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Bile convicted and sentenced to 8 to 10 years in state prisonJail time to be followed by five years of probation

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Bile was found guilty on two counts of aggravated rape Monday and sentenced to eight to 10 years Wednesday.

By Nick caNelasaNd aviva luttrell

Collegian Staff

NORTHAMPTON — Emmanuel T. Bile Jr. was sentenced to eight to 10 years in state prison followed by five years of probation Wednesday morning for his involvement in the 2012 gang rape of a University of Massachusetts freshman. Bile was found guilty by a jury Monday afternoon of two of three counts of aggravated rape. Bile, wearing a light gray button-down shirt and khaki pants, was

led into the courtroom in handcuffs and remained emotionless as Judge Jeffrey C. Kinder announced his sen-tence. Before the sentencing, Kinder heard recommendations from both the prosecution and the defense, as well as an impact statement from the victim. The victim, wearing a beige sweat-er and maroon pants, began crying before finishing the first sentence and trembled as she read the pre-pared statement off a piece of paper. She described how after the inci-dent, she couldn’t be in social set-tings without paranoia and couldn’t bear to stay at UMass. “An incredible emptiness and sad-ness took over my life,” she said. “I thought Emmanuel was my

friend,” she continued, adding that he treated her like “less than a human or an animal, but an object he could do whatever he wanted with. “I hope in the future people will recognize the tragedy of rape,” she said. Assistant Northwestern District Attorney Jennifer Suhl recommend-ed a sentence of 10 to 12 years in state prison for the first count of aggravat-ed rape and five years of probation with special conditions for the third count. “These are some of the worst acts we can imagine in our society,” she said, adding Bile committed them when the victim was at her most vul-

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Kyle Chandler leads an impressive “Bloodline”

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Students performed Saturday at the UMass Brazil Dance Carnival, organized by Student Association for the Multicultural Brazilian Alliance.

In the spotlIght ‘He was just an awesome guy’

By shelBy ashliNeCollegian Staff

The University of Massachusetts lost a valued and longtime member of its community on March 18 with the unexpected death of James Edward Mulcahy, 76, of Holyoke. A UMass alumnus, Mulcahy studied arbori-culture, turf grass man-agement and entomology at the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. Even after his graduation in 1960, he continued to be actively involved in the develop-ment of UMass until his death. In particular, Mulcahy focused much of his ener-gy on Stockbridge and its academic, service and social fraternity Alpha Tau Gamma. He served as trea-surer of ATG for 45 years, overseeing the manage-ment and maintenance of their property. Mulcahy had also recently become

secretary, according to his close friend and fellow fraternity member, Gary Shepherd. Shepherd first met Mulcahy when he was freshman at Stockbridge in the fall of 1983. The two connected through their mutual involvement in Stockbridge and ATG. “(ATG) was truly where his heart and soul was,” Shepherd said of Mulcahy in a phone interview. Shepherd went on to explain that it was under Mulcahy’s leadership that ATG donated over $1 million to the School of Agriculture. The money was used to endow a chair – the ATG Fred Jeffrey Stockbridge School director chair – to direct Stockbridge. Mulcahy also developed the James Underwood Crockett Agricultural Technology Growth Fund. According to Shepherd, the fund has supplied about $233,000 in grants since its creation in 1983.

UM alumnus dies March 18

Iraqi forces claim last of Tikrit from Islamic State site

By Mitchell ProtheroMcClatchy Foreign Staff

IRBIL, Iraq — Iraqi security forces backed by sectarian militias took control of the last Islamic State strongholds in Tikrit on Wednesday, the first successful opera-tion by the government in Baghdad to reclaim a major Sunni Muslim pop-ulation center since the extremist group took con-trol of most of central, western and northern Iraq last year. Reports from the scene indicated that the opera-tion, far bloodier than

anticipated when the secu-rity forces and their Shiite militia allies began it a month ago, had destroyed most of the city and sur-rounding areas. The death toll among the pro-gov-ernment forces exceeded 1,000. In Washington, the White House acknowl-edged the triumph and credited the late and con-troversial intervention by U.S. aircraft, which began bombing Islamic State sites last week after the Iraqi push had stalled for two weeks. “You’ll recall that when this operation began, it did not include the sup-port of coalition military

Operation bloodier than anticipated

UM group to enter rocket challenge

By christiNa yacoNoCollegian Staff

Universi ty o f Massachusetts mechani-cal engineering seniors Max Perham, Nate Fowler, Andrew Dodd and Greg Kelley are headed to the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama on April 7 for six days to launch their rocket with other col-leges and universities across the nation. The project began in the late spring of their junior years, in which the four want-ed to work on their honors thesis project that involved competition design and rock-ets, which all members had an interest in but had mini-mal experience with. After doing some research, Perham, the team leader, found the NASA Student Launch Challenge, which is an annual rocket competition for high schools, colleges and non-academic teams across the country. The research

and experiment results are used in future designs for NASA projects. Each year, the NASA Student Launch presents a different challenge, and this year’s mission is to stimulate a robot picking up a sample of Martian soil, loading it into the rocket, manually launch-ing the rocket at least 3000 feet into the air, 10 times the height of the W.E.B. DuBois Library, and having the sam-ple soil and the rocket break off and independently land with their own parachutes, all intact and reusable. Kelley said one of the most difficult challenges to this project was just getting started. “We didn’t have supplies, money or even a workspace,” he said. “We talked to the development office, which is in contact with the alumni to give donations, and they were able to give us a little bit of funding. Most of our fund-ing came from us applying to honors research grants.” The group benefitted from the mechanical and indus-trial engineering student space, which allowed them

to start building the rocket in the hopes that the school will provide more funding in order to ensure other stu-dents can keep on using this space as well. For the past year, the four seniors have been working on their rocket, Sam, which is almost 10 feet in length, four inches in diameter, is made up of four independent sections and weighs about 23 pounds. The National Association

of Rocketry does not allow for heavy metals to be used, for safety reasons, so the team’s rocket is made with 3D printer parts and the body is made of vulcanized phenolic tubing, a high strength paper tube with rubber coating. Before they were even able to work on Sam, how-ever, they had to make pre-liminary designs that were

Project has been in the works for a year

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From left to right: Max Perham, Greg Kelley, Nate Fowler, and Andrew Dodd are all part of the NASA Student Launch competition.

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ON THIS DAY...In 1917, United States President Woodrow Wilson asked the U.S. Congress for a decla-ration of war against Germany, furthering the progression of World War I.

Mexico MEXICO CITY — A fire at an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday killed at least four workers and sent dozens leaping into the water for safety. Sixteen workers were reported injured and there may be a number of missing, Mexico’s state oil monopoly said. It was not immediately clear wheth-er a significant amount of oil had spilled. It was the latest disaster that Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, has had to contend with and comes as the strug-gling company is trying to reposition itself after the government’s decision to open the energy sec-tor to foreign investment for the first time in seven decades. Los Angeles Times

Spain Cynthia Lennon, the former wife of Beatle John Lennon, died on Wednesday at her home in Mallorca, Spain, a rep-resentative for her son confirmed. She was 75. She died after a “short but brave battle with cancer” and her son, Julian Lennon, was at her bedside, according to a statement from the fam-ily. Julian also sent out a tweet announcing his mother’s death. Cynthia Lennon was married to the Beatles leg-end from 1962 until 1968. John was shot to death in 1980 at the age of 40. Los Angeles Times

Haiti For all the anti-gov-ernment protests and demands that he resign from office, Haitian President Michel Martelly remains popular, accord-ing to a new public opinion survey. Martelly, who will begin the final year of his 5-year presidential term in May, got a 57 percent job approval rating. But it’s an open question whether his popularity will give his choice of presidential can-didate the win. Martelly is barred from running again, and Haitians are waiting to see which candi-date gets his support. More than half of Haitians believe the coun-try is headed in the wrong direction, while nearly 70 percent do not believe things are going well today. The Miami Herald

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CorrectionIn the April 1, 2015 edition of the Daily Collegian, in one of the satirical April Fools Day articles titled “Student businesses to accept Bitcoin,” there was a tagline that alluded to sexual assault. While this was a satirical piece written in light of April Fools Day, the Daily Collegian takes sexual assault and rape culture seriously, and apologiz-es to anyone who may have been offended.

nerable. Furthermore, she said he and the other three man accused of gang rap-ing the victim played a role in making her that vulner-able by repeatedly passing her a bottle of vodka. Suhl said Bile showed a “lack of remorse” or understanding about what he did. Defense Attorney David A. Pixley asked for a sentence of 4½ to 8½ years in state prison, say-ing Bile had no juvenile record, didn’t violate the conditions of his pre-trial release and showed up for all court dates. Pixley asked Judge Kinder to consider that Bile was just 18 years old at the time of the incident, and that he will “be in the public eye of the communi-ty wherever he goes” after his release. Pixley also asked Kinder to consider the involve-ment of peer pressure in the incident, as well as his intoxication and his “not fully developed” mind. Before the sentencing, Kinder thanked the victim for her statement. “No one can experi-ence the emotional trauma of what you experienced without having lived it,” he said. He called the inci-dent “every parent’s worst nightmare,” both for the victim and the defendant. Before making his deci-sion, Kinder said he con-

sidered Bile’s youth and lack of criminal history, but said there were “aggra-vating factors, as well.” Kinder said Bile abused the victim’s trust, watched his friends rape her and then joined in. When he was finished, Kinder said, he left her there. “Perhaps most dis-turbing was after sober reflection he showed no remorse,” Kinder said. Assistant Northwestern District Attorney Steven E. Gagne told reporters outside the courthouse he was “pleased with the sen-tencing.” “It is commensurate with the horrific facts of the case,” he said. Gagne said the other three men involved – Adam Liccardi, 20, Justin King, 21, both of Pittsfield, and Caleb Womack, 20, of Windsor Locks, Connecticut – are all on the April trial schedule. “By all accounts, the victim is prepared to tes-tify as many times as need-ed,” Gagne said. Aviva Luttrell can be reached at aluttrel@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @AvivaLuttrell. Nick Canelas can be reached at ncanelas@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @NickCanelas.

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First Assistant Northwestern District Attorney Steven E. Gagne told reporters outside the courthouse he was “pleased with the sentencing.”

Keynote speaker chosen for 2015 commencement

By Zac BearsCollegian Staff

Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, New York’s Hayden Planetarium director and host of the 2014 “Cosmos” miniseries reboot, will be the 2015 Commencement speak-er at the May 8 ceremo-ny in McGuirk Stadium, according to an email sent by University of Massachusetts Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy on Wednesday. Tyson has directed the Hayden Planetarium since 1996, and has become one of the most prominent scientists in public con-versations about topics including climate change, evolution and space travel.

He has served on several government commissions on space, and won NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal in 2004. The National Academy of Sciences announced in February that Tyson would receive the 2015 Public Welfare Medal, which they deem their “most prestigious” honor, for his “extraordinary role in exciting the pub-lic about the wonders of science, from atoms to the Universe.” In January, the Washington Post reported that a late night talk show based on his podcast, “Star Talk,” will air its first episode in April on the National Geographic chan-nel. Zac Bears can be reached at ibears@umass.edu.

Presenter is Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nuclear talks extended, Kerry in Switzerland

By Paul richterTribune Washington Bureau

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Negotiators failed to reach an accord over Iran’s disputed nuclear pro-gram again Wednesday, a day after they missed a self-imposed deadline, but extended the wearying talks for another day. With negotiations still under way between Iran and six world powers Wednesday evening, aides said Secretary of State John F. Kerry would remain in Lausanne at least until Thursday morning in hopes of achieving a break-through. “We continue to make progress but have not reached a political under-standing,” said Marie Harf, the acting State Department spokeswoman, referring to an outline of a deal that would kick the talks into a separate three-month phase. Diplomats for Iran and a diplomatic bloc comprised of the United States and five other world powers insist they could complete the out-line at any time. But they have been unable to settle stubborn disputes that have defied resolution in seven straight days of intense talks. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who has generally been opti-mistic, told journalists that the group planned to press Iran to offer compromise solutions. He described the negotiations as a “struggle.” Over the last 18 months, negotiators have sought to craft a deal that would ease

economic sanctions on Iran if it accepted restrictions intended to prevent it from someday building a nuclear bomb. If the two sides can agree on an outline, they will try to finish a compre-hensive agreement by June 30. Foreign ministers from France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China joined Kerry in Lausanne over the weekend in an effort to build pressure on Iran. But the two sides could not resolve two major issues: how quickly to lift United Nations sanctions on Iran, and how many restrictions will remain in place at the end of the expected 10 to 15 year agreement. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov all abruptly left Lausanne early Wednesday after the talks blew past a midnight deadline. Fabius said he could return if needed. The diplomats missed two deadlines last year, and President Barack Obama told the U.S. team he want-ed a definitive decision by March 31 on whether an agreement with Iran was possible. The other major powers had agreed, hoping it would put pressure on Iran’s government to shelve some of its objections. But Iran has stood firm on key issues, and the latest missed deadline has become a political vulnerability for the Obama administration. Many U.S. lawmakers and allies in Israel and Arab nations have sharply criti-cized the White House for allegedly making too many concessions to Iran in the talks so far. One possibility is the

talks will break up in the next day or so with only a general news statement, then resume after a few days to try to work out a detailed agreement that can help the White House con-vince skeptics in Congress that it is making progress. A halt without a deal would be a setback for the White House, which is concerned that Congress will impose new sanctions that could wreck the talks when law-makers return from a two-week recess April 13. White House officials are hoping the talks produce a detailed outline so they can explain to the public how they intend to solve the problems involved in restraining Iran’s nuclear program Iran has resisted the idea of releasing details, howev-er, warning that would only provide a target for critics while bargaining was still under way. The U.S. side might need to delay some decisions until later in the bargain-ing, analysts said. But U.S. lawmakers and others are expected to insist that even an outline provides proof that any deal ensures Iran cannot build a bomb. Robert Einhorn, a former member of the administra-tion’s Iran team, predicted Wednesday that the deal the U.S. team will take back to Washington “will fall short of expectations.” “It will get a lot of disap-pointment in the American administration, and a lot of skepticism in Congress whether a deal will ever be concluded,” he said in an appearance at Brookings Institution.

Diplomats unable to settle disputes

The money supports agricultural instruction, endeavors, research and Stockbridge’s off-campus extensions. In addition, Mulcahy coordinated the installa-tion and maintenance of local gardens with the help of other ATG mem-bers. These include the Massachusetts Highway Department Visibility Site, located on Route 116 near UMass’ west entrance and the Francis E. Hart Memorial Garden at the Amherst Police Station. Shepherd spoke of what an impact Mulcahy’s life and death has had on the members of Stockbridge and ATG.

“He was just an awe-some guy,” Shepherd said. “He’s going to be missed by ATG and Stockbridge. It’s not often you find someone that’s willing to devote so much time from their life to helping these organizations.” However, Mulcahy’s contributions extend out-side of Stockbridge and ATG. He was also an overseer of the Newman Center for 55 years and co-founder of the UMass Athletic Hall of Fame. He later served on the Hall of Fame’s selection commit-tee. Mulcahy’s funeral mass was held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 28 at the Newman Center.

According to Glenroy Buchanan, who was a close friend of Mulcahy’s for about 30 years, people came from as far away as California to attend the funeral. “He’ll be missed, not only by me, but by the hundreds of other people that knew him,” Buchanan said. Memorial contribu-tions may be made to the James Underwood Crockett Fund, c/o Bank of America, U.S. Trust at 100 Westminster St., P.O. Box R.I. 1-536-05-03, Providence, R.I. 02901.

Shelby Ashline can be reached at sashline@umass.edu.

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airstrikes,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. The operation, Earnest said, “got stalled, right on the outskirts of the city, and remained stalled for a couple of weeks.” Five days of airstrikes ended that stalemate, Earnest said, calling the result “a pretty compel-ling description of the suc-cessful implementation of our strategy.” What it means for future operations against Islamic State forces in other areas they control was uncer-tain. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi asked for American air support over the objections of Iraq’s largest Shiite militias, which had planned the operation as a showcase of the country’s ability to handle the Islamic State threat without Western involvement. The episode revealed tensions within Iraq’s Shiite-dominated gov-ernment over the roles of the U.S.-led air coali-tion and of Iran, whose famed Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Qassem Suleimani had personally supervised the early stages of the offen-sive. Some of the militias pulled out of the offensive in protest, and it appeared Wednesday that the bulk of the forces in Tikrit were Iraqi army troops.

Earnest said the Iraqi force that had entered Tikrit on Wednesday was “a multi-sectarian force that’s being led by the Iraqi military,” though the Shiite militias remain vital to assembling a large enough fighting force to tackle other Islamic State strongholds. There had been no American air-strikes on Tikrit in the last 24 hours, according to U.S. Central Command’s Wednesday statement of activities. In announcing the end of operations, al-Aba-di’s minister of defense, Khalid al Obeidi, promised to continue the fight in Nineveh and Anbar, major provinces to the north and west, respectively, that remain largely under Islamic State control. “Here we come to you, Anbar! Here we come to you, Nineveh, and we say it with full resolution, con-fidence and persistence,” he said. Any operation to retake Mosul, the seat of Nineveh, would be far more complex than the Tikrit offensive. Mosul has almost eight times the area and popu-lation of Tikrit, and it’s the heart of the Islamic State’s financial network. Militia leaders have repeatedly said their next priority would be Anbar, which not only controls approaches to Baghdad and its international air-

port but also connects directly to Iraq’s Shiite heartland in the south, an area the militias are par-ticularly concerned with keeping secure. The danger wasn’t entirely over in Tikrit. Iraqi forces there were sweeping buildings for stray suicide bombers and snipers and were only beginning to dismantle thousands of booby traps and roadside bombs the Islamic State had left behind. A military officer in the provincial command center outside Tikrit said Islamic State fighters had fled to Shirqat and Hawija, two nearby cities still under Islamic State control. The officer, who spoke only on the condi-tion of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to talk to a reporter, said that more than 520 improvised bombs had been disarmed but thousands more were still to be dealt with.

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California Gov. Brown orders water use cutbacks

By Bettina Boxall, Chris Megerian

and Matt stevensLos Angeles Times

PHILLIPS, Calif. — Standing in a brown field that would nor-mally be smothered in several feet of snow, California Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday ordered cities and towns across the state to cut water use by 25 percent as part of a sweeping set of mandatory drought restric-tions, the first in state history. The directive comes more than a year after Brown asked for a 20 percent voluntary cut in water use that most parts of the state have failed to attain, even as one of the most severe mod-ern droughts drags into a fourth year. It also came on the day that water officials measured the lowest April 1 snowpack in more than 60 years of record-keeping in the Sierra Nevada. Wearing hiking shoes and a windbreaker in an area that normally requires cross-country skis this time of year, Brown announced the executive order in a Sierra Nevada meadow that provided a dramatic illustration of the state’s parched conditions. “We’re standing on dry grass,” Brown said. “We should be stand-ing on five feet of snow.”

Emphasizing that the drought could persist, Brown said Californians must change their water habits. “It’s a different world,” he said. “We have to act differently.” The order touched virtually every aspect of urban life. Cities have to stop watering the median strips that run down the middle of roads. The state will partner with local agencies to remove 50 million square feet of grass – the equivalent of about 1,150 foot-ball fields – and replace it with drought-tolerant landscaping. State agencies will create a temporary rebate program to encourage homeowners to replace water-guzzling applianc-es with high efficiency ones. Golf courses, campuses and cemeter-ies must cut their water use. New developments will have to install drip or microspray systems if they irrigate with drinking water. Water agencies will dis-courage water waste with higher rates and fees. The order aims to reduce the amount of water used statewide in urban areas in 2013 by 25 per-cent. Local agencies that have been slow to conserve since then will feel the order’s effects most dramatically. Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the State Water Resources Control Board, said local agen-cies will receive targets for cut-ting water use based on how well they’ve done so far.

“You’re rewarding the early adopters ... and you’re saying to the laggers, ‘You have to make a change,’“ she said. The water board will release draft regulations in mid-April to implement the order. It plans to approve the regulations in early May. Most of the burden of enforce-ment will fall on local agencies. If they don’t follow the gover-nor’s order, the state can fine them as much as $10,000 a day. Many Southern California agencies are already taking steps called for in Brown’s order. For instance, under a turf rebate program administered by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, spokesman Bob Muir said homeowners are planning to remove almost 89 million square feet of turf, the equivalent of more than 59,000 front yards. It’s unclear whether Brown’s mandate for 50 million square feet of lawn replacement includes work already done by local agencies. Similarly, Los Angeles already has a tiered water-rate structure to encourage conservation. Although Southern California water managers said it might be tough for some cities to meet the 25 percent target, they welcomed Brown’s action. “It’s the right time. It’s a proper directive,” said Rob Hunter, gen-eral manager of the Municipal Water District of Orange County. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti praised the executive order, noting that last year he called for a 20 percent cut in the city’s water use by 2017. In Long Beach, Water Department General Manager Kevin Wattier said the order would have the biggest effect on water districts that use much more water per capita than Long Beach and Los Angeles. “The governor understands we don’t have time to allow any voluntary measures to work,” said Mark Gold of the University of California, Los Angeles’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. “This is such a growing crisis that mandatory conservation was absolutely nec-essary.” Lester Snow, executive direc-tor of the California Water

Foundation and former state sec-retary of natural resources, said even more restrictions may be necessary in the future, such as banning all outdoor water use. “We’re probably going to need more action before we’re through the summer,” he said. Brown issued his order at Phillips Station, about 90 miles east of Sacramento, where state workers conducted a manual snow survey as part of state-wide readings that revealed that the water content of the Sierra Nevada snowpack was only about 5 percent of the average for April 1. That is the lowest for the date in records going back to 1950. The Sierra snowpack accounts for about 30 percent of the state’s water supply, and although major reservoir storage is better than it was last year, there will be little snowmelt to replenish reservoirs this spring. Nurit Katz, UCLA’s Chief Sustainability Officer and co-chair of a UC system-wide water task force, said every campus has created a water action plan focused on reducing consump-tion. UCLA is installing artificial turf on its intramural field, ret-rofitting fixtures such as toilets and developing a smart water filtration system. Combined with other efforts, the campus expects to save millions of gallons of water each year, she said. Some critics of Brown’s order said it didn’t do enough to address agricultural uses,

which account for the majority of California’s water use. Adam Scow, director of Food & Water Watch California, called the order disappointing. “The governor must save our groundwater from depletion by directing the state water board to protect groundwater as a public resource,” Scow said in a state-ment. Brown’s order requires agri-cultural districts in depleted groundwater basins to share data on groundwater use with the state, and Marcus said the measure isn’t about “finger-pointing.” “It’s about everybody having to step up in these tough times,” she said. “The agricultural com-munity is already being hit very hard.” For the second year in a row, Central Valley growers without senior water rights are likely to get no supplies from the valley’s big federal irrigation project. Last year farmers idled about 500,000 acres for lack of water, and this year they may be forced to leave even more cropland unplanted. “Some people want to say, ‘What about the farmers?’ And farmers want to say, ‘What about those people watering their lawns?’“ Brown said. “We all have something to do, and we can all do a little better.”

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California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks to members of the press Wednesday during the annual snowpack survey in Phillips, California.

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Frank Gehrke of the California Department of Water Resources and California Gov. Jerry Brown walk out into a snowless meadow during the annual snowpack survey.

checked over with NASA, and had to build several rocket prototypes as well.   The team was put at a slight disadvantage because none of the members had worked with high powered rocketry before. They had to learn new concepts such as coding and multitasking to build the robot, and as Dodd said, “Code is a bit a scary.” Fowler added, “In our classes we learn very spe-cific individual things, but this project brings every-thing together, where we identify the problems and

what on the rocket needs to be optimized or needs to be better.” Each of the teams also needs a mentor who is a member of the NAR that is certified, and the team’s mentor was Howard Greenblatt of the Central Massachusetts Spacemodeling Society. The team said they are thankful to him because without him they wouldn’t have gotten as far as they are now. Another requirement of the NASA project is that each team needs to do edu-cational outreach to pro-

mote STEM education. The Minuteman Launch Team worked with Amherst Regional Middle School, gave a presentation and has done one-on-one water-pow-ered rocket building with them as well. Perham said that overall, this project was challeng-ing, but beneficial. “If you really want to do something on this campus, you can make it happen,” he said. “But you’re going to have to put some time into it.”

Christina Yacono can be reached at cyacono@umass.edu.

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Any operation to retake Mosul, the seat of Nineveh, would be far more complex

than the Tikrit offensive.

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Let’s pay attention to the Middle East

How much do you know about what’s happening in the Middle East lately? Yemen is on the verge of

complete collapse as Shiite Houthi rebel forces have launched massive attacks throughout the country. After reading about this, I realized I didn’t know practically a thing about Yemen, other than it’s location on a map. Most of my peers probably wouldn’t be able to find it on a map. Amid all kinds of other conflict all over the Middle East over the last several years and several decades, it isn’t right how little most Americans know about such a large area of the world that is seemingly always under contest.

According to a study published by National Geographic, after three years of war in Iraq and thousands of soldiers stationed in the country, only 37 percent of young Americans were able to locate Iraq on a map. Some of the people who couldn’t find Iraq on a map may even know someone who was stationed there. Americans should never be so out of touch, especially when the news is accessible from our pockets when-ever we demand it. Yemen may seem like a country far removed from the concern of Americans, but the United States is far more involved than it seems. The Houthi rebels, the catalyst for this civil strife, are supported by Iran, which has been at odds with the United States for years for a number of reasons reasons. Currently there are major negotiations that are being held between Iran and the United States over the Iran nuclear pro-grams, the United States and much of the world hoping to deter Iran from developing nuclear weapons, as it has for years. On the other side of the conflict in Yemen, the Saudi military has been launching attacks and air strikes in support of the standing Yemeni government. The United States is an active ally with Saudi Arabia. To sum it all up, we are currently conducting very sen-sitive and long awaited talks about the extraordinarily conflicting sub-ject of nuclear weapons with Iran while they support a civil uprising in Yemen, which our ally and long standing oil supplier, Saudi Arabia, is completely committed to ending. The United States is one step away from a proxy war. Speaking of United States proxy wars, it wouldn’t be a proper quick summation of the Middle East with-out mentioning Syria, one of the most historically contested regions on the

entire planet. During the Arab Spring a couple of years ago, the Syrian gov-ernment started to use military force to stop anti-government protests in the country. By 2012, Syria erupted into full-blown civil war. During the same year, the United States, Turkey, the Gulf states, France and Britain formally recognized the rebel forces in Syria as the rightful power in the country. Again, Iran supports the other side of the equation, lend-ing military aid to the Syrian-Assad regime. It’s amazing we can even hold talks with Iran at all. The United States has also, for many years, pledged allegiance to the nation of Israel. Syrian forces had a long history of anti-Israel sentiment, supporting Hezbollah and Hamas forces in Palestine for many years,

and Iran is essentially completely anti-Israel. As it stands though, we can assume that we are going to sup-port Israel against all of its enemies. The Middle East is like a pane of glass covered in spider cracks, just waiting to break apart. Adding significantly to the insta-bility of the Middle East over the last couple of years is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). ISIS has managed to rise up, recruit and gain ground all over the Middle East, and is built on the premise of anti-Western sentiment. ISIS has gained massive ground in Iraq and is even adding another element of confu-sion by taking position in Syria. The United States and much of the world have openly pledged desire for the demise of ISIS. There is much more to be said about conflict in the Middle East, the various reasons behind it and how the United States is involved whether directly or not. There is quite a lot going on, and although our coun-try is often intricately involved, it doesn’t seem like many Americans know or care about what is happen-ing. The United States tried its best to be removed from the conflicts of World War I and World War II, yet in the end both wars still affected us greatly. We don’t want to imagine things could ever be that bad again on a world scale, considering we live in the age of advanced technology and relative reason. This confidence for prevailing heads isn’t a new con-cept though; our ancestors consid-ered the early twentieth century to be a new age of wisdom and reason. It still wasn’t difficult for everything to completely collapse and we just had more advanced weapons to kill each other with.

Ian Hagerty is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at ihagerty@umass.edu.

Amid climate change: Protecting money or people?

At the latest round of interna-tional climate talks this month in Lima, Peru, melting glaciers in

the Andes and recent droughts provided a fitting backdrop for the negotiators’ recognition that it is too late to prevent climate change, no matter how fast we ultimately act to limit it. They now confront an issue that many had hoped to avoid: adaptation. Adapting to climate change will carry a high price tag. Sea walls are needed to protect coast-al areas against floods, such as those in the New York area when Superstorm Sandy struck in 2012. We need early-warning and evacuation systems to pro-tect against human tragedies, such as those caused by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013 and by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. Cooling centers and emergen-cy services must be created to cope with heat waves, such as the one that killed 70,000 in Europe in 2003. Water projects are need-ed to protect farmers and herd-ers from extreme droughts, such as the one that gripped the Horn of Africa in 2011. Large-scale replanting of forests with new species will be needed to keep pace as temperature gradients shift toward the poles. Because adaptation won’t come cheap, we must decide which investments are worth the cost. A thought experiment illus-trates the choices we face. Imagine that without major new investments in adaptation, cli-mate change will cause world incomes to fall in the next two decades by 25 percent across the

board, with everyone’s income going down, from the poorest farmworker in Bangladesh to the wealthiest real estate baron in Manhattan. Adaptation can cushion some but not all of these losses. What should be our prior-ity: reduce losses for the farm-worker or the baron? For the farmworker, and a bil-lion others in the world who live on about $1 a day, this 25 percent income loss will be a disaster, perhaps the difference between life and death. Yet in dollars, the loss is just 25 cents a day.

For the land baron and other “one-percenters” in the U.S. with average incomes of about $2,000 a day, the 25 percent income loss would be a matter of regret, not survival. He’ll find a way to get by on $1,500 a day. In human terms, the baron’s loss pales compared with that of the farmworker. But in dollar terms, it’s 2,000 times larger. Conventional economic mod-els would prescribe spending more to protect the barons than the farmworkers of the world. The rationale was set forth with brutal clarity in a memorandum leaked in 1992 that was signed by Lawrence Summers, then chief economist of the World Bank. The memo asked whether the bank should encourage more migration of dirty industries to developing countries and con-cluded that “the economic logic of dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face

up to that.” Climate change is just a new kind of toxic waste. The “economic logic” of the Summers memo _ later said to have been penned tongue-in-cheek to provoke debate, which it certainly did _ rests on a doc-trine of “efficiency” that counts all dollars equally. Whether it goes to a starving child or a mil-lionaire, a dollar is a dollar. The task of economists, in this view, is to maximize the size of the total dollar pie. How it’s sliced is not their problem. A different way to set adapta-tion priorities is to count each person equally, not each dollar. This approach rests on the ethi-cal principle that a healthy envi-ronment is a human right, not a commodity to be distributed on the basis of purchasing power, or a privilege to be distributed on the basis of political power. This equity principle is wide-ly embraced around the world, from the affirmation in the U.S. Declaration of Independence that people have an inalien-able right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” to the guarantee in the South African Constitution that everyone has the right “to an environment that is not harmful to their health or well-being.” It puts safeguarding the lives of the poor ahead of safeguarding the property of the rich. In the years ahead, climate change will confront the world with hard choices: whether to protect as many dollars as possi-ble, or to protect as many people as we can.

James K. Boyce is a professor of econom-ics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

Why I left my sorority I was a newly initiated mem-ber of a social sorority, and I would quit just a few months

later. I knew the values that I claimed to stand for, like inclu-sivity, access and equality, were not being practiced around me. When I rushed in the fall semester, I did not have mali-cious intents for joining a soror-ity. In fact, my desires were rath-er superficial; pre-arranged par-ties, community service events and another circle of friends on campus sounded great. Rushing was not an enjoyable process for me. It was a week spent running around campus with a group of strangers and making small talk with the sis-ters already in sororities to prove myself pleasant, non-threaten-ing and normal enough for their organization. I was encouraged to avoid controversial topics of conversation including politics, religion and boys. I was exhaust-ed from being rejected, censoring my words and maintaining a cer-tain type of acceptable look with my clothing. Rush week brought me to tears several times, but I still took the bid. Fall semester came and went, and my disillusionment with the Greek system grew exponential-

ly. The system that was supposed to encourage leadership instead held me back. I held a leader-ship role within the Student Government Association, which was really important to me. When I approached the sorority and asked for a change in my attendance quota so that I could maintain that leadership role, the request was denied.

The pre-arranged parties, mixers, were not as picturesque as I had imagined. There were attendance expectations for par-ties, which made me feel pres-sured to go out more than I want-ed to. At parties, I felt pressure to act a certain way, like flirt-ing and drinking, behaviors that might encourage a fraternity to want to “mix” with us again. I supported our philanthropic mission of domestic violence awareness, but never did more for survivors than donate to charities. Since quitting the sorority, I have pursued other avenues of supporting survivors

of domestic violence and sexual assault and working towards prevention of violence. During my days in the sis-terhood, I did make some great friends, but overall I did not feel that I was surrounded by positive female friendships. Specifically, I did not feel encouraged to have dialogues about body image, which is something I feel direct-ly impacted by as a woman. I feel that some of the suggestions given by the sorority about how to do my hair and when to wear makeup actually made it worse. The financial burden of the sorority, after I added up dues, mandatory donations and appar-el, made me very uncomfortable. I want to share my story of uncomfortable realizations in hopes to show that sometimes systems we may feel connected to are flawed. I want to share my experience with the Greek sys-tem that I used to be a part of to pressure it to realize its system-atic flaws and shut itself down.

Maddie Goldstein is a Collegian contributor and can be reached at mgoldste@umass.edu.

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‘Bloodline’ joins an impressive lineup

By Eli FinECollegian Staff

“Bloodline” is Netflix’s best original series yet. When you take recent offerings like the perfect-ly pleasant “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and older, acclaimed shows like “Orange is the New Black” into consideration, this state-ment conveys the true qual-ity of this show. Before I get to the series’ plot, I must say “Bloodline’s” cast is absolutely incred-ible. With an ensemble that includes the monu-mentally engaging Kyle Chandler (“Friday Night Lights”), Linda Cardellini (“Freaks and Geeks”), Ben Mendelsohn (“The Place Beyond the Pines”), Sissy Spacek and relative newcom-er Norbert Leo Butz, this is a cast to die for. From an act-ing point of view, this show really is spectacular. Mendelsohn plays Danny Rayburn, the prodigal son who returns to his family, which includes his mother Sally (Spacek), brothers Kevin and John (Butz and Chandler, respectively) and sister Meg (Cardellini). Mendelsohn is perfectly cast as the seemingly reformed long-lost brother who claims to have left his old, drug-induced ways and to simply want to be part of the family again. He exudes a genuine sense of anger and really hits the nail on the head when Danny becomes more threat-ening later on in the season. Each sibling leads his or her own life. John is a cop, Kevin takes care of the fam-ily’s boat rentals and Meg is a lawyer. In addition to doing their job every day, the three siblings help their parents run a resort in the beauti-fully shot Florida Keys. Then

Danny shows up, bringing with him old family resent-ments, anger and hostility. I have two large issues with the show as a whole, two problems that prevent it from truly being something spe-cial. Firstly, the show’s tag-line is “We’re not bad people, but we did a bad thing.” That bad thing is revealed to us in the pilot episode. Similarly to the structure of any given season of “Damages,” “Bloodline’s” pilot flashes into the future. These quick flashes reveal that John will kill Danny eventually, and the rest of the season leads up to that moment of fratri-cide. This device is useless. In fact, it’s reprehensible. It seems to have been stuck into the pilot as a way of keep-ing its audience’s attention for the long, exposition-filled first episode. This is cheating. If your show isn’t captivating enough to convince an audi-ence to stick with it without the use of gimmicky time-bending devices, the problem lies in its very premise. What’s worse, “Bloodline” is perfectly interesting enough to hold one’s atten-tion without the flash-for-wards. There is absolutely no valid dramatic reason for the gimmick whatsoever. In fact, when the moment finally does come, in which John kills Danny, the drama would have been much more effective if it was a surprise to the audience rather than something we are told will happen from the get-go. The most important emotional moment of the season is given away from the very start, and it is a big problem. The second big problem with “Bloodline” is the char-acter development of Danny Rayburn. The ‘big bad’ of the season, Danny returns home as the catalyst for pretty much everything that takes place subsequently. For the

first few episodes, he really does seem like a changed man, and his siblings’ inher-ent distrust of him feels unwarranted. However, at some vague point in the season, it’s like a switch is flipped and all of the sudden Danny is a real villain who tries to ruin his siblings’ lives. There is a plot contrivance in the form of some old cassette tapes that I assume the show’s creators intended to be the reason for Danny’s change of heart, but it isn’t developed in a fluid enough way for that to be a satisfying explanation. Overall, it still works. Kyle Chandler is endlessly charis-matic, as anyone who watched “Friday Night Lights” would assume. Norman Leo Butz is one of the best parts of the show right out of the gate as Kevin. As soon as Danny shows up, Kevin is the least trustful of him – he’s worried about Danny’s intentions from the start, more than his other two siblings. We don’t know why Kevin feels this way about him. His actions make sense to us, however, as Butz puts his terrific physi-cality to good use, conveying the long and storied history Kevin and Danny must share without having to use much exposition.

Throughout, Mendelsohn’s performance is pure gold. He completes every task with aplomb. When Danny’s sup-posed to be coming off as gen-uinely repentant early in the season, we feel for him and hope he gets what he wants. When he’s threatening his niece’s life in the latter half of the season, we’re terri-fied of him. At that point we absolutely loathe the charac-ter. It’s too bad the writers don’t find a steady balance between Danny’s two modes. If they had, they’d have cre-ated a terrific, perhaps icon-ic, breakout television char-acter. As it is, “Bloodline” remains Netflix’s best show yet; “Marco Polo” and “House of Cards” don’t come close. Individual moments work excellently well, it plays fan-tastically with a great sup-porting cast, it exposes the great acting chops of Norman Leo Butz to the world and it puts Kyle Chandler back on our TV screens. While I still have reservations about the show, I did enjoy watching it and am looking forward to season two.

Eli Fine can be reached at elaz-arfine@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @ElazarFine.

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By AlExAndEr FrAilCollegian Staff

This year on “The Walking Dead” has been defined by ten-sion, excitement and change. That last one is the most inte-gral to the program’s rous-ing success in its fifth season. Everything changed. Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and compa-ny raced between an unprec-edented three locations, the survivors got a whiff of civili-zation at Alexandria and they became the bad guys they always talk about – the ones who lurk outside the walls. At every point, these chang-es unfurled slowly, methodi-cally and believably. All sub-plots, from Sasha’s (Sonequa Martin-Green) unhinging mind to the wandering walk-ers with W’s carved in their foreheads, came to fruition last Sunday on its fifth sea-son finale, a special 90-min-ute crockpot of ratcheted suspense. It was by all mea-sures “The Walking Dead’s” best finale and one of its finest hours. Balancing several paral-lel narratives never ranked among the writers’ stron-ger skills. They often fizzle out with little intrigue. Most salient is the relationship between Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Merle (Michael Rooker), a fascinating frater-nal bond that toyed with depth before Merle’s premature sendoff in season three. Not so this season. The writers, led by show runner Scott M. Gimple, weaved every thread into a taut climax. After Rick fails to reinstate the Ricktatorship in “Try,” he prepares for an unofficial trial by Alexandria. The preced-ing hours reveal rifts within the ranks. Michonne (the phenomenal Danai Gurira) wants to settle into the town, while Rick and Carol (Melissa McBride) gather ammunition for an armed insurrection. This division is among the first moments on “The Walking Dead” that threaten to truly tear apart Rick’s group. Meanwhile, Glenn (Steven Yeun) trails the cowardly Nicholas (Michael Traynor) over the walls of Alexandria where they hash out their ani-mosity. Daryl and Aaron (Ross Marquand) track a nomad they’d like to welcome into Alexandria. Their mission gets sidetracked when they stum-ble into a trap set by a sadistic group called the Wolves, the source of the marked walk-ers. For a moment, I thought fan-favorite Daryl Dixon had finally met his maker. Then, Morgan Jones (Lennie James) swoops in to save both trapped men. Amid the tension and intrigue of myriad narratives, Morgan’s triumphant return stands paramount. A character that had starred in only two epi-sodes over five years, Morgan lingered in the fandom’s imag-ination and sparked endless debate over when, if ever, he’d return as a main player. His return shaped a lucid juxtaposition with the monstrous Rick. Poetically, Gimple places their reunion at Deanna’s (Tovah Feldshuh) crucial blessing for Rick to execute Pete (Corey Brill). Rick, bloodied and savage, stares down Morgan, cleansed and pure, in the most chilling denouement the program has produced. Albeit a miniscule role to date, Morgan became the per-fect benchmark for discerning

Rick’s growth or deteriora-tion. Played by the magnificent Lennie James, the man was Rick’s first encounter after the sheriff’s deputy awoke from a coma in the pilot. Morgan already knew some tricks of the trade and became Rick’s tutor. Seen much later in sea-son three’s “Clear,” Morgan’s son had died, and he suffered from vapid mental health. Conversely, Rick stood on the verge of consolidating his prison stronghold. Now in “Conquer,” Morgan has become a zen warrior, while Rick, who puts down Pete with alacrity, has become a hound with blood on the scent. Noticeably, Morgan stows the Wolves safely in a car after they try to kill him. They wouldn’t have fared so well facing Officer Friendly. As it was in the pilot and in “Clear,” Rick and Morgan’s relationship promises to astound in the upcoming sixth season. Both Lincoln and James exude anger and pathos with a simple glance at the camera; together, their chemistry is palpable. In another big change this year, Rick morphed into some twisted version of The Governor, a shadow of the savages he fears. Even Carol became a Trojan horse. Her death threat to a little boy, delivered in a calm, fairy tale voice, petrified me like no walker ever could. The trial sequence was a perfect climax for this season. All year, it’s felt as if Rick were on trial. The brewing tension between Rick’s group and the Alexandrians threatens to reach a fever pitch when Rick’s fate within the town appears dim. When Rick kills invading walkers, he brings them to the trial and stakes his final point: without him, Alexandria faces inevitable failure. Perhaps in Cliff Note’s fashion, a grieving Deanna not only accepts Rick, but also orders him to kill Pete. This rapid-fire 180 played out too quickly, but it worked poetically. It completed “The Walking Dead’s” triumphant fifth season in a novel format. With so much tension and ani-mosity, both between Rick and Alexandria and within Rick’s ranks, the death of a major character seemed inexorable. Gimple had other thoughts in mind. Not one major character heard a death knell during “Conquer.” Whereas other times the survival of the whole pantheon has disappointed (think season three’s flaccid showdown between Woodbury and the prison), the survival of everyone fit the episode’s unexpectedly hopeful tone. Glenn and Nicholas bury the hatchet, Deanna spares Rick, Maggie saves both Sasha and Father Gabriel and Morgan rescues Daryl and Aaron. Every narrative’s culmination emanated hope and retribu-tion. “Conquer,” along with its acting, the script and Nicotero’s direction, stands among “The Walking Dead’s supreme achievements. It interwove numerous sto-rylines, progressed its char-acters and set up a thrilling showdown for season six. “Conquer” was everything a finale should be. And if foreshadowing holds any stake in the season to come, the group will need this newfound cohesion. As the post-credits car window warns, the wolves aren’t far.

Alexander Frail can be reached at afrail@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @AlexanderFrail.

The wolves come to ‘Walking Dead’ Mysterious Morgan returns triumphantly

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Hart and Cohle’s grim luster shines on

By AlExAndEr FrAilCollegian Staff

Let’s talk “True Detective.” The 17-year saga of two chewed-up men named Hart and Cohle has enthralled pop culture since the first season finale aired in March 2013. Not without its flaws, the phenomenal freshman outing launched a broad fan base and a whirl-wind of speculation for sea-son two. “True Detective” had all the style. A unique setup for television, the program maintained a single direc-tor-writer duo (Cary Joji Fukunaga and Nic Pizzolatto, respectively) throughout the entire season. The con-tinuity hastened the tuning of the show’s tone. Only an hour in, the grim visu-als of Louisiana bayou and bottomed-out vocals of Hart (Woody Harrelson) and Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) had become characters of their own. What drew me into the show was its compulsive originality. No other narra-tive on TV dared leap across 17 years. It created its own cult mythos. Furthermore, the editing process, syncing quick rhythmic frames with tired mono-logues, felt uniquely hasty

and methodical. In one of the show’s finest sequences, Pizzolatto’s script pops with the fervor of a fire-fight as Hart and Cohle retell their revisionist accounts of the moment that made them. Meanwhile, Fukunaga jump cuts between the present and the actual event, a botched arrest compounded by the murder of two suspects. The short sequence astounded me. It revealed the detec-tives’ legacy was a hollow fal-lacy; that 17 years later, Hart and Cohle still master that tall tale; and that through all their battles, Hart and Cohle remain intertwined by a lie they told to save themselves. Pizzolatto’s opus entered several terms into our lexi-con, including the mythical cult Carcosa and the faceless Yellow King. These fright-ening mysteries haunted audiences for eight brilliant episodes as Hart and Cohle descended into the under-belly of occult Louisiana. It even forged its own instant clichés, like Cohle’s “Time is a Flat Circle” speech. Understandably, this intrigue led to casting and plot rumors within weeks of the finale’s airdate. Everyone from Brad Pitt to Jessica Chastain saw their names in the works. In the end, Colin Farrell got the call, along with Rachel McAdams, Vince Vaughn and Taylor Kitsch. Additionally, being

an anthology program, “True Detective” will move to California and focus on an entirely different narrative than did season one. As Pizzolatto has said in several interviews, season two will focus on bad men and hard women. This state-ment hints at remedying one of the freshman year’s weak-nesses. Both female actors and actors of color saw almost no headlining roles on “True Detective.” While this resulted largely from the concise focus on Harrelson and McConaughey’s char-acters, it still undermined important characters, namely Maggie (Michelle Monaghan). Despite an emotive and heartbreaking performance from Monaghan, Maggie failed to transcend the hack-neyed housewife trope that Pizzolatto boxed her into. She existed purely in the con-text of her husband, Hart. With little to no autonomy, Maggie made every choice in response to Hart’s adul-tery or abuse. Even when she takes him back in the finale her decision reflects the supposed retribution of her husband rather than her own character progression. In a largely ingenious script, Maggie represents a big mis-fire from Pizzolatto. Additionally, actors of color got almost no air-time. Detectives Gilbough

(Michael Potts) and Papania (Tory Kittles) barely played a role beyond prompting the exposition in the present’s storyline. The script trapped them in a bleak interroga-tion room. In the end, they contributed almost noth-ing to the endgame despite sparking Hart and Cohle’s reunion. With both McAdams and Kelly Reilly in prominent roles in season two, I’m hope-ful Pizzolatto’s new narrative can give the necessary space for women. Afemo Omilami, who’s had roles in “Glory” and “Remember the Titans,” rounds out the second sea-son’s cast, which appears far more diverse than last sea-son. We’ll have to wait until it airs the summer to see if these flaws are fixed, but “True Detective” has quick-ly rocketed to the circles of television’s finest. It’s auda-cious, ambitious, frightening and unforgettable, and based upon rumors; Pizzolatto is working out the flaws in his well-oiled machine. If he can, few flaws will remain in “True Detective.” Then again, with a seem-ingly similar setup and direc-tion, it might stumble on those old tropes once more. Time is a flat circle, after all.

Alexander Frail can be reached at afrail@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @AlexanderFrail.

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Kyle Chandler (left) and Linda Cardellini star in Netflix’s “Bloodline.”

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UMass looks for improved offensive results vs. Stags

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The Massachusetts men’s lacrosse team’s defense carried the Minutemen to victory during their three-game winning streak last month. But facing another defensively minded team in Towson last Saturday, UMass’ offensive woes were taken advantage of in a streak-ending 6-3 defeat. Now looking to reestab-lish momentum in confer-ence play, UMass (3-6, 1-1 CAA) faces Fairfield (6-4, 1-0 CAA), which poses similar threats to what the Minutemen saw against the Tigers’ elite defense last weekend. The Stags head into Saturday’s matchup at McGuirk Stadium riding a four-game winning streak after overcoming initial struggles. During its suc-cessful stretch, Fairfield allowed 5.5 goals per game, including a four-goal perfor-mance against then-No. 20 Villanova. “They’re on a hot streak right now,” UMass attacker Nick Mariano said. “Their goalie is playing good and their defense is playing even better. We just have to take it one possession at a time and try to finish on our opportunities.” After sitting the major-ity of the Stags’ first seven games, sophomore goalie Tyler Behring has started in Fairfield’s last three wins and has posted a .760 save percentage. For a Minutemen team struggling to score goals of late – UMass was held to

under 10 goals in its last two games – coach Greg Cannella said Behring’s emergence may prove trou-blesome. “They play some zone but they’ve held teams down scoring-wise,” Cannella said. “We’re going to have to find a way to score goals.” Cannella said the key to doing so will be taking advantage of more offen-sive opportunities through aggressive but smarter shot selections. “We have to be a little more aggressive and have to be able to finish the ball when we get chances,” Cannella said. “You can’t depend on your defense to hold teams down and keep you in the game. You have to score.” Mariano added that lim-iting turnovers has been a central focus in preparation for Fairfield’s aggressive defense. He pointed at the Minutemen’s 13 turnovers in the loss to Towson as a concern. “We were forcing it and trying to do too much and that’s not how we usually play,” Mariano said. “It gave (Towson) more possessions, especially for a team that really slows it down for their game plan. We gave them the ball back more than we should have.” In addition to maintain-ing possession, gaining con-trol of the ball in hustle situations will prove cru-cial, according to senior

midfielder Ryan Izzo. “Those are the little things that you kind of focus on that can either win or lose you the game,” Izzo said. “Focusing on ground balls, making sure you’re making the right pass, the smart pass, stuff like that throughout the game is key, especially in the fourth quarter when you’re getting tired.” Cannella said winning the possession battle will also help take pressure off of UMass’ defense, which faces a strong group of Stags attackers. Senior Tristan Sperry leads the way for Fairfield with 33 points this season while Charlie Schnider (27), Colin McLinden (25) and T.J. Neubauer (23) round out the Stags’ top scoring threats. But Mariano said he’s confident the Minutemen’s defensive corps can con-tinue its recent success, in which it hasn’t allowed more than nine goals in each of UMass’ last four matchups. Mariano added that if the game is another two-way defensive battle, this style will favor the Minutemen. “If we can keep it close, I think we can pull it out,” Mariano said. “We’re a grinding team right now.” Saturday’s game starts at 1 p.m.

Anthony Chiusano can be reached at achiusano@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @a_chiusano24.

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that it would work but it cer-tainly has created a differ-ent Chanel. ... Chanel really is playing the best tennis of her life now, her senior year. “That’s unusual and that’s phenomenal.” With a renewed game and a highly talented young team pushing her forward, Glasper is in the midst of a renaissance season. She is 15-6 in singles this year and has found a great doubles partner in sophomore Anna Woosley – they currently boast a 12-4 doubles record.

Swan song With no intention of pur-suing a professional tennis career after graduation, the stage is set for Glasper to end her time in Amherst,

and as a student-athlete, with a record-breaking sea-son. Glasper will leave behind a young team that appears ready to compete for the A-10 championship for years to come and a legacy as a pillar of the UMass program for the last four years. “She knows that she’s playing the best tennis of her career, she knows that her career is about to end,” Dixon said. “You can’t say enough about this young woman. What she’s done for the program is outstand-ing.” With the end of her ten-nis career looming, Glasper has understandably mixed emotions about graduation and her final matches as a

Minutewoman. “It wasn’t me on my own. I had to work hard, but I worked with Judy a lot,” Glasper said. “She changed a lot of my game which has gotten me where I am now. She added: “It’s definite-ly bittersweet, but I think that this year’s just been so amazing that I can’t really even ask for more.” Glasper will have her first chance to tie Podlofsky’s career singles record this Saturday as UMass (10-4) takes on Fairleigh Dickinson (1-11) at the Bay Road Tennis Club in Amherst. Arthur Hayden can be reached at awhayden@umass.edu.

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Chanel Glasper volleys the ball back over the net in UMass’ match with Albany on March 28. Glasper defeated the Great Danes’ Paulina Torres at the No. 6 singles spot in three sets (5-7, 6-0, 4-3).

“You can’t depend on your defense to hold teams down and keep you in the game.

You have to score.”Greg Cannella,UMass coach

their fourth consecutive game. After Wednesday’s game, Stone said he was “abso-lutely” concerned about the Minutemen’s recent offen-sive struggles. “We need to see the ball better, hit the ball better, hit the ball where it is pitched, go the opposite way,” Stone said. “We need to prepare more in practice so it car-ries over to the field.”

Stone said he particu-larly wasn’t pleased with his team’s performance Wednesday and wants to see a change in his players’ effort. “We need to focus on the fundamentals, we can’t just have the mindset that we will come and be able to play.” Stone said. “I wouldn’t say there’s a lack of physical effort but there seems to be a lack of mental

preparedness.” The next opportunity the Minutemen will have to turn things around is this weekend, as their three-game series against George Washington University gets under way on Friday, April 3. The games will be played in Northborough.

Victor Pusateri can be reached at vpusateri@umass.edu.

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er Gianna Hathaway, who went 3-for-3 with a double to lead off the fourth inning and junior catcher Olivia Godin, who also went 3-for-3 with a triple and three runs batted in. On the mound, senior Caroline Raymond strug-gled early, but found her groove midway through the game. After allowing two runs on two hits and a walk in the first inning, Raymond responded with two back-to-back no-run innings. She had a bit of a lapse again in the fourth inning, allowing four runs, three of which were unearned. Raymond finished with three strikeouts and three

earned runs over five innings, improving her record to 4-9 for the season. Stefanoni stressed Raymond’s ability to start off an inning on the right foot as an important factor for the pitcher moving for-ward. “Putting walks on the board and walking the first batter of every inning never really ends well for anybody,” Stefanoni said. “But the fact that she was able to come back in the middle of the game and set-tle down and get the first out for us I think was really great for her.” If the conditions of Sortino Field hold up, the Minutewomen are set to

host their first home game of the season on Friday at noon against George Washington. The three-game series will feature a double-header on Saturday. “It will be a tough one for us,” Stefanoni said about the upcoming match-up with the Colonials. “They’re always a good, scrappy team. Plus, it’s (a) conference (game) so it always adds on a little pres-sure for us.“But if we stay within our-selves and remember small victories like what we got today, we’ll be alright.”

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

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UM preps for outdoor seasonBy niCk souzA

Collegian Staff

With limited time for both teams to prepare for their con-ference and regional champi-onships at the end of the indoor season, the Massachusetts men’s and women’s track and field teams now look to get off on the right foot this weekend at their invitational meets. The UMass women’s team welcomes its two regional rivals to its home track and will give Minutewomen coach Julie LaFreniere a chance to truly evaluate where her athletes are in their training early in the season. It also pro-vides the athletes the chance to compete with very little time before the championship meets in mid-May. “This early in the season, the meets are used to get ath-letes ready to handle a high volume of races and still pro-duce high quality performanc-es,” LaFreniere said. Saturday’s meet will also be the first time athletes such as Katie Powers, Courtney Neves and Courtney Kromko will compete this close to full health after being hindered by injuries throughout different points of the indoor season. However, long and triple

jumper Becky Stoyle will not be available this weekend, although she is on schedule to return by next week. According to LaFreniere, it will be important to see how the Minutewomen handle run-ning and jumping at a high level, while trying to maintain their health so they can be ready later in the year.

Minutemen hit the road The UMass men’s team will be sending athletes to two dif-ferent locations. The Minutemen’s first meet is the Sam Howell Invitational in Princeton, New Jersey and will cater to long distance run-ners competing in events not offered in the indoor season. UMass has seven athletes entered in three events Friday night, with three who are expected to qualify. Samuel Conway and Blake Croteau have high expectations in the 10,000-meter run, while sopho-more Paolo Tavares may prove competitive in the 3,000-meter. AIC will then hold the Yellow Jacket Invitational on Saturday in Springfield in a meet that has consistently been on the team’s schedule for the past few seasons. In the past, the meet has

served as a measuring stick for the coaches to evaluate against a solid pool of competi-tion. However, the athletes still see it as a challenge to win. “Whenever you put a uni-form on the young athletes, it’s a chance to compete,” coach Ken O’Brien said. “If they see a different uniform they want to win, the coaches want them to win as well but the main goal is to see what the athletes look like.” UMass hopes to have the same success as last year where it finished second against a talented and diverse composition of teams from all three divisions of track. On an individual level, senior Peter Farlow will look to repeat his success in the 400-meter hurdles after his first place finish a year ago. “It’s the first meet and it’ll probably be cold and windy so there will be some rustiness among the athletes,” O’Brien said. “But we could finish first or ninth at the meet and my feelings won’t change. The most important thing it to see the runners and how they per-form.”

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

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UMass set for roadtrip to NYBy Jesse korzen

Collegian Correspondent

The Massachusetts wom-en’s lacrosse team continued to find success in confer-ence play after its 17-7 win over George Mason Sunday increased its Atlantic 10 win-ning streak to 40 games. Morale was especially high in the locker room as the Minutewomen celebrated coach Angela McMahon’s 100th career win. But UMass’ attentions now turn to the team at the bottom of the A-10 standings in St. Bonaventure (1-9, 0-2 A-10). The success of the Minutewomen all year has been driven by the nation’s top defense led by senior goal-ie Rachel Vallarelli’s consis-tent play in net. But while defense has been a staple all season long, it was the offensive performance against George Mason that gives McMahon confidence. McMahon said at the beginning of the season that she expected to see an evenly distributed scoring instead of just having one or two offen-sive threats. This objective was met on Sunday as a total of 12 different UMass players

recorded a goal. Hannah Murphy led the Minutewomen’s offensive charge with four goals against George Mason. Nicole Troost added a hat trick. McMahon said if UMass can replicate its offensive bal-ance last weekend, it will give the Minutewomen an added dimension and make it more difficult for opponents to key in on certain players. “Every team we’ve played so far has kind of played us differently,” McMahon said. “Duquesne tried taking Erika Eipp out of the game, George Mason just tried playing us more straight up. You know, it

really varies, and that’s what makes our offense so special because we do have so many different threats.” This offensive burst couldn’t have come at a bet-ter time for the Minutewomen as they now prepare to face the defensively weak Bonnies who have given up 157 goals. But despite its defensive struggles, St. Bonaventure boasts six players with dou-ble-digit goals compared to UMass’ three. Saturday’s game on the road starts at noon.

Jesse Korzen can be reached at jkorzen@umass.edu.

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Nicole Troost (6) scores one of her three goals against George Mason Sun.

By Arthur hAydenCollegian Staff

Jessica Podlofsky recorded her 68th singles victory on

March 19, 2014, setting the Massachusetts women’s tennis record and break-ing the previous record set by Michelle Spiess in 2007. Podlofsky went on to win six more singles matches, end-ing her career last spring with 74 victories. Fast-forward to this season and it appears Podlofsky’s tenure at the top of the UMass record book is already coming to an end. Chanel Glasper, senior captain of this year’s team, has had an illustrious career of her own and it is now her turn to seize the spotlight and solidify her legacy as one of the most successful Minutewomen of all-time. After a three-set tiebreak win (5-7, 6-0, 4-3) against Albany on Saturday, Mar 28, Glasper pushed her sin-gles win total to 73, just one victory behind her former teammate. With four regu-lar season matches left, both Glasper and UMass coach Judy Dixon are confident the record is as good as bro-ken. “It still hasn’t really sunk in,” Glasper said. “It’s just something that I never real-ly fathomed would happen when I came here four years ago. “We were talking about it last year, that it was a possibility. (Podlofsky) was trying to get all the wins she could to make it hard on me, so I can’t wait to call her up and give her a hard time about it. But I can’t even really put it into words. ... I hope the team is really successful but I hope no one

breaks it for a while.”

Hitting the ground running

Glasper’s road toward breaking Podlofsky’s record started long before she even stepped onto the UMass campus. “I started (playing ten-nis) when I was four years old,” Glasper said. “My dad put me in the sport because he knew that I was going to be tall and he wanted me to play an individual sport. ...When I was growing up, I also played soccer and basketball but this was all

before age 11, so it wasn’t really serious.” By the time she turned 11, Glasper had focused her attention on tennis. Between practicing and watching Venus and Serena Williams and Andre Agassi on television, Glasper dedi-cated much of her youth to the game she loved until she was recruited by Dixon as a highly touted prospect out of Plano, Texas. She eventually made the jump to the East Coast to become a Minutewoman. Once she arrived on campus in 2011, Glasper proved she

was ready to make a major impact on the team imme-diately. “When I came in my freshman year, I felt like the typical freshman: wide-eyed and really energetic and thinking I could win everything,” Glasper said. “I set the bar really high for myself.” And set the bar she did. Glasper charged onto the Atlantic 10 scene, smash-ing the UMass single-sea-son singles victories record – also previously held by Spiess – winning 28 matches in her first year.

“I was pretty much only focused on tennis,” Glasper said. “Sophomore year I started to level out a lot more...I started to get more involved on campus.” Glasper’s massive wave of success her freshman year proved to be too much to replicate during her sophomore and junior cam-paigns but she continued to be a model of consistency on the team in doubles and at No. 5 and 6 singles; she recorded 30 wins in singles, and another 30 wins in dou-bles over her second and third years.

Building the program With a few years of col-legiate experience under her belt, it was in Glasper’s junior year that she began to embrace a leadership role on the team. “My freshman and sopho-more year I was really close with the juniors and seniors on the team,” Glasper said. “After they graduated I felt like there was an opportu-nity to carry on as a leader myself.” At the beginning of this year, Dixon put full faith in Glasper, naming her the solitary captain of a team with just four upperclass-men – one of which was Carol Benito, who was a newcomer herself having transferred to UMass over the summer. “It’s been a lot of pres-sure,” Glasper said. “I don’t take being captain lightly at all. “In the fall semester it was a little hard being the only one. I realized that I didn’t have anyone to defer to, to bounce ideas off of, to help me out but one of the juniors this year, Arielle (Griffin), has really stepped up and been helping me and I’ve been bouncing ideas off of her. She brings a great work ethic and energy so it takes a lot of pressure off of me.” With the prospect of lead-ing the team into her senior season on the horizon, Glasper and Dixon worked diligently during the sum-mer, reworking the veter-an’s game. “We made some major changes to her forehand,” Dixon said, “She allowed that to happen with the idea that there was no guarantee

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WITHIN REACHChanel Glasper looks to close out a memorable four years with the Minutewomen by

becoming the program’s leader in singles victories

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Chanel Glasper is the senior captain on a young UMass team that boasts six underclassmen. The Minutewomen are 10-4 this season.

UMass falls flat after strong start against BC Wednesday

By Victor PusAteriCollegian Staff

Coming off a shutout defeat and losing two out of three games over the week-end against Atlantic 10 foe VCU, the Massachusetts baseball team looked to get back on track against Boston College Wednesday. Unfortunately it was more of the same struggles for the Minutemen as they were blown out by the Eagles, 11-1. UMass (4-8, 4-2 A-10) start-ed off strong on Wednesday as the pitching staff held Boston College scoreless through the first five innings. Pitchers Tim Cassidy, Ryan Venditti, Kevin Lacy, Scott Hovey and Kevin Hassett all contributed to the strong start, each throwing a score-less inning and allowing a combined three hits and one walk. But the Minutemen’s offense failed to capital-ize off the strong pitching performances as they only squeaked out one run in the

first inning off a Rob McLam ground out to third base, which allowed Bryce Maher to score. Then in the sixth, the Eagles’ offense came alive

and knocked in seven runs off five hits, including two home runs to take a command-ing 7-1 lead.

Joe Cronin tied the game at one apiece with two outs in the frame and Boston College took the lead in the next at bat after Donovan Casey scored on a wild pitch, making the score 2-1 in favor of Eagles. Then, Nick Sciortino dou-bled to right-center field to drive home another run. Two two-run home runs by Scott Braren and Jake Palomaki then broke the game open. “Yeah that was a bad inning,” UMass coach Mike Stone said. “We struggled to throw strikes, balls were hit out of the park, we really struggled to get out of the

inning.” Freshman Bailey Train started the sixth inning for the Minutemen, but couldn’t end it as he pitched two-thirds of an inning, being charged with all six runs on three hits with three walks en route to earning the loss. The Eagles further pad-ded their lead in the eighth inning off of two-run homers by Blake Butera and Chris Shaw. After the slow start through the first five frames, Boston College tallied 11 runs and 14 hits, with four home runs in the final three and a half innings. UMass’ offense contin-ued to struggle as it failed to score after the opening frame. After its three-game series with Dayton from March 20-22, in which the Minutemen averaged more than eight runs per game, UMass has failed to score more than three runs in

Eagles score seven in long sixth inning

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By JAmie cushmAn Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts soft-ball team’s offense was firing on all cylinders Wednesday as the team rolled to a 16-6 five-inning mercy-rule vic-tory over Yale, setting sea-son-highs for both runs and hits. The game was originally scheduled to be played in Amherst but was moved to Yale’s DeWitt Family Field due to the poor conditions of Sortino Field. UMass (6-15, 1-5 Atlantic 10) tallied 17 hits, includ-ing four doubles, one triple and two home runs en route to the team’s first mercy rule win of the season. Coach Kristi Stefanoni was pleased with her team’s offensive show-ing and thinks it could help the team get back on track following a three-game losing streak and a tough stretch where the team lost 10 of 11 games. “(I saw) a happy team,” Stefanoni said. “A team that

looked very excited that they were finally able to put

some runs up on the board like that and run-rule somebody. It was really good for our confidence, it

was a good morale booster. I saw the team that I know that we can be offensively.” Half of the Minutewomen’s runs came in the high-scoring third inning where the team scored eight runs and sent 13 batters to the plate. The highlight of the

inning came when senior Anna Kelley marked her return to action with a three-run home run. Kelley missed the previous three games against Saint Joseph’s last weekend due to injury. Senior Bridget Lemire also cleared the fences with a three-run homer in the fourth inning, bringing UMass’ lead to 10 runs and helping secure the mercy rule win. Other Minutewomen who fared well at the plate included freshman infield-

Kelley hits HR in return from injury

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Minutewomen power past Yale to halt losing streak

see GLASPER on page 7

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Bridget Lemire went 2-for-4 with a home run in UMass’ win Wednesday.

UMass 16

Yale 6

BC 11

UMass 1

“We struggled to throw strikes, balls were hit out of the park, we really struggled

to get out of the (sixth) inning.”Mike Stone,

UMass coach

see EAGLES on page 7 see MERCY on page 7