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The Treble makersAdvice offered by Task Force about spending

By Isaac BurkeCollegian Correspondent

The University of Massachusetts’ Joint Task Force on Resource Allocation has released an updated draft of its research findings, nearly a year and a half after it first began evaluating the University’s budget. The report contains new recommendations for updat-ing and improving the way resources are divided among the many entities that make up the University’s campus. Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy charged the task force in October 2013 with making sure the cam-pus was considerate of alter-native resource allocation

models. This was done in an effort to make the budget process fairer and more effi-cient. “There was a recognition that often times we have great goals as a campus, but we often don’t know how to actually make it happen in terms of how we allocate resources,” said Elizabeth Chilton, co-chair of the JTFRA and a professor of anthropology.  According to Chilton, the 23-member task force, which includes representatives from campus staff, faculty and students, found that the main shortfall in the budget model UMass currently uses was a lack of transparency. “Right now, it’s compli-cated and the opposite of transparent – so I guess that would be opaque,” she said.

By Jenny WIlsonThe Hartford Courant

FALL RIVER — The Aaron Hernandez jury began deliberat-ing Tuesday after the former NFL star was portrayed as both a cal-lous and calculating killer who considered himself invincible and an immature 23-year-old caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, during closing arguments at the former Patriots tight end’s murder trial. Jurors were given similar-ly conflicting views of Bristol, Conn., residents Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz, the two men with whom Hernandez is accused of killing Odin Lloyd in 2013. According to Hernandez’s defense attorneys, Wallace and Ortiz were crazed drug dealers, PCP fanatics

liable to kill someone in a sudden, violent, drug-induced outburst. Prosecutors characterized the men as a pair of hometown friends over whom the former Patriots tight end – who was generous with his multimillion-dollar NFL salary – had complete control. Bristol County Assistant District Attorney William McCauley gave the jury the most detailed play-by-play of Odin Lloyd’s 3 a.m. shoot-ing that prosecutors have outlined since they brought charges against Hernandez two years ago. Hernandez, he said, sat in the driver’s seat and fired the first shot. Lloyd had been pushed out of the car “by Wallace opening it from the front seat with his fin-gers,” and Ortiz pushing the door open from the back. “He takes the first shot, right

from the back,” McCauley said, and Lloyd, after getting hit in the right flank, “began to move away from the door.” Defense attorneys had suggest-ed in their closings that investi-gators were flawed and exhibited bias in their identification of a crime scene footprint – which was only matched to shoes that the state says Hernandez wore after the lead investigator provided the sole of the shoe to the footwear impression expert and asked him to go back and take another look. “Who do we know is out of the car?” McCauley asked. “We know that this defendant’s out of the car. Gets out of the car and he plants his footprint right alongside those tire tracks.” He then proceeded, McCauley said, to shoot Lloyd five more times

as the victim tried to run away. The defense argued that prosecu-tors have provided “no earthly rea-son” that explains why Hernandez killed “his future brother-in-law,” the man who was dating his fian-cee’s sister. Prosecutors pointed to video that shows, within a four-minute window, headlights entering and leaving the North Attleborough, Mass., industri-al park where Lloyd was found dead. They said it was a calculated crime. “Think of the efficiency of this killing,” McCauley said. “Odin Lloyd, down out of the car, one shot from inside the car, then out of the car – boom boom boom boom boom – then back in the car, then back out.” “But something’s been left,” McCauley said. “Shell casings.”

Hernandez stole frequent glanc-es at the clock in the back of the courtroom while the lead prosecu-tor urged jurors to connect the cir-cumstantial but “strong” evidence in the case, to look for corrobora-tion, and to find him guilty of first-degree murder. Before McCauley asked the jury to connect the dots in the case, defense lawyer James Sultan high-lighted the gaps in the state’s evi-dence. He told the jury that the only way Hernandez could be found guilty was if they approached the evidence with a “presumption of guilt” – the approach, he says, that police and prosecutors took during the investigation. “Fill in the gaps of the case with guesswork, speculation, use

Marathon jury adjourns without verdict

By rIchard a. serranoTribune Washington Bureau

BOSTON — After delib-erating for more than seven hours Tuesday, a federal jury in the capital mur-der trial of Russian immi-grant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev adjourned for the day with-out reaching a verdict and will return Wednesday morning to continue con-sidering the fate of the lone defendant in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Jurors sent two ques-tions to the court at the end of the day. U.S. District George A. O’Toole Jr. did not reveal the questions or characterize them in any way. Instead, he said he would meet with prosecu-tors and defense lawyers to discuss the questions. A panel of seven women and five men was chosen to hear the case. Tsarnaev faces 30 counts, 17 of which

could carry the death pen-alty. The silence from the locked jury room was a bit puzzling to some observ-ers. Many expected a swift guilty verdict, given that Tsarnaev’s defense lawyers conceded to the jury that he played a part with his now-deceased brother in killing three people and injuring more than 260 others. Though the defense team has said it expects a guilty verdict, it is argu-ing that Tsarnaev was naive and that his older brother, Tamerlan, induced him to detonate one of the two pressure-cooker bombs. Lead defense lawyer Judy Clarke described Tamerlan as the leader and her client as his follower. “They’re both different people who thought differ-ently, acted differently and had a different role in the conspiracy,” she said. Prosecutors put on a nearly monthlong, vigor-ous case including surveil-

lance videos, bomb shards and fingerprint samples that tied the 21-year-old Tsarnaev to the explo-sions. The government also brought in victims to testify about their injuries. Some came to court with missing legs and in wheelchairs or on crutches. In an impassioned clos-ing statement Monday, prosecutors said the two Tsarnaevs were equal part-ners in planning and carry-ing out the terrorist attack, the worst in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001. Aloke Chakravarty, an assistant federal prosecu-

tor, pointed at Tsarnaev sit-ting next to his lawyers and told jurors that he left a “confession” inside a boat where he was hiding. “He wanted to tell the world why he did it, and he wanted to take credit,” Chakravarty said. If Tsarnaev is convicted on any of the charges that carry the death penalty, the trial would move to the pen-alty phase, in which jurors would decide whether he would be put to death or given life in prison with no parole.

Rand Paul calls on the voters to ‘rise, take action’

By sam youngmanLexington Herald-Leader

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —As he took the stage just after noon, the crowd began chanting: “President Paul! President Paul!” Whether that chant proves prophetic is a mat-ter of time, but for now it is official: Kentucky’s junior U.S. senator, Rand Paul, is running for president. “Today I announce, with God’s help, with the help of liberty lovers everywhere, that I am putting myself forward as a candidate for president of the United States of America,” Paul told an excited crowd in

a ballroom at the historic Galt House hotel in down-town Louisville. Tuesday’s event was a highly produced affair, with multiple videos introduc-ing Paul and his allies, and cranes moving through the crowd to capture footage of a crowd eager to see Paul step onto the biggest stage in politics. With the help of a tele-prompter, Paul delighted the crowd as he rattled off his greatest hits: calling for term limits and a bal-anced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution; cutting spending and reign-ing in the nation’s debt; and declaring that on “day one as president,” he will end domestic surveillance

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Aaron Hernandez jury begins deliberating Tues.

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Though the defense team has said it expects a guilty verdict, it is arguing that Tsarnaev

was naive and that his older brother, Tamer-lan, induced him to detonate one of the two pressure-cooker bombs. Lead defense lawyer

Judy Clarke described Tamerlan as the leader and her client as his follower.

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Budget model for allocations explored

Deliberations to go on into Wed.

Officially declared presidential bid

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Mexico MEXICO CITY—At least 15 police officers were killed in an ambush by presumed drug traffickers in one of Mexico’s largest and most important states, officials reported Tuesday. The prosecutor’s office in Jalisco state confirmed the deadly attack, which it said took place Monday afternoon as a police convoy traveled to Guadalajara, the state capital. An additional five officers we re injured, prosecu-tors said. It was not clear if there were casualties among the attackers. This is one of the highest de ath tolls of government security forces in recent years, and it is the second ambush of police in Jalisco, in west-central Mexico, in less than three weeks. On March 19, five members of an elite force known as the gendarmerie were gunned down while on patrol. Alejandro Solorio, Jalisco public security commission-er, said in a news conference that the convoy was blocked on its route by a burning vehicle, apparently planted by the assailants. Trapped, the police then came under heavy gunfire. “This was a cowardly attack,” said Solorio, who himself survived an assas-sination attempt a week ago. The state has struggled under the thumb recently of a relatively new crimi-nal organization called the Jalisco New Generation. The group was originally formed in alliance with the powerful Sinaloa cartel to fight what was then that organization’s main rival, the Zetas paramilitary force. New Generation is believed responsible for numerous gruesome mass slayings, including one in which 35 corpses show-ing signs of torture were dumped in a crowded intersection in the Zeta-dominated city of Veracruz in 2011. The group was also linked to several mass graves found two years later in the Jalisco lake region of Chapala, popular with American and Canadian retirees and snowbirds. More recently, New Generation has sought to carve out its own territory, taking advantage of recent arrests of top leaders of the Sinaloa, Zetas and other cartels. Much of the vio-lence in Jalisco now may be tied to the group’s efforts to displace Sinaloa, as well as confrontations with a grow-ing presence of state secu-rity forces. While not unheard of, it is unusual for drug cartels to confront security forces head on. Solorio said part of the motivation comes from a March 23 gun battle in which police killed New Generation boss Heriberto Acevedo Cardenas, alias El Gringo.

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conducted by the National Security Agency. “Washington is horribly broken,” Paul said. “I fear it can’t be fixed from within. We the people must rise up and demand action.” Positioning himself as a “different kind of Republican,” Paul went through a laundry list of the country’s woes, telling a supportive and enthused crowd that “both parties and the entire political sys-tem are to blame.” “This message of liberty is for all Americans,” Paul proclaimed, highlighting his efforts to broaden the GOP tent to include minori-ties and young people. Stepping to the stage, Paul harked back to the first big speech he gave as a U.S. Senate candidate six years ago, declaring: “I have a message, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words.” “We’ve come to take our country back,” he said. Remembering that first race, Paul reminded the crowd that he “wasn’t sup-posed to win.” “No one thought I would,” he said.

Paul’s father, former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, himself a three-time presidential candidate with a history of making controversial remarks, was on the riser to the side of the stage. Paul didn’t single out his father in his remarks, but he did ask for applause for his father and mother, tell-ing the audience that he wouldn’t be there without “the help of my parents.” Paul, who said that a “love of liberty pulses in my veins,” used some of his speech to try to push back on a gathering storm of hawkish Republicans who are determined to remind voters of the senator’s past foreign policy statements and debatable support for Israel. In one of few direct swipes at President Barack Obama, Paul told the crowd that “until we name the enemy, we can’t win the war.” “The enemy is radical Islam. You can’t get around it,” he said. “And not only will I name the enemy, I will do whatever it takes to defend (America) from these haters of mankind.”

The delicate balance that Paul is trying to strike between the more hawkish and the non-interventionist wings of the Republican Party was on full display, promising the crowd that he “will never sacrifice your liberty for a false sense of security.” Calling the United States “a great country now adrift,” Paul said that Tuesday “begins the jour-ney to take America back.” Paul then delivered his official announcement, waving and giving thumbs up to the crowd before walking off the side of the stage to a makeshift stu-dio, where he did a lengthy interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity. Paul is scheduled to continue his kickoff tour through the week with stops in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa and Nevada. He is the second Republican candidate to enter the race, after Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who jumped in two weeks ago.

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your imagination like it’s a mystery,” Sultan said. “Not in a court of law. This isn’t a mystery show.” Sultan accused pros-ecutors of deciding that Hernandez was guilty but failing, in testimony from 132 witnesses, to provide a motive. He characterized the government’s theories for why Hernandez would murder Lloyd as downright wacky. He mentioned Hernandez’s former friend, who testified that in December, the for-mer Patriots tight end was angry because Lloyd walked through his kitchen at a holiday party and did not say hello. “Does the prosecution seriously expect you to believe that Aaron spent the next six months plot-ting to murder Odin Lloyd because he didn’t say hi?” Sultan referenced the testimony from a friend of the victim’s who saw Hernandez staring at Lloyd at a Boston nightclub two nights before the slaying. “Does the prosecution seriously expect you to believe that Aaron orches-trated a plan to murder Odin based on that testi-mony?” After the nightclub, Hernandez and Lloyd went back to an apart-ment Hernandez rented in Franklin, Mass. They brought two girls back with them – one was

Hernandez’s babysitter, who testified that he made a pass at her that night. Hernandez lived with fian-cee in North Attleborough. The next morning, he text-ed her from Lloyd’s phone telling her that he was “bugging” and that he “f----- up” and showed Lloyd “the spot.” “No motive?” McCauley said. “What causes some-body to go arm themselves? A look? Being disrespected? I take you to a club and you’re not grateful enough to be hanging out with me, you’re going to go hang out with your friends.” McCauley character-ized Hernandez as cocky and controlling of others in his life. He listed each of the people with whom Hernandez was close and said the former Patriots tight end was “in charge” of them. He reminded jurors that the babysitter only ended up at the Franklin apart-ment after Hernandez told her that he would give her and her friend a ride back to her car parked a few blocks away in Boston – but instead got on the highway and drove them to the apartment. McCauley asked jurors to consider Hernandez’s attitude with the babysitter that night. “‘Yeah, we’ll give you a ride to the car.’ Uh-uh. No ride to the car.” McCauley said. ‘Doesn’t that sound remarkably similar to

the pickup of Odin Lloyd, and then the long drive that brings him to Corliss Landing.” Corliss Landing, the industrial area in North Attleborough where Lloyd was found dead, is less than a mile from the $1.3 million home where Hernandez lived with his fiancee and their baby daughter. Hernandez texted Lloyd hours before the victim was picked up in Boston that night telling him that he wanted to “step for a little.” Defense say the text was “benign and innocu-ous” because the two men shared a passion for mari-juana and used to smoke together. “I think we can all agree it didn’t mean to go to a vacant field in North Attleborough to ‘step for a little bit,’” McCauley said, reminding the jury that Jenkins used to allow Hernandez to smoke in their home. “Did he make all the right decisions? No,” Sultan said. “He was a 23-year-old kid who witnessed some-thing shocking – a killing committed by somebody he knew. He really didn’t know what to do so he just put one foot in front of the other.” Sultan reminded jurors that they cannot find Hernandez guilty of acces-sory after the fact to mur-der, even if they wanted to, because prosecutors

have not charged him with that offense. He suggest-ed that Wallace or Ortiz, not Hernandez, carried a gun into the home after the slaying. Referencing surveillance footage that the state says shows Hernandez holding the .45 caliber Glock used to kill Lloyd, Sultan said: “Did he arm himself, protect him-self after what he just saw at Corliss Landing? Did he take the murder weapon away from Wallace or Ortiz so that no one else would get hurt?” During the trial, McCauley played two hours of surveillance video that shows Hernandez, Wallace, and Ortiz in the home the morning after the slaying, waking up, moving around the house, and going for a swim in the backyard pool. In one clip, Hernandez hands his baby daughter to Wallace to hold. “This defendant has his eight-month-old infant and is handing his child, his little girl, to the guy they want to suggest is the crazy man who killed Odin Lloyd a number of hours before,” McCauley said. “They’re hanging out. While the body of Odin Lloyd is now entering those initial stages of decomposition out at the field in Corliss Landing? They’re in the pool.” He painted an image of Hernandez as a profession-al athlete who believed he could get away with murder,

and reminded jurors that when Hernandez first went to the North Attleborough police station, he lay down on the floor “because he’s Aaron Hernandez.” “Who would, after a homicide, be walking around with a gun in his hand like it was a trophy of some sort?” McCauley asked, referring to the home surveillance foot-age from minutes after the crime. “You know who would, Aaron Hernandez would. ‘Cause guess what. No one would ever believe it, right?” Prosecutors argue that Hernandez acted superior to those around him. He had a level of celebrity sta-tus in the region as a key member of the Patriots dynamic offense. That ath-letic career, defense attor-neys counter, caused the state to target him as soon as they learned he knew the victim. Hernandez is accused of murder and two illegal firearms charges. Even if he is acquitted on all counts, he will return to the Massachusetts jail, where he is being held pending trial on double murder charges in a 2012 drive-by shooting in Boston. Prosecutors had said that they were exploring Lloyd’s knowledge of the Boston double homicide as a pos-sible motive, but they were not allowed to mention those charges at trial

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Westboro Baptist Church to protest reverend’s funeral

By Emily FoxhallLos Angeles Times

A fire-and-brimstone congregation that has made headlines and drawn scorn for its pro-tests at soldiers’ funer-als has announced that it will protest the public memorial services for the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, founder of the Crystal Cathedral. Westboro Baptist Church announced on its website that it will pick-et the funeral later this month for Schuller, who the Kansas-based group claims promoted tolerance and failed to warn against the “sins” of same-sex marriage. “He should have preached about hell,” the

group said in a statement. Since 1991, Westboro – which contends end times are imminent and that President Barack Obama is the antichrist – has staged 55,000 protests, often drowned out by far greater numbers of coun-ter-protesters. Schuller, whose weekly sermons were once broad-cast to more than 150 counties and whose sunny brand of religion set a tone for the megachurch move-ment, died last Thursday at the age of 88. A public service is planned April 20 at the Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif. – formerly the Crystal Cathedral.

Service planned to be held April 20

“He should have preached about hell.”

Westboro Baptist Church

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Chilton likened the cur-rent model to a collection of checking accounts. Essentially, each of the colleges at UMass is given a certain “allowance” to spend for each year, which is then spent on various pro-grams and services within the college. At the end of the year, the University’s bud-get office tallies the total spending and the college is again given an allowance for the next year. However, these allow-ances are generally based on what organizations were given the previous year alone, and rarely change because they are not con-trolled by individual colleg-es. Instead, a central budget-ing office sets the amount all the colleges are allocated. When a college needs more money, its dean can go to the chancellor or pro-vost to ask for it, but these requests are often denied, and the process is generally not open to the larger cam-pus community for review or debate. “I was a department chair for six years and I never really understood how it was that I was given a certain budget,” Chilton said. “My operating budget never really changed – it wasn’t sensitive to growth or shrinking over time. It was always just incremen-tal.”

To counter this problem, the task force recommend-ed the new budget model be decentralized and made more open to input from the campus community. The proposed model – called the Strategic Budget Allocation System – would allow col-leges and their chairs to be more directly involved in the process, offering more choices for program fund-ing and providing individual departments more opportu-nity to voice specific needs. The new model would also take into account ris-ing or falling costs within a college over time. Data on where money is being spent and how the amount of spending changes each year would be examined so that colleges could more accurately estimate how to adjust funding appropriate-ly. Chilton said this model would be less of a formula, and more of a “tool,” which the University would use to analyze changes in spend-ing and decide where to allo-cate funds. “It gives a mechanism for growing or even shrinking budgets as colleges grow and shrink,” Chilton said. “(We) want to see what’s changing over time and why.” The updated report con-taining the new model was presented to the Student

Government Association last Monday, and students were able to ask questions and critique the JTFRA’s plan. The team’s next move will be to compare the new model alongside the current one in the fall of 2015. This “parallel testing” is meant to give the JTFRA data on how the University’s budget would respond to a new sys-tem. “Nothing would change, but we would model what colleges would look like if we were to have allocated budgets in the new way,” Chilton said. After observing the model for a year, the task force will then recommend further changes if neces-sary. Chilton and the other members of the task force are hopeful that, within five years, the new model can be fully implemented. “We have a responsibility to the taxpayers,” she said. “We have to be thinking about how is it that we’re aligning our resources to support the priorities we have as an institution.” The public can view the draft report by the JTFRA on the Office of the Chancellor’s website, and can offer feedback about the process.

Isaac Burke can be reached at iburke@umass.edu.

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White House stresses impact of climate change

By ElliE SilvErmanMcClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled a long list of actions ranging from corporate and aca-demic partnerships to commu-nity programs to highlight the health impacts of climate change. Tech giants such as Google and Microsoft will conduct dis-ease research, universities will train the next generation of health experts and cities such as Durham, N.C., and Kansas City, Kan., will monitor local air qual-ity. All of these efforts and oth-ers are part of a multipronged approach to better educate people on the threat of climate change and how it could affect their qual-ity of life. The effort stretches across multiple government agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency and NASA. President Barack Obama on Monday declared this week National Public Health Week, with activities focused on the public health dangers of climate

change. “We all need to do our part,” Obama said at a Howard University School of Medicine roundtable discussion with experts on the health effects of climate change. “We’ve got a lot more work to do if we’re going to deal with this problem in an effec-tive way and make sure that our families and our kids are safe.” The administration hopes that the acceptance of climate change will rise and that the public will connect with the issue in a way that brings a change to daily life, White House senior adviser Brian Deese said in a phone call with reporters. “The most salient arguments around climate change are asso-ciated with the health impacts and are ones that meet people where they are, and that requires making an argument around how climate is affecting local commu-nities and individuals,” he said. A White House fact sheet noted that while the public generally thinks of climate change as a trig-ger for droughts, severe storms and wildfires, less talked about are the health problems that can result. It said these particularly occur in low-income communities where many people, for instance, don’t have the advantage of air-conditioning and other amenities to cope with challenges resulting

in heat-related deaths, Deese said. Also, the percentage of Americans with asthma has more than doubled in the past three decades, according to a White House report. Through the announced part-nerships and research, Deese said, the government can “empower more Americans with the infor-mation and tools that they need to help take action to address this threat.” According to NASA, 97 per-cent of climate scientists, as well as groups such as the American Medical Association and the American Meteorological Society, agree that human activities have very likely contributed to the warming of the planet. But it remains a politically volatile issue, often dividing along parti-san and ideological lines. Just this week, however, the issue took a strange turn when a leading conservative policy group with a history of advocating leg-islation to undercut efforts to slow global warming threatened to sue climate change activists who refer to the policy group as climate change deniers. Officials at the Heartland Institute, a free market think tank based in Chicago, issued a statement criticizing the White House effort. “Climate change, if it poses

any true threat of harm, is at best a distant threat – with fewer, less severe hurricanes and great-er crop yields, rather than the opposite being the norm,” said H. Sterling Burnett, an environment and energy policy research fellow at the institute. “Linking asthma and children’s health problems to climate change is the worst form of hype.” A Gallup poll last month showed that 55 percent of Americans believe that increases in the Earth’s temperature are because of pollution as a result of human activities and 77 per-cent say they understand global warming either very well or fairly well. In the latest administration cli-mate change initiative, Microsoft will use technology to better understand the environment as part of a data collection effort, said Ethan Jackson, a researcher with Microsoft Research who was also on the White House call. It is extremely difficult to com-pile information about patho-gens, so most surveillance can only detect diseases after an out-break begins. But Jackson said Microsoft is developing a system to capture mosquitoes and iden-tify pathogens before people are infected. “We’re particularly interested in applying safer systems to bet-

ter understand the state of the environment and its implications on human health and agricul-ture,” Jackson said. Scientists also will be able to use the Google Earth Engine, with technical assistance from Google staff, to study diseases such as malaria and to visualize global fires and oil and gas flares. This information will be used to create early warnings for diseases and a public disease-risk map. Locally, “Village Green” park bench stations will be in cities across the U.S., including Durham, N.C., and Kansas City, Kan. This project uses solar and wind power to measure the local air quality and increase a commu-nity’s awareness of global warm-ing impacts. Other participants will be Washington, Philadelphia; Chicago; Oklahoma City and Hartford, Conn. Universities also will help inform the public on climate change with commitments from medical, nursing and public health school deans across the country to train students on addressing the health impacts of climate change. “The sooner and more aggres-sively we act, the more we know we can do to reduce these impacts of climate change and to protect the health of our communities,” Deese said.

Public health major point for the effort

Race and religion split the electorates as campaign starts

By DaviD lautErTribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON— As presi-dential hopefuls officially begin their campaigns, the two parties face each other with opposing coalitions clear-ly defined along lines of race, religion and culture. Nearly 90 percent of the Americans who identify or lean to the Republican Party are white. In particular, white, evangelical Protestants, who make up just under one-fifth of the overall U.S. population, account for more than one-third of those who back the GOP. By contrast, the Democrats depend heavily on minorities, people without a religious affiliation and the most high-ly educated segment of the white population, particularly women with graduate or pro-fessional degrees. The contrasting portraits come from extensive data about party preferences released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. The data, drawn from about 25,000 interviews Pew conducted last year for its sur-veys, provides a detailed look at where the two parties stand as the presidential campaign begins to take shape. The share of Americans who openly identify with either of the two major par-ties has declined over the last decade as more Americans call themselves independents. Most of those self-described independents, however, lean toward one party or the other, and they have voting behavior that is almost as predictable as more open partisans. The contrasting nature of the two coalitions drives the issues on which each party focuses. The Republicans’ heavy dependence on evangel-ical Protestants, for example, helps explain why the party’s lawmakers have backed what supporters call “religious

freedom” legislation in many states and also why they have had so much difficulty navi-gating the fast-changing poli-tics of that issue. The Democrats’ reliance on minorities lies behind several of President Barack Obama’s policies, notably his push for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws in ways that would benefit many Latino and Asian-American families. Because its candidates have done poorly with minori-ties in a nation that has grown steadily less white, the GOP needs to keep winning a big-ger majority of white voters to prevail in presidential elec-tions. Republican strategists have split in the past couple of years on whether the strategy of depending on white turn-out remains viable in presi-dential contests. Overall, the Democrats enjoy a 48 percent to 39 per-cent advantage in the share of Americans who lean their way, but that edge shrinks to 48-43 percent among regis-tered voters, the Pew figures show. The Democratic advantage has been fairly consistent going back to 1992, a period during which the party has won the popular vote in 5 out of 6 presidential elections. But in elections that don’t involve the White House, the voters whom Democrats count on do not turn out as reliably as Republican backers, creat-ing a major advantage for the GOP in off-year contests. While many of the demo-graphic divisions between the two parties have been constant for years – Democrats consis-tently do better with women than with men; Republicans do better with married people than unmarried – the Pew data show two major recent shifts, one favoring each party. Democrats have greatly improved their standing among Americans with grad-

uate or professional degrees, particularly women. In 1992, Americans with more than a college education divided their political loyal-ties equally between the two parties. But since the middle of the last decade, that group has become increasingly Democratic. They now favor the Democrats 56-36 percent. Combine the gender gap with educational differenc-es and the contrast become huge. Women with educa-tion beyond college favor Democrats by about 2-1, for example. By contrast, white men without a college degree favor Republicans 54-33 per-cent. The other major change has been the growing Republican advantage among white evangelicals, which has expanded steadily during Obama’s presidency. They now back Republicans 68-22 percent. Although the two par-ties also have a generational divide – with older Americans favoring the GOP and younger ones leaning heavily toward Democrats – that difference has more to do with religion, ethnicity and race than age itself. The so-called Silent Generation, made of Americans born between 1929 and 1946, is the whitest of the country’s major age groups and favors the GOP 47-43 per-cent. By contrast, Millennials, who range in age from 18 to 33, comprise the most racially and ethnically diverse genera-tion in the voting population. They favor Democrats 51-35 percent, but mostly because more than 4 in 10 of them are nonwhite. White mem-bers of the Millennial gen-eration have political prefer-ences much like their elders; nonwhites of their age favor Democrats 61-23 percent.

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For Boston Red Sox fans, the season began with a promising start, as the Red Sox combined

for five home runs and held the Philadelphia Phillies to three hits in an 8-0 victory. An exciting sea-son filled with home runs, sto-len bases and web gems is upon us, and I’m sure that the average Boston fan hopes to take at least one trip to the historic Fenway Park this year, joining the thou-sands of fans cheering and booing under the shadow of the Green Monster. While a trip to Fenway is undoubtedly on the sum-mer agenda, I’ll also be buy-ing tickets to a place where I first discovered the beauty of America’s Pastime: McCoy Stadium. On Feb. 23, plans were announced to move the Pawtucket Red Sox, the Triple-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox located in Rhode Island, to Providence within the next few years, a decision which broke the hearts of thousands of local fans in the city of Pawtucket. I grew up in a family that loves baseball. Although Red Sox games at Fenway were by far the most thrilling, tickets were expensive and hard to find. To get our base-ball fix, we resorted to somewhat nontraditional measures – incor-porating Red Sox away games into our vacation plans, and attending a wide variety of international and independent league games, including the North Shore Spirit and the Brockton Rox. The main fix for our baseball addiction, however, was in a sta-dium 20 minutes south, where the tickets were cheap and the park-ing was easy. Sitting in the stands of McCoy Stadium, in blazing heat and pouring rain, was a staple of summer days, and it hurts to know that in a few years’ time, all of its

history will be erased. When I was a young kid still relatively new to the game of baseball, I remember staring at the scoreboard painted on one of McCoy’s walls, an illustration of the famous 33-inning game played between the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings in 1981, the longest game in professional baseball history. It was amazing – a baseball game lasting not nine innings, not 10 innings, but 33. McCoy was a special place. We went to as many bobble-head nights as we could, collect-ing the likes of Derek Lowe, Trot Nixon and Dustin Pedroia, former PawSox who eventually became

prominent members of the Boston Red Sox. I used to a cut a hole in a two liter soda bottle and hang it over the dugout, and I’ll never for-get the excitement of feeling the string tighten as a player below took the ball from the bottle and signed it in permanent marker. Sometimes we would get tick-ets to the barbecue on the first base line, prime foul ball territory, and I’d eagerly chase down rogue balls as they bounced on the con-crete. Getting a fried dough the size of my head, or an ice cream in a mini Red Sox helmet was a must. In another memorable moment, I am standing on my seat, waving my arms like a maniac and wait-ing for Paws, the polar bear mas-cot, to throw out a plush baseball in my direction — the balls always soaring just out of reach. For many Red Sox fans, PawSox games provided an opportunity

to watch some of the big league players who were rehabilitating injuries in Triple-A. Years ago, Manny Ramirez played a game in Pawtucket and my dad and I sat on the third base line. Manny trotted in from left field and casu-ally tossed the ball into the crowd, prompting my dad to leap back into his seat and snag the ball that sailed over his head. He handed me the “Manny Ball” and that moment is not only my fondest of McCoy, but one of the fondest of my life. I’m sure a lot of people will say that the magic of baseball will con-tinue in the PawSox’s new park, but it won’t be the same. McCoy

Stadium wasn’t just a place to watch a team play ball, it was a place where dreams unfolded – a place where young kids fell in love with the game. While the city of Pawtucket has had a trou-bled history, fans still flock to the stadium, with smiles on their faces and gloves on their hands. McCoy was

Pawtucket’s pride. McCoy was a sanctuary. Teams are bought and sold and relocated and that’s how the world of professional sports works, but it hurts to see the PawSox go. Watching them play was more than just being a spectator. It was a part of growing up. For me, and thousands of others, McCoy is more than a ballpark – it’s a symbol of community, a symbol of family and a symbol of happiness. While Fenway Park is a spe-cial and amazing place in its own right, McCoy Stadium has always been that hidden gem: the quaint little ballpark tucked into con-gested Pawtucket where you could eat some Cracker Jack and sing “Sweet Caroline” and listen to the beautiful crack of the bat, all for $ 15 and a 20-minute drive.

Steven Gillard is a Colelgian columnist and can be reached at sgillard@umass.edu.

Over the past few weeks, much has been made of the soon-to-be Daily Show host Trevor Noah’s

Twitter timeline. The young South African comedian attracted initial mainstream attention last Monday, after Comedy Central revealed that he had been tapped to replace Jon Stewart, whose 16-year run on the show will end later this year. The initial publicity from the announcement led to a flurry of popularity for Noah; however, the source of much of his time in the all-seeing public eye has been his crass, distasteful and frequently unfunny tweets, the likes of which have run the spectrum from anti-Semitic to misogynistic to both. Many have recommended that Comedy Central go so far as to revoke Noah’s host position over the tweet – however, such an atti-tude is not only excessive, but com-pletely ignores the comic’s own lifelong struggle refining his com-edy in a nation still fresh with the scars of apartheid. The specific tweets in question were singled out by social media ”news” site Buzzfeed, and repre-sent a selection of Noah’s most low-brow and offensive offerings from 2010 to 2012. What followed was a flurry of social media out-rage, naming Noah a “Jew-hater” and a “racist,” as well as much vehement swearing-off of The

Daily Show and Comedy Central. Ironically, Noah is himself acquainted with institutionalized racism, as he outlined in January in an interview with NPR’s All Things Considered. “I was born in South Africa dur-ing apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa,” he said” ... My mother’s a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father’s Swiss, from Switzerland. So I grew up in a world where my existence in itself was a crime.” Indeed, Noah’s development as a comic is inexorably tied to the legacy of oppression and racial-ized violence that terrorized South Africa until the 1990’s. “We’ve only had comedy since, really, democracy started in 1994

– so you’re looking at a young com-edy scene,” he said in the same interview. “But at the same time I feel that South Africans are less PC. We’re a fresher nation, we laugh at more.” Noah’s tweets are not the evi-dence of a bigot, or a culturally insensitive wannabe – they are the immature and ill-conceived detri-tus of a comic trying to establish his personal brand. These offen-sive and simply bland not-jokes are the embarrassing ephemera any young comedian has to deal with, made permanent and open to scrutiny by the preservative magic of social media. Even Jon Stewart himself would admit that not every joke is a home run, not every bit a gut-buster and he has been a vocal critic of Israel with-out engendering the same back-lash Noah did. Thankfully, more entrenched comedians and Twitter personalities like Patton Oswalt, took to Twitter last Wednesday, offering a lengthy rip on “comedy in 2015.” More simply than any culture war or political correctness, how-ever, I think Trevor Noah deserves our forgiveness. With every pass-ing second, social media is docu-menting the human experience on a level of detail that would have been incomprehensible even 20 years ago. No one – not Jon Stewart or Trevor Noah – can be

perfectly presentable and inoffen-sive 100 percent of the time, and when people do inevitably screw up, they shouldn’t be ridiculed and condemned and accused of hatred or intolerance or any number of -isms. They should receive the same treatment that comedians create – a frank, open and unadulterated conversation about their role as a participant in an equally flawed, yet growing and learning society. In Noah’s own words about growing up under apartheid: “That was really the one currency we had was laughter…Your laughter takes you through everything.”

Johnny McCabe is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at rjmccabe@umass.edu.

Steven Gillard

“McCoy stadium wasn’t just a place to watch a team play ball,

it was a place where dreams unfolded: a place where young kids fell in love with the game.”

“No one – not Jon Stewart or Trevor Noah – can be perfectly presentable and inoffensive 100 percent of

the time, and when people do inevitably screw up, they shouldn’t be ridiculed and condemned and accused of

hatred or intolerance or any number of -isms.”

Johnny McCabe

Magic of McCoy Stadium won’t be the same after relocation

Cut Trevor Noahsome slack: forgiving

in age of Twitter

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By Troy KowalchuKCollegian Staff

At 210 Stockbridge Road, you can find a blissful

oasis within the Durfee Conservatory, which has offered students a peace-ful place to study and a chance to explore numer-ous scenic detours since 1867. The large Eden con-tains plants from all over the globe, arranged into five different “houses” within the complex. The Bonsai-Camellia House contains camellia trees still standing from when the conservatory was first established. They blossom in shades of red, pink and white in time for Valentine’s Day in the winter, leaving dried pet-als sprinkled across the ground in the spring. The Epiphyte/Vine House contains orchids, bromeliads and other vin-ing plants. The Collections House houses what is known as the sensitive plant or mismosa pudica, which can fold its leaves when it is touched. The passiflora/passion fruit vine is also located in the Collections House, which is one of Durfee’s most unique plants. The white flower has petals with light greens and vibrant purples and is scheduled to bloom in a few weeks. The Tropical House dominates the conser-vatory with a variety of exotic tropical and sub-tropical plants. There is a 4,000-gallon fishpond and a small waterfall with cas-cading mist that dampens the skin of those that walk across the wooden bridge. Around the pond are vari-ous benches and nooks for people to sit and study

in the warm sunlight. Nothing but the soothing sounds of nature can be heard in this seclusion. “It’s so quiet,” junior Sarah York said. “It’s a very nice place to relax and re-center yourself.” York stumbled across the conservatory after wanting to find an alter-native waiting line for University Health Services. Since then, she visits the conservatory three times a month and has the same hideout where she likes to relax. The spot is in between walls of bamboo on a stone bench near a small fire stove. Here, she spends her time in silence, and is able to get her work done with as much peace and relax-ation as possible. Manager Michael Formosi agrees with York in that Durfee serves as much better waiting room.

He has his office situated in the Succulents House, the final house of the con-servatory. Formosi said that stu-dents come to Durfee because of “the combi-nation of all the factors that Durfee offers – the warmth, the natural sun-light, beautiful natural plants, the humidity – it’s quiet but the natural sounds of the water, the sound of the mist, put peo-ple to sleep.” Formosi explained the hardworking upkeep of the conservatory by add-ing, “Some flowers are triggered by the short sun-light in winter, and other plants, such as succulents, are triggered by long hours of sunlight. We are set upon a line constant-ly re-propagating plants, making our collection sta-ble.” Regardless of what is in

bloom, there isn’t a wrong time to visit Durfee. The conservatory is open year-round, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Whether you need a place to escape from the harsh freezing winters, are waiting for UHS like York, or want to see all of the flowers in bloom in the heart of spring, a visit to the Durfee Conservatory is a neces-sity for all University of Massachusetts students. Stress from classes and the redundancy of daily schedules fade away in the tranquil hideaway. All of these beautiful plants are just waiting to be seen for either two minutes or two hours. “Definitely come visit,” York said.

Troy Kowalchuck can be reached at tkowalchuck@umass.edu.

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Durfee: A scenic study spot

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The Tropical Room is the largest room inside of Durfee Conservatory and has a bridge which intersects its pond.

Add-driven app targets children

By MaTT o’BrienSan Jose Mercury News

Prominent consumer and child advocacy groups on Tuesday will ask the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google’s new YouTube Kids application, arguing that the search engine giant is unfairly and deceptively targeting tod-dlers with advertising on tablets and smartphones. “This is the opening shot in a new battle with Google, Nickelodeon, Amazon, Netflix, Cartoon Network and others that are trying to cash in on this genera-tion of young children,” said Jeff Chester, director of the Center for Digital Democracy. “It’s a battle for the hearts and minds and pocketbooks of America’s kids in the digital age.” Google has said its new kid-centric video service is its first product built “with little ones in mind.” But the new mobile app has angered an influential group of psy-chologists and consumer advocates including Chester, who in the late 1990s helped win a national campaign to protect children’s online pri-vacy. Their complaint accuses YouTube Kids of mixing commercial content with children’s video program-ming using practices banned on broadcast and cable tele-vision by another agency, the Federal Communications Commission. Those restric-tions _ such as banning children’s TV hosts or car-toon characters from hawk-ing products during a show _ emerged in the 1970s in response to research show-ing young children have not developed the cognitive skills to resist advertising or understand they are being targeted. “Google simply ignored the basics,” Chester said. “They deliberately ignored the well-documented research on children’s developmental limitations when it comes to advertis-ing and programming.” Google did not respond to requests for comment Monday about the pending complaint. Georgetown Law School’s Institute for Public Representation drafted the letter on behalf of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Consumer Federation of America, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Children Now, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Consumer Watchdog, Corporate Accountability International, Public Citizen and the Center for Digital Democracy. The nation’s largest consumer advocate, Consumers Union, became the 10th organization to sign on to the complaint Monday. The San Jose Mercury News was first to report about advocates’ concerns about advertising and prod-uct placement on YouTube Kids after Google introduced the app in late February on Apple and Android mobile devices. At the time, Google said it included advertising so that it could make the ser-vice free. The company also said its own internal policy team would only allow com-mercials it deemed family-

friendly. Indeed, many of the 30-second or 60-second ads that can be found on the app are public service announcements promoting the U.S. Forest Service’s out-doors campaign and other civic messages. But others promote toys or entertain-ment brands. It’s not just the tradition-al commercials that bother consumer advocates, who are also setting their sights on the app’s branded chan-nels for McDonald’s, Lego or My Little Pony where car-toon shows blur into videos that resemble lengthy prod-uct promotions. The com-plaint also asks the FTC to probe the murky world of “unboxing” videos _ a popu-lar trend in which YouTube users upload amateur home videos of themselves open-ing toy packages and show-casing products. “We want Google to pull all of its unboxing videos from the app,” Chester said. “There’s no disclosure of who actually owns those channels. They’re an ad, in essence, for toys.” Other advocates who are supporters of YouTube Kids dismissed the complaint as overreaction. “I like it a lot and it’s free, so if it’s free, something’s got to pay for it,” said Parry Aftab, an Internet privacy lawyer who is also executive director of Virginia-based WiredSafety. “We are the United States. We are an ad-driven nation.” Aftab was one of a hand-ful of advocates asked by Google to view the app before its launch. Aftab’s endorsement appeared with Google’s original announce-ment. She said she doesn’t remember seeing any com-mercials, but said Monday, “I don’t worry about ads as long as they’re not ads for Viagra and Victoria’s Secret and things like that, and as long as you teach your kids the reality of ads.” Advertising-fueled Web companies such as Google have long had an interest in appealing to children who are increasingly being entertained and educated on mobile devices, but have had to tread carefully because of regulatory safeguards. “Their revenues, their growth is declining because of the move to mobile and reduction in revenues on search,” Chester said. “Facebook is hot on their heels. So they decided to bet-ter monetize kids, and to do it as early as possible in order to build revenues they desperately need.” The coalition’s com-plaint argues that the app violates Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act prohibiting unfair and deceptive marketing. FTC investigations are confiden-tial unless the agency files a complaint or consent decree, said Angela Campbell, a law professor who wrote the complaint and directs Georgetown’s Institute for Public Representation. The commission can also infor-mally negotiate with a com-pany to make changes. “I think they’ll take it very seriously. These are very serious claims,” she said. “They could subpoena info about how the algo-rithms work and who the sponsors are. Or Google could stop doing this and it would go away.”

Google uses unjust marketing for kids

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The Durfee Conservatory is a scenic detour when walking to and from class.TROY KOWALCHUK/COLLEGIAN

The camellia tree blossoms are noted for being vibrant reds and pinks.

Finding your voice in an iPad appBy harold GlicKenTribune News Service

Adobe Voice is a free iPad app that lets you record a story, insert videos and graphics as you tell your story and play it back for the world to hear and see. That’s it! Oh, and it’s also fun to use. In fact, if you have a sense of humor, you can do stand-up comedy with Voice. As you go through your routine, you can search the Internet for appropri-ate pictures, drawings and graphics, and you can use the iPad’s camera to focus on yourself. You can extend a scene or make it go by quick-ly. And you can insert videos and photos stored on your iPad. That’s where it really shines. I decided to tell the story of my life. My first scene, of course, was a picture of me. After inserting my photo,

by simply touching a plus sign on my iPad’s screen and pulling the photo from my camera roll, I decided to add music that was stored on my iPad. In my case, it was “Song of the Volga Boatmen,” which I found on the Internet. I could have gone with the default sound tracks, too. They range from rousing classical music to an annoying ukulele ditty. Adding photos or graphics is as simple as typing a key word – in my case, a boatman – and searching for it. I didn’t find quite what I was looking for, so I added a different pose of myself. So far, so good. Soon enough, I had added scenes of the log cabin I grew up in when we lived in North Dakota. I found a white-out photo of a blizzard, and added that, too. My high school graduation photo came next, and then there was the clas-sic photo at my first news-

paper job. Photos and videos of kids came next, followed by grandkids and another of me in retirement, lounging in the backyard like a beached whale. All the while, I narrat-ed the video, except when the videos spoke for themselves. Once I got the hang of Voice, I could complete a project in a few minutes, with photos of family members, a video of my ditsy Standard Poole (may she romp wher-ever dogs go when they finish their last bone), and scenes from my childhood. So, what do you do when you’ve finished your story? Share it with the world via social media, a process that’s so simple, I blasted it to about a hundred people, most of whom couldn’t have cared less about my story. Still, it gives me great pleasure to watch my project over and over. There’s no story quite as interesting as mine.

There are commercial applications, too. If you’re introducing a new product or even a website you want to drive business to, you just have to insert the appropri-ate voice-overs, videos and graphics. A few years ago, I spent many days using a video-edit-ing program to tell the story of my Dad, whose life was far more interesting than mine. With Voice, I could have accomplished a more polished version in under an hour. Gathering the material will still take some time, but once you have an idea of how your video should play out, it goes fast. YouTube has all kinds of demos on how to change everything from the theme of your story to fonts and colors. If you spend an hour watching the demos, you’ll be an expert. Did I mention that it’s great fun?

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Minutewomen prepared for final three matches

By PhiliP SanzoCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts tennis team has put itself in a great position to close out what has been nothing short of a dominant season. UMass (11-4, 3-0 Atlantic 10) has posted a perfect 7-0 record at home and a 3-0 mark in conference play, having won four consecutive games including seven of its last eight. With only three matches remaining in the regular season before the Atlantic 10 Championships, the Minutewomen will face Rhode Island, Bryant and Sacred Heart over the next five days. Up first for UMass on Wednesday is conference rival Rhode Island. The Rams (6-5, 0-1 Atlantic 10) will host the Minutewomen at Centre Court in Providence, Rhode Island, in what could be con-sidered a must-win game for the Rams, who have yet to win an A-10 game. For the Minutewomen, this game has the potential to hurt them more than it can help them. “These are the kind of matches you have to be care-ful with,” UMass coach Judy Dixon said. Luckily, the match against URI will be played indoors as the forecast calls for rain and a high of 41 degrees. Play indoors is always the favor-able condition for the play-ers, and the Minutewomen are fortunate enough to have already played at Centre Court in a 7-0 win against Providence March 7.

UMass has received consis-tent play from its singles as of late, as Carol Benito has won seven straight games while Chanel Glasper’s next victory will set the all-time program record for singles wins. Sitting at 74 career wins, Glasper will look to achieve the milestone against either URI or Bryant. Dixon has expressed many times before her desire for Glasper to win her 75th match before Senior Day April 12. Dixon believes the biggest threat to the Minutewomen is going to be URI’s No. 1 sin-gles player, Taylor Holden, who is 10-7 on the year. This will not make things any eas-ier for UMass’s top singles player Aarzoo Malik, who has already experienced her share of struggles this sea-son with a 6-15 record. The Minutewomen will stay in Rhode Island between matches before they face the Bulldogs on Saturday. Dixon believes that this could pos-sibly be the toughest of the last three games for UMass. “I expect Bryant to be tough. We will have to come

out with our best team,” Dixon said. Bryant (6-6, 2-1 New England Conference) has improved over the past few seasons and will come into the game with a respectable No. 1 singles player in Ryan Brown, who is 8-9 on the sea-son. The Bulldogs are get-ting hot at the right time, as they’ve won their last three matchups. The regular season will close out with Senior Day Sunday against Sacred Heart, as UMass will bid farewell to its two seniors, Glasper and Gianna Francis. Glasper will likely be the Minutewomen’s all-time single’s wins leader, while Francis has not competed in two years. The Pioneers (6-8) won their last game on Tuesday 6-1 against Long Island University Brooklyn. Philip Sanzo can be reached at psanzo@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Philip_Sanzo.

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Whipple. He’s going to play the best guy … From now to camp and now to the first game is a long time, so I don’t think that set me back. “I think I’ll have plenty of opportunities to show what I need to show.” Whipple acknowledged Blyden’s injury history is long in the past. Now, he must make strides within the playbook in his second year in UMass’ offensive system.

“Especially being in the same system, there’s some recall,” Whipple said. “He should play faster. Instead of worrying about what you’re doing on offense, you’re worrying about what the defense is doing and taking the next step.” Blyden placed emphasis on the jump from year to year. He likened it to when he played in high school. There’s less thinking and more natural playing. It’s something he hopes to

display in next Friday’s scrimmage. “When I came in I had to learn things quick,” he said. “Now I have time to polish all the fine details of everything. I feel like I’m a lot better versed in the playbook, I’m not real-ly thinking anymore. I’m just going out and play-ing.”

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

UMass set to face Vermont

By Matthew zackManCollegian Staff

When the Massachusetts’ women’s lacrosse team plays its final non-confer-ence game of the season on Wednesday against Vermont, the name which will remain at the forefront of UMass’ mind is Jessica Roach. Ro a c h e n t e r s Wednesday’s matchup with 49 goals on the season, which is good for second in the entire country. This sea-son, Roach has been held scoreless only once – in a 11-1 loss against Albany – and has scored seven goals on two separate occasions this year. Roach is the biggest individual challenge that UMass’ second-ranked defense (4.82 goals against per game) will have faced this season. Head coach Angela McMahon recog-nizes that Roach will be the primary focus of her defense, but emphasized that her defenders will not be so focused on Roach that they forget to matchup with the rest of the Catamount offense that has won six of their last seven games. “It’s all about making sure that everyone knows where the ball is at all times. Being on the same page and a high level of communication will help that. Also, just supporting each other, because our defense has been the back-bone of our team and I am confident that against any-one, we will play together,” McMahon said. “Our seven should be able to combat (Vermont’s)

two or three (best players),” she added. The Minutewomen (10-1, 3-0 Atlantic 10) defense hasn’t allowed over three goals in the first half of any contest this year and McMahon believes that in order to keep the streak alive, her midfielders and attackers must play a major role in controlling posses-sion against Vermont. “It’s more of the job of our midfielders and our attackers to win the draw and have solid pos-sessions on offense where we are executing. If we are winning the posses-sion game and having the ball, that’s taking opportu-nities away from them to score and allowing us to play less defense. The more offense we can play, the bet-ter for this type of team,” McMahon said. After coming off an 18-goal performance on Saturday against St. Bonaventure, UMass will look to apply similar offen-sive pressure to Vermont (9-4, 2-1 America East) as the Minutewomen have scored 10 or more goals in their past three games. Katie Ott has scored at least one goal in each of the last seven games alongside Hannah Murphy’s team-high 23 goals. The matchup between these two New England pro-grams is also a homecoming to former Minutewomen superstar Katie Ferris. Ferris, who graduated in 2014, is in her first season

as an assistant coach at Vermont. She is currently UMass’ all-time leader in points, goals and assists. McMahon is looking forward to reuniting with Ferris despite her former player being on the oppo-site bench. She sees it as a unique opportunity for Ferris to provide her team with insight on how the Minutewomen play. “She is relatively famil-iar with our team, so we are going to have to look for some different options and move the ball and make sure that all seven options when we are offense are a threat,” McMahon said. McMahon doesn’t believe that Ferris’ pres-ence will create an advan-tage for the Catamounts. “Because we graduated so many last year, we have a lot of new players and starters on the field and we are always putting in differ-ent schemes and offenses for each game and looking to attack in different areas, so we are dynamic enough to score from anywhere,” she said. McMahon is looking for-ward to a competitive game and a final tune up before her team digs into league play. Wednesday’s game is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. at McGuirk Stadium. Matthew Zackman can be reached at mzackman@umass.edu.

Catamounts travel to McGuirk Wed.

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able to do that well, espe-cially at home, definitely gives you a lot of confi-dence. I think those are two wins that she needed under her belt to move forward.” Even if her recent suc-cess is bound to bring more confidence, Stefanoni isn’t stuck on the idea that only good things will come here on out for Raymond. However, with a little hard work, she believes Raymond has it in her to do great things for UMass in the near future. “She’s going to have to have a really great week of practice,” she said. “We’ve got a really great team coming in this week in Fordham, and we’re playing Harvard on Thursday. She definitely has her work cut out for

her, but if she has a really great week at practice, and continues to do what she’s been doing, I think

we’ll be OK.” Tom Mulherin can be reached at tmulheri@umass.edu.

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Aarzoo Malik awaits a serve in a 5-2 win over Albany on March 28.

“It’s more of the job of our midfielders and our attackers to win the draw and have

solid possessions on offense.”Angela McMahon,

UMass coach

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Caroline Raymond was named A-10 pitcher of the week last week.

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By RoSS GienieczkoCollegian Staff

After a thrilling eighth inning propelled the Massachusetts baseball team to a 6-5 victory over Siena Tuesday afternoon, the Minutemen will have a quick turnaround before another midweek contest. Wednesday, they’ll take on Harvard in the first round of the baseball Beanpot. Traditionally, the Beanpot (first played in ice hockey) was a competition between Boston College, Boston University, Harvard and Northeastern. Since 1996, however, UMass (6-10, 5-4 Atlantic 10) has taken BU’s place in the baseball edi-tion of the tournament, after the Terriers stopped offering baseball as a Division I sport. Since joining the field of four, the Minutemen have enjoyed moderate success. They’ve won four Beanpot titles, with two of them com-ing back-to-back in 1996-97. The last UMass champion-

ship, however, was in 2008. But even with the historic undertones to the tournament and a trip to Fenway Park for the championship game on the line, Minutemen coach Mike Stone was all business. “It’s a real important tour-nament for us in the middle of the season,” Stone said. “We need to play well and get our-selves into the championship game.” They’ll try to do just that on the arm of junior right-hander Brandon Walsh. Walsh pulls double duty for the Minutemen – he plays catcher and first base at times while also making appearanc-es on the mound. Wednesday marks the third appearance Walsh will make on the rub-ber this season. “He’s a power pitcher,” Stone said. “He’s one of the guys we have confidence in at the end of a game.” Wednesday, though, Walsh will get the start – just the fifth of his career and first

this season. Harvard (14-13, 3-5 Ivy League) enters the game win-ners of four of five, though the Crimson dropped their most recent contest against Cornell Sunday afternoon. They are led by a duo of seniors who lead the team in most offen-sive categories in catcher Ethan Ferreira and first base-man Jake McGuiggan. Ferreira leads the team with a .378 average and 10 doubles, while McGuiggan is first in runs batted in (22) and sports a .363 average of his own. On the mound, senior Andrew Timoney leads the team with a 4-1 record, and his earned run average sits at 3.69. It’s not known, however, who the Crimson will send to the mound this afternoon. First pitch is scheduled for Lorden Field at 3:30 p.m.

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

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UM to host Harvard in first round of Beanpot on Wed.

see RAYMOND on page 7see CONCUSSION on page 7

“It’s tough because it’s something you don’t really feel out on the field . You feel like you

should be able to go out, but you know it’s not the right thing to do.”

J.T. Blyden,UMass running back

“We saw a very mature Caroline over the weekend. Her changeup was on, and that

was probably the reason why we won.”Kristi Stefanoni,

UMass coach

@MDC_SPORTS Sports@DailyCollegian.comWednesday, April 8, 2015

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By Tyler FiedlerCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts base-ball team came back in dra-matic fashion Tuesday after-noon, scoring five runs in the eighth inning to stave off Siena 6-5. The late come-back was sparked by a string of Minutemen (6-10, 5-4 Atlantic 10) hits and base run-ners. Junior Brandon Walsh hit a two-out double driving in Adam Picard and Paul Yanakopulos to give UMass a 6-5 lead it would not relin-quish. “It was a good win com-ing from behind like that,” UMass coach Mike Stone said. “We needed to come from behind and we executed late and closed it out.” With two outs and a run-ner on second, Picard smoked a single to right field driving

in Rob McLam to keep the rally alive. After a Matt Bare walk and Yanakopulos pinch run, the stage was set for Walsh to make some noise. Walsh has struggled thus far into the season hitting

.222 in six games, but this was his biggest opportu-nity to date and he delivered in the clutch spark-ing UMass to the

win. “Walsh and Picard really came through for us today,” Stone said. “It was good to see them get it done and I am happy they were able to execute.” The combination of Kevin Hassett and Mike Geannelis out of the bull-pen held the Saints (6-16, 3-3 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) to zeroes in the last three innings. It was Geannelis’ first appearance

of the season after sitting out the start due to injury. Stone was happy with the way he came out and held Siena in check. “It was good to see (Geannelis) out there pitch-ing for the first time this season,” Stone said. “I was happy with the way he pitched and thought he did a good job for his first game back.” Kyle Adie started the scor-ing for the Minutemen, lead-ing the game off with a triple. Vinny Scifo hit a sacrifice fly to drive him in and give UMass an early 1-0 lead. That lead would not last very long as Tim Cassidy, who was making his first start of the year, gave one right back to the Saints in the first inning. Leadoff hitter Dan Swain reached on an error by third baseman Jon Avallone and would then go on to steal sec-ond and third before being

driven in on a sacrifice fly by Justin Esquerra. Cassidy then settled into a grove, throwing three score-less innings before giving up a run in the fifth on a single to right. Cassidy ran into trouble in the sixth, giv-ing up three runs. He start-ed leaving pitches up in the zone, surrendering two home runs to Siena as the Saints extended their lead to 5-1. “(Cassidy) pitched well until the fifth,” Stone said. “He was really cruising but he got in trouble when he left balls up and they hit them out.” Avallone would make up for his early error by lead-ing off the Minutemen rally in the eighth. Adie reached on an error by right fielder Fred Smart and a single by McLam opened the scoring for UMass. “It was another strong day for Kyle,” Stone said. “He

seems really comfortable at the plate and has been a very good offensive player for us.” Stone was impressed with the fight and resilience of his team after being down 5-1 late in the game. “The guys barred down and were able to take advan-

tage of pitches,” Stone said. “The key is staying positive and today was a good exam-ple of not giving up, it was good to see.”

Tyler Fiedler can be reached at tfiedler@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Tyler_Fiedler.

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J.T. Blyden (23) missed the final seven games of the 2014 with a consussion. The freshman ran for 116 yards on 38 carries in four games last year.

Blyden ready to make impact againBy Mark Chiarelli

Collegian Staff

J.T. Blyden’s eyes light up at the idea of tossing on pads and playing in the Massachusetts football team’s Spring Game, which is scheduled for April 17. Blyden missed the final seven games of the 2014 sea-son after suffering a con-cussion in the first quarter of an eventual 42-41 loss to Miami (Ohio) on Oct. 4. At first, his disappearance was a mystery, as it took three weeks for the team to confirm he suffered a head injury. Blyden practiced with the team throughout the rest of the season, but never again appeared in a game. For someone who hadn’t suffered an injury in years, waiting was the hardest part. “It’s tough because it’s something you don’t real-ly feel out on the field,” Blyden said after Tuesday’s practice. “You feel like you should be able to go out,

you don’t feel anything aching you or holding you back so you just want to get out so bad. But you know it’s not the right thing to do.” Blyden then gestured to his head. “It’s tough because you can’t necessarily see what’s holding you back, it’s something up here.” It was the second con-cussion of Blyden’s career, but he deemed the first a minor one. Still, the team exercised extreme cau-tion and never rushed him back. “It was just something I had to get through,” he said. “Once you recover, there aren’t many residual things holding you back. I’m glad about it.” Blyden can now turn his attention to competing for time at running back yet again. He entered as a three-star recruit, but opened training camp work-ing with the scout team.

Ahead of him were return-ing running backs Jamal Wilson, Lorenzo Woodley and Shadrach Abrokwah, as well as incoming recruit Drew Harris, who later left the team. Yet the 6-foot back from West Grove, Pennsylvania turned heads, impressing coaches to the point where he eventually earned reps with the first team in prep-aration for UMass’ season opener against Boston College. It was a rapid ascension which he punctuated with a strong debut against the Eagles. He rushed nine times for 43 yards, caught a pass and was one of the lone bright spots in a lop-sided loss. Blyden had all

the makings of an impact player. But he struggled to manufacture consistency and never rushed for more than 25 yards in a game before his injury. Then, he was gone, unable to do more than learn from the sideline. And as he did so, Woodley and Abrokwah shouldered the offensive burden. This year, Wilson returns after suffering a season-ending injury three weeks into 2014. Again, the path to the top is muddled. “I feel like it’s an open competition,” Blyden said. “I feel like it will always be with Coach (Mark)

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Raymond pitching Minutewomen to mid-year success

By ToM Mulherin Collegian Staff

Throughout the first couple of weeks of the Massachusetts softball team’s poor start of the season, head coach Kristi Stefanoni emphasized that her squad’s pitching and defensive performance must improve to break its losing trend. While the defense behind the mound con-

tinued to struggle in the Minutewomen’s (8-16, 3-6 Atlantic 10) opening home series against George Washington last week-end, the pitching staff has paced a drastic team turn-around that has recorded three wins in the last four games. The team’s recent string of wins didn’t go unnoticed by its coach. “I was actually very pleased, overly pleased, with the way (the team) came back,” Stefanoni said. “(Pitcher) Caroline (Raymond) really made a huge turnaround and she did exceptional on Saturday. We usually give our pitching staff letter grades, so overall I would probably give them a B-minus, B-plus.” In UMass’ first 20 games of the season, the entire pitching staff strug-gled to find any sort of groove, losing 15 of those games while allowing at least five runs 11 different times. An exceptionally poor performance by the group in a weekend series at Saint Joseph’s served as the breaking point, where UMass was swept in three mercy-rule shortened games, allowing 10-plus runs in each outing. Since then, with the exception of a 9-0 loss in the second game of a

double-header April 3, the Minutewomen have domi-nated on the mound, led by Raymond. Dating back to Thursday’s game against Yale, Raymond has been a force on the hill, allowing just three earned runs in a span of three complete game starts – all wins – for a 1.11 ERA while allowing no more than three walks per outing.

“We saw a very mature Caroline over the week-end,” Stefanoni said. “Her changeup was on, and that was probably the reason why we won (her games). This week she really did her homework, and it real-ly paid off.” After her dominating weeklong performances, Raymond was award-ed with the Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Week award for the first time in her career. “She’s really been working her absolute tail off to become a great pitcher,” Stefanoni con-tinued. “She’s worked extremely hard at perfect-ing different pitches at this time of the season. She’s always looking for ways to get better physi-cally and mentally.” S t e f a n o n i h a s mentioned that the Minutewomen need to start playing with confi-dence, and then the wins will come. Now that the team has gained some momentum, especially Raymond, she believes that confidence won’t be hard to come by like it may have been before. “I’m sure (the wins) have done wonders (for Raymond’s confidence),” she said. “Honestly, to be

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UMass 6

Siena 5

COURTESY OF UMASS ATHLETICS

Brandon Walsh hit the go-ahead double in the eighth inning on Tuesday.