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Registered nurse and UMass student Deborah Wilson discusses spending six weeks in Liberia to treat Ebola patients.

Nurse shares experiences with Ebola UpCycling aims to make use of students’ trash

By Isaac sImonCollegian Staff

The next gra-nola bar purchased on the University of Massachusetts campus may be doing more than providing a quick snack. UpCycle, a student-operated environmental organization, is working to recycle materials such as foil-lined granola bar wrappers, which would otherwise get tossed in the trash. It’s referred to as alternative recycling, and sophomore Erin Shaughnessey is leading the initiative. During a trial run last spring, cardboard UpCycling boxes were placed in cafes around campus. Without any sort of marketing push involved, the initiative managed to collect just shy of 175 wrappers over four weeks toward the end of the semester. And it’s been growing ever since. Shaughnessey said that, at first, students on campus were confused as to what products could be upcycled, leaving her-self and others to sort through the boxes to pick out wrappers that didn’t belong. But as long as the num-ber of wrappers grow, Shaughnessey has no qualms with doing extra work. “At least people are try-ing, (rather) than just not bothering to understand how it works,” she said, believing the number of mistakes will decrease. Because Shaughnessey

knew about UpCycle and its mission from her home-town, she was surprised by the amount of people who had not heard about the program. Having the background knowledge of how the initiative worked gave her enough exper-tise to execute UpCycle at UMass. UpCycle originated as a club in the Isenberg School of Management. The executive board has expanded since last semester, and the group itself has grown to a total of about 30 people. During its inception, UpCycle’s unofficial status made it difficult to coordinate important projects and initiatives. But that changed last year once its charter was approved, allowing it to become a Registered Student Organization, which brought fund-ing from the Student Government Association. The boxes labeled “UpCycle” were paid for by Van Sullivan, the man-ager of Campus Center Food Services, while Shaughnessey designed them. UpCycle currently works with TerraCycle, an internationally-recog-nized recycling and upcy-cling company. It works with different manu-facturers in an effort to repurpose various materi-als and provides UpCycle with pre-paid shipping labels to send out the materials the initiative collects. The UpCycle pro-gram is considered the prime initiative of Net Impact, which encourag-es students to incorporate business ideas as a way of

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By PatrIck JohnstonCollegian Staff

Deborah Wilson, a nurs-ing student at the University of Massachusetts, shared a first-hand account of her experiences volunteering with Doctors without Borders Tuesday evening in Skinner Hall, describing her time in Liberia during last year’s Ebola outbreak. During her presentation, “A Day in the Life of an Ebola Treatment Center,” Wilson began by recounting what it was like for volunteer nurses at the center. “It was the rainy season and 100 degrees every day,” she said, while adding it was necessary to wear Plastic Process Equipment (PPE) in such heat. According to Wilson, the nurses were so drenched in sweat after work-ing in the treatment center that “it was literally like you jumped in a river.”

These conditions weren’t the only struggle Wilson and the volunteer nurses she managed faced. Patients suffering from Ebola would become delirious in later stages of the virus. Wilson said these patients would pull out their IV’s and resist treat-ment. According to Wilson, it became a danger to the nurses themselves in extreme cases. “I was once pinned against a wall by a man who had gone completely psychotic,” she said. This treatment center, by necessity, was located away from any modern or well-equipped health facilities, and Wilson described in detail the state in which many Ebola patients had to live. “Patients are lying on the concrete floor covered in vomit, covered in diarrhea … some were bleeding profuse-ly,” she said. Wilson said people who

were suspected to have Ebola had to be put in quarantine together while awaiting the result of a blood test – the only guaranteed way to know if they had the disease – due to lack of space. A test, which would normally take five hours, took more than three days because of the lack of proper equipment. This changed in the weeks Wilson was there, as more equipment and resources were donated. But even with every resource they could gather, most of the patients died. “We had to create a ceme-tery,” Wilson said. “We didn’t have enough staff to transport the bodies back to the villag-es.” The flow of contaminated material coming out of the facility was virtually endless. All of it was thrown into a pile, which burned constant-ly, according to Wilson.

The facility also faced problems from the commu-nities from which many of the patients originated. In Liberia, there was significant distrust for those running the facilities, and rumors circu-lated among many of the vil-lages. The bodies of those who died of Ebola had to be put in protective body bags to pre-vent the spread of the virus, and according to Wilson, this gave rise to a rumor that organs were being stolen. Some in Liberia even believed the treatment cen-ter was deliberately giving its patients Ebola. Wilson went on to explain that these rumors were combated by using an outreach program meant to educate the people of Liberia about Ebola and what to do in order to pre-vent it from spreading. They also encouraged survivors of

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Death of Kayla Mueller confirmed to her family

By nIgel DuaraLos Angeles Times

TUCSON, Ariz. — The family of an American woman abduct-ed while volunteering in Syria announced Tuesday that they have received confirmation that she is dead. Islamic State released a video last week claiming that Kayla Mueller, 26, was killed in an air attack by coalition forces against the militants in Syria. U.S. intelligence officials also believe that Mueller is dead but don’t accept the militants’ account of how she was killed, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in Washington on Tuesday. There is no evidence of civil-ians in the area targeted by Jordan on Friday, Earnest said at his daily news briefing. Regardless of how Mueller died, he said, her Islamic State captors are to blame. “They are responsible for her safety and

well-being,” Earnest said. Mueller’s family released a statement saying that it had received confirmation of her death. It did not disclose how it learned the information. However, a source close to the family who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the communications said a private message containing addi-tional information from the cap-tors was sent to Mueller’s par-ents over the weekend. Once the statement was authenticated by the intelligence community, the family concluded that she was dead, the source said. “We are heartbroken to share that we’ve received confirmation that Kayla Jean Mueller has lost her life,” her parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, and her broth-er, Eric, said in the statement. U.S. officials are aware of at least one other American being held in the region, Earnest said. He did not identify the individu-al. But he may have been refer-ring to Austin Tice, an American journalist and former Marine who disappeared in Syria in August 2012.

It is not clear who is holding Tice, but his parents, Debra and Marc Tice, have said that they don’t believe he is in the hands of Islamic State militants. “Our hearts go out to the Mueller family and everyone who loves Kayla,” the family said in a statement posted on a web-site that aims to raise awareness about Austin Tice’s captivity. “We have no way of understand-ing what they are going through, and we wish them all possible comfort.” In Washington, the White House released a statement of condolence from President Barack Obama. “On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I convey our deepest condolences to Kayla’s family - her parents, Marsha and Carl, and her brother Eric and his family - and all of those who loved Kayla dearly,” the statement said. “At this time of unimaginable suffering, the country shares in their grief.” Mueller had a long history of volunteering to help women and children, having worked for aid groups in Arizona before setting

out for other countries, including India and Turkey. In August 2013, she was abduct-ed in the Syrian city of Aleppo as she left a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders and was being held in Raqqa, a mili-tant stronghold in northeastern Syria. The family statement also included letters Mueller wrote to her family, including one on her father’s birthday in 2011. “Some people find God in church. Some people find God in nature. Some people find God in love,” she wrote. “I find God in suffering. I’ve known for some time what my life’s work is, using my hands as tools to relieve suf-fering.” After attending Northern Arizona University, she lived and worked with aid groups in northern India, Israel and the Palestinian territories. She returned to Arizona in 2011, where she worked at an HIV/AIDS clinic and volunteered at a women’s shelter. Late that year, she moved to southeast-ern France and worked as an au pair while learning French in

preparation for a planned move to Africa. But the plight of families flee-ing the violence in war-torn Syria drew her to Turkey in December 2012. She worked with the aid groups Support to Life and the Danish Refugee Council, assist-ing women and children who crossed into Turkey as refugees. She also made some trips into Syria to help reconnect family members separated by the fight-ing. Her trips into the country took her to Aleppo, where she was eventually kidnapped. In correspondence to her fam-ily, which she slipped to other detainees who were being freed, Mueller was contrite and seemed to try to assuage her family’s worry. She told them she was being treated well and was not in harm’s way. “If you could say I have ‘suf-fered’ at all throughout this whole experience it is only in knowing how much suffering I have put you all through; I will never ask you to forgive me as

American volunteer abducted, killed by IS

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ON THIS DAY...In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation from the papacy. He was the first to resign in more than half a millennium.

United States WASHINGTON —President Barack Obama acknowledged Monday that he is considering arming Ukraine’s military if a dip-lomatic push fails to yield a cease-fire with Russia-backed separatists, but wor-ried that such an approach could do more harm that good. In a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Obama sounded skeptical about the unintended consequences of sending weapons to an army that is so overpowered by Russian forces and raised doubts about whether it might serve only to escalate a war that has already killed more than 5,000 people.

Tribune Washington Bureau

Cuba GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — The 9/11 trial judge abruptly recessed the first hearing in the case since August on Monday after some of the alleged Sept. 11 plotters said they recognized a war court linguist as a former secret CIA prison worker. Alleged plot deputy Ramzi bin al Shibh, 42, made the revelation just moments into the hear-ing by informing the judge he had a problem with his courtroom translator: The interpreter, he claimed, worked for the CIA during his 2002 through 2006 deten-tion at a so-called “Black Site.”

Miami Herald

United States NEW YORK — Twitter Inc. said government requests for user data and content removal jumped in the second half of 2014, especially in Russia, Turkey and the U.S. In its twice-yearly trans-parency report, Twitter said it received 84 percent more requests for content removal and 40 percent more requests for account information from govern-ments worldwide from July 1 to Dec. 31, compared with the first six months of the year. The report is part of a broader effort by the San Francisco-based company to shed light on government surveillance of its members. Twitter last year filed a law-suit against the U.S. govern-ment, claiming that restric-tions on the information the company makes public about surveillance demands violate free-speech rights.

Bloomberg News

India MUMBAI, India — India’s finance minister pledged Monday to expand a probe into untaxed money after an investigative report revealed the identities of Indians holding a total of $4 billion in Swiss bank accounts. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government “will certainly investigate the new names” among 1,195 corporate leaders, politicians, industrialists, Indians living abroad and two former tax officers who were found to have held accounts with HSBC’s Swiss private banking unit in 2006 and 2007.

Los Angeles Times

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Alabama awaits another same-sex marriage ruling

By Michael Muskal and Matthew teague

Los Angeles Times

FAIRHOPE, Ala.— Advocates of same-sex mar-riages were wading through Alabama’s complicated legal problems on Tuesday, hoping that a pending motion before a federal judge will bring some clar-ity to what has become a touchy issue of who can marry whom. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block gay marriages in Alabama, but the state’s top judge over the weekend ordered probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. In some counties, probate judges ignored Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s order but many listened, refusing to allow same-sex marriag-es as ordered by the federal courts. According to the Human Rights Campaign, a group backing gay marriage, 50 of Alabama’s 67 counties were refusing to issue mar-riage licenses to same-sex couples, down from Monday when at least 53 counties were taking that position. Four couples in Mobile have asked U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade to instruct Probate Judge Don Davis to issue them marriage licenses after

Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses rather than having to issue ones to same-sex couples. Granade in January ordered Alabama to stop enforcing its ban on same-sex marriage, but put a hold on the decision until Monday to allow the state time to prepare. The U.S. Supreme Court in a 7-2 deci-sion on Monday refused the state’s request and said same-sex marriages could take place. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to deal with the same-sex marriage issue this term after lower federal appeals courts split 4 to 1 in support of gay marriage. Monday’s decision to allow gay marriage in Alabama was widely seen as a signal of how the top U.S. court will deal with the broader issue, and is likely to rule in favor of same-sex marriage across the nation. “While many same-sex couples in Alabama were able to marry, many oth-ers were denied that basic freedom,” said Shannon P. Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, one of the groups seeking the federal order against probate judges. “We are hopeful that a ruling on this motion will provide clarity regarding the obli-gations of probate judges

across the state and correct the misunderstanding gen-erated by Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who has erroneously instructed those judges not to comply with the requirements of the federal Constitution.” According to Randall Marshall, legal director of the ACLU of Alabama, which is also involved in the suit, the recent confu-sion has created several cat-egories of counties dealing with the conflicting rulings between the U.S. Supreme Court and the order from the state’s top judge. One group is those coun-ties that are issuing mar-riage licenses to same-sex couples. Hundreds of cou-ples have already married since Alabama became the 37th state where gay mar-riage is legal. Same-sex marriage is also legal in Washington, D.C. The second category is those counties, includ-ing Mobile, that have shut down, and are not issuing marriage licenses to any-one. The last category is those counties where marriage licenses are being issued to heterosexual couples, but not to same-sex couples. It is unclear how many counties fall into each cat-egory, Marshall said.

Ebola to go on local radio shows to answer questions and quell rumors about the treatment facility.But Wilson also mentioned that although these efforts have been largely success-ful in Liberia, great care must be taken not to force the issue and to respect local cultures. Wilson also mentioned one thing that helped to quell mistrust was the decision to allow family members to see their ill loved ones. Wilson explained that family members had to wear PPE but were allowed in. This not only dispelled mistrust but also humanized the job for her. The presence of the families helped her remem-ber those being treated weren’t just patients, but human beings.Wilson spent six weeks work-ing six hours a day treat-ing those with Ebola, along with completing a semes-ter’s worth of online work for her bachelor’s degree at UMass. She explained meals generally consisted of white bread, fried potatoes, mayon-naise and low quality meat. “Our vegetable was ketch-up,” Wilson said.Wilson said the Ebola out-break has all but destroyed the healthcare system of Liberia, and when asked what she thought the United States’ role should be, she responded by saying, “We have an ethical and moral obligation to keep support-ing these countries.” She

added that she was happy that she could help those who suffered from Ebola. “We do it because people do survive,” she said.In the past, Wilson criticized the mainstream media as well as many politicians for creating “misinformation and hype” around the sub-ject of Ebola, saying that they were overly focused on the few cases in America, and not with the true story of what was happening in Africa. She explained Ebola spread so quickly because of widespread poverty and lack of equipment to deal with the problem. She said that the U.S.’s fearful response was knee-jerked and misinformed. In October of last year, Wilson wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times, which expressed her outrage at the response of politicians to the Ebola crisis and specifically criti-cized the restrictive treat-ment of healthcare workers, including Kaci Hickox who was quarantined last year under a policy put in to place by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.Wilson also believes these presentations are worth-while to the public overall.“It helps educate people about what it is to really like working with Ebola,” she said.

Patrick Johnston can be reached at pejohnston@umass.edu.

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By JiM PuzzangheraLos Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — A Republican on the Federal Communications Commission blasted the net neu-trality proposal from the agency’s chairman as a “secret plan to regu-late the Internet” that “opens the door to billions of dollars in new taxes” on broadband services. Commissioner Ajit Pai said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a Democrat, was misleading the pub-lic about what’s in the plan. At a Tuesday news conference, Pai held up a copy of the thick draft proposal and called on Wheeler to make it public before the agency votes on it Feb. 26. “I believe the public has a right to know what its government is doing, particularly when it comes to some-thing as important as Internet regu-lation,” said Pai, an ardent oppo-nent of net neutrality regulations. “I have studied the 332-page plan in detail, and it is worse than I imag-ined,” he said. The FCC typically does not release draft orders until after they are approved by the commission. Wheeler has the authority to do so but FCC spokeswoman Kim Hart said the chairman will not break with “long-standing FCC practice.” Wheeler’s proposal would impose

tough new federal oversight of online traffic to ensure Internet pro-viders don’t give preference to video and other content from some web-sites over others. The plan would put wired and wireless broadband service provid-ers in the same legal category as highly regulated telephone compa-nies, although Wheeler said the FCC would take a light-touch approach that would not include rate regula-tion. Democrats have a 3-2 majority on the commission and the proposal is expected to pass despite the opposi-tion of Pai and the other Republican, Michael O’Rielly. Pai spent 45 minutes Tuesday criticizing the report as an unnec-essary overreach that would harm consumers and businesses. “I foresee adverse consequences for the entire Internet economy,” said Pai. Highlighting the volatility of the issue, the news conference was dis-rupted by two supporters of net neutrality rules. Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese of the group PopularResistance.org yelled at Pai to “stop repre-senting the telecoms” as security guards pulled them to the ground and forced them to leave the com-mission’s public meeting room. Pai said the plan’s reclassifica-

tion of broadband under Title 2 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 would make rate regulation inevi-table. But he stopped short of saying Wheeler and other agency officials were lying about it. “I don’t think they’re lying,” he said. “I think they’re putting their spin on the proposal.” Hart noted that the FCC has over-seen mobile voice calling under the same legal framework since 1993 and has not regulated prices in that sector. “The proposal will not regulate the prices broadband service pro-viders charge their customers,” she said, reiterating recent comments by Wheeler. Pai repeatedly referred to the proposal as “President Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet.” In November, President Barack Obama publicly called for the FCC to take a tougher regulatory approach than Wheeler initially proposed last year. The plan Wheeler unveiled last week appears to be very similar to what Obama called for and two congressional committees have launched investigations into wheth-er the president improperly influ-enced the independent FCC. Public interest groups and some leading Internet companies, such as Amazon.com, also supported

stricter government oversight of online traffic, as did the vast major-ity of nearly 4 million public com-ments submitted to the agency on the issue. Pai said it was “very clear that ... outside political influences deter-mined the trajectory of where the FCC is going.” “The president’s plan to regulate the Internet is going to be the FCC’s plan to regulate the Internet,” he said. Pai echoed top congressional Republicans in asking Wheeler to make the draft public before the Feb. 26 vote. Last week, Pai posted a picture on Twitter of himself holding what he called Obama’s “332-page plan to regulate the Internet.” “I wish the public could see what’s inside,” Pai tweeted. The FCC has said the draft contains only eight pages of new regulations and the rest contains responses to the public comments on the issue. Pai admitted Tuesday that the plan was not all regulations.“(But) we need to make this plan public so that the American peo-ple can make a decision for them-selves,” Pai said. But Pai said he would not violate agency rules and release the report himself.

FCC panelist blasts regulation plan

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NBC’s Brian Williams suspended amid scandal

By Stephen BattaglioLos Angeles Times

NEW YORK — An exaggerated tale of combat in which no one was injured has proved injurious to the career of Brian Williams, who was suspended for six months without pay from his post at the top-rated “NBC Nightly News.” The swift punishment for Williams comes days after the news anchor announced he was taking a brief break from the anchor chair as a public relations crisis for the network continued to escalate. “We have decided today to sus-pend Brian Williams as managing editor and anchor of ‘NBC Nightly News’ for six months,” NBC News President Deborah Turness said in a statement Tuesday evening. “The suspension will be without pay and is effective immediately. We let Brian know of our decision earlier today. Lester Holt will continue to substitute anchor the ‘NBC Nightly News.’ “ In recent years, Williams has said that during the Iraq war he

was in a Chinook helicopter that was forced down by grenade and small-arms fire, even though his original 2003 reporting said it was another helicopter in the forma-tion that was hit. But military newspaper Stars and Stripes reported that a num-ber of crew members in the 159th Aviation Regiment who were on the mission disputed Williams’ account. Williams apologized during his “NBC Nightly News” broadcast last week, but it was widely per-ceived as insufficient by a chorus of media critics and war veterans. For a major network anchor to be suspended in disgrace is largely unprecedented. The clos-est analogy would date from 2004, when CBS newsman Dan Rather was sharply criticized for a report about the Vietnam War record of then-President George W. Bush.

On “60 Minutes Wednesday,” Rather offered documents critical of Bush’s military service, but critics questioned the veracity of those files. A later inquiry com-missioned by the network faulted the report for failing to authen-ticate the documents. Rather’s relations with his bosses grew frayed and he resigned the follow-ing year. Williams’ suspension from the anchor chair marks a surpris-ing and sudden turn of what had been a sterling broadcast jour-nalism career. The quintessential baby boomer, Williams fell in love with TV news during the 1960s when the “CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite” and “The Huntley-Brinkley Report” were dominant programs. He once said that dinner didn’t start in his family home in Elmira, N.Y., until the evening news was over.

“As a tiny child, it was the only job I could imagine doing,” he told TV Guide in 2004. Williams attended but never graduated from George Washington University. After working as an intern in the Jimmy Carter White House, he started working as a reporter and newscaster in local stations in Pittsburgh; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; and eventually New York, where he was anchor at the CBS-owned and operated WCBS. Williams was poached by NBC News in 1993 and was immediate-ly groomed to be Tom Brokaw’s successor on the “NBC Nightly News.” He worked as a live news anchor during the nascent days of MSNBC, when it was a pure cable news channel without the com-mentary. Williams had a nightly hourlong prime-time broadcast “The News With Brian Williams.” In his third day on that job in 1996, he was on the air for hours covering the crash of TWA Flight 800. The late network news produc-er Jeff Gralnick once described Williams as having “the same layer of steel across his butt that Cronkite had and that Brokaw

and Peter Jennings have.” He’s been known for being funny off the air, regaling friends and newsroom colleagues with wicked impersonations of politi-cians, NBC executives and even his predecessor Brokaw. It made him a natural guest on late-night television talk shows. Williams renewed his contract with NBC in December.

Anchor punished with six month unpaid leave

I do not deserve forgive-ness,” Mueller wrote in a letter the family said they received in the spring of last year. She said in the letter that she was willing to wait for her freedom if it meant that her family would be absolved of the burden of negotiating her freedom. “I DO NOT want the negotiations for my release to be your duty, if there is any other option take it, even if it takes more time,” she wrote. “This should never have become your

burden.” Her family described her as relentlessly opti-mistic. Even while held hostage, Mueller said she found reasons to be grate-ful. “By God and by your prayers I have felt tenderly cradled in freefall. I have been shown in darkness, light (and) have learned that even in prison, one can be free,” she wrote. “I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it.”

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tackling social and envi-ronmental issues. For Sullivan, although the process began slowly, it was systematic. “ ( N e t I m p a c t ) approached us last year about the project and had actually made some boxes on their own, literally out of shoeboxes and wrap-ping paper,” he said, add-ing that the few boxes that were on campus received a positive response. “ ( N e t I m p a c t ) approached me about get-ting it going again this past fall and it just seemed a perfect tie-in with our own sustainability initia-tives,” Sullivan added. Part of Sullivan’s job is to stay above the curve when it comes to food ser-vice and sustainability. “When it comes to food service, UMass Dining and sustainability, we really need to keep pushing the bar forward, that some-thing new and better keeps coming along, and it’s our duty to keep improving. Erin and (Net Impact) are helping us do that,” he said. Aside from the tabling that took place in the cam-pus center last semester, most of the outreach that has been done is through its Facebook page, Net Impact UMass. Repurposing mason jars has also been an element of the program’s mission. This is achieved by work-ing with Blue Wall and its recycling team in order to

collect glass jars, which were then sold during UMass’ Sustainability Day in October. UpCycle has worked with the sustainabil-ity office in the past, and UMass Sustainability has acted as an advisor to its environmental initiative. The initiative also hopes to work with more RSOs in the future. Shaughnessey hopes to see increased UpCycling collection numbers this semester. But spreading awareness about the pro-gram is its top priority. As it continues to gain traction, the hope is that more students will upcycle their granola bar wrap-pers. UpCycle bins can be found by all of the trash receptacles in Blue Wall, the Recreation Center, Whitmore Administration building and at most of the retail locations and small cafes in the academic buildings. The initiative’s long-term goal however, is to get waste management involved in tackling this problem. “It’s such as easy thing to do,” Shaughnessey said. “When we actually acknowledge the waste that we’re making, out of sight and out of mind, we can actually make a big difference. I’m excited about it.”

Isaac Simon can be reached at isimon@umass.edu.

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“(Net Impact) approached us last year about the project and had actually made some boxes

on their own, literally out of shoeboxes and wrapping paper.”

Van Sullivan, manager of Campus Center Food Services

Obama ready to fight Islamic State

By Michael a. MeMoli and Kathleen henneSSey

Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The White House is set to ask lawmakers to approve leg-islation that would rule out the use of ground troops for extended combat oper-ations against Islamic State militants, but place no geographic restrictions on the military campaign, lawmakers said Tuesday. Obama administra-tion officials were in the final stage of lengthy consultations with mem-bers of Congress over the draft of a new authoriza-tion for the use of mili-tary force, known as an AUMF, against Islamic State, which could be for-mally submitted as soon as Wednesday. Language detailing if and how ground troops could be deployed was among the final questions being resolved and would probably be the main point of contention once the House and Senate begin formal debate in the com-ing weeks. The three-year authori-zation is also expected to ask lawmakers to repeal the 2002 AUMF that paved the way for the war in Iraq, but not the 2001 leg-islation that has long gov-erned military operations against al-Qaida after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Obama declared near-ly two years ago that he wanted to “refine and ulti-mately repeal” the previ-ous authorizations, citing worries about leaving the U.S. on a permanent war footing. But since then he has relied on the 2001 and 2002 resolutions to justify new military operations against the Islamic State group. In his State of the Union address last month, when Obama revived his call for what officials now describe as a “right-sized” authorization, he argued that the matter was not a legal necessity, but would nevertheless “show the world we are united in this mission.” Last year, when Obama’s campaign against Islamic State heated up, a divided Congress consid-ered passing a new AUMF but was unable to agree, particularly in the run-up to the midterm election.

Now, as one of the few legislative efforts with some hope of passage in the Republican-led Congress, the new authori-zation has become a major test for a White House hoping to repair soured relations with lawmakers. The White House began talks last month and, at the request of lawmak-ers, promised to consult with members of both par-ties before sending pro-posed language to the Hill, according to the person familiar with the discus-sions. Those consultations included outreach from the president, Secretary of State John F. Kerry, national security adviser Susan Rice, White House Counsel Neil Eggleston and others. The talks continued Tuesday, with Eggleston addressing the entire Senate Democratic caucus at its weekly lun-cheon. He was expected to brief House Democratic leaders Tuesday night. The White House says it would not confirm details or release the text of the plan until those consulta-tions were finished. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who has been deeply involved in the negotiations, said Senate Republicans will meet to discuss the pro-posal Wednesday. He said the White House’s careful approach to the issue has been a welcome change; previously, he said, the White House often would call to discuss an issue just as it was being reported publicly. “I will say in this case that there have been seri-ous consultations, and there will be more serious consultations,” he said. “The authorization to use military force is one of the most important votes that people make. Sending it over is just the beginning of the process.” Passing the new autho-rization will require a careful balancing act. After Tuesday’s briefing, some Democrats quickly took issue with language prohibiting the use of ground troops for “endur-ing offensive combat oper-ations,” preferring a more explicit restriction against boots on the ground except for limited and specific purposes. “There will be a number of us that are not going to be able to support this draft

unless it gets changed,” said Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn. “This language seems to leave a hole so big that you could drive a pretty sizable truck through it.” Most Republicans say they would oppose any language that they see as limiting the president’s options. “To constrain the com-mander in chief under certain parameters in my view is a violation of the Constitution, which calls for the president of the United States to be the commander in chief,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who chairs the Armed Services Committee. “It would be a terribly dan-gerous precedent if we were somehow curtailing the kind of military opera-tions he can engage in.” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Tuesday that he would oppose the resolution as currently drafted because it would preclude the U.S. from striking against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces should they attack rebel forces trained by Americans to combat Islamic State. “I will not have my name, my fingerprints on a document that is fatally flawed when it comes to destroying ISIL,” Graham said, using another term for the Islamic State group. In December, the t h e n - D e m o c r a t i c - l e d Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved along party lines a resolution that would have given the president more nar-row authority to pursue strikes against Islamic State, including the use of ground troops but only under a narrow set of con-ditions. The panel rejected an amendment offered by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., that would have restricted mili-tary action to only Iraq and Syria. That resolution, and

another offered by Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., would have also required Congress to renew the 2001 authorization in three years. In a major 2013 speech at National Defense University, Obama said his goal was “to refine, and ultimately repeal,” the 2001 authorization. But the new proposal leaves it untouched. Democrats said they might seek to amend the proposal to include lan-guage to put that authori-zation on the same three-year window as the new proposal, which would require a future Congress and president to revisit it, or perhaps merge the two in a new comprehensive authorization. But doing so would be difficult given Republican opposition. The White House expects to continue press-ing members of Congress, particularly Democrats, to ensure passage of the plan. Murphy, who first came to Congress in the 2006 Democratic wave fueled by opposition to the Iraq war, said Obama has shown “that he can be very per-suasive among Democrats when it comes to his for-eign policy priorities.” But Murphy said he would approach the debate with great skepticism. “For me this is not a mat-ter of doubting whether this administration is com-mitted to keeping ground troops out of the Middle East. It’s really a question of what happens next,” he said. “There’s going to be a limit to the president’s persuasive power on this issue because it may not be just about his policy. It may be about the policy of the next administration as well.”

President to seek Congress’ approval

“To constrain the commander in chief under certain parameters in my view is a

violation of the Constitution, which calls for the president of the United States to be the commander in chief. “It would be a terribly dangerous precedent if we were somehow

curtailing the kind of military operations he can engage in.”

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chair of Armed Services Committee

DAVID SHANKBONE

Brian Williams was anchor of NBC Nightly News and the managing editor of NBC News.

For a major network anchor to be suspended in disgrace is largely unprecedented. The closest analogy would date from 2004, when CBS newsman Dan

Rather was sharply criticized for a report about the Vietnam War record of then-President George W. Bush.

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The news this past week that Brian Williams will take a leave of absence from his job at NBC raises many

questions about how facts are reported and how sto-ries are told. Williams’ story begins during the early stages of the Iraq war in 2003. He said he was in a situation where he, along with other U.S. troops, was entering Iraq when the helicopter he was in came under intensive rocket-propelled grenade fire, forcing the pilot to con-duct an emergency land-ing. We know now that this journalist’s war story is not true. Equally fascinating though, is the way he per-petuated the lie, continuing to tell a story he knew to be untrue. Not to mention the amount of time Williams chose to extend this story, keeping it going for over 10 years. Since the story broke, Williams has publicly apolo-gized both on and off the air. In a Facebook comment, he said that Lance Reynolds, the helicopter’s flight engi-neer, was “absolutely right” regarding what had actu-ally happened and that he

himself had made a “mis-take.” Instead, he was in the other helicopter, not the one that was attacked. To justify his actions, Williams pro-ceeded with a half-hearted excuse and said, “The fog of memory over 12 years made me conflate the two, and I apologize.” If indeed his memo-ry was fogged, why did Williams feel the compul-sory need to embellish his war story for as long as he did? Moreover, this on the ground, in the moment reporting shouldn’t be hard to recall, especially if the lives of men and women in uniform, and in this case, a journalist, are at risk. When a person comes under attack, whether on the ground or in the air, one would think that such an event sticks with the person who experienced it. When the topic of Brian Williams was brought up on HBO’s “Real Time,” Marianne Williamson responded by saying, “The entire American news establishment would be fired if telling the truth was the minimum standard.” This is not the issue. This comment however seems to equate Williams’ actions with other reporters who get the facts wrong. Fact checking is part of report-ing. Page A2 of the New York Times is almost entire-ly devoted to correcting the

mistakes of past stories. There is a fundamental dif-ference between falsifying an anecdotal account and misinterpreting the facts. Lara Logan’s botched story about Benghazi, and Judith Miller’s ineffectual and unsupported asser-tions regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, both of which were not only embarrassing, but potentially problematic, is different than retelling a story you know to be false. And of course, the blatant falsification of one’s story for political gain is nothing new. Whether it is Hillary Clinton claiming that she landed in Bosnia amidst sniper fire or Richard Blumenthal retelling ficti-tious war stories about his time in Vietnam, it seems as if a pattern has emerged where public figures cre-ate stories that didn’t really happen. The dilemma involv-ing Williams has ignited a greater debate about the journalist as a celebrity – the one who embellishes facts in an effort to make him or herself seem like a hero in shaping the news, and for that matter, the course of history. Many are right to think that Williams

is more than just a news anchor – he has appeared on late night television shows, including the Daily Show as well as Saturday Night Live. And yet his uni-versal respect and appeal didn’t stop him from echo-ing the sentiment he is currently apologizing for. On the evening news last week, he recalled the “ter-rible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an R.P.G.” Williams knowingly embellished and passed off a story he knew from the beginning not to be true. By doing this, he willfully misled his viewers in order to bolster his own creden-tials. Williams has come a long way from misreport-ing facts. For the past 10 years, Williams was his own source on the matter, and instead of doing the right thing, he continued to perpetuate a lie. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times was right when she said, “News anchors are not figures of authority.” This is especially true when society has to investigate the investigator, a situation where a man overplayed his hand, and kept on talking about it.

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

Acts of individual violence and ter-ror can at times be transformative, rep-resenting tipping points or triggers that put into motion transformative events.

The 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, for example, trig-gered a set of pre-wired alliances that led to World War I; the self-immola-tion of a Tunisian fruit seller triggered what came to be known as the “Arab Spring.” The same logic is now being used to characterize the savage and hor-rific burning death last month of Jordanian pilot Moaz Kasasbeh. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said this latest Islamic State atrocity must be a “game changer” for President Barack Obama. The congressman’s words are under-standable. This act of violence seems to go beyond even the horrific baseline Islamic State has established. But as tempting as it may be to see the killing as a transformative act, it probably won’t be. And here’s why. There’s no doubt that Islamic State has miscalcu-lated. Its beheadings of two Japanese nationals and the burning of the Jordanian pilot reflect a frustrated and perhaps even failing policy. It received no ransom money for the hostages and surrendered leverage by reportedly killing the pilot weeks before negotia-tions even began. What it did get was a public backlash in Jordan and through-out the region that led to the execution of two militants held by Jordan, one of whom was the prisoner Islamic State originally wanted in a trade. That said, the question is what will be the lasting impact and damage to Islamic State? The Jordanians are effective war-riors, but how might they hurt Islamic State and how badly? In recent days, Jordan has conducted intense air-strikes against Islamic State targets. Still, Jordanian public opinion, which mostly backed the government after Kasasbeh’s killing, is fickle. After Islamic State captured Kasasbeh in December, there was building resent-

ment on the street questioning whether this was Jordan’s fight. If the Jordanian military is contemplating commando raids or sustained airstrikes, it risks the capture of additional pilots or soldiers. And presumably any actions Jordan takes against Islamic State would be in concert with coalition strategy. That would be driven mostly by available targets. A high-profile Jordanian mili-tary role against high-value Islamic State leadership targets would be bet-ter, but those opportunities are rare. Could Kasasbeh’s killing cause such revulsion that it spurs the Arab states into more effective and concerted action? There was widespread condem-nation and anger in the Middle East over it, including in Syria, Iran, Qatar, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Indeed, get-ting Sunni Arab states such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to own the fight against the militants has been a U.S. goal. And Washington has had some success. But it’s hard to see what else key Arab states would be willing to do or what they could do.

Further, keeping the coalition intact may not be easy over time. The UAE worried about what might happen if its pilots were to be taken hostage and temporarily suspended its airstrikes. It has now agreed to deploy additional aircraft to Jordan. But will Arab states be willing to sustain their role? No Arab state would be prepared to send large numbers of ground troops into Syria or, for that matter, Iraq for much the same reason. Efforts to counter radical Islamic ideology would be help-ful and perhaps would do more to pre-vent the flow of gulf money to militants in Syria. But that effort never has had much success. As for the United States, Kasasbeh’s killing and the Islamic State’s claim

that Jordan’s retaliatory airstrikes killed the American aid worker kid-napped last year only adds to the confusion about American efforts to deal with the militants. Other than additional military coordination with Jordan, we can expect continuation of the overall strategy to check Islamic State gains in Iraq and the plan for assisting Iraqi forces in retaking the city of Mosul and other areas lost to the militants. The air campaign will continue against Islamic State in Syria. Any broader shifts in U.S. policy as a result of the killing, such as deploying large numbers of ground forces, seems unlikely. There’s no doubt that Islamic State has fallen on harder times. The loss of Kobani in northern Syria, difficulty in making further gains in Iraq and the problems of governance have com-bined to check its momentum from last year. But the inconvenient truth is that ungoverned spaces in Syria and Iraq present huge opportunities for Islamic

State and other Islamist groups. No governance or bad governance in these unhappy lands, combined with sectar-ian divides deepened by pro-Iranian policies in Iraq and President Bashar Assad’s poli-cies in Syria, alienate Sunnis Muslims and keep the recruit-ment pool for Islamic State

very deep. Obama understandably talks about degrading and ultimately defeating Islamic State. But the latter seems highly unlikely. The war will be long and the field of battle broadened to include places such as Yemen, Libya and, as we’ve seen, France, Belgium and other parts of Europe. The horrific fate of Jordan’s pilot is less a transformative act that will has-ten Islamic State’s end and is more a brutal reflection of the sadistic enemy we face.

Aaron David Miller is a vice president at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. This article was originally published in the Los Angeles Times.

Isaac Simon

“There is a fundamental difference between falsifying an anecdotal account

and misinterpreting the facts.”

Aaron David Miller

“There’s no doubt that Islamic State has miscalculated. Its beheadings of two

Japanese nationals and the burning of the Jordanian pilot reflects a frustrated and

perhaps even failing policy.”

How much will killing of Jordanian pilot hurt Islamic State?

Brian Williams betrays and

misleads viewers

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At the Grammy’s, there are always award winners and los-ers. But not all the praise from the night is based on music ability alone. These stars know their music, but when it comes to fashion, the title of “artist” doesn’t always carry over. Every year there are the fashion risk takers, the time-less classics, the disasters and the quintessential cat-egory reserved only for peo-ple like Prince and Madonna. Wearing Givenchy, Madonna was, as per usual, flamboyant in choice. Fishnet stockings, thigh-high leather boots and leather gloves on her biceps served as accessories. With a black lace, corseted waist that made her look like she was wearing an apron, her outfit seemed to be the love child of a matador and a French maid. Yet her hat, despite the lace covering her forehead, had a similar style to that of a cas-torena. Prince, on the other hand, was wearing a shiny tangerine tunic and pants that circumscribed to his body as he waltzed on the stage with poise like that of actual roy-alty. Though this can be seen

as a fashion risk, Prince’s fash-ion, like his music, is generally timeless and impenetrable to criticisms. Speaking of royalty, Iggy Azalea’s hairdo rested on her head with the appearance of a crown, creating the focal point of her look. With modest make up and no accessories, the Australian singer’s royal blue dress complimented the curves of her body with con-servative cut outs and a small train. But all seemed to bring more attention to her hair. Making a hair statement herself was the newly emerg-ing artist, Sia. The star, known for covering her face, wore her trademark platinum wig that encompassed everything, leav-ing only red lipstick to form her identity. Her outfit choice was black pants and a black poncho, though the outfit probably didn’t get noticed by many. The other fashion risks of the night were Charli XCX and Rihanna. Charli XCX is known for her eccentric fashion styles, so it is arguable wheth-er her white tuxedo getup was a risk or whether it was stolen from an 1980’s prom album. Her look featured a hot pink bow tie with matching heels, a white ruffled undershirt and a light pink furry wrap. Rihanna was perhaps the

biggest surprise of the night with her very ruffled and pink Giambattista Valli gown. The R&B singer has proven over the years that she is not afraid of color, sporting a mustard gown in 2014 and a bold red one the year before. With hair in a bun and simple diamond earrings to complete the look, Rihanna may have simply been trying to add to her fash-ion spectrum with this choice. Some of the classic beauties

of the night featured Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift. Beyonce’s dress was open around the bottom of her ster-num, but the star carried it off with the class and elegance she is known for exuding in almost anything. The dress itself was black and sheer with sequins and floral designs sub-tly throughout. A Tom Ford dress was modeled on the infamously voluptuous frame of Nicki

Minaj, featuring a neck line that plunged to her mid waist, where the dress became sequined and eventually tai-lored off into floor-touching fringe. Swift’s blonde hair was nicely offset by her teal dress, with a floor-length frock fram-ing the mini skirt in the front. The cut outs at the top added dimension to her look along with the different layers of the dress. The pop star also wore matching earrings and popped

the look with magenta heels. For stars that consider meat and drug paraphernalia to serve as fashion statements, Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus looked shockingly modest at the Grammy’s. Gaga styled a beaded Brandon Maxwell gown with a plunging neck line and a very high slit com-ing to the upper thigh. The metallic dress formed a scal-loped design sequence which Lady Gaga completed with a long emerald necklace. And despite the many cut outs on her simple black dress, Cyrus, with little make-up and her short hair slicked back, dar-ingly, looked sophisticated. Keeping it immodest enough for both Miley and Lady Gaga was Kim Kardashian, along-side husband Kanye West. She was in a beige, beaded Jean Paul Gaultier gown, that weighed about 100 pounds, Kardashian said in an inter-view with People magazine. The wrists, pockets and shoul-ders appeared as raised struc-tures off of the dress with the extra detail, so much so that one of the pockets ended up falling off. The dress overall left less than a foot of her torso covered, leaving very little to the imagination.

Erica Garnett can be reached at egarnett@umass.edu.

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Used technology on the rise

By annamariE WadiakCollegian Correspondent

Regardless of wheth-er your Facebook status says single, in a relation-ship or it’s complicated, there is always pressure to think of new and inter-esting activities to do on Valentine’s Day. But creating plans should not be stressful. By taking advantage of some local opportunities and adding a few creative moves of your own, it doesn’t have to be a bur-den at all. Off campus, the Hampshire Mall offers some great potential date ideas, such as going to the movies, playing glow-in-the-dark golf, roller blad-ing or playing laser tag. Cinemark is an option for a movie date as the debat-ably romantic movie “50 Shades of Grey” comes out just in time for Valentine’s Day. Girl Scout cookies will be served in the food court right outside the theater from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. It can’t be a holiday without food. Fast food restaurants are offer-ing fun Valentine’s Day deals and treats. Dunkin’ Donuts has a line of fes-tive white chocolate rasp-berry coffees and heart-shaped donuts. McDonalds may accept your hugs as payment and Starbucks is releasing a limited edition “First Blush” tea. There are plenty of options in the valley for breakfast, lunch or dinner such as Antonio’s Pizza, Judie’s and Amherst Brewing Company. Chili’s, Zoe’s Fish House and Applebee’s in Hadley

or Nor thampton’s Fitzwilly’s, Eastside Grill and The Sierra Grill are also options. Leaving campus is not necessary to have a fun day and can be a cheaper option for those on a bud-get. The Mullins Center Community Rink is hav-ing a public skate from 4 p.m. to 5:50 p.m. and the dining halls will be sure to feature some festive treats that are covered on a meal plan. Bunkering down in yo ur room with some movies, blankets and snacks doesn’t limit options. This can also be a cozier setting, allowing for more cuddling than the movie theater seats. Options for romance mov-ies to watch are endless, including, but not limit-ed to, “Valentine’s Day,” “Friends with Benefits,” “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” and “The Notebook.” Recreate Valentine’s Day from kindergarten by organizing a floor pro-gram or ask your Resident Assistant to do so. Getting everyone together to make cards for each other is

a fun craft and a way to make everyone in the com-munity feel involved and loved on the very day dedi-cated to it. Keeping theme with homemade Valentine’s Day, you can also make some treats yourself. Cooking with a significant other is a romantic way to spend time together or a fun one to do alone or with friends. There are a pleth-ora of Valentine’s Day recipes available online, especially on websites like All Recipes, Food Network and Pinterest. Make some heart-themed cookies, cupcakes and brownies, or try something that will really make your mouth water, like white chocolate dipped Oreos with plenty of pink and red sprinkles. You do not have to give away all of your love, though. Remember to save some for yourself. Valentine’s Day ultimately can be as fun and festive as you desire.

Annamarie Wadiak can be reached at awadiak@umass.edu.

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By John EWoldtStar Tribune (Minneapolis)

As electronic devices pro-liferate, retailers are seeing record numbers of used lap-tops, smartphones and tab-lets being sold for quick cash or credit. Best Buy Co. Inc. launched a trade-in program in 2009 for items such as cellphones, video games and computers, and it’s getting more popular every year. It now accepts more than 11,000 different items. “The trade-in volume has doubled every year since 2009,” Jeff Shelman, a Best Buy spokesman, wrote in an email. At Pawn America’s 29 Midwest locations, most cell-phones, laptops and tablets are sold, not pawned, and the numbers keep grow-ing. In 2013, sales of used cellphones were up 14 per-cent, laptop sales increased 30 percent and tablets sales doubled. “The secondhand market for personal electron-ics is super-hot,” said Karl Hattman, regional man-ager for Pawn America. “Consumers are more accepting of buying second-hand goods.” Fortunately for bargain hunters, there are also plenty of consumers who want the latest and greatest technology, requiring them to get rid of a still-valuable model from a year or two ago. Because the value of the items may range from $50 to $200 or more, they aren’t sitting forgotten in a drawer anymore. Consumers are now upgrading their smart-phones every 12 to 18 months (less often for tablets and laptops), said Louis Ramirez at DealNews.com. “Manufacturers are refreshing their product lines so quickly that it’s cre-ating a bump for used elec-tronics,” he said. People are trying to main-tain their devices in mint condition, and keep the origi-

nal box and manual, because they’ve learned that they get more cash or credit for them, Ramirez said. Consumers have a flurry of options to unload their old, but not too old, technol-ogy. Pawnshops have been a popular go-to for many years, but retailers such as Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart and Radio Shack offer store credit in exchange for used personal electronics online or in stores. So many sites will pay cash to people who mail in used devices (Gazelle.com, BuyBackWorld.com and Nextworth.com) that aggre-gators such as Usell.com have popped up, listing bids from multiple resellers. In fact, an hour after Apple CEO Tim Cook debuted the iPhone 5S and 5C models on Sept. 10, Gazelle was get-ting 600 offers per second on earlier models, according to Anthony Scarsella, chief gadget officer at Gazelle.com. Manufacturers are join-ing the fray, too. Apple offers store credit while Samsung offers a prepaid Visa card. “Why let Amazon take their lunch when manufacturers can buy these items direct-ly from the consumer?” Ramirez said. One retailer is going a step further. Wayzata, Minn.-based NYT Franchise Co. just opened Device Pitstop in Minnetonka, Minn. The store buys and sells used and refurbished smartphones, laptops, tablets and all-in-one computers from brands including Apple, Android, Acer, Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM, Sony and Toshiba. Laptop prices range from $99 to $500, tablets from $159 to $400, and smartphones from $100 to $300. The retailer also does repairs, upgrades and ser-vicing. Employees inspect devices in the store and repair them in-house, usu-ally within a few days. Common repairs so far

have included tablets and smartphones with cracked screens. “A lot of people think small electronic items can’t be fixed,” said Dave Brennan, co-director of the University of St. Thomas Institute for Retailing Excellence. But often they can, and consumers are starting to realize that even a tablet with a cracked screen may have value. Brennan said retailers need to reassure customers, employ staff with significant technical skills and offer some sort of a warranty. “Auto dealers are now offering certified and war-rantied used cars,” Brennan said. “Consumers want assurance that the retailer will correct any issues that come up if they buy used.” Device Pitstop includes a 90-day warranty on all products to put customers at ease, said Mike Smith, vice president of operations. Terri Harris of Maple Plain, Minn., took her work iPad into Device Pitstop to get an estimate on repairing a cracked screen. “I didn’t even know if it was possible to replace it,” she said. “I’ve had clear tape holding it together for a year.” For $150 the crack could be repaired, but Harris had to check with her employer to approve the expense. Device Pitstop is a fran-chised retailer with seven locations in Las Vegas, Phoenix and Lexington, Ky. Smith said the company hopes to add 300 nationwide within five years. Smith is confident the used personal electron-ics market will continue to grow. “It used to be young males, but now we’re getting an older demographic and families, too,” he said. “They like being able to see and test used items in person, and getting a warranty. You won’t get that on eBay.”

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Staying in and baking homemade heart cookies is a fun Valentine’s Day treat.

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Rihanna takes a fashion risk at the 2015 Grammy’s, wearing a pink, ruffly gown by designer,Giambattista Vatti.

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ally sell out,” UMass coach Derek Kellogg said. “I’m looking forward to seeing how our team responds. If we can take care of the bas-ketball and physically meet the demands of the game, I think we’ve got a pretty good chance.” In the first matchup, Bonnies center Ndoye Youssou dominated the paint on both ends of the floor and finished with 14 points and 13 rebounds. And while Kellogg is used to preparing for Youssou, who’s a senior, he cited St. Bonaventure’s improved guard play as the X-factor. Posley is averaging 17.1 points per game, while Dion Wright (13.4), Jaylen Adams (10.3) and Andell Cumberbatch (9.3) are threats as well. “I actually think their guards are making them play really well right now,” Kellogg said. “The freshman Adams has done a great job of solidifying the point guard spot. Posley kind of came out of nowhere and is averaging 17 points per game. Even Cumberbatch gives them four guys that

can all handle the ball and pass and move. That makes it a little harder and more difficult to pressure those guys.” Offensively, UMass will need to spread the floor and make its outside shots if it wants to have a differ-ent result on Wednesday. St. Bonaventure loves to collapse the interior on the defensive end, and teams have proven to have success against the Bonnies when the outside shots are fall-ing. While both Trey Davis and Donte Clark have been inconsistent from 3-point range this season, after a 23-point game (he hit five 3-pointers) against La Salle on Sunday, Clark will be looked upon to ignite the offense early and often. Although this season has certainly taught Kellogg a newfound appreciation for

patience, he truly believes that his team is hitting its stride at the right time of the season and is happy with the progress they’ve made, especially since the beginning of conference play. “I do think at this junc-tion of the season that we’ve improved quite a bit and I think the guys are starting to understand what it takes to win a college basketball game at the highest level,” Kellogg said. “It’s been pret-ty fun to be around these guys and nice to see the maturation process of a team throughout a season.” The Minutemen and Saint Bonaventure tip off at the Reilly Center on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

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

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“I think it’s about as tough a test as we can have... If we take care of the basketball and physically meet the demands of the game, I

think we’ve got a pretty good chance.”Derek Kellogg,

UMass head coach

the time) out of the AP Top 25 rankings. The year prior, the Minutemen again fell to St. Bonaventure on the road, falling 99-94 in a wild game. UMass was consid-ered a team vying for an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, and the loss was a significant blemish on its postseason resume. But now, UMass enters in a different situation. It’s a team that’s peak-ing later in the season, as opposed to the trends of team’s from past years. The Minutemen’s four straight wins have steadied a season that was, at one point, on the ropes. Kellogg said UMass’ lat-est trek to New York pres-ents a strong measuring stick. “I think it’s as tough a test as we can have,” Kellogg said. “I’m looking forward to seeing how our team responds.” The Bonnies have won their last two games on buzzer-beater layups and trounced UMass earlier this season, downing the Minutemen 69-55 to open conference play. The mar-gin of error is already slim within the conference – and traveling to a hostile envi-ronment doesn’t help. “Honestly, how you feel about yourself and your team can come down to a lot of those one point, two point games,” Kellogg said. “I think right now, a team like St. Bonaventure feels

great.

Stacking up

Kellogg said following the La Salle victory that he’ll watch other college basket-ball games until 3 a.m. in the morning, a comment which elicited a number of smiles around the postgame press conference room. But does Kellogg really stay up into the early morn-ing watching basketball? “Not every day,” he said Wednesday with a smile. “But quite frequently I’ll watch games. I’ll catch a lot of those West Coast teams late night when there’s noth-ing else on.” Kellogg said that he’s noticed one constant across the broad landscape of col-lege basketball. “One thing I think you see is a ton of parody,” he said. “You’re watching games where you would assume

certain teams are probably going to win because of his-tory or things of that nature, but there’s a lot of good col-lege basketball games that are coming down to the wire.” No better example is St. Bonaventure, which has escaped with close victories over the past week. Kellogg anticipates a difficult match-up, but is optimistic that his team is gelling at the right time. “I’m looking forward to seeing how our team responds,” Kellogg said. “They feel good about them-selves, but I think we feel pretty good about where we are. If we can take care of the basketball and physi-cally meet the demands of the game, I think we’ve got a pretty good chance.”

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

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neling rebounds into corners instead of right between the dots. And most importantly, they’re a calmer team, feeding off Mastalerz’s relaxed demeanor. “I’ve stayed calm,” Mastalerz said when asked about his turnaround. “Obviously, starting out 0-6 or whatever it was isn’t easy. You just have to stay calm and stick with the game plan.” As the Minutemen enter the final stretch of their season and prepare for postseason play, Mastalerz is the more experienced goaltender. He’s played in 69 games throughout four seasons with UMass, and is the only goalie on the roster with playoff experi-ence – he made 31 saves in a 2-1 loss to Vermont in last year’s Hockey East Tournament. “He’s been in the league for the past four years now. So he’s seen a lot of good players, gone against the

top players in the country. We feel comfortable with him back there,” Busillo said. “A guy like Steve is a veteran presence who’s played an awful lot of college hockey games,” Micheletto said. “In the stretch run, to have another veteran voice and presence in the lineup is

important.” If UMass wants the best chance at making some noise, especially with the Hockey East Championship Tournament quickly approaching, Mastalerz should be the man in net.

Ross Gienieczko can be reached at rgieniec@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @RossGien.

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Steve Mastalerz leads the team with a .883 save percentage this season.

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Davidson team (5-19, 1-10 A10). The Wildcats have also been on the short end of a six-game skid, but their woes against Atlantic 10 opponents have them currently sitting last in the conference, trailing only the Minutewomen in the standings Junior Hannah Early leads Davidson in scoring, putting up 14.6 per con-

test, and is second on the team with 6.5 rebounds per game, trailing only Mackenzie Latt (8.6). UMass will look to take advantage of its upcoming schedule that came at an optimal time considering the upcoming conference tournament is quickly approaching. And what better way to do that, than at your own

home court? Wednesday afternoon is Field Trip Day at the Mullins Center with hun-dreds of students from the surrounding area expect-ed to be in attendance. Tip-off against George Mason is scheduled for 11:45 am.

Frank Corona can be reached at fcorona@umass.edu.

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Lynch considering retirementBy BoB Condotta

The Seattle Times

The biggest question con-cerning Marshawn Lynch’s future with the Seahawks no longer is whether the team wants him back in 2015. That has been settled, with coach Pete Carroll and other team officials saying on multi-ple occasions in recent weeks that they hope to sign the run-ning back to a new contract, assuring his future with the team in 2015 and beyond. The question now is wheth-er Lynch wants to suit up for the Seahawks in 2015. Seattle general manager John Schneider _ during an interview Tuesday on ESPN 710 Seattle, the team’s flagship station _ confirmed months-long rumors that Lynch might retire. “Whether or not he wants to play next year, I can’t answer that,” Schneider said in an interview on the “Brock and Salk Show.” “I don’t know if he knows at this juncture.” Schneider said Lynch “needs to find out where he’s at” so the Seahawks can move forward with negotiations on a new contract. Schneider confirmed the team would re-do Lynch’s contract if he returns in 2015, saying “he knows if he’s back he’s not going to be playing at the same number he’s sched-uled to make.” Schneider did not go into specifics of what the team might be offering Lynch. He is scheduled to make a base of $5 million in 2015 with a roster bonus of $2 million and a sala-ry-cap hit of $8.5 million, with $1.5 million in dead money in what is the final season of a four-year deal signed in 2012. Lynch has a high cap num-ber in 2015, turns 29 in April and runs with a particularly punishing style. All of that helped fuel speculation last summer that the Seahawks might release him before the 2015 season.

But as Lynch embarked on one of his better years in helping lead the Seahawks to another Super Bowl _ his average of 4.7 yards per carry was the second-best of his career _ it became evident that the Seahawks wanted him back for at least another season. Team officials, though, know Lynch would want a new deal to return. He held out of training camp for eight days last summer before reporting after the team made some concessions to guaran-tee an additional $1.5 million in 2014. With the knowledge that the team might consider releasing him after the 2014 season, Lynch wanted more up-front money. Schneider said Tuesday that the Seahawks didn’t want to re-negotiate Lynch’s con-tract last summer because he did not want to set a prec-edent. If they had, he said, then “everybody would be stand-ing outside my office looking for a new contract whenever they wanted. ... so he knows that. But he also knows he’s a huge part of what we are doing. He’s just extremely important to what we have going on here and moving for-ward and the decisions that we make throughout this off-season.” But now the question is

whether Lynch wants to play. Lynch’s agent, Doug Hendrickson, said in a text message to The Seattle Times on Tuesday only that he would have “no comment” on Schneider’s statements. Lynch has not spoken about his future (or much of any-thing else, for that matter). Schneider noted that the team has played consecutive long seasons_a combined 38 games, including playoffs_and that could be a factor for Lynch. “It’s hard for these guys,” Schneider said. “We’ve played a lot of football these last two years, and especially the way this guy runs the ball. It’s taxing on his body. And so he needs to reset himself and get in that mind frame of ‘OK, I’m ready to get moving here again and get prepared for another season of this.’ And so obviously we’d like to have a decision as quickly as we could so we can move forward. But we’d love to have him back.” Asked again about wanting a decision quickly, Schneider said: “You would hope. Sure, you would hope. But like I said, this is a taxing thing on these guys. We’ve played a lot of football these last two years. It may not happen over-night.”

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Marshawn Lynch (24) was tied for first in the NFL with 13 rushing TDs.

By Mark ChiarelliCollegian Staff

Minutemen coach Derek Kellogg said following the Massachusetts men’s bas-ketball team’s 66-59 win Friday that his team would need to steal its next victory. Winners of four straight, it’d be tough to peg the Minutemen (14-9, 7-3 Atlantic 10 Conference) as being sig-nificantly disadvantaged against any conference foe. But in recent history, UMass hasn’t fared well when asked to travel to its next oppo-nent, St. Bonaventure. “That’s always tradition-ally been a very difficult place to play because of proximity and how the fans are right on the floor,” said Kellogg, who also noted the Bonnies typically draw sell-out crowds. St. Bonaventure plays in the Reilly Center, a 5,480-seat gym which is considered to be one of the more challeng-ing venues in college bas-ketball. The fans practically breathe on the playing sur-

face and there’s no love lost when it comes to their rela-tionship to the other team. According to UMass cen-ter Cady Lalanne, it’s tough to win there, and the home-court advantage starts as soon as the team arrives at St. Bonaventure, which is located in Olean, New York. “Yeah, I don’t know why,” Lalanne said. “There’s something about the town that, for me, creeps me out. It’s just depressing and bor-ing over there. Their student section is pretty good, they do a good job of filling it with fans. It will be a pretty good game.” Lalanne’s seen the dif-ficulty in playing at St. Bonaventure firsthand. UMass hasn’t beaten St. Bonaventure since 2012. Last season, the Minutemen fell to the Bonnies 78-65 in a dreary performance. The loss, cou-pled with a loss in its ensu-ing game to Saint Joseph’s, knocked UMass (No. 21 at

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Maxie Esho finishes a dunk against La Salle in a 66-59 win on Feb.8. Esho leads the Minutemen with 12.0 points per game this season.

When you look down at the stat sheet, there

aren’t any statistics that stand out for either of the Massachusetts hockey

team’s goal-tenders. On a team that ranks 58th out of 59 schools in the coun-try in goals a g a i n s t , any stat you see won’t i m p r e s s

you in the slightest bit. However, the numbers for freshman Henry Dill and senior Steve Mastalerz are quite similar to each other in the two major categories – goals against average and save percentage. Dill holds a slight advantage in the GAA category (4.10 to 4.14) while Mastalerz holds the advantage in save percent-age .883 to .872. While those numbers are almost mirror imag-es of each other, it’s Dill who’s been getting the job done in the win-loss col-umn. His seven wins on the season are five more than Mastalerz’s two. In fact, with a record of 7-10-1, Dill has been the workhorse for most of the season, someone UMass coach John Micheletto has said on multiple occasions gives them a chance to win most nights he’s in net. But statistics can only be so telling, especially in a sport like hockey, where most of the action is not recorded on any stat sheet. And when you throw statistics out the win-dow, Mastalerz gives the Minutemen the best chance to win for the remainder of the season. Dill has shown flashes of being a number one goaltender this season, but since recording back-to-back wins against Air Force and Maine, he’s regressed. After allowing four goals in three con-secutive games, he had his worst outing of the year against Boston University, allowing nine Terrier goals en route to a 9-5 loss for the Minutemen. Of course, it was also one of

the team’s worst games of the year, and it’s not fair to hang all nine goals on Dill’s head, but that’s a story for a different day. Mastalerz, on the other hand, has been trending in the other direction. After starting the year 0-6, Mastalerz is 2-2 in his last four starts with a save per-centage of .921. His performance against then-No. 14 Merrimack on Jan. 25 was the best a UMass goalten-der has played this season. Mastalerz faced 45 shots and stopped 44 of them, leading the Minutemen to a 4-1 victory over the Warriors and only lost the shutout while the team was shorthanded in the final minutes of play. His next start against Northeastern was less stellar – UMass lost 5-3 – but they entered the period with a 3-2 lead behind some timely saves from the veteran goalie. Earlier in the season, another loss might have shaken the senior’s confi-dence. But Mastalerz and the Minutemen responded with a 5-2 victory over, at the time, No. 12 UMass Lowell, signifying his effort against Merrimack was no fluke. It was anoth-er win over a nationally-ranked opponent, and Mastalerz stopped 28 of 30 shots in the win. “I wasn’t putting full games together earlier in the year, and now I seem to be putting in the full 60 minutes,” Mastalerz said. Dill may be able to pro-vide those kinds of perfor-mances in the future. But Mastalerz is over his early season slump, and he’s churning them out right now. “When he’s on, he’s one of the best goalies in the league,” senior defense-man Mike Busillo said. When Mastalerz is on his game, the Minutemen are a different team. They can get more aggres-sive offensively, know-ing there’s a good chance their veteran goalie will cover for their mistakes. They’re a sounder defen-sive team when he’s fun-

Bonnies best beware

By andrew CyrCollegian Staff

The first time the Massachusetts men’s bas-ketball team played St. Bonaventure, it was young, naïve, inexperienced and above all, lacked a true iden-tity. The Minutemen were still finding themselves. They didn’t have a set rotation, players didn’t completely know their own roles within the team and they weren’t playing their own brand of basketball. “There were some posi-tives to take away from it, but it was a game I try to for-get about more because that time in the season it was more up and down and we were trying to find out our identity and who we were,” UMass center Cady Lalanne told the Massachusetts Daily Collegian after Tuesday’s practice. “Now that we found our identity and who we were, it’s a game that we are look-ing forward to. We want to

win.” In the first matchup on Jan. 3, the first game of Atlantic 10 play for both teams, the Bonnies pulled away in the second half to secure a 69-55 win at Mullins Center. Now, UMass is play-ing its best basketball of the season – having won four straight – and a win on Wednesday could move them into second place in the A-10 standings behind Virginia Commonwealth and Rhode Island. St. Bonaventure can thank Marcus Posley for its last two wins. Posley made a buzzer-beater to beat the No.18 Rams 73-71, while three days earlier he downed Davidson on the road with a last-second shot to secure a 62-61 win for the Bonnies. “I think it’s about as tough a test as we can have. That’s always traditionally been a very difficult place to play because of proximity and how the fans are right on the floor and they usu-

UMass eyes its fifth straight win Wed.

Minutemen seek revenge in Olean

By Frank CoronaCollegian Staff

The Massachusetts women’s basketball team has been here before. And after a promising start to the season, the Minutewomen had finally looked like they turned the page after struggling to string together wins over its past two seasons. But history is beginning to repeat itself again. Following their loss to La Salle on Saturday, UMass (8-14, 2-8 A10) saw its losing streak expand to six consecutive games. Despite beating La

Salle earlier in the sea-son on Jan. 15, 71-68, the Minutewomen were on the other end of a nearly identical outcome against the Explorers, dropping Saturday’s matchup 71-69. Despite a matchup that saw 14 lead changes, nine ties and a career day for senior Kim Pierre-Louis who dropped 33 points and contributed nine rebounds, UMass’ struggles against Atlantic 10 opponents pre-vailed. But with six confer-ence matchups until the A-10 Championships in Richmond, Virginia, there is a seemingly faint light at the end of the tunnel. In the Minutewomen’s final six games before the championship tour-

nament, four of those matchups – including the next three – will be at home. UMass has posted a respectable 5-4 record at Mullins Center, as opposed to its 3-8 record on the road and its 0-2 at neutral venues. The first leg of the home stand will be against George Mason, a rematch of the first round of the Atlantic 10 championship in 2014. UMass couldn’t hold on to its early game lead, and saw the match-up slip away in a 85-75 overtime loss, effectively bouncing them in the first round. The Patriots (12-11, 4-6 A10) travel to Amherst in search of their second con-secutive win behind red

shirt junior Taylor Brown. Brown leads the A-10 in scoring with 22.3 points per game. Pierre-Louis currently sits third in that category, notching 17.5 ppg of her own.

Royal Trouble

Following the game against the Patriots, UMass will host to Duquesne (15-8, 7-3 A-10). The Dukes are currently riding a four-game los-ing streak but have three players averaging double-digit scoring numbers. April Robinson leads the pack averaging 15.4 ppg, Deva’Nyar Workman aver-ages 11.4, and sophomore Amadea Szamosi follows closely behind her with an even 11.0.

The trio is a large rea-son why the Dukes have the second most effective offense in the conference, averaging 74.0 per match-up.

Bottom Feeders

To polish off their home stand, the Minutewomen’s final contest before a road trip to Richmond will be against a struggling

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Kim Pierre-Louis (4) scored 33 points agaisnt La Salle on Feb. 7.

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