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Neag program achieves national accreditation By Christian Fecteau Staff Writer
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After an extensive review, the Neag School of Education’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program received national accreditation from the Commission of Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education, according to UConn Today. “We did really well – we’re fully accredited with no need for a progress report until 2021,” Dr. Craig Denegar, director of the DPT program, said. “They have to review every 10 years. There was a time where it was a little shorter, but it is a costly
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process.” The physical therapy degree program, which progressed to a doctorate program in 2007, has been hosted by the Department of Kinesiology since 2009, Denegar said. According to the website, graduates of the program are able to practice in a variety of settings, ranging from hospitals to private offices. “The DPT program is a threeyear professional degree program for students who have completed their bachelors in a number of different fields such as psychology and biology,” Denegar said. “It’s nine semesters and students graduate with a clinical doctorate.”
In order for a program to receive proper accreditation, it has to be reviewed by the commission, Denegar said. “For lot of professional programs, such as pharmacy and nursing, there is an independent body that reviews academic programs that ensure that they are meeting educational programs standards and ultimately protecting the public,” he said. “Ours is the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education, or CAPTE.” The accreditation process is made up of several steps, the first of which is a self-evaluation process. “With virtually all the accred-
iting agencies, the institution does a self-study where faculty and administration review the whole mission, really, and then in our case, we also took the academic curriculum into components,” Denegar said. “We assured that we were meeting our mission and meeting with the national standards. Then the self-study document - which is thick - is submitted and reviewed by a team from CAPTE and an on-site visit occurs. The role of site visitors is to verify the report.” At the end of its exhaustive review process, the DPT program achieved its accreditation from CAPTE. The report docu-
mentation from CAPTE stated that “the program is meeting its mission,” according to UConn Today. The report also described the reputation of the DPT graduates as being “well prepared for autonomous, evidence-based practice.” “The accreditation is a testament to the hard work of many faculty and staff members, along with our students and alumni,” Dean Thomas DeFranco told UConn Today. “The program has a very rich history and, through the efforts of many, has the potential to be a nationally ranked program.”
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USG looks back at last semester’s changes
By Chelsea McGarry Campus Correspondent
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The Undergraduate Student Government passed three statements of positions last semester and made changes within the organization. “The Fall 2011 semester was definitely a success,” said USG President, and 5th-semester political science and sociology major, Sam Tracy. “We got a ton accomplished — we finally switched HuskyMail over to Google Apps for Education, which USG has been pushing for for years, launched UConn Cycles with great success, helped select UConn’s new chief of police, funded $508,350 to student organizations and Area Councils, expanded GUARD Dogs to include Thursday nights and increased transparency through my column in The Daily Campus and Lindsay’s radio show on WHUS.” A statement of position concerning the equalization of residential affairs regarding marijuana and alcohol response and policies was made Nov. 16, 2011. USG encourages Residential Life to change its marijuana policy so that, as long as it is less than one-half ounce, the penalty is the same as that for underage possession of alcohol. They also state that Residential Life should have the option to call police. Tracy believes this new pol-
icy would “increase the standards of living” because, in the past, UConn Police barricaded the hallways, which was “somewhat frequent and arguably more disturbing to the floor than marijuana use itself.” USG maintains that the incident should be dealt with internally, similar to the way underage possession of alcohol is dealt with, as opposed to automatic incarceration. At the USG meeting during which the bill was passed, a heated dispute broke out between Sen. David Haseltine and Sen. Nicole Douglin. A table was turned over, the meeting adjourned early and UConn Police were summoned. “I am very happy that there was so much support for the Marijuana Reform bill. However, I wish that the debate ended on friendlier terms,” said Senator of Busby Suites, writer of the bill and 5th-semester political science and economics major Bryan Flanaghan. USG President Tracy, along with Flanaghan, will meet with UConn Administration at the end of January to potentially initiate the Marijuana Reform by Fall 2012. “I think UConn understands that students are in favor of a change to bring University Policies on par with the new state laws regarding marijuana,” Flanaghan said. A statement supporting the use of Open Source Textbooks
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Lindsay Chiappa, vice president of USG, brings up new issues to talk about at one of the organization’s meetings.
was made Nov. 2. The bill indicates that USG encourages professors to use Open Source Textbooks, making course materials available online. The average additional yearly cost of books to tuition is $3,600, and this new resource could lower the price paid for textbooks by 80 percent. “I think Open Source Textbooks are a great idea because it saves college stu-
dents money while saving paper and not having to carry heavy books around campus,” said Lauren Marvin, 2nd-semester biology major. A statement of position in support of veterans themed living at UConn was passed on, Sept. 28. USG said a Veterans’ Themed Living Community would help with the transition to the university, as the students have a distinct life experiences
and tend to differ in age compared to most undergraduates. Requests have been made by various veteran students for such housing to be made available, as there are already similar communities, for transfer students. “While it was a great semester, Spring 2012 is looking to be even better,” Tracy said.
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Town Council discusses possible issues new power lines could cause By Colin Neary Campus Correspondent The primary subject of discussion by the Mansfield Town Council members was the addition of CL&P 345 kv power lines, which they feared would pose a health threat to residents, scar Mansfield parks and lower the value of neighborhoods permanently. “With no alternatives, the proposed CL&P high-voltage power upgrade will not offer any positive effects to Mansfield,” said Shane Freyer, an 8th-semester natural resources major. “Why do we have no wind turbines? The public must be informed of the current risks.” Steve Bacon, a resident of Mansfield and the attorney acting as the representative of Hawthorne Lane residents who will be affected by the power upgrade, offered a potential alternative to moving above ground lines farther south. “The current CL&P proposal would remove the current buffer of forest that will negatively affect property values and pose health risks to residents due to electromagnetic fields (EMFs),”Bacon said.
“I ask that the council consider opposing the CL&P proposal in its current state, which will cause irreparable damage to Mansfield,” said Hawthorne Lane resident Ron Manizza. “I have spoken to real-estate agents who claim that houses exposed to power lines will only sell on the market after the value is lowered. CL&P currently operates on an obsolete power infrastructure, and the company is more concerned about bottom lines and share-holders than Mansfield residents.” Mansfield resident Richard Civie presented the metaphor of the fox in the henhouse when discussing the CL&P proposal. He called for the council for the public to crossexamine CL&P about the dangers of EMFs and clear-cutting acres of forest. “I have put in over 100 hours of research on this project, and ask that the council form a committee of experts to oppose the highvoltage expansion,” Richard Civie said. “CL&P is our adversary, and we no longer have to listen to their opinion.” Victor Civie, a representative of Citizens United of Mansfield, referenced a state statute that requires power lines to be built underground.
“The transmission EMFs from aboveground power-lines is known to be dangerous, while below-ground power lines are not known to produce above-ground EMFs,” Victor Civie said. “In addition, the cost ratio for under-ground power lines in comparison to above-ground is approximately 2:1.” Barbara Byron of Mansfield Center said, “Additional transmission wires will be will be unsightly and dangerous. The high-voltage expansion will destroy the charm of Mansfield and offer health hazards.” The Connecticut Siting Council will ultimately be the body to decide whether or not the project proceeds. Director of Planning & Development Linda Painter said, “While underground power lines are being considered by the Siting Council, they are not likely considering alterations to the current proposals.” Painter said there are agricultural concerns with placing underground power lines beneath farmland, as complications and maintenance may interrupt planting or ruin crops. “The construction of a monopole on agricultural land will limit the forest removal by
20 feet,” Painter said. The Planning & Zoning Commission has already opposed the proposal, but is offering the possibility for underground and monopole alternatives for future mitigation with CL&P. Painter also indicated that current literature covers the cost of off-season construction for farmers, but whether or not there will be reimbursement for maintenance is not yet clear. Council Member Paul M. Shapiro referenced a similar situation involving 345 kv power lines between Western Connecticut towns and Northeast Utilities. Essentially, the towns collaborated and forced Northeast Utilities to offer a compromise that involved underground power-lines and monopoles. “Personally, I embrace the ‘elegant solution’ of the Hawthorne Lane alternative,” Shapiro said. The meeting concluded with a motion to endorse the Planning & Zoning Commission’s opposition to the current CL&P proposal, which carried unanimously. “This is a big victory for the people,” Manizza said.
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Skakel seeks sentence reduction for Conn. murder
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel plans to seek a reduction in his sentence of 20 years to life in prison for the killing of his neighbor when they were teenagers in 1975. Skakel, a nephew of Robert Kennedy’s widow, Ethel Kennedy, is scheduled to appear Tuesday before a three-judge panel in Middletown that reviews sentences. Skakel was sentenced in 2002 after he was convicted of bludgeoning 15-year-old Martha Moxley to death with a golf club in wealthy Greenwich. Moxley’s brother and mother are expected to attend the hearing. Prosecutor Susann Gill said she would argue the sentence was appropriate.
Governor proposes plan to shore up Conn. pensions
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled a plan Monday to speed up state payments to Connecticut’s seriously underfunded state employee pension system, a move he said will ultimately make it fully funded by 2032. The state’s pension fund has less than 48 percent of the money it needs, ranking it among the worst in the nation. “We need to be fiscally strong. We need to repair the damage that was done by successive administrations in this state,” Malloy told reporters during a news conference outside his state Capitol office. “It is no honor to the have the worst-funded pension program in the country. That’s not something governors should aspire to.” The Democratic governor’s proposal calls for the state to contribute about $125 million more next year and in future years. Malloy said he will reveal next month, when he addresses the General Assembly on Feb. 8, how he expects to cover that first payment.
Conn. jobless rate falls to 8.2 percent
WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (AP) — The state Department of Labor says Connecticut’s unemployment rate dipped to 8.2 percent in December, the lowest figure since May 2009. The agency released the December job figures Monday. The state’s unemployment rate was below the national rate of 8.5 percent. The number of nonfarm jobs in the state increased by 600 in December, bringing total nonfarm employment to 1.6 million jobs. The largest job growth came in the trade, transportation and utilities sector, which added 2,500 jobs. The retail sector had the largest percentage growth, 1.1 percent, as it added 1,900 jobs during the holiday season. The manufacturing sector lost 1,500 jobs. State officials say Connecticut has recovered about 29 percent of the 119,200 jobs that were lost during the recession that ran from March 2008 to January 2010.
Conn. court upholds excop’s rape convictions
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Supreme Court has upheld the convictions of a former East Windsor police officer who was found guilty of raping and assaulting his girlfriend in 2003 and 2004. Justices issued a 7-0 decision Monday rejecting the appeal of 36-year-old Rafael Crespo Jr., who challenged his convictions on several grounds including a claim that the jury should have heard testimony about the victim’s sexual conduct with another man. Crespo was sentenced to 14 years in prison and fired from his job. Yale University police charged Crespo in February 2005 with raping and assaulting his girlfriend, who was a Yale graduate student, several times while off-duty. The Supreme Court ruled that the victim’s sexual conduct with the other man was irrelevant, and that Crespo’s right to confront his accuser wasn’t violated.
Conn. student says professor sexually harassed her
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A student at Southern Connecticut State University alleges in a federal lawsuit her music professor sexually harassed her, and the college failed to fire him after substantiating her claims. Wendy Wyler alleges in the lawsuit filed Friday that David Chevan engaged in harassment beginning with comments such as calling her “sexy” and escalated to leading her into a storage room and propositioning her. She said she became fearful, anxious and depressed, dropping classes and her participation in bands. The lawsuit says a university investigation concluded Chevan violated sexual harassment policy. It cites a university report saying Chevan told an investigator he wasn’t trying to become emotionally intimate with Wyler, but only acting as her therapist. Chevan’s attorney says anyone can make allegations but they will have to be proven in court.
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The items below list charges filed, not convictions. All persons appearing below are entitled to the due process of law and presumed innocent until proven guilty. Individual police blotters will be taken off the Web site three semesters after they have been posted. Jan. 18 Travon M. McKenzie, 23, of Piscataway N.J. was arrested at 1:46 p.m. at the UConn Police Department and charged with failure to appear in the first degree. McKenzie turned him-
self in on an outstanding warrant for failing to appear. The warrant was issued when McKenzie failed to appear in court on Dec. 19 on charges from an altercation on Jan. 23, 2010. His bond was set for $5,000 and his court date is Jan. 31. Jan. 20 Jessica A. Crowe, 22, of Croton on Hudson N.Y. was arrested at 12:37 a.m. and charged with driving under the influence and violating a stop sign. Police stopped Crowe, suspected she was under the influence and subjected her to
sobriety tests, which she failed. Her bond was set for $500 and her court date is Jan. 30. Jan. 21 Meghan A. Coletta, 20, of Storrs was arrested at 1:56 a.m. on North Eagleville Road and charged with failure to have headlights lit and driving under the influence. Police stopped Coletta for driving without her headlights on, suspected her to be under the influence and subjected her to sobriety tests, which she failed. Her bond was set for $500 and her court date is Feb. 1.
Luke F. Perrelli, 20, of Madison was arrested at 3:24 a.m. at Busby Suites and charged with breach of the peace in the second degree. Police responded to a report of an altercation outside Busby and found that Perrelli was fighting with another male. His bond was set for $2,000 and his court date is Jan. 31.
Matthew R. August, 21, of Madison, was arrested at 3:24 a.m. at Busby Suites and charged with breach of the peace in the second degree. Police responded to a report of an altercation outside Busby and found that Perrelli was fighting with another male. His bond was set for $2,000 and his court date is Jan. 31.
Senator Mark Kirk faces long recovery from stroke
CHICAGO (AP) — Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois could lose full use of his left arm and experience facial paralysis after a weekend stroke that required emergency surgery, but his physician said Monday the prospects for a complete mental recovery are strong. Dr. Richard Fessler said it likely would be "very difficult" for the first-term Republican senator to regain movement in his left arm, and that his left leg and face also may be affected. Kirk was in intensive care at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he appeared to recognize those around him and was responding to verbal commands, Fessler said. Though Fessler could not say when Kirk would be able to return to work, he described the senator as "young, very healthy and in good shape." "Sen. Kirk's job is cerebral, and I believe the functions required to do his job are going to be fine," said Fessler, a neurosurgeon who removed a 4-by-8-inch piece of Kirk's skull Sunday night to relieve swelling on his brain. Kirk, 52, had reported feeling dizzy and checked himself into Lake Forest Hospital over the weekend before being transferred to Northwestern. Tests showed he had a tear in the carotid artery on the right side of his neck. Carotid arteries carry blood to the brain and carotid tears are a common cause of strokes in people in their 50s or younger. Fessler said Kirk would undergo rehabilitation, but added that the "the prospects for his full physical recovery, particularly on the left side of his body, are not great." Dr. Joseph Broderick, a University of Cincinnati stroke expert, said that when removing part of the skull is required, "that is a pretty significant stroke" that likely has caused substantial damage. The damage typically occurs when clots formed from a carotid artery tear lodge in the brain,
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Dr. Richard Fessler, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital who performed surgery on U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk after he suffered a stroke, answers questions about the Senator’s conditions at a news conference, Jan. 23, in Chicago.
depriving brain cells of oxygen. Brain cells then die and may fill with fluid, causing swelling. The process can take days or even weeks, he said. "Those people almost always will have some type of deficit long-term. Some may get back to being functional, but some are left with very severe deficits," Broderick said. Kirk's family said in a statement that he had "always shown great courage and resilience and we are confident that the fighter in him will prevail." "We are very grateful for the excellent treatment and care provided by the doctors and their medical teams ... We are equally grateful for the love and support of our family and friends," the family said. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat, said Monday he was shocked to learn of Kirk's stroke because Kirk appeared to be a picture of health. A Kirk aide said the senator is a regular swimmer and has to pass medical checks every six months in the reserves. West Virginia Sen. Joe
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Manchin, with whom Kirk planned to sit during Tuesday night's State of the Union Address, issued a statement calling Kirk a "dear friend and truly a great American." He said he's confident Kirk "will make a speedy recovery and I will do everything I can to support him and his family until he is able to join us back here in Washington." People can return successfully to high-profile jobs after serious brain injuries. Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., suffered a brain hemorrhage in December 2006 and returned to the Senate the following fall. His speech was a bit slurred, and sometimes he used a scooter to get around. He later won re-election and chairs the Banking Committee. Tradition holds that Kirk will continue to hold his seat in the Senate while recovering from the stroke. Democrats currently have a 51-47 advantage in the chamber, including the two independents who caucus with the party. Kirk, a Naval reserve commander, won Barack Obama's
vacated Senate seat for the Republican Party in 2010 after a hard-fought election during which the moderate from Chicago's northern suburbs had to make the transition to a statewide candidate who had to appeal to more conservative voters. Kirk won the seat by campaigning as the level-headed voice of experience facing a young Democrat, citing his five previous terms in Congress. Upon reaching the Senate, Kirk landed a seat on the powerful Appropriations Committee and late last year joined forces with Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey in imposing crippling sanctions on Iran. The two senators sponsored an amendment to the annual defense bill that targets foreign financial institutions that do business with the Central Bank in Tehran. In a rare unanimous vote, the Senate backed the measure 100-0. Obama signed the wide-ranging defense bill with the sanctions on New Year's eve.
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Giffords’ decision sets up political free-for-all PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' decision to resign from Congress sets up a political free-for-all in her competitive southeastern Arizona district, with voters set to pick a temporary replacement and then a fullterm representative in rapid succession. As Giffords, critically injured in a mass shooting last year, steps out of the public eye this week to focus on rehabilitation and recovery efforts, her departure thrusts Tucson into the national spotlight. The three-term Democrat was heavily favored to be reelected, so her decision to step down creates an opportunity for Republicans to pick up a seat in the House. But holding onto Giffords' seat has sentimental as well as symbolic value for Democrats as the elections will come as the presidential race intensifies — in a Red state that the Obama campaign is targeting. Bruce Ash, Republican national committeeman for Arizona, said the upcoming special election "will be a bellwether probably for the November elections." Giffords was shot in the head as she met with constituents outside a Tucson supermarket on Jan. 8, 2011. Six people died and 13 were wounded, including Giffords. She has made steady progress in her recovery, returning to the House chamber in August to cast a vote for the debt-
ceiling compromise, but she still has difficulty speaking. With both parties expected to target the race, "it means money. It means lots of national money," said Carolyn Warner, Democratic national committeewoman. Under a timetable set in Arizona law, Republican Gov. Jan Brewer will schedule the special elections — both a primary and a general — once Giffords leaves office and a vacancy is declared. The primary is expected to be held in April and the general in June. But only months later, there will be the regular primary election in August to pick nominees for the Nov. 6 election for the full two-year term that starts next January. "We have no idea how this is going to go," said state Rep. Steve Farley, a Democrat who said he had his sights on running for a state Senate seat but now is leaving open the possibility of a congressional race. "The dynamics are going to be very hard to predict." In another twist, the district itself changes between the two elections, shedding some outlying areas of Tucson and including more of the central city. The special election is for the 8th Congressional District. The regular election is for the 2nd District, recently renumbered and reconfigured under the once-a-decade redistricting. "It's going to complicate things for people who are run-
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ning in that they have to run in both districts," said Jim Kolbe, the Republican who held the congressional seat before Giffords. Both versions of the district are regarded as competitive, but Democrats pick up a few percentage points in voter registration under the newer version to pull roughly even with Republican. Independents make nearly a third of the electorate. Voter turnout typically is low in special elections, but the extra attention devoted to this campaign could spur participation, particularly
among Democrats, who tend to vote at lower rates than Republicans, said Patrick Kenney, an Arizona State University political science processor. And the circumstances of Giffords' departure could provide a "sympathy vote" for a Democratic nominee with issue stances and ties to the area that are similar to the outgoing representative, Kenney said. Several potential hopefuls said they were caught off guard by Giffords' decision to resign and now have to quickly assess their options.
"It's going to draw a lot names," said state Sen. Frank Antenori, a Republican who may enter the race. He said he wants to consider polling results before making a decision, likely by the end of the week. Other Republicans mentioned as potential candidates include 2010 nominee Jesse Kelly, sports broadcaster Dave Sitton and former legislator Jonathan Paton, who lost to Kelly in the district's Republican primary two years ago. On the Democratic side, it's not known if Giffords will
endorse a replacement. Those mentioned as potential candidates include state Sen. Paula Aboud, Farley and fellow state Rep. Matt Heinz. "A lot of us are," Heinz said when asked whether he is considering a run for the seat. A Giffords endorsement would be big, Farley said. "That person is going to have an endorsement as having been chosen to carry out her legacy." Giffords' husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, has quashed speculation that he might run. In a speech at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Monday night, Kelly reiterated that he will not seek his wife's seat. "I'm asked over and over again if I'm running for Congress, and I keep saying no," he said. "Then I keep getting asked again, and I have to say no a different way." But he left open a window to seek public office later, after focusing on his wife's recovery. "You know, I've been a public servant for a long time, and I think public service is in my future again," he said. "But right now, my goal is to make sure she can get back to where she needs to be, so she can return to work." Republicans now control five of Arizona's eight current U.S. House seats. The state is getting a ninth seat thanks to post-census reapportionment.
Friend: Defendant tried to sell bloodstained rug
ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) — A man who masqueraded as a Rockefeller and is now accused of murder was confronted in court Monday by witnesses who said he tried to sell them an Oriental rug with a blood spot. Christian Gerhartsreiter, who is charged with murdering a San Marino man from whom he had rented a cottage in 1985, smiled slightly at witnesses Robert and Bettie Brown, an elderly couple who once welcomed him into their home for religious study classes and became his close friends. Gerhartsreiter is charged with killing John Sohus, whose bones were found in 1994 in the backyard of his former home in San Marino, a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles, nearly 10 years after Sohus and his wife vanished. Gerhartsreiter left town soon after they went missing. He is charged only with killing 27-year-old John Sohus. No sign of Linda Sohus has been found. Robert Brown testified at a preliminary hearing about a day in 1985 when the man they knew as Chris Chichester showed up at their door with belongings he wanted to sell because he was going on a trip. Brown said he called his wife to look at a small Oriental rug. “She looked at it, and said, ‘Chris, this has blood on it.’ He fairly quickly
rolled it back up and left with it,” Brown said, adding that his wife suggested a place he could take it to be cleaned. Brown said Chichester, who was then pretending to be an instructor at the University of Southern California’s film school, showed up on another occasion asking how to dispose of photo processing chemicals. Chichester had told the Browns that he was descended from English peerage and was related to a famed British sailor of the same last name. He had also given them tea, saying it came from his family’s Indonesian tea plantation. About a week after the rug incident, Brown said Chichester disappeared, which was not surprising. “He was something of a phantom. He was different, unusual. He was believable up to a point. You couldn’t pin him down on details. Everything was loose and feathery,” Brown said. Another witness filled in the blanks of Gerhartsreiter’s travels after he left San Marino. Gerhartsreiter was arrested in Boston in 2008. Christopher Bishop, an Episcopal priest from Greenwich, Conn., testified that he met the man he knew as Christopher Crowe in 1985 when he appeared at the church where Bishop’s father was the priest. The younger Bishop said he was a
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film student at Columbia University at the time and his father told him there was a new parishioner who was also involved in film. Crowe told Bishop that he was the brother of well-known film director Cameron Crowe and had been to film school in California. He said he was in Connecticut to produce the new “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” series, Bishop said. “Did you believe it?” asked prosecutor Habib Balian. “Yes,” the witness said. “I gave him a screenplay I had written and he had critiqued it. He certainly was conversant in film.” In 1988, Crowe gave Bishop a truck, saying he had used it in a movie and didn’t need it anymore. Bishop said he later found out there was a lien on the truck and it had fraudulent license plates. He dumped the truck at a train station, thinking he could get in trouble for it. “I thought that was going to be the end of the story,” Bishop said. “But one day, I was sitting at my parents’ house and a Greenwich detective came to the door.” The detective asked about Crowe, saying he was involved in a missing person investigation. Bishop said he later asked Crowe who he really was. “What was the defendant’s response?” Balian asked, to which Bishop replied: “Gotta go, bye.”
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Verification is important before reporting information
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unday was a hard day for the Paterno family. Losing a family member is no easy task. Neither is facing that loss via the reminders of mass media. However, what made their loss so much worse was that only the night before, they had to contest claims that Joe Paterno had died even though he was still alive, and they were making impossible decisions regarding his medical care. While speed has become the driving force behind reporting in the age of social media, it is important to realize that whether one is a part of a legitimate news source breaking a new story or utilizing social media to share some interesting, just-heard tidbit, accuracy is just as important as speed. No matter how big or small the news, reporting of all kinds must be tempered by responsibility. In the case of mis-reporting the beloved coach’s death, there are many places to point the finger while determining who is most responsible. Onward State, the original reporters, should have verified the claims before publishing anything. However, the fault does not lie with them alone. While the story was certainly spreading through social media via Onward State and a local radio station, CBS arguably gave the story its big boost. The Huffington Post, Deadspin and several prominent journalists such as Anderson Cooper also helped to spread the inaccurate report. Any single one of them could have chosen to verify the information before sharing it; for the large news sources who have the capability to reach millions, this is the first thing they should have done. Just because we can report things and share them automatically, it does not mean we should post first and validate later. Imagine the pain this media wildfire caused the Paterno family – and this is not the first incident of its kind. A similar wildfire caused claims that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords had died after being shot during a constituent meet-and-greet outside a Tucson supermarket to spread. From major networks and large papers, to college press and the average citizen, it is everyone’s job to verify news – especially devastating news – before spreading it further. A show of responsible reporting on the part of any party involved could have killed this story before it put the Paterno family through the hell it would face again on Sunday morning. The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.
Ran for the bus today. Workout complete. Even though they call them the spring and fall semesters, at UConn we really have two winter semesters. Some people drank their first weekend back to school. Some went to the Union for late night. Some even prepared for classes. What did I do? Powered through The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. I’m supposed to write an essay about something that irritates me, but the only thing I’m irritated about right now is the fact that I have to write an essay. YOU’RE TEARING ME APART, LISA! It is my personal goal in life to sabotage my roommate’s sex life. The guy with the awesome moustache who works in the library was wearing red cowboy boots today. I have been recklessly endangered and moreover needlessly inconvenienced by all this snow and all this slush. I’m hungry. I just thought you’d like to know. As of the time the UConn public reads this, odds are I will have eaten. This Rick Santorum seems like a nice gent. Red-orange pants go with everything, right? Right, they do. Apparently it’s wildly inappropriate to talk about your dream job as your “ca-rear” expectations. Madonna is the most important part of the Super Bowl, this is empirical fact. If I ever have twins, I want to name them Area and Perimeter.
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Americans should be thankful for rights
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his past year, Time Magazine declared “the Protestor” its “Person of the Year.” The world has been up in arms this past year. Abroad and at home, people are standing up to their governments and demanding to be heard. In many nations this is something that was long overdue. But in this country, while our lives are not perfect and we do still need to fix many things, we also need to realize that we have many rights that others can only dream of. Earlier this month, Iranian By Michelle Anjirbag actress Golshifteh Weekly Columnist Farahani was banned from her homeland for posing nude in the French magazine Madame Le Figaro, as well as in a promotional video for the Césars (the organization that gives out the French Oscars). While the images are nothing that we in this country would bat an eyelash at – in both cases a tasteful, black and white nude, and the magazine photo shows Farahani covering her breasts – these images were enough to cause a cultural uproar and prompt the Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance to tell her that she could offer her “artistic services elsewhere,” according to an interview with the Daily Telegraph. This same actress was banned from leaving Iran in 2008, after making the movie “Body of Lies” (Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio). This decision prompted her and her husband’s move to
Paris initially. Farahani’s case is not the only instance of someone persecuted for something we take for granted. Recently, actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to 90 lashes and a year in prison for participating in an Australian film without permission. Sadly, Iran has countless other instances as well.
“We have no concept of gratitude for the rights we do have ...” And while I could write many things – I could condemn Iran, I could push for the U.S. to push back harder on an international level – I don’t think that any of that is productive. As much as we want to, we cannot change the cultural norms in places where we refuse to even try to understand the culture that sits behind the ideas. But what we can do is value what we do have a little bit more.
In this country we like to complain. We complain loudly, we complain often and we make demands whether or not they are reasonable. We consider this our right. We consider it our right to demand things until we get them – and then demand things for other countries with no concept of cultural context. We have stumbled on the notion that what we have is the best form of culture, society and government, and that everyone should be like us, even though we are constantly trying to make our own lives better. We have no concept of gratitude for the rights we do have, and all the things we can do without having to consider a potential consequence. If any one of us decided to make a movie, create a piece of art, write a book or write anything for that matter, in 99.9 percent of cases, we don’t have to fear physical punishment or banishment. Hell, if we choose to walk around, photograph or videotape ourselves nude, while we can face fines or relatively minor jail time, we can’t be physically harmed for it. I admit there is a lot lacking in support and rights in this country. But when we look at everything that can be done or created or tried without fear or persecution here, and compare it to the lives of other people in other countries, it is important that we take a moment out of our whining, complaining, demanding and protesting, and be grateful that we live in a country that affords us those rights.
Weekly Columnist Michelle Anjirbag is an 8th-semester English major with a creative writing concentration and an anthropology and indigenous studies double minor. She can be reached at Michelle.Anjirbag@UConn.edu.
Making a case for socialism in the US
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e’ve all heard the word circulated by the media and politicians to (in my opinion, unfairly) describe President Obama. In case you didn’t catch it: socialist, socialist, socialist. Although most of you will shudder at the mere sight of this “evil” word, particularly the more conservative readers, I feel it is a term that is used too loosely and By Joel Cintron unfairly. First Staff Columnist of all, do you actually know what socialism means? Sure, it has been branded as the sworn enemy of capitalism – similar to its cousin, communism. The proper definition of socialism is when the means of production are state owned, not privately owned. With state ownership, the goal is to limit inequality by regulating and providing subsidies to those who cannot find unemployment. Yes, I just mentioned regulation and “handouts” in the same sentence. It is important to mention that regulations, such as minimum wage, were enacted by the state to benefit middle- and lowerclass workers.
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But then again, what is wrong with regulation? At this point in time, America is in a “Great Recession” with a national unemployment rate right around 8.5 percent and a stagnant job market. If the banks deemed “too big to fail” were closely watched and regulated before the housing bubble burst, then we wouldn’t have to see our taxes inclining. I know taxes are necessary for generating revenue for the government, but I still have to pay for books and other schools supplies (i.e. Beer). Then, when I do finally graduate, I will have to pay back the loans I took out for college with the job I do not have. Yet one thing is for sure: it won’t be the rich who will help share the tax burden. For one reason or another, taxing the rich more than the middle class is off limits. Why? Because that would mean we are united in fixing this little debt crisis we have, and last time I checked, this was the United States of America, right? Not the same capitalist country with a free market that has actually applied such socialistic qualities as state ownership of public transportation, social
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security and subsidies (i.e. the grants you may receive to help pay tuition)? It is my belief that the American people have been misinformed about what socialism is and only see it as something demonic, which can hinder the growth that has already been hindered by corruption and greed by capitalistic businesses. A free market is cool (hell, anything free right about now would be awesome), but at a time when businessmen (and women) have shown that they can be economically negligible and job creation doesn’t seem to exist – even when companies pay lower taxes than we do – the only thing we can do is change our ways. Well, as long as we don’t raise taxes on the rich, including that nut job Warren Buffet, who actually wants to be taxed more to fix the economy. How does one of the world’s richest people, who made a fortune in investments and is currently worth $45 billion (yes, BILLION), publicly demand for the raising of taxes on the rich? Looks like Grandpa Warren forgot to take his meds again! That, or he is a socialist disguised as a model capitalist. Or perhaps
he wants America to be the model country that it used to be: successful, innovative and a land of opportunity. But most likely he’s just a closet socialist along with Obama, determined to ruin America by closing the gap between the rich and the poor like Sweden, France and Germany. By the way, they all have better public education, better healthcare and currently, more upwards mobility (moving from a lower social class to a higher one) due to socialist policies with their progressive consumption tax. All I know is that Czar Obama better not win this year’s presidential election, nor should his Communist Party win seats in Congress, because if they do win we just might have better education, less inequality and a better functioning economy all at the expense of the rich. If that is the case, I may have to move to Canada. At least they don’t practice socialism there… oh, wait…
Staff Columnist Joel Cintron is a 6th-semester international relations major. He can be reached at Joel.Cintron@UConn.edu.
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Horoscopes by Brian Ingmanson 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 -- Focus on home and family warms the hearth. It’s good medicine ... take as much as you can, with tea and company. Renew your spirit to go back out into the world again. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Changes could seem abrupt to others. Why not think it over? Handle the basics, do the routines and then take a walk to get lost in thought. No need for decisions. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You have this tendency to say yes when people ask, and then the tasks pile up. Keep checking stuff off the list, and earn some time for yourself. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your self-discipline is impressive, but you don’t have to go it alone, you know. You have plenty of friends. Everyone wants to contribute. You would do the same. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -An arrogant mood could take over, if you allow it to. Grand statements from the past could echo back. Own up to them if that happens. Laugh at yourself.
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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Practical efforts are favored, with Mars retrograde in your sign. There could be changes. Consult with experts and partners. Rules simplify. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Concentrate on great service, and the orders flood in. The workload is getting intense. Consider the previously impossible, and listen to your partner. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You don’t need “no more trouble.” The love of your family is available, as long as you’re willing to harvest it. Fixing a leaky faucet can save money.
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s easier to express your thoughts or to start a new writing project. Find an answer in meditation. Others depend on you. Share your peace of mind. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Figure out new ways to bring in income, without sacrificing your core values. Bring the money in before you send it back out. Be proud of your contribution. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re the top dog, and you know it. You’re back in control, but don’t let it make you lazy. Continue growing. Change is good now. Play with it. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 5 -- There’s no time for procrastination now. Complete a project in private. Listen only to the positive voice in your head. Hot chocolate could be nice.
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French parliament passes Armenian 'genocide' bill
PARIS (AP) — France's parliament voted Monday to make it a crime to deny that the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago constituted a genocide, risking more sanctions from Turkey and complicating an already delicate relationship with the rising power. Turkey, which sees the allegations of genocide as a threat to its national honor, suspended military, economic and political ties and briefly recalled its ambassador last month when the lower house of parliament approved the same bill. Before Monday's Senate vote, Turkey threatened more measures if the bill passed, though did not specify them. President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose party supported the bill, still needs to sign it into law, but that is largely considered a formality. The debate surrounding the measure comes in the highly charged run-up to France's presidential elections this spring, and critics have called the move a ploy to the garner votes of the some 500,000 Armenians who live in France. Valerie Boyer, the lawmaker from Sarkozy's conservative UMP party who wrote the bill, did not deny that, saying that politicians are supposed to pass laws that they think their constituents want. "That's democracy," she said. But this domestic gamble could have major international
consequences. France's relations with Turkey are already strained, in large part because Sarkozy opposes Turkey's entry into the European Union. The law will no doubt further sour relations with a NATO member that is playing an increasingly important role in the international community's response to the violence in Syria, the standoff over Iran's nuclear program and peace negotiations in the Middle East. "It is null and void for us," Turkey's Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin said on live TV immediately after the bill's passage Monday. "It is a great disgrace and injustice against Turkey. I want to tell to France that you have no value for us in the slightest degree, we don't care." The bill has also drawn massive protests in Paris, with thousands of Turks converging on the city this weekend to denounce it. On Monday, smaller rival demonstrations, separated by a substantial police presence, gathered outside the Senate. The Senate voted 127 to 86 to pass the bill late Monday. Twenty-four people abstained. The measure sets a punishment of up to one year in prison and a fine of €45,000 ($59,000) for those who deny or "outrageously minimize" the killings. Despite the potentially serious consequences, many senators did not show up for the
vote, instead allowing colleagues to serve as proxies. Those in the Senate chamber, however, fiercely debated the measure over several hours. For some in France, the bill is part of a tradition of legislation in some European countries, born of the agonies of the Holocaust, that criminalizes the denial of genocides. Denying the Holocaust is already a punishable crime in France. Most historians contend that the 1915 killings of 1.5 million Armenians as the Ottoman Empire broke up was the 20th century's first genocide, and several European countries recognize the massacres as such. Switzerland has convicted people of racism for denying the genocide. But Turkey says that there was no systematic campaign to kill Armenians and that many Turks also died during the chaotic disintegration of the empire. It also says that death toll is inflated. Boyer, the bill's author, said Monday that it seeks to protect the very human rights that France first defined during its revolution. Others warn that it threatens those same rights, especially freedom of expression. A Senate commission, in fact, recommended against the passage of the law, saying it raised constitutional questions, and the law could still face constitutional challenges.
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Turkish citizens in France demonstrate in front of the Senate in Paris, Monday Jan. 23, to protest against a law that would make it a crime to deny “genocide” in Armenia.
"It's not up to parliament to define history," said JeanJacques Pignard, a senator who spoke against the measure in an hourslong debate. "We can't impose repentance. Repentance is a long personal journey." But the senators who spoke for it on Monday said it was their duty to fight against those who would deny settled history. "Once it's written, isn't it up to us to take notice?" asked Yannick Vaugrenard, a Socialist senator. "The truth is
not always strong enough to conquer lies." While senators debated the law Monday afternoon, about 150 pro-Armenian protesters and the same number of proTurkish demonstrators gathered outside the building. Those in the pro-Turkish camp held banners declaring, "Liberty, Equality, Stupidity" and "It's not up to politicians to invent history." Turkey's ambassador to France later lamented the vote.
"Everyone is going to suffer (from this). France, Turkey, Armenia of course. There will be unfortunately a radicalization of positions of all sides," said Tahsin Burcuoglu. But Alexis Govciyan, national president of the Council of Coordination of Armenian Organizations in France, said that the law that would protect "the memory of the victims of the genocide, and the dignity of their descendants like us will be respected."
Prayers of peace turn to fear of attack in Nigeria Gadhafi loyalists attack Libyan towns, killing 7
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Emir of Kano, Ado Bayaro, right, and Rabiu Kwankwaso, the governor of kano state, front left, prior to offering a prayer for peace and those who lost their lives during the recent attacks, at a mosque in Kano, Nigeria, Jan. 23.
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — The aging Muslim spiritual leader of this northern Nigeria city, his eyes heavy with fatigue, leaned into a microphone Monday and whispered to God his wish for peace after the killing of at least 185 people in an attack by the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram. On the streets, however, smudged black graffiti written in charcoal gave a different message: "Boko Haram good." Though businesses reopened and traffic again filled the streets Monday of Nigeria's second-largest city, people in Kano remained fearful that the radical sect will attack again. That tension only increased as police announced they had discovered 10 unexploded car bombs around the city and as uniformed officers and soldiers melted away from public view in this city of more than 9 million people. "We are not safe at all," warned resident Aminu Garba, 38. "We are not safe." Police issued a statement late Monday giving a fuller account of what happened during Friday's attack that saw at least two Boko Haram suicide bombers detonate explosive-laden cars. The statement by state police commissioner Ibrahim Idris described attackers as speaking accented Hausa and other languages not normally heard in Kano as they assaulted police stations, immigration offices and the local headquarters of Nigeria's secret police. The attack killed 150 civilians, 29 police officers, three secret police officers, two immigration officers and one customs official, Idris said, rising the toll to 185 dead. Medical workers and emergency officials say they still expect the death toll to rise. Officers also have discovered 10 car bombs in the city, as well as about 300 bombs made from aluminum cans and other explosives, Idris said.
On Monday, Emir of Kano Ado Bayero and Kano state Gov. Rabiu Kwankwaso sat together at the front of a mosque typically full of worshippers during Friday prayers in this dusty, sprawling city. However, the special service to commemorate the dead and ask God for peace and justice drew much smaller crowds than usual, with half of the prayer mats unoccupied. "I call on people from all groups to pray for this place," Bayero said. Meanwhile, secret police officers stood guard outside with assault rifles. Bayero is one of the premier rulers of the emirates of Nigeria, a system of governance that dates back to the 1800s and still carries spiritual importance to Muslims. British colonialists used the emirates to rule the north by proxy until Nigeria gained its independence in 1960. Many believe Nigeria's corrupt politicians now do the same, as the vast majority of those living in the north deal with crushing poverty in a nation where most earn less than $2 a day. The influence of traditional leaders in Nigeria has waned in recent years and the 81-year-old emir himself showed his age as he walked slowly away from the mosque, leaning heavily on his cane. Such leaders previously promised to intercede for the government to stop the increasingly violent sectarian attacks of Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language. However, a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable claims that Nigeria's government in 2008 released suspected Islamist extremists to such leaders as part of a parole program. Around that same time, Nigerian authorities released a Boko Haram member now suspected of helping organize the August suicide car bombing of the U.N. headquarters
in the capital, Abuja, that killed 25 people. Friday's coordinated attack in Kano represents Boko Haram's deadliest assault since beginning a campaign of terror last year. Boko Haram has now killed 262 people in 2012, more than half of the 510 people the sect killed in all of 2011, according to an Associated Press count. Nigeria's weak central government has been unable to stop the killings, and its heavy-handed military response has been criticized by civilians who live in fear of sect attacks and government reprisals. Security forces on Sunday shot dead four people they accused of being Boko Haram members after finding explosive-making materials in their car in the sect's spiritual home of Maiduguri, said Col. Victor Ebhaleme, a military field operation officer in the northeastern city. Local police said at the same time on Sunday that a suspected sect member killed a Maiduguri High Court registrar at his home. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Monday that U.S. officials are discussing how to support Nigeria's counterterrorism efforts, including cutting funding for Boko Haram. "We are obviously extremely concerned and it was a really horrific spate of bombings over the weekend," Nuland said. Boko Haram wants to implement strict Shariah law and avenge the deaths of Muslims in communal violence across Nigeria, a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people split largely into a Christian south and Muslim north. While the sect has begun targeting Christians in the north, the majority of those killed Friday appeared to be Muslim, officials said. That leaves Kano residents like Garba, who stood outside the mosque following Monday's prayer service, living in fear.
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Forces loyal to Libya's late leader Moammar Gadhafi launched a series of attacks on Monday across several cities, killing seven fighters who helped topple the former regime, officials and residents said. The violence comes as Libya's new leaders struggle to stamp out lingering resistance from pro-Gadhafi forces and try to unify a deeply fractured country after eight months of civil war and more than 40 years of authoritarian rule. The attacks were spread out and took place in the western city of Bani Walid, the capital Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi, the city where the uprising against Gadhafi started nearly a year ago. It is not clear if the attacks were coordinated. Violence broke out first in Bani Walid, where pro-Gadhafi fighters have long tormented Libya's revolutionaries. Mahmoud al-Warfali, a spokesman for the revolutionary brigade in Bani Walid, said at least four of his fighters were killed in the western city, which was one of the last former regime strongholds to fall to revolutionary command. He said up to 150 pro-Gadhafi fighters were engaged in the street battle, using rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s. He said they managed to raise the green Libyan flag of Gadhafi's regime at the northern gate of the town. "These are Gadhafi remnants who tried to take over the city," al-Warfali said. "They have tried to do this before and take over the interim government's office, but thank God we have been able to fight them off." Hours later, three fighters were killed late Monday by pro-Gadhafi forces in Benghazi, field commander Abdel-Basit Haroun said. The city served as the hub for revolutionary leaders during the civil war. Abdel-Rahman alSoghayar, a commander from the new regime in Tripoli, said shooting also took place in several neighborhoods of the capital Monday evening, forcing people to remain indoors and stores to close early. He blamed the gunfire on "sleeper cells" loyal to Gadhafi who he said are attempting to take advantage
of the fighting in Bani Walid. There was no word of casualties. The bold attacks are the latest breakdown in security, three months after Gadhafi's capture and killing. Protests have surged in recent weeks, with people demanding that the interim leaders deliver on promises of transparency and compensation for those injured in the civil war. The new government's promises to deliver justice for those killed in the uprising has been usurped in some areas by revolutionary fighters taking retribution on their own. Bani Walid resident Moussa al-Warfali said the clashes erupted after revolutionary forces arrested a Gadhafi loyalist, whose angry comrades launched an attack to free him. The fighting originally was centered on the revolutionary brigade's base, then spread to other parts of the town. The clashes were considered serious enough that dozens of revolutionary fighters from Tripoli have been dispatched to Bani Walid to help, brigade commander Saddam Abdel-Zein said. There were also reports of shooting in the western Nafusa mountains, according to al-Soghayar, who was in touch with fellow fighters there. No further details were available. The outbreak of violence prompted revolutionary fighters as far as the western city of Misrata to declare a high alert, setting up check points and securing entrance points to the city, according to Misrata's revolutionary brigade spokesman, Walid Khashif. After the fall of Tripoli to anti-Gadhafi fighters in August, loyalists of the ousted regime took refuge in towns such as Bani Walid and held off revolutionary forces for weeks, using the surrounding mountains and valleys to pick off revolutionary forces. Even after Gadhafi's capture and killing in October, the city and its surrounding region have troubled Libya's new leaders. In November, 15 soldiers were killed in an ambush by Gadhafi loyalists just outside the town. Revolutionary fighters in Bani Walid have complained that the country's interim government has done little to help secure the city.
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Far too many cliches to count
Hollywood shows zero improvement in terms of unique ideas
By Becky Radolf Staff Writer I wrote this same article last year in hopes that movie studios around America would see it and feel compelled to churn out better films. I was wrong. And a whole lot of crap was dumped into our laps again. I’d love to put “Twilight” on here, but I don’t have enough space to list all the reasons why that series as an entity is ruining the country. Regardless, I decided that I’d try one more time to be the voice of the people, and compose an updated list of movie trends that need to be stopped. Cheesy love stories with an ensemble cast Garry Marshall, I’m talking to you on this one, concerning your two god-awful blockbuster wannabes, “Valentine’s Day” and “New Year ’s Eve.” Not only do both feature a cast of 30-some-odd smug celebrities who are all doing you a favor, but the 800 plots of each movie are so thin and boring that they couldn’t keep anyone’s attention in the theater. I’m not sure what the next over-hyped, commercially viable holiday is that you’re going to exploit, but I just pray it’s not Christmas. Don’t you dare take that away from me. Adam Sandler movies All of them need to go. At this point, Sandler has officially lost the right to make a movie, and he should be sent back to wherever he
came from. “Jack and Jill” was such an abomination of what is considered “film” that it was obvious Sandler was making it to show he can do whatever the hell he wants nowadays. Maybe you think starring in heinous movies isn’t enough to be banned from Hollywood, but when you consider that he also produced garbage like “Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star” (which got the coveted 0 percent on rottentomatoes.com), then hopefully everyone can get on the same page. Badass Mark Wahlberg Movies I’m not talking about movies like “The Fighter,” which is a great story and great acting. In fact, I’m only saying this because I love Wahlberg as an actor, and he’s doing a disservice by making the same action-packed blockbusters where he gets to shoot a gun a lot and drive a car really fast, like in his latest, “Contraband.” As one of the better actors in the business, he would do well to showcase that he can carry a story without all the pyrotechnics. The “Pirates of the Caribbean” saga Please, God, let it finally be over. The series went steadily downhill from the first amazing movie, and if Disney had any dignity, it would have stopped there. However, I understand how profit works, and a few more “Pirates” movies were guaranteed to make millions, but now I have to draw the line. You really blew it with “On Stanger Tides,” Disney. I
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Sofia Vergara (left) and Katherine Heigl (right) look for love in the romance-comedy ‘New Year’s Eve.’ This couple-mosaic storyline has already been used multiple times, but still manages to attract audiences with star power and commercial hype.
put up with the completely preposterous “At World’s End” in hopes that you’d let this concept live in our memories peacefully after that, but you had to go and make another one and beat us over the head with the Jack Sparrow character. We get it – Johnny Depp created an entertaining and totally original being out of thin air, but there’s no need to make him parade around in a half-assed fourth movie and pretend like he still gives a damn. Even Keira Knightly and Orlando Bloom could sense how horrible “On Stranger Tides” was going
to be, yet you still forged on with your lunacy. Superhero movies with stars that have no business being superheroes I understand that movie studios are trying to nicely mesh a sense of comic relief with the action of a superhero movie, but come on, Seth Rogen as the The Green Hornet? This is the guy who played someone more concerned with saving his bong than his girlfriend when his house caught fire in “Knocked Up,” and you’re going to give him superpowers to fight crime? Let’s not forget Ryan Reynolds as
The Green Lantern. While that’s slightly more believable, there’s some sort of dainty quality about him (maybe it’s the way he talks) that makes him unfit to play someone who needs to save the world. I’m assuming that the makers were trying to create the same magic as with Robert Downey Jr. in “Ironman,” but that works because Robert Downey Jr. really is the man. I can only hope that someone, somewhere in a position of authority in the movie business sees this list and takes it to heart.
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Author paints bleak, A throwback that offers fast and furious action realistic picture of life in the post-college world
By Alyssa McDonagh Campus Correspondent For college students who are at a complete loss over what to do once they graduate and face moving back home, “The Fallback Plan” by Leigh Stein is for you. Protagonist Esther Kohler graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in theater. However, without any money or job prospects, her only option is to move back home. With her bedroom turned into a home theater and her parents charging her rent, living at home is not easy.
I am only a freshman, but I still found myself thinking more and more about Esther’s problem over winter break since I was not able to get hours at the job I held over the summer. I had to rely on my parents’ generosity for spending money and spent my time hanging out with friends instead of earning money to put toward school. Before Esther’s parents find her a babysitting job, she spent her time lounging around the house and with her friends, Jack and Pickle. Stein gives readers interesting background
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information about these characters, but other than that, I found them somewhat annoying and crude. The novel does not have a large cast of characters, so they are two of only a handful of people found in the novel. In the beginning of the novel, Esther makes it clear that she likes baby pandas and C.S. Lewis’ novel “The Lion,” the Witch and the Wardrobe, an example of some random things the novel mentions. Planning to write a screenplay, Esther never makes much progress, though excerpts of what could be her screenplay are scattered
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throughout the novel. For those familiar with C.S. Lewis’ novel, the idea of Esther’s screenplay parallels the plot of novel but stars pandas instead of people. While this originally seems cute and entertaining, the idea often reemerges throughout “The Fallback Plan.” I found this distracting to the ongoing plot of the story and out of place. I eventually began skimming or skipping these excerpts so I could get back into the flow of the novel.
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Anime will probably always stand as something niche, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been rarities with the appeal for a much larger crowd. After watching “Redline,” it’s hard to fathom anyone with a pulse not being blown away by this masterful spectacle of a racing movie. Animation fan or not, you should really go see it. The thing that will instantly grab viewers is, without question, how amazing the movie looks. The best way to describe the animation is to call it a wonderful synergy of Japanese anime and Western comic, but there’s an ever-present slickness to the aesthetics that needs to be seen to be understood. In the end, the seven years of production with 100,000 hand-drawn cels managed to create an experience of pure eye candy. Seek out the Bluray version at all costs. But perhaps the most startling thing about “Redline” is that even with the overflowing style, the story manages to carry it all. It won’t leave Christopher Nolan or Martin Scorsese shaking in their boots, but there’s never a sense of hollowness. There’s just enough backstory and character devel-
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‘Redline’ is an atypical racing movie that offers swift justice and thrilling stunts, thanks to director Andy Cheng.
opment to make the main characters in the deadly race tournament worth caring about; and the subplot around a shady military empire doesn’t come across as confusing or pointless. Really, it’s just how the story should be in a high-octane racing movie: always present, but knows when to lay low once the tire meets the road. If you’re the sort of stickler who prefers movies in their original language, the Japanese track does an exemplary job in
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voicing all the colorful racers and the bizarre sideline characters around them. But for those who give the English dub a chance, it’s no slouch either. All the voice actors put in the energy required for such an exhilarating script, and the extra swear words and slang fit the attitude of the universe a bit better than subtitles. The only things about “Redline” that might pull viewers out of the experience are a few weird moments. But honestly, that’s just nitpicking at a film where everything else is done with a finel tuned comb. It never loses its cool, never bores and is incredibly re-watchable. This is an instant classic of an animated film for adults that will inevitably be praised for years to come. Seriously, you should go see “Redline.”
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This Christmas, I received one of my favorite gifts: a bookstore gift card. Yes, after spending the weeks before break in the library, reading textbooks and notes all day and night, the thing I asked for was the gift of more things to read. My family thought I was a little crazy after they heard my stories of only leaving the library to eat and sleep, but they thoughtfully complied with my request. Before break ended, I planned to make a stop at Barnes and Noble to buy some new books. When I walked in the door, I was immediately faced with a display table filled with Nooks, Nook accessories and a salesperson answering questions about the e-reader. Personally, I am not a fan of e-readers, and this was a reminder of one of the reasons why Borders bookstores shut down. Borders arrived to the e-book scene too late. It had nothing to offer in competition against the Kindle and the Nook. This drastically hurt Borders since Barnes and Noble and Amazon greatly benefited from their e-readers. As a Borders’ customer for years, I was disappointed in having to switch over to a new bookseller. After looking around the store for quite some time, I finally decided on five books. I normally don’t purchase hardcover books since they are much more expensive than paperbacks, but I decided to splurge and purchase “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern. Garnering positive reviews ever since it was released, “The Night Circus” is about a magical circus and two characters who fall in love while competing in a game. Sounding like a cross between “Water for Elephants” and “The Hunger Games,” this book should not disappoint readers. Since I’m an Animal Science major, I couldn’t help but buy two books that are about animals. “Fire Bringer” by David Clement-Davies is a story about deer. When I saw this book, I was immediately intrigued since most animal novels I come across are about horses or dogs. While those are my favorite animals and enjoyable to read about, it is nice to see that an author is branching out and writing about other animals. Locus magazine says that, “’Fire Bringer” does for deer what ‘Watership Down” did for rabbits,” a reminder that today’s fiction can be heavily influenced by novels from the past. The second animal book I purchased is “The Dogs of Babel” by Carolyn Parkhurst. Where “Fire Bringer” is written from the animals’ perspective and immerses readers in their world, “The Dogs of Babel” has characters that are people. This novel is about a man who wants to solve the mystery behind his wife’s death. The only witness was the family dog. To do this, he begins to try to teach his Rhodesian Ridgeback to talk so she can reveal what occurred the day his wife died. Following along the same genre of someone’s mysterious death, “Thirteen Reasons Why” by Jay Asher is about a girl who commits suicide and leaves behind cassette tapes that explain her reasoning for the suicide. A New York Times best seller and rated by Barnes and Noble as a “Top 10 Best for Teens,” this gripping tale will be sure to hook readers looking for something different in the Young Adult section.
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By Purbita Saha Focus Editor In the past Hollywood directors have been criticized for exploiting 9/11 by using the national tragedy as a backdrop in movies to gain sympathetic audiences. But Stephen Daldry’s new film “Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close” is more than just another tearjerker. It looks past the explosive footage of the towers collapsing, the candlelight vigils held by millions of mourners and the elegies of all the undeserving victims. It reaches beyond the rehashed account of events that we all so vividly remember and instead lingers on the life of Oskar Schell, an autistic child who is reeling from the death of his doting father. In some ways, Schell is a typical adolescent. He is endlessly curious, constantly in search of affection and nearly combustible while dealing with his father’s absence. In an effort to hang on to his memories with his
Eric Roth’s screenplay for “Extremely Loud” is based on a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. The book has achieved a large amount of success since it was published in 2005, and has won the author a reputation for being an innovative storyteller. To adapt “Extremely Loud” to film, however, Roth had to cut out the rotating narrators and spontaneous interjections that make the plot distinctive. For example, while Foer’s book explores the perspective of the protagonists, his grandfather and his grandmother, the movie only focuses on Schell’s 9-year-old mind. This singularity leaves the audience with a shallow understanding of the supporting cast of characters. On the other hand, it prevents any confusion that may stem from jamming too many personas into a two-hour span of time. Daldry’s movie is emotionally invasive, as it analyzes Schell’s volatile and frustrated thoughts without any reservation. Debuting
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humor in its ineptness. One of the two major fights at the end of the movie looks like a battle between a “Donnie Darko” cosplayer and a “The Ring” cosplayer at ComicCon. A 12-year-old girl rips a werewolf’s head in two in one of the hilariously over-the-top kill scenes the film continually supplies. The credits roll a little over an hour into the film. My screening was at 3:30 p.m., and including trailers, it was over before 5 p.m. Usually I’d complain about such a short running time, but with such a ridiculously bad attempt at film-making as “Underworld,” I was just grateful I could leave the theater that much earlier.
As the years pass, you may start to notice when familiar films, ones that you may even own on VHS, DVD and Bluray, find their way back into theaters. These movies are the moneymakers, the blockbusters and the crowd-pleasers. I’m thinking of “Gone with the Wind,” “Star Wars” and “The Wizard of Oz.” Recently, Disney’s “Beauty & the Beast” came back, but this time in 3D. And “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” – that failed messiah of cinema – will soon re-enter the fray in the third dimension. Some people may decry this practice of repackaging established classics with a glossy sheen; that’s what home video is for, right? I disagree. The bottom line is there is an immense amount of value in being able to view these films on the big screen. The unfortunate reality is that you have to pay a premium for lazy 3D or dubious “remastering,” but can you really put a dollar amount on the value of seeing your favorite movies the way they were supposed to be seen, sometimes for the first time? I was -13 when Star Wars debuted, so I know it’d be mine. Consider David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia,” a classic and oft-used example of widescreen filmmaking at its finest. (If you haven’t seen it, then getting your hands on that film is certainly more important than reading what I have to say.) It is a blessing that Lean’s masterwork is available to a mass audience through DVD, and soon enough, Bluray. But Freddie Young’s Super Panavision 70 cinematography was meant to be seen in the aspect ratio provided by a theater. What this means is that, if you watch this movie on your TV, some of both sides of the frame is sacrificed in the service of your comparatively tiny screen. You lose the immensity of the Arabian desert, and thus the sense of grandeur Lean wanted to convey. I’m sure not all of my readers have seen “Lawrence of Arabia,” but a majority of them have seen Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings.” I would bet that when you first saw it, you were around 11 years old, sitting in awe in a movie theater. In case you viewed the films initially on DVD, think about how you feel about the movies in comparison to your theatrically inclined friends. Did you enjoy, but are not in irrational love with the films like those people? This may be because you didn’t have the theatrical experience. The dark-suited men and women who maniacally laugh about how much money they will make off of the “Lion King 3D” re-release are inadvertently doing us a huge favor. For a small fee, they allow us to truly experience the old movies we weren’t alive for the first time around. And you don’t even have to wait for the mainstream theaters across the U.S. to open the big-timers. Venues like Hartford’s Real Art Ways or Cinestudio constantly show old films. Look this week for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Diabolique.”
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“The Crow” is infamously remembered as the film where Brandon Lee was killed on set, giving a posthumous performance that was outstanding. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie was not. “The Crow” took a style-oversubstance approach, which is fine, but the scale is far too lopsided. The characters are underdeveloped, and the villains are no more than cartoon caricatures. We never find out much about Draven and his wife, or even why he of all people was brought back by the crow, which is given almost 100 shots in the first half hour. The editing can be poor at times, and some action scenes are clunky and hard to follow. “The Crow” should be remembered for a great actor that could have been, not a great movie that was.
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Thomas Horn plays Oskar Schell in the film adaptation for ‘Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close.’ Horn was chosen by director Stephen Daldry as the lead actor after he competed on ‘Jeopardy’ during Kid’s Week and won $31,000.
father, Schell embarks on a mission to find a lock for a key that he believes his father left for him. His solitary hunt leads him all across the five boroughs of New York City. Since he is too anxious to take public transportation, he ends up walking hundreds of miles to find meaning in the senseless murders that took place on “the worst day ever.”
actor Thomas Horn expresses an incredible array of feelings that range from wide-eyed naivety to unconscious brutality. His character is intriguing, but his performance is awe-inspiring. Tom Hanks’ sparse appearances are charming, while Sandra Bullock’s role as a sympathetic mother and coping widow rounds
out “Extremely Loud’s” wellendowed cast. There are few spaces to laugh during this movie, many moments to cry during and many more to sit back and evaluate life. It is a rollercoaster about the human condition, but more importantly it is a relatable blueprint to how people steadily take losses and make gains. Two hours is a short time to digest all these sublime revela-
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We, as a race, answer this discovery by shooting all of them in the face, as mere bullets can apparently kill
The action is not even understandable. It’s full of quick shots and bad angles, and most of it just involves
tions, and in the end “Extremely Loud” becomes exhaustive. Still, the majority of the movie is engrossing and enlightening without being overly reflective. “Extremely Loud” is inevitably headed to the Oscars, but even if it does not win any awards it is an achievement in the art of filmmaking and deliberation.
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A lot of things make this film entertaining, but it is clearly not a good one. It takes itself so seriously that there’s
Vampire series gets redundant after 9 years
“Underworld Awakening” is a really stupid movie, in the laughably bad movie way. It’s absurd and makes no sense. “Awakening” is the fourth film in the Underworld franchise, which is a statement that I find really hard to believe. I only have vague memories of seeing the first film on the Sci-Fi channel when I was in middle school, and 13-year-old me didn’t even like it, so I am completely at a loss as to why it’s earned three sequels. The only feasible explanation I can think of is that Kate Beckinsale looks really good in skintight leather. Luckily, the previous three movies are summed up in a three-minute prologue, which is really lazy filmmaking, probably because no one else remembered that the series exists. Beckinsale plays the vampire heroine Selene, who is really good at killing, but bad at having common sense. In the “Underworld” series, vampires and knockoff werewolves (called Lycans) have been battling for centuries in really cheap-looking sets that are supposed to be Los Angeles at night. “Awakening” has a twist, though; the humans have discovered that our childhood monsters are real.
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Kate Beckinsale avoids capture by humans in the movie ‘Underworld Awakening,’ which is the fourth film in the science fiction series. Beckinsale plays a warrior vampire named Selene, who tries to save her species and clan from extinction.
vampires and werewolves. There are also vampirelycan hybrids that are different every time they’re in the movie. Selene has a daughter who becomes a hybrid. Selene is captured and frozen for 12 years, and the humans are actually Lycans. None of it makes any sense.
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people either shooting at either each other or getting mauled by werewolves. Did I mention that the entire film takes place in dark corridors and caves, which coincidentally make the film incredibly hard to see in 3D? At first I thought this was just to create a foreboding atmosphere to the film, full of shades of blue to represent the characters’ pain in being centuries-old monsters that would never be free to live their lives, always under attack from their enemies and humans who didn’t understand their plight. Then I saw the werewolf costumes and realized the darkness was so no one would be able to see how bad they looked.
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The last book I bought was “Her Fearful Symmetry” by Audrey Niffenegger. I find that if I read one book by a particular author and enjoy it, I’m eager to read other books he or she has written. Last summer I read Niffenegger’s “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and loved it, so when I saw her second novel. I had to buy it. In this novel, twin sisters inherit a house and discover curious things while living there. “Her Fearful Symmetry” sounds just as interesting as Niffenegger’s previous novel. Hopefully these books will inspire you to purchase some books of your own to read before the semester becomes too crazy. It can never hurt to have a good book on hand when you need to take a step back from life and relax.
Stein is a young author, only 26 years old. Her youth is evident in the amount of pop culture references throughout the novel, enjoyable to those who can relate to them. This is a book made for people who grew up on “Balto” and “The Land Before Time” movies, since they are referenced in her narration. Stein clearly writes for the young adult/ college student as the book is riddled with swears and sarcastic jokes, drug use and one–night stands. A quick and entertaining read— at just 200 pages—”The Fallback Plan” can be easily read in one sitting. Despite the casual and humorous tone Stein writes with, she incorporates some very complex and insightful lines that make readers think. These thoughtful musings can sometimes make up for Esther’s occasionally shallow thoughts but Esther doesn’t seem to care much about improving her life, making it hard to care about her as a character.
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NEW YORK (AP) – Seal and Heidi Klum have announced that their storybook marriage is coming to the end of the runway. In a statement Sunday night, the power couple announced their separation after rumors swirled over the weekend that a divorce was imminent. “While we have enjoyed seven very loving, loyal and happy years of marriage, after much soul searching we have decided to separate,” the joint statement read. “We have had the deepest respect for one another throughout our relationship and continue to love each other very much, but we have grown apart. This is an amicable process and protecting the well-being of our children remains our top priority, especially during this time of transition. We thank our
family, friends, and fans for their kind words of support. And for our children’s sake, we appreciate you respecting our privacy.” The couple married in 2005 and has four children together, including the supermodel’s daughter from a previous relationship. They were one of Hollywood’s most high-profile couples, and seemed to have the relationship everyone should envy. They two starred together in the music video “Secret,” they renewed their wedding vows each anniversary, boasted of their love in the media, and threw Halloween bashes together where they dressed in outrageous outfits, most recently last year in New York City, where the two engaged in their typical public display of affection for the cameras.
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By Aaron Burstein Campus Correspondent
When Guy Ritchie directed Sherlock Holmes in 2009, a lot of people were scratching their heads. Ritchie was a director known for slick, modern actioncomedies, and seemed a little out-of-place being associated with the classic mystery tales. However, what resulted was a genuinely entertaining film with action, humor and mystery that showed the classic character in a new light. The sequel, subtitled “A Game of Shadows,” was released Dec. 16 and seeks to up the ante by pitting Holmes and Dr. Watson against their greatest enemy, Professor Moriarty. The character and much of the story are lifted from the original Arthur Conan Doyle short story “The Final Problem.” Moriarty, played by Jared Harris, is an esteemed professor of mathematics, but runs an elaborate war-for-profit and assassination ring on the side. If a hero is only as great as his adversary, the filmmakers made a good choice
centering the story on Moriarty. He’s an interesting and imposing villain, and Harris acts the part well. As a whole, “A Game of Shadows” is in the vein of its
even greater extent. Sherlock Holmes is a detective, therefore “A Game of Shadows” comes with the expectation that there will be some good old fashioned mystery-
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predecessor, it’s stylized, fastpaced and heavy on action sequences with witty dialogue. It has a great look and a solid cast; Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law do a good job of reprising their roles as Holmes and Watson, respectively. All in all, it’s a pretty easy film to be entertained by. Unfortunately, the film also falls into the same trap as its predecessor, perhaps to an
solving. However, throughout the course of my viewing, I couldn’t shake the feeling that Holmes wasn’t solving mysteries so much as he was punching his way through them. It seemed like too much of the “mystery” simply came together through blind luck and fast fists. While all the action scenes are creative and well-executed, there simply wasn’t any room left for actual
deduction. The writing tries to get away with this by saying that Holmes has been working on the case for several months prior to the point at which the movie starts, but chalking it off to exposition isn’t fair to the audience. My other complaint lies with the ending. Those with any familiarity with “The Final Problem” already know that the ending feels a little unsatisfying, but Ritchie and writers Kieran and Michele Mulroney do a pretty good job of dealing with it for what it is. So it’s not as poorly managed as it could have been. It’s more of an issue with the source material than anything. Overall, the film entertains, despite its flaws. For those in search of an exciting and visually gratifying action movie, “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” is sure to please. But for those in search of a clever mystery, this movie is a little too slick for its own good.
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Seal, Heidi Klum » ADVOCACY announce separation Jackson: Film saved life of West Memphis 3 suspect PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – Peter Jackson believes Damien Echols would be dead now if not for a 1996 documentary that cast doubt on the man’s guilt in three child murders. And Amy Berg, Jackson’s colleague on the Sundance Film Festival premiere “West of Memphis,” believes former Death Row inmate Echols and two other men might still be in prison if not for the independent investigation launched by “The Lord of the Rings” filmmaker and his wife, Fran Walsh. There’s no better testament at Sundance to the power of art and artists than “West of Memphis,” which premiered Friday night at Robert Redford’s independent-film showcase. Sundance films often come from mavericks who challenge the establishment. “West of Memphis” is a tale of artists not only challenging the system, but also beating it. Jackson, Walsh and Berg said “West of Memphis” amounts to the fair trial Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley – known as the West Memphis Three – never got as Arkansas teenagers when they were convicted in 1994. “We went into this case believing that they didn’t do it, and the facts and the evidence we came out with at the end completely supported that,” Jackson said in an interview. “So is the documentary sort of providing the prosecution’s point of view? No, it’s not. We’re not interested in that. They had their go back in 1994. ... The documentary, it’s the case against the state, really.” The case was a shocker in the rural Arkansas community where 8-year-old Cub Scouts Michael Moore, Steve Branch and Christopher Byers were slain in 1993. Found naked and hogtied, two of the boys drowned in a drainage ditch, while the third bled to death, his genitals mutilated, evidence prosecutors used to claim the children were killed in a satanic ritual. The defendants were convicted based in part on a confession Misskelley later recanted. Misskelley and Baldwin were sentenced to life in prison,
while Echols was condemned to death and once came within weeks of execution. The case became a cause after Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s documentary “Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills,” which premiered at Sundance in 1996 and questioned whether justice or misguided public opinion was served in the trial. Over the years, celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Patti Smith, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks joined the effort to free the men. Jackson and Walsh watched “Paradise Lost” in 2005 and were outraged over the case. From their home base in New Zealand, they got in touch with Lorri Davis, who had met and married Echols while he was on Death Row and was leading the fight to free the men. “Justice should be beyond popular opinion, and in this case, it wasn’t,” Walsh said. “The popular opinion was these guys were guilty, therefore, they’re going down. It really was a done deal.” Over the next six years, Jackson and Walsh financed their own investigation, hiring forensics experts, gathering DNA evidence and tracking down witnesses to show that the prosecution had convicted innocent men. “The way Peter and Fran just attacked the case, it made us feel like we had hope for the very first time,” Echols, 37, said in an interview alongside Davis. The hope was well-founded. Helped by evidence Jackson and Walsh’s investigation collected, the case seemed headed toward a retrial. Then last August, both sides agreed to a rare legal maneuver in which Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley entered guilty pleas that allowed them to maintain their innocence and gain their freedom for prison time already served. Some people in Arkansas, including the family of one of the murdered boys, still believe the three men are guilty. Yet as the years passed, even the families of the other two dead boys became convinced that prosecutors went after the wrong
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Damien Echols, one of the producers of the documentary film ‘West of Memphis,’ is interviewed at the premiere of the film at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Friday.
suspects. The mother of one boy and stepfather of another came to Sundance, sharing hugs at the premiere with Echols, who said he’s “happy to call them friends now.” Three years into their investigation, Jackson and Walsh contacted director Berg, whose 2006 priestmolestation documentary “Deliver Us from Evil” earned an Academy Award nomination. Berg signed on to direct “West of Memphis,” which traces the 18-year history of the case and features interviews with Jackson and many witnesses and experts he and Walsh worked with. “I would submit this film to court, so that’s how strongly I feel about it,” said Davis, a producer on the film along with Echols, Jackson and Walsh. The film also builds a case that a stepfather of one of the murdered boys should be investigated. Jackson said that without “Paradise Lost,” ‘’Damien would be dead by now, so I do believe that film saved his life. And I’m hoping that our movie goes some way toward exoneration and catching the person
that killed those three kids.” Walsh and Jackson stop short of saying their efforts led to the release of Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley. Yet Berg thinks the evidence brought to light by Jackson and Walsh was crucial. “Without the discovery of the DNA, there’s no way that these guys would be walking free, and that came so much from Peter and Fran and their investigation,” Berg said. Since his release, Echols has lived a nomadic life with Davis. He went to New Zealand to visit the set of Jackson and Walsh’s upcoming “Lord of the Rings” prequel “The Hobbit” and has been staying with other friends while trying to decide on his future. Sitting with his arm entwined around Davis’, Echols said the hardships he endured were worth it because of the life he now has ahead of him. “If I had to go through everything I did in the last 18 years to be with Lorri and to be in this situation, no, I wouldn’t change it,” Echols said. “I would go through it again if it meant being with Lorri.”
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Conference peers into Broadway's future
NEW YORK (AP) — Leaders in entertainment, academics and marketing gathered Monday to peer into their crystal balls and try to predict what Broadway will look like in 2032. Many agreed on at least one thing: Change is coming. They discussed everything from Broadway's aging audience, its fragmented and maddening ticketing systems, the often poor experience it gives patrons, the power of social networks to harness fans and the continuing need to attract world-class talent. The 13 speakers at the oneday inaugural TEDxBroadway included Jujamcyn Theaters president Jordan Roth, "Sleep No More" producer Randy Weiner, Citibank's social media strategist Frank Eliason and author Juan Enriquez. While some speakers made bold predictions, others demurred. "I think it's safe to say that 20 years from now, Broadway will be a street in New York," said Kara Larson, founder of Arts Knowledge, a marketing consulting firm. She said people will continue to go there to take in a show. "Beyond that, I'm not willing to go." Eliason warned that Broadway has become too much like a top-down business and needs to make a better human connection with its audience, which is bombarded by other rival entertainment. "You feel like they're rushing you in and rushing you out," he said. "That human connection is extraordinarily important." The event, in front of about 200 attendees and peppered by short video clips from actor Neil Patrick Harris, was held in the off-Broadway complex's New World Stages, in the theater where "Million Dollar Quartet"
is performed. Organizers hope it will be the first of many annual conclaves. TEDx events are independently organized but inspired by the nonprofit group TED — standing for Technology, Entertainment, Design — that started in 1984 as a conference dedicated to "ideas worth spreading." Video of the Broadway event is likely to be made available later. The gathering was the brainchild of three men: Ken Davenport, a writer, director, producer and industry pioneer; Jim McCarthy, the CEO of ticket discounter Goldstar; and Damian Bazadona, the founder of Situation Interactive, an online marketing firm. "How will our shows be created? How will they be marketed? Who's going to come see them? These were all the questions that Jim, Damian and I sat around one day asking each other. And the only answer that we could all agree on was that we had no idea," Davenport said. "None. So what we decided to do is invite some of the smartest people we knew into this room today and ask them those same questions." Patricia Martin, an expert on commerce and culture, predicted a new flowering of cultural energy as long as the stories Broadway tells are told with love. "It must lift our spirits and it must help us be compassionate," she said. Weiner, whose immersive, genre-bending "Sleep No More" is playing off-off-Broadway has routinely sold out due to enthusiastic word-of-mouth, said his experience may help other producers. His marketing cost for "Sleep No More" is zero. "The show is the marketing.
It's about unifying the show, the experience, the marketing — that is in many ways why the show has been so successful," he said, urging fellow producers to sink money into the experience. "There's something to be learned in that for Broadway." Bazadona said that Broadway shows can overcome their limited supply by embracing different platforms beyond the four walls of a theater, opening the door to the idea of broadcasting a show on screens far away. "To me, innovative development is the best path to artist development," he said. Barry Kahn, CEO of dynamic ticket pricing company Qcue, made a plea for the box offices to try and work together and not compete. Many theatergoers, he said, just want to see any Broadway show and the cutthroat battles between each theater's box offices drags the whole industry down. "We have a common goal," he said. "If we compete against each other, we're going to drive each other all out of business. But if we work together, we can all be better off." One of the most popular speakers was Vincent Gassetto, the principal of a public middle school in the Bronx whose students recently were treated to a performance of the "SpiderMan" musical and came home buzzing about it. For many, it was their first Broadway show. Gassetto urged listeners not to overlook this diverse and enthusiastic talent pool as arts funding shrivel. "They're going to be your writers, your producers, they're going to be your actors and, at the very least, they're going to be your audience members," he said. Other speakers included for-
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In this Jan. 19, 2012 photo, billboards advertising Broadway shows are seen in Times Square in New York. Leaders in entertainment, academics and marketing gathered Monday, Jan. 23, to peer into their crystal balls and try to predict what Broadway will look like in 2032.
mer Lincoln Center Director Gregory Mosher, who predicted that the subscription model for theater would soon become extinct, and Joseph Craig, a marketing expert, said lessons should be learned about how a dusty and dirty Las Vegas turned itself around in the late 1980s to become a booming
draw in the late 1990s. Roth stressed one key thing that makes Broadway different from other entertainment — it is live. He underlined how important the live experience must remain for Broadway to remain a destination hub. "If we don't, whether we're telling stories we make up or stories
we license, we will be cultural derivatives — non-essentials," he said. "If we do, we'll thrive on our cultural primacy. Not because we do it better than any other medium, but because we do what no other medium can do. We do it live. And that's original."
Judge will determine Golden Globe's future
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Country singer Garth Brooks leaves a courtroom during a civil trial at the Rogers County Courthouse in Claremore, Okla. on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. Brooks says an Oklahoma hospital pledged to name a women's center for his late mother in return for $500,000.
In deposition, singer Garth Brooks can't recall hospital deal
CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) — Garth Brooks says an Oklahoma hospital pledged to name a women's center for his late mother in return for $500,000, but a deposition unveiled Monday showed that, after filing a lawsuit, the country singer couldn't remember what he had been promised. Brooks claims the Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital failed to honor a promise to place Colleen Brooks' name on a new women's center in his hometown of Yukon. The center was never built and the singer wants his money back, plus punitive damages. In testimony Friday, Brooks said he believed that, after a number of meetings and telephone calls, he reached a verbal agreement with the hospital in 2005. But in a brief cross-examination Monday, Integris lawyer Terry Thomas showed statements Brooks made in a deposition given after the singer filed a breach-of-contract claim against the hospital in 2009. In it, Brooks couldn't say whether a new women's center was promised, or whether Colleen Brooks' name would be attached to an existing center. "I don't remember," Brooks said in the deposition. The singer concluded his testimony Monday and both sides rested after two defense witnesses took the stand briefly. Rogers County District Judge Dynda Post set closing arguments for Tuesday morning and told jurors they should expect to stay as late as midnight Tuesday to resolve the case. Brooks' property manager, Emmett Gilliam, who was called by Integris, acknowledged under defense questioning that he had said in a deposition that he didn't believe Brooks and the hospital had reached a formal agreement for naming rights. He said in testimony Monday that he believed they had, and said his different testimony could be attributed to how the question was asked. "Sometimes it is very difficult to say what you
mean because you don't understand the context," he said. Tony Kouba, a member of the Integris Foundation board at Yukon, said that at a 2007 meeting with Brooks — at which the singer claimed to have been shown building mockups — the discussion centered on possibilities, not proposals. He said no one talked about specific ideas and that Brooks remarked in a 2005 meeting: "I probably should do something for Yukon because they've been awful good to me." Kouba also said that, when the sides meet in 2007, Brooks seemed indifferent to the ideas discussed. "There wasn't much response one way or another. He was talking very much in generalities and you always felt you could never get him tied down to something," Kouba said. In earlier questioning of Brooks, Thomas concentrated on casting doubt on any verbal agreement that Integris would place his mother's name on a new women's center if he donated $500,000 by the end of 2005. Brooks testified Monday he couldn't remember 100 percent of the conversations but knew a deal was made. Thomas also disputed Brooks' insistence that the 2005 deal was firm. "You have alleged that following (the phone conversations) with Mr. Moore that you relied on the representation of Integris and that you had a deal with Mr. Moore," Thomas said. "Yes, sir. Most certainly," Brooks replied. "Isn't it true that conversations occurred for a long time after the (telephone conversations)?" Thomas asked. "No, sir. That's not true," Brooks said. Thomas then pointed out the singer's lawsuit, which claimed in its introduction that Brooks, his lawyers and Integris had continuing discussions about Brooks' donation beyond 2005 before they broke down, prompting the 2009 lawsuit. Colleen Brooks died of cancer in 1999. Thomas suggested that naming the existing women's center after Colleen Brooks could still happen.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A little more than a week after handing out Golden Globes to show business elite, members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and their longtime collaborators will begin a trial to determine which group controls broadcast rights to the popular awards ceremony. The decision will alter the future of the glitzy gala and whether it will remain on NBC or, for the first time in 17 years, appear on another network. If the association prevails, it may mean an end to its relationship with dick clark productions, the company that brought the Globes back to network television after a scandal threatened its future. The partnership also helped transform the show into one of the biggest events in Hollywood's crowded awards season. It would also give the association of roughly 85 foreign journalists a chance to reposition the show on its own terms for the first time in nearly 30 years. The trial's scheduled opening on Tuesday in a Los Angeles federal court comes just nine days after nearly 17 million viewers tuned in to the show, which featured barbs from host Ricky Gervais and a potential bump in Oscar momentum for
films such as "The Artist" and actor George Clooney. U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz has already been presented thousands of pages of documents and evidence to decide the case, and he will hear live testimony from a number of current HFPA members, executives and possibly from Dick Clark himself. The extensive documents filed in the case include minutes of board meetings dating back to the early 1980s. CBS CEO Les Moonves, who has said he wanted to bid on the Globes, is also expected to testify next week. Matz ruled Monday that he must testify in person and not by videoconference as he had hoped. An attorney for Moonves said the executive had wanted to testify electronically because he is in the midst of meetings and preparing decisions on shows and a board of directors meeting. Matz said he didn't want to give Moonves special treatment. Matz urged attorneys to streamline their questioning during a hearing Monday, saying they had framed the issues well in their filings. Audiences of the past two Globes awards shows didn't notice it, but the HFPA and its producers, also known as dcp,
have waged a bitter legal war since November 2010 over who has the right to negotiate broadcast deals for the Globes. The association contends dcp improperly negotiated a deal keeping the Globes on NBC until 2018, a move that also guarantees the company the right to work on the show until then. The association claims it was blindsided by the deal and had received assurances throughout 2010 from dcp that it wasn't negotiating a new broadcast deal. However, the company claims it had the right to pursue the NBC extension. The disputed NBC deal is worth more than $150 million, court records show. The deal reflects what big business the Globes have become, not only for Hollywood studios hoping to get boosts for their films, TV shows and stars, but also for fourth-place NBC and the show's organizers. The network will pay $17 million for this year's show, a figure that will gradually increase to $26 million if the disputed broadcast contract is upheld. By comparison, NBC paid $3.7 million to the HFPA to air the Globes from 19961998, the first years after dcp secured a network broadcast deal.
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Rose and Bulls beat up Nets 110-95
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Brian Scalabrine boxes out Larry Owens during the Bulls win over the Nets last night.
times but was able to stick with one of the game's best point guards, hours after he said the injury could be an issue the rest of the season. He got plenty of help from Hamilton, who delivered one of his best performances as a Bull. Noah came up big, too, after missing a game with a sprained left ankle. Carlos had 14 points and nine rebounds, and Ronnie Brewer (11 points) filled in nicely with Luol Deng sidelined by a sprained left wrist. Williams had 16 points and 10 assists for New Jersey. Jordan Farmar scored 22. Anthony Morrow added 15 points, but the Nets simply were simply overwhelmed playing their third game in as many nights.
The Bulls led by as much as 17 in the first half and went to the locker room up 59-43 with Rose and Hamilton leading the way. Rose scored 14 in the half even though he appeared to be hobbling a bit. That didn't stop him from hitting two 3-pointers in the half, from finding Hamilton with a neat feed for an alley-oop layup in the first quarter or from wrapping two breakaway dunks around a steal during one 15-second stretch in the second quarter, although he went up easy on those jams. Hamilton was active from the start, whether he was converting layups or burying jumpers. Brewer provided an early spark, too, with nine points in the first quarter, and even
seldom-used backup Brian Scalabrine had his moments in the first half. That included a neat driving reverse layup and feed from underneath to Omer Asik for another layup. The Bulls did all that even though they were missing one of their best players in Deng, who was injured Saturday and might miss a few more games. Coach Tom Thibodeau said he's day to day and didn't completely rule out surgery even though he doesn't think it will be necessary. He said Deng is "still consulting some doctors." Losing him for an extended period would be a big blow, but the Bulls believe they have enough depth to overcome injuries.
Rockets win seventh straight
Durant, Thunder beat Pistons 99-79 at home
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Azarenka reaches semis in Australian Open, Nadal and Federer in action today MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Third-seeded Victoria Azarenka reached the Australian Open semifinals when she held her nerve despite trouble with her serve in a 6-7 (0), 6-0, 6-2 win over No. 8 Agnieszka Radwanska on Tuesday. It was only her second win in six Grand Slam quarterfinals. She's never gone further than the semis, and next meets the winner of Tuesday's later match between No. 1-ranked Caroline Wozniacki and defending champion Kim Clijsters. The 22-year-old Belarusian extended her winning streak this season to 10 matches, including a title at Sydney where she beat Radwanska in the semifinals. "I'm really glad I could stay tough and finish the match," she said. "I'm just really happy to be in the semifinals to give it all out there." Azarenka lost just 12 games in the first four rounds. But she had six double-faults and made 38 unforced errors during her 2-hour match against Radwanska. The first set featured eight service breaks, and there were 15 overall in the match. Azarenka's double-fault helped give Radwanska a 6-0 lead in the tiebreaker, followed by a wild errant backhand by Azarenka on set point. But Azarenka, who can attain the No. 1 ranking by the end of the tournament, won the next seven games to move closer to the victory as the temperature increased to 93 at Rod Laver Arena. Radwanska is now 0-5 in Grand Slam quarterfinals. Five-time champion Serena Williams is already out of the tournament. Her 17-match winning streak at the Australian Open ended in a 6-2, 6-3 loss to No. 56-ranked Ekaterina Makarova. The margin equaled the biggest Grand Slam defeat of Williams' 17-year career. Makarova will face threetime major winner Maria Sharapova in an all-Russian quarterfinal. Sharapova rallied past Sabine Lisicki 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 before defending men's champion Novak Djokovic fended off a resurgent Lleyton Hewitt in a dramatic last match of the day, winning 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. With Hewitt's loss, Australia's chances of celebrating a home singles winner were over. American hopes had already evaporated with the defeat of Williams — her first in Melbourne since 2008 and earliest since 2006. "I can't even describe how I served, to be honest," said Williams, who finished with seven double-faults, includ-
CHICAGO (AP) — Derrick Rose and Richard Hamilton each scored 22 points to lead the banged-up Chicago Bulls to an easy 110-95 victory over the New Jersey Nets on Monday. Hamilton set season highs in points and assists (10). Rose added eight assists and hung with Deron Williams after missing four games with a sprained left big toe. Joakim Noah chipped in with 16 points and 10 rebounds, and the Bulls made it look easy, cruising to their fourth straight win even though they're hardly a picture of health at the moment. They still turned in an impressive performance, though. Rose seemed hobbled at
ing four in one game in the second set. "My lefty serve is actually better than that. Maybe I should have started serving lefty." Williams tried not to blame her left ankle injury from a tuneup tournament in Brisbane two weeks ago. But she didn't move well and seemed to have particular difficulty running to her left. She said if it hadn't been a Grand Slam, she wouldn't have played at all. "Usually I play myself into the tournament," Williams said. "But I don't have a huge problem with an injury. So this is a completely different situation. Usually it's easier for me to play myself in because I'm usually physically OK." Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova opened Monday's play with a 6-2, 7-6 (2) win over former top-ranked Ana Ivanovic. She'll next play Sara Errani of Italy, who beat 2010 semifinalist Zheng Jie 6-2, 6-1. Djokovic had won 23 straight sets at Melbourne Park before he suddenly wobbled against Hewitt, a two-time Grand Slam champion who has slipped to No. 181 in the rankings after a series of injuries. Hewitt, a wild-card entry in his 16th straight Australian Open, rallied from 3-0 down in the third set in front of a raucous home crowd to force a fourth set, but Djokovic gathered his composure. "I think for two sets and 3-0 I was playing really well and suddenly I stopped moving," Djokovic said. "He was not making a lot of unforced errors. I made a lot of unforced errors in the third set." Next up for Djokovic is fifth-seeded David Ferrer of Spain, who had a surprisingly easy 6-4, 6-4, 6-1 win over Richard Gasquet. Two-time finalist Andy Murray advanced when Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan retired after 49 minutes with a left hip injury while trailing 6-1, 6-1, 1-0. After knocking out the first player from Kazakhstan to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam, Murray's next opponent will be another history-maker. Kei Nishikori beat sixthseeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 2-6, 6-2, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 to become the first Japanese man to reach the quarterfinals of the Australian Open since the Open era began in 1968. No. 2 Rafael Nadal and No. 3 Roger Federer are back in action Tuesday, hoping to set up a semifinal meeting. Federer plays former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro while Nadal faces Tomas Berdych.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — foes entering the game. Kevin Martin scored 31 points But the 6-foot-7 Martin was to lead the Houston Rockets way too much for Minnesota's to their seventh straight vic- small backcourt, overwhelmtory, 107-92 over Minnesota on ing Luke Ridnour and Wayne Monday night in coach Kevin Ellington with an array of McHale's first game back at cuts to the basket, turn-around Target Center since he was fired jumpers and even a one-handby the Timberwolves in 2009. ed runner off one foot that Kyle Lowry had 16 points, swished through that gave the 10 assists and 10 rebounds and Rockets a 50-42 lead late in Samuel Dalembert grabbed 15 the first half. rebounds for the Rockets, who The Wolves turned up the put the game away with a 19-1 defense to take a 70-65 lead run bridging the third late in the third, but and fourth quarters. the Rockets blew the Kevin Love had doors open with that 39 points and 12 Rockets 107 big run to take conrebounds for the T-Wolves 92 trol. Goran Dragic Timberwolves, who scored eight in the committed 10 turnsurge and finished overs in the fourth quarter in with 14 points. coach Rick Adelman's first McHale was booed lustgame against the team he spent ily when introduced before the the last four seasons coaching. game, a startling reception for Ricky Rubio had 12 assists someone who once was one of for Minnesota, but the rookie this state's most revered sports scored just six points on 2-for- heroes. 10 shooting and turned the ball McHale grew up in Hibbing over five times. on Minnesota's Iron Range The Rockets started the sea- and starred at the University son 3-7 and were 0-5 on the road of Minnesota before a Hall of against Western Conference Fame pro career with the Boston
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Celtics. He took over as GM of the Timberwolves in 1995 and helped one of the league's most woeful franchises become relevant when he drafted Kevin Garnett out of high school in June of that year. The Wolves made the playoffs eight straight years, the last a magical run to the Western Conference finals in 2004. The Wolves haven't been back to the postseason since, with a series of ill-fated decisions by McHale contributing to their downfall. He was fired in 2009 and spent two seasons in television before joining the Rockets this year. Adelman had a similar exit from Houston, with management deciding not to give him another contract after last season. Martin, Lowry and Luis Scola all went over to shake Adelman's hand before the game. Adelman spent four seasons in Houston and helped an undermanned team take the Lakers to seven games in the 2009 Western Conference finals.
Duncan, Spurs beat Hornets
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tim Duncan's season-high 28 points and late-game heroics proved too much for the feisty yet hapless Hornets to overcome. Duncan sank a 13-foot running hook in a lane with 1.4 seconds left, and the San Antonio Spurs sent New Orleans to an eighth straight loss, 104-102 on Monday night. Tony Parker added 20 points and a career-high 17 assists
for the Spurs, who snapped a two-game skid, while Richard Jefferson added 14 points and Tiago Splitter added 12 points. The Hornets inbounded the ball to Carl Landry for a desperation 3-pointer that could have won it as time expired, but the shot fell short, dooming New Orleans to its 14th loss in 15 games. Jarrett Jack led the Hornets with 26 points and nine assists. Trevor Ariza tied a season high with 18 points
and Landry also scored 18. The Spurs led 102-98 after Duncan hit two free throws to reach his season high in points with 1:16 to go, setting up a thrilling finish to a game that included 15 lead changes and eight ties. Jack hit a reverse layup in a crowd to make it a one-score game, then the Hornents got a pair of critical defensive stops to set up Landry's tipion of Jack's missed floater, tying it with 5.2 seconds left.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Russell Westbrook and reserve James Harden each scored 24 points, Kevin Durant added 20 and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Detroit Pistons 99-79 Monday night for their fourth straight blowout win at home. The Thunder built up a 30-point lead midway through the second quarter and Detroit got no closer than 17 after the opening period. Oklahoma City's starters had sat out all of the fourth quarter in the previous three games at Chesapeake Energy Arena and that streak was only stopped because Serge Ibaka replaced an injured Nick Collison with the rest of the backups. Collison sprained his left ankle and didn't play after halftime. Rookie Brandon Knight led Detroit with 13 points. Rodney Stuckey and Greg Monroe added 12 apiece. The overmatched Pistons — last in the league in scoring, rebounding and turnovers committed — never stood a chance from the start. Westbrook had a right-handed throwdown dunk and Durant got out in transition for a layup and a three-point play as the Thunder took control with a 9-0 run after Stuckey's basket to open the game. Oklahoma City was already up by 19 late in a first quarter in which Detroit missed 15 of 18 shots and got outrebounded 16-6, and another stretch of nine points in a row put the Thunder ahead 51-21 after Durant's jumper from the right side with 5:31 to go before halftime. Oklahoma City made 22 of its first 33 shots. Even when things seemed to be going well for Detroit, they didn't.
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Kansas stays hot with win over Aggies
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Tyshawn Taylor and No. 5 Kansas celebrate during the Jayhawks win over Texas A&M. Kansas is 7-0 in the Big 12 on the conference season.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Thomas Robinson carried No. 5 Kansas when things looked bleak, scoring 16 of his 18 points in the second half and leading the Jayhawks to a 64-54 win over scrappy Texas A&M on Monday night. Tyshawn Taylor added 17 points in another solid performance, and Kansas (17-3, 7-0 Big 12) used a big surge through the middle of the second half to wrap up its 10th consecutive victory and extend its winning streak at Allen Fieldhouse to 17 in a row. Kansas is 18-1 against Texas A&M (11-8, 2-5), the lone loss coming in February 2007. Elston Turner had a careerhigh 24 points for the Aggies, who played without starting forward Khris Middleton, their second-leading scorer. He missed the game after tweaking his right knee over the weekend, the same one he had surgery on in November. David Loubeau added 15 points, but the Aggies couldn't contend with the Jayhawks' superior size, strength and quickness on the perimeter.
They certainly couldn't contend with Robinson in the paint. One of the leading candidates for national player of the year, the junior forward was held to two points in the first half on 1-for-6 shooting, as Texas A&M collapsed two or three defenders on him whenever he got the ball in the post. He started bulling his way to the basket more effectively in the second half, going to the foul line 10 times — and making all of them. He also finished with 10 rebounds. The Jayhawks threatened to turn the Big Monday matchup into a big snooze early on. Taylor picked up right where he left off the past three games, hitting his first basket and then adding a 3-pointer as Kansas raced to an 11-0 lead. Texas A&M turned it over on four of its first five possessions and missed its first four shots along with two free throws. The teams traded baskets before the Aggies went on a 16-2 run that gobbled up nearly 5 minutes, gave them the lead and silenced another packed house at Allen Fieldhouse.
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Diggins leads Notre Dame to rout of Vols
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Skylar Diggins matched a season high with 27 points Monday night and No. 2 Notre Dame routed No. 7 Tennessee 72-44, holding the Vols to their lowest scoring output in school history. Devereaux Peters had 16 points and 16 rebounds for the Irish (20-1), who have won 17 straight. Tennessee (14-5) got 13 points from Meighan Simmons, but shot just 27.9 percent in the lopsided loss. Notre Dame was 0-20 all-time against the Vols before a 73-59 victory in the NCAA regional finals last March in Dayton, Ohio. The Irish haven't lost since Nov. 20 to top-ranked Baylor and have now beaten both UConn and Tennessee on their home floor this season after toppling
both in last year's NCAA tournament. Leading at the half, the Irish jumped out early in the second as Diggins sank a 3-pointer and Peters had three inside baskets in an 11-3 run that opened up a 39-21 lead three minutes in. Tennessee continued to miss on everything, from both the field and the free-throw line. Diggins made a nice strip of an inside pass, dribbled the length of the court, passed to Peters and then got it back for a layup to make it 44-26 with just over 14 minutes left. Then after picking up her third foul, Diggins hit her fourth 3-pointer of the game to make it a 21-point lead. Diggins was 10 of 17 from the field and 5 for 7 on 3-pointers. After Tennessee closed to with-
in 16 with about seven minutes to go, the Irish went on one final run to put it away. Kayla McBride added 17 points for the Irish. The Vols made just 17 of 61 field-goal attempts and were only 7 for 16 from the freethrow line. Rebounding, including eight early offensive caroms, kept the Vols close in the early stages of the game because they could not make a shot. They missed 14 of their first 17 attempts from the floor and finished the first half 7 for 35 (20 percent). And the poor shooting extended to the line, where the Vols were only 4 for 10. The field-goal percentage and total points were first-half lows for the Vols this season. McBride, showing an ability to break for the basket, had nine
straight Notre Dame points at one juncture and scored 11 in the first half. Diggins ended up with 10 at the half, hitting two free throws with 2 seconds left to put the Irish up 28-18. Tennessee's leading scorer, Shekinna Stricklen, who missed the previous game against LSU with a sprained knee, returned to the lineup and managed five points — five points under her average. And Vols guard Taber Spani, who has been sidelined with a bone bruise in her left knee since Dec. 26, was also able to play. Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, who has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, received a nice ovation when she came on the floor before the game and waved to the crowd, most of which was dressed in lime green.
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Tennessee's Cierra Burdick, right, drives the lane as Notre Dame's Kaila Turner defends.
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C.J. Fair and Syracuse rebounded from its first loss of the season with a win at Cincy.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Kris Joseph scored 17 points Monday night, and No. 3 Syracuse recovered from its first loss of the season by beating Cincinnati 60-53, giving coach Jim Boeheim a notable career win. The Orange (21-1, 8-1 Big East) used a late 12-2 run to pull away from the Bearcats (15-6, 5-3), who tried to use the energy of their first home sellout to get a signature win. Instead, Boeheim came away with career victory No. 877, moving him ahead of Adolph Rupp into sole possession of fourth place on the Division I coaching list. Syracuse was coming off a 67-58 loss at Notre Dame on Saturday that ended the best start in school history and cost the Orange their No. 1 ranking. Joseph had three driving baskets during the 12-2 run midway through the second half.
Cashmere Wright had 17 48 percent shooting, fueled points for Cincinnati, which by fastbreak layups off turnsuffered its first back-to-back overs. Cincinnati kept it close losses of the season. until the late Orange run. A little old-fashioned zone The Bearcats fed off the defense made the differ- crowd's energy and made ence. Cincinnati's 53 points four of their first five shots matched its season low from behind the arc, includagainst Xavier. ing three long 3s by Wright, The Bearcats, who for a 15-6 lead. They wore throwback uniwent cold after that forms for their bigand had trouble scorgest home game of ing inside Syracuse's the season. Most zone defense. of the 13,176 fans Syracuse 60 C.J. Fair had a dressed in white, Cincinnati 53 fastbreak dunk and a and the coaches baseline jumper durwore white buttoning a 9-0 run that down shirts without jackets. tied it at 15. Both defenses Syracuse's late spurt sent them then dug in, keeping it close to the exits before the buzzer. the rest of the half. The Orange was missing Syracuse never led during 7-foot center Fab Melo for the its loss at Notre Dame, unable second straight game. Melo is to overcome a slow start. The their top rebounder and shot Orange got their first lead blocker. The school hasn't dis- Monday in the final minute closed the reason for his absence. of the half. Joseph had a drivSyracuse leads the Big East ing dunk — he went past two with 78.9 points per game and Bearcats on the baseline —
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McCurry: Watching Huskies lose to Seton Hall in New Jersey was a tough one to see in person from BALL, page 14 tickets and food were given, but the actual experience is priceless. So while the final outcome of the games was obviously extremely important, these memories will resonate with us a little longer. Here are four highlights: The Ultimate Rush, Dec. 29: Rutgers 85, No. 10 Florida 83, double overtime in Piscataway, N.J. – As soon as the NCAA released the team schedules in the summer, I circled this game – a chance to see Florida, an SEC powerhouse with twotime national championship coach Billy Donovan and what I think of as the best backcourt in the country – on my mental calendar. Add the fact that it was the homecoming for former Rutgers superstar and current Florida sixth man Mike Rosario, and this contest at the RAC was just too good to pass up. One thing I didn’t expect was the Scarlet Knights to compete with the Gators, much less take them into double overtime. RU pulled off the massive upset, and the rest was history. Rushing the court and jumping up and down on the floor for a sports program that I’ve despised my entire life was arguably the most exhilarating moment of break. And to the security guards: if you’re reading this, sorry for making you guys flinch and back-pedal a la Mark Sanchez trying to block.
Andrew Jackson Understood My Pain, Jan. 3: Seton Hall 75, No. 8 UConn 63 in Newark, N.J. – It was bad enough that I was legitimately 15 feet from the UConn bench and it just happened to be one of the games Calhoun was serving his suspension. But seeing Drummond get manhandled by Herb Pope and my team play an uninspired 40 minutes in what turned out to be a blowout loss? Devastating. As I was walking back up to the exits after the final buzzer sounded, head down in disbelief and my friend from Seton Hall gloating in my ear, I noticed something on the far edge of a seat about five rows up. Not knowing the consequences for bending the rules in the beautiful city of Newark, I decided to quickly stuff whatever it was in my pocket and sprint up to the main level. Once there, I pulled four crisp $20 bills out of my jeans and, after giving a little yelp and forgetting about the dreadful loss for a second, I stopped feeling bad for myself. Yes, Seton Hall may have just run us out of the building, but I just gained a day’s work in cash by attending a Big East basketball game. Even Kentucky basketball players don’t get paid that much by Calipari! A Dukie Needing a Stogie, Jan. 4: Temple 78, No. 5 Duke 73 in Philadelphia, Pa. – Going for my second top-10 upset in as many nights, my friend, who lives and dies
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with Duke basketball, invited me to go see them play against Temple at the Wells Fargo Center. Trust me, as Temple went on a big run at the end and the place started going nuts, I wanted nothing more than to hop down to the first level and rush the court. As it turns out, I used my head and instead attempted to console the little crybaby. The last thing I remember is my friend sprawled out on the curb, sobbing uncontrollably and randomly yelling, “I want Singler back!” OK, I’m twisting the truth a bit, but it was quite a scene to see. Stressed out and disappointed that Coach K couldn’t deliver him a victory, Matt did what most depressed Duke fans probably do after a loss: blasted Billy and Joel and lit up a cigar in the car. Hey, to each his own, right? The Ultimate Fan Experience, Jan. 11: St. Joseph’s 80, Fordham 62 in Philadelphia – Sitting first row of the student section to watch a St. Joe’s squad that is going to be nationally recognized in a few years was cool. Yelling to Joe Lunardi, the pudgy little bracketolgist that regularly appears on ESPN, was even cooler. Tweeting at LeSean McCoy and Meek Mill about what cheesesteak place to hit up and not getting a response? Not cool, guys.
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and Dion Waiters hit a pull-up jumper with a second left for a 28-25 halftime lead. Cincinnati went inside to power forward Yancy Gates at the start of the second half and got a lot of open shots. The power forward had three layups and a 15-foot jumper, scoring eight of the Bearcats' first 13 points in the half. Gates had his best offensive game since returning from a six-game suspension for a brawl against Xavier, scoring 16 points. Syracuse finally found its touch from behind the arc. Scoop Jardine hit a 3 with 9:30 left — the Orange had been 0 for 8 — and Brandon Triche followed with another during the 12-2 run that gave the Orange their biggest lead at 52-44 with 6:08 to go. Another 3 by Jardine pushed it to 59-48 with 1:52 left, sending the white-shirted fans to the exits.
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If Sean Kilpatrick's shot had missed, where would fans have watched overtime?
McDonough: Fans should be ashamed of themselves for bailing on men's team early Wednesday from NOT, page 14 UConn fans should expect more out of each other. We’re better than that. Aside from an emergency, there is no valid reason to leave a game early. You have tickets to the event. Why buy tickets if you’re not going to stay for the whole show?
Leaving an eight-point game early? Come on. Where did you think you were? A UConn football game?
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TORONTO (AP) — Matthew Lombardi scored two goals and Jonas Gustavsson made 25 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the New York Islanders 3-0 on Monday night in the first game of a home-and-home series. Phil Kessel also scored for Toronto (24-19-5), which moved into an eight-place tie in the Eastern Conference with the idle Washington Capitals. The Leafs stopped Islanders forward John Tavares' 12-game point streak — the longest run in the NHL this season — and snapped a three-game winning streak for New York (19-22-6). Tavares notched eight goals and 13 assists during his spurt, and helped the Islanders to an 8-4 mark. It was the third shutout of the season for Gustavsson, who has started nine of Toronto's past 10 games. The Maple Leafs, who had lost four of five, played aggressively and outshot New York 35-25. Lombardi made it 3-0 with just over three minutes left when he ripped a hard wrist shot past goalie Evgeni Nabokov. Kessel doubled the lead at 8:10 of the third period when charging winger Joffrey Lupul fired a wrist shot from the right circle that caromed off Nabokov's pads to Kessel's waiting stick for his team-leading 26th goal. The Maple Leafs All-Star had only two points in his previous six games.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky is back on top of The Associated Press’ college basketball poll. Freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist has a simple plan on how to stay there. “All we’ve got to do is win games and we’ll be No. 1 forever,” said Kidd-Gilchrist, one of three freshman starters for the Wildcats. “To be this young as a team and to be No. 1, that’s a blessing.” Kentucky is the only team in last week’s top four not to lose over the weekend. The Wildcats, who were ranked No. 1 for two weeks earlier this season, moved up one place Monday after receiving 61 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel. “We’ll address it for a second or two, but we’ve just got to play,” Kentucky coach John Calipari said. Missouri, which got two No. 1 votes, jumped from fifth to second, while Syracuse, which was in first place for the past six weeks, dropped to third after losing at Notre Dame, its first loss this season. The Orange were No. 1 on two ballots. “Wow. Who would’ve thunk it? It’s a tremendous honor,” Tigers coach Frank Haith said. “These guys are to be commended for their hard work, how they’ve played. I’m really proud of them. But we also know that rankings; it’s nice, but at the end of the day, we want to be playing in March.” Kentucky lost the No. 1 ranking when it fell Dec. 10 at Indiana on Christian Watford’s 3-pointer at the buzzer. Since then, the Wildcats have won 11 straight by an average of 17.6 points with road games this week at Georgia on Tuesday night and LSU on Saturday. Even during the winning streak, Calipari said he hasn’t liked how his team has responded to physical play and that the Wildcats might be due for an upset again soon after watching film as a team on Sunday night. “I like my team. We’re going on a tough road trip, but I did tell them the way this is going we probably need a loss so that we’ll come together and say, ‘We’re not losing like this.’ In other words, getting manhandled,” Calipari said. “We’re getting manhandled and winning close games so they think it’s OK.” Ohio State and Kansas moved up two places to fourth and fifth and were followed by Baylor, which fell three places after losing two games last week, North Carolina, Duke, Georgetown and Michigan State. Duke dropped four places after losing to Florida State at home. Murray State, the lone remaining unbeaten team in Division I at 20-0, is 11th and doesn’t play again until Saturday against Eastern Illinois.
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Celts’ D leads rout over Magic
BOSTON (AP) – The Boston Celtics’ injuries didn’t affect what coach Doc Rivers always wants - solid defense. Paul Pierce and former Magic forward Brandon Bass each scored 19 points to carry the injury-riddled Celtics to an 87-56 win over Orlando on Monday night. The Magic set franchise lows for points and field goals (16). “Defensively that was as good as you can get,” Rivers said after his team matched a club record for fewest points allowed in the shot-clock era, also done last season against Milwaukee. Boston was minus starters Ray Allen, Rajon Rondo and three Magic bench players, drastically reduc- Celtics ing its roster. Bass and Pierce carried the offense and Boston got some strong play from a cast of down-the-bench reserves. The Celtics snapped a streak of six straight losses against teams with winning records. Pierce is looking for it to shake Boston out of its early season woes. “Hopefully it’ll funnel over to the guys that were out,” said Pierce, who followed a 34-point effort in a win at Washington on Sunday. “There’s no more excuses.” Avery Bradley and Sasha Pavlovic started in the backcourt for Boston and attempted to pressure Orlando’s guards early, helping the Celtics pick up the pressure defensively.
“(It) started with Avery,” Rivers said. “The ball pressure - and then it led to everyone. They’re a great shooting team. ... Everything had to be precise and it was.” Dwight Howard led the Magic with 18 points and 14 rebounds. He needs eight points to surpass Nick Anderson as the Magic’s career scoring leader. Howard was 0 for 6 from the floor and just 4 for 10 from the free throw line in the second half. “They came out and absolutely dominated us with their energy and defensive intensity,” Magic Stan Van Gundy said. 56 coach Kevin Garnett added 14 points 87 and 10 rebounds for Boston. The Celtics led by 10 at the half, turned up the pressure defensively and scored 16 of the first 21 points in the second half to pull ahead 62-41. Pierce had seven points in the run and set up Marquis Daniels for a layup that gave Boston its 21-point edge with 2:31 remaining in the quarter. The Celtics held Orlando to one field goal in the opening 9:52 of the third and just two for the quarter - both 3-pointers. The Magic hit 2 of 11 shots and had nine turnovers. “It was a tough game. They pressured us a lot,” Howard said. “We rushed shots. It just wasn’t a good night overall for us.” Howard, who missed 5 of 8 free throws in the third and went 0 for 5 from the
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field, flung the ball in frustration at the end of the quarter, nailing the backboard from his own end of the floor as the horn sounded with Boston holding a 69-46 lead. Boston didn’t let up in the fourth until Pierce and Garnett came out with just over five minutes to play. The Magic had a season-high 25 turnovers, 20 in the second half, and a season-low points. Jermaine O’Neal and Howard were involved in a brief shoving match in the lane and both were given technicals midway into the third quarter. O’Neal got the initial foul on the play with a hard shove. The Celtics led 36-36 at halftime, with Pierce and Bass each scoring 13 points. The Celtics acquired Bass in a signand-trade deal with Orlando that sent Glen “Big Baby” Davis to the Magic. Boston forwards Mickael Pietrus (shoulder) and Chris Wilcox (left calf) and guard Keyon Dooling (right knee) were also out - though not missed on this night. Boston scored nine straight points late in the second quarter, pulling to a 43-33 lead on Pierce’s 3 from the left wing with 45 seconds left. “There’s no way KG should be beating me up and down the floor,” Howard said, before joking about the age difference. “There was a couple plays where he beat me up and down the floor. There’s no way. He’s 40 and I’m 25. I just can’t allow that to happen. I have to step up and be the leader for this team.”
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BALL IS LIFE OVER BREAK
N.J. and Philly were places to be for fans
By Mike McCurry Featured Columnist
Matt McDonough Marg Helgenberger’s last appearance on “CSI” isn’t until this Wednesday at 10 p.m. So why last Wednesday was everyone in such a rush to leave Gampel Pavilion at approximately 8:50 p.m., when the UConn men’s basketball team trailed Cincinnati 65-57 with 2:53 remaining? When the Huskies cut the lead to five with 1:28 left, people still filed toward the exits before the end of the game. Some people left altogether, but others stayed in the concourse to beat the foot traffic once Niels Giffey’s prayer hit the back rim and the Bearcats held on for a threepoint win. Do you think no one would notice you leaving a winnable game early? Even Mick Cronin’s father did. Cronin’s dad told him after the game that when they were up eight, people were walking towards the exits. Let me stress that the students did not leave early. They came early. They stayed till the end. Had the game gone into one, two or three overtimes, the student section would still be full. The people who left were the ones who show up right at tipoff and pay big bucks for their seats. Yet last Wednesday, they couldn’t be bothered with UConn basketball for two hours. They had to stay a total of one hour and 50 minutes because they had better things to do at 9 p.m. on a Wednesday night. I didn’t realize “Criminal Minds” was such a popular show. Or that “Law & Order: Special Victims’ Unit” is never on re-runs. If those fans don’t feel like staying until the end of a twohour basketball game, then maybe they should give their seats up to someone more deserving. I’m thinking about long-time season ticket holders stuck in the nosebleeds, or even students. I understand the argument of going home once the game seems to be in hand to beat the traffic, but I don’t agree with it. Look what happened against Cincinnati. The Huskies tied the game after being down eight. Had Sean Kilpatrick not made a clutch 3-pointer with two seconds left, the game would’ve gone into overtime. The game was not in hand. This is basketball. College basketball. Crazier things have happened than coming back from eight points with under three minutes to play. The most embarassing thing is that this was a nationally televised game. UConn is the defending champions. After last season, when the Huskies won three games in three days to win the Maui Invitational, won five games in five days to win the Big East championship and won an NCAA national championship as a No. 3 seed, how could you consider yourself a true fan if you’re ready to bail on them when they go down by eight points. When did you lose faith? How pathetic does it look to the national television audience that the fans are giving up on their own team with three minutes to go? The players deserved better. Maybe they didn’t notice. Maybe they didn’t care. Or maybe they used their own fans giving up on them as motivation to come back. Either way, when Shabazz Napier tied the game at 67 with nine seconds left, the backdrop he saw behind the basket when he shot the game-tying three was fans standing in the concourse ready to spill into the streets if the shot rimmed out.
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UConn went 0-2 on a recent trip to New Jersey. The Huskies lost to Seton Hall and Rutgers in the Garden State.
While most of my fellow UConn classmates spent winter break learning new skills at an internship or putting in eight hours a day at the local supermarket, the month-long period for me and my boys back home can be summed up by one motto: Ball is Life. The way I look at it, why work during break when you can live off the gift cards to Subway and Dunkin’ Donuts that you got for Christmas? And gas money? Well, at least for December and January, “gas” is paid for by the acronym the word represents: Grandma’s Annual Stockings, as in the generous stash that I receive each year during the holiday season from the greatest grandmother in the world! So even though my mother may not have been thrilled that I was unemployed, I feel like my winter break was very productive. Of course, I would usually sleep in until 11 every morning, but once I had my breakfast and played some “Call of Duty,” I assure you I made the most of my days off, especially when it came to basketball. Not only would we make it a daily ritual to play pickup for hours on end at the local YMCA, but my friends and I also immersed ourselves in college hoops. By the numbers, I attended five games, saw four top-10 upsets and even rushed the court once. Two of those major upsets came on consecutive nights, and two involved my beloved Huskies. One thing that has too high of a numerical value to even fathom, however, is the memories that had little to do with specific plays or action between the lines. Everyone who has ever attended a major-level college basketball game, or any big sporting event for that matter, knows what I’m talking about. It’s like those old MasterCard commercials where the cost of, say,
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Huskies dominate both sides in New York
By Mike Corasaniti Staff Writer The armory in New York City hosted 50 combined teams this past weekend at the Great Dane Classic, but the dominant teams on both the men’s and women’s sides were wearing blue and white. The men dominated their side of the competition, taking 119 total points in the meet; 45 points ahead of second place Maryland-Eastern Shore. Thirteen Huskies took topfive finishes in their events, including senior Tim Bennatan who finished second in the 1,000m with a time of 2.23.23 and junior Joe Clark who ran the mile in 4:03.25 for third place. The underclassmen were also carrying their weight as freshmen Selwyn Maxwell and James Agati took third in
the 60m hurdles and 1,000m respectively. Also putting in strong performances for the Huskies were the men in the field, as sophomore Noel James claimed second place in the high jump, Cory and Kyle Duggan both placed in the top-five for pole vault, junior Josh Faboyede took third in the weight throw and senior Captain Mike Alleman took second in the shot put with a throw of 17.40m. On the women’s side, sophomore Celina Emerson grabbed two top-five finishes in the 200m and 400m to help lead the Huskies to their own dominant victory. In the field, junior Ilva Bikanova and sophomore Natash McLaren took the first two spots in the high jump and junior Whitney Holder leapt to second place in the long jump with a 5.90m leap.
On the track, the women grabbed three top-five finishes in both the mile and 3,000m with very fast performances by senior Heather Wilson, junior Brigitte Mania, freshman Lindsay Crevoiserat, junior Shauana McNiff, sophomore Allison Lasnicki and senior Courtney Dinnan. Also racing strong for the Huskies was junior Danielle Lyte (fourth in the 60m dash), freshman Nyanka Joseph (fifth in the 400m) and junior Ana Groff (fourth in the 500m). The men and women will both be back in action next weekend, with the men heading off to Boston for the Boston Indoor Games and the women heading to University Park for the Penn State National Invitational.
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Chris Whyte runs in a race last spring. The UConn men’s and women’s track and field teams had a big weekend in New York, winning the Great Dane Classic.
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Men and women take care of Seton Hall By James Huang Campus Correspondent
Breaststroke at 59.30 and the 200 Yard Breaststroke in 2:10.71 seconds. Sophomore Keith Piper won the 100 Yard The UConn men’s and Backstroke in 52.58 sec. and women’s swimming and div- the 200 Yard Backstroke in ing teams defeated Seton Hall 1:54.92. Saturday afternoon in South Other notable performances Orange, N.J. The men’s team include junior Nick Cerra winwon 187-111, and the wom- ning the 200-Yard Butterfly en’s team won 190in 1:56.28 and junior 110. Joe Glowacki winOn the men’s side, ning the 100-Yard the team swam and Butterfly in 52.87 dove very well. seconds. 187 In diving, there They proved them- UConn selves against a Seton Hall 111 were a couple of strong Seton Hall winning efforts. team in the Pirates’ Junior Grant Facteau home. Three Huskies won won One-Meter Diving with two events a piece. 301.30 points and junior Junior Kyungsoo Yoon Anthony Cortright won the won the 50-Yard Freestyle Three-Meter Diving with in 21.42 seconds and the 100 306.15 points. Yard Freestyle in 47.35 secJunior Jordan Bowen won onds. Freshman Lachezar three events. She won the Shumkov won the 100-Yard 100 Yard Freestyle in 54.38
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The UConn men’s and women’s swimming teams both beat Big East rival Seton Hall this past weekend in New Jersey.
sec., 200-Yard Freestyle in 1:54.11 sec., and the 500 Yard Freestyle in 5:02.62. Other Huskies fared well including sophomore Kati Kyle who won the 100-Yard Backstroke in 59.67 seconds and freshman Chinyere Pigot who won the 50 Yard Freestyle in 24.62 seconds. In diving, Danielle Cecco won the One-Meter Diving with 316.73 points and the Three-Meter Diving with 294.38 points. With these victories, the men improve their dual meet record to 3-2 while the women improve to 4-2. Both teams are back in action next Sunday when they host Colgate.
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