Massachusetts Daily Collegian: October 28, 2014

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New app puts women in control

By Jaclyn BrysonCollegian Staff

You upload a photo to a new dating app. Next, you add a question: something that’s important to you, something that guys need to answer cor-rectly before they can even begin talking to you. If they

answer wrong, they’re gone. This is how the Singled Out app developed by SetMeUp works. According to CEO Jay Wadhwani, a former University of Massachusetts student, this program gives women control in the conver-sations they have with men. “The whole concept behind Singled Out was to have women ask questions and eliminate guys based on how

they respond,” he said. Wadhwani added that this app avoids the problems that well-known dating apps like Tinder have. Instead of being based on superficial appear-ances, conversation flows more easily with Singled Out. “When girls do use Tinder, a lot of times they get a bunch of offensive messages from guys and admittedly it’s funny at times,” Wadhwani said. “But

you lose credibility with the app and trust with the people you are meeting.” The idea was sparked about two years ago with the cre-ation of the Boston-based com-pany known as SetMeUp. An app of the same name was soon launched, which allowed users to connect people to each other through their friends.

Singled Out changes online dating game

Africans in US fear new arrivalsBy GreG Gordon

and sammy caiolaMcClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Tonieh Ross says her heart cries for the orphaned children back home in Liberia who aren’t getting the hugs they so need, for fear of the deadly Ebola virus. Ross, the owner of the Virtuous D Boutique in Charlotte, N.C., also frets about her younger sister in Monrovia, Eugenia, whose paycheck disappeared when her employer closed his busi-ness and left the disease-rav-aged country. Now Eugenia is among about 20 desperate Liberians, mostly children, phoning Ross “over and over and over until something hap-pens” - that is, until she or her friends send money or food, she said. “I have given everything just to be available and help my country,” Ross said. While Ross and other West Africans living in cities across America are traumatized by images of children suddenly orphaned or lying ill in the streets in their native lands, they also live in fear them-selves. They know they may be among U.S. residents with the biggest risk of exposure to the deadly disease. Visitors and immigrants from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea are

likely to first visit or live among their friends and rela-tives, just as Thomas Eric Duncan planned to do when he flew to Dallas before taking ill with Ebola, infecting two nurses. He died Oct 8. It’s still possible to pass through airport screening while incubating the deadly virus. “Naturally, you’ll be com-ing to your family member,” Ross said. “That will be of great concern.” West African immigrants in a number of U.S. cities began weeks ago to take precau-tions similar to those that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prescribed last week, staying clear of new arrivals from the Ebola zone for the full 21-day incubation period. Usually openhearted Liberians in Charlotte have said, “I don’t even want some-

one that has just traveled to come directly from Liberia to my house. I prefer them to be quarantined,” said Meatta Street, the president of the city’s Liberian Community Association. Precise breakdowns of eth-nic populations in metropoli-tan areas aren’t available, but the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2013 American Community Survey presents conservative data about residents’ birthplaces. According to those figures, which don’t include children born in America, Philadelphia has the most native Liberians, with 13,146, followed by Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., with 11,200, New York with 5,206, Washington with 4,870 and Providence, R.I., with 4,412. Local Liberian leaders in Philadelphia and Minneapolis each say their numbers actu-ally exceed 30,000.

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Students tie messages to the “Stigma Tree” about their experiences with mental illness or messages of positive affirmation. The project was run by the RSO Active Minds.

GivinG support, one branch at a time

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Tonieh Ross of North Carolina sends material support to her native Liberia.

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Karen Podorefsky on finding your perfect match

A free and responsible press

CNS names faculty and equity leader

By cecilia Prado Collegian Staff

University of Massachusetts psycholo-gist Nilanjana Dasgupta was recently appointed the new leader of Faculty Equity and Inclusion for the College of Natural Sciences. According to a University press release, Dasgupta was hired for the position due to her work involving the effect that implicit prejudice and ste-reotypes have on members of underprivileged groups while pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers. She will lead efforts to increase the diversity and success rates of faculty members from underrep-resented groups within the department, which, according to Dasgupta, will in turn help increase diversity and opportuni-ties within the student body. She will also repre-sent CNS in front of the Chancellor’s Faculty and Advisor for Diversity and Equity, according to the release. In 2010, only 18 per-cent of scientists and engineers working in STEM fields were women, according to a 2013 report by the National Science Foundation. The number was even lower for other minority groups. Dasgupta said this

phenomenon can be pre-vented if institutions take certain measures, such as increasing faculty diver-sity and inclusion and helping to change the way minority groups are por-trayed by the scientific community. “Part of my job is to unveil what the barriers for women and minori-ties in STEM are, both in UMass and in gen-eral, to create solutions and also to find patterns (that) have worked in the past and continue doing them,” Dasgupta said. She explained that the different life stages in which race and gen-der disparities in STEM occur are similar to a “leaking pipeline.” From childhood to adulthood, women and minorities often become discouraged if they feel they do not fit society’s stereotypical view of what a scientist should be. “There are at least four stages where more women leave and where they come in from childhood to professional life, and they need to be targeted from different angles,” Dasgupta said. As the new direc-tor of Faculty Equity and Inclusion for CNS, Dasgupta will conduct research on how to increase faculty diversity. According to Dasgupta, this increase will create a domino effect that will also boost opportuni-

Dasgupta to study minorities in science

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Democrats, now vulnerable, voted consistently with Obama

By niels lesniewskiCQ Roll Call

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision to avoid tough votes this year has backfired in one respect – it gave his vul-nerable incumbents few opportunities to show off any independence from President Barack Obama. A new CQ vote study shows that vulnerable Senate Democrats almost always voted to support the president in 2014 – a fact that has been seized upon by Republicans, given that Obama’s approval rating is lan-guishing in the low 40s nationally and lower still in several battleground states. Democrats who have been distancing them-selves from Obama on the campaign trail not in votes on the Senate floor include Mark Udall of Colorado Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana. Udall disagreed with Obama just once, on a Pennsylvania state judge’s nomination to a federal district court. Pryor parted with Obama

three times, and Landrieu four, but only one of those votes was on a policy matter. In July, Landrieu voted against Obama’s request for $2.7 billion to deal with the surge of Latin American children entering the U.S. illegally. All of the most vul-nerable Democrats voted with Obama at least 96 percent of the time on the 120 votes on which Obama has urged a “yes” or “no” vote. Reid clamped down on amendments more than ever this year and the bills he brought to the floor were aimed at unifying Democrats and putting Republicans on defense – like a minimum wage increase, an unemploy-ment-benefits extension, pay equity and refinanc-ing student loans – rather than bills that would lead to Democratic defections. As a result, there are only 18 legislative votes involved in the scoring this year. The vast major-ity (102) were nomination votes. That’s the most lopsided ratio since CQ began keeping records on the ratio in 1988. Reid’s use of the

“nuclear option” last year to effectively prevent Republicans from block-ing judicial and execu-tive branch nominees has also contributed to the results. Since the option was imposed, Republicans have insisted on roll-call votes on traditionally noncontroversial nomi-nations, a move that’s had the bonus effect for them of raising presiden-tial support scores for Democrats. On Thursday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee issued separate releases targeting Democrats cit-ing the figures. Those releases are virtually identical, with NRSC spokeswoman Brook Hougesen offering quotes that differ only in the name of the senator being targeted and the voting percentage figures. “Mark Begich is no independent; this year he actually voted for President Obama’s agenda an astounding 98 percent of the time,” Hougesen said in the Alaska version of the releases. “President

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ON THIS DAY...In 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered the removal of Soviet mis-siles from Cuba, mark-ing the end of the Cuban missle crisis.

Germany A police union voiced shock Monday, a day after thousands of football sup-porters waged running battles against German police in the western city of Cologne during what was ostensibly a demonstration against Islamic radicalism. It was the first outbreak of violence by the self-styled “Hooligans Against Salafists,” a new alliance in which far-right groups have recruited brawling football fans to their anti-foreigner cause. Police detained 17 of the 4,000-strong crowd, but were unable to catch others who hurled stones, bottles and fireworks at officers. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government rejected suggestions that the new alliance on the right was a game-changer. It was investigating the riot “with attention and concern, but not in fear and panic,” an Interior Ministry spokesman in Berlin said. A new trend was perceptible, but did not mean a “new type” of threat and security authorities would monitor this with “a sense of pro-portion.” Police had to employ water cannon, baton charg-es and tear gas Sunday afternoon to regain control of the crowd, which at one point overturned a police van outside Cologne’s main railway station. “If this grouping con-solidates and grows further, then I would say we face a new type of violence,” warned Arnold Plickert, head of the North Rhine Westphalia state chapter of the GdP police union. He said previous “hoo-ligans” demonstrations had only attracted a few hundred radicals and had not been violent. Few had expected the alliance to scale up so fast. The foot-ball fans organized with the help of online social media. The police union charged that police commanders had not expected a crowd of 4,000 and were unable to arrest many who com-mitted offences. At least 44 police officers were injured in scuffles and by thrown items. Police had so far iden-tified 57 suspects, said a Cologne prosecutor, Ulf Willuhn. They were analys-ing video of the clashes to identity others. They could face charges of serious assault or rioting. The demonstrators’ declared target was the Salafist movement within Sunni Islam, a funda-mentalist faction that is perceived in Germany as associated with the Islamic State rebel group in Iraq and Syria. “The fight against Salafism is just an alibi,” said Plickert. “These are people who enjoy violence.” Germany’s justice min-ister Heiko Maas vowed to crack down on both rightists and Salafists who resorted to violence on German streets. “They will be pursued and punished with every tool of the rule of law,” he said in a statement in Berlin.

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Farm animals occupy police over the weekend

By Marleigh FelsensteinCollegian Staff

Friday, Oct. 248:46 a.m.: A cow was in the middle of the road on the town line of Amherst and Hadley on Farmington Road. The cow belonged in Hadley.

1:29 p.m.: Chickens were loose on Sunderland Road.

3:41 p.m.: A woman locked her keys in her car along with her child at CVS Pharmacy on University Drive. Ernie’s Towing unlocked her vehi-cle.

5:57 p.m.: A man flipped off two high school kids at Hampshire Health and Fitness on Gatehouse Road after they followed him and laughed at him.

9:39 p.m.: There was a suspi-cious motor vehicle reported at a house on South East Street. The caller was advised to call back if the vehicle was seen again.

10:26 p.m.: There was a dis-turbance at Rolling Green on Belchertown Road. There was a female screaming at a male to get out of her apart-ment. They told police that they were just having a ver-bal argument.

11:17 p.m.: Bottles were thrown off of a porch at a residence on Phillips Street. Party was cooperative and cleared out.

Saturday, Oct. 2512:32 a.m.: Kenneth James Lemoine, 19, of Belchertown,

was arrested on North Pleasant Street for posses-sion of alcohol under the age of 21, possession of an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle and negli-gent operation of a motor vehicle to endanger after he was stopped for swerving in the road.

12:53 a.m.: There was a disturbance at a party on Lincoln Avenue. People were attempting to push their friend down the stairs and the party was starting to get out of control. Residents were uncooperative but guests were cleared out any-way.

1:06 a.m.: A person was observed with an open con-tainer of alcohol which they then threw against a tree on Phillips Street.

2:23 a.m.: A fight was reported at the Townehouse Apartments on Meadow Street. The caller reported that hallways were full of blood, but no weapons were seen.

2:24 a.m.: A stick was thrown at a window of a house on Sunset Avenue.

4:24 a.m.: Vandalism was reported at Atkins Farm on West Street. Approximately 100 sugar pumpkins were smashed overnight.

9:05 a.m.: A side view mirror was broken off of a white 2014 Nissan Altima on Taylor Street.

10:45 p.m.: A stray grey cat with no collar was found on East Hadley Road.

Sunday, Oct. 2612:37 a.m.: Blake F. Dawson,

21, of Sterling, was arrest-ed for an open container of alcohol on Main Street.

1:00 a.m.: A larceny was reported at Monkey Bar on North Pleasant Street. A purse was stolen from inside the cleaning closet. The purse contained car keys and IDs.

1:33 a.m.: There was a dis-turbance at the Townehouse Apartments on Meadow Street. Three males were starting fights and people sustained minor injuries.

2:07 a.m.: Five males were fighting over a backpack at Froyo World on North Pleasant Street.

9:36 a.m.: There was a goat loose on Sunderland Road.

11:13 a.m.: Windows at a resi-dence on Main Street were smashed.

2:58 p.m.: There was a break-ing and entering in the Presidential Apartments. Clothes were stolen.

2:58 p.m.: There was a break-ing and entering at the Loose Goose Cafe. Entry was pos-sibly gained through a win-dow. The break in seemed to have occured around 1 a.m. Sunday. Money was stolen. Other information is unknown at this time.

8:01 p.m.: Charles James Peters III, 21, of Weston, was arrested on South East Street for OUI liquor and failure to stop/yield. The car was towed by Amherst Towing.

Marleigh Felsenstein can be reached at [email protected].

Police Log: Oct. 24 to Oct. 26, 2014

According to Wadhwani, about 30,000 people signed up on the app but it wasn’t the numbers the company was looking for. “We had a pretty good track record,” he said. “But I think the product and where the market was wasn’t explosive like Tinder numbers. The user experience was somewhat complex.” So six months ago, they tried a product that was bigger and better. Thus, the Singled Out app was born. “Over 25,000 responses have been logged into the app so far,” Wadhwani said. “The people who have been using it have been pretty aggressive on it.” At UMass alone, about 1,600 students, the majority of which are female, have been participating in the app since its beta launch on campus three weeks ago. Around 1,173 questions were asked so far and 62 percent of men usually answer these questions cor-rectly based on women’s stan-dards. “The biggest thing that these numbers tell is that men surprisingly like an app that empowers women just as much as women do,” Wadhwani said. “Now that

we know that, it really helps us pack in more heat for the female experience.” And while this creates a new potential dating experi-ence, it has also reveals unique patterns and data about UMass students. According to Wadhwani, the most popular question women ask men is if they consider themselves dog lovers, fol-lowed by if they go to the gym and if they have ever been arrested. The data found that 85 percent of men responded that they were dog lovers and 95 percent like short girls, but 72 percent don’t like girls with short hair. “I think data tells a story,” Wadhwani said. But from a business standpoint, these numbers also tell the company how to proceed in the future. “We have very aggressive and edgy marketing cam-paigns that are directed right at Tinder and most people have been fairly receptive to it,” he said. “We’re going to do a very methodical launch, go from campus to campus in the northeast and start with the schools we know very well and do a cluster-based marketing approach to get maybe 4,000 to 5,000 new users per school.

Then let the vitality take off on its own.” While the purpose of the app is to make connections and possibly seek out roman-tic relationships, Wadhwani said that this product could expand to become a tool where people provide honest feed-back to each other. “The feedback could be something superficial. It could be girls asking questions like, ‘Do I look good with short hair? Do you prefer blonds or brunettes?’” he said. “Or it could be used for something more unpredictable or func-tional, like ‘Do you have this textbook for a class?’” And for this company, the creation and life of this app has been a learning process they will keep improving upon. “How do you create a Snapchat? How do you create something with the virility of a Yik Yak that goes around the campus and becomes explosive?” Wadhwani said. “Understanding the way peo-ple use the app really helps us build a better product for everybody.”

Jaclyn Bryson can be reached at [email protected].

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By laura KingLos Angeles Times

CAIRO — Tunisia’s main secular party said Monday it expected to win the largest share of seats in parliamentary polling held a day earlier, based on preliminary tallies and exit polls. If borne out by official tallies, the result would be a substantial defeat for the Islamist Ennahda party. After scoring strongly in the previous parliamentary vote, the party’s ruling coalition broke down last year, but pre-election polls had sug-gested it might perform well in Sunday’s vote. No single party, how-ever, was expected to win a majority of the 217 parliamentary seats. The results will trigger coali-tion negotiations, with a number of smaller par-ties ready to be power bro-kers in the formation of a government. Tallies were being released piecemeal, with a final official count expected by midweek. A spokeswoman for

the secular Nida Tounes party, Aida Klibi, was quoted Monday by the Associated Press as say-ing the party was thought to have won about 80 seats, compared with about 60 for Ennahda. The agency cited an Ennahda repre-sentative as acknowledg-ing the party had “prob-ably” been outpolled, but holding off on any con-cession until the official results were in. Turnout was strong and voting went peacefully in Sunday’s elections, which were part of Tunisia’s continuing political tran-sition after the revolution that threw out a longtime strongman ruler more than three years ago. The North African nation, while struggling with unemployment and a low-level Islamist insur-gency, has fared far bet-ter after 2011’s “Arab Spring” revolts than have neighbors such as Libya, Syria and Egypt, which have been hit by varying degrees of turmoil.

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ties for undergraduates majoring in the sciences. “The content, the style of teaching and who the professor is are all factors that have an impact on a student’s interest in sci-ence,” Dasgupta said. If the STEM faculty is more diverse, the students will see their professors as more approachable and as achievable role models, she said. The first thing on Dasgupta’s agenda is to develop a faculty survey that will provide UMass with institutional data in order to get a sense of where the answer may lie in creating the right pro-grams to address these issues. “CNS being the largest school at UMass, there is a lot of heterogeneity, and the solutions may vary within each department,”

Dasgupta said. “As a sci-entist, my job is to base my strategies on system-atic patterns rather than anecdotes.” Stacy Tchouanguem, a junior microbiology major, said she believes Dasgupta’s work may increase opportunities for STEM students on cam-pus. “There are not a lot of women of color in my major. It’s harder to find scholarships if there isn’t an easy access to people that can guide you through the pro-cess,” Tchouanguem said. “During orientation they don’t tell you about all the resources helping women and women of color in the sciences.”

Cecilia Prado can be reached at [email protected].

Obama is right, a vote for Mark Begich is a vote for his policies.” The campaign website for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., campaign website includes a rebuttal, of sorts, to the underlying charge from GOP chal-lenger Scott P. Brown, the former Massachusetts senator, listing times that Shaheen has opposed the Obama administration’s policies, even if there weren’t roll-call votes on the Senate floor associ-ated with them. The Republican party in North Carolina was also quick to highlight

Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan’s 99 percent presi-dential support rating in 2014. On the Republican side, the large number of gen-erally noncontroversial nominees included in the calculations contributed to all but one GOP incum-bent supporting Obama more than half the time. That outlier, Pat Roberts of Kansas, also happens to be the most vulnerable Republican on the ballot this year. He supported Obama about 49 percent of the time.

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California eases access to abortionsBy Lee RomneyLos Angeles Times

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Ever since the Planned Parenthood health center here opened, the six cush-ioned recliners in the recov-ery room had been in steady demand every Friday. That’s when a physician would rotate through to perform abortions for four hours. When everyone in the crowded waiting room knew why the woman next to her was there, when they all had to walk past a cluster of anti-abortion protesters. But a state law that went into effect in January has authorized nurse practitio-ners, certified nurse mid-wives and physician assis-tants to perform a method of first-trimester abortion known as vacuum aspira-tion. Previously, only doc-tors were allowed to do so. With the expanded pool of providers, this Marin County clinic can now carry out the procedure as rou-tinely as breast exams and birth control consultations, stripping away the taint of “abortion day.” “It’s a much less stigma-tizing way to offer an abor-tion,” said Anna, a nurse practitioner and certified nurse midwife who per-forms vacuum abortions at the clinic. She asked that her last name not be used because she feared for her safety. Although state legisla-tures across the country have passed laws in record numbers over the last four years setting restrictions on abortions - undermining Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion - California contin-ues to move in the opposite direction. Of all the abortion-related laws passed in the U.S. last year, California’s Assembly Bill 154 was the only one that increased the number of abortion providers. Although four other states allow such clinicians to per-form aspiration abortions, none other had to override a physician-only law. The Assembly bill is only the third piece of abor-tion legislation passed in California since statehood. The law cements California’s reputation as “the gold stan-dard” for access to abortion, said Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation. Four dozen practitioners were trained as part of a study that smoothed the way for the new law. Many are now putting their skills to use. They’ve made it possible for some clinics to expand availability of first-trimester

abortion - when it is safest and least costly. Since March, Anna, 53, has integrated vacuum abor-tions into daily care at this Planned Parenthood clinic, where she is lead clinician. Advocates say it appears to be first in the state and one of a handful in the country to move away from segre-gated abortion days. These days, the bright recovery room gener-ally hosts one woman at a time - an abortion patient who probably awaited her appointment, privacy intact, beside someone scheduled for a routine procedure. Most abortions are con-ducted in the first trimester, by one of two methods. In medication abortion, a drug combination is administered under clinic guidance to a woman up to 10 weeks along. It essentially causes her to miscarry at home. In vac-uum aspiration, conducted until the end of the first tri-mester, contents of the uter-us are suctioned out. Non-doctors who can offer aspiration abortions are known as advance prac-tice clinicians. They have been able to administer med-ication abortions legally in California for a dozen years. But a law dating to the 1970s, passed to protect women from unscrupulous provid-ers, prohibited anyone but a physician from performing abortions deemed “surgi-cal.” A six-year study con-ducted by a research arm of UC San Francisco’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health per-suaded the Legislature to change the law. It involved nearly 17,000 California women, more than 80 percent of whom chose to receive an aspiration abortion from an advance practice clinician under a doctor’s supervi-sion. The study’s conclusion showed that the nonphysi-cians performed the proce-dure as safely as the doc-tors. Only a few of the clini-cians trained under the study are practicing in remote corners of California. Advocates of abortion rights hope that will change as new training programs target those living in, or willing to move to, the estimated half of California’s 58 counties with no readily available provider. UCSF’s School of Nursing leads the effort to cultivate the new workforce. Before vacuum aspirations can be added to the curriculum in fall 2016, more practitioners in the field must learn how to be trainers. Before that can happen, faculty mem-

bers must become adept. The school’s first faculty clinician began hands-on training at San Francisco General Hospital last month. By next fall, she and others will help offer a post-mas-ters certification program to other clinicians who can then train students at their facilities. As a doula early in her career, Anna cared for women from early pregnan-cy through delivery - and in cases of miscarriage and abortion as well. Pregnancy is “not all about having babies,” she said, noting 1 in 5 pregnancies ends in mis-carriage and about 1 in 3 women has had an abortion. Anna began offering abor-tion medication as soon as she was legally able. When she learned UCSF was seek-ing trainees for the study on aspiration abortion, she immediately signed up. Her model of including aspirations on the clinic’s daily schedule of services will not work everywhere, said Jeff Waldman, medi-cal director of Planned Parenthood Northern California. It works at the San Rafael clinic because Anna’s skills are outstanding and the volume of procedures has declined, he said. That is true nationwide, as the num-ber of unwanted pregnan-cies drop and more women who need early abortion select the medication alter-native. The California law and the study that made it pos-sible were not without con-troversy. Jeannette Dreisbach, a Palm Springs-based anti-abortion watchdog, criti-cized the data and called the training prescribed in the law inadequate. “We may be going from schlock physician abortion-ist,” she warned, “to schlock nonphysician abortionist.” But Diana Taylor, the study’s principal investiga-tor and co-director, called the research “beyond reproach.” It was vetted through quar-

terly data reports and visits from state-appointed evalu-ators, three research eth-ics boards, a clinical safety monitoring committee and a panel of outside experts. Already, the change is playing out in other parts of the state. Rose, who asked that only her middle name be used, is a nurse practitioner at the Planned Parenthood in Watsonville and was a train-ee under the study. For the last dozen years, she has provided services including medication abor-tion to a largely farmwork-er clientele. That process, which takes two days, is not a good option for women without a flexible work schedule or who lack priva-cy at home, so she has sent them to other towns, to phy-sicians they had never met. The Watsonville clinic is not equipped to offer aspiration abortions. These days, however, she follows the women through pregnancy tests, ultrasound and counseling, then often performs their aspiration abortions herself in Santa Cruz or Seaside. “It helps to have a famil-iar face,” she said. “And on those rare occasions when I have some sort of find-ing I can let them know, ‘We’re going to take care of that when you come back to Watsonville. Let’s start a treatment plan.’“ And if others follow the Marin County clinic’s exam-ple, said Dr. Susan Robinson, one of the study’s trainers, the change in the law could help to normalize a proce-dure that has for decades been siloed. The hope, she said, is that as the new workforce expands, advance practice clinicians “might have a diaspora to smaller under-served towns where they could have a greater scope of practice - and this would be included in it, just exactly how Anna does it.”

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A certified nurse midwife at a Bay Area womens clinic in California speaks on how abortions are integrated into general family health services.

Nurse released from quarantineBy Tina SuSmanLos Angeles Times

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday that a nurse who was quar-antined in Newark after returning from treating Ebola-afflicted people in West Africa would be released and allowed to go home after she tested negative. Christie’s announcement followed criticism from civil rights groups, aid agencies and federal officials, who said the quarantine mea-sures announced Friday would discourage much-needed medical personnel from going to fight the Ebola outbreak in Africa. Nurse Kaci Hickox com-plained that she was put in an unheated tent on the grounds of Newark University Hospital after returning from Sierra Leone on Friday. She tested nega-tive for Ebola, which has a 21-day incubation period. In a statement Monday from New Jersey’s

Department of Health, offi-cials said Hickox “has thank-fully been symptom-free for the past 24 hours.” “As a result, and after being evaluated in coordi-nation with the CDC and the treating clinicians at University Hospital, the patient is being discharged,” the statement said. “She has requested trans-port to Maine, and that transport will be arranged via a private carrier not via mass transit or commercial aircraft.” “She will remain subject to New Jersey’s mandatory quarantine order while in New Jersey,” the statement said. “Health officials in Maine have been notified of her arrangements and will make a determination under their own laws on her treat-ment when she arrives.” Christie’s decision fol-lowed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s clarifica-tion on Sunday of his state’s mandatory quarantine rules. Cuomo and Christie

became the nation’s first two governors to declare manda-tory 21-day quarantines for health-care workers return-ing from the Ebola-stricken region of Africa, and for oth-ers who have had contact with Ebola patients. Illinois has since imposed similar quarantine rules. The virus has killed more than 4,900 people in West Africa. Cuomo, seeking to quiet criticism of the rules, said people subject to quarantine would be allowed to remain at home for the 21-day period. They would receive twice-daily visits from pub-lic-health workers to check them for illness and ensure that they do not go out, he said. Three people are in quar-antine in New York. All are close contacts of Dr. Craig Spencer, who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Guinea. He has been hos-pitalized in New York City since Thursday.

School shooting victim dies By Connie STewaRT

Los Angeles Times

Another victim of the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting in Washington died Sunday night, Providence Regional Medical Center announced. Gia Soriano, 14, was shot in the head Friday when Jaylen Fryberg took a gun into the cafeteria and opened fire. Authorities say the troubled freshman football player killed one student on the spot and seriously wounded four others, including Soriano, before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. “We regret that Gia Soriano, age 14 years, passed away tonight as a result of her injuries,” the Everett hospital said in a late-night statement. “Despite the tremendous efforts of our caregivers, unfortunately the trauma injuries were extensive.” The hospital also released a statement from

the Soriano family: “We are devastated by this senseless tragedy. Gia is our beautiful daughter and words cannot express how much we will miss her. We’ve made the deci-sion to donate Gia’s organs so that others may benefit. Our daughter was loving, kind and this gift honors her life. “We ask that you please respect our privacy and give us the space and time we need to grieve and spend time together as a family in memory of Gia.” The hospital invited the

community to participate in a moment of silence on Monday at 10:39 a.m., which coincides with the time of the shooting. Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, also was shot in the head. She remains in criti-cal condition at Providence hospital. The two other surviving victims are Nate Hatch, 14, and Andrew Fryberg, 15, both cousins of the shoot-er. They are being treated at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Hatch is in serious con-dition but “continues to improve in intensive care,” Harborview spokeswoman Susan Gregg said Sunday. Andrew Fryberg “remains critical in intensive care.” The student who died immediately has not been identified. Jaylen Fryberg was a member of a prominent family in the Tulalip tribe. His motive has not yet been determined.

By CaRoL J. wiLLiamSLos Angeles Times

KIEV, Ukraine —Pro-European parties appeared to have won a majority in Ukraine’s parliamentary election Sunday, based on exit polls in a vote marred by separatist sabotage. President Petro Poroshenko’s political bloc was in the lead with about 23 percent of the vote, according to two exit polls carried out nation-wide. A like-thinking Popular Front headed by Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk was reported to have captured 21 per-cent. The recently formed Self-Help alliance based in western Ukraine was getting a surprising 13 percent, according to the exit polls, which could allow the reform-minded, pro-European forces to collaborate and avoid hav-ing to align with national-ists who had been seen as resurgent. The right-wing Radicals appeared to take only 7 per-cent of the vote that had been forecast to give them nearly twice as much. The Fatherland Party of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko also fared poorly, collect-ing less than 6 percent, according to the exit polls. Tymoshenko, appear-ing on television minutes after the voting forecasts were released, pledged to support the apparent vic-tors in their mission to clean up endemic corrup-tion and lift the country from its economic crisis. A political bloc unit-ing some former gov-erning Party of Regions delegates and other pro-Russia politicians eas-ily cleared the 5 percent threshold for taking seats in the Supreme Council with 7.6 percent of the vote, according to the exit pollsters. The Communist Party failed to get enough votes in the proportional balloting and for the first time in Ukraine’s modern history would be without representation in the 450-seat legislature. But a strengthened front committed to closer relations with the United States and the European Union may do little to improve relations with Moscow or tamp down the conflict with pro-Russia separatists in which more than 3,700 people have died.

Russian-backed mili-tants have seized Crimea and other regions of east-ern Ukraine, angered over the Kiev government’s decision last year to steer trade and relations west-ward and away from the country’s traditional alignment with Russia. Turnout of slightly more than 40 percent was decidedly less robust than in May, when more than 60 percent of voters cast ballots and Poroshenko captured 55 percent to win the presidency in a single round against 20 contend-ers. As many as 1 in 6 reg-istered voters might have been unable to cast bal-lots. Moscow-backed gun-men occupying much of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine refused to open polls for an election they consider irrelevant to their proclaimed indepen-dent republics. Crimea, the strategic Black Sea peninsula wrested from Ukraine in February, also took no part in what its new Russian masters con-sider the affairs of a for-eign country. Still, the young activ-ists spawned by the “Maidan” rebellion that ousted Kremlin ally Viktor Yanukovich from the presidency in February infused energy and opti-mism into the vote. More than 4,000 volunteers joined 700 foreign observ-ers in standing watch at polling places to encour-age a free and fair vote. “There have always been problems with elec-tions in Ukraine, and I would not say there haven’t been problems today,” said Danish law-maker Hanne Severinsen, who has monitored elec-tions here for 20 years. “But there will be new faces in parliament and those who will be elected will start the reforms that have been talked about for so long.”

New Pro-European majority in Ukraine

Jaylen Fryberg was a member of a

prominent family in the Tulalip tribe. His motive has not

yet been determined.

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May, when more than 60 percent of

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If you grew up in a devel-oped country like the United States, chances are you’ve been told or at least heard of the classic phrase, “Finish your food. There are starving kids in Africa.”

It’s a line laced with guilt-trips that parents use to moti-vate their children to eat. Of course, eating the food is in no way going to help the starv-ing children of Africa, but if the image of a distressed child longing for the meal on your plate shames you enough, then perhaps you will finish the food to show how grateful you are for what others don’t have. And so from a young age, children are taught to compare their lives to others in order to justify or negate the validity of their own prob-lems. Many will grow up with the mindset that put-ting themselves first will always make them selfish, armed with “things could be much worse” to fight their own emotions. This method of shaming oneself into a better person is often extremely counter-productive. It prevents people from allowing themselves to be honest, to take care of their health and to grant themselves the time to directly face their personal problems and there-fore solve them sooner than if they just attempted to down-play and ignore them because somebody else has it worse. In America, we live in a culture where hard work is praised to an extent that health is often sacrificed to stay on top in the “dog-eat-dog” world. You could be bat-tling a nasty cold, but if Joe came down with the flu last week and was able to muster up the strength to walk his contagious, exhausted, par-tially-delirious self into the office and put on a façade of normalcy, then you look like the weaker link if you give yourself a day off. It is no wonder that stress and work pressures among

Americans are leading to poor-er health and higher mortality rates. We have stopped seeing self-care as a necessity and put it aside as a luxury that people are hesitant to cash in on at the risk of falling behind and being seen as a quitter or selfish because others are working harder. “Competition makes self-esteem precarious and con-ditional,” said author and lecturer Alfie Kohn. “One’s value is contingent on how many people one has beaten. Moreover, the more we com-pete, the more we need to compete; it takes increasingly dramatic victories to reclaim the good feeling brought about by the first one – rather like developing a tolerance to a drug.” It’s a highly toxic drug when it causes us to bash ourselves

in order to push for these “vic-tories.” This one-upping of our problems becomes even worse when mental health is chal-lenged. In my experiences with group therapy, I met a woman who had been hospitalized six times – four for complications related to her eating disorder and two for attempted sui-cide. She shook off my pained expression and solace with a shrug and said, “A lot of it was just precaution. Anyways, I knew a girl who had been in the hospital eleven times.” The absurdity of her com-parison likely had escalated from the dozens of small, insecurity-driven thoughts that went unspoken for years because she believed they “weren’t serious enough.” Just to reiterate that: A woman who was hospitalized six times believes her problem is not really serious. There is nothing shameful about taking care of yourself. We are taught to believe that if we constantly keep our nose

to the grindstone and push ourselves no matter the obsta-cles, we will succeed. Testing your limits is one thing, but this constant, intense drive is going to backfire if you forget that a person needs to be in good health in order to carry on. You are more likely to be your best self and ultimately improve your life in the long-run if you allow yourself to get rest when you need it and recognize that while your per-sonal problems may not be as severe as a starving child’s or a sick patient’s, they are still problems that need to be addressed in order to continue to be at your best. You cannot help take care of others if you cannot take care of yourself. Although the method of get-ting this idea across is adverse, the principle of, “There are

starving kids in Africa,” prompts us to show gratitude for what we have and this is something we should never forget. Instead of constant-ly using tough love and disallowing

yourself to care about a per-sonal problem, take a moment to remember what you have to be grateful for in life. Consider if this problem truly matters and needs to be addressed or if you can let it go. Appreciate what you have achieved and be proud of it regardless of what others have done. When you need help, ask for it. If something in your life is dragging you back, it is a serious problem and listening to society’s cries of “get over it” or “people have it worse” is only going to hurt you until you can give yourself what you need to move forward again. This world is not always kind. There are serious injus-tices, horrific wars and inhu-mane crimes. If we think we can motivate ourselves to be better people by channeling additional anger at ourselves on a daily basis, then it is past time that we reevaluate our methods.

Kate Leddy is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at [email protected].

When guilt-trips backfire

People say there are plenty of fish in the sea. But how do you know if you picked the right one? You might be thinking, “There are more than 10,000 members of the gender I am looking for at UMass.

How am I single?” But your “soul mate” might not be here. There are scientific, religious and just hopeful ways to think about find-ing a mate, the perfect match, your significant other, soul mate or what-ever you want to call it. When we initially meet someone, some part of us judges them based on looks. How could we not? We see them before we hear them speak or have the opportunity to judge them based on character. So how can love at first sight be true? It must be lust at first sight. When and if we decide to pursue this person, we decide based on their character. Without physical attrac-tion, mental attraction is just not as strong. The same happens the other way around, though. If we find some-one to be not extremely physically attractive at first, but get to know them and find their personality attractive, their appearance becomes more appealing. And so goes the

famous saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” However, the attraction in a relationship is based on both types of appeal. Sometimes people need a sign for if they should be with a certain some-one. Is it “meant to be?” Is there real-ly such thing as fate? It depends on your beliefs. Some religions say yes. For example, in Judaism, the term “soul mate” is literal. According to the Torah, during creation Adam was made having both a male and female within him. God split him to create Eve. According to this belief, a relation-ship is between a man, a woman and God. Every person’s soul is essen-tially half a soul, matched up with another soul out there to complete the whole. Some people might have a couple souls that match, but there is only one that is the perfect match. Once you find that particular person, you complete the full soul. This is what is behind the common phrase, “You are my other half.” It’s a bit different when it comes to scientifically understanding whether or not you belong with your “soul mate.” What is the attraction? It incorporates more senses than you may think. Things are happening in

your brain telling you whether or not you would want to be with this person when you don’t even realize it is happening. “There are a small number of human genes…that may play a role in determining how attractive you are to a potential mate. Suitable part-ners can literally sniff each other out, finding an optimal genetic other half using their noses,” said Tim Dowling in his Sept. 8, 2013, article in The Guardian, “Can you smell the perfect partner?” The theory has been tested in the well-known T-shirt test. In the so-called smelly T-shirt experiment, first performed by a Swiss zoologist named Claus Wedekind in 1994, Wedekind ana-lyzed DNA looking specifically at the major histocompatibility genes (MHC). These genes mediate the interaction of white blood cells, or immune cells, with other body cells. The students used in the experi-ment consisted of 49 females and 44 males. The men were asked to wear plain cotton T-shirts for two nights while avoiding anything that could change their natural odor. Two days later, the shirts were put in cardboard boxes with holes in them, and the women were asked to rank the boxes by smell based

on intensity, pleasantness and sexi-ness. Results showed that women preferred the T-shirts worn by men with different compatibility genes from themselves. This means that unconsciously, women may choose mates who would put offspring at some genetic advantage. To judge a person in this way, we must not only smell their MHC genes, but also taste it through sali-va. As reproducing mammals, we inherently look for a mate who would be beneficial in reproducing. That doesn’t exactly cross our minds when we say yes to going on a date with someone, but it plays a role in if we want to continue seeing him or her, whether we know it or not. Don’t let this research stop you at a party or around campus. We are still young but thinking about more permanent relationships and the future is something that is normal to be crossing our minds. I believe that things are meant to be and that everything happens for a reason, although we may not know what the reason is at the time or even for a while.

Karen Podorefsky is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at [email protected].

Your perfect match

“Sometimes people need a sign that they should be with a certain someone. Is it ‘meant to be?’ Is there really such thing as fate?”

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UMass student Marty Boyle takes a fresh look at folk-rock

By Jackson MaxwellCollegian Staff

In the Pioneer Valley, fall is making its last stand. The increasingly bare trees are desperately trying to cling to the last bits of color they possess before giving way to Amherst’s uncompromising winter. It is a time of year that beckons for a certain kind of music, something more intimate and homespun than what summer’s end-less possibilities call for. Marty Boyle’s lively, feel-good folk-rock fits right into this transition-al, evocative atmosphere. Recalling the accessible but personal singer-song-writer tradition of artists such as Paul Simon and Cat Stevens, Boyle’s music manages to constantly sur-prise while never losing its aim to please. “I enjoy leading the lis-tener down a certain path and then sort of pulling the rug out from underneath them,” Boyle said. “It’s like telling a story – you want it to be dynamic and evolv-ing, but I also don’t want it to be predictable.” A senior at the University of Massachusetts, Boyle first picked up the guitar 10 years ago and began writ-ing mostly humorous songs in high school for various classes and talent shows. During his freshman year at UMass, Boyle fur-ther solidified that side of his music, forming a come-dic folk-rap duo called the New Rockwells. Although his songwriting has come a long ways in the years since, an unmistakable sense of humor and wit remains, providing an indelible spark to both his self-titled solo debut album, and the music he makes

with his new band. That band’s name also happens to be the New Rockwells, further underlying the unique lyrical attitude that sets Boyle’s songs apart from others in the crowded folk-rock genre. Boyle’s debut album, released this July, is a mostly solo, acoustic affair. But even without accompa-niment, his vocals and gui-tar playing are sufficiently stirring on their own. In its more spare moments, “Marty Boyle” most recalls the moving songs of Tallest Man on Earth, minus that material’s more ethereal and distant qualities. “Marty Boyle” is too focused on realism and making direct connections with the listener to focus on being opaque or emo-

tionally hard to reach. “There are songs that I chose to be the final cuts for the album that, maybe nobody else can hear it, but I can hear a mistake or two,” Boyle said of the album’s live-in-the-studio sound, and its up-front nature. “I didn’t think it was worthwhile to go back and try to get this perfect image.” Recently, Boyle teamed up with two friends, Ben Muller and Ian Stahl, and formed the New Rockwells, a trio that performs Boyle’s solo material along with compositions by Muller and Stahl. Muller and Stahl were both music composition majors at Amherst College, where Muller now works as the orchestra teaching assis-

tant. Between the two of them, they provide much of the accompaniment on “Marty Boyle,” with Muller on piano and saxo-phone and Stahl on bass. Boyle said that the way his songs turn out when he collaborates with Muller and Stahl is usually “dif-ferent in some ways than I thought it would be, but it’s better.” “It’s kind of cliché to say, but as a group, what we produce is a lot better than what we could do indi-vidually,” he added. “And that’s a sign that it’s work-ing.” After we finished our conversation at Amherst Coffee, I walked with Boyle down to Amherst College’s small, but impressive Buckley Recital Hall.

Waiting in the classroom were Muller and Stahl with microphones and gear mostly ready to go. Muller, taking a seat behind the piano, discussed and con-firmed the structure of the new song they were about to play while Stahl patient-ly finished setting up his drum kit. When the trio was ready, they excitedly launched into the new song, titled, “Where Are You Tonight?” Immediately, a differ-ent dynamic from “Marty Boyle” was apparent. On “Where Are You Tonight?” the New Rockwells’ chem-istry is abundantly clear, with Muller’s saloon-like piano lines working beauti-fully in tandem Stahl’s sup-ple drumming. Crooning over it all is Boyle, whose

inquisitive, yearning vocal delivery is at once both passionate and charming. The trio has the warmth of a great bar band but the instrumental chops of a group with incredible cre-ative promise. They easily filled the large classroom with their affable racket and infectious energy. Boyle, demonstrating the creative alliance of the group, let both Stahl and Muller take solos on their respective instruments. Each was technically impressive and anything but pretentious, adding perfectly to the song. The song ended with a bang, its energy lingering in the classroom long after Muller and Stahl finished taking down their gear. They discussed their plans for the evening with Boyle before departing. Left alone, Boyle performed a stirring, solo rendition of “Get It Right!,” the opening track on “Marty Boyle.” The song’s warm chords and personal but whimsi-cal lyrics filled the room just as easily as the New Rockwells, even without the help of two additional musicians or amplifica-tion. As the fall quickly turns to winter and the leaves begin to disappear, peo-ple will inevita-bly look for music to warm them up. Marty Boyle and the New Rockwells have both the songs and the musical chemistry to give you the extra push you may find yourself needing this season. Hailing from the Pioneer Valley, the trio has the potential to make a big impression both in the local area and beyond.

Jackson Maxwell can be reached at [email protected].

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Marty Boyle and his band, the new Rockwells, are bringing fresh, energetic sounds to the Pioneer Valley music scene.

Chadwick Stokes to bring his unique worldview to Pearl Street

By Troy kowalchukCollegian Correspondent

Dispatch and State Radio singer and guitarist Chadwick Stokes will kick off his solo tour at Northampton’s Pearl Street Nightclub this Saturday with Brooklyn-based band Lucius. During the show, Stokes will play songs off of his upcoming album, “The Horse Comanche,” and promote his charity, Calling All Crows. Stokes’ new album is slated to be released on Feb. 3, 2015. In an exclusive interview with the Collegian, Stokes said that becoming a father served as a major inspiration for “The Horse Comanche.” “I’m a new dad of two, and a lot of that goes into the album,” he said. “There’s a whole new way of looking at life.” Stokes said he was also inf

luenced by his recent “Living Room Tour,” in which he performed intimate concerts in the living rooms of lucky fans, testing out new music.

While most of “The Horse Comanche” was completed by the time of the tour, Stokes asked for opinions from his fans regarding the new mate-

rial. “With the people there, we talked about different titles of songs,” Stokes said. “What bridge they preferred or if it’s

too long or too short.” Through this process, he said he was able to make the production of “The Horse Comanche” a more coopera-tive effort. While Stokes has explored new themes and ideas over the past few years, he maintained that he has not strayed from his roots in the new album. “I can’t get away from my love of the trains, and train hopping,” Stokes said. “But there’s also a song about Walter, a kid with disabilities in Uganda. It’s all over the map.” Stokes is also known for his deep involvement in human rights causes. In “The Horse Comanche,” he said that he further aims to get communi-ties involved in a variety of campaigns. He noted one song, titled, “Our Lives Our Time,” that discusses the industrial prison complex, lack of school funding and intolerance of gay marriage. The money raised from Saturday’s concert will go

toward Syrian women dis-placed by the country’s civil war as part of Calling All Crows’ newest project promot-ing women’s rights. In addition, Stokes said he is excited for Calling All Crows’ sixth annual Northampton Halloween 5K that will be tak-ing place prior to Saturday’s concert. The walk raised more than $100,000 in its first five years. “Spending time helping to educate local refugees, being informed of events around the world, signing up and joining communities such as Amnesty International and Calling All Crows are amaz-ing ways to give to your com-munity,” Stokes said. The sixth Annual Northampton Halloween 5K runs from 2 to 7 p.m. on Saturday. Stokes will then per-form with Lucius at 8 p.m. at Pearl Street. Tickets are $21 in advance, $25 at the door.

Troy Kowalchuk can be reached at [email protected].

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This week’s male athlete of the week is Massachusetts hockey freshman goaltender Henry Dill. In Friday’s game against Northeastern, Dill recorded a season-high 42 saves in a winning effort over the Huskies. Dill earned his first collegiate win versus Michigan State in UMass’ previous game and carried that momentum into the next matchup, making some jaw-dropping saves in a 3-2 victory at Northeastern. Splitting the weekend series against Northeastern and Boston College, Dill proved that despite his youth and inexperience, he can perform at a high level in Hockey East play. He was reward-ed for his efforts on Monday when he was named Hockey East rookie of the week. In a 4-1 loss to the Eagles on Saturday, Dill recorded 27 saves. The outcome didn’t reflect his play, as BC scored two of its four goals on the 5-on-3 power play and another with an empty Minutemen net. With a .908 save percentage and a 2-1 record, Dill will look to keep UMass (2-3-0) in the hunt for a playoff run and establish himself as one of the nation’s best young goaltenders.

The female athlete of the week is UMass women’s soccer’s Jackie Bruno. The junior forward scored a goal in each game this past weekend, helping the Minutewomen secure two important Atlantic 10 vic-tories before the playoffs. In Friday’s 2-0 win against St. Bonaventure, Bruno scored an insurance goal in the 82nd minute off a beautiful cross from Breanna Robinson to seal the victory against the Bonnies and give UMass some life as the regular season nears a close. Back at it on Sunday against Duquesne, Bruno scored in the fourth minute of the game for her team-leading sixth goal of the season. The Minutewomen (5-7-4, 3-2-1 A-10) would hold onto the lead despite being outshot by the Dukes in a 2-0 win. Bruno has played a crucial role as the focal point of the Minutewomen’s offense this season and will try to keep her team’s winning streak alive against Richmond Friday.

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he isn’t feeling that pres-sure just yet.“I don’t feel pressure being the leader for the new swimmers,” he said. “There’s a huge differ-ence between high school swimming and college swimming and I feel that I am guiding the newer members of our team in the right direction, show-ing them the importance of coming together as a team.” Bomprezzi added that he has used his experience as a teaching tool. “My greatest piece of advice is to keep pushing,” Bomprezzi said. “It’s easy to slack off or not try as hard but then the reward is much less that it would have been. Swimming is a sport that requires a lot of focus and I feel I have developed this aspect throughout my time at UMass.” In addition to leading his teammates, Bomprezzi said he has set high expec-tations for himself this season. “For the team, I am con-fident we can take back the title as A-10 champions

and put a number back on the banner,” he said. The 2014-2015 sea-son didn’t exactly start out the way Bomprezzi would have wanted, as the Minutemen lost their first two matches of the season against Army and Boston University. B u t Bomprezzi started right where he left off last sea-son, as he won both the 500 and 1000-meter freestyle events in each matchup. Bomprezzi said he wants people to know that last year wasn’t a fluke and that he’s motivated to continue to build on his success. When asked what it felt like to win the team MVP award, Bomprezzi answered with determina-tion. “It just pushes me even harder and I want to show that I deserve getting this award,” he said. Bomprezzi and the rest of the men’s swimming and diving team return to action Oct. 31 when they travel to Binghamton look-ing for its first win of the season.

Victor Pusateri can be reached at [email protected].

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Johnson rivalry during the 1980s? Isn’t this almost the exact same thing? In a sport that is so team-oriented, where it is a sin for players – especial-ly the way Bill Belichick programs his own – to put themselves above the team, this matchup was always about the two signal callers. It was never a debate over the Patriots vs. Colts, Patriots vs. Broncos or even Manning vs. Belichick’s defense. The main story was always headlined Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning. By now, everyone knows the numbers. Brady owns the head-to-head match-up against Manning 10-5. Manning now sits atop the NFL hierarchy, passing Brett Favre for most touch-down passes of all time. Manning even shattered the record books this past regu-lar season, scoring the most points and throwing for the most touchdown passes in a single season (55). Not to mention, he did this after a series of neck surgeries that could have jeopardized his career. Each respected support-ing cast? Manning holds the advantage in a landslide.Going back to his days in Indianapolis with Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, Dallas Clark and Edgerrin James, Manning has always had a strong supporting cast around him. Even in Denver with Demaryius and

Julis Thomas, Wes Welker – Brady’s old safety blan-ket – and now Emmanuel Sanders, star talent always seems to follow in the foot-steps of Manning. Brady always seems to do more with less. With the exception of Randy Moss and Rob Gronkowski, Brady has never had laun-dry list of some of the best players at their respected position around the league. He’s done it in Belichick’s factory of misfit toys. No matter what argu-ment you make defend-ing a quarterback, there’s

one number that New Englanders will always take to the grave when it comes to defending their lord and savior: Brady’s three Super Bowl victories to Manning’s one. Peyton Manning is the best statistical quarterback in NFL history and prob-ably the best passer and in-game manager there ever will be. But for Patriots fans, those three rings will never surpass anything that Manning will do in his career. No matter what side of argument you fall on,

Brady vs. Manning will never get old for true sports fans. It’s like George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones books: you know the end is near but you never want the story to end. It’s that good. My opinion? I don’t think the term “better” will ever be used to settle this debate. But with the game on the line, I’m taking Brady every time. Andrew Cyr can be reached at [email protected], and followed on Twitter at Andrew_Cyr.

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Peyton Manning (left) and Tom Brady (right) will play each other for the 16th time on Sunday.

2:24.01 and the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:29.51. “Werenski has been outstanding again this sea-son,” coach Bob Newcomb said. “She has been swim-ming extremely well and we are going to need to her continue doing so.” The 400-yard IM was a strength for UMass on Sunday as the top four fin-ishers in the event were all Minutewomen. Katie Arnott (4:39.34), Jenna Diamond (4:39.77) and Sophie Hornby (4:57.93) all followed behind Werenski. The diving team of Mikhaila Eckhardt, Rachel Dushman, Julia Jagannath, Rhiannon Froman and Emma Roush took the top four spots in both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events.

Eckhardt won both events with scores of 260.47 (1-meter) and 249.37 (3-meter). “(Eckhardt) and the rest of the team were fantas-tic for us,” Dixon said. “I could not have been hap-pier about their results.” The Minutewomen saw another group finish with success in the 200-yard freestyle relay, where the top two spots belonged to UMass as its “A” and “B” relay teams took home points with every other team getting disqualified. “I was happy with the performances and how hard they have been work-ing,” Newcomb said. “The girls have been great we just need to correct and fix some things.”

Tyler Fiedler can be reached at [email protected].

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NIU handles EMU, Western Michigan rolls over Ohio

By PhiliP SanzoCollegian Correspondent

The Northern Illinois football team handed Eastern Michigan its sixth loss of the season Saturday, beating the Eagles 28-17. The Huskies earned their sixth victory of the season and became bowl-eligible for the seventh straight year. Northern Illinois (6-2, 3-1 Mid-American Conference) ran for 332 yards and scored all four of its touchdowns on the ground. Both teams’ offenses relied heavily on the run game, producing a combined total of 589 rush-ing yards while only pass-ing for a combined total of 178 yards. Huskies’ quarterback

Drew Hare led the team in rushing with 166 yards on 13 carries. With 11 minutes left in the first quarter, Hare had a 78-yard touchdown run which put the Huskies out in front, 7-0. EMU (2-6, 1-3 MAC) stayed competitive early on though. With four seconds left in the half, the Eagles kicked a field goal to cut the deficit to 14-10. They pro-ceeded to take a 17-14 lead in the fourth quarter when quarterback Reginald Bell Jr. ran four yards into the end zone. Northern Illinois rebounded though, scoring two more touchdowns on rushes by Joel Bouagnon and Cameron Stingily to put the game away. The Huskies will play another MAC team next Wednesday when they take on Ball State (3-5). EMU

will also continue its MAC schedule when it takes on Central Michigan this Saturday.

Western Michigan rolls past Ohio

Western Michigan, who has only suffered one loss in a conference game all year, dominated Ohio 42-21 Saturday. The well-balanced Broncos’ (5-3, 3-1 MAC) offense saw three rushing touchdowns on 156 yards from Jarvion Franklin and two passing touchdowns and 344 yards from Zach Terrell. With Saturday’s performance, Franklin sur-passed the 1,000-yard mark for the season. The Bobcats (4-5, 2-3 MAC) appeared to have control early, scoring the game’s first touchdown on a

3-yard run from Daz’mond Patterson. The touchdown came one play after an interception by Terrell. But Ohio would not score again until the fourth quarter. The interception was one of two mistakes by Terrell for the day, who complet-ed 22-of-28 passes and two touchdowns passes, both to wide receiver Corey Davis. Davis, Terrell’s primary target, caught nine passes and recorded 212 yards. His two touchdowns came on a 7-yard and 56-yard recep-tion. The Bobcats never posed a threat to come back after trailing for most of the game. Ohio trailed by as much as 28 points. Western Michigan will carry its three-game win-ning streak into next Saturday’s game against Miami (Ohio), while the

Bobcats will try to rebound from the loss Nov. 5 against Buffalo.

Central Michigan sneaks by Buffalo

A closely fought game between Central Michigan and Buffalo ended with the Chippewas edging the Bulls, 20-14. In a low scoring affair, the teams went into the fourth quarter knotted up at 14-14. Central Michigan (5-4, 3-2 MAC) broke the tie with a 7-yard passing touchdown to Titus Davis with eight minutes, eight seconds left to play in the game. Buffalo caught a major break after the touchdown when the Chippewas missed the extra point attempt, keeping the difference at six points. Although the Bulls (3-5, 1-3 MAC) did not come away

with the win, it made the game closer than expected. Buffalo, which at one point trailed 14-0 before the half, mounted a comeback to tie the game heading into the final quarter. Both touchdowns for the Bulls came on passes from quarterback Joe Licata. The junior threw for 233 yards and completed 21-of-35 pass attempts. He also threw two intercep-tions, which both resulted in touchdown drives for Central Michigan. Chippewas’ quarterback Cooper Rush matched up evenly with Licata, throw-ing for 231 yards and one touchdown. Running back Saylor Lavallii ran in the other two touchdowns for Central Michigan. Philip Sanzo can be reached at [email protected].

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THE MASSACHUSETTS DAILY COLLEGIAN

By Tyler FiedlerCollegian Staff

Strong individual perfor-mances were not enough for the Massachusetts men’s and wom-en’s swimming and diving teams in Saturday’s losses to Boston University. The men dropped their second straight match to start the season, falling 187-113. UMass received positive results from both swim-mers and divers and were led by junior Alessandro Bomprezzi. Bomprezzi finished first in all three of his races. In the 500-yard freestyle, Bomprezzi posted a time of 4:38.82, nearly 10 seconds better than the second place finisher. “(Bomprezzi) has made a total commitment to this sport,” coach Russ Yarworth said. “He wants to be as good as he can, (to do) that you have to be 100 percent, 12 months a year.” Bomprezzi was the biggest

standout for the Minutemen this weekend, sweeping the compe-tition. He beat out the Terriers’ Andres Vazquez in the 200-yard freestyle and barely beat teammate Kyle Vieira in the 1000-yard free-style. But Bomprezzi was not the only one who stood out for the Minutemen. Trent Kindvall had another strong outing on the div-ing boards in his second collegiate match. After winning Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week honors last week, Kindvall finished first in the 1-meter dive and second in the 3-meter dive. “(Kindvall) has been outstand-ing so far this season,” diving coach Mandy Hixon said. “I think he can still grow but he has cer-tainly stepped up for the men so far.” Kindvall finished with a score of 274.42 in the 1-meter diving, beating the second best time by 13 points. He was just five points away from securing his second win, fall-ing to BU’s Adam Gross in the

3-meter dive. The trio of Kindvall, Robert Barry and James Albanese had another impressive output for the diving team. Barry finished third in the 1-meter and 3-meter dives while Albanese took home fifth place in both events. UMass also had a first place finish from Oliver Wyeth in the 100-yard backstroke. His time of 50.42 was enough to beat out the Terriers’ Connor Stuewe by .07 sec-onds.

Minutewomen fall to Terriers

Despite a valiant effort, the Minutewomen lost to BU by a score of 174.5-120.5. The Minutewomen dominated in multiple events but it was the overall performance of the Terriers that proved to be too much. Meriza Werenski led the way again for UMass, winning both her events and remaining undefeated to start the year. She won the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of

UMass comes up short despite individual gains

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UMass men’s swimming and diving lost to Boston University 187-113 this weekend, while the Minutewomen also lost to BU 174.5-120.5.

INCHING CLOSER

Rivals to spar yet again Sunday

Just like prize-fight box-ing matchups used to be, we’ve seen 15 rounds of

Tom Brady and Peyton Manning exchanging blows over the last 15 years that will make even the slightest football fan jump out of his or her seat. We are lucky enough to see a 16th round this Sunday. On Monday morning, there

was a front-page column in the news section of the Boston Herald regarding how the Brady vs. Manning debate over which quar-terback is better is no longer rel-evant. Sure, now that

we are onto Brady vs. Manning XVI, almost every little detail between the quarterbacks has been hammered over and over again, but who cares? The argument may be old news, but it’s a sports story that will never get old. Every year it’s always the biggest game of the regular season. It’s always the big storyline on ESPN throughout the week leading up to the game. It’s part of the rea-son why guys like Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith and Mike Felger and Tony Massarotti have their jobs. No matter how red in the face you get or how much yelling and swearing you do defending one of the two, Brady vs. Manning is a sports debate that never gets old. It’s a matchup between the two best quarterbacks of this generation—both are still looming in the shadows of Joe Montana – and we’ve had the pleasure of watching the two go toe-to-toe for 15 times now in their decorated careers. If you’re a true diehard football fan, these kinds of rivalries never get old. Call me a youngster, but did people in Boston ever get tired of the Larry Bird-Magic

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Standout impresses

By VicTor PusaTeriCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s swimming and diving team’s season is underway and one swimmer that looks to carry over success from last year is Alessandro Bomprezzi. Entering his junior season, Bomprezzi looks to add to his impressive resume that includes being named team MVP last year and owning the school record in three different freestyle events. Last season was a coming out party for Bomprezzi, who emerged as one of UMass’ strongest swimmers. The junior finished toward the top in the majority of his events, includ-ing winning gold in the 50-meter freestyle and bronze in the 1650-meter freestyle events at the Atlantic 10 Championship and breaking his own school record in the 1000-meter freestyle event against Fordham on Feb. 1. Bomprezzi joined the Minutemen as a freshman in fall 2012 from his hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona. When asked why he chose a school on the opposite side of the coun-try he said, “Well UMass offers everything I need both aca-demically and athletically. The engineering program has been growing in the past few years and that caught my attention.” Now a veteran, Bomprezzi said it is important to him and his team that he continues to emerge as a leader. According to men’s swimming coach Russ Yarworth, Bomprezzi has done just that. “He’s worked hard in practice and has stepped up for this team,” Yarworth said. “He’s setting a good example for the younger guys.” The swimming team has lost a couple of seniors from last year and is currently deal-ing with injuries. According to Bomprezzi, this means that younger guys are going to have to step up and swimmers that have been there, like Bomprezzi, have increased pressure put on them to lead. But according to Bomprezzi,

Allesandro Bomprezzi building on MVP year

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Minutemen top Keene State in overtime triumphBy ariel KallenBach

Collegian Staff

With 15 seconds remain-ing in overtime, in the midst of a 3-on-3 battle, Massachusetts club hockey forward Peter Kelly fired a quick shot at Keene State goaltender Dylan Strogen that looked to be a sure game-winner. Only Kelly’s attempt didn’t find the back of the net. Instead, his shot missed just wide, hitting the post as a dreaded “ping” sound echoed throughout the Mullins Center practice rink. Freshman Robert Tirea was the first to notice the puck ricocheted off the post and snuck a rebound shot past Strogen to secure the 4-3 win for the Minutemen in their first overtime game in two years. The moment was espe-cially gratifying for Tirea, who was promoted from the third line to play along-side Mark Fidler and Alex Rojas.

“Tirea and Rojas are two of the fastest players in the league,” UMass associate head coach Joe Smith said. “They’ve been our most productive unit since the switch.” Tirea was also placed on the Minutemen’s top power-play unit midway through the game, manning the point and creating chances with the man-advantage. “I think (moving Tirea) made a big difference,” Smith said. “We got a cou-ple chances off of it. He played a great game for us.” After overcoming Marist College the previous night, 6-4, in Poughkeepsie, New York, UMass (7-3) took down the Owls in a fast-paced, evenly matched game on Saturday that fea-tured back-and-forth goal

scoring, a multitude of pen-alties and three ejections. Though the Minutemen dominated play in the Keene State zone early in the first period, the Owls stepped up and gave UMass a fight. Keene State’s strong penalty kill led to two slow and unfruitful Minutemen power plays in a scoreless first period. UMass captain Harris Stone made the score 1-0 with a wrap-around goal in the second period off an assist by Jason Goldsmith. However, the Owls quickly responded with a shot past Minutemen goalie Luke Lepine to tie the game. UMass’ Chris Jones and Keene State’s Josh Bell were each given five-min-ute majors and game mis-conducts – Jones for hit-

ting from behind and Bell for retaliation – forcing the teams to skate 4-on-4 six minutes into the second period. The Owls took a 2-1 lead shortly after but skated a man down after Zachary Dykun took a major pen-alty and was ejected. The Minutemen capitalized on the extended power play with a goal from Adam Kmetz to tie the game at 2-2. The tie was short-lived however, as Keene State scored with 17 seconds left in the second period to send UMass retreating to the locker room down 3-2. Minutemen freshman defenseman Patrick Baker tied the contest at 3-3 with his first collegiate goal with 14 minutes, 17 seconds into the final frame. UMass’ power play was sluggish early in the game but upped its pressure in its two power-play oppor-tunities in the third before time ran out in regulation, forcing a five-minute 4-on-4

overtime period. Ten seconds after the Owls took a penalty with 57 seconds left in the extra frame, Kmetz was called for roughing and the teams skated 3-on-3 the rest of the way until Tirea’s game-winner. The Minutemen outshot Keene State 39-19 for their third straight win.

“We just won two games in about 15 hours, we played at 9 p.m. (Friday) in New York, so it’s a good grind-ing win for us,” Smith said. “We really needed it.” The Minutemen return home Nov. 8 to take on New Hampshire at 6 p.m.

Ariel Kallenbach can be reached at [email protected].

C L U B H O C K E Y

see BOMPREZZI on page 7see SWIMMING on page 7

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UMass defeated Keene State 4-3 in overtime a day after beating Marist College 6-4.

“We just won two games in about 15 hours, we played at 9 p.m. (Friday) in New York, so

it’s a good grinding win for us.”Joe Smith,

UMass associate head coach

see RIVALS on page 7

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