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The UMass synchronized ice skating team performs during its “Nationals Send Off” show at the Mullins Center.

On thin ice Belly dance RSO includes experts and amateurs

By Stuart FoSterCollegian Staff

At the University of Massachusetts, students looking to broaden their horizons have found a home in the Belly Dance Club, even if they have no prior dance interest. Emma Hurley, a junior mathematics major with a concentration in education who acts as the club’s trea-surer, transferred to UMass after spending a year at a small school with few activi-ties available. She went to her first meeting of the Belly Dance Club without expect-ing to take it too seriously, but was intrigued by the community and intensity of the club. “Joining the club helped me get a majority of the friends I have here,” she said. The club is now expand-ing its presence on campus. On April 18, the Belly Dance Club will host the second annual UMass Belly Dance Club Festival in the Student Union Ballroom. The event, which will run from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., will host belly

dance clubs from 26 different colleges, and consist of activi-ties such as yoga, meditation, dance workshops and a stu-dent bazaar. The scale of this festival seems especially large consid-ering the youth of the Belly Dance Club. It was formed in 2011 by two students, Jaclyn Barzvi and Bekah Perlin. Today, it has about 106 mem-bers and has performed at over 20 Registered Student Organization events last semester. “We’re booked very often,” said Liz Tripp, a junior Spanish and BDIC major who is president of the club. “We like to share the stage with other dance groups.” “We’ve been double booked before,” said senior journalism major Vincenza Parella, who is the club’s vice president. Parella also men-tioned the club’s enthusiasm for performing at body posi-tive events, an important part of the club’s identity. While some members, like Tripp, joined the club as a way to continue their danc-ing, a large majority joined without any prior experience. “I started never hav-ing done really any other dancing,” said Parella, who joined after being astonished by Perlin’s sword dance at a UMass Got Talent event. Parella, who was impressed

By Megan o’MatzSun Sentinel

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Armed U.S. mar-shals normally surprise fugitives by breaking down doors and hauling people off in handcuffs. This time, federal agents took a dif-ferent tack: They called the wanted man and politely asked him to return. “He confirmed, absolute-ly, I know I’m wanted in the U.S., and I’m not com-ing back to the U.S. because

I know I’m going to pris-on,” Barry Golden, U.S. Marshals Service spokes-man, said of the April 2014 call to accused alien smug-gler Junior Arce de la Cruz. Why the unusual treat-ment? Because Arce de la Cruz was in Cuba. The inci-dent underscores the diffi-culty of retrieving fugitives from the Communist-led nation. President Barack Obama’s recent move to restore official diplomatic ties with Cuba has renewed calls for the return of fugi-tives, but Cuba has asserted

Officials looking for over 500 people

Let’s Get Ready aims to prepare students for college life

By andy CaStilloCollegian Correspondent

This semester marked the launch of the University of Massachusetts chapter of Let’s Get Ready – a col-lege success program geared toward low-income and first generation col-lege students. According to Saulo Depaula, one of the two site directors on cam-pus, the national graduation rate for low-income and first generation college students sits around 8 to 11 percent. Depaula said the gradu-ation rate is at around 50 percent through Let’s Get Ready. “(It’s) much better,” Depaula said, “but can most certainly keep growing.” The program originally started with high school juniors, offering assistance with SAT prep and col-

lege applications. However, it has recently graduated into the college realm, helping students with the transition into college life. “We also see the need for sup-port on campus, which is what the initiative at UMass is all about,” said Debbie Nguyen, New England college success director. So far, the strategy has been proven to work – about 92 percent of students who participate in the program during high school go on to college after one year. “When students are the first per-son in their family to attend college, they are venturing into a complete-ly unknown experience,” Nguyen said. “There is no one who they can turn to for assistance with applica-tions and financial aid paperwork.” The college application process and initial adjustment can be diffi-cult and frustrating to tackle alone. Let’s Get Ready provides much-needed mentorship and assistance for high school students and young college students, through the expe-

rience of upper level and older stu-dent volunteers. There are four volunteers at UMass – including site directors Depaula and Renan De Oliveira. There are about 20 students enrolled in the program. “There is a good likelihood that the number will increase with

time,” Depaula said. The college program is split into a monthly large group meet-ing and smaller group meetings. At the bigger meeting, students and staff explore topics such as course enrollment, housing selection and career services. The smaller meet-ings are led by success coaches

– college juniors or seniors, who serve as mentors. “This is a good opportunity for students to learn more about what opportunities they have on campus, while getting to form a community with each other,” Depaula said. Students can also volunteer in the college or high school program as freshmen or sophomores. The first official event was last Wednesday, when students came for a study break of hot chocolate, Nguyen said. “We encourage first-year and sophomore students of all back-grounds to join, if it’s a program that interests them,” Depaula said. “We began in January 2015 and hope to see the program grow in semesters to come.” Interested students can visit lets-getready.org for more information.

Andy Castillo can be reached at [email protected].

About 20 enrolled in UM tutoring program

By WilliaM douglaSMcClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Congress will return to work Monday with only four days left to pass a Department of Homeland Security funding bill and avert a partial agency shutdown and the furlough of about 30,000 federal employees. Most of the depart-ment’s employees would be deemed “essential” and kept working even if the

Congress and President Barack Obama don’t agree in time. The nation’s air-ports, borders and political leaders would continue to be protected during a par-tial shutdown. But even those who work would be unsure of their paychecks until Congress finds a way to fund the agency beyond Friday, when it runs out of money. The operative word on Capitol Hill is “stuck.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has been unable to move a bill that would provide


The UMass Belly Dancing Club practices in the Recreation Center.

Homeland Security to run out of funds, Congress must act30,000 employees may be furloughed

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U.S. marshals can’t get Cuba fugitives back

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ON THIS DAY...In 2005, a French law was passed, stating that the “positive values of colonialism” must be taught in schools. It was later repealed in 2006.

KIEV, Ukraine — A bomb apparently hidden in a thin layer of snow exploded Sunday during a pro-Ukraine march in the eastern industrial city of Kharkiv, killing at least two people and wounding 11, authorities said. Four suspected perpe-trators of the attack were detained later in the day, Alexander Turchinov, secretary of the National Defense and Security Council, told the UNIAN news agency. He said the detainees had been trained in the Russian town of Belgorod. The bomb exploded shortly after 1 p.m. along the route where hundreds of people marched, many waving Ukrainian national flags, as part of a nation-wide memorial to protest-ers who died a year ago during the Maidan revolu-tion in Kiev that ousted Russian-backed President Viktor Yanukovich, said Anton Gerashchenko, an Interior Ministry adviser. Kharkiv is the capital of the Kharkiv region, which borders Russia and the Donetsk region of Ukraine, which for over 10 months has been the heart of an armed conflict between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia separatists report-edly armed and aided by Russia. One of the two killed in the bombing was a prominent local activist and the other a high-ranking police officer, Gerashchenko said. Five police officers were among the wounded, he said. “We have enough evidence to believe that this terrorist attack was organized and carried out by a group of terrorists armed and sponsored by Moscow,” Gerashchenko said in an interview. “This cynical attack against peaceful marchers on the national mourning day clearly shows that regardless of the Minsk accords the Kremlin is set to continue to destabilize the situation in eastern Ukraine.” A cease-fire agreement was reached this month after talks in Minsk, Belarus, among the lead-ers of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine. The deal called for fighting to stop and a withdrawal of heavy weapons and foreign fighters from the battle zone. The cease-fire has been repeatedly violated, and was again Sunday when separatists launched two tank attacks on the Ukrainian military near the seaport of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the National Defense and Security Council, said at a briefing in Kiev. Both attacks were repelled, he said. No casualty figures were given. More than 5,600 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since the conflict broke out in April. More than 1 million people have fled the war zones for safe refuge in western Ukraine or across the eastern bor-der with Russia.

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the department with $40 billion through September, because of a Democratic filibuster over added lan-guage that would reverse some of Obama’s executive actions on immigration. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, isn’t budging on his demand that McConnell’s Senate act on the bill passed by the House and not look to his chamber for help. “The House has done its job under the Constitution,” Boehner said. “It’s time for the Senate to do their job.” Democrats and a few Republicans in both chambers are pressing for a “clean” bill, without the immigration-related amendments, arguing that not funding the depart-ment when the Islamic State and other groups are committing terrorist acts worldwide would be politi-cal suicide. The White House will try to keep the heat on Congress when Obama hosts a nationally tele-vised town hall meeting on immigration Wednesday in Miami. Even though Senate Democrats are blocking the bill, most Americas would blame Republicans if there’s a partial shut-down, according to a CNN/ORC poll released this week. Fifty-three percent of poll respondents would blame congres-sional Republicans for a Homeland Security clos-ing, while 30 percent would blame Obama, the survey found. Only 13 percent of those surveyed Americans blamed both congressional Republicans and the White House. Some lawmakers, such as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., think a feder-al judge in Texas threw Congress a lifeline last week when he issued an injunction blocking Obama’s actions to shield from deportation more than 4 million immigrants who live in the United States illegally. “It’s not a good idea ... to shut down the Department of Homeland Security,” McCain said Thursday on MSNBC. “And now we’ve

got a perfect reason to not shut it down because the courts have decided, at least initially, in our favor.” But instead of soften-ing the debate, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen’s ruling appears to have hardened both sides. “Senate Democrats – especially those who’ve voiced opposition to the president’s execu-tive overreach – should end their partisan fili-buster of Department of Homeland Security fund-ing,” McConnell said after Hanen’s decision. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said, “Democrats’ offer to first fund Homeland Security and then debate immigration stands. All Republicans have to do is say yes.” Outside groups are pres-suring lawmakers to hold the line. “What we want is for Congress to pass a clean DHS bill and for the par-ties to come together to pass a comprehensive immigration bill,” said Hector Sanchez, chairman of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda. Kevin Broughton, com-munications director for the Tea Party Patriots, said it was time for Republicans to make good on campaign vows to address Obama’s executive actions. “The point is that Republicans last fall went hard against executive amnesty. ... Now is not the time to lose your nerve,” he said With the fate of the funding bill uncertain, the agency is preparing for a possible partial shutdown. DHS officials said 30,000 employees – about 15 per-cent of its workforce – might be furloughed. That group would include 5,500 of the Transportation Security Administration’s employ-ees but exclude federal air marshals. Front-line divisions such as the TSA, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Coast Guard would contin-ue to operate.

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by Perlin’s comfort on stage, said that “being a part of belly dancing gave me that confidence.” Adele De Crespigny, a sophomore animal science major who is the club secre-tary, had some dancing expe-rience, having been “casually dancing since sophomore year of high school,” and was interested in the Belly Dance Club after seeing it on a club list. After watching a prac-tice in the gym, she immedi-ately asked Tripp and Parella about joining the club and quickly found a community and hobby important to her. “I fell in love,” she said. The Belly Dance Club has two weekly practices – one on Monday at 10:15 p.m. in room

118 of the Recreation Center, and one on Sunday at 7:15 p.m. in room 215. The club teaches basics first, gradually adding new material as mem-bers’ experience with belly dancing builds. “There’s no experience necessary – no tryouts,” Tripp said, adding that around 85 percent of the club’s dancers had not danced before com-ing to college. Preference or focus is not directed toward members with more experience or his-tory with the club. “Everyone is an equal,” Hurley said. “One of the best moments is seeing people go on stage for the first time,” De Crespigny said, referring to

the excitement of new mem-bers dancing in front of an audience. The Belly Dance Club is entirely inclusive, and is open to people of all gender and sexual identities. “We are open to any gen-der,” Tripp said. “Belly danc-ing is for anyone.” The Belly Dance Club and can be followed on Twitter @UMassBDC or on Instagram @umassbellydanceclub. The club also has pages on Facebook and Campus Pulse, along with many videos on YouTube.

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

Supreme Court to hear case of Afghan man’s visa denial

By DaviD SavageLos Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — Home-care worker Fauzia Din married an Afghan man in 2006 and wanted him to join her in Fremont, Calif. But the State Department turned down his visa appli-cation – and it won’t say exactly why. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Din’s case Monday to decide whether a U.S. citizen has a right to know why her spouse has been barred from entering the country. “I want to know the rea-son why my husband is not able to live with me,” Din, 44, said in a telephone interview. “My husband is a gentle man. He is the opposite of a terrorist.” She said she only has one clue to explain what hap-pened. When her husband, Kanishka, was interviewed in 2009 by a consular offi-cer at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan, he was told to expect a quick approval. But several months later, the man, who has a govern-ment job in Kabul, received a letter saying his visa was denied, citing a provision of the law that referred to “terrorist activities.” He was told he would get no further explanation and could not respond or sup-ply further information. Din is a native of Afghanistan but fled the Taliban occupation with her mother and sister and entered the United States as a refugee in 2000. She became a naturalized citi-zen and returned to Kabul to marry Kanishka, whom she had known in the past.

(She asked that only his first name be used because he is still in Afghanistan.) After his visa was denied, she traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan but was told by U.S. embassies that she would receive no more information. She then filed a lawsuit in federal court in Northern California, con-tending that, as a U.S. citi-zen, she had a right to some explanation regarding her husband. The fact that her hus-band was a low-level clerk in the Afghan Ministry of Social Welfare during the Taliban occupation should not trigger a visa denial based on a link to terror-ism, she argued. Under U.S. immigra-tion law, foreigners have no right to enter the U.S. or receive an explanation if they are denied a visa. Decisions made by consul-ar officials generally can-not be reviewed in court. But some judges have said a U.S. citizen has a limited right to be told why a close relative was turned down. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for Din, saying marriage is a fundamen-tal right protected by the Constitution. As a matter of due process of law, a wife has a right to go to court and seek from the govern-ment a “legitimate reason”

for denying a visa to her husband, the court said in a 2-1 decision. The majority, however, agreed that the government need not make a “danger-ous disclosure” that could threaten national security. In such an instance, a judge could be told in confidence why U.S. officials refused to admit a foreigner seeking a visa. In their appeal to the Supreme Court, govern-ment lawyers called the 9th Circuit’s ruling “deeply flawed.” They argued that giving any explanation to Din would open the door to others going to court to contest denials of visas. The court will hear argu-ments Monday morning in the case of John Kerry v. Fauzia Din. Her case got a boost last month when former U.S. consular officers submitted a “friend of the court” brief on her behalf. They wrote that many visas are denied based on “watch lists” and “databases,” not on a deci-sion made by a consular officer. These “bear little resem-blance to the traditional exercise of consular dis-cretion” from previous decades, they said. “Real decision-making has in effect been ceded to the database and watch-listing process.”

Wife seeks reason for the rejection


Vincenza Parella practices her routine for the UMass Belly Dancing Club.

Under U.S. immigration law, foreigners have no right to enter the U.S. or receive an explanation if they are denied a visa.

Decisions made by consular officials generally cannot be reviewed in court.

But some judges have said a U.S. citizen has a limited right to be told why a close

relative was turned down.

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its right to offer political asylum to certain individuals and has yet to return a single fugitive. The two countries do not regularly coop-erate on police matters or honor an extradition treaty signed more than 100 years ago. “That has to be a critical part of the discussion with the Cubans,” Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday at a news conference in West Palm Beach. Rubio, a Florida Republican and Cuban-American, said he’s stressed the need to demand the return of fugitives with the State Department and the U.S. diplomat leading the talks with Cuban offi-cials. “No one seems to have a good answer about why it isn’t a high-er priority,” he said. “I think it’s outrageous that there are people living in Cuba, with tens of mil-lions of dollars they stole from the American taxpayers, with no consequences.” Even flashy credit-card fugitive Gilberto Martinez, a music video artist who flaunted his extrava-gant lifestyle on Facebook and YouTube, hasn’t been returned – despite being busted by Cuban police last month. Authorities can be seen in online videos raiding his sprawling, custom-built home outside Havana, yet U.S. officials still don’t know where he is or whether he’ll be handed over. Nationwide, the Marshals Service is seeking more than 500 Cuban-born individuals whose whereabouts are unknown, the agency said in response to a public records request. Federal officials publicly have put the number of fugitives in Cuba at between 100 and 130. The Sun Sentinel, in an investiga-tion published earlier this year of Cuban crime rings in the U.S., found references in court files to another 50 who have found safe harbor on the island. No exact number exists, how-ever, because no single state or federal agency tracks it. The Marshals Service in

South Florida released to the Sun Sentinel the names of seven Cuban-born fugitives the agency has confirmed returned to Cuba. They include an accused check forger, cocaine trafficker, and illegal bird importer: low-profile cases that don’t receive the level of attention of the cop killers and airplane hijackers given refuge by the Castro government. “We believe there probably is a larger number of fugitives who are wanted here in the U.S. and have fled back to their native coun-try of Cuba,” Golden said. “It’s just very hard right now to con-firm that they’re actually residing in Cuba. “A lot of times fugitives will take the long route,” Golden said. “They’ll go through Mexico or another country and end up in Cuba. We don’t have a U.S. Embassy in Cuba, so there’s no one we can just pick up the phone and call and run a database search for those fugitives who may have entered the country.” Some of the Cuban-born indi-viduals the Marshals Service hopes will one day be returned from Cuba to face justice include:––– NAME: Angel Perez-Robles AGE: 39 CHARGE: Credit-card fraud YEARS ON THE LAM: 6 Perez-Robles had served three years in a U.S. prison for smug-gling Cubans into Florida by boat in a 2003 case. He was arrested again in December 2007, accused of conspiring with a Macy’s clerk and others to use stolen credit-card numbers to obtain clothes, cosmetics, perfume, gift cards and other items worth more than $100,000. Perez-Robles bonded out and by April 2008 had disappeared. Authorities learned in 2011 that he was jailed in Cuba and was scheduled to be released, Golden said. It’s not known why he was detained there.––– NAME: Robin Carlos Perez AGE: 42

CHARGE: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine YEARS ON THE LAM: 5 In December 2009, the Florida Highway Patrol in Fort Lauderdale arrested Perez and Rolando Morales-Yanes after a traffic stop of a tractor-trailer containing about 40 kilos of cocaine. Released on bond, the men fled the coun-try. The U.S. Marshals Service issued a warrant in March 2010 for their arrest. Morales-Yanes was caught in June 2010 trying to enter Canada. While on the lam, Morales-Yanes told authorities, he went to Mexico and traveled to Cuba and Chile before trying to enter Canada. The man said Perez was in Cuba and gave a general location, Golden said.––– NAME: Eduardo Moreno AGE: 46 CHARGE: Health care fraud YEARS ON THE LAM: 7 Indicted in April 2007 for fleec-ing Medicare, Moreno allegedly recruited a recent Cuban immi-grant to be the front man and sign checks and other paperwork for two fake medical equipment com-panies in Coral Gables and Miami, according to court records. One office was housed in a utility clos-et, containing “buckets of sand mix, road tar and a large wrench,” an investigator found. In the span of about three months, the companies billed Medicare more than $3.8 million and received about $77,000, court records state. Moreno allegedly used $10,000 to pay the sales tax on a 2004 Rolls-Royce Phantom for his girlfriend. Released on bond, he fled within the year, ending up in Havana. “It’s not a secret,” Golden said. “He advertises the fact he’s a DJ for hire in Cuba and caters to the more upscale weddings.”––– NAME: Yamile Dominguez AGE: 39 CHARGE: Check forgery YEARS ON THE LAM: 3 Postal Service inspectors arrest-ed Dominguez in March 2011 for

check forgery in Miami. According to the indictment, which includes few details, she passed two forged checks in February 2010. Evidence in the case, according to another court filing, includes a phony check worth $985, and four altered Western Union money orders totaling more than $1,200. Released on bond, she skipped court in May 2011. In 2013, federal agents learned that she was hid-ing in Cancun, Mexico, and sought an international arrest warrant, Golden said. Before the paperwork was approved, however, she board-ed a flight to Havana and escaped capture.––– NAME: Jose Angel Flores AGE: 50 CHARGE: Smuggling exotic birds YEARS ON THE LAM: 26 In April 1988, after receiv-ing a distress call, the U.S. Coast Guard boarded a boat near the Sombrero Key Lighthouse and found 293 birds in the cabin, including one scarlet macaw, 48 parrots, a mustached parakeet and 190 other unidentified birds, Golden said. Officials also found a motel receipt from Cuba and various souvenirs from the island. Authorities charged Jose Angel Flores with wildlife smuggling. He bonded out of jail but failed to appear at his November 1988 sentencing. Prosecutors changed him in March 1992 with bail jump-ing. Two decades later, the U.S. Marshals Service received infor-mation that he was in Cuba.––– NAME: Inocente Hernandez Lores AGE: 54 CHARGE: Marijuana traffick-ing YEARS ON THE LAM: 27 Indicted in October 1987 for mar-ijuana distribution, Hernandez Lores fled. In February 1988 he and three others were captured by the Cuban Coast Guard aboard a boat, the “Mary,” carrying 7,700 pounds of marijuana, U.S. authori-

ties learned. As of 2012, Hernandez Lores was still believed to be in Cuba, Golden said. “At this point in time we don’t know if they’re still incarcerated or their status because we don’t have any way of verifying that.”––– NAME: Junior Arce de la Cruz AGE: 39 CHARGE: Alien smuggling YEARS ON THE LAM: 6 In August 2008, the U.S. Coast Guard watched a go-fast boat approach Loggerhead Key in the Dry Tortugas National Park and drop 35 Cuban nationals on shore, according to the criminal com-plaint. A grand jury indicted Arce de la Cruz and another man for alien smuggling. Arce de la Cruz posted bond but failed to show up for court a month later. Last year, a family member told the marshals that he had returned to Cuba and provided authorities with his mother’s phone number in the Pinar del Rio region. When the U.S. agents called, Arce de la Cruz answered, telling them he’d returned to Cuba by boat. According to Golden, the mar-shals tried to coerce him to return to the U.S. where he could see his 10-year-old son, serve his time, and “put this behind you.” Arce de la Cruz asked for some time to think about it. Weeks later, the marshals obtained his cellphone number and called him back. Working in Cuba as a cab driver, Arce de la Cruz said he feared crossing the Florida Straits again and declined to “hop on a plane and fly back into Miami and surrender him-self,” Golden said.––– Because of the estrangement between the two countries, U.S. marshals cannot simply send a plane to Cuba to pick up fugitives. “I wish it was that easy but it’s not,” Golden said. Instead, the agency waits for fugitives to make a mistake and enter the U.S. again, or for the rare instance when Cuba does hand someone over.

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Sea lions overwhelm rescue centers

By Amy HuBBArdLos Angeles Times

People in Marina del Rey, Calif., were surprised when a sea lion pup wandered into their apartment complex. They named him Walter. But getting help for Walter when he was spotted last week wasn’t easy. He’s just one sick pup among many ailing sea lions overwhelm-ing marine mammal centers in California. Nearly 1,000 have washed ashore so far this year. Emaciated and dehydrat-ed sea lions, mostly pups about 8 months old, have been admitted in record numbers to facilities up and down the California coast. It’s the third straight year of record strandings in the state. Five hundred fifty sea lions were being treated state-wide as of Feb. 18, accord-ing to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries. Rescuers are swamped. Peter Wallerstein of Marine Animal Rescue works in much of Los Angeles County. He said he received calls about Walter before the

young sea lion wandered into the complex. But as long as the pup was out of the way of people, he was on the back burner for rescue. “But then this lady called me and said he was up in the parking lot. So I responded immediately because I knew it would be bad for him,” Wallerstein said. There are so many strand-ings right now we cannot pos-sibly pick up all the pups,” he said. “People just don’t seem to understand.” Wallerstein’s two-person rescue team receives two dozen or more calls a day. He said he’d been rescu-ing marine mammals for 29 years and “for January and February, it’s the highest number of rescues I’ve ever seen.” Earlier this month, researchers from NOAA’s National Marine Mammal Laboratory visited sea lion rookeries on the Channel Islands, where most of America’s sea lions breed, in a search for clues to the high number of strandings. They measured and weighed pups and found them to be considerably underweight, with an aver-age growth rate that was the lowest they had seen since they began monitoring in the early 1990s. The pups’ weight was

similar to that in 2013, the year of an “unusual mor-tality event” for sea lions, a phenomenon characterized by an unexpected number of strandings and significant die-off of a marine mammal population. In 2013, the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro was treating two to three times as many California sea lions as usual. David Bard, operations direc-tor, said that in the first two months of this year, the numbers are double what they were at the beginning of 2013. Wallerstein remembers doing 25 rescues in the first two months of 2013. So far this year, he has rescued 117 marine mammals. Scientists thought 2013 was an anomaly, said Shawn Johnson, director of veteri-nary services at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito. “But then it happened again last year, and now it’s happening again,” he said. Scientists are awaiting more data from the research on the Channel Islands, but NOAA Fisheries said high-er-than-average sea surface temperatures along the California coast in fall 2014 may be a factor in the strand-ings.

The warmer water could have affected the availabil-ity of prey to the sea lions. Females sea lions might be spending more time and energy to obtain food, so pups are abandoned. Another possibility is “the sea lion population is reach-ing carrying capacity,” Bard said. California sea lions were exploited in the 19th and early 20th centuries for their hides and blubber and continued to be hunted for sport in some areas later in the 20th cen-tury. The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 led to significant increases in the populations of marine mam-mals, Johnson said. The pop-ulation is now 300,000, with a birth rate of about 50,000 a year. The environment sim-ply may not be able to sup-port a larger sea lion pop-ulation. According to the Marine Mammal Center, experts don’t believe the record strandings will affect California sea lion popula-tions overall. Still, “the current strand-ing crisis is concerning because it indicates a more complex occurrence in the ocean,” the center said in a statement. “Our ocean is clearly under stress.”

Hunger, cold drives animals to shore

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Sea lions are fed together after being rescued.

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A rescued sea lion pup eats a fish at Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur on Feb. 17 in San Pedro, California.

By dAvid LermAnBloomberg News

WASHINGTON –– Barely a week into his new job, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is seeking advice beyond the Pentagon to assess strategy on the campaign to defeat Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria. Carter, after a two-day visit to Afghanistan, arrived Sunday in Kuwait for a day-long policy review Monday that will bring together U.S. military, State Department and intelligence officials. Carter’s request for the unusual session involving 25 to 35 people doesn’t reflect con-cerns about the current strat-egy, according to a defense official who briefed reporters Sunday on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. Instead, the new secretary wants to better understand its underpinnings and rationale, the official said. “I’m trying to assess the situation in Iraq, Syria and the region more generally,” Carter said aboard his plane Friday before an announce-ment of the Kuwait confer-ence was made. “This is a complicated political-military situation and it’s a regional issue.” Republicans in Congress have criticized President Barack Obama’s adminis-tration for not being more aggressive against the radical Sunni Muslim group that has declared a caliphate, or reli-gious state, in parts of Iraq and Syria. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has called for using more air power in Syria, the creation of a no-fly zone and sending

arms to moderate Syrian reb-els fighting both Islamic State and the Syrian government. After more than 2,500 air-strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria over the past six months, the administration is planning a spring offensive with Iraqi forces to retake the city of Mosul, which Islamic State captured in June. The U.S. Central Command, which oversees military oper-ations in the Middle East, out-lined plans last week for using 20,000 to 25,000 Iraqi troops to defeat 1,000 to 2,000 IS fight-ers occupying Iraq’s second-largest city. U.S. advisers plan to train the Iraqi forces before the operation could begin. Among the issues Carter wants to explore at the strat-egy session are the strength of the Iraqi army, plans for political reconciliation with Sunni tribes in Iraq, the status of the air campaign, and the program to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels, the official said. The aim is to add new ideas and energy to the conversation and isn’t expected to generate immediate action, the defense official said. PowerPoint pre-sentations have been banned to generate open discussion, the official said. Carter wants to review State Department engagement with the Syrian rebels and to what extent those forces are fractured, the official said. He will also assess the contribu-tions of coalition allies and their potential for doing more, the official said. Carter said he wouldn’t visit Iraq during this trip because he needed to review strategy first.

Defense secretary seeks advice for Islamic State fight

Acting on the supposi-tion that a partial guest ban in Southwest Residential Area resulted in a peaceful

student celebration follow-ing the Super Bowl earlier this month, the University of Massachusetts will ban guests from campus from Thursday, March 5, at 8 p.m. to midnight on Sunday March 9. University admin-istrators have been planning for nearly a year to mitigate the impact of what, accord-ing to MassLive.com, they only refer to as “March 7,” the date of this year’s “Blarney Blowout.” Last spring on March 8, thousands of people, many carrying containers filled with alcohol, gathered in off-campus areas across town to celebrate the pre-St. Patrick’s Day event that began as early as 1999, indicated by a Sept. 2011 “Half Way to Blarney” Facebook event hosted by downtown bar McMurphy’s that was billed as the “12th annual” and to which over 1,000 people were invited. “Blarney Blowout,” which has sadly evolved into a stal-wart campus tradition, began as a promotional event by businesses in the downtown area, which always missed out on Bay Staters’ rabid St. Patrick’s Day passions due to the Five College spring break schedule. “Blarney’s” 2014 itera-tion resulted in police use of chemical munitions, wide-spread property damage and over 70 court summonses and 58 arrests, of whom only 20 were UMass students. The extensive effort by UMass to include students in this year’s “Blarney” prepa-rations is laudable, and new University connections with town businesses – local bars will not be doing promo-tions or “advertising” that day – may be the public rela-tions shift needed to change Amherst’s atmosphere for

the weekend. But administrators took the wrong lessons from the Super Bowl celebration. Banning guests from campus didn’t prevent a gathering; community policing tactics kept the gathering peaceful. No university wants the ‘zoo’ legacy reinforced by “Blarney,” and as a student, I stayed in my room until noon last year, avoiding the crowds that woke me with drunken revelry in my Honors College common room at 8:30 a.m. on a Saturday. The over 7,000 guests registered on campus on the night of Friday, March 7, 2014 certainly contributed to the flood of students that slowed North Pleasant St. to a halt and stormed the Brandywine apartment com-plex in North Amherst. Yet the reported “Blarney” crowd of 4,000 represents barely over half of the guests who visited Amherst that

weekend, and that crowd included non-guests as well. Now, thousands of guests uninterested in participat-ing in Blarney, perhaps some prospective students, won’t be able to visit campus for four days, including a full working Friday. Why? UMass doesn’t trust its students. The actions of a relatively small number of students, whether just the 20 UMass students arrested or the cou-ple thousand who gathered, dictated a blanket policy that applies to everyone who lives on campus. Collective pun-ishment for the actions of a few extremists? Sounds a lot like another too broad policy the University had to reverse this week. Last September, town

officials and UMass adminis-trators received the $150,000 Edward Davis Report, a brief providing recommendations for improving combined response for future events. Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy said UMass would “adopt a more restric-tive guest policy” after ana-lyzing the report’s findings. But shifting from fair access to a complete four-day ban ignores the rights of over 10,000 residents who pay thousands of dollars to live in the dorms. Some restriction on the number of guests on campus for the weekend is complete-ly justified – a reduction from the existing policy of four guests per person and the 10 guest per room limit to two per person and four per room for that Friday and Saturday would be more reasonable. A MassLive.com time-line of the 2014 “Blarney

Blowout,” so much worse than those before that it received national coverage and necessitated spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to investigate, shows that the entirety of the event lasted approximately nine hours, from 5:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, and the bulk of it only four hours, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. So why will the campus put up ‘do not enter’ signs for 76 hours starting at 8 p.m. March 5? Amherst and UMass police will heed the report’s recommendation that they activate all officers for the weekend. More than 100 people will be available to respond to any events this year.

While the APD and UMPD chiefs defended the actions of their officers after the release of the Davis Report, the report highlighted sev-eral areas that police should improve for future mass gathering response. Officers likely caused the gathering to worsen when a “com-mander decided to move in on the crowd” without enough bodies, “result(ing) in an overreliance on chemi-cal munitions,” wrote Diane Lederman for MassLive. As at the post-Super Bowl gathering earlier this month, APD and UMPD offi-cers should engage students with the community policing recommended by the Davis Report. This made the dif-ference from previous post-championship gatherings at UMass, where violence, prop-erty damage and arrests were the norm. Amherst Town Manager John Musante sup-ports more readily “embrac-ing” community policing ini-tiatives, and highlighted that last September town police spoke to several bar owners who were planning a “half-way to St. Patrick’s Day” event. New procedures and actions developed by town officials make me optimis-tic that future “Blowouts” can be prevented, or at least deescalated. But the overall picture – many more police officers, extreme restrictions on student freedoms and a lack of trust in all students due to the possible actions of a few – still deeply concerns me. Musante said Wednesday to the Boston Globe (Full disclosure: the author was quoted in the story) that he wanted to preserve the “posi-tive momentum” that started with the Super Bowl celebra-tion. I hope students aren’t just along for the ride.

Zac Bears is the Opinion & Edito-rial Editor and can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @zac_bears.

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“But the overall picture, many more police officers, extreme restrictions on student free-doms and a lack of trust in all students due

to the possible actions of a few, still deeply concerns me.”

This letter is not addressed to the people who claim they “forgot” to eat a meal when really they skipped it on purpose – though maybe these words will resonate with them.

This letter is to the peo-ple who have honestly found themselves so caught up in a project, passion or event that the thought of food slipped their minds. It is for the people who are consis-tently able to stop a meal when they are full and don’t start another until their bodies are in need of fuel again. This is to the intuitive eaters that sometimes find themselves saying, “I forgot to have lunch.” Those words used to infu-riate me. Every time you made that casual observa-tion it was like my mind burst into flames. I couldn’t help but lash out: “How could you possibly forget that?” When I had anorexia, food was not something that would slip my mind. Despite popular miscon-ception, my eating disorder

didn’t make me apathetic toward food. It didn’t grant any sort of extraordinary willpower that allowed me to push the thought of food entirely out of my head so I’d eat less of it. On the contrary, when I was in the worst of anorex-ia’s grip, food was all I thought about. I had dreams about it – fantasies of letting down all restraint and diving my hand into a bag of chips or cooking a huge bowl of spa-ghetti. I awoke from them like they were nightmares, measured my breakfast and repeatedly counted the tablespoonfuls in an effort to make small amounts feel like more. Each time I fin-ished a meal, I immediately thought about preparing myself to last as long as I could before I would have another one. When I had anorexia, I didn’t forget lunch. I remem-bered to skip it. You, the non-dieters, were the people who seemed to be the most confused by disor-dered eating behavior. Some of you listened to the stig-mas and when you learned about my problem, viewed it with that “I don’t get it, just eat” kind of attitude. I envy your ignorance, if you’d even call it that. Diet culture has robbed thou-sands of their natural abil-ity to eat intuitively. Time and time again it severely complicates the simple act of eating in efforts to con-vince us that we can actual-ly achieve these impossible beauty standards through

some form of restriction. “If you are a restrained eater, you try to control your body weight and don’t trust your body to do it for you,” Linda Bacon said in her book, “Health at Every Size,” which you, and every-one for that matter, should really read. “Attempts to control your food intake through willpower and con-trol require that you drown out the internal signals, leaving you much more vulnerable to the external signals … but if you’re an unrestrained eater those (external signals) don’t faze you. ” I shut out my body’s sig-nals for years. Recovery was like learning to walk again –wobbly and extraor-dinarily frustrating because the entire time I kept telling myself, “I should know how to do this, it’s simple!” Anorexia is not simple. Thanks to our society, truly eating healthy isn’t either. I’m writing this letter to you to tell you not to change. Don’t let yourself be fooled by the media hype about mis-erable diet regimes. Don’t let society harp on insecurities until you feel you need to be

a different person. I know that is easier said than done, but you’ve man-aged to make your diet one less stressor in your life by listening to what makes your body feel energized and adjusting your eating accordingly. I hope you can keep it that way. I’m writing this letter to thank you for normalizing eating for me when I was in recovery. You saw food as food, not as “good” or “bad.” I needed that influence. I’m writing this letter to apologize for having the opposite effect on you. One of you once told me you felt pressured to diet when you were around me on my bad days. I never wanted to suck anyone into that world. I hope now you see how unde-sirable it really is. I’m writing this let-ter to you because it may hold some things you didn’t know: what anorexia can feel like, what restricted eating can do to your mind or why it’s so important to be in-tune with your body. I hope you share it with oth-ers. That’s how stigmas get broken. Above all, I hope you stay healthy. Your intuitive eat-ing is the solidest foundation for learning to give yourself the food and exercise your body needs to perform at it’s best. I hope you continue to listen to it as I continue to strive toward listening to my own.

Kate Leddy is a Collegian col-umnist and can be reached at [email protected].

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Arts Living“Creativity is for people with glasses who like to lie.” - Ron Swanson [email protected], February 23, 2015


‘Birdman’ takes flight, wins 4 Oscars

By Cory J. WilleyCollegian Staff

The 87th annual Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California, Sunday night, with “Birdman” coming away as the big winner with four Oscars, including one for Best Picture, on a night that, despite some major nomi-nation snubs, the Academy largely got right. The biggest category of the night – Best Picture – always carries the most controversy. This year was in as much con-tention with so many story lines. Of the nominees, the race truly came down to three films: “Birdman,” “Boyhood” and “Selma.” “Birdman’s” strange excellence, “Boyhood’s” technical accom-plishments and “Selma’s” cul-tural importance made this race difficult to predict. “Birdman” also took home gold with Alejandro González Iñárritu winning the Oscar for Best Director. Of those nominated it is hard to argue with the Academy’s decision here. As impressive as the process of “Boyhood’s” cre-

ation was, Iñárritu was far and above the greater talent. Eddie Redmayne won the Oscar for Actor in a Leading Role. Many believe Michael Keaton was more deserv-ing for his excellent turn as Riggan in “Birdman.” The most controversial part of this category, however, was the shameful snub of David Oyelowo for his portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr. in “Selma,” rendering this cate-gory essentially meaningless. Julianne Moore seemed a natural choice for the Actress in a Leading Role category for her role in “Still Alice.” A vet-eran actress playing a char-acter with a mental disabil-ity and in such an excellent way hits nearly every note the Academy historically looks for. With Neil Patrick Harris hosting it undoubtedly sur-prised no one that the show opened with an over the top musical number. With that and a self-deprecating joke about his involvement in “The Smurfs 2,” the show was on under way. Overall the host did a decent job, even if many of his puns and jokes fell a little short. One of the highpoints of the show was the “Everything is Awesome” performance, which included everything

from child’s drawings for backgrounds, Batman, Questlove and The Lonely Island. It doesn’t get much better than a live, on-stage Batman belting out, “Darkness. No parents.” Also excellent were Common and John Legend in their performance of “Glory,” for which they later received an Oscar. The awards themselves were kicked off with the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting role. The category was essen-tially decided well before the Awards began. With so much momentum coming in for J.K. Simmons, not only as a veteran actor but also for such a stunning performance as the villain-ous music teacher, Fletcher, it was really no surprise he took home the Oscar. Edward Norton’s supporting role in “Birdman” provided the only true competition in the cat-egory. This is one of those cases in which a deserving actor received the award at a later stage for a good reason, not just as a “career Oscar.” In his announcement of the nominees for Best Actress in a supporting role, Jared Leto joked, “And by California State law, Meryl Streep.” Leto’s joke was entirely on point, as at this stage in her

career all she has to do is walk on screen to be nominated. Patricia Arquette, not Streep thankfully, won the award for her emotional turn as mother in “Boyhood.” Emma Stone was the only real competition in the cat-egory, as her role as Keaton’s devastatingly honest daugh-ter, Sam Riggan. As Harris alluded to when he recommended that anyone involved in “The Lego Movie” look away, the lack of the Legos on the Best Animated Feature list is truly bizarre. The actual nominees included “Big Hero 6,” “The Boxtrolls,” “How To Train Your Dragon 2,” “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” and “Song of the Sea.” The award went to Disney’s “Big Hero 6,” but the biggest story out of this cate-gory will of course be the epic snub of “The Lego Movie,” no matter the quality of “Big Hero 6.” Whiplash took the often-underrated category of Achievement in Film Editing and deservedly so. Making a film about such a seemingly non-fascinating subject as a music teacher and his student and imbuing it with so much tension is no small feat.

Cory J. Willey can be reached at [email protected].

Film awarded Best Picture, Director

Oscars struggle with diversity

By AlexAnder FrAilCollegian Staff

The road to the 87th Oscars was paved with pro-tracted, widespread criti-cism of the all-white acting categories. No actor of color received Academy recogni-tion. Most notably, David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay, who starred in and directed “Selma,” respectively, were left out of the accolades. Based on pure merit, Oyelowo deserved a spot on the short list. His per-formance outshined the current nominees, save for perhaps Michael Keaton (“Birdman”) and Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”). Nonetheless, he received no nomination, inexplicably overlooked for the first leading role in film of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Recently, at the 30th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Oyelowo criti-cized the Academy for over-looking black actors. Even when the Academy recog-nizes them, he noted that the roles that it selects are roles of subservience. Oyelowo said, “We as black people have been cel-ebrated more for when we are subservient, when we are not being leaders, or kings or being in the center of our own narrative driv-ing it forward.” He went on to note sever-al famous black actors who were snubbed for lauded and classic performances. Sydney Poitier, who was the first black man to win Best Actor, didn’t even receive a nomination for “In the Heat of the Night,” perhaps his most famous role, in which he played a detective.

Instead, he won for “Lilies of the Field.” In that movie, he portrayed a nomadic menial laborer. The “Selma” actor’s point holds up when exam-ining Poitier’s case. “In the Heat of the Night” received seven Oscar nominations and won five; all of these accolades went to white producers, directors and actors. Poitier, whose role remains legendary decades later, couldn’t even make the nominee pool. Oyelowo also mentioned Denzel Washington’s per-formance as Malcolm X, which lost to Al Pacino’s role in “Scent of a Woman.” Despite this role and other empowered performances, Washington’s wins came in the form of “Glory,” in which he played a former slave struggling against Northern prejudice during the Civil War, and “Training Day” as a crooked cop. Although both of these roles are astounding acting, they fit the narrative Oyelowo criticized. One is a role of subservience, the other of ignobility and amorality. Of course, some outliers exist. For instance, Morgan Freeman won for “Invictus” in 2009, Don Cheadle won for “Hotel Rwanda” and Jamie Foxx for “Ray” in 2004 and Whoopi Goldberg nabbed a trophy for “Ghost” back in 1990. All of these were roles of empowerment or, at the least, not of servitude. Despite these instances, the overwhelming dearth of black actors – both as nomi-nees and as winners – can’t be ignored. Since Dorothy Dandridge’s nomination for Best Actress in 1954, only nine black female actors have been nominated. Of those nine women, only Halle Berry won. To this day, Berry remains the

solitary winner by a black woman for Best Actress in Oscar history. The situation fares lit-tle better for male actors. Since Poitier’s first nod in 1958, only 19 men have been recognized. That figure is undermined greatly if you consider that Freeman and Washington alone account for seven of those nomi-nations. So even though males face better odds than females in the major acting categories, their margin of success is paper-thin. The problem, evidenced by the timeless performanc-es I’ve mentioned above and the myriad ones I over-looked, lies not in a lack of options to select from, but in the source of voting at the Academy. According to The Telegraph, 94% of the 6000 Academy members are white, while 77% are male. These lopsided statistics convey the skewed process in which films, actors and directors are nominated and awarded. Oyelowo pointed out that films are too often made through a gaze of white guilt. The demographics of Academy members suggest that the appraisal of such films, too, suffers from this phenomenon. As a result, the Oscars oft ignore roles of color projecting power and leadership. To snap this trend, the voting block must change. Actors of color have deliv-ered innumerable works of art; the blame for the recognition drought must be placed at the doorstep of the Academy. Plenty of selections are out there, like Oyelowo’s part in “Selma,” but the change has to start at the source.

Alexander Frail can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @AlexanderFrail.

African Americans often unrecognized

Academy Awards show ahistory of snubs and errors

By Cory J. WilleyCollegian Staff

Each year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences holds The Oscars, and each year they discover new ways to get it wrong. More often than not, history is kinder to those films, actors, actresses and directors, whom the Academy deemed not quite good enough. The golden statuette has an uncanny knack for ending up in exactly the wrong hands. Looking back at the storied past of the Academy Awards, certain unfortunate trends emerge. Legends not receiv-ing credit when it’s due, safer choices in the Best Picture category winning out and the tendency to give awards based on a career rather than a per-formance are just a few of the patterns that arise. Take for example Samuel L. Jackson’s loss at the 1994 Awards. Jackson was up for Best Supporting Actor for his now iconic performance as mob hit man Jules Winnfield in “Pulp Fiction.” Looking back, Jackson should’ve been a shoe-in for the award. Instead the award went to Martin Landau for his por-trayal of Bela Lugosi in “Ed Wood.” At the time, Landau had come up empty in his two previous nominations and at 66 years old he was nearing the end of his career. This win goes down as more of a reward for his career than for the actual performance. Jackson’s hit man has gone down as one of the best characters in the recent cinema. When was the last time anyone brought up Landau’s performance? “The Wizard of Oz” remains a staple of cinematic history, not only for its bril-liant use of color, but for its wonderful story-telling and delightful music. At the

heart of the film stands Judy Garland’s Dorothy, who large-ly carries the film. Garland, however, was overlooked at the Academy Awards and did not receive a single nomina-tion for her role in the film. Vivien Leigh went on to win Best Actress that year for “Gone With The Wind.” The 1994 Academy Awards provide another example of a common Oscars trend. The Academy loves to play it safe, especially when it comes to the Best Picture category. In 1994, “Forrest Gump,” “Pulp Fiction” and “The Shawshank Redemption” were all up for the night’s biggest award. All of these films are unquestion-ably good. Two of them, how-ever, are excellent and they happen to be the two that lost. “Forrest Gump” was a safe choice, as seemingly everyone at the time loved it. It dealt with far less dark and controver-sial subject matter than “Pulp Fiction” and “Shawshank,” despite being a less interesting and compelling film. Sometimes the Academy manages to rob even cine-ma’s most seminal films and directors. In 1989, Spike Lee’s racially charged drama, “Do the Right Thing,” did not even receive a nomination for Best Picture. Instead “Driving Miss Daisy” took home the Oscar. Lee’s film continues to be a much more important and rel-evant work. At the 49th Awards in 1977, Martin Scorcese did not receive a nomination for his master-piece “Taxi Driver.” The film itself lost out to “Rocky” for Best Picture, which went on to win three awards that year. Scorsese would be continu-ally unrecognized in the years to come until finally winning for Best Director in 2007 for “The Departed.” His work on “Taxi Driver” and “Raging

Bull” were much more deserv-ing, revealing another case of the Academy dealing out awards after the fact, essen-tially acknowledging their own mistakes. Alfred Hitchcock, whose name is synonymous with American cinema, never won an Oscar. Think about that for a moment. The master of suspense, director of so many classics including the likes of “Rear Window,” “Psycho,” “Vertigo” and “The Birds,” never received a statue for his work. This in and of itself should be enough to show that maybe the Academy isn’t the best judge of talent. If Hitchcock’s lack of a directorial Oscar isn’t enough evidence, then this surely is: “How Green was my Valley” won five Oscars in 1942, including Best Picture and Best Director. It’s competi-tion? “Citizen Kane.” “Citizen Kane,” widely regarded as the best film of all time, especially due to masterful direction from Orson Welles, received only one Oscar that year for Best Writing, Original Screenplay. There is no question which film was more deserving of those awards now. The list of mistakes and snubs throughout the years goes on and on, but the Academy Awards continue to carry weight in the film indus-try. Sometimes they get it right, but when declaring something or someone the “best,” there will always be contention. We will forever gather to observe these awards as the most important night for film. Only history will truly reveal those most deserving of praise and recognition.

Cory J. Willey can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @cojwilley.

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Balanced attack leads UMass past UNHBy Andrew Cyr

Collegian Staff

While there might not be any true household name on the Massachusetts wom-en’s lacrosse team this year, coach Angela McMahon has quickly realized that having a balanced offensive attack can be equally as good. Three separate play-ers recorded hat tricks in the Minutewomen’s 12-7 win at New Hampshire on Saturday just three days removed from a double-overtime thriller against Connecticut. Midfielder Hannah Murphy led all UMass scorers with four goals while Katie Ott and Holly Turner each finished with three scores apiece. The Minutewomen had eight dif-ferent players tally points on the stat sheet. “We want to be really multi-dimensional and prove that we can have dif-ferent players step up on dif-ferent days and that’s good for us,” McMahon said. “We need to have more players in the stat sheet and we want to continue to do that mov-ing forward.” After playing the two extra periods in its previ-ous game, UMass got off to a slow start, as the Wildcats scored the first goal of the afternoon when Laura Puccia received a well-timed

pass from Kayleigh Hinkle to beat goalkeeper Rachel Vallarelli (nine saves). The Minutewomen answered the wake-up call right on cue and scored four unanswered goals over the next 10 min-utes to take a 4-1 lead. McMahon attributed her team’s early success to its ability to control the tempo of the game and create smart, methodical opportu-nities. “I was pretty happy today,” McMahon said. “UNH scored the first goal, and then we came right back and after that we slow-ly started to build momen-tum. I thought we had some really long, patient offensive possessions. “The other day we were rushed and frantic. (Saturday) we played much more under control and that enabled us to control the pace of the game.” The closest UNH got in the second half was a two-goal deficit that came on two separate occasions. Puccia scored her third goal of the game with 23 min-utes, 23 seconds remaining to cut the UMass lead to 6-4. The Wildcats again cut the deficit to two when Hinkle scored with 18:31 left. The Minutewomen (3-0) outscored UNH 6-5 in the second half and held the advantages in ground-

balls, draw controls and saves. Both teams recorded 21 shots on goal and the Minutewomen scored on its only free-position shot while the Wildcats finished 0-for-2. “I have a lot of confidence in our team in terms of our ability,” McMahon said. “I think our athleticism; hard work and speed allow us the flexibility to try new things, which we were doing all throughout the first three games. McMahon added: “We’ve had a different game plan for each of the three games. We are trying out new things and seeing what’s working, and more importantly see-ing who will step up. Plays are now starting to solidify their role at different posi-tions and in different forma-

tions and it’s really working for us.” McMahon said attacker Erika Eipp was receiving extra attention offensively as it was UNH’s focus to take her out of her rhythm early and often. Eipp is the most versa-tile weapon for UMass (four goals, three assists for the season) and is second on the team in points, only behind Murphy, who’s scored 10 goals in three games. The Minutewomen will continue their stretch of New England opponents when they travel to in-state rival Boston University on Wednesday afternoon. Andrew Cyr can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @Andrew_Cyr.

W O M E N ’ S L AC R O S S E

“I thought our guys com-peted,” Kellogg said. “I wasn’t super happy at the start when we were turning it over every other posses-sion, but I liked the way we fought back.” VCU opened the after-noon on an 8-0 run. It took UMass nearly six minutes to make a field goal and, by then, it already had five turnovers. It was a night-mare start and the Rams took advantage – running out to a 27-11 lead. Yet the Minutemen came back behind explosive play from an unlikely source off the bench. Reserve guard Demetrius Dyson scored 10 points and grabbed five rebounds in the opening frame. But it was the way in which he did it which gave UMass a sorely needed boost. Dyson attacked VCU aggressively and didn’t shy away from contact, even when the Minutemen faced a signifi-cant deficit. “I thought today we couldn’t take him off the floor,” Kellogg said. “He was invaluable for us when

he was out there … it’s nice to see a sophomore guard come into his own some.” His play appeared to spark his teammates. The Minutemen ended the half on a 19-7 run – keyed by two challenging jump shots from Davis and Jabarie Hinds – and trailed 35-30 at halftime. “We went into the second half knowing we can play with them if we just con-tain the pressure,” Lalanne said. “They were up 16, we came back, cut it down to five – coming out in the first four minutes was going to be crucial.” And play with them they did. Trailing 47-36, UMass went on a 12-0 run, taking a 48-47 lead with 12 min-utes, 24 seconds remain-ing. It was one of the few stretches where the crowd hushed and UMass sudden-ly, improbably, had a lead and surging confidence. But VCU answered with an 11-2 run of its own, spurred by two monstrous dunks from forward Mo Alie-Cox to re-take a 58-50

lead with 7:33 remaining. “I thought we responded well,” Lalanne said. “We came back, but they started making shots … It hurts.” UMass never fully recov-ered. Davis hit a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to five, but VCU extended its lead to as high as 11 points. Even when UMass cut it back to three, it had neither the time or enough fouls to properly mount a come-back. “I think we can play with them,” Kellogg said. “They’re the perennial best team in our conference and I don’t think there’s that much separation. If we play well, I think we can com-pete with those guys.” Hinds led UMass with 16 points and five assists, while Davis added 14points. Lalanne had 13 points and eight rebounds while Dyson finished with 12 points off

the bench. Rams guard Treveon Graham led all scorers with 24 points and 10 rebounds, while JeQuan Lewis added 15 and Alie-Cox had 12. UMass departed from Amherst this week tied atop the A-10 and positioned to work its way into the NCAA tournament picture. It returns home empty-handed, instead focusing on regrouping as the Atlantic 10 Tournament looms in three weeks. “It’s definitely frustrat-ing,” Lalanne said. “That’s how the season is, there’s ups and downs. We’ve just got to learn from this and try to push forward with the other two games we’ve got at home and make a run to Brooklyn.”

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

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UMass erased the early deficit, drew to within five at halftime and, even after again falling behind by as many as 12 points, stormed back to take a 48-47 lead with 12 minutes, 24 seconds remaining. It was a stunning come-back, the kind that isn’t expected from a team that commits 19 turnovers, gets 21 points out of Cady Lalane and Maxie Esho and shoots 33 percent from the 3-point line. But there they were, right in the thick of it – 12 minutes away from stealing a victory. Of course, VCU then went on an 11-2 run, reminding the Minutemen who dic-tates play in the Atlantic 10. UMass would cut it to 70-67 with under a minute left, but it was too late. The Minutemen lost again – their second crucial loss of the week. It’s been the theme all year: UMass was good, but not great. UMass showed it could hang, but couldn’t do it consistently.

But the Minutemen also proved they could fight back. It’s tough to call a second straight loss progress – but they should enter the final stretch of the season feeling better about themselves. UMass is not an NCAA tournament team, at least not now. In that regard, Saturday’s loss at VCU was devastating – it offered a chance to bolster the Minutemen’s at-large resume in a national land-scape that’s a fairly weak bubble. To make matters worse, it’s on the heels of a disappointing 75-59 loss to Rhode Island Wednesday. But UMass also knows it can now play with the Rams. “If you take away the 10,000 fans all dressed in one color and everything that goes with that, I think we could have been right there with a chance to make the game-winner,” Kellogg said. If only there was an opportunity for something like that to happen this year. In say, I don’t know, Brooklyn, New York?

Bingo. Presumably, the road to an Atlantic 10 Championship runs through VCU. The Atlantic 10’s seen its share of upheaval – whether it’s an injury-riddled Rams squad, a Dayton team overcoming a shortened roster or George Washington’s recent collapse – but VCU still holds its head the highest. UMass needs a run deep into the conference tourna-ment to realistically sniff an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Combine that with its current RPI (34) and it might be enough. At best, some combination of Dayton, Rhode Island, VCU, Davidson and George Washington awaits the Minutemen. They’ve already beat Dayton and Rhode Island and handed Davidson a victory. UMass faces the Colonials the last game of the season, but at this rate, the Colonials are falling fast-er than the Redcoats at the Battle of Trenton. That leaves VCU – the

toughest test, yet a team to be had. The Minutemen would need to string together mul-tiple wins back-to-back, a difficult task for as helter-skelter as this year’s team. They’ve fallen short in cru-cial situations much more than they’ve succeeded this season – Brooklyn is the final chance. They’ll return to Amherst this week disappointed, beat-en and in need of a regroup. When that happens, UMass will reassess its performance Saturday and take away posi-tives. The comeback, the 39-30 rebounding margin, its defensive performance in the first half – all positives. The Minutemen will move forward, the window of opportunity smaller and the margin for error slim-mer. But now, they know for certain they can play with any team in the Atlantic 10 Conference.

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

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play but from the emotional highs and lows of the way that both games were offici-ated and with the reviews and all that went into the weekend.” UMass freshman Maddison Smiley put UMass on the board first, scoring his first career goal at the 16:27 mark in the sec-ond period to make it 1-0. A natural defenseman, Smiley has seen increased action as a forward recently due to ongoing injury issues for UMass. “It’s nice that he got rewarded with his first goal,” Micheletto said. “We put him in an odd spot as a guy who’s played defense and all of a sudden we’re asking him to play for-ward. But I think he’s never skipped a beat.” At the backend of the Minutemen’s defense, Mastalerz made 42 saves Saturday against an aggres-sive Friars’ attack. “We didn’t finish, but we have to give Mastalerz a lot of credit,” Providence coach Nate Leaman said. “He was really holding pucks well today and we weren’t get-ting many second chances.” The one goal allowed

by Mastalerz came with 4:40 remaining in the third period by Noel Acciari, who scored the game-winner for Providence in Friday’s overtime. Mastalerz picked up his third win of the year in what began as a tough season for the senior. But after starting off 0-7 in net, Mastalerz said that he feels like he’s peaking at the right time of the season for UMass. “I’ve felt comfortable all weekend,” said Mastalerz, who made 82 total saves this weekend and was one of six seniors celebrating Senior Night. “It’s definitely an excit-ing way to go out (on Senior Night) although it was prob-ably the longest weekend of the year with two overtime games and a lot of shots my way. But going out with an overtime win is pretty spe-cial.” The Minutemen close out their regular sea-son schedule next Friday against Connecticut on the road in a 7 p.m. matchup.

Anthony Chiusano can be reached at [email protected] and fol-lowed on Twitter @a_chiusano24.

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Hannah Murphy leads UMass with 10 goals though three games.

Bomprezzi was named the Outstanding Male Performer of the Meet. He set two meet records and won a pair of gold medals and silver in the three dis-tance freestyle races.

Minutewomen settle for second

While the women’s swim-ming and diving team also saw impressive finishes, it finished second in its A-10 championship meet. UMass finished with 489 points, only behind Richmond (586) which earned its 13th title. The Minutewomen start-ed strong on the first day of competition, racing to any early lead with 139 points. UMass dominated in diving as freshman Emma Roush won the 1-meter event with a score of 268.35. Five of the top six finishers in the event were Minutewomen. UMass continued with its hot start on the second day, and although its lead decreased, they still were in control. Senior Molly Smyth won bronze in the 500-meter free-style and in the 200-meter medley. Meriza Werenski placed third in the event. The Minutewomen closed the second day with a sixth place finish in the 200-meter freestyle relay, allowing them to remain in the lead thanks to Zoe Judd at the back end. “Zoe anchoring in 200 relay with an unofficial split

of 22.86 was a phenomenal swim and the team respond-ed well,” UMass coach Bob Newcomb said. But the Minutewomen saw their lead dwindle to two points after the third day. Werenski once again had a solid outing, picking up her second bronze medal of the tournament in the 400-meter individual medley. Newcomb took notice of Werenski’s impressive per-formance, acknowledging that she battled through tough conditions swimming with asthma. “She swam very well while battling her asth-ma with the bitter cold (in Ohio),” Newcomb said. “The mornings were hard but the nights were better for her.” Roush headlined UMass diving’s continued success, placing second through fifth in the 1-meter dive. Roush took home the silver. Despite the blown lead on the final day, Smyth finished her UMass career with a sil-ver medal in the 1650-meter freestyle. “Molly Smyth was the one who threw everything together and it was fun to see her finish her career the way she did,” Newcomb said. The Minutewomen’s sec-ond place finish was their fourth top-two performance in program history and the second in the past three years.

Victor Pusateri can be reached at [email protected].

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“I thought we responded well. We came back, but they started making shots...It hurts.”

Cady Lalanne,UMass center

@MDC_SPORTS [email protected], February 23, 2015


Minutemen bring Atlantic 10 title back to Amherst

By Victor PusateriCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s swimming and diving team is back on top. After a two-year drought, the Minutemen recaptured the success it’s seen in the previous decade, claiming their 15th Atlantic 10 title in program history. In a competition that

started last Wednesday, UMass headed into the final day of the meet on Saturday, trailing by 45.5 points to two-time reigning champion St. Bonaventure. But the Minutemen cut the deficit to single points on the very first event Saturday as Alessandro Bomprezzi fin-ished first in the 1650-meter freestyle. Joe Woodman and Kyle Vieira also finished in the top 10, giving UMass 42 total points in the event. Senior Michael Glenn then gave the Minutemen

a half-point lead over the Bonnies heading into the last two events after win-ning silver in the 200-meter breaststroke. Glenn earned all-conference honors with a 1:59.83 mark as he joined Billy Brown as the only Minutemen to finish the event with a time under two minutes. UMass completed its comeback with a final score of 589.5, edging St. Bonaventure’s 569 points. The Minutemen outscored the Bonnies 223-157 in the

final day. “What we did started Friday night and what we believed in what we could accomplish,” UMass coach Russ Yarworth said. “The kids really stepped up and did a great job. Our divers stepped onto those boards and with the pressure on performed better than they had all year.” UMass started its title run hot, ending the first day tied for first with the Bonnise with 74 points each. After falling just short in

the 200-meter medley relay to the Bonnies, the Minutemen responded in the 800-meter freestyle relay with a come-from-behind victory. With Oliver Wyeth and Bomprezzi as the third and fourth legs, UMass overcome a 2.36 second deficit and fin-ished with a time of 6:31.86, almost two seconds faster than St. Bonaventure. “I couldn’t have asked for a better day but it was only the first day,” Yarworth said. “Two school records is a great way to start the meet.”

UMass started the sec-ond day right where it left off, as Bomprezzi and Wyeth placed first and sec-ond, respectively, in the 500-meter freestyle. The duo became the first set of Minutemen to sweep the 500-meter freestyle since 2001, when Tommy Keane and Rob Bellamy last did it. “Alessandro’s swim was just tremendous and it set the tone for the night,” Yarworth said.

UM women’s team finishes in second

S W I M M I N G A N D D I V I N G

UM shows it can contend

in VCU defeat

The Massachusetts men’s basketball had a choice to make Saturday.

The easy decision would’ve been to fold, to submit to the

Havoc and the pres-sure that Virginia C o m m o n w e a l t h hurled at it. Pack up the team bus, get to the chartered flight home and cut the losses – a 27-11 deficit early in the first half at the Siegel Center is practically a death wish.

Of course, UMass could dig in and fight and attempt to show the backbone of a team that still thinks it’s one of the elite in the Atlantic 10 Conference despite not showing it this week. But good luck, as VCU comes in droves and it punishes mistakes and, the Minutemen proved this week they’ll make mistakes. This was the harder choice, the more difficult route. A road that the Minutemen may have not even chose to traverse at ear-lier points in this season. Yet it did against the Rams. And while it still wasn’t good enough – UMass lost 78-72 – it showed something. The Minutemen belong. “I think we can play with them,” UMass coach Derek Kellogg said. “They’re the peren-nial best team in our conference and I don’t think there’s that much separation.” The Minutemen understood, too. UMass took VCU’s flurry at the onset, staggered back and survived. The Rams didn’t want to go 12 rounds with the Minutemen, but they had to.

M E N ’ S BA S K E T BA L L

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

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The Minutemen’s second-half comeback attempt fell short against VCU on Saturday. The loss came three days after a 16-point defeat at Rhode Island.

UMass closes winless week with loss to Rams

By Mark chiarelliCollegian Staff

RICHMOND, Va. — At times, the Massachusetts men’s bas-ketball team couldn’t do much right. At others, the Minutemen looked like a team ready to pull off an improbable comeback – to respond to adversity in the face of the toughest environment in the Atlantic 10 Conference. They erased a 16-point def-icit, briefly took a lead against

Virginia Commonwealth and proved it could play with the Rams – something that wasn’t believable shortly after the game start. The Minutemen found a way to at least handle VCU’s vaunted Havoc defensive pres-sure. They responded. But ultimately, it still wasn’t enough. VCU (21-6, 11-3 A-10) outlasted UMass, throwing a proverbial sec-ond half counterpunch to fend off the Minutemen Saturday at the Siegel Center, winning 78-72 which capped a disappointing week for

the Minutemen. “I was happy with the way our guys responded,” Kellogg said.

“I thought we came back and fought and scrapped. We needed to make a few more plays down the stretch.” It was UMass’ (16-

11, 9-5 A-10) second straight loss in what Kellogg called the toughest week of the season. Much like Wednesday’s loss against Rhode Island, a lackadaisical start harmed the Minutemen. UMass committed 19 turnovers which led to 24 Rams points – something

center Cady Lalanne pointed to as ultimately detrimental following the loss. “We’ve got to come out and start playing a little bit harder,” Lalanne said. “Because both games, turnovers killed us.” Even then, UMass cut the deficit to 70-67 with 42 seconds remaining after Trey Davis hit a long 3-pointer. But the Minutemen couldn’t force a turnover on the ensuing inbound and the Rams didn’t falter at the free throw line, securing the victory.

Slow start vs. Havoc dooms Minutemen

Vatrano’s overtime goal lifts UM on Saturday’s Senior Night

By anthony chiusanoCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s hockey team found itself in an eerily similar situation Saturday night. One night after the Minutemen allowed a game-tying goal with eight seconds remaining in regu-lation which led to an eventual over-time loss to No. 12 Providence, UMass once again headed into overtime following another blown third period lead against the Friars.

But this time the Minutemen (10-20-2, 5-15-1 Hockey East) prevailed behind a game-winning goal from Frank Vatrano three minutes, 50 seconds into overtime on Senior night at the Mullins Center in a 2-1 win. “To get that win for the seniors, it’s really special,” Vatrano said. “It’s definitely

a game that I’m never going to forget and it was great to send these guys out on top at home.”

Vatrano’s goal came on a rebound opportunity in a crowded crease in front of Providence goaltender Jon Gillies. Brandon Montour

originally started the attack with a pass to Marc Hetnik who shot it toward the net. After multiple sticks touched the puck in front – including those of Troy Power and Dennis Kravchenko, who were credited with assists on the play – it eventually found an open Vatrano on the left side of the net. “It was kind of a flurry in front and it just landed right there for me,” Vatrano said. “I got a few hacks at it and I didn’t know if it went in or not but I saw everyone come off the bench. It was pretty rewarding.” The game-winner came 29 seconds after the Friars (19-11-2, 11-8-1 HEA) appeared to record their sec-

ond straight overtime vic-tory over the Minutemen, after Mark Jankowski poked the puck past UMass goalie Steve Mastalerz in a similar scrum in front of the net. But it would not be déjà vu on Saturday. Referees reversed the call with 1:39 left in overtime, ruling illegal contact was made on Mastalerz. One night prior, Minutemen coach John Micheletto expressed frustration with the referees for not over-turning the Friars’ game-tying goal in a similar situa-tion. This time, he got his wish. “We had to be ready for another puck drop and another minute and 10 sec-

onds to play,” Micheletto said about the overturned goal. “It’s been (over) 120 minutes this weekend of pretty grueling hockey. “Our guys are pretty

physically and emotion-

ally tired right now and I

would guess (Providence) is

as well, not only from the

UMass salvages series vs. Friars

H O C K E Y

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Brandon Montour plays the puck UMass’ 2-1 win over Providence.

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