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Student trustee hopefuls Emily O’Neil, Nicholas Vigneau, Gabriel Schmitt and Kabir Thatte address questions Tuesday night.

Tackling the trustee debates

By Patrick HoffCollegian Staff

The room of 50 seats seat-ed only 10 people, including 11 empty rows of chairs, as the four candidates for stu-dent trustee took the stage Tuesday night to debate campus issues in the first ever live streamed elections debate. The debate got off to a rocky start, as candidates Emily O’Neil, Gabriel Schmitt, Kabir Thatte and Nicholas Vigneau misun-derstood the format, as did many audience mem-bers. Nearly a dozen times throughout the debate, mod-

erator Divya Kirti, who is serving as chancellor of elections this year, fumbled her outlined format and had to be corrected by candi-dates or audience members. Nonetheless, the four candidates spent two hours discussing issues ranging from health ser-vices to diversity on cam-pus, focusing primarily on tuition, fees and afford-ability of the University of Massachusetts. Thatte’s main focus throughout the debate was his proposal to form a Student Trustee Advisory Committee where student

leaders from across campus would advise him on cam-pus issues so he could com-pletely bring a student voice to the board. Thatte said he would work with the trust-ees from other campuses to make sure the two votes allotted for the five UMass student trustees. In terms of finances, Thatte supports the tuition and fee freeze, but said it needs to be taken further, rolling back certain fees to make the University more affordable. Schmitt, who read a book in his lap for the duration of the debate, focused on the role the student trustee

would play in addressing fiscal challenges, as he did throughout the debate, say-ing that the student trust-ee’s job is mostly to voice concerns and real troubles to change policy views instead of trying to enact change in a hands-on way. He said it’s “sad how hard students have to work to pay off debt,” and the Board of Trustees needs to reexam-ine the allocation of fees and make sure fees are in the best interest of students. O’Neil viewed her poten-tial position as a bridge

In spite of unsteady moderation, four candidates debate on informative issues

By Zac BearsCollegian Staff

Alexander Marks-Katz, a Student Government Association senator in his second semester repre-senting Commonwealth Honors College Residential Community, has serious concerns about the leader-ship of the SGA Senate and the execution of the spring election. But when senators and other SGA members heard his characterization of events, they came to the defense of the senate’s lead-ership. Marks-Katz said in an interview with the Daily Collegian Sunday that his concern with his time as senator centers on the fact that a few people control the agenda – Senate Speaker Sïonan Barrett, Associate Speaker Lauren Coakley and the chairs of the sen-ate’s five committees – and that in his experience, the leaders are not receptive to suggestions from outside that group. “I’m genuinely concerned with the senate’s leadership and its lack of direction,” Marks-Katz said. Yet when contacted for comment by the Collegian, no other senators agreed with Marks-Katz’s criticisms about how Barrett, Coakley and committee chairs are leading the senate. Citing a recent Collegian profile on Barrett, who is also running for SGA president on a ticket with SGA Secretary of Public Relations Chantal Lima Barbosa, he said, “…their philosophy for this election

was ‘they didn’t have any specific goals, so that way people could do what they wanted.’ But the problem with that from my experi-ence is that’s kind of like having a car without a wheel, so you can’t steer it.” Marks-Katz argued that the effect of his “car without a wheel” analogy is that indi-vidual senators will devel-op ideas that aren’t widely known by the entire body, which means that when those motions are proposed in senate meetings, individu-als haven’t considered all of the implications. The senate then tables the motion for further discussion. But Marks-Katz said a majority of tabled motions don’t get reintroduced. He said this means that 90 to 95 percent of motions in the senate come from the com-mittees and the small leader-ship group. He also said he finds the senate to be “more of a reac-tive body rather than a pro-active one.” However, no other sena-tor agreed with Marks-Katz’s description of the sen-ate’s working environment. “Branching out that the senate is a reactionary body seems a bit ignorant to say,” Administrative Affairs Chairman and Student Trustee candidate Kabir Thatte said “Yes, some of the responses by the senate have been reactionary, but this has been necessary.” “The senate is reaction-ary when the situation arises, for example (the Davis Report) and the rec-ommendation to end the Confidential Informant pro-gram,” Chairwoman of the Undergraduate Experience

SGA members question critiques

Data shows slow growth of UMass’ minority population

By Zac BearsCollegian Staff

Heated exchanges shot through the air of Mahar Auditorium in October 1977, when opposing teams debat-ed the then-recently argued United States Supreme Court case “Regents of the University of California v. Bakke,” which would upend affirmative action programs across the country when decided the following spring. Rejected from the University of California-Davis Medical School twice, Allan Bakke, a white man, had sued the UC system for discrimination “solely on the basis of (his) race.” Students leaving the hall commented on the debate’s aggressive tone, Mark Horan wrote in the Oct. 13, 1977, edi-tion of The Massachusetts Daily Collegian. While the team opposing racial quo-tas cautiously accepted America’s racist history, they argued that alter-

native methods, such as recruitment or improving public schools, were need-ed. Former UMass Afro-American Studies Professor Plaisel Benjamin retorted that the anti-quota team did not understand American history, contributing to the hot tempers in Mahar. Nearly 40 years later, similar arguments rile the University of Massachusetts campus, from incidents of racial violence in October 2014, to a policy instituted this February banning new admissions of Iranian stu-

dents interested in study-ing petroleum or nuclear energy and the failure of the University’s minority popu-lation to keep up with state-wide demographic shifts.

Non-white enrollment falls during the 1980s

The following figures have been compiled using data publicly available from the UMass Office of Institutional Research and the U.S. Census Bureau, and show black, Hispanic, Asian and

Only four percent increase in 40 years

New drug platform to combat diseases explored

By cHristina yaconoCollegian Staff

Margaret Riley, a pro-fessor of evolutionary biology at the University of Massachusetts, is part-nering with Chinese sci-entist Dr. Xiao-Qing Qiu to work on a new drug platform invented by Qiu called pheromonicins. This potential new drug would have the potential to combat diseases such as HIV and cancer. Pheromonicins are made from protein bac-teriocins, which can be extracted from most spe-cies of bacteria. The bac-teriocins have competitive interactions that act like communication signals, and also have the ability to kill these types of cells. Qiu has modified this and developed pheromoni-cins which would have these bacteriocins target and attack specific cells such as cancerous cells,

tuberculosis and HIV. The pheromonicins also do not recognize human cells, so the body wouldn’t recog-nize it as a foreign entity and get attacked. While Riley said her research has been focused on the most efficient way to treat urinary tract infections caused by cath-eters, she said she hopes the work she does in col-laboration with Qiu will “increase the number of effective therapeutic drugs

and strategies to combat drug resistance in quickly evolving diseases such as HIV, TB, malaria, cancer and cystic fibrosis.” In Beijing, Qiu has already successfully devel-oped one application to combat metastasis in cows, which is inflammation in the mammary glands. So far, the tests have shown there would be no toxicity to humans. If this success

Collaboration with Chinese scientist

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Professor of biology, Margaret Riley, and her parrot, Doc.

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white enrollment at UMass from 1974 to 2014 and state-wide population data for the same groups. From 1976 to 1981, the 700 black undergraduates represented more than half of the entire non-white population at UMass. Black enrollment fell to under 500 students in 1982 – lower than it had been through much of the 1970s – and remained low until the mid-1990s. Black enrollment reached 700 students again, but only in the face of sig-nificantly greater increases in underrepresented minor-ity – black, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islanders – and non-white – under-represented minority plus Asian – enrollment. Non-white and under-represented minority enrollment surpassed 1,500 students in 1990, the same year that Asian students, then 2.8 percent of the University’s undergraduate population, became over-represented relative to the Asian population share of Massachusetts, 2.5 percent. In recent Massachusetts history, non-white under-graduate enrollment has approached or slightly surpassed the non-white share of the state’s popula-tion. Before “Bakke,” non-white enrollment as a per-centage of students nearly approached the statewide share, and black enrollment surpassed the black share of the population from 1976 to 1979. But in the 1980s, the non-white share of the under-graduate population fell back to the lows seen in the early 1970s. Hispanic enroll-ment stayed around half of the statewide population share throughout the 1980s. It crept up in the latter half of the decade, but fell again in the early 1990s. While the black and Hispanic share of Massachusetts’s popula-tion more than doubled from 1974 to 1990, black and Hispanic enrollment changed little. It wasn’t until 1990 that underrepre-sented minority enrollment returned to late 1970s lev-els, and in 1991, when Asian students were no longer underrepresented, the level dropped back to the lows seen in the early 1970s and again in the early 1980s.

A narrower definition of race

The “Bakke” decision, written by Justice Lewis Powell in the summer of 1978, largely took the posi-tion of the anti-quota team from the previous fall’s debate. Racial quotas were unconstitutional, but race could still be one of many factors used to determine admittance.

In the July 12, 1978, editio n of the Daily Collegian, Sheldon Goldman, political science professor, said Powell decid-ed to “ignore the whole sordid history of racial dis-crimination. (Powell) said that as far as the law was concerned, there is no such thing as racism. That’s not very realistic.” “We certainly hope it won’t affect us, but real-istically we know that it will,” Committee for the Collegiate Education of Black Students Assistant Director Carol Miranda said. “Our title alone may come up for scrutiny.” CCEBS became CMASS, the Center for Multicultural Advancement and Student Success, in 2010. The number of non-white undergraduates is five times higher than 40 years ago, but there are also more undergradu-ates in general. While total undergraduate enroll-ment hovered near 19,000 until 2004, that number has increased to 22,500 over the past 10 years, which also corresponds with the larg-est increase in non-white enrollment since the 1970s. Two 2003 challeng-es to affirmative action admissions policies at the University of Michigan fur-ther impacted UMass. “Gratz v. Bollinger” found the point system used at UMass, and often used to replace the quota system around the country, uncon-stitutional. The companion case “Grutter v. Bollinger” upheld the “narrowly tai-lored use of race in admis-sions decisions.” Prior to “Gratz,” minor-ity applicants could be awarded half a point out of 10 total points on under-graduate applications. Joe Marshall of CCEBMS said it may not have seemed like much, but the half point helped significantly, accord-ing to the Nov. 6, 2003, edi-tion of the Daily Collegian. In the same piece, Director of Student Legal Services Chuck DiMare said over 35 categories can be con-sidered in the process, but only race “won’t pass con-sistently.” UMass now has to con-sider race in an even more holistic way, incorporat-ing it through less exact-ing means than quotas or points, such as essays, personal statements and recruitment programs.

Underrepresentation by the numbers

The percentage share of white enrollment has shrunk slightly since the 1970s, but the absolute number of white students at UMass is about the same as it was then, as is the absolute number of black

students. Constant black and white enrollment does not reflect changes in the state’s demographics. Black Americans as a share of the Massachusetts population have grown from 4 percent to nearly 9 percent since 1974, but only 4 percent of enrolled under-graduates at UMass are black. More than 10 times as many Hispanic Americans live in the Commonwealth in 2014 than did in 1974, but the Hispanic share of enrollment has only qua-drupled. Asian students have been overrepresented relative to the share of the state’s population since 1990. With over 8 percent of under-graduate enrollment, Asian students were overrepre-sented by nearly 2.5 percent in 2014. Overall, combined non-white enrollment shot up during the 1990s, mostly due to significant growth in the Asian student commu-nity.

Historical parallels In November 1968, a black student, James R. Hall, and a white friend were attacked on Orchard Hill by a group of five white students, who told them that “n*****s don’t belong at UMass anymore” because Nixon had won the previous day’s election, according to Lost UMass. When black student Dan Brown rear-ended a white student on Infirmary Way in 1970, the area exploded into a fistfight joined by black and white students taking sides in what sourc-es at the time described as a “race riot.” Black students retreated into Mills House, expelling the white students and bar-ricading the building with furniture in order to occupy the building. The students set forth a list of demands,

which the administration accepted, turning Mills into New Africa House, home of the “Black Cultural Center,” and founding the Afro American Studies department. Racist attacks on stu-dents continue to highlight the effects of underrepre-sentation and racism in campus and national his-tory. Messages referenc-ing Spanish speakers not speaking English, or speak-ing with an accent appeared on several residence hall room doors, and “KILL THESE N*****S!!” was etched into Josh Odam’s door over the weekend of Oct. 11 to 12, 2014, when he was at Ferguson protests in Missouri. However, the gather-ing of community mem-bers for a town hall-style meeting, where students were allowed to voice opinions publicly and talk to Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy and Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Campus Life Enku Gelaye, represented a significant procedural departure from the recon-ciliation of racist or racial-

ly motivated attacks in the 1960s and 1970s. No occupa-tion was necessary. Members of the Chancellor’s Diversity Planning Steering Committee proposed initia-tives to recruit and retain underrepresented, low-income and first-generation students in November 2014, according to the Collegian, which could have an impact on the enrollment of stu-dents from underrepresent-ed groups. Since 1974, non-white enrollment has nearly tripled, but the share of enrollment of underrepre-sented minorities has gone up only 4 percent. Over that time, the state’s population of groups underrepresented in the student population of UMass doubled, from nine percent to 18 percent. Terms that have been used were taken from the Office of Institutional Research.

Zac Bears can be reached at ibears@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @zac_bears.

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Students expelled over racist fraternity chant

By Matt PearceLos Angeles Times

Two unidentified stu-dents have been expelled for playing a “leadership role” in a racist chant by Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers at the University of Oklahoma, the univer-sity’s president announced Tuesday. “We will continue our investigation of all the students engaged in the singing of this chant,” University President David Boren said in a statement, justifying the expulsions on the grounds that the chant had created a hostile envi-ronment for other students. “Once their identities have been confirmed, they will be subject to appropriate disci-plinary action.” The expulsions were the latest fallout from a viral video that emerged Sunday night showing members of the SAE fraternity singing an anti-black chant. Boren almost immedi-ately banned the SAE fra-ternity from campus after the video showed members singing “you can hang ‘em from a tree” and “there will never be a (n-word) SAE” on a bus. In his statement Tuesday morning, Boren said: “I have emphasized that there is zero tolerance for this

kind of threatening racist behavior at the University of Oklahoma. I hope that the entire nation will join us in having zero tolerance of such racism when it raises its ugly head in other situa-tions across our country.” Boren praised the univer-sity’s response and added, “I hope that students involved in this incident will learn from this experience and realize that it is wrong to use words to hurt, threaten, and exclude other people.” A black former member of SAE at the University of Oklahoma disowned the fra-ternity Tuesday. “They are not my broth-ers,” William Bruce James II of Edmond, Okla., told CNN, adding, “They all got to go.” Anonymous sources had sent the video to a black activist group on campus and the local student news-paper on Sunday, and pun-ishment was swift. SAE’s national president, Brad Cohen, quickly said he was “shocked and disgusted” by the chant and also moved to cut ties with the local chap-ter. Less than 24 hours after the video hit social media, officials had stripped SAE’s letters from their house and fraternity brothers were moving out their things to meet a midnight deadline,

on the university presi-dent’s orders. Possibly caught in the collateral damage was a black chef who worked for SAE, Howard Dixon. By Monday morning, an online fundraiser set up for Dixon had raised more than $40,000. The university’s beloved football team, despite show-ing outrage Monday and participating in anti-racist demonstrations, was also hit: after a black four-star football recruit Jean Delance saw the video, he withdrew his commitment from the program. Many black students on campus, while shocked by the video, said it confirmed their worst fears about the continued existence of rac-ism at the university. James, a member of SAE from 2001 to 2004, said he didn’t recall hearing the racist chant, versions of which have reportedly been heard at some other cam-puses across the South. “They are wearing the same letters I wore ... they have the same pin, the same symbol that I hold dear to my heart ... and I don’t know what they have done with it,” James told CNN.

continues in human trials, the treatment of disease in the upcoming years would change. Qiu, who is a profes-sor at Sichuan University, reached out to Riley last June asking to look over his manuscript. Although she said she typically declines these types of requests because she’s frequently in demand, she took an interest in his manuscript and commu-nication between the two continued. Riley has also done research with evolution-ary biology and environ-mental issues, but said she has lacked funding for research on antibiot-ics. So when approached with this partnership, she described it as a “sort of luck and being in the right position when luck offered this opportunity.” With very similar views

in science and the same goal of creating a targeted approach to disease, the two have been working together ever since vis-iting each other in both Amherst and Beijing. The Pheromonicin Institute of Beijing is sup-ported by the Chinese government, which is paying $400 million each year to aid this research. One of the conditions for the government to sup-port this institute was that the institute had to branch out and create sis-ter institutes internation-ally. Riley agreed with the idea, and there is a plan in the works to create an

branch in Amherst or in the Springfield area. This plan is hoped to be begin this year. Riley wants to see these products tested in humans and for different types of applications to be devel-oped in the next five years. Riley said she is excited for the future and is glad to be working on a project that is “one chance in a lifetime to change the field of infectious disease treat-ment.”

Christina Yacono can be reached at cyacono@umass.edu.

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Riley said she is excited for the future and is glad to be working on a project

that is “one chance in a lifetime to change the field of infectious disease treatment.”

Committee Jen Raichel said in an email. “But that should not overshadow the proactive work being done by senators (and senate leadership).” Thatte said that commit-tee motions aren’t just the work of committee chairs. “I’ve brought many motions before my commit-tee, but we would sit down and work it out between all of us,” he said. “After this, the motion goes to the senate to be passed, worked on, or both.” Also in his first year as a senator, SGA Senator Jose Nova said he’s been “impressed” by the sen-ate leadership’s “dedication and work ethic,” specifically citing Raichel, Barrett and Thatte. “In terms of motions and agendas, as a collective unit, we vote and agree on those that should be passed. Without a majority vote, this cannot be done,” Nova said regarding Marks-Katz’s con-tention of tabled motions. “When motions are tabled, this usually takes place because a motion does not have enough substance to be feasible.” Nova said he understands how a senator could feel neglected when ideas aren’t considered, but said that has nothing to do with the sen-ate’s leadership. Chair of the Diversity and Student Engagement Committee Emily O’Neil, who is also running for stu-dent trustee, hasn’t had the same experience as Marks-Katz but believes the body does have structural issues. She said that the “most pressing problems” for the SGA are systemic because its members have “little accountability” to “actual students.” She specifically cites haphazard preparation of each senator’s “Back to the People” events, of which two are supposed to be held each semester. “There is no way to know how your own senator voted on a specific issue,” she said. “There is often no way to tell who your senators even are

or how to reach them.”

Contradictory accounts

Marks-Katz is disap-pointed with the state of the SGA elections, and said that he proposed two solutions to Lima Barbosa. But what Lima Barbosa said contests some of Marks-Katz’s state-ments and she said that his solutions were infeasible and potentially illegal. He outlined two sugges-tions he provided to Lima Barbosa. The first was a poster of Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots. He suggested the poster would be a meme that invited students to vote by saying, “Gronk wants you to #VoteUMass.”

“She said she would make it, and since, I haven’t heard from her about that,” he said. “I think if there had been actual execution on that, or if she had delegated it to me, then … it would have at least made people aware of elec-tions.” Lima Barbosa remem-bered this interaction differ-ently. “I did meet with this indi-vidual, and asked him to send me the poster,” she said in an email. “However, the individual never sent me this poster.” Marks-Katz’s other sug-gestion was that the SGA use $200 of the $3,000 election budget to provide a free $10 pizza to 20 randomly selected voters. He said he sent it in a March 2 email. Lima Barbosa said she told Marks-Katz that she needed to discuss the idea with SGA Adviser Lydia Washington. According to Lima Barbosa, Washington said that “giving people pizza to vote would not be allowed, and (would be) potentially illegal.” Marks-Katz also detailed his account of attempts to schedule meetings with Barrett and Coakley over the past two months. In Marks-Katz’s experi-ence, the speaker and other senate leaders were not receptive to his suggestions. He said he went back and forth with Barrett, Coakley and Washington trying to schedule a meeting, but found it hard to set up a time. “I feel like when I tried to step up, when I tried to take more of a leadership role in senate, when I tried to offer my ideas and support, those ideas were deferred and ignored by Speaker Barrett and Associate Speaker Coakley,” Marks-Katz said. Coakley sharply disagreed with Marks-Katz’s character-ization of attempts to sched-ule a meeting. “We felt that communi-cations from this individual were overly aggressive and we felt personally threat-ened,” Coakley said in an email. “Therefore, Speaker Barrett and I went to our adviser who, given the cir-cumstances, told us not to meet with him without pro-fessional staff present. This request to include profession-al staff has not been respect-ed by said senator and the individual has subsequently cancelled the three meet-ings.” Coakley said Marks-Katz did not attempt to reschedule after the third cancellation and that after over a month of “consistent and concerning emails,” they communicated their concerns to the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Life in accordance with state law. In a follow-up response, Coakley said she, Washington

and SGA President Vinayak Rao were ready to meet with him a couple weeks ago, but he cancelled at the last min-ute. She said that Washington found the tone of Marks-Katz’s messages to herself, Barrett and Washington “very disrespectful.” “I did not feel comfortable being spoken to in such a dis-respectful manner over email and my adviser directed these concerns to her superiors,” she said.

SGA officers decry timing of remarks

Many of the SGA officials who commented for this arti-cle said they disagreed with Marks-Katz approaching the Collegian in the middle of an election campaign. When she declined to com-ment on the article, Barrett said that some of Marks-Katz’s quotes “seem like a public bashing of me in my role.” She also characterized the timing as “strategically released (during) elections.” SGA Senator Michael Hout took issue with Marks-Katz’s “accusations,” and also took issue with the tim-ing. “The  chosen time to release such inflammatory and untrue comments clear-ly speaks to a partisan goal, which is just  unfortunate,” he said. However, Marks-Katz predicted that SGA officials would criticize the timing as an attempt to throw this week’s election. “Full disclosure, Sammi Gay is my (resident assis-tant). Also, I have a class with Danny Mirlay Srinivas so I know him from that. But I’m not sure who I’ll vote for at this point,” he said in relation to those concerns. Gay and Mirlay Srinivas are both candidates for SGA vice president. Amy Gebo, SGA senator, may have an explanation for the criticisms. She char-acterized last semester as “very rough.” She said many members of the SGA weren’t separating professional work from their personal lives, and said that explains the numer-ous resignations, including former Associate Speaker Chris Czepiel, who rejoined the senate this week. Gebo said in an email the SGA climate improved signif-icantly after members of the leadership underwent media-tion sessions. “People definitely learned how to work with each other,” Gebo said. “I feel as though separating those two is very hard for those in the SGA because it is a professional organization made up of col-lege students. This semester has definitely proved to be better.”

Zac Bears can be reached at ibears@umass.edu. Patrick Hoff contributed to this report.

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between the Board of Trustees and the student body, representing stu-dents to the board and informing students of what the board discusses. She proposed having office hours a number of times a month to better hear the student voice, specifically meeting in multiple dif-ferent locations in order to best reach students. She also highlighted the fact that she is the only trustee candidate to visit the Graduate Employment Organization – an integral part of the trustee’s posi-tion is representing both undergraduate and gradu-ate students. Vigneau made it clear he didn’t view the stu-dent trustee position as a political position – it’s a job to take what happens on campus and advocate for students on the Board of Trustees. He also said it “was a given to consult other (campus) trustees” when voting on the board, considering two-fifths of the trustees get a vote each year. The topic of diversity, a particularly heated sub-ject this year at UMass, became especially con-troversial when Vigneau

equated “diversity of color” with “diversity of thought,” a comparison that O’Neil and Thatte par-ticularly took issue with. Current Student Trustee Sarah Freudson, however, applauded Vigneau for his definition, even thanking him. The fence between Hasbrouck and the Campus Center became a point of contention for a few minutes. All of the can-didates agreed that taking out the stairs completely was the wrong solution to the problem of noncompli-ance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, but they were split on whether a ramp, a new set of stairs or another solution was the right course of action. All of the candidates supported the MASSPIRG ballot questions, along with raising the Student Activity Trust Fund fee to better support Registered Student Organizations, but they were split on the third question, raising the stu-dent health fee by $7 per semester. Thatte disagreed with the fee increase because he wasn’t convinced that the Student Government Association and the stu-

dent body have been pro-vided with enough infor-mation of how the money would be used. Schmitt, who wrote the referendum, and Vigneau both sup-ported the question, say-ing that an understaffed Center for Counseling and Psychological Health was not good for the campus as a whole. O’Neil “took pause” when considering the ref-erendum because while she supports a better funded CCPH, she doesn’t think the money should come from students – it should come from the state. Because of the emergency nature of funding the CCPH, howev-er, O’Neil said she felt the ballot question was neces-sary. The format for the debate was more interac-tive than in past years, allowing audience mem-bers to ask candidates questions directly after answering the moderator’s question in order to com-pletely cover every side of a particular topic while the issue was on the floor.

Patrick Hoff can be reached at pphoff@umass.edu and followed @Hoff_Patrick16.

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In the early 1970s, stu-dent businesses opened at the University of

Massachusetts. The first was Sylvan Snack Bar, which was soon followed by others, seven of which remain today. They are now run as cooperatives, mean-ing that each student work-er is a co-manager and thus receives equal pay and has equal say in business deci-sions. The co-op model con-trasts that of UMass Dining, a tradi-tional capitalist business wherein the food service workers are paid a low-wage to produce value for the upper level owners and managers who make all business decisions. When the student co-ops originated, they were entirely separate from UMass Dining, but four of

them – Earthfoods Café, Greeno Sub Shop, Sweets N’ More and Sylvan Snack Bar – were eventually integrat-ed into meal plans through their inclusion in YCMP plans. Recent changes to the meal plan, most impor-tantly the implementation of Dining Dollars, exclude the student co-ops, making it more difficult for them to

remain a relevant option for students. All students who live in non-apartment style residence halls on campus are mandated to purchase a meal plan. According to UMass Dining, over 40 percent of students choose to buy the unlimited plan, which includes the UMass currency called Dining Dollars. Students can use

their Dining Dollars at any dining location on cam-pus – except at the student cooperatives. The fact that students can’t fully support student co-ops with their meal plans makes it nearly impossible for the co-ops to compete with UMass’ retail dining locations, all of which accept Dining Dollars. The policy of exclu-

sion risks putting the stu-dent co-ops out of business. The only way students can use their meal plan at student co-ops is through YCMP plans available only to juniors and seniors, which UMass Dining debat-ed cutting last year and kept only due to student protest. Student co-ops are ben-eficial to the UMass commu-nity, and students and the

administration alike have an interest in keeping them afloat. They prove that a more fair way of doing busi-ness is possible. Workers can successfully run a business together – they do not need top-down management or unequal pay. The horizontal struc-ture also provides student workers with experience in

making decisions collective-ly and organizing a business, which they would not find elsewhere. Additionally, the co-ops provide an alterna-tive food source to students, faculty and community members. Earthfoods Café provides delicious vegetar-ian and vegan meals, and Greeno Sub Shop offers healthy food for students while sourcing from local

producers and businesses, thus participating in local community development. They directly enhance the UMass community by host-ing open mic nights, gallery shows and events by vari-ous student groups. The co-ops are heav-ily marketed by UMass, dis-played as a source of inno-vation and student initia-

tive and mentioned during tours of campus. Further, in meetings with students, administrators from the Office of Student Affairs and Campus Life and UMass Dining have expressed to students how important the co-ops are to the campus and how dedicated they are to supporting them. These administrators’ words and endorsements

are hollow without a specif-ic commitment from them to better include student co-ops in meal plans. If the administration is going to force students to buy a meal plan, we should at least have a say in where we can use it. The contract between the student co-ops and the administration that allows them to be included in the meal plan expires this May. The co-ops, in coali-tion with the Student Labor Action Project, are working to get Dining Dollars rights expanded to student busi-nesses. I am a member of the UMass Student Labor Action project and if you are interested in organizing with us, “like” the UMass Student Labor Action Project page on Facebook.

Doug Hornstein is a Collegian contributor and can be reached at dhornstein@umass.edu.

UMass must open Dining Dollars to co-ops

“These administrators’ words and endorsements are hollow without a specific commitment from them to better include student co-ops in meal plans.”

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No ‘right to be right’ Despite their vast differences in ideology, members of all politi-cal parties and affiliations hold as

sacred the rights to which we are entitled. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Socialists, Communists and even Anarchists all uphold rights as a source from which morality and good governance derive, yet here we are with “wars” on various rights, waged on various fronts. The issue is that each and every one of the aforementioned groups – really, the voting population – doesn’t seem to truly believe in rights for everyone. What many do seem to believe in is rights for me and my own, leaving little thought for those of others. Many will vociferously fight and protest any attack on our own liberties, real or otherwise, but simultaneously support government action to weaken the civil liberties of others. If I’m a gun owner, I may fight to the death to preserve my right to own a massive arsenal a military junta would be proud of, but if birth control and abortion are against my religion, a woman’s right to privacy might not matter to me. If I’m an activist, I can protest as loudly and as disruptively as I like against corporate greed while trash-ing public parks, but when some-one protests something I hold sacred, such as abortion, I may not just dis-agree with their flawed stance, but also protest their very right to pro-test. Of course, these are extreme examples, but they highlight the issue at hand: we like to think we as a soci-ety respect rights, but to some degree we don’t. How else does one explain the fact that we continue to re-elect representatives who have created the most far-reaching mass surveillance program in history, one which spies on its own people? It’s because, to a certain degree, we want it. I may be an upstanding, moral citizen and believe spying is a viola-tion of my right to privacy, but also believe the government ought to spy on everyone else because they might be terrorists, right-wing racist mili-tia members or communists. This is why our elected representatives seem to be violating our civil rights left and right: because that is what we

elected them to do. We elect represen-tatives we believe share our values, and sometimes our values involve protecting our rights while devaluing those of others. However, since everyone has their own set of ‘allies’ and ‘enemies’ in terms of rights, our elected repre-sentatives don’t form a united front in their authoritarianism. Rather, we produce legislative bodies with aston-ishing partisan differences. On any given issue, there is a group of legisla-tors who fervently seek to protect the rights of a given group while another group will just as fervently seek to deprive them of those same rights for some reason or another. This is not solely an issue of the nation’s elite – as the saying goes, it’s a matter of the fascist ideology of our next-door neighbors. We’re a nation full of people who strongly believe that if everything went my way, if my beliefs were followed, the world would be a better place. That’s partly what democracy is about – people voting based on their views – but left unchecked it can be dangerous. Many critics bemoan that our problems are the making of a corrupt elite that has seized power, but that’s misleading at best, as it absolves us of the fact we pick who most of these people are. The unsettling thing is that I don’t see this as malicious. It’s not like people are actively trying to disrupt society, and no one believes that they are doing something wrong. We all think we know what is best for America, but the problem is we don’t tend to consider the possibility that we are wrong ourselves, or that our own personal moral code ought not be enforced on others. As a nation, we have to better understand the value in being able to disagree without hatred, to dis-cuss, not with the goal of being right, but of finding solutions. In politics there are no right answers, so we need to stop blindly lead-ing crusades of ideology and start accepting that the goal of politics is supposed to be finding solutions to problems as they arise, and that will inherently involve compromise. Though we are entitled to numer-ous rights, both enumerated in the Constitution and otherwise, the right to be right isn’t one of them.

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

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New Apple watch is top Paris Fashion Week accessory

By Booth MooreLos Angeles Times

On Monday, the world was riveted by news about the release of the Apple Watch as the tech firm announced details about its official entry into the luxury market, with 18-karat-gold versions of the wearable device start-ing at $10,000 to begin ship-ping April 26. So far at Paris Fashion Week, designers haven’t come up with anything nearly so compelling _ not a silhouette, a handbag or a shoe to approximate Apple’s label lust. The way people hunch over their iPhones, madly Instagramming every show, texting friends or plotting their next meal, the fashion industry should be terrified of the competi-tion. Because more than

any other brand, trend or idea, Apple is defining the times and reaching for the future. No one is doing much reaching on the runways this season. Hedi Slimane’s Saint Laurent collection has always been about the remix, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1990s and this season, the 1980s. As the lights went down, the floor went up, raising the runway to the rafters in what must have been the season’s most expen-sive set trick. The origi-nal piece of music com-posed for the show this time was “Pretty Boy” by the Felines, but the look was pretty girl punk _ full skirted polka dot dresses, tight leather minis, crino-line skirts, ripped fish-nets, cat’s eye makeup and all, mixed with Hedi clas-sics such as biker jackets, slashed leather pants, slim line suits, fur capes and car coats and single-shoulder mini dresses, one cut low

enough to intentionally reveal a breast. (Why?) At this point, Saint Laurent is what it is. Slimane has hooked the cool kids (Mark Ronson, Lou Doillon and Cara Delevingne were just a few of the notables in the front row) and Saint Laurent sells, maybe not like Apple, but almost. Listening to retailers talk about it, no one blinks twice. At the Paris Opera Monday morning, Stella McCartney revisited her old familiar, the masculine/feminine theme, except the results were more stream-lined and sexier than in past seasons. Pretty sleeveless tops and dresses spliced with tweed and rose gold bro-cade and built on a cor-set silhouette slid sugges-tively off one shoulder. Sculptural black wool dresses also sent seductive cues, slit up to there, danc-ing around the hips, and worn with molded pearl

necklaces. There were also belted coats contoured to the waist worn atop chic flared pants with ruffled hems and covetable bro-cade velvet booties. Heavy ribbed knit dress-es were less convincing with those extra-long, sin-gle sleeves reaching past the hands. (Never mind the heaviness of the fabric, how do you eat?) And, not one to let ani-mal activism stand in the way of joining the over-the-top outerwear trend, McCartney showed some fierce “Fur-Free Furs,” big, bushy, faux beasts that would do Nanook right. Speaking of over-the-top outerwear, it was looking like that’s all we were going to get at Chitose Abe’s Sacai show when one supersized coat after another came out _ a pea coat, tweed coat, car coat and more _ each with patches of downy fur peeking out from the cuffs, collar and hems. But by the time a quilted leather

parka appeared swinging macrame fringe, followed by three fun riffs on the colorful Baja hoodie (two dresses and a zip front coat), I wondered if Abe was playing with the idea of weather extremes, which have certainly been on display during fashion month, from the 16 below zero temps in New York a couple weeks ago to the 50 plus degree temps in Paris this week. If she was, the idea was never fully realized, which made this collection seem a bit flat. But there were still several interesting, just-the-other-side-of-classic pieces, namely white but-ton-down shirts with cable knit sweater sleeves, and pleated white shirt dresses cinched with utility straps. The day’s hot new designer debut was at Hermes, where Nadege Vanhee-Cybulski, former design director at the Row, showed her first collection for the French house.

Riding jackets with con-toured hems and removable quilted linings inspired by saddle blankets, high-waist corduroys and a scarf print silk and leather wrap skirt with a touch of ‘70s elan felt like newish spins on horsey Hermes classics. But the moment I spotted the pair of black leather overalls (sure to cost as much as a small car), worn over a crisp white shirt, it really became clear that this was a designer with a point of view. Strong lines, vibrant color and quirky details such as a modernist sau-toir necklace worn against a beautifully minimal, high neck, ivory silk seamed knit dress, were highlights. And the new Octogone handbag was unlike any-thing Hermes has ever done before, an emerald-shaped box bag with a webbed strap. Not an Apple Watch, or even an Hermes Birkin yet, but a start.

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T E C H N O L O G Y / FA S H I O N

By troy KowalchuKCollegian Staff

From science and sexuali-ty at Amherst College, to yoga for dancers at Smith College, the Five College Consortium is a diverse and creative option for students, despite its underutilization at the University of Massachusetts. There are hundreds of courses accessible to nearly every UMass major with very little requirements. Students need only be a second semes-ter freshman or beyond, be in good academic standing and be registered in at least one three-credit course at UMass. Five college programs don’t even charge extra for class-es at other colleges. UMass students with in-state tuition could be taking courses at schools that have nearly tri-ple their in-state tuition rates. Reasons behind the small percentage of UMass stu-dent participation could be because of misinformation, the commute or believing the process of getting into a Five College course is too difficult. In actuality, the process is quite simple. Juniors Khadija Ahmed and Bianca Couture can attest to this. Ahmed has taken three courses at UMass, including readings in journalism, newswriting and reporting and community journalism. Couture, a mem-ber of the Five College Ethnomusicology Program and student at Smith College, has also reaped the benefits of the Five College Consortium. She attributes her success in the consortium to the flex-ibility of the program which allows her to design her course of study. “I feel like the structure of this program has allowed me to explore all aspects of music and culture that I am interested in while keeping a common theme throughout my studies,” she said. When asked if she believed the process was difficult, Ahmed said, “Not at all. So far I have been able to reg-ister for every class I have tried.”

As for the commute, Ahmed admits that it can definitely prevent enrollment in certain classes. She men-tions how missing the bus is always a risk factor and how motivation is a necessity to make the long haul to class. “I manage to convince myself and try my best,” she said. “At the same time, the commute isn’t as bad as one thinks. One gets used to it. My Tuesdays and Thursdays mean I am in three different towns. All that traveling is like commuting to work. It’s totally preparing me for my future job.” Couture reflects on the opportunity of all Five College students to pick from four other schools with differ-ent strengths and personali-ties. “Every school has a dif-ferent style of teaching and a unique student body that keeps my college experience interesting,” she said. “I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of the courses I’ve taken.” She regards her favorite part of participating in Five College classes as observing the different social and aca-demic cultures on the differ-ent campuses. “Everyone should try to take a class once at all of the five colleges,” Ahmed said. “I don’t know why I waited until my junior year. You never know – you might make a great impression, or fall in love with a new book or even find a new subject that you never knew you were inter-ested in.” The registration pro-cess involves first identi-fying the course desired by searching on the Five College Consortium website. Then, find the Five College Consortium form on Spire, fill it out, print out two filled out copies, get the instruc-tor’s signature and bring it to the Five College Interchange Office located in room 614 of Goodell. As course registra-tion begins to open in the next month, a Five College course should definitely be in the realm of possibilities for UMass students.

Troy Kowalchuk can be reached at tkowalchuk@umass.edu.

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Trash your destructive recycling habits and help change the campus

By erica GarnettCollegian Staff

Kevin Hollerbach is a senior, science major with a concentration in envi-ronmental science. But concentration would be an understatement. As the Eco-Rep pro-gram manager, he views the University of Massachusetts’ lack of awareness and participa-tion in eco-friendliness as a multi-faceted issue. He believes it will take a collective effort to make improvements. “The great thing about Eco-Rep that is that it is open to everybody,” Hollerbach said. “It works better when there are peo-ple from different majors because they bring in a different perspective.” Hollerbach attributes the issue of a lack of educa-tion, existing misconcep-tions and infrastructure as discouraging factors to the campus not taking envi-ronmental initiative. Residence halls are the epicenter of the environ-mental crime. Research collected in 2014 by the two-credit, peer facili-tated class, according to Hollerbach, found that res-idence halls contributed to 50 percent of the total waste stream on campus while only being respon-sible for a quarter of the recycling on campus. Breaking the results down more was the annu-al fall Eco-Rep Trash Sort report. A total of 422 pounds of trash was col-lected from the Northeast Resident ia l Area , Washington Tower and North Apartment Hall D. They were also searched to gauge the recycling behav-iors of the area. Less than half of the “trash” was actually trash. Of the 51.6 percent of non-trash, 34.8 percent was recycling and 16.8 percent was compost. Northeast Residential Area had the small-est amount of overall

trash collected yet was the only place out of the three areas that had less than half of its “trash” as actual trash. In North D, nearly 80 percent of its “trash” was actual trash. Washington Hall, within the Southwest Residential Area was reported to have nearly half of their “trash” as mistaken recy-clables. Of those eligible items, 50 percent of those, or 25 percent of their over-all “trash” was comprised of alcoholic containers. While getting documented for having alcohol is unfor-tunate and maybe even a little intimidating, climate change may be just a little bit scarier than BASICS. A high caliber of trash amongst recycling will cause all of the recycling to be thrown out. This is seen often in the residence halls as indicated by the Trash Sort. While students may have good intentions to recycle their cardboard pizza box, the grease on the bottom will seep onto other recyclables thus making them ineligible to be recycled. The top can always be removed and recycled separately though. The bins in residences

halls are also unnecessar-ily complex. In each dorm room there is a gray trash bin, a red bottle and cans bin and a blue paper bin. Hollerbach explains that when all of the recyclable materials are transported to the local plant, they are all put together so there is no need to designate certain bins and separate them to begin with. This holds true for the recycling cans across cam-pus that have circular holes, almost encouraging bottles rather than paper. Anything that is recycla-ble can go into these. Other tips offered by Hollerbach include wash-ing clothes in cold water. The level of cleanliness is virtually the same with less energy consumed than washing under hot and warm temperatures. Low flow shower heads have already been put in place in some areas of campus but shortening showers is another possibility. Hollerbach uses a surge protector so that his plugged in appliances are not using electricity when they are plugged in but not in use. The proper envi-ronmental jargon for this is what Hollerbach refers

to as “vampire energy.” Appliances can always just be unplugged too. Using a reusable water bottle and mug eliminates paper and plastic waste but is also safer for students as plastics contain BPA and BPA substitutes which have been linked to can-cer. As for the meal being washed down with your water bottle, Hollerbach explains that students can be more mindful of food waste and compost. Every to-go container provided at Bluewall is composta-ble and they even provide compost bins. Hollerbach brings his own compost bag from off campus to deposit. A compost bag can easily be used in a dorm room as well. Hollerbach reports that Eco-Rep is working closely with Residential Life to increase recycling and receiving full support from them. He sees this problem as a multifaceted one that Eco-Rep is work-ing hard toward.

Erica Garnett can be reached at egarnett@umass.edu.

Residence Halls at root of problem

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Eco-Rep students participate in the annual Trash Sort in Fall, 2014.

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Would a counselor helping someone get over an existential breakdown be a “metaphysician”?

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If you can’t fit your hopes and dreams into that pita pocket, why did you think all those veggies and a falafel wouldn’t break it?

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By standing up for your rights while participating in a sit–in mean you’re actually taking a seat for your rights?

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McMahon said. “It is going to be more about getting good pressure, about their better players so that we can limit their involvement.” But if previous matchups provide any indication, UMass will be up for the challenge. The Minutewomen currently boast the top-ranked defense in the NCAA and lead the nation in goals allowed average (4.33) and turnovers caused per game (14). “Our defense is extremely unselfish, they don’t care who makes the play,” McMahon said. “They play well togeth-er, communicate well together and are always on the same page.” Ott added that UMass’ defen-sive strength stems from its effort that the upperclassmen leaders put in. The defense is led by junior twins Kate and Anne Farnham and senior Morgan Walker. On the attack, the Minutewomen will rely on Ott, Erika Eipp and Hannah Murphy to continue their suc-cessful seasons. The trio has combined for 28 goals and 35 total points through six games. Ott said that she’s been particularly impressed with Murphy, a sophomore with 13 goals. “She is so skilled in so many different parts of the game,” Ott said. “Her shooting has been one of the best on the team. Also, she is one of the draw specialists for the team and on defense she is doing really well. “Our attack was hav-ing shooting issues and she stepped up and helped out.” Wednesday’s game in New Haven, Connecticut will begin at 4 p.m.

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

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Devon Scott, from the program in December following a dorm room incident. The move left Dayton coach Archie Miller with little height in the front court and even less depth. Yet the Flyers rolled, amass-ing a record of 23-7. They never wavered even though they don’t have a deep bench. They’re led by Jordan Sibert (16.6 points per game) but the emergence of for-ward Kendall Pollard, who won the conference’s Most Improved Player award, has kept them afloat. Behind them is URI, who boasts an impressive overall record (21-8) but less-than-impressive out-of-conference accolades. The result? The third seed in the Atlantic 10 tournament, a prominent chance at winning the tournament, but still with some work to do. The Rams are led by E.C. Matthews (16.6 points per game) and forward Hassan Martin (three blocks per game). At No. 4 is Richmond, which has won its last six games and vaulted up to the land of the double-bye week. The Spiders have beaten VCU twice, took down George Washington and beat UMass on the road. Their leading scorer Kendall Anthony is 5-foot-8 and they play an unselfish brand of

basketball. But is it enough?

The Dark Horse It almost feels wrong to call VCU a dark horse. The Rams have dealt with as much adversity as any within the league, losing Weber (their all-time steals leader and senior floor gen-eral) while also trying to stay afloat within the league while their lead-ing scorer (Treveon Graham) also battled injury. Yet here they are. They’re still a projected NCAA tournament team, still have Shaka Smart as head coach and still bring “Havoc” defense to every opponent. This is important, because only Dayton and VCU are deeply rooted in win-ning crucial games in March. Without Weber, the Rams are a different team. They can’t imple-ment their pressure-based defense to its most effective intent and aren’t playing with the same atti-tude. On a neutral court, having to play games in consecutive days – this is tough to overcome. Another interesting note: Smart has never won an A-10 champion-ship at VCU. Yes, he’s found suc-cess in the NCAA tournament, but to never win the league? That has to be in the back of his mind.

Who is left

Ah, the clunkers. Both UMass and George Washington entered this season with the expectation of making the NCAA tournament. Neither of them will make it, unless… No, we shouldn’t even entertain the thought. Not a UMass team that’s so consistently inconsistent and has lost five of its last six games? What about a Colonials team with balanced scoring and the experience of beating a top opponent, as evident by its win over Wichita State? No, absolutely not. Heck, the Minutemen just lost 87-65 to George Washington. But with the supposed talent on both rosters, what could happen if one of these teams catches fire?

Prediction I’ll preface this by saying that try-ing to predict the A-10 tournament is as useful as counting the number of potholes on the University of Massachusetts’ campus. Upsets will happen, teams will get hot. Last year, Saint Joseph’s surprised everyone by winning it all. But then again, nobody’s ever accused me of being smart. Immediately toss out George Washington and UMass. Against

elite competition, neither team has shown it could withstand the four-day ringer which is required to win the tournament. I’m also eliminat-ing Richmond, because outside of Anthony, it lacks the upper-echelon talent to hang around. That leaves Davidson, Dayton, Rhode Island and VCU. The team no one would’ve picked (Davidson), the team everyone maybe shouldn’t have picked (VCU), last year’s NCAA tournament Cinderella (Dayton) and a relative newcomer in URI. Fun. VCU is at an immediate disad-vantage because of the amount of energy required to play its system consistently. Dayton lacks depth, URI hasn’t beaten anybody and Davidson would need to shoot well throughout the weekend. A poten-tially fun matchup is Davidson against VCU in the semifinals. I’ll take Dayton. It has multi-ple scorers, an energetic forward in Pollard and the experience and confidence from last season. Am I worried about their lack of depth in a back-to-back scenario? Sure. But not as worried as I am about picking the No. 1 seed to win it all.

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

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UMass indoor season endsBy Nick Souza

Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s and women’s track and field teams finished their indoor seasons this past weekend in Boston finishing 39th and 44th in their respective fields. Monmouth University’s men’s team won the IC4As and Connecticut’s women’s team placed first in the ECACs in UMass’ final meets until April’s outdoor season begins. The Minutewomen con-tinued to see an unfortu-nate trend of having many of their best point scorers sidelined due to injury or ill-ness. In the ECACs, Becky Stoyle, Courtney Kromko and Heather MacLean were all unavailable. Stoyle, a senior, was a domi-nant force in field events this season, but was hindered by a hamstring injury. Meanwhile, Kromko suffered a foot inju-ry and MacLean was a late scratch from the 800-meter run due to illness. “I would never run my ath-letes when they’re sick, that can be dangerous,” UMass coach Julie LaFreniere said. “If I was their parents I wouldn’t want them out there either.” In place of this trio included Ashley Palmer, who finished with a distance of 5.64 meters in the long jump, earning her a seventh place finish and the only points of the day for the Minutewomen (2). In the open 3,000-meter race, Rachel Hilliard posted

a time of 9:45.95, which put her outside of scoring for the meet. Two relay teams also competed over the weekend for UMass but were composed of a different lineup due to injury. The 4x800 relay team composed of Krista Webb, Courtney Neves, Carly Zinner, and Kelsey Sheridan posted a time of 9:09.58 – which beat the qualifying time posted earlier in the season with MacLean and Hilliard in the lineup, but still fell short of scoring. As for the distance med-ley relay, the team of Webb, Zinner, Neves and freshman Colleen Sands combined for a ninth place finish, just missing out on scoring. “I wanted Hilliard to focus on the 3,000,” LaFreniere said. “And I also wanted MacLean to focus on the 800 (before the illness), so we went with a cou-ple of athletes who don’t typi-cally run in these relays and other teams really pumped theirs up with their best ath-letes and had some terrific times.” LaFreniere added: “The runners we had in the relays for the most part either ran their best time of the season in their respective legs or the best of their careers, and you can’t ask for much more than that. When meets like this hap-pen and things don’t go our way, we just need to brush it off and move on.”

Minutemen finish 39th

On the other side, UMass’ men’s team had fewer poten-

tial scorers in the field but fin-ished with positive results. “I mostly wanted to see how the athletes respond to this kind of environment,” Minutemen coach Ken O’Brien said. UMass’ 4x800 relay team comprised of Cory Thomas, Michael McNaughton, Alex Finestone and Stephen Ness finished with a time of 7:39.76 and a sixth place result, scor-ing three points. In the 1-mile run, junior Ben Groleau posted a time of 4:13.99, just two seconds off of his best mile time of the sea-son. The time placed him 26th in the field as he fell short of the finals. Although the Minutemen only finished with three points, O’Brien said that he is encouraged for the future that four of the five athletes who competed in IC4As will return next year along with the majority of the roster. “As our team ages and gains experience, we will gain success and begin to climb the ladder,” O’Brien said. Both teams are now fin-ished with the indoor season. With the outdoor season loom-ing on April 3, the Minutemen and women will look for a chance to make up for lost opportunities due to injury and to continue to grow and develop young talent.

Nick Souza can be reached at njsouza@umass.edu.

T R AC K A N D F I E L D

“Our defense is extremely unselfish, they don’t care who makes

the play. They play well together and are always

on the same page.”Angela McMahon,

UMass coach

Revis returns to New YorkBy kimBerley a. martiN

Newsday

Darrelle Revis is a Jet again. Revis’ agent said on Twitter Tuesday evening that “pending legal” matters, the former Jets’ draft pick will return. A source told Newsday that the deal is for five years and $70 million, with $39 mil-lion guaranteed. Revis will earn $48 million in the first three years of the deal.

The Jets drafted Revis with the 14th overall pick in the 2007 draft. He played with the Jets for the first six years of his career and had 19 career interceptions while earning the nickname “Revis Island” for his shutdown play. However, he tore his ACL in Week 2 of the 2012 season and sat out the entire year. The Jets, under then-general manager John Idzik, traded Revis to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the 13th

overall pick in the 2013 draft and a fourth-round pick in the 2014 draft. Revis was cut before free agency last season and signed with the Patriots, where he won a Super Bowl. The Patriots declined his $20 mil-lion option this week. Earlier in the day, former Browns defensive back Buster Skrine agreed to a four-year, $25-million deal that includes $13 million guaranteed, according to a source.

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@MDC_SPORTS Sports@DailyCollegian.comWednesday, March 11, 2015

THE MASSACHUSETTS DAILY COLLEGIAN

By Jason KatesCollegian Staff

After opening the season with five consecutive losses, the Massachusetts men’s lacrosse team finally found the win col-umn Tuesday afternoon. And it did so in style. A season-high 18 goals from 11 different players boosted the Minutemen (1-5) to an 18-5 victo-ry over Quinnipiac at McGuirk Stadium. Following a quick turnaround from Saturday’s loss at Albany, UMass coach Greg Cannella said he was pleased with the way his team performed after only two days of rest. “We started a little slow on offense but defensively we played very well early in the game,” he said. “I gave them (Sunday) off and (Monday) we did some film and some walk-through stuff so you got to give our guys credit for preparing themselves and being ready to play.” Freshman Peter Lindley, who recorded a hat trick on all three shots he took in addition to tally-ing two assists, spoke similarly about the short gap in between games. “It’s good to get a much-needed win after losing the first five,” he said. “I just tried to get the flow of the offense moving with my teammates. I had the opportunity to put the ball in the net and I did. “We just got the win and now we have to build off of it for this Saturday.” The Minutemen established control from the start against the Bobcats, scoring 45 seconds into the game on a goal from Lindley. The lead stood at three just 22 seconds into the second

quarter before Quinnipiac (1-4) finally found the back of the net courtesy of Michael Sagl. For the day, UMass tallied 42 shots and won 18-of-27 faceoffs. “Any time you can jump out to

a lead in any game, it gives your team con-fidence,” Cannella said. “It gives you the confidence that you can continue to push forward and the more

possessions you have on offense, the more rest your defense is gonna get.” Cannella added that the Bobcats’ zone defense allowed the Minutemen to create sev-eral opportunities and generate more shots while sharing the ball. Along with Lindley, Nick Mariano also tallied five points, scoring two and adding three assists. Andrew Sokol record-ed three goals while Dom St. Laurent and Grant Whiteway each chipped in with two goals, including a slick behind-the-back goal from Whiteway that made it 7-2 at the end of the half. With the number of contribu-tors Tuesday, Cannella said he was not only pleased with the balanced attack but also enjoyed clearing the bench toward the end of the game.

“That and getting everybody in is great,” he said. “Those guys work their butts off everyday for us and had the opportunity to play. I know Ty (Klarner) and Kurt (Hunziker) scoring some goals there is really good to see. “It’s good to see the scoring spread out, I think we’ve had that all year. The more you do that, we’re a little bit harder to defend.” The defensive unit also stepped up for UMass, allow-ing only five goals on 26 shots. Goaltender Zach Oliveri made 10 saves in the winning effort. “In the first quarter I don’t think they had any shots, so when you do that, your defense is relaxed,” Cannella said. “They did an excellent job, both of our coaches (Brian) Jacovina and (Craig) McDonald did a good job of getting prepared and putting a game plan together in half a day. “Our guys did a great job executing that plan today.” Now that win number one is in the books, the Minutemen will try to build a win streak Saturday at home against Penn State.

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

Minutemen earn first win of 2015 season

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Jake Marino looks for an open teammate in UMass’ victory over Quinnipiac Tuesday afternoon. Sixteen Minutemen recorded points in the win.

VICTORY AT LASTUM readies for Wed. test vs. Yale

By Matthew ZacKManCollegian Staff

The undefeated Massachusetts women’s lacrosse team has been preparing for Wednesday’s matchup against Yale without taking records into account. Instead, UMass (6-0) coach Angela McMahon said that con-centrating on areas of improve-ment is the main focus. “Being undefeated doesn’t really mean anything to us because we are trying to take everything game-by-game and really focus on getting better,” McMahon said. “Instead of the record numbers, we focus on our statistics.” Junior forward Katie Ott said that the Bulldogs (3-2, 0-1 Ivy League) present a balanced team on both defense and attack, pos-ing few weaknesses. “They are really solid all around, with a very conservative defense,” Ott said. “We need to really work toward getting open looks by a lot of movement. “We are working hard to pre-pare for playing under pressure.” Yale’s defense is led by Christina Doherty, who ranks second in the Ivy League in caused turnovers per game (1.60). McMahon identified the Bulldogs as a tall team with several legitimate scoring threats on offense as well. Six players stand above 5-foot-10. Kerri Fleishhacker, Tess McEvoy and Erin Magnuson highlight a potent Yale attack. Both Fleishhacker and McEvoy have scored 10 goals this year while Magnuson has nine goals. McMahon stressed the impor-tance of playing solid team defense in order to combat Yale’s height. “We need to get our sticks up in the passing lanes and making sure we are aware if a bigger player is planted in the middle. We need to be super aware,”

Bulldogs boast height, balance on offense

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

A-10 tourney predictions:

Why try? The first rule in following

this 2015 Atlantic 10 con-ference is to throw pre-

sumptions aside, because noth-ing will make sense. The second rule is that, at least this year, there aren’t any other rules. It was nearly impossible to not enjoy conference play this year. With just three weeks left in the season, four teams were

tied for first place. Yet none of those teams – Virginia Commonwealth, Dayton, Rhode Island and Massachusetts – ended up winning the regular season crown. No, that went to Davidson, the team that was picked to

finish 12th out of 14 teams in the preseason poll and just con-cluded its first year in the confer-ence. How’s that for making an entrance? There have been catastrophic injuries (hello, Briante Weber) and roster overhauls, as Dayton continues to challenge the notion that tall players are required to succeed at basketball after kick-ing its two big men off the team earlier this season. There were upstarts in Davidson, teams vying for respect (nice jump, URI) and even clunkers. Yes, I’m looking at you, George Washington and UMass. Now it’s time to sort it all out as the opening round of the A-10 tournament begins Wednesday night. Shall we get started?

The favorite

It’s difficult to find a team entering a conference tourna-ment that is playing as well as Davidson. The Wildcats snuck into the AP top 25 poll this week at No. 24 and have won nine games in a row. During that streak, they scored at least 82 points four different times. They shoot the ball often but do it well and have four different players averaging double-figures. Senior guard Tyler Kalinoski was named A-10 Player of the Year and Davidson coach Bob McKillop won Coach of the Year. The Wildcats are deservedly getting their due, but now must earn it. Finding success in conference tournaments, which require teams to play sometimes as many as four games in four straight days, hinges on guard play, which happens to be Davidson’s strength. Kalinoski (16.9 points per game), Jack Gibbs (16) and Brian Sullivan (13.1) can all effec-tively run the point and score, making it a difficult matchup to cover for opposing teams, espe-cially as the tournament pro-longs. Also, how fitting is it that the nucleus of the team nobody assumed would make noise is named Tyler Kalinoski, Jack Gibbs and Brian Sullivan? That could be anybody.

The next up

Behind Davidson, which is the No. 1 seed, is Dayton, URI and Richmond in that order. According to Ken Pomeroy’s simulator, Dayton is the next most likely to make the champi-onship (21.6 percent chance), so we’ll start with them. The Flyers dismissed two forwards, Jalen Robinson and

MEN’S BASKETBALL

UMass 18

Quinnipiac 5

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Dom St. Laurent buries one of his two goals for the Minutemen Tuesday.

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