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Parents of student killed by university shuttle bus will receive compensation

By Abby Mace Staff Writer George and Linda Plamondon, parents of a former UConn student who was killed when struck by a university shuttle bus in 2011, have received $5.5 million in a lawsuit with UConn and the state of Connecticut.

David Plamondon was hit while using the crosswalk at the intersection of Alumni Drive and Hillside Road on March 22, 2011. The pre-med student from Westminster, Mass. was 20 years old.

The driver of the bus was UConn student Lukasz Gilewski, 21, of Newington. Gilewski failed to see Plamondon as he waved to a fellow bus driver.

Plamondon was run over by the front and rear tires of the bus, killing him instantly.

Gilewski’s status as a state employee held Connecticut and the university responsible for the payment of the lawsuit according to the Hartford

Courant. While Gilewski pleaded guilty to negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, he was only required to serve two years of probation instead of jail time.

Plamondon’s death sparked controversy regarding the university’s policies allowing students to serve as bus drivers. In the Courant, George and Linda Plamondon’s lawyer stated that the couple said their son’s death would have likely been preventable if a non-student had been driving.

However, UConn spokesperson Stephanie Reitz said that all university bus drivers, of which approximately 81 percent are students, must meet the same qualifications and undergo the identical training before becoming licensed to drive.

All UConn bus drivers are required to be are at least 18 and have held a driver’s license for two years. In addition, a Connecticut commercial driver’s license, at least 30 hours of on-the-road training in a UConn

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Many of the UConn buses like the one shown above are driven by students. George and Linda Plamondon, parents of a former UConn student who was killed when struck by a university shuttle bus in 2011, believe that having student drivers created an unsafe situation.

bus, no moving violations and have passed a background check issued by the state sex offender registry.

“The UConn bus drivers also go through additional training to learn the campus routes with a supervisor riding along, and the University has a number of

evaluators – whose identities are unknown to the drivers – who regularly ride the buses to monitor drivers’ skills and report to UConn officials,” Reitz said.

While UConn will continue to employ student bus drivers, safety measures have been put in place in an attempt to prevent

university transportation-related accidents from occurring. The “Safe Turn Alert” system warns pedestrians as buses are turning and reminds drivers to check both sides of the roadway before making a turn. Such technology was not available at the time of Plamondon’s death.

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“What we are doing a much better job at is communicating through our Rave and texting messaging and email systems that these things are occurring.”

State law requires UConn police to send out communications through the Rave Alert system when major crimes take place on campus. In the most recent instances, police notified students of burglaries or attempted burglaries taking place in Batterson, Sprague and New Haven residence halls and in Celeron Square Apartments, an off-campus housing option for UConn students.

“UConn is by and large a very safe campus,” O’Connor

said. “That said, things happen here as they do in any place where you have 30,000 young people.”

Deputy Chief of Police Hans Rhynhart said that burglary rates on campus over the past three years have been consistent, and that the four instances in the past month are not statistically unusual.

Rhynhart also said as new students and returning students adjust to being on campus, these crimes will likely decline.

According to both O’Connor and Rhynhart, the only major difference in approaching this semester’s crimes was quickly alerting the student population

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with many constituents during the allotted time, it proved fortuitous for at least one citizen.

Mike Kelley, a construction worker and lifetime Willimantic resident, said his work schedule prevented him from being able to contact either representative during their normal hours of availability, and that Thursday’s office hours finally gave him the opportunity to speak with them.

Kelley expressed concern that the money he pays in property taxes is not tax deductible at the state level like it is at the federal level. Kelley also was concerned about UConn spending $250,000 on a private investigative firm to review the details of Professor Robert Miller’s misconduct instead of leaving it to the state police.

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A UConn police motorcycle is parked at the police station. UConn police attributed an increased amount of crime alerts to better communication not an increase in crime.

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Despite a number of emails and text messages alerting students to burglaries on campus early in the semester, crime at UConn’s Storrs campus is not on the rise, according to police officials.

UConn students received three alerts from police officials between Aug. 3 and Sept. 1 detailing burglaries or attempted burglaries on the campus. Two of those alerts came within the first week of classes.

“It’s not an unusual uptick (in crime) compared to previous years,” said UConn Police Chief Barbara O’Connor.

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Tau Kappa Epsilon’s (TKE) new approach to recruitment and ambitious goal setting in their philanthropy has earned them “Most Improved and Excellence in Recruitment” from their national chapter.

Each spring, TKE has a 5k to raise money and awareness for Autism Speaks. They collaborate with another organization on campus, Autism Speaks U UConn. Together, they raised about $15,000 last spring.

“We’ll set a goal and basically become obsessed with beating it,” said TKE president Benjamin Buchanan, a 7th-semester exercise science major.

Their goal for this spring is $20,000.

Stephan Chassagnoux, the with Autism Speaks for the secretary for TKE, said that past four years and they do this event differs from other not plan to change course.

Greek philanthropic events Buchanan said that a man because it is not only student- came up to him and talked about body oriented; it is also a how this philanthropic event form of community outreach. is directly going to change “You see the atmolocals comsphere around ing out to run autism. as well,” said “To actuChassagnoux, ally hear firsta 7th-semester hand how it internationimpacted a al business family,” said management Buchanan. major. “It’s “That was really cool a great when you get moment.” the whole In addiBenjamin Buchanan community tion to their UConn TKE’s President philanthropy, involved.”

TKE, which TKE earned has two brothan award for ers who have siblings with its excellence in recruitment. autism, has been working

“To actually hear firsthand how it impacted a family...That was a great moment.”

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Two Connecticut state representatives held office hours Thursday at Windham Town Hall in an effort to be available to their constituents in Willimantic and the surrounding area.

The representatives, Linda Orange, D-Colchester and Susan Johnson, D-Windham, set aside an hour and a half for the public forum, prepared to address issues facing their constituents.

“As state representatives, we want to be accessible to our communities,” Orange said. “The most important part of the job is the people that you represent. You can’t represent them unless you hear from them.”

While Orange and Johnson did not have the opportunity to speak

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Ledyard man charged with owning illegal lizard

LEDYARD (AP) — A monitor lizard that repeatedly startled residents of this rural Connecticut town before it was killed by police last month was apparently a pet that escaped from its owner’s property, police said Thursday.

The owner, Anthony String, 36, was charged Wednesday with possession of an illegal reptile.

It was unclear how the animal escaped from its aquarium-type enclosure, Ledyard police Lt. Michael Finkelstein said.

A Ledyard police officer shot the monitor lizard to death on Aug. 25 after a resident called 911 to report what she believed to be an alligator attacking chickens in her coop. Residents had called in a number of sightings of a large reptile roaming the southeastern Connecticut town in the last several months.

Finkelstein said police are confident that the lizard is the one that had been seen around town.

“We like to hope there is only one,” he said.

Monitor lizards can be as big as some alligators, reaching lengths of 6 to 7 feet. They are not native to Connecticut and are illegal in the state.

Finkelstein said String acknowledged that he bought the animal several years ago, but it was not clear where he obtained the lizard.

String was issued a summons for a Sept. 25 court appearance in New London. It was not immediately known if he has an attorney, and a phone number was not listed for him at the address provided by police.

Facebook page honoring Conn. teen suicide hacked

GREENWICH, (AP) — Hackers have used Facebook pages to mock a Greenwich High School sophomore who committed suicide, possibly due to bullying.

Greenwich Time reports that offensive images started appearing Tuesday on a memorial page for Bart Palosz, who died of a selfinflicted gunshot on Aug. 27. He was 15.

Tara Church, a Greenwich High School graduate, said she initially ignored the posts, but says they got increasingly worse.

Church rallied Facebook friends to join her in reporting the hacked page to Facebook in hopes that the social network would shut it down.

The site was shut down on Wednesday night.

Windsor backs planned Amazon distribution center

WINDSOR (AP) — Windsor planning and zoning officials have approved plans for online retailer Amazon to build a distribution center.

The Journal Inquirer reports (http://bit.ly/18WCAgl ) that Amazon may still decide against moving to Windsor or another Hartford area town. It pulled a tax abatement request last week.

A lawyer for Amazon says it’s considering several sites in Connecticut, but Windsor is the company’s first choice.

KTR Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm, also pulled its request for a 50 percent building fee reduction. KTR Senior Vice Partner John Bancroft said Tuesday the company is still moving forward on its plans for Windsor.

Amazon ended a two-year dispute with Connecticut in February, agreeing to collect sales tax and to spend $50 million to build an order-fulfillment center.

Yale responds to sexual misconduct complaints

NEW HAVEN (AP) — Yale University has released hypothetical situations to illustrate how it handles sexual misconduct complaints, including several that would result in expulsion.

The hypothetical situations follow by a month criticism that Yale has not done enough to punish perpetrators of sexual assault.

Yale University President Peter Salovey asked the school to develop the list of scenarios.

Spokesman Tom Conroy said the situations were developed to respond to questions and concerns raised about the kinds of behavior Yale considers nonconsensual sex and what definition of consent Yale uses when investigating a complaint.

For example, a hypothetical situation says a person who is incapacitated lacks the ability to make or act on decisions to have sex and cannot give consent.

Newtown officer disciplined over shooting

NEWTOWN (AP) — A Newtown police lieutenant has been disciplined for being out of communication on the day 26 people died in a school shooting.

The News-Times reports that Lt. George Sinko received a written reprimand.

Chief Michael Kehoe told the newspaper Sinko was disciplined for failing to carry his radio.

The chief said the 24-year veteran was not going to be a first responder and was not on duty on Dec. 14 when the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School sent dozens of officers racing to the scene.

Kehoe said Sinko arrived at the school about two hours later and his failure to respond more quickly did not result in additional casualties.

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Students encouraged to lock doors

1 between 12 a.m. and 12 p.m. about the incidents while also In both instances, the door including a set of crime pre- to the room was unlocked when the crime vention tips. took place.

C e l e r o n O’Connor said Apartments the offenders was the first “likely entered site of an legally” into attempted burthe residence glary, taking halls, while place on Aug. the rooms were 3 at 3 a.m. entered illeO’Connor said gally. tools were New Haven used to attempt Hall was the to gain entry into one of the Barbara O’Connor most recent site of an apartments, but the offender UConn Police Chief attempted burglary, taking fled the scene place on Sept. when the resident verbally 1 at 4:55 a.m.

In this instance, confronted the intruder.

Batterson and Sprague halls the offender – a male – tried were both burglarized on Sept. to gain access to the room by

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“The best approach to solving it [crime in dorms] is educating students to lock their doors”

pushing out a piece of cardboard next to the resident’s air conditioner. According to Rhynhart, the offender was halfway through the window when the resident was awoken and confronted the intruder verbally. While the intent for the entry into the room was unknown, it was still considered an attempted burglary.

Prior to the alerts received in August and September, the last alert came in February, when Michael Tarpeh, better known as “Bigggggg Mike,” entered an on-campus apartment after being invited inside. While the residents were asleep, he stole several items, including credit cards.

Tarpeh was later arrested in March for stealing gas from a Council Bluffs, Iowa, gas

station.

Since Sept. 1, there have been no more burglaries or attempted burglaries reported at the Storrs campus. UConn police still urge students to report any instances of burglaries and to be proactive by locking dorm room doors, even when just making a trip to the restroom.

“The Batterson situation and the Sprague situation, how are the police going to patrol to prevent that,” O’Connor asked. “That’s where the reliance on students becomes more critical, encouraging people to call when something just doesn’t feel right. … The best approach to solving it is educating students to lock their doors.”

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Jorge Agüero adds to UConn commitment to Latin American studies

By Annie Pancak Campus Correspondent

This article is part of a series highlighting this year’s new professors who have outstanding achievements in their career and major plans to bring to UConn.

Peruvian native Jorge Agüero is a new professor in two of UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences programs this semester.

He has a Ph.D in economics and is interested in Latin America such as Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Guatemala.

Although economics is typically a consistent department, UConn stood out to Agüero in particular because many schools are getting rid of their Latin American studies programs, but UConn is not Last July UConn opened a new research institute called “El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean and Latin American Studies.” Agüero is now a faculty member for the economics department and El Instituto.

“If you want to understand what are the main policies to improve life in Latin America, UConn is the right place to be.”

This semester he is teaching Econ 3473, Economic Development.

Economic development is his main research focus. He has studied the link between fertility and women joining the labor

force, restrictions on learning in developing countries and the effect of health education.

Agüero’s example of his work was with the health of Latin American children. “In Latin America a lot of children get sick and sometimes even die because of diseases that are easily preventable, for example diarrhea … What are the factors? … The problem is the adults, 30 to 35 percent wash their hands.”

He said the reason he chose to become a professor was so he could do research like that, and academia was a good way for that the happen. Agüero’s research has led to relationships with the World Bank and International American Development Bank.

The capability to do research that is improving the life of people is one of his favorite accomplishments. “Also, I am proud to be able to train the future generation of economists,” he said.

He said that economics was an exciting field to teach students in because the future of the economy is uncertain, so future economists need to be trained in tools, but also analyzing, understanding, and evaluating.

Next semester Agüero will teach his specific developing area of interest in a Latin American and Caribbean economics course.

Besides his Latin American

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Jorge Agüero, shown above, joins the CLAS faculty as an economics professor and a

member of El Instituto.

heritage and research background, Agüero’s first research started in South Africa. He is still involved with the “South African Journal of Economics,” and taught two courses at the University of Cape Town and the University of KwaZuluNatal.

Before UConn, Agüero was

a professor at the University of California, Riverside. He did his Ph.D at University of Wisconsin, Madison, master’s at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain, and undergraduate at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Peru, all in economics.

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Paintball and Buffalo Wild Wings Reps. see value in office hours events added to TKE rush from TKE, page 1

Recruitment takes place formally during the first two weeks of school, although TKE brothers have the mindset that you should always be recruiting.

The interfraternity council, the governing council for chapters of 10 men’s fraternities, helped by making changes such as the location of the fraternity’s BBQ from Northwest Quad to Fairfield Circle, where there could be more potential rushes.

Two main events new to TKE this year for rushing are

paintball and Buffalo Wild Wings.

In order to compensate for these events, the chapter decided to have an increase in fall and spring dues.

“In return,” said Buchanan, “we can show a little uniqueness.”

They hope that these events might draw into a previously untapped pool of potential rushes.

For instance, they had an ROTC member that was not previously considering Greek life, but wanted to play paintball. Buchanan hopes that the event helped defeat negative

stereotypes of Greek life, and that we would learn it’s about brotherhood and caring about each other.

The chapter believes it is their wide variety events that is bringing a more diverse group of people together and has helped earn them “Excellence in Recruitment” as well as “Most Improved” chapter.

“Everyone gets excited about different things,” said Chassagnoux. “Collectively it brings something new to the table.”

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“(UConn) thinks that they have ‘carte blanche,’” Kelley said.

“Someone should be accountable because they’re just taking state money and spending it freely.”

Johnson addressed the issue, saying the state police cannot investigate unless charges are filed. At this time, charges have not been filed and Miller is on paid leave.

“We’re able to say that we’re here, we’re available,” Johnson said of the office hours. “We find out things that we might not ever find out about if we didn’t come and just be here at the town hall.”

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Raging fire strikes at heart of Sandy-hit N.J. town SEASIDE PARK, N.J. (AP) — A massive fire spitting fist-sized embers engulfed dozens of businesses along an iconic Jersey shore boardwalk Thursday, forcing workers to rip up stretches of walkway only recently replaced in the wake of Superstorm Sandy as they raced to contain the blaze’s advance.

The 6-alarm blaze began in a frozen custard stand on the Seaside Park portion of the boardwalk around 2:30 p.m. and fanned by 15-20 mph winds from an approaching storm system, quickly spread north into Seaside Heights, the boardwalk town where the MTV series “Jersey Shore” was filmed — and where the October storm famously plunged a roller coast into the ocean.

No serious injuries were reported as of 7 p.m., but the blaze continued to burn out of control and had destroyed all 32 businesses on the Seaside Park portion of the boardwalk, borough Councilwoman Nancy Koury told The Associated Press. An undetermined number of additional boardwalk businesses in Seaside Heights also were burned.

“We’re going to be here for several days,” one firefighter said as he scurried toward the flames.

The blaze tore the heart out of two popular Jersey shore resort communities whose livelihoods depend on summer tourism and who had just spent millions of dollars rebuilding their boardwalks, arcade games, pizza stands and bar and grills to be

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“It’s devastating; I’ve been crying all afternoon,” said Shirley Kreszl, who has rented a summer home in Seaside Park for decades. “Haven’t we been hit enough? We try to rebuild and just when we think we saved a little bit of our town, this happens. It’s just not fair.”

Gov. Chris Christie, who raced to the fire scene, was typically blunt describing his thoughts as he approached the blaze.

“I feel like I want to throw up,” he said.

Koury said the fire caused several million dollars’ worth of damage. At one point, she said, flames jumped across Ocean Avenue, the oceanfront street, and ignited two or three small houses but firefighters quickly doused them. A motel near the boardwalk also was engulfed in flames.

For hours, two boardwalk businesses, an arcade and the Saw Mill Cafe, a popular Jersey shore bar, escaped the flames.

But shortly before 7 p.m. both were engulfed in a huge orange fireball that rolled into the darkening sky.

“I can’t believe this is happening,” Koury said as she watched the flames devour the structures. “Our small business people went through so much in the storm to get ready for summer and stay open all summer, and now it’s all gone. I just can’t believe it.”

Further north in Seaside Heights, public works crews ripped up a section of the newly

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Firefighters battle a fire on the Seaside Heights, N.J. boardwalk Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. The fire started in the vicinity of an ice cream shop and burned several blocks of boardwalk and businesses in a town that was still rebuilding from damage caused by Superstorm Sandy.

rebuilt boardwalk to serve as a makeshift fire break, in much the same way that forest fire crews clear out underbrush to deprive an advancing fire of fuel.

Christie said the fire had engulfed at least six blocks, and

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Born-again Christian activist preach antievolution and sin awareness messages on Fairfield

Twitter tweets it’ll go public NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has decided to go public. The company aptly announced on its short messaging service Thursday afternoon that it has filed documents for an initial public offering of stock.

The documents Twitter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission are sealed, as Twitter is taking advantage of federal legislation passed last year that allows companies with less than $1 billion in revenue in its last fiscal year to avoid submitting public IPO documents.

The confidentiality will likely help Twitter avoid the public hoopla and intense scrutiny that surrounded the initial public offerings of other highprofile social networking companies, including Facebook Inc., which went public in May 2012.

The San Francisco-based company posted on its official Twitter account that it has “confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO.” A subsequent tweet said simply: “Now, back to work.”

It’s accompanied by a blurry photo of the company’s offices.

Under the law, Twitter’s financial statements and other sensitive information contained in the IPO filing must become publicly available at least 21 days before company’s executives begin traveling around the country to meet with potential investors — a process known as a “road show.”

Twitter’s IPO has been long expected. The company has been ramping up its advertising products and working to boost ad revenue in preparation. But it is still tiny compared with Facebook, which saw its hotly anticipated IPO implode last year amid worries about its

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Research firm eMarketer estimates that Twitter will generate $582.8 million in worldwide ad revenue this year, up from $288.3 million in 2012.

By comparison, Facebook had ad revenue of $1.6 billion in the April-June quarter of this year. By 2015, Twitter’s annual ad revenue is expected to hit $1.33 billion.

Twitter is planning its public offering at a time of heightened investor interest in the IPO market. There have been 131 IPOs that have priced so far this year, according to IPO tracking firm Renaissance Capital. That’s a 44 percent increase from the same period the year before. If the momentum continues, 2013 will have the most IPO pricings since 2007 —a year before the financial crisis.

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A group of born-again Christian activists were on Fairfield Way Thursday, Sept. 13 distributing literature as well as DVDs to passers by. With signs reading, “Evolution is a Lie” and “Sin Awareness Day,” the activists attracted crowds of students, with whom the activists engaged in heated arguments.

“I’m not interested in hearing your opinions, I’m not here to respect your opinions, I’m here to speak the truth,” said Sye Ten Bruggencate, a member of the group.

Students reacted to the activist in a variety of ways. “I actually really enjoy when people come out here and talk like this,” said Dylan Clark, a 7th-semester sports promotion major. “Honestly, it’s fun to sit here and listen to the debates. I won’t hate on these guys right now, but I must say I do dislike it when some students who think they know it all come up and talk to these groups, and they’re just way off.”

“I think the moral message that they are trying to send is right, but the way they’re presenting themselves is not,” said 7th-semester political science major Amir Syed. “If you want someone to embrace your religion you have to be respectable, kind, open minded, and open hearted, something these guys definitely are not being.”

Presbyterian campus minister Scott Smith, who was out with the activists, said, “Our goal today, ultimately, is to show that human beings can’t know anything for sure unless they start with God because truth pre supposes god,” Smith said. “We are also going to present the gospel that human beings not only can’t think without God, they can’t get rid of their sin problem without God.”

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UCONN CLASSICS: MADNESS IN A METHOD. THAT IS CALLED GENIUS.

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Carl Difredericlo performs at Open Mic Night in the Student Union Ballroom.

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Today's Birthday (09/13/13). Your people take priority this year. Family, friends, partners, neighbors and community groups present opportunities and resources. Your participation and leadership builds momentum for your passion causes. Share and collaborate. Keep close track of the numbers, Classic Why the Long Face? especially around the October eclipse. Delicious romance spices your autumn. Savor with love. by Jackson Lautier To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Career takes priority this Friday the 13th, and there's plenty of work. Talk is cheap. Postpone long conversations. Stand firm. Draw positive results to you. Consider home and family. Clean up.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Call ahead to save time. Make plans; travel conditions are excellent. Convince your partner. Don't get stopped by a bout of temporary confusion. New expenses surface. Take it all into consideration.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Prepare to negotiate carefully. Plan it out thoroughly. Count wins and losses to get what's predictable. Choose your words. To avoid a potential problem, play the game exactly by the book.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Share responsibilities with your team. The potential for accidents is high. Review instructions again.

Consider your next move carefully, and practice first. Get a mentor or coach for best results.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Get a lot done. Weekend chores need attention. Get down to the actual work. Test before sealing up everything. Romance doesn't need to be expensive.

Candles and music soothe.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Plan some fun. Pamper yourself. It doesn't have to cost a lot. Pull strings to get what you want. Cover all the details. Avoid conflict by communicating plans early. Invite a friend.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Focus on home and family for the next few days. You're still determining the right choice. A critic speaks out. Look for the full story. It could get awkward.

Find out what's needed at home.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Invite exploration and education. Dig deeper into a favorite subject. Yoga improves your spirits.

Communicate with a group or community to discuss shared passion and enthusiasms. Reach out and discover.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- This phase is good for making money. Don't buy toys. Do what you're good at and what you enjoy.

Focus on the fun part of the job. Be smart and respectful. Express your love.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- You're ready to make changes. List the upgrades you envision for your place. Anticipate resistance.

Inspire action. It's not a good time to travel.

Provide treats.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 6 -- You may change your mind about what you want.

Clarify your direction with friends. But don't invest in it yet. You're entering two days of private selfexamination. Ask probing questions. Get sensitive and pensive.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Take a day off if you can. A document arrives. Use your persuasive skills to moderate a clash between normally gentle souls. Let friends help with a household project. Guard against impetuous overspending. Relax. *To the North, dah dah dutta dah dah daahhhh.

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1936 17-year-old Cleveland Indians pitcher “Rapid” Robert Feller strikes out 17 batters in a game, setting a new American League record.

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Comedian and rap battler Zach Sherwin shared some of his favorite raps and jokes, and even created a new alma mater, with UConn students at the Student Union Theater on Thursday night.

Sherwin grew up in Ohio and Missouri before attending Brandeis University in Boston, where he began performing comedy. Formerly known as MC Mr. Napkins, Sherwin first came to the comedy spotlight appearing on YouTube in “Epic Rap Battles of History” – a record-breaking digital series featuring comedic rap battles between prominent historical figures. With over 2.1 billion views and more than 6 million subscribers, ERB has two YouTube channels, one of which features behind the scenes contents. Sherwin has performed as Albert Einstein, Doc Brown, and Dr. Watson, each with a different accent, in ERB 7, 24 and 26.

Sherwin came out onto the stage with a lot of energy, encouraging the crowd to cheer for him while he tried making his best and funniest first impression. He went right into commenting on his surroundings, pulling in material from whatever he found funny. He even disregarded the jokes he wrote as an intro.

“You can write all the jokes you want to beforehand,” he said. “But in the moment it may be more entertaining to watch a curtain go back and forward accidentally.”

This began his playful improvisation with a SUBOG crew member, Shane, working the lights, sounds and curtains. He’d come back to his jokes with Shane throughout the show. On a few occasions he singled out some audience members, poking fun at them.

“He was pretty charismatic,” said Michael Rafatpanah, a genetics graduate student. “I thought it was the best when he improvised with the audience, like with Shane.”

switched into some other random facts that he found about UConn.

Apparently the university won’t exterminate lady bug infestations, but will find out how they got there and suggest that students vacuum them and return them outside. Also, of the 12 Jonathans we’ve had as mascots, two died in car accidents.

One was back in 1935 when “there were hardly any cars, it was an exceptionally unlucky puppy to get hit … maybe the first one ever.”

He finished the show with his “Plush Piggy” song, complete with

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Dr. Mooney (above) lectured at the Dodd Research Center on Thursday about the imparativity of natural and social science collaboration.

By Natalia Kostenko Campus Correspondent This past Thursday, September 8, Harold Mooney, Professor of Biology, Emeritus and Senior Fellow at Stanford University gave a lecture at UConn’s Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.

Dr. Mooney’s lecture, “Bridging the gap between the natural and social sciences for addressing our common future in a changing world,” is part of an ongoing series known as the Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series and the first of these lectures to be given this year. The series, brought to UConn as a result of a joint effort by various departments, is meant to discuss and raise awareness among viewers about nature and different environmental issues.

Lectures are free, open to the public and held at 4 p.m. in the Research Center’s Konover Auditorium.

Teale, for whom the lecture series is named, was an American naturalist and writer who made critical observations about the state of the natural word. Dr. Harold Mooney is an ecologist whose focus is on environmental change and the effects of global

issues and policies on it.

Dr. Mooney started by addressing the “well known” issues facing the natural world today: climate disruption, species extinction, pollution, and extreme population growth. He talked his audience through efforts by several groups of scientists in the 1950s and 1980s to quantify and address the effects of these issues on the planet. Dr. Mooney cited the shortcomings of these groups as their inability to work in collaboration with social scientists, such as economists and policy makers, to create an effective program to combat this negative environmental change. The major causes of this inability to collaborate were “a lack of mutual respect between professionals in both fields and a lack of acceptance of the value of alternative knowledge systems,” said Dr. Mooney. He then proposed a new approach to be taken by the Future Earth project—a group that will focus on both short-term and long-term solutions to environmental problems by combining the brain-power of both researchers in the “hard” sciences and the social sciences.

This new approach, Dr. Mooney asserted, must involve more

interdisciplinary and international cooperation.

A question session was offered after the lecture, during which the audience could ask Dr. Mooney questions on the topic. Viewers, who included undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and guests to Uconn, asked a variety of questions about topics ranging from bridging the international scene with local grassroots movements, population control and the over-consumption of meat. Anna Sjodin, a graduate student in the school of ecology and evolutionary biology who attended the lecture, said that she thought Dr. Mooney “addressed some vulnerable issues that people in both the hard sciences and the social sciences still shy away from openly discussing today, and” did a good job incorporating the “international perspective thatwe don’t all get on a day to day basis” in these fields.

The next lecture in this series is scheduled for Oct. 3 and will also be addressing the natural and social sciences, this time co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.

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There were quite a lot of clubs at the Involvement Fair last Wednesday and chances are you overlooked many of them because you didn’t have the time or there were too many clubs to keep track of.

For those who are still looking for clubs to join consider our campus’ LARP (Live Action Role Playing) group. Otherwise known as SMAC (Society for Medieval Arts and Combat), the LARP group meets every Wednesday night from 7pm to 9pm in the field behind Laurel Hall to practice fighting each other with “medieval weapons.”

Of course, SMAC is not just about fighting. They also take part in LARP events such as tournaments, quests, and feasts. These events usually take place on weekends with other groups from all around Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire participating.

“For new members it’s a lot of fun! You can enjoy a more athletic experience than you might expect, and get to make friends with new people who often have similar interests.” Says Nick Quadrini, the President of SMAC. Nick has been LARPing ever since he joined SMAC 4 years ago and as the president he hopes to get new people to become just as involved as he is.

SMAC understands that there can be a lot for new LARPers to learn, which is why they take their time teaching new members about events. “In past years we have given new members a taste of questing with the ‘Newbie Night Quest’,” says

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instructions on what to do with the pig whose stomach opened up, demonstrating how to do it with the Plush Piggy he brought in. He then invited students to talk to him outside of the theater while he autographed and sold merchandise like CDs and T-shirts.

The second comedy show of the academic year, his performance was put together by the Comedy Committee of SUBOG as part of the biweekly Comedy Series Thursday nights at 7.

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Dr. Mooney: Scientists’ efforts Spotlight on live suffer from lack of collaboration action role-playing

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Quadrini. The ‘Newbie Night Quest’ usually happens about a month into the fall semester, but this year he plans on expanding it into several installments “giving newer players an easy way to experience questing.” The ‘Newbie Night Quest’ would be a helpful for new members to take part in since the first event SMAC usually attends is held in mid-October. In fact, several events are held on campus in the Hick’s Arena.

Quadrini wants to point out that “as far as the role playing aspect of it is concerned, there is very little pressure to go to events and if it’s not for you but you still like to fight, then our practice works great!” It is up to each member to decide how much they wish to immerse themselves in the fantasy driven world of LARP. But for those who enjoy the fantasy genre, “LARP lets you live it and gives an experience unlike any other.”

Last Wednesday there were over sixty people who came to the SMAC meeting. Some might not return, but veteran members are always excited for new people to try it out.

For those still on the fence about joining, Quadrini has one last thing to say. “Come and talk to us! Everyone is very friendly and we have a wide variety of people who come and join our group. We have new people come and talk to us all the time, so take the leap and try it for an hour or two. You just might love it!”

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and took the audience through a math trick that he got right in the end.

Having done his research before coming to the university, Sherwin created new alma maters composed of quotes from the school’s website. Including facts like “zero motor vehicle thefts in 2011,” and “845 liquor and drug violations” (which he claims is an exceptionally high number compared to other schools he’s found similar statistics for – he applauded the students), he finished his alma mater singing and

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The word diet is perhaps one of the most stigmatized words in the realm of health and fitness. The fact that such a generic term (literally meaning the types of food a person habitually eats) can have such a negative connotation underscores the difficulty that comes with healthy eating.

Unfortunately, I cannot tell you which diet is correct. Such a broad sweeping statement would be blasphemous. That is not to say there is no hope though. Healthy eating can be achieved in a variety of situations and on a range of budgets.

The largest factor to consider when you are considering changing your diet (or deciding to eat healthy if you still think diet is a four letter word) is what will happen after you have attained your goals.

While certain plans can be great for helping you achieve your goal weight, they may not be sustainable if you ever hope to eat like a normal human being. A prime example of this is the “Cookie Diet.” For those of you unfamiliar with plans like this it requires you to limit yourself to specific foods, but not limit the amount of these foods.

The success of these diets depend on you growing tired of the items on your short list so much so that you eat less overall. However, once (if) you achieved your goals, the weight is often quickly added back on since you will revert to your old eating habits.

The diet changes you choose to undertake should focus on you specific goals. If you want to lose the last 10 pounds, your eating habits should be different if you want to add 10 pounds of muscle. The basic principles of calories in and calories out still apply as an overarching concept.

3,500 calories consumed over your needs will add a pound of fat and 3,500 calories burned will result in a pound of fat lost. Similarly, when used with proper training 2,500 calories will result in a pound of muscle gained.

The way these numbers are achieved varies between diet plans and can be manipulated to make your lifestyle changes more comfortable and less drastic.

The popular diet plans that can be found today range from eating like a caveman with paleo diets to the high-tech science behind some the quickly advancing low-carbohydrate diets. There are individuals who have found success with nearly every diet under the rainbow.

However, what will work for you depends on your food preferences just as much as your goals. Before undertaking any sort of regimented plan it is recommended that you research the permissible foods and meal plans. If you dislike a certain food you are much less likely to eat it and if that food is a staple of your chosen plan you may have doomed yourself from the start.

This article can be considered a primer for upcoming articles that will focus on the intricacies of eating healthy in a wide variety of situations.

The advice given can be considered a great starting point but if you really want to undertake drastic changes consult your doctor or more specifically a nutritionist.

Student Health Services offers nutritional counseling that is a great resource for anyone looking to establish healthier eating habits.

Zach Sherwin known for his appearance as various characters in the wildly popular web series “Epic Rap Battles of History” brought beats and laughs to the Student Union Theater.

Sherwin began the show with a few personal jokes, even asking the audience for advice, before rapping “The Aggressive Bee” – a rap about the bee that distracts him from writing raps on his porch.

His second rap was for all “lovers of viral videos” – an appropriate name for the rap which included samples of famous YouTube videos like “Charlie Bit My Finger,” “Sneezing Baby Panda” and “The Dramatic Chipmunk.” He slowed it down with the next rap, claiming he’d get all the ladies’ numbers,

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Rainbow Center lecture: The progression of homosexual hollywood acceptance Vesper

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Em Loisel, a UConn graduate student in the HESA program and alumnus of the University of Vermont, hosted “From Gay to Queer: How AIDS queered identity in film”. Part of the Rainbow Center’s Out to Lunch Lecture Series, the presentation tied in the progression of the portrayal of homosexuals by the motion picture industry with the Gay Rights Movement.

By Jingyuan Fu Campus Correspondent

Upon entering the lecture room at the Rainbow Center, visitors’ eyes were immediately drawn to the plethora of comfortable sofas neatly arranged in rows that had evidently taken the place of chairs. Fleurette King, the Executive Director, strolled around the sparsely populated room greeting incoming visitors.

Not a lot of people were in attendance. The lecturer, Em Loisel, sat casually chatting with the audience sitting in the front row.

A member of the center read Em’s self-introduction, which described the presenter as a queer and trans graduate student

at UConn in the HESA program.

She got a laugh from the audience when the part about Em being “most likely covered in glitter, making bacon, and playing with cats” was read.

The lecture then began in earnest. With the help of Prezi, Em gave some background information on how popular cultural regarded queer identity before the AIDS epidemic. She began with some information on the very early treatment of homosexuality before the 1970s, which largely consisted of highly stereotypical feminine portrayals of men. The MPAA had not allowed any explicit mention or portrayal of queerness at the time, and female characters were

often injected into movies only to prove the masculinity of the male characters.

The lecture then moved on to the 1970s, during which attitudes toward homosexuality underwent a shift. Movies began to portray gay characters sympathetically instead of as predatory victimizers, but as Em pointed out, there still existed a good deal of stereotyping. She used the trailer for the movie Boys in the Band to illustrate her point; though the main characters of the film were all portrayed with understanding, there was an underlying sense of self-deprecation. “It’s like a menagerie of stereotypes,” said Ethan Avery, a fifth semester history major who

attended the lecture. Later movies made in the 1980s were less obviously stereotypical but still exploitative to some degree.

The AIDS epidemic, Em went on to state, unleashed a second wave of homophobia in both the real world and the world of cinema. A CBS news clip from the beginnings of the epidemic showed the mass confusion present during the time. “Looking back,” Em said, “I think it seems obvious how the disease was spreading. But hindsight is 20/20, and it definitely wasn’t obvious back then.” Opinions toward the queer community swung toward the sympathetic again when AIDS gained more visibility after the death of

Rock Hudson, a family name, and with movies like Longtime Companion.

In her conclusion, Em warned against the complacency of modern day portrayals of the queer community. Visibility did not equal activism, Em said, and too many Hollywood movies, like the soon-to-be-released Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew McConaughey, were interested in mere spectacle. “I think Philadelphia was fairly good,” Em suggested when asked for an example of a respectful portrayal of AIDS and the queer community, “but that was in the early 1990s.”

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Review: De Niro, Pfeiffer shine in flawed ‘Family’

This film publicity image released by Relativity Media longtime DeNiro collaborator, Martin Scorsese.

(AP) — Talk about a promising duo for a dark mob comedy: Robert De Niro, whose mob-film pedigree needs no explanation, and Michelle Pfeiffer, who was, after all, “Married to the Mob.”Happily, these two more than carry their weight as husband and wife in director/co-writer Luc Besson’s new film “The Family.”Less happily, it’s not enough to save this oddly paced, overly violent, sometimes amusing but sometimes jarringly unfunny movie.

De Niro is Giovanni Manzoni, an ex-

the village grocer. In fact, all the kids at school speak English. And all the teachers, and the principal — and every single member of the town’s film society.Now, no one expects the film to be in subtitles. But Mr. Besson, you’re French! And so you know that even if all these people DID have a fluent command of English, they wouldn’t be cheerfully using it all day long.

But we digress. Because the film has deeper issues. Namely, the violence, in the name of “dark comedy.” Giovanni — er, Fred — cannot refrain from beating people to a pulp, or to death even, if he feels he’s been disrespected or dealt a raw deal. At one point, a AP plumber gives him an estimate he shows Robert DeNiro in “The Family,” which was produced by doesn’t like. Not a good idea.

Maggie (a funny and touching Pfeiffer) tries to rein in her husmob boss from Brooklyn who’s snitched band. But hey, even she’s not above a on his former cohorts and must disaplittle arson — actually, blowing stuff pear fast, along with his wife and two up — when she feels slighted. As for the kids. Newly named the Blakes, they set beautiful, blonde Belle (Dianna Agron up in a picturesque Normandy village of “Glee”), she has a propensity to beat (is there any other kind?) up schoolmates — say, if you swipe her There, Fred, Maggie and kids Belle pencil box. Brother Warren (an appealand Warren try to assimilate. They’re ing John D’Leo) has the most selfnot too great at it, since they have varycontrol, but he’s inherited other qualities ing anger management issues. from Dad. On the other hand, they’re helped by Watching over the family are a couple the fact that, magically, the villagers FBI handlers and their boss, played by all seem to speak fluent English, from Tommy Lee Jones, who could do this the cafe waitress to the parish priest to

kind of cranky-agent stuff in his sleep, but is nonetheless a welcome presence.

It takes an awfully long time to establish the story, and the pacing feels off.

Finally, things get going when the jailed mob boss back home finds out, via an absurd (yet amusing) chain of coincidences, where the family is.

The movie, based on the novel “Malavita” by Tonino Benacquista, picks up here, but alas, so does the cartoonish violence. Not to be prudish, but it’s a bit hard to keep laughing when so many innocent (and nice!) people wind up dead. And then the Blake kids get involved. When I saw the film, the audience broke into rousing cheers when the young boy picked up two humongous guns and started shooting. It was a little sickening.

There is one very funny scene, where Fred appears on a film society panel. We can’t spoil the secret, but let’s just say that, while it has nothing to do with the story, it will delight De Niro fans as well as those of Martin Scorsese, who is, as it happens, a producer on the film.

But it might remind you that, with Scorsese and De Niro involved, this film should be making mobster magic.

Au contraire, it doesn’t.

“The Family,” a Relativity Media release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “violence, language and brief sexuality.” Running time: 110 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

Santana, 4 others to receive Kennedy Center Honors WASHINGTON (AP) — For Carlos Santana, music has always been a calling. He idolized his mariachi musician father as a boy in their remote hometown in Mexico and later grew up with the Woodstock generation after immigrating to San Francisco.

Now the music legend will join the luminaries receiving this year’s highest national honors for influencing American culture through the arts. Santana is among five who will receive the Kennedy Center Honors.

Fellow honorees announced Thursday include actress Shirley MacLaine and three standout musicians spanning rock, jazz and opera — Billy Joel, Herbie Hancock and Martina Arroyo. Top entertainers will salute them in a gala performance Dec. 8 to be broadcast Dec. 29 on CBS. Santana is unique among those who have received the cultural prize. He began learning English by watching American television from Tijuana,

Mexico, and picked up the guitar after hearing blues and rock ‘n’ roll on the radio.

In an interview, Santana, 66, said he was grateful to receive an award he remembers watching others receive almost every year on television with his family.

“I guess people understand that Santana is not just a Mexican guitar player — I bring a collectiveconsciousness awareness agenda with me,” he said. “I grew up with the generation of Woodstock and Bob Marley, ‘One Love,’ and ‘Imagine,’ John Lennon. I am one of them, and we don’t do what we do to be commercial or to be popular or to be cute.

It’s not entertainment or show business for us. For us, it’s a calling.”

He said his musical life has been about bridging cultures, drawing on sounds of Africa, Latin America and American Indians, as well as rock, jazz and the blues to create something new.

Last year, the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts complained the Kennedy Center had long excluded Latinos from the honors. Of the more than 180 past honorees, only two had been Hispanic — Placido Domingo, the acclaimed Spanish tenor, and Chita Rivera, the actress and singer of Puerto Rican descent — the group said.

The criticism led to a revised selection process this year, including the solicitation of nominations from the public, and a new committee of artists and officials to help narrow the potential honorees. Santana has been a contender in recent years for his strong credentials, said show producer George Stevens Jr. Santana, who swept the 2000 Grammy Awards in nine categories with his album “Supernatural,” said more mainstream institutions should be recognizing Latino artists as well.

In December, President Barack Obama will host the recipients at the

White House, and Secretary of State John Kerry will host a dinner for them at the State Department.

Joel, the “Piano Man” and one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, has devoted his life to music since he left high school before graduating. The 64-year-old, who wrote and performed such unforgettable hits as “Uptown Girl,” ‘’The Longest Time,” ‘’Allentown” and “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” said in a written statement that it is meaningful to join the roster of outstanding musicians who came before.

“But to be chosen for this special award essentially for doing what I love most amazes me more than anything,” he said.

We go around the world singing, and people say oh, there’s an American singer. But this is your government saying, yeah, we like you, too,” she said. “There’s no higher group for me than my country. That makes it extremely special.”

The key to building a brighter future in America, and the world over, may very well rest in the rise of small business.

There are numerous benefits to an economy composed of a large number of small businesses as opposed to a small number of behemoth corporations.

Stacy Mitchell, a senior researcher for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, offers an informative summary of small business benefits in her article “Top 10 Reasons to Support Locally Owned Businesses.”

Mitchell explains that locally owned businesses keep political decision-making power, money, and jobs within the local community rather than transferring them to an external, potentially untrustworthy entity like a chain store.

Mitchell’s claims are supported by the findings of a 2004 study by Civic Economics, a strategic analyst consulting firm, which concluded that with every dollar spent at a locally owned business, 37 cents leaves the community, but when you spend $1 at a chain store, 57 cents of that dollar leaves the community.

As business writer Robert E. Ware states in his article summarizing the story: “That’s more than 50 percent of the dollar that ceases to impact the area in which it was spent.” Civic Economics also found that every square foot, a locally owned business contributes $179 in local economic impact, while a square foot of a chain store contributes only $105 per square foot. As Ware points out, “That means locally owned and operated businesses have greater ties to their communities so they positively affect economic growth, employment and income to a greater degree.”

There are other benefits to locally owned businesses that are less easy to quantify.

Many of us cherish certain companies or small shops that are special to us for intangible reasons. These unique businesses often form the basis for local community character and cohesiveness, participate in local events, and sponsor community programs like sports teams or concerts.

In addition it is often easier to hold small businesses accountable for environmental and humanitarian ethics, simply because they are easier to contact than the distant CEOs of mega-chain stores and more likely to genuinely care about local issues.

Undoubtedly, supporting small businesses in our communities would bring a wealth of local businesses.

But is it really realistic to construct an entire national economy based in small local business? Is that even truly desirable, or do we need our big box stores after all?

A future article will explore the promise and limitations of a small business economy.

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‘The Fantasticks’ reaches mind-boggling milestone NEW YORK (AP) — The opening night of the musical “The Fantasticks” wasn’t so fantastic.

The reviews were decidedly mixed, with the New York Herald Tribune critic only liking Act 2. The New York Times grudgingly enjoyed just Act 1 and its critic, Brooks Atkinson, sniffed that the show was “the sort of thing that loses magic the longer it endures.”

Tom Jones, who wrote the book and lyrics as well as acted in it, was crushed. “What I thought was it was the end of the world,” he says. At the openingnight party, the press agent called in to read the reviews and the mood grew “ghastly.”

Jones spent the rest of the night drinking too much and wandering Central Park in despair and throwing up. “One thing I learned that night was never, ever eat Mexican food at an opening-night party,” he recalls.

The date was May 3, 1960.

This Sunday, that little show — with a cast of eight, two musicians, a cardboard moon and guy who sprinkles confetti and makes us believe it’s snow — will celebrate a staggering milestone: 20,000 performances, a number so silly that it looks like a typo. The magic has clearly endured.

“My mind doesn’t grasp it, in a way,” says Jones. “It’s like life itself — you get used to it and you don’t notice how extraordinary it is. I’m grateful for it and I’m astonished by it.”

‘LOVE AFFAIR’ The musical, based on an obscure play by Edmond Rostand, doesn’t necessarily have the makings of a hit.

The set is just a platform with poles, a curtain and a wooden box. No explosions, no chandeliers.

The tale, a mock version of “Romeo and Juliet,” concerns a young girl and boy, secretly brought together by their fathers and an assortment of odd characters, including a rakish narrator, an old actor, an Indian named Mortimer and a mute. It’s as much about a love affair as it is a nod to the magic of theater itself.

Composer Harvey Schmidt’s melodies are hypnotic, from

“Try to Remember” to “Soon It’s Gonna Rain” to the haunting “They Were You.” Jones’ lyrics are equally accomplished.

“Without a hurt, the heart is hollow” sums up the show’s theme.

Despite the initial mixed critical reviews, the show was saved by the pugnacious producer Lore Noto, who coaxed celebrities into coming and built audiences through strong word of mouth.

Scores of actors have appeared in the show, from the opening cast that included Jerry Orbach and Rita Gardner, to stars such as Ricardo Montalban and Kristin Chenoweth to current “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella” star Santino Fontana.

It was Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham’s first show in New York, but that isn’t so strange.

“For a lot of people, it’s their first New York show,” says Jones, laughing. “We get them for their first show because we can’t afford them usually after that.”

In 1982, it was aspiring actor Kim Moore’s first show, too, after arriving in New York from Wheaton, Minn. He had done the musical in high school and college and hoped he might land the part of The Mute in the Big Apple. He did — on his second audition. And even then he wasn’t the top candidate.

“I was told I got cast because the guy they really wanted to play The Mute was too goodlooking and he would have stolen focus,” Moore says, smiling.

“I have no problem with that.

I don’t need to be your first choice. As long as I’m your last choice.”

Over the next decades, Moore would play The Mute, The Boy and The Narrator. He even fell for and married an actress who played The Girl. “My whole love affair with ‘The Fantasticks’ also involves my own love affair,” he says.

For nearly 42 years the show chugged along at the 153-seat Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village, finally closing in 2002 after 17,162 performances — a victim both of a destroyed downtown after 9/11 and a new post-terrorism, edgy mood.

“It didn’t seem strange to me

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that it would close after 42 years.

In some ways, I was grateful,” says Jones. “We had neglected the show. We had let it run down.”

But the magic couldn’t stop.

‘PASS ON’ In 2006, “The Fantasticks” found a new home in The Snapple Theater Center, an offBroadway complex in the heart of Times Square. Producers quickly asked Moore if he would be its stage manager.

After thousands of performances — on and off over the decades — Moore was a natural choice, knowing all the tricks and behind-the-scenes details.

So “The Fantasticks,” which had given Moore a steady paycheck and a wife was now transitioning him to a career after acting.

It’s a show that’s in his DNA now. “I can’t escape it. I finally just sort of gave up after a while,” he says with a smile. “This is my show, what can I say?”

For his part, Jones jumped at the chance to redeem his handling of “The Fantasticks” and even did some rewriting. “I think I’ve finally finished with ‘The Fantasticks,’” he says. “It’s finally the way I want it to be.”

It long ago won the title of world’s longest-running musical.

“The Phantom of the Opera,” by comparison, is Broadway’s longest-running show with just 10,700 shows, a mere adolescent. (The only rival to “The Fantasticks” is the play “The Mousetrap” in London, which is the longest- running show in the world, having passed 25,000 performances.)

Jones, 85, who teamed up with Schmidt on the shows “I Do! I Do!” and “110 in the Shade” and is currently working on a musical based on “The Tempest,” finds himself one of only three original cast members still alive.

Reaching 20,000 performances has made him philosophical about a little musical he put on when Dwight D. Eisenhower was still president. He fully believes it will be on when President Barack Obama’s children have kids of their own.

Fox News ending broadcaster Shepard Smith’s nightly newscast NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel is eliminating one of Shepard Smith’s two daily newscasts and putting him in charge of a news team designed to quickly break in to other Fox shows when something big is happening.

Smith, the network’s top news anchor, signed a new multiyear contract, the network said

Fox is building a new studio, calling it the “Fox News Deck,” for Smith to operate. The changes are likely to take place in October.

“This is the way news should be presented in today’s world with the equipment and the amount of technology that is available,” Ailes said.

“We’re making a major investment in journalism here and it’s going to

He rejected any notion from critics that Smith’s new unit was created as a way to compensate him for losing a regular, one-hour time slot.

“That’s why they’re doing what they’re doing for a living and don’t make anywhere near the money that me and Shep make,” he said.

On busy days, Fox suggested he’ll be on the air more than he

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Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith during a broadcast of his “Studio B” program, in New York. Fox News Channel is eliminating one of Shepard Smith’s two daily newscasts and putting him in charge of a breaking news team.

Thursday. He will keep his 3 p.m.

Eastern newscast while the 7 p.m. show is eliminated.

“We don’t have to wait ‘til 7 anymore,” said Smith, named managing editor of the breaking news unit. “When it’s ready, we’ll put it on the air. When it’s breaking, I’m ready to do it.”

Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes described Smith’s new role as a quarterback able to call an audible when news is happening and get it on the air quickly. Except for Smith’s show and Bret Baier’s Washington report, Fox’s evening schedule is driven by opinionated, personality-driven programming.

require journalists to be better.”

The changes are among several taking place at Fox, the top-rated cable news network and the one with the most personnel stability.

This summer, Fox said that Megyn Kelly would move into the network’s prime-time lineup when she returns from maternity leave, but hasn’t said where she will go and who she will displace. Ailes would not comment on published reports that Sean Hannity would move to 7 p.m. to make room for Kelly.

Asked what will replace Smith’s newscast at 7 p.m., Ailes said “unclear. It’s not unclear to me. I know and I’m not telling anybody.”

is now.

Ailes said it was a real attempt to try something new, to use improved technology to rethink how news is presented on the air and better fuse breaking news with Fox’s other programming. He said Smith was the best person on staff for the job.

“Everybody is beginning to wake up to this,” he said. “The problem is everybody can’t do it.

Shep is of an age where he actually understands how to do this. When I want to get something done, I go to my 13-year-old son and say ‘Here, fix this to make my cell phone ring.’”

“Harry Potter” author J.K Rowling to pen new magic movie for Warner LONDON (AP) — J.K. Rowling’s world of wizardry is coming back to the big screen — but without Harry Potter.

Film studio Warner Bros. announced Thursday that Rowling will write the screenplay for a movie based on “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” her textbook to the magical universe she created in the boy wizard’s stories.

The story will focus on the book’s fictitious author, Newt Scamander, and is anticipated to be the first in a series.

Rowling said in a statement the movie “is

neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world.”

She said the story would begin in New York 70 years before the start of Harry Potter’s tale.

Screenwriting is the latest in a string of new ventures for Rowling since she finished writing the Harry Potter series, which has sold more than 450 million copies around the world.

She has published a novel for adults, “The Casual Vacancy,” and written detective thriller “The Cuckoo’s Calling” under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Rowling said the idea for a “Fantastic Beasts” film had come from Warner Bros., and she soon realized she could not entrust another writer with her creation.

“Having lived for so long in my fictional universe, I feel very protective of it,” she said. “I already knew a lot about Newt.”

“As I considered Warner’s proposal, an idea took shape that I couldn’t dislodge. That is how I ended up pitching my own idea for a film to Warner Bros.”

As well as movies, Warner Bros. said “Fantastic Beasts” would be “developed across the studio’s video game, consumer products and digital initiatives businesses.”

Warner Bros., a unit of Time Warner Inc., was behind eight Harry Potter movies, released between 2001 and 2011. Rowling did not write the screenApples pick-your-own plays for those films, which Apple Cider Warner Bros. says took in $7.7 billion at the global Apple DONUTS box office.

Jams Since the film series wrapped up, the compaJellies ny has been involved in Maple Syrup related ventures including Local Vegetables a Harry Potter studio tour near London, Universal’s Wizarding World of Harry 153 Apple Orchard Potter theme park in 8 miles from campus!

Orlando, Florida, and the Pottermore website.

Warner Bros. also said Hours of Operation Thursday it would be the worldwide distributor for Mon-Fri 1-6pm a television adaptation of Sat+Sun 9am-6pm “The Casual Vacancy.” The BBC is due to film the miniseries next year.

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Net neutrality is necessary for a free and open Internet

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he Internet has revolutionized the modern world because it’s free, open and available to anyone with an Internet connection. These characteristics, which many people take for granted, are the subject of a case that went before a federal appeals court on Monday this week.

Verizon is challenging the FCC over its policy of net neutrality- the system under which any website gets equal treatment from an Internet service provider, or ISP, such as Verizon.

Net neutrality is a complicated and multifaceted idea, but the basic premise is that an Internet service provider must treat all data equally. ISPs such as Verizon charge the same amount of money and provide the same connection for any website, regardless of its size, administrators, content or any other consideration. Your neighbor pays the same rates for his blog as Netflix does for their streaming.

If this were to change, Internet service providers could favor certain sites by giving them more bandwidth and faster speeds or block some altogether. For example, Comcast, an ISP, could make their news company, CNBC, the fastest news site on their service, or perhaps the only one.

The implications of this being possible could change one of the defining characteristics of the Internet. The unprecedented fairness and equality the Internet offers has allowed tiny startups like Facebook, Twitter and Google to change the world.

Net neutrality has been the default setting for the Internet so far, but large ISPs have been trying to change that for the last 10 years. Verizon is challenging the FCC’s 2010 Open Internet order, which states that ISPs can’t favor or block any legal Internet content. They argue that the FCC doesn’t have the authority to regulate their business in this way and ISPs, who developed the infrastructure that provides Internet access, have a right to do what they want with their product.

Do Internet service providers have a right to do this? It’s a complicated issue. They’re providing a service, but having free reign to alter it could be considered censorship. They’re not editors, as Verizon argued in their appeal, but they do process content. Verizon is probably right that the FCC is outside their jurisdiction on this one, but it doesn’t mean we don’t need net neutrality to be protected. This case highlights the need for a definite policy. Traditional arguments about commerce and regulation simply can’t encompass the whole situation.

The Internet has brought us into a new era. Choosing whether or not to solidify net neutrality in law isn’t a decision we can look to the past for guidance on. We have to decide what we want the Internet to look like in the future. Net neutrality is the right choice if we want the Internet to remain the open and accessible hub of world communication.

Are E-books replacing printed books?

E-readers offer portability and are more sustainable, but won’t replace the immersive, tangible feeling of holding a printed copy.

Let’s ponder this question with an open mind; will e-books replace printed books completely?

I don’t believe it’s a choice of “either” “or” but rather a choice of which best fits the situation. On one side e-books are ultimately more convenient. With one device weighing less than your average book, you’re able to carry around an entire library. With a couple touches of your fingers, you can switch from medieval drama to contemporary poetry to the newspaper to a magazine.

More enticBy Amaris Vásquez ing is the aspect Staff Columnist of privacy. For example, when the e-book version of “Fifty Shades of Grey” came out we saw the book sales shoot up for a time. For those of you who might have somehow missed out on this book’s content, it’s filled with erotic scenes, seemingly written porn, which made people conscious of what others might think when seen reading it. E-books give us the privacy that allows us to comfortably enjoy stories, articles, or anything of the sort that we might be embarrassed to publicly acknowledge.

You could read Cosmopolitan or even Playboy on your iPad while sitting in the middle of the crowd and they would all be none the wiser.

On the economic spectrum this is a great option for those of us who can’t

make it through the day without a fantastical escape into literature. For rather clear reasons, e-books are less expensive as there are no printing and shipping costs to cover. So for those who enjoy reading regularly, the cost of an e-reader is recovered quickly. Take my mom for one. The wonderful lady managed to rake up more than $100 in about a month on my Amazon Store Card with her Mother’s Day Kindle.

I’m talking about books that were 50 to 75 percent off the regular printed price, and she actually read them all.

This isn’t only beneficial to the crazed readers though. Even if you read just a few books a month the cost is worth it in the end to the money you’ll save. Consider how many textbooks we go through at UConn alone. We can spend, on average, $200 on books per semester. That’s anywhere between four and eight books each semester which is between 32 and 64 books for a four-year undergraduate career. Now take UConn’s 22,301 undergrads for the fall of 2012 and that means between 89,204 and 178,408 textbooks for that one semester. Are you not mind-boggled by now at how much paper we’re really using up in our university alone?

Now think of how many universities there are in the northeast. In the United States. In the world.

Now add high schools and graduate schools to the equation and it really brings into perspective just how

many trees we go through on a regular basis to print textbook pages. We really ought to make a more user-friendly set-up for e-textbooks so as students we can gain more from this alternative.

It’s necessary to upgrade the technology and format for easier navigation through e-textbooks so it can help our costs and the environment immensely.

Markedly e-books will never fully replace printed books. They can’t.

They fall short of the full immersive experience that only printed books can bring us. The weight of it in our hands, the smell of the pages and talking about it when someone points it out on our shelf are irreplaceable experiences.

We may also develop certain attachments with physical books, such as if it were a gift from a loved one. The ones who keep going to the bookstore regularly are the dedicated readers that will continuously return for the experience. Yes, printed books sales have gone down and might decrease more, but they won’t be completely overpowered. In today’s world and in our future they will continue to live in this state of perpetual imbalance where one can never fully replace the other.

Staff Columnist Amaris Vásquez is a 5th-semester English major. She can be reached at Amaris.

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Policies like minimum wage often supported by false premises

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here are two things a company could do to benefit society as a whole, at least in the context of this article. One, which tends to get the most attention, is that companies could pay what’s called a living wage. This is difficult to achieve because it would involve every employer paying a higher wage, and with rare

By Devin Keehner the exception Staff Columnist of a labor shortage, there exists no market mechanism to achieve this goal.

Enter minimum wage laws.

These laws would require all employers to pay a higher wage. These laws in and of themselves have a list of questions that need to be considered. For starters, do they make a difference? Do

they hurt employment? Do they hurt young Americans?

That’s not what this article is about though. This article is about prices. I can think of no practical difference between raising wages and a reduction in the general price level.

You see, prices and wages are two sides of the same coin.

In fact, the biggest difference between wages and prices is that the free market does have a mechanism for lowering prices. It’s called competition. Companies are forever locked in competitive posturing. Businesses survive on delivering products faster, cheaper and more efficiently. These companies fight to keep prices lower than their competitors, in order to gain market share. This fact is ignored.

The problem is that when we as a nation, and this goes

for both sides of the political spectrum, talk about economics we tend to search for simple answers. We want a politician’s solution to be simple, and digestible. It doesn’t matter if we are lowering taxes, increasing spending, or, as this article focuses on, raising wages. People just want short and sweet. This often leads to problems. For example, when we talk about wages people often forget that a higher wage is meaningless if prices increase.

Conversely we forget that lower wages are of no consequence if they lead to lower prices. Yet, talk of a higher wage persists. Why? It’s easy to say “we need a higher minimum wage.” It’s easy for people understand why it might be a good idea. The average person thinks “Yea, you know what, if people

had more money they would be better off!” Someone just a little more involved might even think “Hey, If people were paid more than they wouldn’t need help from the government.” and some might even go as far as to say “Wait, but if we pay people more they can spend more, and the economy will improve.” None of this is true, but this proposal comes off as a simple solution to a complicated problem, and that is dangerous.

An example of this danger can be found in the story of Henry Ford, and his generous wage increase. It is the perfect example of two things.

The first is the free market’s ability to lower prices, and by extension, improve people’s lives. The second is that what is perceived as common sense is sometimes just a common

misconception. The story goes that he gave his workers a raise, and that his reason for doing so was not just out of kindness, but rather sound business principle. By paying is employees more, the story goes, they could afford to buy his car. This version of events amounts to an urban legend, and a logical fallacy to boot. The truth is that he had to pay his employees more, because they kept quitting, and they were quitting because working on an assembly line is tedious and they could get paid the same amount to work somewhere more fulfilling, but less productive. So it was in fact supply and demand that raised wages, and even that was of little significance compared to the massive decrease in price seen in automobiles under Ford.

I don’t support minimum wage laws, but that’s not what I want people to take away from this. As a matter of fact, some supporters of minimum wage increases don’t fall into the category above. They understand the role prices and wages play with each other and instead advocate for a law that would tie minimum wage to inflation or productivity, not to say that wouldn’t come with its own problems. What I do want is a healthy skepticism in the area of economics. We need to think critically, and look deep. We can’t afford to accept anecdotal evidence, or circular reasoning.

Staff Columnist Devin Keehner is a 5th-semester communications major. He can be reached at Devin.

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Tennis seeks success with new coach Men's XC hopes get off on the right foot The UConn men’s tennis team is set to open their season this weekend at the Brown Invitational in Providence, R.I. The 2013-14 season will be the first for newly hired head coach, Michael Louis.

He was a four-year letter winner for the UConn tennis team and served as assistant coach for six-years for the Huskies. Louis spent the last two years as the head coach of both the men and women’s teams at the University of Hartford. “Being back at UConn is being back at home for me”, Louis said.

“There is no other place for me career wise, this is my mountain top.”

UConn returns one senior,

Ryan Carr, who will captain the Huskies this season. As the only senior on the team, Coach Louis has big expectations that he will lead the team. “As a captain, certain responsibilities fall on his shoulders, and I expect him to hold his teammates accountable for everything, on and off the court”, Louis said.

UConn adds two freshmen this year, Parker Goldstein and Chris Toner. A native of Marietta, Georgia, Goldstein also considered Villanova when deciding where to attend school.

“UConn had everything I was looking for,” Goldstein said. “The size, academics, atmosphere are all great for what I wanted.”

In Louis’ first season as head coach, he wants the

team to improve every day and become better than last year’s team. “My expectations are that we find a level of competiveness that maybe wasn’t there last year, a level of toughness that wasn’t there last year,” said Coach Louis. “We have to approach every match a certain way and that’s what were trying to fill out during practice, where is our level of consistent competitiveness, consistent focus and fight.”

Last weekend’s tournament was cancelled therefore giving the Huskies an extra week to prepare for the Brown Invitational this weekend. UConn will be more than ready to start the season.

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Tony Gonzalez is still bitterly disappointed in himself for allowing a sack for the first time since 1999.

The 13-time Pro Bowl tight end said Thursday that "it was laziness on my part," ''embarrassing" and "inexcusable" when Saints linebacker Junior Galette to sack Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan for a 10-yard loss late in the second quarter of last week's loss at New Orleans.

With the Falcons (0-1) preparing to host St. Louis (1-0) on Sunday, Gonzalez knows that protection will be at a premium.

The Rams' pass rush is led by ends Chris Long and Robert Quinn, who combined for 22 sacks last year.

Quinn had three sacks in last week's win over Arizona.

"All of us have to keep Matt upright and keep that pocket nice and clean so he can

throw that ball down the field," Gonzalez said. "I thought we played well at times, but we've just got to be more consistent in holding up. That's the biggest improvement we're looking for this week."

Gonzalez's mistake hurt Atlanta's chance for a field goal that would've tied the game and was one of three sacks and six hits on Ryan.

Other star playmakers had tough moments, too. Julio Jones lost a fumble that led to New Orleans' first touchdown three plays later. Steven Jackson dropped a touchdown at the goal line on the final possession.

But Gonzalez insists that missing three weeks of training camp and two preseason games didn't affect his performance, which included a 7-yard touchdown catch.

The tight end said that's ridic-

ulous.

The Falcons allowed Gonzalez to take time off last month to spend time with his family and watch the first football practices of his 12-yearold son, Nikko, in Southern California.

"He let me have it," Gonzalez said. "He said, 'You're lucky that you scored the touchdown.

Otherwise that would've been a bad game for you.' It's something I've been thinking about a lot. It won't happen again hopefully."

Gonzalez was a third-year tight end with the Kansas City Chiefs when Gonzalez last allowed a sack.

He went on to earn his first Pro Bowl invitation that season, but Gonzalez is still irritated about getting beaten by Peter Boulware for a 6-yard sack in Kansas City's 1999 victory at Baltimore.

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By Cody Milardo Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s cross country team will open the season at 11:30 Saturday morning at the UMass Invitational meet in Amherst, Mass.

This meet is the annual matchup between multiple New England universities including Vermont, Maine, Amherst College, Boston College, Providence College, as well as UConn and host UMass.

This year’s Husky squad will look to get off on the right foot this weekend against some familiar, yet difficult competition.

Head coach Greg Roy, entering his 29th season at the helm of the cross country team, will lead a young

group of athletes this year.

This year’s group lacks a single senior, and 12 of the 14 Huskies are freshmen or sophomores.

UConn only has three returnees from last year’s team, sophomores James Agati and Alvaro Chavez, and junior Stephen Vento.

Coach Roy will need some of his younger members to step up and emerge as team leaders this season.

Perhaps the biggest hurdle coming into the year is the loss of the team’s top runner from last year, Ryan McGuire, who paced the Huskies in all six events the team competed in a season ago.

McGuire was the lone Husky to qualify for the Northeast regional meet last season and had a chance

to head to Louisville, Ky. to represent UConn in the NCAA championships, however he was unable to do so.

It will be difficult for this year’s team to duplicate the recent success coach Roy and his runners have had with such a young and inexperienced group.

This weekend’s meet at UMass will provide some insight as to how well this group will perform for the remainder of the season.

Coach Roy will look to this meet as a stepping stone for further success, and it should provide valuable experience for the majority of young runners on this year’s team.

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Atlanta Falcons' Gonzalez upset after allowing rare sack Thirteen years later, it happened again against Galette, a fourth-year linebacker with just two starts in 33 career games.

"It's not like the guy pushed me into the quarterback," Gonzalez said. "It's one of those things that was a miscalculation on my part, which is inexcusable, and it happened the same way last time."

Gonzalez prides himself on every part of his game from running crisp routes to making tough catches in traffic and using proper techniques on blocks.

"I was thinking, 'He's way out there (on the edge), and there's no way he can get to the quarterback," Gonzalez said. "Matt's going to throw it by then, and I just had a slow, lazy kick instead of kicking it back there and getting aggressive with it like I should have, like I've always done."

Atlanta's Gonzalez (center) attepts to catch a pass in the end zone

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Despair, frustration follow Mexico's loss

United States' Landon Donovan celebrates his goal against Mexico during the second half of a World Cup qualifying soccer match

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Women's XC competes at UMass

By Eddie Leonard Campus Correspondent

“This week’s course is really hilly, and the grass is not even.

People with weak lower legs will have issues on the course,” The UConn women’s cross Begley said. country team will be competBegley will be racing six runing in their secners this weekend, ond meet of the the majority being year this Saturday sophomores, but she at the annual remains quite confiUMass Invite. dent.

The schools com“We are a young peting in the race team, but we are include, UMass learning and getting Amherst, Boston a lot more confident,” College, Maine, Begley said. “I am Preview Amherst, Vermont impressed that even and UConn. The with the sophomores’ schools will be racing on a 5K limited racing experience, they course with which UConn’s are continuing to get stronger. I coach Amy Yoder Begley is very think the girls can compete with familiar. anyone. I am proud of how hard

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they are working and we are going to see good things as the year goes on.”

When asked if this weekend’s race would be run at a particular pace with no spikes like last week, Begley said, “No, this week we are definitely going to race, and see what the girls have.”

UConn grabbed first place at last weekend’s, Shawn M. Nassaney Memorial Race, and they hope to have a similar performance at UMass this weekend.

“We had a very strong start to the season but our long term goal is to keep healthy and gain racing experience,” Begley said.

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Football hopes to recover after last game from RETURN, page 12 Indeed, Diggs has been lethal over the first two games and has torched defenses for 11 catches, 277 yards and two touchdowns.

His quarterback, senior C.J. Brown, has been just as effective.

A dual-threat, Brown has combined for 691 all-purpose yards and nine touchdowns without a turnover so far this season.

By comparison, UConn’s Chandler Whitmer strug-

gled to produce in the season opener.

Whitmer went 16 of 28 for 206 yards, two touchdowns and one interception against Towson, but was hit or miss throughout the night.

Much of that inconsistency came due to the Tigers’ pressure, which dropped him for five sacks.

The Huskies’ offensive line was unable to get a push in the run game either, as starting running back Lyle McCombs picked up just 76 yards on 17 carries.

Fortunately for UConn, they should get some key cogs in the trenches back from injury for Saturday’s matchup. “[Right tackle Kevin Friend and center Tyler Bullock] were ready to go right after that game, they just couldn’t go in that game; they’ve practiced every practice,” Pasqualoni said, adding that he expects both to play against Maryland.

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — To Mexicans, it's just unthinkable: Their soccer-crazed country stands a chance of not qualifying for the World Cup. Worse yet, it was a 2-0 loss Tuesday night to their bitter northern rival — the U.S. — that has left Mexico out of position for a spot in next year's 32-nation tournament. The team known as the Tri has only two games left to make up ground.

It's a front-page disaster.

One newspaper calls it the "Tritanic." A sample of other headlines: "Fiasco," ''Crisis," ''Dreadful."

"People see this as the country failing them, especially when it means it may not qualify for the World Cup," said Miguel Angel Lara, an academic who studies sports and society at the IberoAmerican University. "Seeing the national team losing like that, two times in a row, really generates hopelessness and disappointment."

Lara says it hurts Mexicans even more because the losing streak comes only a year after Mexico won the gold medal after beating Brazil 2-1 in the London Olympics, an under-23 tournament. They lost their grip with one disappointing draw

after the next at the supposedly imposing Azteca Stadium, without scoring goals.

"Our frustration is worse.

Take away food from a poor man who you've been feeding for eight days. Just see what happens," he said.

Mexico has not missed a World Cup since 1990. But even then it wasn't because the team lost in their qualifying group, but because FIFA punished it for lying about players' ages.

Altogether, Mexico has scored only four goals in the North and Central American and Caribbean finals this year, dropping into fifth place in the group of six countries. The most likely, and even upbeat, scenario is that the team heads to a playoff against New Zealand to qualify for the world tournament.

Fears are also escalating that if Mexico doesn't go to Brazil for the World Cup, companies that have invested tens of millions for marketing and broadcast rights won't reap the expected revenue.

Rogelio Roa, commercial director of the sports marketing firm DreaMatch Solutions, says his company estimates that consumer brands and TV stations

won't make about $600 million in selling products and services if Mexico stays home.

"It is worrying all of us involved in the industry," he said. "I am confident that Mexico can overcome this."

The rivalry between Mexico and the United States dates back decades, but arguably the most heartbreaking loss to the U.S. came in 2002 when the American team beat Mexico 2-0, throwing it out of World Cup in South Korea and Japan.

Then, last year, the U.S. team made history at Azteca with a 1-0 victory for the first time in 75 years at that stadium.

"It hurts not to go to the World Cup, but also losing to the U.S. I don't know if it's because it's our neighbor or because now we know we are the worst ones," said Ruben Galindo, a 40-year-old employee at Mexico City's motor vehicles department.

Even before the loss to the U.S., Jose Manuel "Chepo" De la Torre had been fired as coach in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, right after Mexico's hair-pulling home loss to Honduras, in which the Tri fell 2-1 after holding a one-goal lead.

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team in digs with 128.

UConn will play their The Huskies will then final game of the tournamove on to play the St. ment against Georgia Tech John’s Red Storm the fol- Saturday night. lowing day.

Georgia Tech comes UConn faced the Red into the match with a 3-3 Storm last season and record. They went 1-3 in were swept 3-0. Returning the Sheraton Airport Lobo junior, Ashley Boursiquote Classic with their sole win led St. John’s in the match, of the tournament coming as she killed 11 out of her against UC Riverside. The 10 attempts.

Yellow Jackets also went This will be the first 2-1 in the Georgia Tech time that the two teams Invitational with wins will play non-conference against Florida A&M and foes. St. John’s comes Chattanooga. into the match with a 5-3 The Yellow Jackets are record. The Red Storm led offensively by returnwent 2-2 at the Holly ing senior Jennifer Percy Young Invitational, with with 58 kills while Ivona their wins coming against Kolak has 49 and Teegan Brown and Stony Brook. Van Gust has 48. Kaleigh St. John’s also went 3-1 in Colson leads the team in the Colgate Classic, with digs with 51. only losing to Colgate.

After the Courtyard St. John’s is led offen- Classic, the Huskies will sively by returning soph- have a week off before comomore Karin Palqutova peting in the Dartmouth with 116 kills. St. John’s Duel in Hanover, N.H. is lead in digs by sophomore Shawna-Lei Santos Scott.Carroll@UConn.edu with 120.

Huskies play in Courtyard Classic The UConn volleyball team will travel to Atlanta this weekend to participate in the Courtyard Classic tournament.

The Huskies first game will be against Troy on Friday evening.

The Troy Trojans come into this game with a 3-4 record, coming off a loss to the Auburn Tigers in the Active Ankle Challenge in Alabama. Troy went 1-3 in the Active Ankle Challenge and also finished 1-3 in the Southern Miss Invitational with their only win coming against Jackson State. The Trojans’ offensive attack is led by Marija Zelonivic a 6-foot-3 junior from Serbia who leads the team with 97 kills. Kiah Cheatham has pitched in 55 kills to the offense while Kayla Pickart has added 64.

Courtney Cohen leads the

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Men’s Soccer (2-0-1) Today Bradley 7 p.m.

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The original Stanley Cup was only sevenand-a-half inches high. It’s now propped on the top of the new 35-inch cup.

“Some of these guys have it way worse than me, and if they can make it, then so can I.”

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Sept. 27 USF 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 2 Temple 3 p.m.

Women’s Soccer (4-2-0) Today Boston University 7 p.m.

Sept. 15 Dartmouth 1 p.m.

Sept. 19 La Salle 7 p.m.

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Sept. 28 Villanova Noon

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New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, left, shakes hands with his brother and Indianapolis Colts quarterback, Peyton Manning, before an NFL football game in Indianapolis.The siblings square off Sunday at MetLife Stadium.

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Islanders future Brooklyn home

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Islanders rode the train from Long Island to Brooklyn — a trek they hope many of their fans will take once the club moves there in two years.

Training camp opened for the Islanders on Thursday at Barclays Center, which will become the team’s new home for the 2015-16 NHL season. The Nassau Coliseum will be a distant memory for the Islanders as they leave the aging building for the first time since they entered the league in 1972.

“One word for it: beautiful,” team owner Charles Wang said. “When you look at what is going on here, it’s unbelievable. I am very happy as you can see from the smile.”

He stopped short of comparing this day to other big ones in his life.

“I’m ecstatic today. Is it happier than the day I got married?” Wang asked, before an answer was drowned out by laughter. “You enjoy that moment. I have a big smile on my face.”

One by one, the players left the Long Island Railroad train that carried them from Garden City, N.Y., to Brooklyn on Thursday morning. They were decked out in their jerseys and received a warm welcome as they approached the sparkling new arena.

Reporters, television crews and photographers were there to greet them on a near 90-degree day that was more suitable for baseball than hockey.

“It was good to get camp open,” newly named captain John Tavares said. “It’s been a little different with the train ride and getting here and getting on the ice real quick.”

The ice wasn’t quite up to pro standards yet, but Tavares said that will improve in time.

“It would be really tough to play a game on something like that,” he said. “I would say it still needs a few more layers and it needs time to really get set.”

Wang beamed as he spoke of his excitement regarding the club’s move to Brooklyn. He tried long and hard to get a new arena built on Long Island as part of his expansive Lighthouse Project, but that never came to fruition.

While the scheduled arrival date is 2015, it isn’t completely out of the question that the Islanders could move up their transfer if adjustments can be made to their lease and if necessary work at the arena can be completed earlier.

“Our plan is to live to the commitment of the lease,” Wang said. “We’ve always wanted to get here as soon as possible, but we are living to our lease. We’ll honor that lease.”

Wang said he was particularly impressed to see his team skate on the ice and the bright blue and orange club logo adorning center ice.

The Islanders will get only a brief look at their new digs. Thursday was the only scheduled practice day in Brooklyn, and the Islanders will host the New Jersey Devils in a preseason game Sept. 21.

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Yankees hit 3 HRs in win over Orioles BALTIMORE (AP) — The New York Yankees have overcome one injury after another this season to make a serious run at a postseason berth, so it wasn’t all that surprising that they won again after losing shortstop Derek Jeter for the rest of the year.

Is there any obstacle this team can’t overcome?

Robinson Cano hit a tiebreaking homer leading off the ninth inning, and New York also got solo shots from Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson in a 5-4 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night.

The Yankees moved past Baltimore and Cleveland and got closer to Tampa Bay in the AL wild-card hunt. New York has hit eight home runs in winning two of three in the four-game series that concludes Thursday night.

“That what you ask for,” manager Joe Girardi said.

“We have to continue to play well.”

Before the game, the Yankees announced that Jeter would miss the rest of the season with an injured left ankle.

The Yankees captain played in

only 17 games this season and made four trips to the disabled list.

Once it became official that Jeter was lost, the team lamented his bad luck and got back to the business of earning another playoff berth.

“This group fights,” Girardi said. “They’re continuing to fight.”

New York tailed 4-1 on Tuesday before rallying to win. In this one, Baltimore led 3-1 before Granderson homered in the fifth — New York’s first hit — and Rodriguez tied it in the sixth with his 653rd career home run.

In the ninth, after Cano connected off Tommy Hunter (4-4), Granderson tripled with one out and scored on an infield hit by Lyle Overbay.

“We get down tonight and come back again,” Girardi said. “We were able to take the lead in the ninth. We get a huge homer by Robbie and then a huge hit by Lyle that winds up being a lot bigger.”

David Robertson (5-1) worked the eighth and Mariano Rivera gave up a run-scoring single to Brian

Roberts before securing his 43rd save, tied for the major league lead with Baltimore’s Jim Johnson.

Jeter’s trip to the DL coincided with the arrival of shortstop Brendan Ryan, obtained one night earlier in a trade with Seattle. Although Ryan went hitless, he performed flawlessly and showed good range in the field.

Each team has won nine games this year. The series winner will be determined Thursday night.

“We play this team so evenly, it’s unbelievable,” Girardi said.

Orioles slugger Chris Davis drove in two runs with a double, making him the first player in team history to have 40 doubles and 40 homers in a season. Danny Valencia tied a career high with four hits, and Roberts had three singles.

Baltimore outhit New York 13-6, but lost a valuable chance to close in on Tampa Bay for the second and final AL wild-card spot.

“We control our own destiny, we control our situation,” Orioles center fielder Adam Jones said. “The rest of the

way we’re playing against teams that are in the same situation as us, so we’ve got to play better baseball. That’s the cool part. We’ve just got to play a little bit better.”

Yankees starter Andy Pettitte gave up three runs and nine hits over 6.1 innings. The 41-year-old lefty has made 13 straight starts since September 2007 against Baltimore without losing, going 8-0 over that stretch. Pettitte has lost only twice to the Orioles since 2002 and is 28-6 lifetime against them.

Pettitte has pitched at least six innings in each of his last six starts and is 3-0 in seven outings since Aug. 5.

“It was a great game for us,” Pettite said. “The bullpen came in and obviously did a great job. There were some big hits for us. It was a good win, that’s for sure.”

Baltimore’s Scott Feldman allowed only three hits in 7.2 innings, two of them homers.

The right-hander struck out six and walked two. His first walk came against the first batter of the game and the second was to the last batter he faced.

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THE RETURN OF RANDY Huskies look to upset unbeaten Maryland on Saturday

By Jack Mitchell Staff Writer The UConn field hockey team will play its first home game of the season tonight against Fairfield University at 6 p.m. at the George J. Sherman Family Sports Complex.

The No. 4 Huskies opened their season with a trio of road games — two of which were against ranked teams — and emerged from the demanding stretch with a 3-0 record. The team most recently defeated No. 6 Penn State 4-3 in overtime on Sept. 8.

“Going into the game, we knew that Penn State had a high-octane offense, but the goal is to outscore the opponent,” said head coach Nancy Stevens.

“We were able to do that and move to 3-0 on the season.

A road win against a nationally ranked team demonstrates resilience, poise and the ability to perform under pressure.

It was thrilling to win the game just 90 seconds into overtime.”

Despite playing in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Fairfield has shown the ability to match up with ranked major-conference competition. The Stags have accrued a 3-1 record this season, with the lone loss coming at the hand of reigning national champion No. 3 Princeton.

The team fell just short of an upset, falling to the Tigers 4-3 after holding them scoreless in the first half.

“We match up well with Fairfield,” Stevens said. “If we play a wide-open style and move the ball with speed, we will have a good game. Most of their play goes through [Felicitas Heinen] and she is their key performer on penalty corners. We have played Fairfield in the past and we are pleased to be renewing the series.”

Once again, the Huskies will look to their All-Americans for leadership and production.

Stalwart goaltender, Sarah Mansfield, has carried over her excellent play from a season ago, as the senior is averaging just 1.51 goals allowed per game with a .815 save percentage through three games.

Offensively, senior forwards Marie Elena Bolles and Anne Jeute, along with junior forward Chloe Hunnable continue to pace UConn in the scoring column. Jeute and Hunnable each have five points on the year, with Jeute leading the team in assists with three.

Bolles scored the game winning goal in overtime to defeat Penn State on Sunday.

“The most obvious thing we take from the Penn State game is the need to limit the opponent’s attack corner opportunities,” Stevens said.

“We are addressing that this week, and we need to solve problems higher up on the field. Scoring four goals against a highly ranked team is a huge plus. We want to build on that success and create more separation between our team and the opponent.”

The Huskies will also take on Lafayette College Sunday at noon at the Sherman Family Sports Complex. The Leopards’ record stands at 1-2 on the year.

UConn will look to continue their early season success this weekend, and if all goes as planned the Huskies will take a still undefeated record into a matchup with New England rival No. 7 UMass at home on Sept. 18.

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By Matt Stypulkoski Associate Sports Editor UConn and Maryland have traveled far different roads over the first two weeks of the season, but both lead to Rentschler Field on Saturday night.

UConn, which lost 33-18 to FCS-opponent Towson in Week 1, has had to sit on a disappointing defeat, as they’ve been idle for over two weeks.

“I think the kids, their attitude and their resiliency is really, really pretty good,” UConn head coach 0-1 Paul Pasqualoni said Tuesday, “and the body language and the atmosphere has been that, so it’s been pretty good.”

M e a n w h i l e , Maryland has steamrolled through Florida International and Old 2-0 Dominion with an Sat., 7:30 p.m., average of 45 points and 582 yards Rentschler Field scored per game. “[Terrapins wide receiver] Stefon Diggs, to me is maturing,” Pasqualoni said. “Last year he was very fast – he was a freshman coming out of high school. I think the year and the offseason program has made him more explosive and probably stronger, so he’s pretty good.”

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UConn’s wide receiver, Geremy Davis (85), dodges Towson’s Jalil Gordon (31) and Donnell Lewis (15) in the Huskies last game.

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Blake, Huskies to host Bradley at home

By Mike Peng Staff Writer

losses last weekend during the UNLV Nike Invitational at the hands of the hosting Rebels and UC Riverside.

After earning a draw in a Bradley’s roster will featough battle Tuesday night ture senior goalkeeper Brian against Washington, No. 3 Billings, who was named UConn men’s soccer team the MVC Defensive Player (2-0-1) will look of the Week earlier to continue their this season for postundefeated season ing two shutouts in this Saturday when the teams’ victories, they host Bradley and senior forward University at Joseph Alon Badat, who J. Morrone Stadium has scored three at 7 p.m. goals so far this seaThe match will son. mark the first meetThe Huskies’ ing between UConn defense, however, and Bradley. The has been the story Preview Braves finished last of the season so far, season with a 10-6-4 record as the team has yet to conand tied for third place in the cede a goal in three matchMissouri Valley Conference. es. Coach Ray Reid said he The team is coming into the is pleased with the offense match with a 2-2-0 record on and has credited junior goalthe season after suffering two keeper Andre Blake for his

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efforts.

“This guy is the best goalkeeper, and we’ve had some really good goalkeepers,” said Reid. “You’re not going to see much better than this guy.”

Blake has played every minute of every match so far this season and posted a shutout each time out, giving him a career total of 30.

As for the offense, the Huskies have scored only two goals this season, but Reid has said he is “not at all” worried about it.

“It’s always the last thing to come along,” said Reid.

“It’s just a matter of time.

We have to get back to moving the ball a little better and Mama (Diouf) more involved in the offense.”

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UConn’s forward Mamadou Doudou Diouf dribbles the ball down the field as he leads the Huskies into Saturday’s game.

Women’s soccer travels to Boston University

By Joe Crisalli Campus Correspondent

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After coming back from an injury last season, Gabriella Cuevas is a key player for UConn.

One the back of four consecutive wins and four consecutive clean sheets, the UConn women’s soccer team (4-2-0) will travel to Boston University to play the Terriers (3-2-1) tonight at 7.

“BU is a very good team and is very hard to play on their home field,” assistant head coach Zac Shaw said. “The BU team is built to play well on their relatively small and fast surface so this will be a major challenge for us. We need to be prepared to compete for 90 minutes and continue to be tight defensively and dangerous while attacking.”

The Huskies most recently defeated former conference rival Syracuse, 1-0, at Morrone Stadium this past Sunday.

UConn has tallied six goals

in their past four games; with freshman forward Rachel Hill netting three and junior midfielder Riley Houle scoring two.

The Huskies have not allowed a goal since a 2-1 loss to No. 2 Stanford in their second game of the season.

Stout defense has been a major factor for the Huskies so far this season, starting with redshirt freshman Gabriella Cuevas, as she was named American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week.

“She is a natural leader and organizer in the back and takes a lot of responsibility for keeping things tight for us,” Shaw said. “Her success is a result of her awesome competitive spirit combined with good technique and very high soccer IQ.” Cuevas suffered a season ending injury last year in the team’s first regular season

game.

“It is great to see her doing so well after fighting back from injury,” Shaw said. “She has been a really dependable and it is great to have her back.”

While UConn has kept their opposition out of the net, Boston University has allowed four goals so far this season, two of them coming in their most recent game, a 3-2 win over Akron.

The Terriers have not defeated either ranked team they have played thus far, losing 1-0 to No. 13 Penn State and they played to a scoreless draw with No. 18 South Carolina.

The Huskies will play BU before coming back home to Morrone Stadium to face Dartmouth on Sunday, Sept.

15 at 1 p.m.

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