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Walking in a Winter Wonderland Late Night at your fingertips

By ColBy SearSCollegian Correspondent

The Late Night menu for Berkshire and Worcester Dining Commons is now just a click away, thanks to a free iPhone app created by a freshman at the University of Massachusetts. “Developing iOS appli-cations was always some-thing I was interested in and always planned to look further into … I just need-ed some idea, something I could make, that people would find useful,” said the creator, Andrew Bass. Launched in December 2014, the UMass Late Night app has been downloaded more than 1,000 times. It had a major spike in down-loads – growing from about 40 each day to nearly 200 at its peak – after it was posted on the Late Night at

Berk Facebook page by the Berkshire Manager Ryan Pipczynski on Jan. 20. “Obviously it kind of came as a surprise to me,” Pipczynski said regarding Bass’ work. “He certainly took the initiative on his own which was really nice of him, and the minute I found out about it I contact-ed him … he’s a really good kid and I’m glad he made it.” Bass said he was “gen-erously compensated” by Berkshire, despite not hav-ing any intentions of get-ting paid for the app, which is not affiliated with UMass or UMass Dining. He would not reveal what exactly his reward was, but did say it included 500 chocolate bars. “I saw that they men-tioned the app on Facebook, which was surprising because I wasn’t sure what they would think of it, if they would like it, or if they would get angry. The fact

Freshman hopes to expand the app

Pilot reportedly burned alive by Islamic State

By PatriCk J. MCDonnell anD naBih BuloS

Los Angeles Times

BEIRUT — Islamic State mili-tants released a video Tuesday appearing to show the gruesome execution of a captive Jordanian pilot. The video shows the pilot being burned alive inside a cage, accord-ing to the SITE organization, which monitors militant websites. Jordanian state TV confirmed the death of the pilot, Lt. Muath Al-Kaseasbeh, 26, saying he had been “martyred” a month ago, on

Jan. 3. The Jordanian army issued a statement condemning the act of “this cowardly organization” and vowing vengeance. “The Jordanian army confirms that the blood of the martyr hero will not go to waste, and will punish those who killed Muath,” said the statement, read on state TV. “It will be vengeance equal to the tragedy of all the Jordanians.” Jordan’s King Abdullah cut short a state visit to the United States and was reported to be returning to Jordan. Previous Islamic State videos have shown evidence that foreign captives, including at least three Americans, had been beheaded. The pilot’s fate had become a matter of grave national concern in

Jordan, which is among the Arab nations participating in the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State group. Many analysts have said the mili-tants’ aim is to sow dissension in Jordan, a key U.S. partner in the Middle East. Since the pilot was cap-tured, many Jordanians have ques-tioned Jordan’s role in the U.S.-led coalition. But his death by such horrif-ic means could serve to unify the country in grief and anger. Speaking on state TV, Jordan’s government spokesman, Mohammad Momani, seemed to be addressing those who criticized the campaign against Islamic State. For any Jordanians “who doubt-ed the savagery of Islamic State,

this is the proof,” he said. “He who thought they represented true Islam, then this is the proof.” He added: “Those who doubt-ed the unity of the Jordanians in the face of this evil, we will show them the proof. He who doubted that Jordan’s response will be deci-sive and shaking and strong, the proof will come to them, and they will know that the anger of the Jordanians will shake their ranks.” In Washington, President Barack Obama vowed that the U.S.-led coali-tion will “redouble the vigilance” to make sure that the Islamic State group is “degraded and ultimately defeated.” Al-Kaseasbeh’s apparent death “indicates the degree to which whatever ideology they’re operat-

ing off of, it’s bankrupt,” Obama said, taking a break from a meeting about health care to answer report-ers’ questions. “We’re here to talk about how to make people healthier and make their lives better,” Obama said. “And this organization appears only interested in death and destruc-tion.” Al-Kaseasbeh was captured in December when his F-16 fighter crashed over northern Syria while on a mission with the U.S.-led aerial coalition. The Islamic State video depicting his death included a rambling state-ment from the militant group rail-ing against Jordan’s participation

Jordanian army looks to punish those involved

By Brittny MeJiaLos Angeles Times

A recently discovered novel by Harper Lee will be published in July, her first since her acclaimed “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960. Publisher Harper announced on Tuesday that it had acquired the rights to Lee’s novel, titled “Go Set a Watchman,” which will be published on July 14. Lee said in a statement released by Harper that she completed the 304-page book in the mid-1950s and it was rediscovered by her lawyer Tonja Carter last fall. The publisher plans a first printing of 2 million copies and it will also be available in an electronic edition. “After much thought and hesitation I shared it with a handful of people I trust

and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication,” 88-year-old Lee said in the statement. “I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.” The novel is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from her first novel some 20 years later. In the book, the char-acter of Scout has returned to Maycomb, Ala., from New York to visit her father Atticus. “She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her father’s atti-tude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood,” the statement said. Lee, who was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Ala., has grappled with issues of her own in recent years. She lost

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A primer and debate over vaccinesBy ellie SilverMan

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The measles outbreak has trig-gered a debate over the value of vaccines. A small but vocal group of activists argue that vac-cines are harmful to chil-dren, despite the scientific community’s overwhelming insistence and evidence that they’re safe and valuable medical tools. Unsurprisingly, some potential 2016 presidential candidates have weighed in and injected politics into the debate. Here are some basic questions and answers about measles and the vac-cine controversy: Q: What is measles? A: A highly contagious respiratory illness caused by a virus. Q: What are the symp-toms? A: They can be similar to those of a cold with a runny nose, cough and sore throat, but also include a fever and red eyes. If they persist for two to four days, a rash will

spread over the body. Q: How do you get it? A: When a contaminated person coughs or sneez-es, the disease is spread through the air and remains viable for up to two hours after the infected person leaves. People are conta-gious from four days before the rash through four days after it subsides. Q: Is measles dangerous? A: Complications can include pneumonia, bron-chitis, irritation and swelling of the brain, ear infections and death. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the most common cause of death from measles in young children is pneumonia, with as many as 1 out of every 20 contaminated children developing pneumonia. Q: Didn’t they develop a vaccine and no one got mea-sles anymore? A: Yes, measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 as a result of vaccinations. Q: Then why are we talk-

ing about it again? A: There was an outbreak of measles at Disneyland in December, with 59 con-firmed cases in California alone, 42 of which were directly linked to the Disneyland outbreak as of the end of December. The confirmed cases include five Disney employees. Q: How many people were infected across the U.S.? A: In January, the CDC found that 102 people from 14 states had mea-sles: Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Washington. Q: Why are vaccines sud-denly controversial? A: Some people believe anecdotal evidence that vaccinations may lead to autism. A 1998 British study linked childhood vaccines to the condition, but the medi-cal journal that published the study retracted it in 2010. The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

analyzed more than 1,000 research articles in 2011 and found no evidence support-ing a link between immuni-zation and autism. A: What do the anti-vac-cine activists say? Q: “The hype about ... measles reportedly linked to Disneyland has more to do with covering up vaccine failures and propping up the dissolving myth of vac-cine-acquired herd immu-nity than it does about pro-tecting the public health,” Barbara Loe Fisher, the co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, a lead-er in this movement, wrote Jan. 28. A: What do experts say? Q:The CDC reports that one dose of the measles vaccine is about 93 percent effective and two doses are about 97 percent effective. It recommends that all chil-dren get two doses. The CDC also confirms that there’s no tie between vaccines and autism.

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Mexico MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday named a new Cabinet-level minis-ter to investigate whether homes that he, his finance minister and wife purchased from government contrac-tors represented conflicts of interest. The public function min-ister, Virgilio Andrade, will also be charged with fight-ing corruption and increas-ing transparency, Pena Nieto said in a speech at the presi-dential palace in Mexico City.

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Netherlands THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Mutual claims of geno-cide brought by Croatia and Serbia that date back to the disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s were dismissed Tuesday by the UN’s highest court. The ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague ends a 16-year legal battle launched by Croatia in 1999. Serbia countered with its own claim of genocide in 2010.

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Jerusalem JERUSALEM —A day of prayer ended in mourn-ing for members of Israel’s Negev desert Bedouin com-munity Tuesday when eight women returning from a trip to Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem were killed in a road accident. The accident occurred when a truck transporting farm machinery collided with a bus carrying about 50 women from several Bedouin communities on a road in southern Israel, police officials said.

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Bangladesh DHAKA, Bangladesh — At least seven people were killed and several others seriously wounded Tuesday when their bus was struck by a gasoline bomb in the deadliest attack in weeks of spiraling political violence in Bangladesh. The assault brought the death toll from the month-long unrest to 54 people, nearly half of whom have perished in arson attacks by demonstrators seeking to impose a nationwide land and sea blockade in opposi-tion to Prime Minister Sheik Hasina Wajed’s government.

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that they found it within a day of the semester start-ing and posted about it was really great,” he said. Bass is considering expanding the app’s inter-face, which currently dis-plays the Late Night options available every night for both dining halls, by includ-ing an alert system that will notify users the next time their favorite food is avail-able. He also hopes to release an Android version of the app within the month, after receiving multiple requests from students on the mobile app, Yik Yak. Although Bass has never developed an app before, he did have some coding experience from a summer internship with MITRE Corporation in Bedford in 2014. The 18-year-old Chelmsford native is an electrical and computer engineering major who recently got a position as an iOS Developer with the UMass Department of Environmental

Conservation. Rebecca Bates, John Fouad, Justin Kennedy and Neal Merkl, also UMass freshmen, helped Bass think of the app’s concept and figure out how to best implement it, though Bass did the coding and devel-oping himself. From start to finish, the creation took about a month. “This is the first time I’ve ever done anything like this, and it seems like peo-ple are taking very well to it,” he said. “It’s still grow-ing, which is really excit-ing.” Now that he’s made the Late Night menu more accessible to UMass stu-dents, Bass wants to do the same for Wi-Fi. He would like his next app to display where the Wi-Fi is and isn’t

working on campus, specifi-cally the school’s Eduroam network. “One thing I’ve heard from students, including myself, is that they’ve had issues connecting to the Wi-Fi network … I’m look-ing to create something spe-cifically for UMass to help college students in that way,” he said. The app would use crowdsourced data from students’ phones, showing on a map where people have successfully connected to the network and where it is down. Bass has yet to deter-mine if students will find the app useful, but plans to develop it in the near future.

Colby Sears can be reached at csears@umass.edu.

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A screenshot of the new Late Night app.

EPA gives Obama a new reason to reject pipeline

By Evan HalpErTribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama weighs whether to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, federal envi-ronmental officials gave him a new reason Tuesday to reject it: declining oil prices. The Environmental Protection Agency is cau-tioning the White House not to rely on earlier adminis-tration findings that there will be a market for the oil from the Canadian tar sands where the project is to originate. Plunging prices in global oil markets have led the EPA to advise that the extraction of that oil may not make sense economi-cally for energy companies if the administration rejects the Keystone proposal. Shipping the oil through more costly alternative methods just may not pen-cil out, the EPA says. And if the oil is never extract-ed, an EPA report notes, a large amount of greenhouse gases will never be released. The shift in thinking, dis-closed in a letter to the State Department, where the proj-ect’s application has been in limbo for years, comes as the GOP-controlled Congress prepares to send Obama a bill that would force approval of the pipe-line. A bill already approved in the Senate is expected to pass the House next week. Obama has vowed to veto

the legislation but has left open the possibility that the administration may ulti-mately approve the project. According to the EPA report, the project at its full capacity would release as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere yearly as 5.7 million cars or nearly eight coal-fired power plants. “Over the 50-year lifetime of the pipeline, this could translate into releasing as much as 1.37 billion more tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,” the agency’s report says. Market analysts began warning late last year that the declining price of oil threatens the project’s via-bility. But they have been careful to note that oil pric-es are unpredictable and would need to remain low for years to turn Keystone into a money loser. The EPA echoed that sentiment. But it also noted that oil, recently trading at about $50 a barrel, would need to go back up to at least $65 to $75 – and stay there for a sustained period – before it would make economic sense for producers to ship it by rail from the Canadian tar sands. Environmentalists cited the EPA’s findings as they continued to press the administration to reject the pipeline. “The EPA’s assess-ment is spot-on,” Danielle Droitsch, Canada project director at the Natural

Resources Defense Council, said in a statement. “There should be no more doubt that President Obama must reject the proposed pipeline once and for all. If built, it would transport Canadian tar sands oil – the dirtiest fuel on the planet – through America’s heartland, only to be refined and then shipped abroad.” But oil companies dis-missed the latest report as a political ploy. “Suggesting that the drop in oil prices requires a re-evaluation of the environ-mental impact of the project is just another attempt to prolong the KXL review,” Louis Finkel, executive vice president of the American Petroleum Institute, said in a statement. “Keystone XL was put forward when oil was less than $40 a barrel, so price has little impact on the project.” TransCanada, the com-pany that wants to build the pipeline, defended its planned steps to preserve the environment and called for the administration to fin-ish the review and approve the project. “It’s time to complete the review of Keystone XL, approve our presiden-tial permit application and allow” this project to go forward, company spokes-man Shawn Howard said in a statement.

Calif. reduces water usage by over 20 percent

By Matt StEvEnSLos Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in seven months of state monitoring, Californians surpassed Gov. Jerry Brown’s water-conser-vation goal, reducing water use by more than 20 percent in December 2014 compared to the same month the year before. The 22.2 percent state-wide reduction came after months of conservation stag-nation, which had prompted concern from some water officials. In August 2014, the state cut its water use by 11.5 percent, but water conserva-tion lagged in the months that followed and leveled off around 10 percent. The encouraging cuts in water use come as the state suffered through a dry January in which San Francisco got no rain for the first time in 165 years. In a statement, State Water Board Chairwoman Felicia Marcus called the 22.2 per-cent reduction “welcome news.” “It appears we are enter-ing a fourth year of drought, which is awful to contem-plate, but we must,” Marcus said. “Conservation is still the smartest and most cost effective way to deal with this difficult drought.” Water officials have said Southern California’s

large population makes the region’s water use a sig-nificant driver in the state’s overall efforts. The South Coast Hydrologic Region, which includes Los Angeles, cut its use 23.2 percent in December 2014 versus the year prior. Overall, California resi-dents averaged 67 gallons of water use per person per day. That was down from as much as 140 gallons in June 2014. “CA is doing its part to #SaveOurWater, but the drought is far from over,” Brown tweeted Tuesday afternoon. “Careful steward-ship & conservation must be our way of life.” Officials had said they were concerned that a wet winter would discourage people from conserving. “This was a wet December in most of the state, and peo-ple got the message not to water on top of the rain - that is good news,” Marcus said. “Our challenge will be to keep outdoor irrigation to a minimum as we move into the warmer spring months.” Since the state water board began collecting com-parative data last summer, Californians have saved more than 134 billion gal-lons of water - enough to supply 1.8 million California residents for a year, officials said.

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in the “crusader” coalition, saying that the kingdom had insisted “that its pilots would be in the vanguard of the squadron that would pour the showers of death on the people of Islam.” As has become routine in its execution videos, it showed the doomed man issuing a statement under duress that blamed his gov-ernment for his death. In it, the pilot said Jordan had “a traitor Zionist” gov-ernment, and questioned why it didn’t send its forces against “the Jews, who are closer to us.” He appealed to the fami-lies of other pilots to “stop your sons from this ... and order them not to go on such sorties in striking Islamic targets, so that what hap-pened to me does not happen to your sons and your fam-ilies are not saddened like mine has, along with my wife and relatives.” The pilot is from a promi-nent tribe in the southern city of Karak. Tribal mem-

bers had pressured officials of the kingdom to do every-thing possible to achieve the release of the pilot. Relatives were reported to be gather-ing late Tuesday at a tribal headquarters. Jordanian media report-ed that the distraught fam-ily pushed away photogra-phers that gathered out-side the tribal meeting hall as the pilot’s father, Safi Kaseasbeh, dressed in tradi-tional Bedouin garb, made his way out of the building. Until Tuesday, there had been some hope that a deal could be reached to free the pilot. Talks had been report-ed to be going on between the Jordanian government and intermediaries in contact with Islamic State. Jordanian authorities had offered a prisoner exchange in which Al-Kaseasbeh would be freed in exchange for Sajida al-Rishawi, a failed suicide bomber on death row in Jordan for her role in a series of attacks on hotels in Amman in 2005.

But, in its public com-ments, the Islamic State group never offered to free the pilot or turn him over in a prisoner swap. Instead, the militants said they would release a captive Japanese journalist, Kenji Goto, in exchange for al-Rishawi, the jailed would-be suicide bomber. The fates of the cap-tive Japanese journalist and Jordanian pilot soon became entwined in a wrenching hostage drama that resonat-ed deeply in both Jordan and Japan, a pair of close U.S. allies. Jordan said it would not go ahead with any deal unless it received proof that the pilot was still alive. That proof was apparently never forthcoming. On Saturday, Goto, the Japanese journalist, was reportedly beheaded by Islamic State. His kill-ing came a week after the reported beheading of anoth-er Japanese hostage, Haruna Yukawa.

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her copyright to “To Kill a Mockingbird” and had to sue her former agent in 2013 to get it back. The book, which won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapt-ed as an Oscar-winning film, has become a beloved classic. It has sold more than 30 mil-lion copies in 18 languages and still sells about 750,000 copies a year in the U.S. and Canada. When “The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee,” was published in July, Lee quickly disputed the account. The book was a chronicle of the 18 months the author, Marja Mills, spent living in a home next door to Alice and Harper Lee. After it was published, the famously very private Lee sent a letter to journalists saying that “as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.” Mills has said

she wrote the novel with the permission of both sisters. There are no plans for Lee to do publicity for her new book. The deal was negotiated between Carter and Michael Morrison, president and publisher of HarperCollins US General Books Group and Canada. The book will be pub-lished in the United Kingdom by William Heinemann, an imprint of Penguin Random House Inc. Lee had set aside the novel after “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published by J.B. Lippincott and the original manuscript was considered to have been lost. But last fall, Carter discovered it in a,

“secure location where it had been affixed to an original typescript of her first novel,” according to the statement. “This is a remarkable lit-erary event. ... its discovery is an extraordinary gift to the many readers and fans of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper publisher Jonathan Burnham said in the state-ment. “Reading in many ways like a sequel to Harper Lee’s classic novel, it is a compelling and ultimately moving narrative about a father and a daughter’s rela-tionship, and the life of a small Alabama town living through the racial tensions of the 1950s.”

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Republican-led states embracing ObamacareBy Margaret Newkirk aNd toluse oloruNNipa

Bloomberg News

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republican-led states that blocked Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion have found a way to embrace it, under pressure from businesses to tap the flood of federal dollars it brings. Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Haslam called lawmakers into a special session this week to con-sider accepting federal money to extend public health-care assis-tance to more of the poor. Indiana announced its expansion last week. Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming are consider-ing it. All are adding free-market, anti-welfare embellishments that backers say distance the proposals from a federal program they once spurned. “We kept looking at it and look-ing at it,” said Charlie Howorth, executive director of the Tennessee Business Roundtable, who sup-ports the governor’s plan. “We saw the mood shift from pure politics to pragmatism.” Money is driving states to reverse course, said Richard Nathan, a fellow with the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, New York. States that balked at accepting more residents into Medicaid stand to lose $424 billion in federal fund-ing through 2022, according to an August report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a Princeton, N.J.-based nonprofit that supports expanding access to health care. “There’s been a lot of politick-ing from employers, from hospi-tals, from providers saying, ‘Don’t leave this money on the table’,” said Nathan, who’s studying how states are implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable

Care Act of 2010. “There’s a shift. You can feel it. You can feel that the sands are shifting.” The Republican opposition to increasing the scale of the fed-eral program left many earning as much as 138 percent of the poverty line, about $27,700 a year for a fam-ily of three, still without cover-age even as more than 15 million received benefits under the law. Medicaid is administered by states under rules set by the federal gov-ernment, which is currently cover-ing 100 percent of the cost of those who are newly eligible. That share will be phased down to 90 percent by 2020. When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of Obamacare in 2012, it ruled that the federal government couldn’t require states to add more residents to Medicaid. Some Republicans rejected doing so, saying it could leave them with soaring costs if federal funding is cut. Twenty-eight states have opted to expanded Medicaid, including 10 with Republican governors. Those considering follow-ing suit are asking President Barack Obama’s administration to waive certain Medicaid rules and allow them to create more Republicanized versions, with pri-vate insurance vouchers or nods to individual responsibility, such as premiums. The Wyoming Senate on Monday gave initial approval to an expansion after adding a require-ment that enrollees must work as much as 32 hours a week. In North Carolina, Gov. Pat McCrory said he would want new Medicaid recipients to be required to look for work. The Obama administra-tion has rejected imposing work requirements. Indiana, whose plan was

approved, is encouraging employ-ees to direct new beneficiaries to the state employment office. The additional requirements may discourage enrollment, leave some still without care and make Medicaid more expensive to run, said Joan Alker, executive direc-tor of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University in Washington. In Indiana, for instance, the program has six sets of rules for enrollees, depending on their incomes and other catego-ries. “What you are seeing, because of the intense politics around this, are some very complicated agreements,” Alker said. “Intense politics doesn’t always make good policy.” Hospitals and the business com-munity are driving the reconsid-eration. In states that accepted Medicaid money, hospital revenue rose as fewer went without coverage, according to a September report by PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute. Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp., the third-largest publicly traded hospital chain, in January said its char-ity care and uninsured admissions declined 62.4 percent last year in states that expanded Medicaid. Hospitals stand to lose $168 billion in states where addition-al Medicaid funds were rejected, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s report. They are also losing federal money to pay for treating the uninsured. Florida hospitals are set to lose $2.2 billion of such subsidies this year. That may encourage the legislature to reverse its opposi-tion to Gov. Rick Scott’s Medicaid-expansion plans, said Mark Wilson, president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce.

“I think the situation and the timing may be right for something to happen in Florida,” Wilson said. In Tennessee, Governor Haslam called the legislature into a spe-cial session that began Monday to consider his proposal, which would extend health care to as many as 470,000. Under it, working people who can’t afford employer-sponsored health insurance could get vouchers to defray the cost. Everyone else would be served by the state’s Medicaid program, though they would have to pay premiums in some cases and would get credits for healthy lifestyle changes. “There’s an overwhelming amount of persuasion going on right now,” said Tennessee Rep. Glen Casada, chairman of the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives. He opposes Haslam’s plan but gives it even odds of passing. Tennessee exemplifies the poli-tics of health care in Republican states. Republicans outnumber Democrats more than three to one in the state legislature. Haslam got 70 percent of vote last year against his Democratic challenger, a 72-year-old squirrel hunter who didn’t campaign and misspelled his own name on his Facebook page. It’s also a health care capital. A business coalition that sup-ports Haslam’s plan includes Tennessee-based hospital com-panies HCA Holdings Inc. of Nashville, LifePoint Hospitals Inc. of Brentwood and Community Health Systems Inc. of Franklin. Two years ago, health care companies asked the Tennessee Business Roundtable, which repre-sents corporations, to make an eco-nomic case for expanding health care to the poor, said Howorth,

the group’s director. A University of Tennessee study funded by the group estimated it would create 15,000 jobs. “We will see $7.8 billion go out the door over 10 years if we do not do this,” said Craig Becker, pres-ident of the Tennessee Hospital Association in Brentwood. “We were all pushing really hard.” Tennessee’s chapter of Americans for Prosperity, the tea party-affiliated group backed by Charles and David Koch, and the Beacon Center of Tennessee, a Nashville nonprofit that advocates for smaller government, are urging the legislature to scuttle the gover-nor’s plan. They say it’s an expan-sion of Medicaid and an endorse-ment of Obamacare. “There’s a difference between free-market and pro-business,” said Justin Owen, president of the Beacon Center. “This is bailout for hospitals.” Supporters say Haslam’s pro-posal isn’t Medicaid expansion as envisioned by Obamacare because of the changes it includes. “This isn’t Medicaid,” said Becker. “This is anything but Medicaid.” The Tennessee proposal is a rea-sonable middle ground, said Bryan Jordan, chairman of First Horizon National Corp., the Memphis-based bank, who supports it. “It will make insurance avail-able and do it in a way that sup-ports the overall fabric of the com-munity,” Jordan said. “It’s better than adopting no version of the benefits of the Affordable Care Act at all. And on the surface, it seems easier to sell.”

“This is a remarkable literary event. Its discovery is an extraordinary gift to the many readers and fans of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’”

Jonathan Burnham, Harper publisher

Rosa Parks archives reveal picture of civil rights legend

By Noah BierMaNTribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Rosa Parks’ status as a civil rights heroine has taken on a new dimension this week with the release of thousands of personal letters, photos and other items that promise to paint a fuller picture of the woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. The Library of Congress will give scholars formal access to 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs on Wednesday, her birthday. Parks, who made history in 1955 by her bus rider defi-ance, died in 2005 at age 92. The collection is on loan to the library for 10 years, part of an agreement with the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, which bought it last year. The library will display selected items from the collection as part of two

separate exhibitions begin-ning in March. Parks’ story has become the central narra-tive of the civil rights era. Schoolchildren learn that she was arrested in 1955 for taking a stand against Jim Crow laws that gave disparate treatment to whites and blacks in the South. Her arrest led to the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, which helped end legalized segregation. But the artifacts tell the story at a more granu-lar level. For example, the front of a datebook from Montgomery Fair, the department store where Parks worked, shows a Hallmark logo, a butterfly, and pink flowers - a 1950s rendering of leisure. Yet Parks transformed the date-book into a tool for equal-ity. On the back, she jotted names of carpool drivers needed to subvert the bus

system during the 13-month boycott, which ended when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated public buses were not constitution-al. Other images range from the prosaic to the profound. A recipe for feather-light pancakes with 1/3 cup melt-ed peanut butter, handwrit-ten on a yellow envelope, could have been in any great aunt’s cupboard. The cer-tificate for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, signed in 1996 by President Bill Clinton, could not. Some objects combine the ordinary with the historic. A 1956 letter addressed to Parks’ mother tells of a trip to New York, before a rally at Madison Square Garden. “The people here are very nice,” Parks wrote. “I spent Thursday night with Mr. and Mrs. Thurgood Marshall.”

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When New England Patriots cor-nerback Malcolm Butler intercepted Russell Wilson at the goal line with 20 seconds left to play in the fourth quar-ter of Super Bowl XLIX, he secured a

victory for the New England Patriots that will go down in history as one of the greatest Super Bowls ever played. With their 28-24 defeat of the Seattle Seahawks, the Patriots won their fourth Super Bowl, and after two devastating losses to the New York Giants in Super Bowls XLII and XLVI, finally cemented the legacy of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, quarter-back/coach combinations of all time. The Patriots fourth Super Bowl vic-tory marked the ninth Boston champi-onship won in the past 13 years, and the 13th time in 13 years that a major Boston sports team has played in a championship game or series. For me, the Boston magic began when I was eight years old, and hasn’t stopped since. One of my first mem-ories is of Tom Brady leading the Patriots to their first ever Super Bowl win, defeating Marshall Faulk and the St. Louis Rams and earning the title of Super Bowl MVP. I didn’t know it then, but as Adam Vinatieri kicked it through the uprights with seven seconds left on the clock, a new era of regional dominance was born, one that has lasted to this day. Before I had even entered high school, the Patriots won two more Super Bowls, defeating the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl XXXVIII, and, a year later, beating the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX to bring home their third title in four years. Amid all of the excitement sur-rounding the Patriots newfound success, more Boston history was unfolding, this time on the baseball diamond. In 2003, the Boston Red Sox made it to game seven of the American League Champion Series, losing to its bitter rival, the New York Yankees in an 11-inning game seven.

Thus, the Red Sox just missed their first World Series appearance since 1986, the series for which Bill Buckner will forever be remembered. When the Red Sox failed to beat the Yankees in 2003, the loss was just another miss, another letdown – they had been los-ers since 1918. In 2004, Red Sox Nation saw their dreams being thwarted by the Yankees once again. Down by three games in the ALCS, the Red Sox knew it was over – no MLB team had ever come back from a 3-0 deficit. The Yankees would advance to the World Series, and the Red Sox would go home. Then, the impossible happened. A Dave Roberts steal and a David Ortiz

home run. A bloody sock. A Johnny Damon grand slam. The Red Sox went on to win the series 4-3, making his-tory, and then swept the St. Louis Cardinals to win their first World Series title in 86 years. To my dad, the Red Sox victory was unbelievable. He was four years old when the Red Sox nearly won it all in the Impossible Dream, and had to wait 19 years for another World Series, only to watch Buckner let a routine ground ball slip through his legs. Then, in 2004, my dad, at the age of 41, and his dad, at the age of 67, finally received the deliverance for which they had waited their whole lives. It didn’t stop there. The Red Sox won another title in 2007, and then again in 2013, a victory that, in the face of the Boston Marathon bomb-ings that had taken place in April, was both symbolic and cathartic, a

remarkable display of resilience and pride. The Boston Celtics took home an NBA championship in 2008, and the Boston Bruins won a Stanley Cup for the 2010-2011 season. And though it would take Tom Brady 10 more years to win a fourth Super Bowl, he would appear in two more before then. In 2007, New England fans watched with bated breath as Brady, Wes Welker and Randy Moss brushed history with an undefeated regular season, only to lose to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl to finish the season at 18-1. The Patriots got a chance at redemption in 2012, but again lost to Eli Manning’s Giants in the Super Bowl. The Celtics just missed another NBA championship in 2010, losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in game seven by four points, and in 2013, the Bruins lost to the Chicago Blackhawks in game six, in which the Blackhawks improbably scored two goals in under two minutes to take home the Stanley Cup. While the Celtics experienced incredible success throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and the Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 1970 and 1972, there has never been a time in which all four teams were so successful. In fact, with the Bruins’ victory in the 2011 Stanley Cup, Boston became the first city to ever win a title in the four major sports in the span of a decade. There is no denying that Boston fans – especially the younger gen-erations – are spoiled. I’m 21 years old, and I’ve witnessed Boston teams win four Super Bowls, three World Series, one NBA Championship and one Stanley Cup. On Sunday night, the Patriots sustained the unprece-dented run of Boston success that began when I was eight. The world hates us, and I don’t blame them, but nobody can deny that Boston, at least for now, is the city of champions. Steven Gillard is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at sgillard@umass.edu.

The 2016 presidential election will be an exciting time in American politics.

Unlike the 2012 elections, both parties will be seek-ing a new nominee, and also unlike the 2012 elec-tions, the Republican Party has a very compelling and diverse field of candidates to pick from. Due to this large field of Republicans, and the dynamics of the “Clinton inevitability” emerging on the Democratic side, it’s hard to summarize the race in a single article. However, here is my current assess-ment of the top five candi-dates to watch on the GOP side. Not all will necessarily run, but these five potential candidates have all been the subjects of speculation for a while now. Fifth on the list of poten-tial candidates is Mike Pence. The Indiana gover-nor is popular with social conservatives, so he could appeal to the crowds which

previously supported Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, even if both of them were to run again. In addition, Pence is a suc-cessful governor, who also has previous federal expe-rience as a U.S. Rep. He is competent enough when it comes to economic issues making him acceptable to the so-called “establish-ment crowd” in the GOP (for example, Mitt Romney voters/donors). Gov. Pence is one of the people who would best be able to unite the party in the general election. Next on my list in fourth place is Scott Walker. Gov. Walker has been gaining more attention in recent months. He is popular with grassroots organizations, is a proven survivor with his multiple wins in Wisconsin and has made meaningful conservative reforms which satisfy the base of his party. His downsides are potential lingering scandals, not hav-ing a college degree and a supposed lack of enthusi-asm on the stump. Coming in third is Rand Paul. Sen. Paul is very sin-cere, and is doing great work to help the GOP expand its base. He would be the first candidate with libertar-

ian values the Republicans have nominated in quite a while (most comparable to Calvin Coolidge or Barry Goldwater in my view). This is either a pro or a con depending on who you talk to, but he suffers from one large setback that other candidates like Sen. Ted Cruz also suffer from – electability. His father’s beliefs are one thing, but his mix of accused “iso-lationism,” his equally erratic and interesting set of social beliefs and more right wing view of econom-ics are other hurdles. He could certainly overcome the handicap of being out-side the mainstream, but it will be a struggle to get through the nomination process in the first place. Second on my list is Marco Rubio. Sen. Rubio is underestimated by a lot of people. He has strong ora-tory skills, and will prob-ably be able to excite the base more than previous nominees like Romney or John McCain. He has sev-eral advantages, which

range from being fresh and young to speaking flu-ent Spanish. Like Pence, he would perhaps be able to bridge the two sides of the GOP. Assuming no major mistakes, (and a water bot-tle on hand at all times) he could give the others a run for their money. My top potential GOP candidate for the 2016 election is Jeb Bush. Do Republicans have to settle for the former Florida gov-ernor? Maybe. With Romney out of the way, his threats in the primary are much more limited, since Chris Christie is going nowhere fast. Unless that changes, Jeb Bush will be getting a lot of top cash, and might be able to absorb the same voting base that elected Romney as the nominee the last time around. The more the right side of the room gets crowded, (Huckabee, Carson, Santorum, Cruz and others both on and off this list) the easier it is for him to win. He has a lot of advantages, but the one big disadvantage is obviously his last name.

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

Nicholas Pappas

“Unlike the 2012 elections, the GOP has a very compelling and diverse field

of candidates to pick from.”

Steven Gillard

“I didn’t know it then, but as Vinatieri kicked it through

the uprights with seven seconds left on the clock, a

new era of regional dominance was born, one

that has lasted to this day.”

The emerging 2016 Republican

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Video game graphics, immersion and the HD re-release

By AlessAndro ArenA-derosACollegian Staff

Usually games become classics for their mastery and innovation, rather than their visual fidelity. Be it the nostalgic puzzling laby-rinth of Spencer Mansion in “Resident Evil,” the clev-er dialogue and humor of Grim Fandango or the sat-isfying gunplay of “Halo,” all these games serve as evidence of this. Games like “The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker” and “Grim Fandango” don’t even look all that different today, with their distinc-tive art-style making a few polygons look gorgeous. It makes one wonder why the current gaming industry is as obsessed with photo-realism as it is, and begs to ask whether it’s worth sacrificing time and money on graphics that could be spent on gameplay and story instead. In the last month, there was the release of two of gaming’s biggest hits, “Resident Evil” and “Grim Fandango.” Both games feature updated and pol-ished graphics, and little else added. This isn’t any-thing new – be it the “Halo” saga, “The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker” or even “Pokemon,” the past year has seen many of gaming’s classics re-released with

the high-definition title. However, it’s not graph-ics that are drawing fans new and old to these classic franchises, but something deeper that some of 2014’s best looking games missed entirely. A good example of this industry’s wide graphics race gone wrong would be “Assassin’s Creed Unity.” While the game’s vistas were breathtaking and the character models (when not broken) looked stun-ning, the game didn’t reach its full potential due to limited game design and underdeveloped story – not to mention the numerous

bugs caused by the high fidelity graphics. Another release of 2014, “Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor,” features an orc-hunting fantasy adventure which received critical acclaim. The game objec-tively wasn’t the prettiest game released last year, and certainly wasn’t as graphically advanced as AC Unity. When compar-ing “Assassin’s Creed” to “Middle Earth”, both were stealth-action games, fea-turing a sprawling open world – but only one will be remembered as a classic. What Shadows of Mordor did differently was

innovate. The game was genuinely fun to play and certainly wasn’t unbear-able to look at. But the immersion in a game that extends far beyond what simple visuals could ever elicit is the factor that makes a game memorable and a true classic. The soundtracks of video games can also have a huge impact on this immersion factor. Whether it is the simple, creepy ambient tracks in “Resident Evil” or “Halo’s” epic melodies, a game’s audio can bring you into the game world just as eas-ily as graphics. A good next

generation example would be last year’s “Sunset Overdrive,” a game which neither looked photorealis-tic nor particularly graphi-cally impressive. Overdrive made up for this with its distinctively cartoony art style and engaging game play. Easily the most mem-orable part of that game was its constant punk rock soundtrack in the background, a soundtrack which took a good deal of resources to produce in house – but the developers prioritized that over graph-ics. There are examples of games that manage to bal-ance innovation and story with graphic fidelity, and these are the kinds of games that feature little differ-ence in their remakes. The “Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker” had a unique style, a memorable soundtrack and an unforgettable open world full of puzzles, adventures and some of the most memorable boss-es in the franchise. Due to its cartoony art style, the developers didn’t need to flesh out every hair, or use a massive polygon count. Instead, creating simple looking characters with bright colors and minimal detail was just as memo-rable and visually impres-sive as the overly detailed characters of games like “Far Cry 4,” whose mas-sive open worlds are filled with fairly boring views and simplistic adventures,

despite its objectively bet-ter graphics. Graphics are important, but making sure a game looks as realistic as pos-sible is an industry stan-dard that’s hurting games instead of uplifting them. Games like “Saints Row” or “Skyrim” look fairly bad, but are immersive and dis-tinctive enough to be enjoy-able and memorable. Others like “Grim Fandango,” “The Wolf Among Us” or even “Borderlands” use their non-realistic style to their advantage and are remembered as beauti-ful looking games, despite their low polygon count and lack of technical fidel-ity. Yet perhaps what are most inspiring are the games that look beautiful but don’t flaunt it. Games like “Metal Gear Solid V” and “Alien: Isolation” have visually convincing worlds and detailed environments that enhance an already masterful game. At the end of the day, what’s most important about the HD re-releases isn’t the visual enhance-ment. These games are important because these are games that, at their core, are amazing and have merely been cleaned up for a newer generation of machines and players.

Alessandro Arena-DeRosa can be reached at aarenaderosa@umass.edu.

Appealing images don’t define classics

T E C H N O L O G Y

By ericA GArnettCollegian Staff

As the world increases its focus on eco-friendly and all-natural products, skin care brands such as Frank Body and Lush are becoming widely popu-lar internationally. This Valentine’s Day, ditch your old methods and fall in love with this new, healthy approach to skin care. Both brands are very adamant about providing people with natural, local-ly made organic ingredi-ents. A large amount of these ingredients are sur-prisingly found in the gro-cery store. Ingredients like garlic, green grapes, honey, lime, corn and seaweed are just some of the ingredients found in Lush moistur-izers, cleansers and face masks. The company prides itself on buying fresh and organic products from places that do not engage in animal testing. On its website, lushusa.com, you will find Lushopedia, an alphabetized, cataloged list of all of its fresh ingre-dients, fine oils, safe syn-thetics and exactly why they are all used. The list contains anything from actual sand used in soap to sunflower petal extract in moisturizing cream. Frank Body also does not commission the use of animal testing for any of its products. Its scrubs are all based with roast-ed ground robusta coffee

beans, featuring coconut, cacao, peppermint and original flavors, all with slightly different benefits. The coconut scrub con-tains nourishing grape seed and coconut oils for sensitive skin and is nut-free for those who have allergies. The cacao scrub is packed with antioxi-dants for aging skin and the peppermint scrub is infused with peppermint oil and native mint to sooth tired and achy mus-cles. These scrubs are used to treat dry skin, stretch marks, cellulite, eczema, psoriasis, acne and scar-ring. Both Frank Body and Lush place a larger empha-sis on handling their ingre-dients locally. Frank Body is based out of Australia and uses all local products. Lush was originally start-ed in the United Kingdom, but provides all products to American stores from its manufacturing store in Vancouver, Canada. Lush is not only con-cerned with providing the finest ingredients to just its buyers, but also to the communities it inter-acts with. After starting its Charity Pot program in 2007, Lush has donated more than $5,800,000 to over 600 grassroots chari-ties in over 35 different countries. Not many inter-national companies can claim that much. Also, Lush practices ethical buying and has internal buyers that travel world-wide to personally visit its suppliers so they can research the ingredients, meet the growers and producers and ensure the

best care possible for the environment and workers involved. Frank Body ships inter-nationally online from its website us.frankbody.com whereas Lush can be purchased in stores. Other renowned organic brands that were recog-nized in Glamour maga-zine include RMS Beauty which was developed by Rose-Marie Swift and gives the Victoria’s Secret mod-els their signature glow on the runway. Seventh Generation, another brand mentioned, uses jojoba oil, oat extract and tea tree oil along with many other natural ingredients. The brand, Balanced Guru, uses sustainable packaging for all of its products, and incorpo-rates fresh berries, cloves and cinnamon into its pop-ular antioxidant masque. Suki products operate in luxury spas around the world. More brands fea-tured include Votre Vu, Juara and 80 Acres. For those currently in unstable relationships with cleansers and medi-cations that are just unre-liable, ineffective and unsatisfying, break up with your skin care sys-tem. Whatever new com-pany you choose to love surely will give love back to the community, eco-sys-tem and, of course, you.of the other popular brands mentioned. Whatever com-pany you choose to love surely will give love back to the communities, eco-system and of course you.

Erica Garnett can be reacjed at egarnett.umass.edu.

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Millennials hold new mindset

By JAckie crosByStar Tribune (Minneapolis)

Millennials will soon out-number baby boomers in the United States. Suddenly, workplace consultant Sarah Sladek is in high demand. As CEO and founder of XYZ University, she helps businesses and nonprofits figure out how to engage younger workers. Her latest book, “Knowing Y: Engage the Next Generation Now,” makes the case that organi-zations are doomed to fail if they cling to old-guard ideas that motivated baby boom-ers. Sladek’s company name comes from the alphabet soup of labels given to generation-al cohorts, which she defines this way: Generation X (born 1965 to 1981), Generation Y/millennials (1982 to 1995) and the still-forming Generation Z (those under 18). This year Sladek, who at 42 is solidly Gen X, will work with companies across North America, Europe and Australia that are eager _ shall we say, desperate? _ to understand the brash and digitally savvy mil-lennials. Sladek has been quoted by the National Rifle Assocation, hired by the National Watermelon Association and has con-sulted with organizations as diverse as the YMCA and solid waste haulers. Q: You say you wrote this book because you were afraid for the future. Why is that? A: We are about to expe-rience the largest shift in human capital in history, and younger workers are being neglected or dismissed. That is going to be a real problem

in this country. The average age of the board of directors at trade associations is 59. The United States has the oldest Congress in history and the oldest Senate in more than a century. During the recession, it almost felt like people were hunkered down and didn’t really have to worry about an aging work-force. Now, organizations are waking up and saying: “Oh, my gosh! I haven’t planned for what the next generation of leaders will be, or the next generation of volunteers.” Q: How do the millenni-als/Generation Y differ? A: The whole con-cept of time has changed. Millennials live in a tech-nology-driven, instant-grat-ification world. It’s the only world they’ve ever known. They don’t want to commit. Ask a millennial to come sit on a board for three years? That’s a jail sentence. Boards deliberate and discuss. That takes time. It’s reminiscent of another era. Millennials place a high value on collab-oration, but they are going to go someplace where they can have some fun. Q: Why is this such a criti-cal time in our country? A: What was relevant 25 years ago isn’t relevant today, and there’s a lot of stress now. Established cor-porations are struggling. Membership in trade asso-ciations is declining _ and declines in membership equal a decline in revenue. Participation in faith-based

groups is dropping. All of the old icons are under pressure: Rotary Clubs, the YMCA. And there’s this whole issue of generational transfer: What’s going to happen to farms? Q: How did we get here? A: Baby boomers haven’t been good at looking over their shoulder and giving a hand up to the younger gen-eration. Sometimes there’s criticism _ “They’re not like us” _ or a sense of ego from the boomers, the so-called “me” generation, or a hesitancy to let go. Look at the political landscape. Boomers were encouraged at an early age to run for office. Somewhere, we stopped look-ing back. Younger people are disillusioned and aren’t run-ning for office today. Q: What is the solution? A: This is a generation that isn’t joining, buying or engaging like past genera-tions. Millennials are more diverse and have a global perspective. They believe in community service, but their return on investment has changed. They don’t believe that people with the most experience should have all the power. They’re used to being rewarded just for showing up and expect an immediate seat at the table. Organizations need to figure out how to motivate them. Top-down hierarchies don’t work. Organizations need to open their minds. Sometimes a crisis has to happen for real change to occur.

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Trento becoming a force

By Jason KatesCollegian Staff

As one of 10 freshmen on the Massachusetts hock-ey team, forward Dominic Trento has started to provide valuable minutes for UMass as the season continues to wind down. Trento, a native of Brockport, New York, has recorded three points in his last two games for the Minutemen (8-17-1, 3-12-1 Hockey East), including a goal and an assist in the recent 4-1 victory over Merrimack College. “I think his game has really taken a step, probably from the first Boston College game at BC,” coach John Micheletto said. “His game has gotten bet-ter and better, and he has earned his way in the penalty kill and gotten some power play time. I think he’s learned what it takes to be successful at this level.” Micheletto added that with his skill set and work ethic, Trento has continued to gain confidence with the addition-al playing time, and is pleased with the recent offensive pro-duction. Trento has attributed his current success out on the ice to his teammates. “I think it has a lot to do with my line mates,” he said. “One is Patty (Lee), who also happens to be my roommate. I think we’ve just built a lot of chemistry together through-out the school year. “We’ve just gotten a chance to play together and we see each other well on the ice, so I think that has a lot to do with it.” Lee said there wasn’t a lot in common between the

two when they first met each other, but have been able to develop their friendship through playing together for UMass. “We were pretty polar opposites at the start of the year, but it kind of worked out for the best,” Lee said. “We’re best friends on the team and we get to play together and live together, so it’s worked out perfectly.” As the season progresses, Trento continues to receive more time on the ice, and as a freshman, Micheletto thinks the depth that he brings is critical. “When you have 10 fresh-men, it’s really important to have guys like Brandon Montour, Dennis Kravchenko, Dominic Trento and Patrick Lee,” Micheletto said. “You just go down the list of guys that are playing in key situations, particularly man-up and man-down, and it’s not only comforting to be able to do that, but necessary. I’m glad Dominic has pushed his game to be one of those guys because we need him to be one.” It hasn’t all been positive for Trento, though. In a game versus Boston College on Nov. 21, the fresh-man suffered a hand injury that kept him sidelined for over a month. He returned for the Minutemen’s first game of the Catamount Cup on Dec. 28 against Providence College. For him, watching from the sideline wasn’t easy. “It wasn’t much fun sitting out, especially when the team wasn’t doing so well,” Trento said. “When it’s your fresh-man year and you have to sit out seven or eight games, especially to an injury that seemed tedious, that was hard.” “It was a learning experi-

ence, watching and trying to think about ways I could con-tribute for the team. It’s good to be back for sure.” Micheletto applauded the way Trento handled being absent from the lineup, and said it was important for his growth as a player. “You talk to a lot of the freshmen, whether they’re out due to an injury or they’re a healthy scratch at some point during their freshman year, and the change in per-spective is a really good one,” Micheletto said. “We urged Dominic while he was hurt to make sure that he was watching the game as a student, and not as a fan or a player. I think that as much as anything has pushed his game.” As someone who is con-stantly around Dominic, Lee knew his roommate was upset about not being able to play, but thought he handled it the right way. “He was just kind of down, so we would try and pick him up when he was upset,” Lee said. “He was good about it and knew that when he got back he had to work hard and he did, so it probably turned out for the best for him.” Moving forward, Micheletto anticipates Trento becoming a valuable part of the team. “I think he’s on a good tra-jectory right now. He plays the game the right way in terms of his D-zone and his ability and willingness to block shots,” Micheletto said. “As he continues to embrace our philosophy that his offense will come off his defense and takeaways, he’s just going to get better and better.”

Jason Kates can be reached at jkates@umass.edu and followed @Jason_Kates.

Freshman works back from injury

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Dominic Trento has gained the trust of the coaching staff and started to earn valuable minutes for himself.

Riverhawks, Irish shine in wild Hockey East weekend

By Christopher MartinezCollegian Staff

UMass-Lowell forward C.J. Smith notched his 12th goal of the season at 14 min-utes, 20 seconds of the third period and finished with two points, fueling Lowell to a 4-1 win over Merrimack Saturday afternoon. The win at Tsongas Center snapped a four-game losing streak for the previously struggling River Hawks. UML (16-8-3) came firing right out of the gates, as Zack Kamrass ripped a shot from just outside the circles past Warriors goalkeeper Rasmus Tirronen, provid-ing the game’s first goal just 23 seconds into the first period. In the second period, the River Hawks found the back of the net again, as Joe Gambardella pounced on a rebound that Tirronen failed to recover. A goal from Ben Bahe under four minutes later got Merrimack (14-9-3) on the score sheet, but it was the only offense the Warriors would be able to muster. Lowell will return to action Friday night with a matchup against No. 3 Boston University, set for 7:15 p.m. at Tsongas Center.

Connecticut rallies to tie Maine 2-2

Two seniors led the way

for Connecticut Sunday afternoon at the XL Center in Hartford, as Ryan Tyson and Trevor Gerling each scored in the second period to power the Huskies to a 2-2 tie against Hockey East foe Maine. It was the second straight overtime contest between the two sides, after UConn bested the Black Bears 2-1 in the extra frame Friday night. UConn (8-12-6) battled against familiar foes Maine (10-16-2) on home turf on Sunday, a match which followed up on their most recent game which ended in favor of UConn 2-1 in OT. The opening goal of the game came right before the end of the first period, when Maine forward Cam Brown scooped the puck in after a net front scrum to put the Black Bears up 1-0. At 11:39 seconds of the second period, Maine struck again when Jake Rutt col-lected another rebound to double the lead, after an acrobatic save by UConn goaltender Rob Nichols left the puck loose in front. The Huskies bit back late in the second period with a pair of goals to tie the game. The first came from Tyson to put UConn on the board, and the tying goal was scored by Gerling just 34 seconds later. Neither team was effec-tive on the power play – UConn finished an abysmal 0-for-4 while Maine was just 0-for-2. The Huskies will try

to extend their point streak Saturday night at Providence against the No. 13 Friars.

Irish top UNH 5-3

In a high-scoring affair, it was Notre Dame that proved to have more fire-power, as three goals in the second period powered the Irish past UNH 5-3. Notre Dame (11-14-3) came out on top at home this Saturday, beating the UNH Wildcats (9-15-2) in a high scoring affair. Austin Wuthrich opened the scoring for the Irish, blasting a shot through traf-fic to give Notre Dame a 1-0 lead at 17:46 seconds of first period. At 2:32 of the sec-ond period, Steven Fogarty scored on the power play to give the Irish a two-goal lead. The Wildcats respond-ed in a big way. Warren Foegele scored to get UNH on the board, and Matias Cleland added a power play goal later in the second to tie the game up. But a backbreaking goal from Ben Ostlie put the Irish back up just two min-utes, four seconds later, and they would hold that lead for good. Notre Dame returns to action with a trip to Maine for a pair of games, starting Friday night at 7:05 p.m. in Orono, Maine.

Chris Martinez can be reached at cmart0@umass.edu

UConn takes 3 of 4 points from UM

SLOWER continued from page 8cal basketball appears to be suiting UMass’ best player, Cady Lalanne, quite well. Lalanne recorded 14 points and 10 rebounds against Saint Louis after exploding for 18 points and seven rebounds against Dayton. Over the last three games, his personal offen-sive rating averaged to a 125 (his season average is 102.9). According to Lalanne, the offense is starting to focus on establishing a presence in the post during developed half court sets. “It’s pretty good, my teammates know to try and go inside-out early and establish the post,” Lalanne said. “Then we can start working on the outside later in the game. I thought we did a good job with that (against SLU) which opened up a lot of stuff toward the end.”

Gordon nurses injury

Minutemen guard

Derrick Gordon sat out por-tions of Tuesday’s practice as he deals with a nagging Achilles injury. “I’m banged up right now,” Gordon said. “I’ve got some Achilles tendon-itis going on in my left foot which has been both-ering me for two days or so. I’m trying to stay off it as much as possible and just get treatment so I can try to at least be close to 100 percent for tomorrow.” Gordon said it’s something he dealt with last season too. “(Kellogg) knows my sit-uation and I didn’t really want to practice as much today because it was really, really bothering me,” he said. Gordon is expected to guard Fordham’s lead-ing scorer, Eric Paschall (17.1 points per game) on Wednesday. “We’re going to need him to play and cover a guy like Paschall and we need him as close to 100 percent as

possible,” Kellogg said.”

Hinds returns home

When UMass guard Jabarie Hinds takes the floor Wednesday night, he’ll be doing so in front of a number of family and friends. Hinds is from Mount Vernon, New York, which is about 30 minutes away from Fordham. He said it will be a good feeling to head home, and that he doesn’t often get a chance to return. It’s not the first time he’s gotten a chance to play close to his hometown, as he played in New York on multiple occa-sions as a member of West Virginia before he trans-ferred to UMass. “It’s always good to go back home,” he said. “I’ve been away from home for a long time and now I get to go play in front of my fam-ily and friends.”

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

Minutewomen set for URI

By toM Mulherin Collegian Staff

After a hotter-than-usual start to the season for the Massachusetts women’s basketball team, the second half of the schedule has brought less good fortune. Entering Wednesday’s matchup at Rhode Island, UMass is in the midst of an alarming four-game losing streak. The Minutewomen (8-12, 2-6 Atlantic 10 Conference) have been a tough team to score on all year, even in their recent slump. Offensive output, however, has dipped 10 points per game in the recent scoring drought compared to the rest of the season, with double-team coverage on go-to scorer Kim Pierre-Louis being the difference. With that much atten-tion on Pierre-Louis, UMass coach Sharon Dawley said finding other ways to score is one of the keys in their matchup against the Rams (12-8, 4-4 A-10). “We need other kids to step up and score for us,” Dawley said. “Prior to Kim being double-teamed, she was scoring a ton of points for us. Now peo-ple are defending us dif-ferently – sagging off and not defending some (play-ers) so they can double or triple-team Kim – and we don’t respond to that well as a team.” “Defenses are making it really hard for Kim to score. We need her to dis-tribute a little bit more and we need players to be able to hit shots,” she con-tinued. Before defenses started to double Pierre-Louis, she put up big numbers for the Minutewomen and led them to a surprising 8-8 start. But when she

has been double-teamed, the offense has run into some major issues. Unfortunately for UMass, Dawley recognizes that the coverage on Pierre-Louis isn’t even the most challenging concern URI brings to the matchup. “(A) key to (Wednesday) is to not let their pres-sure bother us,” she said. “I think their pressure defense is the biggest chal-lenge. If we execute what we’ve been working on, we can actually get some good looks from it. I’m hoping that history repeats itself and that pressure will not bother us.” On the defensive side of the court, UMass has struggled recently com-pared to its performanc-es earlier in the season. But even though Dawley acknowledged the defense needs to step up in order to play to its full potential, Rashida Timbilla has still been a dominant force in the paint. After all, she is just one rebound away from 200 total rebounds for a third consecutive year with eight games still to play. Only five players in pro-gram history have reached that milestone, the last being Jennifer Butler from 1999 to 2003. “(Timbilla) is awe-

some,” Dawley said. “I don’t think she realizes just how good she is. The rebounding is spectacular, the defense is spectacular. I don’t think there’s been many women in the pro-gram that have had the numbers she has in terms of being close to a triple-double on many occa-sions.” “She’s even a bet-ter leader than she is a rebounder,” she added. “So, she brings us the whole package. We just need her to score a little more for us.” Despite their recent struggles, Dawley still likes the Minutewomen’s chances against Rhode Island. “We’ve had a couple of really good practices,” she said. “We have a lot of fight in us and we obvious-ly can beat anyone in the conference if we are able to put a good offensive and defensive performance together in the same day.” In program history, UMass is 41-32 against the Rams and won the last meeting 69-56 in Frebruary of 2014. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. at the Ryan Center in Kingston, Rhode Island. Tom Mulherin can be reached at tmulheri@umass.edu.

Dawley cites need to handle pressure

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Rashida Timbilla is one rebound away from 200 total rebounds this year.

“As of late it seems as if teams have slowed the game down. There’s actually less

possessions per game, which means we get less shots per game.”

Derek Kellogg,UMass coach

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By Andrew CyrCollegian Staff

On paper, Wednesday’s matchup against Fordham should be a fairly easy one for the Massachusetts men’s basketball team. The Rams (5-14, 0-8 Atlantic 10) are winless in their eight games in Atlantic 10 play. However, before the Minutemen look too far ahead of them-selves, head coach Derek Kellogg was quick to put a halt on any visions that their third consecutive will be an easy one. “They’re as talented offensively as any of the teams we’ve faced,” Kellogg said. “I’m not sure (in con-ference play) there really is ‘playing down,’ because I don’t think there is that much difference between the last place team and the fourth or fifth best team. Especially when you go on the road.” Leading the charge for the Rams is freshman

standout Eric Paschall, averaging 17.1 pointer per game this season, and 18.8 ppg in conference play. In addition to scoring the bas-ketball, the 6-foot-6, 205-pound guard is third on the team with 5.5 rebounds per game. Kellogg heaped heavy praise when talking about Paschall, and put him on the same level as Rhode Island’s E.C. Matthews and Saint Joseph’s DeAndre Bembry in terms of abil-ity to make an impact play within the conference as a first-year player. “He came in with high accolades and everyone knew how good he was and he’s lived up to his billing,” Kellogg said. As he’s done so every game this season, UMass guard Derrick Gordon will once again be called up to lock down the opposition’s top player, something he isn’t afraid of. “I’m going to be guard-ing him. I’m just looking to get him out of his game,” Gordon said. “He’s a fresh-man, I’m a junior. I’ve just go to go out there and do

what I do and everything else is going to follow.” Although Gordon’s con-fidence may be sky high, he’s been dealing with Achilles tendonitis that has lingered all season. He aggravated the injury again Monday at practice, and because of that didn’t go full speed at practice on Tuesday. Kellogg said that he was trying to keep Gordon as close to 100 percent as possible for Wednesday. “I’ve just got to rest up and get ready for the game because I’ve got a big assignment tomorrow as far as guarding one of the best players on their team,” Gordon said. In addition to Paschall’s offense, Mandell Thomas adds 12.4 points per game, while Chris Sengfelder also averages double-digits in scoring, with 10.4 points per game. Ryan Rhoomes controls the paint for Fordham and averages 8.8 rebounds per game. The Rams have yet to win a game this calendar year – their last win was on Dec. 31 over South Carolina

State. However, center Cady Lalanne knows just how important this game is for the Minutemen, espe-cially if they hope to make a serious run toward post-season play. “We can’t just go out there thinking they aren’t going to give us their best shot, because they are going to give us their best shot. It’s a game that we can’t afford to lose right now,” Lalanne said. “We have to make some-thing happen now. We’re trying to have a great sea-son. We’re trying to build on last year. We have to step on the gas now and achieve the goal,” he con-tinued. Lalanne has 996 career points and is four away from becoming the 47th player in UMass history to score 1,000 points. Tip-off from Rose Hill Gymnasium will be at 7 p.m. and the game can be viewed on the SNY net-work.

Andrew Cyr can be reached at arcyr@umass.edu, and can be followed on Twitter @Andrew_Cyr.

Letdown must be avoided at Fordham

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Maxie Esho and the Minutemen hope to stay consistent against last-place Fordham tonight in Bronx, New York.

Slower tempo no problem for UM

By MArk ChiArelliCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s basketball team is traditionally a team which quickens the pace, forces the tempo and maximizes on its number of posses-sions. It’s a style of play that, coupled with a hard-nosed defensive demeanor and a willingness to win “50/50” possessions, is coach Derek Kellogg’s definition of “UMass basketball.” Kellogg’s committed to it and recruited the requisite pieces to play it at a high level. But recently, the Minutemen haven’t found themselves in many track meets. Instead, the pace of play is slowing down and the number of total posses-sions is shrinking. Yet for UMass, which has won three of its last four games and travels to face Fordham Wednesday, it’s working out. “As of late it seems as if teams have slowed the game down. There’s actu-ally less possessions per game, which means we get less shots per game,” Kellogg said after practice Tuesday. It’s a trend which typi-cally occurs during con-ference play. Teams have more familiarity with each other, the season is nearing its conclusion and more energy is expended on cru-cial possessions in games which are usually close. A season ago, slower play and increased scout-ing from the opposition contributed to UMass’ scuf-fling end to the season. At one time, the Minutemen were 16-1 and ranked No. 13 in the country, yet finished only 9-7 in conference play. This year, the play is again slowing down. And so far, the Minutemen are adjusting. They’ve won three of their last four games, the exception being a 62-56 loss

to Saint Joseph’s on Jan. 21. The average number of total possessions within a game during that stretch is 61. Twice, UMass has played games that didn’t reach 60 total possessiona: the loss against the Hawks (58) and last Saturday’s win over Saint Louis (59). But Kellogg believes that despite the lesser number of possessions, the pace of games is at an ideal level, as evident by the three wins in four games. “It’s great,” Kellogg said with a laugh. “I’ll throw in a hook shot from half court if we had to. As I’m coaching I feel like the pace of the game is pretty good, even the Saint Louis game. It feels like it’s moving but when you look at the number of pos-sessions we had, it didn’t move maybe quite as fast but we are getting enough open court plays to make it feel like a faster pace than it actually is.” UMass isn’t seeing a sig-nificant decrease in offen-sive production, either. It’s offensive rating for the season – which is a stat that measures how many points a team would pro-duce for the entire season – is 100.7, which is 217th out of 351 teams. In the Minutemen’s last three wins, that number dropped to 97.9, but was still higher than their opponents. The outlier was the St. Joe’s loss, where their offensive rating was 93.3 as opposed to the Hawks’ 103.3. And the more methodi-

Fewer possesions leads to recent wins

After solid start, Minutewomen are slumping

By Arthur hAydenCollegian Staff

Much has been said about the Massachusetts women’s basketball team’s resurgence this season following a streak of subpar, single-digit win campaigns. Few would argue against the claim that this UMass squad has competed at a higher level than any other during coach Sharon Dawley’s five-year tenure in Amherst, and the numbers appear to support that. The last time the Minutewomen won more than eight games – the total they currently hold this sea-son with eight regular season games left to go – was in 2010 when they finished with 11 victories. Dawley and company have started to inspire some long-awaited optimism, instilling a bit of energy in a program that has been stuck at the

bottom of the Atlantic 10 conference in recent years. However, no return to success comes without roadblocks, and UMass currently finds itself stuck in a bit of a rut. The Minutewomen have lost four games in a row by an average of 19.5 points, dropping their overall record – which sat at 8-8 on Jan. 15 – to 8-12. Over the course of the losing streak, the biggest cause for concern is a failure to put points on the board. Over the first 16 games of the season, UMass averaged just under 63 points per game. That average has dropped to 49.3 points during the losing streak. “Offensively there weren’t a lot of sparks” Dawley said after the most recent loss to St. Bonaventure, “We strug-gled once we fell behind.” Senior forward Kim Pierre-Louis has been the center-piece of the Minutewomen offense all season, leading the team in points in all but five games this year. But opposing

defenses have begun to focus in on her in recent weeks, lim-iting her effectiveness. Pierre-Louis has failed to reach her season average in points per game during the skid, while her teammates have generally been unable to fill the void. Pierre-Louis, who ended the game against St. Bonaventure with a team-high 14 points, had just one basket in the first half. When she finally found her rhythm in the second half, the game was essentially out of reach, thanks to a combination of sloppy defense from the Minutewomen and an accu-rate shooting night from the Bonnies. “I decided to be a little more aggressive,” Pierre-Louis said. “Time was press-ing and we needed some more offense so I took it upon myself to make some baskets and create opportunities for my teammates as well.” Unfortunately, Pierre-Louis’ inconsistencies have paralleled her team’s. Despite

the emergence of freshman guard Cierra Dillard and decent play from all-purpose veteran forward Rashida Timbilla, this Minutewomen team has been prone to long scoring droughts that leave them playing catch up by the time the fourth quarter rolls around.

Cream of the Crop

While an offensive drought has played a major role in UMass’ current state of affairs, another reason for their losing streak is the high-er quality of opponents over the last few games. The first loss of the streak came to the top team in the conference, George Washington. Three days later, the Minutewomen came in as large underdogs again facing Fordham, a defensive powerhouse. Those programs are simply on a dif-ferent level than UMass at the present time, and those losses did not surprise many, regard-less of how much progress UMass has made throughout

this season. But back-to-back 20-point losses to Richmond and St. Bonaventure, two middle-of-the-pack A10 teams? Those are the kinds of games that the Minutewomen will have to start winning in order to take the next step in their rebuild-ing process. “There’s not a team you can be relaxed going up against. All we can do is regroup,”

Dawley said. “We have to be tougher on each other and we have to demand more from each other.” The Minutewomen will get their chance to get back on track on Wednesday night when they travel to Rhode Island at 7 p.m.

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

UMass has dropped four games in a row

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Kim Pierre-Louis has been a star offensively for UMass this season.

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