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By Julia MclaughlinCollegian Staff

In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Week, which starts Monday, the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Counseling and Psychological Health is holding a campaign all this week to promote awareness on campus. Elle Berch-Heyman, coordinator of community outreach for CCPH, is over-seeing the campaign while collaborating with other CCPH staff members and on-campus organizations. The theme of this year’s National Suicide Prevention Week is “Suicide Prevention: One World Connected.” According to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, suicide is the sec-

ond-leading cause of death among young adults aged 18-24. At UMass, the cam-paign organized through CCPH focuses on increasing awareness of this prevalent issue. Heyman said the inten-tion of this campaign is to “spread awareness paired with the resources both on and off campus to help peo-ple recover and get better.” “I hope that conversa-tions continue to happen and that people know that recovery is possible and learn that people are in recovery around acute men-tal health symptoms and are doing really well,” she added. Heyman expressed grati-tude for being able to work with UMass programs such as Active Minds and col-laborate with WMUA 91.1 FM on recording public ser-vice announcements for the campaign, which will con-tinue throughout the year.

Although there were a few obstacles in the plan-ning of this campaign, Heyman said she has received positive feedback. “There are challenges in organizing when there’s just so much bombardment of information,” she said. “I was a little worried if I could collaborate with everyone at this big start and the response has been really nice.” One portion of the cam-paign involves a suicide prevention panel organized by Active Minds, which will take place on Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center. “There will be represen-tatives around the commu-nity of resources as well as speakers that will talk about how to cope, recognize signs and what to do to help pre-vent suicide,” Heyman said. The staff of CCPH will participate in the recent

UMass launches campaign to raise suicide awarenessCCPH organizes week-long event

By Marie MaccuneCollegian Staff

Members from all unions on campus rallied around the Whitmore Administration Building in protest of the University of Massachusetts’ concessionary bargaining proposals last Friday. According to Donna Johnson, president of the University Staff Association, all UMass unions are in negotiations with the UMass. Contracts between the University and the unions expired in June. “We’re being asked to give many concessions. They’re sort of taking with one hand and not giving anything in return,” Johnson said. “They’re taking away funda-mental rights. In an email sent out by rally organizers to news outlets, Professional Staff

Union Co-Chair Jo Martone outlined a list of “egregious administration positions” including elimination of comp time, limiting sick and vacation leave accrual, requiring members whom the administration feels are unfit for service to be examined by a physician of the administration’s choos-ing, threatening retroactiv-ity of raises if the unions do not accept administration demands and loss of first consideration of internal job candidates. “We are being told that the must-have concessions are coming directly from the president’s office. The message that we’re getting from them is that we cost them money. But how many times does the chancellor’s office need to be remodeled?” Johnson said. “To me, it’s like, why should they balance their budgets on the backs of their workers? Unlike other state employees who have

UM unions rally against concessionNegotiations affect wages for unions

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The Center for Counseling and Psychological Health is seeking to raise suicide prevention awareness this week.

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UM women’s group fights against gender inequality

By eleanor harteCollegian Staff

Undergraduate women at the University of Massachusetts who seek careers in public service will soon have a program devoted to helping them reach their goal. UMass Women into Leadership, a new program through the Department of Political Science, aims to reduce the gender gap in public service through net-working, mentorships and professional development programming. “UWiL is designed to give our current students the skills and confidence they need to succeed in the public sector – not only as high quality workers, but as powerful leaders,” executive director Michelle Goncalves said. Goncalves said she first got the idea for the pro-gram at a networking event through the political sci-ence department held a few years ago where the major-ity of the attendees and the speakers were male. She said she quickly noticed the gender disparity, as well as the fact that the male and female attendees approached the network-ing opportunity differently. Soon, she had an idea for a program she hopes will fill an important gap on cam-pus. “Whether they want to run for office, seek a cabinet appointment or serve as a senior staffer, our trainees will gain the skills, sup-port, knowledge and net-works they need to pursue a path of leadership in pub-lic office,” said Christina M. Knowles, co-chair of the

Board of Directors and a UMass alumna. The program is open to any female undergraduate, regardless of major, class, year or political ideology. Goncalves is specifically looking for a wide variety of students to apply to the program. “We hope that our cohort of students reflect the diver-sity of political opinions on campus,” she said. UWiL will consist of a one-credit class with aca-demic readings and assign-ments and a hands-on portion involving a week-end skill-building work-shop, facilitated network-ing opportunities and the mentorship of UWiL board members, many of whom are UMass alumni. The pro-gram will bring together a group of women interested in furthering their leader-ship capabilities and give them the tools and people to help them do so. “Encouraging more women to enter politics is the passion of these women and they were very eager to help out,” Goncalves said. “In many ways, the board reflects the skills UWiL students will gain through the program - political fun-draising, communication, lobbying, campaign man-agement, elected office and more.” An ideal student for the program is not necessar-ily heavily involved with politics or public service. Goncalves stressed that students who haven’t been involved within the campus can still possess the skillsets to make them good leaders. “The ideal applicant will be interested in building her skillset, learning about pub-lic service and want to enter the political arena after graduation,” Goncalves said. The program’s launch

comes at a time when wom-en’s equality is increasingly in the news, from the exis-tence of “Women’s Equality Day” to Beyonce’s feminist-emblazoned performance at the Video Music Awards. The national conscience has never been more in tune to this issue, and yet, Goncalves said she thinks the right time for this pro-gram would have been sev-eral years ago. “When I talk to alumni about UWiL their response is always, ‘I wish that exist-ed on campus when I was there,’” Goncalves said. Alumni have been crucial to helping Goncalves trans-form the program from an idea raised in a board meet-ing to a functioning pro-gram, especially financially, since it isn’t feasible for the University to fully fund the program each year. Michaelah Morrill is co-chair of the Board of Directors and as an alumna herself, heavily involved with the UMass Political Science Department. “Women aren’t projected to have a 50 percent major-ity in Congress until 2121, despite being 50 percent of the population,” Morrill said. “As a society we can do better than that – and UMass and UWiL can help.” Goncalves said she hopes to one day see the program listed on the resumes of the top leaders in the state. “As the state’s flagship campus, I think we have a responsibility to train our students to be effective public leaders,” she said. “Leaders who understand public education and can be a lasting presence in the political world.” Applications are due Oct. 15, and the program will begin in the spring semester.

Eleanor Harte can be reached at eharte@umass.edu.

New program to train future leaders

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The Baystate Carnival invited students to participate in games, tie dye and arts and crafts as a part of the Welcome Week schedule.

Come one, Come all

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MARIUPOL, Ukraine – A 2-day-old cease-fire between pro-Russia sepa-ratists and Ukrainian gov-ernment troops was vio-lated several times early Sunday as Ukrainian positions were bombarded with artillery and missile fire. The barrage, which began shortly after mid-night, destroyed a gas sta-tion near a checkpoint on the outskirts of Mariupol. In another violent inci-dent, unknown attackers with automatic weapons fired on a car in the city’s center about 1 a.m. and killed two people. The car was carrying three adults and two children. The two slain were adults; the others in the vehicle were injured and taken to a hospital. Another post-midnight attack on a civilian car elsewhere in Mariupol left two people wounded, said a spokesman for the Azov Battalion, a volunteer Ukrainian militia. “It looks as if enemy infiltrators were trying to stage these random attacks to sow panic in the city,” said the spokes-man, whose code name is Baida. Separatist leaders in the Donetsk region, mean-while, accused Ukrainian troops of violating the truce and threatened retaliation. “By all accounts, (Ukraine President Petro) Poroshenko is not completely in charge of his troops,” Vladimir Kononov, a defense official of the self-pro-claimed Donetsk People’s Republic, said in a state-ment on the group’s web-site. “For Kiev, the goal of the truce is to regroup and deal us a strike. We are ready for it. If provo-cations continue, I will have to give an order to shoot to kill.” No military casual-ties were reported in the attacks Sunday. It was unclear whether Ukrainian forces respond-ed, but artillery fire could be heard outside the city until 2 a.m. The truce had been called Friday to end five months of conflict in east-ern Ukraine that has cost nearly 3,000 lives. Mariupol, with a population of 500,000, the second-largest city in the Donetsk region, was still recovering from a week of being threatened by sepa-ratists backed by Russian troops who had crossed the border late last month. Thousands of resi-dents fled the city, fearing an imminent assault.

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UM alumna filming lives of migrant workers in Mexico

By Jaclyn BrysonCollegian Staff

By the time you read this, one University of Massachusetts alumna will have already left the country, embarking on a nine-month excursion to Mexico City to film the stories of migrant workers no one has heard from before. But despite this being the longest Lindsay Van Dyke will have ever lived abroad, she said she has no fear. “I’m not really afraid. It’s just there are a lot of unknowns,” she said. “I’m excited to just grow as a per-son and a filmmaker and to understand things outside the U.S. and how it connects to the U.S.” Van Dyke graduated cum laude from UMass in 2011 with a major in sociology and a concentration in film stud-ies. With the skills she has learned in part at UMass and with a grant earned through the Fulbright Program, she will create two short films documenting the experiences of migrant workers and the challenges they face in their lifetimes. The specific challenges that Van Dyke will focus on relate to legal migrant work-ers. One of the biggest chal-lenges they are dealt, she said, is that after receiving all visas and legal paperwork needed to work in the U.S., they often find themselves subjected to large fees as they go through the hiring pro-cess.

“It’s a tricky situation, particularly when you are legal to work here, but then because of the way the hir-ing process is, it adds these other dimensions of difficul-ties to work, when (migrants) thought they were doing everything they were sup-posed to,” she said. Van Dyke has also taken a particular interest in female migrant workers since, she said, there are additional hardships that accompany these women. Historically, Van Dyke said, women usu-ally stayed behind while oth-ers migrated to find work, or women would typically travel alongside their families in large groups. Now, it’s more common for women to travel alone. “It’s a tricky situation for women. They have this other added challenge of sexual abuse – a huge issue for them – and just other discrimina-tions based on being a woman in job placement,” she added. To expose these conditions, Van Dyke relies on the power of film, which she has had experience with before, see-ing firsthand how it can make a difference. She recently cre-ated a short film for the M.N. Spear library in Shutesbury, titled, “Where would you be without your library?” It was a short and simple film, she said, but it quickly gained popularity and grabbed the attention of many media out-lets, including Oprah and the Huffington Post, and raised

over $80,000 in donations for the local library. “I don’t think that there’s a better way to tell a story than through video,” she said. “I think that people can get inspired (by film) and it can travel well and be able to tell stories really quickly.” According to a press release, Van Dyke is one of 1,800 Americans to travel abroad with the aid of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program this year. Since its establishment in 1946, the Fulbright Program has awarded over 360,000 recipi-ents the funds necessary to conduct research, and, according to the release, “is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other coun-tries.” Aside from her efforts to reveal the stories of migrant workers, Van Dyke also hopes her ambitions inspire others. “If people see the films, I think that people should see that if you can have an idea for something that you feel strongly about pursuing, then that’s a sign to you that you should pursue it and see it through,” she said. “I do believe that if you do work hard in that sense you will benefit from it, and it if it’s an issue that you care about, others will, too.”

Jaclyn Bryson can be reached at jbryson@umass.edu.

“I don’t think that there’s a better way to tell a story than through video.”

Lindsay Van Dyke

“Doubtfire Face for Suicide Prevention” campaign found on Facebook on Thursday, in which individuals share videos of themselves shov-ing a pie in their face in recognition of the recent suicide of Robin Williams. With “Say ‘Hello!’ to Suicide Prevention” as its slogan, the cause hopes to pay tribute to the life and work of Robin Williams while also spreading aware-ness of suicide prevention. Along with increasing awareness of suicide pre-vention, de-stigmatizing mental illness is an impor-tant aspect in understand-ing the issue. “One of the things that I really liked about the opportunity to come work here is last year some of the work that was done was on de-stigmatizing mental ill-ness and I found that really powerful and inspiring,” Heyman said. From a grant provided in 2006 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CCPH received federal funding to spread suicide prevention awareness. Because this work with suicide preven-tion was so extensive and successful, CCPH received a second three-year SAMHSA grant to expand these efforts in 2009. The grant program included awareness cam-paigns, residential life train-ing and UMass community training. Some of the work for this issue included a cam-paign for National Suicide Awareness Month and National Survivors of Suicide Day in November 2010 and 2011, all supported through the SAMHSA grant program. Once the second grant

ended, CCPH decided to carry on the work, with Heyman leading these efforts. “The work was so well-received that CCPH and UMass decided to fully fund my position,” Heyman said. Half of Heyman’s work focuses on community out-reach and gatekeeper train-ing, also known as suicide prevention training. This training can be done for anyone on campus includ-ing faculty, different depart-ments and residential life and not only focuses on sui-cide prevention but mental health as well. “Any department can request specific training,” she said. As a “point person” for this job, Heyman then does the training herself or has another representative from CCPH provide the sup-port training to make these initiatives happen. Having this job, Heyman also understands the risk. “It’s really hard to do this work and not have people share stories about their own lives being touched by losing somebody that they loved or watching a fam-ily struggle by losing some-body,” she said. But, she says there is also a reward for her work. “As a clinician, I also know that there’s help and people get better and I’ve watched people get better,” she said. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides free, confidential suicide prevention services 24/7 and can be reached at 1-800-273-8255. UMass CCPH locations are at 127 Hills North and 123 Berkshire House. Their clinicians can be reached by phone at 413-545-2337 or 413-545-0333. Julia McLaughlin can be reached at jmmclaughlin@umass.edu.

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recently settled contracts, the University is asking us to give back some of our basic ben-efits to pay for cost of living increases.” The extended negotia-tions are having an effect on the union members’ pay. According to Johnson, “the amount of appropriations the University asked for was based on what we would settle for July 1, but what they’re threatening is that if we don’t settle by mid-October then they won’t pay us back through July. If we negotiate until December, then we’ll lose out on all those months too. ” Rally organizers Maryelen Calderwood and Kerry Brown, graduate students who are studying Labor Studies, esti-mated 500 union members and supporters marched with them from the Student Union around the Whitmore Administration Building and back. According to Calderwood, “all the unions on campus are experiencing the same kind of unfair take backs.” “We are getting academi-cally trained to organize, the labor center rocks. It’s all about people getting togeth-er to get stuff done” she said in regards to organizing the rally. “We want the University to bargain collectively, but col-lective bargaining is not rec-ognizable this time.” Nicholas Chavez, who works in the Information Technologies Department and led protesters in chants, said he was at the rally to “stand up for what’s right, what’s just, what’s fair, and what was

contractually agreed upon. If this University can afford to move a 200-year-old building a few yards to build another building, then we have money and don’t need to take it from unions.” Some protestors banged on drums while others chanted slogans such as “UMass works because we do.” and “This is what democracy looks like.” In front of the Student Union, protestors sang “Solidarity Forever.” Tyler Rocco, a gradu-ate student studying Labor Studies, marched and helped gather signatures for a peti-tion against the administra-tion’s proposals. “For me, I feel that the way this University treats its work-ers is a reflection of how it treats the students,” he said. “There are so many examples of the way this University spends money that doesn’t add to the benefit of its work-ers and employees.” Anais Surkin, co-chair of the Graduate Employee Organization, said, “I’m in this rally because this admin-istration has really attacked these unions, eroding our workplace. I’m here to show power and solidarity. Unions are what make this univer-sity run. The University has taken the stance that equity is a race to the bottom, but we disagree. We want to raise everyone up.” “When we bargain, we don’t just bargain for today,” said Johnson. “We bargain for tomorrow.” Marie MacCune can be reached at mmaccune@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @MarieMacCune.

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According to Donna Johnson, president of the University Staff Association, all UMass unions are in negotiations with the UMass. Contracts between the University and the

unions expired in June.

Van Dyke to focus on women’s stories

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Obama to address nation after military expansion

By Don Lee anD W.J. Hennigan

Los Angeles Times

WA S H I N G T O N — President Barack Obama plans to address the nation Wednesday to out-line a broader offensive against Sunni militants in the Middle East, a move welcomed by a number of key congressional leaders who have come to view the extremist group Islamic State as an increasingly menacing threat to the U.S. Foreshadowing his remarks in an interview aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Obama said that it was time for the U.S. to “start going on some offense” to beat back Islamic State fighters. “I’m preparing the coun-try to make sure that we deal with a threat,” Obama told NBC. Meanwhile, the U.S. mili-tary made clear the expand-ing scope of its air cam-paign against the extrem-ist group, with American fighter and bomber jets conducting a new series of strikes near the Haditha Dam in western Iraq. The dam is controlled by Iraqi security forces, but has been under frequent attack by Islamic State fighters intent on seizing it, the Pentagon said. As the Obama adminis-tration seeks to put togeth-er a coalition to act against the Islamic State, the sec-retary-general of the Arab League provided encour-agement Sunday. Nabil Elaraby told mem-ber foreign ministers gath-

ered in Cairo that Arab states must unite to con-front the threat posed by the radical group, also known as ISIS, which has seized large chunks of ter-ritory in Syria and Iraq, killed thousands of adher-ents to non-Sunni reli-gious faiths, threatened Iraq’s government and the semiautonomous Kurdish region and beheaded two American journalists. Western action against Islamic State would be greatly eased by an Arab call for joint action, Elaraby told the ministers, citing previous accords under which member states would defend one another. Since Aug. 8, the U.S. has conducted 143 airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq, actions Obama has said have been designed to protect people against genocidal attacks and to safeguard key property including the huge Mosul dam on the Tigris River. The airstrikes near the Haditha Dam, which took place late Saturday and Sunday, were meant to pro-tect the Euphrates River facility, which provides fresh water for millions of Iraqis as well as crops. “The potential loss of control of the dam or a catastrophic failure of the dam — and the flooding that might result – would have threatened U.S. per-sonnel and facilities in and around Baghdad, as well as thousands of Iraqi citizens,” Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement. Despite his actions thus far, Obama has been criticized by some for fail-ing to set a clear strategy on how to deal with the

Islamic State, reflecting his reluctance to commit American forces to another war in Iraq. In the wake of the militants’ attack on minority Yazidis in Iraq and the beheadings of the American journalists, there have been growing calls from Congress and others for more aggressive action. “What I want people to understand is that over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum” of the militants, Obama said on NBC on Sunday. “We

are going to systematically degrade their capabilities. We’re going to shrink the territory that they con-trol. And ultimately, we’re going to defeat them.” Although Obama said there would be a “military element” to the strategy, he added that “this is not going to be an announce-ment about U.S. ground troops.” “This is not the equiva-lent of the Iraq war,” he said. “What this is, is simi-lar to the kinds of counter-terrorism campaigns that we’ve been engaging in consistently over the last five, six, seven years.” Obama’s planned speech Wednesday suggests that

he is preparing a new phase in U.S. military action and would be seeking to rally the American public – and Congress – behind the broader mission. Among those in Congress welcoming such action was Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee. “I think that this is a major change in how ISIS is approached,” she said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” noting the coalition that the U.S. has forged with a number of

allies, including some Middle Eastern countries, to counter the militant fighters. “It is overdue,” she said, “but the president is now there, and I think it’s the right thing for America.” Feinstein said she sup-ported deploying the American military’s spe-cial operations forces and cracking down on sources of Islamic State funding, among other more aggres-sive actions. “ISIS is a major threat to this country in the future,” she said, noting that she believed the group was seeking to advance to Baghdad and to attack the U.S. Embassy there.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a statement that the Islamic State threat was “real and it’s growing.” He urged Obama to “exercise some leadership” and to engage Congress with “a strategic plan.” Whether Congress will actually vote on Obama’s plan is uncertain. Congressional leaders have said they want Congress to be consulted, but they have not committed to a vote. And though some members of Congress have said they believe that they should go on record concerning military action, others are reluctant to do so with an election coming in less than two months. On Tuesday, Obama approved sending 350 additional troops to Baghdad to increase dip-lomatic security for State Department officials at the Baghdad embassy compound and its support facilities. There were about 200 to

300 U.S. military person-nel in Iraq in mid-June. As Islamic State grew in numbers, seized Mosul and began to advance toward the Iraqi capital, the administration began sending more forces to the country. With the 350 newly announced person-nel, the size of the U.S. con-tingent will have increased to 1,113. U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, said the strikes near the Haditha Dam destroyed eight Islamic State vehicles – two of which carried anti-aircraft artillery – a com-mand post and two fighting positions.

The dam is on a road about 100 miles from the border with Syria. It is the second-largest hydro-electric contributor in the power system in Iraq, the Pentagon said. In addition, a military aircraft conducted one air-strike against an Islamic State target near Mosul dam Saturday. U.S. air support there last month helped Iraqi Kurdish pesh-merga forces take back control of the dam, which is still under attack. Both the Arab world and Western nations have been groping for a means of responding to the Islamic State, which has eclipsed al-Qaida in its radicalism, degree of on-the-ground military effectiveness and extent of territory cap-tured. Arab League leader Elaraby, in his comments Sunday, appeared to pave the way for Arab agree-ment to a Western inter-vention, noting that a “comprehensive confronta-tion” was needed to cope militarily with the threat posed by the Islamic State. “What is happening in Iraq, and the presence of an armed terrorist group that not only challenges the state authority but its very existence and that of other countries ... is one of the examples of the chal-lenges that are violently shaking the world,” he told the gathering, according to The Associated Press. Times staff writer Laura King and special correspondent Amro Hassan in Cairo contributed to this report.

Speech Wednesday will outline strategy

“What I want people to understand is that over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum. We are going to systematically degrade their capabili-ties. We’re going to shrink the territory that they control. And ultimately, we’re going to

defeat them.”President Barack Obama

Ebola vaccine effective in recent testing on monkeys

By Lauren raaB, MeLissa HeaLy

anD Matt PearceLos Angeles Times

Tests of an experimental Ebola vaccine have shown positive results, protecting healthy monkeys from the virus, the National Institutes of Health announced Sunday, as West Africa grap-ples with an epidemic that has killed about 2,000 people. Researchers gave four macaque monkeys a shot of the experimental vaccine, called ChAd3, and exposed them to high levels of the Ebola virus five weeks later. All the monkeys were pro-tected, the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said. The protection decreased over time, however: Ten months after receiving the vaccine, just two of the four were protected. Researchers also tried giving monkeys the experi-mental vaccine and then, eight weeks later, a booster vaccine. Ten months after the initial dose, all four mon-keys were fully protected, the institute said. The authors of the latest study, published Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine, suggested that without the booster, the Ebola virus can quickly regain a foothold and attack the immune sys-tem. Human safety trials of the ChAd3 vaccine were sched-uled to start last week in Bethesda, Md., with prelimi-nary results due by the end of 2014. In the current crisis, American officials oversee-ing the trials suggested that the availability of a tested

vaccine would offer some assurance of protection to health-care workers wary of going to West Africa. The experimental vac-cine was developed by the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. The research team was led by Nancy J. Sullivan of the NIH and included scientists from Okairos, a biotechnology company that is now part of GlaxoSmithKline, and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Separately, an Ebola-infected American doctor being treated in Nebraska has shown improvement but is still very ill, his wife said. Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, an obstetrician who lives in the Boston area, contracted the deadly virus while treating patients in Liberia as part of a missionary program. He was flown to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Friday. “Rick is very sick and weak, but slightly improved from when he arrived yes-terday,” his wife, Debbie Sacra, said in a statement released Saturday night by SIM USA, the missionary group to which Rick Sacra belongs. She said she and her hus-band want to keep the media focus on the African coun-tries ravaged by the disease. “We don’t want this story to be about Rick,” she said. “The story is the crisis in West Africa. That is what is most important. The world is coming to this fight late.”

This year’s Ebola out-break is the worst on record, with a fatality rate of 53 per-cent, according to the World Health Organization. Rick Sacra is the third American to be transported to the U.S. this year after contracting the virus. Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly, who were also missionaries in Liberia, recovered after treatment at a special infectious-disease unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Writebol and Brantly received an experimental medication, ZMapp, but it is unclear whether that helped them. In all, seven Ebola patients received ZMapp. Five were later released from hospitals; the other two did not survive. The compa-ny that developed the drug, Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. of San Diego, says it has no doses left. Making it is time-consuming, but the U.S. is trying to help the company speed up the pro-cess. There is no cure or approved vaccine for Ebola, which triggers hemor-rhaging and is transmitted through contact with the bodily fluids of those infect-ed. The latest outbreak was first detected in Guinea in March and has since affect-ed Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal, where at least one patient has been identified.

Times staff writer Alexandra Zavis contributed to this report.

GlaxpSmithKline creates treatment

Program launched to make NY cops wear body cameras

By JaMes QueaLLyLos Angeles Times

Sixty New York City police officers will wear body cameras as part of a pilot program after a feder-al lawsuit challenging the department’s controver-sial stop-and-frisk tactics and the recent chokehold death of Eric Garner dur-ing an arrest, city officials said. Implementing the pro-gram was part of a set-tlement reached last year after a federal judge put a stop to stop-and-frisk, which many said unfairly targeted black men while doing little to reduce crime. “Having patrol officers wear body cameras during this pilot demonstrates our commitment to transpar-ency while it will also allow us to review its effective-ness with the intention of expanding the program,” said Police Commissioner William J. Bratton. The department will use two camera models: the Axon Flex developed by stun-gun magnate TASER, and the LE3 made by Vievu. Bratton said the depart-ment chose the models after meetings with police officials in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Oakland. Bratton said officers will begin wearing the devices in the fall. Six command areas, those with the highest number of stop-and-frisk encounters in 2012, were chosen for the pilot pro-gram. Those commands include the 120th precinct on Staten Island, which

patrols the neighborhood where Garner died on July 17 after he was placed in a chokehold by officers try-ing to arrest him on sus-picion of selling untaxed cigarettes. Garner’s death, which led to a citywide back-lash and criticism of the department’s tactics, was later ruled a homicide. Two police officers remain under an internal inves-tigation, and the Staten Island district attorney has convened a grand jury to consider criminal charges. After Garner’s death, Bratton sent a contin-gent of city officers to Los Angeles for additional training. The Los Angeles Police Department began a simi-lar body camera pilot pro-gram earlier this year, with 30 officers who patrol the city’s downtown area. The department expects to buy 600 of the devices. Patrick Lynch, president of New York City’s larg-est police union, seemed to cautiously embrace the program. “A body camera pilot program is part of our challenge to Judge (Shira) Scheindlin’s decision on stop, question and frisk,” he said in a statement. “Police officers have noth-ing to hide, but there are many unanswered ques-tions as to how this will work practically. We await the answers.”

A series of recent ques-tionable deaths after clash-es between police officers and suspects have raised the national discussion on police accountability mea-sures. Police in Ferguson, Mo., began wearing body cameras in recent days, a little over a month after the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed young black man, sparked weeks of unrest in the St. Louis suburb. Bratton’s announce-ment drew praise, and skepticism, from civil rights leaders. Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said that she hopes the cameras are used to monitor cops, not civilians. “Body cameras ought to be a win-win for both the police and the commu-nities they serve as long as their use is limited to police interactions and addressing complaints of abuse or wrongdoing,” Lieberman said in a state-ment. “But we also have concerns about mission creep and privacy. The NYPD has a long history of engaging in surveillance of innocent New Yorkers, and body cameras can’t become yet another tool for mas-sive police surveillance.”

Initiative could begin in the fall

Researchers gave four macaque monkeys a shot of the experimental vaccine, called

ChAd3, and exposed them to high levels of the Ebola virus five weeks later.

Implementing the program was part of a settlement reached last year after a federal judge put a stop to stop-and-frisk, which many said unfairly targeted black men

while doing little to reduce crime.

In December 2013, The Washington Post’s Wonkblog named Emmanuel Saez and

Thomas Piketty’s chart on income inequality the “Graph of the Year.” This chart shows the share of income captured by the top 10 per-cent of Americans from 1917 to 2012. In 2012 over 50 percent of income went to 10 percent of the population; this is the highest level since 1917 and similar to those seen between 1917 and 1932. Between 1937 and 1982, the top 10 percent’s share of income hov-ered around 35 percent. This cor-

responds with the largest econom-ic boom ever, the creation of the largest middle class in history and the establishment of the consumer base that fuels the U.S. economy. The 2008-2010 corporate bailouts provided hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in welfare. Wall Street has been railing against extensive benefits for the poor and elderly for 30 years, but when they needed welfare –far more than is provided to the poor –no ques-tions were asked, few criticisms were made and limited restrictions made the bailouts seem like a blank check. The political hypocrisy of the capitalist class created the Occupy protests, but economic organiza-tion is responsible for the positions of power corporate leaders possess. A 2012 “Economist” special report focused on inequality in the U.S. and around the world. The Gini coefficient is a measurement of inequality using a zero to one scale, with zero being perfect-ly equal and one being perfectly unequal. According to data from the IMF and OECD, “America’s Gini for disposable income is up by almost 30 percent since 1980, to 0.39. China’s has risen by around 50 percent to 0.42 (and by some measures to 0.48).” Scandinavian nations, with large welfare states, have the low-est Gini numbers –around 0.25. Only in Latin America, formerly the most unequal continent, have Gini numbers decreased since 1980. The report notes that a majority of people on Earth live in a nation where incomes are more unequal “than they were a generation ago.” Yet inequality does not simply restrict the economic power of the under-compensated, it reduces political power as well. The nation-al conversation on inequality focuses on income, but the figures for wealth are far more illuminat-ing. Today in the United States, 11.1 percent of all wealth is held by the top 0.01 percent of American families. In fact, 74.4 percent of all wealth is held by the top 10 percent of American families, leaving only 25.6 percent for the remaining 90 percent of people. According to David DeGraw, wealth statistics show that, of the top one percent’s wealth ($32.6 tril-lion), only 0.5 percent would be nec-essary to eliminate poverty in the U.S. for one year. In addition, $13 trillion (or over 40 percent) of that wealth is unused, meaning it sits in savings accounts or other financial

instruments. This wealth inequality is only compounded by the growing income inequality. Year after year, the rich get richer while the other 90 percent of Americans are stuck running in place. Since 2009, 95 per-cent of all income growth has gone to the top 1 percent of Americans. Inequality is rising even faster than before under President Barack Obama, even if the Republicans don’t want anyone to know that. Martin Gilens from Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern University collabo-rated on a study exploring the polit-ical influence of American voters compared to the influence of busi-ness and special interests.

They found that the views of the public mean little or nothing to politicians. In their study, they conducted controlled tests to deter-mine whether the views of an aver-age American impact policymak-ing. They don’t. Rich individuals and business-backed interests have much more influence, and even grassroots- or membership-based interest groups have little influence compared to corporations or their rich masters. In fact, the study goes even fur-ther, determining that the “policy preferences” of average Americans are vastly disparate from those of the political and economic elites, and that average Americans “almost always” lose. As economic power concen-trates in the hands of the few, their influence on politics grows. Greater power means that Washington passes policies more favorable to the economic elite, further con-centrating economic power and further diminishing the political power of the average American. The consequence of political ignorance of the public’s policy priorities is singular: political oli-garchy. After 30 years, this vicious cycle manifests daily, with broadly-supported policies, such as a higher minimum wage and increased fed-eral background checks on all gun purchases, overturned by diamet-rically-opposed interests, like Wal-Mart attempting to keep wages low or Smith & Wesson trying to sell more guns. Only serious changes to public policy can begin to roll back the concentration of political and eco-nomic power most feared by the Founding Fathers. Their fear of concentrated power led them to create a decentralized democratic republic accountable to people at a local, state and federal level. While decentralization of the federal bureaucracy would disadvantage the country on a global playing field, holding government account-able to the people is both necessary and proper. When 10 percent of people have the power to ignore the demands of the other 90 percent, who are con-stitutionally entitled to nine times as much political power, democra-cy is broken. If we let this continue, the powerful will only entrench themselves even deeper into an oligarchy that is already difficult enough to see and even harder to destroy.

Zac Bears is the Opinion & Editorial Editor. He can be reached at ibears@umass.edu.

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American oligarchy:Inequality’s consequence

UMass Dining workers losing out The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME (Local 1776) is the union that bargains

for University of Massachusetts Dining employees. Dining employ-ees are assigned categories: “01,” “03,” and “student hire.” The 01s and 03s are unionized and have AFSCME negotiating for them. Today, 01s at UMass are union-ized with contracts and have access to benefits. The 03 workers are unionized without contracts, have no benefits and seemingly end-less bargaining has resulted in the administration’s refusal to raise wages. Student hires cannot union-ize.

The 01/03 distinction The 01 employees are full-time under contract, and consequently receive retirement benefits, sick time, group insurance, industrial accident coverage and vacation time. The 03s are meant to be “sea-sonal hires” and receive no benefits or bargaining power because of the supposed turnover. They have no contracts, are paid from a money pool separate from the main pool and are referred to as “non-employ-ees,” hired for what UMass deter-mines to be “contractual service.” Most significantly, 03s are tempo-rary hires, as is explicitly outlined in the Campus 03 Policy. Student hires are undergradu-ates, start at minimum wage and are not allowed to unionize. In practice, however, this dynamic does not play out. Instead, the vast majority of 03s work full-time for years, but never receive 01 status and thus lack access to crucial benefits. This is not a short-term arrangement; many 03s have been working for UMass Dining for five or 10 years. UMass Dining fires and rehires these workers every season, year after year. By any other defini-tion, these employees are full-time and entitled to union benefits, but the University continues to deny them job security and access to benefits. The pervading bargain-ing stalemate is unacceptable and the employees deserve more from a multi-million dollar employer. The lack of 03 benefits is not incidental. A long-time 03 was recently forced to pay out-of-pocket for expensive, necessary dental sur-gery because he lacked benefits. Long-time UMass chefs, integral in

various dining operations, strug-gle daily to justify their immense amount of work for mere 03 status with hourly wages. A working single mother has no guaranteed healthcare, is can’t take sick days and loses money over holidays. Thus, she is forced to work nonstop to afford food and childcare.

[03s] v. The UMass Board of Trustees (1979)

On Jan. 4, 1979, The Board of Trustees of UMass and the University were taken to court by 20 laborers stuck in 03 limbo. Then Justice of the Superior Court Department Joseph Ford signed a decision of sweeping oversight and broad restrictions on the management of 03 workers. The 20 plaintiffs were moved to 01 sta-tus and paid significant retroactive sums. “Section X: Future Use of 03 Funding” strongly asserts that

UMass must expand oversight. This policy nominally requires that 03 workers truly be temporary (mean-ing no more than one year), all 03 appointments be subject to person-nel office review board and that UMass make “good faith efforts” to put 03s in a higher classification within a year. This decision lays out explicit instructions for the University to expand oversight and establish mechanisms ensuring that long-term employees are not stuck without benefits. The case resulted in the establishment of the afore-mentioned Campus 03 Policy (dated July 1, 1984), but the University has been entirely unwilling to keep the definition of 03 narrow. The afore-mentioned “personnel office review board” does not exist and 03s con-tinue to be employed for extended periods without access to benefits. At the end of the 2013-2014 school year, dining halls fired 10 03s one month early to save money. All workers depend on payment through their employment periods; this minimal job security is impor-tant for 01s and “non-employees” alike. But without union contracts, the University is free to fire hard-working employees early, leaving

them without work unexpectedly. These problems are systemic and long-standing. According to long-time employees, union rep-resentatives and former students, the vast majority of 03s work long-term, and that same majority is personally disadvantaged without access to benefits. The 03 designa-tion is a seasonal position in name only; its working function is to deny full-time workers union rights. The demographic of the employ-ee pool is also troubling. An esti-mated 90 percent of 03s are women or people of color. By withholding workplace rights for 03s, UMass actively disadvantages people who are systematically disadvantaged in all walks of life. UMass trumpets diversity as a cornerstone value, but the administration drags its feet in contract negotiations that would directly benefit the under-represented people who carry the well-being of Auxiliary Enterprises on their backs.

Student hires and the right to unionize

Many argue that unioniz-ing undergraduates is hopeless because of the turnover. Students frequently come in and out of the system, graduate and cannot be student hires more than a couple of years. But undergraduate resi-dent assistants (RAs) unionized and they have since seen significant wage increases. There is no reason that other groups cannot follow in step. Student workers pushing for unionization point to their impact on the school; indeed, student work-ers help run the library, secure the dorms and cook food for thousands of people every day. With average student loan debt at an all-time high of about $30,000 per student, it’s incomprehensible that student hires start at a meager $8 an hour. Furthermore, internal raises are sluggish and uncommon. One student worked in the same UMass Dining building for 11 months before his supervisor gave him a raise (reportedly out of pity and frustration with institutional ineffi-ciency). Now making a whopping $9 an hour, the former student called the wage “lucky.” But even $9 an hour is insufficient in the face of rent, food costs and $30,000 in debt. Students sacrifice time from their academics to do jobs crucial to the University’s function, but earn low wages and have no voice in work-place malpractice.

Benjamin Walton is a Collegian contributor. He can be reached at bwalton@umass.edu.

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are systematically disadvantaged in all

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By Emma SandlErCollegian Correspondent

Imagine this: you drive to your friend’s house on a weekend night to hang out for a few hours and catch up. You don’t intend to drink that much because you know your limits, but it was a very stressful week and you want to let loose a bit. After a while you realize it’s getting late, or perhaps you are out of beer and decide a midnight pickup from a convenience store down the road sounds like a good idea. You think you can handle the drive; after all you’re not that drunk. You’ll just drive slowly. You think you’re doing great until you get pulled over by a police cruiser. You are subjected to a sobriety test that you ulti-mately fail and are charged with driving a motor vehicle while under the influence. You would not be alone in this scenario. According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), over 1.2 million drivers were arrest-ed in 2011 for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics, and an additional 29.1 million people admitted to driving under the influ-ence of alcohol in 2012. That same year, 35 percent of all traffic related deaths were caused by drinking and driv-ing. This is where “Sobrio” comes into play. Launched in 2012, “Sobrio” is a community-based app available for both iPhone and Android that matches sober student driv-ers with students who have been drinking and need a ride. With popular driving apps life “Lyft” and “Uber” still unavailable in the Amherst area, “Sobrio” is the perfect app to bridge the gap. It is currently available on seven college campuses, including the University of Massachusetts. “Sobrio” began at the University of Connecticut by Tom Bachant and Nadav Ullman, along with Android developers

Ben Bartholomew, Mike Magnoli and front-end web developer Dave Mittelman. Students at the time, they saw first hand an unfortu-nate pattern of students driving under the influence despite sober students offer-ing rides. According to the “Sobrio” website, the app decreased drinking and driving rates by 40 percent after its intro-duction on the UConn cam-pus. Since then, UMass, the University of Rhode Island, Stony Brook University, Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Ohio University have joined “Sobrio” in deterring drunk driving. “Sobrio” is a simple, user-friendly way to find sober drivers by entering your location, destination and number of passengers. The request is sent to every driver at your school and when your offer is accepted, you receive an alert. A cred-it or debit card can be used to pay a donation for the driver if he or she requests one. Before one becomes an official “Sobrio” driver, can-didates must go through a background check for infor-mation including proper car insurance, a valid license and no criminal activity. Both passengers and driv-ers can establish profiles with their name, profile picture and a list of past rides with reviews from past experiences. And if you don’t want to accept a ride from someone with a bad review, you’re allowed to decline. So the next time you plan to go out drinking and you know you don’t want to walk all the way home (after all the weather is only going to get colder), then downloading “Sobrio” is the perfect choice. No more jot-ting down cab companies or hoping someone is sober enough to drive, and no more pinching pennies to afford a cab. Best of all, you can sleep safe knowing you and your friends won’t get-ting a DUI tonight, or worse.

Emma Sandler can be reached at ehsandle@umass.edu.

Sober drivers at your fingertips

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How I met the alternative ending that should’ve been (and loved it)

By StEphaniE ramirEzCollegian Correspondent

Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for the series finale of “How I Met Your Mother.”

Ah, a world in which Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) meets the mother (Cristin Milioti), and all is as it should be. In other words, the “How I Met Your Mother” alternate series finale was leaked online Saturday, and it was every-thing the real finale should have been. In the show’s official ending, which left many fans with a bitter taste in their mouths, Tracy McConnell, the mother, meets a dark fate (which, frankly, I’m still too hurt to talk about), Barney’s (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin’s (Cobie Smulders) relation-ship declines and Ted, once done with his nine-year-long story, runs back to his dear old Robin. But this new ending comes to a much sweeter conclusion. In the alternate ending, a nifty new voiceover from Ted suggests Barney and Robin repair their mar-riage and he and Tracy go on to live the happiest of endings. As in the aired ending, Ted and Tracy marry, but this time, Ted takes the audience back to the beginning as he recounts the “easy” road he traveled in the last nine years during his search for his wife. It’s a nostalgic retelling of the last nine years we’ve spent with Ted, and it ends full circle with Ted and Tracy’s meeting at the train station. It would have been perfect had it been the true ending. It includes no new foot-age, however. Back when the series finale first aired show co-creator Carter Bays tweeted, “We only shot one script, but through edit room magic we had two possible out-

comes for the series.” In fairness, the alternate ending is somewhat vague, with no flash forward to future Ted, his wife and his kids, but it’s a lot happier and undoubtedly a much better close to the long-running show. Most cer-tainly it’s the ending every disgruntled fan asked for. The series creators have yet to confirm this ending was in fact their alternate. Given Ted’s brand new speech, however, it seems this is indeed the promised finale included in the DVD box set titled “How I Met Your Mother: The Whole Story.” The box set featur-ing all nine seasons is set to be released Sept. 23. The video, initially released on YouTube, has since then been deleted.

But multiple users have both re-uploaded it to YouTube and posted it on Vimeo. Many comments rave about how wonderful this ending is, but like me, some are simply angry it wasn’t the chosen one. One can only wonder why the show’s creators let this ending take a back-seat. Granted, this ending sounds almost too perfect to be real, but it wouldn’t have been unrealistic. After all, this is televi-sion, and after nine years rooting for a man who tra-versed through life’s dif-ficult twists and turns in search for his soul mate, it was the ending we were expecting. For a show that made us wait that long to see Ted and Tracy meet, it

only would have been fit-ting to end with the cou-ple’s charming meeting, huddled under their yellow umbrella, hiding from the rain. No sudden, uncalled-for death. No pulling the rug out from under our feet. No broken relation-ships. No erasing character development. No resorting (again) to Aunt Robin in times of loneliness. Just a perfect couple who spent too many years looking for each other, often missing each other by mere sec-onds, finally, finally meet-ing. Had that alternate end-ing been the true series finale, that kids, would have been legen–wait for it –dary.

Stephanie Ramirez can be reached at sjramire@umass.edu.

A sweeter ending to a tragic finale

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“How I Met Your Mother’s” alternate ending is one audiences wanted.

Everyone should appreciate the merits of ‘Boyhood’

By iSaac SimonCollegian Correspondent

Richard Linklater’s film “Boyhood” is a riveting film that dispels the old cliché of perpetual youth. The film – a masterpiece that was shot over a span of 12 years – documents the life of the main character Mason (Ellar Coltrane) starting with the initial post toddler years and concluding with his final sendoff to college. Set in Houston, Texas, it is a film that comes full circle. Linklater as a director is relent-less when it comes to shining a light on even the smallest of characters in an effort to come off as a conscious writer and director. People can say what they want about the constructive criticism “Boyhood” has got-ten, but in my view, I would not pay much attention to it, partly because I concur with

the majority opinion (if that’s what you would consider it) that it is the best film of the last 30 years. This is because “Boyhood” is more than just a film about a boy, or an interest-ing documentation project into the life of the unconventional family, it is a necessary film that everyone should see. “Boyhood” is indeed a coming-of-age film. When see-ing the film in the theatre, I could not help but make com-parisons to “The Graduate” (Mike Nichols, 1967), when Mr. Robinson (Murray Hamilton) is having his nightcap and tells Ben (Dustin Hoffmann), “Cause you know Ben, You’ll never be young again.” In “Boyhood” each new scene is indeed a new chap-ter of each character’s life. Although it is not a time lapse, it is totally understandable why the viewer would assume that Linklater has implemented that technique, in an effort to mark the progression of time. Although rare, “Boyhood” is not the only film to have been shot over a period of more

than a decade. Paul Almond’s “Seven Up!” (1964) garnered a lot of its own attention when it came out 50 years ago. “Boyhood” is a necessary film because it can apply to anyone who resonates with teen angst. Aside from extreme circumstances, everyone, at one point or another, grows up. The evolutionary process from boyhood to manhood is by no means a rare occurrence. Most people experience it. The pro-cess is different for everyone. There is simply not one way to grow up. In the film, Linklater documents a family that is in a constant state of motion. The mom (Patricia Arquette) is in some senses always putting all of her eggs in one basket in an effort to provide a steady and healthy upbringing for her two children. Her first ex-husband, Dad (Ethan Hawke), got divorced a while back and their move to Houston evi-dently reunites the children with the father. Hawke’s per-formance is simply terrific. His mannerisms and his high intensity eccentricity gives him

a palpable on-screen presence in the early scenes of the film. As “Boyhood” evolves, so do the parents. All parents seem to slow down with age, as do Arquette and Hawke. Stability vs. instability, imposed structure and order vs. Mason’s free spirit and his constant struggle to fight the machine he calls society – these are the themes that run throughout “Boyhood”. The constant question of what direction Mason will take with his life is one that lingers throughout the film. Mason, on the other hand, is never really worried. His character is able to establish perspective. In life, perspective is key. It is especially key in college. Indeed, Mason is a person that does not have all of the answers. But he also does not need to have all the answers. He is constantly questioning his surroundings. Why is having an alcoholic for a stepfather important just because he can manage both his drinking and a full size family? Why does

having a screen in front of you every waking hour of the day make you more in touch with your surroundings? It seems as if these are the questions Linklater wants us to be asking. More importantly, “Boyhood” ends where we are all beginning this fall. When exiting the theatre my immedi-ate takeaway was that college can be the best four years of a person’s life. Moreover, the bul-lying and teasing Mason was

subjected to all seems worth it because there is a place for everyone at college. So as we move forward and look ahead to this upcoming semester that we have in front of us, let’s remember to put things in perspective and to soak in the experience, because at the end of the day, “you will never be young again.”

Isaac Simon can be reached at isimon@umass.edu.

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Minutemen cornerback Randall Jette said. The disappointing finish overshadowed a number of positive developments for UMass. Most notably, tight end Jean Sifrin deliv-ered an impressive perfor-mance in his Minutemen debut after missing all of the season to this point while awaiting a decision on his eligibility from the NCAA Clearinghouse. The 6-foot-7, 250-pound tight end caught four passes for 40 yards and two touch-downs. His second touch-down – which gave UMass a 21-20 lead with 18 seconds left in the first half – was a leaping one-handed grab which he snared out of the air within multiple Buffs defenders before landing on his back in the end zone. Sifrin, who had a certain number of plays packaged

for him in the playbook entering the game, credited his experiences as a basket-ball player. “I always told (Frohnapfel), ‘Just throw it up if we’re in the end zone, I’ll be able to go up and get it,’” Sifrin said. UMass’ offense as a whole took a major step forward. After scoring just seven points last week against Boston College, the Minutemen amassed 371 yards of total offense in addition to 38 points scored. Frohnapfel was 20-of-38 for 267 yards and three touch-downs. His first touchdown – to fullback Rodney Mills to make it 7-3 UMass – was a beautifully thrown 14-yard pass to the back right corner of the end zone over a Buffs defender. The Minutemen were primed to pull away in the

third quarter after Jette intercept a Liufau pass intended for receiver Shay Fields. The junior corner-back took advantage of a carom off of Shields to snag the ball and return it to the Colorado 2-yard line. Wilson scored on the following play and it was 31-20 UMass. But the Minutemen failed to hang onto the lead. Whipple acknowledged his team still needs to learn how to win and it’s still a “work in progress.” Jette said the key to get-ting over the hump is a mind-set. “We just have to overcome adversity,” he said. “We can’t be down on ourselves. Just a little more maturity and we can get over that hump, we can win.”

Mark Chiarelli can be reached at mchiarel@umass.edu.

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in the end zone. He’s a great target and can run, but it’s a whole other level when you come from junior college with no spring practice and no summer. Going against scout teams is a little bit different. “But he’s a really good kid, a really good team-mate and I think it’s going

to help our entire offense.” Sifrin said it was excit-ing to play his first game wearing maroon and white. He said he is still working to learn the sys-tem and all the packages he is in. “It’s been tough sitting on the sideline watching my teammates play with-out me, but it’s a work in

progress,” Sifrin said. Work in progress also goes for his team, which is still searching for its first win of the season. As far as Sifrin is concerned, his stats were nothing. “It doesn’t mean any-thing without a win. It’s just another catch.”

Peter Cappiello can be reached at pcappiel@umass.edu.

Colorado 41

UMass 38

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UMass squandered an 11-point second half lead to Colorado on Saturday at Gillette Stadium.

By Mark ChiarelliCollegian Staff

FOXBOROUGH — For a fleeting moment, it appeared the Massachusetts football team had positioned itself to pull away from Colorado and capture the most impor-tant win in program history. But as ominous storm clouds con-verged on Gillette Stadium, moments of UMass prosperity came to a grind-ing halt. UMass squandered an 11-point lead en route to a 41-38 loss to Colorado Saturday, as its defense struggled mightily in the second half to slow a Buffs attack which stormed back midway through the third quarter. “We’re having a hard time handling the success again,” UMass coach Mark Whipple said following the loss. The Minutemen led 31-20 halfway through the third quarter. But a succession of missed opportunities combined with the second half emergence of Colorado receiver Nelson Spruce spelled disaster for UMass. Following a 2-yard Jamal Wilson touchdown run which pushed the lead to 31-20 with 12 minutes, 24 sec-onds remaining in the third quarter, the Minutemen allowed the Buffs to embark on a 10 play, 77-yard scor-ing drive which ended on a 14-yard touchdown run by running back Christian Powell to cut the lead to 31-27. For UMass, it was a drive marred by missed tackles as well as missed chances for the defense to get off the field, as Colorado commit-ted three potentially drive-hindering penalties on the play. The Minutemen had their chances to keep control of the game – they drove down to the Colorado 28-yard line

on the ensuing drive – but the drive flamed out on fourth down, when UMass running back J.T. Blyden couldn’t convert on fourth and 2, putting possession back in the Buffs’ hands. “That’s something where they covered pretty well and I knew I had to try and throw it somewhere,” Minutemen

q u a r t e r b a c k Blake Frohnapfel said. “We wish we could’ve had that, but we can’t take it back.”

Colorado quarterback Sefo Liufau accepted the opportunity with open arms, hitting Spruce just three plays later for a 70-yard touchdown on third down. Spruce snuck behind Minutemen linebacker Steve Casali in coverage and bolted down the right side-line for the score. In a span of eight min-utes, the Buffs had stormed back to take a 34-31 lead. Whipple said his team failed to overcome a series of third quarter mishaps and needs to develop a winning men-tality. “It’s a mentality,” he said. “It’s not that the guys aren’t tough-minded but they have to learn to overcome that.” Colorado extended its lead in the fourth quar-ter on a nine play, 81-yard drive which ended in Liufau and Spruce connecting for another touchdown to make it 41-31. Spruce caught 10 passes for 145 yards and two touchdowns while Liufau was 26-for-42 for 318 yards and three touchdowns. UMass answered with 2:55 left in the game – receiv-er Marken Michel took a jet sweep handoff seven yards in for a touchdown – but couldn’t muster a defensive stop on the following posses-sion to earn the ball back. In total, Colorado ran 89 plays and totaled 474 yards. “There were plays there we could’ve made,”

Colorado surges past UMass in second half

By Peter CaPPielloCollegian Staff

F O X B O R O U G H —Jean Sifrin motioned to a Massachusetts team-mate about positioning as he lined up for third and goal from the 14-yard line. Satisfied with his own advice, Sifrin flashed a brief thumbs up with his right hand. Seconds later, that hand became UMass’ offensive highlight of the game as the 6-foot-7, 250-pound tight end one-handed a high pass at full extension to give UMass a 21-20 lead over Colorado with 18 seconds until half-time. Oh yeah, and the catch was only the third career reception for Sifrin, a junior transfer via El Camino junior college. His first, a 12-yarder ear-lier in the quarter, was also a touchdown. “It’s from basketball, just coming down with the ball,” Sifrin said of his second score. “I always told them, ‘Just throw it up if we’re in the end zone, and I’ll be able to go up and get it,’ but I didn’t think it would’ve been that high. I saw it, posted up the defender, and went for it.” Sifrin, who was not eligible during summer training camp and missed last week’s opening game against Boston College while awaiting clearance from the NCAA, compiled 40 yards and two touch-downs in his debut for the Minutemen, a 41-38 loss to Colorado at Gillette Stadium on Saturday. Quarterback Blake Frohnapfel, a graduate student, targeted Sifrin often, particularly in the red zone. Their on-field chem-istry is a new marriage that’s in the honeymoon phase. “With Jean in the end

zone, instead of a field goal, it’s a touchdown,” said Frohnapfel, who lives a floor below Sifrin in the same apartment building. “Someone like him is a freak athlete, really. Having him out on the field caused a lot of problems with defense. A guy like him helps a quar-terback.” Frohnapfel said the two became quick friends because they are both new to the team. The signal-caller, who joined UMass this year from Marshall, said he knew Sifrin would be an impact player after watching him run around when he first got to Amherst. Frohnapfel added that Sifrin is also a good block-er, as well as a reliable target. “That was his first game, and to have a guy making plays like that in his first game gets us excited,” Frohnapfel said. “We know that he can make a lot of those plays in the future as well.” Minutemen coach Mark Whipple said the team is still figuring out Sifrin’s skill set. He said he isn’t sure yet how the latter will be used moving forward, but noted he was glad to have Sifrin on the team. “The kid obviously didn’t freeze,” Whipple said. “He made a big play

Sifrin a bright spot in his Minutemen debut

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“Someone like him is a freak athlete, really. Having him

out on the field caused a lot of prob-lems with defense.

A guy like him helps a quaterback.”Blake Frohnapfel,UMass quaterback

W O M E N ’ S S O C C E R

By Frank CoronaCollegian Staff

It looked like it was going to be a game of firsts for the Massachusetts women’s soc-cer team on Sunday. The Minutewomen were 45 seconds away from their first win in regulation this season and their first win at home at Rudd Field this year, all coming infreshman goalkeeper Cassidy Babin’s first start, where she almost recorded her first collegiate shutout. New Hampshire’s Brooke Murphy changed with a goal with 45 seconds left in regulation. However, UMass stayed composed and junior captain Jackie Bruno deliv-ered in the 103rd minute to give the Minutewomen a 2-1 victory in double overtime for their first win at Rudd Field this season. With the Minutewomen (2-3-1) coming off two straight double overtime losses and going on the road for the next four games, there was no confusion in how impor-tant it was to end their home stretch on a high note. “We needed this today,” UMass coach Ed Matz said. “It’s emotionally draining when you’ve lost your last two matches in double over-time.” UMass struck first with a penalty kick in the 47th minute that was converted by sophomore Megan Burke. After struggling to pro-duce offensively the past few games, the Minutewomen dominated the Wildcats on Sunday in total shots (24-11) and corner kicks (9-2). Bruno led the team with 10 shots. “We’re creating shots, which is great,” Matz said “As long as we create shots, that’s all I care about. They’re going to go in even-tually.” UMass went into the final minute of regulation with a 1-0 lead, but Murphy’s goal with 45 seconds left forced the game into overtime. “It gets really hectic in the last 10 minutes in the game,” Bruno said. “We know what it feels like to win in over-time and we know what it feels like to lose in overtime,

so every time we go in we know individually we have each other’s back and the whole team is playing for each other.” Bruno and her team-mates responded in overtime when Daniela Alvarez found Bruno for the game-winner in the 103rd minute. UMass has become accus-tomed to overtime peri-ods this year, with five of its six games heading into extra time. Four of these games have gone into double overtime. Sunday was the first extra-time win for the Minutewomen since Aug. 28th against Bryant. “This was time and we basically said this is it,” Matz said. “This was time to basi-cally say stop and no more of this and in both overtimes we played really, really well.” UMass relied heavily on its youth on Sunday, includ-ing Babin. According to Matz, Babin and the other underclassmen have showed progression. “Our young players are understanding the system more and more and we’re giving them a chance,” Matz said. “Obviously we want to win these games in September but we’re going to have to count on our young players.” Even with their youth, the Minutewomen maintained their composure in a very physical game where the Wildcats were called for two yellow cards. “I think we’re a very phys-ical team as well and when we want the ball, we’re ready to body up,” Bruno said. The Minutewomen hope that their momentum will carry onto the road, as they start a four game road trip this Thursday at Northeastern. Matz said that he is confident that the suc-cess will continue, as long as the team maintains the same mindset. “We had a lot of built in excuses today for why we may not succeed,” Matz said. “We didn’t want them being prevalent, so today was a huge day.”

Frank Corona can be reached at fcorona@umass.edu.

UM defeats BC in double overtime

L A B E L

By Matthew ZaCkMan Collegian Staff

The No. 10 Massachusetts field hockey team failed to carry the momentum from its win over Maine Friday into Sunday’s matchup with No. 13 Boston College, as the Minutewomen were shutout 2-0 in Chestnut Hill. Junior goalkeeper Sam Carlino tallied nine saves for the game, but the UMass offense was held to just five shots on goal. Midfielders Izzie Delario and Brooke Sabia had two scoring opportunities apiece, but were stopped by Eagles goalkeeper Leah Settipane, who finished with five saves. BC pulled ahead with two goals in the first 25 min-utes, six seconds and never looked back. Emily McCoy opened the scoring with a goal in the 19th minute on a feed from twin sister, Eryn. Leah Frome doubled the Eagles’ advantage six min-utes later when she gath-

ered her own rebound and beat Carlino to make it 2-0. “The first half we played some good [field] hockey…but we found our-selves in some unfortu-nate situations,” UMass coach Carla Tagliente said. A two-goal deficit at the half certainly wasn’t insurmountable, but Tagliente said UMass impeded any chance of a comeback with some poor play out of the break. “I was disappointed with how we came out in the second half. We were a bit scattered for offense and didn’t execute,” Tagliente said. “I thought that down the stretch we lost our push and gave up on the game, which is disappointing.” UMass did have three opportunities to capital-ize on penalty corners in the second half, but were unable to connect.

Matthew Zackman can be reached at mzackman@umass.edu.

Minutewomen shut out by Eagles

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