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By Brooke Parziale Collegian Correspondent

Five students from the University of Massachusetts joined a nationwide group of stu-dents at Bard College in Dutchess County, New York to participate in the Real Food Challenge retreat over Presidents’ Day weekend. Here, they worked on strategizing, community building and organizing in order to strengthen the University’s Real Food Challenge campaign, which promotes a “healthy, fair and green food system,” according to its website. Out of the 16 universi-ties in attendance, UMass was the only school that had an official campaign commitment. The students focused specifically on net-working and brainstorm-ing ideas for putting the University’s Real Food Challenge campaign com-mitment into action. The Real Food Challenge began as a nationwide campaign for students to reform the current food systems existing at their universities. It defines real food as “food which truly nourishes produc-ers, consumers, communi-ties and the earth.   It is a food system –from seed to plate – that fundamentally

respects human dignity and health, animal welfare, social justice and environ-mental sustainability.” According to its web-site, schools can meet the challenge’s goal by shifting $1 billion of existing uni-versity food budgets away from industrial farms and toward local and communi-ty based, fair trade, ecolog-ically sound and humane food sources by 2020. Youth involvement and social justice are high-ly important aspects of the Real Food Challenge. Olivia Biller, a Hampshire College student who par-

ticipated in the confer-ence at Bard College, said she believes that the Real Food Challenge is a prime example of student empow-erment. “Attending this retreat opened my eyes to the fact that student communities hold the political power necessary to transform higher education while dis-mantling food system ineq-uities,” Biller said. “Food can be a strategic vehicle for students to address the racist, classist and gen-dered hierarchies built into our schools and dining services.”

According to Biller, students at the confer-ence studied the methods employed by other famous activist groups to influence how they would strengthen their campus’ campaigns. “For inspiration, we can look to institutional divest-ment from South Africa to end apartheid, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) dur-ing the civil rights move-ment and the contempo-rary Student Farmworker Alliance that pushes for improved wages as well

UM students push for healthy, fair foodGroup attended nat’l conference

UMass announces parking restrictions ahead of ‘Blarney’

By aviva luttrellCollegian Staff

The University of Massachusetts announced it will restrict guest parking in all campus parking lots from March 6 to 8 in an attempt to deter out-of-town visitors from participating in the annual “Blarney Blowout” St. Patrick’s Day celebration. According to an email sent to the campus community Monday afternoon, all lots will be restricted to valid UMass permit holders from March 6 at 5 p.m. to March 8 at 5 p.m.

The University has also modified its guest policy for that weekend, banning all non-UMass visitors from residence halls from March 5 at 8 p.m. to March 8 at 11 p.m. Last year, thousands of students from other colleges came to UMass during the first weekend in March to partici-pate in the celebration, which traditionally takes place the Saturday before spring break. This year, “Blarney” is set to take place March 7. “Many of these out-of-town visitors stayed in our resi-dence halls and utilized our parking lots as staging areas,” the email stated. “The ensu-ing large scale disturbance

resulted in personal inju-ries, destruction of property, arrests and numerous student discipline cases.” During the restricted dates, all campus lots will be con-sidered 24-hour restricted lots. Vehicles without a valid park-ing permit will be subject to ticketing and/or towing. According to the email, fac-ulty, students and staff who do not have a UMass parking permit and need to park on campus for work that weekend should call Parking Services at 413-577-PARK.

Aviva Luttrell can be reached at aluttrel@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @AvivaLuttrell.

Faculty Senate votes, changes reading day to Mon. schedule

By Marie Maccune Collegian Staff

The University of Massachusetts Faculty Senate voted to amend the 2014-15 academic calendar, adding an additional day of classes in response to a multitude of snow days. Thursday, April 30 will now become a Monday class schedule. Despite the change, final exams will still begin on Friday, May 1. This vote follows a recommendation from

Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Af f airs Katherine Newman. In an email sent out earlier this month, Newman said, “Students and faculty have expressed concern about the loss of classroom time because of successive snow storms.” Newman also cited ensuring adequate instruc-tion time for planned materials as a reason for her recommendation. UMass has yet to have a full week of classes in the 2015 spring semester. In an email to the cam-pus community Monday, Newman emphasized the

importance of adhering to academic regulations surrounding final exams, “especially the provision that final exams should not be administered dur-ing the last week of class-es.” She also urged faculty to make accommodations for Five College students whose schedules at other universities may or may not have undergone simi-lar changes.

Marie MacCune can be reached at mmaccune@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @MarieMacCune.

Lots to be limited to permit holders

By aviva luttrellCollegian Staff

HADLEY — A University of Massachusetts football player has been identified as a suspect in a fight that left one male unconscious and requiring surgery due to the extent of his injuries early Sunday morning, according to a Facebook post by the Hadley Police Department. Officers responded to a house on Rocky Hill Road at 2:35 a.m. for a report of a

fight, according to the post. Witnesses and the victim iden-tified the suspect as a member of the UMass football team who was with other football players at a large party at the residence. His identity is cur-rently under investigation. The victim was transport-ed to UMass Medical Center in Worcester, according to a report by the Daily Hampshire Gazette. A spokesperson for the UMass football team declined to comment Monday. Police are asking anybody with fur-ther information to contact Officer Douglas Costa at 413-584-0883.

Earlier that night, police investigated a hit and run accident involving a pedestri-an in the vicinity of the same party. According to the Hadley Police Department’s Facebook page, the accident occurred in the area of 156 Rocky Hill Road at 1:28 a.m. The pedestri-an was taken to the hospital, treated and released. Police described the vehicle as a white or gray SUV, but witnesses were unable to iden-tify the make, model or license plate. Anybody with further information is asked to con-tact Officer Jesse Green at 413-

584-0883. Numerous parked vehicles in the roadway were also towed from the party and another male was placed in protective custody until he was released to a sober friend. The UMass Police Department and Amherst Fire Department also assisted in the responses. The tenants of the party house may be facing criminal charges and/or fines.

Aviva Luttrell can be reached at aluttrel@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @AvivaLuttrell. Mark Chiarelli also contributed to this report.

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Students attend the national Real Food Challenge conference at Bard College over President’s Day weekend.

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SJP likened toHamas in posters

By aviva luttrellCollegian Staff

Posters likening Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a nationwide Palestinian solidarity activist group, to Hamas militants were found across the University of Massachusetts campus Monday and on other college campuses across the country. The posters depict two masked men with guns in their hands standing over a kneeling man with a bag over his head with text read-ing, “Students for Justice in Palestine” and “#JewHaters” at the bottom. Similar posters were found at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Virginia. Evan Scribner, treasurer for the UMass SJP chapter, said he believes the posters are meant to coincide with Israeli Apartheid Week, an international, campus-cen-tered awareness campaign to support boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Scribner said the post-ers were deeply troubling to the organization, which was founded by Jewish students. “We’ve found that people who disagree with us con-sistently try to equate criti-cism of the State of Israel and criticism of Zionism with anti-Semitism,” he said when reached by phone Monday night.

“That’s a really big prob-lem and it really bothers us, especially the Jewish stu-dents in our group because we feel that it trivializes actu-al anti-Semitism.” Scribner added that the posters, which equate Palestinians with terrorists, have Islamophobic and racist undertones and make some SJP members feel unsafe on campus. “We don’t like the impli-cations that anybody who cares about Palestine or any-body who is a Muslim or a Palestinian or an Arab is a terrorist or is violent,” he said. Scribner said SJP is tak-ing the matter very seriously and will be bringing it to the attention of University offi-cials. He added that the orga-nization is a religiously and ethnically diverse group open to anybody. Its main strategy is to get college campuses to divest from Israel. UCLA students have been tweeting pictures of the post-er and a second poster, which has not yet been found on the UMass campus, depicting a man on a motorcycle drag-ging a dead body through the street with the same text. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the posters.

Aviva Luttrell can be reached at aluttrel@umass.edu.

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Beirut An estimated 1,600 people have been killed since U.S.–led airstrikes against Islamic State tar-gets in Syria began five months ago, a monitoring group said Monday. At least 1,465 Islamic State militants have died in the allied raids, along with another 73 fight-ers from the al–Nusra Front, a Syrian al–Qaida affiliate, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain–based monitor, which compiles reports from activists on the ground across Syria, condemned the deaths of an estimated 62 civilians, eight of them children. The United States, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been involved in air raids and missile attacks against Islamic State positions in eastern and northeastern Syria since Sept. 23. U.S.–led airstrikes in neighboring Iraq began six weeks earlier, after the jihadists overran Kurdish positions and advanced toward Irbil, capital of the autono-mous Kurdistan region. The group now con-trols a swathe of Sunni Arab–dominated north-ern and western Iraq and much of eastern and northern Syria. Recent weeks have seen Kurdish forces in both countries regain some territory, but the jihadists have remained on the offensive in Iraq’s western al–Anbar prov-ince. The Pentagon on Thursday said an offen-sive to recapture the Iraq’s second city, Mosul, could start as early as April if a U.S. training program for five Iraqi army brigades was suc-cessfully completed. On Monday, France announced it had deployed its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf to join in the fight against Islamic State targets in Iraq. President Francois Hollande had announced the deployment in January, following ter-rorist attacks in Paris by gunmen claiming allegiance to jihadist net-works. A U.S. official for the presidential convoy to the global coalition against the Islamic State, Brett McGurk, confirmed the deployment, saying on social media that he wel-comed the support for air operations against mili-tant group. The nuclear–armed warship has 21 combat aircraft and four heli-copters on board, French daily newspaper Le Parisien newspaper, cit-ing government officials.

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Joke leads to police response over weekend

By Kathleen KirKCollegian Correspondent

Friday, Feb. 20

12:40 p.m.: Police responded to a motor vehicle accident at 301 S. Pleasant St. The female involved in the accident was unable to see over a snow bank, pulled forward to see into traffic and collided with the rear of another vehicle. 5:42 p.m.: Police arrested Manuel E. Pintado, 51, for unlawful noise, obstruction and intimidation at 1001 N. Pleasant Street Apt. 39A.

7:47 p.m.: Police responded to reports of four horses running around Mission Cantina.

Saturday, Feb. 21

12:12 a.m.: A male entered the Amherst police station reporting that he was jumped and had his iPhone stolen. The male was treated by Amherst Fire Department paramedics and his iPhone was recovered.

1:19 a.m.: Police responded to a male urinating on the door of Amherst Books.

1:44 a.m.: A female reported a suspicious person inside her home at 323 E. Pleasant

St. She realized it was her roommate’s friend trying to scare them. Police confirmed there was no breaking and entering.

1:47 p.m.: Police responded to a report of an injured wild turkey that was struck by a vehicle at 366 S. Pleasant St. Police moved the dead bird to the side of the road.

Sunday, Feb. 22

12:47 a.m.: An individual reported a missing laptop from 15 Sunset Court follow-ing a party at the residence.

9:47 a.m.: There was a dis-turbance at Ernie’s Towing. A male kicked in a door and

damaged the frame while attempting to get a vehicle that had been towed from the Townehouse Apartments overnight. A dispute arose over a price discrepancy which was posted on the door. The male paid and the car was released. Management is seeking restitution for the damages.

2:05 p.m.: A male reported his wallet was stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked over-night in a parking garage. No damage was noted.

8:20 p.m.: Two female stu-dents reported concerns over a suspicious man following them. The two were at Pasta E Basta and were afraid to

leave after the man whistled and catcalled at them. The police spoke with the two who confirmed the behavior was not sexual, just strange. They declined to pursue any criminal charges, saying they just wanted to walk back to campus safely. 9:03 p.m.: A homeless man was kicked out of Craig’s Place for fighting with a female staff member and assaulting another male guest. The male caused a dis-turbance after he was forced to leave the shelter. He was ordered to leave once the police arrived.

Kathleen Kirk can be reached at klkirk@umass.edu.

Police Log: Feb. 20 to Feb. 22, 2015

By Joseph tanfaniTribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is seeking to block a fed-eral judge’s ruling last week that halted programs intended to grant deporta-tion waivers to up to 5 mil-lion immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. The motion, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Brownsville, Texas, said a delay in implementing President Barack Obama’s efforts to offer legal protection to qualified immigrants would cause “irreparable harm” even if the adminis-tration ultimately wins the legal case on appeal. “A stay pending appeal is necessary to ensure that the Department of Homeland Security is able to most effectively protect national security, public safety and the integrity of the border,” the filing states. The motion seeks to overturn a preliminary injunction issued last week by U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen just as the new immigration pro-grams were about to begin. The motion asks Hanen to

decide whether to grant the stay by Wednesday. Hanen ruled Feb. 16 that Obama exceeded his legal authority when he announced in November he would provide immi-grants the opportunity to stay in the United States for three years, without fear of deportation, if they met certain criteria. Twenty–six states chal-lenged Obama’s actions in the court case. The administration also filed a notice of appeal of Hanen’s ruling to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Legal experts say Hanen is unlikely to overrule his own preliminary injunc-tion. By seeking a stay, the administration is trying to send a message of urgency to the courts and to immi-gration advocates who are pressing for quick action to get the deportation waivers back on track. In the motion, Obama’s lawyers argue that the 26 states lack legal standing to challenge what amounts to an exercise of prosecuto-rial discretion by a federal department. They also con-tend that the stay is justi-fied because they believe the government will win on appeal.

Obama to block judge’s rulingPresident fights for immigration reform

Real help for migrants at El Comdeor

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Recently deported migrants gather at El Comedor after returning to Mexico from the United States.

El Comedor offers migrants deported from US real help

Religious groups serve food, hope

By Kevin BaxterLos Angeles Times

NOGALES, Mexico — The migrants begin gathering just after daybreak. Women with young chil-dren in tow, men in wool caps and faded hoodies. Others still wearing the bright orange uniforms they were issued in prison. Few speak. Most look down at their feet. Hours earlier they had been on the other side of the border, where they had been living illegally in the United States. But now, after being deported to Mexico, they’re lining up outside El Comedor – the dining room – in search of food, clothing and help. They also get something else that takes many by sur-prise – respect. “Amigo!” Armando Santos

shouts enthusiastically, greet-ing each migrant with a firm handshake or a warm hug. “Bienvenidos!” Santos looks like a bounc-er at a trendy nightclub as he sizes up the line. But his job is to let people in, not keep them out. Still, the warm wel-come startles many migrants and some stare, not quite sure what to make of him. Others smile back. But eventually they all make their way into the one–room concrete block building, the last structure before the border checkpoint for enter-ing the U.S., marked by a whitewashed wall out front and brightly colored religious banners inside. The migrants have endured processing by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, after which they are bused to the border and released to walk across the line from Nogales, Ariz., to Nogales, Sonora.

Another soulless and bureaucratic process follows. They are poked and prodded by representatives of various Mexican government agen-cies who check the deportees’ documents, conduct detailed interviews and arrange bus trips home. “For the migrants here on the border, their human dignity is not respected in a lot of ways,” says the Rev. Sean Carroll, the Jesuit priest who runs El Comedor and a nearby shelter. “So really in this work we want to lift up and hold and protect the dignity of the human person. Especially where it’s most vulnerable. “And I’d say it’s extremely vulnerable with migrants who have been deported.” El Comedor is spon-sored by the Kino Border Initiative, a binational humanitarian effort by

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Segregated memorial divides town

By DaviD ZucchinoLos Angeles Times

GREENWOOD, S.C. –– It was a noble gesture intend-ed to salve the wounds of this former mill town’s seg-regated past. Mayor Welborn Adams and the local American Legion raised $15,000 for new plaques on the town’s war memorial to replace ones that designate the dead from World Wars I and II as “Colored” or “White.” Instead of praise for righting the wrongs of the past, Adams was threat-ened with arrest and accused of whitewashing history. “I know you can’t change history, but why keep seg-regating people by race?” Adams said. Greenwood, a town of 23,000 people that is 45 per-cent black, is in a contro-versy over wording that reflects attitudes in town — and in the U.S. military — from nearly 70 years ago. Like many Southern towns, Greenwood is strug-gling to break free from the burdens of race and histo-ry. The town’s leaders say it long ago shed its Jim Crow legacy and now embraces diversity, although it still has separate white and black American Legion posts. Now, according to some residents, the issue is ensuring that the town’s segregationist past is not erased. They say history demands acknowledgment that the U.S. military was once segregated. “History means tell-ing the story — the whole story,” said Eric Williams of Greenwood, who spent 32 years as a U.S. Park Service historian. “You don’t leave out the ugly parts or the distasteful parts.” Changing the plaques would destroy the memo-rial’s historical integrity, Williams said as he stood beside the commemorative plates, which list veterans of the Korean and Vietnam wars alphabetically — with no racial designation. The military was desegregated in 1948. “History cannot be altered,” said Williams, who is white. He suggested that the new plaques be installed at a local museum with an “interpretive sign”

explaining military segre-gation. Adams, who is white and was born and raised in Greenwood, said of that suggestion: “That’s like saying, ‘We were racist then but we’re not now.’“ He laughed and mentioned a 1950 line by William Faulkner: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” The South is dotted with towns haunted by the past. In Georgia, the towns of Waynesboro and Thomaston have similar war memorials, and other Southern memorials des-ignate black veterans with a “C.” Clemson University is wrestling with demands to remove the name of Benjamin Tillman, a founding trustee and white supremacist, from a cam-pus building. Statues and street names honoring Confederates are common sights in the South. Fears by some South Carolina whites that such tributes would be erased forced a com-promise in a 2000 law that removed the Confederate flag from the statehouse dome in Columbia. The law also said no historical memorial may be “relocat-ed, removed, distributed or altered” without legislative approval. Adams, 48, said he first proposed chang-ing the plaques during a speech four years ago to Greenwood’s white American Legion, which installed the memorial on city property in 1929, with World War II dead added later. The idea was reject-ed. But last summer, the po st’s executive committee voted 10-0 to remove the plaques, though some rank-and-file members remain opposed, said Dale Kittles, a committee member. The post worked with Adams to raise $15,000, with two blacks joining 41 whites in contributing. Adams wrote a $1,000 check. “That memorial is for the warriors, not for the color of their skin,” said Kittles, 51, a white Army veteran and Legion com-mittee member who pro-posed the vote. He also said he’d like the white and black posts to merge into one. Retired Master Sgt. Thomas Waller, a promi-nent Greenwood veteran, says most local veterans

want the “Colored” desig-nation removed. Waller, 82, who is black, served 20 years in the Army. “We trained togeth-er, shipped out together, fought and died together,” Waller said. “Nobody wor-ried about whether you were white or black.” Waller refused to join either American Legion in town because of their racial designations, but says he is not offended by the “Colored” plaques. “I just try to think ahead to the day when it won’t say black or white — just sol-diers,” he said. Blanton Smith, president of the Greenwood NAACP, said the “Colored” plaques were painful reminders of Jim Crow. “Those men on that memorial deserve bet-ter,” he said. Adams scheduled a cer-emony to unveil the new plaques at the memorial on Jan. 19 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But opposi-tion was mounting, in part because of Adams’ com-ment to the local news-paper: “I think if history offends people, it needs to be rewritten if possible.” He says he now wishes he had said he was changing the way history is present-ed. Randall Faulkner, a white Army veteran, threatened to swear out an arrest warrant against the mayor for violating the 2000 law. Faulkner said chang-ing the plaques would be “almost an insult” to black soldiers who fought for freedoms white soldiers already enjoyed. He said their descendants should decide how they are hon-ored. “You lose a teaching point if you change it now,” he said. A Dec. 28 editorial in the Index-Journal of

Greenwood said the “Colored” plaques should remain, but with a new plaque added to explain that the nation’s armed forces were once segregat-ed. “Changing the plaques does not change the fact that there was a time when blacks and whites who served in our armed forc-es did indeed serve sepa-rately,” the editorial said. It added: “We cannot and really should not attempt to change our history.” In fact, the editorial said, removing the “Colored” designation might even backfire by erasing pub-lic acknowledgment that blacks fought and died for their country despite overt racial discrimination. On Jan. 19, Adams pro-ceeded with the unveil-ing, although he couldn’t mount the plaques because of the state law. The event was attended by 40 black and white veterans in an emotional outpouring of support. Richard Whiting, the Index-Journal editor and author of the Dec. 28 edi-torial, said the veterans’ response changed his mind. In a Jan. 25 editorial, Whiting wrote that the existing plaques should be removed. The unveiling of the new plaques was “an incredibly powerful cere-mony, a ceremony of unity, not acrimony,” he wrote. “If the veterans want it changed, then I’m OK with it,” said Whiting, who is white. “Let’s move on. We have far greater things to deal with.”

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Greenswood, S.C. Mayor Welborn Adams stands next to the 1929 war memorial.

Sinofsky, filmmaker, dies at 58By DaviD colkerLos Angeles Times

Oscar–nominated docu-mentary maker Bruce Sinofsky, whose films shined a light on controversial child murder convictions and the surprising offstage life of the band Metallica, died Saturday at his home in Montclair, N.J. He was 58. The cause was complica-tions of diabetes, Adeline Sinofsky, his daughter, said. The Oscar nomination, shared with co–director Joe Berlinger, was for “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory” (2011), their last film in a critically hailed series that questioned the evidence and courtroom tactics that led to the con-victions of three men in the murders of three boys in rural Arkansas. The first documentary in the series, “Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills” (1996), won Sinofsky an Emmy for out-standing informational pro-gramming and sparked a pro-test against the convictions, which were obtained largely on circumstantial evidence. The three convicted men were released in 2011. Damien Echols, who was sentenced to

death for the crimes, tweeted Saturday about Sinofsky, “I will never forget his part in saving my life.” Sinofsky said that during the filming, he became con-vinced that the then–teen-agers accused of the crimes were easy targets for a griev-ing town because their life-styles included listening to heavy metal music. “If these kids lived in Manhattan, people wouldn’t have looked twice at them,” Sinofsky said in a 1996 Los Angeles Times interview. Times television critic Howard Rosenberg called the film, shown on HBO, “stun-ning,” and said the filmmak-ers wove “verite sequences and formal interviews into a twisting, serpentine tale of intriguing ambiguity and paradoxes.” Rosenberg criticized Sinofsky and Berlinger in 2000 when it was revealed that they paid a participant in the filming, but he still called them “superb story-tellers.” Members of the band Metallica, who often turned down requests to use their music in films, granted it for “Paradise Lost,” waiving their usual high fee.

The filmmakers’ relation-ship with Metallica helped gain them access to the group during the making of its album “St. Anger” in San Francisco. What could have been an extended music video turned into much more than that when trouble sprang up among members of the band that had been together for about 20 years. The bickering got so out of hand that the group, like a long–married couple hit-ting a rough patch, went into therapy. It was jolting for the filmmakers, “like when you’re kids and you’re at a friend’s house and suddenly the mother and father start screaming at each other,” Sinofsky told the Times in 2004. “You don’t know wheth-er to stay or leave.” Metallica didn’t kick them out, so they stayed, obtaining rare footage of a head–bang-ing band sorting out relation-ships. The film, “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster,” came out last year. Sinofsky was born March 31, 1956, in the Boston area and studied at New York University.

religious organizations, including Jesuit Refugee Service/USA, Missionary Sisters of the Eucharist and the Diocese of Tucson. El Comedor served 38,667 meals to migrants last year. On this winter morning, the migrants fill benches set on both sides of wooden picnic tables. “There’s no soup line,” Carroll says as volunteers rush out with plastic plates laden with rice and beans, eggs and tortillas. A nun picks up a microphone. “We are happy to serve you,” she says. Some walls display post-ers with empowering mes-sages: “I have the right to live a life free of vio-lence” and “All people have the same rights.” On one wall is a mural, a border–inspired version of “The Last Supper,” but with migrants as the apostles flanking Jesus, who sports a backward baseball cap. After the meal, men and women line up outside clos-et–size rooms stocked with clothing, and staffers par-cel out pants, shirts, and underwear. The Rev. Miguel Yaksic, a Chilean priest with the Jesuit Migrant Service, has become expert at quickly estimating sizes. He holds up a jacket to one man’s chest and decides it’s a fit. The migrants mumble their thanks. “For us it’s based on the Gospels,” Yaksic says of the work. “But also it’s

political. Not in the sense that we are Democrats or Republicans. But in the sense that we need to cre-ate better conditions for real human life.” Church volunteers also hand out small plastic bags filled with personal hygiene items. In another corner of the room a woman from the International Committee of the Red Cross gives vac-cinations. Other migrants gather around David Hill, a volunteer from No More Deaths, a faith-based aid and advocacy group from Arizona. Mexican banks often reject U.S. checks, Hill says, so he has migrants sign the checks over to him. He hus-tles back to Arizona, cashes the checks, then returns to El Comedor to distribute the money. This morning he helps one man who had been deported after serv-ing time for a drug charge; his check, for work done in prison, was issued by the Arizona Department of Corrections. Then, less than an hour after shuffling in, the breakfast crowd begins to leave. “When they leave, fre-quently they look differ-ent,” Carroll says. “They stand a little straighter. They look me in the eye.” And on this winter morning, that’s exact-ly what happens as the migrants file back out into the late-morning chill.

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as conditions for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida,” Biller said. UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy signed the Real Food Challenge in 2013. Since then, several changes have occurred on cam-pus, including more local food options being offered at certain dining halls. The UMass Sustainability website lists UMass as the largest participating uni-versity in America, serv-ing approximately 45,000 meals per day. “Having the commit-ment signed, we are not only working with creat-ing shifts within the sys-tem and bringing new products into the dining halls, but are working on education and awareness, as well as student involve-

ment,” said Patricia Murphy, a UMass soph-omore who is currently active in the Real Food Campaign. One of the easiest ways to get involved as a student, according to Murphy, is to join the stu-dent group, which holds weekly meetings in the Student Union room 423a on Thursdays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Another way is to apply to become a mem-ber of the Food System’s Working Group, which works directly with Auxiliary services in order to create food poli-cies and plans on cam-pus, as well as outreach to local farmers.

Brooke Parziale can be reached at bcparziale@umass.edu.

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The recent vote to ban AP history in Oklahoma got me thinking about the concept

of Advanced Placement high school courses in gen-eral. Representatives in Oklahoma want to change the curriculum because the recent AP United States history curriculum is a “radically revisionist view of American history that emphasizes negative aspects of our nation’s his-tory while omitting or mini-mizing positive aspects.” I don’t believe this is nec-essarily bad because it gives

students perspective about the negative issues in the U.S., allowing them to learn from them and improve in the future, which is what our society is about. Looking back to my high school years, I took two AP courses senior year: psy-chology and environmental science. I also had many friends who took AP U.S. history, among other cours-es. Four years later, I’m in a different mindset and have more of an objective view of these courses and national exams. For the most part, students who pass AP tests use them to opt out of gen-eral education classes in college. The lucky ones get courses out of the way for their major. But is that really so lucky? A high school class at the “college level” doesn’t nec-essarily match up, especial-ly when high school stan-dards vary state-to-state. Some majors require stu-dents to retake AP chemis-try at the collegiate level to make sure they fully grasp the material that is so fun-damental to their studies. The Common Core’s ini-tiative to create more of a standardized education sys-tem throughout the nation is beginning to unfold; how-

ever it is virtually impos-sible to be sure that all stu-dents are receiving a com-parable education. This is unfortunate because students in areas with lower taxes go to schools which receive less funding, essentially wid-ening the education gap between students of minor-ity and impoverished back-grounds compared to stu-dents of privileged upbring-ings. AP courses can be a hit or a miss. I earned an A in my AP environmental science class, which we called APES. This is fitting because all we did was mon-

key around. I did not feel prepared for the test at the end of the year that could exempt me from a biological science class here at the University of Massachusetts and my score proved I was unpre-pared. I then had to take a BS requirement, a class I was not interested in, nor excited about. In hindsight, I wish I studied on my own for the AP test to have more of a chance of passing. My AP psychology class, however, granted me social and behavioral general education credits. It also proved to be my favorite class in high school and I still remember many things I learned that can be relat-ed to what I currently study in college. The problem with some AP classes is that students take the course in high school and don’t remember the information as well as if they took it more recently in college, especially when they take higher level class-es that require the basis knowledge learned years ago. Schools compare GPAs, but an A in my APES class might not be equal to an A at another school. Standards are hard to conform to but it is difficult to find anoth-

er method of standardiz-ing besides exams. That’s why the SATs and ACTs still exist, even though part of scoring highly on these exams is knowing how to answer a tricky question. No matter a person’s age, learning is about giving and taking. If I were to sit in a lecture and absorb every-thing the professor said, I would not be completely satisfied. It is important to discuss and play around with different methods, arguments and ways of thinking. Questioning the profes-sor and one’s own thoughts is important. In this way, AP classes could have posi-

tive benefits. If they pres-ent college-level material like they are supposed to, a 300-person lecture is nar-rowed down to a 25-person high school class. This mostly holds true since AP classes cover material that students often take in large lecture form. Regardless of the class and curriculum, the teach-er’s methods can make or break it. Bringing in real-world examples is a way for students to apply what they are learning to everyday life, eliminating the “When am I ever going to use this in life?” thoughts. Not everyone is cut out to teach. A professor could be a genius in his or her field but not be able to con-vey the information. Just because someone knows the material inside and out does not mean that their students will effectively learn from them. Just like everything else in life, the American edu-cation system has flaws and officials are working toward improvement. Even more similarly, people can never be satisfied and always want to strive for bigger and better methods. Karen Podorefsky is a Collegian Columnist and can be reached at kpodorefsky@umass.edu.

“No matter a person’s age, learning is about giving and taking. ... It is important to discuss and play around with

different methods, arguments and ways of thinking.”

Rudy Giuliani’s criticisms are missing the point

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s disheartening comments this past week that President Obama doesn’t love this country is a regression in the

political discourse. He called Obama’s upbringing into question saying, “He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up.” Giuliani, who has not held political office in 14 years, made his comments while speaking to a group of Republicans at a private gathering in mid-town Manhattan. Among those in attendance was Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who has yet to personal-ly denounce the former mayor’s comments regarding the president. It seems as if Giuliani is struggling to maintain his relevance in a newly competitive political climate. In his most recent appearance on the The Kelly File, the former mayor insisted that he wasn’t criticizing Obama’s patriotism but at the same time continued to pass judgment on the presi-dent’s love of the country, which is by all accounts the definition of patriotism. For some reason, Giuliani is stuck in the past, con-stantly putting Obama’s patriotism on trial instead of his policies. His insistence on discussing Obama’s comments about the crusades, as evidence of his failure to condemn Islamic extremism, points to Giuliani as someone who is so hot and bothered by any criticism of Christianity that he equates an attack on his religion as a personal attack on himself. Also on The Kelly File, Giuliani contin-ued to discuss how he doesn’t “feel it” – the “it” being the president’s love of the coun-try. I venture to understand what there possibly could be to “feel.” For him, it has become this sort of physical therapeutic sensation, something he claims to have felt from past presidents on a bi-partisan level, citing both President Bush and President Clinton as examples. Again, this is nothing but a way for Giuliani to stay in the game amidst dwin-dling support from the public as well as from New Yorkers, the city he continued to politicize during his one-time run for president back in 2008. Moreover, his interview with Megyn Kelly further exemplifies the ways in which he is stuck in the past. He constant-ly makes references to Obama’s second book and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, elements that have been absent from both his poli-tics and his presidency. Furthermore, there was a certain

amount of ambiguity when the mayor said Obama wasn’t raised like “you and me.” First, one must ask the question of what that statement even means. He’s not criticizing Obama’s presidential policies, nor discussing certain pertinent disagree-ments the former mayor might hold. Instead, he chooses to go after the presi-dent’s character. This, of course, is noth-ing new. What it sounds like is a reframed, refried argument. Indeed, it’s a continua-tion of the claims made by Donald Trump, questioning Obama’s origins and calling for a release of his full-form birth certifi-cate. This is similar to when people on the right deemed Obama a Muslim who was an unfit candidate for the presidency. Not only is this not a persuasive argument, but for Giuliani, Obama has always had a chip on his shoulder. Then we get to the other half of the may-or’s ridiculous statement: the claim that the president “wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up.” This assertion is almost more offen-

sive than argu-ing he doesn’t love America. It is only fair that we dis-cuss Giuliani’s upbringing as well. The for-

mer mayor loved this country so much that he deferred deployment six times during the Vietnam War. While Giuliani’s grandfather and one uncle did serve on the battlefield, his father, along with his five other uncles, also found ways of escaping the draft during World War II. President Obama’s familial lineage is surely more patriotic. Both his grandfa-ther and uncle served in World War II, with his uncle playing a crucial role in the liberation of the Buchenwald concen-tration camp, for which he suffered great psychological trauma. Giuliani’s latest comments amount to nothing more than right wing noise. Interestingly though, in his most recent endeavor, the former mayor seems to be on his own in saying the president doesn’t love his country while possible presiden-tial hopefuls such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio instead took aim at his policies. Giuliani also attacked Obama for “attempting to exploit” as well as to politi-cize the death of Osama Bin Laden. This is coming from a man who sought the presidential nomination by playing poli-tics with the 9/11 aftermath. Perhaps Giuliani should understand patri-otism before deeming others unpatriotic.

Isaac Simon is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at isimon@umass.edu.

“For some reason, Giuliani is stuck in the past, constantly putting Obama’s

patriotism on trial instead of his policies.”

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Health benefits of humidifiersBy Madeleine JackMan

Collegian Staff

As this year’s brutal win-ter continues to drag out, our skin, hair and overall health begin to reflect the harsh con-ditions. From chapped lips to static hair to unending colds, our bodies struggle to fight against the dry winter air. Coming from Southern California, where an actual winter is essentially non-exis-tent, I anxiously anticipated the severe weather outside – I had heard enough justi-fied complaints from New Englanders to expect the ice-kissed wind and relent-less chill. But what ended up surprising me the most was not the intense cold outside, but the extreme, drying heat inside. Returning to my dorm after a long day of treading the frozen campus, I was more than happy to embrace the warmth of a heated room. However, I was waking up each morning with chapped skin, a dry mouth and a head-ache. It seemed unavoidable. But because I was not accus-tomed to indoor heating, I was quickly able to identify it as the culprit, or at least as an accessory to the weather out-side. Most indoor heating sys-tems create an excessively dry environment, wicking the lit-tle winter moisture out of the air. This leads to increased discomfort and even an increased risk of illness as it dries out the mucous mem-branes, leaving our bodies much more susceptible to colds and flus. Constantly liv-

ing in this dehydrated envi-ronment, both indoors and outdoors, takes a serious toll on physical well-being. Of course, unless you enjoy residing in an igloo, turning off the heat in your dorm or apartment is simply not an option. Fortunately, there are other simple ways to decrease the negative effects of indoor heating by putting moisture back into the air. One accessory in particu-lar can make all of the differ-ence this winter: a humidifier. These relatively inexpensive tools are essentially miracle machines, introducing neces-sary moisture back into the air, helping to quench the body’s desire for hydration. A humidifier can literally make the difference in your health this winter, bestow-ing a myriad of benefits both inside and out. Consider a humidifier to be your skin’s best friend this winter and reap in the rewards of hydrat-ed, glowing skin without hav-ing to slather on heavy mois-turizers. Humidifiers can help you significantly when sick. They are both a preventative mea-sure, helping your immune system’s first-line of defense by strengthening the mucous membranes, as well as a way to ease your symptoms and breathe easier when already affected by an illness. If the dry air is causing headaches, it will eliminate this as well. However, it is highly important to change the water daily and clean it regu-larly in order to prevent bac-teria from growing. For most

humidifiers, this is as easy as emptying and filling a cup in the sink. For those of us with room-mates who snore, humidifiers can even decrease the noise as well. By helping decrease congestion and increase the moisture in your throat, snor-ing is reduced. Static shock is also greatly reduced, along with frizzy hair. Marissa Zaritsky, a sopho-more from Poughkeepsie, New York, spoke of her humidifier highly, saying its positive effects were immedi-ately evident. “I didn’t even realize how bad it was until we bought a humidifier for our room,” Zaritsky said. “Then I couldn’t even go outside in the hallway because I finally understood how dry and unyielding the heating is. Now I can’t live without the humidifier.” For immediate relief from the dry air today, or simply a more affordable alternative, you can place bowls of water around your room or home. Even better than that, if you have pots or pans, you can fill them with water and place them near or on your radia-tor or heater so that water is released into the air as it evaporates. After purchasing and con-sistently running a humidi-fier, my headaches, dry skin and cold have disappeared. A humidifier is an investment you will be thanking yourself for every day this winter and for years to come.

Madeleine Jackman can be reached at mjackman@umass.edu.

H E A LT H

Gluten-free alternatives to typical baking recipes

By Mary MacveanLos Angeles Times

The early generation of gluten-free baked goods tended to be imitations, often not very good ones, of cakes and cookies usu-ally made with wheat flour. Kristine Kidd, cookbook writer and former Bon Appetit magazine food edi-tor, is among those trying another tack: She looked at the flours that have no glu-ten almond, buckwheat and sorghum among them and figured out how to bake. The result is her second book on cooking without glu-ten, “Gluten-Free Baking” (Weldon Owen, $24.95). Her first was “Weeknight Gluten-Free.” “I did not want to make copies of things that are bet-ter made with wheat flour. That’s just going to be disap-pointing,” Kidd said. When she learned her celiac disease had resur-faced several years ago, she began exploring a new world of cooking. “First I started doing things that were natural-ly gluten-free,” she said. And those are in the book: meringues with chocolate and ginger, coconut maca-roons dipped in chocolate and other cookies that use nut meals rather than flour. There’s a cheesecake and a flourless chocolate cake with dried cherries, a rice pudding and an Indian pud-ding. There also is a version

of the first recipe she ever made, with her grandmoth-er, pecan thumbprint cook-ies, this time using brown rice flour. Most people who avoid gluten do so for health rea-sons; they have celiac dis-ease or other sensitivities to gluten, which is found in wheat, barley and rye. Or they believe their diets are generally more health-ful without gluten. So it’s perhaps surprising to read the ingredient lists of many gluten-free baked goods on the market. “I noticed that most of the gluten-free prepared foods and the mixes focus on the white starches that are bad for you _ corn, potato, white rice. I wanted to explore the grains that are healthy for you,” Kidd said. In her research, sorghum came up over and over, she said. It’s a grass, often used in this country as animal feed and to make molasses. But the flour is available in Whole Foods and health food stores, as well as some supermarkets. “It’s a nutrient-dense grain, and it’s got a very sweet neutral flavor. It became my basic flour,” Kidd said. It doesn’t bind ingredients, however, so she used eggs or xantham gum for that. Several muffins and scones are among the 80 recipes in “Gluten-Free Baking.” Cornmeal-pecan

muffins are one of the many recipes in which Kidd uses cornmeal, which adds tex-ture and taste, along with the sorghum flour. There’s orange zest and cinnamon too. They rose perfectly and seemed very close to glu-teny muffins. And corn, of course, is a great morning flavor. Cornmeal, combined this time with almond meal, also worked well in the black-berry cornmeal cake, which could be served plain for breakfast or dressed up with whipped cream for dessert. Kidd said it was inspired by a cake she ate at the Santa Monica bak-ery Huckleberry, and it has the rustic feel of many of the desserts there. Almond meal, which is high in pro-tein, gives a great nutty cast to the cake. People often ask Kidd for gluten-free recipes for white sandwich bread or challah. “To make them work well, they’d have to be just white starches. I try to keep white starches down to a quarter of the total.” But she understands the motivation. At a gluten-free conference a few years back, she said, many people had just begun to avoid gluten. “They wanted to do what they had always done: ‘My mother always made me chocolate cake for my birth-day, so I’m just going to go to that mix.’”

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Quarterbacks combine the best of twee and punk

By Jackson MaxwellCollegian Staff

Dean Engle’s songs are not the most sophisticated things in the world. And as the lis-tener discovers on one of his singles, “Simple Songs,” he would be the first to tell you that. “Because I don’t have/a life plan/I just have/this little band/simple songs/with sim-ple chords/but simple songs/won’t save your soul,” Engle shouts urgently, hardly stop-ping for a breath in between words. Engle hits just about every nail on the head with Quarterbacks’ masterful, self-titled debut LP, except for the last line of that lyric. Engle’s songs come at you fast and furious – in 21 minutes, there are 19 of them. And pretty much every single one is per-fectly capable of saving your soul. A trio hailing from New Paltz, New York, Quarterbacks labels itself as “twee-punk” and flawlessly combines the best elements of both genres. Its first album’s 19 songs are full of vulnerabilities and deep insecurities but also include a beautifully naive sense of optimism. But it is a clear sense of optimism,

which is how the band can still attach “punk” to its description with a straight face. These songs have a way of cutting to the very heart of romance: the inherent ten-sion, longing and the pow-erful swells of emotion that

can stem from the smallest of interactions. Though Engle often paints rosy pictures, one never gets the feeling that he is stretch-ing the truth even slightly. “Quarterbacks” is a phenom-enal punk album in that it

tells the listener enlightening bursts of truth, doing so at warp speed but without being preachy or becoming aggres-sive in its delivery. With so little time to make its case – the longest track on the LP clocks in at one

minute, 40 seconds – these 19 songs practically fall over themselves in their attempts to dole out their melodic good-ies all at once. “Center” rips through a verse, bridge, chorus and beautiful breakdown in just

about a minute. “Weekend” could spend a lifetime on its nostalgia-inducing, evocative opening riff, but after less than 10 seconds, it explodes into a frantic expression of romantic insecurity. The three verses of “Twenty” manage to provide a succinct summary of romance in the context of growing up in 42 seconds. On its closer “Point Nine,” Engle turns a blind eye to everything but the absolute present. “I can’t worry about any-thing/when you’re holding my hand,” he blushes, convey-ing the song’s vivid, escapist fantasy. While some may look at the brevity of Engle’s songs as the main weakness of “Quarterbacks,” it is actu-ally one of the album’s main strengths. On “Point Nine,” Engle shouts, “Sometimes I wonder if I should slow down/to make sure my heart stays intact/but I trust you.” And if there is any point to be made about “Quarterbacks,” it is that the listener never wants Engle to slow down because this record is an absolute thrill ride. And as fast as it is, it is incredibly sad when it comes to an end.

Jackson Maxwell can be reached at jlmaxwell@umass.edu.

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Quarterbacks is made up of Dean Engle (singer/guiatrist), Tom Christie (bassist) and Max Restaino (drummer).

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Minutewomen finish 4th, men place sixth in A10s

By Nick SouzaCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts wom-en’s and men’s track and field teams competed in the Atlantic 10 Championships over the weekend, placing fourth and sixth respec-tively. Overall , Virginia Commonwealth University won the women’s title while Rhode Island took home the men’s crown for the second straight year. VCU won by a 20-point margin, finishing with 125 total points while URI fended off George Mason, 203-199. The Minutewomen finished with 85 points in the field of 13 teams. They entered with a roster already hampered by inju-ry and figured to struggle against the conference’s upper echelon of talent. Yet after the first day, UMass was in first place. “When the athletes per-form well early on, it builds excitement for the rest of the meet and the team can feed off that energy,” Minutewomen coach Julie LaFreniere said. Multiple individual per-formers fed off that energy for UMass. Heather MacLean won the 800 meter dash with a time of two minutes, 14.39 seconds, edging Fordham’s Titi Fagade by less than a second. In the 1-mile run, Rachel Hilliard earned a bronze medal with a time of 5:00:27. In the field events, Cour tney Kromko earned Most Outstanding Field Performer for the Minutewomen, finishing in first place in the long jump and second place in the tri-ple jump. UMass’ Margaret Riseborough also finished

in third place in the shot put, setting a new personal record with a 43-foot, 3.75-inch throw. After the successful showing in the tournament, Minutewomen field events coach David Jackson com-mended his athletes’ indi-vidual performances. “We expect our athletes to work like superstars,” he said. “And we expect them to put their best effort for-ward in meets like this and that’s all we can ask for.” UMass returns to action next weekend in the New England Championships, a two-day event held in Boston.

Minutemen finish sixth

UMass’ men’s team fin-ished with 36 total points, placing it sixth out of nine teams in the tournament. Much like the women, the Minutemen didn’t have the top-tier overall tal-ent of other schools but received strong individual performances in several events, most notably the heptathlon. Three different UMass members finished in the top

eight, led by Adam Bonfilio, who finished fourth over-all with 4,644 points. Nick Ingham finished fifth (4,603 points) and Greg Copeland finished seventh (4,471) for the Minutemen. According to UMass coach Ken O’Brien, his team entered the weekend knowing it would need to be at its best. “As the meets this time of year become much larger and much deeper in tal-ent, the margin of error becomes very small,” O’Brien said. “That’s why we hope the athletes com-peting in their events have it down perfectly by this time of year.” Senior runner Ben Groleau placed fifth in the 1-mile run, narrowly edg-ing his sixth-place compet-itor, URI’s James Bloom, with a time of 4:17:04. The Minutemen will also compete in the New England Championships next weekend in Boston.

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

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UMass men’s track and field finished sixth out of nine teams last weekend.

his jump shot. “I think my jump shot has clicked and the game’s been easier for me because the defense doesn’t know what I’m going to do – whether I’m going to shoot or drive the basketball,” Hinds said. Hinds hit a game-win-ning 3-pointer against St. Bonaventure on Feb. 11 and has made at least one 3-pointer in his last eight games. He’s 11-for-23 (48 percent) over that stretch, a stark improvement from his 32 percent clip for the season. “Any time anybody, especially him, can knock down a jumper, I think that gives us one more weapon,” Kellogg said. “It seems like when he’s hitting those, that opens up the rest of the game. Now all of a sudden he’s getting in the paint and hitting mid-range jumpers and layups.” Hinds was aggressive against VCU, often looking like one of the only play-ers on the Minutemen unde-terred by the vaunted Rams “Havoc” defense. When he’s at his best, he often success-fully teeters between frenet-ic and reckless.

It’s taken time for Hinds’ scoring ability to shine. He has the talent of a start-er but is better suited, at least this year, to come off the bench – something he’s learned to deal with this season. Now, as the final four games of the season await UMass, he’s in full

bloom. “I mentioned it earlier in the year and I’m not sure what kind of credence people take in this, but for transfers, it’s all different times,” Kellogg said.“Some guys pop right on the scene day one and are ready to go and understand it and

other guys, it takes them a while. He really seems to have gotten comfortable in the last week or two with his role on the team and how we’re playing and style of play.”

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

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Jabarie Hinds dunks over two Rhode Island players in a game against Rhode Island.

elusive first win Saturday afternoon against Brown University at McGuirk Stadium.

UMass announces venue change

UMass Athletics announced in a press release Monday that the Minutemen will play their next three home games at McGuirk Stadium due to

damage to Garber Field which occurred during the recent snowfall. “Due to continued winter weather in New England and previous damage sustained to the playing surface at Garber Field, the University of Massachusetts men’s lacrosse pro g ram announced the move of its next three home games to Warren P. McGuirk

Alumni Stadium,” the release said. Not including this week-end, the other contests set to take place at McGuirk will be on March 10 ver-sus Quinnipiac University and March 14 against Penn State. The release also said that it has not been deter-mined where the final three home games will be played. These will be

held on April 4 against Fairfield, April 18 versus Drexel and April 24 when UMass takes on Delaware in its season finale. The Minutemen played their first game of the sea-son at McGuirk Stadium back on Feb. 7, falling to No. 20 Army 12-7. Jason Kates can be reached at jkates@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Jason_Kates.

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Prince surprised after Celtics deal

By ViNce elliSDetroit Free Press

As always, Tayshaun Prince was direct and to the point. “Pissed off” was one of the many of emotions he felt Thursday when he learned he was being traded from the Boston Celtics to the Pistons – the team he spent more than a decade with. But the anger isn’t at the Pistons. Nor is it directed at Celtics coach Brad Stevens, whom he gave a glowing assessment. He didn’t specify a name in his first comments to the Detroit media, but one can infer he thinks Celtics gen-eral manager Danny Ainge miscommunicated his inten-tions. Prince indicated he thought the Celtics were going to retain him and then maybe broach a buyout before the March 1 playoff eligibility waiver deadline. “Me and Danny had sev-eral conversations, and like I said before, all options were on the table because I knew they were trying to go young,” Prince said of the Celtics. “I thought no trade was going to happen at all. I was going to be in Boston and see what happened, whether the buyout was going to happen or not. The buyout wasn’t 100 percent. “So I thought there was no trade at all. We get ready to go on the bus to practice and they said, ‘Come here, you’ve been traded.’ “I didn’t even know where I was going. I was pissed off from the get-go. Coach Stevens and I had talked, and

there was no word on where I was going. Then I get two, three, four, five calls. I get a call from (Pistons physical therapist) Arnie Kander. “I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, hold on, I didn’t get traded to Detroit, did I?’ “ It has been a whirlwind couple of months for Prince. He has been traded twice recently after being a fran-chise mainstay for 10 sea-sons with the Pistons. He was traded from the Memphis Grizzlies to the Celtics last month. He was asked to compare Thursday’s activity to when he was traded for the first time in January 2013 when Pistons president of basket-ball operations Joe Dumars shipped him to Memphis. “This one, even though I didn’t think I was going to get traded, I knew there was a chance of it,” Prince said. “The thing about that one it was a shock because I had been here 11 years and I get a call after the trade was over. “I felt disrespected by that, but that’s a story for back then.” A lot has changed since he was the youngest mem-ber of the Pistons’ starting five during the 2004 NBA title run. Greg Monroe and Andre Drummond are the only holdovers from when he was traded in 2013. Prince dressed, but was held out of Sunday’s 106-89 victory over the Washington Wizards at the Palace. He received a nice greet-ing from the crowd and waved to acknowledge the applause.

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THE MASSACHUSETTS DAILY COLLEGIAN

By Mark ChiarelliCollegian Staff

Overshadowed by the Massachusetts men’s bas-ketball team’s two straight losses this past week was the marked improvement of one player in particular. Junior point guard Jabarie Hinds led UMass in scoring in both games – a 17-point performance against Rhode Island Wednesday and a 16-point game Saturday on the road against Virginia Commonwealth. Often, he appeared to be the most aggressive and comfortable player on the court against the Minutemen’s toughest

week of competition this season. The reason? He now has the luxury of a clearly defined role, and it’s paying dividends. “I’m more comfortable, honestly,” said Hinds, who returned to his role as the first reserve off the bench in January after starting for six games. “And I’m being more aggressive,” he said. “I’m just taking what the defense gives me.” UMass coach Derek Kellogg’s used Hinds, who is in his first season with the Minutemen after transfer-ring from West Virginia, in a variety of ways this season. Typically, he’s asked Hinds to come in off the bench, play the most minutes of any reserve and assert his

speed into the game. It hasn’t always worked. Hinds battled bouts of inef-fectiveness, especially in January when he went four straight games without scor-ing more than six points. But he slowly started to turn the corner on Feb. 4 against Fordham in his native state of New York. Playing in front of fam-ily in friends, Hinds scored 12 points, added two steals and two assists and spurred a stretch in the second half where UMass erased a Rams’ lead en route to a 78-72 victory. According to Kellogg, it was the first time Hinds appeared to be truly comfortable. “I think that Fordham game, he really started to assert himself,” Kellogg said. “That was the game

that I really looked and said, ‘It seems like he’s getting it.’” What UMass fans saw this past week was a more consistent extension of the Fordham performance. And there is perhaps no better summation than what fans saw against URI. The Minutemen trailed 10-8 early in the first half when Hinds attacked the Rams’ rim offensively. In an instant, Hinds was past his original defender, slithering into the lane. The 5-foot-11 guard skied toward the rim, catching almost all of the Ryan Center – and definitely the two defenders beneath him – off guard, throwing down a one-handed dunk. It was Hinds in a nut-shell: Speed, explosiveness and unpredictability.

“I have good speed,” Hinds said. “So I can get to certain places on the floor and cre-ate for both myself and my teammates.” Yet what Hinds feels has

made the biggest differ-ence wasn’t the strengths he already had, but instead, something that wasn’t as effective early in the season:

The junior PG led UMass in scoring

Hinds excels offensively despite tough weekM E N ’ S BA S K E T BA L L

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Jabarie Hinds (4) dribbles in a loss against Rhode Island on Feb. 18.

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Quianna Diaz-Patterson (left) has a .533 batting average, 16 hits and four home runs through nine games in 2015.

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UM feels Muller’s impact

By Jason katesCollegian Staff

After sitting out last year due to an injury he suffered in the preseason, redshirt sopho-more Dan Muller is back on the field and making an impact for the Massachusetts men’s lacrosse team. Although he hasn’t started in any of the Minutemen’s three games, the Massapequa, New York native has tallied three goals and two assists so far, placing him tied for third on the team in points with five. “He is a great young man and an excellent student,” UMass coach Greg Cannella said when reached Monday. “He plays hard everyday and we love hav-ing him back on the field.” In this past Saturday’s 14-13 defeat to No. 12 Harvard, Muller recorded two goals and an assist, matching his career-high for goals in a single game. It was something he hasn’t done since his freshman season in 2013 when he added a pair of scores in a 16-9 win over Army. Through three games this season, Muller is already two points shy of tying his career best. In 2013, the midfielder finished with six goals and one assist. As one of 10 goal scorers in the game against the Crimson, Muller, among others, will be counted on to provide an offen-sive boost for the Minutemen (0-3) as they search for their first win of the season. Despite not being able to take the field last year, Muller found success in the classroom. He was awarded the Colonial Athletic Association Academic Achievement Award in 2014, which is given to student-ath-letes who excel both on and off the field. Currently a double major in business finance and sport management with a minor in economics, Muller has found the time to balance lacrosse with his schoolwork. He is a member of Chi Alpha Sigma, an organization that recogniz-es student-athletes who have received a varsity letter and maintain a GPA of 3.4 or higher throughout their junior year. Muller and UMass will next have a chance to earn their

Soph. returns after missing last season

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Diaz-Patterson on torrid pace to start 2015By toM Mulherin

Collegian Staff

For the past three seasons, Quianna Diaz-Patterson has proven day-in and day-out that she is geared to succeed at the plate at the top of the lineup for the Massachusetts softball team. So why would this year be any different? Through the first two week-end tournaments to start off the season, Diaz-Patterson has been a pitcher’s nightmare with an active nine-game hit streak. In those nine games, she has a team-high 16 hits for a .533 bat-ting average and has scored 11 runs – even more than typical Diaz-Patterson-like numbers. “Obviously, her impact is huge,” UMass coach Kristi Stefanoni said. “(Diaz-Patterson) sets the tone for us offensively. I’d say overall, she is 10 times better than she was a year ago at this time even.” As the leadoff batter, Diaz-Patterson has done what any leadoff hitter is expected to do – get on base. She has a .611 on-base percentage (OBP) and leads the team in runs scored. This year, however, ‘Q,’ as her teammates call her, is even going beyond her usual role by putting

a little extra strength into her hits. So far in the 2015 campaign, the contact hitter has tied the team-high in home runs (four) and has knocked in 10 RBIs for UMass (4-5). Over her first three years with the Minutewomen, Diaz-Patterson muscled just seven home runs – including no home runs last season and just seven RBIs. Recognizing the middle infield-er’s role expansion, Stefanoni credited the extra power to her work in the offseason. “Her ability to come up with runners in scoring position in pretty tough situations and make something happen has been big for us,” Stefanoni said. “She’s gotten a lot stronger. She spent all last summer on campus, and was able to be in a weight room and work with our strength and conditioning coach all the time.” Stefanoni added that the senior’s time spent with the Connecticut Brakettes over the summer, a member of the Amateur Softball Association, has furthered her development. “Her weight numbers have gone up and the way she runs has improved,” Stefanoni said. “She got a chance to play with

the (Connecticut) Brakettes this summer, which is a semi-pro team, and they face some of the best competition around the country. “Softball-wise, that helped her out a lot.” As efficient as Diaz-Patterson has been for UMass in the bat-ter’s box, she has impressed Stefanoni just as much in the field. Noting her previous incon-sistencies with making plays at shortstop and second base, Stefanoni said she believes the veteran has finally solidified her-self as a fielder. “From a year ago today, (her fielding is) amazing,” Stefanoni said. “I’m probably jinxing her by saying this, but ‘Q’ only has one error so far this year. Stefanoni added: “Typically, she hasn’t been all that consis-tent defensively. It’s something we’ve been working on through-out the fall and the winter with her, so she’s been extremely con-

sistent defensively (this year).” Outside of her production on the field, the hitting stalwart is making impacts on the team on personal levels. As one of the lon-gest-tenured players on the team, Diaz-Patterson took it upon her-self to be a leader and role model for the younger players this sea-son, such as freshman middle infielder Gianna Hathaway. As a senior, Stefanoni said that Diaz-Patterson recognizes that she can’t play for the pro-gram forever and has taken to mentoring Hathaway. “(The two) have spent a lot of time together on and off the field, which is really important,” Stefanoni said. “Q has done that for a reason. She sees the talent that (Hathaway) has and knows it’s going to be Gianna later on. (She’s been) showing her how to work hard, how to do extra so it’s been good for her.”

Tom Mulherin can be reached at tmulheri@umass.edu.

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“Obviously, her impact is huge. (Diaz-Patterson) sets the tone for us offensively. I’d say overall, she is 10

times better than she was a year ago at this time even.”Kristi Stefanoni,

UMass coach