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UM begins plan to modernize its campus network

By Patrick JohnstonCollegian Staff

Faced with growing con-cerns over the effective-ness of the campus Internet network and an increased reliance on connectivity within the classroom, the University of Massachusetts is setting out to attempt to alleviate some of the issues. Julie Buehler, the vice chancellor of Information Services and Strategy, as well as the rest of the Information Technology department at UMass, have begun to work on a long-term plan to upgrade the campus network over the next five years with a goal of improving its overall per-formance. Initially, the assess-

ment of the plan’s cost was approximately $85 million to modernize the entire campus. However, Buehler explained that because of resource constraints, the target for fundraising is currently $64 million, or 75 percent of the cost to mod-ernize the entire campus. “We will not modernize every building,” she said, adding that as future plans are made, priority will be given to certain buildings. Buehler said the criteria for selecting which buildings to modernize has yet to be decided upon, but she did mention that IT has assessed the individual buildings’ network issues and has determined which are in more need of upgrades. Although individual buildings have had issues

Department hopes to raise $64 million

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Josh Odam lays on the floor of Blue Wall as a part of the die-in during a protest against police brutality on Tuesday. The Black Student Union organized this event.

A dAy of Action

Film screening and panel show struggles of addiction

By shelBy ashlineCollegian Correspondent

Gathered together in the Campus Center auditori-um, more than 100 students and community members witnessed the indisputable struggles those with opioid addictions in rural Vermont face through a screening of the 2013 documentary, “The Hungry Heart.” The 93-minute documen-tary began at 7 p.m. and was followed by a panel discus-sion and a Q&A featuring the director of the film, Bess O’Brien, the Director of Community Health and Government Relations at Cooley Dickinson Hospital,

Jeff Harness and Dr. Maria Gallo from University Health Services. The discus-sion focused on what steps need to be taken to improve the success rate of recover-ing addicts. “We just need to let every-body do what they need to do to get clean,” O’Brien said. “Whatever you need should be available to you.” However, O’Brien went on to explain that often, addicts can’t afford their treatment for insurance reasons or there simply aren’t enough openings with qualified care providers or at rehabilita-tion facilities. Although O’Brien follows the work of Dr. Fred Holmes, a pediatrician working out of St. Albans, Vermont who treats 80 patients for addic-

tion in the film, she said, “Sometimes you’ll go into places where there’s not a doctor for 20 miles.” In these areas, there aren’t enough openings to go around. According to Harness, the problem is evident in Northampton as well. “We’re under tremendous pressure to move people out,” Harness said. “There are times when we discharge people knowing the plan for their recovery isn’t as stable as we’d like, but there just aren’t enough beds.” Harness advocated for more funding for prevention programs, a movement he said was robust in the 1980s, but died out in the early

Experts discussed need for better care

MASSPIRG unveils new campaigns for 2015-16

By anthony rentschCollegian Staff

At a time when its work has begun to pick up both local and national momen-tum, MASSPIRG unveiled the new campaigns it will focus on during the 2015-2016 academic year at its state board meeting on April 11. T he campaigns for the University of Massachusetts Amherst chapter will focus on sav-ing antibiotics, textbook affordability, higher edu-cation and student debt, hunger and homelessness, and solar energy. Recently, the work of

the Save Antibiotics cam-paign has been splashed across the headlines as McDonald’s announced that it has committed to using chicken meat free of antibiotics within the next two years. “It was the nationwide campaign this semes-ter and it was really cool to watch how quick-ly we actually got a big win in terms of getting McDonald’s to commit to antibiotic-free chick-en,” said Lucas Rockett Gutterman, state board treasurer. “I remember when we were tabling on this issue. People would be like ‘McDonald’s?’ (They were) really incredulous that we could make a dif-ference on that.” This success has pushed

MASSPIRG to extend the campaign’s reach. At the meeting, the Save Antibiotics campaign was voted as the statewide campaign by the chapters. In addition, MASSPIRG will now refocus its sights to Subway, which has more franchises around the world than McDonald’s. “Our target is switch-ing to Subway, specifical-ly because we think they should live up to their branding of ‘eat fresh,’” Gutterman said. “If they are pedaling their food as healthy, they shouldn’t be encouraging the spread of antibiotic risks and bacte-ria which kills 23,000 peo-ple every year.” While the Save

Group is optimistic for upcoming year

#UMassGives sparks criticisms

By cecilia PradoCollegian Staff

The University of Massachusetts is preparing to launch its fundraising cam-paign, UMassGives, beginning April 29, inviting students, alumni and their families to donate monetary gifts. These funds will go toward an area of campus the contributors would like to support as part of the 36-hour fundraising event, which is driven by social media under the hashtag, #UMassGives. However, while some see the campaign as an opportu-nity to give back to the campus community, others are skepti-cal. On Twitter, people raised

concerns about exactly what the campaign was working for compared to what people actu-ally believed were the issues the University should be focus-ing on. Most students voiced their worries about their inabil-ity to contribute financially due to student debt and high tuition rates. Beth Ramey, who recently graduated from the University, shared her per-spective as an alumna. “I think it is important for alumni to give back to UMass, but I also understand the stu-dents inability or reluctance to contribute because of how much debt they have coming out of school” she said. Erika Civitarese, a junior majoring in social thought and political economy, said that the campaign website does not give enough specifics about

the final destination of the donations. “We don’t know where the money is going,” she said. “Administration needs to focus on the things they put students through, such as meal plan increases and lack of mental health support for people of color, before spend-ing money on something else.”

Nathan Adams, executive director of Annual Giving, believes the negative response that the campaign has received among the student body has to do with a lack of understand-ing of what the event is. “UMassGives is supposed to be a vehicle for students,

Campaign triggers student reaction

Cuba removed from list as state sponsor of terror

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UMass Softball Offensive Explosion

UMass Theatre Guild stuns with their Production of August: Osage County

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By lesley clark, tim Johnson

and mimi WhitefieldMcClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told Congress on Tuesday that he is removing Cuba from a list of state spon-sors of terrorism, the lat-est action in his drive to normalize relations with the island but one that paves the way for a show-down with Congress. Obama said Cuba has not provided any support for international terror-ism in the past six months

and has given him assur-ances that it will not do so in the future, the two conditions necessary for a country to be removed from the list, which also includes Iran, Sudan and Syria. President George W. Bush removed North Korea from the list in 2008 in a failed effort to get that country to give up its nuclear program. Congress now has 45 days to override the move or to do nothing and allow it to proceed. Even

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ON THIS DAY...In 2014, more than 200 female students are declared missing after a mass kidnapping in Borno State, Nigeria.

Germany

LUEBECK, Germany

— Germany and Italy said

Russia’s planned sale of

air-defense systems to Iran

before world powers com-

plete an agreement on the

country’s nuclear program

is premature.

German Foreign Minister

Frank-Walter Steinmeier,

hosting a Group of Seven

meeting on Tuesday, said

Russia’s decision runs coun-

ter to the spirit of negotia-

tors who reached a frame-

work nuclear agreement

with Iran this month. Such

deals should wait until a full

agreement, which is envis-

aged by June 30, he said.Bloomberg News

Ukraine Intense fighting flared in

eastern Ukraine over the

last three days, shattering a

cease-fire that held for two

months while winter snow

dampened the year-old con-

flict and the early spring

thaw mired the would-be

combatants in vast expanses

of mud.

At least six Ukrainian gov-

ernment soldiers were killed

in the 24 hours before noon

on Tuesday, Col. Andriy

Lysenko of the National

Security and Defense

Council told reporters in

Kiev, the capital. Twelve oth-

ers were injured, he added.Los Angeles Times

Washington D.C. Global economic growth

is likely to remain modest

and highly uneven, and the

longer-term prospects are

even more sobering, accord-

ing to the International

Monetary Fund.

The IMF, in its latest

outlook released Tuesday

ahead of its spring meet-

ing in Washington later this

week, sees the U.S. economy

expanding at a robust 3.1

percent this year, up from

2.4 percent last year.

That’s less optimistic

than the IMF’s forecast in

January, which predicted

U.S. growth at 3.6 percent

this year; the downgrade

reflects the weak first quar-

ter and strong dollar that

is weighing on American

exports.Tribune Washington Bureau

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CorrectionIn the April 14 edition of the Daily Collegian, it was reported that there were four champions from HackUMass, which included WiZer. There were three champions, and WiZer was not one of them.

By Christine Mai-DuC anD Matt PearCe

Los Angeles Times

A Tulsa volunteer deputy will fight a manslaughter charge by arguing that a fran-tic arrest scene with a poten-tially dangerous suspect led him to accidentally use his gun instead of a Taser, one of his attorneys told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday. The volunteer deputy, 73-year-old Robert Charles Bates – a wealthy insurance executive with close personal and political ties to the Tulsa County sheriff – turned him-self in to authorities Tuesday. Tulsa County Reserve Deputy Bob Bates said he thought he was holding a stun gun when he shot and killed 44-year-old Eric Harris on April 2 as Harris struggled with deputies trying to arrest him. He posted a $25,000 bond after he was booked at the Tulsa County Jail for second-degree manslaughter. His next court appearance is scheduled for April 21. Bates fatally shot Eric Courtney Harris, 44, during an arrest in which Harris had sprinted away from deputies trying to arrest him on suspi-cion of a gun charge. The charge, filed Monday by the Tulsa County district attorney’s office, carries up to four years in prison. Prosecutors accuse Bates of being negligent in uninten-tionally using his gun instead of his Taser. Bates’ attorney argued that it was a split-second mis-take and that doctors who kill patients by making similar errors do not face similar charges. “We (Bates’ attorneys) met with the D.A. before he filed charges; we tried to persuade him not to,” one of Bates’ attorneys, Corbin Brewster, told the Times in a phone interview, adding that that he disagreed with District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler’s interpretation of the state’s second-degree manslaughter law. “Almost no doctors are charged” for similar alle-gations of negligence in patients’ deaths, Brewster said. “I can’t think of a single case in Tulsa County ever where a doctor was charged with a patient’s death.” In a statement Monday, Kunzweiler said that Bates’ shooting was not excusable, but was “culpable negli-gence.” The case is similar to a high-profile 2009 case in Oakland, Calif., in which unarmed 22-year-old Oscar Grant III was fatally shot by a Bay Area Rapid Transit offi-cer who said he accidentally grabbed his gun instead of his Taser. The officer in that case,

Johannes Mehserle, faced a second-degree murder charge but was ultimately convicted of a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter after a jury found the shoot-ing had been unintentional. He was sentenced to two years in prison. One of the defense experts in that case, Dr. Bill Lewinski of the Force Science Institute, which studies officer use of force, confirmed to the Times that he had already been con-tacted by Bates’ legal team about the case in Oklahoma. Lewinski argues that high-pressure situations can cause officers to make mental slips in which they revert to familiar behaviors, such as reaching for a gun when they intend to reach for a Taser. That theory – called “slips and capture” – is an argu-ment for how such a shoot-ing can be unintentional. But in a Monday interview with the Times, Lewinski said he didn’t know if it is a defense against a charge of negli-gence. “I know why this occurred, but is it a chargeable offense?” Lewinski asked, citing simi-lar cases in medicine and air travel in which doctors or pilots make confused split-second decisions. That’s “not for me to decide.” Bates was working as part of a sting, officials said, with officers trying to arrest Harris, who authorities said tried to sell an illegal gun to an undercover officer. Harris had multiple felony convic-tions from the 1980s and ‘90s as well as a 2013 conviction for assault on a law enforce-ment officer, according to prison records. Body camera video from the incident shows Harris fleeing during the arrest and a different deputy chas-ing and tackling him. Then, as another officer tries to handcuff the suspect, Bates, standing off-screen, shouts “Taser!” but fires a single gunshot instead. “I shot him; I’m sorry,” Bates can be heard saying on the video, which showed that he dropped his gun on the ground. “He shot me!” Harris says, moaning as deputies wrestle with him and shout exple-tives at him. He died an hour later.

Shooting suspect was Tulsa volunteer

Antibiotics campaign has some of the most visible and large-scale goals, Gutterman and Brett Mallard, coordina-tor of the Hunger and Homelessness campaign, have high hopes for the other campaigns as well, albeit with different kinds of goals. “Different campaigns are taken on with dif-ferent understandings of the changes that we can make,” Gutterman said. He said the Affordable Textbooks campaign, the statewide campaign for this current year, is aiming to get 10 UMass faculty members to con-vert to using open source textbooks or education resources next year. For the Hunger and Homelessness campaign, Gutterman said most of the work is service work. However, according to Mallard, the campaign does have a long-term goal of creating a food pantry on campus large enough to accommodate all students in need of food assistance. Mallard said MASSPIRG has been in contact with the administration and the Amherst Survival Center, both of which have shown interest in the project. In terms of the Higher Education and Student Debt campaign, Gutterman, the coordi-nator of this year’s cam-paign, believes that the focus of next year will be educating people about the problem, so that con-crete policy can be worked on in years to come. While the Solar Energy campaign is relative-ly new, it already has a concrete agenda for next year. According to Gutterman, the plan is “to get Gov. Charlie Baker to commit to 20 percent of Massachusetts’ energy coming from the sun by 2025.” Only the Solar Energy campaign is new for next year, meaning all other campaigns are a continua-tion from last year’s work. This is something that Mallard believes will put next year’s efforts ahead of schedule. “We are running a lot of the same campaigns with the same coordinators,” Mallard said. “(Next year) they will start with some progress.”

MASSPIRG’s confi-dence does not only come from its validation on the national level for its anti-biotic work or the promise of its other campaigns. It also comes from the con-tinued support it receives from the student body at UMass. In the spring Student Government Association election, a ballot question regarding student support of the continued existence of the MASSPIRG chapter at UMass through an $11 per student per semester waivable fee passed eas-ily, receiving nearly three times as many votes in support as it did in oppo-sition.“I think we are well-received,” Mallard said. “There seems to be more involvement with (Registered Student Organizations) and we are looking to keep that up.” Gutterman said 50 stu-dents were involved in MASSPIRG’s reaffirma-tion drive to help support the ballot question per-taining to it, and added that 15 to 20 members attend weekly core team meetings.“(MASSPIRG) is very visible on campus,” said

sophomore Lily Wallace. “They have good name recognition.” “They have a heavy social media presence,” added sophomore Patricia Murphy. “Even if people don’t know what they do, they know that they exist.” Although MASSPIRG does not necessarily focus on administrative policy or other on-campus mat-ters, as other student groups do, Gutterman and Mallard believe that its work will continue to appeal to students. “We think the issue is really profound,” said Gutterman of the Save Antibiotics campaign. “It’s a public health issue. It’s something we think will resonate with the stu-dent body. (The campaign targeting McDonald’s proved that) having stu-dents speak out against their practices or work is really effective.” “People understand that we are trying to work for them,” Mallard said.

Anthony Rentsch can be reached at arentsch@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Anthony_Rentsch.

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with network access, the most critical part of this plan is the moderniza-tion of the network core, through which all Internet traffic on campus must pass. This project began in December, will cost $30 million in total and is expected to be completed in three years. According to Buehler, the past year has seen a rise in on-campus net-work usage of 42 percent, nearly half of which has been since December. This increased Internet traffic has strained the campus’ network and has adversely affected the Internet access of students and staff. Since the fall semester, students have filed more than 3,000 complaints regarding the campus network. But according to Buehler, IT is making efforts to change that in the years to come. “The data is showing me that these are big con-cerns,” Buehler said. She acknowledged that the problems the network faces can have a negative impact not only on the academic life of students, but on their social lives as well. Buehler emphasized that this is a time where the Internet is becoming a rapidly relied upon tool, and the campus’s network must keep up with the growing demand. However, students won’t have to wait until the end of the project to see improve-ments. Buehler said that as improvements are made to the network core, more students will begin seeing improvements to the cam-pus network. This upgrade of the campus’s network core has been provided for by the campus capital bud-get. In addition to this fund-ing for the network core project, Juniper Networks, a vendor for the University, donated $1.5 million in equipment for the creation of a high-speed network to be used for scientific research in September. The creation of this net-work will eliminate some strain on the network core, which will improve the performance for the rest of the campus’ Internet. Buehler said this kind of donation is unheard of from a vendor. “We are extreme-ly grateful to Juniper Networks. They under-stand our vision and capa-bility to use this gift in a very distinctive and mean-ingful way,” Buehler said

in a press release back in September. According to Buehler, this technology is currently being installed and will soon be opera-tional. Despite the encouraging donation, there is still a sig-nificant funding gap that IT is looking to fill. In an effort to partially remedy this, Buehler has proposed the creation of a separate technology fee, something UMass is unique among many of its peer colleges in not having. The proposed fee would cost $250 per year for each student, though Buehler mentioned that “some early student feedback is that we should start to communicate this fee as ‘less than $30 per month’ – a representation they are more familiar to seeing as it relates to IT services.” The fee is still a pro-posal at this point, but if it is voted on favorably, could be implemented as early as the fall 2016 semester. Buehler expressed that adding more student fees is not something she wants to see happen if there are any other options, and she is encouraging staff and student alike to propose ideas in an effort to avoid it. “I’m turning over every rock I can turn over,” she said. Buehler did, however, say that if more students join the conversation, she’s confident they will see that the benefits of an improved network outweigh the fee. “I think (having a con-versation) is the best solu-tion, but if someone has a better idea I’m happy to hear it,” she said. More than anything else, Buehler expressed a desire to bring students and staff into the conver-sation about the network and what should be done, especially when it comes to the subject of the proposed fee for students. This has led to the creation of a web page designed to take stu-dent questions and address common concerns. “I want to be transpar-ent,” she said, hoping she can encourage students to get involved in the conver-sation. “I’m really trying to treat the students like the adults that they are.”

Patrick Johnston can be reached at pejohnston@umass.edu.

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“I think (having a conversation) is the best solution, but if someone has a better idea

I’m happy to hear it.”Julie Buehler,

Vice Chancellor of InformationServices and Strategy

2000s. O’Brien agreed, and added that doctors need more fund-ing, as well as more train-ing in addiction treatment methods. She has found that addiction treatment is a mini-mal part of the curriculum for medical students, which produces doctors who are unqualified to treat addic-tion. Through the film, O’Brien follows several of Holmes’ patients through recov-ery and sometimes relapse. Holmes prescribes his patients Suboxone, a drug used specifically to curb opi-oid addiction. Gallo commented that Suboxone, although not a cure-all by any means, can make all the differ-ence for struggling addicts. Only one percent of opioid

addicts become clean with-out a replacement drug like Suboxone, Gallo said – the other 99 percent fail. Gallo also stressed the value of a fairly new drug, Narcan, a nasal spray which can reverse opioid overdose. “Everyone should be trained to know how to use Narcan and be able to recognize when someone is overdos-ing,” Gallo said. “I’m happy to train anyone.” O’Brien explained that she originally wanted to make “The Hungry Heart” to dem-onstrate just how crucial it is for addicts to have a support system available to them. For the addicts portrayed in the film, their biggest supporter was often Holmes. “The reason I made this movie is that Fred (Holmes) is a metaphor for what addicts

need in their life,” O’Brien said. And what that special something is, according to O’Brien, is compassion and a community of people stand-ing by to help addicts turn their lives around. Although the panel dis-cussion focused mainly on problems that need to be addressed concerning the treatment of opioid addicts, the film itself has already played a significant role in raising awareness. “The Hungry Heart” won the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s 2015 media award and person-ally touched Peter Shumlin, the governor of Vermont, so much that he chose to focus his 2014 State of the State address on drug addiction. Speaking briefly before

the panel discussion, Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan explained the film’s rele-vance to the Massachusetts community as well. He cited statistics, saying that there has been a 300 percent rise in opioid-related deaths in the past four years in his juris-diction. Sullivan extended his grat-itude to O’Brien for shining the spotlight on this grow-ing issue that is prevalent in all rural areas like those in Vermont and Massachusetts. “I’d like to thank Bess O’Brien because this film is about every rural commu-nity in America,” Sullivan said. “These are our commu-nities.”

Shelby Ashline can be reached at sashline@umass.edu.

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if Congress takes action against Obama’s decision, he could veto it. U.S. officials declined to specify when they believe Cuba last sponsored or assisted an act of terror-ism. The substance of a State Department review, which was delivered to Obama last week, remains secret. Obama telegraphed the move over the weekend at a summit in Panama, where he sat down for an hour with Cuban leader Raul Castro, the first such meet-ing between the nations’ leaders in more than half a century. But while taking Cuba off the terror list car-ries heavy symbolic value, its practical impact may not be great. Cuba remains under a U.S. economic embar-go, and efforts to lift that embargo are gaining little traction in the Republican-controlled Senate and House of Representatives. A series of Cuba-specific sanctions imposed by the Treasury Department over the years also remain in effect. Obama ordered the State Department to review Cuba’s presence on the terrorism list – where it had been placed in 1982 – on Dec. 17, when he and Castro announced plans to normalize relations, which were severed in 1961. “As the president has said, we will continue to have differences with the Cuban government, but our concerns over a wide range of Cuba’s policies and actions fall outside the criteria that is relevant to whether to rescind Cuba’s designation as a state spon-sor of terrorism,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a state-

ment. Tuesday’s action brought condemnation from many Republicans and support from Democrats and some in the business community. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who Monday made his run for the presiden-cy official, called Obama’s decision “terrible” and said Cuba remains a state sponsor of terrorism, accusing it of harboring U.S. fugitives and helping North Korea evade United Nations weapons sanc-tions. He said its removal “sends a chilling message to our enemies abroad that this White House is no lon-ger serious about calling terrorism by its proper name.” That sparked a quick retort from the Democratic National Committee, with spokesman Mo Elleithee saying, “For a guy who just yesterday said he wanted to be a new leader and usher in a new American century, it sure sounds like Marco Rubio is clinging to an outdated foreign policy relic from the Cold War.” Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is likely to announce a presidential run, said Obama “embraced Cuba’s oppressive dictator” by removing Cuba from the list, “consummating the Obama administration’s rapprochement with the communist police state.” Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, another Republican presi-dential candidate, whose father is Cuban, called the action “dangerous and reckless” and said Cuba “continues to support and harbor terrorists who have murdered Americans.” Whether the action would affect the time-table for re-establishing

embassies in Havana and Washington was unclear. The two nations have held three rounds of talks to discuss issues related to that goal but sticking points remain, includ-ing how many diplomats would be authorized for each embassy and whether Cuba can offer assurances of freedom of movement for U.S. diplomats around the island. In its 2013 terror-ism report, the State Department concentrated most of its attention on the activities of al-Qaida and Lebanon’s Hezbollah move-ment and devoted only a short section to Cuba, not-ing that “Cuba has long pro-vided safe haven to mem-bers of Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).” But the report also noted that Cuba had hosted and supported peace nego-tiations between the FARC and the Colombian govern-ment and said Cuba’s ties to ETA, which is blamed for more than 800 deaths in its push for independence for Spain’s Basque region, have become more distant. Opponents of removing Cuba from the terrorism list, however, have made much of two clandestine weapons shipments. In 2013, a North Korean

freighter coming from Cuba and about to transit the Panama Canal was found to be transporting two MIG-21 jets and other undeclared war materiel under sacks of brown sugar. The North Korean shipping company that carried the cargo was sanctioned by the United Nations for violating restrictions on trafficking of weapons systems but Cuba was not. Last month, a Hong Kong-registered vessel headed to Cuba carry-ing an unregistered cargo of ammunition and gun-powder was impounded in the Colombian port of Cartagena and the captain ordered arrested. China has insisted it was part of normal trade. The report also men-tioned that the Cuban gov-ernment continues to har-bor fugitives wanted in the United States and provides support for them, but it did not specify how many fugi-tives or name them. Cuba has said that the United States also harbors fugitives from Cuban jus-tice such as Luis Posada Carriles, who has been accused of plotting the 1976 bombing of a Cubana air-liner in which 73 people lost their lives.

The two nations have held three rounds of talks to discuss issues related to that goal but sticking points remain, including how many

diplomats would be authorized for each embassy and whether Cuba can offer

assurances of freedom of movement for U.S. diplomats around the island.

alumni, faculty, staff and friends to talk about which areas are the most important to them and should receive additional funding, and then promoting that to potential donors” he said. Anna Amrich-Hankins, a sustainable food and farm-ing major, believes there is a lack of financial transparency within the campaign. She also voiced her support for the criticisms that were raised on social media. “I thought the use of social media by the students was witty, and an important way to bring up many issues that UMass gives or doesn’t give enough to,” Amrich-Hankins said. “Among those were very serious topics such as rampant white supremacy on campus, inadequate health services and accessibility on campus.” According to Adams, the critical opinions about the University that students

have been publicizing on social media only discourage potential donors from getting involved, preventing areas such as UMass Disability Services from getting addi-tional funding. The hashtag #UMassGives was meant to draw publicity for the three-day event, but has been used by students to criticize the way the fun-draising is being conducted. Especially vocal have been student businesses, who have recently also been fighting for the ability to accept Dining Dollars. While some students felt the campaign did not address the true issues on campus, others criticized the tactic in which the fundraiser was operated in. However, Aaron J Cooper, a senior majoring in opera-tions and information man-agement, doesn’t feel like this fundraising tactic would be effective if it was oriented

toward smaller efforts, such as clubs or student business-es. “It is an interesting way to raise money,” Cooper said. “It doesn’t seem to be the most effective of methods to raise money for departments, but it is still young”. Adams said the money donated to a specific college or organization will be pooled together, and the dean or the organization director will decide where to send those funds internally from there. Participants can visit the UMass Rising website and select their preferred dona-tion recipient. The adminis-tration will also include bonus challenges, rewarding the areas that received the most donors within a one-hour window.

Cecilia Prado can be reached at sprado@umass.edu. Patrick Hoff also contributed to this report.

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So it turns out that TPP stands for more than just

Team Positive Presence. It’s also the acronym for one of the largest free-trade agreements the world has ever seen: the Trans-Pacific Partnership. To put it simply, free-trade agreements limit tar-iffs and other trade restric-tions between nations. Sounds harmless, right? The reality is that free trade affects everything from labor, to the environment, to food production and nearly every facet of soci-ety. Free trade agreements flood agricultural markets and create trade imbalanc-es, influencing local econo-mies and global migration patterns. Currently the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and

Japan are in negotiations to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The discus-sions surrounding the TPP have occurred in secret between world leaders with the input of more than 600 corporate “trade advisers.” Most of what is known about the actual document comes from WikiLeaks. One reason there has already been global resis-tance against the TPP is that it will be enforced through an Investor-State System, which essentially means corporations will have the power to sue governments

in participating countries over trade violations (a.k.a., anything that inhibits their profits). Across the U.S., labor unions, environmen-tal organizations, non-profits and companies have taken a stance against the Trans-Pacific Partnership. They include AFL-CLO, 350.org, ACLU, Real Food Challenge, United Students for Fair Trade and others. On top of the actual con-tent of the TPP, the pro-cess it is currently going through is concerning. Right now legislation is being proposed that would allow the agreement to be fast tracked through Congress. This means that Congress votes up or down in 90 days with no amend-ments or debate. This takes away nearly any democrat-ic process or opportunity for citizen’s input on the agreement. The Trans-Pacific Partnership affects 40 per-cent of the world economy

– over 800 million people, including all of us. So we are calling you to action. The UMass Real Food Challenge and the Student Labor Action Project are co-hosting a teach-in about the TPP Wednesday from 6:30-10 p.m. in the Events Hall at the Commonwealth Honors College. The teach-in will give us a chance to unpack some of the confu-sion and controversy sur-rounding the TPP.

Anna Hankins is a Collegian con-tributor and a member of the UMass Real Food Challenge, and can be

Open textbooks are the answer for students looking to spend less

Today, college students are spending more than ever, sometimes without really

knowing why. According to the College Board, the aver-age student spends about $1,200 on textbooks and sup-plies each year at public, four-year schools. Moreover, this means that students spend about 26 percent of four-year public university tuition and fees on textbooks and materials, according to a study done by the U.S Government Accountability Office. Textbook prices have increased at four times the rate of inflation. On top of this, publishers use many other tactics to squeeze more money out of stu-dents. Publishers will often come out with a revised edi-tion, only so the older edi-tions cannot be sold back for much worth, which also insures sales. Even bundles, where books come with CDs, are found to just add an

unreasonable price markup. With five major companies controlling 80 percent of the textbook market, cheap-er solutions are becoming harder to reach. Today the price of text-books jeopardizes students’ education. Due to textbook costs, 70 percent of students reported not buying an assigned book. As a result, students lose value in classes

that they already paid thou-sands for, all because books are too expensive. This raises the ques-tion: How many kids have dropped a class due to text-books? How about the num-ber of students who have gone as far as changing their majors? Through our peti-tion collecting, MASSPIRG has become increasingly

aware on how extensive these costs can go. Petitions for open-textbook advocacy show that many students claim that they spent $800 or more on textbooks last semester alone. Some stu-dents claim to have changed their courses because they could not afford a manda-tory textbook for their class. According to U.S. News, when a student purchases

a textbook, about 77.4 cents to the dollar goes to the publisher. So for a $289 text-book, about $224 of it goes to the publisher. Not nearly as much money goes toward the authors or the bookstore. This means that of the $1,200 students spend on textbooks, $929 goes to one of the major publishers. This leads one to realize

the issue is the publishing companies, rather than just a price inflation that stu-dents should just deal with. A way to get around such ridiculous inflation is by converting the campus to open textbooks. Open text-books are free, easy to share textbooks that students can access online. The books can be customized by professors, and would be free to all stu-dents. Open textbooks can take some getting used to, but when all is said and done, it will be the most convenient technology for students and professors alike. They will cut the ridiculous costs spent toward textbooks, as well as allow students to choose classes without the stress of what kind of book they will have to buy. MASSPIRG urges students and profes-sors to look and consider the benefits of cutting text book costs to zero.

Chance Viles is an intern for MassPIRG and can be reached at cviles@umass.edu.

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“The Trans-Pacific Partnership affects 40 percent of the world economy- over 800 million people- including all of us.

So we are calling you to action.”

Chance Viles

“This raises the question: How many kids have dropped a class due to textbooks? How

about the number of students who have gone as far as changing their majors?”

Letter to the Editor:

I came across an arti-cle from the Boston Globe’s website about the compounding debt that is being accumu-lated at various branch-es of the University of Massachusetts. The arti-cle mentioned the fact that much of this spend-ing goes toward mak-ing upgrades that will improve the quality of the school. These improve-ments are supposed to be

readily noticeable upon first impression because that is what will draw in prospective new students.

The article cites Kimberly Tuby, an ana-lyst at Moody’s Investors Service who said, “The pace of debt increase has far surpassed the pace of asset growth.” I think that this is a very inter-esting issue that raises a lot of passionate opinions among UMass students of the past and present, and should be something to

think about for those con-sidering attending this school.

It seems a bit strange that UMass professes to care so much about image, reputation and presentation, yet can allow for such a poten-tially damaging situation to arise. There are many ongoing projects specific to this campus that are not strictly necessary for functionality, but can easily be traced back to how they will benefit the

University financially. I just think that UMass should hold its own actions to the same scru-tiny that it holds its stu-dents in regards to how it will affect the value of attending this school, because what it does to itself can be equally dam-aging.

Respectfully,Haley PotterPublic Health Sciences Major

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August: Osage County is part comedy, part tragedy

By Sarah GamardCollegian Staff

The stage was set in Bowker Auditorium from Thursday until Saturday for a performance of August: Osage County. The story unfolded in the rooms of a modern, Midwestern family home. A record play-er, lamps and other typi-cal furniture that adorned the house suggested hidden despair behind the overtly normal appearance. Indeed, the Oklahoma family did face their share of troubles in the unex-pected and mysterious loss of a husband and father. The father, a poet, profes-sor and alcoholic myste-riously leaves his three daughters and loved ones behind, prompting the fam-ily to then take care of their mother. As the family rejoins after years of estrange-ment, it becomes apparent as to why the daughters travelled so far away from home and the father disap-peared. Dark secrets bub-ble to the surface, ranging from incest to pedophilia to divorce. Plates are shat-tered and faces are slapped. The play was hosted by the UMass Theater Guild. Most actors were UMass students with some from the Five College Consortium. As they moved about the stage, complaining about the heat, it was hard to remember that these actors were not really the charac-ters, or even professionals, but rather students that we pass by everyday on the way to class. The audience was, many

times, rendered not only to complete silence but to complete stillness while the plot unfolded. During the three hours of production, the audience’s attention did not wander for a moment, partially because it may have been impossible not to see one’s own self in at least one, if not many, of the characters. Anna Meehan played Violet, the pill-popping matriarch, repeatedly mov-ing between disdainful sobriety and drug-induced euphoria. Meehan had an impeccable interpretation of a drug addict mother, pushing her loved ones away while simultaneously fearing abandonment. Christie Basinas played Barbara, who is the most responsible and Violet-esque of the three daugh-ters. Barbara is cold, with the pressure of the entire family weighing on her shoulders. Basinas con-veyed this not just through her voice, which dripped with repressed, unadulter-ated rage at the turmoil of her character’s life, but even in the frustrated way she walked or ate dessert at the dinner table. Jack Duff, who played her separated husband, was more soft-spoken but equal-ly tense. Their dynamic was a portrait of many mar-ried couples – one tortured spouse aggressively push-ing the other away, confus-ing them and ultimately driving them out when all they actually want is love and support. Hallie Waletzko, a first-year student at Hampshire College, played their daughter, Jean. Displaying a typical 14-year-old rebel-ling against her parents through drug use and sex,

Jean is a character of her own. Her character was easily relatable to any teen-ager of divorced or divorc-ing parents, but also a mir-ror for the misconception of responsibility and con-trol in one’s life as one gets older. Jack Boyd-Dias played Steve, the dubious fiancé to Karen. Karen was played by Emily Hamel, the ditsi-est of the three sisters who wore her heart on her sleeve. Miranda Burrage-Goodwin played the more comically oriented Mattie Fae, Violet’s sister. Her stage husband, Charlie, was played by Greg Mahoney. Sevrin Willinder played their son, Little Charles. The three formed the adja-cent family that was sepa-rate in ways from the tur-moil of the household, but also wrapped up in their own dark and intertwining secrets. Ashlyn Stromgren played Ivy, the quietest and most secretive of the three sisters who arguably surprised the audience the most when those secrets were revealed. Lucille Boco played Johanna, the hired help of the household who is the least attached to the family’s strife but also the last to abandon Violet at the dark finale. The play is originally by Tracy Letts. It premiered in 2007, having 648 perfor-mances and 18 previews before the Broadway pro-duction ended in 2009. The 2013 film adaption featured famed actors Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Ewan McGregor.

Sarah Gamard can be reached at sgamard@umass.edu.

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Coachella’s cultural claimsBy mikael WoodLos Angeles Times

Abel Tesfaye, the Canadian R&B singer known as the Weeknd, is not a man given to exaggerated cheer. In his dark but sensual music, which has exploded in popularity since he released a series of albums on the Internet in 2011, he describes a world of romantic dysfunction where no one ever has anything positive to say. So when Tesfaye concluded his performance at the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival by declaring that he was having the great-est night of his life, you were inclined to take him seriously. Even if Saturday was only sec-ond- or third-best, that says an awful lot about Coachella, whose first weekend ran Friday through Sunday at the Empire Polo Club; it will repeat this weekend with the same sprawling lineup (including headliners AC/DC, Jack White and Drake). Long considered the most prestigious music festival in America – partly because it kicks off the summer season and partly because it attracts a crowd peppered with celeb-rities– Coachella has metas-tasized over the decade and a half since its founding into a closely watched cultural event, one that helps set agen-das, not only in music but also in media, branding and style. (The fast-fashion retailer H&M recently introduced a collec-tion based on the willowy look widely embraced here.) It’s become a place that compels everyone, artists and attendees alike, to think big. You could detect the weight of that perceived importance all weekend. In some ways, that heightened the experi-ence. In others, it dampened it. Headlining the main stage Saturday night, White embraced the pressure. His thrilling, hip-hop-inflected set, which he dedicated to “transgender people,” seemed

designed to upset his reputa-tion as a roots-music fuddy-duddy, with explosive rendi-tions of songs from his solo albums and by the White Stripes and the Raconteurs. “The gold rush is over,” he announced at one point, an apparent reference to the dra-matic California landscape. “This is the new world, is it not?” Azealia Banks had soci-ety on her mind too, setting aside her weakness for trash talk to rap about the intersec-tion of sex and celebrity as she danced in front of a giant, digitally undulating American flag. Other artists pondered more personal themes in simi-larly epic terms. Backed by a muscular three-piece band, the Weeknd blew up his bad-love songs to fit Coachella’s dimensions; his vocals, more assured than he’d ever sound-ed, floated like a poisonous cloud over the packed polo field. Swedish singer Lykke Li was equally potent, singing about breaking hearts in one of the festival’s smaller tents. Wrapped in filmy black fabric, she brought serious dead-flow-er power to an event known for its smiley, neo-hippie vibe. Bad Religion, the veter-an Los Angeles punk band,

used the platform to provoke instead, flashing giant crosses with bars through them on video screens between songs. Welsh synth-pop act Marina and the Diamonds went car-toon-playful with enormous prop fruits. And in the Sahara tent, the festival’s cavern-ous dance music space, DJs like Porter Robinson and DJ Snake supersized their beats and accompanying visuals for maximum impact. Some acts seemed over-whelmed by the demand to make Coachella count. Chet Faker, an Australian electro-soul crooner, got lost inside his grooves, too drowsy to make an impact. And Hozier, looking to bring some edge to his middle-of-the-road profile, brought out Este Haim (of L.A.’s Coachella-approved sis-ter trio Haim) for a cameo that made him seem only more square. Inevitably, some acts were (or pretended to be) less impressed by Coachella’s self-reinforcing grandeur. AC/DC and Steely Dan –two classic-rock acts booked in part to expand the festival’s reach among older fans willing to pay for pricey VIP packages–played deeply satisfying ver-sions of shows they’ve each been playing in less glamorous venues for years.

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Dragon Age game bites back with’Jaws of Hakkon’

By Steven WonGGamerHub.tv

You may have defeat-ed Corypheus, but the Inquisition is far from over. “Jaws of Hakkon,” the recent DLC expansion for “Dragon Age: Inquisition” takes you to an all new area of called the Frostback Basin, locat-ed in the southern region of Thedas. It’s a mountain-ous area, marked by thick forests in the valley below. The people of this region are called the Awar, and they’ll be willing to help you if you can impress them. Along with them is a new enemy faction called the Jaws of Hakkon, who want nothing less than war with the rest of the world, and your skull crushed in. Yep, just another day for the Inquisition. But the best victories are often won through pain and blood. Preferably your enemy’s. You arrive to the Frostback Basin to search out the remains of Ameridan, the last Inquisitor from long ago. In doing so, you uncover a forgotten history, some of which is looking to repeat itself. The Jaws of Hakkon (Hakkonites) want to resur-rect a fallen god to wreak havoc and destruction on the world. Your predecessor

sought to stop this from hap-pening ages ago, but ended up disappearing. So, you must gather up your forces and hone your skills so that you won’t see a similar fate. The expansion is meant for late or post campaign characters. Enemies here start at level 20, so you should be prepared for some high level battles. Hakkonitegroups are gen-erally large, with multiple mages, archers and some-times a couple one-shot kill assassins. Among the most challenging are the Great Hammer wielding warriors that can take a ton of pun-ishment.Jaws of Hakkoncan be played before or after the main campaign is complet-ed, but you’ll have to deal with the consequences of a post-campaign game. My game ended with the loss of both Vivienne and Solas, leaving Dorian as my only mage character. Once those details are sorted out, you can start exploring the expansive Frostback Basin. There are ruins to loot, Fade rifts to close, and enemies to slay. The expansion comes with quite a bit of content, includ-ing a number of relatively short side quests. There’s even a new Rift power that surrounds your Inquisitor with a bubble that protects against projectiles. As with the main cam-paign, exploring the breath-

taking landscape is my favor-ite part. The world is covered in gigantic trees, the tops of which you’ll be planting new encampments. The Awar are an interesting tribe people that have a unique connec-tion to the spirit world, and use friendly spirits to train mages and while protect-ing the community. Fans of Dragon Age lore might take to learning more about the previous Inquisitor, whose story has lost much to his-tory.However, all of it is in preparation for the big boss battle against the Hakkon,

the war god that wants to snap his jaws on you. Without spoiling too much, I have to say that the battle with Hakkon is prob-ably the most infuriating boss fight in the game so far. No other creature seems to come close. Not Corypheus nor any of the dragons that are nesting across the land. Hakkon is the worst, and unlike the final battle fea-tured in the main campaign, there’s not a lot you can do to prepare for it. It’s not only the fact that Hakkon has extremely pow-

erful melee and ranged abili-ties. Nor is it how he has damage aura and can freeze characters in place. It’s how the room that you fight in will do damage over time on your character unless you’re standing on very specific spots, all of which Hakkon will eventually ren-der unsafe. Furthermore, Hakkon is immune to both fire and spirit damage, which made my pyro/necromancer build for Dorian practically useless. As if that weren’t enough, he’ll summon pow-erful reinforcements to come

in and wreck your team mid-way through the fight. Oh yeah, and he teleports, and will go after soft characters like rogues even when he’s taunted by your tank. Even with the tactical view and carefully maneu-vering your characters, this is one seriously rough fight. It’s in an enclosed space without a lot of places to run, not that running would save you anyway. There’s a potion you can take to help reduce the damage caused by the room, but it doesn’t eliminate it completely. The sad thing is, I was having a fantastic time with the expansion right up until Hakkon and his lackeys pounded my team into the ground. Facing him with new characters means hav-ing to replay the entire final mission, which is all the worse if your next team isn’t powerful enough to defeat Hakkon either. On the bright side, virtu-ally every other aspect of the add-on is enjoyable. I loved exploring Frostback Basin, meeting new NPCs and set-ting up tree-top encamp-ments. The Hakkonites are very challenging, and fights are usually pretty intense. Then it all comes to an infu-riating conclusion when you have to fight the boss. That’s when you realize that the Jaws of Hakkon really do bite.

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The setting of ‘Jaws of Hakkon’ is in the mountainous and forested region of Frostback Basin.

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By Nick SouzaCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s and women’s track and field teams will send a combined six athletes to Worcester to compete in the two-day Holy Cross Decathlon/Heptathlon event. Competing for the Minutemen is junior Nick Ingham, sophomore Adam Bonfilio, senior Greg Copeland and soph-omore Kris Horn. The Minutewomen will send a pair of freshmen, Julia Witt and Bridget Deveau. Assistant coach David Jackson has worked with these multi-event athletes since September, and said it has been a long grind to this point. The next step for UMass will be to hit qualify-ing marks that will put it past the initial champion-ship meets at the beginning of May and into the New England, ECAC and IC4A championships. “It’s been a long year, and we’re just trying to see where we are at this point,” Jackson said. “Right now it’s a balancing act between getting good work in for the athletes and being smart and staying healthy.”

For the men competing Wednesday and Thursday, they will have the advan-tage of experience in a decathlon. Experience goes a long way in handling the event-to-event grind that the decathlon is. It also makes them less vulnerable to over-thinking or worrying about warming up and over preparing for each individu-al event. While the women’s side has less experience, there is no shortage of talent or work ethic. Witt, who is coming off a very good high jump performance this past weekend, also competed in the pentathlon during the indoor season. Deveau was also a multi-event competitor during her high school career in Canada, and will look to qualify for the junior nation-al team for the heptathlon. However, given that this will be a two-day event, recovery will be a key fac-tor for the team to focus on between the first and second day. The athletes’ endurance will be tested, but according to Jackson, it’s more about the mental endurance than the physical. The athletes will have to maintain focus from event to event in order to perform well. “Being a decathlete comes with a different type of mentality,” Jackson said.

“You have to love the grind in order to be good at it.” The decathlon and hep-tathlon are scored differ-ently from regular track and field events. It is scored as a raw data event, which means that every time or measurement the athletes achieve will have a certain amount of points attached to it. This scoring method has an interesting effect on the strategy for the competi-tors. “The goal for the athletes is to focus on their weakest

events in order to maximize their point total, while not messing up in their stron-gest events,” Jackson added. “They want to minimize points lost in weak events so they don’t take away from their stronger events.” UMass will decide wheth-er it wants to send athletes to the Holy Cross Invitational set for Saturday after the decathlon ends Thursday.

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

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UMass ready for meet at Holy Cross

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Two runners for UMass compete in the Minutemen Invitational on April 11.

“Being a decathlete comes with a different type of mentality. You have to love the grind

in order to be good at it.”David Jackson,

UMass assistant coach

a possible foundation for getting into the playoffs.” If there is one advantage UMass has heading into these last two games, it is the fact that both will be played in Amherst. Being back on the AstroTurf of Garber Field definite-ly presents UMass with a home field advantage, something Izzo said he has been looking forward to all year. “If that doesn’t get you going, then you shouldn’t be playing sports, honest-ly,” he said. “Home games … are a great opportunity and we should cherish the moment and go out and execute.”

Since they have played all home games at McGuirk Stadium this season, the Minutemen will have to adapt quickly when head-ing back to Garber Field. Izzo, however, doesn’t think it should be too much of a transition. “It might set us back a day or two, but I don’t think it’ll affect us in the long run,” Izzo said. “We’ve been playing there for years now. Garber is our home, so we’re glad to be back there.”

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

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baseball today, yesterday, over the weekend,” Stone said. “It has just been exe-cution. We’ve been execut-ing a lot better and it’s led to better play.”

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UMass will have a quick turnaround as it takes on Hartford Wednesday,

marking its sixth game in five days. With a fifth straight win tomorrow, the Minutemen would be .500 for the first time this season. However Stone isng they have not been since the star. Rather he cares more about how his team is playing and everything

else will come into place. “You obviously want to get to above .500, it’s a standard in all of sports,” Stone said. “But I’m just concerned with playing good baseball and the record will take care of itself if we do just that.” Victor Pusateri can be reached at vpusateri@umass.edu.

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Dylan Morris (20) steals second base in a 6-5 win over Harvard April 13.

after three innings, but the Minutewomen answered with five straight runs. Offensively, UMass was led by Anna Kelley and Tara Klee, who both had two hits and a home run. Carbone had a home run of her own as well. Despite all of the suc-cess the team had Tuesday, Stefanoni said there is still

one major thing that must improve for her team – defense. The Minutewomen committed five errors, a familiar occurrence for the club. “Plain and simple, it has to be better,” Stefanoni said. “I am probably the biggest stickler for defense on this team and what I am seeing right now is not cutting it.

You can’t make those mis-takes and expect to qualify for the tournament.” The Rams come out of the double-header now on a 17-game losing streak. The team has lowly batting aver-age of .220 and a team ERA of over 10 runs a game.

Adam Aucoin can be reached at aaucoin@umass.edu.

Mayweather Jr. happy with timeliness of Pacquiao fight

By LaNce PugmireLos Angeles Times

LAS VEGAS — Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s crafty, well-plotted style in the boxing ring carried over to his decision of choos-ing when to fight Manny Pacquiao too, he said. At his gym Tuesday, on media day for a fight that is expected to destroy pay-per-view and live-gate records, Mayweather (47-0, 26 knockouts) detailed why he finally agreed to fight the record eight-division cham-pion from the Philippines. “Everything in life is about timing,” Mayweather said. “I don’t regret any-thing. The time is now. “Before, I don’t think this fight was as big as this. With me going out there getting bigger and big-ger, not just in boxing, but outside the sport, and him stepping outside boxing and continuing to grow out-side the sport, the names are much bigger now than they were before. “You can’t rush every-thing in life. Certain things aren’t meant to be (rushed).” Mayweather, 38, and Pacquiao, 36, first began fight negotiations more than five years ago, but a series of disagreements and Mayweather’s general apathy kept boxing’s super-fight on pause. In the interim, Mayweather in 2013 signed a six-fight deal with Showtime/CBS that has given him four purses in excess of $30 million,

including record sales for his September 2013, vic-tory over Mexico’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Forbes said Mayweather earned $105 million last year, becoming the second athlete after Tiger Woods to reach $100 million in a year. Hopes for the super-fight took a dark turn when Pacquiao was knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez in 2012, but he has rallied with three convincing victories, knocking down previously unbeaten Chris Algieri six times in a November vic-tory by decision. “I didn’t really say any-thing (after the Marquez loss), I just thought hope-fully he’d be able to bounce back,” Mayweather said of Pacquiao. “And he bounced back. It was the right thing for the sport of boxing and for himself.” Mayweather has previ-ously taken verbal shots at Pacquiao for remaining with Mayweather’s former promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank Inc., but declined to do so Tuesday. He said he told his clos-est advisers nearly a decade ago, when he decided to part ways with Arum, that he’d be the first fighter to make $100 million for a bout. For this bout, it’s believed Mayweather, who’ll earn a 60 percent purse split to Pacquiao’s 40 percent, could earn nearly $200 million. “I always knew if I made the right moves ... eventual-ly I’d get to the next level,”

Mayweather said. For this fight, Mayweather said he has taken to the most basic of training techniques, including chopping wood, while also incorporating swimming workouts. “(There’s) more excite-ment, (but) it’s been smooth and comfortable and I’m happy with my perfor-mance,” Mayweather said. Mayweather’s father/trainer, Floyd Mayweather Sr., said his son’s intelli-gence will prove too much for Pacquiao. The elder Mayweather went as far as predicting a knockout. “It’s not going to be the (toss-up) fight that people think it’s going to be,” Mayweather Sr. said. “The Mayweathers are like this: When we see what a guy’s doing, and see him keep doing it, we know what to do.” Pacquiao, said Mayweather Jr., is “a very, very reckless fighter,” leav-ing himself open to punch-es. Mayweather also cracked jokes about Pacquiao’s height disadvantage _ “he wears lifts in his shoes” _ and raised his eyebrows and flashed a smile when someone took note of his reach advantage. “My career wouldn’t have lasted this long if I had been a reckless fighter like that,” Mayweather said of Pacquiao. “A guy can land a good shot, but one thing about Floyd Mayweather: I can make adjustments. “Always.”

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“We’re just trying to preach to the guys to keep fighting. We’ve had a tough stretch

these past three games, and really this who year for us.”

Ryan Izzo,UMass midfielder

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Coming off a weekend where it was out-scored 31-5 by a strong Fordham team, the M a s s a c h u s e t t s softball team needed something to smile about. L u c k i l y , Caroline Raymond had something up her sleeve Tuesday to turn those frowns into smiles. By Tuesday’s end, it was Rhode Island in need of a pick-me-up. The UMass pitcher tossed her first career no-hitter in a 14-0 win in the first game

of a double-header against Rhode Island. The game was ended after five innings. Head coach Kristi Stefanoni could not have been more proud of her starting pitcher. “Caroline was abso-

lutely fantastic out there and I could not be more proud of her,” Stefanoni said. “This was a whole different Caroline

than I have ever seen. I think I am most proud of her demeanor and

approach today. She was determined to get people out.” This was Raymond’s first career no-hitter. In the game, she had to throw only 45 pitches and faced only one batter over the minimum,

walking one and striking out two. It didn’t take the Minutewomen (10-19, 5-9 Atlantic 10) long at all to strike. On only the second pitch of the game, shortstop Quianna Diaz-Patterson put a double in the left-center gap. From that point on, the game was on. Offensively, UMass had one of its best outings of the year with four hitters having multi-hit games, and four Minutewomen hitting home runs in the first game of the day. Diaz-Patterson continued on her standout senior cam-paign going 3-for-3 in the game as the Amherst native came into the day batting .481. “We didn’t really have too much of a game plan out there. It was more just get

in there and get comfort-able,” Stefanoni said. “(Diaz-Patterson) really set the tone early and it just flowed from there. They all just synced together and got it done.” Stefanoni admits that URI’s record (1-29, 0-13 A-10) did affect the way the team approached the game. “I would be lying if I said it didn’t affect our prepara-tion. Taking on Rhode Island is a lot different than say a game against Fordham,” she said. “That being said, we never want to look past a team and Rhode Island was very scrappy and they gave us a good game in the second game.” S i x d i f f e re n t Minutewomen had RBIs, with first baseman Bridget Lemire leading the charge with four and right fielder Taylor Carbone adding three

of her own.

UMass takes second game of double-header

While the second game may not have been as con-vincing as the first game for

the Minutewomen, the end result was just the same. Raymond pitched anoth-er gem of a game, only giving up four hits in a 7-3 UMass win. URI led 1-0

Raymond hurls no-no vs. URI

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Bryce Maher went 3-for-5 with three RBIs and a run scored in UMass’ 6-0 win over Central Connecticut State University on Tuesday.

UMass in need of CAA win to keep playoff hopes alive

By JAson KAtes Collegian Staff

The view from the out-side looking in is never fun when it comes to mak-ing a conference tourna-ment. Currently, it’s the view that Massachusetts men’s lacrosse team has, as it is currently outside of the top four teams that qualify for the Colonial Athletic Association conference tournament. Despite all of the strug-gles and close defeats the Minutemen (3-8, 1-2 CAA) have suffered, there is still a glimmer of hope, and it starts Saturday afternoon at Garber Field when they take on Drexel, which is currently one game ahead of them in the standings with a 2-1 conference record. At this time, UMass is only one game back of the second position in the con-ference, but also only one game ahead of last place Delaware. Head coach Greg Cannella knows that with the closeness of the standings, the time to win is now. “We’re 3-8, so getting a win for us means a ton, regardless of what the standings say,” he said.

“We would’ve loved to get a win last week but we didn’t, and every week you go into it looking to get a win. “I think this group has to focus more on playing at a high level and great intensity,” he said. Redshirt senior and co-captain Ryan Izzo said that all year the message to the team is to not give up. “We’re just trying to preach to the guys to keep fighting,” Izzo said. “We’ve had a tough stretch these

past three games, and really this whole year for us. It’s been (an) up-and-down for us, but we have a great opportunity this Saturday with a great team in Drexel coming in. “It’s a home game for us back on Garber, so we’re just trying to tell the guys to keep fighting and keep the energy levels high and stay focused and get ready to fight on Saturday,” he said. As one of the leaders on a team filled with youth, Izzo knows it’s important to keep the guys focused on the task at hand and not worry about how other teams are doing around them. “Obviously that’s been the mentality that the seniors and myself have to take into consideration every time we step on the field,” he said. “We’re just trying to motivate the guys and keep the focus up each day so on game day we’re ready to go.” “Hopefully they’re pret-ty well-versed with that, we talked about that all year long,” Cannella said. “You prepare each week for Saturday, and if you’re focused on something else, you’re going to get your butt kicked.”

For Izzo, it has been a long time since he was a part of a team that defeat-ed the Dragons (6-6, 2-1 CAA), dating back to the 2012 season when the Minutemen came away with an 8-6 victory. “I haven’t had a victory over them in a couple years now, so personally this is a key game for me,” Izzo said. “This is an important game for the team also, for conference and for setting

M E N ’ S L AC R O S S E

Minutemen take care of Blue Devils

By Victor PusAteriCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts baseball team remained hot, winning its fourth straight game on Tuesday as it cruised to a 6-0 win over Central Connecticut State University. In his fourth start of the season – and best one by far – junior Tim Cassidy pitched a complete-game shutout allowing just four hits, while striking out three and walking one batter. Cassidy earned his first win of the season and improved his record to 1-1 on the year. Cassidy entered the day with an ERA of 7.84, but by the end of the day it had dropped to 4.19. “Cassidy pitched great,” UMass coach Mike Stone said. “He was aggressive

in the (strike) zone. We played very solid defense behind him. Once he got in a groove he was really aggressive and really locat-ed his pitches.” The Minutemen (10-11, 7-5 Atlantic 10) didn’t skip a beat on offense even with a slight change to the line-up, as Bryce Maher started Tuesday at second and bat-ted leadoff, pushing Kyle

Adie down to the No. 2 spot in the batting order. Maher got the Minutemen on the board in the third inning

with a two-run single off Blue Devil pitcher Michael Pastore to give them a 2-0 lead. Maher finished 3-for-5 from the plate with three RBIs and a run scored, accounting for two-thirds of the UMass offense. Maher drove in his third run of the game in the seventh with another RBI single that would send Vinny Scifo home, giving the Minutemen a 4-0 lead.

They would score two more runs that inning as Maher came around to score and Rob McLam scored on an infield single by Adam Picard. On the season, Maher is batting .333, the second best average on the team, and his three-RBI game increases his total to seven. “He’s been swinging the bat really well this sea-son,” Stone said. “He had another nice day at the plate today.” Over these last four games, different players have stepped up at the plate for UMass, whether it be Maher, Picard Monday with a key three-run home run or Scifo with time-ly two-out hitting over the weekend, which has pleased Stone.

“It’s real important that we don’t rely on the same people to get the job done,” Stone said. “It’s nice to see a couple of guys come through when we need them to, that’s what I want to see.” Scifo stayed hot as he went 2-for-4 at the plate, and third baseman Paul Yanakopulos went 2-for-3 and drove home a run in the top of the fourth which gave UMass a 3-0 lead. During their four-game winning streak, the Minutemen have seen improvements in all aspects of the game – pitch-ing, hitting and defense, something Stone has taken notice of. “We’ve played real good

Cassidy, Maher shine in victory

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Caroline Raymond pitched both games on Tuesday against the Rams.

“It’s really important that we don’t rely on the same people to get the job done. It’s nice

to see a couple of guys come through when we need them to, that’s what I want to see.”

Mike Stone,UMass coach

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