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Surrounded by the glow of can-dlelight, the Center for Women and Community and the sisters of Sigma Psi Zeta sorority hosted an annu-al vigil in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Held in the Cape Cod Lounge at the Student Union, the candlelight vigil gave both of the organizations, as well as survivors of domestic violence, the chance to speak out against the issue and encourage others to help victims of domestic abuse. According to Becky Lockwood, the associate director of Counseling and Rape Crisis Services at the Center for Women and Community, the vigil is a way to touch upon an issue that is close to students and the community, although many do not realize it. “(The vigil) is a chance to educate the community about relationship violence,” Lockwood said. “We real-ly try to use the phrase ‘relationship

violence’ instead of domestic vio-lence because most college students see domestic violence happening only to older people. They think, ‘It doesn’t really happen to us because we’re young,’ but we know it is hap-pening, and often people don’t know where to get help or what the right thing to say is because of this.” Making students aware of the presence of domestic violence in their community is extremely important to the Center for Women

and Community as well as the sisters of Sigma Psi Zeta, who have made it part of their national mission. Since 2009, the sorority has collabo-rated with the Center for Women and Community through the vigil to stress the importance of the issue to the University of Massachusetts community.   “Domestic violence is a part of all of us,” said Victoria Lee, presi-

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The Center for Women and Community and the Sigma Psi Zeta sorority held a vigil in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

UM Israeli programs to resume

By anthony REntsch Collegian Staff

After suspending all study abroad programs in Israel in August, the University of Massachusetts’ International Risk Management Committee has decided to resume programs to the Middle Eastern state once again for the spring semester. This decision comes following “the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel” and the revised trav-el advisory from the U.S. State Department, according to Daniel Fitzgibbons, associate director at the Office of News and Media Relations. The revised travel warn-ing lifted the “nonessential” travel ban to Israel while still warning U.S. travelers against going to cer-tain areas, including the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank. “(Exchange programs and study abroad opportunities) benefit stu-dents a lot,” Fitzgibbons said. “They gain a lot from experienc-ing different cultures, especially an older culture like Israel’s. It is a good thing anytime a student goes abroad. This decision expands those opportunities for students.” Fitzgibbons said the committee suspended all study abroad pro-grams to Israel just before the fall semester began due to the “con-tinuing violence and hostility in the region.” The fall cancellation affected two students who were planning to study at Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University, but the University reimbursed these students for “nonrecoverable” expenses and provided them help with finding alternate plans for the fall semester, according to a Boston Globe article. The Globe article also indicat-ed a group of six UMass students and a faculty member had been

Six students to study in Israel this spring

New polls show lead for GOP

By DaviD lautERTribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Republicans hold a narrow but steady lead in the contest for control of the Senate, according to polls released Sunday. Enough races remain extreme-ly close that Democrats could still keep control of the chamber, but only if all the breaks go their way. So far, that’s not happening in the campaign’s closing weeks. Democrats appear to have lost ground in extremely close races in Iowa and Colorado, although they have gained in Georgia. In Kansas, an embattled Republican incumbent has come back in his fight against an independent who is backed by many Democrats. In the Iowa race, Republican Jodie Ernst has a 3-percentage-point edge over Democrat Bruce Braley, 49 percent to 46 percent, according to a new NBC/Marist survey, maintaining the small lead she established in the survey earli-er this month. A New York Times/CBS/YouGov survey, also released Sunday, showed the race tied at 44 percent each. Both polls showed a virtual tie in Colorado, where Democratic Sen. Mark Udall has slipped in his race against Republican Rep. Cory Gardner. The NBC/Marist poll showed Gardner ahead, 46 percent to 45 percent, while the CBS/NYT/YouGov survey showed Udall ahead, 47 percent to 46 per-cent, in both cases well within the polls’ margins of error. In Kansas, Democrats have been hoping that Greg Orman, a businessman and political inde-pendent, could knock off incum-bent Republican Pat Roberts. Orman established a lead in the race earlier this fall after the Democratic candidate dropped out. But Republicans have

Republicans could gain Senate control

Amherst holds annual Halloween Fest

By shiRa lEDaniCollegian Correspondent

A parade of mini princess-es, superheroes and animals marched throughout down-town Amherst on Sunday afternoon, darting into local businesses as they hunted for candy to fill their pump-kin heads and shopping bags. But trick-or-treating was just one part of the town’s annual Halloween Fest – held in the Bangs Community Center – which also featured a haunt-ed house, carnival games, a costume parade and pump-kin painting. Now in its 15th year, Halloween Fest is sponsored by the town of Amherst in partnership with the Amherst Chamber of Commerce, and numerous businesses which helped sponsor individual events in the community center. According to Linda Chalfant, director of leisure services

and supplemental education, more than 21 local businesses participated in the trick-or-treating event. “Amherst has been cel-ebrating Halloween for a while,” said Stacey Lecuivre, an event coordinator. “For 48 years, businesses have done the seasonal window paint-ings you see now.” The day’s intermittent rain showers and clouds didn’t stop the kids’ Halloween fun. Pumpkin bowling and a game of eating donuts off of strings were held outside, supervised by the Amherst emergency unit. Train rides were also provided, taking place around the community center’s parking lot with a cargo of cheering kids. Inside, the carnival on the main level of the center was one of the busiest parts of the festival. Featuring tables of fun games for the kids, for between one and three tickets you could play a num-ber of Halloween themed games with the end promise of candy – the day’s most popular commodity.

The pumpkin roll, which took place in the cleared out parking lot on Main Street, was another one of this year’s games. Standing at the top of the hill, the kids, grouped by age, rolled their pumpkins down as they ran after them to the end. Each participant was a winner, receiving a cer-tificate to Bueno Y Saño. And to make this all pos-sible, Chalfant was adamant that UMass students were an

integral part of this year’s operation. As volunteers, they helped set up the events and games and run the many booths. “A big supporter was Dr. Dan Gerber … He really encouraged his students to participate in community service,” she said. “We really couldn’t have done it without them.”

Shira Ledani can be reached at sledani@umass.edu.

Events included games and carnival

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The Record (Hackensack, N.J.)

A day after a nurse return-ing from Sierra Leone exco-riated New Jersey’s manda-tory 21-day Ebola quarantine, Governor Chris Christie said he had no regrets about the policy, which applies to health-care workers returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa. “We’ve taken this action and I have absolutely no sec-ond thoughts about it,” he said on “Fox News Sunday” in response to a question about concerns raised by Kaci Hickox, a nurse who was quarantined upon landing at Newark Liberty Airport on Friday, having returned from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. Hickox, who lives in Maine

and worked for Doctors Without Borders, complained that the new state protocols were disorganized, and said she had no symptoms and should not be held and treat-ed like a criminal. She made her complaints in a first-person account published in the Dallas Morning News on Saturday. Hickox reiterated her criti-cisms on CNN Sunday. “I feel like my basic human rights have been violated,” she said. She said the mandatory quarantine is “not a sound public-health decision” and denounced Christie’s descrip-tion of her on Saturday as “obviously ill.” “For him, a politician who’s trusted and respected, to make a statement that’s categorically not true is just unacceptable and appalling,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Christie said Saturday that

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ON THIS DAY...In 1999, Gunmen opened fire on the Armenian Parliament, killing 6 members, the prime minister and the parliament chairman.

CAIRO — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi vowed Saturday to punish those responsi-ble for attacks that killed 31 soldiers in the restive Sinai peninsula. Friday’s assault, which targeted a military checkpoint and then the troops who responded to the initial strike, was the Egyption military’s larg-est one-day loss of life in decades. No group has claimed responsibility, but the operation’s sophistica-tion bore the hallmarks of Ansar Bayd al-Maqdis, or Partisans of Jerusalem, which has staged a num-ber of lethal attacks on Egyptian security forces in the Sinai and elsewhere. Egyptian authorities have portrayed the wave of violence as inspired and carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood, the move-ment driven from power 15 months ago when el-Sissi led a coup against President Mohamed Morsi. In a furious televised speech, delivered shortly before el-Sissi attended the funerals of the slain soldiers, he said Friday’s attacks were an assault against all Egyptians. “We are fully alert and aware that the aim is to bring this whole country down,” he said. “God will-ing, this won’t happen.” Employing rhetoric that plays well with conspira-cy-minded Egyptians, el-Sissi said the Sinai attacks were foreign-funded and part of a plot against the country. Egypt has long accused regional pow-ers such as Turkey and Qatar of providing money and other help to Islamist movements. An alliance represent-ing the banned Muslim Brotherhood denied any role in Friday’s attacks and offered condolences to the “martyrs.” It also blamed the violence on the current government, say-ing the outbreak of unrest could be directly traced back to the July 2013 coup against Morsi. Friday’s attack on a military checkpoint was described by military offi-cials as a complex opera-tion involving at least one explosives-rigged vehicle, several roadside bombs and weaponry includ-ing rocket-propelled gre-nades. El-Sissi called it an attempt to “break the resolve of Egypt as well as the Egyptian army.”Egyptian authorities declared a state of emer-gency in the northern Sinai and imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the area while decreeing three days of national mourning. The nation’s top mili-tary body, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, met Saturday and voiced determination to “eradicate terrorism” in the Sinai. The Sinai peninsula for years has been beset by a low-level insurgency that intensified after Morsi’s ouster. El-Sissi’s govern-ment said Morsi, the coun-try’s first elected presi-dent, allowed militant groups, some of them from outside Egypt, to take root in the Sinai during his year in office.

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dent of Sigma Psi Zeta . “It is a topic that seems unre-al, something that we see in movies or on the news, but we don’t realize that some-thing like this could happen to us or how prevalent it is to our lives. By having this vigil, we are giving victims of domestic violence the support they need and we are educat-ing our community about the dangers and implications of domestic violence.” The event invited peer educators with the Center for Women and Community, as well as students, faculty and guest supporters to speak about domestic violence and its impact on the community. Diane Curtis, board president of Safe Passage and UMass faculty member, spoke at the event about how touched she has been over the continu-ous support that UMass has shown for Safe Passage, a charity that has helped sur-

vivors of domestic violence and those close to them since 1977.   “I am so incredibly proud of the UMass commu-nity for all it does,” Curtis said. “In addition to myself, UMass Police Department Deputy Police Chief Patrick Archbald is on the board at Safe Passage. We have endless volunteers that come from UMass, It is so moving to me that we have such a caring community.” As a way to strengthen the community, the event also offered a moment of reflection for students to share their experiences with domestic violence in a safe and secure environment. The event con-cluded with the candlelight vigil, where all participants were invited to go outside and light candles to honor those affected by domestic abuse. Survivors of domestic abuse, said Lockwood, can

be victims of verbal abuse as well as physical abuse. She said that the vigil will help students to both recognize behaviors as abusive and encourage them to stand up against such abuse. “I think that a lot of abuse happens behind closed doors, but there are a lot of public behaviors that are problematic and we want students to recognize these behaviors and support those being affected by them,” Lockwood said. “(In abusive relationships) there’s a lot of name calling and verbal abuse and it’s harder for people to recognize that as being relationship vio-lence because the abuser is not physically hurting them. Verbal abuse is still abuse – it’s still harmful to the person and it needs to be addressed.” Elizabeth Kane can be reached at erkane@umass.edu.

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Attendees passed around a candle to prepare for the vigil.

working on an archaeo-logical dig in the Israel city of Acre over the sum-mer. These students were pulled out of Israel after travel bans to the region, which had been enacted in response to local fight-ing, were lifted. Jack Ahern, the vice provost for the International Programs Office and chair of the International Risk Management Committee, said five students plan to spend their spring semes-ters studying in Israel. The University’s International Programs Office currently lists nine different study

abroad programs in Israel. These programs are affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Hebrew University Rothberg International School; Tel Aviv University School for Overseas Students; University of Haifa International School; Tel Aviv Engineering School; Technion International School of Engineering; Arava Institute and Bar-Ilan University and the summer Archaeological Field School at the Akko program.

Anthony Rentsch can be reached at arentsch@umass.edu.

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he was “sorry if in any way she was inconvenienced.” “But the inconvenience that could occur from hav-ing folks who are symptom-atic and ill out and amongst the public is a much, much greater concern of mine,” he said. Hickox landed at Newark on the same day that Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced they were increasing Ebola screening at Newark Liberty and Kennedy international airports. Instead of relying on people traveling from West Africa to monitor their own health on return, the governors said public-health workers in both states will do the moni-toring, which will include house calls and more detailed interviews. Quarantines will be mandatory for people who had contact with Ebola patients. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced a similar quarantine on Saturday. New Jersey residents may be quarantined in their homes, and out-of-state resi-dents, such as Hickox, will be kept in government-owned facilities for 21 days under the new rules put in place by Christie. Hickox “is in isola-tion in an extended treatment area that is part of the hospi-tal,” said Stacie Newton, a spokeswoman for University Hospital in Newark. Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared on “Fox News Sunday” just before Christie and said he did not agree with New Jersey and New York’s joint decision Friday to institute manda-tory quarantines. “I think we’ll have unin-

tended negative consequenc-es,” he said. “Personally, myself as a physician, scien-tist, I would not have recom-mended it.” Fauci said he was con-cerned that the measures would deter health-care workers from volunteering. “The best way to protect us is to stop the epidemic in Africa and we need those health-care workers so we do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very, very uncomfortable for them to volunteer,” he said. But Christie said New Jersey and New York have had instances where it was proven that the voluntary quarantine process was not adequate. “It was my conclusion that we needed to do this to protect the public health of the people of New Jersey,” Christie said. “I have great respect for Dr. Fauci, but what he’s counting on is a voluntary system in which folks may or may not com-ply.” He added, “The fact of the matter is that I don’t believe that when you’re dealing with something as serious as this that you can count on a voluntary system.” And the governor said he was not concerned about the mandatory quarantine deter-ring health-care officials from the area from treating patients in West Africa. “I believe that folks that want to take that step and are willing to volunteer also understand that it’s in their interest and the public-health interest to have a 21-day peri-od thereafter if they’ve been exposed to people with the virus,” he said.

In her essay, Hickox raised concerns that the protocols would deter medical profes-sionals from going to West Africa to help fight the Ebola outbreak. When she landed at Newark Airport about 1 p.m. on Friday, she informed the first immigration official she met that she was return-ing from Sierra Leone and was escorted to a quarantine office a few yards away, she said. As the day went on, she was interviewed by a num-ber of officials, including one who “barked questions at me as if I was a criminal,” she said. Though she had no fever on arrival, the stress and heat of the airport quarantine made her flustered, Hickox said, and her temperature rose to 101 degrees. Six hours after landing, Hickox was escorted by eight police cars to University Hospital in Newark. By the time she was tested again, her temperature was back down to 98.6. During her six-hour wait at the airport, “I sat alone in the isolation tent and thought of many colleagues who will return home to America and face the same ordeal,” Hickox wrote. “Will they be made to feel like criminals and pris-oners?” In the very early stages of Ebola, patients may still test negative because the virus has not yet reached detect-able levels in the blood. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it may take up to three days after the onset of symptoms for the virus to reach detect-able levels in some patients, prompting repeat testing in some cases.

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mounted a major effort to rescue Roberts and have gained ground. Kansas is a heavily Republican state, and the two polls, along with other recent surveys, indicate that some voters who had pre-viously turned their backs on Roberts have returned to their party loyalty as Election Day approached. The NBC/Marist poll now shows Orman just 1 point ahead of Roberts, 45 per-cent to 44 percent. The CBS/NYT/YouGov survey shows Roberts up by four points, 42 percent to 38 percent, with a large number of voters undecided. The one bright spot for Democrats is Georgia, where Democrat Michelle Nunn has mounted a strong chal-lenge to Republican David Perdue. Several recent polls have showed Nunn gaining, with some giving her a small lead. The CBS/NYT/YouGov survey shows her still trail-ing, 47 percent to 44 percent.

A third-party candidate is also in the race, and under Georgia law, if no candidate hits 50 percent, a runoff will be held Jan. 4. In another extremely close race in the south-east, Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina has been clinging to a small lead against her Republican challenger, Thom Tillis, the speaker of the state House. The CBS/NYT/YouGov sur-vey shows Hagan still ahead, 44 percent to 41 percent, but the NBC/Marist poll shows the two tied at 43 percent each. Republicans need a net gain of six seats to take con-trol of the Senate. At least nine Democratic-held seats are in clear jeopardy. In addition to the close races in Iowa, Colorado and North Carolina, Republicans have clear leads in recent polls for seats held by Democrats in Montana, West Virginia, South Dakota and Arkansas.

In Louisiana, incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu is trailing in a multi-candi-date race that will almost certainly go to a runoff in December in which the GOP would be favored to win. And in Alaska, Democratic Sen. Mark Begich has trailed in several recent surveys, although the state has a his-tory of confounding poll-sters. Some polls have also shown Republican Scott Brown mounting a strong challenge to incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire. The CBS/NYT/YouGov survey, however, shows Shaheen ahead, 46 percent to 41 percent. The Marist poll is a tra-ditional telephone survey while the YouGov poll uses an Internet panel to survey voters in all states with com-petitive contests. The mar-gins of error for both sur-veys vary depending on the state.

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I’d like to start by saying I am not an expert when it comes to institutional

racism, diversity awareness, civil rights and social justice – I have a rudimen-tary understanding at best. My sources of knowledge on these issues come second-hand; from newspapers, online articles and word-of-mouth stories. I myself have never been discriminated against based on my race, gender or sexual identity. As a white, heterosexual man, I’ve never had to deal with these issues personally, and

likely never will. This past spring, at Pennsylvania State University’s graduation ceremony, bomb threats targeted at African American stu-dents prompted the University to mandate metal detector screening for all students and guests. Last November, at San Jose State University, four white students were expelled for barricading a black student in his room, displaying a confederate flag and writing the N-word on their common room’s white board. In 2013, a multi-cultural dorm at Lehigh University was egged and spray painted with profane rac-ist language, seven years after a skinned deer head was left outside the building. In February, a female African American student at the University of Mississippi was doused with an alcoholic drink at her apartment complex and told, “you can’t live here, you’re black.” These are just a few instances of many from the “Campus Racial Incidents” page on the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education’s website. The page compiles recent hate crimes and incidents occur-ring on college campuses in the United States. The most current incident list-ed? “Racist Incidents at the University of Massachusetts.” I have confidence in the administration of the University that they will handle this situation “well.” Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy has reacted swiftly by prom-ising of a comprehensive update to the University’s diversity policies by the end of the semester. However, the impetus for change falls on us – the students. It’s easy to look at one student’s actions and see how wrong and inexcusable it is. The abhorrent, dis-gusting nature of writing racially charged threats on a student’s door is something we can all agree on. It’s much harder to look at ourselves and our own behaviors and ask not only if we do anything to perpetuate a community where discrimi-nation occurs, but also if we do anything to actively make our community a more accepting and diverse community. How many times have you or someone you know said, “that black kid who lives next door to me” or “my Asian TA” or “my gay friend.” Discrimination does not begin and end with hate crimes. It starts with every one of us and ends when we no longer distinguish people based on these characteristics. Let’s keep this conversation going. Don’t stop asking questions. In the words of our famous library’s namesake, W.E.B. DuBois, “Ignorance is a cure for nothing.”

Sam Fountain is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at sfountai@umass.edu.

Sam Fountain

“Discrimination does not begin and end with hate crimes. It

starts with every one of us and ends when we no longer

distinguish people based on these characteristics.”

The power of positive protest However you get your informa-tion – be it from the news, newspa-pers, magazines, blogs, Facebook

posts or just via word-of-mouth – it doesn’t take an expert to notice the political sphere as a whole is an overflowing fountain of hate. Whether they are liberals who hate conservatives, tea partiers who hate “socialists” or simply bystanders who hate the whole system, when people think about politics, the thought is rarely unaccompanied with disdain or hostility toward another. As college students, we are by and large the foot soldiers of political activism everywhere. We are the volunteers, the campus advocates, the petitioners, the campaign fellows and the pro-testers. We are the door-knock-ers, the phone bankers and the social media bloggers. We hold strongly to our beliefs and work hard to spread them. As such, we often organize mass movements and rallies, events which seek to thrust our views into the pub-lic eye in order to bring about change. However, not every movement is created equal. Some move-ments start with a vision, an idea for a better future, a central tenet around which the move-

ment grows and propagates. Such movements inspire us, and seek to spread these new ideas in order to bring about positive change in our society by replacing systems we deem unjust or outdated. Some of these movements, like the 1963 Great March on Washington, have proudly trumpeted specific leg-islative reforms for historically marginalized groups – others, like the University Massachusetts’ own UMass United rally held this past spring, are large, public dec-larations of support for human rights and respect for one another. Other movements, however, start not with a vision, but an enemy. These movements seek to eliminate or destroy aspects of society with which they find fault. They dedicate themselves to the task of tearing these systems down. Such movements are based in anger, which is simultaneously one of the strongest and weakest of human emotions. Anger rap-idly rouses people, draws a line in the sand and provides an easy battle cry for activists. Unlike the necessarily nuanced platforms of the aforementioned positive movements, the platforms of opposition movements are incred-ibly simple. They are easy to orga-nize, easy to understand and easy to advertise. However, they are also easy to ignore and let die. Occupy Wall Street was a mass

protest against socioeconomic inequality and corporate greed that began on Sept. 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, New York City, and rapidly spread to cities around the globe. It united the voices of mil-lions in denouncing the system that allowed income inequality to rise and corporate influence to spread unchecked; it blasted the banks and businesses of Wall Street as greedy, corrupt and innately hostile to the common good. It loudly launched the issues of socioeconomic inequality to the world stage and dominated news coverage across the globe, but failed in the most important aspect of protest: it failed to speci-fy what it actually wanted. That is the weakness of move-ments based on anger: they try to tear down parts of society without knowing what to build in their place. Sure, Occupy Wall Street wanted an end to income inequal-ity, but how? Even the largest, most power-ful and well-organized army will fall apart if it argues within itself as to what victory even means, yet time and again some protest movements are too busy decrying the current system to provide a vision for its replacement. In our burning desire to enact change, we latch on to certain ideas and principles and draw mental battle lines separating political “allies”

from “enemies.” We manufacture a conflictual world where we fight against an enemy hell bent on pursuing evil, and we pick a side, completely accepting this utterly ridiculous imaginary war as real-ity. People tend to believe they are right, and that their beliefs are best for everyone. I’d say very few think of themselves as vil-lains actively pursuing injustice, which is why movements that rage against individuals, persons or systems fail to bring about any sort of change unless they have clear proposals or demands. No protester will ever success-fully convince someone they are a terrible human being because of their beliefs (regardless of the veracity of said claim), but it is entirely possible for proponents of change to convince society of the benefits of their plan and win those who were previously “ene-mies” over to their side. In the end, we must remember that positive change only comes about when citizens who disagree come together and forge a bet-ter tomorrow. In civil society, the only road leading to success is paved with specific demands, per-suasion and compromise – not anger.

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

MOB: UMass fails to support minorities Diversity on college campuses is an increasingly salient issue. Even with the recent 60th anni-versary of the Brown v. Board

of Education Supreme Court decision, the United States and its public universities have done very little to promote education-al equality. Putting the financial burden aside for a moment, stu-dents of color consistently remain under-enrolled at the University of Massachusetts. We compared the demographics for the state of Massachusetts in 2013 against the racial and ethnic breakdown of UMass in Fall 2013: Black and Latino/a individu-als, considered to be underrep-resented minorities due to lack of physical representation with-in the University, are enrolling at UMass at 4.9 percent and 7.2 percent, respectively, compared to white students. The label of Asian also homogenizes the expe-riences those of of East Asian, Southeast Asian and South Asian students, especially when the lat-ter two groups have a significant-

ly larger percentage of refugee families. The New Directions of Institutional Research recently published a study showing con-cerns about finances, immigrant status, first generation educa-tions and family security, mean-ing there is insufficient assistance available to help minorities enroll at universities. But once we all arrive at col-lege, the past is behind us. Right? We are all just students working toward our degrees. Right? Wrong. College is more than just aca-demics. From dorm life, to student employment, to co-curriculars, there is so much more than just sitting down for 50 minutes for a lecture. Often, students of color in predominantly white institutions, such as UMass, encounter a mul-titude of issues including a stark change in cultural norms, lack of access to appropriate resources (including money) and limited contact of people within their own race, according to the NACADA Journal. Student Bridges, a student-run organization, has been firmly and directly asking Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy to increase

the rate of admissions of under-represented minorities by 5 per-cent each. This has also been met with a heaping pile of compla-cency and misdirection on behalf of the administration. Student retention rates reveal a disturbing reality, and empha-size our administration’s lack of concern for all students. The graduating class of 2013 witnessed a nearly 16 percent difference in graduation rates. White students boasted a graduation rate of 67.4 percent, while students of color only graduated at a 52.1 percent rate, according to the UMass Amherst Office of Institutional Research. Perhaps these students are simply encountering setbacks due to additional hardships they may experience in the universi-ty. The class of 2011 is the most recent class with data available to track a six-year graduation rate. Underrepresented minorities are still graduating at a noticeably lower rate, with African American students graduating at a rate of 60 percent, and Latino/a students at 57 percent, compared to 74 percent for whites.

The lack of diversity and sup-port for students cannot go ignored any longer. In order to begin addressing these problems, there needs to be an assertive request for the University to publically announce what it intends to do and a clear demand that the school cannot continue to drag its feet. The lack of financial support for Registered Student Organizations dedicated to underrepresent-ed minority interests must be addressed at the institutional level. Student groups fighting for equality with strategic campaigns and direct organizing action have existed on this campus for years, and newly branded ones, like Multicultural Organizing Bureau, continue to emerge. There are stu-dents willing to commit to their underrepresented peers, but the question now is if the University is willing to do the same.

Emily Belko is the MOB core team leader and can be reached at ebelko@umass.edu. Joanna Zhu is a MOB core team member and can be reached at jfzhu@umass.edu. Students interested in MOB can find more information in the CEPA office, Student Union 423A.

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Whistl combats sexual assaultBy Christina yaCono

Collegian Staff

With all of the apps for phones alerting friends and family if you are in dan-ger, one may think that is the extent companies can go in terms of safety features. Until now. Whistl, an iPhone case intended to prevent and deter sexual assault, crime and violence through three differ-ent types of alert systems, is looking to take safety a step further. The case is available for the iPhone 5, 5s and 6. Acting in the place of a phone app, whistle or pepper spray, Whistl is a phone case that easily allows the user to contact their family and friends, notify the police or set off an alarm depending on which mode is chosen. The first mode is “check-in mode,” which alerts family and friends of any danger by sending a pre-made message and GPS coordinates of the user’s location. The phone will check with the user after five minutes to see if the user is still in danger. If the user does not respond to the check in, the police are automati-cally notified. The second mode is “panic mode,” which alerts friends and family, sounds an alarm, flashes a light and alerts police within 15 seconds of being activated. The sound of the alarm is designed to be as loud as the front row of a rock concert. The third mode is “stealth mode,” which silently con-tacts the police within 15 sec-

onds and notifies family and friends. “It’s an amazing idea, it’s hard to dial 911 in some situ-ations without alerting your attacker and a phone case that not only disorients the aggressor, but also notifies the police and the people nearby who’d be most will-ing to help is great,” said Caroline Meade, a senior communication major. Paired with the Whistl app, which does not have to be opened in order for it to be used, a message that is pre-made by the user will be sent to family and friends, a location tracker will turned on and an automatic video and audio recording will be turned on for evidence as well. A group of engineers at Carnegie Mellon University were motivated to create this phone case and app combo to combat sexual assault.

Together, they founded the LifeShel team and cre-ated their first product: the Whistl. The LifeShel team has thought of precautions, so the buttons were included. Both buttons on the side are touch buttons that must be pressed at the same time. Because they are touch but-tons, they cannot be set off while in a pocket or a bag. If it still somehow manages to go off, the user has 15 seconds to disable it by entering their security code in the app. With over 200 backers and a little more than one week left, Whistl has already reached over $42,000 out of their $70,000 goal. Any phone cases that are pre-ordered through Kickstarter can be bought for $57. Estimated delivery time of the phone cases is July 2015.

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

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Wave goodbye to bland social networking site Ello

By troy KowalChuKCollegian Correspondent

If Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Vine, Instagram and any of the countless other social media web-sites are not enough for you, there is a new social media website that could be the next big thing: Ello. Probably not, however, as staring at a blank Google document offers more fea-tures than Ello does. For those who have not been invited yet, Ello is the new ad-free social media website designed for art-ists, by artists. First creat-ed as a small private social media website, Ello gained more attention after many members of the LGBTQIA community began using it after Facebook tried to force users to use their real names. This turned away many drag queens who used different names to protect themselves. Since its creation in April 2014, Ello has been gaining popularity and pulling users from other social networking sites like Facebook and Tumblr. The appeal of the site is the ad-free, simple inter-face, which the creators of Ello stated proudly in their manifesto, “We believe a

social network can be a tool for empowerment. Not a tool to deceive.” However, not every-one can take part in this empowerment. To use the website, you need to get invited by friends who are members themselves. Yet this Ello cool club is like a group of people claiming a table as a cool kids table — when the table offers nothing new or inter-esting than any other and that it is the same table. It’s like an exclusive club, except the club is an empty room with only white walls, no music or anything for that matter. It is anything but inno-vative. Is it ad free? Yes. However, if you want any more of its features you need to pay for it. Ello also boasts that it will not sell information to third parties, but with what the website has to offer, it is not even worth putting that information on the website as no one will see it in the first place. It’s just an over glorified website that gives

artists a sense of superior-ity that they are a part of this new “simple, beautiful, ad-free” club. What is ironic is any-thing posted on the site is generally from the users’ other social media web-sites. Presumably because there is not much else going on in Ello. Does it play vid-eos? No. Does it let you chat with people like Facebook? No. Does it offer customiza-tion? If you count an icon and a background photo as customization, then yes. What is amazing about Ello is that the website got the attention that it did. It does not deserve the 15 minutes of fame – it didn’t even deserve 15 seconds of fame. It’s a waste of time and offers absolutely noth-ing to social media users. Ello calls itself “simple” and “beautiful,” but what is so beautiful about a white page with a black smiley face with no eyes, and re-used posts? What is so simple about a website with so many unanswered questions that the website is hardly useable, even to those who are interested? The website is not worth your time and is not worth the publicity. It should go back to being private where it belongs.

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

A recycling bin for your social media

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‘Avengers & X-Men: Axis’ fails fans on multiple fronts

By JaCK niCholsCollegian Correspondent

Coming after the hor-rific aftermath of Marvel’s last tie-in series, “Original Sin,” many readers hoped “Avengers & X-Men: Axis” would redeem the com-pany’s reputation. With a nine-part main series, 10 tie-ins to ongoing titles and the introduction of three series specific to this event, “Axis” had the potential to be a Marvel phenom-enon that would set the company apart from other major comic producers. Unfortunately, it tries to juggle too many characters and forgets to focus atten-tion on a strong story line. “Axis” is built off of a strong premise promising a unique team-up of the X-Men and the Avengers in order to combat an over-powered enemy. Straight out of Captain America’s World War II endeavors, the Red Skull takes the stage as the main villain. But there’s an interesting twist: Red Skull has acquired the telepathic powers of Charles Xavier, morphing him into the unstoppable force, Onslaught. In order

to defeat this omnipotent foe, an enormous num-ber of superheroes, anti-heroes, vigilantes and vil-lains are thrown into the fray. Rick Remender, the writ-er of “Axis,” was given the daunting task of introduc-ing each of these charac-ters in a very limited num-ber of issues. Through the first three issues, which comprise the first chapter of the series, Remender attempts to establish a plot line in addition to integrat-ing 30 new characters into the event. “Axis” issues one through three fail to properly introduce the main characters and wit-nesses many of them falling into stereotypical cameos instead of properly devel-oping throughout the story. The plot also falls short as it appears the comic can’t seem to take itself serious-ly. Remender’s attempts at humor undercut the dra-matic tension struck between the heroes and Onslaught. Thus far, Axis has adopted an emotion-less story with no reason to attract collectors to continue reading. The flat story line is especially dis-appointing as the reader can clearly see the poten-tial of the event. Within reach is an amazing story

worthy of being Marvel’s “big event.” Readers can only hope Remender will improve his story over the next few issues. The weaknesses of the series are not limited to character development and plot failures. The typi-cally talented Joe Kubert doesn’t impress the audi-ence with his artwork in the first two issues. With a premise of such magnitude an artist needs to provide visuals of an equal magni-tude. Kubert’s artwork var-ies from decent to simply sloppy on a panel-to-panel basis. With no true consis-tency of artistic merit, his talent is not clearly shown and the event suffers dear-ly for it. With all of these down-falls in the main series, “Axis” is still able to prom-ise readers that Marvel’s “big event” is not a total failure. So far, the cross-over titles have garnered incredible reviews. The ongoing series of Uncanny Avengers, Magneto, Loki and Deadpool have used the main plot of “Axis” within their titles. Weaving the plot into the comics seamless-ly, the respective writers of the other Marvel titles have helped to redeem the downward spiraling event. Unfortunately, in order to understand the plots of the

crossover titles, it is neces-sary to drudge through the main story arc of “Axis.” In a fortunate turn of events, Axis’ minor story arcs have also served to slightly redeem its short-comings. “Axis: Hobgoblin” introduced readers to a completely new take on a villain that could have only been accomplished as part of the Axis event. Hopefully this trend continues with the other two minor story arcs: “Axis: Carnage” and

“Axis: Revolutions.” Overall, “Avengers” and “X-Men: Axis” does noth-ing to distinguish itself from Marvel’s other fail-ing attempts at crossover series. Instead, “Axis” plays into the event fatigue recorded by many comic enthusiasts. The first chap-ter of “Axis” spends too long attempting to set up a story with the proper amount of characters that the reader quickly grows bored with the lack of plot

development. The plot falls as flat as the artwork itself, which fails to redeem the title in any manner. The only positive aspects of this event lie in the crossover titles and the minor story arcs. Marvel’s “big event” falls short of its goal due to poor writing and visuals provided by two of the most talented minds in the comic industry.

Jack Nichols can be reached at jrnich-ols@umass.edu.

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The Whistl case communicates with the free app using built-in technology.

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against the Eagles in his first collegiate loss. “From a coaching stand-point, seeing a freshman respond to a two-game week-end, not knowing how it would work out for him mentally or physically, is really encour-aging,” Micheletto said. “He certainly proved that he can play two games in a weekend and perform at a high level against really strong competi-tion.” Looking forward to next weekend’s two-game series at Maine, Micheletto said that he will continue to evaluate the goalie situation before decid-ing who will start each game against the Black Bears.

UMass tops Northeastern Friday

The Minutemen earned their first conference win of

the season Friday night in a 3-2 triumph over Northeastern at Matthews Arena. Senior Emerson Auvenshine broke a 2-2 tie on a goal with eight minutes, 51 seconds remaining in the game. Zack LaRue and Ray Pigozzi tallied UMass’ first two goals in a back-and-forth affair. After allowing two goals in the opening period, Dill stifled the Huskies over the final 40 minutes and finished with 42 saves in his second start. “(Dill) was unbelievable Friday night,” Power said. “He gave us a chance to win, which is all you can ask for.” Although picked to fin-ish fourth in the preseason Hockey East coaches’ poll, Northeastern now stands at 0-4. However, Power said that defeating the in-state rival on

the road was significant. “Any time that Hockey East points are on the line, we need to get them,” Power said. “This league comes down to the wire, so any time you can get points early in the season, that’s something that is a goal of ours.”

Anthony Chiusano can be reached at achiusano@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @a_chiusano24.

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“(Dill) was unbelievable Friday night. He gave us a chance to win, which is all you

can ask for.”Troy Power,

UMass forward

Taveras dies in car accidentBy Derrick GoolDSt. Louis Post-Dispatch

Cardinals’ outfielder Oscar Taveras was killed in a car accident Sunday afternoon, his agent and the team confirmed Sunday evening. He was 22. Cardinals’ general man-ager John Mozeliak and Taveras’ agent Brian Mejia confirmed that Taveras had been killed. Both the team and the agent were gath-ering more information at the time of this posting. The Cardinals’ top pros-pect for several years, Taveras made his major-league debut this past sea-son. He hit .239 with a .312 slugging percentage and

was a contributor as a pinch-hitter during the postseason. He had spent the previ-ous three seasons atop the

team’s rankings and was considered one of the fin-est hitting prospects in the minors since his debut at rookie-level as ateenager.

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FAILURE TO LAUNCH

Rockets end Minutemen’s win streak

By Andrew CyrCollegian Staff

Football is a funny and unusual game. It’s the one sport where it seems that neither one big win, nor one heartbreaking loss will translate over on a week-to-week basis. But this loss will be one that will sting a little bit lon-ger for the Massachusetts football team after it fell to Toledo on Saturday, 42-35. With 34 seconds remain-ing in the game, Toledo run-ning back Terry Swanson scored from 19 yards out to put the Rockets up by seven. However, not one Minutemen player made a valiant effort to stop the ball carrier. UMass coach Mark Whipple said in a radio inter-view following the game that wanted to let Toledo score to give his offense a chance to tie the game. On the ensuing drive though, Frohnapfel’s pass

sailed just high downfield and was intercepted by Trevon Mathis to seal the victory for the Rockets. Frohnapfel finished with another impressive perfor-mance in a game that fea-tured virtually no help from the running game (20 carries for 52 yards and no touch-downs). Frohnapfel was single-handedly filling the stat sheet – like he’s done so many times earlier in the season –finishing 28-for-55 with 438 passing yards, five touchdowns and two inter-ceptions. UMass opened up the afternoon on a 14-play,

80-yard drive capped off with a 15-yard touchdown catch from wide receiver Jalen Williams. On the

Minutemen’s next drive Frohnapfel found Williams in the endzone again, this time with an impressive over-the-top catch from the wideout. Williams’ (six catches, 97 yards and two touchdowns) biggest play however came on a 76-yard touchdown reception from tight end

Jean Sifrin, who shook off one tackler right after he made the reception, tying the game at 35-35 with 5:57 remaining. Williams made a pair of blocks to seal off the sideline for Sifrin. The 6-foot-7 target finished with six catches for 185 yards. Coming off of a career-high performance last Saturday against Eastern Michigan, Tajae Sharpe made an incredible over the shoulder catch in the end-zone with 11:57 remaining in the fourth. Following a successful two-point conver-sion, the game was tied at 28. Toledo answered the first two touchdowns from the Minutemen with a 14-yard touchdown run with just over two minutes left in the first quarter from Swanson ran in untouched off left tackle. Swanson finished with 97 rushing yards on 18 carries to go along with his pair of touchdowns. It was Kareem Hunt who stole the show for Toledo in his first game back from a high ankle sprain. Hunt ran for 198 rushing yards on 26 carries, with his only touch-down coming on 36-yard run

where he broke a series of multiple tackles from UMass defenders. Khary Bailey-Smith saw much more action at safety today, after playing primar-ily in the nickel package in previous weeks. Bailey-Smith intercepted Logan Woodside’s pass on the first play in the second quarter. Trey Dudley-Giles intercept-ed Woodside at the end of the quarter, giving UMass the 20-14 lead entering the half. Woodside finished 20-for-34 with three touchdown pass-es along with his two inter-ceptions. Shakur Nesmith had his first touchdown catch of the season less than two min-utes into the second quarter from 15 yards out. Nesmith was the ninth different Minutemen player with a touchdown reception—UMass quarterbacks had just nine total touchdowns last season. The Minutemen will enjoy a much-needed 17-day break before playing Ball State on Nov. 12 at McGuirk Stadium.

Andrew Cyr can be reached at arcyr@umass.edu, and can be followed on Twitter @Andrew_Cyr.

UMass downed by TD in final minute

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UMass football held a 20-14 lead at halftime Saturday against Toledo, but couldn’t secure its third straight victory.

Toledo 42

UMass 35

UMass splits weekend series vs. Beantown rivals

By Anthony ChiusAnoCollegian Staff

Penalties doomed the Massachusetts hockey team Saturday night against No. 6 Boston College in a 4-1 loss that gave the Minutemen a 1-1 record for the weekend. Heading into the match-up on a two-game win-ning streak after defeating Northeastern on Friday, UMass (2-3-0, 1-2-0 Hockey East) conceded two scores on the 5-on-3 disadvantage to Eagles’ sophomore Adam Gilmour. The Minutemen spent 31 total minutes in the penalty box Saturday, including a five-minute major from cap-tain Troy Power, compared

to BC’s 16 minutes. “We’ve got to stay out of the box,” Power said. “I took a five-minute major penalty at the end of the game that is unacceptable and took our chance away to come back in the game, which unfortu-nately is something that I’m upset about.” Following a scoreless first period, the Eagles broke through first with a wrist shot from Alex Tuch that beat UMass goaltender Henry Dill less than six min-utes into the second frame. Gilmour tallied the first of his two goals roughly two minutes later to give BC a 2-0 lead at the end of the second period. After Gilmour added to the Eagles’ lead in the third period, Minutemen junior Shane Walsh converted on UMass’ only goal of the game

with less than three minutes left in regulation. BC tacked on an empty-net goal with 34 seconds left to play. UMass coach John Micheletto said that he was pleased with the Minutemen’s two-game set over the weekend despite Saturday’s loss. “You’re getting some road points, in league and early in the season against two teams ranked in the top 20 in the early season poll,” Micheletto said. “Overall, it was definitely a success.” Although UMass failed to capitalize on most of its scoring opportunities on Saturday, Micheletto said that he was happy with the team’s overall performance at even strength. “You look on the 5-on-5 play and the shots were close,” Micheletto said. “It

was a fast, tight game against a really good team.” Micheletto said he was particularly encouraged by the play of the Minutemen’s top line of Power, Dennis Kravchenko and Frank Vatrano, who came into Saturday’s game with one combined point. While the line is still look-ing for its first goal of the season, Kravchenko and Vatrano were each rewarded an assist on Walsh’s goal. The tally marked Kravchenko’s second point of his fresh-man season. For Vatrano, a redshirt sophomore, the assist was his first point in a UMass uniform. “They were a part of it an awful lot and I thought they were much better (Saturday),” Micheletto said. “They got back to doing what they do and having a signifi-

cant influence on the game. I thought those guys gave us real good minutes.” Micheletto also noted the play of Dill, who started his third straight game in net Saturday after sitting behind senior goalie Steve

Mastalerz in the season’s first two games. Coming off a 42-save performance against Northeastern Friday, the freshman stopped 27 shots

Minutemen fall to BC on Saturday

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Shane Walsh scored the only goal for UMass in its 4-1 loss to BC Saturday.

see EAGLES on page 7

By AdAm AuCoinCollegian Staff

A pair of early goals was all it took for the Massachusetts men soccer team to beat Fordham 2-0 on Sunday. UMass (2-12-1, 1-4-1 Atlantic 10) wasted no time in taking control of the game with a goal in the sixth minute by midfielder Mark Morris, his third goal of the season. The score was assist-ed by senior Josh Schwartz. The Minutemen extended their lead with a goal 13 min-utes later by freshman Matt Mooney, who took a shot off the left post and into the cor-ner of the net. “It gave us a lot of confi-dence,” O’Neill said of the early two-goal lead. “We have been very slow to start in a lot of our games recently, so a game like today is a great sign for our team going for-ward.” UMass seized its early and never looked back, shutting out the heavily favored Rams (5-8-2, 2-3-1 A-10). Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Taylor Culp stopped 22 shots, seven of which were on goal, en route to his first shutout. “I thought (Culp) had an outstanding game in goal today for us,” O’Neill said. “Fordham really stepped up their pressure late and he made some excellent saves. I really love how he has stepped up for us recently and he was incredibly instru-mental in keeping a clean sheet today.” A play of note late in Sunday’s victory was a red card awarded to Minutemen defender Matt Keys in the 74th minute. Keys was eject-ed for inadvertently jump-ing into Rams’ goalie Sean Brailey on a ball up the field that Brailey charged in on. Keys was booked despite the unintentional contact. He will now be ineligible to play in UMass’ next game on Thursday as well. “He’s our leader. He orga-nizes us defensively,” O’Neill said. “To lose anyone is dif-ficult and we had to realize it was going to be tough to stop them a man down. I’m proud of my guys for fighting hard in a tough situation.” Fordham took control of the game late with the man-advantage and had a few

good scoring opportunities, which were stopped by Culp. “Fordham made a strong push in the second half,” O’Neill said. “They pressured us hard so I give my guys all the credit in the world for being able to stay tough and protect the lead.” O’Neill said he knows there are still many steps to take to get back into the A-10 race, but he said the victory gives him confidence moving forward. “We showed great signs offensively today,” O’Neill said. “We were clicking and everyone was finding the right guy at the right time. Games like these are great to build on going forward.” The Minutemen play next on Thursday on the road against UNC Asheville at 5 p.m.

UMass falls to first-place URI Friday

UMass fell to A-10 leading Rhode Island 4-1 on Friday. The Minutemen played the Rams (10-3-3, 6-0-0) tight in the first half and outshot them 9-7 for the game. But URI’s Ryan Oakley put the Rams on the board first with a goal in the ninth minute. UMass tied the game with a goal by Schwartz in the 33rd minute. The goal was his fourth of the season, a team-high for the Minutemen. The Rams pulled away in the second half with three unanswered scores. Rhode Island regained the lead in the 49th minute when Dante Lamb put a shot past the Culp. Lamb added another score later in the half for the Rams. The Minutemen almost answered these goals with one of their own, but a shot by Lenoir Sery caromed off the crossbar. The win kept Rhode Island undefeated in A-10 play this season.

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

UM beats Rams for first A-10 winTaylor Culp earns first career shutout

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“We have been very slow to start in a lot of our games

recently, so a game like today is a great sign for our team going forward.”

Devin O’Neill,UMass interim coach