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Amherst’s newest breakfast establishment, Bread & Butter, features a vegan and gluten-free menu and recently opened last week.

Grant awarded to UMass professor of engineering

By Stuart FoSterCollegian Staff

Neil Forbes, a profes-sor of chemical engineer-ing at the University of Massachusetts, has been awarded a five-year, $1.56 million grant from the National Institute of Health to research and develop strains of the salmonella bacteria that can target and kill cancer cells in tumors. “It could lead to a way to treat cancer, specifically breast cancer,” said Forbes, who has been working with salmonella since 2001. These salmonella work by invading cancer cells through the cell membrane, according to Forbes. Once the salmonella have detect-ed they have entered cancer cells, it opens up, releasing its contents inside of the cancerous cells. The contents of the sal-

monella vary between two options. One of the possi-bilities to be contained in the salmonella is peptides, which seek to interrupt the activities between two intra-cellular proteins, the enzyme protein phospha-tase 1 and the regulator NIPP1. “When you interrupt that interaction, it typically leads to cell death,” Forbes said. The salmonella could also carry a genetic mate-rial which, once inside the cancer cell, converts into short hairpin RNA. shRNA then attempts to silence two regulatory genes, NIPP1 and EZH2. Forbes hypothesized this could revert cancer cells to a state in which they would be unable to metastasize, or spread throughout the body. While salmonella is typi-cally toxic in humans, the

New findings in cancer research

House GOP gives up the fight on Homeland Security

By LiSa MaScaroTribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Congress ended the lat-est crisis over funding the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday after Speaker John A. Boehner switched course, abandoning the GOP’s strategy of try-ing to tack on restrictions to President Barack Obama’s immigration plan. Conservatives were out-raged that the embattled speaker declined to continue their fight against the immi-gration actions that many Republicans view as an over-reach of executive authority. They staged a series of pro-cedural votes to prevent final approval. But the bill’s final passage allows GOP lead-ership to move away from a prolonged standoff that threatened the party’s image as Homeland Security funds were set to expire at the end of the week. The vote was 257-167 after Boehner was forced to leave his conservative flank behind and reach across the aisle for support from Democrats led

by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi – something Boehner has been reluctant but repeat-edly forced to do on major legislation. “I am as outraged and frustrated as you at the law-less and unconstitutional actions of this president,” Boehner told his majority, as he announced his decision early Tuesday at a private meeting, according to a per-son in the room not autho-rized to discuss the session on the record. But facing another mid-night Friday deadline to fund the department or risk a shut-down, giving in was the best course of action, he said. “I believe this decision – considering where we are - is the right one for this team, and the right one for this country,” Boehner said. Just 75 Republicans voted to approve the measure; no Democrats opposed it. Obama was expected to swiftly sign the bill into law. The Senate, under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., approved the measure last week in a bipartisan

vote, leaving Boehner few options. The bill will fund the big Homeland Security Department, which oversees the nation’s vast domestic security and anti-terrorism apparatus, through Sept. 30. The sudden change of course arrived none too soon for Republican leaders who endured criticism for failing to control their majority now that the party has control of Congress for the first time in eight years. The strategy of using the funding bill to force Obama to back down on his immi-gration plan has consumed the first two months of the new Congress, escalating the party’s tough rhetoric against Latinos and other minority groups the party is trying to court in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. That approach failed in the Senate, where Democrats blocked repeated attempts by McConnell to advance the leg-islation with restrictions on Obama’s plan to protect from deportation up to 5 million

By iSaac BurkeCollegian Correspondent

The latest addition to the restaurant scene in Amherst, Bread & Butter, opened its doors last week to bring local-ly sourced breakfast to a flock of hungry customers. Bread & Butter has been both a “passion and a dream” for owner Brian Knox and his wife Jaime. “I’ve been doing breakfast for the last 10 years, and I love it,” Knox said. “There’s some-thing nice about being able to cook someone’s first meal of the day, especially if you can

make it nicer than normal.” Knox moved to Amherst in 2001, and has had a career working for local restaurants such as Amber Waves, The Black Sheep and for three years, had a stint as the head chef at the University of Massachusetts sorority Sigma Delta Tau. Most recently, he was the sous chef at The Lone Wolf, before he decided he wanted to start his own res-taurant. “I think it was really once my wife and I realized we were having a baby, that we realized it was time to take that plunge and go into business for our-

selves,” Knox said. “Controlling our own des-tiny,” he believes, was what motivated him to go out on his own. Construction for Bread & Butter began over two years ago and has involved a num-ber of people including con-tractors, local metal sculptor Kamil Peters, a childhood friend of Jaime Knox and a major contributor to the design of the restaurant’s interior. Though the projected opening date for the restau-rant was in November, there were some delays. According to Knox, it was

built to look like a barn that used to house the Amherst Trolley, and is uniquely deco-rated with polished cement surfaces for both the bar and the tables. Knox said over 8,000 pounds of concrete went into the dining room surfaces alone. Knox added that the chairs came from an Easthampton elementary school, while the wood for the benches and booths came from the Albion Paper Mill in Holyoke. One long bench against the win-dow was originally a support

‘PASSION AND A DREAM’

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Opinion: ‘Blarney’ guest policy is too harsh and was announced

too late. -Charlotte Hoff

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Forbes has recieved a $1.56 million grant from the National Institute of Health.

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‘40 Years, 40 Artists’ in final week of its exhibit

By racheL raveLLiCollegian Correspondent

The University Museum of Contemporary Art, locat-ed in the basement of the Fine Arts Center, is mark-ing the final week of its six-week exhibition, “40 Years, 40 Artists,” which celebrates the 40th anniversary of the museum on campus. Created in 1975, the museum strives to bring contemporary international art onto the University of Massachusetts campus. And with this year marking an important anniversary, it is calling for the recognition of former artists affiliated with the University. The museum has received 46 donations – six more than it had aimed for – from world-renowned artists who have participated in both exhibitions and education programs at UMass. Many of these artists trained in the museum itself.

UMCA hopes this collection will open dialogue about ideas which challenge con-temporary society. Famous for his politically provocative pop art, Andy Warhol is the exhibition’s only featured artist who was never directly affiliated with UMass. His paintings are a gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. In 2007, the foun-dation made a donation of

28,543 of Warhol’s photo-graphs to 183 colleges across the nation, 150 of which went to UMass. “Andy Warhol has been attracting much of the exhibit’s attention,” said Amanda Urquhart, a UMass art student. “These pieces are important yet relatively unknown.” Each of the exhibit’s art-

World-renowned artists featured


The museum was created in 1975 to bring contemporary international art to the UMass campus.

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Local eatery puts new spin on breakfast

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T H E R U N D OW N

ON THIS DAY...In 1789, the first Congress of the United States met in New York City to put the United States Constitution into effect. The United States Bill of Rights was written and proposed to Congress.

Student trustee debate postponed

Due to inclement weather, the student trustee debate, originally scheduled for last night, has been post-poned. A new date and time had not yet been announced at press time.

immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. “Unfortunately, the fight was never won in the other chamber,” Boehner said. “Democrats stayed united and blocked our bill, and our Republican colleagues in the Senate never found a way to win this fight.” Boehner tried to persuade his rank-and-file to turn their attention to the court fight over Obama’s plan, which was temporarily halted this month by a Texas judge. The administration is fighting the

judge’s order. “The good news is that the president’s executive action has been stopped, for now,” Boehner told Republicans in the closed session. “This mat-ter will continue to be liti-gated in the courts, where we have our best chance of win-ning this fight.” But that offered no salve to the GOP’s conservative flank, which has been dissat-isfied with Boehner’s tenure as speaker. They staged a series of procedural maneu-vers, including forcing a par-

tial reading of the bill, as a floor fight broke out between Republicans. Some have grumbled that another leader may be better - though they have been unable to coalesce around an alternative choice. “We need to stand up, use the power of the purse,” said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who led the floor challenge. “It’s disappointing,” said Rep. Luke Messer, R-Ind. “I hoped we’d be able to con-tinue the fight.” “We just have to keep fight-ing on all levels to prevent

illegal executive amnesty,” added Republican Rep. John Fleming of Louisiana. A funding cutoff would have furloughed some Homeland Security employ-ees but forced most others to work without pay. The department oversees the Border Patrol, airport screen-ings and other crucial securi-ty programs, and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson had pleaded with Congress to provide stable funding. More pragmatic

Republicans appeared relieved that the potentially damaging episode was over, for now, as they party tries to return to its agenda. “Having a clean DHS bill will allow us move forward on not only this issue but other issues here in the future,” said Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif. “My thought has always been that we do not think what the president has done is constitutional, but that is something we should address in an immigration bill.”

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Boston Marathon jury chosen, trial to begin

By RichaRd SeRRanoTribune Washington Bureau

BOSTON — Ten women and eight men, all of them Boston-area residents, were selected Tuesday afternoon as jurors and alternates to hear the case of Boston Marathon bomb-ing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – the trial at last getting underway after two months of jury selec-tion and repeated attempts to move the case out of Boston. The panel members, almost all of them mid-dle-aged, are to report Wednesday morning to the federal courthouse on Boston Harbor, not far from the finish line of the April 2013 bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others. It remained

unclear who are jurors and who are alternates; that distinction will not be announced until the end of the trial. A pool of 64 potential jurors was brought into Judge George A. O’Toole Jr.’s courtroom, fill-ing the benches as nine security officers, in suits and ties, positioned them-selves around the room. Tsarnaev, 21, in a brown sport coat, his hair shag-gy, his beard thin, rarely looked at them. One by one, the judge called the jurors’ numbers and asked them to take seats in the jury box. The judge then told them, “You have now been selected.” He ordered the 18 jurors to return in the morning to be sworn in, and to hear opening statements in the trial against Tsarnaev, a Russian immigrant. One of the jurors was described as being half-Iranian, while the others

were white. Some were unemployed; one works as a house painter. All said they would be willing to put Tsarnaev to death if they found him guilty in the capital case being tried in federal court. Massachusetts does not have a state death penalty, and polls in the state show a large number opposed to capital punishment. If they do find Tsarnaev guilty, the trial would go into a sentencing phase, and the panel could vote on whether to put him to death for the worst terror-ist attack in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001. As the jurors left the courtroom and the secu-rity officers cleared the area, Tsarnaev stood and continued to look down. He then was led away.

Alleged bomber may face death

ists demonstrate their own way of challenging cul-ture as they explore iden-tity among capitalism and industrialism. Some pieces advocate environmental-ism, such as Sheron Rupp’s “Innisfree Garden,” which uses nature, shape and pas-sage to consider transient human presence among greater landscapes. Other pieces, such as Jefferson Pinder’s “Invisible Man,” examine issues of race and class in America. Pinder, like other artists in this exhibit, links nota-ble literature to his own perspective by expanding interpretations of identity struggle. Such pieces are not only political state-ments like Warhol’s, but rather they explore mind, truth and identity through simple observations.

Some artists used local influences. Joel Sternfeld’s “East Meadows” photo-graphs depict nature clash-ing with human consump-tion in Northampton. “All of the artists were here for the opening,” Urquhart said. “So it was a unique opportunity for stu-dents to collaborate with helpful professionals.” Exhibitions by the UMCA are open to the pub-lic and are free of charge and “40 Years, 40 Artists” will run until March 8.

Rachel Ravelli can be reached at [email protected].

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“These pieces are important yet

relatively unknown.”Amanda Urquhart, UMass art student

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beam, lying at 22 feet. “That was a fun challenge getting it in here,” he said. In addition to these sal-vaged seats, the doors lead-ing into the kitchen came from the Greenfield District Courthouse. “I even got an email from a retired judge from Greenfield who said he was looking for-ward to coming in and see-ing these doors being repur-posed,” Knox said. However, the furnish-ings are not the only locally sourced things at Bread & Butter. Knox is a member of the Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, a South Deerfield non-profit organization that helps con-nect farmers to buyers. “We get a lot of stuff direct from local farms,” Knox said. “Handing cash directly to the farmer, to the guy who picked (the produce) is nice. It’s real-ly nice to meet the guy or the family who grew your food instead of it just showing up on a truck.” All that local produce is prepared in-house to make some of Bread & Butter’s most popular specials. Among them is their own pork belly, prepared with a maple syrup

and Sriracha, and their most popular dish, a duck confit hash that takes 10 hours of slow roasting to prepare. Bread & Butter also caters to vegan and gluten-free cus-tomers in Amherst. “We have a pancake that’s both vegan and gluten free,” Knox said. “Breakfast can so easily be gluten free. As long as you’re making it from scratch, you can pretty much make almost anything gluten free.” Also on the health-con-scious menu is a vegan omelet and a tofu scramble. Knox said the response to the restaurant’s launch has already been “ridiculously busy,” and the owners also expect to be getting a liquor license soon to boost their Friday night menu. “It’s been more than we ever imagined,” he said. “We look forward to being able to really offer Amherst every-thing we have.” Bread & Butter is open every day from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., and reopens on Friday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Isaac Burke can be reached at [email protected].

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Ann and Peter Zimmerman live down there road in Leverett and were excited to check out the “buzz” about the new restaurant.

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Since opening a week ago, Bread & Butter has experienced busy days, according to the owner.

strain being used to kill these cancer cells has been shown to be safe through animals and humans, and, unlike normal salmonella, targets cells in tumors. “We do it by manipulat-ing their genetics,” Forbes said. Forbes said salmonel-la is being used in these experiments because the bacteria can be manipu-lated, and can be bio-engi-neered with relative ease. The study of salmonella’s potential to prevent disease is a new field, with the ear-liest papers on the subject having only been published in 1997. While salmonella has already been shown to be able to place the neces-sary peptides and genetic material into cancer cells, the NIH grant will cover researching and developing salmonella that can enter tumors. “The grant is for experi-ments to show salmonella will silence target genes in tumors and that peptides will eliminate metastasis,” Forbes said. The NIH is one of the pre-mier sources for biomedi-

cal funding. But achieving funding from the NIH is an extremely competitive pro-cess. Funding right now is very tight, and it is difficult for most applicants to suc-cessfully achieve it. “I’m very proud of hav-ing succeeded in a competi-tive funding environment,” Forbes said. The $1.56 million grant will cover research over the next five years, and will mainly be used to pay students and researchers working on these experi-ments during the next half decade. There are still many obstacles which stand between the current sal-monella cells and an effec-tive cancer treatment, but Forbes believes the bacte-ria could be very helpful in preventing the spread of cancer throughout the body. “It could be very helpful for women who have breast cancer and fear its recur-rence,” he said.

Stuart Foster can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @Stuart_C_Foster.

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Obamas are pushing to help educate all girls

By ElliE SilvErmanMcClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama announced Tuesday that the administration will expand a program to help adolescent girls across the world receive an education. The Let Girls Learn initia-tive will build on a U.S. Agency for International Development campaign launched last year to provide an education to the more than 60 million girls not in school. Existing govern-ment programs address top-ics such as education, leader-ship, nutrition and protection against gender-based violence and forced marriages. “I want to make sure that no girl out there is denied her chance to be a strong, capable woman with the resources that she needs to succeed - that no girl is prevented from making her unique contributions to the world,” President Obama said. “Every child is precious. Every girl is precious. Every girl deserves an education.” The president and first lady said this issue is personal to them because they are the par-ents of two daughters. “I see myself in these girls. I see our daughters in these girls,” Michelle Obama said. “And like all of you, I just can’t walk away from them. Like you, I can’t just sit back

and accept the barriers that keep them from realizing their promise.” The Peace Corps will look for ways to overcome barri-ers that prevent girls from completing their educations, including the cost of a uniform, school fees or a lack of text-books, Peace Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet told reporters Monday night. The organization’s near-ly 7,000 volunteers in more than 60 developing countries already work with communi-ties through grass-roots train-ing, Hessler-Radelet said. “Peace Corps volunteers are in a unique position to break down barriers to girls’ education at the community level,” Hessler-Radelet said. “They speak the local lan-guage, they understand the local culture.” The program will start with 11 countries the first year: Albania, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Georgia, Ghana, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Togo and Uganda. More countries will

be included the following year, according to the White House. As part of the new initia-tive, Michelle Obama will trav-el to Japan and Cambodia later this month. She said she will meet with Akie Abe, the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Japan. In Cambodia, she said she will meet with Peace Corps volunteers and visit a local school. President Obama’s budget recommends $250 million in new and reallocated money for girls programs worldwide, including education, said Tina Tchen, the first lady’s chief of staff. USAID already invests $1 billion annually in inter-national education, and the organization has helped train more than 300,000 teachers worldwide and provide more than 35 million textbooks and teaching material in a single year, said Susan Markham, USAID’s senior coordina-tor for gender equality and women’s empowerment.

“I see myself in these girls. I see our daughters in these girls. And like all of you, I just can’t walk away from them. Like you, I can’t just sit back and accept the barriers

that keep them from realizing their promise.”Michelle Obama, First Lady

West Virginia gov. vetoes bill banning abortion at 20 weeks

By maria l. la GanGaLos Angeles Times

West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin vetoed legis-lation Tuesday that would ban abortions at 20 weeks’ pregnancy, noting that the law would not pass consti-tutional muster. It was the second time in two years that the Democrat vetoed bills that would make it more dif-ficult for women to access abortion services. “As reflected in my voting record during my time in the Legislature, I believe there is no greater gift of love than the gift of life,” Tomblin said in a written statement. “As governor, I must take into consideration a number of factors when reviewing legislation, including its constitutionality. “At the start of the regular session, I urged members of the legisla-ture to consider a compro-mise that would help us establish legislation that would pass constitutional muster,” he continued. “Having received a sub-stantially similar bill to the one vetoed last year on constitutional grounds, I must veto House Bill 2568.” The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act provides no excep-tions for rape or incest

and threatens to strip medical licenses from pro-viders who perform abor-tions after 20 weeks. It is based on the premise that fetuses feel pain 20 weeks after conception, which is in dispute. Federal judges have stopped similar pre-via-bility abortion bans in Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Arkansas and North Dakota. On Tuesday, abor-tion rights groups hailed Tomblin’s action and derided the bill as cruel and unconstitutional. “The governor has rec-ognized that politicians aren’t medical experts, and they shouldn’t be inter-fering in the decision a woman has made with her doctor and family,” said Jennifer Dalven, director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. “Even if we disagree about abor-tion, we can agree that it’s better that each woman can make her own decision with those she trusts.” Legislators need only a simple majority to over-ride Tomblin’s veto. “These cruel and dan-gerous measures are part of a broader effort to com-pletely ban safe and legal abortion, and they are deeply unpopular with the majority of Americans,” said Cecile Richards,

president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “We’ll contin-ue to fight these attacks on behalf of the patients who rely on us, no matter what.” According to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights, states have enacted 231 laws restricting abor-tions in the last four years alone, a steep jump since the 2010 midterm elec-tions. Just 26 were enact-ed in 2014, a Guttmacher report said in January, down from 70 in 2013. “Nonetheless, the mid-term election results pro-vide good reason to be con-cerned about a renewed focus on restricting abor-tion in the upcoming 2015 legislative sessions,” the Guttmacher analysis said. “Republicans will now control both legisla-tive chambers in 30 states, three more than in 2014.” In Boise, Idaho, a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing abor-tion-inducing medica-tion through telemedi-cine passed in the Idaho House on a party-line vote, according to The Associated Press. House lawmakers voted 55-14 on Monday.

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My boyfriend and I met in high school, and this weekend will mark our three-year anniversary. He

goes to school in Florida, and bought plane and bus tickets at the beginning of January to come visit me. It was perfect timing because his spring break starts Friday. Then, about two weeks ago, I received an e-mail from the University of Massachusetts forbidding guests this upcoming week-end who aren’t UMass stu-dents. I expected a change in the guest policy similar to ones from previous events, where we could only have

two non-UMass guests, but a policy this strict shocked me. I talked to my residence director last Tuesday and explained my situation. I told her he would be arriv-ing Friday afternoon, March 6, and asked if there was any way that an excep-tion could be made given my situation and the short notice that was provided. She put in a request to make an exception to the modified guest policy. However, three days later, I received an email that said that despite my argument, no exceptions to the guest policy were going to be made. Even better, the University’s alternate solu-tion for me was to have my boyfriend get a hotel room in the university hotel, which costs about $150 a night, making it seem as though the result of the decision was primarily to make more money. Unless the University would like to reimburse my boyfriend for the expenses of the trip, such a response is unacceptable, consider-ing how long it waited to announce the new guest policy. The University should not punish someone who has clearly advocated for herself, and shown based on the sincerity and legiti-macy of her request – not to mention a strong academic record – no desire to partic-ipate in the festivities this weekend. There must be a

way that an exception could have been made based on the circumstances. I have talked to a num-ber of people about my dilemma and many of them have agreed that my feel-ings are warranted. When I told people about the argu-ment I made, they were surprised that no exception was made. Others have spoken of facing similar dilemmas, proving that this weekend is not all about “Blarney Blowout” – many students had prior plans. I highly doubt that the decision of such a large guest policy change two weeks before the “biggest party of the school year” was such a last minute decision. Students have a voice at this

school, and the University shouldn’t impose new poli-cies on us without adequate warning. Let me make this clear, I’m all for following the rules and don’t often make requests to be an exception to the rules. However, my boyfriend spent close to $500 on tickets to get here, all of which is non-refund-able at this point. He made the travel plans because this is the only time of the entire year that he can visit and I had said he would be able to stay here at UMass in my dorm. I am a fresh-man, so my only knowledge of “Blarney Blowout” is all hearsay, and it was almost impossible for me to know that this change in the guest policy was coming. I understand the neces-sity for tighter restrictions, but what was wrong with a less strict modification to the guest policy, such as only being able to have two non-UMass guests? And why should everyone, including some like myself who hadn’t even been accepted to UMass at this time last year, suffer for the actions of a small group of people? These restrictions will not prevent UMass stu-dents from indulging in “Blarney.” So why imple-ment such a harsh policy that will affect those who have no desire to partici-pate in Saturday’s revelry?

Charlotte Hoff is a Collegian contributor and can be reached at [email protected].

“Students have a voice at this school, and the University shouldn’t impose new

policies on us without adequate warning.”

Charlotte Hoff

‘Blarney’ guest policy harsh and announced late

“While these occurrences are only thematically linked, they nonetheless signal a

period of monumental transition and change intechnology and its relationship with society.”

Johnny McCabe

To say that the past week was a momentous one in technology would be a catastrophic under-

statement. In the imme-diate wake of Lenovo’s disastrous Superfish security leak, which put millions of American consumers at risk of malicious activity, the Federal Communications Commission took a land-mark vote last Thursday morning on approving net neutrality, a policy based upon reclassifying wireless internet as a public util-ity rather than a product, placing it in the same cat-egory as water and elec-tricity. Shortly thereafter, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona featured both Samsung and HTC, each of which revealed their respective flagship devices for the next generation of smartphones: the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, and the HTC One M9, respectively. While these occurrences are only thematically linked, they

nonetheless signal a period of monumental transition and change in technology and its relationship with society. Ironically, the net neu-trality decision and the smartphone announce-ments have something else in common – neither one was a surprise. Rumors leading up to the vote left little doubt about which way the FCC’s metaphori-cal wind would blow, while leaks are as anticipated in

the consumer tech indus-try as they are on a sub-marine with a screen door. Pundits and politicians alike have been react-ing to the FCC’s drastic pro-consumer decision for weeks, while big telecoms like Comcast and Verizon are already warming up their lobbying engines to fight the regulation that would prevent them from

throttling data and grant-ing tiered-payment access to content all across the internet. The legal battles ahead will unquestion-ably be long, drawn out and arduous, but they set a powerful precedent for the way in which consumers think the internet should function in society. Samsung and HTC, in a completely different con-text, represent much the same progress toward the well-being of their con-

sumers. With the GS6, Samsung has finally aban-doned their commitment to awful, slimy feeling plastic. The phone’s 5.1 inch Super AMOLED display, protect-ed by Gorilla Glass 4 on the front and back as well as a real metal frame around the sides represents an attention to build qual-ity that is unsurprisingly inspired by competitors

like Apple. Meanwhile, the HTC One M9 seems by all accounts to be simply an improved iteration on last year’s M8, keeping the all-aluminum unibody design and gorgeous panel while doubling down on a beefy set of up-scaled internals and a brand new rear-fac-ing camera. Neither of these manu-facturers has created the phone to end all phones – there is still plenty of room for improvement on many different fronts. Nor is the FCC’s Title II regula-tion perfect – the road to a free and open internet is beset by greed and cor-porate interests all along the way. While smartphone development can hardly compare to national policy, the two are both part of a larger, inevitably positive trend toward consumers, and toward the incredible potential of technology and the internet to inte-grate into society.

Johnny McCabe is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at [email protected].

Smartphone surge follows historic net neutrality decision

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It’s time to start thinking about spring break travel, and this year there is good news and bad news, accord-ing to Hopper.com. The good news is overall prices for spring break flights are down about 8 percent compared to 2014, but you will pay up to 40 percent more for flights to the most popular destina-tions. Here are a few tips to help you save: You can save some money by traveling to destinations like Miami, Puerto Vallarta, Cabo, Hilo (Hawaii) and Montego Bay, which saw the biggest price drops from last year. Acapulco, Daytona Beach, Bermuda, Pensacola and San Juan are all more expensive this year. Flying on a Tuesday will save you five percent, accord-ing to Hopper data, while a Friday or Saturday depar-ture will cost 18 and 19 per-cent more, respectively. The best dates to travel are this week or April 20. The more expensive weeks are the week of March 23 and March 30. If you are traveling during the more expensive weeks, a trip to a city in Florida or Myrtle Beach would be your most affordable option. For travel outside the U.S., consider San Juan, Cabo or Montego Bay. Try to book at least two weeks in advance and as always, monitor prices for fluctuations to make sure you are getting the best deal. Hotel deals are heating up as well. Here are just a few to consider when you are making your travel arrange-ments: Best Western: Now through March 15, Best Western Rewards members who stay two separate times can choose a gift card for travel or shopping. Choose gift cards from Amazon, Best Buy, iTunes, Dunkin Donuts and more, in addition to sav-ing up to 20 percent at partici-pating Best Western hotels when you book the best value rate at bestwestern.com. Register for Best Western Rewards and the free pro-

motion at bestwestern.com/spring. Red Roof Inn: Use the promo code 618909 when booking a room at the reno-vated Red Roof Inn hotels to get up to 20 percent off with their Snowbirds promotion. For millennial travelers: Millennials represent 20 per-cent of international travel-ers and big hotel brands have responded with accommo-dations that appeal to this group including new entrants such as Moxy (Marriott), Tommie (Commune Hotels) and Radisson Red, as well as more locations of exist-ing millennial friendly hotels such Aloft (Starwood), Andaz (Hyatt), CitizenM and Hotel Indigo (InterContinental Hotels). Millennials visiting New York have discovered the affordability of Pod Hotels, which offers high-tech ameni-ties, public spaces and more for a low price point. Pod 39 is on East 39th Street and Pod 51 is on East 51st Street. Each offer fun communal spaces and access to walking tours and dining options. Loews Hotels & Resorts: A new partnership between the hotel brand and the chil-dren’s network, Sprout, offers families a fund deal. Guests traveling with children five and under will enjoy perks including: custom Sprout themed activity books upon arrival; Sprout placemats to color and play on at all three-meal restaurants and the chance to try out the new Sprout Channel Cubby Tablet preloaded with full Sprout show episodes, music videos and recommended apps. You can also reserve a Sprout Dream Stay Welcome Package, which includes a custom Sprout backpack, toothbrush, water bottle, activity book and mini Chica Plush toy. Sprout-branded wristbands will allow kids to eat for free at hotel restau-rants. You can reserve it now through October 2015 by call-ing 1-800-23-LOEWS or vis-iting www.loewshotels.com. The package is not available at Loews Hotel Vogue, Loews Regency Hotel, Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando or Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort.

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By richard NguyeN Collegian Correspondent

Fashion is a swinging pendulum, and what was in style “back in the day” can come back in style any time. That was the unofficial theme of Milan Fashion Week, which took a ret-rospective approach to fashion as designers ref-erenced the past for their fall/winter 2015 collec-tions and runway looks. The show concluded on March 2, having lasted for a week. Jeremy Scott, creative director of Moschino, was influenced by 1990s urban style for his 2015 collec-tion. Puffer jackets and outerwear “re-twisted in a new way,” were some of the themes that came up when he spoke to Style.com. From neon puffer jackets, to Looney Tunes embroidered knit mini-dresses, Scott embraced the urban vibe of New York City. His cheeky fin-ish to the collection fea-tured evening gowns that were made to look like someone spray painted all over them. Versace is a brand that epitomizes Italian fash-ion and for this upcom-ing season, Donatella Versace did not disap-point. The collection only used the five colors: Red, yellow, green, blue and black and Donatella paid homage to the old Versace, back when her brother Gianni Versace was the creative director of Versace from the 1980s to the late 1990s. One of the jackets in the fall/winter 2015 col-lection was reminiscent of Gianni’s 1992 collec-tion titled “Miss S&M.” Donatella wasn’t trying to copy what her late broth-er had done. Rather, she wanted to infuse the old with the new. She managed to incorporate hashtags, emojis and other digital

symbolism in a tasteful way by placing the bead-ed Versace logos over the finale looks. From a sexy blast to the past of Versace, comes Dolce & Gabbana for the future – mother-hood. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana had three models that were moth-ers walk the runway with their children. Not many designers do that. Also,

Dolce & Gabbana favorite, Bianca Balti, walked the runway while very preg-nant. The collection itself was very feminine, with sleek cuts and lace galore. There was also a reoccur-ring theme of embroidery throughout the collection. Domenico’s nieces creat-ed drawings, and he used those drawings as embroi-dery on some of the dress-es and skirts in the collec-tion. The rose was also a common motif throughout the collection, as Stefano’s mother’s rose scented per-fume was the influence, as

reported by Style.com. Dean and Dan Caten of DSquared2 also drew from their past collections this season. The two brothers have a knack for dramatic presentation on the run-way that was noticeably toned down in their pre-sentation. Past designs include an abandoned island with a waterfall, mud on the runway and a winter paradise. This sea-

son only featured a simple staircase, a pink runway and a spotlight that led the models down the runway. According to Yahoo.com, the twins were also influenced by their Canadian heritage for their collection. The col-lection had a tribal glam-our feel to it, and with a mishmash of styles in the collection, what could have been a visual nightmare managed to work. Military embroidered jackets lined with fur gave it that earthy edge, while the blinged-out jewelry and opera gloves gave the clothes a “rich

kid goes camping” vibe. In addition, models wore geo-metric bodysuits under-neath their clothes, so that when skin was exposed it was made to look like they were tattooed. The short-lived Creative Director for Emilio Pucci, Peter Dundas, showed he can learn from the past as well. Dundas’ final collec-tion for Pucci was some of his greatest hits with the brand, while both still keeping the Pucci print motif and also add-ing something new. The ombré-dyed mini body-con dresses, that were previ-ously in his fall 2010 col-lection, made a reappear-ance, expect this time Dundas rendered different astrological signs on the clothing that matched with the model. He also brought a sexy rock-and-roll edge to colorful iconic Pucci prints. When a new designer takes over a well-known brand as the creative director, they hope to make a lasting impact, and it seems the next creative director at Pucci has a large past to live up to.

Richard Nguyen can be reached at [email protected].

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Passersby, sporting “street style” looks, make their way to Milan Fashion Week.

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AndrewCyr

Celtics have no choice but to

make playoff push

I’ll be the first to admit I was the train conduc-tor when it came to the

locomotive that was tanka-palooza for the Boston Celtics in the 2013-14 sea-son. The idea of having one of our beloved Boston

sports teams “tank” for a better draft p o s i t i o n was excit-ing to me. But rooting for losses? What kind of sports fan roots for that?

The Patriots won their first Super Bowl when I was in the first grade and I grew up in the decade of Boston sports dominance. Four Super Bowls for the Patriots, three World Series trophies, a NBA final win and a Stanley Cup all during that span is stuff that only the people of Philadelphia and Cleveland can envision in their wildest dreams. This area is pretty spoiled. Not to mention all of those runs were phenom-enal events and probably took more years off my life than I’d like to admit, but that’s a story for a different day. Back to the Celtics. No matter how much fun I’m having watching the 5-foot-9 Isaiah Thomas run around like a madman averaging 21.8 points per game over his first five in green, the Celtics are in the worst possible place they could possibly be in – the wasteland between “legit contenders” and “not bad enough to get a good pick.” Remember that waste-land where the billboard was in the “Great Gatsby?” That’s where the Celtics are. I never thought my 11th grade English curriculum would ever come back to help me in life, but I guess I stand corrected. By the way, Thomas’ 109 points through five games, is second most all time behind the 113 both Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett scored over their first games with the Celtics. Hat-tip to radio play-by-play announcer Sean Grande for that stat. He truly is one of the best stat-tweeters there is. Boston’s only two games back from the eighth play-off spot and only 2.5 games behind the Miami Heat who currently hold the seventh

seed in the Eastern confer-ence. However, along with the Celtics and Heat, the Nets, Pistons, Pacers and Hornets all have legiti-mate shots to make a push toward the playoffs. The West playoffs are going to be unreal this year – I truly believe the top eight seeds can beat any other team on any given night. If the West playoffs are considered the NCAA tournament, call the race for the East seven and eight seeds the NIT. What makes this fasci-nating is that the Celtics are doing this without a house-hold name on the roster. Jae Crowder, Evan Turner and Brandon Bass play-ing significant roles? Not to knock them, but those are the kind of players you want coming off your bench if you’re a legit contender. Also in a column coming soon – why Avery Bradley would be the best sixth man in the NBA. The Celtics are almost getting too much out of Brad Stevens. He’s surviv-ing – and in some cases, thriving – with the reject toys in a world dominated by electronics and video games. He get’s the most out of these B or C-level players possible. And it’s proven to be effective. That being said, the joy of tanking is all over. They’re too good to fall to the lottery again. They have no choice but to make it exciting for fans and make a run to the playoffs. Might as well try to milk every last drop of this possible. The NBA is by far the worst league for developing late round picks. Yes, the NBA only has two rounds, however it’s fairly uncom-mon you see success sto-ries of second round picks becoming stars. The NBA is a league where if you don’t score big in the top-five picks in the draft, you’re straight out of luck. The NBA is a star-driv-en league and outside of the few obvious gems at the tops of big boards, the chances of getting a fran-chise-player exponentially decrease. So Celtics, make it fun for us while you still can. I’m done with this losing crap – one year was more than enough for me. Isn’t it fun to be spoiled?

Andrew Cyr can be reached at [email protected], and followed on Twitter @Andrew_Cyr.

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gotten on balance and real-ly got going. We’re going to continue to take a look at that and try different ways to stop him as well as the team.” Richmond enters on a four-game winning streak which includes wins over Virginia Commonwealth University and George Washington. They play a match-up zone defensively and look to score offen-sively without upping the pace of the game. It’s a style which con-trasts with UMass’ ideal style of up-tempo play. “I’m trying to figure out what pace is the best, how fast to go and how to play,” Kellogg said. “It’s two sim-ilar but contrasting styles,

if that makes sense. We’re both looking to put points on the board but we’re try-ing to do it in different ways.” The Spiders are current-ly tied with the Minutemen within the conference after scuffling out of the gates. “They’re shooting the ball a little better, they’re making shots,” Kellogg said. “I do think it’s a lit-tle more free-flowing and the ball’s moving faster. I think the guys have become more comfortable in their defensive process. They’ve gotten a little bet-ter in a lot of different areas.” Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the Mullins Center. UMass will honor

seniors Maxie Esho and Cady Lalanne before the game on Senior Night, and both players will have fam-ily members in attendance

for the pregame ceremony.

Mark Chiarelli can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @Mark_Chiarelli.

was a key member off the bench, appearing in all 32 games and making his lone start in the second-round game against Tennessee. But when the two were both asked to reflect on their time at UMass, they each had a similar mes-sage – the journey went by in the blink of an eye. “Yeah it really is kind of weird,” Lalanne said when asked about how fast his career went by. “Me and Maxie actually talked after the game on Saturday and it just feels like we got here the other day. It feels kind of weird but it’s been a fun ride.” “It doesn’t seem like a long time because it went by so fast. I know I’ve been here for a while but I think when you are enjoying yourself a long time can go by like that,” Esho said. Both Esho and Lalanne’s friendship goes well beyond the basketball court. The two have been close over their five years together and both plan to keep in contact well after

their tenures are done at UMass. And while the two have been through the ups and the downs together, embarking on their jour-neys together is something the two pride their rela-tionship on. “It’s been really nice. Me and him came together and we are now leaving together. Some other guys game with us and we’ve

seen a lot of people leave,” Esho said. “You can say it’s been a journey we’ve been on together since we’ve been here and it’s been really nice. I don’t think I’d want to pick another player to do that with.” Esho and Lalanne’s families will be in atten-dance at Mullins Center for the first time in their careers. Esho’s family

is making the trip from Washington D.C., while Lalanne’s mother and sis-ters are making the trip up from Orlando, Florida. Esho currently sits at 991 career points and doing so on Senior Night is something that would make it a night to remem-ber – Lalanne also hit the 1,000-point club early this season on Feb. 4 against Fordham. However, Esho is still trying to remain focused on the task at hand. “That would be a really nice thing to do. I didn’t even know I was closing in on 1,000 points honestly,” he said. “I just want to win, so I mean getting the win would be even bigger than those nine points, but it would be really nice to get that 1,000th point.” Both players will be honored before the game. Tip-off from Mullins Center will be at 7:30 p.m. against Richmond.

Andrew Cyr can be reached at [email protected], and followed on

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Cady Lalanne (25) and Maxie Esho (1) will be honored prior to Wed. game.

so we’re going in tour-nament ready and we’re pretty psyched about it. No matter what the result is for UMass Wednesday, there is no denying the strides for-ward that this team has made. This season marks the first time since the 2009-10 season, and the first time in Dawley’s tenure, that the team has gone over 10 wins in a sea-son. “This team is very resilient and no matter what they stay positive,” Dawley said. “This team

does a good moving to the next game and has gotten so much better over the course of this season. All of these things make us so excited for this tourna-ment opportunity. Tip-off is at 4:30pm at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia, with the winner facing No. 5 Richmond in the sec-ond round on Thursday.

Adam Aucoin can be reached at [email protected].

ATLANTIC 10 continued from page 8

Potential lockout coming to MLS

By Don RuizThe News Tribune

TUKWILA, Wash. — The Seattle Sounders have begun game-week preparations for a weekend in which there may be no games. While the Sounders trained Tuesday for their scheduled Major League Soccer opener Sunday against the New England Revolution, captain Brad Evans was in Washington, D.C., with other union rep-resentatives for collective bargaining with the league. If no new agreement is reached soon, there could be a lockout or strike before the planned start of the MLS season Friday, when the Chicago Fire visits the defending champion Los Angeles Galaxy. The players’ top issue is some form of free agen-cy, while the league hasn’t offered what is considered an acceptable version. Back in Tukwila, the Sounders admit that the topic is unavoidable. “I’m sure it’s on their minds,” coach Sigi Schmid said. “One thing that I’ve held back on as a coach is

I don’t want to go in there and say, ‘All right, here we go, let’s go,’ and then all of a sudden it’s not let’s go for a while. I want to wait until that all gets resolved. I think everybody will feel better from both sides.” Schmid, of course, is man-agement. But several of his players took similar stances Tuesday. “It’s in the back of every-one’s head, but the only thing that we can control at this point is how we prepare for Sunday,” veteran defender Zach Scott said. “We have no control over what happens in the boardroom. We have great leadership in there, and hopefully something gets done. For both sides, the best possible outcome is the games go on.” The Sounders will push forward with that assump-tion, as Schmid set this agen-da for the week ahead. “Dot all the I’s, cross all the T’s kind of thing,” he said. “Just make sure that we’re where we want to be defensively in terms of cover-ing and closing gaps. I think in preseason there’s been a couple of times we’ve taken what I would call soft goals that we didn’t need to take.And making sure that we’re sharp offensively, meeting with the guys so they under-

stand exactly what their role is and what our expectations are of them.” One thing the Sounders will not do until a new CBA is signed is make any ros-ter moves, because the new agreement is likely to address relevant issues such as the number of players on the first-team roster, and the relationship between the MLS teams and their USL affiliates. “We want to get a clear picture and then we’ll make some decisions,” Schmid said. “We’ll know how every-thing’s working between the Sounders and S2 and all of those things _ call ups and loans down and how all that

gets affected _ and then we’ll make some decisions.” The Sounders are sched-uled to return to training Wednesday, which also is the final day scheduled for talks between the union and the league. “We all are training hop-ing that everything is going to get figured out,” goalkeep-er Stefan Frei said. “Trust me: I know that no profes-sional athlete wants to go through double-days in pre-season and then get that des-sert _ that home opener _ taken away from them. So we’re all hoping things are going to get worked out and we can play in front of our fans.”

No new agreement reached on Tuesday

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The MLS season is currently scheduled to begin on March 7th.

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Demetrius Dyson (22) sits in a defensive stance in a 82-74 win against Fordham on Feb 28.

“It’s the light at the end of the tunnel. We played a lot of games that could have

ended our season, so it adds a level of excitement.”

Sharon Dawley,UMass Coach

see SENIORS on page 7

see ATLANTIC 10 on page 7see SPIDERS on page 7

“As long as we play better man-to-man defense, make them take tougher shots

and win the rebound war, I’m confident that we can win this game.”

Sharon Dawley,UMass coach

@MDC_SPORTS [email protected], March 4, 2015


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UMass vs Richmond MULLINS CENTER

WEDNESDAY 7:30 P.M.

Esho, Lalanne to play final game at Mullins Center

By Andrew CyrCollegian Staff

There are two players on the Massachusetts men’s basketball team’s roster which stand out above the rest in terms of ability to erupt a crowd and change the pace of a game with the blink of an eye. So it’s only fitting that the pair – Cady Lalanne and Maxie Esho – are play-ing in their final home game together Wednesday night against Richmond on Senior Night. The two came through the program together five years ago prior to the 2010-11 season and have both been key contributors in helping UMass make a name for itself again. Whether it was key plays each made during the team’s NCAA tournament run last season, or mak-ing ESPN Sportscenter’s Top 10 plays with emphat-ic dunks, both Esho and

Lalanne have made their share of contributions to the Minutemen over the last four years. “It sneaks up on you fast. It’s even surreal leading up to it. It came up on us kind of quick but they’ve meant a lot to our program and they’ve done some really great things here,” UMass coach Derek Kellogg said. “It’s been a long time. They’ve spent about 20 percent of their life here. Just watching those guys go from being skinny, ath-letic guys on the recruiting trail to growing into men is something special for a coach.” The pair have started every game this season for the Minutemen and Esho (11.6 points per game) and Lalanne (11.5) are the top leading scorers respec-tively. Lalanne was also a starter on last year’s tour-nament team while Esho

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Cady Lalanne became the 47th player in UMass history to score 1,000 points on Feb. 4, in a 78-72 win against Fordham.

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Maxie Esho currently leads the Minutemen with 11.6 points per game.

Minutemen, Richmond battle for No. 5 seed

By MArk ChiArelliCollegian Staff

Trey Davis said the Massachusetts men’s bas-ketball team’s coaching staff had an assignment for him. They needed Davis to be more of a defensive pres-ence, to assert himself on both ends of the floor. The guard worked on his defense all season and is slowly starting to see the results. Over his last three games, Davis is averaging 2.3 steals per game. He had four in an 82-71 loss to Saint Joseph’s last Wednesday and back-to-back steals Saturday against Fordham. And while Rams point guard Mandell Thomas had 29 points in the game, it was Davis’ two steals which jumpstarted the victory. “I’m just trying to be more aggressive on the defensive end,” Davis said. “(I’ll) do whatever to help the team.” Now, another diffi-cult defensive assign-ment awaits Davis and the Minutemen. UMass hosts Richmond Wednesday night in its final regular season home game of the season. The Spiders are led by diminu-tive point guard Kendall Anthony, who is averaging

16.4 points per game. “I’m just going to try to play smart,” said Davis on defending Anthony. “I’m taller so I’ll keep my hand (up) and keep my distance and put up a hand up on shots.” Luckily for Davis, who is a junior, guarding smaller scorers was once some-thing he had to do every day in practice. He was former UMass guard Chaz Williams’ understudy for his first two seasons in Amherst. “I think I know what I’m doing against smaller play-ers,” said Davis of guard-ing the 5-foot-8 Anthony. “He’s not as fast as Chaz (who was 5-foot-9) and I’m about the same height. Davis said that he saw on tape that Anthony pre-fers to shoot more pull-up jump shots than Williams,

and prefers to score off the dribble. UMass coach Derek Kellogg went one step fur-ther, saying Anthony’s adept at initiating contact in the paint. Kellogg also said Anthony looks to score within Richmond’s motion offense, but he’s also an unselfish player. While Davis will defend Anthony at certain junctures, Kellogg made it clear he’ll need multiple players to slow him down. “We’re going to mix it up quite a bit,” Kellogg said. “He’s the one guy I think you have to give different looks to. Maybe a longer, athletic guy and a smaller, quicker guy. Switch a little bit, try to keep him off bal-ance. “The last couple of games’ (opponents) have

Both teams 10-6 in conference play

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The UMass bench celebrates during an 82-74 win over Fordham on Feb. 28.

Minutewomen ready for A-10 tournament to begin

By AdAM AuCoinCollegian Staff

With the calendars turned to March, there’s only one thing on the mind of college basketball play-ers, coaches and fans: tournament time. The Massachusetts women’s basketball team begins its postseason jour-ney in the Atlantic 10 tour-nament Wednesday with a first-round matchup against St. Bonaventure. UMass (11-17, 5-11 A-10) comes into this game as the No. 13 seed while the Bonnies (15-14, 5-11 A-10) are the No. 12 seed. The Minutewomen faced St. Bonaventure twice back in January and came up short both times, losing 65-53 in the first matchup in Olean on Jan. 3, and 77-57 back home at Mullins Center on Jan. 31. Despite their struggles with the Bonnies this sea-son, UMass coach Sharon Dawley is confident in reversing this trend. “They got a lot of easy shots in their games against us this season, especially the game at UMass,” Dawley said. “As long as we play better man-to-man defense, make them take tougher shots and win the rebound war, I’m confident that we can win this game.”

If the Minutewomen want to change their for-tunes, they will have to slow down the two players that have hurt them the most, which according to Dawley are forward Katie Healy and guard Nyla Rueter. Healy dropped 25 points in their first contest and 14 in the next game while Rueter added up 22 in the second contest. Both Healy (14.0 points per game) and Rueter (10.8) are the only Bonnies averaging double figures for the Bonnies. Hannah Little follows closely at 9.2. The Minutewomen will also need to receive more than the usual production they get out of forward Kim Pierre-Louis. More players will have to step up for the team to be suc-cessful in the tournament if they want to have a shot at advancing. Cierra Dillard ended the season on a high-note, as she scored up 20 points on Senior Night, making it the third time this sea-son she has crossed that threshold. Her effort against Rhode Island on Sunday

earned her A-10 co-rookie of the week honors.

A Clean Slate

Although Dawley’s seen much more success in conference play this year than in the past two sea-sons combined, she fully embraced the opportu-nity to get a fresh start in the conference tourna-ment. “It’s the light at the end of the tunnel,” Dawley said. “We played a lot of games that could have ended our season, so it adds a level of excitement at the end of the season when you need that push through when you might be fatigued.” She credits the loss against Dayton on Feb. 26 as the best game the team has played all sea-son, talking about how UMass held the Flyers to only 69 points. A few days later, the Flyers scored 95 against Saint Louis. “I am very confident in my team right now,” Dawley said. “Our defense is sound right now and we have played great recently,

UMass to play St. Bonaventure Wed.

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