The Connector - October 18, 2016

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October 18, 2016

Boston Globe journalist Mike Rezendes speaks to UMass Lowell about ‘Spotlight’

In This Issue Bon Iver releases ‘22, A Million’

Taylor Carito

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Connector Editor

Peers educate on diversity

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Final River Hawk Scores Team

Score

Overall Record

Volleyball vs. UMBC

L 3-0 5-16

Hockey at Colorado College

W 4-0

Hockey at Colorado College

W 8-5 1-0-2

Volleyball vs. Stony Brook

L 3-0

2-0-2

5-15

Lowell remembers Kerouac with annual festival Katrina Desrosiers Connector Editor

It took a long time for Lowell to honor Jack Kerouac as a great writer, but now every year Lowell Celebrates Kerouac through an annual festival.

As part of LCK, on Oct. 10 Kerouac expert Bill Walsh led a historic walk starting at the Kerouac Commemorative Park. The event’s aim was to connect the dots of the writer’s life in Lowell.

Kerouac has published over 20 books of prose and poetry. Yet, he was not always highly regarded as a writer because of his actions and perceived immaturity; Walsh said he was criticized because he drank a lot. “That doesn’t mean it takes away from the work he produced over the years‌When you read Kerouac, he’s meant to be read aloud,â€? said Walsh.

To honor and celebrate Kerouac’s publications, the city established the Kerouac Commemorative in Downtown Lowell located behind the Massachusetts Mill buildings where Walsh said Kerouac’s father used to own a print shop. At the Commemorative, there lies a mandala of Kerouac’s legacy. The memorial has pillars displaying excerpts from his works in the shape of a cross, and Walsh said they are symbols of Kerouac’s Roman Catholic and Buddhism beliefs. The cross is

As part of the Parker Lecture Series, Michael Rezendes, a member of The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team came to UMass Lowell to speak about his experiences on the infamous case, being played by Mark Ruffalo in a film, and the overall importance of journalism in the modern world.

In 2015, The Boston Globe’s investigative team experienced their claim to fame with the academy award winning film “Spotlight.� Based on the true story, this film highlighted the infamous story the Spotlight Team exposed: the cover up of child molestation by priests in Boston churches.

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Mark Ruffalo (left) portrays Boston Globe journalist Mike Rezendes (right) in the 2015 Academy Award-winning film “Spotlight.�

Rezendes began the lecture by clarifying certain misconceptions about the Pulitzer Prize him and the rest of the team share as a result of this story. The Spotlight team did not discover the ac-

tual clergy sexual abuse.

There were records that dated back to the 1980s, long before the team had any knowledge about it.

The Spotlight Team did not start their research till decades later. “So why

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River Hawks post 4-0 shutout at Colorado College UMass Lowell Athletics

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Junior forward C.J. Smith (Des Moines, Iowa) scored a gamehigh two goals to lead the No. 7 UMass Lowell Hockey team to a 4-0 victory and a series sweep against Colorado College in nonconference play on Saturday night at the Broadmoor World Arena in the series finale.

With the win, UMass Lowell improves to 2-0-2 and the Tigers

drop to 1-3-0 overall.

Senior defenseman Dylan Zink (Madison, Wis.) extended UMass Lowell’s lead to 3-0 with second tally of the season with just 5:33 left in the second period. Freshman Mattias Goransson added his third of the year to give the River Hawks a 4-0 lead on an extra attacker goal at 16:45 of the middle stanza.

Smith scored goals at 2:14 and 15:45 to give the River Hawks 2-0 lead at the end of the first period. It marked Smith’s seventh career two-

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did we win the Pulitzer prize? And what makes our work different then everyone else’s work?

There were several things that made our work very, very distinctive. The first,

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Defenseman Dylan Zink puts the puck past the Colorado College netminder.

goal game as a River Hawk. UMass Lowell held a 10-9 shot advantage at the end of the opening period.

Freshman goaltender Tyler Wall (Leamington, Ont.) made his second career start for the River Hawks, posting 29 saves in his first career shutout and second career win, which included 11 saves in the second frame. Alex Leclerc posted 13 stops for the Tigers in the losing effort in the first 40 minutes and was relieved by Derek Shatzer stopping nine shots in the third period.

UMass Lowell finished the night 2-for-6 on the power play and a perfect 6-for-6 on the penalty kill.

Senior forward Evan Campbell (Port Coquitlam, B.C.) led the River Hawks in the faceoff circle, winning 9 of 12 faceoffs (75%) in the win vs. the Tigers.

UMass Lowell returns to action on Friday, October 21st against ECAC foe St. Lawrence on Homecoming Weekend. Game time from the Tsongas Center is 7:15 p.m.

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OPINIONS & EDITORIALS What’s really killing Trump’s campaign Owen Johnson Connector Staff

This past Columbus Day weekend has been the worst in Donald Trump’s whole campaign. After the release of the tapes where Trump is heard talking about sexually assaulting a woman, which he attempted to pass off as locker room talk, he was hit by a plethora of criticism including from his own party.

Republicans like Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and even his running mate Mike Pence called out Trump for his com-

ments while many more including Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, and John McCain unendorsed and or vowed to not vote for Trump. Even with this calamity, it wasn’t the backlash from his fellow republicans, or the tape, or even his attempt to downplay the sexual assault he took part in that proves his campaign is as good as dead. What proves his campaign is dead is when he brought up Bill Clinton’s past into the fiasco.

For those of you who don’t

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Donald Trump speaks during a debate with Sen. Hillary Clinton.

know, Bill Clinton has been accused of either sexually assaulting or raping multiple women. As of this time, all of Bill Clinton’s past sexual misconducts are alleged and highly disputed, with the exception of consensual relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers.

The reason that this attempted deflection to Bill Clinton’s past signifies the death of Trump’s campaign is that it was his last resort, and he failed. His campaign was in a downward spiral from which it would be hard to escape, so he had to deflect by bringing up similar accusations that could be applied to the Clinton’s, and topped it all off with a media event in which Trump was joined by three of Clinton’s accusers.

Many have been quick to call out the media event as a stunt in which Trump exploited these women’s stories in an

attempt to lessen the backlash against him. In his mission to make himself look the better of the two, he made himself look much worse. In the aftermath of Columbus Day weekend and the most recent presidential debate, a poll conducted by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal shows Clinton with a double digit lead over Trump.

Even if the media event succeeded, odds are that Hillary Clinton would have been able to deal with it. Clinton has dealt with a number of scandals in her time as a politician, and she has been dealing with the sexual scandals of her husband since at least 1998 with the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Every time, she’s been able to handle them in a way that does not affect her political career too severely, and this would probably be no different. As TV host Bill Maher once said, “Hillary eats

scandals for breakfast.�

Trump’s goal was to get a reaction out of people by bringing Bill Clinton into the equation, and it failed. Their reaction was not to condemn the Clinton’s and pledge support to Trump’s campaign.

Their reaction was to point out Trump’s hypocrisy by pointing out that while Bill potentially has a history of sexual assault and rape, Trump is on tape confirming he has indeed sexually assaulted women.

The irony of it all is that after nearly sixteen months of Trump saying and doing things that would have killed anyone else’s presidential campaign in a second, his attempt to save his sinking ship is what will finally do the trick.

Owen Johnson is a staff writer for The Connector.

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NEWS

Kerouac festival has another successful year ►Continued from front page

surrounded by a circle of benches, creating a true mandala. “[The Commemorative] was finally dedicated to Kerouac in 1988. Before that, many people considered him to be a drunken, nasty bum. He was only 47 years old when he died, and this year marks 47 years since his death in 1969,” Walsh said.

LCK hosts many events year round as well as the festival every October centered on Kerouac to keep his legacy alive, said Walsh. This October alone, he led three walking tours throughout Lowell educating his audience on the beat writers’ life.

The tour highlighted each of Kerouac’s homes in the city as well as schools and churches he attended as a young child and other important landmarks.

“By the time Jack got out of high school, he had lived in 11 homes,” said Walsh. Kerouac lived in various parts of Lowell’s Centralville and Pawtuck-

etville. Walsh said Kerouac’s parents moved from Quebec, Canada before he was born, and he did not learn English until he was six years old at the St. Louis Elementary School in Centralville.

“Naturally, people will go places where they understand the culture, the food, their faith and so on,” Walsh said.

When Kerouac was in elementary school, 70 percent of Centralville was Franco-American, said Walsh.

Sections of the neighborhood were known as “Little Canada.” Walsh also said that most of Kerouac’s classes were taught in French and students would say the pledge to both the Quebec and American Flags.

The majority of Kerouac’s works are based off of his previous experiences in Lowell and on the road–he saw himself pictured by other people and then wrote about it, said Walsh.

Visitor Greg Robinson is one person who said he found himself by reading

Kerouac when he lived in Australia in the 1960s. “I felt I was very alone, like I was the only person. Then I read Kerouac and realized I wasn’t. There were millions and millions of people just like me,” said Robinson.

Depending on where Kerouac readers come from, they experience and interpret his works differently. For example, “Visions of Gerard,” Walsh’s favorite book, is about Kerouac’s younger brother Gerard Kerouac who died when Jack Kerouac was four years old. Walsh said he enjoys reading his works centered on the writer’s experiences in Lowell rather than works from his travels, which could be because Walsh has lived in Lowell for the majority of his life.

However, Robinson said that he enjoys reading Kerouac’s prose and poems about his experiences travelling more than the Lowell experiences. “[‘On the Road’] is a very difficult book to read, but it’s such an exciting book.”

He said he read “On the Road” on a scroll without any periods in the text and later re-read a bound copy. “I like the road books. Nothing will change; I’ll go to the grave with them,” said Robinson.

Kerouac leaves his audience to interpret his writing however they feel, said Maggie Ritchie, freshman business major. Ritchie said she appreciated “his perspective on living life”: “I think it’s kind of unique because a lot of writers over analyze things… I like that he is really simple and straightforward.”

The Kerouac Commemorative Park is open to the public for reading, reflecting on and remembering his legacy. “In effect, Kerouac changed my life,” said Robinson. “He was quite a significant thing for me.”

UMass Lowell welcomes Mike Rezendes from Spotlight Team ►Continued from front page

and perhaps the most significant, is we discovered the cover up,” says Rezendes.

The second thing that Rezendes mentioned assisted in making the story “bulletproof.” He said that all the information was from the church’s records that were carefully read by the members of the Spotlight Team. This made the articles safe from defamation and ultimately made the story impenetrable. Once the story was completed, Rezendes says the third thing that made the Spotlight story so unique was that it went on the internet because anyone could read the articles and see the documents, and it went viral. “People all over the world read the story,” said Rezendes. This was one of the first really significant journalistic pieces that went viral on the internet.

Rezendes moved on to explain the fourth aspect that made the Spotlight Team’s story unique. They discovered the scope of the problem in the upper-levels of the church. He said that they exposed 70 priests in Boston alone were accused of molestation, and that today there are over 250 priests.

The investigation began quite accurately as the movie depicts, Rezendes said. It started with a column by Eileen McNamara. The new editor Marty Baron had been reading it because it was about a corrupt lawyer who made 84 lawsuits regarding child molestation against Fr. John Geoghan, a Boston priest, fall under a confidentiality order. As a result he was still active and reassigned to different churches throughout Boston with no punishment from authorities or Cardinal Bernard Law. Baron became very intrigued by the Geoghan case and as a result asked the attorneys for “The Boston Globe” to attempt in getting the confidentiality order repealed, and he asked the Spotlight Team to look into it.

The four members of the Spotlight Team immediately began calling people and making connections. “We quickly found out that we were probably dealing with more than one priest,” said Rezendes.

They endlessly talked to lawyers and eventually discovered that they could be dealing with at least six different priests. The Spotlight Team decided they had two objectives: to discover the scope of the problem and to “go deep on Geoghan” Rezendes said.

Through a lawyer named Mitch Garabedian,

the Team was given a lead on 14 different files that could prove the cover up, however, they were missing from church records. Rezendes and the rest of the Spotlight Team went to a judge and eventually found the records. There were several letters from a woman named Marge Gallant begging for the removal of John Geoghan, and almost all of them appear to have no response from the church.

“These letters were heartbreaking,” says Rezendes, “because she was a devout catholic and loved the church and expressed her love for the church…she was writing about [the fact] that John Geoghan had ingratiated his way into her extended family and had molested seven boys in this one family alone.”

These letters helped the Spotlight Team prove their case to a judge and get the confidentiality order on Geoghan’s documents dismissed.

From the information the Spotlight Team obtained, they were able to publish four stories in the newspaper. The first exposed the cover up. The second, John Geoghan’s psychiatric records. This article exposed how Geoghan operated and how he manipulated his victims. The third story was based on all the records about Geoghan the Team uncovered from the confidentiality order. Rezendes said that there were about 10,000 pages of records uncovered and exposed in this story. They exposed the extreme forgiveness Cardinal Law had toward Geoghan, and the nonexistent compassion toward the victims. The fourth story was about the scope of the problem. By 2002, the Spotlight Team discovered that at least 70 priests were molesting and abusing children in the Boston area alone.

Rezendes said that ultimately the success of these stories came from the response from people who would continually come forward after they were published, continuing to expose corruption in the church. These stories that the Spotlight Team published led to a revolution in the church system. They expanded, they continued their research, and eventually Cardinal Law retired and returned to Vatican City where he could not face criminal charges.

The idea of the “Spotlight” movie was a long process. Rezendes says in his lecture that “none of us on the spotlight team ever thought this was gonna be a movie…we just couldn’t imagine that anyone could think our work was cinematic.” It took a while for the idea of this movie to get any

momentum. Many directors, producers, and other high up powers in Hollywood rejected the idea, until Ruffalo proclaimed he wanted to be in it. Once Ruffalo was on board with the film, actors, producers, and many other important Hollywood people took interest in it. Despite popular belief, the film was a huge success and won two Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Rezendes concluded his lecture by speaking about the importance of journalism, which can be exemplified by his story about the clergy cover up. Rezendes said, “Journalism is in a state of crisis right now,” which he says is due to the internet.

He said that it is the job of the journalist to get the facts and tell the truth. The reason why Rezendes does his job is to make a change in the world, and he hopes to inspire more people to do the same through “Spotlight” and his lectures.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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“The Accountant” is one of those few movies where, for every positive attribute you can name for the movie, there is essentially an equal con to conflict with it.

While working to find out if there is a discrepancy in a robotics company’s books involving millions of dollars, autistic accountant Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) finds himself being hunted down when he gets too close to the truth.

Pro: The cast is very good.

“The Accountant” has an impressive cast of respectable actors including Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jeffery Tambor and John Lithgow, with the best performances coming from Affleck and Simmons. The movie also stars Cynthia Addai-Robinson, who played Amanda Waller in “Arrow,” in what I believe is a breakout role, and she too does a good job.

Con: While the actors are good in their roles, a number of the roles are ultimately pointless to the movie. Sim-

mons and Robinson play federal agents who are tracking Wolff, and their involvement in the story has no payoff to it. To add insult to injury, they are both given interesting backstories and at least one-

those scenes. Some of the best scenes in the movie are between Affleck and Kendrick, and Simmons and Robinson.

Con: There are also a number of scenes that are either dumb, forced or drastically

the flashback sequences being totally unneeded and this one scene to be repetitive.

Pro: The characters in the movie are likable. As mentioned earlier, both of the federal agents who are trying to

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“The Accountant” was originally set to star Mel Gibson in the lead role with the Coen Brothers directing.

third of the movie’s screen time when everything involving them could have been cut out and not affected the rest of the movie.

Pro: There are a number of scenes in the movie that particularly stand out, mostly from the work of the actors in

miscalculated. For example, Wolff ’s backstory is told through a series of flashbacks that are spaced out throughout the movie. At around the halfway point though, Wolff vocally explains his backstory to Dana Cummings (Kendrick). This results in all of

locate Wolff have interesting backstories that made them understandable and noteworthy. Kendrick is naturally likable on screen and the way Affleck plays the role of this socially awkward and autistic accountant makes him come across as eccentrically charm-

ing when he easily could have come across as a jerk.

Con: While Wolff is a decent character that works as the main protagonist of the movie, some of the stuff in his backstory involving his father’s role in training him is forced and ridiculous.

The only major pro to the movie that does not have a conflicting con is that the movie manages to operate its premise in a way that subverts expectations. The trailer for “The Accountant” made it look like it was a generic action movie with the gimmick of the action hero being autistic. While that is essentially what the movie is (an action film with an autistic action hero), the autistic element of Wolff does not feel like a gimmick and instead is important to how the story operates in the same way that having the main character be intellectually challenged was not a gimmick in “Forrest Gump.”

“The Accountant” is overall a movie that does a lot of things right, but also has a number of miscalculations.

Final Grade: C+

Bon Iver pushes boundaries with‘22, A Million’ Chris Romano-Tanso Connector Contributor

When Bon Iver released their first album in 2008, listeners found the “Skinny Love” singer, Justin Vernon, to be folksy in a totally new way. In their first album in five years, “22, A Million,” Bon Iver manages to become what could be the most progressive artist in recent history. On Vernon’s latest work, we find less acoustic guitars and more synthesizers, samples and soundscapes. The album, doused in samples, heavily relies on Kanye West’s influence, which is appropriate considering Vernon’s appearance on West’s album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” released back in 2010.

With what sounds like a human gong, “22, A Million” opening song, “22 (OVER S∞∞N),” prepares the listener for a 34 minute aural adventure.

Warning that “it might be over soon,” Vernon sings about his rise to fame and how it inevitably will have an opposing downside.

Tracks like “715-CREEKS” are both minimalistic and West inspired.

Vernon’s vocals drenched in auto tune are the sole instrument on this song.

Bon Iver fans could make the connection to a previously released track, “Woods,” off of the 2009 EP, “Blood Bank.” Beauty can be found on melodically pleasing tracks throughout

the album. On “33 ‘God’,” the album’s most religious song, combines gospel-like, altered Jim Ed Brown vocals alongside auto tuned harsh lead vocals to tell a story of a lost lover or God. “29 #Stafford APTS” could pos-

sibly be Crosby, Stills and Nash inspired. While Vernon’s finger picked guitar and piano fill in the gaps, his vocals take the front seat on this song.

This track is a perfect example for how Vernon takes a familiar songwriting pattern, and changes it to fit Courtesy of Jag jaguwar

The album opened at number 2 on Billboard 200 and sold 71, 000 units in its first week.

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‘The Accountant’ is a pleasant surprise Owen Johnson

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his liking. Each verse and chorus are slightly different, with changes in pitch and melody. With static fuzzing over the vocals, the listener may check their earphone jack to make sure there is no loose connection. Rest assured, your track is not skipping. Vernon’s vocals seem to sputter and fall apart as he sings about old burned bridges.

On “666,” we find our album’s narrator dealing with the devil. “Just come off of your kneel,” cries the narrator, struggling with internal conflict.

On this song, it is easy to hear the mix of minimalism and complexity that this album is full of. Beautiful, ambient guitar string plucking is met with digitalized sound clipping. The song grows as the story being told unfolds, with more instrumentation creeping into your ear as each verse and chorus pass by.

From the first moment the listener picks up the album, they know they are in for an experimental ride. It could get overwhelming just trying to comprehend and take in all the symbols on the album cover. The symbols range from religious to satanic and include animals and diagrams. Every song title on the album contains a number, and most contain a non-traditional character. Fittingly, the art and song titles relate to the songs of the album in that this is not a traditional album.

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CAMPUS LIFE Mid-Autumn Festival displays Chinese and Vietnamese culture Marilyn Saha Connector Staff

On Thursday, Sept. 22 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., UMass Lowell celebrated in its first annual Night Market Festival.

The Mid-Autumn festival is celebrated by ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese people as well as some other East Asian countries. The festival is usually held on the fifteenth day of the eigth month of the lunar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to late September to early October of the Gregorian calendar with a full moon in sight. Night markets are prominent and common places to have street food in Asia. Traditionally, it is a harvest festival to gather and give thanks. Some traditions include hanging up bright red and yellow lanterns, crafting paper lanterns and eating mooncakes.

The Campus Recreation .

Center was beautifully lit with glowing paper lanterns, strings of paper cranes, lights

and many booths. Within these booths were various ac-

symbolizes more than just a dessert. Most mooncakes

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The Mid-Autumn festival served many ethnic delicacies.

tivities such as arts and crafts, mini-games and even a photo booth. People were enjoying the night and some were even spotted playing hacky sack.

Traditional food and drinks such as mooncakes and tea were also available to sample while dumplings, crab Rangoon’s, kababs and limeade were available to purchase.

The mooncake actually

consist of a thin, tender pastry skin enveloping a sweet, dense filling, and may contain one or more whole salted egg yolks in their center as the symbol of the full moon.

Traditional mooncakes have an imprint on top consisting of the Chinese characters for “longevity” or “harmony.”

Mooncakes are typically offered between friends or on

family gatherings while celebrating this festival.

The teas served were black tea, mango white tea, cinnamon chai tea and a passion fruit tea which are all very traditional to Chinese and Vietnamese culture.

Noel Shay, a student that attended this event, said that she was “thrilled to learn more about this community and enjoy the different things they had to offer at the event.” She even tried the passion fruit tea as well as a mooncake and was very surprised to bite into an egg yolk.

Alex Sun, the president of the Student Association of Chinese Americans, and Ashly Tran, the president of the Vietnamese Student Association, have worked together to plan this festival since June.

Both of them wanted to have this event so they could cater to both Chinese and Vietnamese culture to the UMass Lowell community. Sun said

that he and Tran decided to combine the two events together “giving our students the best of both worlds: good food and good company.”

Furthermore, they decided to bolster this event by inviting the Cambodian American Student Association, the Mongolian Student Association, the Association of Campus Events (ACE) and the Asian Task Force against Domestic Violence at various tables at the event. The games, arts and crafts, photo booth, tea and mooncake tasting tents were staffed by those from VSA and SACA e-boards.

This event proved to be a success, and according to Sun, over 200 students passed through. Tran also said that they are really happy to have it be a huge success. Finally, Sun said that he would like to thank SACA and VSA executive board, and their wonderful volunteers for making this event possible.

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With an open application for all students, whether they are undergraduate, international, or graduate, Diversity Peer Educators (DPE) are a group of student leaders prepared to help others. This group of 20 to 30 students appear at countless events and serve as outlets for students to have conversations with.

DPEs attend an extensive two-day training that is created around the diversity of the students. They discuss and open up about important issues, as well as have hard conversations about race, gender, bullying, acceptance, sexual orientation and several other things that students experience first-hand on campus. “It is a really personal training, people share stories,” says Michelle Zohlman, coordinator for the program.

Outside of the training, DPEs are encouraged, but not required, to attend several events hosted by the Multicultural Affairs Office to advance their diversity and understanding of others. They even exercise their leadership in things outside of UMass Lowell such as hosting vigils and other off-campus events.

DPEs strive to make a difference and increase diversity among students, and are trained to have hard conversations that wouldn’t necessarily be had otherwise. “Their whole purpose is for helping others,” says

Zohlman.“They’re students in the classroom…and [they] learn about others, and learn about [themselves].”

The DPEs attend an extensive two day training at the beginning of each semester that is tailored to the diversity of the DPEs themselves and issues that pertain to the student body.

Only 20-30 applicants are accepted into the program per semester. In addition to the generalized program, there is a “DPE 2.0” which is more centralized on specific issues and involves more facilitation than a grand overview. Zohlman said, “It fills up every year, which is why we made [DPE 2.0].” Several club leaders, residence life advisors, and other students in leadership participate in the program, but it is not exclusive. According to Zohlman, “the program has a big following,” which is due to all students who participate to increase diversity and understanding on and around campus.

Overall, DPEs serve an important role to the student body as outlets and people who are prepared to have hard conversations. They are mentors, leaders, and friends to all students.

Anyone who is interested in applying to be a DPE can find the application on the Multicultural Affairs website, or contact Zohlman for more information regarding the process, training, and overall meaning of being a DPE.

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October 18, 2016

SPORTS No. 7 River Hawks take out Colorado College 8-5 UMass Lowell Athletics

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

-- Sophomore forwards Ryan Dmowski (East Lyme, Conn.) and John Edwardh (Calgary, Alta.) each tallied two goals apiece to lead the No. 7 ranked UMass Lowell Hockey team to a 8-5 victory at NCHC foe Colorado College on Friday night at the Broadmoor World Arena in non-conference play.

With the victory, the River Hawks get their first win of the season improving to 1-0-2, while the Tigers fall to 1-2-0. It marks the fourth time since Norm Bazin has been Head Coach of the River Hawks that the team scored eight goals in a single game.

Edwardh and Mattias Goransson (Slottsbron, Sweden) capped the scoring in the third period for the River Hawks.

Sophomore forward Connor Wilson (Calgary, Alta.) opened the scoring in the second period with his second goal of the season just 1:48 into the frame. Senior forward Joe Gambardella (Staten Island, N.Y.) added a power play goal at 4:59 to give the River Hawks a 6-3

lead with his third goal of the season. UMass Lowell outshot CC, 13-6 in the middle stanza.

Dmowski, who posted his first career two-goal game with the River Hawks, notched goals at 8:59 and 17:50 of the opening period, to go along with tallies from Edwardh to open the game and a power play goal from Jake Kamrass (Atlanta, Ga.) to cap off the scoring in the first period. The River Hawks owned an 11-8 shot advantage heading into the locker room at the end of the first frame.

Sophomore goaltender Christoffer Hernberg (Espoo, Finland) made his third career start and made five saves on eight shots in the first 20 minutes, giving way to freshman Tyler Wall (Leamington, Ont.) who finished the game with 13 saves in the final 40 minutes of play to pick up the first win of his River Hawks career.

Gambardella won 9-of-15 faceoffs (60%) to lead the River Hawks in the faceoff circle.

UMass Lowell went 3-for-5 on the power play and went 6-for-7 on the penalty kill.

Men’s club soccer finishes undefeated in 6-game season Carter Hochman Connector Contributor

The men’s varsity soccer team is not the only team that is enjoying an undefeated season.

The UMass Lowell men’s club soccer team has finished with an undefeated 6-0 record this season. Outscoring their opponents 23-1 (including three shutouts), the sheer dominance of the men’s club soccer team is uncanny.

The club started their season with a 6-0 rout against St. Anselm College, and then fought to a 1-0 win over Merrimack College. In a round robin tournament on Sept. 18, the team allowed just one goal over the course of two games, defeating Castleton State College 7-0 and the University of Maine 6-1.

One of the possible reasons for this obvious success is that six of the 11 starters had played on the varsity squad at one point in their collegiate careers: senior goalkeeper Alex Bouthot, senior mid-fielder Nana Osei, senior mid-fielder Augusto Trento, junior mid-fielder Brandon Vazquez, sophomore mid-fielder Brett Richardson and senior back Tyler Donovan.

Another contributor to their success comes from the management of the

team. “We’re one of the few club soccer teams that actually has a coach in Alex Brame,” said Richardson, “We’re a team that’s all about possession. ‘Possess, possess, possess’ is sort of our mantra as a team. That’s what’s fun about it.

I like to keep the ball; it makes the game more enjoyable. He’s a great coach.”

The squad finished off their two remaining games both away against Dartmouth College and the University of Vermont. UMass Lowell won 1-0 over Dartmouth on Oct. 1. 14 days later, they emerged victorious against Vermont, 2-0. “[They were] our two toughest opponents undoubtedly,” said Richardson.

“I also think it’s pretty cool that both men’s teams haven’t lost yet. Collectively, both teams hold a 15-0-2 record,” he said.

The team plays in the NIRSA league in the fall season, and NEPL in the spring.

Students and fans can catch the men’s club soccer team out on Cushing Field on North Campus training late at night to catch a glimpse of what made a special season.

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SPORTS River Hawks fall 3-0 to Stony Brook in conference play Andrew Sciascia Connector Staff

With America East conference play heating up, the women’s volleyball team took on a strong, energetic Stony Brook University Seawolves in an attempt to break a lasting losing streak on “Dig Pink Night” at the Costello Athletic Center.

Both teams came out with a lot of energy attempting to break their matching (5-14) records; UMass Lowell was also on the hunt for its first conference win of the season. Despite a fierce effort UMass Lowell was unable to connect Friday night and was overtaken in three straight games.

“I think our team as a whole was a little disconnected tonight, so it’s going to be important for us to get back in the gym… and get synced,” said River Hawks third-year Head Coach

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River Hawk Games Thursday, Oct. 20

7 pm

Field Hockey at Maine

Friday, Oct. 21

6 pm

MSOC at UNH

Friday, Oct. 21

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Friday, Oct. 21

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Saturday, Oct. 22

7 pm

Sunday, Oct. 23

4 pm

XCTF at CCSU Mini Meet

MHOC vs. STLU MHOC vs. Clarkson WSOC vs. UNH

Lindsay Visvardis had 13 kills on the night.

Resa Provanzano. The first set was fast paced. Early on, play was back and forth, but point by point Stony Brook gained ground. The game was stopped midway for an injury to Seawolves’ freshman defensive specialist and outside hitter Kardasia Hitchcock who fell face first into the bleachers attempting to keep the ball in play. The remainder of the set was defined by a

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The River Hawks face a five-game slate of America East games to close the season.

For more sports information and full game schedules visit goriverhawks.com stretch in which Stony Brook scored eight consecutive points. second conference win. It was also The second set was more even with the serve switching their second win in seven days and a sides frequently. UMass Lowell con- strong start to a two game road trip.

“It’s going to be important for us tinued to have trouble stringing toto get back in the gym tomorrow begether points on the serve as the set fore our game Sunday against UMBC went on.

“They were serving very aggressive. and get synced. We need to start with We were back on our heels a little bit ourselves. We made a lot of unforced serve/receive, and not adjusting to errors, and we’ve got to start there. the different types of serves we were Things we can control. Service and seeing. We just need to make some receive is going to be our focus,” said adjustments in passing,” said Coach Coach Provanzano.

UMass Lowell, taking half of their Provanzano. last four America East games this seaThe second set was again closed out son at home, looks to tighten things with a quick string of points for the Seawolves that, despite a strong effort, up and come out hard in the closing UMass Lowell was unable to stop and weeks of their season to register their first conference win of the season. come back from.

“They really played hard. They In the final set UMass Lowell came out hot. The team managed to hold off were trying to find a way to make it Stony Brook the best it had throughout happen out there tonight. It wasn’t the match. But, once again, a couple quite syncing the right way, but they of scoring rallies from the Seawolves were all talking and trying to find the despite being split up by valiant River answers and I like to see that,” said Hawk efforts, were deciding factors in Coach Provanzano. the third game and the final result.

Friday’s game was Stony Brook’s