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Senate candidates Dem. Chris Murphy (left) and Rep. Linda McMahon (right) debate in the Jorgensen theater Thursday night. The candidates discussed a variety of issues, including healthcare and the economy.

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COMMENTARY/page 8 INSIDE NEWS: UCONN TO WORK WITH QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY TO DISCUSS INFORMATION SECURITY Colleges share strategies for protecting information.

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By Kim Wilson News Editor With less than one month until Election Day, Senate candidates Dem. Chris Murphy and Rep. Linda McMahon discussed how to address the economy, jobs, women’s access to contraceptives and the Affordable Care Act in a heated, rapidfire U.S. Senate debate at Jorgensen on Thursday night.

The candidates had 30 seconds to answer each question, 30 seconds for a rebuttal

and one minute for a closing statement. Multiple times, the candidates were reminded of the time limits by a moderator after exceeding them.

When asked about the hotly contested individual mandate of the Affordable Healthcare Act and whether they would make any changes, Murphy said he would leave the act as it is and McMahon said she would vote to repeal and replace the act.

The Affordable Healthcare Act’s individual mandate requires most individuals

to have healthcare. The act allows people to stay on parents’ healthcare until age 26 and does not allow insurance companies to deny coverage based on preexisting conditions. It was ruled constitutional in June by the Supreme Court.

“I’ve devoted my life to making sure everyone in the state has access to affordable, quality healthcare,” Murphy said. “There are thousands of families at risk of losing everything because of the cost of healthcare. Healthcare

Cultural centers gather together for Diversity Town Hall meeting

should be a human right.”

McMahon said she would appeal and replace the Affordable Health Care Act because it causes insurance premiums to increase and raises the cost of healthcare.

However, she said she agreed with parts of the act.

“The fact that children can stay on plans is good and the fact that individuals can’t be denied for preexisting condition is good,” she said. “There would be no total reform … I think our healthcare ought to be afford-

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Conn. universities see rise in admissions

By Zachary Kaplove Campus Correspondent A diversity town hall meeting was held on Wednesday in the Konover Auditorium in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center to learn about the new diversity initiatives for recruiting, retaining and advancing students, faculty, and staff.

Directors of the university’s cultural centers and directors of academic units came in to speak to specifically give insight into what is currently being done to integrate minorities into the infrastructure of the succeeding threads that thrive at UConn.

The meeting began with the directors of the university’s cultural centers providing introductions to the history and growth of their respective centers. Willena Kimpson Price spoke about the African American Center, specifically citing the 2012 State of Black America Report, which includes an equality index that demonstrates the magnitude of equality for African Americans in many facets including economics, education, civic engagement and more in a broad-scale context.

Angela Rola spoke about the Asian American Center highlighting that the center has students representing over 20 different Asian cultures.

Fany D. Hannon spoke regarding the Puerto Rican and Latin American Center focusing on the center’s rich history of 40 years and its rapidly growing mentoring program that currently serves 85 students.

The Rainbow Center was represented by Fleurette King, who singled out a revolutionary statis-

able and accessible.”

On contraceptives, Murphy said they should be readily available and McMahon defined herself as pro-choice.

But she said the more pertinent issues facing women today are unemployment and “difficulties making ends meet.”

Murphy said that women in poverty may not have access to contraceptives and said they need more readily available access.

“When they don’t have

State universities receiving applications in greater numbers

By Brittany Bousquet Campus Correspondent

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The statue of a book stands outside of the Dodd Center, which was the site of the Diversity Town Hall meeting.

tic – that UConn, once one of the country’s most homophobic universities, is now amongst the top 100 universities in the country in terms of LGBT acceptance.

Kathleen Holgerson spoke representing the Women’s Center featuring the continuing efforts to advocate, educate and provide services for gender equity.

All five directors had only positive comments with regard to their respective cultural center’s progress.

The directors of academic units also spoke out to many matters that face minorities in the UConn community. Amongst the multitude of issues discussed, the three that were most elaborated upon were the issues of language barriers, the arduous nature of minimizing cultural oppression, and not only recruiting minori-

ties for graduate studies but retaining their participation and making advancements in this area. All three of these issues are works in progress, as new faculty members are being introduced in a variety of disciplines at UConn coupled with the growing social presence of the cultural centers on campus.

During the question and answer portion of the meeting, the issue of religious diversity was also addressed, as well as other programs recently implemented to assist students with their transitions into the UConn community.

The addition of these resources aim to help students establish themselves into comfortable niches to ensure a successful educational experience.

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Tuition at many colleges is on the rise, and as a result, state universities have received more applications.

“UConn has experienced considerable growth in application volume,” said Nathan Fuerst, director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Connecticut.

“This is the case at most, but not all, public flagship universities.”

In the fall of 2011, 5,332 new students applied to Southern Connecticut State University, according to their website. 3,831 students were accepted and 1,334 students enrolled. Southern Connecticut also had 2,072 transfer students apply, of which 1,672 were accepted and 935 enrolled.

Fall of 2011 was also a busy time for Western Connecticut State University. According to their website, they had 5,196 applicants for full time students. New students made up 4,157 of those applications and 1,039 were transfers. 2,593 new students were offered admission along with 798 transfers. 867 new students enrolled, as did 431 transfer students.

Eastern Connecticut State University also had a spike

in admissions in the fall of 2011. They experienced a 40 percent increase in their student body, according to Chris Dorsey, associate director of admissions.

“UConn is one of the top universities in the nation and our stock among collegebound students continues to rise.”

Nathan Fuerst Director of UConn Undergraduate Admissions

The fall of 2012 also saw a large number of applications to state universities. According to Central Connecticut State University’s website, they received applications for 5,656 first year students and 1,880 transfer students.

3,620 first year students were accepted as were 1,410 transfer students.

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UConn to work with Quinnipiac University to discuss information security

By Megan Merrigan Campus Correspondent The University of Connecticut’s new collaboration with Quinnipiac University, a forum to unite colleges and universities statewide to discuss information security in higher education, kicked off yesterday with their inaugural session held on UConn’s Storrs campus.

Jason Pufahl, UConn’s chief information security officer and Quinnipiac’s information security officer Brian Kelly, founded the Connecticut Higher Education Roundtable on Information Security (CHERIS) in an attempt to bring those in charge of information maintenance and security at Connecticut’s institutions of higher education together to share some of their best strategies and solutions, according to UConn’s spokesperson and news and information associate, Stephanie Reitz.

With so much sensitive university entrusted information as well as financial and personal information being stored in computer systems, it is vital that the most sophisticated information security solutions and techniques are being utilized.

“The biggest focus for me is the response to hackers and people trying to steal credentials,” Pufahl said.

“Security is always an issue, we need to make sure outsiders aren’t getting in,” Reitz said.

“Unfortunately there will always be someone out there looking to hack. Our intention is to avoid it.”

Issues such as mobile security, incident response and security awareness were also on the agenda for yesterday’s forum.

Twenty-three of Connecticut’s higher education institutions have signed up to participate, according to a UConn news release for CHERIS. According to Reitz, all of the institutions are dealing with similar problems and working on similar solutions.

Teaming up with Quinnipiac University, a large institution on the other side of the state with a well-established information security system, according to Pufahl, will make the forums accessible for institutions at both ends of the state by switching off meeting locations. It will also save the institutions money by eliminating the costs of traveling to conferences out of state.

“I just feel that for a state that only has a couple hundred miles across it, there’s no reason we can’t all meet up and work together,” Pufahl said.

Pufahl’s goal is to have biannual forums. By doing this he hopes to achieve CHERIS’ simple goal of increasing security awareness amongst colleges and universities across the state.

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ing at Eastern Connecticut Fuerst said that admis- is at its maximum, although sions have also been rising at they are able to house everyUConn. For fall 2012 admis- one who wants housing.

“Enrolling more than the sion was offered to 13,400 expected number can impact freshmen applicants.

“UConn is one of the top both physical and non physiuniversities in the nation and cal constraints of the camour stock among college bound pus,” Fuerst said. He said students conthat two of the tinues to rise,” biggest areas Fuerst said. impacted could “More and be housing and more students course availabilare taking note ity. of the incrediDorsey and ble opportunity Fuerst also said that is availthat transfer able to them applications at at UConn. their schools With increased have been slowexposure in ly increasing. the media and For Eastern rankings, as Connecticut this well as making increase has been it easier for stuover the past four dents to apply Nathan Fuerst to five years. to UConn, At UConn the Director of UConn increase has hapwe have seen considerable Undergraduate pened over the increases in past ten years.

Admissions Both Eastern application volume.”

Connecticut and UConn have high The number of freshmen applications to expectations for the fall of UConn in fall 2012 was a 2013. Eastern Connecticut record high, with 29,964 new plans to enroll 915 freshmen.

UConn plans to enroll 3,225 students applying.

Taking in more students freshmen. can impact college life as a whole. Dorsey said that hous- Brittany.Bousquet@UConn.edu

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“Enrolling more than the expected number can impact both physical and non-physical constraints of the campus.”

Students create sober driver locator application

By Michael Sin Campus Correspondent

A new sober driver app created by two UConn students has been named one of the 2012 Tech Companies to Watch by the Connecticut Technology Council.

The app, Sobrio, bridges the gap between partygoers and sober drivers who want to provide a service and make a couple of dollars.

Sobrio was created by 7thsemester biomedical engineering major Tom Bachant and 8th-semester consumer behavior major Nadav Ullman. They launched the app two weeks ago after fine-tuning the program since January. With over 500 likes on Facebook, spread purely from word-of-mouth, they already have hundreds of regular users.

“We realized that a lot of people are looking for designated drivers and safe rides home,” Ullman said. “There’s not really a good way for them to connect and communicate, so we decided to find a way for them to rideshare.”

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Sobrio has already earned high praise by winning the inaugural Startup Weekend Storrs 2012, an intense 54-hour event aimed at building an application which could potentially start a business. The company has formed a partnership with UConn’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) to steer a campaign called UConn Drives Sobrio, in an effort to reduce drunk driving on campus.

“The biggest thing that sets us apart from other apps is that you are able to share rides with a community that you already trust,” Ullman said. “You must have a UConn.edu email to join the UConn group, which means people who aren’t from UConn can’t offer you rides.”

For critics concerned about security, Sobrio has many safeguards to ensure student safety.

The marketplace of drivers and riders is broken up into private groups which are protected by passwords to cater for fraternities and certain housing blocks.

“We designed the app to make it as safe as possible,” Ullman said. “You get to pick who you’re

comfortable with and who you want to share rides with. The first safety net is joining a group with your own network and community. Then you can check people’s profiles and you can check their reviews. Even after that, you can still click ‘yes’ or ‘no’.”

Sobrio is made to be userfriendly for both driver and rider, as the app provides the driver with a scheduled list with destination, an in-app GPS navigation system and a chat bar to communicate with the rider by text, as well as letting the driver set a small price for the ride. For the rider, it provides an unrivalled source of drivers that they can select from.

“We’re focused on making it a perfect user experience. We’re doing this for college students, and they’re willing to pay the driver because they’re grateful for the safe ride home,” Ullman said.

The Sobrio team plan to use UConn as an initial testing ground, before expanding to the University of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania State University next month.

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Vice Presidential candidates at odds in political debate

DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — At odds early and often, Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan squabbled over the economy, taxes, Medicare and more Thursday night in a contentious, interruption-filled debate. “That is a bunch of malarkey,” the vice president retorted after a particularly tough Ryan attack on the administration’s foreign policy.

“I know you’re under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don’t interrupt each other,” Ryan said later to his rival, referring to Democratic pressure on Biden to make up for President Barack Obama’s listless performance in last week’s debate with Mitt Romney.

There was nothing listless this time as the 69-year-old Biden sat next to the 42-year old Wisconsin congressman on a stage at Centre College in Kentucky.

Ninety minutes after the initial disagreement over foreign policy, the two men clashed sharply over steps to reduce federal deficits.

“The president likes to say he has a plan,” Ryan said, but in fact “he gave a speech” and never backed it up with details.

Biden conceded Republicans indeed have a plan, but he said if it were enacted, it would have “eviscerated all the things the middle class care about.”

The debate took place a little more than a week after Obama and Romney met in the first of their three debates — an encounter that has fueled a Republican comeback in opinion polls.

With Democrats eager for Biden to show the spark the president lacked, he did so.

Unprompted, he brought up

the video in which Romney had said 47 percent of Americans pay no federal income tax, view themselves as victims and do not take responsibility for their own lives.

“It’s about time they take responsibility” instead of signing pledges to avoid raising taxes, Biden said — of Romney, Ryan and the Republicans.

The serial disagreements started immediately after the smiles and handshakes of the opening.

Ryan said in the debate’s opening moments that U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens had been denied sufficient security by administration officials.

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“Not a single thing he said is accurate,” Democrat Biden shot back.

Republicans and Democrats alike have said in recent days the presidential race now approximates the competitive situation in place before the two political conventions. The two men are generally separated by a point or two in national public opinion polls and in several battleground states, with Obama holding a slender lead in Ohio and Wisconsin.

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access to basic preventive help … it’s a basic economic factor,” Murphy said. “Linda McMahon would allow employers to deny contraceptive to women.”

In response to a question about what the candidates would do to help the economy if elected to the Senate, Murphy said he would boost the economy with job creation and by keeping manufacturing local.

“Protecting manufacturing is absolutely critical,” Murphy said. “We’re going to be out of work because we are shipping our jobs overseas.”

McMahon said she has a plan that includes tax cuts for the middle class and business, spending reductions and an energy policy.

On taxes, McMahon said she is in favor of continuing current tax law but would vote to implement a tax cut for the middle class.

“I do call for a tax cut for

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the middle class,” McMahon said. “There would be no gain or loss for others. I don’t think that now the time to raise taxes and I’m the only one on the stage who has called for a tax cut from the middle class. I’d be willing to pay more taxes as long as those taxes take care of deficit.”

Murphy disagreed with McMahon on cutting taxes and said tax cuts are not the solution for restoring a damaged economy.

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The African American Cultural Center performed among many other UConn student groups in Gampel to compete for the Lip Sync title as part of Homecoming week.

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer The African American Cultural Center took Homecoming 2012 by storm, winning the Alma Mater Sing, the Homecoming King’s crown, and finally placing in first for overall performance at Lip Sync amongst other cultural centers on Thursday night.

Alongside them, Global House and the brothers and sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Ki, Zeta Pi, Delta Gamma and Kappa Sigma all won first place for overall performance in Homecoming Events for non-fee funded and Greek organizations.

Students began forming lines outside of Gampel Pavilion hours before Lipsync began at 8 p.m. Sitting in groups, hundreds wore shirts supporting their houses, communities and cultural centers. While all of the participants of Lip Sync gathered on the floor of Gampel, the DJ played rap and hip hop songs that the audience danced along to. Before the UConn Dance Team kicked off the night, the SUBOG Homecoming Committee made a few announcements about First Night and the upcoming Homecoming football game against Temple.

Wearing all black with red heels, red lipstick and red gloves, the Dance Team hyped up the crowd by getting them to clap along to music while emcee Justis Lopez made a grand entrance dancing to “Gangnam Style.” Lopez reminded the crowd that UCTV was taping Lipsync, which will air on Monday at 4 p.m. and Wednesday at 2 p.m.

After announcing and introducing the Royal Court of 2012, Lopez described how the groups would be judged in three categories: routine, professionalism and lip syncing. The first competitors were the houses of Kappa Alpha Theta, Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Adopting a Rolling Stones theme, they played out a skit where they had to win back the Rolling Stones’ guitars in order for them to play at the halftime show at the Homecoming football game.

Next up, the Puerto Rican Latin American Cultural Center and BAILE celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Student Union by acting out a skit with Jennifer Lopez. Quoting Jim Calhoun and tying in UConn spirit, the dancer playing J. Lo said that “[her] UConn family believed in [her] first.” The brothers and sisters of Delta Sigma, Phi Sigma Pi and Alima chose to represent ‘NSync, dancing to songs like “It’s Gonna Be Me” and “Bye Bye Bye.” Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Kickline and FIJI danced to classics by Michael Jackson, using glow sticks to “bring the party to the 860.” After, the Asian American Cultural Center showed off their break dancing skills to Kanye West’s “Gold Digger” and “Touch the Sky.” Alpha Kappa Psi and Alpha Beta Epsilon performed to Queen songs, playing off the myth that UConn would lose the Homecoming game if they didn’t find the right Homecoming Queen.

The brothers and sisters of Delta Zeta, Pi Kappa Alpha and Tau Kappa Epsilon donned Lady Gaga outfits including colorful leggings, face masks, and using camera props to songs like “Paparazzi” and

“Poker Face.” The African American Cultural Center mentioned a variety of places and events at UConn in their Destiny’s Child skit, literally shaking the floor with their moves to songs with Caribbean twists.

Following them, the UConn Irish took on ABBA songs and invited graduates to dance with them.

Alpha Phi, Phi Sigma Ro and Seta Beta Tau revolved their routine around the Beatles, focusing on messages of peace. Mixing dubstep and marching, the UConn Marching Band, Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma used flags and slow motion moves to impress the audience. Next, Global House warped back and forth through time with Elton John, including Lion King songs in their routine. Bouncing beach balls and surfing on waves, the houses of Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Epsilon Pi were inspired by the Beach Boys for their performance. While the Rainbow Center danced to popular Madonna songs, Biggie Smalls was the star for Sigma Ki, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Zeta Psi. Last but not least, Delta Gamma and Kappa Sigma used glow sticks and light–up gloves while performing to Black Eyed Peas songs.

After a short and impromptu “Gangnam Style” dance competition, the banners of Global House, the Asian American Cultural Center and Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Phi and Zeta Psi were displayed in front of the crowd as winner of the banner competition. The first, second and third–place winners received prizes for the categories of fee-funded organizations, non-fee funded organizations and Greek

Zarrin.Ahmed@UConn.edu

Unique members combine in Pat Metheny Unity Band

By Emily Herbst Campus Correspondent

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19 time Grammy Award winner Pat Metheny is collaborating with Unity Band to create a new jazz ensemble with smooth sound.

For the first time ever, jazz master Pat Metheny fuses with Unity Band, creating a guitar, sax, bass and drums quartet that delivers a smooth sound with a spicy flavor– quite a shift from Metheny’s usual, softer style. The group has spent the last several months touring the US and Europe, even releasing a selftitled album.

Unity Band is not the first of Pat Metheny’s side projects. As the leader of Pat Metheny Group since 1977, he has since joined many well-established jazz musicians on albums and tours, gaining a reputation as wellrounded and diverse. He is

known for meshing together various styles through the guitar, both acoustic and electric; in turn, Pat Metheny’s music has been characterized as not solely jazz, but also jazz-fusion, contemporary, world, post-bop and Latin.

The EP “Pat Metheny Unity Band” features nine lengthy tracks, all of which appeal to the jazz enthusiast’s ear. If there is one thing the album accomplishes, it is musical diversity: a pure melting pot of sounds. From start to finish, listeners are drawn in, whether it is through the Latin-influenced guitar licks, whispery and featherlight drumming or melodic tenor sax. Highlights include “Roofdogs,” a five-minute,

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Fall Symphony Orchestra Engages Audience

By Billy Lambert Campus Correspondent The annual Fall Symphony Orchestra took the stage at Von der Mehden Recital Hall last night, putting on a show that pleased connoisseur and curious onlooker alike.

Well-dressed ladies and gentlemen waited anxiously for the orchestra to begin their show, which included renditions of Mozart, Jean Sibelius and Howard Hanson. It was not until Harvey Felder, a UConn professor and one of Symphony Magazine’s “Promising Conductors,” took the stage that things really got underway.

The first piece performed was Mozart’s “Overture to Der Schauspieldirektor.”

Written in “Sonata-Allegro” form, the Overture allowed for the audience to become acclimated to Mozart, with the

string section hitting marvelous highs before returning to a jovial and ethereal pitch. Felder, who according to the program helps “audiences feel immediately welcomed, comfortable and connected to his performances,” established his charisma from the outset, leading an orchestra that never missed a beat.

Next was the “Piano Concerto No. 16, K. 451, in D major,” again by Mozart. The concerto, the longest of the symphony, expanded upon the Romantic themes of the Overture, combining the string section with flutes, trumpets and bassoons to create an excited, mystical aura.

What really lent beauty to the concerto, though, was the piano playing of Irma Vallecillo, a nationally-renowned pianist.

According to Mozart, the concerto was supposed to “make the performers sweat,” and watching Vallecillo was a sight to behold. There was nothing rushed or par-

ticularly harsh in her performance, however, as she sometimes allowed notes to linger to affect a gentle feel to the music.

By the end of the concerto, the orchestra received a stirring round of applause.

The latter half of the symphony featured music that was a bit darker, incorporating more bass and percussion while building up to much more emphatic crescendos.

The first piece, Sibelius’s “Finlandia,” began with ominously low brass chords to signal this transition. The piece, written as a token to Finnish nationalism during the country’s Russian occupation, built to dramatic extravagance while also frequently reverting to low, creeping violins.

Woodwinds find themselves side-by-side with brass and the unique combination showed to be a splendid return from the intermission.

The last piece played was “Symphony No. 2 (‘Romantic’)”, by Howard Hanson.

Felder made a point of speaking before the orchestra began, telling the audience to envision the ‘Romantic‘ aspect of the symphony as “between a mother and her son” as opposed to “between two adults,” which garnered a fair bit of laughter.

“Symphony No. 2” proved to consist of the same grandiosity as its predecessor.

The melodies of the orchestra soared to booming highs and lows and the climaxes contained within had the power to make you jump.

“The music was very engaging and very easy to get lost in,” said Dillon Jones, a 3rd-semester computer science and engineering major.

When the symphony concluded, all the performers stood to receive copious and much-deserved applause.

William.Lambert@UConn.edu

Energy use is an inevitable fact for all forms of life, and it is a fundamental concern for human societies. The uncertainty surrounding climate change and the earth’s dwindling natural resources make energy-use planning an especially complicated task.

As always, it is best to tackle these seemingly impossible problems by breaking them down into manageable chunks (i.e., addressing them at the local level). The first step to understanding Connecticut’s future energy options is to become educated on what our current energy profile looks like.

According to the U.S. E n e rg y Information Administration, nearly half of our state’s energy comes from the nuclear Millstone plant in Waterford. Besides the issues of relying so heavily on a single source and the potential dangers of nuclear power in general, the feasibility of the Millstone plant may also be challenged by climate change.

The company made headlines this past August when wit was forced to shut down two of its reactors due to the water in Long Island Sound being too warm to be used in the plant’s operations.

In recent years, natural gas has become increasingly important to Connecticut, mostly for generating electricity (it accounts for 25 percent of net production) and home heating. According to the EIS, “Connecticut receives its natural gas supply from production areas in the U.S. Gulf Coast region and Canada, and from natural gas storage sites in the Appalachian Basin region, which includes parts of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The gas is supplied by pipelines entering the State from New York and Massachusetts. Connecticut ships almost one-third of its natural gas supplies to Rhode Island.”

It has always been believed that Connecticut has no fossil fuel reserves whatsoever. But this past June the USGS released a report which revealed a large un-assessed shale deposit, dubbed the Hartford Basin, running right through the center of the state.

The implications of this new finding are complex, and will certainly be the subject of hot debate in years to come. While natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel, depending on it would almost definitely divert funding away from developing renewable energies. Most importantly, breaking the shale to access the gas would likely bring hydrofracking into Connecticut, a virtually unregulated practice that is hugely dangerous to both the environment and human health. In 2005, Vice President Dick Cheney pushed through an Energy Act, which quietly exempted hydrofracking from the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and even federal hazardous waste laws.

Is reliance on nuclear power and natural gas what we want for our state? That is a complicated question, but it is one that should not be ignored.

Sticking with the status quo is in itself a decision – and at the very least, as citizens we should be conscious and intentional about the decisions that we make for our own society.

Kelsey.Sullivan@UConn.edu

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21st Birthday guide to casinos

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In an area without many night life activities, local casinos create a strong pull for students celebrating their 21st birthday.

By Tom Teixeira Staff Writer Students from every school celebrate their 21st birthdays differently.

If you go to school in a city, you are likely to have dinner at an upscale restaurant before hitting the block’s edgiest club. If you go to school in the middle of nowhere, expect a house party with some friends. You might even get a keg or birthday cake if you are lucky.

UConn has its own traditions – notably browsing the aisles of our many package stores or going for a Birthday Beaver at Ted’s. While

Storrs looks like a place hours from any form of civilized entertainment, the school’s placement in “The Quiet Corner” of Connecticut conveniently places it less than an hour from two of the world’s greatest entertainment meccas.

About 30 miles southeast of Storrs, surrounded by wilderness, sit two of the world’s largest casinos. Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods are destinations in and of themselves. Both boast luxury hotels, shopping malls, fine and casual dining, stacked music and comedy line-ups, golf, bars, clubs and, of course, thousands of slot machines

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Although complete with the necessary mellow jams, the album is far from sleepy or melancholy jazz. Rather, it is catchy and quite bold. The individuality of each musician surfaces on the project, creating a beautiful fusion of musical qualities. “Pat Metheny Unity Band” is the epitome of synchronization, represented perfectly by all four musicians.

The winner of 19 Grammy awards, Metheny’s electric/ acoustic guitar skills shine throughout the entire album, blending effortlessly with the talents of Ben Williams (bass), Antonio Sanchez (drums) and

Chris Potter (tenor sax). When asked about the story behind the band’s name, Metheny reflected on the original goals of their formation, and connected them to meaning of unity. In a recent interview, he explained: “This band is a real manifestation of that spirit. We are using all of the unique qualities available to us as individuals and as an ensemble and, we hope, creating a greater whole to make something true to itself.”

Pat Metheny Unity Band will be debuting at the Jorgensen Theater at UConn on Saturday evening. This much – anticipated show is sure to impress any jazz music fans and all quality music aficionados.

Emily.Herbst@UConn.edu

Real-life meth trade is cracked by ‘Breaking

NEW YORK (AP) — News of drug cartels mass-producing souped-up methamphetamine — that’s the latest word as reported by The Associated Press, and it sounds pretty scary.

But haven’t we heard this story before? Like on “Breaking Bad,” the AMC network’s addictive drama series?

Take a look at the real-life drug biz. Then compare it to the saga of fictitious Walter White, the timid-chemistry-teacherturned-masterful-drug-lord of “Breaking Bad.” Real life seems to be reflecting art. Or is it the other way around?

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The product: Today’s newly potent meth has a tell-tale bluish-white color, and it’s purer than ever: as high as 88 percent. No wonder! “Shake-andbake” pushers are deferring to the experts. Recipes have been developed by professional chemists.

Walter White, in his newly assumed alter ego of Heisenberg, has flooded the market with a product renowned for its distinctive blue color. And acclaimed for its high quality: 99 percent pure. No wonder! Walter is not just a chemistry teacher, but a world-class chemist who never reached his potential —

until now.

The facility:Factory-like “superlabs” in Mexico are turning out meth with largescale efficiency.

Same on “Breaking Bad,” although, in keeping the story close to home, the product can proudly claim to be “Made in U.S.A.” That is, Walter (played by series star Bryan Cranston) and his maladroit assistant, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), have followed the American dream.

They started small (cooking meth in meager batches in a battered RV) then graduated to factory proportions in their hometown of Albuquerque, N.M. For a time, the duo threw in with Gus Fring, a meth king who had hidden a state-of-theart meth facility beneath his industrial laundry-processing plant. (This seems to echo the strategy of an underground lab discovered in Mexico equipped with an elevator and ventilation systems as well as cooking and sleeping provisions.)

But by this season (whose first half aired this summer), Fring’s lab had been destroyed and Fring eliminated savagely thanks to Walter, who was plotting to solidify his own drug empire.

and table games.

Aside from stargazing or sports, UConn is a school not necessarily known for its busy nightlife. But if you are looking for something crazy to do for you or your friend’s 21st birthday, try one or both of Connecticut’s casinos. To help you make the most of your trip, here are some casino dos and don’ts.

Do – Dress up. Its easy to feel like a million bucks at a casino. Luxurious decor, gourmet food, a professional staff and a pocket full of chips will make anyone feel like a big shot.

Make the most of it and dress the part.

Nobody needs to know that you are really a liberal arts student with a B average.

Don’t – Play a game without knowing the rules. Knowing the rules of a table game or card game may not only increase your chances of winning, but is the courteous thing to do. Other players appreciate a quick, clean game. It is a sign of disrespect both toward the dealer and other players to ask for lengthy explanations, take unnecessary cards or bet incorrectly.

Do – Eat. Both casino’s boast impressive menus. Mohegan Sun features Todd English’s Tuscany, Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain, Michael Jordan’s Steakhouse and Frank PePe’s Pizzeria Napoletana. Foxwoods houses half a dozen of their own gourmet restaurants, as well as a Hard Rock Cafe.

Don’t – Bring an ATM card. Bring a set amount of cash for food, gas and

gambling and stick to it. If you win, you’ll leave a happy guy/girl, but if you lose, you can hang your hat, and your bank account, on the fact that you played responsibly, Do – Enjoy the free drinks. Yes, the rumors are true. If you are gambling at the casino, staff will serve you alcoholic beverages for the price of a tip.

Don’t – Drink too much or at all while playing. Casinos serve alcohol because it impairs your judgement.

A beer or two while you play might be nice, but gambling and drinking should not mix. Do not be the mouse who cannot resist the peanut butter.

Do – Designate a sober driver. This one is obvious – it is not responsible or safe for you, your passengers or fellow casino patrons to drive drunk. As if the act itself was not bad enough, cops know that the casinos are popular watering holes and patrol these areas constantly.

Don’t – Go in alone. Both casinos are massive and crowded. Traveling in a pack makes the place safer, easier to navigate and more fun.

The casinos are both potentially fun and exciting places to spend a 21st birthday, whether you are the lucky guy/girl or just a member of his/her entourage. Fasten your ties and strap on your heels, get in the car and roll the dice–as long as you drink and play responsibly, you are nearly guaranteed a good time.

Thomas.Teixeira@UConn.edu

Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize

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Chinese writer Mo Yan speaks during an interview at a teahouse in Beijing. Mo won the Nobel Prize for literature.

BEIJING (AP) — Novelist Mo Yan, this year’s Nobel Prize winner for literature, is practiced in the art of challenging the status quo without offending those who uphold it.

Mo, whose popular, sprawling, bawdy tales bring to life rural China, is the first Chinese winner of the literature prize who is not a critic of the authoritarian government. And Thursday’s announcement by the Swedish Academy brought an explosion of pride across Chinese social media.

The state-run national broadcaster, China Central Television, reported the news moments later, and the official writers’ association, of which Mo is a vice chairman, lauded the choice.

But it also ignited renewed criticisms of Mo from other writers as too willing to serve or too timid to confront a government that heavily censors artists and authors, and punishes those who refuse to obey.

The reactions highlight the unusual position Mo holds in Chinese literature. He is a genuinely popular writer who is embraced by the Communist establishment but who also dares, within careful limits, to tackle controversial issues like forced abortion. His novel “The Garlic Ballads,” which depicts a peasant uprising and official corruption, was banned.

“He’s one of those people who’s a bit of a sharp point for the Chinese officials, yet manages to keep his head above water,” said his longtime U.S. translator, Howard Goldblatt of the University of Notre Dame. “That’s a fine line to walk, as you can imagine.”

Typical of his ability to skirt the censors’ limitations, Mo had retreated from Beijing in recent days to the rural eastern village of Gaomi where he was raised and which is the backdrop for much of his work. He greeted the prize with characteristic low-key indifference.

“Whether getting it or not, I don’t care,” the 57-year-old Mo said in a telephone interview with CCTV from Gaomi. He said he goes to his childhood hometown every year around this time

to read, write and visit his elderly father.

“I’ll continue on the path I’ve been taking, feet on the ground, describing people’s lives, describing people’s emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people,” said Mo, whose real name is Guan Moye and whose pen name “Mo Yan” means “don’t speak.” He chose the name while writing his first novel to remind himself to hold his tongue and stay out of trouble.

The state media hoopla and government cheer contrasted with the last Nobel prizes given to Chinese. Beijing disowned China-born French emigre dramatist, novelist and government critic Gao Xingjian when in 2000 he became the only other Chinese writer to win the literary prize.

After imprisoned democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Peace Prize two years ago, the government heaped scorn on the award as a tool of the West and put diplomatic and economic relations with Norway, which awards the prize, into a chill.

Nobel winners have included political and social critics, including Guenter Grass of Germany and Orhan Pamuk of Turkey. The Swedish Academy disputed suggestions that it had selected Mo to seek Beijing’s favor and rehabilitate the Nobel’s image in the minds of many Chinese.

“As we’ve been trying to, naggingly, say: This is a literature prize that is awarded on literary merit alone. We don’t take other things in consideration,” said Peter Englund, the academy’s permanent secretary. The reaction in a winner’s homeland “doesn’t enter into our calculus.”

Mo writes of visceral pleasures and existential quandaries and tends to create vivid, mouthy characters. While his early work sticks to a straightforward narrative structure enlivened by vivid descriptions, raunchy humor and farce, his style has evolved, toying with different narrators and embracing a freewheeling style often described as “Chinese magical realism.”

Uggs only out of necessity Winters in Storrs are painful. Brutal winds ripping through campus and neverending rainfall are common scenes in day-to-day life. Even fall at UConn can bring devastating weather, as we’ve seen most recently in these first few days of October. To properly combat the elements, we have already seen an influx of one of winter’s biggest essentials around campus. Everyone has their opinions of this loved (and often hated) wintertime staple. Even more infamous than a North Face fleece, Uggs are back for the season.

Unfortunately, whether you’re a fan or not, Uggs aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

Personally, I can’t stand Uggs for men or women. I think they’re hideous and don’t look good with anything you could wear. The brand makes plenty of other styles of boots and shoes, but the classic winter in the Nordic model seems to still dominate the market. However, practicality clearly takes priority over style when choosing fluffy footwear. Warmth and comfort are the two factors that most wearers point to when explaining their rationale behind the boots. In a climate like Storrs, I definitely understand. When the temperature drops into the single digits, what better way to keep warm than to wrap a stuffed animal around your foot? All jokes aside, I get the idea behind the boots, but warmth and comfort can both be found elsewhere. If you must wear your Uggs, there definitely are some rules to follow.

Uggs should stay consistent with whatever else you are wearing. Therefore, if it’s not cold enough for scarves, gloves and down jackets, then it is not cold enough for Uggs.

We have all seen the people wearing gym shorts and Uggs, and we have all made our own judgments. Once it starts snowing and the salt gets spread on the ground, Uggs are notorious for getting a hideous white ring around them. If that happens, you just have to bite the bullet and scrap them. Once the soles of the boots get worn down and start leaning to a side, that’s a sign to that it’s time to get new shoes as well. Uggs don’t have great traction on the soles. Don’t wear them in place of snow or rain boots, for your own safety. On ice, Uggs pose a serious threat to both your health and everyone else’s well being around you.

Uggs should be a last resort.

If it’s freezing cold outside, then I understand your decision. But for the sake of fashion, there are plenty of other boots that can be worn in the winter to satisfy your warmth and comfort needs. If you actually enjoy the look of them, more power to you. I’ve always said that if you wear Uggs because they are warm and comfy in the winter, you’d wear Crocs because they are breathable and comfy in the summer. Think about that. Be different. But if you ever find yourself asking the question, “To Ugg or not to Ugg?”, always choose the latter.

Jamil.Larkins@UConn.edu

Friday, October 12, 2012

Live-streaming goes mainstream at music festivals

Where have ‘Today’ show viewers gone?

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Guitarist Dan Auerbach, center, and drummer Patrick Carney of The Black Keys perform at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Music festivals are booming, and so is one alternative to paying soaring ticket prices to spend a long weekend packed among 50,000 or more typically sweaty concertgoers: watching the performances online for free.

At the Austin City Limits Music Festival, about a third of the nearly 130 bands on a lineup that includes the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Black Keys and Jack White will have their sets broadcast on YouTube. That’s a record for the three-day festival that starts Friday. Just six years ago organizers began webcasting with a single feed and struggled to persuade artists to even participate.

The same was once true at trendsetters like Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. But as Austin City Limits marks the unofficial end of the big-festival calendar in the U.S. for 2012, this year might also go down as the year when live-streams started crossing into mainstream.

Take the year’s most talked-about performance: Tupac Shakur rising from the dead as a hologram at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in a resurrection that was live-streamed from the California desert and talked about around the world.

The rock band Delta Spirit will be among the first acts up on Austin City Limit’s YouTube channel.

“It’s never going to equal seeing it live. But it’s cool that it engages more people,” Delta Spirit lead singer Matt Vasquez said. “We’re a generation of content, aren’t we? We love to fill up our days with as little space as possible.”

Promoters aren’t trying to sell live-streaming as a substitute for the you-had-to-be-there experience of concerts. Especially since, in many cases, you still very much have to be there to catch some of

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the biggest headliners: Neil Young & Crazy Horse and Weezer are among the performers in Austin this weekend whose sets won’t be broadcast on the Web. Nor do live-steams pose any threat to attendance or profits. Three-day passes for Austin City Limits this year ran for $200 and sold out within an hour of the day the full lineup was announced.

But festival live-streaming has come a long way in a short time, even by technology standards.

Organizers of the country’s biggest music festivals declined to reveal the size of their online audiences.

But at C3 Presents, which puts on Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits, the number of live-stream viewers has climbed into the “high millions,” said Courtney Trucksess, director of sponsorship.

At Bonnaroo, which began live-streaming around the same time as Austin City Limits, there’s been a “big increase” in views and the amount of time each user spends watching, said Jonathan Mayers, co-founder of Superfly Presents, which produces the four-day Tennessee festival.

“We’ve seen the average view time is over an hour in one sitting,” said Chris Roach, head of business development for AEG Digital Media, which has produced live-streaming for Coachella and other open-air concerts. “That’s a pretty engaged eyeball for an advertiser to put their dollar against.”

Little fanfare surrounded webcasts when Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits began experimenting with it in 2006. Viewers back then were treated only to a handful of willing artists, partial sets and about eight hours a day of video.

Bandwidth was an issue and the single feed was streamed exclusively through the website of a corporate sponsor.

NEW YORK (AP) — Susan Wurtzel owns a “Today” show T-shirt and a mug. When the stay-at-home mom and her family visited New York from their home in Germantown, Md., they joined the crowd of fans outside the NBC morning show’s Rockefeller Center studio.

Now, after more than 20 years as a regular “Today” viewer, Wurtzel tunes to CBS most mornings.

Multiply such defections and you have the chief reason for television’s changing fortunes in morning news, where ABC’s “Good Morning America” has ended NBC’s epic 17-year winning streak on “Today.” ABC is growing — “GMA” has 110,000 more viewers each day this year than last — but not as much as NBC is slipping (437,000 viewers a day since last year).

Wurtzel, 57, left last spring because of “Today” co-host Ann Curry.

“Ann’s interview style was like chalk on a board to me,” she said. “She leaned toward her interviewee and whispered her questions like someone had died. The more serious the interview, the quieter she got. When she replaced Meredith (Vieira), I tried to adjust and accept, but she just didn’t work for me. Katie (Couric) and Meredith were relatable, empathetic and funny.

Ann just seemed out of place.”

Executives at NBC were quietly reaching the same conclusion and moved to replace Curry with Savannah Guthrie.

Then came June 28, 2012, Curry’s last day as co-host. She cried in bewilderment at her perceived failure at losing the job she had sought for years, as her uncomfortable co-workers and a nation looked on.

Suddenly, a problem for NBC became a BIG problem. Even people who didn’t particularly like Curry loathed the way she was dispatched. Except for two weeks during the Olympics, “Today” hasn’t sniffed first place in the ratings since. During the first six months of 2012, “Today” averaged just under 5.2 million viewers each weekday.

Since July 2, the audience has dropped to 4.59 million, accord-

AP

“Today” show co-hosts, from left, Natalie Morales, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and Matt Lauer during a broadcast in New York.

ing to Nielsen, the company that measures TV audiences.

Without the two weeks of the London Olympics, the average is 4.3 million. That’s a stunning drop, even accounting for typical lower viewership in the summer.

An informal survey of three dozen viewers who have left or are considering leaving “Today” turned up various explanations, including a feeling that the show had leaned too far in the direction of lighter, pop culture fare.

The Curry dismissal was clearly a tipping point, however.

William Runge, a manager at an educational cable network who lives in suburban WinstonSalem, N.C., likened the treatment of Curry to “a public flogging.”

“The PR machine at NBC spent an enormous amount of time and effort convincing me that the ‘Today’ show team was actually part of my family, ‘America’s First Family,” said Runge, 46, citing the show’s advertising slogan. “Guess what? They were right. These did feel like family members. So this is how you are going to treat a member of your family?

“You can debate for hours whether Ms. Curry was right for the role,” he said. “That’s not the point. She was doing her job and was barely 11 months into it when they canned her in the most humiliating way possible.”

The move was “heart-wrenching,” said Isabelle Langelier, a 40-year-old manager at a drug company from Montreal. “It made me feel sick for her. And it

made me turn the channel, probably permanently.”

“While I thought Ann Curry’s interviews were a little hokey at times, she is clearly the most genuine person in TV news,” said Sarah Rosenthal, 53, a graduate student and mother of three from West Chester, Pa. “After her unceremonious dumping, I turned it off. I have nothing against Savannah, and adore Natalie Morales, but there is just a different tone to the show.”

Even worse for NBC, a significant number of viewers appear to blame co-host Matt Lauer for the move. The network has consistently denied tabloid reports that Lauer was unhappy with Curry.

“Today” Executive Producer Jim Bell said late last month that Lauer was being treated unfairly.

Firing Curry was Bell’s decision, he said.

Some awkward public moments haven’t helped. When Curry reappeared on “Today” during the London Olympics to introduce a story she had done, Lauer twice remarked that it was good to see her again. Curry didn’t return the sentiment to the man she worked with for 15 years.

Two years ago, Lauer’s positive “Q’’ score was 23 — meaning 23 percent of people who knew him considered Lauer one of their favorite broadcasters, according to Marketing Evaluations Inc., a company that measures public sentiment toward well-known personalities. Now his positive score is 14.

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Presidential intervention in foreign affairs might not have intended result

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arfare no longer plays out in terms of the formalistic conflict of the wars of the 18th and 19th centuries, in which armies and generals matched wits, strength and tactics on vast battlefields. As we have seen in the Libyan Civil War of 2011 and the Syrian Civil War of 2012, combatants in modern warfare often do not wear uniforms, are not operating under orders from a commanding military officer and are not easily distinguishable from the civilian population. The apocalyptic scenes of destruction of Syrian cities like Homs or Daraa are indicative of ruthless, urban guerrilla warfare that is not bound by military etiquette or conventions of human rights or international law. Thus when presidential candidate Mitt Romney urges an escalation of American involvement in the Syrian civil war, we as Americans must be concerned not only for the future of our foreign and military policy but also for the increasingly unchecked ability of the President to insert American power into complex and perilous foreign embroilments.

The Constitution requires that Congress give its authorization to make a declaration of war. By this standard, our last official war was declared in 1941, though Congress authorized the use of military force in Vietnam and other subsequent conflicts. But in order to intervene in the Libyan civil war last year, President Obama bypassed the Congress, the Constitution and the law entirely. Part of the justification offered was that an “intervention” is not a “war” – but the War Powers Resolution prohibits the foreign commitment of the U.S. armed forces for more than 60 days regardless, while US forces were engaged in Libya for more than six months. The Libyan intervention thus proceeded only at the whim of the President. Now, as presidential candidate Mitt Romney proposes to arm Syrian rebel groups in their fight against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, we need to call into question whether the possibility of a large-scale destabilization of the Middle East caused by the expansion of the Syrian civil war might, during a Romney or Obama presidency, invite another military intervention. The semantic boundaries separating “war,” ”conflict” and “intervention” are so ill-defined and the justifications for military action so easily waived by the executive that we must expect to be drawn into more of these nebulous foreign engagements.

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I thought I knew the definition of ratchet until I saw a girl farting alone at a table in the Union.

There’s nothing like spinning to remind you how much you hate yourself.

Our professor assigns us all seats in the front of the lecture hall – no one can sit in the back. Someone does once and he asks, “Do you have leprosy today?”

When you take cutlery from a dining hall, you don’t check to see if it’s clean. You check if it’s clean enough. #UConnProblems My Hall Director sent out an e-mail addressing the problem that people are having sex in the lounges. #UConnProblems Listening to the music in the Student Union is like listening to hell.

VP debate drinking game: Drink everytime Joe Biden smiles or says “malarkey.”

Everything is coming up Raddatz!

Can I just say it? MALARKEY MALARKEY MALARKEY MALARKEY MALARKEY MALARKEY MALARKEY MALARKEY Malarkey?

The clear winner of the vice presidential debate: Martha Raddatz.

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US politics contains old racism in new forms

I

read my colleague Tyler McCarthy’s column on the importance of Barack Obama’s race with great interest yesterday morning. Having planned for today to write a column on this same topic, I thought it fitting to pursue my own lines of analysis but nonetheless respond in some way to his very persuasive argument.

The voting-age population of the state of Mississippi is about 35 percent black. By a simple mathematical calculation it becomes clear that Obama needs to win only about 25 percent of the white vote, assuming that blacks go to the polls at a

By Chris Kempf rate approximatWeekly Columnist ing their overall proportion of the voting-age population, to take Mississippi’s six electoral votes. But in 2008, exit polls revealed that an incredible 88 percent of the white electorate of Mississippi voted for John McCain, despite an even more monolithic vote of blacks for Obama (98 percent). Across the country, despite attracting the support of millions more young people, women, ethnic and racial minorities and first-time voters than John Kerry mobilized in 2004, Obama made miniscule electoral gains among white voters, losing the largest major demographic category surveyed in exit polls by a 12-point margin to John McCain.

I would not dare suggest that America’s white voters participate in elections in the same way in which South Africa’s white population does – that is, by voting almost unanimously for a predominantly white party opposed to the black liberationist African National Congress, effectively equating a political poll with a racial census. Barack Obama, after all, would not have won the states of Vermont and Michigan without a substantial basis of support among whites there. But if this upcoming election were to be decided by the nation’s white voters, it

would unquestionably result in a Romney landslide. Current polls indicate that the vote for Obama among this demographic would perhaps only reach 35 percent.

Obama would lose every electoral vote, with the possible exception of a few from New England.

And we would be at a loss to explain why so many states, especially those in the Deep South, supported Romney by such incredible margins if we could not point to enduring racial fears and hatreds harbored by so many millions of Americans.

If America has advanced toward racial tolerance in the 50 years following the black Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, I am only willing to grant that openly racist sentiments and appeals are no longer permissible by the norms of public or private discourse. The Orval Faubuses and George Wallaces of decades past belong to an extinct species of political figures that thrived on whipping up racial tensions whenever they gave a speech.

Discrimination and civil turmoil of the ‘60s may have affected a change of heart among Americans, but it did not change their minds. The racism of much of contemporary America may be a colorblind racism that denigrates racial difference by attempting to ignore it, but it is racism nonetheless.

But racial perception of President Obama is hardly colorblind. The purpose of calling Obama a socialist or a communist is not to make a comment on his political economy, for it represents laughably exces-

sive hyperbole. Nor is there any legitimate reason to call him a Muslim, a Kenyan, an Indonesian or to doubt the veracity of his birth certificate. All of these appeals aim to differentiate him, to mark him with the stigma of racial, cultural, ideological and national difference, to inculcate within the minds of American whites a sense of unease and a fear of his difference. It is not enough that Obama’s mother was, in fact, a white woman from America’s agricultural heartland, or that Obama defies simplistic racial categorization. Because of the racial taint of our history and culture, we can only see in him that which is sinister, scheming, foreign and black.

I deeply appreciate Tyler McCarthy’s point that “Democratic and Republican critics alike [must be congratulated] for making Barack Obama stand on merit as a president.” This theme of personal merit deserves to structure our scrutiny of any politician, white or black or otherwise. Surely it is noble in the end, moreover, to see beyond our President’s race to the nature of his accomplishments and his personal character. But I am admittedly pessimistic on this front. I don’t think that we can “see beyond” in this sense.

Either we see in vivid, frightening, morally poisonous colors, or we blind ourselves to them.

“All of these appeals aim to differentiate him ... to inculcate within the minds of American whites a sense of unease and a fear of his difference.”

Weekly Columnist Chris Kempf is a 5th-semester political science major. He can be reached at Christopher.Kempf@UConn.edu.

» LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Re: Why I would vote for Barack Obama

Just because Obama does not have the close personal ties to Israel that Romney has is not a reason to vote for him over Romney.

Regardless of which of the two is elected in November, nothing will fundamentally change the bi-partisan consensus on giving Israel $3 billion in aid annually with no strings attached.

Obama’s inaction is simply not enough. Only by threatening this aid outright or tying Israeli concessions to it like building no more settlements, granting a symbolic Palestinian right of return or removal

of troops from Gaza can the situation be remedied in any way. Binyamin Netanyahu has life-long friends in the corridors of power besides Mitt Romney. Obama’s re-election won’t prevent those friends from beating the drums of war. We live in a non-swing state, we should look past voting every four years for whomever we think is the lesser of two evils and instead vote for people like Gary Johnson, who won’t win, but whose electoral success ensures that both political parties recognize that avoiding debate about important issues like unconditional support for Israel will not be tolerated.

– Michael Maranets

Separation of church and state

While Kristi Allen makes some fair points in her 10/8 article “Separation of church and state should continue to be respected,” a few of her claims raise eyebrows.

First, Allen claims that the United States saw a public increase in “violence and intolerance” as a result of the post-9/11 war on terror, which she characterized as targeting Islamic terror “before any other kind of terror.” Where is her evidence of this? And, as concerned United States foreign policy in the last decade, what other kind of terror was relevant? Presidents Bush and Obama made it abundantly clear that the war on terror is not a war on Islam.

Moreover, Allen takes a curious approach to state legislative efforts in Tennessee and Oklahoma to prevent Islamic religious doctrine from controlling public policy and judicial decision-making.

She decries those proposed policies in contradiction of her own principle that religion should not play a part in policy-making. Perhaps it is Christianity, and not religion itself, that she believes should be excluded from the public square.

“Terrifying” though it may be to Ms. Allen that certain candidates appeal to voters on the basis of religion, the plain fact is that nearly 80 percent of Americans self-identify as Christians and almost 95 identify with a higher power or religion in general. God forbid (sorry) that some of our elected officials be representative of the country in that regard.

– Joseph Gasser

Blue Versus White

Two writers argue their points of view on separate sides of the same issue.

See the debate on page 9 in this issue of The Daily Campus.

This week: “Are political debates useful?”

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» KEEP THEM COMING

Presidential debate was Candidates need debates nothing more than drivel to discuss their viewpoints

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ast week’s presidential debate was something that I was looking forward to. Back in 2008, I really could not grasp the debates. I really had not gained any insight

By Kayvon Ghoreshi into the art Staff Columnist of debate or even an interest in politics. However, during the past four years I have gained experience in debate and become much more knowledgeable about issues in the political sphere. I was expecting fleshed-out arguments with details and questions between the candidates that poked holes in their opponent’s argument. I rarely got any of that. Instead I got 90 minutes of worthless rhetorical drivel.

The foreboding of the disappointment of the debate was evident even in the candidates’ preparations. Romney was reportedly working on zingers for the debate, which ironically ended up not sticking at all. However it does not change the fact that our sound bite media and culture take away things like Big Bird as more pertinent than each candidate’s stance on issues like healthcare.

Debates are also supposed to be two opposing arguments rooted in fact and logic.

Although that seemed to be the case in the presidential debate, later analysis shows that that really was not so.

Upon being fact checked, the majority of claims made by either candidate turned out to be false or a very large stretch of the truth. What good is a debate when both individuals cite studies that say they are right and their opponent is

wrong? Despite there being no media bias filtered in, you also lose the fact-checking aspect that the media sometimes provides. Without this check of claims that candidates throw out, it create a setting that makes the debate worthless since candidates can essentially lie without repercussion.

Some people who watched the debate had it as their first time getting involved in the election. If they liked what they heard from a candidate they accepted it and did not bother with fact-checking. If the recent spike in polls for Romney and the overwhelming consensus that he won the debate are anything to go by, the debates have really become about how you speak rather than what you say. People who did not even watch the debate will likely just get the run down from pundits that Romney had simply won and Obama had lost, as opposed to what each individual’s argument was. With this debate setting, candidates are encouraged to say what helps their argument as long as it makes them look presidential.

Ignoring the lack of factual argument from either candidate, the debate still had other factors which made it useless.

The moderator’s inability to control the candidates allowed them to stray from the topics and devolve into repetitive phrases. Think about how many times Romney referenced the $716 billion taken out of Medicare or Obama referred to Romney’s $5 trillion tax cut. As if the repetition was not bad enough, there were arguments and statements that simply were not rhetorically sound. For example, on the issue of health care Romney claimed that in his health care

plan in Massachusetts they did not cut Medicare while at the same time mentioning that they did not have Medicare to start with. This is a true statement. However, following that same logic I can equally claim that Romney’s health care plan did not kill dinosaurs. Even though dinosaurs are not part of the Massachusetts health care system, they still were not killed. This is an example of statements that sound in support of policy, but really do not mean anything at all.

If you still need more convincing of how much of a joke the presidential debates are turning into, consider this. The biggest talking point from the debate is still Big Bird to the point where the Obama campaign has released an ad on the issue that looks like something straight from “Saturday Night Live” or “The Daily Show.” Let’s be honest, plenty of people in the country were going to vote for their respective candidates before the debate and who ‘won’ will not change their vote. Thus the debates just become a contest of who can best pander to the undecided voters and who can look like they know what they are talking about. Hopefully the next debate will be a little more useful. Although I’m not keeping my hopes up seeing as how thanks to a Pizza Hut promotion, one of the hard-hitting audience questions for the next President of the United States of America could actually be “pepperoni or mushroom?”

Staff Columnist Kayvon Ghoreshi is a 1st-semester molecular and cell biology major. He can be reached at Kayvon.Ghoreshi@UConn.edu.

W

ith all the buzz regarding the vice presidential debate face-off last night, and with all the continued discussion on last week’s presidential debate, there arises the issue

By Victoria Kallsen of whethStaff Columnist er these debates are necessary for the voters. Haven’t most people already made up their minds before the November elections? Can’t we find all those policies online that they talk about so frequently?

Don’t we know enough about the candidates already? Does “Saturday Night Live” really need any more fodder for their political jokes? But if debates are so unimportant, why have they decided so much? Why are debates such a beloved form of determination for who we should vote for?

Debating is a much-lauded form of argumentation, as one can see when most elections now have debates involved and when high school debate teams continue to thrive. A professional debate allows the audience to see the candidate under pressure, which in a sense is where they will be for most of his or her presidency. It’s a tried and true method of determining which of the candidates looks the most confident and presidential, something which can have damaging effects. Our presidents are no longer just leading our country from the secrecy of the Oval Office.

The president has to be able to carry himself as a leader to the country and the world.

This brings me to my greatest point. If debates are not

useful to voters, then why do they alter the course of the elections so strongly?

Historically, they have had incredible effects on the elections, going back to the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon presidential election. Nixon was almost guaranteed a win when both candidates agreed to four televised debates. Because Nixon’s campaign was so focused on making Kennedy out to be a candidate unqualified for the presidency, having the American audience see a focused leader who wanted to address the issues facing the country was a negative for the Nixon campaign. It is often said how bad Nixon physically looked next to Kennedy.

The American people saw Kennedy as energetic and decided to vote for him. While data cannot prove that without the debates, Kennedy would have lost, it is very easy to argue that because of the gain in voters seen afterwards, it is highly probable that without the debates, Nixon would have been our president eight years sooner.

With the case of Obama and Romney, it would appear a similar rift is occurring. Before the debate, Obama led by five points. After the debate, they were tied, according to Gallup.

It is almost universally agreed Romney won the debate, as 72 percents of Americans polled

by Gallup would say for certain. My argument here is that winning the debates actually means something to voters, and a strong performance does swing them over. If they were ineffectual, why would we be getting the results? What is most powerful about these debates is that the candidates are given jointly a 90-minute

session to discuss the issues and their stances. They do so without teleprompters, without editing and without media bias. While many say they are decided, for most this is the first real chance to see the candidates, especially if you are not in a state canvassed by the campaigns.

One last comment on the debates is that it is largely agreed that vice-presidential debates are even more useless for the big picture and have little to no effect on the election as a whole. I feel there is a special case this year, though, after Romney’s powerful win. If Paul Ryan delivers a serious smackdown on Biden, the Romney campaign will continue to ride on this momentum, and for them, hopefully until Election Day. Furthermore, as with any vicepresidential debate, it is almost always a try-out for possible presidential campaigns in the future. Ryan needs convince Republicans he’ll be a worthy candidate next time, whether Romney wins or loses.

Additionally, Biden doesn’t want the American public to rule him out in four years for the next election. It’s more about maintaining a powerful image for the people to think about for next election.

In the end, the debates introduce you to the candidates and put their plans and policies onto your television screen. Given the way they change the course of elections, debates will remain a fixture of presidential races to come.

Staff Columnist Victoria Kallsen is a 3rd-semester mechanical engineering major. She can be reached at Victoria.Kallsen@UConn.edu.

» TOTALLY RAD/TOTALLY BAD Transformer explosions and power outages.

The traffic from Senate debates and Lip Sync.

Lip Sync was so inspiring.

Vice Presidential debates are so McMahon: same old, cool! same old.

Totally bad

Totally saw it coming

Totally rad

What is your favorite animal to see around campus?

– By Lauren Strazdis

“Groundhogs!”

“The bass in Swan Lake.”

Lindsey Leaverton, 5th-semester human development and family studies major

Marc Perlman, 5th-semester political science major

“Wild bison, but apparently only I see them.”

Jenny Murphy, 3rd-semester nursing major

“UConn skunks...hide yo kids, hide yo wife.”

Corey Thomas, 3rd-semester animal science major

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» MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY

» SOFTBALL

Huskies travel to UConn to take on Maine this weekend Connecticut College

By Abby Mace Campus Correspondent After the hype and energy that pervaded last week’s New England Championship, the UConn men’s cross country team will compete on Saturday at the lower-pressure Connecticut College Invitational at New London’s Harkness Park.

Though a downsized meet compared to the New Englands, the 2011 Invite fielded 14 squads and over 200 athletes from all athletic divisions. UConn finished eighth while withholding top runners such as Ryan McGuire and Jordan Magath.

When the Huskies toe the line at 11 a.m. for the 8-km race this year, however, they look to do even better. UConn should receive a boost from McGuire, who was recently named Big East Conference Athlete of the Week for his 17thplace finish at the New England Championships and will be in Saturday’s lineup. Jordan Magath, the team’s steady No. 2 runner, will also race, as well as top-seven finishers Stephen Vento and Alex Bennatan and underclassmen Ned Wilson, Zach Patsy, Phil Caldwell and James Agati.

Seniors Joe Clark and Tim Bennatan, two athletes who were

key components of the 2011 Conn.

College Invite result, will not compete Saturday. The loss of Clark and Bennatan will be significant because the two are consistent members of the Huskies scoring five. AJ Chavez, in the midst of a breakout freshman season and the No. 3 runner for the Huskies, will also rest on Saturday.

A strong showing will be exactly what the Huskies need to contend with meet favorites Southern Connecticut State and Connecticut College, who packed a 1-2 punch at the 2011 Invite. Each of these teams showcases a strong field of individuals, including Southern Connecticut’s Brian Nill, who recorded an 11th-place finish at the New England Championship and Connecticut College’s Mike DeLuc, who recently placed 2nd at the prestigious James Early Invitational for Division III institutions.

Another formidable contender is Tufts, who displayed a fantastic 5th-place performance at the New England Championships. The No. 8 Jumbos are paced by seniors Matt Rand and Kyle Marks, who placed 15th and 20th at the New Englands.

Abigail.Mace@UConn.edu

Regular season starts for UConn men's hockey

By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer The UConn men’s hockey team will open the 2012-13 season on Friday night against the UMass Minutemen at the Mullins Center in Amherst, Mass.

The Huskies, who will join Hockey East in 2014, are opening their regular season against a Hockey East opponent for the fifth time since the 1998-99 season.

UConn showed promise in its only preseason game of the year.

Despite having minimal time on the ice prior to taking the ice last Saturday, the Huskies skated to a 3-3 tie against York University from Canada. York, a team compiled mainly of players in their mid-20s with experience playing in the famous Ontario Hockey League or even in the American Hockey League, the minor league division of the National Hockey League, had dominated through their first four preseason games, winning all four by a total score of 25-8.

The Huskies were not intimidat-

ed by the statistics and stayed with the Lions throughout the game. In fact, the Huskies had a 3-2 lead heading into the final minute of the 3rd period. But the Lions went with an empty net to gain a 6-on-5 advantage on the ice and were able to equalize the game with 8.4 seconds to play.

Senior captains Alex Gerke and Sean Ambrosie both praised the play of the team after limited practice time and were also quick to compliment the play of the seven freshmen that took the ice for the first time last Saturday.

Despite their struggles during the 2011-12 season, UMass entered the 2012-13 season with 13 votes for the USCHO.com Top 20 poll, ranking them No. 28 among the 40 teams that received votes.

UMass fell off this week, receiving no votes because they have not played this season. Friday night will be the first game for both teams.

The last time the two sides met was on Dec. 5, 2008, when UMass defeated UConn 5-1 in Amherst.

Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu

By Kyle Constable Campus Correspondent

After shutting out Eastern Connecticut in back-to-back games and taking one of two against Quinnipiac last weekend, the UConn softball team looks to wrap up the fall season with wins against Maine.

This Sunday, the Huskies will take on the Black Bears in a double header at home on UConn’s Burrill Family Field. In the past, the Huskies have had a lot of success against the Black Bears, but winning will not be the only focus during the two-game series.

The fall season has essentially served as a testing period for the team, with Coach Karen Mullins and her staff closely watching the players. These games will be no exception. Specifically, the coaches are watching the newest additions to the team–the freshmen, who will likely play a significant role this spring.

“The fall is really a time for

us to look at our new players, to put the team together…[and] try different things,” Mullins said.

“I mean, you look at the fall–it’s developmental. Everybody’s in there, having an opportunity.”

Last spring, the Huskies traveled to Hempstead, N.Y. and competed against Maine over the course of two days, defeating them 8-2 and 8-0 in the two games played.

Then-freshman Lauren Duggan pitched in the first game, going 6.2 innings and giving up eight hits and two earned runs. In the second game, then-junior Kiki Saveriano pitched 5 innings and only gave up three hits. The strong pitching performances were accompanied by strong offense from several players, including then-freshman Emily O’Donnell, who batted 5-7 in the two games. All three of these players have returned to play again this season, so the team feels confident heading into the game.

"Playing with the team has been an absolutely crazy experience," Heather Fyfe said. "It is crazy to think that we have only known

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Freshman pitcher Alyson Ambler fires a pitch to a Quinnipiac batter Saturday Oct. 6.

each other two months because it feels like we have been playing together for much longer."

The expectations for the final games of the fall season are certainly high, based on the Huskies’ consistent success against the Black Bears. However, all of

UConn’s coaches have made it clear that, win or lose, this is about finding out where the team stands before the spring season.

Kyle.Constable@UConn.edu

Huskies swim with alumni

By Kyle Constable Campus Correspondent After a strong fifth place finish in the Big East Championship last season, the UConn men’s swimming and diving team looks to kick off the 2012-13 season this Saturday with their annual Homecoming Alumni meet.

This weekend’s meet will not be a typical meet for the Huskies, as no other schools will be participating. Instead, the team will host this event to showcase their skills and readiness for the season in an exhibition format. Several

alumni of the team are expected to attend and show their support, if not some of their skills as well. This event will be the culmination of weeks of practice and preparation leading up to the start of the season.

Last season, the Huskies put together a strong performance throughout the season, ending it with a fifth place finish in men’s swimming and an individual fifth place finish in one-meter diving at the 2012 Big East Championship. In addition, they capped off the season with an excellent finish in an individual competition at the 2012 NCAA Zone

Diving Championships, with the team’s competitor placing eighth overall. These performances proved to be recordbreaking, in some cases, for UConn.

This season, the team is expected to pick up right where they left off. Seniors Grant Fecteau and Kyungsoo Yoon, two integral parts of last year’s success, have returned for their final season with the team. In addition, seniors Nick Cerra, Sean Cook and Joe Glowacki have each returned for their final season,

serving as co-captains for this season. The personal records they hold in their respective events are representative of the strength of the entire team going into this season. The team has built a foundation with major talents in each of the competition events.

The Homecoming Alumni meet is set to begin at 12 p.m. in the Wolff-Zackin Natatorium and is open for anyone to attend.

Kyle.Constable@UConn.edu

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What's Next Home game

Away game

Oct. 19 Syracuse 8 p.m.

Nov. 3 USF TBA

Oct. 20 Pittsburgh 4 p.m.

The yards per carry that UConn has averaged in its three losses.

» That’s what he said – New University of Kentucky recruit James Young on why he chose to go to UK.

Nov. 9 Pittsburgh 8 p.m.

Nov. 24 Louisville TBA

Men’s Soccer (11-1-1) Oct. 17 Seton Hall 7 p.m.

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Stat of the day

Oct. 24 Providence 3 p.m.

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Golf at sunset

Oct. 27 Oct. 31 Providence Big East 4 p.m. Tournament

Women’s Soccer (7-7-2) Oct. 20 Providence 7 p.m.

Field Hockey (13-0) Oct. 13 Georgetown Noon

Volleyball Today Cincinnati 4 p.m.

Oct. 18 Boston College 7 p.m.

Oct. 14 Stanford 1 p.m.

Oct. 21 Princeton 1 p.m.

Oct. 27 Syracuse 1 p.m.

Oct. 21 Pittsburgh 1 p.m.

Oct. 27 Rutgers 2 p.m.

Nov. 2 Niagara 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 3 Niagara 7:05 p.m.

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Oct. 14 Louisville 2 p.m.

Oct. 19 USF 7 p.m.

Men’s Hockey (0-0-0) Today UMass 7 p.m.

Oct. 26 Holy Cross 7:05 p.m.

Oct. 27 Union 8 p.m.

Tomorrow Colgate 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 Maine 2 p.m.

Oct 21.

Maine 2 p.m.

Oct. 26 Syracuse 7 p.m.

Women’s Cross Country Today Oct. 19 Wisconsin CCSU MiniInvitational Meet 11 a.m. 3:30 p.m.

Oct. 26 BIG EAST Champ.

TBA

UConn heads to Providence, RI

By Kyle Constable Campus Correspondent

AP

John Calipari

After three weeks of rain keeping them from seeing competition on the court, the UConn women’s tennis team looks to continue their successful season through the New England Championships in Providence, R.I. this weekend.

Earlier this week, inclement weather struck for a third time this fall season, as the Huskies were unable to take the court against Quinnipiac.

With three weeks having passed since the Army Invitational where the team competed last, it would be an understatement to say that they are anxious to get back on the court and compete. The New England Championships will present the Huskies with an opportunity to excel on the court in front of some of their Big East rivals, including Providence and Seton Hall.

The Huskies have traditionally produced strong showings at the New England Championships.

Last season, the team went 16-2 against their opponents, defeating teams from Bryant, Sacred Heart, Fairfield and Providence, among other schools. In the second flight of singles, thenfreshman Maxie Weinberg won the flight, easily winning in the first round and the championship match, while pulling together an impressive 1-6, 6-1, (10-5) come-from-behind victory in the semifinals. Overall, the team won four of the six singles flights and two of the three doubles flights.

“I saw last season how competitive [the New England Championships] was,” said Weinberg.

“But I know that everyone on my team is ready to compete.”

After such a strong performance last season, the team hopes for nothing less than success this weekend. Now a sophomore, Weinberg has had a phenomenal season, winning her flight at Quinnipiac and advancing to the quarterfinals of her flight at the Army Invitational, so the Huskies are looking for another strong performance from her. The team is convinced that the three newest talents, who joined at the beginning of the season, along with a solid base of returning players, will make a significant difference in continuing and extending the record of victories at the New England Championships.

Needless to say, the expectations on the part of the players are certainly high.

The Huskies will compete all-day on Friday and Saturday, as well as most of Sunday on the campus of Providence College. Following the conclusion of the competition, the team will return home and prepare to compete in a dual match against UMass on Wednesday afternoon that was originally postponed due to inclement weather. The match will be the Huskies’ first home match of the season, if the weather remains favorable.

“I’m just hoping for the best for everyone from UConn and hoping everyone plays well,” said Weinberg. “My personal expectations are to hopeAP fully play well and do the best that I can.”

A caddie stands with the flag of the 9th hole during the first round of the Portugal Masters golf tournament at the Victoria golf course in Vilamoura, southern Portugal, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012.

Women’s Hockey (0-2-1) Today Colgate 7 p.m.

» WOMEN’S TENNIS

“I’m not just looking for the NBA. I’m looking for an education and a national championship and that’s about it.”

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Huskies compete in Adidas Invite

By Jack Mitchell Campus Correspondent

The UConn women’s cross-country team departed Storrs on Wednesday bound for Madison, Wis., to compete in the fourthannual Wisconsin Adidas Invitational, which will take place on Saturday. The meet features one of the most competitive lineups of teams that the Huskies will face this season, and it is sure to be an excellent test of UConn’s collective mettle.

UConn will be sending a roster consisting of junior Lauren Sara, junior Allison Lasnicki, senior Shauna McNiff, freshman Julia Zrinyi, senior Kim Moran, senior Allison Cooper, senior Brigitte Mania, and freshmen Emily Durgin and Abby Mace.

Nearly 50 schools will be represented at the meet, the vast majority of which are NCAA Championship-caliber teams. A slew of nationally-ranked squads will be in attendance, including No. 2 Arizona, No. 3 Washington, No. 5 Iowa State and No. 7 Stanford. Needless to say, UConn will be facing some of the best runners and teams in the nation on Saturday.

The meet presents UConn with an interesting chance to prove just how well the program stacks up against the best in the nation, and with a solid finish, the Huskies

could easily be vaulted into the national rankings.

“I think we need a top-20 performance, simply because there are 20 nationally ranked teams there, so the competition is crazy good,” Coach Andrea GroveMcDonough said. “I’m not sure if that’s realistic now, but then again, I absolutely wouldn’t rule it out either.”

UConn’s chances of reaching that goal of a top-20 finish took a major hit when Coach Grove-McDonough found out that star sophomore and number two runner Lindsay Crevoiserat would not be making the trip due to illness. Crevoiserat, who had a top-ten finish at the Roy Griak Invitational two weeks ago, is one of the Huskies’ anchor runners, and filling her shoes will not be an easy task.

“It’s a huge loss unfortunately and I’m not sure how we will deal with losing a runner who is capable of scoring in the top 30 at a meet like that,” Grove-McDonough said. “It’s not that we don’t have the bodies up front to make up for it, because we do. Lauren Sara and Allison Lasnicki could both have been our number one at [the Griak Invitational] and could be very low scorers at this meet also.”

Perhaps the runner who will have to step up the most is senior Brigitte Mania.

Mania ran her way into a starting spot at the

Wisconsin meet after impressing her coaches with a sixth-place finish at the CCSU Ted Owens Invitational in September, and she will be the fifth runner for the Huskies after being bumped up one spot due to the loss of Crevoiserat. Mania spent most of the offseason rehabbing from a stress fracture she had suffered last spring, but thus far she has shown no lingering effects owf her injury.

While the loss of Crevoiserat could seemingly not have come at a worse time, the Huskies will still have time to work their way into the national rankings should things not go as planned this weekend. The Big East Regionals are not until Oct. 26, and a solid finish there would also earn UConn more than a few at-large points, which go towards earning a national ranking.

The Huskies certainly have the depth to make a run at a top-20 finish, but consistency is an issue, as the team will be counting on inexperienced freshman Julia Zrinyi and Mania to score like starters, which may or may not actually happen. But whatever the case, UConn has a chance to show the rest of the country just how far their team could go, and a finish within the top-20 at Wisconsin would be a major statement for the program.

Jackson.Mitchell@UConn.edu

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Off to a good start

Friday, October 12, 2012

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HIJINKS WITH HEDWIG

Huskies take on Owls in second conference game

By Scott Bernier Campus Correspondent Even as the fall foliage begins to set foot in Connecticut, the UConn golf team has been hard at work during the first half of their 2012-13 season.

Beginning with the Adams Cup in Newport, R.I. on Sept.

18 and 19, the team made an impressive debut with a 6thplace finish out of 12 teams.

Led by strong performances from freshman Zach Zaback and senior Brian Hughes, the team kept up the momentum in their next event, as the defending champions of the Hartford Hawk Invitational.

They placed 5th out of a 16-team field, due to aggregate scores of 221 through three rounds by sophomore Chris Wiatr and freshman Stephen Pastore.

With excellent contributions being made by the entire team, the stage was set to host The Connecticut Cup this past Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 8 and 9 at Ellington Ridge Country Club. Despite the chilly weather the Huskies were hot, with a special performance carded by Zaback, taking home 1st place and medalist honors over the 84-player field. Zaback is the first UConn player to win an individual event since Jeb Buchanan last September at the Hartford Hawk Invitational.

Zaback’s 73-69-69-211 was nearly matched by Wiatr, who shot a terrific 70-72-70-212 and finished in a tie for second. The team finished tied for third with both Fairfield University and Bryant University, thanks to solid rounds from Hughes, Pastore, junior Mike Masso and freshman Cameron MacKay. Optimism is running high for the group as can be sensed when speaking with 6th year coach Dave Pezzino. “We’ve been fortunate to have some great individual success and consistent team play,” Pezzino said. “One of our goals this fall is to collectively win a tournament, and we’ve been doing all the right things that can help push us over the hump and into a 1st-place finish.”

With three events completed and steadily improving finishes, the home stretch of the season bears promising results for a young, yet dependable squad led by Hughes. The team will see further action this weekend when they travel down to Philmont Country Club in Huntingdon Valley, Penn. for the Big 5 Tournament this Saturday and Sunday.

Following this weekend is the final event of the fall season on Oct. 29 and 30 in Kiawah Island, S. C., whose ocean course was recently home to the PGA Championshp.

The Huskies will be teeing off at the nearby Turtle Point Golf Course, designed

by Jack Nicklaus to be a narrow and demanding course, requiring both accuracy with lofty approach shots and the ability to shape the ball in the air from left-to-right and vice-versa. Measuring in at a lengthy 7,061 yards from its farthest tees, this final venue should provide for an excellent southern showcase for a northeast team. With a sound start underway for the 201213 season, it seems the leaves are not the only ones peaking at the right time.

Scott.Bernier@UConn.edu

By Dan Agabiti Sports Editor

This weekend, the UConn football team welcomes the Temple Owls to Rentschler Field.

The Huskies are now 3-3 after a 19-3 loss to Rutgers in UConn’s conference opener.

UConn’s first Big East game of the season did not go as well as the Huskies would have hoped.

On the road against the now No. 20 team in the nation, Rutgers, UConn was unable to get anything going offensively while the Scarlet Knights kept putting points on the board, leaving UConn 3-3, 0-1 to try and catch up.

In the loss, the Huskies ran the ball 28 times and gained a measly 53 yards out of it, while Rutgers ran the ball only seven more times and then UConn gained 123 yards, more 2-2, 1-0 than double that of Saturday, 1 p.m. UConn.

The weak running Rentschler Field, game wasn’t just a freak incident, however. All Conn. ESPN 3 season long, UConn has been unable to establish a legitimate running threat and the Huskies’ losses demonstrate that.

In UConn’s three losses, the Huskies rushed the ball a total of 103 times and with those attempts, UConn gained only 199 yards—just over 1.9 yards per carry.

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UConn quarterback Chandler Whitmer runs up the field during the Huskies’ game against Buffalo at Rentschler Field on Sept. 30, 2012.

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Hoyas and Cardinal come to Storrs this weekend

By Matthew Stypulkoski Staff Writer The No. 4 UConn field hockey team will match up against Big East rival Georgetown and No. 14 Stanford this weekend at the Sherman Sports Complex.

The 13-0 Huskies face the Hoyas in what could potentially be a trap game Saturday afternoon, as Georgetown has struggled to a 2-12 start and come to Storrs riding an eight-game losing streak.

Despite the seemingly lopsided matchup and a nationally ranked opponent looming on Sunday, UConn coach Nancy Stevens believes her team will be fully prepared to play the Hoyas.

“We will not overlook Georgetown,” Stevens said in an email. “One of our team mantras is ‘Respect all, fear none.’ We know Georgetown will give us their best effort and we are prepared to give

them our best effort.”

The Huskies will look to maintain their perfect Big East record against the Hoyas, as they enter the contest with a 2-0 conference record.

After facing Georgetown, UConn will have to be prepared to make a quick turnaround as the Cardinal come to the Sherman Sports Complex just over 24 hours later.

Stevens said the tight scheduling was put together by design in an effort to better prepare her team for the postseason, as the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament are played on backto-back days.

Entering the weekend, Stanford is 9-4 on the year and 3-0 in the NorPac Field Hockey Conference.

“Stanford has a lot of talent and is well-coached,” Stevens said.

“However, we feel we match up really well with them. All three

of their backs throw big aerials, so we have been working on defending that aspect of their game. We have a lot of respect for their attack penalty corners, so our focus at practice has been limiting penalty corner opportunities and fine-tuning our corner defense.”

Stanford is 2-3 against ranked opponents and face a difficult game at No. 1 Syracuse on Friday before making the trip to Connecticut.

Though the Cardinal feature a prolific attack and have scored 39 goals in their 13 games, UConn sports a stout defense that has allowed just 10 goals in 13 games.

The defense has been a little bit more porous as of late however, as they have given up five of those goals in the last four games.

Game times are set for noon on Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday.

Matthew.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

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UConn senior Alicia Angelini handles the ball up the field during a game against the University of New Hampshire on Sept. 21. The Huskies face Georgetown and Stanford this weekend.

» VOLLEYBALL

Bearcats face Huskies before UConn First Night

By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer

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UConn junior middle blocker Jackie Wattles goes to hit the ball during the Huskies’ matchup with the Georgetown Hoyas on Sept. 21 in Gampel Pavilion.

The UConn volleyball team returns to Gampel Pavilion on Friday for a match against Cincinnati at 4 p.m. in front of what is expected to be a large crowd as a result of UConn Basketball First Night.

Following the Cincinnati match, the Huskies will have a day off before taking on No. 15 Louisville, the reigning Big East champions.

Friday’s match is scheduled as part of the festivities for First Night. Gampel Pavilion is expected to fill to capacity before the basketball teams take the court, meaning that the Huskies will be playing in front of a crowd that is far bigger than any home crowd they have ever had.

“We’ve never had the gym that

full,” senior captain Mattison Quayle said, “so we’re pretty excited to have a crowd come out and we love playing at home, so it’s going to be a fun game.”

The Huskies, who are already two wins away from matching their total for the entire 2011 season, are in good shape five matches into Big East Conference play. UConn got off to its best start in conference play since 2004 with a 2-0 start.

Despite following this start with two consecutive shutout losses on the road at St. John’s and Notre Dame, the Huskies turned things around on Sunday when they defeated DePaul 3-1. Their 3-2 record has them at 6th place in the Big East, with Cincinnati just ahead of them in 5th.

“I think the team is in a good place right now,” Quayle said.

“We’ve had a couple upsets but having the win to end the week-

end is giving us confidence for the upcoming games this weekend.”

The Bearcats are 6-13 overall, but are 4-2 in conference play thanks in part to their schedule pitting them against five teams who are currently on the outside looking in for the conference tournament picture. Only eight of the conference’s 14 teams made the postseason tournament.

Louisville is a force to be reckoned within the Big East.

The 16-3 Cardinals have also had to play mostly bottom of the table teams to start the conference season, but they are the defending conference champions and have been tested against some of the nation’s toughest teams. The Cardinals will play at St. John’s on Friday.

Timoothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu