By Christi ParsonsTribune Washington Bureau

ATLANTA — The United States will significantly boost its efforts to block the spread of Ebola across West Africa, President Barack Obama said Tuesday, casting the dis-ease as a national security concern as he embarked on a brief tour intended to burnish his image as com-mander in chief. The U.S. military will be heavily involved in a campaign in which the Pentagon will be working with local governments in the affected region to build 17 new Ebola treatment units, administration offi-cials said. Military medical staff will also be training 500 health care providers a week to care for patients and prevent transmission of the virus, they said. Amid concerns that the U.S. has not done enough to help stem the flow of the deadly virus, Obama traveled to Atlanta to visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and met with scien-tists, doctors and health care workers to outline a stepped-up U.S. response. “If we take the proper steps, we can save lives, but we have to act fast,” Obama said. “We can’t dawdle on this one. We have to move with force and make sure that we are catching this as best we can given that this has bro-ken out in ways we have not seen before.” The new U.S. plan, which some have said was too long in coming, calls for the military’s Africa com-

mand to set up a joint force headquarters in Liberia to coordinate international relief efforts. That effort will be led by a U.S. Army general and will involve an estimated 3,000 U.S. forc-es, according to the White House. Most of the current cases of Ebola are in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, where the out-break was first reported in March. As of Saturday, 4,985 Ebola cases were reported in West Africa, although many had not yet been confirmed through laboratory testing, the World Health Organization said in a report released Tuesday. At least 2,461 of those believed infected have died. The number of cases could rise to 20,000 in the coming months, the WHO has said. The outbreak is growing exponentially and could take nearly $1 billion to bring under control, the WHO warned Tuesday. The figure is double what the organization estimated last month when it out-lined a strategy to respond to the epidemic.

“This is a global threat, and it demands a truly global response,” Obama said, calling on other nations to move quickly to help fight the outbreak and for charities to work with governments to maxi-mize the response. “This is a daunting task,” Obama said, add-ing, “but here’s what gives us hope. The world knows how to fight this disease.” After he spoke, the president was scheduled to head to Tampa, Fla., to meet with military officials charged with carrying out the administration strat-egy to defeat the Islamic State terrorist group. As the White House works to build public and congressional support for Obama’s foreign pol-icy, aides say the sched-ule illustrates Obama’s sustained engagement on national security issues and demonstrates his will-ingness to use military might. Even as Obama was selling his foreign poli-cy plans, though, one of his top military advis-

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By JaClyn BrysonCollegian Staff

Through legislation signed by Gov. Deval Patrick over the sum-mer, the University of Massachusetts received $37.5 million in funding for environmental projects both on and off campus, according to a University press release. “This is a new source of funding that will enhance the university’s ability to serve communities across the Commonwealth,” Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy said in the release. “As the Commonwealth’s flag-ship campus, we are com-mitted to protect and improve the environment for the next generation of Massachusetts citizens.” The bill made it possi-ble to borrow $1.9 billion for environmental projects statewide possible for the next four years. The portion

of those funds that UMass will eventually receive will go toward a variety of proj-ects both in Amherst and throughout Massachusetts A majority of the funds, $20 million, have been set aside for the 58-acre Waltham site along Beaver Street, which, according to the release, will be used to convert the area into a more eco-friendly space. These changes will include a new building with updated class-rooms, offices and confer-ence spaces. The location in the Boston area will become a more sustainable site by promoting urban agricul-ture and food safety. It will also serve as the home to researchers developing alternative means of energy and food and water systems. Outside of UMass, proj-ects include $4 million to fund water testing and jump-start facilities to improve water technology through-

Professor to speak on heritage internationally

By JaClyn BrysonCollegian Staff

U n ive r s i t y o f Massachusetts Professor Elizabeth Chilton wants people to understand the true meaning of heritage. And she’s traveling halfway around the world to do so. “When I tell people in the U.S. that I’m the director of the Center for Heritage and Society, people say, ‘Heritage…is that like gene-alogy?’” Chilton said. “I think in the U.S. we don’t use that word a lot.” To examine this issue from an international standpoint, Chilton, who is a UMass alumna her-self, will be in Madrid from Sept. 15 to 21. She plans to spread the word about the University’s Center for Heritage and Society and her recent proposal for a master’s program dedicat-ed to global heritage stud-ies, according to a UMass press release. “The program is aiming at something that is really not currently addressed in the academy in the U.S. right now,” she said. “That is, not the study of the past, but the study of contempo-rary people, and why the past matters and how the past matters in the pres-ent.” A program like this available at UMass, she said, will give students the tools necessary to better appreciate the significance of heritage and take appro-priate action. “I think that students who come to our program are going to have approach-es and understandings of the broader impacts and

foundations of cultural heritage than students who might go to a program somewhere else that might focus on archeology, for example,” she said. Chilton also hopes the master’s program will help students look at heritage in a different way – with a more critical eye. She said this has typically been the duty of experts, like the International Council on Monuments and Sites, to decide what heritage sites are most historically important and thus get list-ed on the World Heritage List, a registry of globally significant landmarks and monuments. She hopes stu-dents who come out of this program can push the enve-lope and get more involved in saving parts of our past that may otherwise be for-gotten. “We are a melting pot,” she said. “So what histories are we overlooking?” While the master’s pro-gram has not yet been offi-cially approved, the dedica-

tion put into making these and other programs, like the Center for Heritage and Society, which was estab-lished in 2009, has got-ten attention. Attention, Chilton added, from places outside the U.S. and UMass. “(These conferences) are a little different. These are sort of invitation only, smaller work-shopping groups,” she said. “What that tells me is that the work of not just me, but all of the people that have been involved has reached a certain level, that UMass is being noticed for its con-tribution to international heritage issues.” According to the release, Chilton has also been invit-ed to speak in Paris from Feb. 18 to 21, 2015, where she will focus her presenta-tion on the economic value and social importance heri-tage has for the people of today. “The Paris talk is really an example of academics

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President Obama speaks after being briefed on the outbreak of Ebola.

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Professor Chilton recently proposed a new master’s program dedicated to global heritage studies at UMass.

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Washington nervous about Thursday’s vote concerning Scottish independence

By Rachel OswaldCQ Roll Call

Ahead of Thursday’s ref-erendum on Scottish inde-pendence, U.S. policy mak-ers are speaking out- albeit tentatively -in support of a united United Kingdom. “Our ‘special relation-ship’ with the United Kingdom is unparalleled,” House Foreign Affairs ChairmanEd Royce, R-Calif., said in a statement. “It is cru-cial for both our nations to continue our close coopera-tion on key diplomatic, secu-rity, economic and human rights concerns. A strong, unified United Kingdom has been a leader in the world and I look forward to con-tinuing our valuable part-nership.” The locally governing separatist Scottish National Party has been wooing vot-ers with its promise to use North Sea oil royalties to expand social services, pursue amore Europe-focused foreign policy than that ofDavid Cameron’s Conservative-led coalition government in London and expel the British nuclear deterrent from its base in Scotland. The pro-indepen-dence “Yes” campaign has been gaining momentum after trailing in the public opinion surveys for months, with most recent polls show-ing a virtual dead heat - with a bloc of undecided voters big enough to swing the ref-erendum either way. The growing recognition that Scottish voters might really choose to annul their 307–year political union with England and Wales is rais-ing concerns on both sides of the Atlantic about the fate of the “special relationship” that Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt forged to wage World War II. The partnership has been a foundation of U.S. geopo-litical strategy ever since, but American policy mak-ers worry that a Britain diminished by the loss of a third of its land mass, 8 percent of its population and 10 percent of its armed forces – along with the base in southwestern Scotland for its Trident nuclear sub-marines – could be a less effective ally in the standoff with Russia and confronta-tion with the Islamic State. Some experts say a weak-

ened Britain’s permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council might even be endangered and that the European Union could be destabilized if Scottish independence inspired sepa-ratist movements in other European countries, notably Spain and Belgium. “We confront (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, we confront Islamic extrem-ism and the U.K. is an important ally” in those areas, House Foreign Affairs Committee memberBrad Sherman, D-Calif., said in an interview. “Now even if Scotland were to be sepa-rately an ally, you have a period of transition during which total British Isles forces will be consumed with reorganization and dis-integration. A particularly conten-tious point is the future of the submarine fleet that con-stitutes British independent nuclear strategic deterrent. The four Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarines are based at Faslane in southwestern Scotland and their nuclear-tipped Trident missiles are stored and maintained at the nearby Coulport armaments depot. The Scottish National Party has pledged that the subma-rines and nuclear weapons would be fully removed from an independent Scotland by 2020. Throughout the buildup to the Scottish referendum, the British government has maintained that it is not pre-paring contingency plans for the future basing of its nuclear arms because it did not expect Scots to secede. London says there is no other port in the country that is prepared to take over the nuclear basing mission. If the weapons were ordered out of Scotland, the two most likely interim destinations for the fleet would be France or the U.S. Naval Submarine Base at Kings Bay in Georgia, where they would share space with American Ohio-class submarines. In the long run, converting an English port to accommo-date the fleet would be an enormous expense. Despite its aversion to nuclear weapons, the Scottish National Party has promised to seek admittance to NATO, which relies on the

nuclear arms of France, the United Kingdom and the United States to guar-antee member states’ secu-rity. Scottish nationalists point toother small peace-ful and prosperous coun-tries including Denmark and Norway as examples of nuclear-free NATO mem-bers. Jeremy Shapiro, a for-eign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, pre-dicted that in the event of a vote for independence, the Obama administration “in order to make the best of a bad situation,” will mostly likely urge the fast com-pletion of a “negotiated, agreeable divorce.” “They will, I think, qui-etly, and to some extent behind the scenes, push for EU and NATO membership for Scotland on reasonably fair terms,” Shapiro said last week at a Brookings event. “The U.S. essentially sees this as two of its best friends divorcing and that is never a joyful experi-ence.” Juliet Kaarbo, a senior lecturer of Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, sees an inde-pendent Scotland’s foreign policy changing much more than its domestic policy. Edinburgh already pos-sesses considerable regional governing powers through the devolution process that began with the inauguration of a Scottish Parliament in 1999. With nationalists gain-ing in the polls, leaders of Britain’s three major nation-al parties have promised to devolve even more power to Edinburgh – including con-trol over taxation and wel-fare – if Scots elect to remain part of the United Kingdom. “The ‘Yes’ side is laying out aspirations for an ethics-based foreign policy, talk-ing about Scotland being a champion for international justice and peace, interna-tional development, human rights and climate justice,” said Kaarbo, a co-panelist at last week’s Brookings event. For the most part, the U.S. government stayed out of the debate over Scottish independence, until PresidentBarack Obamacautiously weighed in at a news conference fol-lowing the G-7 summit in

June. The president declared that the United States has a “deep interest in making sure that one of the clos-est allies we will ever have remains a strong, robust, united and effective part-ner.” Noting that it will be up to the Scottish people to decide their own fate, Obama called the United Kingdom “an extraordinary partner to us.” “From the outside, at least, it looks like things have worked pretty well,” he said. A few days later, former Secretary of StateHillary Rodham Clinton chimed in, calling a vote for Scottish autonomy a “loss for both sides.” The likely 2016 presi-dential contender added: “I would hope it doesn’t hap-pen.” Shapiro said he could not predict the effect on Scottish voters of U.S. leaders weigh-ing in, though he noted that “Scots are somewhat averse to being told what to do.” Sherman said he felt comfortable publicly urging a “No” vote because arti-cles written after Obama’s comments suggested that Scottish voters appreciated hearing what the United States thought on the mat-ter. “Since his comments didn’t backfire, I thought it

was important to show that he was speaking for all of America,” Sherman said. As lawmakers were escaping Washington in August for their summer recess, Sherman introduced a resolution that expresses support for a “united, secure and prosperous United Kingdom” and describes a united Britain as “impor-tant for U.S. national secu-rity priorities in Europe and around the world.” Joining as co-sponsors of the resolution were Royce and the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot L. Engelof New York, as well as the chairman and rank-ing member of the Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats Subcommittee. The resolution was referred to Royce’s panel, but Sherman said he doesn’t expect House action before the referendum on Thursday, given the preoc-cupation by Congress with passing a spending reso-lution and addressing an administration request to authorize the training and arming of Syrian rebels before lawmakers recess for their re-election campaigns.

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out Massachusetts, which sup-ports the work of Professor David Reckhow. At the UMass Cranberry Station in East Wareham, $5.5 million will go toward laborato-ry construction and new labora-tory equipment. According to the

release, the goal of this project is to reduce the impact these labs may have on the environment and to promote sustainable cranberry production. Other projects include $5 million to improve the Stockbridge School

of Agriculture, where technol-ogy upgrades will link Stockbridge with other schools through telecon-ferencing. A new Integrated Design Building will also be funded by $3 million and will be built off North Pleasant Street next to the Studio

Arts Building. The 87,000-square foot building will cost $53 million in total and is expected to be com-pleted by January 2017.

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“If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks

against specific ISIL targets, I’ll

recommend that to the president.”

Martin E. Dempsey, Army General

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and what I would call ‘heri-tage professionals,’ people who want to implement heritage projects, getting together to really think about how can we deal with the economic piece of this,” she said. “You can’t just say to governments, ‘Heritage is good, give us money to do it.’” And although Chilton will be speaking to educate others, there is one thing she said she looks forward to during her time abroad–learning from others in return. “I like meeting people who are interested in the same things, but coming at it with different experi-ences,” she added. She also hopes that as she delivers her speech-es to these international crowds, that people not only gain a better sense of the importance of heritage, but also learn more about the idea of heritage in a

social sense. “What I hope people take away is just maybe a more broad social science perspective,” she said. “That’s the agenda. How do we develop social science, theory and method into understanding why the past matters in contempo-rary society and then using that data to better manage places, things and people to help places, things and people in multiple ways?”

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maybe a more broad social science

perspective. That’s the agenda.”Elizabeth Chilton

HERITAGE continued from page 1 House to approve training of Syrian rebel forces temporarily

By William Douglas anD sean CoCkerham

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives is expected to approve a short-term measure Wednesday that would keep the fed-eral government open after the fiscal year ends Sept. 30 and temporarily authorize the training and arming of Syrian rebels to battle the Islamic State. The Senate is expected to follow soon after, per-haps as early as Thursday. A lame-duck Congress would return in December to reconsider both. With November’s elec-tions looming and the threat of the Islamic State growing, lawmakers anx-ious to return to their dis-tricts to campaign signaled a willingness to swallow their concerns and vote for the temporary budget bill, which would continue funding federal govern-ment programs and ser-vices at its current rate of $1.012 trillion until Dec. 11. Democratic and Republican leaders in the House predicted victory for the bill, though not without some drama. There’s bipartisan angst among rank–and–file Democrats and Republicans that runs across the hawk and dove camps. Some lawmakers Tuesday fret-ted that Obama’s strategy could be a prelude to anoth-er long-term U.S. engage-ment in the Middle East. Others wished they were voting on a more robust use of American military force, not just training and equip-ping a small proxy army. In the Senate, leaders of both parties signaled

approval and a return after the elections. “The chances are pretty good this is the last week we’re here,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R–Ky. He said the budget bill language authorizing the training of Syrian rebels would expire in December and would have to be extended with a new bud-get bill or a new authoriza-tion bill for the Pentagon. “I support what the president is doing, I’d like to take another look at it a couple of months (from now) and see how it’s work-ing out,” he said. “That would give the Congress an opportunity to revisit that issue later this year.” The Syria resolution, authored by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon, R–Calif., includes language that prevents Obama from expanding his strategy into a full–scale military opera-tion involving U.S. troops without congressional approval. “We’re on a short time frame. You give the com-mander in chief what he asks for and have a con-tinuing dialogue,” said Rep. Tom Cole, R–Okla. “I’ve made this statement public-ly and privately in some of our meetings (to) our mili-tary people, ‘You’re going to be back here asking for more authority and more money,’ let’s just recognize that.” House Speaker John Boehner, R–Ohio, said Obama’s authorization request “is a sound one,” but he added, “We’ve got to do more than train a few folks in Syria and train a few folks in Iraq and drop-ping bombs.” “The president asked us to authorize the training

of the Free Syrian Army,” Boehner said. “That’s what we’re going to do.” He may have to do it without lawmakers such as Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz. “I’m not comfortable authorizing a little compo-nent without seeing the full picture,” Salmon said after leaving a House Republican meeting. “I would rather get the job done, and I don’t believe that this will get the job done.” Rep. Walter Jones, R–N.C., left the meeting predicting that 10 to 15 House Republicans would join him in voting against the Syrian amendment. On the Democratic side, Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona said he leaned reluctantly toward sup-porting the Syrian autho-rization because “our his-tory of us supporting other groups in that area has not been one in which we have come out the winner.” Grijalva said he’s sur-prised by the number of House members from both parties who’ve told him that they’re leaning against voting for the authorization to train rebels. But he said the number isn’t enough to derail the amendment. Squeamishness about arming Syrian rebels was also evident in the Senate, which will take up the authorization measure after the House. “We’ll get it done, we’ll get it done,” said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D–Wash. “I don’t know how long it will take.” Sen. Joe Manchin, D–W.Va., said the U.S. needs to learn from its experience in Iraq and not believe that it can determine the outcome of an internal conflict in the Middle East. “The definition of insan-ity is thinking you can do

the same thing over and over again and believe that it will have a different result,” he said. But other senators, including Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez, D–N.J., and Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent, said training and arming the Syrian rebels is key to beat-ing the Islamic State. “We’re never going to be able to dislodge ISIS with-out a ground component,” King said, using one of the acronyms for the extremist group. “And I don’t want it to be Americans.” The Syria amendment and the desire of lawmak-ers to get out of Washington has blunted some of the contentious issues sur-rounding the budget bill. Conservative Republicans and Democrats were at odds, for example, over the reauthorizing the Export–Import Bank, which expires Sept. 30. Conservatives who regard the bank as “cor-porate welfare” wanted it killed, while Democrats were seeking a long-term reauthorization. Instead, the House is poised to pass a short-term plan that would extend the bank through June 2015. “Ex–Im gives me some heartburn,” said Rep. Bill Huizenga, R–Mich. “People like Grover Norquist and a number of others have said this is not worth the heart-burn for anybody. We know that we’re this close to an election and the American people are going to have to step up and figure out what direction are we going to go.”

Deciding vote to take place Wed.

ers veered away from the president’s pronouncement that he will not deploy U.S. ground troops to fight the Islamic State. During a hearing before lawmak-ers. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it’s possible that he will recommend ground troops as an option at some point. “If we reach the point where I believe our advis-ers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific ISIL targets, I’ll recommend that to the president,” Dempsey said, using one the acronyms that refer to the Islamic State. After Dempsey’s tes-timony, the White House insisted that the Pentagon plans are in alignment with the president’s policy, and cast the general’s remarks

as a hypothetical that the president wouldn’t consid-er anyway. The president has been clear about the policy, White House press secre-tary John Earnest said, adding that “the policy hasn’t changed.”

Performer to walk the wire between Chicago skyscrapers

By TeD gregoryChicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Nik Wallenda, a seventh–gener-ation member of the famed “Flying Wallendas” acro-batic performance family, is planning to walk more than 50 stories above and across the Chicago River, between Chicago’s Marina City’s west tower to the Leo Burnett Building –at night, without a net or harness– on Nov. 2. “This is going to be the most incredible tight-rope walk of my career,” Wallenda said Tuesday afternoon in a statement released by the Discovery Channel, which will tele-vise the event live. “I can’t think of a better city to do it.” The planned tightrope event would consist of two walks. The first would be longer than two city blocks, rising to an incline of 15 degrees across the Chicago River between the Leo Burnett Building and Marina City. The sec-ond would span between Marina City’s west and east towers. “Dozens” of cameras across the city and on helicopters will record Wallenda’s “nailbiting, two-part walk . . . in one of the windiest sections of Chicago,” Discovery stated. “With unpredict-able weather conditions, the tightrope crossing will

present countless obsta-cles.” Wallenda, who made his first professional tight-rope walk at age 13, said he hopes the walk “will inspire others to go after their dreams,” the release said. He is dedicating it to his family, especially his great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, who fell to his death on March 22, 1978, while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was 73. “I’m always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen,” Wallenda said, adding that his wife, three children and his father will attend the event. “I want my family to be there to see history in the making. And feel com-forted knowing that they’ll be praying along with me.” Wallenda said he has fond memories of the fam-ily performing in Chicago. Also, he has said the “Windy City” nickname offers an intriguing ele-ment to marketing the event. “Besides, it’s the ‘Windy City’ and there’s nothing like doing this during win-ter in Chicago,” Wallenda said, although winter offi-cially starts in December. “That’s a challenge for me and I love to push myself to do things that most people think are impossible.” In making the decision, Wallenda and his team, including his retired acro-bat father, used maps, pho-

tographs and bird’s-eye views from Google Earth. They concentrated on min-imizing traffic and busi-ness disruptions while try-ing to allow space for live audiences. In a statement when plans were taking shape months ago, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was enthusiastic about the wire walk, noting that Chicago was home to the first sky-scraper. The city “has played host to countless world events,” Emanuel said, “and this will be one for the history books. We are thrilled Nik Wallenda has chosen our great city with its iconic skyline as the site of his next walk.” Wallenda has relatively recent stage experience in Chicago. From 2005 to 2010, Wallenda joined his sister, Lijana, a costume designer at Lookingglass Theatre, three times for “Hephaestus: A Greek Mythology Circus Tale.” Wallenda served as a safety adviser, helping coordinate a seven-person pyramid on a high wire, and performed in the show. The broadcasts of his tightwire walks draw wide-spread interest. In June, his quarter-mile walk across an Arizona gorge over the Little Colorado River drew an estimated 13 million viewers to Discovery.

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Waves of protests by fast food workers have infiltrated the country in the past few weeks.

Demands such as raising mini-mum wages to $15, increasing the ability to form unions and improved health benefits are among many orders that protes-tors are requesting. Such pro-tests have received praise for practicing civil disobedience and exercising the constitution-al right to protest. Some protests, like the ones in Seattle beginning in 2012, even achieved victories. In June, the Seattle city council voted unanimously to gradually raise minimum wage to $15 by 2017, depending on the size of the business and whether or not it provides health insur-ance. To fully understand this issue, it is important to highlight a distinction between “mini-mum wage” and “living wage.” The minimum wage is a regu-latory tool that sets the legal minimum at which labor can be bought or sold. The setting of the minimum wage fails to take into consideration the cost of living, poverty levels or tax brackets, and is largely meant to standardize labor prices and prevent worker exploitation. By contrast, the “living wage” is a policy initiative that determines the wage level at which a worker may meet basic life needs. The needs described under the “living wage” extend

beyond biological needs such as food and water, for they also consider housing, child care and health care, among others. The differences between these two concepts are of utmost importance when discussing the recent protests, for it helps clar-ify why exactly the workers are demanding $15 an hour. As a tool for understanding the concept of living wage, Amy Glasmeier, a professor of eco-nomic geography and regional planning at the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, devel-oped a “Living Wage Calculator” which uses updated statistics and commodity prices to cal-culate the living wage in each county and city in the United States. According to the living wage calculator, a single adult liv-ing here in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, needs to earn $18,859 every year before taxes to support themselves alone. This can be achieved by work-ing full time at $9.07 per hour. However, if two adults liv-ing together are supporting one child, they need to earn $36,855, which comes out to $17.72 per hour, assuming that one parent takes time off to raise the child. When a second child is added, the amount jumps to $39,803, with $19.14 per hour. For these calculations, it can be argued that both parents

can work and earn enough at a lower hourly rate, but this view does not take into account child care costs that are incurred for parents who both work full time, which factor heavily into living wage calculations. For single parents, the results are even more daunting. For a single parent to raise one child, they must earn an annual income of $47,179, or a wage of $22.68 per hour. A single parent trying to raise two children is estimated to need $61,503, with a

wage of $29.57. According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, 26.6 percent of fast food workers aged 16 and over have a child, and that number jumps to 36.4 percent when only workers ages 20 and over are counted. With this in mind, about 79 percent of workers over the age of 20 make only $10.10 per hour. This is troubling, especially when considering that working full time at the federal minimum wage earns a pre-tax income of $15,080. It is hard to imagine raising a family with an annual income of $15,000 that’s know-ingly short by tens of thousands of dollars. Even more appalling is that despite these facts, there are some people in this country who would still advocate against raising the minimum wage. The argument is that working in the

fast food industry, or in other comparable professions, is not worth more than $7.25 per hour, basing such a claim on the fact that the labor is “un-skilled.” This argument is flawed. Just because an employee works at a fast food restaurant, does that employee deserve to be paid less than what is required to live? Some say that if a person wants to earn more, they must simply work harder and with more determination. What does this mean? Is working 40-plus

hours per week not work-ing hard? Is that 40 hours somehow not worthy of facilitating a healthy and sustainable life? Working, no matter

what kind of work it is, deserves a correct, justified and humane compensation. The people work-ing in the fast food industry are not just teenagers working a summer job, or college students making money during winter breaks. These are adults with families, with responsibilities and with the same desire to live a long and fulfilling life charac-teristic of every American. I respect the fast food worker who toils daily in pursuit of the American Dream far more than all the interns and associates and partners at all the corpo-rations in the world combined. Let’s hope these protests con-tinue and don’t stop until real progress is made. Samuel Fountain is a Collegian contributor and can be reached at sfountai@umass.edu.

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“I believe that working, no matter what kind of work it is, deserves a correct, justified and humane compensation.”

In an age of budget battles, deficit hawk-ing and massive ‘fiscal

cliffs’ that recur multi-ple times per year, the very idea of increas-ing the funding of anything sounds pre-posterous. Why waste money shooting rock-ets into space when

we could redirect that money towards any-thing else, or even save the money? We have a loom-ing national debt, bal-looning entitlement programs, skyrocket-ing healthcare costs and any number of other budget prob-lems to deal with, so why pump money into NASA? Because the space program is just about the most perfect kind of government pro-gram there is. In the spirit of its motto, “For the Benefit of All”, NASA not only explores and stud-ies other planets, but launches and man-ages a vast network of satellites around the globe that fulfill a range of purposes, from environmental research and weather prediction to GPS and communication. It single-handedly manages numer-ous probes, orbiters and satellites that have been absolutely invaluable in scien-tific progress and its missions have pro-duced innumerable new innovative tech-nologies that pervade society today. Those include LEDs, arti-ficial limbs, scratch-resistant lenses, high-way safety grooves, baby food, water puri-fication, solar panels and memory foam, which are but a small sample of innovations derived from NASA’s space program. It doesn’t even cost very much. While the public believes that we as a nation spend 20 percent of our budget on the program, NASA funding only repre-sents .5 percent of the national budget—40 times less than what we think we spend. The annual budget for NASA (as of 2012) is $18.8 billion per year—less than what

Americans spend on pet food ($21 billion), military air condition-ing for just one year during the Iraq war ($20 billion) and less than a quarter of what Americans spend on alcohol every year ($90 billion). In addition, invest-ment in NASA is an incredibly effective generator of economic

activity—every dol-lar spent on NASA returned about $8 in economic benefits in 2008 and NASA creates permanent, skilled jobs across a wide variety of techni-cal fields. What’s even better is many of those new jobs are coming in the form of private-sector companies, rather than government employment. NASA’s program to contract out construction of new launch vehicles and International Space Station resup-ply missions to private companies has result-ed in the rapid forma-tion of a private space industry, one that is shockingly efficient. In just over a decade, SpaceX, founded by PayPal and Tesla Motors creator Elon Musk, has drasti-cally reduced the cost of launching cargo into space and signifi-cantly decreased both the cost and devel-opment time of new rockets, making space more accessible than ever before. There was a time long ago when we, locked in competition with the Soviet Union, made a national effort to put a man on the moon and did it in less than a decade, which not only invigorated national pride but also left a legacy of techno-logical innovation that persists to this day. Let’s do it again. In the words of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, “Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.”

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

Stefan Herlitz

“Because the space program is just about the most perfect kind of government program there is.”

To fight ISIS, we must understand them In the past months, the ter-rorist group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

has forced its way into the American collective conscious-ness with a slew of shocking and horrifying acts. Since the Al-Qaeda offspring began seiz-ing large swaths of territory, its merciless zeal and shameless promotion of its own brutal tac-tics has left our mouths agape. The plight of the stranded Yazidis, besieged on Iraq’s Mt. Sinjar after losing hundreds of their kin in a precursor to potential genocide, finally prompted action in the form of U.S. airstrikes and aid to Kurdish Peshmerga fight-ers. This involvement in turn brought about the executions of captured American journalists James Foley and Stuart Sotloff, with accompanying video foot-age befitting ISIS’s social media campaign. The reaction of the American citizenry was predictable. We are appalled, disgusted, and angry. Every fiber in our moral con-scious is repulsed. We cannot even begin to fathom how any human being could perpetrate such atrocities. All we know is that ISIS is evil and must be destroyed. But while we are certainly justified in our moral condem-nation of the terrorist group, we must be careful not to let our indignation and the pure shock value of the crimes committed blind us from the true reality of the problem. Yes, ISIS is evil and yes, their forces must be

defeated. But the fact that their bru-tality surpasses anything most Americans can even begin to imagine in their everyday lives does not mean that their actions are inherently unexplainable. To suggest that ISIS embodies pure evil that simply cannot be accounted for represents a dan-gerous delusion that could mis-lead Americans in handling the problem. The idea of the intrinsi-cally evil terrorist became fully cemented after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The perpetra-

tors were cast as psychopaths, their motives revolving around destruction. Politicians are applying the same label now to the mem-bers of ISIS, with nihilism an oft-touted term. But ISIS is not nihilistic. Its work is not without meaning, and, in its mind, the destruction and devastation is not violence just for the sake of it, but rather a justified means to an end. Furthermore, it is vital to rec-ognize that ISIS is not composed of one body of individuals that we must combat and destroy. It has no set population to draw from. Instead, it systematically attract disenfranchised Muslims from around the world, utilizing the Internet to transmit its pro-paganda. That many Westerners have joined ISIS’ ranks has brought even more head scratch-

ing and teeth gnashing from the American populace. “How,” asks the typical newsroom anchor, “could any American be attracted to such a despicable group?” The question itself is legitimate. What a pity, then, that it is asked not in seri-ousness, but as an exasperated expression of complete conster-nation. On Wednesday, Sept. 10, President Obama announced plans to “degrade, and ultimate-ly destroy” ISIS through coor-dinated airstrikes and support for local opposition forces on the

ground, both in Iraq and Syria. Talking heads and politicians reacted to the speech with vary-ing degrees of enthusiasm, some questioning the president’s sincerity, others unsure of his plan’s plausibility. But beyond the potential utility of an American aerial campaign, we must also recog-nize that the problem at hand requires more than a military solution. The horror of ISIS does not embody itself in an enemy force, but in a churning caul-dron of ideological vitriol. This is no hornet’s nest, where, once we’ve taken care of each and every hornet, the problem is resolved. Clearly, the history of the Middle East, fraught with med-dling Western powers and inter-nal strife (which was mainly pre-cipitated by the aforementioned

meddling), has culminated in the volatile situation plaguing the world. Disaffected Arab Muslims have seen their world ripped asunder, and, rightly or wrongly, blame the Western world. Extreme Islamic funda-mentalism, espousing a cynical interpretation of the Koran and obsessing with the creation of an Islamic State, has worked its way into their mentalities and engendered a widespread, unre-lenting narrow-mindedness. Now, with sufficient instabil-ity to allow a group like ISIS to gain such eminence, this hateful ideology has gained relevance and will appeal to even more lost souls throughout the Muslim world. It is this pattern, not the specific military activity of the ISIS fighters that should truly frighten Americans. The prob-lem, however, is that it is a lot easier to combat an enemy force with bombs and gunfire than it is to thwart the spread of toxic ideas. The fact is that an estimated 30,000 fighters, including many Westerners, are waging violent jihad in Iraq and Syria, and are doing it for a reason. If we want to truly suppress the horrors of this movement, we cannot sim-ply fight back militarily while chalking the motives of our opponents up to baseless malev-olence. We must try, as difficult as it might be, to understand them, thus giving us the oppor-tunity to use our global influ-ence to amend the conditions that have allowed them to thrive.

Benjamin Clabault is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at bclabaul@umass.edu.

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“The problem, however, is that it is a lot easier to combat an enemy force with bombs and gunfire than it is to thwart the spread of toxic ideas.”

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By AdriA KellyCollegian Staff

In Ireland, it’s a common household practice to have coffee after dinner. This isn’t just a plain old cup of joe, though. Irish coffee is a delicious drink that provides a blend of warmth and tipsiness all at once. Here’s what’s needed to make this mouthwatering concoction.

A cup of freshly brewed coffeeA shot of whiskey (my grandmother uses Jameson)A dollop of whipped cream (if possible use heavy whip-ping cream and whisk until thick)A slice of lemonGranulated sugar

Since this is a widely known beverage, there are plenty of variations. Some call for a shot of Irish cream liquor, but I think that makes it too thick, so I would suggest just using the whipped cream. To make the coffee, take a mug and run the lemon slice around the rim of the glass. Pile the sugar on a plate and flatten out. This technique is similar to putting salt on the edge of a margarita glass, but with sugar. To do this, take the lemon-covered rim and rub it in the sugar pile. After the brim is covered with sugar, pour the coffee into the glass, add a shot of whiskey and plop a dollop of cream on top. The acidity from the lemon and the sweetness of the sugar will contrast the cream brilliantly and come together to create this wonderful classic.

Adria Kelly can be reached at akellysu@umass.edu.

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A feast for the brave: Bizarre foods from around the globe

By AdriA KellyCollegian Staff

All around the globe there are unfathomable foods used in dishes, ranging from casu-al snacks to rare delicacies. Many of these originate from ancient times, when food was scarce and the people would eat anything to sur-vive. With that in mind, fair warning if you have a weak stomach or are about to take a bite of something delicious (and probably more typical). These dishes are bizarre in every sense of the word. The most wide spread subject of weird food con-sumption is insects. In coun-tries spread across the world there are dishes involv-ing these little critters. In Australia, you can find witch-etty grubs. Traditionally for-aged for by the Aboriginal people, these large white lar-vae come from several types of moths and are eaten as a snack. In Mexico, escamole, or ant larvae, which is har-vested from the root of the blue agave (tequila) plant, is considered “insect caviar.” Koreans munch on Beondegi or silkworm pupae, Africans scour Mopane trees for cat-erpillars that live on bark and Indonesians eat stink-bugs – which apparently taste like sunflower seeds but I’m skeptical. And that’s not all for the edible crawlers of the plan-

et. In Colombia, hormigas culonas is a delicacy that tastes almost like roasted nuts. Don’t be fooled though – these nutty treats are actu-ally roasted and salted ants. For a truly rare treat, go to Cambodia and try the spiders. These deep fried tarantulas are served with a lime and black pepper dip, and could be considered the insect version of calamari. The most widely con-sumed bug that can be found all over the world is grass-hopper. In many street mar-kets in Asia, they are fried and eaten like tater tots, while in Mexico they are served with lime and salt. Moving away from insects and on to odd dishes made with animals and their parts. First up is the cocks-comb, or the fleshy growth seen on the top of a chicken’s head. This is a very popular ingredient in Europe, and its uses range from an addi-tion to sauces (such as the Italian cibero) to a garnish in France. Also in Europe, you can find head cheese in most markets. Made from the congealed fat cooked out of the head meat of sheep, this gelatin-like substance is commonly used as a spread on sandwiches. Just off the northeastern coast of the United Kingdom, you can find the infamous haggis. Primarily consumed in Scotland this meat-like substance is made out of the liver, heart, lungs and stom-ach of a sheep combined with onions, spices and oats.

A semi-bizarre food from Ireland is blood pudding. Although it may sound nasty, this sausage is made from congealed blood, grains, potatoes and fat. Blood pud-ding is eaten with most Irish breakfasts and has a pleas-

ant smoky flavor. Iceland has two very odd delicacies. First up is Hakarl, shark meat that is fermented in its own fluid, then cut into strips and dried. Even more disturbing is the sought after puffin heart. Cooked and eaten relatively plain, the heart of a puffin is suppos-edly tender and decadent. In Sweden, herring is fer-

mented so intensely that the fish is mostly eaten outside due to the strong odor. The last dish from Europe is lutefisk, a Scandinavian dish made from aged stock-fish and lye. The fish soaks in the lye for a few days then

is immediately plunged into a cold water bath for just under a week to ensure the lye’s’ absence in the final product. For bizarre foods, the United States has Rocky Mountain oysters. Also known as deep fried bull tes-ticles, these can be found at many festivals. In Alaska, tepa (“stink heads”) is eaten

by the indigenous Yupik people. For tepa, the head is chopped off of the fish and buried in the ground until the desired tang is achieved. Heading over to Asia, there is an array of inter-esting meals, ranging from

smelly fruit to eyeballs. In Thailand, the Durian fruit has succulent and sweet meat that is rather delicious, as long as you can get past the odor of trash and rot-ting food emitted by the food. Thailand is also home to the most expensive coffee in the world. Black ivory coffee is brewed from beans that are digested by Thai elephants

and sorted out of their feces. This brew goes for $1,100 per kilogram or about $50 a cup in the United States. Japan has quite a few bizarre foods on the market, as well. Shiokara is a bowl of marine animals, like squid, that are fermented in their own viscera. The tradition of following this dish with a shot of whiskey is no mys-tery. For the more daring diners, fugu, or Japanese puffer fish, is potentially lethal if not cleaned prop-erly. Next up is tuna eyeball: With a similar taste to squid, the most common prepara-tion of the eye is simply to boil and salt it. In the Philippines, balut, or fertilized and boiled duck embryo, is considered deca-dent and can be found at many restaurants. To finish off the explo-ration of bizarre dishes is snake wine, produced by infusing entire snakes in grain alcohol. Found in China and Vietnam, this wine is believed to have great health benefits. These foods might be way outside of your comfort zone. Regardless, next time you go out to eat, try to order the oddest item on the menu. You might be surprised by how delicious the bizarre can be.

Adria Kelly can be reached at akel-lysu@umass.edu.

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Bottled shiokara (salted fermented octopus) in a Japanese marketplace.

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Fancy Irish coffee, a warming post-dinner drink.

Liven up any dish with spicy dukkah

By Jill Wendholt SilvAThe Kansas City Star

Dukkah (pronounced DOO-kah) is a Middle Eastern blend of toasted nuts, sesame seeds and spic-es. The crunchy condiment served on olive oil-dipped flatbread is especially popu-

lar in Egypt, where nearly every family has developed its own version to suit its per-sonal taste. But dukkah - traditionally featuring hazelnuts ground in a mortar and pestle - has gone on a bit of a globe trot recently, initially surfacing in Australia and New Zealand. Now dukkah is starting to trend in the United States: The just-released cookbook “In a Nutshell” (W.W. Norton)

by Cara Tannenbaum and Andrea Tutunjian offers a recipe with an international spin, combining Brazil nuts and hazelnuts with sesame and sunflower seeds and coconut flakes. Meanwhile, Trader Joe’s sells small jars of the condi-ment. Its version has distinc-tive anise notes, according to the blog Eating at Joe’s. The Star’s recipe for Spicy Dukkah uses Trader Joe’s popular Thai Lime and Chili

nuts, including cashews, almonds and peanuts, for a jump start. To eat dukkah, dip your chip, bread or crudite into olive oil and then coat with the nut/spice mixture. Dukkah is also delicious sprinkled on everything from eggs and pasta to roasted or fresh vegetables, or swirled into yogurt or salad dress-ings. It is also very good sprinkled on feta cheese and

hummus. Why all the hoopla over dukkah? It’s high in protein and fiber with minimal saturated fat, cholesterol or sugar. Plus, when you use a food proces-sor, it’s a snap to make a batch. Shopping tip: The spiced nuts we used for testing this recipe are available at Trader Joe’s, but if you prefer a less spicy version, use a combina-tion of almonds and cashews,

toast and continue with the recipe. Cooking tip: Toasting intensifies the flavor of nuts and seeds, but watch the pro-cess carefully, as they burn quickly. Makes about 1 cups 1 cup Thai Lime and Chili Almonds, Cashews or Peanuts (see shopping tip) 1 cup sesame seeds 2 tablespoons whole cori-ander seeds

2 tablespoons cumin seed 1 teaspoon salt Pita bread and crudites, for serving Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spread nuts in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake 7 to 10 minutes or until toast-ed, stirring halfway through. (Toasting intensifies the fla-vor of nuts and seeds, but watch carefully so they don’t burn.) Spread sesame seeds in a single layer on a baking sheet and bake 5 to 7 minutes or until toasted, stirring half-way through. Spread coriander seeds and cumin seeds on a baking sheet and toast 5 to 8 minutes. Allow all ingredients to cool completely. Place all ingredients in a food processor and pulse about 15 times to chop mix-ture. Mixture can be coarse or fine as you prefer, but do not overprocess or mixture will turn to paste. You do not want a paste. Store mixture in a covered container in refrigerator. To serve, dip the edge of pita bread into olive oil, then into dukkah. To add crudites, use any vegetables, including cauli-flower, carrots, peppers, zuc-chini, radishes and blanched green beans. Arrange the crudites around several small bowls of dukkah and olive oil for dipping. Per 3-teaspoon serving: 48 calories (73 percent from fat), 4 g total fat (1 g saturated), no cholesterol, 2 g carbohy-drates, 1 g protein, 91 mg sodium, 1 g dietary fiber.

Recipe developed for The Star by pro-fessional home economists Kathryn Moore and Roxanne Wyss.

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The array of spices used to make Dukkah.

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“taken over,” in a good way of course. Ciccarelli stressed that his players are truly “ambassadors of the game” and that they “put UMass in a great light.” The program is heavily involved in student leader-ship and non- team related fundraising, dedicating its time to supporting causes such as breast cancer awareness and hurricane relief. Ciccarelli said the team holds at least one major fundraising event each year. One major goal for this club, according to Ciccarelli, is to avoid being “outliers” within the com-munity. UMass continues to positively impact the rugby and university envi-ronment.

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flexibility, not really power or a lot of load. So the main focus is…injury preven-tion,” Tagliente said. Tuesdays for UMass are generally geared towards conditioning, and by Thursday the team will cut down to fewer drills. Finally, after their shorter Thursday practices, the Minutewomen will hit the video room and watch film on their upcoming oppo-nents. While UMass is still searching for the consis-tency it’s been accustomed to over the past several years, Tagliente has noticed that her practices have improved the overall atti-tude and competitive vibe her team has been exhibit-ing. “This past week of

practice going into Cal, we made huge improvements in terms of game play. We focused on playing a lot in the week and scrimmaging a lot. We had some players step up and grow in certain positions that they had not been accustomed to, which is great,” Tagliente said. She added that “we can still work on situational things within game play, have small focuses…but cer-tain defensive and attacking situations in our attack and defense 25 have improved.” The Minutewomen will see just how far they’ve come this weekend. They host Connecticut on Friday at 2 p.m. and Northeastern on Sunday at 4 p.m.

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he deserves due process. But he also called the allega-tions, that Peterson used a wooden switch to discipline his four-year-old son, “a pub-lic embarrassment to the Vikings organization and the state of Minnesota.” Dayton’s remarks came in a statement from his office. The governor is in Washington, D.C., raising funds for his re-election campaign. “Whipping a child to the extent of visible wounds, as has been alleged, should not be tolerated in our state,” Dayton said. Dayton also expressed his support for the team. “I will not turn my back on the Vikings and their fans, as some have sug-gested,” Dayton said. “The Vikings belong to Minnesota

and in Minnesota. This has been the team’s only home; and our citizens, including myself, have been its most dedicated fans.” A directive was issued to the Nike district within the Twin Cities, which impacts the Nike Store inside the Mall of America and the Nike fac-tory store at the Twin Cities Premium Outlets in Eagan, a Nike store manager said. The Vikings running back typically has his jersey prominently displayed in the Nike Store at the Mall of America, the largest shop-ping mall in the country. They’ve now been replaced with generic Vikings T-shirts. Peterson jerseys are still available for purchase on Nike’s website as of 3 p.m. CDT.

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By Ariel KAllenBAchCollegian Staff

T he Massachusetts club rugby team began its season on Saturday in

a disappointing manner, dropping its season opener 19-3 to Boston College. The Eagles jumped to an early 6-0 lead on a pair of completed penalty kicks and scored the game’s first try to extend the advantage to 14-0. The Minutemen cut the lead to 14-3 at the half on a penalty kick by Brendan Kelly. BC, however, con-trolled the play through-out the second half, taking away any potential scor-ing threat and adding to its lead with another try to make it 19-3. UMass’ Max Pomeranz suffered a knee injury in the second half and was replaced by Ben Brzoski. Despite the lopsided

defeat, the Minutemen’s future remains bright. UMass enters the fall sea-son as two-time defending champions of the Beast of the East tournament – the largest Division I collegiate rugby tournament on the East Coast. Last year’s success gen-erated “positive momen-tum” going into this sea-son, according to club pres-ident Jonathan Rossini. He said the momentum con-tinued to build throughout the preseason and acceler-ated more rapidly once the school year began. But for this momentum to carry into the season, the Minutemen will have to fill the void left by its grad-uating seniors, who Rossini said played key roles for UMass last year. Nonetheless, the Minutemen’s returning players stepped up and contributed to the team’s resilience, depth and soli-darity. Most notably, backs captain Alphonsus Preza and forwards captain Devin Ibanez are signifi-

cant members of the team. Rossini labeled both veter-ans as players to watch this season. UMass coach Phil Ciccarelli, a former Northeastern player who has coached the Minutemen since spring 2012, said the team’s success in the Beast of the East tournament and last year’s progress set the tone for what lies ahead. “We picked up right where we left off,”

Ciccarelli said. “So we are just perfecting our game plan right now and hope-fully we’re gonna roll through the fall.” While the talent of the team is apparent, what really stands out is the sense of family and unity. When asked about team dynamics, Rossini said he feels that he has “40 broth-ers” and that rugby has

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Forwards captain Devin Ibanez carries the ball in the Minutemen’s season opening loss to Boston College.

By Griffin cArrollCollegian Correspondent

A year after los-ing three all-conference players and falling to Virginia Commonwealth in the semi-finals of the Atlantic 10 Championship, Massachusetts women’s tennis coach Judy Dixon remains optimistic about the upcoming season. “Both coaches are eager to get this going,” Dixon said in reference to herself and assistant coach Juancarlos Nunez. “I think we feel this is one of the best teams we’ve ever had here.” The 12-person squad will feature six newcomers that are expected to make an immediate impact. Two transfers, sopho-more Brittany Collens and junior Carol Benito, are expected to play prominent roles for the Minutewomen. Collens played a season ago at New Mexico State while Benito played at Tulsa. Freshman Ana Acosta, who is from Las Palmas, Spain will also be relied on as a key contributor. “We’re young for sure,” Dixon said. “What we think we’ve done is added more depth and I believe we’ve added as much quality as we lost, and maybe a half a step better.” UMass must replace Sonia Bokhari, Yuliana Motyl and Jessica Podlofsky, as all three graduated last year. Podlofsky owns the program’s record for most singles victories of all-time while Motyl and Bokhari were consistent contributors in both singles and doubles. But Dixon, who is the winningest tennis coach in UMass history, has lofty goals for her team this year. “Our goal is to win the conference,” said Dixon. “VCU being the pick obvi-ously, they’re the team to beat. We’re headed in a good direction. Our goal is get more attainable as we get better and better.” The first step in getting better starts this weekend when the Minutewomen head to Providence, Rhode Island to play in the Brown University Invitational. The team is also slated to play in tournaments at West Point, Yale, and Dartmouth before the spring season kicks off in 2015. “The fall is all about get-

ting them used to the team,” said Dixon. “Fall is reduced pressure, develop the kids, and come back in January ready to go.” The only team UMass will face in an individual match this fall is Connecticut, who hosts the Minutewomen Oct.9. Arielle Griffin, a junior, will be the first singles starter. Acosta and Aarzoo Malik will likely compete for the second and third singles spots while Anna Woosley is the favorite to round out the top four. Benito, Collens, and Chanel Glasper plan to compete for the fifth, sixth, and seventh positions. The doubles lineup is still a work in progress, but Dixon said she knows she has the entire fall season to sort it out. She plans to start with Griffin and Malik as the first doubles pair, Acosta and Benito as the second, and Glasper with Collens as the third. Isabel Balsavage, Gianna Francis, Michelle Katzelnik, and Julia Larson round out the roster. Dixon stressed that the starting lineup at the begin-ning of the season is far from being set in stone. “I can change the lineup,” Dixon said. “The other team and coaches can’t prepare for us because a lot of teams have set lineups. I don’t have a definite lineup, which makes us better.” The Minutewomen’s depth will be the strength of their team, regardless of the lineup that Dixon ends up choosing. “For UMass tennis, it’s a funny kind of a thing,” Dixon said. “We always play without a star, we’re very good with depth. The match will never come down to our number one, we’re better the deeper we go. We win from the bot-tom up, not the top down.” The Minutewomen will get their first crack at live competition at Brown this weekend, and the entire team is itching to get started. “I’m very well pleased with the effort and inten-sity in the first two weeks of practice,” said Dixon. “We have a very eager team. I’m looking forward to seeing them compete.”

Griffin Carroll can be reached at gcarroll@umass.edu

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UMass rugby players defend against a Boston College line-out.

Family and unity

Nike removes Peterson gear

By MAster tesfAtsion And MAtt Vensel

Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Fallout over the Adrian Peterson situation continued on Tuesday, with sponsors taking stands, the governor rebuking the team and an appearance by players can-celed. Two Nike stores in the Twin Cities have been pulled all Peterson apparel off the shelves. Mylan, the creators of the EpiPen who previously part-nered with Peterson to create awareness to food allergies, said it is no longer working with the running back. A scheduled appear-

ance by six players at the St. Joseph’s Home for Children on Tuesday afternoon was also shelved by mutual agree-ment. And Anheuser Busch, one of the NFL’s biggest corpo-rate sponsors, issued a state-ment that essentially called for the NFL to get its house in order. The NFL’s exclusive beer sponsor released a state-ment on Tuesday regarding recent incidents shadowing over the NFL season, includ-ing Ravens running back Ray Rice’s domestic violence inci-dent and Peterson’s alleged actions against his 4-year-old son. Peterson, who was deacti-vated Sunday, was reinstated by the team Monday. “We are disappointed and increasingly concerned by the recent incidents that have

overshadowed this NFL sea-son. We are not yet satisfied with the league’s handling of behaviors that so clearly go against our own company culture and moral code. We have shared our concerns and expectations with the league.” According to KSTP-TV, Peterson’s philanthropy, the All Day Foundation, is cur-rently on a hiatus. The sta-tion also reported the Special Olympics confirmed Monday it was severing financial ties with Peterson. Earlier Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton said the NFL should suspend Peterson until his case is resolved. Calling the allegations and their fallout “an awful situation,” Dayton said he believes Peterson is innocent until proven guilty and that

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Practice makes perfect for UM

By MAtthew ZAcKMAnCollegian Staff

After six games, the Massachusetts field hockey team is searching for consis-tency. With narrow losses to No. 1 Maryland, Temple, No. 13 Boston College and California coupled with wins against Maine and UMass-Lowell, UMass (2-4, 0-0 Atlantic 10) has yet to find the form that led them to an A-10 Championship and NCAA tournament appearance last season. The only way to find that success again is to start winning games. For the Minutewomen, the process of putting wins on the board

ultimately starts with more determined practice ses-sions. UMass coach Carla Tagliente typically sched-ules practices on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, as the Minutewomen pre-dominantly play games on Friday and Sunday. “Mondays are usually off, depending on where we are in the season,” Tagliente said. “Farther along in the season, if we need two days, we might give two days off here and there.” How the team chooses to spend practice time changes throughout the week. Early in the week, focus is placed on scrimmaging and rep-etition, just to get the team playing. Later in the week, more emphasis is placed on strategy and scouting.

“We have been playing a lot lately, just because we are so young and need to grow and get experience on the field. But if we were a bit further along, a Tuesday practice would be work-ing on something that we thought we were deficient on from the past weekend,” Tagliente said. After Tuesday practices, the Minutewomen supple-ment their practices with weight-lifting sessions. “Right now [we lift] one [day a week]. But if we had a different game schedule… ideally we would get in two.”Tagliente made it clear that in-season workouts have a different focus than offseason ones. “In season is very much core strength, hip mobility,

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Winning starts early in week for UMass

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UMass reloads roster for 2014-15

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Jerseys pulled in 2 Minnesota stores