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Students respond to Title IX complaints

Community is disappointed with how allegations are being handled, call for an open forum

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Students at the UConn have responded with shock to the Title IX allegations brought against the university and are disappointed with how it is being handled by the school and president.

After seven current and former UConn students filed a formal complaint that the university failed to protect them after reports of sexual assault and rape on Monday, President Susan Herbst defended the school’s response in an address to the Board of Trustees on Wednesday.

In general, students agree that the university needs to do more in terms of communicating how sexual assault will be recognized and prevented in the future.

“I don’t know all the information, all the facts, I’m just an observer, but it’s painful to watch other people suffer and the administration not do everything in is ability to protect those individuals, and I hope that this controversy doesn’t hurt the uni-

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University of Connecticut students watch and photograph President Susan Herbst as she speaks to the media about the federal civil rights complaint filed Monday by seven women, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, in Storrs, Conn.

versity, I hope it starts the conversation about rape culture that is positive and productive,” said 3rd-semester ACES major Varun Khatter.

If Title IX violations are found, the university could lose federal funding or face fines according to the complainants’ attorney Gloria Allred.

“I really hope the university takes all these allegations and really invests, and makes sure none of these allegations come up again,” said Panhellenic

President Christine Campbell, a 7th-semester human development and family studies major.

Undergraduate Student Government Senator Abdullah Hasan agreed that the university should start a conversation to stop the allegations from happening again after he realized many students are not aware of what rape culture is, he said.

On his Facebook page, Hasan, a 3rd-semester political science and human rights double major, posted an explanation of rape culture after USG unanimously passed a resolution to address the prevalence of sexual harassment and the rape culture on campus.

“I ask fellow men the following questions,” Hasan wrote, “Have you been told to never walk home alone at night? Have you been told to always go to a party with a friend? Have you been told to take self-defense classes?

Do you walk around with your keys in between your fingers (known as the ‘bear claw’) ready to defend any attacks? Do you,

A DAY IN THE LIFE Festival aims to make students Neag encourages student to learn inside feel at home Program Office Staff Member Em Loisel.

They also want to help stuThis week the UConn Late dents to enjoy fall with the Night will be holding the activities planned for the night.

“It is that time of year where Harvest Festival on Saturday night from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. pumpkin spice lattes are in and The Harvest Festival will have it’s fall. I personally enjoy doing activities including decorating the whole fall-related stuff like pumpkin carving pumpkins, and that good stuff. making a We won’t actually scarecrow be doing pumpkin and face carving but just painting. the celebrating the Late Night time of year it is,” is not just said Loisel. about havDue to the fact ing fun that the Late Night though, as will be “celebratthe staff ing the time of also hopes year,” it will give to foster an opportunity to the UConn out and grow commuEm Loisel reach as a community of nity. The event will Student Activities UConn students.

“Late Night focus on also provides a the care unique opportunity of the students who are reminded of fam- for socializing, organizational development, friendship and ily and their home due to fall.

“I think a lot of people find student involvement,” the Late that there’s a lot of homey things Night website states.

For this Late Night, the goal attached to [fall]. So whatever we can do to make our students is to give students the ability to feel like they are more at home have a fall experience within the than that’s what we do for Late UConn community.

Night,” said Student Activities

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“I think a lot of people find that there’s a lot of homey things attached to [fall].”

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the classroom and out

By Katie McWilliams Staff Writer

For 5th-semester elementaryeducation major, Jackie Baril, teaching is not only what her professors do in class. Once a week, she travels to East Hartford to work in a kindergarten classroom all day as part of the curriculum in the Neag School of Education.

Baril wakes at 6:30 a.m. every Wednesday to get ready to travel to Hartford. The night before, Baril prepares everything she’ll need for the day, including her goals and assignments she needs to complete during the day. Once she gets to East Hartford, Baril observes her classroom teacher and gets involved in the class by helping individual children and working with children in writing and literacy activities.

Baril has outside of the classroom assignments at East Hartford as well. Last week, one of her tasks was to interview the reading specialist as well as work in the classroom.

Baril usually returns to campus in the late afternoon and

spends the rest of her afternoon researching lesson ideas for the next week and thinking over how her day went.

When Baril’s not in East Hartford, she’s taking a myriad of education classes, such as Educational Psychology, Educational Technology and Intro to Teaching.

All of the Neag classes are applicable to Baril’s success in the classroom, as they teach concepts that will help teachers manage a classroom and promote learning.

“In education psychology we learn about psychological principles like behaviorism and how children can be conditioned to do certain behaviors, like raise their hand, follow cues and we discuss applications of psych principles in the classroom,” Baril said.

Education technology teaches its students how to integrate and effectively use SmartBoards, iPads and other cutting edge technology in their lesson plans.

For second year students who are anticipating applying to Neag, Baril advises diligence and taking advantage of the

numerous resources on campus to better your application process.

“It took a lot of time to put everything together,” Baril said.

“I visited the Career Center for resume workshops, and the writing center for my essay. I wanted to make sure I put forth my best work, so the whole process took a lot of writing and revision.”

The stress of applying early so that she could study abroad in Florence, Italy, was worth it for Baril, who enjoys the gratification and fulfillment that comes with teaching.

“Teaching is social. I will not be stuck in a cubicle, but rather interacting with people and making an impact. It is rewarding, too, because you can see the joy on students’ faces when they grasp a concept,” Baril said.

When Baril is not in class or teaching, she’s practicing with the UConn tap team, teaching English as a Second Language in Mansfield or participating in Future Educators of America.

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HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says a state contractor attended California fundraising events at which the governor also participated last weekend.

The Hearst Connecticut Media Group (http://bit.ly/18eVqP4 ) reports that Malloy told reporters on Wednesday he could not remember specific fundraising events during his visit to the San Francisco area.

He said guests at fundraisers included Leonard Mendonca, a director of McKinsey & Co., a state contractor that would be prohibited from contributing if the governor were an announced candidate. He has not announced whether he will seek a second term next year.

Malloy said he doesn’t believe he asked for money from Mendonca, but would look into it.

Mendonca said Thursday through a spokeswoman he would have no comment.

Demolition begins on Sandy Hook school

NEWTOWN (AP) — Workers have begun demolishing the elementary school building where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults, the town’s top elected leader said Thursday.

Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra said small-scale demolition is underway at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the project will take several weeks.

“The process of demolition is incremental, staged precisely and executed carefully,” she said. “There is no wrecking ball action; it is rather a piece-by-piece, section-by-section removal.”

The gunman killed his mother at their home before going to the school on Dec. 14. He committed suicide as police arrived.

A task force of 28 Newtown elected officials voted unanimously in May to raze the Sandy Hook Elementary School and build a new one on the property where the existing school is located.

Newtown has accepted a $50 million state grant for the project, and a new school is expected to open by December 2016. Students have been attending classes in a neighboring town.

Contractors are being asked to destroy materials to eliminate nearly every trace of the building, an effort Llodra has said is intended to protect the victims’ privacy and keep people from taking parts of the building as souvenirs. Contractors also are required to sign confidentiality agreements to forbid public discussion of the site and the building.

Hearings planned to examine UConn sexual assaults

HARTFORD (AP) — Lawmakers on Thursday began planning a hearing to examine the issues raised in a federal civil rights complaint against the University of Connecticut for its handling of reported sexual assaults.

Seven students and recent graduates filed the Title IX complaint with the federal Department of Education’s Bureau for Civil Rights on Monday, alleging UConn responded to their cases with deliberate indifference or worse.

State lawmakers last year passed legislation requiring that schools implement protocols for responding to sexual assault complaints.

Under the law, schools must create a plan for enforcing courtordered protective and restraining orders, make campus disciplinary proceedings uniform and transparent, and provide students and employees with sexual assault awareness and prevention programming.

Republican leaders Thursday called for the Legislature’s Public Safety and Higher Education Committees to hold a hearing and determine if the school is following the law, and if lawmakers need to strengthen it.

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Guest lecturer Kelly Garrett promotes social justice and understanding of the First Amendment on Thursday, Oct. 24 at the Rainbow Center in the Student Union.

By Marissa Piccolo Campus Correspondent “Free speech at public universities and colleges is at once the most obvious and the most paradoxical of constitutional principles,” guest lecturer Kelly Garrett quoted from the First Amendment Center, sighed and reflected, “that’s where it gets complicated.”

Garrett, director of the LGBTQ Center at Brown University, came to UConn’s Rainbow Center this Thursday, celebrating 15 years of promoting social justice nationally. The lecture was entitled “Free Speech and Hate Groups: Where do we draw the line?”

In the true nature of the event, Garrett prompted her lecture by establishing that much of what she was saying would be guided by her personal experiences and opinion, and that those in the audience are encouraged to par-

ticipate and contribute in the dialogue with their own perspective, openness and civility.

Garrett established in her opening remarks that the goal of the event was to explore how to respond when hate reaches our campus, an issue that dealt with daily whether it is a snide side remark or a constitutional controversy case that incites media coverage.

For example: if a university is deciding on a keynote speaker for an MLK Memorial Lecture, and a speaker with an excellent track record for civil rights issues but has expressed antiLGBTQ views in the past is suggested, should they be chosen? Or if a recognized conservative group on campus wants to hold a “Straight Pride Rally” should they be allowed, and if so, what should be the parameters? These are not just rhetorical situations, but issues that Garrett has struggled with.

Archery teams hold mock tournament, open to all

By Elizabeth Abreu Campus Correspondent

Police: Conn. woman in chase had Obama delusions

HARTFORD (AP) — A woman who was shot to death after a car chase outside the U.S. Capitol this month had been under delusions that government cameras kept her under constant surveillance, and her boyfriend contacted police several times to express concerns about the safety of their daughter, according to records released Thursday.

Miriam Carey, who had been diagnosed with postpartum depression and psychosis, told officers who responded to her Stamford apartment on Dec. 10 that President Barack Obama communicated with her and had set up cameras to record her life for national news outlets, police said.

“She stated that President Obama put Stamford in lock down after speaking to her because she is the Prophet of Stamford,” a police report said.

Carey, a 34-year-old dental hygienist, tried to ram her car through a White House barrier on Oct. 3 before leading police on a chase that ended with her being killed. Her 1-year-old daughter was in the car but escaped serious injury.

Carey’s relatives have challenged law enforcement accounts that she was delusional and raised questions over whether police used an appropriate level of force. A lawyer for Carey’s sister didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

Stamford police said in incident reports released Thursday under a public records request that officers had dealt several times with Carey and issues including her belief that she was the subject of a reality television show for the government.

Both these controversial questions and answers “rock us at the core.” It is generally agreed upon that speech must, in some way, be regulated, but debate ensues over what, when and how. This line is often drawn through the creation of parameters. For instance, as issues such as gay rights were becoming more volatile around the 1980s here at UConn, the university felt the need to establish a speech code policy as a possible solution to prevent hateful outbursts. However, extreme provisions such as the banning of “inappropriately directed laughter” clearly became problematic and were unable to hold up in court.

Such speech codes have become the most controversial, yet also mainstream, way to maintain a balance of free expression and productive, nonhateful free speech on college campuses. Current UConn stu-

dents and students nationwide would be surprised to discover that even today they are subjected to certain parameters they may or may not have known they agreed to. For example, the reason so many opinionated, outside groups are gathering in front of the Student Union is not just because it is a high-traffic area, but more importantly our “free speech zone.”

These policies are put in place for the protections of students.

They are not necessarily something to be resentful about, but definitely wary of. Many fear that the issue of free speech is being diluted to a code of conduct standard. Yet, as many people argue, the whole country is a free speech zone. A university is not an island, and as the First Amendment Center states, “justices have subscribed to the view that truth is discovered in the marketplace of ideas, culled from cacophony of diverse views.” It is undeniable that the root of academic inquiry, enrichment and intellectual growth comes from the fostering of ideas through free debate.

When hearing about a possibly controversial protest or demonstration on campus, Garrett does not ask herself how to stop it, but instead, “how can we make this positive?”

It’s important to have these difficult conversations yet to make sure it’s done in a productive manner. Students should be challenged by their institutions to fight speech with speech in the spirit of academic inquiry.

Instead of universities codifying students’ rights arbitrarily, they should focus on educating students of what their rights exactly are and how to use them to be responsible citizens.

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In this Oct. 25, 2012 file photo, the archery club practices shooting bows and arrows inside Hawley Armory.

The UConn archery team and club is hosting the Halloween Fun Shoot at Hawley Armory this Saturday.

The mock tournament will at 9 a.m. and conclude by 12:45 p.m.

UConn students who participate in the Halloween Fun Shoot will arrive in costume to shoot. The best costume will win an award, as will competitors who have the highest scores among the male and female classes.

UConn’s archery team is coached

by UConn staff member David Avery, who boasts skilled archers using compound and recurve bows.

Participants will be shooting at targets in the armory with these bows, although there is a bare bow section students may register for.

The Halloween Fun Shoot “will help in raising money for the club and getting our name out there,” said Greg May, a 5th-semester allied health science major and member of the archery team. “For the club members who are looking to shoot on the team, we see this as giving them a chance to experience

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what a tournament is like, the style of how everything is run.”

Team and club members generally practice together in the Hawley Armory three days a week and welcome new members at the beginning of each semester. New members learn how to shoot in a comfortable and safe environment, while more advanced members who practice together as a team and compete in different locations provide advice and support.

“We have competitions in the spring, so now we’re preparing ourselves, practicing, and getting as much experience as we can for next semester” May said.

For students who have ever watched “The Hunger Games,” “Lord of the Rings,” “Game of Thrones” or “The Walking Dead,” this is an opportunity to experience how it feels to shoot a bow and arrow like the characters in those films and television shows.

For those interested in registering for the Halloween Fun Shoot, previous experience is not necessary and registration documentation can be found online.

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An article published on Oct. 24 titled “USG to examine student opinions on campus culture” had a misleading subhead that said “New bill investigates if rape culture exists on campus.” USG is not seeking to define whether rape culture exists on campus. Rather, the organization is seeking what can be done to change campus culture regarding rape.

The article also stated that the resolution was written by the Student Development Chair, Hailey Manfred, but it was actually written by the entire USG Executive Committee. The Daily Campus also wishes to clarify that the amended legislation did not include that phrase that USG has an “incomplete understanding of the student body regarding campus culture and efforts to improve it.” We would also like to clarify that USG President Ed Courchaine said the incidents of sexual assault were unacceptable, not that the Title IX complaint is.

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or have you ever been told to, carry pepper spray on you? Now ask these same questions to your sister, mother, girlfriend, wife or female friend. This is ‘rape culture’: to be under constant threat of rape or sexual assault.

Imagine living your life with constant fear. Imagine constricting your every action because your safety is not guaranteed.”

On UConn’s rape culture, some students were certain it existed, while others were shocked to hear the student’s sexual assault and rape stories.

“I was shocked really, I thought that it was just called the rape trail, not that it actually occurred,” said 1st-semester ACES major Brad Morrison.

Campbell said she personally had not seen much of a rape culture on campus, but “clearly it must be somewhat true if people feel this strongly about it.”

“I was really surprised at first that they were getting a lawyer involved, then after reading the stories, I was so proud of these women,” Campbell said.

Caitlyn Sousa said she is a survivor of sexual assault and that she did not have the opportunity to press charges.

“I think it’s very empowering for these women to come forward about this…The whole thing with rape culture is a lot of people assume that these types

of issues occur during the night.

The root of the problem is that people don’t realize that they actually occur with people they know when they are at parties consuming alcohol,” said the 3rd-semester psychology major, who transferred to UConn this semester.

Hasan said there was definitely a rape culture on campus, and Khattar called it a reality that the university doesn’t recognize.

Khattar added, “I don’t believe that the administration, Susan Herbst or the UConn police force intend to do any harm to any members of community, and I have faith that they are concerned about the greater good of the community, but regardless of intentions the reality is UConn could be a safer place.”

Nicole Simonsen, a 3rd-semester women studies and human rights major said to ensure that women feel safe on campus “we need to have a policy change and attitude change.

“I would like to see President Herbst more outraged by these students’ stories, and want to make a positive change and positive improvements,” Simonsen said.

Khattar said he would like to hear Herbst “speak not as an administrator, but as a person and be honest.”

“I want to see her become more involved with issue that

are important to the university,” said Frankie Wunschel, a 3rdsemester statistics and human rights double major.

Wunschel agreed that the issue should be addressed through discussion, but noted that it should not “be shoved down people’s throats.

“I don’t think it’s a huge issue, you can’t go over the top with something like it. It’s an issue that needs to be talked about, not forced upon people,” he said.

Sumia Hussain, a 5th-semester allied health science major who went to the Board of Trustees meeting said of Herbst’s defense to the allegations: “even though she was listing resources available, I am disappointed that there is not enough outreach to tell students we have these resources.”

Herbst cited on-campus programs, such as mandatory training for incoming students and faculty, a Presidential Task Force promoting civility and a “Men Can Stop Rape” program.

1st-semester undeclared major Priscilla Ma said, “I remember over orientation they were very persistent. We went through many things that talked about rape. But I feel like people aren’t as proactive as they should be, they talk about it then just let it go.”

Hussain referred to cultural centers on campus as places that are able to promote more aware-

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University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst listens to questions from media about the federal civil rights complaint filed Monday by seven women, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, in Storrs, Conn.

ness and outreach, but said she is personally embarrassed with the fund cuts the centers have undergone while the athletic team buildings continue to get more money.

Avery Derosiers, a 5th-semester allied health science major, also commented about cultural centers losing funds compared to athletic buildings that are gaining funds, and said the university had “weird priorities.”

Derosiers also said she would

have liked to have heard Herbst talk more about what UConn, and the police do after they find out about a sexual assault or rape case.

The complainants have claimed that members of the police force made rude or derogatory statements towards them.

Wunschel said he thought the UConn police force might not be specialist for cases dealing with sexual assault and rape and that the university should consider

bringing in outside sources.

“In response to Susan Herbst’s comment about the fact that we have one of the few female police chiefs, just the fact the we have a female police chief does not answer the question if we have a rape culture or not … simply having a woman in a position of power does not support women’s rights,” said Khattar.

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ed by judges to represent children in court who have been abused, neglected or both. They stay with each case until the child is placed in a safe and permanent home.

Cohen said that this event has been passed down for years.

There will be 18 men’s teams and 5 women’s teams.

It costs $50 to register the first team and $30 for each team thereafter if organizations want to have multiple teams.

The softball tournament will be held at the E.O. Smith High School softball fields on Oct. 26 at 10 a.m. and is open to all UConn students.

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Transfer credit policies may change Sorority to host to limit number of incoming credits charity softball tourney on Sat.

By Abby Mace Staff Writer

The University Senate Scholastic Standards committee will advocate for changes to the current transfer credit policies to ensure UConn degrees are comprised of predominantly University courses.

If passed, the policies would require UConn undergraduates to earn 90 in-residence credits to graduate instead of just 30. This requirement would apply to all matriculating freshmen beginning in fall 2014, Scholastic Standards Chair Gerald Gianutsos said.

The scholastic standards committee formulated the transfer credit policies on the rationale that a UConn degree should consist of predominantly UConn courses. The new policy would limit the number of freshman transfer credits to 30 with no more than 15 credits applied to general education courses. Credits earned from AP, National Student Exchange, UConn Early College Experience and study abroad courses would be exempt from the 30-credit rule.

According to the scholastic standards committee, a freshman would be defined as a student who checks the box on his/her UConn application indicating that he/she is a freshman. All freshmen would be expected to follow the 90 in-residence transfer credit policy with the exception of those who are undergoing a financial or personal hardship, are a U.S. military veteran or are having course availability issues. The university would consider exceptions individually after a student has filed an appeal.

As the policy stands now,

The sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta (KAT) will be hosting Kats and Bats this Saturday.

The proceeds of this softball tournament will go to their national philanthropy, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). They hope to raise over $1,500.

“CASA gives the neglected children of the legal system a voice by pairing them with a Guardian Ad Litem,” said Allison Cohen, a 7th semester communications major and the president of KAT. CASA volunteers are appoint-

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In this Sept. 24, 2013 file photo, students work on wood printing. If the new policies are passed, they would require UConn undergraduates to earn 90 in-residence credits to graduate instead of just 30.

two-thirds of a UConn graduate’s courses could have been taken at other institutions.

UConn already requires advanced major courses to be completed at the university, but with the new policy almost all other courses would be completed at UConn as well.

The scholastic standards committee said their new policy would target 75-80 students who were taking advantage of the abundance of allowed transfer credits to fulfill general education, major and minor requirements. The new policy, they said, would close a loophole that has existed

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since 1938.

Another issue of concern for the committee is that UConn students are developing a trend of taking community college courses, which tend to be less expensive and less challenging, and applying them towards their UConn degree.

“Our students are taking easier and cheaper classes, and data trends suggest that if they take a pre-requisite at a community college, they often fail the subsequent courses,” Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Sally Weis and Vice President for Enrollment Planning and Management Wayne Locust

said in a document entitled “Rationale for Limiting the Number of Transfer Credits for UConn Students Who Matriculate as Freshmen.”

Such policies are characteristics of UConn’s aspirant institutions, Weis and Wayne said that top-tier institutions such as Duke University, Northwestern University and Dartmouth College allow for minimal transfer credits. Northwestern caps transfer credits at six, Dartmouth allows four, and Duke will accept a maximum of just two transfer credits, they said.

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“One of our main goals is to make sure that people feel included and ways to build communities on campus. We use Late Night as a tool to be able to do that,” Loisel said.

The Late Night staff hopes that they have a large turnout.

“We always hope that there are going to be students who see a program that they are interested in and see themselves having fun at that activity,” Loisel said.

“We hope that a lot of people will show up.”

Every weekend Late Night does a themed night for both Friday and Saturday night where students are able to enjoy fun activities. The staff running this event includes the students that work at Late Night. They are also involved in planning

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as well running the event and breaking it down when it is finished.

“UConn Late Night is a program designed to provide the UConn student body with free, fun, exciting quality entertainment that appeals to a diverse population during peak social times on Friday and Saturday night,” stated the UConn Late Night website.

Every Friday and Saturday night, a new themed Late Night will be going on from 9pm to 1am in the Student Union. They are free and all students are welcome to attend. Late Night also does giveaways if a student goes to Late Night frequently using their Late Night passport.

Some items include a Late Night T-shirt or an iPad mini.

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Friday, October 25, 2013

Nothing off limits for comedian Michael Blaustein’s UConn show

By Aysha Mahmood Campus Correspondent

Comedians Kase Raso and Michael Blaustein humored UConn students with teenage stories and drinking jokes alike at the Student Union Theater on Thursday night. Their performance was the fourth of the biweekly Comedy Series Thursday nights at 7 hosted by SUBOG. Raso, the opening act of the night, is an NYC-native and comedian who produces the consistently sold out White Lies comedy show. He recently just traveled around the country for Comedy’s Best Kept Secret Secret Tour, where he showed off his love for improvisational-style comedy.

Following him was D.C.native Blaustien, who moved to New York to chase his love of acting, but eventually got caught up in comedy. He has since been on the College Humor Comedy Tour as well as Comedy Central’s on-campus tour traveling across the nation. Last year, he was even a cast member in the revamped popular MTV show Punk’d last year, working with celebrities Miley Cyrus and Lucy Hale.

Although Raso and Blaustein were 30 minutes late due to car troubles, they both came up confident with energy, encouraging audience members to get involved in the conversation.

Raso’s opening line, “Is this a dry campus?” made fun of UConn’s reputation as a drinking school and got students pretending that their own drinks were vodka. He then asked students what their own favorite part of drinking was and eventually answered the question himself stating, “I think the worst part about drinking is when you’re sober,

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Comedian Michael Blaustein, known to television audiences for his role on MTV’s “Punk’d” entertained students in the Student Union Theater Thursday evening along with comedian Kase Raso.

when everybody else but you is drinking.”

Following Raso, Blaustein came out confident with a lot of energy and explained how awful all of his driving experiences, including the one he just went through before he arrived, had been.

“I just drove in a rental car and it broke down. How does that even happen? I get such road rage. I have to play really soft music so I don’t kill your family.”

Having been in an accident before with a British man, he spoke of the cultural differences he saw between the two countries, even how the elevators are different.

“In London, the elevators

only have open buttons,” he said. “But in America…in America, we need that door close button. We don’t want anyone with the elevator with us.”

Sticking with the traveling trend, he asked if anyone in the audience was born from outside the United States. He then explained to an Australian student why the United States is the best country in the world.

“It’s not because were number one, it’s because we’re the ones with the most confidence…and the most guns.”

He then went on to explain all of his wild experiences in high school, including a run in with Carmelo Anthony when he dreamed of being an NBA

Dodd Center: Working towards sustainable food

By Ashley Maher Campus Correspondent

“There are ecological limits that we are not meant to exceed,” speaker Olivier De Schutter warned at the Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series this Thursday at 4 p.m. at Conover Auditorium in the Dodd Center. “We have exceeded three of these ecological limits since as far back as 2009…These impacts show our systems are not sustainable.”

Schutter’s lecture titled “Towards Sustainable Food Systems: A Tale of Three Transitions” presented a focus on today’s food systems and their social, health and ecological impacts on our world.

Schutter urged for a change in the world’s current practices dealing with food production and practices because, as of now, the outlook does not look pretty.

The three ecological limits that Schutter referred to were climate change, biodiversity loss and the nitrogen cycle.

From his presentation Schutter relayed that the increase in temperature on the Earth’s surface is likely to increase from anywhere between 1.5 to as high as 4.8 degrees Celsius. This, accompanied with the unprecedented loss of species and the 130 million tons of nitrogen removed from the Earth per year – only 10-15 percent of which is replenished – all work together to create an environmental scenario where our current food systems and processes will not be able to prosper or

even sustain.

Not only is there ecological worry, but there is a social element as well. Schutter showed statistics of those in society who suffer from the most hunger were the smallholder farmers. The people that should be supported to help promote our sustainable agriculture are in turn the people who are suffering the most. According to Schutter, health risks are also on the rise, with problems reaching as far as desperate hunger to morbid obesity and micronutrient deficiency within the same country, which he referred to as “The Double Burden.”

Schutter showed how the low cost food economy that has been created over the years has caused a viscous cycle in which competition between small scale and large scale farmers, who are usually backed by government, cause the small farmers to fold, thus moving into the cities where social services become overburdened, creating a dependence in low price imports which then leads to more small scale farmers not being able to compete.

“But these issues,” Schutter said, “can be seen as an opportunity.”

Schutter uses this moment to call for a “bottom up” approach to change where those that once had different interests can now be fighting for a common cause: the bettering of society, people’s health and the environment. Schutter called for more social interaction. He believes it all starts with the

people – citizens becoming involved, working with politicians to invoke change and moving up the chain to scientific researchers who are battling greenhouse gases and attempting to create cleaner energy sources.

Schutter realizes that a “dominant regime,” as he called the system in place today, is difficult to change.

As the system evolved to its current status many different aspects of the system evolved together such as technology and growth in population.

This makes it difficult to change only one aspect of the system because all of these factors are connected to and rely on one another.

But Schutter does not seem to fear this. He believes that starting with the citizens is where the best change can begin.

He called for the idea of “triple loop learning” as a starting point. Where citizens question their role in the system and find ways that they can change to have a positive effect towards more sustainable food systems.

Schutter believes this focus on social practices is where the strongest foundation for change and better alternatives will thrive. When we learn our role within this system, understand that we can change it and continue to call more groups to work together for a common cause – true change can happen.

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star and the time he got robbed at gunpoint when he sold weed in high school.

As the show came to an end, Blaustein told the audience that things were about to get a little weird as he talked about sex and bad relationships.

His previous relationship, which lasted three years, recently ended due to the fact that he believed his girlfriend didn’t love him as much as he loved her.

“I bought her a puppy for our anniversary…and she bought me a scarf. A scarf. What am I, a gay French coffee owner? A pilot in the 20s?”

Although freshman Sydney Jackson thought his experience

about love had been depressing, she still found other parts of his performance humorous including his bit about stealing money from a children’s charity box and his experience of flying business class to England.

Lisette Espinal described the performance as being “inner city humor” and sated that she really enjoyed the performance.

The Comedy Committee of SUBOG will hold its final comedy show in the comedy series on Nov. 2.

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Comics: “Velvet” is a can’t miss read

By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer Comic writer Ed Brubaker and artist Steve Epting, best known for their brilliant work on Marvel’s Captain America with their “Winter Soldier” saga, have just created one of the most brilliant debut issues in recent memory.

The latest new series from Image comics, known for titles including “Spawn,” and “The Walking Dead,” “Velvet” manages to breathe fresh air into a genre that has honestly been beaten to death. Amazingly, however, “Velvet” manages to breathe fresh life into an overly prevalent genre.

Issue No. 1 of this exciting new work is entitled “Before the Living End,” and it’s quite literal in a sense.

The world of “Velvet” is a period piece set in 1973, with flashbacks taking place earlier in the 60s. The “Arc 7” HQ, a top secret black ops espionage organization founded by the Allies during World War II provides the backdrop for the series. Velvet Thompson, an agent for the organization becomes entangled when she’s set up for the murder of a fellow agent.

The title’s pacing is impeccable. Each scene is given liberal exposition with character exposure so well written, you barely have time to collect yourself when the rapid fire action sequences kick in.

Bloody, brutal and hauntingly realistic, these action sequences are a truly exhilarating sight to behold.

The realistic choice of color depiction in the title, along with the art style, make it easy to imagine seeing “Velvet” cinematically adapted, with each page serving as a sufficient template for a possible story board.

However, the biggest impression one will take away from the first issue of “Velvet” is the brilliance of the title’s starring character, Velvet Templeton. More often than not, female comic book protagonists (with some exceptions) tend to be either masculinized or over-sexualized.

Velvet Templeton is neither a female version of Bond, nor a Bond girl. Typically, in the espionage genre, women are only seen from the perspective of men often for a singular purpose.

That stylistic form of storytelling is emulated in the title’s first few pages before the book pulls a complete 180-degree change.

While we’ve barely scratched the surface of this promising character’s potential, the first issue firmly establishes Velvet as a tough as nails independent woman that is not to be trifled with.

“Velvet” is a real treat and a prime example of a comic for adults done right. It’s sophisticated, intelligent and downright brutal. There’s nothing out there quite like it right now. In her debut issue, Velvet Templeton has easily established herself as one of the medium’s most compelling new leads in years, in a traditionally male dominated genre no less. If you enjoy spy stories, action and deep character driven drama, I can’t recommend this new title enough.

Velvet Issue 1

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BY LUKE BELVAL

When to go see the doctor

Whether it’s a case of the sniffles, or a nagging pain that refuses to subside, one of the most common problems individuals encounter with their health is deciding whether or not they should see a doctor.

To make matters worse, they often choose wrong.

Often, many will downplay their problem until it manifests into a trip to the emergency room. That being said, here are some tips on how you decide whether its time for you to make a trip to your doctor.

First and foremost, when you are in doubt get it checked. Just because that brown spot could be a mole doesn’t make it one. You know your body better than anyone else and when something doesn’t feel right or look right you should be able to have the peace of mind from a thorough evaluation.

In the realm of some of the common orthopedic injuries you may encounter, like sprained ankles or pulled muscles, a good rule of thumb to follow is if it does not get better in a week it should probably be examined.

Nagging sprains and strains that don’t get better are usually a sign that the damage is more than what can be handled with a little rest.

Any numbness, tingling or burning pain is a red flag to get something examined immediately.

The tables are often turned when you catch a cold. While the signs on WebMD may say that it could be the bubonic plague, chances are its not.

As long as your symptoms are not widely unusual, it is not necessary to see a doctor for a common cold.

Furthermore, the pharmaceutical relief you may be looking for in the form of antibiotics does not even work with colds, as they are viral in nature. The caveat to this is that when your symptoms extend beyond 10 days, the chances that your condition is viral drops and a doctor may be able to provide you help.

A key aspect of any visit to your doctor, or your health status in general is knowing your insurance. Whether you have a HMO or PPO really does matter, because the last thing you want is to arrive at a doctors office and find out that you’re either not covered or have to pay additional costs because the physician is outside of your network.

Also, if your plan allows it, it may be wise to go directly to specialists when you know the nature of your problem.

Finally, the most important time to visit your doctor is an annual physical. The yearly check-in as you age is a vital tool to ensure you are on track with your health goals.

A good doctor can become your ally throughout your life span and one you should utilize.

The unfortunate nature of individuals in their twenties is that they often consider themselves young and healthy and ignore their healthcare needs for prolonged periods of time. However, the health implications down the line can compound themselves as you enter your thirties and forties.

By trusting your instincts and establishing good relationships, your doctor can help ensure your long-term health while treating your short-term problems.

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Resiliency awareness Sustainability has become a buzzword in natural resource management and even in the realm of business and social policy. Many people incorrectly believe that the word is synonymous with being “eco-friendly.”

A more accurate definition is the one famously adopted by the World Bank, which states that sustainable development “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Sustainability principles aim to achieve a state in which our current systems could simply continue to exist and function, based upon our current understandings and parameters.

In the face of climate change and all of its associated social upheavals, many community leaders feel that simply sustaining our current systems is not going to be enough. Across the globe, governments and institutions are instead adopting a new goal: resilience.

In the book Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, authors Andrew Zollie and Ann Marie Healy explain that “resilience” means “the capacity of a system, enterprise, or a person to maintain its core purpose and integrity in the face of dramatically changed circumstances.”

Unlike sustainability, resiliency acknowledges that humanity will be faced with unknown challenges that it cannot plan for, and it also adds the important elements of purpose and integrity that transcend the basic goals of survival and equilibrium. As Zollie explains, “where sustainability aims to put the world back into balance, resilience looks for ways to manage an imbalanced world.”

This year, the Post Carbon Institute published the report Resilient Against What?, a study on what some innovative American communities are doing to build resiliency. The report offers an informative introduction to key resiliency concepts. For example, the report introduces the concept of “modularity” and explains: “A resilient community is made up of distributed elements that can operate independently of one another. Rather than being hyper-connected, these elements are capable of functioning alongside, and overlapping with, but independent from, other parts of the system.” Understanding these building blocks is essential to building a resilient system. The report consisted of a series of questions answered by municipal leaders to identify their resiliency-related challenges and goals.

For example, among the polled cities, the top three “Risks and Vulnerabilities” were identified as flooding, extreme weather events and local-government financial challenges. The report culminated in five major conclusions, which were that the leading municipalities regarded resiliency as “more than mere disaster preparedness,” considered resiliency important to their ability to deliver services, found lack of time and budget constraints to be the largest barriers to building resilience, felt intense pressure from citizens to enhance resiliency efforts and did not find local or federal law to be barriers to resilience.

Every community, from the smallest rural town to the largest American city, should be discussing resiliency and what it would look like locally. We cannot now prevent temperatures from rising and the increased occurrence of extreme storms, droughts, disease, and social unrest, but we can certainly strive to build intelligent responsive systems to get us through them.

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By Carles Lopez Campus Correspondent

Thavisouk Phrasavath, a Primetime Emmy award winner and Academy Awardnominated filmmaker, presented his non-fiction documentary “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” organized by the Undergraduate Student Government, Pi Delta Psi and the Laotian and Thai Student Association on Thursday in Laurel Hall.

The documentary, “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon),” portrays two very distinguished sides of Phrasavath’s life as a Laotian immigrant living in Brooklyn during the 80s, but also as a political refugee. Phrasavath lived his childhood surrounded by soldiers, bombs and warplanes.

Phrasavath grew up in an illegally occupied Laos as a military station by the United States. During the army’s stay in Laos, the CIA financed the Laotian government and created a guerrilla group formed

by Laotian soldiers. After the American troops left Laos, the military regime that Laos had transformed into fell, giving grounds to the Pathet Lao, a communist nationalist group that took over after the regime fell. The Pathet targeted Phrasavath’s family, and even kidnapped his father, as he was part of the American organized guerrilla. This incident was the straw that broke the camel’s back, so Phrasavath and his family fled to the United States.

Once in the United States, Phrasavath and his family experienced complete culture shock. Phrasavath even thought that they had gotten on the wrong airplane,

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Thavisouk Phrasavath, a Primetime Emmy award winning and Academy Award nominated filmmaker presented his documentary film “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” at Laurel Hall Thursaday.

because he saw many black people. Phrasavath had learned in his childhood that black people lived in Africa, while white people lived in Europe and North America.

Phrasavath had not experienced any prejudice, because in his homeland most people were from Laos, with little or no diversity. Phrasavath found it really hard to integrate and his mother was just as lost as he was in the United States, having little to no place for him and his siblings to fall back when things weren’t going well.

“Stick into a gang to protect themselves, people called you names, they spat at you,

you needed a group … being Asian in the 80s was really oblivious, the public didn’t differentiate,” Phrasavath explained when asked if he was part of a gang.

However, Phrasavath’s gang, he explained, was not a violent one; it was just a group of friends to look out for each other. Not all gangs were like that. The Bloods, an East Coast gang that developed in the 80s, had many members who would give their life for the cause. Phrasavath lived the gang’s violence to its fullest extent when his half-brother, a Bloods member, was killed by another member after a

dispute.

Rachel Litvin, a 5th-semester vocal performance major, came to the screening having no idea what to expect.

“When I came here I didn’t know what the movie was about,” Litvin said. “I didn’t know what the secret war was about, obviously the Vietnam War has haunted the U.S. for a very long time, but a lot of times I guess we’ve been ignoring this aspect of it, and it’s quite terrible.”

Sokheang Chay, a 7thsemester civil engineering major, who is originally from Cambodia came to the screening in order to further his knowledge on Laos’

Secret War. “I came here to watch the film and because I know what integration is,” Chay said. “I’m from Cambodia, I knew somewhat about the Secret War, I had heard it from my family.”

Rachel Conboy, a 3rdsemester political science and history major, funded the screening because she believed that it would be beneficial to the student body.

“John came to us and thought it would be another great way to bring culture to campus and support fine arts in campus,” Conboy said.

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Oscar season starts with a game of musical chairs NEW YORK (AP) — The first act of the Oscar season is playing out like an episode of “Survivor.”

Several anticipated films planned to be released in the heart of awards season have picked up stakes and moved to 2014. Changes often happen in the highly contentious fall movie season, but rarely has there been an exodus like this.

Most recently, George Clooney’s World War II drama “The Monuments Men,” previously dated for Dec. 18, was moved by Sony to early next year, after the end-of-year eligibility cutoff. Earlier postponed was Bennett Miller’s brother drama “Foxcatcher,” with Channing Tatum and Steve Carell; “Grace of Monaco,” starring Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly; and James Grey’s “The Immigrant,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard.

Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” is also up in the air, widely expected to move from a longplanned November release to Christmas. Scorsese is racing to edit his ambitious Wall Street epic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, in time for release this year. Paramount declined to comment on its plans for “The Wolf of Wall Street,” but the studio announced Thursday that its spy franchise film “Jack Ryan” is moving from Dec. 25 to Jan. 17.

So why the game of musical chairs? The holiday season is a packed one, so the margins for capturing boxoffice and awards momentum are thin. And three Oscar favorites have already firmly established themselves: Steve McQueen’s hugely acclaimed slavery epic “12 Years a Slave”; the global box-office juggernaut and technical mar-

vel “Gravity”; and the Tom nearly universal raves from Hanks Somali pirate docu- critics. Alfonso Cuaron’s drama “Captain Phillips.” film and “12 Years a Slave” For now, the favorite is “12 are currently the consensus Years a Slave,” which picked top two Oscar contenders, up a leading three nomi- according to a recent “Gurus nations from the Gotham o’ Gold” poll of 15 Oscar Independent Film Awards prognosticators and film writon Thursday. Based on the ers at MovieCityNews.com. account of Solomon Northup But the reasons for the (played by Chewitel Ejiofor), release date changes have the film bears the weight of less to do with the seembeing a landmark — a movie ing lock on awards than with that depicts American slavery the individual challenges of more faithfully than it ever each film. Clooney has said has been before. Henry Louis the extensive visual effects Gates Jr. has called it “the for “The Monuments Men” best film about slavery ever needed time for completion. made from the point of view Sony Pictures Classics said of a slave.”

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as “The Monuments Men” is doing, signals a lack of faith in awards attention. While the holiday season is the one of the most prestigious and lucrative times of the year to release a film, the early winter months are typically considered the doldrums of the moviegoing year.

But it also means much more room at the box office. In late December, “The Monuments Men” would have had to compete with, presumably, “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Ben Stiller’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” ‘’August: Osage County,” ‘’Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” and the 3-D action film “47 Ronin.”

The competition will be far less stiff when “The Monuments Men” opens next year. It will hope to follow the playbook of a few other recent awards season emigrants: Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” ($294.8 million worldwide after a Feb. 18 debut in 2010) and “The

Great Gatsby” ($348.8 million worldwide with a release last May).

Aside from “The Wolf of Wall Street,” awards contenders yet to premiere include David O. Russell’s Abscam drama “American Hustle” and the Disney tale of the making of “Mary Poppins,” ‘’Saving Mr. Banks.” Riding in with acclaim from film festivals will be the Coen brothers’ Greenwich Village folk tale “Inside Llewyn Davis,” Alexander Payne’s Midwest road trip “Nebraska,” Spike Jonze’s futuristic romance “Her” and the Texas HIV drama “Dallas Buyers Club.”

A lot can change between now and the 86th annual Academy Awards on March 2. But even in October, some things are locked.

“Awards don’t make your movie more pretty or more ugly,” says Cuaron. “You’ve already finished it. The rest is not in my hands.”

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Schools should make clear how finances affect applications

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ast week it was revealed that George Washington University’s need-blind policy wasn’t completely blind. Like a lot of colleges, GW professed a needblind policy when it came to admissions. This meant that a student’s ability to pay or how much financial aid they require would not be factored into the admissions decision. Administrators revealed that that ability to pay was taken in to consideration for admissions decisions and did affect students who would go from accepted to wait listed based on the university’s ability to afford it.

The university clarified, saying financial need was not considered during the first round of reading applications.

However, prior to notifying applicants, the university examines its financial aid budget and decides which students it can actually afford to admit. As stated in the GW Hatchet, Laurie Koehler, the newly hired associate provost for enrollment management, said, “We have our internal preliminary decision of admit or wait list or deny, and then we run the numbers and then we go, ‘Okay, we have to do a little bit of shuffling here.’” She also stated that the decision only affects students not among GW’s top applicants.

It is understandable for GW and other universities and colleges to have a “need-aware” admissions policy. Some schools can only afford a certain number of students and this is reflected in their endowments. According to the GW Hatchet, GW has an endowment of around $1.37 billion. While that may seem like a lot, it is relatively small compared to schools like Northwestern, which has $7.1 billion in endowment, or Ivy League schools. A university may only be able to afford a certain amount of students and thus may need to take financial status into consideration.

This issue comes when students apply to a university with the expectation that their financial situation will not harm them. George Washington University spokeswoman Candace Smith, as noted in the GW Hatchet, argued that labeling the admission policy as need-blind or need-aware was not “intentionally misleading.”

“It’s still the same process, but it’s a matter of one person defining it one way and one person defining it another way,” Smith said.

The problem with this is that a label of need-blind insinuates that financial status plays absolutely no role in the admissions decision at any point, not just in the preliminary application process. It was wrong of GW to characterize itself as needblind and unfair to prospective students. Moving forward, it should be made very clear to prospective applicants how financial status is taken into consideration in the admissions process.

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Girls wearing their winter jackets today: What are you going to do when it actually gets cold?

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Is college and your early 20s the best time of your life?

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hen is the best time of life? Over the past few months I had been worrying that for me that time was now. After all, the other day I woke up at noon on a weekday and ate free “plum sauce pork” for breakfast.

Outside of college, that will never happen again.

P e o p l e below a certain age sometimes lie and say they’re older.

In the words of Michael Cera from the high school movie “Superbad”: “This guy’s

By Jesse Rifkin either going Associate Commentary Editor to think, ‘ H e r e ’ s another kid with a fake ID’ or ‘Here’s McLovin, the 25-year-old Hawaiian organ donor.’”

At the same time, people above a certain age sometimes lie and say they’re younger. See the “Everybody Loves Raymond” episode where 43-year-old Robert pretends he’s 35 so he can date a college girl: “She’d put on the radio and tune into whatever station with that really jammin’ music! Actually, it was a little loud for me.”

At what age do people always say they are whatever age they actually are?

I would say it’s around the age I am now, age 21. There is something to be said for that.

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the Holocaust in the 1940s. The most famous and powerful scene takes place in the present day, when all the elderly survivors each place a small stone or rock on Schindler’s grave in accordance to Jewish tradition. Watching this scene alongside the sweeping John Williams score, I had something of an epiphany about my own life.

I realized that by 2013 almost all the current living Holocaust survivors were my age or younger during World War II. Anybody age 21 in the early 1940s if still alive is in their mid-90s now. If not for Schindler, all the still-living members on his list of survivors would have been killed at my age or even younger.

If I was alive in Europe at the time, that would have been me.

True, I have not completely eliminated the worry that this may be the single best (or one of the best) times of my life. Yet you never know. My dad is over twice my age and he proclaims that the best time in his life so far is probably right now. No word on whether that’s because my younger brother and I are both finally out of the house.

Let’s say I live to my mid-90s as well. For all I know, I will in fact look back at this period in my life as the best one of all. But “Schindler’s List” really brought home for me that the alternative is never even living long enough to get the chance to discover. Here’s to finding out.

 Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu  7th-semester journalism  @jesserifkin

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Especially being in my senior year of college, I am about to take the first leap soon into what is so often called “the rest of your life.” I get a full night’s sleep often, even on weekdays, which my “real world” internships the past two summers clearly indicate will not be a regular occurrence in the future.

My financial worries are relatively minimal, as they surely will worsen in the years to come when I enter the terrible job market and have to pay rent with no parental assistance. Plus, my height is currently at its max and I don’t yet have wrinkles or greying hair.

Best of all, I am surrounded by people my own age who are still optimistic, idealistic and fun, unlike many people above a certain age who seem dejected and have lost that youthful vigor. Youth is a state of mind, and I notice people my age mostly have conversations about the present or the future. Having spent the past two summers largely alongside employees in their 50s and 60s, I realized how many conversations they have were about the past. I am not even sure that they recognized this phenomenon themselves.

All of those above positive qualities about my life will likely not be present anymore in a few decades – or perhaps even in a few years.

These fears were causing me more anxiety than they probably should have, until earlier this week when I watched the movie “Schindler’s List” for the first time. The Steven Spielbergdirected film tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, played by Liam Neeson, who single-handedly saved over a thousand Jews from certain death during

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is now recommending that people sit back and wait a few weeks until the government fixes the problems . R eally , a few weeks ? W hen was the last time the government fixed anything in a few weeks ? W e still have troops in K orea , OK?” –J ay L eno

Whiskey actually means water of life.

I love the superstitions in baseball.

If my econ professor used cheap beer in his examples of economic concepts i’d be acing this class.

I really can’t wait for the first snow.

“I need to start getting out of bed 10 minutes earlier so I can spend more time jumping in leaves on my way to class.”

Same person: “My rooommate won’t walk with me to and from class anymore... I’m too embarrassing.”

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Friday, October 25, 2013

To avoid military rule in Egypt, secular liberals and Muslims must ally

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e are all quite familiar with Egypt’s recent tumult as the Arab Spring swept 30-year military authoritarian ruler Hosni Mubarak out of power and ushered in the short-lived reign of the Muslim Brotherhood, represented by President Mohamed M o r s i ,

By Dan Gorry w h o s e theocratic Staff Columnist aspirations e a r n e d him the ire of citizens as well as a steel-toed boot from the military. Now, Egypt is under the temporary rule of an interim government officially headed by Supreme Constitutional Court justice Adly Mansour, but in reality the de facto leader is Minister of Defense and Commanderin-Chief of the Army Abdel Fatteh el-Sisi. General Sisi has remained committed to holding open elections next spring, as

Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy promised the U.N. General Assembly, but a populist campaign calling for the general to run in the presidential race casts a dark shadow on any hopes for an enduring Egyptian democracy. The only substantial hope that remains for preventing the resurgence of a militaristic authoritarian rule in Egypt is for the secular liberals to reach out and form a democratic coalition with the increasingly victimized but well organized Islamists.

The 2011 revolution was initially led by liberal secularists including the April 6 Youth Movement and the National Association For Change, both of whom sparked protests in Tahrir Square on Jan. 25 as part of long simmering tensions against Mubarak’s autocracy. The Muslim Brotherhood joined the secular liberals two days later and together the revolutionaries managed to usurp Mubarak, which paved

the way for democratic elections. Almost immediately after elections were declared, the once-united liberals fractured into various rival groups who all vied for supremacy in the polls. The overwhelming favorite among the secularists was International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, but he dropped out of the race shortly before the election; though factionalization had marred ElBaradei’s presidential prospects before he passed on campaigning, the liberals completely broke into three major groups who were wholly unwilling to cooperate with one another. When election day finally occurred Hamdeen Sabahi’s Dignity Party, Hisham Bastawisy’s Tagammu and Khaled Ali’s Independent Party were all completely shut out and they hold only a handful of legislative seats.

The Muslim Brotherhood, on the other hand, is nothing if not

impeccably organized; having survived under the military junta’s rule for decades and even managing to spread substantially to neighboring countries, the Brotherhood had essentially spent its entire existence planning for how to achieve success in the inevitable revolution. The Brotherhood consolidated support behind three parties: al Nour, al Wasat and Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party, but, in spite of the three only tacitly cooperating in parliamentary elections, they all unified to hoist Morsi into the president’s office. Why Morsi and the Brotherhood decided to corrupt the fledgling democracy into a dictatorial theocracy, essentially a Sunni version of the Iranian state, remains unknown, but their betrayal of Egyptian citizens’ trust, and the democratic ideals that carried them to victory, swept Morsi into prison just like his predecessor.

The Muslim Brotherhood

was not the only organization to betray its original ideals, many of the secular liberals who had instigated Mubarak’s fall would end up siding with el-Sisi’s military coup d’etat, and according to Al-Ahram, Egypt’s major newspaper, most Egyptian liberals support the military’s continued operations against the remnants of the Brotherhood. This violently precarious status quo is disturbingly similar to Syria in the months before its bloody protests enflamed into a statewide civil war; the Guardian has reported at least 1,200 people killed in the military’s assault on Islamists, and the Egyptian army has thrust itself deeper into the religious conservative’s Sinai base of operations which is essentially guaranteed to exacerbate the conflict further.

Egyptian citizens are in the midst of a critical juncture in which they can either salvage the seeds of democracy or let

the military reinstate its junta.

Already the interim government has begun drafting legislation that will make it mandatory for any protestors to attain preclearance from the government, effectively killing the avenues for rebellion employed by the Arab Spring revolutionaries. The secularists need to wake-up and realize the Islamist factions of the citizenry cannot be left to die at the hands of a ruthless military, because once el-Sisi is done with the Brotherhood he will undoubtedly target the liberals.

Just two years ago, the liberals and Islamists were able to unite and overthrow the region’s most powerful autocrat, and unless the two sides realize how weak they are when divided, they will surely suffer the resurgence of a tyrannically vengeful militaristic autocracy.

 Daniel.Gorry@UConn.edu  7th-semester political science

Blind criticism of other countries often ignores the facts

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he nation I will describe in this article exists, but I will leave it unnamed as long as possible because names convey strong feelings based on a person’s previous experience.

A “new first impresBy Jay Maltz sion” is Staff Columnist only really possible through anonymity.

In the United States, we happily enjoy protected natural rights thanks to the Constitution and those who have sworn an oath in its defense. However, we often turn a lens of judgment on other nations without fully understanding the situation.

Even worse, sometimes our judgment is tainted by an ignorance resulting from biased reporting in the news,

or even outright lies.

The nation in question is a republic with a functional parliament, and it is fortunate not to be restricted by the simplistic two party system that we have in the U.S. This nation has a Supreme Court that is very active, hearing a variety of cases.

This nation has produced some of the most amazing and innovative technology; it was there that voice mail and the cellular telephone were invented. This nation invented drip irrigation, saving water that is often in short supply. This nation saves massive amounts of energy through the use of solar water heaters. It has brought green to the desert, by annually net adding trees, while so many other nations clear, cut and destroy. This nation has the second-most

» LETTERS TO THE EDITOR UConn Engineering should change the way the department is marketed to females Do the engineering professors who spoke in my introduction to engineering class think that they need to tell us about how you can make cosmetics with chemical and materials engineering in order to get females to join the engineering field?

Do they think that telling us about how “oh, we can design makeup if we can become engineers!” will convince us, as if we hadn’t already chosen to become engineers? I am here because I want to design, experiment, build, invent, and learn, and I think that every other woman in that classroom has similar goals.

I want to do everything that any engineer would do. I don’t need any watereddown bull simply because

I am female. You said, “Oh, don’t worry, women can be engineers too because it isn’t all ‘grrg, heavy machines’.” You assume that I am afraid of equipment and anything requiring physical strength? That’s one of the parts of engineering that I am most looking forward to. I may not be as tall as the average male in the class, but I sure as heck am just as strong, smart and capable as any of them.

companies listed on the techheavy NASDAQ, behind only the United States. This is of particular note, since this technological powerhouse has about two percent of the population of the United States.

This nation highly values human rights.

Religious freedom exists, with Islam, Christianity and Judaism practiced freely.

Women enjoy legal equality with men, where both genders serve in the military, and a female Prime Minister even served from 1969 to 1974.

This nation values life so highly that the death penalty is only permitted during a time of war, and only for the gravest of crimes for which guilt is absolutely known.

This nation has had nine of its citizens be awarded the Nobel Prize, again very nota-

ble due to its small population size.

Military service is compulsory in this nation, however young adults go off to college at a slightly older age, often with good contacts and a more clear idea of their educational goal. The book “Startup Nation” by Dan Senor and Saul Singer describes a correlation between military service and success in business, particularly with start-ups.

As the United States continues to wrestle with our quest to improve health care, this nation has had mandatory participation in a Health Maintenance Organization for the past 18 years, and is ranked 7th for Life Expectancy according to the Happy Planet Index, with a life expectancy of 81.6 years (higher than the United

States at 78.5 years).

On January 12, 2010, when the massive 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, the nation being described was on-scene with a completed field hospital and actively helping the victims by the January 16, 2010.

Many of its neighbors never arrived to offer similar aid.

Of course the nation in question isn’t perfect.

However, not many nations would respond to attacks from outside its border by dropping fliers and calling phones before striking a target, to make sure civilians are evacuated, although this nation does. Not many nations will abort strikes when they observe civilians in harm’s way, although this nation does. Not many nations need to build a wall for security, yet still allow in food, medicine and other

necessities through, all while living under perpetual threat.

I’m sure by now, you’ve guessed that the nation being discussed here is the State of Israel. Simply reading that name likely evokes powerful opinions. It is my honest appeal to the reader that you take some time to look further into Israel. Educate yourself, and read accounts from multiple perspectives.

If all your referenced sources paint a singular and consistent picture, you’re probably not looking at enough varied sources. In a university setting in particular, we should always strive to attain wellinformed opinions.

 Jay.Maltz@UConn.edu  3rd-semester nursing

» TOTALLY RAD /TOTALLY BAD

to get females interested in your field, try aiming to get everyone interested in your field. Women listening to your presentation will be more attracted to the field if you make an informative, entertaining presentationsame as the men. Don’t try to treat us differently, because doing so is part of the problem of gender inequality in STEM fieldsnot part of the solution.

Totally bad

Wooden Spoon for sale?

Yup. Still winless.

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Totally saw it coming

Regardless of the fact that I am not as girly as some, your presentation with its shoutout to females ended up pushing me away from your department. I do not want to be in class in which I’m special for being a girl. I don’t want to work in a lab where it is assumed that I’m there only to design makeup. I am here to do the same work and gain the same skills as everyone else, regardless of my gender. If you want

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“A washing machine. It’s the most random costume ever.”

Nicholas Chapman, 1st-semester computer science major

“Luna Lovegood. She’s quirk-a-rific”

“Spiderman, ‘cause he’s the spider MAN”

Allie Kallberg, 1st-semester molecular and cell biology major

Brandon Schaffer, 5th-semester ACES

“Batman, because he’s Batman. ‘Nuff said.”

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Friday, October 25, 2013

Rowing races in last regatta of the fall season

By Matt Kren Campus Correspondent

This weekend marks the last regatta for the UConn women this fall. On Saturday, October 26 the Huskies will be competing in Philadelphia, Penn., at the Head of the Schuylkill. This 2.5 mile course expects to have about 6,500 athletes participate in the event which was first started in 1971. Unlike the Head of the Charles, which is one of the most demanding courses and the biggest in the world, the Head of the Schuylkill is not as difficult. Coach Jennifer Sanford-Wendry noted, “[This race is a] much easier course to steer this weekend in Philadelphia and the distance is a bit shorter as well.” “[We are] excited to race a lot of schools that we will be competing against this spring,” Wendry said.

“All boats [are] looking to put out [their] best effort of the fall as this will be our last opportunity on the water, and we’ll see if we can pass some crews and see where we end up in the end from a results standpoint.”

Since this is the last regatta until the spring, the Huskies can use this race as a final measuring stick to see where they stand and how they can improve. “The goal for my boat would be to beat the other crews that we just came out ahead of at the Head of the Charles, and of course

go for a medal,” captain Natalie Carlone said. “A main goal for the team would be having all four boats come off the course happy with their performance and hopefully finished in the top of the events or even medaling.” Her emotions for the race mirror those of her coach as she is also very excited to finish off the season on a strong note. The Huskies look to keep making progress in this regatta in order to get better over the winter for the regattas in the spring.

This regatta marks the ending of the fall season and the last fall season for the seniors. “[The last regatta will be] bittersweet because this will be my last long distance race as a Husky, but I'm excited because I feel like all boats have made some awesome changes to gain speed this week,” said senior captain Chelsea Zabel. “Philly is a great place to race and I think we're all excited to head there for some fall racing.

I think we are focused for this race and determined to do well, but we're also excited to have some fun with the course and enjoy our last race of fall. I couldn't ask for a better team to finish out my last fall season and I look forward to training with them for the spring.” The Huskies hope to improve this regatta, and use this fall season’s results to prepare for spring.

Matthew.Kren@UConn.edu

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Krejci scores late to lift Bruins 2-1 BOSTON (AP) — David Krejci tipped in a shot with eight-tenths of a second left in the third period to lift the Boston Bruins to a 2-1 win over San Jose on Thursday night, sending the Sharks to their first regulation loss of the season.

Jarome Iginla scored his first goal with the Bruins (7-2) and goaltender Tuukka Rask was outstanding, making 38 saves.

Patrick Marleau had San Jose's goal, his eighth of the season. Antti Niemi stopped 15 shots.

Krejci, positioned in the slot, tipped defenseman Adam McQuaid's shot from the point between Niemi's pads for the game-winner.

The Sharks (8-1-1) tied the game at 1-all on the opening shift of the third period when Marleau swooped in from the left wing, slipping a rebound past Rask 18 seconds into the period.

Seconds later, Rask came across the crease and made a blocker save on Tomas Hertl at the end of a 2-on-1 break.

The Sharks kept up the pressure with a flurry of shots over the next 2½ minutes.

The Bruins had an excellent chance with 2½ minutes left in regulation when Niemi

dropped to make a pad save on Krejci's bid from in close.

Iginla had given Boston a 1-0 lead with 1:12 left in the second when he collected the rebound of Dennis Seidenberg's shot near the bottom of the right circle, firing a shot that trickled into the net after hitting Niemi's right pad and slipping between his legs.

Signed to a one-year freeagent deal that could earn him as much as $6 million with incentives, Iginla had a big smile on his face as he went over to the bench to accept congratulations from his teammates.

The 36-year old winger vetoed a trade that would have sent him to the Bruins when they had a deal in place at last season's trading deadline. He ended up accepting a deal to Pittsburgh, which was swept in the Eastern Conference finals by Boston last spring.

Niemi had robbed Patrice Bergeron about 2 minutes before Iginla's goal when he came across the crease to make a glove stop at the end of a 2-on-1 break.

Bruins winger Shawn Thornton unloaded a slap shot that caromed off the left post 3 minutes into the

tive last weekend against Colgate. Although it is never good to go on the penalty kill, the Huskies found themselves shorthanded fourteen times and were able to kill off all fourteen.

With this being MacKenzie’s first season with the team, the Huskies are starting to put the pieces together and are moving in the right direction.

The puck will drop at 2:00 p.m. on Friday afternoon.

By Matt Zampini Campus Correspondent

AP

Boston Bruins forward Jarome Iginla (12) is congratulated by teammates Dougie Hamilton, left, and Milan Lucic after Iginla scored a goal during the second.

second.

The Bruins played the first period like many of their fans from the slimmed-down crowd — like they had something else on their minds.

With the Red Sox hosting Game 2 of the World Series at Fenway Park about 3 miles away, there were a decent number of empty seats despite the club's 170th straight sellout of TD Garden.

The arena, which was less than a third full about 10 minutes before game time, ended up being only about three-quarters filled, with many open seats in the club and lower sections.

San Jose outshot Boston 16-3 in the opening period — at times, controlling the puck for lengthy stretches in the Bruins' zone.

Hockey hopes to move in the Men's tennis to play in Connecticut right direction this weekend College Championships this weekend MacKenzie was able to pull The two teams played to several positives from the loss. a 4-4 tie in the Between Sarah first meeting Moses and Elaine and Rensselaer Chuli, MacKenzie edged out was very pleased UConn 5-3 the with how the next day. This two performed in weekend will be between the pipes the first meeting last weekend. In between the two the Huskies’ victoschools since ry this past Friday, Preview that high scorMoses stopped 42 ing two-game shots and Chuli stopped 25 affair last October. shots in the loss on Saturday.

Despite not scoring a goal UConn’s penalty kill in their last game, UConn first year head coach Chris proved to be very effec-

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The UConn men’s tennis team will travel to New Haven this weekend to participate in the Connecticut College Championships, the Huskies’ final tournament of the fall season.

The most elite college tennis programs will come together this weekend on the home courts of Yale University to compete in the final event of the fall season. The tournament will take place all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

UConn has played in five dual matches and four tournaments

leading up to the last tournament been UConn’s No. 1 player the of the fall. whole year, winning four out of In his last fall season as a his five matches.

Husky, senior Also looking to finish Ryan Carr will off the fall strongly is look to end the freshman Chris Toner. fall on a high Toner has proved that note by perhe can compete at the forming well college level early in this weekend. his career as a Husky.

As the team’s In the five dual matchonly captain, es UConn has played, Carr’s on and Toner has played in four Preview off the field of them. Toner played in leadership has the No. 2 spot in the first been pivotal for the Huskies three matches. strong fall season.

The tournament will be all day Junior Wayne Harrell has had on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. a fantastic fall season thus far; he has been the Huskies’ best player all year long. Harrell has Matthew.Zampini@UConn.edu

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Sports

Fenway Park: A fall classic beyond the World Series hype BOSTON (AP) — Brian Campbell's father was a young man back in 1946, when he slept outside Fenway Park to score tickets to see the Red Sox take on the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series.

On Thursday, it was Campbell's turn. Before Game 2 got underway he stood outside Fenway with his 18-year-old son, Ian, as the crowd began to gather and the smell of hotdogs filled the chilly October air.

"It runs in the blood," Campbell said about Fenway. "It's historic.

It's right in the city. The fans here understand the game. If the south Florida teams win, they have fans.

But as bad as the Red Sox may be,

these fans will be here."

At 101 years old, Fenway is the oldest ballpark in the major leagues.

It's home to the Green Monster and Pesky's Pole and it sells more than 1.3 million hotdogs a year.

Ten World Series have been played here. Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski and countless others have played in the misshapen field. And generations have come to watch.

The Red Sox considered moving to newer and bigger facilities over the years but in 2005 announced a commitment to stay at Fenway.

The park was listed on the National Registry of Historic Places in 2012.

While the facilities are modern, thanks to $285 million in renovations since 2002, the baseball is old school.

"When you're sitting in there and 35,000 people are stomping their feet, there's nothing else like it," said Guy Page of Barre, Vt. Page didn't have tickets, but came to Fenway anyway Thursday to soak in the vibe. He has been a Sox fan since the 1960s.

"The closest thing we have in New England to a common religion is the Boston Red Sox. Fenway is the shrine," Page said.

And those who come to worship can be sensitive to portents and

omens. Carol Schoenauer was in the park for Game 1 of the 2004 World Series wearing a red turtleneck and a gray Red Sox sweatshirt. Boston ended up winning that fall classic — its first World Series win in 86 years. She figured she'd wear the same outfit Wednesday. Perhaps it worked: the Sox beat the Cards 8-1.

"I'm not superstitious," she said.

"But hey. It's the World Series. Why not?"

The World Series moves to St. Louis this weekend, though the action may return to Fenway next week in the event of a game six.

By that point, Blair Sirup, 57, and his son Brendon, 23, will be back

approaching.

“This is when the season UConn’s game on Saturday becomes the most exciting for will also be quite a challenge. The players and coaches,” Stevens said. “We are chasHuskies will take on ing a regular season No. 2 North Carolina, conference title, the who is also 12-2 this conference tournaseason. The backment championship to-back challenge of and working very excellent teams will hard to earn a bid test UConn’s abilto the NCAA tournaity and endurance. ment.”

It will also give the With all of the Huskies an opportuPreview goals and challengnity to show their tales the team faces, ent as a team and prepare them for the postseason that is quickly Stevens and the underclassmen

players rely greatly on the senior leadership for their experience and skill.

“Senior leadership is such an important factor in big games and postseason play. Our seniors have been there before and know how to manage these important games,” Stevens said. “We are fortunate to have outstanding seniors who do a great job leading this team.”

The Huskies will be put to the test in by far their hardest weekend yet. It is guaranteed that both games will be evenly matched and filled with great field hockey.

By Eugene Joh Campus Correspondent

AP

Boston Red Sox's Jacoby Ellsbury chases a ball hit by Matt Holliday

home in Regina, Saskatchewan, after they travelled to Boston for Game 1 and Game 2. The two Red Sox fans had hoped to make it to their first Fenway game last year,

but the timing didn't work.

Blair's wife died in July following heart surgery, and a father-son trip to Fenway couldn't be put off any longer.

Great field hockey to be played this weekend Men's swimming and diving hosts Army in first meet from FIELD, page 12

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Men's XC to run in Mini M e e t

By Cody Milardo Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s cross country team will return to action this Saturday at 11:30 a.m. in the fifthannual Central Connecticut State Mini Meet in New Britain.

The Huskies will look to rebound after a difficult showing the last time out in the New England Championships in Boston. UConn finished 11th out of 41 schools two weeks ago, with sophomore Bryan Fowler pacing the team, placing 41st overall in the 8K race at Franklin Park.

“Not much went right in the varsity race,” assistant coach Renny Waldron said. “We'll take the experience and learn from it and move forward. We have a lot of work to do in the next three weeks and we'll be ready for the AAC championship

on Nov. 2.”

This weekend UConn will look to gain momentum heading into the American Athletic Conference Championships, which will be held next weekend in Madison, Conn.

UConn will look at this weekend as a tune-up for the American’s first ever conference championships.

The team looked to be in good shape after placing first in two consecutive meets to open the season before the 11th place finish in Boston.

Michael O’Donnell, Bryan Fowler and David Cotton, top performers for the Huskies all season, can use this final race of the regular season as a springboard to the American’s championship and NCAA regional championship, which are the remaining two meets on the schedule for UConn this year.

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The men’s swimming and diving season is officially underway, as the Huskies will host the Army Black Knights at the Wolff-Zackin Natatorium on Saturday at 1 p.m.

The Huskies will look for another good season from standout junior Felix Samuels, in the 50 meter freestyle, and sophomore Jeffrey Magin in the backstroke events. Other key swimmers include freshman butterfly specialist Christopher Girg, junior Lachezar Shumkov in the breaststroke and sophomore Mike

Men's hockey expects an intense game this weekend from MEN'S, page 12 Union also holds a special place in Cavanaugh’s coaching memory. Cavanaugh was an assistant coach at Boston College for 18 seasons before joining UConn in May, with his final season with that program ending after the Dutchmen defeated the No. 2-seed Eagles 5-1 in the first round of the 2013 NCAA tournament, a loss which ended the Eagles’ national title defense early and emphatically.

The Dutchmen are led by junior defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere, a South Kent School product and second team All-American who won

a gold medal as a member of the United States team at the 2013 IIHF World Junior Championship last December and was a third round pick of the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft.

“Shayne Gostisbehere is, to me, an All-American defenseman,” Cavanaugh said. “(Union is) a very skilled team. They compete hard.

(Union head coach) Rick Bennett always does a good job systematically, so we’re expecting a top notch opponent on Friday night.”

The Huskies will take the ice tonight at 7:05 p.m.

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Lennon in the 1,000 meter freestyle event, according to head coach Bob Goldberg. “[The Black Knights] are very good, and we need more intensity if we want to win,” Goldberg said.

The Black Knights are coming off of a victory in their season opener against UMass and Boston University, including a one-sided victory over the Minutemen 197-97 last Saturday, Oct. 19. Army captured the top spot in 11 of 13 events.

In order to overcome the Huskies, Army will likely look to junior Will Viana, who claimed first place in two events last Saturday, and sopho-

more Chris Szekely, who was a triple winner.

The UConn men’s swimming and diving program has fallen to Army in the past two years, adding a little bit of extra motivation for the Huskies this weekend.

“We need to be more competitive, Army is a big rival…” Goldberg said. “They’re from the northeast and beat us the last two years; two years before that we beat them, so this is a big meet, our biggest fall meet; a big meet for all of us.”

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Men's soccer looks to beat Bearcats 'shoddy defense' from MEN'S, page 12

goal differential of minus 10. Alex Gill, the sophomore goalkeeper, has allowed 18 goals in the 14 matches he has played for a goals against average of 1.31.

Ashani Walker and Alan Rovira, a couple of junior midfielders, are players to watch for the UConn defense.

W i t h Walker leads the S a t u r d a y Bearcats with 11 being Senior points on five Night for the goals and an Huskies, the assist on the seanine seniors son and Rovira on the squad has registered a will be honpoint in each of ored prior the Preview Cincinnati’s last match. Kickoff three contests. is scheduled The Bearcats’ defense, how- for 7 p.m. ever, has been shoddy, as the team has given up 25 goals in 16 matches with a Michael.Peng@UConn.edu

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Away game

Football (0-6) Tomorrow Nov. 8 UCF Louisville Noon 8:30 p.m.

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The career average points per game for Wes Bialosuknia in three years at UConn which remains the men’s basketball all-time record.

» That’s what he said

“We haven’t done great on offense this year, period...But you know, this a new week, so we are going to go out there and try to execute our best. If we do that, we’re confident that we are going to win.”

-New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady

Nov. 16 SMU TBA

Nov. 23 Temple TBA

Nov. 30 Rutgers TBA

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Tom Brady

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Baseball runs in the family

Men’s Soccer (7-2-5) Tomorrow Cincinnati 7 p.m.

Nov. 2 SMU 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer (10-7-0) Oct. 27 Memphis 7 p.m.

Field Hockey (13-2) Today Old Dominion Noon

Tomorrow North Carolina 1 p.m.

Nov. 2 Temple Noon

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Today Cincinnati 7 p.m.

Oct. 27 Louisville 1 p.m.

Nov. 1 Houston 8 p.m.

Nov. 3 Yale 2 p.m.

Nov. 3 SMU 2 p.m.

Nov. 8 USF 7 p.m.

Women’s Hockey (1-4-0) Today Tomorrow Rensselear Rensselear 2 p.m.

2 p.m.

Nov. 1 Vermont 2 p.m.

Nov. 3 Maine 2 p.m.

Nov. 6 BU 7 p.m.

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Boston Red Sox’s Koji Uehara, of Japan, watches his son Kazuma hit before Game 2 of baseball’s World Series Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, in Boston.

Men’s Hockey (0-2-0) Today Nov. 1 Union Army 7:05 p.m. 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 2 Sacred Heart 7:05 p.m.

Men’s Basketball Nov. 4 Oct. 30 Southern CT Concordia 7 p.m.

7 p.m.

Nov. 8 Maryland 6:30 p.m.

Nov. 15 Nov. 12 Holy Cross Bentley 7:05 p.m. 7:05 p.m.

(0-0) Nov. 11 Yale 3 p.m.

Nov. 14 Detroit 7 p.m.

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The UConn volleyball team will participate in a pair of huge games this weekend as it take on Cincinnati in its “Dig Pink” match for breast cancer awareness on Friday night and Louisville in its first ever nationally televised game on Sunday afternoon on ESPNU. The Huskies will start their weekend against Cincinnati at 7 p.m. on Friday night.

Things haven’t gone the Bearcats this season as they have failed to record a single win this season. The Bearcats are currently 0-21 with a 0-7 conference record.

Cincinnati has only forced two overtime sets during its losing streak against South Florida and Northern Kentucky.

The Bearcats are led offensively by freshman outside hitter Ciara Hill, who has accumulated 159 kills thus far this season. Two other Bearcats have reached triple digit kills this season, as Me’Ashah Nicholson and Morgan Allfred have reached 131 and 114 kills, respectively.

The Bearcats are led in digs by Shelby Green, who has scooped 232 digs this year.

Jamie Netisingha has 172 digs on the year while Allfred has 119.

Up next for the Huskies will be the Louisville Cardinals on Sunday at 1 p.m.

The game will be covered live by ESPNU and mark the program’s first ever nationally televised game.

The Cardinals have a 12-7 overall record and have gone undefeated in the American Athletic Conference thus far, with a 7-0 conference record. Louisville has gone 10-1 in its last 11 games with its only loss coming to Middle Tennessee State.

Louisville is led offensively by freshman outside hitter Maya McClendon, who has killed 205 shots this season. Emily Juhl comes in with 172 kills on the year while Brooke Mattingly and Jennelle Jenkins have amassed 169 and 167 kills, respectively.

The Cardinals are led in digs by their senior libero Caitlin Welch with 318.

McClendon, Katie George and Haley Pouliezos have also reached triple digit digs so far this season for Louisville.

UConn returns to Storrs with a 10-12 overall record after a road trip last weekend that saw it lose two conference matchups to Temple and Memphis. The two losses drop the Huskies’ conference record to 1-6.

UConn will look to get back on the right track in front of its home crowd and on national television.

Scott.Carroll@UConn.edu

Weist: Goal is to 'get things turned around' from YOU, page 12 Every game is a must-win now for UConn; a loss at any point eliminates the Huskies from bowl eligibility, and if UConn loses its next two games, it will match the 1978 team for the worst start in program history. Weist needs his team to right the ship, something he knows they are capable of.

“That’s our goal: to get this thing turned around and give our players confidence, to give this university, this program the confidence that it needs at this point in time,” Weist said. “We feel like if we can do things right – not turn the football over, play solid football, make the plays that we need to make – then we have the talent really to beat any team on our schedule. We just have to put that together.

“So it’s desperately needed.

We’ll do everything we can at practice…with great competition, great energy, great focus, enthusiasm. Our players are not down. Our players are excited. Our players are together…They know they’re not an 0-6 team.”

But the record shows that they are indeed 0-6, and to avoid an 0-7 start, UConn will need to stop one of the

nation’s most explosive runJohnson is not UCF’s only ning backs, Storm Johnson. offensive weapon, as quarterThe name suits Johnson back Blake Bortles is capable well. UCF’s dynamic back of airing it out at any time. was named the American’s Bortles is third among AAC Offensive Player of the Week quarterbacks and 23rd in the this week after rushing for nation with 264 passing yards 109 yards per game and one and is touchdown averagw h i l e ing 272.5 catching y a r d s four passof total es for 79 offense yards and per game, another ranking touchdown him third in the in the Knights’ American 3 8 - 3 5 and No. win over 28 in the Louisville. nation.

Johnson, -UConn football head coach b iTg ghe s et a junior, is the T.J. Weist o b s t a n a t i o n ’s cle for 34th-best Johnson rusher at 94 yards per game and Bortles will be and is No. 10 in the nation in UConn’s linebackers. Yawin scoring, averaging 10 points Smallwood ranks third in per game. the nation, second in the “Our biggest challenge is American, with 12.8 tacktackling him,” Weist said. les per game, and teammates “He’s a strong, he’s a strong Marquise Vann and Jefferson back, an NFL-type power Ashiru have played their way back that can put his foot in to No. 1 spots on the Huskies’ the ground and get upfield depth chart. fast. That’s your biggest chalWithout a strong running lenge. Some backs are small- game to speak of, the story er and quicker. Some backs offensively continues to be are bigger and stronger and freshman quarterback Tim not as fast. He’s both.”

Boyle, who threw for 310

“Our players are

not down. Our players are excited.

Our players are together…They know they’re not an 0-6 team.”

yards in last Saturday’s 41-16 loss to Cincinnati, Boyle’s second career start. Still without a touchdown pass, Boyle was effective in the passing game, but managed to get intercepted three times.

“You’re a football player on this team,” Weist said of Boyle. “You’re a player who is a starter who is making decisions for all of us.

So it’s not accepted that he throws interceptions. It’s not accepted that you make bad decisions, whether you’re a freshman or not.

“We tell him, ‘You’re not a freshman anymore. You’re a starter. You’re not a freshman. You have taken the role as a starter, the role as a starting quarterback, and you are held responsible for your actions from that standpoint.”

The Huskies are far from perfect, right now about as far away as can be. But when they take the field against the 21st-ranked team in the country at noon on Saturday in the conference’s game of the week on SNY, Weist will not accept anything less.

“We’re not fake,” Weist said. “We’re very demanding of our football players to be perfect.”

Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu

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Field hockey faces hardest weekend away

By Erica Brancato Staff Writer The No. 4 UConn field hockey team will continue its stretch of away games against No. 10 Old Dominion and No. 2 North Carolina.

The Huskies will be eager to prove their dominance after their second loss of the season against American University.

“We are obviously disappointed with the result against American,” head coach Nancy Stevens said. “They have an outstanding team and outplayed us for that brief period of time in the second half. That lapse in concentration on our part proved the decisive factor.

Fortunately, we played an outstanding game against our conference opponent, Georgetown.

The Georgetown win keeps us in first place in the conference.”

The loss against American marks UConn’s first loss to an unranked team since 2010.

Despite this setback, the team continues to keep a positive attitude and looks for ways of improvement.

“Overall, our team played well at American,” Stevens said. “We’ve scored 26 goals in the past six games, averaging just over four goals per game.

We are working to correct mistakes in the defensive red zone.

UConn’s opponent on Friday will be a difficult challenge for the Huskies. No. 10 Old Dominion recently beat No. 1 Maryland to break the Terps’ undefeated record. The Monarchs beat Maryland 3-2 in an upset last Sunday, bringing the team from No. 15 to the No. 10 in the NFHCA poll. Old Dominion has won eight consecutive games, making them a tough team to not only play but also beat.

“Old Dominion’s win over Maryland is not only good for the Monarchs, but also very good for our conference,” Stevens said. “We now have two teams in the top 10, which speaks to the strength of the conference. Old Dominion and UConn both rely heavily on counterattack opportunities for scoring. It will be a high-tempo game in which both defenses will be tested.”

» GREAT, page 10

Huskies host Engineers for weekend series

By Matt Zampini Campus Correspondent

The UConn women’s hockey team will welcome the Engineers of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum for a weekend series on Friday and Saturday.

UConn earned their first victory of the season last weekend by splitting the weekend series with Colgate University.

Last Friday, Kayla Campero scored the game-winning goal with just 10 seconds remaining in the overtime period to propel the Huskies to a 3-2 victory. The Huskies dropped the second game of the doubleheader on Saturday 1-0 to fall to 1-4-0 on the season.

Rensselaer won their first game of the season by shutting out Robert Morris 3-0.

Since then, the Engineers have yet to win a game, going 0-3-1 in that span. The lone tie came against nationally ranked Boston University 2-2. BU has since dropped from the rankings.

Last season, the Huskies and Engineers faced off against each other twice, in two very high scoring contests.

The two teams played to a

» HOCKEY, page 9

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Men’s soccer hosts Bearcats on Senior Night

By Mike Peng Staff Writer Riding on a nine-match unbeaten streak, the UConn men’s soccer team (7-25, 2-0-4 the American) will play its final home match of the regular season when it hosts conference opponent, the Cincinnati Bearcats (6-91, 1-5-0 the American), on Saturday at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium.

The Huskies are coming off a 1-0 victory over in-state and non-conference foe Yale

Tuesday night. Freshman forward Cyle Larin scored his team-leading seventh goal of the season on a header from an assist by junior midfielder Adria Beso in the 63rd minute of the match. UConn defense also allowed a season-best of one shot from the Bulldogs and helped junior goalkeeper Andre Blake record his fifth shutout of the season. The victory was UConn’s fourth in five matches and the fourth win by the 1-0 score on the season as well.

The visiting Bearcats have had a less-than-stellar season in

2013, but are riding on a threematch winning streak, highlighted by their 2-0 upset victory over the sixth-ranked and conference-leading Louisville Cardinals on Wednesday.

Cincinnati’s victory was a big help to UConn as it kept the Huskies’ regular season conference title hopes alive. With only two conference matches remaining, UConn currently stands in third place and trails Louisville by three points and UCF by one point in the standings.

» MEN’S, page 10

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Cyle Larin helped the Huskies beat non-conference foe Yale and scored his seventh goal.

YOU KNOW HOW THIS ENDS

Looking to avoid 0-7 start, UConn travels to No. 21 Central Florida

By Tim Fontenault Sports Editor

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T.J. Weist does not like to lose.

Unfortunately for the first-time head coach, he enters his third game in charge of the UConn football team with a 0-2 record.

But even after taking over in the middle of a season for a coach who struggled and even with a freshman quarterback under center playing without his No. 1 wide receiver, T.J. Weist does not like to lose.

“We can’t accept losing under any circumstances,” Weist said. “We can’t because the minute you accept it, it’s going to happen again. So we will never accept it.”

UConn cannot lose the rest of the season if it wants to play in a bowl game, and it certainly cannot lose the next three games if it wants to avoid breaking the school record for the worst start to a football season, meaning the Huskies (0-6, 0-2 American Athletic Conference) must pull a major upset on Saturday in Orlando against No. 21 Central Florida.

The Knights (5-1, 2-0 AAC) are a major topic of discussion in the college football world right now.

Having already defeated Penn State on the road and nearly beaten South Carolina, UCF came from behind to defeat No. 8 Louisville in Kentucky last Saturday night. The victory vaulted them into the national rankings for the first time since 2010.

Meanwhile, the reeling Huskies are trying to keep their fans from turning all of their focus towards basketball season. The next football game is Nov. 8 at home against Louisville, coincidentally the night the men’s basketball team opens at the Barclays Center against Maryland.

UConn quarterback Tim Boyle looks to pass against South Florida on Oct. 12. The Huskies are 0-6 to start the 2013 season. Losing another game this season would eliminate them from bowl eligibility, and losses to Central Florida Saturday and Louisville on Nov. 8 would match the worst start in school history.

» WEIST, page 11

Men’s hockey looks for first win of season

By Jack Mitchell Staff Writer

The UConn men’s ice hockey team will play Union College in its home opener tonight at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum.

The Huskies (0-2-0) returned to Storrs this week after dropping their first two games of the season on the road against then-No. 18 Minnesota State, falling to the Mavericks 2-1 on Friday and 6-1 on Saturday.

“There was a lot of miscommunication on defense,” head coach Mike Cavanaugh said. “[Minnesota State] really took it to us in the defensive zone.

They cycled the puck well and we just weren’t able to be quick and physical and we weren’t able to end their cycle early, so we gave them the puck for long periods of time.”

“It was our first two games of the year and our first time back-to-back, and I think we wore down physically and mentally the second night.”

Cavanaugh said the team returned to practice this week focused on working out some of the kinks on defense in preparation for the Dutchmen (1-2-1), a team that advanced to the second round of the 2013 NCAA tournament before falling to No. 1-seed Quinnipiac, the eventual national runner-

up.

Defensively, the Huskies allowed eight goals on 79 shots in two games against Minnesota State last weekend.

“It’s early in the season so you’re trying to put so much in, but we just focused a little more on our compete level down low defensively and being on the same page,” Cavanaugh said of this week’s preparation. “We had a lot of miscommunications, and we’ve talked a lot about miscommunication this week and making sure that your teammate knows what you’re doing and vice versa.”

Cavanaugh was quick to praise senior goaltender Matt

Grogan, who’s strong play between the pipes led to 71 total saves last weekend in Minnesota.

“I thought Matt Grogan was excellent. He played very well,” Cavanaugh said.

“Of those six goals [scored Saturday] there was maybe one that he would tell you, ‘I should have had that goal.’

He stopped so many grade-A opportunities.”

Union – who dropped out of the U.S. College Hockey Online poll this week after being ranked No. 16 in the country – presents another tough test for the Huskies on the heels of a physically and mentally demanding two-

game, season-opening series.

UConn tied Union 2-2 in the team’s last meeting on Oct. 27, 2012.

“It’s going to be a tremendous test, it really is. And I like it,” Cavanaugh said. “I like coming out of the gate having to play those types of games. I think it hardens your team. Sometimes you can get fooled if you play teams that maybe aren’t quite at your talent level, but this (schedule) is great. It’s forcing us to basically raise up our game, our level of play, and compete at a level that (we’re) not comfortable at.”

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Women’s soccer hands Rutgers first home loss 2-1

By Kyle Constable Staff Writer The Rutgers women’s soccer team (11-4-2, 4-3-1 American) was handed its first loss at home this season when UConn (11-70, 5-3-0 American) traveled to Piscataway and left with a pivotal conference win Thursday night.

The Huskies managed to edge out the Scarlet Knights 2-1, finishing the game with 17 shots to Rutgers’ 14. In the epitome of a back-and-forth match, the game could have gone either way in the final minutes.

The Huskies offense came out early as freshman forward Rachel Hill broke her four-game scoreless drought with a goal against Rutgers in 5th minute, giving UConn a 1-0 lead. Hill challenged again in the 25th minute, but a save by Rutgers goalkeeper Jessica Janosz prevented UConn from doubling its lead.

Rutgers exchanged possessions throughout the half with the Huskies, but no team could break through over the next 39 minutes.

With just 30 seconds remaining in the first half, Rutgers found a defensive opening on a corner

kick and was able to capitalize as Scarlet Knights’ sophomore Brianne Reid scored her first collegiate goal to even the match at one.

At the half, the Huskies led 9-7 in shots, but could not hold their one-goal edge.

Back-and-forth play with saves by both UConn’s Emily Armstrong and Rutgers’ Janosz characterized the start of the second half. Rutgers sophomore Maggie Morash received a yellow card in the 54th minute after ripping down Hill as Hill tried to receive a deep through ball from

sophomore forward Stephanie Ribeiro.

UConn caught a break in the 60th minute as the Scarlet Knights’ redshirt senior Jonelle Filigno knocked one through a diving Armstrong in the Huskies’ net, only to get called offside and have the goal waived.

With the game tied 1-1, someone was bound in score as the ball was driven up and down field by both teams. In the 80th minute, UConn junior Gabrielle Charno was able to do just that when she netted the ball after a corner kick, sealing the win for the Huskies.

Interestingly, Charno’s last goal came against Rutgers in the Big East tournament last season.

Thursday’s win gives the Huskies a solid hold on third place in the American Athletic Conference and will likely result in UConn hosting at least one game in the conference tournament.

The Huskies have just one game remaining on their schedule – Memphis. UConn will travel to Memphis for the game, which is scheduled for Sunday at 1 p.m.

Kyle.Constable@UConn.edu