The Daily Campus: October 10, 2011

Volume CXVIII No. 29

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UConn students join Occupy Wall Street

By Colin Neary Campus Correspondent

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Ten UConn students, most from SSDP and Idealists United, mobilized for the nation-wide walkout Wednesday Oct. 5 to support the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Several students remained overnight in Liberty Plaza, the park one block away from Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange where the protests are centered. The march on Foley Square and the Department of Justice began at 3:00 p.m. in defiance of the 700 arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 1.

“Show me what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like!” was the calland-response chant that defined the atmosphere of the protest.

With marches from Seattle to Boston, people from all walks of life united as the 99 percent.

There is solidarity, as the movement does not identify with a specific social class, ethnic group, gender or religion.

“The feeling of unity between such a diverse group of people was inspiring,” said Ryan Walsh, 5th-semester psychology major.

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The movement is also empowered by the elderly facing decimations to retirement funds and Social Security. The young, middle-aged, unemployed and retired are all exercising their right to civil disobedience. The political fabric of the movement is also diverse, including anarchists, progressives, libertarians and conservatives. In addition, representatives from 14 of the nation’s largest labor unions joined the ranks of dissenters on Oct. 5, expanding the number of protestors in the march to approximately 5,000.

“The lives of the 99 percent are dictated by the 1 percent who control the majority of the wealth and power,” said Brenna Regan, a 7th-semester environmental justice major and co-president of Idealists United. “We need to infiltrate the economic and political structure by continuing to grow. It is imperative that this movement extend to every city.” Regan is also in support of the OccupyHartford movement, which has recently been granted a sizable portion of land by the Knox Foundation. The location has been named Turning Point Park, and can be found at the intersection of Asylum Ave. and Farmington Ave.

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Protesters meet outisde buildings on Wall Street to protest percieved injustice on in the Amercian financial system over the past several weeks. Ten UConn students joined the protesters on Wall Street, last week.

OccupyHartford organizers have learned from the successes and failures of Occupy Wall Street. They have organized a ten committee system to support needs for Food, Shelter, Media, Finance, Legal, Tech, Expression

and Medical. They meet daily for a general assembly where committee reports are made, propositions are suggested and resolutions are passed. They communicate through the People’s Mic, which is a call-and-response sys-

Lecture focuses on Hartford witch hunt

By Amanda Farley Campus Correspondent Salem wasn’t the only city full of witchcraft and hysteria during the late 17th century. On Sunday, Oct. 9 at 3 p.m. at the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, Dr. Walt Woodward, the state historian and UConn History Department Associate Professor gave a lecture entitled “New England’s Other Witch Hunt: The Hartford Crisis of the 1660’s.”

Woodward explained how Hartford was a colony that eliminated witchcraft a generation before Salem. He went on to discuss various topics such as the European witchcraft tradition, why people feared witches enough to kill them so easily, why most of the accused witches were in fact women and how early New England witch trials compared to Salem.

The Hartford Witch Hunt from 1647-1692 was not a widely rec-

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Dr. Walt Woodward discusses the Hartford witch hunt of the 17th century during a lecture at the Natural History Museum on Wednesday.

ognized topic in the subject of New England Witch Hunts. Most people know of the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692-1693. In

comparison, Salem had about 156 people accused of being witches, while in the New England trials about 57 people were accused. In

Salem, there were 19 executions and in the New England trials there were about 16.

“This lecture was very interesting and I would definitely want to learn more about the subject since I didn‘t know about the Hartford trials,“ said Jessy Smyth, a second year criminal justice and forensic science major at Manchester Community College.

Woodward has researched this subject since the late 1980’s. He wrote a book about John Winthrop Jr. that piqued his interest in learning more regarding the witch trials in New England.

He emphasized Winthrop Jr. and his contributions to the Hartford Witch Trials for most of his lecture. According to Dr. Woodward’s lecture, Winthrop Jr. was an alchemist and physician.

He was governor of Connecticut for 19 years, and also judge and chief prosecutor of major crime

UConn’s fourth Annual Conference for Secondary School Writing Centers brought together more than 150 students and teachers from middle and high school all over Connecticut.

“This year’s conference was fantastic,” said Sydney Gilbey, Windham Middle School Writing and Technology Center Facilitator. “There were a variety of schools in attendance and more middle schools were represented than in the past.”

This conference allowed students and teachers to understand how to successfully implement writing centers at their schools.

“The schools in attendance ranged from those who were just beginning to establish their Writing Center to those who had been in the operation for several years,” said Christine Briganti, a 7th-semester English education major who works at the UConn Writing Center.

Four schools, E.O. Smith High School, Windham Middle School, Windham High School, and Berlin High School, all gave presentations on how they set up their school’s writing centers to the other 13 schools attending the event.

“The presentations from the veteran schools offered many opportunities for newer centers to learn from the practices of other students and teachers,” Briganti said.

Another student working at the writing center, Matt Fuller, a 5th-semester English education major agreed.

“It was impressive to see the creativity and hard work the students put into the presentations,” Fuller said.

“Today, the spirit of collaboration is what we want to continue,” Denise Abercrombie, program leader of writing programs for the Connecticut Writing Project, said. “No one has the right and perfect writing center. We are all trying to find what works best in our context.”

To help schools find what will work best for them, part of the conference was working in break out sessions.

The first break out session allowed students and teach-

tem designed to deliver messages to large gatherings when noise ordinances are being imposed.

Still uncertain as to whether or not they can erect tents as the pro-

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World War II shipping disucssed during seminar

By Robert Fullam Campus Correspondent

ers of the same schools to talk amongst each other, whereas the second break out session promoted students and teachers of different schools to engage and brainstorm with each other.

“The heart of this conference is the break out sessions,” Tom Deans, associate professor of English and the director of the University Writing Center, said.

“One of the things we have to do with this much talent and diversity in the room is to mix you up.”

Ryan Ott, a Berlin High School teacher, thought these break out session were a very valuable aspect of the conference.

“It’s a great opportunity for

Spy networks and sabotage were buzzwords at the UConn Foreign Policy Seminar hosted

by Professor Brooke Blower of Boston University at Wood Hall this past Friday. Professor Blower presented “Devil’s Bargain: New York City’s Premier Spanish Shipping Agent and Allied Strategy during World War II,” bringing to light the role of transatlantic Spanish shipping in World War II and it’s complicity with the Axis powers.

Blower traced the beginnings of Spanish merchant shipping to after World War I when dominant players such as Britain and Germany lost many ships during the war, leaving the vacuum to be filled by Scandinavian, Greek and Spanish fleets. Manuel Diaz and Marcelino Garcia, two Spaniards with ties to the rightwing government in Spain used their pull in the Spanish fleets to help the Axis Powers during the war. Professor Blower observed that “nobody was looking at the Spanish, most people were focused on the Italians, Japanese and Germans, this low profile was a great help throughout the war.”

Aside from moving provisions and other resources such as oil, they also used radio on board their ships to pass information about Allied movements to German U-Boats, resulting in an estimated 800 sunken ships.

Garcia and Diaz were eventually arrested but were released because there was no hard evidence to put them away.

According to Blower, Americans were not ignorant about the Spanish problem.

“Only circumstantial evidence, no direct connection to opera-

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Writing Center conference brings high school students and teachers together

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Erasing Borders 2011 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Jorgensen Gallery September 19th through December 9th. Exhibition of contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora. In its eighth year, Erasing Borders is curated by Vijay Kumar and produced by the Indo-American Arts Council.

Writing Center: Faculty Lunchtime Series 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

CUE, 318 From the Other Side of the Desk: What Students Really Think about our W Teaching, a roundtable with students and Tom Deans, university writing center.

“Making Barbarian Literary History Today” 3:30 to 5 p.m.

CLAS, Stern Lounge Rm. 217 Come hear about the literary history the Wall Street Journal denounces as written by the “barbarians . . . running the joint today” who are responsible for the decline of civilization.

Walking The Line 7 to 9 a.m.

Student Union, Theater Rick Bombaci, a UConn alumnus, solo hiked 800 miles in the Canadian Rockies. Stop by for an awesome presentation of his photos and adventures!

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DAILY BRIEFING Teachers in Waterbury cheating review losing pay

WATERBURY (AP) — Twelve teachers who participated in a cheating scheme that inflated test scores at a Connecticut school are losing 20 days of pay over the coming school year and performing 25 hours each of community service as after-school tutors.

The Republican-American of Waterbury reports the Hopeville Elementary School teachers’ union and Waterbury administrators recently reached agreement on the punishments.

They stem from last spring’s Connecticut Mastery Test scores, which inexplicably placed Hopeville at the top statewide. An investigation later found some teachers improperly coached students to change their wrong answers.

The state-led review implicated a reading teacher who has since retired and Hopeville’s principal, who is fighting her dismissal in administrative hearings.

State proposes fine in rehab patient’s death

WALLINGFORD (AP) — State authorities are proposing a $510 fine against a rehabilitation hospital after a patient stole a van and died in a crash.

The Department of Public Health last week cited Gaylord Hospital of Wallingford, saying it failed to properly secure the van’s keys before 31-year-old Asilin Dorsey took them.

The New Haven Register reports Dorsey was hospitalized for a head injury from a prior crash when she became agitated over waiting an extra day for her family to pick her up for a visit.

She took the keys from an unlocked desk despite an employee’s efforts to stop her, then was killed when she hit a tree nearby on the Wilbur Cross Parkway.

Gaylord spokesman Cindy Whitcomb says the hospital remains in discussions with state officials about the citation.

State, book seller facing off in Supreme Court

HARTFORD (AP) — The state’s Supreme Court will soon hear arguments over whether a major nationwide seller of children’s books must pay millions in state sales taxes and penalties.

The state Commissioner of Revenue Services’ office alleges that Scholastic Book Clubs Inc. of Missouri owes more than $3 million in taxes. That company distributes children’s books and educational products to schools and daycares nationwide.

Connecticut officials say that the teachers who pass out the catalogues, collect the orders and send them to Scholastic are essentially acting as local sales representatives.

A lower court had disagreed, saying the teachers make no money for themselves and are acting “in loco parentis,” or as surrogate parents, when they help students select and order items.

State panel to explore health care for small firms

HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut House Speaker Christopher Donovan is convening a new group that will examine issues facing small businesses trying to purchase health care insurance for their employees and families.

The group is scheduled to meet for the first time Tuesday at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.

New Haven state Rep. Robert Mega, a Democrat and co-chairman of the Insurance Committee, is chairing the group of small business owners and lawmakers. The panel is expected to come up with a set of recommendations for new legislation.

The group plans to review insurance regulations affecting small groups, barriers that small businesses face when trying to purchase affordable coverage and alternative health insurance models, among other issues.

Man dies after car plunges into State reservoir

MANCHESTER (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a man who became trapped in a vehicle that went off a road in Manchester and drove into a reservoir.

Police and fire officials say the man’s body was recovered early Sunday from the car in the Grove Hollow Reservoir, where it went into the water around 5 a.m. A second man in the car was able to escape and was taken to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford.

Officials did not release the men’s names later Sunday, but say they are both in their 20s.

The incident remained under investigation and further details about the surviving man’s condition were not immediately available.

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‘Unions’ empower parents to push for reform

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shoehorned into a small living room in a South Los Angeles apartment, a dozen parents discuss why their kids’ school ranks as one of the worst in the nation’s second-largest school district.

The answers come quickly: Teachers are jaded; gifted pupils aren’t challenged; disabled students are isolated; the building is dirty and office staff treat parents disrespectfully.

“We know what the problem is — we’re about fixing it,” said Cassandra Perry, the Woodcrest Elementary School parent hosting the meeting. “We’re not against the administrators or the teachers union. We’re honestly about the kids.”

School parent groups are no longer just about holding the next bake-sale fundraiser. They’re about education reform.

The Woodcrest mothers and fathers, all wearing buttons saying “parent power,” are one of the newly formed “parents unions” that are springing up from San Diego to Buffalo, N.Y., with the same goal — to push schools to improve academic achievement.

Behind the parent empowerment movement is a feisty Los Angeles-based nonprofit, Parent Revolution, which in 2010 pushed through a landmark law giving parents authority to force turnarounds at failing schools through a petition.

Known as the “parent trigger,” the California law was the first of its kind in the nation. It inspired Texas and Mississippi to adopt similar laws and legislation is under consideration in 20 other states. Two states have voted down parent trigger bills.

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In this Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, photo, Lynwood school parent, Guadalupe Cigarroa encourages parents to reform their schools at a community rally organized by the Parent Revolution in Lynwood, Calif.

“Parents have a different incentive structure than anyone else,” said Ben Austin, Parent Revolution’s executive director.

“They’re the only ones who really care about kids.”

It’s a compelling argument for many parents.

San Diego mother Teresa Drew founded United Parents for Education after her daughter’s reading and math scores fell below grade level for two years.

The district is not doing enough

to ensure teachers are effective and weed out bad educators, she said.

“I talked to other parents and found they had the same experience,” Drew said. “I have nothing against the PTA, but the problem for me is there’s a T in PTA. This is parent-led.”

Unions say it’s oversimplistic to blame teachers. Parents should enlist educators in the solution, not dismiss them, they say.

Movement takes different shapes for the common goal from UCONN, page 1 testors for OccupyBoston have on Rose Kennedy Greenway, Hartford occupants have been sleeping under tarps for warmth.

Though the protestors are predominantly white and middleclass, the community members hope that more residents, ex-cons and undocumented immigrants in the city will arrive when it becomes clear that they are not trying to be arrested.

Due to their smaller numbers the approach of OccupyHartford differs from OccupyWallStreet.

The tactic in New York has been to develop a media campaign that exploits police brutality in order to garner support for the grassroots movement. One sign that read “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised—It Will Be Livestreamed,” summarized this approach.

“Social media allows for the replications of movements throughout the world,” explained Jason Ortiz, 10th semester public and community engagements major.

After returning to Liberty Plaza at approximately 7:00 p.m., protestors decided to extend the march to Wall Street.

The NYPD was opposed to such action, preventing protestors

Spy network played role in WWII

from traveling the block from Liberty Plaza to Wall Street.

Police pepper sprayed many and arrested a reported 28 throughout the course of the evening.

Journalist Luke Rudkowski was capturing the mayhem on film when he was attacked by an officer, later thanking the NYPD for participating in the media campaign.

The issue of media coverage is perhaps the greatest challenge to the movement as it begins to garner recognition from mainstream outlets that previously blacked them out. Many reports attempt to minimize the size and effect of the protests, slandering the occupiers with the title “liberal Tea Party.”

Now Democrats are attempting to claim the movement under their political umbrella as well. “Media outlets such as Democracy Now!, Alternet, Truth-Out and occupywallstreet. org are all helping to spread the truth about us,” said Regan.

News outlets from around the world are reporting on the Wall Street Occupation, representing such countries as Austria, Greece, and Egypt. The occupiers have created a large banner that reads “Arab Spring, European Summer, American Autumn” to explain the international influence of the

movement.

“There were people in attendance from all over the world for both practical and ideological reasons,” said Logan Place, 5thsemester economics and political science major. After supporting the march in Hartford on Friday night October 7, Place slept in Turning Point Park before attending the march on Washington Square in New York Saturday, Oct. 8 with eight other UConn students. “The atmosphere was tense because we didn’t know if we would be arrested,” said Place. “But nobody’s been detained since Wednesday night.” The NYPD have already spent $1.9 million in police overtime since the occupation began on Sept. 17.

The central goal of the movement is to offer a rational alternative to a civil society that caters to the interests of the mega-rich.

They also oppose a one-sided economy in which 84 percent of the wealth is concentrated in the top 20% of the population while the bottom 20 percent holds less than .1 percent of the wealth.

People who attend the occupations indict the system and make suggestions about how to best organize their communities.

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tions and a lack of information sharing within the intelligence community,” Blower said.

He best described the intelligence community’s conventional wisdom as keeping tabs on the known agents instead of risking creating unknowns who would replace them. The United States knew many of these Spaniards were working for Germans, so they started a campaign of misinformation, which would effectively make German intelligence faulty.

“You have to wonder whether or not these Spanish spies were more of an advantage or disadvantage to the Allied war effort, given for all the damage they had down to the Allies, they were also detrimental to the Axis powers with faulty information, something that could win or lose a battle,” said Ben Stueck, a 7thsemester history and political science double major.

Blower made it clear what kind of work she was doing.

“I want to get past the domestic home front and diplomatic/ military history that dominates the World War II narrative, quipping “I’m doing Casablanca World War II, not Saving Private Ryan World War II,” he said.

Pulling away from the master narrative of World War II, Blower wanted to expose people to another piece of World War II history and succeeded, fielding questions from professors, historians and graduate students.

“I have been a historian for almost 50 years and this was completely new to me. This only proves that history is an inexhaustible well,” said Professor Frank Costigliola.

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trials. The major crime trials of his era were the Hartford witch trials, and because of him no witches were convicted in Connecticut from 1655-1661.

“John Winthrop Jr. was New England’s best-known magic practitioner and it’s most reluctant witch persecutor,” according to one of Woodward’s PowerPoint slides.

“Dr. Woodward’s lecture was interesting and fascinating. He was very articulate and made it understandable that how people reacted to the hysteria,” said Katherine Tolsdorf, a descendant of Elizabeth Seager, who was a well-known convicted witch in Hartford. Elizabeth Seager was tried and acquitted of being a witch twice, and on the third instance of being accused, she was convicted and hung for her so-called crime.

“I thought that it was very interesting that most people don’t know about the Hartford trials at all and

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AC casino workers fear falling from middle class

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Since coming to this country from the Dominican Republic, Marcos Vidal has scratched and clawed his way up to a lower-middle class existence, a status to which he is tenuously clinging.

He has not had a raise in seven years at his housekeeping job at Resorts Casino Hotel. And in December, when the casino changed hands, the new owners cut his pay from $14.55 an hour to $9.83.

“Now I can barely keep up with my bills and buy food,” Vidal said. “I’ve gotten rid of cable TV, the Internet, long-distance phone calls. I can no longer send money to my mother back home. I’m a grown man and I can’t even go to a movie with someone.

Do I deserve a decent life like everyone else in the United States?”

It’s a life that many casino workers in Atlantic City fear could become theirs, too, if steep cuts in pay and benefits that the casinos are pushing in contract talks are adopted.

The casinos have struggled for five years with plunging revenues amid ever-growing — and ever-closer — competition.

Saying the survival of the nation’s second-largest gambling market is at stake, the casinos want hourly cuts of $3 from a work force that averages $12 an hour. They also want workers to contribute for the first time to their health insurance and retirement benefit costs.

The union, Local 54 of Unite-HERE, has offered givebacks from areas other than base salary and benefits that total 50 cents an hour, but both sides remain far apart. Bob McDevitt, the union president, said his workers understand the dire straits Atlantic City’s

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In a Sept. 30 photo, Frances Stevenson, a housekeeper at the Tropicana Casino and Resort, waves a union sign and holds a noisemaker during a protest on the Atlantic City, N.J., Boardwalk against proposed pay cuts of $3 an hour to a workforce that averages $12 an hour.

casinos are in.

But he said the workers are in an equally perilous position, with nothing less than the American Dream at stake: “This is more than a contract; it was a societal compact the state of New Jersey made with these workers when casino gambling was approved, that these would be good, middle-class jobs with decent benefits that you could make a living from. Now, is that promise going to be broken?”

Contracts between Local 54 and 10 of the 11 casinos expired last month. Both sides are abiding by the terms of the expired deals while negotiating new ones. The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa’s contract runs through next year.

Don Marrandino, eastern

division president for Caesars Entertainment, which owns four of Atlantic City’s casinos, said both sides recognize the problems the market faces right now.

“These are tough times for Atlantic City,” he said. “That’s no secret. But I remain optimistic that we’ll get a deal done. We haven’t had any jobs fairs to line up replacement workers or outsourced anything. We continue to have our eye on the ball to get this resolved.”

Workers at Resorts have taken the biggest hits so far.

When Dennis Gomes and Morris Bailey bought the struggling gambling hall last year, it was within days of closing, awash in red ink and all but forsaken by gamblers.

The new owners said reducing

expenses was the only way they could keep the casino open and preserve about 2,000 jobs.

Since then, other casinos have followed Resorts’ lead, saying they, too, need big reductions in their expenses to survive.

It’s not idle talk: Over the last 4½ years, Atlantic City has lost a billion and a half dollars in casino revenue, along with thousands of jobs.

The 10 casinos in neighboring Pennsylvania are poised to overtake Atlantic City’s 11 casinos and become the nation’s second-largest gambling market sometime next year. And New York City is adding a casino at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, and talking openly of allowing one or more in Manhattan.

ORANGE CITY, Iowa (AP) — Rick Perry has lost some of his Texas swagger. Maybe that’s what happens when a governor tops Republican presidential polls the minute he joins the race, only to plummet after a shaky debate performance.

Whatever the cause, it was a more careful Perry who campaigned in Iowa on the weekend, trying to get his campaign back on track before Tuesday’s debate in New Hampshire and an Oct. 18 debate in Las Vegas.

Rather than the new sheriff in town, he looked more like a cowboy cautiously remounting his horse after a surprising throw.

In four Iowa towns in two days, the Texas governor stuck to his stump speech, sometimes glancing at notes. He took a half dozen questions from voters at each stop, but none from the numerous reporters around him. He shook some hands and posed for pictures in the small but crowded restaurants his staff selected, but he left before others could greet him. Some voters appeared eager for more love than he returned.

Perry never mentioned his chief rival, Mitt Romney by name. It’s possible, however, that he was thinking of the former Massachusetts governor when he repeatedly said Iowans measure leaders “by how they walk, not how they talk” on issues such as job creation.

Perry seemed so eager to stick to his talking points that he passed up some softball pitches. Asked in Orange City what books have influenced him, Perry didn’t mention the Bible or the works of famous Americans. He cited only the late Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, a strong advocate of free markets, then veered

back into his familiar criticisms of President Barack Obama’s stimulus programs.

Perry has sharpened his answers about illegal immigrants, the topic that bedeviled him in the Sept. 22 debate, and which several Iowa Republicans pointedly raised this weekend.

A woman in Spencer said she could not understand why he agreed to give in-state college tuition rates to illegal immigrants in Texas.

Perry defended the program. But he avoided suggesting that its critics have no heart, as he did in the last debate, to widespread criticism. He stuck entirely to economic reasons.

“Are we going to create a class of tax wasters or are we going to create taxpayers?” he asked, describing the difference between immigrants who don’t go to college and those who do.

“Texas chose the latter.”

Several skeptics seemed unconvinced, as Perry drew less of a distinction between illegal immigrants and U.S. citizens than they wanted to hear.

Speaking to another woman who challenged him as he was leaving the event in Orange City, the governor said: “Anyone who moves to the state of Texas and spends three years there, they are eligible for in-state tuition.

So no free ride at all.”

Perry addressed the tuition issue only when asked, but at every stop he eagerly detailed several of his get-tough positions on immigration. They included his vetoing a bill that would have let illegal immigrants obtain Texas driver’s licenses, spending heavily on border security, and his endorsement of a law requiring photo identification cards for Texans seeking to vote.

and high school students speaking so intelligently abou their accomplishments and goals as tutors as well as their Writing Center philosophies,” Briganti said.

The second break out session allowed teachers a chance to discuss with other teachers how to make a writing center work for their schools.

“The break out session for teachers allows our writing center advisors to discuss challenges, share solutions, and exchange ideas with other professionals and leaders from other schools,” Ott said.

Gilbey also thought this second break out session was very helpful.

“The second break out session affords me the rare opportunity to talk with colleagues from across the state about strategies we use with students, practical issues such as scheduling, as well as building connections for networking in the future,” Gilbey said.

These break out sessions were

essential in the collaboration and thinking process of how to make a writing center work for each individual school.

“I think that having students and teachers from 15 different schools interact with one another during the breakout sessions was essential,” Deans said. “Already several of the teachers have told me that their students left the conference with new ideas and new energy.”

Deans said he is already looking forward to next year’s conference.

“What started four years ago with the notion of helping a few local high schools start writing centers is now emerging into a statewide network of middle and high schools at various stages of designing, launching, and sustaining peer writing centers,” Dean said.

“Our conference is the one place where they can connect with each other.”

Challenger leads early in Professionals address issues and problem solve together Cherokee chief election

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — The challenger in the embattled election to lead one of the nation’s largest American Indian tribes was ahead after an initial vote count Sunday, but it was too early to declare a winner in a race that has been marred by months of complications.

The Cherokee Nation Election Commission counted votes that were cast in person since the new election began Sept. 24. The unofficial tally showed Cherokee Nation councilman Bill John Baker with 61 percent of the vote, receiving 6,223 votes compared to 4,046 for former Principal Chief Chad Smith.

But as many as 12,000 absentee ballots still have to be counted. The winner may not be known until Wednesday.

The election was ordered by the tribe’s Supreme Court after the results of a June 25 election were invalidated.

Smith and Baker were each

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In this photo taken Sept. 24, Avery Davis-Roberts, Gordon Streeb, and Suzan Harjo, of the Carter Center, meet with members of the media to discuss their role in observing the Cherokee special election for Principal Chief

twice declared the winner in recounts, and questions were raised about how the ballots were handled and stored.

Smith was chief until a temporary replacement was named after the June election.

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New hire a good investment

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ater this year, Dr. Mary Holz-Clause will begin her tenure as UConn’s first Vice President for Economic Development. Holz-Clause’s role will be to connect and work in partnership with Gov. Malloy’s economic development leadership team and other key public officials in order to expand UConn’s economic development, reach and engagement across the state.

As a top public university, it’s important that President Susan Herbst and other state leaders are recognizing that UConn has a significant role to play in creating jobs, developing and using new technologies, helping businesses grow and training a new skilled work force. The best and brightest people in the state are here at UConn and if they’re going to stay in Connecticut, they’re going to need jobs once they graduate.

With the unemployment rate still hovering around nine percent in Connecticut, it’s sensible that the University has created this new position and has hired Holz-Clause, who comes to UConn from Iowa State University where she held a similar position. Here she will manage BioScience Connecticut and the new Tech Park, two of UConn’s most important economic development initiatives.

The budget woes facing the state and UConn are not lost on the University’s leadership or on the students who are consistently reminded, sometimes painfully, that a difficult and unsure shaky reality is awaiting them beyond their diplomas. However, investing in Holz-Clause, whose salary will be $230,000, and capitalizing on her talents and expertise is a wise and sensible decision.

Herbst has stressed time and time again that she will be focusing most of her time on philanthropy and uniting with alumni and donors. Holz-Clause will concentrate on creating research and technology jobs that will themselves create income while helping to keep talented and hardworking students here.

In an interview with UConn Today, Holz-Clause said UConn is “the place to be,” and Herbst said Holz-Clause has the “expertise, enthusiasm and creativity” to pull of the task ahead of her. “Dr. Holz-Clause is an outstanding leader who will enable UConn to help Governor Malloy and our legislature accelerate the economic recovery of Connecticut,” said Herbst.

How the creation of this new position and the hiring of Holz-Clause will play out over the next year is still uncertain. Hopefully, Herbst, the University’s leadership and students will scrutinize any and all developments and results a year from now and decide if the investment is still a wise one.

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.

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I’m a silly little catfish.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you Coach Pasqualoni: “I think West Virginia just scored again.”

As a recent UConn grad, I am at least relieved that “West Virginia scored again” jokes will now be passed on to the next generation.

It doesn’t matter how many times West Virginia beats UConn, I still feel like a winner because I’m not from West Virginia.

Seriously, West Virginia just scored again.

I think West Virginia just scored again... ...and again... ...and again.

Are they done scoring yet?

Nope, West Virginia just scored one more time.

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‘The Simpsons’ is too sacred of a show to end

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t may come as a shock to find out that, last week, one of America’s greatest and most profound institutions was in sincere danger of being taken away.

No, I’m not talking about anything going on in D.C. or even on Wall Street. I’m talking about something even more important, something that has shaped American culture and history for more than a generation. I’m talking about the fact that The Simpsons, America’s longest running animated series, was in danBy Tyler McCarthy ger of being canWeekly Columnist celed.

It was reported earlier in the week that Fox would not be able to keep the show going if the actors weren’t willing to accept a 45 percent pay cut. On Friday morning, Harry Shearer, voice actor of beloved characters such as Mr. Burns and Ned Flanders released a statement on the subject: “If pay cuts are what it will take to keep the show on the air, then cut my pay. In fact, to make it as easy as possible for Fox to keep new episodes of “The Simpsons” coming, I’m willing to let them cut my salary not just 45 percent but more than 70 percent – down to half of what they said they would be willing to pay us. All I would ask in return is that I be allowed a small share of the eventual profits.”

In other words, negotiations were difficult because the actors wanted to share in some of the show’s massively successful profits. This is a reasonable request, but the

show comes first. vail whenever possible.

Despite the tumultuous salary negotiaBy reaching this new deal and having tions and unfortunate demands of 20th the actors take a pay cut, the cast and Century Fox, fans can breathe a sigh of crew, as well as Fox, have shown a great relief. The studio announced that Homer commitment to art and the tradition that Simpson and the gang would be with us for is “The Simpsons.” However, how long another two seasons. However, before we the studio maintains this commitment go punching the air and declaring a victory remains to be seen. for good comedy on television, we must I know that I may be selfish in hoping realize that these negotiations have shined that the show will outlive me, but it holds a very scary light on the future of “The a special place in my heart. It’s been there Simpsons” and the for me and for many idea of success in in my generation since the entertainment we were children. I “The price of an audience’s can still remember the industry.

It turns out that Homer quote that entertainment...dwindles first due to a poorly had me rolling on the made syndica- down to $750 million.” floor laughing with my tion deal cut 17 older brother forcing years ago by Fox, my parents to ask us reruns of “The to be quiet. I was even Simpsons” cannot appear on any other net- that weird kid who enjoyed listening to work or online. This deal would go away the DVD commentaries. “The Simpsons” with the cancellation of the series, mean- is more than a show to some people: it’s a ing that the residents of Springfield might tradition and a staple of American culture. be worth more to Fox dead than alive. That’s why letting it burn out because of Estimates show that the studio, over time, dollars and cents negotiations or selling it could stand to make $750 million off of the off to make a quick buck seems so unaccanceled series. ceptable. While I may never accept any There you have it folks, the price of scenario that results in the end of “The an audience’s entertainment, memories Simpsons,” I certainly can’t sign off on and an international fan base’s sense of canceling it in a way that spits in the face tradition dwindles down to $750 mil- of the viewers and sets a precedent that lion. When put in that context, the figure says it’s okay to place business over art. seems somewhat small to me. I’m aware If the show is going to end, let it be years that television, like everything else in the from now, with proper dignity and for a world, boils down to being a business. In reason that doesn’t make us all shout a that respect the audience has to have a cer- collective “d’oh!” tain level of understanding when it comes to art being at the mercy of the almighty Weekly Columnist Tyler McCarthy is a 5th-semester dollar. However, that understanding comes journalism and English double major. He can be with the trust that, in the end, art will pre- reached at Tyler.McCarthy@UConn.edu.

Malloy’s executive order is evidence of abuse of power

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hen Connecticut voters elected Dan Malloy their governor in 2010, they expected a 21st-century American statesman. The man who actually arrived in Hartford, however, is a character more closely resembling the Pharaoh from the classic film “The Ten Commandments.”

Like the Pharaoh, Malloy does not believe legislative authority is needed to

By Nicolas Tomboulides enact public policy. He is Staff Columnist perfectly comfortable ruling by decree. When legislation to unionize the state’s daycare and home health care attendants died in committee earlier this year, Malloy decided to unleash his inner Egyptian tyrant. He unionized them anyway, through the use of two executive orders. So let it be written, so let it be done.

An executive order is not a law.

It is a command from the governor for which there exists absolutely no constitutional authority. Connecticut statutory law does allow executive orders, but only for 11 express purposes that have nothing to do with unionization. Nearly all of these special cases pertain to emergency situations, when time is of the essence and the assembly may not

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have time to draft a bill. In Malloy’s case, the lack of a union for personal care attendants and child care workers can hardly be described as an emergency. More likely than not, Malloy only went this route in order to circumvent the state constitution.

Abuse of power notwithstanding, the content of Malloy’s executive orders is just as troubling, if not more so, than the means by which they were put into place.

The orders call for child care and home health workers to participate in union elections, but explicitly deny them a right to secret ballot.

This rule, known as ‘card check,’ leaves workers exposed to potential threats and intimidation.

Furthermore, orders’ goals, while noble, are simply not adaptable to the science of economics. On this matter, Governor Malloy has said “It is important that those who care for both our youngest and oldest citizens receive equitable pay.” Few would disagree, but the dilemma then becomes arriving at a universal definition of “equitable pay.” In reality, there are only two methods to determine the price of labor. The first way is to let the market set the price, which depends on consumers and producers reaching the equilibrium point between supply and demand. Just as it determines the prices of pizza and soda, a market

can seamlessly allocate the correct quantity of workers at the correct price.

The second way—the Dan Malloy way—is to let a politician choose an arbitrary level of compensation based on his own fanciful notions of “fairness” and “social justice.” If the politician overshoots, society will suffer. A price above the market rate will reduce efficiency and reduce employment. It will not, in spite of Malloy’s best wishes, reduce inequity.

According to estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Connecticut’s daycare and home health workers already take home more per hour than do 75 percent of their national peers. All but four other states outlay less to these workers than Connecticut does. This data directly contradicts Governor Malloy’s claim about equitability, and shows that Connecticut’s workers are located on the upper end of the wage spectrum for their profession. Elevating their wages any higher can be described as nothing less than distortive price fixing.

If Malloy does succeed in unionizing the workers, he ought to remember who will wind up bearing the costs: parents, disabled individuals and the taxpayers of Connecticut. State subsidies to the Care 4 Kids and Personal

Care Assistance programs will have to grow in order to accommodate the increased wage and benefit packages. If they don’t, the people who use these programs will be forced to pay out of pocket or cut back on the services they desperately need.

Lastly, these executive orders have broader implications for Gov. Malloy’s statewide policy vision.

After he negotiated $1.6 billion in concessions from state unions months ago, Malloy’s decision to unionize more people with executive orders seems numbingly paradoxical—like closing a credit account at Macy’s to open up a new one at Bloomingdale’s.

His credibility on fiscal restraint ought to be questioned. Unions are expected to add $1 million to their coffers as a result of just the daycare order, and are notorious for pouring vast sums of money into Democrat party campaigns.

Unionization would have the effect of forcibly converting thousands of workers into de facto Malloy campaign donors. He’s sacrificing Connecticut’s people to help himself, and isn’t even using real laws to do it.

Staff Columnist Nicolas Tomboulides is an 8th-semester economics major. He can be reached at Nicolas.Tomboulides@UConn.edu

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Horoscopes To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Review recent mistakes to learn from them. Find a positive outlet for your desire for justice. A new phase of loving, beautiful purpose rouses your creativity.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Your mind is full of ideas for the future, but you’re also easily distractible. Schedule everything you need to handle, and then give yourself permission to play.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Now, and for the next month, focus on having fun at work. Not only does this positively impact your well-being, but your charisma and reputation increase. Why not?

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -You’re entering a new period of indulgence.

Be willing to receive love and give it away for an amazing experience that could inspire a page-turner. Give it up so you deserve it in return.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You may find it difficult to concentrate on repetitive tasks. Focus on what excites you.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your capacities to learn and concentrate are keen. Sign up for a class or a workshop, or get into online research. Write down what you discover and share it.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re getting more charming every day.

Love, beauty and creativity abound and inspire your work. Let your artistic juices flow, and create something that delights.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Beginning workshop tasks and simply cleaning up could lead to new discoveries (and even a hidden treasure). Let your passion power your broom.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Suddenly, everything starts to make sense. Take advantage of your heightened ability to solve puzzles. A new phase of social fun begins around midnight, when Venus enters Scorpio.

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Israel copes with bout of extremist violence

JERUSALEM (AP) — A new rogue element has emerged in the Israeli-Palestinian gallery: Unknown assailants, widely assumed to be Jewish extremists, have vandalized Muslim cemeteries, mosques and farmlands in a spate of attacks that have put the country on edge.

These attacks, which in recent days have spread from the West Bank into Israel proper, have stoked fears of heightened violence and sparked increasingly agitated calls to find and punish the assailants. On Sunday, Israeli leaders chimed in with condemnations, and police said they were stepping up efforts to halt the violence.

“It’s against everything that the Jewish people stand for, as a country and as a democracy,” said President Shimon Peres, a Nobel peace laureate. “I am sure that our police will apprehend all the people who did this, the criminals, and we shall not let them walk free.”

In the latest incident, vandals sprayed-painted “Death to the Arabs” in Muslim and Christian cemeteries in the Jaffa section of Tel Aviv. The rampage, discovered late Saturday after Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, followed a mosque burning last week in an Arab village in northern Israel.

The torching set off violent clashes between residents and police in a town that has historically been a model of coexistence.

The two incidents were among the first to take place inside Israel, where Arab residents, in contrast with their Palestinian brethren in the neighboring West Bank, are citizens.

For several years, Israeli settlers have frequently attacked Palestinian targets in the West Bank, vandalizing mosq ues and uprooting olive trees.

These attacks are meant to protest Israeli government policies seen as sympathetic to the Palestinians, who hope to make the West Bank part of an independent state. Nationalist settlers oppose a Palestinian state on what they say is land promised to the

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In this photo taken Wednesday Oct. 5, Britain’s Defense Secretary Liam Fox waits to speak at Britain’s Conservative Party Conference, Manchester, England. Fox is expected to be quizzed in Parliament.

Defense Secretary Fox apologizes

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Israeli border police officers escort Palestinian farmers, front, from the village of Awarta as Jewish settlers, at back, shout at the farmers during an olive harvest near the Jewish settlement of Itamar, near the West Bank city of Nablus, Sunday.

Jews in the Bible.

On Sunday, some 100 settlers attacked a group of Palestinian villagers in their olive groves near Nablus in the northern West Bank with sticks and stones, witnesses said. The army said it rushed to the scene and broke up the clash, allowing the farmers to harvest their crop.

At times, the Israeli army itself has become a target of the settlers, with vandals stoning or slashing the tires of military vehicles. Last week, a crowd of settlers erected a makeshift roadblock to stop a military patrol and clashed with soldiers who got out of a vehicle to clear the road.

The latest bouts of violence appear to be connected to Israel’s decision last month to demolish several illegally built structures in the unauthorized West Bank settler outpost of Migron. Settlers are also furious over the death of an Israeli settler and his infant son in a car accident caused by

Moderate leftist tops French presidential primary PARIS (AP) — A moderate French leftist once dismissed as soft as a strawberry dominated nationwide primary voting Sunday, and emerged the top likely challenger to the divisive and impulsive Nicolas Sarkozy for the nation’s presidency.

Pollsters say Francois Hollande, a longtime Socialist leader who urged his party to embrace European integration, could easily dislodge the little-loved Sarkozy as president. Sunday’s unusual Socialist Party primary produced the first electoral proof of Hollande’s popularity.

But Hollande faces a tough runoff next week against the author of France’s 35-hour workweek, party stalwart Martine Aubry, as both seek to solve voters’ economic worries and prove their leftist mettle while maintaining party unity.

Hollande is seen by many as a welcome contrast to the conservative Sarkozy, though is little known outside France and has produced no dramatic proposals for saving the euro, shrinking debts, solving tensions with immigrants or the other woes that ail the world’s fifth-largest economy.

The unexpectedly strong third-place showing by a hard-left candidate who has championed against globalization, Arnaud Montebourg, may weigh on party strategy and boost Aubry’s chances.

Montebourg is emerging as the kingmaker, or queenmaker, in the decisive second round Oct. 16.

The primary process itself — a first for France — is offering a boost for the Socialists, who haven’t won a presidential election since 1988 and have suffered for years from divisions over how to steer a leftist course through the increasingly interconnected global economy.

Both Hollande and Aubry sought to distance themselves from a present that many French voters see as bleak.

“I am the candidate of change,” Hollande said after the initial primary results came in. “Francois, President!” his supporters bellowed.

“I will bring this deep change” that voters want, Aubry told her backers.

One change she proposes would be returning to retirement at 60, reversing a hardfought Sarkozy reform aimed at cutting pension costs.

Palestinian stone throwers.

But the spike in West Bank violence has been growing for some time. According to United Nations figures, the number of incidents of settler violence resulting in Palestinian injuries or property damage has risen to 333 this year, compared with 217 in the same period last year.

Israeli human rights groups say the settler violence is the result of years of Israel’s unwillingness or inability to take action. The Yesh Din advocacy group, for instance, found that in 642 police complaints filed by West Bank Palestinians between 2005-2010, less than 10 percent resulted in indictments.

Sarit Michaeli of B’Tselem, another rights group, accused Israel of fomenting a “sense of impunity” among settlers.

That may be changing now that the violence is spreading to Israel proper.

It took a matter of hours for

Israeli police to make an arrest in last Monday’s mosque burning. The suspect, who denied involvement, was identified as an 18-year-old man who until recently, studied at a Jewish seminary in an ultranationalist West Bank settlement.

Officials from the police, army and Shin Bet internal security service all said they take the violence extremely seriously. Police said they have stepped up patrols around Arab villages in Israel and are in contact with local Arab leaders to calm tensions.

Settler leaders condemn the violence and say it is the work of a fringe minority.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not tolerate vandalism against any religious site. “I have instructed the security forces to bring those responsible to justice.

We will act against to the fullest extent of the law,” he told his Cabinet.

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s defense secretary apologized Sunday for blurring the lines between his professional role and personal friendships, trying to soften criticism he is expected to face in Parliament on Monday.

Liam Fox denied any wrongdoing but admitted to an error in judgment by having frequent contacts with his close friend and former roommate Adam Werritty in light of Werritty’s defense-related business interests. He is to be quizzed in Parliament about whether the friendship compromised national security or broke codes of conduct.

Reports have swirled that Werritty frequently visited Fox at defense headquarters and may have set up sensitive business meetings even though he has no official role. He has been criticized for using business cards identifying him as an advisor to Fox, which was not the case.

Fox said in his statement that he had apologized to the

prime minister and said he will put new procedures in place to make sure the problems do not happen again.

He promised to answer “all questions” in Parliament.

“At no stage did I or my department provide classified information or briefings to Mr. Werritty or assist with his commercial work — let alone benefit personally from this work,” Fox said.

Prime Minister David Cameron has demanded an initial report on the allegations be given to him Monday. The Ministry of Defense is conducting an internal inquiry at Fox’s request.

Opposition leaders say Fox’s actions have raised questions about his judgment.

Deputy Labour Party leader Harriet Harmon said Sunday that the charges are extremely serious, adding that the defense department handles contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds (dollars) and must maintain high ethical standards.

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UConn parade kicks it old school When beer goes bad

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The sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma and brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha ride their Rugrats-themed float in the 2011 UConn Homecoming Parade. This year’s overall theme was “Kickin’ It Old School.”

BSA puts modern twist on ‘Dating Game’

By Zarrin Ahmed Campus Correspondent

On Saturday Oct. 8, the Black Student Association hosted The Dating Game at the Student Union Ballroom. The Dating Game was based on the old school television dating shows where a suitor has to choose from contestants solely on their answers to controversial questions.

Seats were filled within 10 minutes of the doors opening and the show began shortly after.

A female student sat on a stool to the right of the stage while three male students sat on the left, divided by a barrier so the guys couldn’t see the girl and vice versa. The first question was a demonstration on what a guy would do to a strawberry that he’d do to her. The girl had to

choose the best answer through the crowd’s response. Other questions included “If I forgot my money at a restaurant, what would you do?” and “What song best represents you?” After the round of questions came elimination. Contestant number one and contestant two lost. Before the girl or contestant three could see each other, the emcee made them stand close and turn around for the “big reveal”. The winner and the contestant exchanged a hug and left the stage together.

After the first round came an auction – dating style. The guy being auctioned off was a ‘single, all-American chess player with “no kids…that he knows about.”’ The emcee started bidding (in a true auctioneer’s voice too) at five dollars, which increased as the Monopoly bills

went in the air from the crowd.

The chess player was eventually sold for 1850 Monopoly bucks. The rounds followed in this fashion; first with questions, then another auction.

The male dater began the second round of questions with his “sexy voice.” He asked the female contestants what they’d do with whipped cream for him, their favorite body part, what their stripper name would be and where they would take him on vacation.

Contestant number three won that round. Auction two featured a female student who sold for 9,000 Monopoly dollars.

Round three began with three guys showing off their best moves to impress a lady.

In order to maintain anonymity, the girl was blindfolded and the guys wore masks. The

music blasted for each guy to dance for the girl, and money from the crowd was flying onto the stage, especially for contestant number two. After, she asked the boys what their best pick up line is. One contestant said, “Your legs hurt? Cause you been running through my mind all day.” She responded, “That’s stupid.” The last question for the boys was what three things they’d bring if they were stranded on an island with her. Contestant one replied, “Condoms, cause I ain’t ready to populate yet. Toothbrushes, a hair brush for you, and…a Conair.” Contestant one was the winner. The third auction sold a male student for 2,500 Monopoly dollars.

Booty-shaking started off the fourth round, where three girls

had to impress the crowd with their moves. When asked what her favorite artist was, one contestant wanted to show a piece of her own music; she was spitting rhymes that got the crowd out of their seats. She didn’t win, but the young gentleman chose the contestant he liked the best. Auction four ended with a young woman going for 11,000 Monopoly dollars.

The final round featured a girl trying to pick the best guy.

She asked how they would use handcuffs on her, their idea of a perfect date, and even had a guy demonstrate a massage on her. The show ended with a final auction, in which a former president of the BSA sold for 100,000 Monopoly dollars.

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‘Magic Pebble’ delights, shows simple happiness

By Ronald Quiroga Campus Correspondent

As part of the Bank of America Children’s Series event at Jorgensen’s main theatre, The Enchantment Theatre Company put on their rendition of “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble.”

The showing is the first installment of four different shows that Jorgensen will be doing as part of their children’s series this academic year, and the only for the fall semester according to House Manager Tina Beinky.

The production had two show times on Sunday, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. It attracted a significant crowd of about 500 attendants at each showing Beinky said.

“Sylvester and The Magic Pebble” was the creation of “New Yorker” author William Steig, who was the recipient of several Newbury and Caldecott awards for outstanding children’s literature. This rendition of the play was put on by The Enchantment Theatre Company out of Philadelphia, which travels the country and puts on annual plays nationwide, according to a press release for the show.

The play offered something for each person in the theatre.

The company had an original score for the play that was synchronized with the animation displayed on three large projectors.

The production consisted of three actors and two actress who

played 30 different roles during the entirety of the play, along with vibrant music that included string and wind sections that were occasionally complimented by an accordion. The audience was enthralled with the speedy costume changes, energetic music and the cartoon animation creating a two-element production where the live action animation played perfectly with the pre-recorded material.

Sylvester, a donkey, is walking through the woods when he discovers the magic pebble that grants wishes to its owner.

While Sylvester is in the mist of declaring his wish, a lion spooks him and causes him to turn into a boulder. Sylvester’s parents, distraught from not being able to find their son, go almost a year without finding him until one day, while walking around the woods to have a picnic, they find the magic pebble and wish for their son’s return.

The children in the audience were extremely responsive, often yelling during the performance.

“Is that a really duck?,” said a young child sitting in the middle of the crowd. After the performance, the team of five performers remained on stage to ask questions and explain their interesting techniques for performing such a large and intricate play with so few people.

Some children, still bewildered by the amount of parts each of them played asked questions

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Actors from The Enchanment Theatre Company’s production of “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble,” based on the Caldecott Award winning cihldren’s book by William Steig. The two Sunday performances delighted children and adults alike.

like “why so many costumes?” while others were simply curious about logistical information.

One child inquired about where the company kept a couch that was used as a prop.

Although the story could be difficult to follow and the lighting sometimes caused the visuals on the screen, along with the actors and props, to be over lit, The Enchantment Theatre

Company was most successful in bringing both children and adults to understand what simple happiness truly means.

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For many beer drinkers, there is a certain disconnect from grain to glass. It’s often easy to forget that the liquid in your glass is a handcrafted product from a brewery, requiring a multi-step manufacturing process long before it ever hits shelves. Just like the production of any food or beverage, recalls can happen and sometimes there are quality control issues. The microbrewing world is no different and sometimes it takes the announcement of a major quality control issue to remind us to appreciate the consistency and reliability of many of our favorites.

Brewing is truly an artistic process, but it is also a process in which there are many opportunities for trouble to occur. Throughout the brewing, fermentation and packaging processes, there are several chances for a problem to arise that could adversely affect the quality of the product. Homebrewers might know better than anyone that it’s easier than it seems to under- or over-carbonate a batch of beer. A little too much priming sugar during bottling time, and two weeks later you will end up with a room covered in suds and shards of brown glass from the aptly named “bottle bombs” you have created.

Not enough sugar and your beer will take what seems like an eternity to carbonate. These problems can even happen to professional brewers as well, sometimes due to the high alcohol content in some imperial stouts and strong ales, which makes the environment difficult for yeast to ‘do its work.’ In addition to carbonation issues and sometimes off-flavors, a dreaded infection can occur. With the increase in popularity in the U.S. of wild beers – styles influenced by the spontaneously fermented lambics of Belgium – there is an increased risk of cross-contamination to brewer’s regular styles.

That is to say, the wild yeasts are relentless, and can inadvertently inoculate another batch of beer by imparting distinctly earthy flavors.

While these flavors are desired in some styles, they are considered a flaw in most typical ales and lagers, as well as in the wine world. In fact, many winemakers will not even enter a brewery that uses Brettanomyces for fear that they will transfer the yeast via their clothing back to the vineyard and adversely affect the flavors of their barrels. In the past year, several brewers have fallen victim to batches of their Americanstyle beers being influenced by the flavors of Brett, forcing them to dump entire batches.

Beer problems aren’t the only kind of issues that can occur for breweries. Sometimes there are also packaging issues that can greatly influence the product. I have personally witnessed defective bottles that fracture in a very specific way around the circumference of the bottle’s base, likely due to stress concentrations from the carbonation’s internal pressure and manufacturing defects. Breaks of this nature are often tied back to the glass manufacturers more so than the brewers themselves.

Issues can also occur with labeling and date codes. For brewers that spend lots of money on their packaging, this can be a crucial misstep.

Ultimately, with the numbers of problems that can occur during the brewing process, drinkers should be ecstatic every time they have the opportunity to indulge in a fresh pint. The craft beer world will continuously improve its quality control going forward and, in the meantime, every delicious brew should be appreciated.

Cheers!

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In the end, the letters burned with only Clay, Unser and likely Tara knowing John’s true fate.

It’s unpredictable at this point if and how the rest of the team will learn the news. The discovery might have to wait now that SAMCRO is in big trouble after losing some of its smuggled cocaine. Thanks to the extortion of Juice by Roosevelt, he made the terrible decision of taking it. The air of inevitable despair is as potent as ever in “Sons of Anarchy” as the season continues to keep its fans on the edge of their seats.

Steven Spielberg, producer of films such as “Jaws,” “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” and “Jurassic Park,” brings us an action packed TV series this fall that is unlike anything other TV show that we have seen. “Terra Nova,” which premiered on Sept. 26, follows the lives of the Shannon family beginning in the year 2149.

The Shannons live in an overpopulated world with no vegetation and poor air quality that threatens the extinction of mankind. With laws that forbid a family to have more than two children, the Shannons break the rules and have a third child that they can only manage to keep hidden for so long. When law enforcement officials are tipped about the Shannon’s third child, Jim Shannon violently attacks the officers and is thrown in jail.

Dr. Elizabeth Shannon, a prominent trauma surgeon, takes care of her three children in Jim’s absence: Josh, a rebellious seventeen year old, Naomi, a socially awkward sixteen year old and Zoe, the youngest daughter of Jim and Elizabeth.

In the premiere of “Terra Nova,” Shannon is notified that she and her family qualify to be sent to Terra Nova. In 2149, a time in which the world seems to be coming to an end, a rift in space-time is discovered at Hope Plaza, a large ring shaped structure located in Chicago allows individuals to travel 85 million years back in time. Terra Nova is a community set up in this late Cretaceous period of earth (the time in which dinosaurs existed) that gives mankind a second chance to take care of the earth that we live in.

Only individuals and their families who are vital to the establishment of this new community are sent to Terra Nova.

Shannon is such an individual whose expertise in the field of medicine was perceived to be an essential contribution to Terra Nova. As a result, she and her two oldest children were sent an invitation to join this new colony.

However, she did not want to leave for Terra Nova without her youngest daughter, Zoe, and her imprisoned husband. Shannon and her husband plot an elaborate scheme that breaks her husband out of a maximum-security prison, and brings him and the entire family to Terra Nova.

At first “Terra Nova” seems to be a geeky show, but after watching it, I can attest to the fact that it is nothing but geeky.

I am someone who like shows such as “24”, “Law and Order,” “Gossip Girl” and so on, but “Terra Nova” offers something different from the other shows.

Spielberg brings us probably one of his greatest contributions to television with “Terra Nova.”

It is a show that promises to live up to other popular series such as “Lost.” The visual effects in “Terra Nova” made me feel as if I was watching a movie for an hour. This show is just not for sci-fi fans, but people of all ages and interests who like action, adventure, comedy and drama.

In a society in which we are constantly worried about pollution, overpopulation and the gradual destruction of Earth, “Terra Nova” is a reminder of what we can have if we better take care of our Earth. The show is also a constant reminder of the importance of coexisting with our environment. Stay tuned to “Terra Nova” Mondays at 8 p.m. on FOX.

Jason.Bogdan@UConn.edu

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The cast of NBC’s hit comedy, “Community.” The infamous Greendale community college study group reconvenes for a third season of hijinks and hilarity.

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By Jason Wong Staff Writer Greendale’s most prominent study group has returned for a third season in “Community.” So far, the group has been up to its usual hilarious and dysfunctional behavior.

The season started where the previous season left off with “Biology 101,” where the group decides to enroll in biology together. Pierce recants on his decision to leave the group last season, but has difficulty joining the class, as there is a lack of available seats.

Jeff gets off to a bad start with the biology professor and Pierce ends up taking his place in the class.

Meanwhile, Chang takes up residence in Greendale itself, and the dean finds a powerful rival in the vice dean of the air conditioning repair annex. In the end, Jeff ends up having something of a knockout-gas-induced epiphany about the study group, and redeems himself in the professor’s eyes.

In the following episode, “Geography of Global Conflict,” Annie finds a rival in her political science class who ends up stealing Annie’s idea for a Greendale Model U.N. They each form their own Model U.N. to compete for the official school spot, and Annie seems on the cusp of victory until somebody in the group passes gas. Meanwhile, upon finding out that an old friend and fellow pro-

tester is being jailed and possibly tortured in Syria, a jealous Britta decides to be needlessly defiant of everything Greendale, which ends in Chang getting to taser her.

Finally, Annie’s team wins by making an empty gesture, which the political science professor applauds as being what the U.N. actually stands for.

Lastly, in “Competitive Ecology,” the group is told to break into groups for homework, but being an odd-numbered group, one person is forced to partner up with a “random nongrouper,” Todd. They immediately run into trouble, ending up with Abed devising an algorithm where the group would number their preferences and Abed

would put them in the best pairing. Unfortunately, this quickly devolves into a fight over who in the group is more popular and who would be more useful as a lab partner, leaving Todd in hysterics. After having spent no time on the project, the group shows up with nothing and ends up blaming Todd for their problems.

Meanwhile, after inadvertently setting fire to the school, Chang is promoted to head of Greendale Security.

“Community” has come back with a decent showing, and fans will eagerly anticipate the rest of the season.

Jason.Wong@UConn.edu

‘Sons of Anarchy’ maintains intensity

By Jason Bogdan Senior Staff Writer

What I’m watching “Legends of the Hidden Temple” The college-student-of-today’s pop culture vernacular is full of references to 90s television programming for pre-teens. That’s why it’s never surprising to see that the 10-year-old competitors from Legends of the Hidden Temple are a mainstay on Halloween – some of you may be shopping for Legends of the Hidden Temple costumes right now. But, lest our minds stray from what’s important, Legends of the Hidden Temple was more than just a nostalgic television show, it was a revolution. Every afternoon I would tune in to see Olmec make things up about history and accept them as facts and cheer on the Red Jaguars (the latter is something I would never do today, because Blue Barracudas are eternal). The show was a fun game show that would have my heart racing as the temple guards whisked the children away, something that I found genuinely startling every time, like I shouldn’t know to expect it. It also did a good job of selling things to children, because I consumed a number of those whistle pops before I turned double digits.

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Spielberg takes viewers to new world

By Hima Mamillapalli Staff Writer

1. Two and a Half Men (CBS) - 12.2 2. NCIS (CBS) - 12.0 3. NBC Sunday Night Football (NBC) - 11.5 4. 60 Minutes (CBS) - 10.6 5.NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) 10.1 6. Dancing With the Stars (ABC) - 10.8 7. The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - 8.8 8. Dancing with the Stars Results (ABC) - 9.3 9. Sunday NIght NFL Pre-Kick (NBC) - 8.4 10. Mike & Molly (CBS) - 8.4

1. Redskins/Cowboys (ESPN) 17,104 2. Jersey Shore (MTV) - 7,061 3. Tigers-Yankees 1 (TBSC) - 5,461 4. Jessie (DSNY) - 4,630 5. Sportscenter (ESPN) - 4,485 6. Jersey Shore After Hours (MTV) - 4,235 7. Pawn Stars (HIST) - 4,224 8. SpongeBob (NICK) - 4,214 9. Tigers-Yankees 1 (TBSC) - 4,200 10. SpongeBob (NICK) - 4,192

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Although “Sons of Anarchy” is only five episodes into its latest season, the action is already at full throttle. The chains of lies and betrayal are constantly getting larger, with a devastating disaster already feeling a few steps away in this thrilling series.

The season had a tense opening as the majority of SAMCRO returned to Charming after the 14-month prison sentence from the previous season. With Corresponding Sheriff Unser now retired, the team must deal with a police chief named Roosevelt. The new chief is no fan of the Sons, and teams up with a mysterious Assistant U.S. Attorney to rid the town of gang dealings.

But the law isn’t the only conflict the SoA has to deal with. The team’s leader, Clay, has a desire to fill his pockets with as much possible, now that he’s months away from being fully victim to arthritis. He subjects the team to conducting their ultimate taboo, transporting drugs. At this point, the Sons start to break apart. Half the team is ashamed, while the other half looks forward to a future when Clay finally steps down, except for Jax, who decides to leave the Sons after this job to build a healthy family life with his fiancé, Tara.

With the team on the brink of drastic changes, the show’s allusions to Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” emerge once again.

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Piney lights up a cigar. The new season of “Sons of Anarchy” promoises viewers a continuation of the drama and tragedy from previous seasons.

A majority of the season was spent on Gemma trying to obtain the letters from her exlover/Jax’s true father, John Teller, which Tara possessed for Jax. It was always general knowledge that the letters contained more than John’s love life, but that was never explained until now. In the most recent episode the gloves finally came off, and Clay had the greatest resemblance to “Hamlet’s” King Claudius thus far.

Leave it to Unser to prove himself an infinitely better sleuth than Gemma for immediately finding the letters and

burning them in front of a disgruntled Clay. Aging Sons member Piney recently went forward and blackmailed Clay, predicting that the dark truth in those letters would bring him down. As it turned out, Piney was right to invoke fear in his leader. In a shocking scene, Clay justifies his actions to Unser, who reads the letters before burning them: Clay did kill John in cold blood, just as Teller was about to bring a new, peaceful era for SAMCRO. The way Clay told his side of the story, without a single shred of guilt or regret, was almost terrifying.

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‘South Park’ mid-season return falls flat

By Brendon Fields Campus Correspondent 2011 hasn’t been kind to “South Park.” The first half of the show’s 15th season, which aired between April and June, was largely considered subpar by both fans and critics. This has been attributed to creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone devoting time to their Tony Awardwinning musical “The Book of Mormon.” However, the first half of the season ended on a strange note. The episode “You’re Getting Old” featured Stan being overrun with cynicism. His parents separated after having to live in the monotony of dealing with the same situations

week after week. The episode ended with a cliffhanger, and sparked many rumors among fans that Parker and Stone were no longer happy with the show and were drawing it to a close. Others thought that it was an unannounced series finale. Parker and Stone denied all rumors, and was widespread anticipation for the show’s return.

“South Park” premiered its newest episode, the title of which is too inappropriate to print, on Wednesday, Oct. 5.

The story began where the last left off; Randy and Sharon are divorced and Stan is sliding deeper into cynical depression.

Every pop culture reference Stan hears sounds like a burst of flatulence. This drew mod-

erate laughs in the last episode, but not so much here. Some of the jokes are recycled from the last episode, such as poking fun of the film “Zookeeper,” and the new jokes seemed fairly shallow. At one point they call the new NBC show “Terra Nova” a rip-off of both “Lost” and “Jurassic Park.” I figured that out a month ago, as did everybody else. I know “South Park” is known for pointing out the obvious, but it just didn’t work here. As the story continues, Stan’s cynicism is so strong he is diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. I don’t know how the show’s creators made a correlation between cynicism and Asperger’s, because it’s completely false and not very funny. He is taken

to a clinic where he finds out from others with his condition that cynicism is reality and there is only one medicine for obstructing it, alcohol. The scenes of Stan running around drunk are easily the funniest part of the episode.

In the episode’s subplot, Cartman misinterprets the phrase Asperger’s Syndrome based on its pronunciation.

I’m not going to go any further with that, but it’s your basic toilet-humor subplot.

Nothing makes it especially funny, but it worked as a time filler. There was also a wouldbe subplot about a mandatory school vaccination leading to children being infected with a disease, possibly Asperger’s.

This of course is a reference to

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By Aaron Burstein Campus Correspondent

Fans of Brad Neely are undoubtedly ecstatic that his offbeat sense of humor has made its long awaited return.

The internet-based cartoonist/ mad scientists’ absurd creations have found their way into the new Adult Swim TV series China, IL, which premiered Sunday, Oct. 2.

The show centers around the characters of the Professor Brothers (Steve and Frank), and the naïve but beloved 30-year-old man child (and sometimes student) known as Baby Cakes.

All were previous subjects of Neely’s own web creations, and their respective universes have been brought together against the backdrop of The University of China, Illinois, which is allegedly the worst school in America.

One interesting aspect of “China, IL” is that it seems to

be a reversal of the typical formula. Movies and TV shows that make use of the college setting are typically focused on the students. However, in the case of China, IL, the faculty is the main focus. Director Mike L. Mayfield described the set-up as the students taking the role of the comedic straight man, while the faculty is their wacky counterpart.

The series premiere, titled “Rewind, Pause, Play!” opens with Professor Steve ranting about the nature of oppression among those in power, while slinging a beer bottle at the ceiling tiles.

However, upon the entrance of some government agents, it’s soon revealed that Steve has a more immediate problem on his hands: a timetraveling Ronald Reagan is seeking vengeance against him. Back in 1982, a young Steve performed an embarrassing Reagan impression on a children’s talent show.

Reagan, in his indignation, ordered the FBI to secretly construct a time machine so that he could ruin Steve’s life in return. Suffice to say that a showdown ensues.

The episode features the expected vocal work of Brad Neely as Baby Cakes, Professor Steve and Professor Frank. However, it also features Andy Richter as Special Agent Green and Hulk Hogan as the Dean. And since the Dean is a reoccurring character, there will be plenty more Hulk as the series progresses.

Jason Alexander and Jeffrey Tambor are also scheduled to make vocal appearances later in the season.

Though the TV episode doesn’t quite capture the same cerebral humor of the web episodes, it’s certainly a solid beginning, and it will be interesting to see how the series develops. Because the first episode mainly focuses on Steve, I’ll be looking for-

ward to seeing how the series spotlights some of the other characters.

However, change can also be a good thing. Although Neely’s original creations were still-frame animations set to a soundtrack (slideshow style), the transition to a fully animated cartoon works well.

The show is even more fastpaced and somewhat farcelike. And fans will be pleased to see the series stays true to Neely’s penchant for sneaking in subtle side gags.

Overall, the animation works, the writing is solid, and there’s no shortage of interesting directions the show can take. The show’s warped style of comedy is definitely not for everyone, but for those with a more offbeat sense of humor and an open mind, “China, IL” is sure to please. The show runs every Monday morning at midnight.

Aaron.Burstein@UConn.edu

Rick Perry’s actions in Texas, forcing young girls to get a vaccination to prevent an STD. This story had a lot of potential but it just gets lost and forgotten in this rather scatterbrained episode. The rest of the humor is primarily character driven – Butters and Mr. Mackey both evoke laughs simply by being themselves.

But the big question is, in which direction will “South Park” go? Will everything return to normal, or will they take advantage of the opportunity to put a new spin on the show? The answer: the former. They make a speech toward the end that it’s best to stick with what works.

Even though I expected this outcome, I can’t help but

feel a little disappointed by it. The episode had a lot of momentum going into it, but the bait and switch completely derailed it. This would be excusable if it was a phenomenal episode, but it was average at best. The social commentary was weak and scattered, the humor wasn’t any more refined – not to mention the one scene that was just offensive, even by the show’s notoriously-low standards. The underlying message was stick with what you know. What worries me: Do Parker and Stone actually still know how to put on a good show? Time will tell.

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Univ. of Texas buys Coetzee archive AUSTIN, Texas (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The professional archive of Nobel Prize-winning writer J.M. Coetzee will be housed at the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center humanities library, providing a rare glimpse into the man considered a master storyteller of the South African experience and public injustice.

The Ransom Center's $1.5 million acquisition of the Coetzee collection was scheduled to be formally announced Monday.

The collection purchased using private grants and university money includes 155 boxes of manuscripts, notebooks, essays, speeches and letters to his publishers dating back to 1956.

"He writes brilliantly of his native home of South Africa, but the themes and conflicts he explores in his works are universal," Ransom Center Director Thomas Staley said.

Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940 and earned his doctorate in English, linguistics and Germanic languages at the University of Texas in 1965. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 2003.

The thread of South Africa's history of racism and social inequality runs through Coetzee's diverse body of novels, memoirs and criticism Coetzee has published 13 books, including "Life & Times of Michael K" in 1983 and "Disgrace" in 1999. Both novels received the prestigious Man Booker Prize, awarded each year for best full-length novel. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker award twice.

The collection will give scholars in intimate view of how he developed characters and storylines in his novels as well as conversations with agents and publishers, said Molly Schwartzburg, the Ransom Center's curator of literature.

The collection includes nine

"drafts" of "Life & Times of Michael K," Coetzee's fourth novel about a simple gardener and his mother who live in Cape Town when the city erupts into violent unrest.

Some of the drafts are only a few pages long but several present alternative narratives for the main characters. In one, Michael is viewed as a brilliant poet. In another, he is an educated dispatch clerk. Anna, who is Michael's mother in the final version, changes roles from his mother to his wife to his grandmother. Coetzee didn't settle on the final relationship of mother and son until the sixth version.

"He knows it's about a man and a woman who are related in some way. Whether they are exercises or false starts, we don't know,"

Schwartzburg said.

Schwartzburg called the Coetzee archive one of Ransom Center's most important literary acquisitions and noted the center's expanding collection of key Africa-based authors. The Ransom Center also has the archive of Nobel-winning author Doris Lessing, who grew up in Rhodesia, which is now called Zimbabwe.

Other Nobel laureates represented in the Ransom Center collections include Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Steinbeck and W.B. Yeats.

"I expect to hear from scholars around the world," about the Coetzee collection, Schwartzburg said.

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Green-Ellis runs for 2 TDs, Pats beat Jets FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — BenJarvus Green-Ellis ran for a career-high 136 yards and two touchdowns and the New England Patriots beat the New York Jets 30-21 with a vastly improved defense Sunday.

Tom Brady had another strong game, completing 24 of 33 passes for 321 yards and one touchdown as the Patriots scored at least 30 points for the 13th straight regular-season game.

Meanwhile, New York's Mark Sanchez had another tough one, passing for just 166 yards against the team that entered with the NFL's lowest-ranked defense. One week earlier, he threw for only 111 yards in a 34-17 loss at Baltimore.

In the last meeting between the Jets and Patriots, Sanchez outplayed Brady in New York's 28-21 playoff win on Jan. 16, adding to the fierce rivalry between the AFC East teams.

But the crowd was unusually

subdued throughout the first half Sunday, perhaps because of the lackluster play that included six penalties by each team.

The Patriots (4-1) won their 19th straight regular-season game at home. The Jets (2-3) lost their third straight game.

New England never trailed, scoring the first 10 points and leading 10-7 at halftime.

The Jets staged a comeback after falling behind 27-14, marching 85 yards to a 21-yard scoring pass from Sanchez to Santonio Holmes. Sanchez was 5 for 6 on the drive for 65 yards — more than 40 percent of his total for the game.

But the Patriots came right back, holding the ball for 6:12 and scoring with 1:02 remaining on Stephen Gostkowski's 28-yard field goal, his third of the game.

On the first play of the third quarter, Brady and Wes Welker connected for a 73-yard gain.

Three plays later, a wide-open Deion Branch caught a 2-yard touchdown pass from Brady on the left side of the end zone.

The Jets struck right back when Joe McKnight returned the kickoff 88 yards one week after scoring on a 107-yard kickoff return in a 34-17 loss at Baltimore. New York needed just three plays to reach the end zone on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Sanchez to Jeremy Kerley, cutting the lead to 17-14.

Green-Ellis, who had 27 carries, then scored his second 3-yard touchdown with 1:20 left in the third quarter, and Gostkowski added a 24-yard field goal with 12:57 to go in the game.

The Jets failed to get a first down on their first four possessions, punting on each one. But on their next series, they held the ball for 7:54 and scored on Shonn Greene's 3-yard run, the 13th play of a 78-yard drive, as they cut the lead to 10-7.

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Patriots defensive back James Ihedigbo (44) and teammates are congratulated after beating the Jets 30-21on Sunday.

Raiders beat Texans 25-20 day after Davis' death HOUSTON (AP) — Coach Hue Jackson sank to his knees, buried his face in his hands and finally released the emotions he'd been holding back. Up in the visitor's suite at Reliant Stadium, Mark Davis wiped away tears with a paper towel and glanced to the sky.

The Oakland Raiders won the day after their maverick owner Al Davis died, beating the Houston Texans 25-20 on Sunday behind Jason Campbell's two touchdown passes.

Michael Huff intercepted Matt Schaub's pass in the end zone on the final play, and the Raiders ran to celebrate a bittersweet victory unlike any other in the storied history of the franchise.

Al, this one's for you.

"One thing coach (Davis) always taught me was he said: 'Hue don't believe in plays, believe in players and eventually the players will make plays for you,'" Jackson said. "And

that's what I did. I could just hear him saying that to me the whole time. Believe in your players and not the plays."

Stadiums around the league observed a moment of silence before the early games to honor Davis, who died at his Oakland home at age 82. His son, Mark, took his place in the owner's box, and the Raiders wore black decals on the backs of their helmets with "AL" written in silver letters.

They were statistically dominated by Houston, outgained 473-278 and held to 11 first downs and 94 yards rushing.

They still managed to do the only thing that ever mattered to Davis.

They just won, baby.

"We know he's looking down on us right now," Huff said.

"This win is for him. I appreciate everything he's done for this organization. He's never gone in our eyes. We'll never let him go.

He's with us."

Sebastian Janikowski kicked four field goals, and Oakland hung on to improve to 3-2. The Raiders drafted Janikowski in 2000, only the third time a kicker had been taken in the first round.

"He was looking over us," Janikowski said. "I was feeling good and hitting everything in warmups."

Schaub threw for 416 yards and two touchdowns but missed star receiver Andre Johnson, who sat out with a right hamstring injury. The Texans (3-2) still had a chance to win with under a minute left, facing a third-and-23 from the Oakland 39.

Schaub scrambled and found tight end Joel Dreessen open at the 5, and Schaub spiked the ball with seven seconds left.

Instead of trying to run for the winning score, Schaub lobbed a pass to Jacoby Jones, and Huff stepped in to pick it off.

"My mobility wasn't limited at the time," Schaub said, "but

I'm not necessarily a guy that's going to make a whole lot of guys miss in the open field."

For Oakland, a messy victory never felt so good.

"This is a new beginning for this football team," Jackson said. "We don't care if they're ugly, we don't care if they're pretty. We just don't care. Our No. 1 purpose when we play is to win.

"We all had coach tied to our hearts today."

The Raiders pulled off a fake punt that Davis would've loved to keep momentum in the fourth quarter.

After the Texans stopped Darren McFadden on third-and-1, Rock Cartwright took the snap and raced 35 yards to the Houston 25. Janikowski kicked a 42-yard field goal with 10 minutes left for a 25-17 Oakland lead.

With no Johnson to target, Schaub threw six consecutive incompletions during one stretch of the final quarter.

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Raiders quarterback Jason Campbell and coach Hue Jackson embrace after the win.

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Game 2 of the ALCS postponed due to rain

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Detroit Tigers are wet and wounded.

After Game 2 of the AL championship series in Texas was postponed Sunday because of more rain in the forecast, manager Jim Leyland said the Tigers have lost their second starting outfielder for the series.

Magglio Ordonez is out for the rest of the season after he refractured his right ankle, which was surgically repaired in July 2010. He had missed more than a month this summer because of problems with that ankle, then came out of the twice-interrupted ALCS opener.

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Moore, Lynx win WNBA title ATLANTA (AP) — Seimone Augustus and the Minnesota Lynx turned up the defensive pressure on Angel McCoughtry and the Atlanta Dream.

The result was the final entry in a near-perfect postseason as the Lynx beat the Dream 73-67 on Friday night to complete a three-game sweep of the WNBA championship series.

Augustus had 16 points and Maya Moore, returning to her Atlanta home, had 15 — including a key 3-pointer late in the game — to lead a balanced scoring attack as the Lynx won their first WNBA title.

McCoughtry had a gamehigh 22 points, including nine in the fourth quarter.

McCoughtry made only 9 of 25 shots as the Dream were held to 34.6 percent shooting from the field.

"Magglio had just been talking three or four days ago about how he felt great, how he felt as good as he's felt for a long time," Leyland said.

Already without Delmon Young (left oblique), the Tigers lost to the defending AL champion Texas Rangers 3-2 in Game 1. The second game was rescheduled for 4:19 p.m. EDT Monday, and the teams will lose their travel day with Game 3 still set for Tuesday in Detroit.

Derek Holland pitches Monday for the Rangers against Max Scherzer, who gets an extra day after his 1 1-3 innings of relief in the Tigers' AL division

series clincher Thursday night against the New York Yankees.

The ALCS opener was stopped by rain twice in the top of the fifth inning Saturday night for a total of 1 hour, 50 minutes.

Ordonez, who had walked to load the bases during a 13-minute resumption of play between the delays, was replaced by a pinch runner when the game restarted for good. Leyland was told during the second stoppage of play that the ankle was bothering Ordonez again.

"When the trainer came in during the rain delay and told me, I was almost flabbergasted,

to be honest with you," Leyland said. "It doesn't appear that there was any significant movement or anything that did it. It just all of a sudden it flared up."

Leyland said the results of medical tests Sunday showed "a situation there that is not conducive to playing the rest of the year."

The manager didn't elaborate, but the Tigers later released the results of X-rays and a CT scan done Sunday that showed the re-fracture.

At 6:45 p.m. CDT, the scheduled first pitch Sunday, there were mostly overcast skies, though the sun had tried to peek

through the clouds just before then. There was rain to the East but none at Rangers Ballpark, where the tarp covered the field.

The only water visible were a few puddles on the warning track against the wall after the field had been inundated by heavy rains overnight.

But there was a forecast for more rain in the area Sunday night, and officials were wary of a repeat of what happened Saturday.

"We felt with the forecast that we had that we didn't want to experience what we did last night. ... With the forecast for this evening, it appears that it's going to be a duplication of

what we saw," Rangers president Nolan Ryan said. "The one thing we're concerned about is the integrity of the game and not put either team in a situation where possibly the elements could affect the outcome of the game."

The forecast Monday called for only a 10 percent chance of rain.

The rain delays Saturday night were the first at Rangers Ballpark since May 24. This season was played during one of the hottest and driest summers in North Texas, including 27 games when the temperature was 100 degrees or more at first pitch.

Tepperman: An interesting offseason awaits the Red Sox this winter from SOX, page 14 OBP. He slumped mightily down the stretch, however, and lost his starting job in the last week, when Drew returned from a two-month stint on the disabled list.

But Reddick showed enough in his first full season with the team to warrant a shot at being the full-time starter. He’s a defensive player – his range is good, his arm is excellent – and he has enough offensive ability, provided he can get his on-base percentage closer to the .350 mark.

If the Sox aren’t completely comfortable with Reddick as the primary option in right, they could always sign a veteran like Coco Crisp or Raul Ibanez for cheap.

Catcher: After 15 seasons with the franchise, it’s time for Boston and Jason Varitek to part ways.

Really, it was time to cut ties three years ago, but now there’s literally nothing the captain brings to the table anymore.

Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who was acquired at the July 31 trade deadline in 2010, was highly criti-

cized down the stretch of the season. He has major holes in his swing, and his slump seemed to coincide with the Sox’s collapse.

Yet from a statistical standpoint, Salty is actually passable for a catcher in the league today. He plays respectable defense and hit 16 homers with a .737 OBP in 103 games. Not great by any means, but not disastrous.

In addition, Ryan Lavarnway showed flashes of the offensive prowess he displayed in the minors.

Between he and Saltalamacchia, the Sox should have enough to get by at catcher next season.

Shortstop: At shortstop, I’m aboard the “sign Jose Reyes” bandwagon, even despite his injury history, but I don’t see the Sox owners opening up their checkbooks this offseason. They’ll probably just re-sign Marco Scutaro (or a player of that caliber) for cheap and platoon him with Jed Lowrie like they did down the stretch of this year. It’s been almost a decade since there’s been a good shortstop in Boston, anyway, so I’ve pretty much conceded they’ll go into 2012 with an average or

below player at the position.

Designated Hitter: David Ortiz’s contract situation will be one of the most – if not the most – interesting hot stove topics in Boston. At 35, the Sox might not be willing to give Ortiz the amount of years he’ll be looking for.

However, Big Papi is a local hero, and after a contract season where he hit .309 with 29 homers and 96 RBI, the front office is in a position where they almost have to bring him back.

My guess is that the two sides work out a two-year deal for pretty big money.

Pitching: The rotation is where the Red Sox need to get creative. Start by cutting all the dead weight – Daisuke is a lost cause, Tim Wakefield is toast and Andrew Miller should never set foot near Fenway Park again.

On the other hand, the Sox are probably stuck with John Lackey, as his massive contract and even more bloated ERA have made him a seemingly immoveable entity. All they can hope for at this point is that his

personal problems are behind him and he bounces back to have a halfway respectable season, and even that might be asking for too much.

Therefore, assuming Buchholz is healthy and Lackey is still in Beantown, that leaves one spot in the rotation to fill.

Free agency doesn’t offer a whole lot of options, although the Sox are still sure to be in the mix. CC Sabathia will opt out of his contract, before re-signing with the Yankees for more years and more money. That leaves C.J. Wilson and Mark Buehrle as the top free-agent options. Both will likely get overpaid, but they’re also sure to be upgrades over three-fifths of what the Sox trotted out to the mound this year. Or, they could take a one-year flyer on a guy like Erik Bedard (similar to what the Yankees did with Bartolo Colon and Freddy Garcia) and hope for the best.

Or they could do something crazy (warning: ridiculous hypothetical with no substantial backing alert).

My roommate and I were

talking the other day about how Ellsbury’s trade value will likely never be higher – why not try to package him (and maybe Buchholz) in a trade for Felix Hernandez? The Mariners won’t be able to keep him when he hits free agency, so it would make some sense for them to get a monster package of cheaper players (Ellsbury still has two more option years, Buchholz is signed to a reasonable contract for four more years).

For the Sox, King Felix is everything their rotation needs – a legitimate ace (Lester is just a tick below that level, Beckett is inconsistent) whose a guaranteed 200-plus quality innings a year.

Sure, it’s a long shot, but it makes sense for the Red Sox on so many levels (I’m disregarding whether it makes sense for the Mariners because, well, it’s my hypothetical). Or, more likely, they could overpay for another free agent.

Either way, this offseason is sure to be a fascinating one in Boston.

Ryan.Tepperman@UConn.edu

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Monday, October 10, 2011

Sports

UConn gets rings, look forward to this year

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun says he has more talent this season than he had on the team that won the national championship in April.

Calhoun made the comment Thursday before a dinner at which the 2010-11 Huskies received their national championship rings.

“We’re more talented right now,” Calhoun told reporters. “It doesn’t mean we’re going to win any games. It doesn’t mean we’re going to win a national championship. I think we can.”

UConn returns four starters from last season’s squad, which went 11-0 in the postseason to win both the Big East and the NCAA titles.

The Huskies also have added a highly-regarded recruiting class that includes 6-foot point guard Ryan Boatright, 6-8 forward DeAndre Daniels and 6-foot-11 center Andre Drummond — a surprise signing that came late

in August, and propelled the Huskies to the top of many preseason watch lists.

“All three of them right now are going to make a hard run at a lot of playing time,” Calhoun said.

But UConn lost star guard Kemba Walker, who left after his junior season for the NBA draft, something he said he does not regret despite the current lockout.

“No regrets at all,” he said. “It’s been a crazy summer, especially because of no basketball, but things happen. We’ll be back soon, I’m pretty sure.”

Calhoun said it will take a team effort to replace Walker’s leadership. The Huskies will look to junior center Alex Oriakhi, and sophomores Jeremy Lamb and Shabazz Napier for that.

Oriakhi stepped into that role Thursday, saying he agrees that the talent is there for another title run, but has cautioned the underclass-

men that it will take a lot more than talent to repeat.

“Last year’s team, we worked our butts off every day in practice,” he said. “So, if this team can do that and more, then I definitely agree.

But, talent doesn’t mean anything without work, so I feel as long as we’re willing to put in the work, everything will take care of itself.”

Walker and other UConn alumni who have been locked out of the NBA, such as Celtics guard Ray Allen, have been playing pickup games with the Huskies this fall.

Oriakhi said that can only help the team get better, but said the real work will begin with the first official practice on Oct. 14.

Lamb said the Huskies are looking forward to that, but first want to celebrate with their new jewelry.

The rings handed out at Thursday’s banquet feature the

UConn logo of an interlocking red letter “U’’ and blue “C’’ on a bed of diamonds, with the words, “National Champions.” The players name and number are on the side of the ring, along with an image of the NCAA trophy.

“I’ve turned the page, but at the same time I still have the memories,” said Lamb. “Nobody can take those memories from me.”

Calhoun declined to comment on Thursday’s news that TCU had been invited to join the Big 12 conference.

“The only thing that I’m going to concern myself with tonight is the celebration of last year’s team,” he said.

“That’s what I’m here for, one simple thing, to celebrate an incredible year. Tonight is all about that and nothing else.

Tomorrow we’ll get back to the realities of life.”

AP

The ring above is what the national champion men’s basketball team received Thursday.

» MLB

Brewers rally to beat Cards in Game 1 of NLCS

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Even before the first pitch, the Milwaukee Brewers took a swing at the St. Louis Cardinals.

Come Sunday, the Brewers swapped their barbs for bats — and just kept bashing.

Needing a comeback in the NL championship series opener, Milwaukee turned to its power duo of Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder, then got a clutch hit from Yuniesky Betancourt to beat the Cardinals 9-6.

The Brewers celebrated wildly as the big hits came during a rapid-fire rally.

“It’s the playoffs, bro,” Fielder said. “You’ve got to let it all out.”

Braun launched a two-run, 463-foot homer in the first inning and added a two-run double during a six-run burst in the fifth. Fielder hit a two-run homer and the typically lighthitting Betancourt added a tworun homer to cap it.

The midgame turnaround came so fast that the crowd wasn’t done cheering Braun’s big hit when Fielder went deep.

“I don’t even know if I heard the ball come off Prince’s bat,” Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. “I knew it was a good swing and came off nice, but when you can’t hear the ball, the sound of it, because of all the people yelling. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen there until I saw the ball flight.”

At least for one game, the bitter NL Central rivals avoided any on-field confrontations in

their first postseason matchup since the 1982 World Series.

That’s despite an already tense atmosphere that gained some steam when Brewers starter Zack Greinke let it slip on Saturday that some of his teammates don’t like the Cardinals’ Chris Carpenter — a comment that drew a stern rebuke from Cardinals manager Tony La Russa.

Greinke hinted that he heard a few comments from the Cardinals’ dugout Sunday, but he said it was nothing out of the ordinary.

“They’re yelling from the dugout some, but most teams do that,” Greinke said. “Everyone always makes fun of me grunting when I throw a fastball. It’s kind of funny sometimes, but no big deal.”

The atmosphere was tense even before the first pitch, as La Russa was showered with boos during pregame introductions. He calmly tipped his cap to the crowd.

La Russa said afterward that he hoped the tension wouldn’t overshadow the competition — although he said he had a sense that some fans and media members would be disappointed if there aren’t any repeats of the on-field confrontations the teams have had in the recent past.

“I don’t want our players and their players to be egged on, and I don’t think they will,” La Russa said. “We’re going to play as hard and good against each other as we can.”

Greinke struggled at times,

but reliever Takashi Saito got Cardinals star Albert Pujols to ground into a key double play in the seventh. Francisco Rodriguez pitched a hitless eighth and closer John Axford threw a hitless ninth for a save.

Game 2 is at Miller Park on Monday night. Shaun Marcum starts for the Brewers against Edwin Jackson.

“We’ll come back out,” Cardinals star Lance Berkman said. “The same thing happened to us in the first game against Philly. We were able to regroup.”

David Freese hit a threerun homer off Greinke in the fourth, and the Cardinals led 5-2 in the fifth.

But Milwaukee made it tough on Cardinals starter Jaime Garcia, who left after giving up Fielder’s homer. Garcia, who hit Fielder with a pitch earlier in the game, gave up six runs and six hits in four-plus innings with three walks. He took the loss.

Greinke earned the win despite his uneven outing, giving up six runs and eight hits in six-plus innings. He left the game to a standing ovation after giving up a leadoff single to Rafael Furcal in the seventh.

The Cardinals took a threerun lead into the fifth before Garcia allowed a leadoff single to Corey Hart and a double to Jerry Hairston Jr. Braun hit a two-run, ground-rule double to right and with the crowd still saluting him, Fielder hit the first pitch from Garcia deep to right

USG looking into other ticket options for UConn from NEW, page 14 “Sometimes people were out there and at the end of the line and it was sold out before they got there so they had been there for two days, and then what was happening is that people were cutting in line,” Fahey said. “Or I was in line and saying ‘yeah, there’s 20 people with me.’”

These issues, on top of concerns about weather – a hurricane once passed through while students were camping out for tickets – as well as general physical safety – a sexual assault occurred in a tent one year – put an end to the old system in the late 1990s, and according to Fahey, it will not be brought back.

There is one new idea that is starting to pick up steam in various forums around campus and may be a possible replacement for the lottery system. The idea, which is in some ways modeled after Kansas’ ticketing system, would involve putting student access to games on their ID cards.

Students would then be swiped into the games instead of presenting tickets. And with the elimination of physical tickets, the ability to resell seats on a secondary market would be eliminated as well.

The idea for paperless tickets was discussed during the ticketing system’s annual review by a board of students, according to sophomore Michael Daniels, a USG committee chair who sat on the board last spring.

While Daniels said that the general idea of electronic tickets was well received, there were specifics about the concept that

needed to be discussed further.

According to Daniels, one of the ideas that the committee discussed involved a points system in which attending games gives the attendees points and those with the most points each year have a better chance of receiving tickets. While those on the committee liked the idea, they also felt it could be problematic.

“Should you get points for going to men’s games? Women’s games? Should you get credit for soccer and baseball, or anything else?,” Daniels said. “So we liked those ideas but there’s always the issues of, what if you have a kid who really doesn’t like baseball or volleyball or soccer, but really wants their basketball tickets, how do you arrange for that?”

Another complication of having electronic, paperless tickets loaded onto ID cards is finding a system that allows students to sell tickets. One option that seemed likely is the creation of a website that allows students to buy tickets from one another and transfer the tickets ID card to ID card.

“You could resell tickets legally online,” Daniels said.

“So you wouldn’t have that issue of, ‘Oh, I’m going home for the weekend I can’t go to the game and now I can’t sell my ticket.’ So you would still be able to sell it. And the nice thing about that is that instead of having to meet up in the union to swap tickets, you could just do it online and be done.”

In addition to just selling and transferring the tickets person to person online, Fahey also

noted that an online, athletics department-based website would allow the school to limit the price of resale, and therefore eliminate the problem of high ticket markups.

USG has also created a task force to brainstorm ideas for a new process, according to 5thsemester political science major Jordan Hegel, a USG senator from west who helped create the committee. One of the major goals of the task force is to research other schools and their basketball ticketing systems, Hegel said.

“We really want to make sure it works,” Hegel said. “By taking innovative ideas from other schools, how they do it, and seeing if those ideas would work at UConn.”

In addition to researching other schools, the committee is also interested in generating student feedback on the new system as well as ideas for a new one. As a way to prompt this input, Hegel – along with Steven Massucci and Connor Mullen, the two other USG Senators who helped create the task force – has created a Facebook event page titled “Fix the BBall Tix Lottery System!

Online Forum,” and is encouraging students to voice their ideas.

And while the remedy to the current basketball ticket lottery is still in its infant stages, students are hopefully that a new system may be in effect next year and that tickets will again be available at affordable prices.

Matthew.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

AP

Brewers’ Jerry Hairston Jr. and Prince Fielder celebrate after Game 1 of the NLCS.

for a two-run homer, giving the Brewers the lead.

Fielder then showed off his repertoire of celebrations, giving the team’s “Beast Mode” gesture upon his arrival at home plate and exchanging mock knockout blows with Braun as he trotted back to the dugout.

That was it for Garcia, who left with no outs in the fifth and his team down 6-5. It that wasn’t the end of trouble for the Cardinals, though.

Reliever Octavio Dotel fielded Rickie Weeks’ grounder and threw the ball away,

allowing Weeks to go to second on the error.

Betancourt — who batted .252 in the regular season with 13 homers — then sent a 2-1 pitch from Dotel deep to left, where it flew into the Brewers’ bullpen and was fielded on the fly by Milwaukee bullpen catcher Marcus Hanel. Hanel pumped his fist, Betancourt circled the bases and the crowd continued its inning-long eruption.

Betancourt has taken plenty of criticism this season, but might be among the rare group of athletes who say they don’t pay

attention to the critics and actually mean it. Through an interpreter, Betancourt said he manages to avoid criticism because he doesn’t speak much English.

“I don’t really pay attention to what the critics say,” Betancourt said.

With the score 8-5, Pujols came to the plate with runners on first and third and no outs in the seventh. Pujols broke his bat on a double-play grounder — a run scored, but the Brewers had limited the damage.

Betancourt doubled in the seventh and scored on a single

by Jonathan Lucroy.

The Brewers and Cardinals split an 18-game series evenly this season, a sign of what has been one of baseball’s most intense rivalries in recent years.

The Cardinals’ success against the Brewers in the final month of the season was one of the main reasons they climbed back into playoff contention.

St. Louis won six of its last seven games against Milwaukee, including a three-game sweep at Miller Park.

The animosity between the two teams spilled into this week, when Greinke told reporters Saturday that some of his teammates don’t like Carpenter because of his “phony attitude.”

La Russa said he got an umpire’s warning after Garcia hit Fielder with a pitch in the first inning, right after Braun’s homer. But the Brewers said they didn’t think the pitch was intentional, and La Russa said the team’s recent history

To read about the UConn men’s basketball team’s run for a repeat, and men’s soccer and field hockey’s battles for championships go to: dailycampus.com, dcsportsonline.wordpress.com

Agabiti: October is a great month for sports from I STILL, page 14 But it was understood that if I missed the bus that I’d have to walk to school because my parents figured that if I was old enough to stay up late to watch baseball, then I was old enough to handle the consequences of sleeping in.

That being said, if it was an important game, I was not just watching, I was glued to the television screen in my Yankees shirt—usually freezing cold because of my dad’s “no heat until December” policy. That adult-sized shirt served more as a nightgown for me and I rocked my kiddie-sized hat with pride.

I looked like a goof but I didn’t care in the least bit.

Nobody even dreamed of changing the channel unless it was a commercial and I yelled at the screen as if I were the manager and the players could actually hear me, not acknowledging the fact that I was nine years old and most of them had been in the league longer than I had been alive. Heck, I didn’t care.

In a strange way, that game 5

loss brought back the little kid, the elementary school-aged Dan who looked forward to a playoff baseball game as if it were Christmas. I’ve been woken up; I’m ready for October now.

As far as sports go, this month has gotten off to a rough start.

It looks like a rebuilding year for UConn football, the Yankees are out of the postseason and my fantasy football team is as far down the tubes as a 4 yearold in a Chuck E. Cheese. The cool thing, though, is that I’m totally fine with that, I still love October.

I’m stoked for the rest of the month and I can’t wait to watch the rest of this year’s playoffs. There there are some very intriguing teams remaining and some great story lines left.

In the American League, I’m pulling the Detroit Tigers because that city has been economically decimated as a result of the recession and those fans could use some excitement. That city deserves a champion. In the National League, I’ll be cheering on the Milwaukee Brewers because the only thing anybody

can ever think of when they hear about that team is the sausage races around the baseball field that take place every game. It’s time that “The Brew Crew” got recognition for something other than the city’s smoked meats and beer.

The only thing that I seriously remember about Dane Cook’s career—aside from the skit about Monopoly, which he was dead right about—is the series of commercials he did for MLB back in 2007. The catch line was always, “There’s only one postseason. There’s only one Fall Classic. There’s only one October!” Well put Dane, well put. I’ll be soaking in as much October as I possibly can, whether or not the Yankees are playing, the Huskies are relevant or my starting quarterback decides to throw a touchdown pass. Break out the pumpkin spice coffee and apple cider, it’s going to be a great month.

You can follow Dan Agabiti on Twitter @danagabiti.

Daniel.Agabiti@UConn.edu

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Home game

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The Daily Question Q : “Did West Virginia just score again?

A : “They haven’t stopped scoring since 2007.”

Home: Rentschler Field, East Hartford Nov. 5 Syracuse TBA

Nov. 19 Louisville TBA

Nov. 26 Rutgers TBA

Oct. 15 Pittsburgh 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 18 West Virginia 7 p.m.

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Cruz has great day, but Giants fall late

Jim Calhoun

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Oct. 22 Oct. 26 Georgetown Marquette 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

Women’s Soccer (6-6-2) Oct. 14 Pittsburgh 7 p.m.

Oct. 16 West Virginia 1 p.m.

Oct. 22 Providence 1 p.m.

Field Hockey (12-1) Oct. 16 Princeton 2 p.m.

Oct. 19 Boston U. 7 p.m.

Oct. 23 Syracuse 12 p.m.

Oct. 28 Rutgers 3 p.m.

Oct. 30 Princeton 2 p.m.

Volleyball (9-10) Tomorrow Fordham 7 p.m.

Oct. 15 St. John’s 7 p.m.

Oct. 29 Oct. 21 Oct. 23 Villanova Georgetown Notre Dame 2 p.m.

7 p.m.

2 p.m.

Men’s Tennis Oct. 12 Bryant 2 p.m.

Oct. 28, 29, 30 Connecticut Championships All Day

Women’s Tennis Oct. 15 New England’s All Day

Oct. 16 New England’s All Day

Oct. 18 Quinnipiac 2 p.m.

AP

Former UConn star Kemba Walker holds the national championship trophy Thursday night, as Jeremy Lamb and Niels Giffey stand behind him at the UConn men’s basketball team’s championship dinner in Hartford.

Oct. 28, 29, 30 Conn. Championships All Day

Men’s Cross Country Oct. 15 Conn. College Champ.

TBA

Oct. 21 CCSU Mini Meet TBA

Oct. 29 Big East Champ.

TBA

Nov. 12 NCAA Northeast TBA

Nov. 19 IC4A Champs.

TBA

Women’s Cross Country Oct. 15 Conn.

College TBA

Oct. 21 CCSU Mini Meet TBA

Nov. 12 NCAA Northeast TBA

Nov. 21 NCAA Champs.

TBA

Golf Today, Tom. Oct. 15-16 Oct. 30 Connecticut Shelter Kiwah Island Cup Harbor All Day All Day All Day

Rowing Oct. 22 Head of the Charles All Day

Oct. 29 Head of the Fish All Day

Nov. 1 Kiwah Island All Day

Email your answers, along with your name, semester standing and major, to sports@dailycampus.com. The best answer will appear in the next paper.

» That’s what he said

He’s baaaaack!

Men’s Soccer (11-0-1) Oct. 12 Providence 7:30 p.m.

“Who will win the ALCS?”

– Matt Ouimette, 7th-semester sports management major.

-UConn basketball coach on his team this season.

Oct. 26 Pittsburgh 8 p.m.

Next Paper’s Question:

“We’re more talented now...It doesn’t mean we’re going to win a national championship.”

Football (2-4) Oct. 15 South Florida 3:30 p.m.

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THE Storrs Side Football loses to West Virginia to fall to 2-4 on the season

By Aaron Kasmanoff-Dick Campus Correspondent Big Letdown of the week: Football vs. West Virginia Johnny McEntee was 21 of 37 in the air for the Huskies and had been having a career day until halftime, when the Huskies were down by one.

Unfortunately, McEntee’s 3rd-quarter fumble shifted the momentum of the game firmly towards West Virginia, as Jewone Snow recovered the ball at the West Virginia 10-yard-line and took it all the way to the UConn red zone. West Virginia scored two unanswered touchdowns and sacked Johnny Mac in the end zone for a safety before adding another touchdown. UConn finally scored when the Mountaineers took starting quarterback Geno Smith out of the game in favor of true freshman Paul Millard, who was picked off

by UConn red-shirt Freshman Ty-Meer Brown, who took the ball 48 yards to return it

for a touchdown. It was the only UConn touchdown of the night.

The team (2-4, 0-1 Big East) will return to action next Saturday for the Homecoming game against Big East rival USF. Game of the Week: Volleyball vs. USF The UConn Volleyball team took USF to the fifth set in a tough 3-2 loss on Friday.

The team had a fantastic performance statistically, with Mattison Quayle recording 17 kills and Jordan Kirk adding 16. Junior Kelsey Mavin recorded a game high 27 digs.

Senior Jordan Kirk hit .364 on the match, a team high for the always-dependable senior leader. The loss brings the team to 9-10 overall and 0-5 in Big East play. The team will face their final nonconference opponent at home on Tuesday night when they square off against Fordham.

Aaron.Dick@UConn.edu

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Victor Cruz had the sellout crowd calling his name and dancing in the aisles. He had the New York Giants on the verge of another fourth-quarter comeback win.

Then the greatest day in his short NFL career slipped off his fingertips.

Cornerback Brandon Browner gathered in a pass that bounced off Cruz’s hands and sped down the right sideline on a 94-yard interception with 1:08 to play as the Seattle Seahawks thwarted yet another late Giants rally and won 36-25 Sunday.

“We were driving, we were in there,” a disappointed Cruz said after seeing career highs of eight catches for 161 yards, including a spectacular 68-yard TD catch and run that ended in an end zone salsa, go for naught. “We sensed we could win the game on that very play. You always want to win the game. When you do something to negate that, it wipes out the good and you see the bad.”

After the Giants (3-2) fell behind 29-25 on a 27-yard touchdown pass from Charlie Whitehurst to Doug Baldwin with 2:37 to play, Eli Manning drove the Giants from their 20 to the Seattle 5 on consecutive passes of 41 and 19 yards to Cruz.

After a false start against tackle Will Beatty on first down, the Giants bunched three receivers on the left side and Manning (24 of 39 for 420 yards) tried to hit Cruz on a look-in. The pass was a little low and Cruz reached to pull it in.

“I thought I gripped it, but as soon as I went to grip it in, I got hit and it bobbled up in the air,” said Cruz, who also lost a fourth-quarter fumble deep in New York territory that allowed Seattle to tie it at 22.

“I knew it was all downhill from there because there were two guys there and one of them was going to pick it off.”

The ball deflected off Seattle safety Kam Chancellor, popped in the air and went to Browner. Cruz grabbed at Browner’s foot as he headed downfield, but he could not hold on, and the Giants’ three-game winning streak was over.

“It was almost like slow motion, the tipped ball and it landed in my hands and it was a footrace from there,” Browner said.

Whitehurst, who replaced the injured Tarvaris Jackson in the third quarter, led the Seahawks (2-3) on an 80-yard touchdown drive, which he capped with his pass to a wide-open Baldwin with 2:37 left. The Giants seemed to stop on the play after defensive end Osi Umenyiora jumped offside.

“I don’t think there was confusion. You’ve got to keep playing,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. “You’re a defensive team making a penalty.”

THE Pro Side

Tigers stun Yankees, Jets lose to Patriots to fall to 2-3

By Darryl Blain Campus Correspondent Game of the Week: Tigers top Yankees in Game 5 It doesn’t get much more thrilling and dramatic than game five of the ALDS. This one did not disappoint. The Tigers jumped out to an early lead with back-to-back homers in the first inning off Yanks’ starting pitcher Ivan Nova. From then on out it was a pure pitching duel between the two teams. Doug Fister threw five strong innings for Detroit, only surrendering one run on a Robinson Cano solo shot. The Yankees nearly took a late lead in the eighth when Derek Jeter nearly put a ball in the stands with a runner on and the Yankees down one, but it fell short for an out. From there Detroit closer Joes Valverde pitched a scoreless ninth to close out a thriller in the Bronx. Final score: Tigers 3 Yankees 2 Big Letdown: The New York Jets The hype surrounding the Jets after their back-to-back AFC Championship appearances is slowly fizzling, as the team lost its third straight game on the road

yesterday to the Patriots by a final score of 30-21. The defense has not lived up to its reputation either, ranking twelfth in total yards surrendered, which doesn’t help win games behind its practically anemic offense. Needless to say, the Jets have struggled on both sides of the ball with their only fully promising aspect being the special teams behind RB Joe McKnight. The schedule doesn’t get much easier in the near future either, as the Jets will have to square off against the Dolphins, the Chargers and then the Bills – of which two teams are sporting an impressive 4-1 record.

Wish We Were There: Game 1 of the ALCS This tight bullpen duel saw the Rangers bringing home the first win of the series in a tight 3-2 victory over the Tigers. Ace Tigers pitcher and probable Cy Young award winner Justin Verlander got hit pretty hard, giving up three runs in just four innings pitched. From there the Tigers bullpen pitched scoreless baseball, but it wasn’t enough, as the offense couldn’t get much going. The Rangers now have a 1-0 series lead.

Darryl.Blain@UConn.edu

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P.13: Giants lose to Seahawks. / P.12: UConn men’s basketball has dinner celebration, receives rings. / P.11: Patriots beat Jets, 30-21.

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Monday, October 10, 2011

I still love October

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UConn takes two in the Mid Atlantic

By Peter Logue Staff Writer

It was the tale of two entirely different games over the weekend for the No. 4 UConn field hockey team. Fortunately for the Huskies, the games shared a similar conclusion; a victory for coach Dan Agabiti Nancy Stevens and her team.

Historically, whenever people On Friday, the Huskies travhave asked me what my favor- eled to the nation’s capital to take ite time of year is for sports, on Georgetown. Senior Jestine I’ve always told them that it’s Angelini scored two minutes into October. the game and UConn never looked Even though April brings back, rolling to a 10-0 shutout the Final Four, baseball’s sea- win over the Hoyas. Freshman son opener and the NBA playoffs to the table, it’s nothing like October. MLB playoffs are intense, college football starts its conference schedule and the NFL season is in full swing.

There’s no doubt in my mind that October is king.

But watching game 5 of the Yankees vs. Tigers series caused me to rethink that decision for this year. The Yankees blew ample chances to win but made nothing of them, I haven’t watched a game that frustrating since 2004. As the game entered the bottom of the ninth, I was considering blowing off the rest of October if the Yankees didn’t make a comeback from their 3-2 deficit. But suddenly, I started to get a feeling that I couldn’t quite discern. After a couple of minutes’ reflection, I had figured it out.

As I was watching that game 5 in a room on the second floor of Whitney during a crisp autumn night in a hoodie and a Yankees cap, I felt like I was a little kid again. That game brought me back to the couch with my dad back in the late 90’s and early 2000‘s, when seeing the Yankees late in the postseason was about as close to a guarantee as hearing about another pathetic Michael Jordan comeback. I remembered what it was like being a young Yankees fan. I remembered why I love October and why there is nothing at all like it.

When I was younger, if there was an elimination game on at night, I would forego playing outside when I got home from school and immediately do my homework, just so I could watch the game. Keep in mind that my parents were always very gracious about letting me stay up late to watch critical playoff games, even on school nights.

phenom Chloe Hunnable scored a pair of goals and Jestine’s sister, Alicia, tacked on two of her own.

The shutout against Georgetown was the sixth of the season for sophomore goaltender Sarah Mansfield. Mansfield, the reigning Big East Goaltender of the Year, lowered her goals per game average to a remarkable 2.83.

On Sunday, a familiar cast of characters led the Huskies to a late comeback over Virginia. The Cavaliers would give the Huskies all that they could handle, taking a 1-0 lead into the 57th minute.

However, Hunnable would capitalize on a penalty corner for her

12th goal of the season to equalize the score.

Not to be outdone, Alicia Angelini netted the gamewinner in the 68th minute, with less than two minutes left in regulation. The midfielder buried a deflected corner shot into the back of the net to complete the thrilling comeback and extend the Huskies current winning streak to six games. Their record currently stands at 12-1 and 4-0 in Big East play.

The Huskies return home next Sunday to face Princeton at 2 p.m.

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Peter.Logue@UConn.edu

The UConn field hockey team beat Georgetown and Virginia this past weekend.

FALLING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN

» AGABITI, page 12

Sox have offseason decisions

By Ryan Tepperman New England Sports Columnist

West Virginia explodes in second half to hand UConn Big East loss

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Connecticut quarterback Johnny McEntee tried to make something out of a broken play — and it ended up costing the Huskies.

McEntee’s third-quarter fumble led to a touchdown that gave No. 16 West Virginia the momentum for good, and the Mountaineers beat Connecticut 43-16 on Saturday.

With the Huskies trailing 10-9, McEntee was driving UConn toward a go-ahead score when he was hit on the run by cornerback Pat Miller. The ball popped loose, West Virginia linebacker Jewone Snow grabbed it and went 83 yards down the right sideline before being caught at the Connecticut 12.

West Virginia, which had struggled on offense to that point, found the end zone two plays later and reeled off 33 consecutive points.

“Instead of going down on the ground and protect himself, he tried to make a play and the ball came out,” said Connecticut coach Paul Pasqualoni. “That was a big play.”

McEntee said UConn had West Virginia “where we wanted them” on the game-changing drive before things went sour.

“The wrong person shifted, so I tried to take it and get a couple of yards,” McEntee said. “I think the fumble gave them momentum and they came out and made plays.”

West Virginia amassed 541 total yards, including 450 yards passing from Geno Smith.

“We knew coming in how explosive they were,” Pasqualoni said.

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Connecticut’s Byron Jones (16) intercepts a pass intended for West Virginia’s Stedman Bailey (3) during the second half of their NCAA college football game on Saturday. The interception was called back because of a penalty.

New basketball lottery: What are the odds?

By Matt Stypulkoski Staff Writer

With the demand for student basketball tickets even higher than normal after last year’s national championship season, frustration with UConn’s lottery system has reached an unprecedented peak.

The ticket’s limited availability has created a lucrative secondary market. Many students purchased tickets through the school at face value – $40 for men’s basketball tickets at Gampel Pavilion and $55 for tickets at the XL Center, which breaks down to $5 a ticket – only to resell them at exorbitant prices to less fortunate students.

It’s been a few weeks since the Red Sox’s historical collapse, so now might be a good time to analyze what moves the team should make this offseason.

For a team that’s perceived to have so many issues, the Sox, on paper, are actually in decent shape. They’ve got a great core of hitters signed for at least the next two years – Adrian Gonzalez, Dustin Pedroia, Jacoby Ellsbury, Kevin Youkilis and Carl Crawford – a good front of the rotation – Jon Lester, Josh Beckett and Clay Buchholz if he’s healthy – and a reliever who can step into the closer’s role – Daniel Bard – if/when Jonathan Papelbon signs elsewhere.

But, there are some definite holes to fill as well. Without By Willy Penfield further ado, here are my suggestions as to what moves I think Staff Writer Boston should make.

Outfield: After opening the season last J.D. Drew will likely retire, weekend with a 7-4 win in an which means Josh Reddick can exhibition game over Ryerson, step in as the starting right field- the UConn Huskies men’s hocker. Reddick started 87 games ey team traveled to Bowling for Boston in 2011, batting .280 Green for a two game set with with seven homers and a .784 the Falcons.

On Friday, goalie Garrett » TEPPERMAN, page 11 Bartus let up two early goals to

On the Facebook group “Buy or Sell UConn Tickets,” men’s basketball tickets are being sold on a daily basis, with prices for a full set of season tickets generally ranging from about $240 to $300, a 253 to 315 percent markup – and sometimes, they sell for even more.

The group’s wall is peppered with comments expressing frustration about the marked up tickets and the university’s system in general, with many calling for the end of the lottery.

According to Kevin Fahey, the senior associate director in the department of student activities who gathers a committee of students every year to review the ticketing process, out of the 2,500 winners of the lottery, only about

1,500 of those selected actually purchased tickets. Combined with the resale of tickets for such high prices, Fahey believes a crucial flaw has been revealed in the lottery system.

“My only downside of the lottery to me, is that it’s too easy,” Fahey said. “It’s too easy for somebody who doesn’t care to enter, and if I win, great.”

Despite the calls of some students for a new system where students wait in line or camp outside to purchase tickets, remedying the problem of having too easy a system, Fahey has said that those policies have already been tried at UConn in the past and are no longer an option.

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The UConn men’s basketball student section cheers at Gampel Pavilion during a game last season. This time of year, buying and selling of UConn basketball tickets is popular.

Men’s hockey begins year 0-1-1 at Bowling Green create an early 2-0 deficit in the first period.

The Huskies got one back in the second period when Brant Harris scored his first goal of the season, assisted by Sean Ambrosie, the only goal the Huskies would score in their regular season opener before losing 2-1. Bartus made 37 saves.

Back on the ice on Saturday, the Huskies were trailing 4-3 with just under two minutes

remaining in the game when Harris scored his second goal, his third of the season, to force overtime.

The game ended in a 4-4 tie after a scoreless 20 minute overtime period to put the Huskies at 0-1-1.

They got the scoring started early with an Ambrosie goal a 1:22 into the first period. Harris added his first of the game eight minutes later to put the Huskies up 2-0 at

the end of the first period.

Bowling Green answered back with two goals of their own in the second period, one for Camden Wojtala and one for Dan DeSalvo.

The action got exciting in the third period as Bowling Green scored four minutes in and the Huskies answered four minutes later to keep the game tied.

With a little more than two minutes left in the game, Bobby

Shea put the Falcons up 4-3, but Harris answered 11 seconds later to force overtime.

Bartus saved 41 shots to help keep the Huskies from going 0-2 for the opening weekend.

The stars of the weekend were Bartus with 78 saves, and Harris who totaled three goals.

On Oct. 14 the Huskies will take on Army in their next game.

William.Penfield@UConn.edu