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Diversity increases on campus Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Minority students reach 23 percent
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Statistics indicate that minority student enrollment at the University of Connecticut is on an upward trajectory, but diversity is lacking in some schools. The Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness’ most recent statistics on student-body diversity are from fall 2012. These indicate that minority student enrollment is at the highest level since records began. As of fall semester last year, 9,103 UConn students, or 23.3 percent, were classified as minority. Diversity was highest at the Stamford campus, where 55.9 percent of students were classified as non-white. At the Storrs campus, the School of Pharmacy was by far the most diverse in fall 2012, where 41.8 percent
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This photo from New Students Day this past April shows UConn’s learning communities and different organizations.
of pharmacy undergraduates were considered minority students. Conversely, the Neag School of Education had the lowest percentage of minority students. Only 57 Neag undergrads were recorded as non-white, just
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21.0 percent. CLAS boasted the largest number of nonwhite students, at 3,702 of its 10,350 total undergraduates. Records on minority enrollment at UConn have only been kept since 1974. Initially, the only information
collected was the number of minority students enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, law and non-degree programs. In 1974, there were 613 undergraduate students classified
By Catherine Han Campus Correspondent
have taken, but on changes that it could make for the future. “We have to accept our history, recognize it, learn from it, and then move onto addressing our future.” The mannerism of this change was the subject of the conversation for the next hour. One topic that came up was the recent email sent to the UConn community over the sexual assault that occurred over the past weekend, more specifically, the wording of this email. It was pointed out that as a university, UConn had to be more careful in the way that things were presented to the student body to minimize victim blaming. The name of the group itself was put under question. According to Katherine Elmer, a 7th semester Spanish and HGFS major, “civility is a little term that’s used to cover up really
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Wording of sexual assault email discussed
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The President’s Task Force on Civility and Campus Culture talked about issues such as the sexual assualt email, the athletic status, and possibly requiring a cultural issues class.
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Last night, students met with the President’s Task Force on Civility and Campus Culture in Laurel Hall to have a town-hall style discussion about the status of the University of Connecticut’s own culture. “Our charge is to look at what recommendations we have to create a campus culture that is based on one of civility,” said Carol Polifroni, an associate professor in the Department of Nursing Instruction and Research and one of the leaders of UConn’s task force. Referring to the responsibilities of the group, created by Susan Herbst last year after complaints about the atmosphere on campus were revealed to the public, she recommended that the conversation be focused not on actions that the university should
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DG will hold walk for member’s mother By Domenica Ghanem Campus Correspondent
The sisters of Delta Gamma have put together a team of more than 280 people to Walk For Nancy this Sunday. Melissa Rapenske, a sister of Delta Gamma, decided to organize this team for her mother Nancy. Melissa’s mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Rapenske said that when she first learned her mother’s diagnosis it was natural for her to come to her sisters “They were a huge influence in me keeping my sanity,” said the 5th semester speech, language and hearing sciences major. The walk comes one week before her mother’s birthday. Funds raised for the American Cancer Society walk are used to support the fight to end breast cancer. Donations go to helping people take steps to reduce cancer risk, investing in research
Law school fair coming to Student Union By Miles Halpine Campus Correspondent
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to cure the disease, providing information on services such as transportation and wigs, support programs, mammogram tests and other early prevention and detection programs. The 5K will be held in Hartford on Sunday, Oct. 20, at Bushnell Park. Team members will be carpooling from Husky Village. UConn Greeks have been raising money for this event by selling Krispy Kreme donuts, setting up a team page online, having dress downs and selling T-shirts. So far the team has raised more than $6,000 and Rapenske’s personal page has raised more than $2,000. The national Delta Gamma chapter recently made a blog post about Walk for Nancy, which brought in donations from alumni and Delta Gammas from all over the country. “My mom is a very humble person and she heard about the blog post and she says ‘don’t do it just for me,’” said Rapenske said. When Rapenske first put the
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In this photo from Sept. 29, people walk in Kappa Kappa Gamma’s “Kappa Walk for a Cure.”
team together she thought she might have around 50 walkers. There are currently 281 people signed up, including Greeks from different chapters, members of the men’s club soccer team and her family and friends from home. The walk in Hartford is for
everyone who had been affected by breast cancer. “She sent me a text,” said Rapenske, “It said ‘I’m a little fish in a big pond, think about the others too.”
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On Wednesday, Oct. 16, a law school fair will be held in the Student Union Ballroom. It will begin at noon and continue until 3 p.m. Located in rooms 330 and 331, the fair will allow students to interact with representatives from almost 40 law schools from across the nation. At the fair, attendees will also be able to meet with three organizations that focus on preparation for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). Some of schools that will be represented at the fair include in Boston College Law School, Boston University School of Law, Columbia Law School, Fordham Law School, University of Connecticut School of Law, Quinnipiac University School of Law and Maine Law. The three organizations for LSAT preparation with representatives at the fair are Testmasters, Kaplan and The Princeton Review. As the biggest law school fair, the event is expected to draw a large crowd. There is no fee to attend. The fair is hosted by the UConn Pre-Law Center. Anyone interested in attending is encouraged to pre-register. For more information and to pre-register, visit www.prelaw.uconn.edu.
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Seniors will celebrate life after UConn By Kathleen McWilliams Senior Staff Writer
Wednesday afternoon from 1– 4 p.m. the senior kick off will be held in Rome Ballroom. The event, hosted by Senior Engagement and Transition Programs and the UConn Alumni Association, celebrates the senior class and helps them transition into life after UConn. “The Senior Kickoff is also a chance for students to access resources that will support their success as they approach graduation,” said Division of Student Affairs Alumni Relations Coordinator, Stacey Murdock. “For example, students can talk to the Center for Career Development about the job and graduate school search and to the Co-Op about purchasing their cap and gown.” To help seniors feel confident about their transition, the event will also give students the resources to stay connected with UConn after commencement and provide information about May’s commencement. Vendors will include Kaplan Test Prep, Nutmeg Yearbook and the Center for Career Development. Seniors will also have the chance to pick up a free senior T-shirt and button, key chains and Dairy Bar ice cream. The annual selection of the senior scoop, the Dairy Bar ice cream flavor created by seniors, will also be selected at 2:30 p.m. The flavor will be stocked at the Dairy Bar and available for purchase until commencement ends. The event will be open to both seniors graduating in December 2013 and May 2014.
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What’s going on at UConn today... Law School Fair 12 - 3 p.m. Student Union, Ballroom Visit with 39 national law school representatives and three LSAT prep test organizations at UConn’s biggest and best law school fair to date! Don’t miss your opportunity to attend this event.
FileMaker Workshop 1 - 4 p.m. Homer Babbidge Library Join us for a FileMaker hands-on workshop on creating a complete higher education solution for tracking students, professors, advisors, and classes.
UConn Social Entrepreneur Corps in Guatemala Symposium 5 - 6 p.m. UConn Co-Op UConn students will share their experiences spending 8 weeks in Guatemala assisting local entrepreneurs in starting and sustaining businesses that provide essential products and services to their communities.
Italian Film Festival 7:30 - 10 p.m. Castleman, 212 This semester’s theme is “Amore”-come join us for the next screenings “To Rome With Love.” All screenings are in Italian with English subtitles. – ANNIE PANCAK
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Defense rests case in East Haven rights trial
HARTFORD (AP) — Defense lawyers for East Haven police officers accused of civil rights violations against Latinos rested their case Tuesday without calling any witnesses. The two police officers, David Cari and Dennis Spaulding, waived their right to testify, The New Haven Register reported. Closing arguments are scheduled for Wednesday, the 17th day of the trial in U.S. District Court in Hartford. Prosecutors rested their case on Friday. Cari and Spaulding were arrested in January 2012 and accused of civil rights abuses. They face charges including conspiracy to violate civil rights, deprivation of rights for making arrests without probable cause and destruction of records during a federal investigation. Spaulding also faces an excessive force charge. They have pleaded not guilty. If convicted, both could serve up to 20 years in prison. Cari has retired from the police force. The Justice Department began investigating in 2009 after a formal complaint by the Rev. James Manship and leaders in his parish, St. Rose of Lima in New Haven. Manship testified for the prosecution last week. Two other officers were charged in the federal investigation. Officer Jason Zullo pleaded guilty last year to obstruction of justice. Sgt. John Miller, former president of the police union, pleaded guilty also last year to violating a person’s civil rights by using unreasonable force.
Malloy: Conn. working on shutdown contingency plan
HARTFORD (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Tuesday his administration is working on a plan to help fund some programs in Connecticut affected by the partial federal government shutdown. “It appears to me, if I had a bet, that they’re not going to reopen the government,” Malloy said. The Democrat said he expects the state’s contingency plan will be released in the “coming days,” but warned that the state does not have an unlimited amount to spend. The state so far has spent less than $900,000 on programs affected by the shutdown, mostly funds to keep a Bridgeport-area Head Start program open. Malloy said he spoke with federal officials to see if Connecticut will be reimbursed once a federal budget deal is reached, but no final decision has been made. Malloy said he is concerned about federal funds not reaching “lifesustaining” services in Connecticut such as the Women, Infants and Children food program, funding for disabled veterans and additional Head Start programs. He said his office is communicating with social service providers that depend on federal funds to determine their financial situations. “We cannot have pregnant women go without nourishment. We cannot have young children go without nourishment,” he said. “That’s a reality.” Malloy said he doesn’t believe at this point that the state will need to borrow money to cover any funding shortages caused by the federal shutdown.
Newtown, Conn., to keep school razing under wraps
HARTFORD (AP) — When the old Sandy Hook Elementary School is demolished, building materials will be pulverized on site and metal will be taken away and melted down in an effort to eliminate nearly every trace of the building where a gunman killed 26 people last December. Contractors also will be required to sign confidentiality agreements and workers will guard the property’s perimeter to prevent onlookers from taking photographs or videos. The goal is to prevent exploitation of any remnants of the building, Newtown First Selectman E. Patricia Llodra said Tuesday. “We want to be absolutely certain to do everything we can to protect the privacy of the families and the Sandy Hook community,” she said. “We’re going to every possible length to eliminate any possibility that any artifacts from the building would be taken from the campus and ... end up on eBay.” Demolition is set to begin next week and be finished before the Dec. 14 anniversary of the shootings. Town voters last month accepted a state grant of $49.3 million to raze the building and build a new school, which is expected to open by December 2016. The contractors’ confidentiality agreements, which were first reported Monday by The News-Times of Danbury, forbid public discussion of the site as well as photographs or disclosure of any information about the building. Llodra, the superintendent of schools and other town officials have been discussing how to handle the demolition for weeks. Llodra said they want to shield the victims’ families and the community from more trauma, and don’t want any part of the school used for personal gain. Most of the building will be completely crushed and hauled away to an undisclosed location. Some of the demolition dust may be used in the foundation and driveway of the new school, Llodra said. The town also is requiring documentation that metal and other materials that can’t be crushed and are hauled off-site are destroyed, she said. In addition to the demolition crew confidentiality agreements, the project management company, Consigli Construction, also may do background checks on the workers.
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Conference to connect health, workplace and the environment On Oct. 17 in the Student Union Ballroom, an event titled “Health, Workplace, and Environment: Cultivating Connections Conference” will involve professionals from many different backgrounds for the benefit of each other, and others who work in their respective fields. The registration fee for general admission is $40, including lunch, and for students $10 including lunch and free admission without lunch.
The conference is described as a “crossroad for health professionals, researchers, practitioners, and educators to engage in the translation and dissemination of scientific information integrating health, workplace, and the environment” by the website. Highly educated and competent people, such as Dr. John Howard, the Director for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and Ms. Rosalyn Cama, the president of Cama, Inc. will be featured speakers in this gathering. The pro-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is entrusting the elegant stores that help define its brand to Angela Ahrendts, a respected executive who blended fashion sense with technological savvy to establish Burberry as a mark of luxury and success. The hiring announced Tuesday is a coup for Apple Inc. Besides providing the Cupertino, Calif. company with another sharp mind, Ahrendts should help Apple deflect potential criticism about the lack of women in the upper ranks of its management. Silicon Valley’s long-running reliance on men to make key decisions has come into sharper focus as online messaging service Twitter Inc. prepares to go public. Twitter’s closely scrutinized IPO documents called attention to the San Francisco company’s all-male board of directors and the presence of just one woman in its executive inner circle. Apple has one woman, former Avon Products Inc. CEO Andrea Jung, among the eight directors on its board. Ahrendts will report directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook when she leaves Burberry to join Apple next spring in a newly created position of senior vice president of senior vice president in charge of retail and online stores. In a memo sent Tuesday to Apple employees, Cook said he knew he wanted to hire Ahrendts from the time the two met in January and realized “she shares our values and our focus on innovation.” Ahrendts telegraphed her admi-
ration of Apple in 2010 when The Wall Street Journal asked her if she was trying to mold Burberry into something similar to other luxury brands in the fashion industry. “I don’t look at Gucci or Chanel or anyone,” Ahrendts told the Journal. “If I look to any company as a model, it’s Apple. They’re a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle, and that’s the way I see us.” Ahrendts’ arrival comes at a crucial time for Apple and the stores that serve as the main showcase for its iPhones, iPads, iPods and Mac computers. Like the rest of the company, Apple’s stores aren’t doing quite as well as they once were, primarily because tougher competition has forced the company to trim its prices. For instance, in Apple’s quarter ending in late June, average revenue per store declined 9 percent from the previous year to $10.1 million. Even more troubling, the retail division’s operating profit for the quarter dropped 19 percent from last year to $667 million. Apple ended the period with 408 stores located in 13 countries. The stores, which are staffed by nearly 42,000 workers, may have been suffering from a management void. Ron Johnson, a former Target Inc. executive credited for turning Apple’s stores into a thriving operation, left the company in 2011 to become CEO of J.C. Penney Co. Johnson’s successor, John Browett, left Apple in a management shake-up a year ago. Since then, the stores have been
By David Wiegand Campus Correspondent
fessors, researchers, and professionals will be assembled into a melting pot, furthering human development by revealing truths about the workplace, health, and the environment, and pressing issues humanity faces today. Highly educated and competent people, such as Dr. John Howard, the Director for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and Ms. Rosalyn Cama, the president of Cama, Inc. will be featured speakers in this gathering. The speakers featured will get people
talking about the issues, and those who have reserved a “Making Connections” table will be free to discuss particulars in round-table lunch discussions. These kinds of open-ended, informal discussions have their place in virtually every human endeavor, whether political, scientific, or creative. It’s important that society maintain these traditions as a way to make voices heard and get the best and brightest together.
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Apple hires Burberry CEO to boost store sales
Diversity measured by ethnicity and gender from DIVERSITY, page 1
as minority and a total of 844 minority students across the four categories. The same year there were 22,344 students enrolled at UConn. Minority students represented 3.8 percent of the total student body. It wasn’t until 1986 that more detailed statistics on minority student enrollment were recorded. From 1986, enrollment has been measured by ethnicity and gender at each campus. Measurement of diversity in each school or college (for example, CLAS or Education) also began at this time. By fall 1986, minority enrollment at UConn had jumped to 7.8 percent, or 2,237 students. Minority
students were classified in the following categories: non-resident alien, black or African American, American Indian or Alaska native, Asian and Hispanic / Latino. As minority student enrollment has grown, so too have diversity support services. The Asian American Cultural Center celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. A Puerto Rican Center was established in fall 1972 and became the Puerto Rican / Latin American Cultural Center in 1985. The African American Cultural Center has been in operation since 1968.
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, file photo, Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts speaks at the National Retail Federation’s annual convention in New York. Apple said Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, that Ahrendts, who used technology to drive a remarkable turnaround at Burberry, will take charge of Apple’s expansion plans and retail operation, as she will become a senior vice president at the company next spring.
under the management of a lowerlevel executive and the senior vice president job remained vacant. This will mark the first time that the Apple’s senior vice president in charge of its brick-and-mortar stores also will be in charge of the company’s online sales. In his memo to Apple employees, Cook said he never had met
an executive capable of doing both jobs until he got to know Ahrendts. “She believes in enriching the lives of others and she is wicked smart,” Cook wrote. Ahrendts, 53, proved her ability to galvanize a well-established brand during the past seven years working in London as Burberry’s CEO.
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awful stuff like racism, sexism and homophobia.” Students and faculty agreed that the term “culture” was far more inclusive. Another issue that came up was that of athletic status in the UConn community. The lack of response from faculty over controversial issues involving athletic personnel was actually one of the driving forces for the creation of the task force, and it was once again brought into the conversation. Students pointed out that although they knew of the university culture revering athletics, the point was not to remove athletes but to involve them in undergoing leadership and bystander training to help them become better role models. One of the most important conclusions that was reached by the end of the meeting was that continuing education was needed, not only for athletes, but for the
UConn community as a whole. While orientation contains information on the prevention of a rape culture, the point was made that very little is done after this point to reintroduce and reinforce the material presented at the time. Ideas to combat this problem included training professors on how to incorporate these themes into their classrooms, making certain classes standard for all majors or even going as far as requiring a competency in each major in courses that raise awareness of cultural issues like homophobia and sexism. “We all have to take math, so why don’t we all have to learn about the human condition?” said Takina Pollock, a 7th semester allied health major. “We’re an educational institute, so education is the best way to go.”
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In an article published on Oct. 14 entitled “Stevens Stand Alone” field hockey head coach Nancy Stevens was incorrectly identified as coaching at UConn for 25 years. She has spent a total of 35 years as a head coach in the NCAA. In an article published on Oct. 15 entitled “Frat house burned, students displaced” the story inaccurately associated the property to Tau Kappa Epsilon. The house on 91 Willington Road is not officially associated with Tau Kappa Epsilon. In that same story Mark Stefanczyk’s name was misspelled. We regret these errors.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A New York City woman who posed as the aunt of a boy killed in the Newtown elementary school shooting massacre and solicited money was sentenced on Tuesday to eight months in prison. Nouel Alba, 37, pleaded guilty in June to federal charges of wire fraud and making false statements. Starting on the day of the shootings last December, prosecutors said, Alba used Facebook, emails, text messages and telephone calls to falsely claim to be the aunt of 6-year-old Noah Pozner. Authorities said she told people she was collecting donations for a funeral fund on behalf of Noah’s family and the families of other victims of the shooting, in which a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 children and six educators. The gunman, who had killed his mother at their home before going to the school, killed himself as police closed in. Alba’s sentencing followed an emotional victim impact statement given in court by Mark Mattioli, father of 6-year-old victim James Mattioli. Speaking at times through tears, Mattioli asked U.S. District Court Judge Michael P. Shea to impose a sentence of 26 months, one for each of the Newtown school victims. “Her actions were anything but gentle,” Mattioli said. “They were immediate, intrusive,
exploitative, disgusting, and they added to my feeling of victimization.” Prosecutors acknowledged that Alba collected only about $240 through her efforts and repaid it. But special assistant U.S. attorney Jonathan Francis argued for prison time, saying Alba’s actions had caused emotional harm to the community and created a chilling effect on charitable giving. “It’s a callous, calculating attempt to profit off the murder of children,” he said. Mattioli contrasted Alba’s fraud and the actions of a man who had delivered food to his front door in the days after the shooting and asked for nothing in return. “He chose love; she chose evil,” he said. Defense attorneys had argued in their sentencing memorandum for probation, saying Alba had suffered enough at the hands of the media as “something of a stand-in for the actual perpetrator of the Sandy Hook massacre.” Alba has been hounded by the press, has lost her friends, has been unable to maintain a steady job and is facing foreclosure on her home, they said. Alba declined to speak at the hearing. Defense attorney Gary Weinberger compared her to a Colonial-era criminal put in the stocks to have fruit thrown at her. “She was and has been made into an incredible pariah,” he said. The judge said he took into
account Alba’s position as a single mother of two children, including one with autism, when passing sentence. He said he wanted to make it clear she was not being punished as a proxy for the shooter. He said a prison sentence was
(AP) It’s not your imagination. There really is a tighter squeeze on many planes these days. The big U.S. airlines are taking out old, bulky seats in favor of socalled slimline models that take up less space from front to back, allowing for five or six more seats on each plane. The changes, covering some of the most common planes flown on domestic and international routes, give the airlines two of their favorite things: More paying passengers, and a smaller fuel bill because the seats are slightly lighter. It’s part of a trend among the airlines to view seats as money-makers, not just pieces of furniture. Add a few inches of legroom and airlines can charge more for tickets. Take away a few inches and they can fit more seats on the plane. Some passengers seem to mind the tighter squeeze more than others. The new seats generally have thinner padding. And new layouts on some planes have made the aisles slightly narrower, meaning the dreaded beverage cart bump to the shoulder happens more often. And this is all going on in coach at a time when airlines are spending heavily to add better premium seats in the front of the plane. Whether the new seats are really closer together depends on
how you measure. By the usual measure, called “pitch,” the new ones are generally an inch closer together from front to back as measured at the armrest. Airlines say you won’t notice. And the new seats are designed to minimize this problem. The seats going onto Southwest’s 737s have thinner seatback magazine pockets. Passengers on Alaska Airlines will find slightly smaller tray tables. United’s new seats put the magazine pocket above the tray table, getting it away from passengers’ knees. And seat-makers saved some space with lighterweight frames and padding. This allows airlines to claim that passengers have as much above-the-knee “personal space” as they did before, even if the seats are slightly closer together below the knee. New seats going into United Airlines’ Airbus A320s are an inch closer together from front to back. The new seats Southwest has put on nearly its entire fleet are 31 inches apart, about an inch less than before. In both cases, the airlines were able to add an extra row of six seats to each plane. Southwest went from 137 seats to 143. Both airlines say the new seats are just as comfortable. United’s says the new seats make each A320 1,200 pounds
lighter. Southwest says the weight savings is cutting about $10 million per year in fuel spending. In addition, the extra seats allow Southwest to expand flying capacity 4 percent without adding any planes, says spokesman Brad Hawkins, while also collecting more revenue from the additional passengers. At 6-foot-3, Mike Lindsey of Lake Elsinore, Calif., doesn’t have another inch to give back to the airlines. He has flown on Southwest several times since it installed the new seats. “You can’t stretch out because of the reduced legroom,” he says. “It’s very uncomfortable on anything longer than an hour.” Southwest flier Joe Strader now takes his billfold out of his pocket before he sits down on a flight because of the thinner cushions. Like Lindsey, he felt that he sat lower on the new seats. “The back of the seat in front of you is a little higher and makes you feel like you’re sitting down in a hole,” said Strader, who lives near Nashville. Hawkins said that the seat frames are the same height but the thinner cushions might make them seem lower. Strader did notice one good aspect: When the middle seat is empty and you want to put up the armrest and stretch out, the
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In this Nov. 13, 2012 file photo provided by the family via The Washington Post shows Noah Pozner. The six-year-old was one of the victims in the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14, 2012. A New York City woman who posed Pozner’s aunt and solicited money was sentenced on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 to eight months in prison.
necessary because of the psychological damage inflicted by Alba’s actions and to deter others from committing similar frauds. “The attempt to profit from a national tragedy,” he said, “was outrageous.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Belafonte sued the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Tuesday over the fate of three documents he tried to sell at auction. The lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan seeks unspecified damages and a court declaration Belafonte is the rightful owner. The documents are an outline of a Vietnam War speech by King, notes to a speech King never got to deliver in Memphis, Tenn., and a condolence letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson to King’s wife after the civil rights leader’s 1968 assassination. According to the lawsuit, Belafonte was preparing to auction the items in 2008 when the estate “astonishingly” blocked it. The lawsuit cited the close relationship between Belafonte and King, saying the pair “worked on strategies and collaborated on issues that would transform American society” while they “forged a deep and enduring personal friendship.” It said King and his widow, Coretta Scott King, gave Belafonte a number of items and it noted that Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006, mentioned Belafonte in her autobiography, saying “whenever we got into trouble or when tragedy struck, Harry has always come to our aid, his generous heart wide open.” Belafonte said he delivered the documents for auction to Sotheby’s Inc. in early 2008 and the auction house has held them pending a resolution of the dispute between the estate and Belafonte.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A marine science instructor snorkeling off the Southern California coast spotted something out of a fantasy novel: the silvery carcass of an 18-footlong, serpent-like oarfish. Jasmine Santana of the Catalina Island Marine Institute needed more than 15 helpers to drag the giant sea creature with eyes the size of half dollars to shore Sunday. Staffers at the institute are calling it the discovery of a lifetime. “We’ve never seen a fish this big,” said Mark Waddington, senior captain of the Tole Mour, CIMI’s sail training ship. “The last oarfish we saw was three feet long.” Because oarfish dive more than 3,000 feet deep, sightings of the creatures are rare and they are largely unstudied, according to CIMI. The obscure fish apparently died of natural causes. Tissue samples and video footage were sent to be studied by biologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Santana spotted something shimmering about 30 feet deep while snorkeling during a staff trip in Toyon Bay at Santa Catalina Island, about two dozen miles from the mainland. “She said, ‘I have to drag this thing out of here or nobody will believe me,’” Waddington said. After she dragged the carcass by the tail for more than 75 feet, staffers waded in and helped her bring it to shore.
New seats let airlines squeeze in more passengers
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In this Sept. 23, 2013 photo, Southwest Airlines aircraft technicians install newer, skinnier seats on a 737 at the carrier’s headquarters in Dallas. Southwest says passengers will have the same amount of legroom even though the new seats allow for another row onboard.
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Yoga at CMHS a positive new treatment method
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his semester Counseling and Mental Health Services at UConn began to offer yoga as an alternative treatment for mental illness. Described as yoga-based stress reduction, the class is taught by therapist and yoga instructor Elena Schreiber. This class compliments its other programs, such as group and individual therapy, which it offers at its new Arjona office. This method of treatment and its positive effect on improving one’s mental health has been supported in current studies, though it is still a relatively new idea in modern medicine. Most sources have concluded that it is beneficial for mild depression or sleeping problems. However, it still cannot completely replace therapy or medication solutions. Instead, many are suggesting that it can supplement other forms of treatment, though more studies need to be done. Because yoga isn’t a strict science or medicine, companies are rushing to conduct large studies on the positive effects of yoga. This past January, Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy with other researchers at Duke University Medical Center published a paper that took a closer look at more than 100 studies on the correlation between yoga and improved mental health. Many studies analyzed did not have a large enough sample size to be seriously considered, and Doraiswamy used the results from only 16 of them. The professor of psychiatry and medicine is pushing for a more large scale effort to verify the results of the smaller studies. As he said in an April article in the Los Angeles Times, “Overall, most studies seemed to indicate a benefit. If this were a drug in the early stages of development, every company would be drooling over it.” Overall, the research is pointing towards yoga positively affecting those with mental illness. As Huffington Post has reported, yoga is now used with military veterans to reduce the effects of PTSD and anxiety after returning from active duty. The move to include yoga classes is positive for UConn students as yoga has been shown to improve moods and mental functioning, reduce stress and give those who practice it a better feeling of control. CMHS’s proactive measure will provide more options to those who seek treatment there, especially since the yoga has a focus on improved mental health. Those interested in the program should contact CMHS at 860-486-4705 to register for a class and the required orientation. The classes are offered on Tuesdays from noon to 1 p.m. or Thursdays from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and are located in the CMHS offices in Arjona on the fourth floor.
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his is only my third semester at UConn, so I am still very much in the midst of meeting new people. During these introductory meetings there are always the inevitable questions getting to know basic information about someone, such as their major or hometown. From personal experience, I almost always end up getting asked about ethnicity at some point. I know I look Middle Eastern, which isn’t surprising considering both my parents are from Iran, and I don’t have a big problem with people asking because I’d rather they ask than just assume By Kayvon Ghoreshi I am Indian, Commentary Editor Pakistani, or in an extreme outlier case, Portuguese. However, what I find more interesting is the topic of religion. It’s often assumed that I am Muslim and that assumption is often based on my ethnicity. Iran is a heavily Islamic nation and thus it would make sense for me to be Muslim. The majority of my family members in Iran are practicing Muslims. However, in my household, my parents never made religion a part of our daily life. Growing up, my brothers and I never participated in any religious practices whether it was prayer, attending a mosque or fasting. If anything, we were more exposed to
Catholicism having gone to a Catholic middle school and high school. I would consider myself the furthest thing from one who practices the faith of Islam, but from society’s viewpoint, I still grew up as a “Muslim”. The main reason for this is that religion has, in some ways, become tied to ethnicity. Technically speaking, anyone can be Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist or any other religion. Religion, by definition, is a belief system and has no bearing on your ethnicity. You can change your beliefs, but not where you came from. Yet there is still stigma attached to ethnicity such as considering Middle Eastern individuals are Muslim by default. For example, discriminatory security practices in airports, something that has affected my family and I in the past, are not based off of religion, but rather ethnicity and the color of your skin. Through acts like these, the fear of Islam has become both religious discrimination and racial discrimination. When a debate arose over building a mosque near Ground Zero, I was affected very personally. It wasn’t because I would be going to pray there anytime soon. It was because of the mentality that failed to separate the religion from the people. Effectively, people were saying that it wasn’t the psychopathic extremists that caused the devastating attack on 9/11, it was the religion, and any symbol of that religion would be disrespectful. It would be similar to protesting the building of a church because of the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church. This mentality contin-
ues today. After the attacks in Boston, there were talks among conservative news anchors of wire-tapping mosques and limiting visas to students from Muslim countries. Again, this ideology fails to separate the individual from the religion. Not only is it assuming that Islam is a threat, but it also assumes that anyone coming from a Middle Eastern country is a Muslim and therefore also a threat. Each of these issues roots back to education, or the lack thereof, many Americans have on the Middle East and Islam. Just like Christianity, Islam has multiple sects, such as Shiite and Sunni, but these distinctions are rarely made in political discourse. Countries in the Middle East vary drastically in religion, culture, language and other variables, but they often get treated as a single amorphous blob of subcontinent. Individuals within each of those countries vary to an even greater extent, but aren’t treated as such because it is easier to group people together and make generalizations about a similar characteristic.This doesn’t just apply to Muslims or Middle Eastern individuals, as it can happen with almost any group that is generalized. It is important to create a distinction between the actions of a certain individual and those that share similar characteristics, whether it is ethnic background, religious beliefs, political party affiliation, gender, or whatever else.
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“What ever happened to the Quartering Act?” If the drivers, pedestrians, bikers and scooters on campus were to have a war, it would be everyone vs. the scooters A zombie just sat down during my meeting... shizz just got real I just got ID’d at the convenience store for a pack of gum... I think it’s time I grow a beard or something. The point of going to college is to never win a game of never-have-I-ever. Murphy’s Law should have been if you’re going to a meeting, someone is going to ask a lot of questions. “Over the line! MARK IT ZERO!” Airlines could make more money if they offered seats on people’s laps for bargain prices. Drafted Kemba, so we can wrap this thing up. I won.
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ou know you’ve done something wrong when your efforts to “protect” Americans from Obamacare at all costs have actually resulted in (a) an increase in the law’s popularity; and (b) your party’s favorability sinking to the lowest on record. From the commencement of the negotiations over government spending and debt, there was a considerable segment of the congressional Republican caucus who pledged that unless funding for the Affordable Care Act was excluded from any budget resolution, they would oppose providing funding for the nation’s new fiscal year. Republican leadership— who well understood the irrationality and implauBy Paul DaSilva sibility of the entire Staff Columnist effort—had little interest in countering this strategy. They, who fear their own leadership spots due to the rising sentiment of no-compromise conservatism, essentially surrendered what is typically conceived as contrived political strategy. I firmly believe that Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and probably more than three-quarters of the Republican caucus (including, by the way, Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, whose strict allegiance to fiscal conservatism earned him the moniker
“Dr. No”), acknowledged that the strategy being pursued by the likes of Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) lacked sagacity and would ultimately result in a more unfavorably viewed Republican Party. The consequence of the Republican Party’s decision to pursue the aforementioned strategy has severely backfired. Coming into future negotiations with such unbelievably unrealistic goals (expecting President Barack Obama to sign a bill that would defund his signature legislation) has put the GOP up against the wall, and has left it with only two undesirable options: accepting “clean” resolutions that would accomplish none of their intended goals, or leave the government closed indefinitely and watch the U.S. government lead the world into a global recession. With the latter option likely (and hopefully) off the table, the former is unfortunately where we stand right now. Currently, Senate leaders are negotiating a plan that would fund the government until midJanuary, raise the debt limit until February 7, and repeal a little-heard-off reinsurance tax. It would stipulate that lawmakers discuss and debate a long-term budget, so that by February 7, a more comprehensive resolution can be reached. Unfortunately, this “deal” is essentially Sen. McConnell trying to escape a self-imposed debacle, and
likely, an overall worse result for conservatives than what could have been attained had their initial expectations been more realistic. Had Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) led the talks for the Republican side, broad fiscal policy issues would have been the central focus. And they even may have been able to score a repeal of the medical device tax, something that had been previously repealed, on a bipartisan basis, in the House. But, asking from the get-go to defund the President’s healthcare law would be roughly equivalent to Democrats asking for a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. A Republican president would have reacted in similar fashion in that regard. The entire spectacle has indeed been harmful to the Republican Party. First, the Party’s overall favorability stands at 38 percent, dropping 10 percentage points in a month, and good for the record low since Gallup began including the question in its surveys of Americans in 1992. Furthermore, the emphasis on Obamacare has ironically made it more favorable; rising 7 percent according to the WSJ/NBC poll. The Republican Party certainly overplayed its hand, and employed poor strategy, but Democrats and Obama also share some blame. Obama’s continued reiteration of his refusal to compromise or engage in serious negotiations over the debt ceiling
is unprecedented. Presidents Reagan, Clinton, and Bush the younger, all negotiated with their respective Congresses over terms to raise the debt ceiling. And in fact, as the American Enterprise Institute pointed out in the Wall Street Journal last week, 60 percent of debt limit increases that included other legislative items came from Democratic Congresses. The Democrats’ refusal to compromise came to light when they flatly rejected a proposal from Sen. Susan Collins, a very moderate Republican from Maine, over the weekend, which merely delayed, not even postponed, the medical device tax for two years. Given the left’s unwillingness to compromise, Republicans should maintain their leverage—the debt ceiling. They should extend it only on a temporary basis, requiring some compromise on Obama’s part. This cannot be a one-way capitulation on the GOP’s part. Cooler heads will prevail and a deal will ultimately be reached, but the Democrats must be willing to surrender a no-negation position, the very same position they have accused the Republicans of possessing.
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Poet and UConn English professor Steve Straight reads from his latest poetry collection, ‘The Almanac,’ at the Stern Lounge. Straight was a Distinguished Advocate for the Arts, awarded by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
By Brendon Field Staff Writer Poet and UConn alumnus Steve Straight shared a collection of poems from his new book, The Almanac, Tuesday evening. Sharing with the crowd the inspirations and anecdotes behind his poems, he opened with a piece titled, “At Spike’s Garage,” written while he was a graduate student teaching a freshmen English class, where he had difficulty teaching material to students who didn’t care for it. He encountered a townie mechanic at a garage who said he hated Hamlet, which he was teaching, but received “a slap in the face” when the mechanic said he loved Macbeth. His next poem, “The Deepest
Breath” detailed a swimming test for his high school gym class, where he had to swim two laps underwater in one breath. He explained back then everybody swam naked, because the class was separated by gender, comparing the experience to the Greek and Roman days. “I’m fifteen I’m naked, dammit, I hate Mr. Cobb, it’s one on one with my lungs now, with my brain.” He joked the detail of being naked is often mistaken for a metaphor. “The News” was a poem that contemplated the possibility of sudden death of a loved one, and the speaker lack of awareness of the impending feeling of less and despair. “The news could be waiting for me, like a coiled snake, that my wife has suddenly died… I
reach the house, and see the blinking phone machine for the last time without dread” Straight commented that the poem articulated a fear he initially thought only he had, but discovered after several readings it was quite common. “The Horse Does Not Know It’s In A Movie” is a poem that discussed animals that appear in movies and television never realize that they’re acting, or are going to be appearing in cinematic works watched by thousands. Only line, “What is it girl?” referencing the old “Lassie” cartoon; he usually he had his say during readings. Because she wasn’t in attendance, he had the audience speak it instead. The rest of his poems include a recount of a conversation with
an Italian farmer, who explained, “Everything begins and ends with the Earth, the soil… The source of all sorrow and joy.” A piece that reflected his attempt at meditation, and one that attempted to perceive how his students perceived him; perhaps as an employer or parent rather than a teacher; and without any piece of the technology that encompassed their lives to turn off his lecture. Commenting on his poetry, Cayla Gopen, a seventh semester English and Education double major said, “I liked his use of humor, he was very lively, but he was very real, which was cool.” Adison Fontaine, a UConn graduate of the Class of 2013 with a degree in psychology, said “I liked that they were very realistic. He
didn’t go into a lot of minute detail but he still kept your attention.” Straight is a professor of English and director of the poetry at Manchester Community College. His began his tenure at the University of Connecticut began in 1978, initially as a student and later a professor. He remained at the university until 1989. Before The Almanac was published in 2012, he released his first collection of poetry, The Water Carrier, which was featured on the nationally syndicated radio program, “The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keller.” In 1998, he was named a Distinguished Advocate for the Arts by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
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Dr. Aseem Shrivastava gave a presentation in the Dodd Center: Predatory Growth in India. Dr. Shrivastava, an ecological economist with an interest in globalization, and author of Churning the Earth: the Making of Global India, spent much of the event focusing on the unsustainability of the Indian economy. The event began with Dr. Shrivastava offering a description of the current global economy, a time period that is formed from the year 1971–the year the dollar became its own standard, unhinged from the gold standard–to the present day. In doing so, he pointed out the disturbing trend of man making a claim even when there is no wealth to make a claim on. The result of this is the spillover onto making a claim on the environment that can be seen today. “I think the most interesting part of the event was the connection that Dr. Shrivastava drew between the abstract idea of money and very real extinction of species,” said Ben Cannan, a 7th semester EEB major. He was referring to the graph that Dr. Shrivastava had presented which offered a positive correlation between the two. From there, Dr. Shrivastava moved on to the topic of India itself, starting off with several startling statistics. For instance, more than 40 percent of children and 70 percent of childbearing women suffer from malnutrition. This is a
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Dr. Aseem Shrivastava presented a lecture at the Dodd Center entitled “Predatory Growth in India.” The lecture discussed the ways India’s growing economy is hurting its citizens.
fact of life that has not changed over the past two decades in a country with an expanding economy. The explanation can be found in workplace statistics. In India, a very clear distinction is drawn between work that is in the “organized sector”–the sector that has an office of more than 10 people with electricity and benefits–and the “unorganized sector” consisting of the contract laborers. While India’s workforce grew by
150-200 million people within the last two decades, only 2.5 million of that expansion was channeled into the organized sector, creating a wandering underclass with few opportunities. “I think this part was very interesting,” said Jane Moran, a 5th semester History and Classics double major, “primarily because it forced you to look at employment in a way you really wouldn’t otherwise.” Dr. Shrivastava posits that this may be due to the hyper-
financialized background in which India has been forced to globalize. It was this background that allowed India to bypass human labor and move straight to mechanizing industry and damaging the environment. While this helped the top third of the country, it actually harmed the majority and left India without a stable middle class. If this trend continues, economic growth in India will no longer be sustainable. However,
a few small rays of hope exist, such as the recent, if small, protests blocking environmentally destructive projects and independent movements towards environmental democracy. Dr. Shrivastava started off the event by saying, “If you want to test a theory, bring it to India, we’ll test it out for you.” However, India might already be testing its environmental capabilities too fully.
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It is remarkable how many people don’t get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, despite clinics being available. UConn itself offers HIV testing (as well as other testing for sexually transmitted diseases), and there are other surrounding clinics that are willing to provide for you. The general consensus seems to be that it isn’t needed if you are currently involved in a relationship or if you use condoms (or even if you just practice the “pull-out method”). However, it is recommended that you get tested for STDs annually – you can get tested at a gynecologist appointment, but it has to be requested. There are some clinics, however, which suggest undergoing testing every six months if you are sexually active and regularly engage in risky sexual practices, such as having unprotected sex with multiple partners. There are some sexually transmitted diseases that may not show symptoms until it’s too late. Chlamydia, for example, often does not show signs in women and syphilis can go undetected for months. HPV is also usually symptomless or results in signs so miniscule that the person infected with it may not notice. Genital warts, for example, might be located in a cervix, where they cannot easily be seen. Because STDs can be transmitted from mother to child (as is the case with gonorrhea), or have long-lasting effects on the victim, it’s important to nip it in the bud. Many STDs are treatable, but require quick action to prevent more serious consequences from taking hold. However, even after getting treatment, you can still be at risk of having another outbreak, as is the case with gonorrhea and herpes. If you have multiple partners, it’s considerate to get tested so that you don’t infect anyone else. The process of telling your partners that you have an STD can be humiliating, so it’s best to verify yourself as clean beforehand. It should also go without saying that those with cold sores should refrain from practicing oral sex on their partners. Unfortunately, I’ve met more than a handful of people who have seemingly forgotten that herpes simplex one is incredibly easy to pass to another person. Although it’s not as severe as simplex two, it can still be incredibly painful and embarrassing to have. Your best bet is to take precautions: use condoms, be discerning with your partners and get yourself tested once a year, whether or not you think you are displaying symptoms. A registered nurse that I spoke to recommended using latex condoms and/or dental dams for oral sex as well, as STDs are most commonly spread via the mouth. For those who dislike the taste of plain latex, there are flavored ones available. The important part is to take care of yourself, and your partners by default.
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No matter how you spin it, “Batman: Arkham Asylum” is easily the best Zelda/Metroid style game not to bear one of those franchise names. One part stealth game, one part beat ‘em up, one part classic action adventure, and all parts awesome, “Arkham Asylum” was deemed not only the best “Batman” game ever made, but the best superhero game ever made,distinctions surpassed only by the game’s successor. You control the Dark Knight himself. Armed only with his legendary intellect and a slew of incredible gadgets, the Batman is in for the night of his life as he struggles to take down the Joker who has taken control of Arkham Island. Over the course of this 20-hour epic, you’ll encounter a who’s who of Batman’s rogues gallery, grapple onto gargoyles, explore the hauntingly beautiful Arkham island, and many more. Perhaps the coolest game world since “Bioshock”, “Batman Arkham Asylum” is a can’t miss title. -Alex Sferrazza
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Pokémon X and Y a must own game By Zachary Lederman Staff Writer
From the time it was first introduced as the series’ English slogan in 1998 (1997 in Japan), “Gotta catch ‘em all” has been a lofty goal. After all, there were originally 151 Pokémon, and filling up your Pokédex ranged from difficult to impossible, depending on how willing you were to cheat to get Mew, and how many friends you had to trade with. It certainly has not gotten easier over the years. As of Saturday, Oct. 12, there are now 718 Pokémon, making it actually seeing each one, let alone catching them, a feat fit only for a true Pokémon trainer. For those who believe they are up to the task, it’s time to pick up Pokémon X and Y for the Nintendo 3DS. I don’t say this lightly, but it’s possible that this generation (VI) is the best one so far, though my personal favorite will always remain Gen. III. For the first time just about ever, we’re seeing massive changes to the series we all know and love, and they’re quite welcome in a series that, although is one of my favorites, was starting to become a bit stale and formulaic. First, of course, is the fact that the entire game now functions with full 3D style models, animations and battles. No longer are you forced to play with the traditional top-down style of gameplay, which gives the game a very different feeling from its predecessors. Now the camera actually shifts around, or follows around your character, depending on where you are. The real benefit to these graphical changes makes itself known when you get into a battle. Never before have we actually seen our Pokémon attack in real-time, with set animations. I have to say, it’s awesome. Watching my Blastoise actually slam a Charizard with hydro pump is at least 20 percent cooler than just watching a little beam of water shoot from one picture to another. The 3D is nice too, but it’s unfortunate that it can only really be used during select times or in battle. Then again, I’m not sure how much most people use the 3D mode on the game anyway, so that probably isn’t a huge loss.
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The biggest actual gameplay change comes from the introduction of Mega evolutions and the new fairy type. Mega evolutions are temporary advanced evolutionary stages that can only be accessed in battle with the use of a mega stone. Only certain Pokémon can undergo these transformations, however, and only with the use of the mega stone designated for their evolutionary branch. For example, to become Mega Blastoise, he must be holding the Blastoisinite when the player uses their Mega Ring. The fairy type is the first new type in some time, and it’s been a long time coming. It serves as a strong counter to the previously unstoppable dragon type (who was previously only weak against ice and other dragons), as it is both super-effective against them and immune to their type attacks. Fairy type is also strong against fighting type and dark type, but weak against poison and steel. Their
own attacks are weak against fire, poison, and steel, but they are resistant to bug, fight and dark. The game takes place in the Kalos region, a new addition to the Pokémon world. However, unlike traditional Pokémon regions, which were based on areas in Japan, Kalos is based on Europe, specifically France. It even has its own version of the Eiffel tower. It’s a bit odd, considering the non-player characters in the game don’t really seem European, but I like the fact that Nintendo is doing their best to branch out of their comfort zone. As for the story itself, I won’t spoil it, but suffice to say it’s more of the same for anyone who’s ever played a Pokémon game. This time, the stylish Team Flare (who are probably the most odd group of villains we’ve ever fought) is the enemy that our young hero must stop from being generally evil, as they throw low-level Pokémon after low-level Pokémon against
Pokémon X and Y 10/10
your unstoppable team. One somewhat cool feature is the new Pokémon Amie. In this mode, players can actually interact with their team members through use of the stylus and touchpad, allowing them to increase the level of friendship between the player and their Pokémon. Yes, you can play with a virtual Pikachu now. It’s nothing particularly amazing, but you’ll probably enjoy the five or so minutes you ever actually use it. Your character is also totally customizable now. No longer will you be forced to run around the game in the exact same outfit. Try on new clothes for a new look, and have a totally different experience every time. Note: I do not actually guarantee a new experience! In short: buy this game. If you own a Nintendo 3DS, this is the must-own title you’ve been waiting for. Go and lose yourself in the Kalos region among the odd combination of French and Japanese culture, and while you’re there, do your best to catch ‘em all.
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Don’t wait around to play this unique massive multi-player component By Zachary Lederman Staff Writer My what a beautiful time we live in. At no other point in history have we actually been rewarded for running around a city and committing heinous crimes towards both strangers and friends. OK, I confess, I may have left out the fact that this is a virtual world I’m talking about, that of Grand Theft Auto: Online, Grand Theft Auto V’s online multiplayer component. The game takes Grand Theft Auto’s largest contribution to the industry, fully realized sandbox gameplay, and combines it with typical online game modes. What results is one of the best examples of a massively multiplayer world to date. We’ll get to the matchmaking games in a bit, but first I want to talk about how the sandbox map, although sandbox world is probably a more accurate way to describe it. When you first start up GTA:O, you create your character and are immediately plunked down into the sprawling metropolis of Los Santos. Other than a single
racing mission, there’s no real tutorial. You’re told to go anywhere and do anything that you want. Occasionally a friendly non-player character will call you up and have them do a task or two, but that’s not the main attraction here. What really makes this wonderful is the other people with you. Currently, each individual session can support a maximum of 16 players (though there is currently some evidence in the game’s programming that points to that number doubling in the near future). You are free to interact with them however you like. Want to hold up a store together? Go nuts. Want to race each other around the city in a ‘quick race’ that you designed? You’re free to do that. Want to take them exploring the mountains, only to put a bullet in their head when you get bored of them? I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t done it. The interactions with each player take the virtual world of Los Santos and transform it from
an extremely realistic city, to a real city. You can buy an apartment and invite your friends up to have a party, or buy and run a parking garage. The one downside is that with only 16 people in a world as gigantic as Los Santos means that it’s perfectly possible to spend an entire game session without ever running into someone. I never happened upon anyone unless I went out of my way to find somebody. It would improve things greatly if Rockstar could boost the numbers a bit. If it meant as many as a hundred people, I’d even consider paying a small subscription fee to help support the servers. As for the other game modes, they’re pretty standard. That isn’t to say they’re not unbelievably fun (I spent eight hours just doing deathmatch), but they’re quite as ground shattering as the city. Each different game type can be entered easily through either your in-game cell
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phone or from hopping into one of the blue nodes littered around the city. From there you are given the choice to either host or join a game. Find one that suits your liking and have fun with it. There’s the standard fare (death match, capture the flag, racing, etc.) but there are also some more creative modes, such as the free-fall race, where players take a dive from 4,000 feet and race each other to the ground. Completion of each match rewards the player with money to be spent around Los Santos, as well as hefty chunks of experience. The higher the player’s level, the more content they will have access to, including more game modes, vehicles and customizable options for their character. So what are you waiting for? The city of Los Santos waits for no man. It’s your turn to plug in and start making your mark. We’re all waiting for you.
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At the dawn of the 20th century, multiple Japanese entertainment properties were all the rage among children–from “Naruto” to “Yu-Gi-Oh,” from “Hello Kitty” to “Hamtaro” and from “Dragonball Z” to “Digimon.” Each of these fantasy sagas grabbed the hearts and imaginations of children (as well as the agitation of parents) not only in Japan, but stateside as well. While each of these franchises had its time in the limelight, by 2013 the general public has dismissed each of them as nothing more than a passing fad. However, there is one franchise in particular that has stood the test of time, and whether it’s 1998 or 2013, it is still by far the most popular of them all: “Pokemon.” It’s almost unimaginable to think that the first “Pokemon” video games “Red” and “Blue” were released in America 15 years ago. In the span of time since then, those games began what is now a multi-billion dollar entertainment franchise. Today, the “Pokemon” anime series and trading card game are still running strong. With more than 240 million units sold, “Pokemon” stands as the 2nd best-selling video game franchise in history, trailing only Nintendo’s own “Mario” series. Last weekend, the most recent installments of the main “Pokemon” RPG series, versions “X” and “Y,” were released and have reportedly sold over four million copies worldwide within two days of their release, hardly a surprising figure considering any given pair of main series “Pokemon” games have sold a minimum of 10 million copies combined. However, versions “X” and “Y” go far above and beyond what any single pair of main series titles has offered since the release of “Gold” and “Silver” in 2000. For the first time, we are presented with fully realized 3D CGI graphics in a main Pokemon game. But the titles go far deeper than that. Attempting to fully realize the series as the competitive behemoth it was always meant to be, battling has been finetuned to levels never before seen. Online gameplay is simpler and more accessible than ever. New additions to gameplay including super training, mega-evolved Pokemon and spectacular aerial sky battles have added a level of deep competitive strategy the likes of which has never before been seen in the series. One of the biggest criticisms of newer “Pokemon” games is that there are now too many of the creatures, the problem being that due to creative fatigue many of the designs of recent “Pokemon” creatures have been uncreative and downright stupid (for example, Vanillite, a Pokemon that looks like an ice cream cone).
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
‘Brew-tal’ Battle: UC Bold vs. Cup of Joe
By Alban Murtishi Campus Correspondent Between two cups of a coffee at the breakfast table, battlefronts are being drawn. The argument of preferred dining hall coffee, UC Bold vs. Cup O’Joe, is cause for discussion for among students due to their distinct flavor, texture and energy content. Although neither flavor has a clear stronger following, some within the coffee drinking community have decided to strictly abide by one flavor. Nick Kot, a 3rd-semester biology major, said, “I drink Cup of Joe because it’s for a more social coffee drinker.” Kot, who takes his Cup O’ Joe black, must often defend his brand to Bryan Ferrigno, a 3rd-semester physiology and neurobiology major, who drinks UC Bold. “What is the point of flavor? It has the effects I need,” Ferrigno said. What makes the two coffees different is in the roasting process. The roasting coffee involves cooking the bean to specific high temperatures, and deciding when to begin the cooling process. The darker the roast the longer is has been cooked. Cup of Joe and UC Bold are purchased by Omar Coffee in Newington Connecticut. According to Ethan Haggerty, area manager of UC Cafes & Dairy Bar, UC Bold is a blend of South and Central American organically grown coffees. “They are roasted to a very dark roast profile resulting in the extraction of the coffee oils in a very aggressive fashion. Hence forth the “Bold” trade name.” Haggerty said. The Cup O’ Joe is a blend of South American and African Rainforest coffees. “They are roasted to a medium dark roast profile resulting in a more mellow taste profile.” Haggerty said. Cup O’ Joe, being a lighter roast, has a more mild flavor which could encourage more than one cup. As Kot puts it, “UC Bold is for the working coffee drinker. Cup O’ Joe is for the social drinker.”
Alban.Murtishi@UConn.edu
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Wisely Game Freak has included less than 70 new monsters, bringing the total to 718. This is the smallest expansion in series history in an effort to focus on gameplay. Quite honestly, I would be just as excited to play the title if there were no new Pokemon at all. While it seems that “Pokemon” will always be enjoyed by children, “X” and “Y”’s numerous gameplay improvements show that the series still has plenty of surprises in store.
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Tina Fey, Amy Poehler back as Golden Globes hosts NEW YORK (AP) — The duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler proved such a success at hosting the Golden Globes in January that they’ve been signed up for the same job for the next two years. NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and producers of the Golden Globes announced the unusual two-year commitment on Tuesday. Next year’s Golden Globes will be held in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 12. Allen Shapiro, CEO of Dick Clark Productions, said the former “Saturday Night Live” chums have “a truly unique chemistry making them one of the most talented and captivating pairings of all time.”
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Mythology, demon and H.P Lovecraft combine in Nintendo’s Shin Megami Tensei By Max Engel Campus Correspondent
Back in Pokémon’s heyday, you may remember that a smattering of fundamentalist Christian groups claimed the series of games had demonic undertones. Of course, we all knew Pikachu’s adorable face said otherwise. What these failed critics didn’t realize was there really was a series of videogames involving the taming and fighting of demons: “Shin Megami Tensei,” or SMT for short. A franchise spanning its roots to 1987, it began when Japanese developer Atlus made a videogame adaption of “Digital Devil Story,” a novel by Aya Nishitani. Since then, the franchise has incorporated numerous mythologies by including figures like Ganesh, Thor, Atropos and Amaterasu. And what SMT game is complete without the franchise mascot, Jack Frost? Some of the monster origins can deviate quite far from being purely biblical; for only too few titles, the franchise even borrowed from H.P. Lovecraft’s work, and in other installments, has included the moth-man of urban lore, as well as Alice from “Alice in Wonderland.” Most of the SMT games also allow you to bargain with various demons to allow them to join your party and fight alongside you. Some will try to flirt with you, others will ask what you think of the human race. The SMT franchise has encompassed numerous genres, from strategic RPG to MMORPG. Ironically, once Pokémon’s fame set in, the SMT franchise attempted
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‘Shin Megami Tensei’ combines mythology, multiple genres and inspiration from H.P Lovecraft’s works to create a tantalizing demon fighting game.
to take a share of Pokémon’s younger demographic, bringing Beezlebub and all, in a subfranchise aptly called “Devil Children.” As one of the biggest RPG franchises of all-time, the franchise is still going strong, with “Shin Megami Tensei IV” being released for the Nintendo 3DS this past summer. Most notable is the “Persona” subseries, in which each character is associated with a type of tarot card, such as The Magician, The Lovers, The Heirophant and so on. The characters of the sub-series, such as the caring android Aegis and the athletic Chie, are the likely cause for a sizable increase in fans of the
general SMT franchise upon the releases of “Persona 3” and “Persona 4” on the PlayStation 2 in 2006 and 2008, respectively. If you were to express interest in playing this mammoth franchise, don’t be intimidated by the dozens upon dozens of titles to SMT’s name. Beginning with either of the more recent “Persona” games is a good way to start, especially since “Persona 4” had an updated rerelease on the PlayStation Vita, dubbed “Persona 4 Golden.” As for “Persona 3,” there was an updated portable re-release for this game on the PlayStation Portable, appropriately named
Persona 3 Portable. If you end up enjoying the Persona games on either the PlayStation 2 or on a portable system, you then should gear things up a bit by playing “Shin Megami Tensei IV” on the Nintendo 3DS, or alternatively, “Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne” for Playstation 2. If you continue to yearn for more SMT, there’s “Digital Devil Saga” as well as “Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzonoha vs. the Souless Army,” both for Playstation 2.
Max.Engel@UConn.edu
The Randy Episode: South Park Recap By Matt Gantos Staff Writer
It was a Randy Episode. Those always do well with the fan-base and it delivered. For those who don’t know what a “Randy Episode” is, it entails Stan Marsh’s father, Randy, being a complete child and/or a caricature of adult ignorance. The show actually leads in with a statement directed toward the status of the Syrian refugees, though (thankfully) it took a turn in a more domestic issue. Honestly, if South Park really pulled a Syria episode, right after the NSA episode that headlined the season last week, it would really show that the creators have taken a direction toward being “another politic show” that attacks everything the government does. The issue now at hand was “informative crime porn” involving spousal cheating and murder, which the adults were watching. Kids were sick of their parents watching it, fearing that one day it would really convince them to want to kill each other, and tried to find a way to block it. This is an obvious satire of something that happens across the entire country, parents complaining that South Park should not be watched by their children and prevent it with “parental controls”. The password for parental controls involved having some experience with the popular computer game, Minecraft. While there were plenty of graphics from the game displayed on characters screens, there were not as many in-game scenes like there were in the World of Warcraft episode which was a bit disappointing. Aside from Randy’s antics with Minecraft, which holds the answer to the children’s parental controls over their “informative news porn” shows, the most well put together part of the episode were the interactions with the cable company which was all too accurate. Students that live off-campus as well as faculty know the pain and suffering that comes with dealing with the cable company. The points which South Park made clear were the obnoxious
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City Year: Give back after graduation By Rahul Darwar Campus Correspondent
Every year UConn students donate many hours of their time giving back to their communities either through Community Outreach programs, personal volunteering or national service programs. Some of the most active and most engaging programs are those that involve education, language and literacy. The City Year Program takes this idea of service and immerses students in a 10-month long program where they work directly with students as tutors, mentors and role models to reduce the dropout rate. City Year, a national program founded in 1988 by two Harvard Law School graduates, is modeled around the Year of Service idea where students spend one year of their academic lives in the national or international community giving back and providing service to those who need it. Currently, one of the most severe societal crises in America is the abysmal rate of high school graduation. The graduation rate in the largest urban areas is only 53-percent, which makes it hard for many students to escape the cycle of poverty. Research has shown that a student who does not graduate from high school is eight times more likely to be incarcerated and three times more likely to be unemployed. In addition, over the course of a lifetime, a high school dropout will make $1 million less than a high school graduate. The City Year program works to identify students at risk of dropping out, and then “leverages the power of the crops and the transformative nature of national service” to reduce the dropout rate. Students can take part in City Year right after they graduate from high school, between academic years in college, or even after graduation. Zachary Trust, a sixth-semester Latin American Studies major, spent the 20112012 academic year taking part in the City Year program in Boston, and the program taught him an “immeasurable amount of information about the inequal-
“Passionate, hardworking, like-minded individuals can ‘be the change’.” -Zachary Trust, sixth semester Latin American studies major
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South Park airs on Comedy Central on Wednesday nights. The latest episode was up to par, but didn’t achieve great comedy.
windows of times to be home for the cable guy to unplug something and plug something else in. While it was funny to watch the interactions between Randy and the Cable Company in his attempt to restore informative murder porn and consequently his sex life, the dialogue was very blatant. The writers might as well have just come out and said “Here’s the things that suck about the cable company. Here’s two guys rubbing each other’s nipples so that parents won’t want their kids to watch our show even more.” The comedy was hardly subtle, which has been a trend for South Park lately. The show used to be ‘smarter’ and asked the audience to pay attention to the themes of the show rather than serve jokes in plain speech. To be clear, jokes in plain speech is necessary to the success of a comedy, but the series
has moved farther and farther away from intelligent underlying messages, where at the end of the episode Kyle has a long dialogue explaining anything you might have missed followed by a simple concurring “Yeah” from Stan. The one defining feature of South Park that has stood the test of time well is the role-reversal of kids and their parents. While the parents are actually the ones who have control of most situations, they are generally in complete ignorance of what actually is happening and what needs to be done. This past week’s episode was a prime example of this style. Even though the parents were the ones being controlled by their kids, who are smart enough to figure out how to use parental controls, no one knows how to beat the cable company who plays the biggest troll in the
episode. That is just the point, there is no winning against the cable company, and there is no way to stop people from watching what they want to watch, especially in the age of the internet. This could be one reason why South Park created southparkstudios.com. They figure that people are going to be able to watch their work somewhere on the internet for free, so why not provide it themselves and stop the conflict? The episode was good, and just good. As with all South Park episodes it can hold on by the saving grace of the “little moments” often brought on by Randy or Cartman.
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ities in the field of education in our country and…so much about how a group of motivated, passionate, hard-working, likeminded individuals can ‘be the change’ and how much we need our country’s young minds to flourish.” Trust strongly recommends City Year to anyone regardless of where they may be in college “because you will grow so much as a professional, gain important skills, network with powerful people, but most importantly, help students.” Another UConn student who participated in City Year had a similarly life-changing experience. Melissa Lovitz who took part and served in the program, says City Year was not just a peer tutoring program, it was “a full-time experience in leadership development, teamwork and character growth through the lens of education.” In addition, Melissa was able to do and learn many things while taking part in the program, which included clarifying her future career goals in the Life After City Year program, and even won an educational award for her education. The City Year program has 24 sites in the United States (including Boston, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and New York) and two international sites (London and South Africa). Students who want to learn more about City Year can visit cityyear.org or contact UConn City Year Recruitment Ambassador Brianna Soares at uconncityyear@gmail.com.
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Dr. Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies, speaks at an event titled “An Intimate Encounter: The Jews and Classical Islam.”
DO YOU THINK THAT Classic Toast YOU ARE FUNNY? CAN by Tom Dilling YOU DRAW? START DOING COMICS FOR THE D.C.! EMAIL US AT DAILYCAMPUSCOMICS@ GMAIL.COM HOROSCOPES Today's Birthday (10/16/13). Creative passion shines on invention, genius and revolution with Venus trine Uranus on your birthday. The theme this year is discovery, especially around career, education and travel. Finances thrive with organized management. Partnership grows in new directions. Take on a pursuit that satisfies spiritually. Participate in a cause you care about with all your heart. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Invest in your home office. Make sure you have the facts. Ask questions. The key to success and satisfaction becomes apparent. Seek love in the right places. Your own good judgment is still best. Confer with family. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Plan home improvements. Invest in success. There is more creative work coming in. Write, record or film. Better technology increases profits. Make a romantic commitment. Secrets get revealed. Get advice from family. Try out an unusual suggestion. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Get somebody who already knows how to do the task you're avoiding. Gather information and pass it to them. New technology helps you advance. Your home plans should work. Grab love when it appears. Be spontaneous. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Do the work yourself and listen carefully. Get creative. Follow a confidential tip. Romance the answers out of the material. Discover a jewel. Share findings. Houseguests can be annoying. Family comes first. Fun grows your spirit. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- It pays to advertise. Ask for help. Reveal your dreams. Ask questions and be pleasantly surprised. Make a commitment to listen to each other. Choose your battles carefully. Words don't fail you now. Your communication is golden. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Pursue all leads. A profitable plot is afoot. Use your secret weapon. Don't shop until the check clears. Your enthusiasm is contagious. Make sure you know what's required. Recount your blessings. A female distracts you. Your charisma draws others in. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- There's more good news with a lucky break. Your words have great power now. A new idea excites. Figure out how to fix up your place. Solicit advice from an old friend. Someone fall in love.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
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Red Sox down Tigers, take 2-1 lead in ALCS DETROIT (AP) — Once again this October, one run was enough. John Lackey edged Justin Verlander in the latest duel of these pitching-rich playoffs, and Boston's bullpen shut down Detroit's big boppers with the game on the line to lift the Red Sox over the Tigers 1-0 Tuesday for a 2-1 lead in the AL championship series. Mike Napoli homered off Verlander in the seventh inning, and Detroit's best chance to rally fell short in the eighth when Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder struck out with runners at the corners. "The runs are pretty stingy," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "This is what it's about in postseason, is good pitching." Despite three straight gems by their starters, the Tigers suddenly trail in a best-of-seven series they seemed to control just two days ago. Game 4 is Wednesday night at Comerica Park, with Jake Peavy scheduled to start for the Red Sox against Doug Fister. Lackey allowed four hits in 6 2-3 innings, striking out eight without a walk in a game that was delayed 17 minutes in the second inning because lights on the stadium towers went out. "I think that little time off gave him a chance to slow down a little bit. He was excited and pumped that first inning," Boston catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia said. "Kind of getting excited with his slider, throwing a little too hard and leaving it over the middle, but he was still pretty effective." It was the second 1-0 game in
this matchup between the highestscoring teams in the majors. That's been the theme throughout these playoffs, which have included four 1-0 scores and seven shutouts in the first 26 games. After rallying from a five-run deficit to even the series in Game 2, Boston came away with a win in Detroit against one of the game's best pitchers. The Tigers had a chance for their own comeback in the eighth when Austin Jackson drew a one-out walk and Torii Hunter followed with a single. But Cabrera, who failed to reach base for the first time in 32 postseason games for the Tigers, never looked comfortable against Junichi Tazawa, swinging and missing at the first two offerings and eventually chasing an outside pitch for strike three. "He just did a great job pumping the fastballs away," Saltalamacchia said. "He's so sneaky with that 94-95 (mph), it's tough to hit." Fielder was even more overmatched against Koji Uehara, striking out on three pitches. Uehara also pitched the ninth for a save, ensuring that Lackey's fine performance wouldn't go to waste. Lackey pitched poorly his first two seasons in Boston after signing an $82.5 million, five-year contract in December 2009. Then he missed all of 2012 following elbow ligament-replacement surgery. He's been better this season, and he kept the Tigers off balance Tuesday by effectively changing speeds. "He just never gave in,"
Saltalamacchia said. Napoli's first at-bat in the majors was against Verlander on May 4, 2006, at Comerica Park. He homered then, too. "He's tough. He was on his game tonight. He was keeping all of us off balance," said Napoli, who rubbed his bat on teammate Jonny Gomes' beard before going up to the plate. "I got to a 3-2 count and put a good swing on a pitch, was able to drive it." In the last two games, the Tigers have started Verlander and 21-game winner Max Scherzer — and the Red Sox won both. Throw in Anibal Sanchez's outstanding effort in the opener, when the Red Sox managed only a ninth-inning single in a 1-0 loss, and Detroit's three starters in the ALCS have combined to allow two runs and six hits with 35 strikeouts in 21 innings. Still, the Tigers have fallen behind because their bullpen blew a four-run lead late in Game 2 and the offense came up empty at home on Tuesday. Detroit stranded runners on first and third in the first, then wasted Jhonny Peralta's leadoff double in the fifth. Peralta reached third with one out, but an overanxious Omar Infante struck out and Andy Dirks grounded out. Verlander needed every bit of focus after Jacoby Ellsbury's one-out single in the sixth. The Tigers have not held runners well this year, but a number of pickoff throws helped prevent a steal. At one point, Verlander appeared to be pointing at his wrist, as if to ask the dugout if his delivery to the
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Boston Red Sox's Koji Uehara celebrates after the Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers 1-0 in Game 3 of the American League baseball championship series Tuesday in Detroit. The Red Sox took a 2-1 series lead with the win.
plate was quick enough. Amid all that, Verlander got Shane Victorino on a flyout, and after Ellsbury moved to second anyway on a wild pitch, Dustin Pedroia grounded out to end the threat. Napoli's homer was the first run allowed by Verlander since Sept. 18 — he pitched six scoreless innings in each of his last two starts in the regular season before blanking the opposition for 21 innings in the playoffs. That streak ended with one
swing by Napoli. Lackey was pulled with one on in the seventh. Craig Breslow came on and walked Alex Avila, but Infante's groundout ended the inning. The Red Sox appeared to be in deep trouble when Detroit led 5-0 in Game 2, but David Ortiz tied it with an eighth-inning grand slam off closer Joaquin Benoit, and the Red Sox won it in the ninth. Verlander looked ready to halt any notion of momentum for the Red Sox. He struck out six straight
in the second and third, matching a single-game postseason record. Lackey did his best to keep pace, retiring 10 in a row before Peralta's double. The Tigers had taken no-hitters into at least the sixth inning of the previous three games. Verlander fell an out short of extending that streak when Gomes hit a roller up the middle for an infield single in the fifth. "We won a game with four hits tonight. It says a lot about this team," Gomes said.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — If Notre Dame beats Southern California on Saturday, the Fighting Irish will accomplish two feats for the first time since Bob Davie was coach. Yup, it's been that long since the Irish posted consecutive victories over the Trojans, and beat them at home. Notre Dame (4-2) has won two of the last three in the series, including last year's 22-13 win at the Coliseum that clinched a spot in the BCS championship game. But the Irish lost a record eight straight to the Trojans (4-2) before the recent success, including five losses of 31 points. The only close games during that stretch was a 34-31 loss in the "Bush Push" game of 2005 and a 34-27 defeat in 2009 when Jimmy Clausen threw three incomplete passes into the end zone in the closing seconds. Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said before last season's game that it wasn't a great rivalry because the Irish hadn't won enough recently. He feels differently now. "I think we're past that," he said. "We would hope that both programs are competing each and every year for BCS bowls and playoff opportunities, and I think that's where both programs want to be. That they're on equal footing, that you don't have to wait three, four years to get a win."
The last time USC had to wait more than a year for a win was when the Irish won three straight from 19992001 under Davie, with wins at Notre Dame Stadium in '99 and '01. Kelly said Tuesday he didn't know it had been that long, but said the Irish are focused on this year's goals. "We want to win every game that we play the rest of the season, and wherever that takes us at the end of the season, we'll be excited about that," he said. During a three-game stretch earlier this year, Kelly was asked whether each was a rivalry game. He surprised some when he called the game against Michigan a regional game, saying he didn't think it was historic or a traditional rivalry. Two days later, he flipflopped and called it "a great and historic rivalry." In the following weeks he called Purdue a "natural rivalry" and Michigan State a "great rivalry game." On Tuesday, he left no doubt about the game against the Trojans. "I think we go through the season in so many weeks, I think it's on the other side. In other words, other teams really calling it their rivalry game. I think our players will be the first ones to admit that this is our rivalry game," he said. "This is our game that we look forward to against USC." The series started began in 1926 when Knute Rockne
took the Irish to Los Angeles and won 13-12. Since then there have been a number of famous games in the series, including Anthony Davis scoring six touchdowns, two on kickoff returns, in a 45-23 victory by USC in 1972; USC rallying from a 24-0 deficit, scoring 55 points in 17 minutes to beat the Irish in 1974; the Irish warming up in their regular blue jerseys before the game in 1977, then switching to green jerseys just before kickoff and upsetting the fifth-ranked Trojans 49-19; and top-ranked Notre Dame beating second-ranked USC 27-10 in 1988. For the current group of Irish, a 31-17 loss in 2011 was particularly memorable. It was the first night game at Notre Dame Stadium in 21 years, music was piped in over the P.A. system for the first time, the Irish wore new helmets and there were a large number of recruits at the game. Some players later said they got too hyped up for that game and it may have hurt them. Kelly said he talked to the Irish over the weekend, saying they have only one concern Saturday. "The atmosphere, the game, the people around will take care of the environment," he said. "Then just win the damn game. Win the game. That's what you need to do." Something the Irish haven't been done at home in a dozen years.
Notre Dame, Southern Cal prepare to renew rivalry
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Southern California running back Javorius Allen, second from right, scores a touchdown as Arizona safety Tra'Mayne Bondurant defends during the second half of their game, Oct. 10 in Los Angeles. USC won 38-31. The Trojans take on Notre Dame this weekend.
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'Quick-6:' Six things learned in NFL Week 6 By Mike McCurry NFL Columnist
In the latest edition of “Quick-6,” we check up on the ghostly Giants defensive line, the refreshed Justin Blackmon and Josh Gordon, and the sensation that is Patriots’ lockdown cornerback Aqib Talib. And remember, it ain’t over until the announcer screams “Where’s the Beef?!” The Bears’ O-line is a very much improved unit. For years, a sure thing in the NFL has been two quarterbacks repeatedly tumbling to the ground due to overmatched offensive lines: Chicago’s Jay Cutler, and whichever hapless victim has had to go up against the Giants front seven. In 2013 this theory no longer holds, and nothing can act as a more comprehensive example of that than Thursday night’s tilt between the Giants and the Bears. Cutler, who was sacked 38 times last season, had grown accustomed to being slammed to the earth faster than he could mutter the words “Kristin Cavallari.” At last, Chicago decided to address the glaring issue in the offseason—they drafted guard Kyle Long in the first round, tackle Jordan Mills in the fifth, and signed former Saints tackle Jermon Bushrod in free agency—and the results are staggering. New York could barely touch Cutler and the offensive line has yielded just nine sacks in six weeks, which ranks among the league leaders. While that can be a bit of a misleading stat (Matt Ryan, for instance, has also only been sacked nine times despite a shoddy offensive line), Cutler has used the extra seconds to put together one of the best statistical starts in his 8-year career. He’s completing 66 percent of his throws and has a QBR (quarterback rating) just south of 75, both of which would be his highest-ever marks in those categories. Cutler also has thrown 12 touchdown passes already, and if he were to continue his 2-score-per-game pace he would finish with 32 TD’s, also known as his combined total from 2011 (13 TD) and 2012 (19 TD). With Long and Mills anchoring the right side of the line, Bushrod and center Roberto Garza stepping up, and tight end Martellus Bennett aiding when needed, Cutler is enjoying what is shaping up to be a very successful campaign. Meanwhile, a Silver Alert has been put out for the Giants D-line. Yes, Cutler was able to set up a tent in the pocket, comb his hair, and buy Brandon Marshall dinner on each snap before New York got to him on Thursday Night Football due to a much more polished protection unit. But, the other end of the spectrum cannot be ignored, which is: the Giants defensive line has aged worse than Macaulay Culkin and Miley Cyrus over the years. New York has a pintsized five sacks this season, and that’s not a misprint. That grand total ranks last out of 32 NFL clubs. In fact, seven players, not teams, have recorded more sacks than the Giants. Previously feared pass rushers like Jason Pierre-Paul, Justin Tuck and even Mathius Kiwanuka appear incapable of beating their man en route to recording a sack, deflecting a pass, or simply forcing the QB into a rushed throw. JPP, who many coined the next stellar defensive end of the league, has a single sack. Rather than attacking opposing quarterbacks, Tuck has
been devouring five-dollar foot-longs. Sadly, both of those guys graduated from the Darren McFadden School of Injuries and are rarely at 100 percent anymore, but that’s no excuse for hassling the QB at a lesser rate than your average backyard football game. In 2007 the Giants led the NFL with 53 sacks and kept up their destructive ways in the playoffs, culminating in a Super Bowl ring. In 2011, a season that ended with another Lombardi Trophy, their 48 sacks (JPP had 16.5, Osi Umenyiora had nine) were second best. A 22nd-place showing last year served as the premonition for what we are currently witnessing, and it’s safe to say the D-line’s incompetence has officially struck rock bottom. Whereas in the past New York was able to hide a questionable secondary due to an elite pass rush, cornerbacks and safeties are now getting challenged on a weekly basis—to put it nicely, advantage wide receivers. Therefore, an unofficial Silver Alert has been called for a once proud group, and it’s only a matter of time before Jadeveon Clowney jerseys become a thing in MetLife Stadium. Too many injuries occurred to too many stars on Sunday. If this whole journalism thing fails to pan out, I feel like I already meet the qualifications for an athletic trainer, and I have my multiple fantasy rosters to thank for that. You see, while we love the NFL, there are obviously those black eyes that we wish we could eradicate completely from the game: tragic deaths, murderers, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and of course injuries. Sadly, one of Week 6’s major themes was the injury bug, and unlike CBS’s “Survivor,” no team is able to wear the immunity necklace and escape with minor cuts and bruises. The Cowboys, for example, won and lost on Sunday. Dallas beat the Redskins 31-16 due to an RGIII imposter under center for Washington, but they lost DeMarcus Ware and Demarco Murray—Ware potentially for a month, Murray at least for next week’s first place battle against the Eagles. The Packers also received a bad prognosis after escaping against the Ravens, as wideout Randall Cobb broke his fibula and probably won’t return to action until snow begins to fall in Green Bay. Texans quarterback Matt Schaub left early in a blowout loss to the Rams with a gimpy ankle, but then again Houston fans cheered upon seeing the pick-6 king writhing on the field. In the PatriotsSaints thriller (keep reading for more on the classic), Jimmy Graham, Aqib Talib, and Danny Amendola all bowed out prematurely—and that’s with key players like the Saints’ Lance Moore and Joseph Morgan and the Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski and Vince Wilfork in street clothes during kickoff. Serious injuries are inevitable, and naturally it’s usually the squads that manage to overcome them the quickest that are still alive in February. My fantasy team, however, is one more broken bone away from throwing in the towel. Josh Gordon and Justin Blackmon are back and better than ever. The Browns’ Josh Gordon and the Jaguars’ Justin Blackmon are, to quote Riley Cooper I think, “brothers from another mother.” Both are former Big-12 wide receivers, with Blackmon starring at Oklahoma State and
Gordon enjoying a productive career at Baylor before being kicked out (seriously). Both are explosive talents when they want to be, and I emphasize “when they want to be” because both also seem to have missed numerous D.A.R.E assemblies in junior high. Blackmon, who has conversed with cops more than he probably has with Blaine Gabbert, had to sit out the initial four games this year for ignoring the league’s policy on substance abuse. Since being reinstated, the only thing he’s abusing is opposing cornerbacks—Blackmon has 19 catches for 326 yards in two games and scored a touchdown against the Rams in Week 5. On Sunday against the invincible Broncos, Blackmon was targeted a monstrous 20 times, and for whatever reason him and Chad Henne have developed an unbelievable rapport in just over a year. Blackmon’s return has ignited a little fire under the previously lifeless Jags, as a team that only scored three TD’s in its first four games suddenly has four TD’s the last two weeks. Still, Blackmon is holding out for the season’s first victory—he has a 2-16 record in his professional career. Josh Gordon, who like Blackmon has a checkered past full of red flags, was on quite a winning streak after serving a two-game penalty for codeine. In Weeks 3-5, ironically the first look we had at the Trent Richardson-less Browns, Cleveland went 3-0, and Gordon was a big reason why. It didn’t take long for him to get back in the groove, as in Week 3 he had 10 grabs for 146 yards and a TD. He finally suffered a setback as the Browns fell to Detroit on Sunday, but Gordon is averaging over 100 receiving yards per game and has two scores. He also has collected a catch over 30 yards in each contest, something DeSean Jackson can’t even attest to. Both still extremely young and far from their prime, it’s tough not to imagine what Blackmon and Gordon could do catching passes from someone other than Gabbert, Henne, Brian Hoyer, or Brandon Weeden. The Packers-Ravens game took some serious guts to sit through. I have always looked up to athletes like Kobe and Tiger for their cerebral approach, and you could argue that no one in their respective sports possesses as much mental toughness as they do. That being said, even they would most likely admire my mental fortitude on Sunday, as I sat through an entire PackersRavens snoozer that contained less excitement than a dinner date with Joe Buck. In a matchup that featured two out of the last three Super Bowl champions, the championshipcaliber plays were few and far between. Someone had to win, and the Packers did, 19-17. But really, all the Packers did was prove that they fit the mold of a playoff squad a tad more than Baltimore. Neither Baltimore nor Green Bay scored a touchdown in the first half, and it’s not as if the defense was setting the tone. The Ravens had just 47 rushing yards, as Ray Rice continued to suffer through a nightmare year, and Joe Flacco’s 342-yard, two TD stat line is extremely misleading. Flacco and Aaron Rodgers, the two most-recent Super Bowl MVP’s and the QB’s with the fattest paychecks in NFL history, barely completed half of their passes. Baltimore’s “D” does appear to be more fierce without Ray Lewis and Ed
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Baltimore Ravens running back Bernard Pierce (30) is tackled by Green Bay Packers free safety M.D. Jennings during the first half of an NFL football game in Baltimore Sunday. The low-scoring battle was an ugly game to watch.
Reed, but they were bailed out by Randall Cobb and James Jones going down with injuries. As the Texans have so brutally learned through the first six weeks, just because you are perceived as a playoff team does not mean you get a free pass to compete in January. And, as crazy as this could sound initially, I’m not sold on Baltimore or Green Bay, two perennial postseason stalwarts, winning double-digit games and earning a trip to the wildcard round. The Packers’ offensive front needs help, and the Ravens are a total mess after losing Dennis Pitta in the summer, this after shipping Anquan Boldin to San Francisco. Ball catchers like Dallas Clark and Tandon Doss (who somehow had 99 yards Sunday) aren’t going to cut it, and neither are more overall subpar performances from the Ravens and Packers this season. Aqib Talib works for Congress on the side. I used to confuse Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib with oldschool rapper Talib Kweli, but let it be known I no longer make that mistake. Talib, arguably the most underrated corner in the NFL, is finally getting the recognition he deserves after proving on Sunday that he is a member of Congress. Why, you ask? Because he is responsible for the shutdown—not the shutdown of the government, but shutting down the opposition’s top offensive weapon week-in and week-out. His responsibility against the Saints was none other than Jimmy Graham, who is only a tight end in the sense that Tim Tebow is still listed as a “quarterback.” Graham has been the best receiver in the world this year, and if you need any further prodding consider this: even after not recording a single catch versus New England due to Talib continuously jamming him at the line and cutting off his route, Graham still leads the league in receiving yards (593) and is tied for 3rd with six TD’s. Talib stuck it to Graham, eliminating Drew Brees’ favorite target and forcing him to defer to the likes of Kenny Stills and Nick Toon. Even though he’ll never receive a single MVP vote, Talib cannot get enough credit for New England’s 5-1 start. It hasn’t just been Graham who he has removed from the game (and I’m not talking about Graham leaving with a leg injury in the 4th quarter): Vincent Jackson, A.J. Green, and Julio Jones have also been blanketed by Talib this year. Due to attitude issues, all the Patriots had to give up for the former Tampa Bay Buccaneer was a fourthround selection. Consider that an absolute steal orchestrated by the wisest larcenist in sports, Bill Belichick.
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Huskies take down Columbia Andre Blake returns, UConn Matheson said on the team’s overall keeps third-straight clean sheet from LIONS, page 12 effort that helped contribute to his The scoring continued for the Huskies in the first half when UConn was awarded a penalty kick at the 33:54 mark after Columbia defender Rhys Williams was given a yellow card for a handball in the penalty box. Colin Bradley took the kick and netted his second goal of the season. The goal was also Bradley’s second goal of the season on a penalty kick. UConn’s final dagger came with just under 15 minutes left in the match when junior midfielder Adria Beso assisted another Matheson goal. The goal was Matheson’s fourth contribution to the seven overall goals the Huskies have scored over their last two matches. “We played good as a team,”
multiple-goal effort. UConn has now gone nearly a month since losing a match in a Sept. 17 trip to Syracuse. The Huskies have gone 4-0-2 since losing to the Orange. The Huskies return to action this Saturday when they head to Kentucky to take on the No. 7 Louisville Cardinals. It will be UConn’s first match against a ranked opponent since a Sept. 21 home win over the No. 10 St. Louis Billikens. UConn’s next and last home match of the regular season will be an Oct. 26 meeting with the Cincinnati Bearcats.
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“Sometimes when you’re always playing, you don’t know what it’s like until you actually have to sit out and watch a game,” Blake said. “You gotta play every game like it’s your last, because when you’re sitting and watching and can’t play, it’s not a good feeling.” Coach Ray Reid commended Wagmeister’s efforts during Blake’s absence but said “it’s great to have the best goalkeeper in the country back.” UConn posts third consecutive shutout With the UConn’s offense clicking on all cylinders, the team’s defense
has not let up either. Having Blake back between the pipes did help the Huskies a lot, but the star goalkeeper only needed to make one save during the match for his shutout as UConn allowed only four shots by Columbia. “Without the other 10 players, it wouldn’t have been possible,” Blake said. “I just believe everyone is doing their job, everyone is trying to do something to help the team, and it’s just paying off.” “The whole team is playing good,” Reid said. “Midfield, the backs, the front guys, our goalkeeper, we’re defending well collectively.”
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Week 7 Fantasy Football Advice
By Spencer Oakes Campus Correspondent
Start ‘em: Justin Blackmon (vs. San Diego). This game, believe it or not, could be a shootout. The Jaguars are coming off a gutsy, morale victory-type performance against the Broncos. Their next matchup is a San Diego defense that has allowed the 7th – most fantasy points to opposing wide receivers. Since coming back from suspension Blackmon has been a monster. He has been on the field for 95.5 percent of the offensive snaps that the Jaguars have played since his return. With Cecil Shorts in doubt for Week 7, Blackmon will be a ball magnet when the Jaguars decide to pass, which should be often, as they will be playing behind for most of the game. This San Diego team can put up points, which should mean a ton of opportunities for Blackmon. The Jaguars may be one of the worst teams in the league, but Blackmon is a stud and a must-start against the Chargers this week. Sit ‘em: Larry Fitzgerald (vs. Seattle). Fitzgerald was also featured on last week’s “sit ‘em” portion of our weekly advice column. If there was ever a match-up that screamed sit a No. 1 receiver, it’s this one. Seattle’s Secondary is far and wide the best secondary in the NFL. Simply put, Richard Sherman is the best shutdown corner in the NFL. Sherman has put himself next to Darrelle Revis in any argument for the leagues best all around corner. This will be a tough matchup for Fitzgerald, as he will most likely be shadowed by Sherman all game long. If he manages to escape Sherman and line up against
Seattle’s second corner, Brandon Browner, it will still be a tough task as Browner is a physical corner who is listed at 6-foot 3. To make matters worse, this game is being played on Thursday night this week. A short week against the league’s best secondary is simply a disaster waiting to happen. Fitzgerald is an elite receiver, but without a top quarter back to throw him the ball, a matchup against Seattle should be avoided at all costs. Sit Fitzgerald this week. Waiver Wire Pickup: Joseph Randle (at Philadelphia). This one is obvious. Demarco Murray is expected to miss the next 3-5 games with a left knee injury. The Cowboys have showed that they have a high-powered offense that can compete with anyone. Randle will be the starting running back for Week 7 and beyond until Murray comes back. Whether Randle is a capable NFL running back or not he will still have a ton of fantasy value in the Cowboys offense. There will be many opportunities not only on the ground, but also in the passing game for Randle to make a difference in fantasy line-ups. It is expected that Randle will also receive goalline carries, which should be plenty in this offense. Randle could be a fantasy starter up until Murray returns, as he has very favorable matchups in the upcoming weeks, which include: Philadelphia, Detroit, Minnesota, New Orleans and the New York Giants. Pick Randle up if he is still available, and do not be afraid to start him.
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Men's golf wins first tournament of season
By Nick Danforth Campus Correspondent
The UConn men’s golf team captured their first tournament win of the season, finishing first out of 16 teams at the Connecticut Cup. The Huskies hosted the two day long tournament at the Ellington Ridge Country Club in Ellington and finished eight strokes ahead of second place Hartford University. For the second consecutive year, sophomore Zach Zaback was the tournament medalist, finishing with a 7-under par over three rounds to top the 94-player field. Consistency was the key for Zaback as he fired a 2-under par 70 during the first round on Monday and followed that up with rounds of 69 and 70 on Tuesday. The win was Zaback’s third of his collegiate career. Also finishing in the top 10 for the Huskies were sophomore John Flaherty and senior Chris Wiatr. Flaherty struggled during Monday’s opening round, shooting a 4-over par 76. The second round was supposed to be held on Monday, but due to darkness it was pushed to Tuesday morning giving Flaherty an opportunity to compose himself and get back on track. It showed as he came out and shot a 2-under
par 70 during the first round on Tuesday and followed that up with a 1-under par 71 to finish tied for fourth place. Wiatr also impressed, shooting a 6-over par 222 over the three rounds to finish tied for eighth. Freshman Eric Dietrich and sophomore Corey Birch finished in 16th and 42nd respectively. The Huskies will look to continue the success from the fall into the spring season.
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Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan, right, is challenged by Egypt’s Hossam Ghaly during their World Cup playoff match in Ghana. Ghana stunned Egypt 6-1 in the first leg of their World Cup playoff on Tuesday.
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England and defending champion Spain qualified for the World Cup on Tuesday night along with Russia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, which earned its first berth as an independent nation. Three more spots were at stake in late games in South and Central America, finalizing 21 of the 32 slots for the field in Brazil next June. Wayne Rooney scored in the 41st minute and Steven Gerrard in the 88th to give England (6-04) a 2-0 win over Poland at London’s Wembley Stadium and first place in Group H by one point over Ukraine (6-1-3). The Three Lions qualified for their 14th World Cup and fifth in a row. “We have a great togetherness, are there for each other and proved we can perform under pressure,” Gerrard said. Spain (6-0-2) won Group I with a 2-0 victory over visiting Georgia on goals by Alvaro Negredo in the 26th minute and Juan Mata in the 61st. Iker Casillas returned to starting lineup for Spain after being replaced by Victor Valdes against Belarus last week. The Spanish, who have won three straight major tournaments, including the 2008 and 2012 European Championships, qualified for their 10th straight World Cup. “It may look practically routine, but it’s important to remember how successful we’ve been at qualifying,” coach Vicente Del Bosque said. “This is not an easy competition.” France (5-1-2) was second and will be in the playoffs despite defeating visiting Finland 3-0 on goals by Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema around Joona Toivio’s own goal. Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal, Greece, Ukraine, Romania and Iceland also finished second in their groups, winding up in Monday’s draw for the eight-team European playoffs next month along with Sweden and Croatia. The four playoff winners also will earn berths. With a population of just over 300,000, Iceland would be the smallest nation to qualify for a World Cup. Trinidad and Tobago, at about 1.3 million, was at the 2006 tournament in Germany. The seedings for the playoffs will be determined by Thursday’s FIFA rankings. Denmark (4-2-4) had the poorest record among the nine second-place teams and missed out on a playoff berth. Bosnia (8-1-1) won 1-0 at Lithuania on Vedad Ibisevic’s 68th-minute goal to win Group G on goal difference over Greece. Bosnia-Herzegovina gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1992. Almost 10,000 fans jumped, cried and screamed ‘Vamos Bosnia’ — or ‘Go Bosnia’ — when Ibisevic scored in Kaunas. Fans headed to the airport after the game to wait for their team to arrive in the middle of the night and join the party. Greece (8-1-1) defeated visiting Liechtenstein 2-0 as Dimitris Salpingidis scored in the seventh minute and Giorgos Karagounis added a goal in the 81st.
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Niels Giffey putting in offseason work for in-season gains
Pistons make offseason moves, but injuries hamper progress
By Dalton Zbierski Campus Correspondent With a new season approaching, UConn senior captain Niels Giffey has been hard at work. Having already appeared in 99 career games as a Husky, the 6-foot-7 guard/forward will look to establish his presence as a major contributor over the course of the upcoming season. When asked to describe his fall regimen, the veteran made it clear that the schedule has been demanding, with breathers being few and far between. “(The fall) has been really intense. We practice 4-5 days a week,” said Giffey. “We also lift four days a week and on top of that do rehab and conditioning on the side.” The Berlin, Germany native will assume a leadership position as a senior. Voted a captain, he will lean heavily on experience to lead a cast of underclassmen and produce on the court himself. “Being one of the captains
on the team, I want to make the transition easy for the young guys and make them understand what it takes to play on this level on a daily basis,” Giffey said. When asked for his take on the newly founded American Athletic Conference Giffey also had a unique perspective, “It’s good to play new teams and see new places. We’ve always been successful against teams we never have played before,” he said. Time will tell if his outlook proves to be correct. The senior averaged 3.1 points and 2.0 rebounds per game last year. Considering the new slate and unpredictable season laying ahead of him, Giffey most definitely looks to improve on those numbers. “Personally, I want to be more aggressive on the offensive end and be a lockdown guy defensively,” said Giffey. UConn fans across Connecticut and beyond can only hope he is successful in his endeavors.
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By Scott Carroll Staff Writer One team that was not afraid to make offseason moves in the NBA was the Detroit Pistons as they look to make the playoffs for the first time since the 2008-2009 season. However, their playoff chances may have taken a hit as their new point guard Brandon Jennings will be sitting out with a tooth injury, one that has some scratching their heads. Jennings is suffering from an impacted wisdom tooth, a symptom of molars not having enough room to grow, and a hairline fracture at the base of the tooth. The Pistons said that the young point guard will miss up to three weeks with his nagging tooth injury. Detroit was very active this offseason as they nabbed Jennings–a promising guard who looks to find new motivation as he leaves Milwaukee–and Josh Smith, a player with an all-star pedigree and a former NBA Slam Dunk Champion. The Pistons have also hired a new coach this offseason in
Maurice Cheeks. Cheeks is coming off a recent stint in Oklahoma City where he was an assistant coach for the last five years under Scott Brooks. Cheeks has had a successful coaching career as an assistant, most notably working with future NBA Hall of Famer Allen Iverson and helping the 2001 Philadelphia 76ers to the NBA Finals. However, Cheeks’ head coaching career has left something to be desired. Cheeks has had two stints as a head coach with the Portland Trail Blazer and the 76ers. Despite his playoff woes, Cheeks has always proven to be a class act. He once helped a girl who had forgotten the words to the National Anthem get through the song and sang with her. Brandon Jennings’ injury could keep Cheeks out of the playoffs once more as the start of the NBA season looms. It will be up to Greg Monroe, Smith and former Husky Andre Drummond to shoulder the load in the early going and get Detroit off to a great start.
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Matheson scores brace as Huskies rip Columbia By Mike Corasaniti Senior Staff Writer
With a familiar face back in goal for the Huskies, UConn cruised to a 4-0 triumph over the visiting Columbia University Lions for their third straight victory. The Huskies (6-2-4, 2-0-3 American) struck first after freshman midfielder Cyle Larin, UConn’s co-leading scorer, fielded a Kwame Awuah cross off of his chest and launched it into the back of the net at the 14:39 mark. The goal, assisted by junior midfielder Edir DaGraca, was Larin’s fifth goal of the season. Junior goalkeeper Andre Blake recorded his 30th career shutout in his first game back since an Oct. 5 tie against UCF. Blake, who missed the last two games due to injury after a hard collision in the UCF match ended with him landing on his neck, held Columbia (5-3-2, 0-0-2 Ivy League) to just four shots the entire match. “[Backup goalkeeper Jacob Wasmeister] did a great job for two games but it’s obviously great having the best goalkeeper in the country back,” said head coach Ray Reid. Blake also earned his 40th career victory Tuesday night in an effort where the defense, led by conference defensive player of the week Sergio Campbell, was especially stingy. “Without the defense or without the other 10 players it wouldn’t have been possible,” Blake said. “I just really believe everyone has been doing their job and everyone is trying to do something to help the team.” Junior midfielder Edir DaGraca, who was also credited with an assist on UConn’s first scoring play, came out immediately after for junior Allando Matheson, a substitution that quickly proved beneficial for the Huskies. Less than ten minutes later, Matheson scored his third goal in two matches after a deflected shot from sophomore Nicholas Zuniga was fielded a few feet away from the goal and sent into the back of the net. It was Matheson’s fourth goal of the season, JESS CONDON/The Daily Campus but only his first of two on the evening.
Matt Stypulkoski The unwritten rules of baseball are ridiculous. There, I said it. Now let’s clarify: games shouldn’t suddenly become free-for-alls. No one likes to see a showboat after a solo shot in the third inning of a July game against the Astros. We could all do without a sack dance or a first-down signal after every play in the NFL. NBA players need not strike a pose after canning a three halfway through the first quarter. Sportsmanship, like in every other game, should remain intact. But the idea that players can’t celebrate a clutch hit, big-time strikeout or gameending out is absurd. After Game 3 of the NLCS Monday, Cardinals players started chirping that Yaisel Puig’s clapping after an RBI triple was classless. Adrian Gonzalez’s joy after a runscoring double was met with equal scorn in the St. Louis clubhouse. “Mickey Mouse stuff,” Adam Wainwright called it. Apparently, the invisible rulebook that allegedly governs the game gets longer by the day. What, exactly, is the reason for halting celebrations? Sports are about excitement, joy and, believe it or not, Wainright, a little bit of fun to boot. Without passion, fans and players alike may as well pack up their ponchos and bleacher backrests and go home. For years now, baseball has come under scrutiny that it’s an old man’s game. Too slow for the modern crowd and too boring for young people to enjoy, the sport has slowly been losing its grip as America’s pasttime. The lone redeeming quality on which the game can still rest its hat on is the drama that comes when the calendar turns to October. So excuse us, Mr. Wainwright, if the chance at a World Series title gets the blood pumping a bit. You’d think that an elite athlete, one built on competition and driven by winning, could understand the thrill that comes with a step toward victory. But apparently that isn’t the case in the Cardinals’ locker room. In Wainwright’s view, doubles, runs and strikeouts lead to nothing but stone faces. Which is strange, considering the amount of celebrating he and his teammates did during the first two games of the series. You know, the games they won. And that’s perfectly fine, there’s nothing wrong with showing a little emotion in the heat of the moment. Heck, we’d all be a bit suspicious of a player that wasn’t ecstatic after an RBI knock in the NLCS. The passion is what makes the game fun, St. Louis– lighten up a bit. And besides, what did Mickey Mouse do to become the bad guy? Follow Matt on Twitter @M_Stypulkoski
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UConn’s Edir DaGraca settles the ball in a game against Columbia on Tuesday at Morrone Stadium. The Huskies won the game, 4-0.
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UConn sets season-high with four goals
By Mike Peng Senior Staff Writer
UConn’s early season offensive woes were once a concern for a team with national title aspirations, but have been dissolved quickly after the Huskies put up four more goals in their match Tuesday night against Columbia. The match, one of UConn’s last two non-conference contests, was the Huskies’ third consecutive victory. With the win, UConn has improved to 6-2-4, (2-0-3 in the American) on the season. Goals galore, Huskies on an offensive outburst With four goals Tuesday night–a new season-high–the Huskies have scored a total of seven in their last two games and 17 on the season. The last time the Huskies scored four goals in a match was Oct. 17, 2012 when the
UConn defeated Seton Hall, 4-0. Freshman forward Cyle Larin continues to produce for UConn; his score in the 15th minute gave him 11 points on the season, good for the most on the team. Larin’s scoring partner in the team’s previous match against Memphis, junior forward Allando Matheson, added two more goals in Tuesday’s match. The goals were Matheson’s fourth and fifth on the season, tying him with Larin for most on the team. All of Matheson’s goals have come within the last four matches. Matheson talked about the “intensity” he is bringing to the team and how that has helped his scoring surge. “We are playing good as a team,” Matheson said. “We’ve been working on box run a lot over the last couple of week, so this feels good to pay off.”
Redshirt senior Colin Bradley tallied a goal in the 33rd minute on a penalty kick that was awarded to UConn after a handball was called against Columbia. Bradley’s goal was the second of his career, his first also coming a week ago against Rutgers on a penalty kick. Andre Blake returns from injury After missing two games due to an injury from Oct. 5 against UCF, UConn junior goalkeeper and Hermann Trophy Watch List candidate Andre Blake returned to action Tuesday night against Columbia. Prior to his injury, Blake has recorded three shutouts for the Huskies this season. The replacement during his absence, Jacob Wagmeister, has been impressive as well. The redshirt sophomore posted back-to-back clean sheets in as many games to help UConn
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UConn’s Colin Bradley jostles for position in a game against Columbia Tuesday night at Morrone Stadium. Bradley netted his second career goal in the Huskies 4-0 win.
pick up two victories. Blake did not miss a beat when he returned to the pitch and said he felt “great” and “happier” after the match, as he
recorded his 30th career shutout and his 40th career win Tuesday night.
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U.S knocks Panama out of World Cup with late goals (AP) – Graham Zusi and Aron Johannsson scored in secondhalf stoppage time, and the United States rallied for a 3-2 win at Panama on Tuesday night that left Mexico’s World Cup hopes alive and knocked out the Panamanians. The U.S., which clinched a World Cup berth last month, didn’t use most of its starters, and Gabriel Torres put Panama ahead in the 18th minute in a downpour at Panama City. Michael Orozco tied it the 64th minute, just as Costa Rica took a 2-1 lead at home against Mexico. Luis Tejada scored in the 83rd, putting Panama within minutes of a fourth-place finish and a berth in next month’s playoff against Oceania champion New Zealand. Mexico, which last missed the World Cup in 1990, would have been eliminated. But Zusi scored 1:24 into three minutes of stoppage time, and
Johannsson added his first international goal at the 2:40 mark to seal the U.S. win and Panama’s elimination. The Americans, who have lost just once in their last 16 games, finished with a record-tying 22 points in the hexagonal, the final round of the North and Central American and Caribbean region. It was a similar finish to four years ago, when Jonathan Bornstein’s goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time gave the U.S. a 2-2 tie against Costa Rica, clinching a World Cup berth to Honduras and knocking out the Costa Ricans. The U.S. (7-2-1) and Costa Rica (5-2-3) already had clinched berths last month, and Honduras (4-3-3) earned the region’s final automatic spot with a 2-2 tie at last-place Jamaica (0-5-5). Mexico (2-3-5) finished fourth with 11 points, three ahead of Panama (1-4-5), which
has never played in soccer’s top event. Before allowing the stoppage-time goals, Panama was even with El Tri on points and goal difference and would have advanced based on a 10-7 advantage in goals scored. Having earned its seventh straight World Cup berth last month, the U.S. was without many of its regulars because of either injuries or decisions to allow them to return to their clubs. Among the missing were Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey, Michael Bradley, Jermaine Jones, Tim Howard, Omar Gonzalez and Matt Besler. In all, the Americans started just two players who began the clinching match against Mexico: defender Clarence Goodson and midfielder Alejandro Bedoya. In the absence of Dempsey and Howard, Jozy Altidore captained the national team for the first time.
Torres scored after a giveaway by Edgar Castillo. Marcos Sanchez sent a layoff to the top of the penalty area, and Torres split the defenders and easily beat goalkeeper Brad Guzan with a one-timed shot to the corner. Orozco scored his third international goal off a Davis corner kick. Sacha Kljestan was hauled down by Luis Henriquez right in front of the goal, allowing the ball to fall to Orozco. With his back toward the goal, Orozco lifted his left leg and made just enough contact to score from 6 yards. Orozco then did a little dance with DaMarcus Beasley, the American left back of late who was given the night off. Panama could have been awarded a penalty kick two minutes later, but Jamaican referee Courtney Campbell didn’t whistle Bedoya for knocking over Alberto Quintero as he streaked
into the penalty area. Two minutes later, Guzan got his left hand up to stop a pointblank shot by Torres. Panama came back when Torres sent the ball down the right flank to Roberto Chen, who sent a low cross through the penalty area. Guzan slapped the ball with his right hand and the ball ricocheted to Tejada, who stepped in front of Kyle Beckerman. But it wasn’t over. Castillo started the set up to the tying goal with a pass to Davis, who sent the ball to Zusi, He climbed over Henriquez and his 8-yard header beat goalkeeper Jaime Penedo. It was his third international goal, and second in five days. With Panama pressing to get the goal it needed to regain a tie, Terrence Boyd set up Johannsson for a goal on a 20-yard shot.