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APD receives Dept. of Mental Health grant

By Anthony RentschCollegian Staff

The Amherst Police Department has received a grant to train officers in how to better handle mental health crises as a part of both a statewide push to establish such training. Six Massachusetts departments, including Amherst, are each the recipi-ents of a two-year, $400,000 Department of Mental Health grant aimed at imple-menting Crises Intervention Team training and further developing Law Enforcement Jail Diversion Programs. According to a DMH report, between 7 and 10

percent of “all police calls involve a person with a men-tal disorder.” The report also indicated that people with mental health issues are over-represented in our pris-on system and do not receive adequate treatment while they serve their time. “Mentally ill people are sent to jail for lesser crimes and stay there for longer on average,” Assistant Commissioner of Forensic Mental Health Services Debra Pinals said. “We want to change this trend.” As a part of the grant, a significant proportion of Amherst police officers will undergo 40 hours of CIT training. The training is aimed at enabling officers to better deal with men-

Crisis intervention training funded

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Resnick, founder of Help Our Kids, looks to make sure foster kids have access to all types of clothes for any occasion.

‘There has To be a soluTion’

By IsAAc BuRkeCollegian Correspondent

I f you were to walk into Noryn Resnick’s garage, you might think that she

was the queen of all hoard-ers. Boxes of toys line the walls and racks of clothing take up most of the floor space. What’s left is covered by furniture of all kinds and conditions. Dozens of soccer balls and other small items are shoved into whatever crevices remain. However, this pack-rat’s heaven is actually the headquarters of Help Our Kids, a nonprofit organiza-tion Resnick runs out of her Amherst home that helps bring basic goods like beds, clothes and toys to foster children in western Massachusetts.  “One of the populations I always felt that did not have a voice or always got overlooked was kids in fos-ter care,” Resnick, a former speech pathologist and audi-ologist, said. Resnick founded Help Our Kids when she moved to Amherst as a way to help give

foster children many of the amenities and experiences that their peers already have.  “Cases started coming up,” she said. Families needed “little things that really (mat-tered) and (made) a kid feel like a kid. “Playing on a sports team, taking dance lessons, going to camp, having a dress for graduation – all these little things started coming up and there wasn’t money for it, so I didn’t like that. I said, ‘There has to be a solution to this.’” Resnick began her solu-tion by using her contacts at the Department of Children and Families, where she had previously been a volunteer, to start what she called a grassroots network of people who wanted to donate goods to the cause.  “It continued to grow,” Resnick said. “As I got more well-known and people were asking what I was doing, they would tell friends, and then the network was growing, and people would say to me, ‘What you’re doing is great, can I just give you a check?’” With an increasing num-ber of donations coming

in, she decided to establish herself as a nonprofit so that Help Our Kids could accept financial contributions and asked a friend to help her set up a website for the organiza-tion. She also started building a reserve of donated items in her garage so that she could fulfill families’ and social workers’ requests more eas-ily. “When I get a request, within 24 to 48 hours, I ful-fill the request,” she said. “Within 48 hours, I’m loading up the car and meeting some-

body somewhere and deliver-ing it.” Her husband, David, who she refers to as her “schlep-per,” built the racks in the garage to help accommodate the incoming quantities of clothing, often lending his car and his time to pick up dona-tions and make deliveries to families.  Resnick began reaching out to businesses in the area, such as the Community Music School of Springfield,

Amherst resident organizes charity for local foster children out of her garageLee Kuan Yew, father of modern Singapore, dies

By DAvID LAmB AnD JuLIe mAkInen

Los Angeles Times

Lee Kuan Yew, who transformed the backwater city-state of Singapore into one of the world’s most effi-cient and prosperous inter-national business centers, has died. He was 91. Lee had been hospi-talized in Singapore for pneumonia. His death was announced early Monday by the Singapore prime minister’s office. For more than 50 years Lee was among Southeast Asia’s most influential statesmen. Authoritarian, humorless, incorrupt-ible, he reigned over his 240-square-mile island like

a stern headmaster, corral-ling ethnic Chinese, Indians and Malays into a cohesive state, with English as a common language. His legacy was an eco-nomic miracle with few parallels in the developing world, though in recent years Singapore’s nomi-nally democratic system has come under increasing fire for stifling freedom of expression, open debate and public assembly. Issues like Internet restrictions, gay rights, ris-ing income inequality, the country’s reliance on for-eign labor and working con-ditions for migrants have sparked increasing pro-tests and discontent. Today, there are nearly 1.5 million nonresident foreigners in Singapore among a popula-

Leader worked to reestablish country

UM holds ‘active threat exercise’ in Franklin DC

By JAson kotochCollegian Correspondent

The University of Massachusetts Office of Emergency Management hosted a “full-scale active threat exercise” on March 19 in and around the Franklin Dining Commons, according to a press release. The simulated active-shooter training involved more than 100 volunteers and emergency responders. Jeff Hescock, director of emer-gency management at UMass said the exercise will “simulate an active threat/active-shooter situa-tion on campus.” The training was paid for through a $106,500 grant awarded to UMass from the Massachusetts

Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, according to the release. According to Hescock, $63,000 of the grant was paid to Florida-based consulting firm Tetra Tech, which organized the training. The funds, which are dispersed to the state through the Department of Homeland Security, are only avail-able to public state institutions. Amherst police and other local and state-first responders joined UMPD in the daylong training. A pamphlet distributed at the event said the goal of the training was to “test organizational and infra-structure interdependencies, com-munication, collaboration and pol-icy responses to an active shooting on campus.” Police closed off areas around Franklin during the active-shoot-er scenario phase of the training.

Signs leading onto campus warned of “police training in progress.” Hescock said other sections of the training focused on “emergen-cy operations center activation and an open discussion workshop on recovery planning and operation.” There were five phases of train-ing in total. Inside Franklin, police and vol-unteers simulated a real life school shooting situation. UMPD respond-ed with the number of staff typical-ly on duty on a typical day – about eight officers. State police assisted volunteers who played victims. “You practice like you play,” Hescock said. “Deputy Chief Ian Cyr worked really hard with his team to make this as real as pos-sible.” Police used non-lethal ammuni-tion called “simunition,” a colorful marking ammo that can be cleaned

up after firing but sounds like a real gun when fired. Following the tactical and oper-ations sections, the training turned

to information management. Trainees attended a mock press con-

Training simulated active-shooter situation

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At Fitting for the Future, kids can choose from rows of clothing.

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A simulated active-shooter training on Thursday took place in and around Franklin DC.

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to create opportunities for kids who can’t afford them on their own. Another pur-suit, mainly for kids about to graduate high school, was to take a group on a college tour. “A lot of kids are capable of going to college … but don’t get the opportunity to have their feet on the college campus like everybody else does,” she said. However, many of the kids’ needs are much more basic. “Last year I got requests for prom dresses and dresses to wear under graduation gowns,” she said. “And cou-pled with that, it’s not just the prom, it’s not just the graduation – it may be a suit for an interview, or a suit for a job. “The goal is just to help these kids feel more normal.” Inspired by an annual event in Boston called Belle of the Ball – a program that provides dresses and shows

for prom to girls from low-income families – Resnick started her own event called Fitting for the Future. On Saturday, the first Fitting for the Future event was held at the Tower Square Meeting Room in Springfield. The contents of Resnick’s garage were taken into a large room and set out like display aisles in a store, allowing each of the 41 kids signed up for the event to walk around and pick out a couple outfits, complete with shoes, jewelry and accessory bags. Overseeing the event were over 30 volunteers from all over the area, including the Hallmark Institute of Photography, Springfield Technical Community College, the Jolie Beauty Academy and many other local businesses to do the kids’ hair and makeup and take professional, quality pictures of them in their new clothes.

“We’ve had a great turn-out,” said Sarah Bleichfeld, the event’s coordinator. About five kids were being seen every half hour, many of them absorbing as many professional tips from the hair and makeup volun-teers as they could. One girl, who for confi-dentiality reasons can only be identified as Ria, said that although she’s “not a dress person, it’s good for you because it makes you feel beautiful.” Resnick said that Fitting for the Future was a “great success,” and she hopes the event will be the first of many. “If there’s something that can be done to make a differ-ence, and I can do it, then I want to do it,” she said. Help Our Kids can be reached at http://www.helpourkidsinc.org.

Isaac Burke can be reached at iburke@umass.edu.

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tal health crises, including improving de-escalation tac-tics and enhancing commu-nication skills. The training not only provides skills to help alle-viate problems when offi-cers respond to a call, it also equips officers and dispatch-ers with a wider range of resources so that mentally ill people can be directed toward appropriate treatment. Pinals said the training provides both officers and dispatchers with knowledge so that “if there is a behav-ior that could be rerouted to treatment rather than arrest,” the right decisions can be made on the fly. Pinals is optimistic about the model, as it is one that has “been recognized nation-

ally and internationally as a promising practice.” The inception of the CIT followed a 1987 incident in Memphis, Tennessee, where police officers shot and killed a young man with a history of mental illness who was threatening people with a knife. The National Alliance on Mental Illness stepped up and, with the help of the police and the community, developed what has become known as the Memphis Model. According to the CIT Center website, 2,619 local CIT programs have been set up in 46 states. Pinals also said that efforts to continue training officers would not end with the grants.

Other trainings exist already, including an eight-hour mental health first aid one. The course teaches the signs of a mental illness or disorder, how to assess a situ-ation and provide help, the impact of mental and sub-stance use disorders and how to connect with local resourc-es. The DMH has worked with other state agencies, including the Department of Veterans Services, Department of Youth Services and the Department of Public Health Bureau of Substance Abuse Services to support law enforcement trainings.

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

The first Fitting for the Future event was held Saturday, giving 41 kids the opportunity to pick out outfits.

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tion of nearly 4 million citizens and permanent residents. Lee became Singapore’s first prime minister in 1959, two years after colonial power Britain agreed to the territory’s self rule, and his People’s Action Party has dominated the country’s politics ever since, never losing power. He set out to attract foreign investment and encourage capital-ism. He embraced efficiency like a religion and believed that the well-being of the community was more important than the rights of the individual. Although Singapore has no agriculture, mining or resources –other than its industrious people – the island nation by the 1990s had become a global high-tech, transportation and manufactur-ing center that rivaled Hong Kong. It was Southeast Asia’s most mod-

ern city, its literacy rate was virtu-ally 100 percent and its per capita income was the highest in the region. “I have spent a lifetime fighting against the odds,” Lee once said, “and they were very heavy odds, to build up confidence in Singapore, confidence of Singaporeans in their future and confidence of for-eigners who will invest their for-tunes in Singapore.” Lee Kuan Yew (Kuan Yew trans-lates as “the light that shines far and wide”) was born in Singapore on Sept. 16, 1923, to a Chinese fam-ily. Unlike many overseas Chinese, he never felt an affinity for the mainland. “I have no links with China, I have no friends in China,” he said in the 1960s. During Japan’s World War II occupation of Singapore, Lee was forced into duty as a translator

for Japan’s official news agency. After the war, with Singapore back under British colonial rule, he traveled on an Allied troop ship to England to study. He spent four months in London, hated the city and moved to Cambridge. In Cambridge, he proved to be a brilliant student. He stud-ied law at Fitzwilliam House and completed his legal studies at the Middle Temple in London. There he became active in the Malayan Forum, a political group of stu-dents who sought an end to colo-nial rule in Malaya and Singapore. “I did not find anything in Britain that justified their gov-erning me,” Lee said. “They were not superior enough to be able to decide what is good for me. It reinforced my view that we should govern ourselves.” Back in Singapore in the early 1950s, working as an attorney, he joined with the Communists to form the PAP to fight for indepen-dence. Later, he wrested control of the party and used it to crush the Communists. In May 1959 he led the PAP to victory at the polls and the next month became prime minister of a self-governing but not fully inde-pendent Singapore. One of his early achievements was to persuade Malaya’s prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, to merge with Singapore in 1963. But the Federation of Malaya was short-lived and the two countries separated in 1965 amid increas-ing racial tensions between ethnic Chinese and Malays on the penin-sula. Lee reacted tearfully in pub-lic to the Federation of Malaysia breakup. But he recovered quickly and set out to tackle the unexpect-ed task of governing a fully inde-

pendent Singapore and to meet the challenge of finding a place for Singapore in the world market-place. Singapore’s fraught early years would forever shape Lee’s think-ing about how to govern and how fragile Singapore’s place in the world is. “The past has been a series of immense challenges over survival and deprivation,” he said in 1989. “We have secured our sur-vival, although we can never ban-ish danger.” It also animated his arguments about why opposition politicians should not be allowed to govern. “There is a heavy price to pay if mediocrities and opportunists ever take control of the govern-ment,” he said in 1982. Such a scenario, he warned, was possible if citizens “in a fit of pique or a moment of madness voted for the politics of opposition for the sake of opposition. Five years of such a government ... and Singapore will be down on her knees.” Lee had a fearsome tempera-ment, and ministers quaked in his presence. He did not tolerate dis-sent or corruption, and he exer-cised tight control over his people and the local media. At various times he banned distribution of Time magazine, the Asian Wall Street Journal, Asiaweek and the Far Eastern Economic Review. In recent years, his successors in the PAP have pursued defamation suits against those who dared question govern-mental policies in blog posts or other online forums. Very much an elitist who believed “Asian values” made people of the region inherently superior, Lee established in 1983 a “graduate mothers” program that paid mothers with univer-

sity degrees to have children and improve the gene pool. Uneducated people were offered rewards and punishments to induce them to limit family size. The policy was abolished after a public outcry. Lee saw moral failings in the liberal democracy of the West, and believed that “good government” and economic advancement were a more important national goal than individual liberties. He con-sidered “so-called human rights” largely irrelevant to the growth of developing Asian nations. Once asked whether Singapore–a country with so many restrictions that even chew-ing gum was barred–would slowly be come more liberal, he replied: “You mean more like a Western society, like Britain or America? I hope never. I think we’d go down the drain. We’d have more poor people in the streets, sleeping in the open, we’d have more drugs, more crime, more single mothers and delinquent children, a trou-bled society and a poor economy.” Although often reprimand-ed by human rights activists, Lee remained a close friend of the United States throughout his political career. Even his harshest critics agreed on one point: The Singapore he built is one of Asia’s great success stories, with one of the world’s most efficient airports and ports. Lee resigned voluntarily after 31 years as prime minister in 1990, turning power over to his chosen successor, Goh Chok Tong, but continued to play an influential role for two more decades, serv-ing as senior minister, and then “minister mentor” until 2011. In 2004, Lee’s son, Lee Hsien Loong, became prime minister and remains in office today.

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Singapore’s former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew attends his book launch in August 2013.

ference where they learned how to field questions from reporters and how to man-age emergency situations a day, week, month and year after the event. The UMass Office of Emergency Management conducts regular train-ings. Last summer, it had

to activate the emergency response system to manage a gas leak that shut down portions of the campus. According to Hescock, the goal is always ensuring the safety and security of faculty, staff and students. “It’s an endless cycle of preparedness, things are

always changing,” Hescock said. “We’re always hop-ing to update our plans and procedures and these exercises allow that to hap-pen.”

Jason Kotoch can be reached at jkotoch@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @jasonkotoch.

Ted Cruz to announce White House bid Monday

By Maria recio and david LightMan

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will announce his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presi-dential nomination Monday, starting an uphill quest for a young newcomer to elec-tive politics with a knack for picking high-profile battles but a short record of success so far. Cruz, 44, will jump into the race just two years after being elected to office for the first time, a sign of the eagerness to take on more established Republicans that has marked his short career in politics and in the Senate. His entry will be the first of a field that is expected to include former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Cruz’s fel-low Texan, former Gov. Rick Perry. Cruz is a skillful speak-er and one of the biggest audience-pleasers in the Republican field. But the cheers in preliminary appearances in early vot-ing states such as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina so far have rare-ly translated into tangible support. His tea party base is warming to Walker, and growing numbers of conser-vatives are seeking someone who would be more likely to win a general election against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton. In a McClatchy-Marist poll this month, Walker had the support of about one-fourth of the “very conser-vative” Republicans and one-fourth of tea party sup-porters. Cruz was backed by 3 percent of each group, far behind other contenders. Cruz also was the weak-est rival to Clinton out of five tested, the survey found.

Even in Texas, Republicans have warmed to Walker at the expense of Cruz. After trailing Cruz by 25 points among Texas Republicans, Walker now is within a point, according to one recent survey. Cruz will skip Texas as a backdrop for his announce-ment, traveling instead to Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. The choice of the private Christian school in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains sug-gested Cruz’s plan to play to not only the right but to the evangelical wing of the Republican Party. “He is trying to nail down as much of the base as he can as early as possible and steal a march on others who might try to claim the base,” said Carl Tobias, a law pro-fessor at the University of Richmond. The school was found-ed by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, an influential leader of the Christian Right who helped elect Ronald Reagan in 1980, and whose school has been a popular venue for Republicans seeking to reach out to social conserva-tives and Christian voters. The tea party vaulted Cruz, a political novice who had never held elective office, to the U. S. Senate seat in 2012. He had attracted attention as Texas solicitor general, an appointed posi-tion, and took on the state’s Republican establishment by challenging Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Perry’s choice. After his surprise vic-tory in a primary run-off election, Cruz continued to endear himself to the far right soon after coming to the Senate with a 21-hour floor speech against the Affordable Care Act that helped force a partial federal government shutdown. The gambit did not succeed in forcing repeal or weakening the health care law. While tea party leaders still like Cruz, they’re also looking elsewhere for 2016. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, regarded as a new

voice and a Washington out-sider, has drawn a passion-ate following, particularly in Iowa. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the 2008 Iowa caucus, retains a loyal conservative following. Walker so far has pulled ahead of everyone, and held a telephone town hall last week with followers of one group, the Tea Party Patriots. Afterward, the group said on its website “there is perhaps no one the left fears more than this accom-plished Midwestern gover-nor, as Walker is proof that leaders don’t have to ‘shift to the middle to win the mid-dle.” Tea party supporters make up about one-third of the vote in the Iowa Republican caucus, the nation’s first electoral test. But Walker has had some stumbles and the door is still open for Cruz and other can-didates. None of the three top-tier Republicans at this point, Walker, Bush and Rubio, draw more than 19 percent support nationwide. Cruz, a champion debater at Princeton University, could shine when Republicans begin monthly debates in August. Cruz has a lot of good-will among conservatives. A Quinnipiac University Iowa poll last month found 46 per-cent of Republicans viewed him favorably and 19 percent unfavorably. And two-thirds of tea party supporters and 55 percent of white evangeli-cals see him favorably. Bush is seen unfavorably by 40 percent. With his announcement Monday, Cruz will have the media attention, but only for a short time. Paul is expect-ed to announce April 7 and other candidates are lining up, as well. Perry, who had a dismal 2012 presidential campaign, has said that he will decide by May or June.

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In an economy increas-ingly built on innovation, the most important skill you

can sell is your knowledge. That’s why higher education is, more than ever, the surest ticket to the middle class. But just when it’s never been more important, it’s also never been more expen-sive. The average undergrad who borrows to pay for col-lege ends up graduating with about $28,000 in student loan debt. That’s why my Administration has worked hard to make college more affordable. We expanded tax credits and Pell Grants, enacted the largest reforms to the student loan program in history and fought to keep interest rates on stu-

dent loans low. We’ve acted to let millions of graduates cap loan payments at 10 per-cent of their incomes, so they don’t have to choose between paying the rent and paying back their debt. I’ve sent Congress my plan to bring the cost of community col-

lege down to zero, because two years of higher educa-tion should be as free and universal as high school is today. I recently unveiled anoth-er way that we can help more Americans afford college. It doesn’t involve any new spending or bureaucracy. It’s a simple declaration of val-

ues – a Student Aid Bill of Rights. It says: Every student deserves access to a quality, affordable education. Every student should be able to access the resources to pay for college. Every borrower has the right to an afford-

able repayment plan. And every borrower has the right to quality customer service, reliable information and fair treatment, even if they strug-gle to repay their loans. That’s it. Just a few sim-ple principles. But there’s a lot that colleges, lenders and the people you send to Washington can and should

do to live up to them. Consider the other actions I took two weeks ago. We’re creating a way for borrow-ers to ask questions about their loans or file a complaint and get a fast response. We’re going to require businesses that service loans to pro-

vide clear information about how much students owe and their options for repaying it, and help them get back in good standing if they’re fall-ing behind, with reasonable fees on a reasonable time-line. We’re also going to take a hard look at whether we need new laws to strengthen protections for all borrowers,

wherever their loans come from. If you believe in a Student Aid Bill of Rights that will help more Americans pay for a quality education, I’m ask-ing you to visit WhiteHouse.gov/CollegeOpportunity. Sign your name to this dec-

laration. Tell your families, friends and fellow students. I’m going to ask Members of Congress, and lenders, and as many business leaders as I can find. Because mak-ing sure that students aren’t saddled with debt before they even get started in life is in all our interests. This issue is personal

to me. My grandfather had a chance to go to college because this country decided that veterans returning from World War II should be able to afford it. My mother was able to raise two kids by her-self in part because she got grants that helped pay for her education. And Michelle and I are where we are today because of scholarships and student loans. We didn’t come from families of means, but we knew that if we worked hard, we’d have a shot at a great education. That’s what this country gave us. In America, a higher edu-cation cannot be a privilege reserved only for the few. It has to be available to every-one who’s willing to work for it.

Barack Obama is the President of the United States.

Announcing the Student Aid Bill of Rights

Excuses not accepted on Dining Dollars

Dear Vice Chancellor Sheehan,

The week before spring break, hundreds of students sent emails and left voicemails to ask that Dining Dollars be allowed at stu-dent businesses for the 2015-2016 school year. While we appreciate the letter you sent in response to this outpouring of student opinion, we would like to take a moment to directly address some of the points that you made. As you wrote, both entities entered into a Memorandum of Understanding seven years ago, with UMass Dining gener-ously allowing the acceptance of YCMP at four student business-es. However, with the addition of Dining Dollars to meal plans this past year, we see an excel-lent opportunity for significant updates to the MOU. For student businesses to remain successful as UMass Dining continues to expand and compete, they must be allowed to accept what has become standard currency in our campus economy. Furthermore, we simply can-not accept the obstacles you men-tion – increased operating costs due to wage increases and benefits to seasonal (03) employees, cost of living adjustments to current employees, commitments to sus-tainable food systems, as well as an increase to student fees – as legitimate reasons for why UMass Dining cannot oblige this student request. Without going into detail about the labor violations and poor prac-tices of UMass Dining, the wage increases and benefits to 03 work-ers, for which AFSCME is still waiting on the final draft from your office, are three years over-due. Poor prioritization of incorpo-rating these additional operating costs, all while spending millions on renovations over the past cou-ple years is not a convincing argu-ment to exclude Dining Dollars from student businesses. In response to your note on the Student Advisory Sub-Committee on Dining, we are delighted that there has been such a commit-ted showing of administrators in attendance. In these meetings, UMass Dining gave students the UMass Dining Board Operating

Statement for the upcoming year as well as budgeting compiled from the financial subsection of auxiliary services. Unfortunately, concerned Isenberg School of Management students found the financial infor-mation useless for understand-ing the true financial position of the enterprise. As the primary funders of UMass Dining, students deserve to know exactly where their money is going. Providing us with a complete lack of tangible financial information does not do that. While there is a face of trans-parency within these meetings, the trend of secrecy and appeasement that has caused tension between the administration and students for many semesters continues. As a result, many questions we have about where UMass puts stu-dents’ fees, beyond basic questions we can ask from the information we do have, like why $365,000 is being spent on consultant services, or half a million on administra-tive expenditures, haven’t been addressed. Student requests for specific financial information in these meetings, such as a breakdown of cost increases for students over the past 10 years, have also been ignored. As students whose payments for meal plans directly finance UMass Dining, we ask again that Dining Dollars be accepted at student-run businesses – Earthfoods Cafe, Greeno Sub Shop, Sylvan Snack Bar and Sweets N’ More – this upcoming academic year, without an increase to student costs. We are confident UMass Dining can thoroughly explore this possibility over the next week and present a feasible plan in its upcoming meet-ing with the Center for Student Business. Thank you again for your com-mitment to student voice and input.

Sincerely,Student Administration Accountability Coalition

SAAC is a group of concerned students and student business customers working to ensure the UMass administration prioritizes student demands.

“Michelle and I are where we are today because of scholarships and student loans. We didn’t come from families of means, but we knew that if we worked hard, we’d have a shot at a great

education. That’s what this country gave us.”

Barack Obama

Cutting college costs a priority Last week, I was doing laundry in my dorm. I paid the $1.50 and waited

the 30 minutes to retrieve my belongings. As I gath-ered my clothing to place it in the dryer, I realized I was holding a congealed ball of soggy shirts, socks and pants. One of the washers was broken. Again. The dryers were also all occupied, owing to the fact that one of them was broken, with harsh black tape covering the coin slot. It took me over three hours to do laundry that day. I fully realize that in the grand scheme of things this is a laughably minor issue. However, consider the principle behind it. Most of us are paying to live on campus. For me, with the meal plan included, I’m paying close to $4,000 to live at UMass. They can’t even send someone to fix the wash-ers or dryers? They can’t make sure that we consis-tently have hot water in our showers? I would like to know where our tuition money is going. What is the University funding at my personal expense? Consider this, if we were living in an apartment somewhere, would we put up with faulty main-tenance? There would be some system of account-ability where we could air our grievances. At UMass this is not the case. We have accepted the

fact that we must pay close to $25,000 in state tuition and the cost is even higher for out-of-state students. We have accepted the fact that the administration will spend our money on construct-ing new facilities that most of us will never set foot in. We have accepted these things, and that is why the administration is

taking advantage of us. What if the adminis-tration put even a third of the money they’re cur-rently investing in the athletic programs and put it toward expanding stu-dent scholarships? This is merely one example of something UMass could be doing if they truly cared about their stu-dents. We are a public univer-sity. Cost should not be an issue. The true mission of this university should be to provide access to high-er education, which it is utterly failing at achiev-ing. Tuition at UMass is $857. The rest of our costs are considered fees. There’s a curriculum fee, $4,707, a service fee, $675.50, and an activ-ity fee, $62.50, among oth-

ers. In other words, the University is skirting around the “free tuition” issue. Even if one were to receive the Abigail Adams scholarship, he or she would still be pay-ing nearly full price at UMass. This is not just an issue at UMass. Between 1978 and 2007, higher edu-cation spending in the

United States increased by 21 percent while the spending in our prison system increased by a staggering 127 percent. It was also estimated that in 2007 the U.S. spent nearly $74 billion on our correc-tional system. This should also be coupled with the fact that 44 percent of our total GDP, or $682 billion a year, goes toward our defense budget. By comparison, President Barack Obama’s plan for free community college tuition will cost a total of $60 billion over 10 years. I’ve never been very good at math but I think $60 billion over 10 years, which equates to roughly six billion dollars a year, is slightly cheaper than the nearly $800 billion dollars we spend on both

defense and incarceration every year in the United States. Priorities? As a nation, we are absolutely fine with investing in our military and prisons, but education is not a press-ing issue to our elected officials. This is sad on many levels. Having a college degree allows an indi-vidual to access higher paying jobs that would otherwise be unavailable to them. Access to higher education can also enable an individual to transi-tion out of poverty, which would save our economy money in the long run. But things will not change in this nation unless we, as young people, demand it. Unless we alter the higher education monop-oly to work for us instead of against us, colleges will be more than happy to take advantage of their students. People allow themselves to be exploited if they refuse to question the status quo. There is absolutely nothing wrong with pondering why we as students are forced to pay a ridiculous amount of money for a decreas-ingly useful undergradu-ate degree. Hopefully, young peo-ple will continue to orga-nize and demand change, for that is the only way that anyone will take us seriously.

Anthony Maddeleni is a Collegian contributor and can be reached at amaddale@umass.edu.

Anthony Maddaleni

“In other words, the university is skirting around the ‘free tuition’ issue. Even if one

were to receive the Abigail Adams scholarship, he or she would still be paying

nearly full price at UMass.”

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Modest Mouse reclaims its sound, but not its essence

By Jackson MaxwellCollegian Staff

Seemingly absent from almost every conversa-tion surrounding Modest Mouse’s first new LP in eight years, “Strangers to Ourselves,” has been the recent departure of Eric Judy, the band’s for-mer bassist and one of its three founding members. His intricate, melodic bass lines formed a formidable foundation with drummer Jeremiah Green’s compli-cated, but always-precise rhythms. Judy and Green perfect-ly set the stage for Isaac Brock, as deeply an idiosyn-cratic guitarist, singer and lyricist as any in rock. The band’s first three albums, 1996’s “This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About,” 1997’s “The Lonesome Crowded West” and “The Moon & Antarctica,” from 2000, not only stood out as masterpieces during one of rock music’s worst cre-ative droughts, they played a large role in setting the template for the blanket term of “indie rock.” What’s important about those records is that they were the works of a cohe-sive group. Even after they became one of the first suc-cess stories of independent rock in the 2000s with their 2004 album, “Good News For People Who Love Bad News,” the original trio of Brock, Judy and Green remained Modest Mouse’s anchor, keeping a sense of exhilaration and adventur-ousness in their increas-ingly commercial and com-plex material. But the seemingly per-manent departure of Eric Judy and the near-decade long gap between albums

has taken something deep-ly tangible from Modest Mouse. While the songs on “Strangers to Ourselves,” released March 17, could not be mistaken for the work of anyone else, they are the least confident batch of the band’s career. It is an album that at once manages to sound incred-ibly familiar and distantly impersonal. The title track, which opens the album, is one of the release’s more dar-ing and rewarding pieces. While it never quite builds to a payoff, its string-driv-en melancholy punches through the album’s high-cost production and creates an intimacy that the album as a whole sorely lacks. Following this is

“Lampshades on Fire,” a track that is such a Modest Mouse song that the band may as well stick a copy-right symbol next to the song’s title. From the chord progression, to the stacatto “ba ba bas,” to the harmon-ic-driven guitar leads, it’s Modest Mouse delivering the most Modest Mouse-like song you could pos-sibly imagine. But, in its comfortable but strong rec-reation of all the band’s sonic trademarks, it also manages to stay on-point, reminding the listener of what made them like Modest Mouse in the first place. But from this strong one-two opening punch, “Strangers to Ourselves” endures a rapid decline.

“Sh*t In Your Cut” tries to recreate the surreal-ist, infinite-highway type atmosphere of the band’s early work, but despite some strong guitar work from Brock, the song sinks under the album’s muscly production. This is followed by “Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996),” quite simply the worst song Modest Mouse has ever recorded. A fuzzy, pitch-shifted calamity with lyrics trashy enough that Kings of Leon would cringe, it’s a disas-trous misstep that deci-mates the album’s early momentum. After that joke of a song, even the pleasing guitar leads of a track like “Ansel” are overshadowed by its lyrics, some of which

go “you can’t know/well you can’t really know/how was I supposed to know/how the hell would I know?” These sort of frustratingly obtuse couplets are vintage Brock territory, but after a song like “Pistol,” they almost feel like self-parody. Unfortunately, this nag-ging sense of self-parody reappears throughout the record. After the opening line of “Coyotes” – “coy-otes tiptoe in the snow after dark” – you just get the feeling that Brock is going to make the next line some-thing with “park” in it. And he dutifully obliges with “at home with the ghosts of the national parks.” This feeling even shows itself on the brief – but admittedly fun – interlude,

“God Is An Indian & You’re An Asshole.” That, as ridic-ulous as it is, is about as Modest Mouse-y a song title as the band has ever come up with. To be fair, though, Brock has some strong ideas throughout the record. One song that actually benefits from the album’s squeaky clean, high-budget production job is “Wicked Campaign.” With taste-fully subtle synthesizers, propulsive guitar work and an explosive chorus, “Wicked Campaign” shows that Brock can actually fit comfortably into big-rock clothes. Brock’s razor-sharp guitar playing also helps cut through the grime of otherwise over-stuffed songs like “Sugar Boat” and “Pups to Dust.” At the end of the day, “Strangers to Ourselves” sounds more uncertain than anything else. Brock appears willing to make compromises in the name of greater accessibility, but also seems desperate to hold on to his own unique nature in the midst of it. This is not a new battle for the band, as these duplici-tous desires were evident throughout both “Good News For People Who Love Bad News” and its even more successful follow up, “We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank.” But this is not the Modest Mouse that suc-cessfully navigated cre-atively troubled waters to make those two great records, it’s Modest Mouse without its anchor, and one of the prime architects of its sound. And though Modest Mouse is often able to sound like themselves on “Strangers to Ourselves,” something profound has been lost.

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

Time has not been kind to veteran band

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Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock performs with the band at the 2012 Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware.

Marina and the Diamonds stakes new emotional ground

By Troy kowalchukCollegian Staff

Marina and the Diamonds’ season has come with the release of her third studio album, “Froot.” Each of Marina and the Diamonds’ – the stage name of Marina Diamandis – albums creates a unique character and sound. The determined, ambi-tious and blunt character Diamandis created on her 2010 debut, “The Family Jewels,” is different from the powerful, relentless and unapologetic persona of her 2012 album, “Electra Heart.” Each of these characters creates a new era, and new challenges, for Diamandis. Now on her third album, Diamandis has created another new character. This one is a more vulner-able, accepting and almost guilt-filled character. On “Froot,” released March 16, Diamandis creates new sounds, yet maintains a hold on the vocals and musicality of her past. Coming off of the heavy, electronic and powerful “Electra Heart,” “Froot” moves in a new, more experimental and stripped down direction. The album

opens with “Happy,” a calm, stripped-down piano track that resembles the sound of “The Family Jewels.” From the tropical plucking of guitar strings in “Gold,” to the bright and spacey synthesizers of “Solitaire,” “Froot” resembles the con-trolled chaos of a 1980s arcade game. Behind this playful feel though, lies Diamandis’ gloomy lyrics. The album opens with “Happy,” and throughout the album, con-tinues with the idea of hid-ing dark lyrical undertones behind bright sounds, with Diamandis constantly fac-ing the trials of depression. Though she appears to be fulfilled, having resolved the conflicts mentioned “The Family Jewels” and “Electra Heart,” songs like “Happy” show that everything isn’t perfect in Diamandis’ world. Diamandis is still fight-ing depression because of the lonely life she constant-ly describes. She seems to feel empty, leaving her to

spend the album focusing on looking for a partner. On the title track, Diamandis’ new character lets everyone know that she is ripe and ready to find someone to share herself with. However, as sim-ple and whimsical as she makes it the process sound, Diamandis begins to reveal all of the failures and issues that keep her from finding someone. “I’m a Ruin” and “Weeds” show how her rela-tionships seem to naturally fail. Whether it is because of her inability to love and

her inability to fulfill her partner’s desires in “I’m A Ruin” or when Diamandis’ past relationships and his-tories get in the way, as in the song “Weeds,” relation-ships seem to be a constant struggle for Diamandis. Love isn’t the only topic on “Froot,” and as the album wears on, Diamandis increasingly strays from it. “Better Than That” is a bitter, angry track direct-ed toward an artist who Diamandis feels slept her way to the top. “Savages” is a criticism of human nature

in general, and the evil and corruption inside of it. Diamandis muses that humans act as though they are evolved, yet war, death, greed and rape are incred-ibly prevalent. Diamandis argues that these topics have become so common in the world that humans have become desensitized to them. This track also criticizes the media, much like “Sex Yeah” off “Electra Heart” did before. “Forget,” a song riddled with self-doubt, stands in deep contrast to the ambi-

tious character of “The Family Jewels.” Despite its bright guitar riffs and upbeat tempo, “Forget” is a place where Diamandis is at her most vulnerable. On the track, she discusses her constant self-criticism yet now she has moved on and is willing to “Forget” her past. Marina and the Diamonds has successful-ly created a new charac-ter with “Froot.” This new character is someone who has taken the lessons from her past, and accepted who they are as a person. While the album may have the feel of an arcade, “Froot” is arguably her most mature album to date. The amusing, carefree nature Diamandis often tries to present is con-stantly haunted by the dark undertones that are also presented to the lis-tener. She seems to become more vulnerable with each album, in new and cre-ative ways. Self-affirming and simultaneously self-critical, Marina doesn’t hold back in targeting her-self and those around her. “Froot” shows another layer of Diamandis’, bring-ing us all the more close to this unique artist.

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

Welsh songwriter gets more personal

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On her new album, “Froot,” Marina and the Diamonds changes gears, sounding more vulnerable and indecisive.

“Self-affirming and simultaneously self-

critical, Marina doesn’t hold back in targeting herself and those around her.”

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Saturday, recording 17 hits in an 11-3 route. UMass’ success started early as it scored four runs on five hits in the top of the first. The Minutemen never trailed. Already leading 1-0 three batters into the game, UMass extended its early advantage to 4-0 thanks to four con-secutive singles by Adam Picard, Vinny Scifo, Matt Bare and Paul Yanakopulos. The Minutemen added to their lead in the third when freshman Hunter Carey singled to center and drove

home two more runs. Dayton cut its deficit to 6-2 in the bottom half of the inning but UMass promptly responded the next frame with an RBI single from Picard, who later scored off a wild pitch. The Flyers scored one more run in the sixth before the Minutemen further cushioned their lead with a run in each of the final three innings. Kyle Adie led the way offensively, finishing 4-for-6 at the plate with a double and an RBI. Nine different

batters recorded hits for UMass. Ryan Maloney had a solid outing on the mound, pitch-ing 62/3 innings and limit-ing Dayton to three runs on seven hits. He struck out a career-high seven batters. Evan Mackintosh fin-ished the game, holding Dayton hitless over the last 21/3 innings.

UMass opens series with shutout

In Friday’s matchup UMass defeated Dayton 5-0 to claim its first win of the

season. “It was a good feeling to finally get a win,” Stone said. “It’s always good to get the first win out of the way. Connor LeBlanc threw eight shutout innings for the Minutemen, allowing two hits and two walks while striking out seven Flyers. “We got a great perfor-mance out of LeBlanc on Friday,” Stone said. “He was amazing.” Picard put the Minutemen on the board with a two-out double in the top of the fifth to drive home Yanakopulos and McLam and give UMass all the run support it need-ed. Picard finished the day 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Bare added to the Minutemen’s offensive suc-cess with three hits, an RBI and a run scored in five at-bats. The sophomore dou-bled with one out in the fifth and later scored off a Yanakopulos single, extend-ing the lead to 3-0. Then after Adie scored on a wild pitch in the top of the seventh to make it 4-0, Bare added an insurance run, driving home McLam in the ninth with a two-out single. The Minutemen return to action Tuesday as they try to extend their winning streak to four against Holy Cross. Victor Pusateri can be reached at vpusateri@umass.edu.

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Redshirt senior outfielder Adam Picard finished 5-for-15 with three doubles and four RBIs in UMass’ three-game set against Dayton.

With 6:56 to go, Hofstra cut the Minutemen’s lead to 6-5 but UMass quickly pushed the advantage back to four on a goal from Andrew Sokol and two more from Hegarty. But it was man-up oppor-tunities that allowed the Pride to stay competitive Saturday. Hofstra finished 4-for-8 in penalty situations, including two unanswered goals in the final eight min-utes. “They have three or four guys that could really bring the ball and that’s what they did,” Cannella said. “If you can shoot from the outside on an extra man, you’re

gonna have some opportuni-ties.” UMass hopes to continue its win streak when it heads to Maryland next weekend to face Towson. After losing five straight, Cannella said it’s important to carry its momentum into CAA play. “Regardless of if it’s con-ference play or not, when you lose five in a row every-one wants to turn around,” he said. “The effort and preparation the guys have put forth is what has gotten us going here.”

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

Mason’s pitching, 5-0 and 7-1, respectively. Despite the lack of offensive firepower – the Minutewomen left nine runners on base in the first game and managed just one hit in the second – Stefanoni said the losses were a result of poor pitch location and even poorer defensive play behind the mound. “There were too many walks and too many missed plays on defense,” Stefanoni said. “It’s been a work in progress since the season started. It took (Raymond) some time to settle in and our defense, when we need-ed to play behind her, we didn’t.” With just one earned run on two hits, Raymond’s performance has been over-shadowed by seven walks allowed over six innings in the opening loss. These bas-erunners proved costly as two UMass errors led to four unearned runs. In Saturday’s second

game, the Minutewomen jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the third frame on a sac fly after Anna Kelley opened with a double. But Kelley’s drive proved to be the lone hit and only one of two baserunners for UMass, who struggled against pitcher Christina Gabriele. Gabriele threw a complete game and finished with two strikeouts in the Patriots’ victory. “Anything that could have gone wrong went wrong,” Stefanoni said. “Playing together as a unit (was a struggle the team faced), there wasn’t really a lot of communication. As a team we got quiet, and obvi-ously we don’t play well like that.” The Minutewomen return to A-10 action in a three-game set against Saint Joseph’s this Friday and Saturday.

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

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time of the year. “Most of the players are better indoors. They are used to the ball coming cleanly through the air. It is a little bit more of a mental challenge.” The Minutewomen persevered and took Wednesday’s match 4-3. Yrazusta has opened eyes in her first year at UMass and she continued her success against the Cougars, beating Katherine Schofield in three sets 6-2, 6-7, 6-4. While she led the way in the singles portion, in which the Minutewomen split 3-3 against Charleston, UMass swept doubles, 3-0. But despite the Minutewomen’s positive end to spring break action, UMass lost its first match

Tuesday against Samford, 4-3. A loss is rare enough for the Minutewomen, who have won five of their last six matches, but a defeat at No. 1 doubles was unex-pected. Benito and Yrazusta have been close to unbeat-able in this spot all sea-son but fell to Samford, 8-6. UMass was swept 3-0 in doubles play. “If we had to lose a match, the best to lose was to Samford,” Dixon said. “We were not tough at the right times.” The Minutewomen return home to indoors play for their next match against Albany on Sunday. Philip Sanzo can be reached at psanzo@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Philip_Sanzo.

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“Regardless of if it’s conference play or not, when you lose five in a row, everyone

wants to turn around. The effort and preparation the guys have put forth is

what has gotten us going here.”Greg Cannella,UMass coach

WSU wins in-state battle over KansasBy Paul SuellentroP

The Wichita Eagle

This wasn’t 1981. This was better. No. 7 seed Wichita State didn’t need a miracle shot from deep or an NBA front-line to dispatch second-seed-ed Kansas 78-65 in the NCAA Tournament. The Shockers reprised their 1981 NCAA win with a physical beatdown of the Jayhawks, sending the Shockers into the Sweet 16 and their fans into orbit. Wichita State will play Notre Dame on Thursday in the Midwest Region semifinal in Cleveland. Kansas lost in the tournament’s first week-end for a second straight sea-son. What a scene, one Wichita State agitated since the teams last met in 1993. The Shockers won 66-65 in 1981 in New Orleans and KU dominated the series, such as it was, until it ended in 1993. When the Shockers surged, they wanted to play. Kansas didn’t. Why not? The scene in Omaha provided the answer. The Shockers made 10-of-

20 3-pointers with Evan Wessel making four-of-six to score 12 points. Tekele Cotton led WSU with 19 and Fred VanVleet had 17. Perry Ellis and Devonte Graham led Kansas with 17. The Jayhawks shot six-of-21 from 3-point range and com-mitted 14 turnovers. Wichita State led 29-26 at halftime and controlled most of the second half. The Jayhawks put pres-sure on WSU when they cut the lead to 63-55 on a steal and basket by Frank Mason. The Shockers flicked that pressure away with a series of layups. They flew through a press to get Darius Carter a layup for a 65-55 lead. VanVleet ran the pick and roll to find Carter for another layup. Cotton stole the ball and rushed in for another layup and a 69-57 lead. After the basket, VanVleet gathered the Shockers at midcourt for what looked like instructions on how to finish off one of big-gest wins in school history. Wichita State continued its run in the second half to go up

41-30 with a display of defense and physical basketball that wilted the Jayhawks. Wessel’s three gave the Shockers a 37-30 lead. VanVleet drove for an uncontested layup and a 39-30 lead. After VanVleet bul-lied KU’s Frank Mason into a miss and turnover, he got to the rim again and Baker followed in his miss for an 11-point edge. Kansas steadied itself briefly at the foul line. Cotton’s three pushed the lead to 49-36 and Shockers fans bounced in joy. KU fans looked stunned. Wessel made another three for a 54-40 lead, only to see Mason answer quickly. Wichita State’s Zach Brown made another big play when he deflected a pass, out-hustled a Jayhawk to the loose ball and dunked for a 56-45 lead. Brown kept it com-ing with a corner three for a 61-48 lead. Carter picked up two fouls in the first half, one muscling for a rebound already secured by a Jayhawk. On the next play, he bumped Devonte Graham with 11:01 to play and sat the rest of the first half.

Kansas built a 24-16 lead early and the Jayhawk fans roared. Wichita State struggled to score with Carter on the bench, but 3-pointers kept them close. Wessel, taking a break from wrestling with Perry Ellis in the post, made a long three to cut KU’s lead to 24-19. Baker’s three made it 24-23 and completed the Shockers’ 7-0 run. Ellis responded with two free throws with 2:46 to play before the Shockers tore off another burst. Tekele Cotton tried for a highlight dunk on Landen Lucas and settled for a ball that bounced in. His three-point play made it a tied game at 26. After KU’s Wayne Selden missed a runner, VanVleet got open behind a screen for a 3-pointer and Wichita State’s first lead since 2-0. The Shockers led 29-26 at halftime by closing the frame on a 13-2 run. They made five-of-11 3-pointers in the first half, which helped them sur-vive seven early turnovers and a 5-1 deficit on the offen-sive boards.

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By Joe rexrodeDetroit Free Press

When the shot clock gets late for Michigan State, the Spartans usually go with Travis Trice or Denzel Valentine out front, trying to create off a ball screen. In Sunday’s NCAA round of 32 grinder against Virginia, senior Trice waved off that ball screen. He sized up one of the best defenders in the coun-try, Malcolm Brogdon and let fly a deep 3-pointer, which fell. And so did the Cavaliers, in a 60-54 upset that has the Spartans in the Sweet 16. Trice’s 3-pointer with 2:51 left was the shot of his 23-point day, and the East Regional No. 7 seed Spartans led for almost the entire game against Tony Bennett’s No. 2 seed Cavaliers (30-4). The Spartans will play in the Sweet 16 for the sev-enth time in eight seasons, most in the nation in that span, against the winner of tonight’s game between No. 3 seed Oklahoma. Branden Dawson, had 15 points and nine rebounds. The Spartans held the Cavaliers to 29.8 percent shooting and Brogdon had just nine points. Valentine had just four points for MSU thanks in part to foul trouble, but he was a key part of the Spartans’ effort on both ends of the floor. Trice hit a three to give MSU its first lead, then

another, with nowhere to go and the shot clock expiring, to make it 8-4. Then he got a fast-break dunk, another 3 and a fast-break layup. It was a stun-ning flurry of 13 points in a span for 3:43 for Trice, and Virginia called timeout with 14:28 left down 15-4. The Spartans scored eight points the rest of the half, hurt by Valentine’s absence. Darion Atkins was the lift for UVA, collecting six points, eight rebounds and two emphatic blocks in the first half. Thanks mostly to him, the Cavaliers trailed just 23-18 at the break. The Spartans got the lead back up, though, using tran-sition again. Dawson got hit on a fast-break drive and hit two foul shots. Then Trice found him in transition for a layup, plus the foul and free throw. That was part of a 13-3 run to put the Spartans up 37-25 with 15 minutes left. Then came more foul trouble and a Virginia run. Valentine got his third and sat with 14:53 left. When he returned with 11:09 left, that lead was down to 38-34 on a 9-1 Cavs run. MSU got two straight Dawson buckets to go up 42-34. The Cavs got it back to four, mostly at the foul line. Trice got it back to eight, 49-41, with two clutch foul shots with 4:21 left. And the Spartans were mostly excellent from there, defensively and at the line.

Spartans upset UVA, advance to Sweet 16

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Ron Baker (31) acknowledges the Wichita State fans Sunday after the No. 7 seed Shockers pulled off an upset over No. 2 seed Kansas, 78-65, in a highly anticipated in-state matchup in the NCAA tournament’s Round of 32. See page 7 for more on Sunday’s game.

By Victor PusateriCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts baseball team began Atlantic 10 play on a positive note this weekend with a three-game sweep over Dayton. After starting the season 0-5, UMass coach Mike Stone said the Minutemen (3-5, 3-0 A-10) made notable strides against the Flyers. “We weren’t playing well ear-lier in the season,” Stone said. “We executed a lot better. We pitched better, hit better, played better defense. We just executed so much better.” UMass closed the series on Sunday in dramatic fashion, win-ning 10-8 in 12 innings after blow-ing an early 7-3 lead. The Minutemen took the lead for good in the top of the 12th after Bryce Maher hit a two-run single with the bases loaded. Before finding success in extra innings, UMass headed into the eighth inning with a three-run lead, but the Flyers tied the game 7-7 in the bottom half behind two bases-loaded walks and a fielder’s choice. Both teams failed to score in the ninth. Minutemen second baseman Rob McLam restored UMass’ lead in the 10th with an RBI single. But yet again, Dayton responded and tied the game with an RBI single from Sergio Plasencia in the bot-tom half of the inning. “It’s baseball, stuff like this happens,” Stone said of the blown leads. “I care more about how my team continued to fight and was able to pull out the win. It showed a lot of character, a lot of grit.” Sunday’s victory marked UMass’ third win in as many days. Stone said he believes this series could lead to a string of momen-tum for the Minutemen. “This series gave us confi-dence,” Stone said. “It gives us the confidence that we can succeed and we can get the job done.” According to Stone, UMass’ big-gest improvement this weekend was in offensive production. The Minutemen averaged just three runs per game through their first five losses. However, UMass averaged more than eight runs in their three wins against Dayton. “A lot of people got on base which led to a lot of opportunities and a lot of people came through when we needed it,” Stone said.

Offense carries UMass Saturday

The Minutemen put on a hit-ting clinic in their second game on

Minutemen take three vs. Dayton

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By tom mulherinCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts softball team’s bats came alive Sunday in a 9-2 victory over George Mason in the finale of its first series in Atlantic 10 play this season. Sunday’s win came a day after the Minutewomen (5-12, 1-2 A-10) lost their first two games of the weekend set in Charleston, South Carolina. Pitcher Caroline Raymond redeemed herself with a bounce-back performance after dealing with location issues in Friday’s opening matchup. Raymond two unearned runs on two hits, striking out four in a complete-game effort. UMass coach Kristi Stefanoni said Raymond’s improved out-ing helped set the team up for its first win in a month – the Minutewomen entered on an eight-game losing streak. “It was a huge, huge change (from previous performances),” Stefanoni said. “As a whole, we are putting way too much pressure on ourselves. (There is) the pressure to qualify for a conference tournament and the pressure to bring the tradition and legacy back that was here a couple years ago. That’s way too much pressure to have, they’re good just the way they are.” Bridget Lemire and Tara Klee backed up Raymond’s pitching performance with seven com-bined RBIs. Lemire finished 2-for-4 with a three-run home run in the first inning to give UMass a quick 3-0 lead. Klee added a pinch-hit grand slam in her only at bat in the sixth inning where the Minutewomen broke open the game with six insurance runs. According to Stefanoni, Sunday’s win was important in boosting UMass’ confidence as it prepares for eight conference games in its next 10 matchups. The Minutewomen prevented their first nine-game losing streak since 2013. “The win was huge,” Stefanoni said. “It’s good momentum for the week of practice going into Saint Joseph’s. We wouldn’t have set ourselves up nicely if we had gone 0-3 in the first weekend (of conference play). We were able to get out a win, and that’s big in many different ways.” Minutewomen drop first two games The weekend didn’t start as well for UMass as it did in Sunday’s balanced display, as the Minutewomen’s bats fell cold in two losses to the Patriots in a Saturday double-header. UMass was stifled by George

Raymond shines in Sun. win

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see SWEEP on page 7 see PATRIOTS on page 7

By Jason KatesCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s lacrosse team allowed Hofstra to take a 1-0 lead at the 13 minute, 29 second mark of Saturday’s first quarter. That was the only time the Minutemen (3-5, 1-0 CAA) would trail in the contest however, in a 9-7 UMass victory in Hempstead, New York. Five consecutive goals and a late defensive stand pushed the Minutemen’s win streak to three and marked their first conference victory of the season. After Mike Malave gave the Pride (3-5, 0-1 CAA) an early lead, UMass went on a scoring spree behind two goals each from Nick Mariano and Gianni Bianchin and another from Brendan Hegarty to give the Minutemen a 5-3 lead at the half. Following two scoreless out-ings heading into Saturday, Hegarty finished with a hat trick to lead UMass offensively. “It was a good team win,” Minutemen coach Greg Cannella said. “We buckled down throughout

the game defensively and had some pretty good performances from Kyle (Karaska) and the rest of the defense.” Cannella commended goalie Zach Oliveri’s play in preserving the win in a low-scoring affair. The junior finished with 13 saves. “Zach was excellent today in goal with Brendan (Hegarty) scor-ing three goals in the offensive end, so we had timely scoring and were good on the groundballs,” Cannella said. “It was a hard fought win against a really good Hofstra team.” Despite the defensive battle, UMass scored five goals on an effi-cient 13 shots in the first half and added three more on seven attempts in the third quarter. Cannella praised his offense, acknowledging that the Minutemen had to adapt to the Pride’s methodical style of play. “We’d like to score more and have more opportunities to score but we kind of played to their

tempo,” Cannella said. “Hofstra has long possessions on the offensive end, so we needed to do the same thing on our end. They played real good defense against us so they lim-ited our opportunities but again, we had some really timely opportuni-ties.” With a little under three minutes remaining, Hofstra had a chance to cut the deficit to one, but the UMass defense stymied the Pride and gained possession to close out the game. “They were good all day,” said Cannella regarding the play of his defenders. “(Hofstra) scored four man-up goals, so you’re looking at three six-on-six goals. So they were good all game long. “They played some long posses-sions but they persevered and hung in tight, with Zach making saves when he needed to.”

Hegarty records hat trick in Saturday win

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see WIN STREAK on page 7

UM earns first wins of the season in sweep

UMass extends winning streak in defensive battle with Hofstra

“It was a good team win. We buckled down throughout the game defensively and had some pretty good performances from Kyle (Karaska)

and the rest of the defense.”Greg Cannella,UMass coach

Minutewomen finish spring break on high note in SC

By PhiliP sanzoCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts tennis team continued its winning ways over spring break, taking two of three dual matches played in Charleston, South Carolina, last week. The Minutewomen closed out the week with victories against conference foe Davidson and the College of Charleston. UMass lost to Samford earlier in the week. The Minutewomen (9-4, 3-0 Atlantic 10) defeated the Wildcats 4-3 on Friday to maintain their perfect conference record. “Our fate was in our own hands and we did the job,” UMass coach Judy Dixon said. Like in most of their matches

this season, the Minutewomen won the doubles point in a three-match sweep. While the pairs of Arielle Griffin and Aarzoo Malik and Chanel Glasper and Anna Woosley clinched their doubles matches in fairly easy fashion, winning 8-2 and 8-1, respectively, the top pair of Ana Yrazusta and Carol Benito battled to a 8-6 victory. It was in singles play where the match got interesting, however. Davidson captured the first three singles matches, taking an early 3-1 lead. But UMass displayed its depth at the backend, winning in No. 4, 5 and 6 singles. Benito (6-3, 6-1), Woosley (6-2, 6-0) and Glasper (6-0, 6-0) secured the game for the Minutewomen in the last three spots. “It was a very tough match in that we were battling ourselves,” Dixon

said. “It was very hot, it was very humid, (the) ball was moving very slowly. … This was much more of the team being gritty and being tough.” With the 4-3 victory Friday, UMass can now seed no lower than third in the A-10 tournament start-ing April 16. “I think this is a team that stands up under pressure,” said Dixon about the Minutewomen’s recent success. “This team rises to the moment.”

UMass splits first two matches

UMass defeated the College of Charleston on Wednesday to split its opening two matches in South Carolina. The weather proved to be a challenge in itself for the Minutewomen in their road trip,

as it marked the first games UMass played outdoors this season. “It’s terrible, it’s terrible,” Dixon said of the adjustment.

“Playing outdoors, it’s going to be cold and windy and no one is going to be there. It’s never our favorite

UM continues to find success in doubles play

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Carol Benito was part of a doubles team with Ana Yrazusta that finished 2-1 over the weekend. The top pair won in straight sets (8-2, 8-1) on Friday.

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