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Committee presents diversity plan to University

By Catherine FerrisCollegian Staff

The University of Massachusetts has been engaged in a two-year pro-cess focused on diversity, and recently, a draft of a diver-sity plan was released to the campus community. Robert Feldman, the dep-uty chancellor and chair of the steering committee that put the plan together, wanted

to emphasize that what was released is a draft, and is open to discussion at an open forum on Thursday from 4-5 p.m. in the Campus Center Auditorium. “What we’re doing is get-ting input from the commu-nity. We’re doing less of a presentation (today) and giv-ing people an opportunity to give feedback,” he said. The committee, began writing the draft in late spring 2014. They also met in May, as well as a few times during the summer. It was last semester that the com-

mittee began meeting once each week. Feldman said the mem-bers of the committee were “broad and terrific.” They

included Enku Gelaye, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Campus Life, Josh Odam and Jasmine Bertrand-Haliday, both

members of Student Bridges and Vinayak Rao, president of the Student Government Association. Part of the reason for the committee meeting last semester as frequently as they did had to do with the events surrounding Ferguson and the campus reaction. Feldman said the emotion led them to feel a sense of urgency to acceler-ate the planning process. “We did a lot of looking at where we are as a cam-pus, and where we should be going, and how we can get

there,” Feldman said. “It was a very large task.” Through several sources of feedback, including meet-ings, presentations and meet-ings with the deans of differ-ent colleges, Feldman said the committee continues to collect data and feedback through “unit planning.” The data and feedback will be put into one plan, and Feldman sees a point in which there is a finished plan. But he is not interested in

Community input is next step for UM

By CeCilia PradoCollegian Staff

A new campaign has been launched to raise awareness about open-source textbooks by MASSPIRG. Open source textbooks are textbooks licensed under an open copyright license, which allows fac-ulty and students to down-load them for no cost or get affordable printed ver-sions. According to Matt Magalhaes, a University of Massachusetts student working on the campaign, the objective is to edu-cate students and teach-ers about this new tool that could possibly reduce student spending on text-books by 80 percent. “Our goal is to teach professors about this relatively new tool

and how it could possi-bly help students reach their full potential,” said Magalhaes. T he MASSPIRG Education Fund released a survey showing that about 65 percent of stu-dent consumers opted out of buying a college text-book in the past because of the cost. The University has already signed an Open Education Initiative dur-ing fall 2014, which sup-ports faculty interested in providing students a low-cost alternative to com-mercial textbooks. However, the majority of the courses at UMass still require students to buy traditional school materials. Zlata Myshchuk, a senior majoring in Microbiology at the University, mentioned that students could easily

MASSPIRG targets costly textbooksCampaign pushes open-source books

Taiwan plane crash kills 31

By yu-tzu Chiudpa

TAIPEI, Taiwan — A Taiwanese passenger plane hurtled into a river after hitting a bridge shortly after taking off from a Taipei airport on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people. TransAsia Airways flight 235 with 53 pas-sengers and five crew members on board was en route from Songshan Airport to Kinmen Island when it crashed after takeoff at 10:52 a.m. (0252 GMT), according to the Civil Aeronautics Administration. The twin-engine ATR 72 turboprop avoided the tall buildings of Taipei’s Nangang district, but its wing hit a bridge and it plunged into the river, a dramatic video posted online from a car’s dash-cam showed. By late Wednesday, 40 people on the flight had been accounted for, the aviation authority said. Fifteen people injured were hospitalized, while 12 peo-

ple remained missing. The driver of a taxi, which was struck by the plane’s wing, and a passen-ger inside were also hospi-talized. Rescuers hoisted the wreckage from the Keelung River with cranes. TransAsia Airways chief executive officer Peter Chen apologized to the public. He said there were 31 Chinese tourists and 22 Taiwanese passen-gers on board. Taiwan’s minister for the Mainland Affairs Council, a government body that deals with the Beijing authorities, said it would offer assistance to the family members of the affected Chinese tourists. According to the state-run Central News Agency, China’s equivalent Taiwan Affairs Office will send a team to the island as soon as possible. The cause of the crash was still unknown. Local media reported that ana-lysts suspected that one of the engines lost power; the plane failed to gain altitude after takeoff. TransAsia Airways said the plane was the latest ATR-72-600 type craft and

the engines were new. Its most recent safety check was conducted Jan. 26. Aviation authority direc-tor Lin Chih-ming said the plane was the same type as TransAsia Airways flight GE222 that crashed in Penghu in July 2014, kill-ing 48 of the 59 people on board.

Flight hit bridge, crashed into river

US ‘inclined’ to arm Ukraine

By Carol J. WilliamsLos Angeles Times

European security offi-cials appealed to the war-ring parties in Ukraine on Wednesday to hold their fire for three days so that thousands of civilians can be evacuated from a bat-tleground where hundreds have died in recent days, including in reported clus-ter-bomb attacks. Fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russia separatists has intensified since a brief lull over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, and fresh infu-sions of Russian arms and fighters have helped the rebels deal several stra-tegic setbacks to the Kiev government. The shifting ground in the 10-month-old bat-tle between the Russian-backed rebels and Western-allied Ukrainian troops has rekindled a debate in Washington and in Brussels over whether Kiev’s allies should pro-vide the embattled govern-

ment with lethal aid. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expressed high confidence Wednesday that the United States would provide the government with the weaponry it needs to beat back the latest separatist advances, which included taking control of the dev-astated Donetsk interna-tional airport that had been fiercely fought over since May. “I don’t have a slight-est doubt that the deci-sion to supply Ukraine with weapons will be made by the United States as well as by other part-ners of ours, because we need to have the capabili-ties to defend ourselves,” Poroshenko said during a visit to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, still gover nment-control led but bordering the separat-ist-occupied areas. Later Wednesday, President Barack Obama’s nominee as the next defense secretary, Ashton Carter, told his Senate con-firmation hearing that he was “very much inclined” to provide the weapons the Ukrainian government

has been requesting for months. To date, U.S. and European assistance to the Kiev government has been limited to nonlethal military goods like night-vision goggles and body armor. “My responsibilities would be to protect America and its friends and allies in a turbulent and danger-ous world,” Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee. “We need to support Ukraine in defend-ing themselves.” Polish officials said Tuesday they were pre-pared to provide arms to Ukraine, but other European Union members, in particular Germany, have warned against introducing more weapons into the conflict and called instead for stepped-up dip-lomatic intervention. Intensified fighting around the strategic rail hub in the eastern Ukraine town of Debaltseve prompted officials of the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to call for a three-

Cluster-bombings reported recently

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A UMass student snowboards onto a rail during Winter Festival, an event hosted by the UMass Ski and Board Club and the University Programming Council.

Snowboarding on the beach

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TransAsia Airways flight 235 hit a bridge in Taiwan on Wednesday. The plane then crashed into the Keelung River, killing 48 of the 59 people on board.

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“I think one of the hallmarks of the chancellor’s process as he’s laid this out is transparency. There really are no secrets.

We also have a strong feeling that we want to get feedback from people.”

Robert Feldman, Deputy Chancellor and

Chair of the Steering Committee

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ON THIS DAY...In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a plan to expand the size of Supreme Court to 15 judges. Roosevelt’s infamous “court-packing” plan, condemned by many critics, never passed.

Mexico MEXICO CITY —

Mexican President Enrique

Pena Nieto on Tuesday

named a new Cabinet-level

minister to investigate

whether homes that he, his

finance minister and wife

purchased from government

contractors represented

conflicts of interest.

The public function

minister, Virgilio Andrade,

will also be charged with

fighting corruption and

increasing transparency,

Pena Nieto said in a speech

at the presidential palace in

Mexico City.Bloomberg News

Netherlands THE HAGUE — Mutual

claims of genocide brought

by Croatia and Serbia that

date back to the disinte-

gration 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.dpa

Israel 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. Los Angeles Times

Bangladesh DHAKA — At least seven

people were killed and sev-

eral others seriously wound-

ed Tuesday when their bus

was struck by a gasoline

bomb in the deadliest attack

in weeks of spiraling politi-

cal 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.Los Angeles Times

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A RO U N D T H E W O R L D

By James QueallyLos Angeles Times

Cleveland police have begun wearing body cam-eras as part of a program to outfit 1,500 officers with the devices, the department announced Wednesday, nearly 10 weeks after a city police officer shot and killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old who was hold-ing a toy gun. Wednesday’s announce-ment makes Cleveland the latest city to deploy body cameras as a transparency measure following a con-troversial police killing in the last year. Cleveland spent $2.4 mil-lion to outfit nearly all of the city’s 1,510 officers with TASER’s Axon Flex body-worn cameras, and at least 200 officers in one of the city’s high-crime neighbor-hoods are expected to be outfitted with the devices by the end of the week, according to Detective Jennifer Ciaccia, a police spokeswoman. “The cameras will pro-vide accurate documen-tation of police/citizen encounters and assist with reporting, evidence collec-tion and court testimony,” the department said in a statement. “Body-worn cameras have been shown to reduce the number of complaints and use-of-force incidents in law enforcement.” The deployment of the cameras comes a little more than two months after Officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed Tamir sec-onds after approaching the boy in his patrol car. Tamir was holding a toy gun. Police union officials have said Loehmann, a rookie officer with a trou-bled past who had been dismissed from another police department before he was hired in Cleveland, believed the gun was real and did not realize Tamir was so young. Ciaccia said that the department has been researching the use of body cameras since 2012 and that some officers began wearing them as part of a pilot program last summer. The cameras are to con-stantly record video of an officer’s activities in 30-sec-ond loops, but will record longer sections of audio and video during police pursuits, vehicle stops and other interactions between officers and the public. The recordings will be maintained on an evidence collection website managed

by TASER and will be sub-ject to open public records requests in Ohio, Ciaccia said. Officers will not be able to edit, delete or alter recordings once the foot-age is stored on the server, according to the depart-ment’s policy on camera usage. Officers, however, will have to manually switch between the two record-ing methods, Ciaccia said. Also, the cameras will not actually record “for stor-age purposes” unless the officer presses a button on the device. Civil rights advocates have been critical of that feature in other cities where the TASER cam-era model is used, saying it gives officers too much power to pick and choose what will be recorded. Other cities deploy-ing cameras following police shootings include Ferguson, Mo., where police officers began wear-ing cameras after Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown in July. Last year, the New York City Police Department also announced a pilot pro-gram that would see 60 offi-cers begin wearing body cameras just months after the death of Eric Garner, although the NYPD camera policy was part of a larger settlement involving its controversial use of stop-and-frisk tactics. And in December, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced plans to buy 7,000 body-worn cameras from TASER for LAPD officers to wear, making Los Angeles the first major U.S. city to use the devices on a large scale.

Cleveland cops to use body camerasProgram in wake of Tamir Rice’s death

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“The cameras will provide accurate documentation of police/citizen

encounters and assist with reporting,

evidence collection and court testimony.”

Cleveland Police Department

simply completing the plan and then forgetting about it. “I think there’s a real sense from Chancellor (Kumble Subbaswamy) that he wants the plan to be a living document, and reflect changes in the campus as we move ahead,” Feldman said. Feldman also recognized the chancellor’s role in the process of drafting the plan. He said the chancel-lor attended some meetings, but this issue is something that is important to him. “While he has not been involved in the ‘day to day’ things, he’s looked at the plan, is supportive of it and sees it as absolutely essen-tial to make the campus the best place it can be,” Feldman said. While it is Feldman’s job to work with Subbaswamy and make sure the tasks on his agenda are put into place, this is an issue that is important to him person-ally as well. Prior to his position as Deputy Chancellor, Feldman worked in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, leading him to develop an interest in the

topic. “It’s an essential inter-est. I’m a social psycholo-gist, and it’s one of those core issues social psychol-ogists are interested in. I have, for my own disciplin-ary point of view, a real interest in this.” The plan outlined a number of different points, including the admis-sions process, something Feldman believes should be examined further, say-ing there are not as many underrepresented minority students as there should be on campus. Feldman said the chan-cellor has suggested they hire someone to assist with undergraduate admissions, and focus on raising the number of underrepresent-ed minority students. “It’s not just a mat-ter of saying ‘I want to do it.’ We really have to put some resources in place and provide more fund-ing and scholarships,” said Feldman. Though, there have been some difficulties in coming up with the sufficient funds for scholarship money that would allow the University to move forward with that

plan, Feldman believes it is a task that must be done. He has also collected data that shows many minority students feel there are relatively profound racial problems with micro-aggressions. “We can’t have that. Increasing the number of students of color will help the overall environment. We need to have students having conversation with people who are different from they are,” Feldman said. Throughout the planning and put into writing the draft and meeting, Feldman stressed the importance of feedback and being open with the students on behalf of the committee and the chancellor. “I think one of the hall-marks of the chancellor’s process as he’s laid this out is transparency. There real-ly are no secrets. We also have a strong feeling that we want to get feedback from people.”

Catherine Ferris can be reached at caferris@umass.edu and followed on Twitter at @Ca_Ferris2.

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Six dead in NY train wreck

By Tina SuSmanLos Angeles Times

NEW YORK — Investigators were headed Wednesday to the scene of a deadly commuter railroad crash north of New York City. The crash occurred Tuesday evening after a rail crossing gate came down onto an SUV, which was then slammed by a fast-moving train. Six people were killed, including the SUV’s driver and five people on Metro-North’s No. 659 train out of Grand Central Terminal. Fire consumed the front car of the train as the elec-trified third rail on the track was dislodged and sliced through the passen-ger compartment. Calling it a “minor mir-acle,” Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino said at a news conference Wednesday that a search of the wreckage had deter-mined there was one less fatality than had been ini-tially reported after the crash. Key questions facing National Transportation Safety Board investigators headed to the scene from Washington include wheth-er there was a malfunction of the crossing gate that caused it to lower onto the

vehicle; how fast the train was traveling; and whether something prevented the SUV’s driver from exiting the track. Witnesses have said the driver, a woman, was on the track during a period of heavy traffic when the gate lowered onto the back of her Jeep. She got out of the car and walked around to the back to check on potential damage from the gate, according to witness-es. Then she got into the vehicle, began moving for-ward, and was slammed by the train loaded with hun-dreds of rush-hour com-muters. Compounding the grav-ity of the crash, the track’s third rail became dislodged and rammed into the train’s front car, causing a fire that consumed the coach as it hit the SUV and pushed it another 400 feet up the track. “That train had so many flames and it was so engulfed, the inside of that first car is just melted and charred,” Astorino said. “You think, my God, this could have been much, much worse,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo told Fox’s “Good Day New York” about nine hours after visiting the scene. “And it was as grue-some as anything I’ve seen and as ugly as anything I’ve seen.” The crash, about 30 miles

north of New York City in suburban Westchester County, was the worst accident in the history of Metro-North, the nation’s second-busiest commuter railroad. Until December 2013, Metro-North prided itself on never having had a pas-senger fatality. But that month, four passengers died when a train derailed while speeding around a curve in New York City. Seven months earlier, in May 2013, two separate incidents killed a Metro-North employee and caused two trains to collide in Connecticut. The NTSB subsequently issued a report accusing Metro-North of sacrific-ing safety in its quest to keep trains running on time. Among other things, it said the train involved in the December 2013 crash was traveling more than 80 mph when it entered a curve zoned for about 30 mph. It also said the driver, who said he had “zoned out” briefly, suffered from severe sleep apnea but had not received proper medi-cal screening.

SUV-train collision under investigation

FCC suggests tough net neutrality rules

By Jim PuzzangheraLos Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — The head of the Federal C o m m u n i c a t i o n s Commission said Wednesday that he is proposing tough new rules governing online traffic that would regulate Internet service like a pub-lic utility but modernize the oversight “for the 21st cen-tury.” The proposed net neu-trality rules would prohibit broadband companies from charging websites for faster delivery of their content and from blocking or slow-ing any legal online content or service, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said. The regulations would apply to wired and wire-less Internet service, he said in an opinion article on Wired’s website. “The Internet must be fast, fair and open. That is the message I’ve heard from consumers and innovators across this nation,” Wheeler said in announcing his steps after millions of comments

flooded the agency. “That is the principle that has enabled the Internet to become an unprecedented platform for innovation and human expression,” he said. “The proposal I present to the commission will ensure the Internet remains open, now and in the future, for all Americans.” Wheeler’s proposal must be approved by a majority of the five-member FCC, which is scheduled to vote on it Feb. 26. “My proposal assures the rights of Internet users to go where they want, when they want, and the rights of innovators to introduce new products wihtout ask-ing anyone’s permission,” Wheeler said. Wheeler is a Democrat appointed by President Barack Obama, and the FCC has a 3-2 Democratic majori-ty. His fellow Democrats are expected to back the pro-posal, with the Republican commissioners opposing it. Major Internet content companies have pushed the FCC for tough net neutrality rules. But broadband pro-viders have threatened to sue the agency if it approves utility-like regulation, argu-

ing it is overstepping the FCC’s authority. After a federal court tossed out the FCC’s net neutrality rules last year, Wheeler initially proposed a lighter regulatory approach that could have allowed for some so-called paid prioriti-zation of content. But in November, Obama publicly called for the FCC to take a stronger approach that would classify the Internet as a regulated util-ity under Title 2 of the 1996 telecommunication law. Most Democrats support the tougher approach, but key congressional Republicans strongly oppose it. Wheeler says in the Wired article that he believes the FCC has the power to reclas-sify Internet service as a regulated utility. “The Congress gave the FCC broad authority to update its rules to reflect changes in technology and marketplace behavior in a way that protects consum-ers,” he said. “Over the years, the commission has used this authority to the public’s great benefit.” He argues that the Internet wouldn’t have developed if the FCC had

not mandated open access for network equipment in the late 1960s. Broadband companies and Republican opponents of utility-like regulation said it was meant for rail-roads and phone compa-nies, not the fast-evolving Internet. Key congressional Republicans have proposed legislation that would pro-hibit broadband providers from blocking websites, slowing connection speeds and charging companies for faster delivery of their con-tent – but without utility-like regulation. Wheeler said Wednesday he would modernize the utility regulations so they would not squelch invest-ment in broadband net-works. For example, he said the FCC would not impose rate regulation or tariffs on Internet service. The regulations “will be strong enough and flex-ible enough not only to deal with the realities of today, but also to establish ground rules for the as-yet unimag-ined.”

Obama-backed plan to treat net as utility

spend a few hundred dol-lars on textbooks. “Especially in the sci-ences, some textbooks could cost over $300,” she said. According to a study by the Government Accountability Office, the cost of textbooks grew 82 percent between 2002 and 2013. The College Board estimates the annual cost of textbooks and materials for the average college stu-dent to be approximately $1,168. “I believe students have the potential and abil-ity to make a change, but we don’t always have the tools,” Magalhaes said. Open-source textbooks are not only licensed in a way that they can be freely downloaded, but it also allows students to meet course standards and keeping up with current research. This is of partic-ular importance, because it is one of the reasons professors are inclined to require the newest edition of a textbook for a particu-lar course. MASSPIRG recently organized the first nation-al social media campaign

about the issue, creating the hashtag “#textbook-broke.” Students used the hashtag to share their experiences and opinions regarding the cost of text-books. The MASSPIRG chapter at UMass is interested in informing students around campus about this alterna-tive, while also encourag-ing them to get involved in the campaign. In addition, the staff hopes that they get an opportunity to organize educational events at the end of the year, such as open forums for students and informative work-shops for professors. “We hope to let students know that this option is out there, and hopefully have a chance to teach professors about these resources and how to use them,” Magalhaes said.

Cecilia Prado can be reached at sprado@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @thececiliaprado.

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day cease-fire to evacuate civilians trapped between the front lines. OSCE Chairman Ivica Dacic appealed to “all actors in and around the Debaltseve area to estab-lish a local temporary truce for a minimum of three days, taking imme-diate effect.” “The spiral of ever-increasing violence in eastern Ukraine needs to stop,” European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said in a statement, adding the 28-nation economic alliance’s weight to the appeal. “The shelling of civilians, wherever it hap-pens, is a grave violation of international humani-tarian law. Artillery should immediately be withdrawn from residen-tial areas.” There were no imme-diate responses from the combatants to the cease-fire appeal, which fol-lowed a United Nations human rights agency report a day earlier that at least 224 civilians were killed in artillery exchanges in the three weeks that ended Sunday. U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Raad Hussein warned Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russia sep-aratists on Tuesday that their disregard for the safety of civilians was a

violation of international law and that they could face war crimes charges once the conflict ends. But shelling continued Wednesday in Donetsk, the eastern industrial city that was home to a million residents before the war, and around Debaltseve and their other major strong-hold, Luhansk. Luhansk was the site of rocket attacks on Jan. 27 that killed two people and damaged numerous houses in a residential area, the OSCE reported Tuesday after inspecting the bomb-ing scene. The monitoring team reported that the inju-ries, craters and structural damage were consistent with those “typically caused by shrapnel elements from cluster munition.” The OSCE observer team’s report on Wednesday also cited the use of clus-ter munitions in an attack on the separatist-controlled village of Komsomolske on Monday in which a 37-year-old woman was killed and

a 5-year-old girl gravely injured. Four Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the previous 24 hours, Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council, told reporters in Kiev on Wednesday. Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported from Donetsk that shelling hit a hospital on Wednesday and inflicted an unspecified number of fatalities. The U.N. human rights report on Tuesday put the death toll from the fighting that began in April at 5,358, which it described as a “con-servative estimate.” Separatists occupied government buildings in Donetsk and Luhansk regions last spring after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent paratroopers to seize Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in late February. Russia annexed Crimea, which is home to its Black Sea fleet, three weeks later.

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Polish officials said Tuesday they were prepared to provide arms to Ukraine, but

other European Union members, in particular Germany, have warned

against introducing more weapons intothe conflict and called instead for

stepped-up diplomatic intervention.

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Charlie Hebdo:je suis

offensive? I am assuming, at one time, the thought of a group of men with Kalashnikovs

storming into a Paris office building and subsequently murdering an entire edito-rial staff seemed like a para-noid belief. After all, what type of people would have the training and perverse motivation to do such a thing? Wars, from my rather limited understanding, are fought between opposing armies. However, the attack on Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine, proved this once far-fetched belief is firmly grounded in reality.

The magazine, which has a long and controversial his-tory of mocking politicians and major religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam, was attacked for publishing a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed. The French-born Islamic terror-ists, who are now thought to have trained and become radicalized in Yemen, car-ried out this assault in retali-ation for this aforementioned picture’s publication. Far from paralyzing the French nation, millions took to the street in a show of strength and solidarity rare-ly seen in our modern world. The pencil has quickly become a widely recognized symbol of this attack; con-veying the notion that vio-lence can ultimately do noth-ing to stem the free exchange of ideas that is vital to main-tain a healthy democratic society. However, there is some controversy surrounding around the cover of Charlie Hebdo’s next issue, which featured yet another carica-ture of Mohammed. Some believe this has exacerbat-ed tensions in France and within the Muslim commu-nity as a whole. Although I understand this viewpoint, this issue, to me, is one of freedom of speech. Charlie Hebdo is a magazine that has mercilessly mocked and derided every major religion, and this includes Islam. Each and every religion should be open to both ques-tioning and criticism. This attack, at its very core, sought to stifle and constrain one’s inherent right to free-dom of speech. I applaud

Charlie Hebdo for its deci-sion to refuse to capitulate to the demands of those that follow radical Islam. Satire is vital to any democracy. It is a tool to keep our elected lead-ers honest and it also allows individuals to mock the very institutions (organized reli-gion, politics etc.) that seem to govern our everyday lives. Furthermore, this is a notion I am quite passionate about; free speech encom-passes all ideas and philoso-phies, even those in which you or I may fervently dis-agree with. It is understand-able why some followers of Islam may find the depiction of Mohammed offensive. By the same token, it is also understandable why those that follow Catholicism may find the magazine’s views on the Pope offensive as well. However, free speech does not merely protect those views that are agreeable or empathetic in some way. A true litmus test for any democracy is how a society treats those whose views are almost universally reviled. To draw a parallel within American society, take the Westboro Baptist Church or the Ku Klux Klan, for exam-ple. I, along with many other sane Americans, find their views to be utterly reprehen-sible. However, do my sensi-bilities provide justification for stifling their freedom of speech? No, it absolutely does not. We would not be a free and democratic society if individuals were prohib-ited from expressing their views, no matter how back-wards or outlandish they may be. So, if you find Charlie Hebdo’s magazine cover offensive, I have a simple solution to this problem: do not buy the magazine. Do not view the cover. Express your dissatisfaction to your friends or loved ones. But please, realize that your views, however valid they may seem to be, are not a suf-ficient justification for pre-venting the magazine from being published. That is exactly what groups like ISIS and AQAP want. They want the West to become rattled by this. I say, let’s embrace the notion of a truly free society, and that will give these groups something to be afraid of. For in the end, violence can ultimately do nothing to pre-vent our views from being expressed. Bullets cannot kill an ideal. The notions of equality and free expres-sion did not die in that Paris office building. Quite the contrary, they were reborn in the hearts and minds of each and every person who marched in Paris a few weeks ago. I suppose the old cliché is true: the pen is certainly mightier than the sword. Anthony Maddaleni is a Collegian contributor. He can be reached at amaddale@umass.edu.

The anti-vaccine movement: danger masquerading as freedom

Not so long ago, there was a time when the threat of disease was an ever-present danger, a time when epi-

demics resulted in the deaths of mil-lions, not thousands. Smallpox, chol-era, polio, whooping cough, measles, mumps and a whole host of other illnesses that once ravaged humanity have either been eliminated entirely or made extremely rare and surviv-able thanks to the development of vac-cines. The current generation, however, largely does not have a memory of that time. Most of the population has never lived in a time when polio and smallpox were anything other than diseases for the history books. Many don’t recall that triumphant moment in May 1980 when the World Health Organization issued a proclamation: “Having considered the development and results of the global programme on smallpox eradication initiated by WHO in 1958 and intensified since 1967 … [The WHO] declares solemnly that the world and its peoples have won freedom from smallpox, which was a most devastating disease sweep-ing in epidemic form through many countries since earliest time, leaving death, blindness and disfigurement in its wake and which only a decade ago was rampant in Africa, Asia and

South America.” The eradication of smallpox, a disease that killed up to 500 million people in the 20th century alone, with a worldwide vaccination campaign is easily one of the crowning achievements of humanity. The present, however, is not the golden age of vaccination that the lat-ter half of the 20th century was. There exists a vocal, growing minority that campaigns for the ability to not vac-

cinate themselves and their children, and also spreads fear, even going so far as to claim that vaccines cause autism. This claim is, of course, patently false. Scientific consensus has prov-en time and again that there is no link between vaccines and autism, yet one in four Americans still believe that vaccines cause autism. Many supporters of the anti-vaccine move-ment point to a 1998 study that linked childhood vaccines to autism, but “an investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study’s author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield,

misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study -- and that there was “no doubt” Wakefield was responsible... Britain stripped Wakefield of his medical license,” according to a CNN report, and the journal that had published Wakefield’s findings, “The Lancet,” published a formal retraction in 2004. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, a disturbing percentage of Americans are convinced that vac-cines cause autism, or otherwise reject all vaccines on religious grounds, and as a result are weakening our chil-dren’s herd immunity to a wide vari-ety of illnesses. Schools are, have been and always will be hotbeds for viruses and illnesses to spread, so it is impera-tive that children be properly vac-cinated. While the state has no busi-ness regulating the personal decisions of individuals, that protection cannot extend to choices that actively endan-ger others. Non-vaccination puts lives in danger—not just the lives of those opting out of vaccines, but those of others, and every day children are falling ill with deadly, preventable ill-nesses simply because some irrespon-sible parents choose not to vaccinate theirs.

Stefan Herlitz is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at sherlitz@umass.edu.

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“Most of the population has never lived in a time when polio and smallpox were

anything other than diseases for the history books.”

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By AlexAnder FrAilCollegian Staff

Within brief runtimes, this year’s Oscar-nominated live action shorts delve into broad topics like immigra-tion, alienation, ennui and suicide. Ambitious as some of these films are, they also maintain an endearing sense of simplicity; fancy cam-erawork, special effects and scores find no quarter here. But what’s most impres-sive about these small films is their ability to study vast social concepts and to grasp at their deep philosophies. Here’s a look at this year’s nominees for Best Live Action Short:

“Boogaloo and graham”

Clocking in at 14 minutes, “Boogaloo and Graham” holds the honor of short-est Live Action Short this year. A tender dramedy set in 1970s Belfast, Northern Ireland, this short film fol-lows two brothers after their father (Martin McCann) gives them each a chick as a gift. However, a pregnancy in the family threatens the space the family gives to the chicks. While a sweet tale, “Boogaloo and Graham” is the most superficial of its contemporaries. A styl-ish juxtaposition between imposing Belfast soldiers and the father huddling two chicks makes for some inter-esting foreshadowing, but otherwise, the short wraps up expectedly with little to say. While it is a feel-good affair, it won’t have the grit to take home the award.

“Parvaneh”

“Parvaneh” follows its titular protagonist (Nissa Kashani), an Afghan girl liv-ing in Zurich, as she search-es for a way to send money to her ailing father back home. Director Talkhon Hamzavi deftly establishes a sense of alienation. When Parvaneh gazes at a mountain of myri-ad lipsticks, I felt just as lost as she does. Throughout the film, she struggles to breach a language barrier until she meets a willing stranger who takes her on an odyssey through a night of Western culture. Like “Boogaloo,” “Parvaneh” can’t boast eye-popping style, but its tender tale of budding friendship charms nonetheless.

“The Phone Call”

I was reminded of “Locke,” another British film, when I saw “The Phone Call.” Whereas the Tom Hardy drama plants us in a car, this Sally Hawkins vehicle focuses on a phone call she receives at her desk. An employee for a crisis hot-line, Heather (Hawkins) answers a call from Stan (Jim Broadbent), whose dis-tressed rambling peels back the layers of his pathos. Directed by Mat Kirkby, “The Phone Call” raises tension like a good thrill-er. Quick cuts focus on Heather’s thumbs tapping her watch, ever reminding her that time is running out. The pace of those cuts keeps pace with her desperation. Then they slow. The rhyth-mic editing adheres perfectly to Heather’s pulse. Both Hawkins and Broadbent deliver stunning

performances. Although the camera rarely leaves her desk, I never felt as stuck as I should have. Her facial expressions and voice kept me rapt. At the same time, Broadbent enthralled me with a purely vocal perfor-mance. His voice emotes ocean’s deep despair. Despite remaining faceless, I could picture his teary eyes with every word he whispers into Heather’s ear. “The Phone Call” falters by bookending itself with a paltry romance. When Heather first walks in to her office, the timid exchange between her and a coworker actually misguided me on the following narrative, and it took a few moments to real-ize the film wouldn’t actu-ally study them. Then after Heather and Stan’s riveting exchange, the narrative wan-ders back to that timidity. Thematically it makes sense. In execution, it detracts from an otherwise wonderful film.

“BuTTer lamP”

Here’s the most unique film I’ve ever seen. Throughout the entirety of “Butter Lamp,” its cam-era never moves. It centers upon a stool and a change-able backdrop that a pho-tographer changes after each photo he takes of vary-ing villagers. It’s as if Wes Anderson stepped in to frame the first symmetrical shot, but then just left it for the next 15 minutes. As each photograph is staged and then broken down, the photographer speaks with the mayor of the village and other villag-ers. Through these conver-sations, we get a glimpse at their world. Then the back-drop slides up slowly. Behind it lies the truth about this world, an ending so poetic and profound you’ll ponder it for hours after the screen goes black.

“aya”

“Aya,” a French-Israeli short directed by Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis, follows the titular woman (a mesmerizing Sarah Adler) after she picks up a Danish stranger, Mr. Overby (Ulrich Thomsen), at the airport. Her decision to spontane-ously deceive this man acts as the film’s central mystery. The answer is far less inter-esting than what bookends it. Adler’s acting is at once charming, hilarious and melancholy. As she sizes up Overby at the airport, you can tell she’s as innocent as a child playing a game. She deceives him playfully, as if on a whim. Her confession to Overby had me laughing more than any comedy I’ve seen this year, while her resigned acceptance of alien-ation from her loved ones broke my heart. Adler owns this film. It’s hers and hers alone. Meanwhile, the film itself shines with a magi-cal sense of adventure and wonder. The intimacy the characters share on a drive to Jerusalem leaps off the screen. It’s the same magic that permeated “Lost in Translation.” Innocence and intimacy abound in “Aya,” and the film is as beautifully bittersweet as Aya’s expres-sion as Overby plays piano on her hand.

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

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Endgame of ‘Thrones’ plays out

By AlexAnder FrAilCollegian Staff

It’s a question as old as Aegon the Conqueror’s arrival in Westeros: what will finish first, “A Song of Ice and Fire” or “Game of Thrones?” Now, four years since “A Dance With Dragons’” pub-lication, the book series by George R.R. Martin seems destined to conclude after its progeny, the wildly success-ful HBO program. Producers of “Game of Thrones” David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have announced that they’ll end the show by the eighth sea-son at the latest. As an avid fan of both “Ice and Fire” and “Thrones,” I argue that’s not a bad thing at all. The seventh season of “Game of Thrones” faces a projected airdate in 2017. Meanwhile, “The Winds of Winter,” the next install-ment to “Ice and Fire,” won’t be published until at least 2016, while the most recent two books have shared a publication gap of five and a half years, with the forth-coming novel set to honor that delay. If “A Dream of Spring,” the ultimate chap-ter in Westeros, follows suit, Martin’s opus won’t close before 2021. There’s no fea-sible way for Benioff and Weiss to elongate the show to match its source material. While unorthodox, finish-ing the progeny before the inspiration will pay off down the road. The longer “Game of Thrones” lingers, the far-ther it’ll wander from “Ice and Fire,” from its protract-ed excellence and from our hearts. So far, “Game of Thrones” has diverged sparingly from “Ice and Fire,” as far as adaptations go. Techniques like conflating several minor characters into one for the show have honored the series’ spirit while cloak-ing it in a filmable guise.

However, last year’s altera-tions suggest these methods are nearing their end. Most notably, season four glimpsed the Others in the Land of Always Winter. The brief scene took us farther north than Martin ever has. Though exciting, the sequence fizzled out. The show never returned to the Others or expanded on the storyline. It was as if the show just had to remind us that those supernatural things were still doing super-natural stuff way up there. Insertions to Martin’s canon have largely paid off – think Arya (Maisie Williams) and Tywin’s (Charles Dance) acquaintanceship in season two – but they’ll soon water-log the show. A point will come when they’re used so Martin has time to wrap up “Ice and Fire.” As a practitioner of liter-ary sacrilege, I read book one after viewing season one. Although I redeemed myself by reading the subsequent books before watching the corresponding seasons, this initial experience reassures me as “Game of Thrones’” endgame takes shape. Season one’s horrifying

twist revealed book one’s big-gest spoiler, but as I read Ned Stark’s last stand later on, it felt as fresh and shocking as if I’d never seen Sean Bean whisper that chilling prayer on the steps of Baelor’s Sept. Reading it after viewing it stole none of Martin’s magic. Furthermore, the intrica-cies of Martin’s narratives delve further into Westeros than the program ever could. So even if Benioff and Weiss match Martin’s conclusion, the final novel will offer a fresh, more complex ending. Chances are some charac-ters within both “The Winds of Winter” and “A Dream of Spring” won’t appear in the show, while several subplots won’t make the cut. As with the first five novels, the final two will maintain a unique feel from the show. As far as sustenance goes, television has a dearth where bookshelves have a surplus. “Game of Thrones” can’t and shouldn’t stay on the air for a decade plus, while Martin can and should take years to perfect his opus’s denoue-ment. Programs often lose their appeal after five or so seasons. Books can keep readers engaged for decades.

No better proof exists than none other than “A Song of Ice and Fire,” first published in 1996 and never more popu-lar than now. All of “Game of Thrones’” contemporaries hit peaks where it now stands. “Breaking Bad” finished in a blaze of fifth season glory, “Mad Men” hit its pinnacle around its fourth and fifth years and “Dexter” collapsed after a brilliant fourth sea-son. Even “The Wire,” wide-ly considered the greatest television show ever pro-duced, peaked critically in season four, its penultimate outing. So the footrace has ended in spirit. I’ll admit, it was a tough pill to swallow, but both the show and the novels will benefit from this deci-sion. The show can end on top, and Martin gains take ample time to perfect “A Song of Ice and Fire’s” con-clusion. Moreover, whether you watch it before you read, or play the scholar and read it first, Westeros never fails to enthrall.

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

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“Game of Thrones,” starring Emilia Clarke, will likely conclude before its inspiration, “A Song of Ice and Fire.”

Wachowskis’ legacy still ‘Ascending’By John Anderson

Newsday

According to the 2000 census, there are approxi-mately 760,000 Andersons in the United States. And it’s fairly safe to say that a con-siderable percentage of the male members of that not-so-exclusive club have, at one time or another, been greeted with “Misssssteraaanderson ...” It happens at the doctor’s office and the DMV, while having your tires rotated or your teeth cleaned. You get it from people you never imag-ined went to the movies at all, much less to messianic sci-fi extravaganzas. It makes you wonder: How many people have seen “The Matrix”? Lots. The 1999 effects-heavy adventure, the sec-ond feature directed by the Wachowski brothers (later the Wachowski siblings, after Lana’s née Larry sexual reas-signment surgery), is among the most financially success-ful, honored and revered films in the sci-fi canon. It spawned two sequels, “The Matrix Reloaded” and “Matrix Revolutions” (both 2003). It’s impossible to tell how many have seen it on DVD, on-demand or on pirated downloads. But the

Matrix-ites are legion. The Wachowskis’ latest, “Jupiter Ascending,” opens Friday and will mark the first time since the birth of the “Matrix” franchise that the sibs have directed a film from their own original screenplay. Whether they’ve concocted anything really original remains to be seen. However: The frequency by which one gets the elon-gated “Mister Anderson” from perfect strangers (the line was first uttered by Hugo Weaving’s Agent Smith in addressing Thomas Anderson/Neo, played by Keanu Reeves) indicates, albeit unscientifically, just how widespread their influ-ence has been among view-ers. On the screen, that influ-ence is more quantifiable, and has been largely stylis-tic, technological and cyber-punkish. The so-called “bul-let-time” technique, in which a character’s heightened sense of perception is illus-trated by having everything around that character move in slo-verging-on-frozen motion, was a signature of “The Matrix,” and has since become ubiquitous. The sources from which “The Matrix” derives exalted the whole genre, to an almost

ridiculous level. Its sources, critics have noted, range from novelist William Gibson’s “Necromancer” to Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” to the New Testament (Neo’s status as the prophesied “chosen One” always seemed a pretty obvious tipoff). Conversely, perhaps, the Wachowskis’ appeal has involved a low-to-the-ground fanboy sensibility. The film-makers are usually pretty much in love with the pro-cess as much as the plotline, and don’t seem averse to the cult factor that has grown around “The Matrix,” even though it’s led to some unsa-vory associations. (By 2003, three accused killers had mounted a so-called “Matrix defense,” including Lee Boyd Malvo, one of the D.C. snip-ers.) It also has led to such dubi-ous Wachowski efforts as the Razzie-nominated, live-action “Speed Racer,” and the grandiose and largely unintelligible “Cloud Atlas” adaptation of 2012 (from David Mitchell’s novel), codirected with the German filmmaker Tom (“Run Lola Run”) Tykwer. At the time of “Cloud Atlas,” Andy Wachowski tried to explain to Newsday the filmmakers’ approach to an unwieldy

novel that they were trying to replicate the experience of having read the book, rather than reading it. “You read a book, you go to bed, you think about it, you sleep on it,” he said. “It impresses itself on your sub-conscious. While this is hap-pening, your brain is finding connections in the book of the sort David Mitchell has ingeniously laid out between narratives.” But when you’ve created something like the “Matrix” trilogy with its half-billion in grosses, you get more than one second chance, even though the online troll-ing began some time ago in anticipation of their new movie. “Did the Wachowskis peak with ‘The Matrix?”” one site asks, not untypically. “Jupiter Ascending,” which stars Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis and Eddie Redmayne, will be “a science-fiction space opera,” Lana Wachowski told the Associated Press. “It has a lot of things from a lot of genres that we love. It’s got a lot of original action. It’s got a lot of romance.” Whether the romance con-tinues with the Wachowskis among their fans, and their studio will depend on how high “Jupiter” ascends.

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