. This year’s ninth Annual UMass Motorsport Club Car Show, held in Southwest’s Lot 11 on April 18, is not only an oppor-tunity for those showing off cars, but an event for the whole family with food, raffles, contests, tire flips and if the weather permits, go-karting as well. The all-day show will showcase everything from old, classic cars to this year’s latest models and will feature a variety of competitions. There will be a judging of the overall

style of the cars in differ-ent categories along with audio and exhaust-offs. Last year, 1,000 people attended the event and around 400 cars were entered in the showcase. When not planning the car show, the club’s mem-bers take scenic car trips to nearby mountains, host barbeques, facilitate con-versations about cars, drive at Pioneer Valley Indoor Karting and hold their own “tech” days. On these tech days, club members are taught basic car maintenance skills such as changing the oil or checking the brake and power fluid levels. “Everyone’s open and willing to teach people what they know,” said Sean Reinold, the RSO’s presi-dent. The club is also work-ing on obtaining a club car which members will be able to drive as well as practice maintenance on. While the Motorsport Club was founded in the 1990s, it was once disband-ed and rebooted again in 2004. Although it was origi-nally founded with a club

car, the group has recently run into some difficulty in obtaining one due to University regulations. For those who do have cars, the club goes to auto-crosses located in an aban-doned airport and mem-bers compete in closed cir-cuit timed races. These races involve one car on the track at a time driving at about 30 mph and the best time wins. It is more of a technical way of driving as opposed to driv-ing as fast as one can. “We also have some generous alumni (who) allow some of our mem-bers (who don’t own cars) to ride along with them at the autocrosses,” Reinold added. The club meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Campus Center. To find out more about the Motorsport Club and this year’s car show, visit the club’s Facebook page at h t t p s : / / w w w. f a c e b o o k .com/UMassMotorspor t . Christina Yacono can be reached at [email protected].

SGA elects speaker of the senate, associate speaker

By CathErinE FErriSCollegian Staff

After speeches and pre-sentations from seven can-didates for the positions of speaker of the Senate and associate speaker, Lauren Coakley and Julie Brunelle were declared the winners, respectively. T h e S t u d e n t Government Association gathered Monday night as four nominees – Maddie Goldstein, Tyler O’Day, Amy Gebo and Coakley – explained why they were the best choice for the position of speaker of the Senate. The three candi-dates who were nominated for the associate speaker position were Michael Hout, Hayden Grahl and Brunelle. Candidates for both positions agreed trans-parency was an issue that should be worked on within the SGA to improve relations with other cam-pus agencies and organi-zations, as well as being

more open with the stu-dent body in general. Coakley said she was able to see the SGA through multiple lenses due to the number of posi-tions she has held within the organization. She was a special assis-tant her first year, a sena-tor at the beginning of this academic year and became the associate speaker in November. Coakley also said she wants to be able to focus on helping senators with any projects they may be working on. Candidates also expressed similar sen-timents in response to a question president-elect and current Speaker of the Senate Sïonan Barrett asked in regards to what kind of relationship the SGA and the Center for

Education Policy and Advocacy shared. All the candidates who were asked this question said although the relation-ship was strained between the two organizations, they hoped to strengthen ties in the future. Brunelle suggested a bonding session between the two groups to have a more personal relation-ship. After the first round of voting, Gebo received six votes, O’Day received 12 votes and there was a tie between Coakley and Goldstein, in which each candidate received 13 votes. For the associate speak-er election, Hout received nine votes, Grahl received 16 votes and Brunelle

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Hackathon was second annual at the University

Rubio announces candidacy Mon.

By PatriCia mazzEiMiami Herald

MIAMI — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants who rock-eted from the obscure West Miami City Commission to the U.S. Senate, told top political donors Monday that he’s running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, a campaign he intends to officially launch later Monday at downtown Miami’s Freedom Tower. In a conference call with benefactors Monday morn-ing, Rubio cast the election as a choice between the past and the future, one of the fundraisers told the Miami Herald. At his kickoff event, he’s expected to tie his Cuban immigrant parents’ journey

to his own political success and outline a campaign built around the promise that, under the right national leadership, his story can continue to repeat itself for other families. Rubio arrived at the Freedom Tower before noon Monday for a walkthrough. News crews had set up along Biscayne Boulevard since earlier in the morning. “I hope you guys will be here tonight. It will be great,” Rubio told reporters before dashing off. He didn’t take any questions. Up the road at the Marriott Biscayne Bay, Rubio had breakfast early Monday with financiers who made the trip to Miami. About 100 people attended, said one of them, Coral Gables attorney Jorge Luis Lopez. “Spanish was spoken,” he quipped.

Sen. told donors in conference call

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Candidates for both positions agreed transparency was an issue that should be worked on within the SGA to improve

relations with other campus agencies and organizations...

Many of the event’s attendees came from

outside UMass, traveling from Boston by bus.

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T H E R U N D OW N

ON THIS DAY...In 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth. He died the following day.

Russia Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday lifted a five–year hold on delivery of S–300 missiles to Iran imposed under a United Nations sanction regime, getting a jump on other world powers in resuming trade with the long–isolated Islamic republic. The order ended the ban on delivering five S–300 squadrons worth a total of $800 million, Russia Today television reported.Putin’s decree took imme-diate effect with his sig-nature, the Kremlin news service said.

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Kenya A Kenyan court Monday convicted three men to 15–year jail terms for gang raping and assaulting a 16–year–old girl, two years after police punished them with mow-ing a lawn. The victim, known only as “Liz” to protect her identity, was brutally beaten and raped by six men in western Busia County on her way home from a funeral in June 2013.

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China releases 5 feminists held for planning protests

By Stuart LeavenworthMcClatchy Foreign Staff

BEIJING — China’s lead-ers have apparently bowed to international pressure by agreeing Monday to release five feminist activists who’d been held for a month for planning protests against sexual harassment. The release of the women, who were detained shortly before International Women’s Day last month, followed denunciations from numerous U.S. and other international critics, includ-ing Secretary of State John Kerry and his predeces-sor, Hillary Clinton, who on Sunday announced her can-didacy for president. The five women could still face prosecution, but for now some supporters of the femi-nist activists think interna-tional pressure made a differ-ence. “The international atten-tion did not hurt, it helped,” Liang Xiaojun, a lawyer for one of the women, Wu Rongrong, told McClatchy. “Cases in China have their own sequence of develop-ment. The attention from the international society has helped in this case.” Leta Hong Fincher, the Hong Kong–based author of “Leftover Women,” a book about the pressures Chinese women face to marry early and let men handle business affairs, also credited inter-national pressure for the release.

“For once and for all, let’s retire the notion that we need to let China ‘save face’ when it comes to human rights abus-es,” she said on Twitter. According to Liang, Wei Tingting, 26, Wang Man, 32, and Zheng Churan, 25, were reportedly released on bail Monday. Early Tuesday morning Beijing time, the other two — Li Tingting, 25, and Wu, 30, — were released, according to William Nee, a China researcher for Amnesty International. “The decision to release all five women is an encour-aging breakthrough. The authorities must now follow through and drop all charges and restrictions against the women,” said Nee. The five women are mem-bers of China’s Women’s Rights Action Group. They reportedly had planned protests on International

Women’s Day, March 8, including distributing stick-ers with slogans saying “stop sexual harassment, let us stay safe.” Supporters in Hong Kong had protested the deten-tions, as did some more qui-etly on the Chinese mainland. Overall, the detentions sent a chill through the Chinese feminist community, with many women unsure how far they could go in protesting gropings and other everyday harassment in public, or even planning to plan protests. Kerry had issued a state-ment in support of the women on Friday. “Each and every one of us has the right to speak out against sexual harassment and the many other injus-tices that millions of women and girls suffer around the world,” he said.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry denounces the activists’ detainment.

Sunday night, several hun-dred friends and family mem-bers gathered at the home of former Latin Builders Association President Bernie Navarro with Rubio, his wife, Jeanette, and their four chil-dren. Navarro introduced Rubio as “the next president of the United States.” Rubio, 43, a first–term sen-ator, will rely on his confident speaking skills and endear-ing personal narrative to try to break through a crowded group of GOP candidates, several of them vying for the same base of conservative vot-ers. The pack already includes Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, with others waiting to step in. Democrat Hillary Clinton entered the race Sunday, though without the fanfare of a live event. No Republican looms larger for Rubio than his one-time mentor, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. The prospect of their dueling candidacies has split Republican loyalists in the nation’s largest swing state, with much of the party establishment already choos-ing the older and more experi-enced Bush. Bush, the 62–year–old son and brother of two for-mer presidents, announced in December that he would explore his own run — com-plicating Rubio’s plans, which had been laid out in deliber-ate fashion since he joined the Senate. But he kept them anyway, seeing an unsettled primary field where he could emerge as a unifier of tea par-tiers, centrists and traditional conservatives. If he doesn’t, a national campaign brings little downside; he could still be positioned to run for gover-nor in 2018 or for president in 2020 or 2024. Rubio’s Senate seat comes up for re–election next year, and he cannot be on the ballot for two federal offices at the same time. He had said repeat-edly he wouldn’t seek anoth-er Senate term if he ran for president, though his re–elec-tion papers aren’t due until

May 2016. Republicans and Democrats have been recruit-ing Senate candidates in prep-aration for Rubio’s announce-ment, with Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy of Jupiter already campaigning. Rubio has had little time to pass significant legisla-tion on Capitol Hill, exposing him to criticism that — like President Barack Obama, according to some conserva-tives — he’s too inexperienced for the White House. Rubio notes that he is the former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, while Obama didn’t hold a leader-ship post as a state lawmaker. But other Obama compari-sons might be more favorable for Rubio. When Clinton’s weekend campaign launch threatened to overshadow Rubio’s Monday plans, his advisers called the timing fortuitous because it would create an old–versus–new contrast between the two can-didates. Democrats characterized Rubio as a partisan who caved into conservative pressure when he backed off compre-hensive immigration legisla-tion he championed in 2013 and who questions whether climate change is man–made. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston, the Democratic National Committee chairwoman, said at a Monday news conference in Miami that Rubio is a “self–interested and opportunistic politician.” “At every turn, Marco Rubio has pandered to the Republican base, throughout his whole career, instead of doing what’s best for his con-stituents and his country,” she said. Rubio, who has lined up national interviews Monday and Tuesday, will hold a fun-draiser Thursday in Boston and campaign Friday in New Hampshire. He will return Tuesday to Washington, D.C., for a Senate hearing on a pos-sible deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program.

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Sen. Rubio speaks to The Project for the Common Defense on Sept. 17, 2014.

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received 19. A second vote was called to order and Brunelle won the associate speaker posi-tion with 26 votes. Grahl received 15 votes. Two people decided to abstain and there was one vote for Secretary of University Policy Stefan Herlitz. There was a final vote for the speaker of the Senate position between Coakley,

who received 17 votes, and Goldstein, who received 15 votes. O’Day received 12 votes in that round. In the final round of vot-ing, Coakley won in a close margin with 23 votes, as Goldstein received 18 votes. One person abstained.

Catherine Ferris can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @Ca_Ferris2.

House Dems push GOP over LGBT discrimination

By emma DumainCQ–Roll Call

WASHINGTON — House Democrats, sensing a grow-ing political advantage over Republicans on LGBT issues, are pushing a resolution to express congressional con-demnation of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The action comes on the heels of, and in direct response to, the national uproar over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which crit-ics say gives businesses per-mission to deny service to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender customers. “In the wake of the back-lash of Indiana’s misguid-ed law, it is clear that the vast majority of Americans oppose this type of discrimi-nation,” Rep. Andre Carson, an Indiana Democrat and lead sponsor of the resolu-tion, said in a statement. More and more states are legalizing same–sex

marriage, and in 2013 the Supreme Court overturned key parts of the Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as between one man and one woman. But Republicans are still reluc-tant to wade into the issue lest they alienate their social-ly conservative base. For House GOP leaders even a nonbinding resolu-tion, such as the one Carson and his colleagues are pro-posing, probably wouldn’t be worth making members go on the record on LGBT rights in a presidential elec-tion cycle. But the Democratic law-makers who outlined the effort in a conference call with reporters Monday sig-naled they wouldn’t let GOP opposition go quietly into the

night. It could set up a nasty fight among the ideological factions on Capitol Hill in the weeks ahead, especially as the Supreme Court pre-pares to hear oral arguments later this month on whether same–sex marriage is a con-stitutional right. “When intolerance occurs anywhere, everyone has an obligation to take a stand,” said Rep. Steve Israel of New York, the chairman of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee tasked with honing House Democrats’ messaging over the next year and a half. “The United States Congress shouldn’t get a waiver on this ... Congress needs to lead on this.”

The action comes on the heels of ... national uproar over Indiana’s Religious Freedom

Restoration Act.

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with coding prior to the event and all said learning it was difficult but reward-ing. “We just want to chill out and learn new stuff and meet new people,” Roznovjak said.

Familiar friends

Many of the event’s attendees came from out-side UMass, traveling from Boston by bus. Three sophomore Northeastern University friends – Tiffney Kitiratanasumpun, a com-puter science and math-ematics major, Ryan Aljondi, a computer sci-ence major and Mark Turner, a computer engi-neering major – all heard about the event from other friends. Aljondi and Turner were working together on a website which would allow users to upload songs and create corresponding light shows. Aljondi said he came up with the idea last year when he decided to throw a party and had the necessary accessories except for lights. “I had the music, the alcohol, the people who would dance but I didn’t have lights,” he said. “I looked at how other people did it and it’s thousands upon thousands of dol-lars and I don’t have that money and I didn’t want to bother with it. So I thought I could kind of make it myself.” Aljondi and Turner said they ran into prob-lems, however, when they realized they did not know enough programming. M e a n w h i l e , Kitiratanasumpun said she was working on a far less ambitious project in

which she was trying to create automated comput-er-generated geometric art like colorful triangles and tessellated shapes. The next day, Kitiratanasumpun said she abandoned the project in order to make a differ-ent one involving an alarm clock that would automati-cally show kittens when going off. The appeal of a hackathon for K i t i r a t a n a s u m p u n , Aljondi and Turner also had to do with the fun aspects of the experience. “Besides being some-where where I can focus on something and get in the zone, everybody is kind of like-minded so it’s easy to connect with people,” Kitiratanasumpun said. “I just like new things, trying new places trying new stuff. I feel like hack-athons are like hammocks, once you’re in it you kind of don’t want to leave and it’s also super fun.” Turner added, “I’m here because I wanted to try it out. I thought it was interesting. I haven’t been together with this many people to do the same thing.”

Organization

The hackathon is still a fairly new concept, coming into the mainstream in 1999 when OpenBSD in Calgary and a Sun Microsystem JavaOne Conference in San Francsico held them almost simultaneously, according to South by Southwest’s website.

The site also said since then, hackathons have branched out into several types with some devoted to startups, brands, com-petitive communities and other non-technical hacks. HackUMass began last year with Andrew Sousa, a senior studying electrical engineering. This year’s event was organized primar-ily by Michaela Shtilman-Minkin, the head coordi-nator, Leo Lin, sponsor coordinator, J.C. Davis, head of logistics, Amanda Pellerite, head of pub-lic relations and Kaitlin Menzie and Sean Luo as heads of website and app development. HackUMass part-nered with Major League Hacking, the official stu-dent hackathon league to organize the event. “We really wanted to ramp it up,” Davis said. “We felt the first HackUMass was a great success and there’s no rea-son we can’t put on a great event that rivals the huge name-brand hackathons across the country” However, the goals for this year were still firmly rooted in fun and experi-ence, Pellerite said. “I hope it encourages beginners to keeping work-ing on their projects in their free time and hope-fully people who already know what they are doing will also learn something,” she said. This year’s prizes included eight different sponsored awards from IBM, TripAdvisor, Indico,

Google and more. UMass Dining gave an award to the hack related to instant customer feed-back and interaction. HackUMass also had prizes for eight finalist teams, with each member receiving a Nvidia Shield, and three champion priz-es, with each team mem-ber receiving a Myo and Pebble Steel smartwatch. But beyond prizes and learning experience, there was an opportunity for participants to interact with sponsors and net-work. Sérgio Cunha, a UMass alum who was represent-ing Verizon and helped organize last year’s event when he was a student, said hackathons are a great way to recruit poten-tial interns and employ-ees. “Verizon is at UMass for every career fair and hon-estly I feel like going to a hackathon is probably a better way to see how stu-dents actually work and what they can do,” he said. There were many win-ners at the closing ceremo-ny on Sunday, with some groups winning multiple awards. The four “champions” from the finalist roundup were RoboCop, a silent app to alert the police by an automated phone call, PowerGlove 2.0, which charts the flexibility of hand and finger move-ments for those with arthri-tis, Surround, a music app that collects music playing in your area and WiZer, an open-source website.

Emma Sandler can be reached at [email protected].

HackUmass partnered with Major League Hacking, the official student

hackathon league to organize the event. By TimoThy m. PhelPsTribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — A fed-eral judge sentenced a former Blackwater security guard to life in prison Monday and three others to 30 years each over a 2007 shooting that left 17 people dead in a public square in Baghdad. The sentences should bring to a close one of the most pain-ful episodes in the U.S. occu-pation of Iraq. The killings sparked widespread criticism in Iraq and the U.S. over the use of ex–military personnel under loose government regu-lation to protect U.S. diplomats in the war zone. Nicholas Slatten was sen-tenced to life for first–degree murder, and three other guards — Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard — to mandatory–minimum sentences of 30 years each on manslaughter and firearm charges, according to a court spokesman. Prosecutors had asked U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth to sentence Slough to 57 years, Liberty to 51 years

and Heard to 47 years. The government had flown in dozens of Iraqi witnesses — the most foreigners ever to assist in a Justice Department prosecution — to testify about scenes of graphic violence when a Blackwater convoy called Raven 23 opened fire with automatic weapons, snip-er rifles and grenade launch-ers in 2007. During the trial, pros-ecutors and Iraqi witnesses described the shootings as unprovoked, the result of cal-lous, trigger–happy civilian security guards who were nervous about intelligence reports that a white Kia carry-ing a car bomb was circulating in the city looking for a target. The defense, which called only four witnesses, charac-terized the killings as a tragic mistake that started when unknown Iraqis opened fire on the Blackwater convoy. Defense attorneys cau-tioned the jury against sec-ond–guessing the actions of fellow citizens who were react-ing to what they believed was the sound of gunfire in a war zone.

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A car sits at a traffic circle in central Baghdad where a 2007 shoot-out with private security company Blackwater left 17 dead.

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I heard it takes 21 to 28 days to break a habit. That’s only three to four weeks – less than a month. If you can go a month without doing something you consider to be negative, or even positive if you want to stop doing it, you have fewer urges to do it by the end of the period. I’ve seen that on multiple internet sources and decided

to give it a try. Before deciding on my 21-day cleanse, I read about Eve O. Schaub’s experience giving up sugar for a year. Schaub often felt tired but didn’t think anything of it. Americans are busy. We’re always on the run with places to go and people to see. “One in seven Americans has metabolic syndrome. One in three Americans is obese. The rate of diabetes is skyrocketing and cardiovascular disease is America’s number one killer,” said Schaub in her article for The Mind Unleashed. “According to several experts, sugar is the thing that is making so many Americans fat and sick.” Schaub is very ambitious. She wanted to see if her family, including herself, husband and 11 and 6-year-old daughters could cut out anything with an added sweet-ener, sugar, honey, molasses, maple syrup, agave, fruit juice or any fake sugar, for a year. They only ate fruit and foods where the sweetness was from its original source. She discovered something that I and probably most people didn’t know. There is sugar in almost everything

processed and in foods that you wouldn’t think it would be in because they are not sweet, such as tortillas and chicken broth. The reason is “to make these items more palatable, add shelf life and make packaged food produc-tion ever cheaper.” “After continuing my research, I was convinced remov-ing sugar would make us all healthier,” Schaub said. That makes sense to me, because they were not eating unnatural foods but she said she felt better in a very real and tangible way.

When you try to wean yourself off a medication, for example, you must do it in gradually decreasing doses, as not to put your body in shock. The Schaub family did it all at once, except for a monthly dessert treat, and noticed the effects in a gradual way. “Not only did I not enjoy my slice of pie, I couldn’t even finish it,” Schaub said. “It tasted sickly sweet to my now-sensitive palate. It actually made my teeth hurt. My head began to pound and my heart began to race; I felt awful.” It’s like she put her body into shock during that expe-rience. The family members get sick a lot less frequently and eat very differently than a year before. I found this entire story fascinating.

If they could all do it for a year, I could certainly do it for 21 days. The setting would be different because I am at school surrounded by so many foods I would have to avoid, whereas the Schaubs do their own grocery shop-ping and didn’t have temptations lying around. Nevertheless, I tried it. I marked on my calendar day one and day 21. My version of “no sugar” meant no dessert, sugary snacks or beverages other than water and tea. I didn’t delve in as intensely as they did, cutting out salad dressing and

checking all food labels because frankly, it was too hard. I thought this was a good first step. It was challenging, especially when my friends were eating dessert around me but chal-lenges were an important part of fulfilling my goal and after each meal, I was proud of myself for avoiding it. I only cheated a couple times. Twenty one days later, I didn’t feel

extremely different but I did feel energized. My skin looked healthier and I celebrated my completion by eat-ing a dessert. When I ate it, I ate it slowly to fully enjoy it. However, I didn’t love it the way I thought I would. My palate really did change. Now, I eat sugary things again, but not to the extent that I did before my little experiment. I look at a piece of cake and don’t feel inclined to eat it the way I used to. It’s amazing to me how, with a bit of self-control and lack of indulgence, one can change so drastically. Our bodies can always change with how we treat them, whether in a good or bad way.

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“It was challenging, especially when my friends were eating dessert around me, but challenges were an important part of fulfilling my

goal and after the meal I was proud of myself for avoiding it.”

“The last several months have eroded that credibility and the Scott case puts an

exclamation point on it.”

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The shooting of Walter Scott in South Carolina this past week has once again focused the nation’s

attention on police violence. When Walter Scott was stopped this past week for driving with a broken taillight, neither he nor the police officer knew what was going to happen next. According to the police reports that were filed, Scott, 50, fled the scene as officer Michael T. Slager went back to his patrol car to look up his record. Slager then pro-ceeded to pull out his Taser, using it on Scott to no avail. According to the same report, Slager recalled a struggle between himself and Scott over the Taser. The problem is that this part of the account cannot be verified. In fact, with the numerous con-tradictions purported by Slager, much of this account is false. This fallacy is a scenario all too famil-iar in our society: white on black crime with very little basis. Slager fired eight consecutive shots to the back, killing Scott. Unlike the situation involv-ing Michael Brown in Ferguson, where the full story will never be clear, there is a key difference in this incident. What makes this situation different is the video. It is hard to know where to begin. Slager clearly stated that the two of them struggled over the Taser. The video, however, paints

a different picture, which shows that the shooting took place after the Taser fell to the ground. Also, after it became clear that Scott was dead, the video shows the officer bringing an object (the Taser) and dropping it alongside his body, so as to cover up the fact that he did, after all, make a mistake. The Supreme Court said offi-cers are within their rights to use deadly force against a “fleeing sus-pect only when there is probable cause that the suspect poses a sig-nificant threat of death or serious injury to the officer or others.” Clearly there was no “significant

threat” being posed if the officer had to place the Taser beside him. The issue here is this really underscores the issue of police credibility. Furthermore, it makes one wonder what lengths these police reports go to defend those in the line of duty. Also, it is clear that Scott was struggling to get away. It was more of a hobble than a run. The physi-cally fit officer Slager would not have a problem chasing him down. Moreover, if the supposed fight over the Taser actually occurred, should one’s fate be decided on the sole basis of that one inci-dent? Does a person deserve to die because of an entanglement like this? The police are there to serve and protect the people. With that

comes the implicit assumption that they are trustworthy. The last several months have eroded that credibility and the Scott case puts an exclamation point on it. The problem is that this decline in police credibility is the result of a video shot by a pedestrian passing through a neighborhood. Without the video, the ques-tions surrounding Ferguson would only carry over and there would only be the police report to go off of. This is not to say that police credibility was perfect before Ferguson – police corruption has a long history in this country. But

the demand for changes in proto-col must stay part of the public dia-logue. This means police command-ers must answer

to the community and not to their fellow officers whose work they too often cover. The death of Walter Scott, a father of four, only furthers the argument that police officers shoot to kill unnecessarily. In the case of Eric Garner in New York, they choked to kill. Officer Slager has been charged with murder. As a verdict awaits, we wonder how long this issue will be kept on the national agen-da before the ongoing trend of racial injustice is reversed. We can no longer just talk about fighting crime – we must put the word “jus-tice” back in the phrase “criminal justice.”

Isaac Simon is a Collegian Columnist and can be reached at [email protected].

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Mill transformed into Abandoned Building Brewery

By Cade BelisleCollegian Staff

Next to one of Abandoned Building Brewery’s giant steel fermenting tanks sits a home brewer’s glass carboy. This was owner Matthew Tarlecki’s original fermenting vessel which has traveled quite a bit over the past few years, much like Tarlecki. Tarlecki’s hobby of brewing brought him from an office job in Philadelphia to a 100-year-old abandoned mill, and he has not looked back since. A Philadelphia native, Tarlecki is no stranger to big manufacturing complexes and how they look when long-forgotten. So when he wanted a name for the drinks being homebrewed in his college house, the namesake of the buildings fit right on the label. Local friends were the first ones at the time to try the latest style of beer made under the Abandoned Building brand. Tarlecki also volunteered at McKenzie Brew House in Philadelphia, where he saw the process of making and bot-tling batches firsthand. A few of Tarlecki’s associates started small breweries themselves, so there was little doubt for Tarlecki that pursuing such a dream was possible. Achieving this, however, meant leaving a career in engi-neering after years of educa-tion and working in an office. “It was difficult leaving a nine-to-five job, where I went to the office every day,” Tarlecki said. During a visit with a friend studying at Hampshire College, he discovered that the Pioneer Valley was a great place to start a business. Before long, The Brickyard in Easthampton caught

Tarlecki’s eye. Mill buildings were always in the back of his mind, as they would nicely complement the brand name. With a location picked, it then became a matter of get-ting funding, according to Tarlecki. “Since this was the first business I had ventured into, the traditional loan option didn’t really pan out very well so we ended up going with some of my own equity and then we did a few private inves-tors that were interested in the brewery idea,” Tarlecki said. Tarlecki said the entire Abandoned Building Brewery project had a total budget of around $200,000, and that from the onset, keeping costs down was essential. The location itself was an actual abandoned space, which meant Tarlecki had a great deal of cleaning up to do. Instead of hiring a crew to move discarded equipment, he relied on a few friends and family to clean and paint the future brewery while the bulk of the budget went toward purchasing the instruments to make the beer. “All of the brewery equip-ment was brand new so we put the money where it was going to count,” Tarlecki said. “We

can buy or get used free chairs and couches and stuff like that but when it comes down to the beer quality, it was definitely worthwhile.” As the whole process pro-gressed to a much larger scale, Tarlecki then looked to veter-ans of the trade for some help. “The nice thing about brew-ers is that they’re usually will-ing to help you out if you have a question about things like that. … Wormtown (Brewery) helped out a lot. The brewers there are really friendly, super knowledgeable,” Tarlecki said. “You can figure out a lot yourself but it’s nice to know if something you’re going to do has been done before and has worked so you can avoid something that won’t.” When it came to the ingre-dients, the lure of Hadley was always in play. Tarlecki visited Valley Malt in Hadley on his initial trips to the area and after some successful tests batches with its product, he knew everything he needed was within easy reach. For hops, Tarlecki only had to look to his backyard – literal-ly. At his new home in Hadley, Tarlecki said he has about 200 hop plants. That yield helps produce the “Hoppy Valley” (7.6 percent ABV) India Pale

Ale style. For water, the brewery’s location once again proves beneficial. Easthampton has been awarded the best drink-ing water in the nation mul-tiple years by several organiza-tions, including most recently at the 2015 National Rural Water Association Rally in Washington, D.C. With all of the pieces finally in place, the brewing began for Easthampton’s first craft brewery last year, with the tasting room opening in April 2014. But Tarlecki said the first year was expectedly bumpy. “There were a couple of challenges, mainly trying to get draft accounts,” Tarlecki said. “We didn’t do any bottling right off the bat. In the tast-ing room we could only give out free samples and growlers to-go.” After acquiring a farmer-brewery license, on-site sales were allowed. Self-distributing kegs and the eventual bottles were slow-going at first but picked up local steam after advertising bar-to-bar. “I’d say like 80 percent of our draft is within 20 miles of the brewery,” Tarlecki said.

The new brewery received a lot of attention, as it was featured in several beer fes-tivals statewide, including the American Craft Beer Fest held in Boston. And the styles of beer are as diverse as Tarlecki’s taste. “I make the beers that I really like to drink,” he said, adding that Belgian and American styles are his focus right now. Even as a small start-up operation, Abandoned Building Brewery is testing unproven waters. One such unique endeavor is whiskey and rum barrel-aged beers. After receiving some help from contacts at High Horse Brewing, Tarlecki now owns barrels for the style. Because of the two month aging pro-cess, their “Rum and Whiskey Barrel Aged Nightshade Stout” (6.7+ percent ABV) has limited availability. That style, as well as the regular “Nightshade Stout” (6.7 percent ABV) and “Odin Quadruple” (9.4 percent ABV), are the only ones being bottled. Tarlecki’s current goal is to put the Saison and IPA vari-eties under caps by summer-time.

As the owner and only full-time employee, Tarlecki said the long-term goal is to distrib-ute statewide. “We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves too much and start supplying Boston and run out of beer here at our hometown,” Tarlecki said. “You don’t want to do that to your customers.” Patrons of one of the brew-ery’s tasting room days were happy to praise Easthampton’s first operating craft brewery. Kristen Branch and Joanna Marolla, self-described beer coinsurers, said coming by the tasting room on Friday night has quickly become a tradi-tion. “This Abandoned Building has a nice hang out vibe,” Branch said. Ted Seymour of Easthampton also appreciates the atmosphere and the qual-ity product. “I think this is a brewery that’s spoken for,” Seymour said. “They’ve proved them-selves with their beer.”

Cade Belisle can be reached at [email protected].

Craft brewery open in Easthampton

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The UMass UPub serves up a fascinating history of campus

By Griffin lyonsCollegian Correspondent

The UPub is a busy place on most weekday afternoons. It’s located in the heart of the Campus Center directly across the concourse from the recently renovated Blue Wall Café. Already a well-trafficked destination for stu-dents of legal drinking age, it has seen its crowds grow even larger this year. Founded in the early 1990s as the Graduate Lounge, the bar was renamed and ren-ovated four years ago. The relatively cozy size of UPub both differs from and carries on the tradition of student-accessible drinking at the University. For a brief time in the 1970s, the old Blue Wall was “the largest bar east of the Mississippi,” according to 1972 graduate Ed Rudner, who was a member of the Student Union Governing Board when the decision was made to sell beer and wine to students on campus. At the time of the Campus Center’s 1970 opening, a liquor license was granted to the building for its catering service several floors above the concourse and the for-mer top-floor restaurant, Top of Campus. Financed separately from other UMass construction projects, the Campus Center’s dining

services were run indepen-dently of the campus’ dining commons. With the license being granted to the building as a whole, a small section of Blue Wall was cordoned off as an area where students with a valid ID could order beer, wine and mixed drinks. It was about the size of today’s UPub, said Rudner, who worked for the Campus Center for a year after gradu-ating as a director of pur-chases. That all changed in 1973, however, when a law signed the previous year by then-Gov. Francis W. Sargent took effect and lowered the drink-ing age in Massachusetts to 18. A move meant to match the lowered voting age and the age of eligibility for mili-tary service in the wake of the Vietnam War’s turbulent influence on American civic life, the lowered drinking age had immediate consequences for UMass; almost all of its students would now be of legal drinking age. A debate broke out over whether to extend alcohol sales to the entirety of Blue Wall. Where there had previ-ously been little controver-sy over the small section of Blue Wall set aside for serv-ing alcohol, there was now a heated opposition from local bars and some sides of the public, according to Rudner. Deliberating on the choice, the University reasoned that the student body, now almost

completely of drinking age, would probably engage in drinking whether or not the campus served alcohol. Having a safe space where students could drink and socialize close to their dor-mitories was seen as a way to discourage and mitigate the possibility of reckless behav-ior like binge-drinking and drunk driving. As Rudner recalls, Blue Wall was less than a mile from most students’ dorms and close to off-campus resi-dences, making it marked-ly safer to walk home and reducing the likelihood of driving while intoxicated – which was the national prob-lem that prompted the feder-al government to begin pres-suring states to raise their drinking ages to 21. Today, UPub offers wines, ciders and 25 varieties of beer at any given time, with six served on tap and the remain-ing available in bottles. Supervisor Doug Jillson, who began working at UPub shortly after its renovation and transformation from the Graduate Lounge, said the options available – even the mainstays on tap – largely reflect customer demand. While this is made evident by the frequently changing selection of bottles on the small displays above the bar and registers, and the com-prehensive chalkboard list of options organized by cat-egory, nowhere is this more visible than the selections on tap, where UPub will not hes-

itate to switch out an under-performing beer. In March, UPub began offering Goose Island’s IPA on tap, taking the place of the popular Yuengling Lager. But due to low sales by April and a lack of traction with customers compared to similarly-priced offerings on tap from Lagunitas and Berkshire Brewing Company, Goose Island IPA was taken off of tap and Yuengling was put back on. The variety of options, as well as UPub’s sale of beer and wine only, differs greatly from the oper-ation of the Blue Wall’s bar during Rudner’s time work-ing there. Serving drinks primar-ily at night, on weekends and several weeknights, the demand for mixed alco-holic drinks was so substan-tial, according to Rudner, that a few types of cocktails would be mixed in bulk in the 50-gallon soup drums from the kitchen and stored behind the bar in 20-gallon coffee urns for dispensing. When it came to beer, Blue Wall saw deliveries of fresh kegs up to two or three times a night due to the lack of stor-age needed for the volume to

meet the sheer demand. Entertainment was differ-ent too, according to Rudner. While UPub currently hosts weekly comedy and trivia nights and occasional special events, Blue Wall’s bar hosted entertainment such as live music three or four nights a week, including musical acts as famous as the new-wave rock band The Cars. This eventually led to the installation of a slightly ele-vated platform for perform-ers in a corner of the old Blue Wall. It would stay in place even after the end of Blue Wall’s time as a drink-serving establishment and after the end of live shows, remaining in place until the facility’s renovation over the summer of 2014. Things eventually changed at the old Blue Wall, though. The pool of students of drinking age diminished with the successive increas-es in drinking age in 1979 and 1985, making the scale of the venture less feasible and causing the University to cease alcohol sales in Blue Wall. A brief experiment with closing the Graduate Lounge and reviving bar service at

Blue Wall in 2003 proved unpopular and unprofitable and ended two years later with the Graduate Lounge’s reopening. Things have changed more generally, too. In the last 40 years, the national conversation around alco-

hol and alcohol abuse has painstakingly opened up in fits and starts. This has been reflected positively in a greater number of nuanced portrayals of alcoholism and discussions about it in popu-lar culture. As UMass has grappled with its outsized reputa-tion as a party school with widespread underage drink-ing, particularly in the wake of 2014’s highly publicized “Blarney Blowout,” its on-campus alcohol venues have reflected a change in culture from years past. Today, the UMass UPub is a small, cordial oasis on cam-pus, distinguished by a con-vivial atmosphere, a diverse selection of beverages and friendly, attentive staff. It offers a welcome space for students to relax with friends and peers, and in the larger picture, drink as part of a responsible communi-ty rather than for its own sake. This little pub stands out both as a destination on campus and as the successor to one of the most fascinating parts of the modern history of UMass. Griffin Lyons can be reached at [email protected].

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D R I N K

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Tarlecki left his office job in Philadelphia to open a brewery in the Pioneer Valley.


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But Grant kept his compo-sure and struck out the next batter to escape the inning without any further dam-age. “He hung in there and battled all day long,” UMass coach Mike Stone said of Grant after the game. “He didn’t have much, he struggled with his stuff. He just found a way to give us some innings … we wanted him to finish that inning and fortunately he did. We call that damage control; he did a good job with that.” Grant finished with five innings pitched, six walks, four earned runs and seven strikeouts, earning a no-decision. In the sixth, freshman Kevin Hassett took Grant’s place on the mound and struggled initially. Harvard shortstop Drew Reid crushed a solo home run over the scoreboard in left field on the very first at-bat of the inning, putting the Crimson back on top 5-4. It set the stage for the pivotal bottom of the seventh. After pinch hitter Bryce Maher went from first to third on a single by Minutemen shortstop Vinny Scifo, UMass centerfielder Kyle Adie singled again on a hit and run, allowing Scifo to get from first to third as well while Maher scored. The advancement proved crucial as a wild pitch the next at-bat allowed Scifo to score what wound up being the winning run of the game, giving UMass the 6-5 lead. The drama was not over, however. Minutemen reliever Evan Mackintosh recorded the final out of the seventh inning and came back out

for the top of the eighth. But Crimson third baseman John Fallon doubled to lead off and a wild pitch put the tying run at third base with just one out. A walk and hit batter loaded the bases with two outs but Mackintosh fooled Ethan Ferreira with a curveball to get a strike-out and end the inning. “Evan Mackintosh did a nice job. After giving up the home run, Kevin Hassett settled down and gave us two (innings),” Stone said. “We pieced it together … today, we just had to scrap and scrape and the guys on the mound did a good job of doing that for us.” Mike Geannelis pitched

a scoreless ninth to secure the win and earn his sec-ond save of the season. Combined, the bullpen went four innings and allowed just one run. It was the third win in a row for UMass, which improved to 3-1 at Lorden Field this year. Their wins at home have been fueled by timely hitting, some-thing the Minutemen were able to do again on Monday after a weekend of clutch, two-out hits against St. Bonaventure. Stone said clutch hit-ting like UMass has deliv-ered can be contagious and Picard agreed about the effect it can have on a team.

“When somebody gets a clutch hit or anything like that, it really brings the team morale up and keeps it going,” Picard said. The Minutemen return to action Tuesday against Central Connecticut in a makeup of their original meeting which was sched-uled for March 3 but was postponed because of the record snow still lingering in the area. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. in New Britain, Connecticut. Ross Gienieczko can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @RossGien.

Picard said UMass has to stay with the same approach which has led to success over the past week. “(We) just need to play every inning the best we can, stay with our approach,” Picard said. CCSU will counter with a lineup that hinges on the success of a trio of players.

Dominic Severino leads the Blue Devils in hitting (.341 average) and home runs (three), while Franklin Jennings (.317) and Dean Lockery (.315) are the only other regulars batting over .300.

Tyler Fiedler can be reached at [email protected].

deserved,” Dixon said of Glasper. “She waited till this year to become the captain and she completely turned this team into what it is. I give her all the credit really because I think senior lead-ership is crucial for any team.” UMass also picked up a victory the day before on the road, defeating Bryant, 7-0. More importantly, No. 1 singles starter Aarzoo Malik came away with victories in both matches. Malik, whose struggles were well-documented this season, could use the recent stretch as a confidence booster heading into the Atlantic 10 Tournament. “It’s crucial (that she won),” Dixon said. “We wanted to make sure that she won because it has her going into the tournament with more confidence.” UMass traveled to Rhode Island last week to take on the University of Rhode Island and Bryant University. Dixon mentioned prior to the road trip that she felt Bryant was going to be the most difficult of the final three teams. But UMass turned in another power performance against the Bulldogs. Ana

Yrazusta secured her 20th win of the season while the doubles team of Yrazusta and Carol Benito won their 23rd game, improving to 23-5 this year. The Rams were UMass’ final A-10 opponent this season. URI fell to the Minutewomen 6-1, allow-ing UMass to complete the sweep of conference oppo-nents. “I felt that in the URI win, we did what we needed to do,” Dixon said. “We didn’t do great, but we did good enough.” Dixon has coached the UMass tennis program for 23 seasons. She has coached an A-10 championship team as well as four runner-ups. So it means something when she says this year’s team might be the best out of all of them. “This is, if not these best, one of the best,” Dixon said. “I would stick my neck out and say this is probably the best team I have had at UMass in terms of depth, in terms of talent, in terms of doubles but also they have been an extremely easy team to coach.” Philip Sanzo can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @Philip_Sanzo.

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Adam Picard (above) leads UMass with two home runs this season.

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Rob McLam (7) and Paul Yanakopulos (9) celebrate as they cross the plate after Adam Picard (not pictured) hit a three-run home run in the fourth inning against Harvard Monday.

HEATING UP By Ross Gienieczko

Collegian Staff

In a back-and-forth affair with a trip to Fenway Park on the line, the Massachusetts baseball team ral-lied in the seventh inning to defeat Harvard 6-5 Monday afternoon at Earl Lorden Field to secure a place in the Beanpot Championship game. The Minutemen (9-11, 7-5 Atlantic 10) will face Boston College in the championship round April 22. The Eagles topped Northeastern 4-1 on April 8 to secure their spot in the final. After striking out the side in the first inning, UMass starter Andrew Grant battled control issues for the rest of his outing. Wild pitch-es in the second and third helped Harvard (16-16, 5-7 Ivy League) take a 3-0 lead into the bottom of the fourth when Minutemen right

fielder Adam Picard stepped to the plate with runners on first and second. The senior then hammered his team-leading second home run of the year over the hedges in left center field, tying the game 3-3.

It was his 13th career home run at UMass. “I was down two strikes, so I was looking off-speed, trying to sit for as long as I could and react to it,” Picard said.

“I was lucky enough to square the ball up and put it over the fence.” Later in the inning, the Minutemen executed a double steal with runners on first and third to take a 4-3 lead. But Harvard would strike back in the top of the fifth. Two walks and a bunt single loaded the bases for the Crimson and Tanner Anderson worked a two-out walk to tie the game 4-4.

UMass earns Beanpot bid in win vs. Harvard

BA S E BA L L

By TyleR FiedleRCollegian Staff

Riding a season-high three-game winning streak, the Massachusetts baseball team’s confidence is ele-vated following a 2-1 weekend series victory over St. Bonaventure and a come-from-behind win over Harvard Monday. A major theme for the Minutemen (9-11, 7-5 Atlantic 10) has been their late-inning heroics, something they did again Monday with a 6-5 win over the Crimson after a seventh inning rally. Now, they turn their atten-tion to a non-conference opponent in Central Connecticut Tuesday and will look toward pitcher Tim Cassidy, who is scheduled to start, to continue the momentum. Cassidy has struggled so far this season, making four appearances and post-ing a 7.84 ERA. UMass coach Mike Stone said even though it is a non-conference

game, Tuesday’s matchup is an important one for the Minutemen. “We are not at .500 yet so every game is important,” Stone said after Monday’s win. “We have to be ready to go and expect to win and exe-cute.” Kyle Adie continues to produce at the top of the order for UMass and leads the team with a .372 bat-ting average. Meanwhile, the power is coming from Adam Picard, who belted a three-run home run Monday and leads the team with two home runs and 14 RBIs. CCSU (10-15) enters the game with a struggling pitching staff and is 3-3 in its last six games. The Blue Devils have been outscored 32-13 over this span, with a meager .225 team batting average and boast a 4.65 combined earned run average this season. When asked about the mind-set heading into Tuesday’s game,

Minutemen eye their fourth straight victory

UM tops SHU in Amherst

By PhiliP sanzo Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts tennis team couldn’t have scripted a better end to its regular season. The Minutewomen finished at 14-4 (4-0 Atlantic 10), winning seven straight to end the season, includ-ing a 7-0 victory over Sacred Heart Sunday in its season finale. Now, UMass heads into the A-10 tournament in an excellent posi-tion after finishing its perfect con-ference record. Sunday’s victory also marked the final regular season perfor-mance for seniors Chanel Glasper and Gianna Francis, who were honored on Senior Day. Glasper, who was an important fixture on the roster over the last four years, began to say her good-byes Sunday. Accompanied by her grandparents and teammates on the court, the team presented her with flowers, a card and a round of applause. Then, Glasper did some-thing she rarely ever does. She cried. “I’ve never cried playing,” she said. “Maybe once when I lost freshman year (in the A-10 tourna-ment) but that’s it.” Glasper turned the emotional cer-emony into positive momentum on the court. She and Anna Woosley easily took care of their doubles match, defeating Haley Dubits and Emma Pezzullo, 8-0. UMass was rewarded with the doubles point after sweeping all three matches from the Pioneers and was just as dominant in singles play, winning all six matches. Glasper tried not to let the emo-tions of her final game at UMass get to her while playing. “I was trying not to think about it too much but in the last game it started setting in and when I played the last point and started talking to (coach) Judy (Dixon) I realized that my career was almost over,” she said. Glasper defeated Claudia Ruiz 6-2, 6-0 to secure her 76th career victory, an all-time program record for singles victories. Her intensity increasingly rose as the match con-tinued, her shouts of “mine” echo-ing throughout the courts after every point she scored. “What I have been saying to her is that this is a career well-

Chanel Glasper cruises to a win on Senior Day

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Minutewomen avoiding trap game against URIBy Tom mulheRin

Collegian Staff

Performing at an incon-sistent rate this past month, the Massachusetts softball team looks to change its roller coaster of a season for the better on Tuesday, enter-ing a doubleheader against a struggling Rhode Island team on the road. After being swept by Fordham at home over the weekend and further drop-ping in the conference stand-ings, the Minutewomen (8-19, 3-9 Atlantic 10) are fac-ing the lowly Rams (1-27, 0-11 A-10) at an opportune time heading into the deeper part of their schedule. Despite its poor record and shortage of quality per-formances, however, the URI series is not seen as an easy two wins to UMass coach Kristi Stefanoni. Instead, she said she believes her team needs to play its best

in order to avoid a trap game scenario. “I don’t think any game that we have left is an easy win for us,” she said. “The kids are very much aware of the fact that URI is (playing poorly). If you go into that game thinking that, ‘Oh, this team has a losing record and hasn’t won a conference game,’ then you’ve already set yourself up for a loss. “We’re trying to take this game just like any other,” she added. “I see them as a team that has absolutely nothing to lose. If we decide to stay back a little and take them as cupcakes, then we’re going to be in for some trouble.” The Rams rank last in just about every major statistic in the conference entering Tuesday’s double header. At the plate, URI has almost no presence of power in the lineup, hitting only three homeruns with a

slugging percentage that is alarmingly close to its bat-ting average (.283 compared to .228). On the mound, the Rams have a 10.48 ERA. “They’ve got a lot of kids who go in, hack and swing just to swing,” Stefanoni said. “They kind of swing at anything. Their pitching is just okay and their fielding is just okay.” But Stefanoni noted the importance of matching URI’s energy level.“They usually come out with a lot of energy and they’re going to be a scrappy bunch of kids,” Stefanoni said. While it’s important to keep an eye on the opposite side of the diamond, UMass has a few internal issues that it needs to fix, as well. Through 27 games, the Minutewomen pitching ranks second to last in the Atlantic 10 – in front of the Rams – with a 5.27 ERA and

are third to last in walks allowed at 121. It also doesn’t help that UMass’ ace of the rota-tion Caroline Raymond has thrown a conference-high 18 wild pitches. Behind the hill, the Minutewomen haven’t been superb on defense either, ranking second to last in fielding percentage and third to last in errors (43). Even with all of the improve-ments that need to be made in these facets of the game however, Stefanoni believes the biggest key moving for-ward is improving the offen-sive performance. “Run production and mechanical issues (are the biggest concerns heading into the doubleheader),” she said. “We have some peo-ple in the lineup right now who just aren’t producing mechanically or aren’t pro-ducing a run when people are on base. We have to get

better and we’ve got to score runs.” As for what the second-year head coach hopes to see Tuesday, like always, she just expects her players to play like themselves. “My expectation is that

they go out and they com-pete and they play UMass softball,” Stefanoni said. “I don’t know anything differ-ent.” Tom Mulherin can be reached at [email protected].

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Caroline Raymond throws a pitch in a 6-0 loss against Fordham Sunday.

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