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Possible rise in drug use on campus Thursday, October 3, 2013

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Police department’s annual security and fire safety report shows increase in drug violations

By Kyle Constable Staff Writer

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Illegal drug consumption at the University of Connecticut’s Storrs campus may be on the rise, according to a senior police official.

The police department’s annual security and fire safety report released on Monday showed a dramatic increase in the number of arrests and referrals due to drug-related offenses.

“The numbers in the report kinda speak for themselves,” Deputy Police Chief Hans Rhynhart said. “So I think there has been an increase, specifically in marijuana use or our interactions with people who are using marijuana.”

From 2010 to 2012, the number of drug-related arrests and referrals at the Storrs campus increased by 60.9 percent. In the three-year time span, there was a 35.5 percent increase in drug violation arrests, rising from 152 to 206. The number of drug violation referrals more than doubled, rising from 86 in 2010 to 177 in 2012.

Rhynhart could not confirm whether the increase was a result of better policing or a legitimate increase in marijuana and drug usage on campus.

“I can’t say why that’s the case, why there are more interactions with people with

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marijuana,” Rhynhart said. “It may be a result of the law, the decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana on July 1, 2011.”

In 2011, the state of Connecticut enacted law allowing the legal possession of up to one-half gram of marijuana.

Then in 2012, the state legalized medicinal marijuana for patients in the state.

Of the 206 drug-related arrests at UConn’s Storrs campus in 2012, Rhynhart said

about 140 of those incidents were marijuana infractions under the new legislation.

According to one student group, the increase in arrests and referrals should not have to happen.

Students for Sensible Drug Policy President Evan Fulton argued that university policies and state laws should be changed to relax restrictions and keep marijuana users out of the legal system. Fulton said the “school-to-prison pipeline”

USG reviews plans for new recreation center

By Jackie Wattles Associate News Editor

University of Connecticut officials pitched preliminary recreation center plans to the Undergraduate Student Government Wednesday. The officials are hoping to garner student input during the design process should the plan for a 200,000 square foot $100 million project get approval from the Board of Trustees this fall.

Student Body President Edward Courchaine has already dubbed the recreation facility a priority for his administration this semester, and he said he is confident students will have the opportunity to provide input.

“The board will vote on how much the fee will be and the scope of the project,” Courchaine said. “The details are up for discussion [and] this will not be the last time we get a say in this.”

If the recreation facility plans are approved, it will be paid for in student and faculty fees that would not go into effect until the new facility opens its doors, which would not be until sometime in 2016.

Once implemented, undergraduate students would pay $244 per semester and graduate students and faculty would pay $180.

Shiv Gandhi, the speaker of the USG Senate, encouraged the undergraduate representatives to gather student input and be prepared to vote on legislation

is preventing real mental health issues from being addressed.

In the short term, SSDP hopes to see the school enact an equalization policy – a policy that would treat marijuana offenses with the same severity as alcohol-based offenses, according to Fulton.

Specifically, Fulton would like to see the rules changed to prevent resident assistants from having to report marijuana incidents to the UConn Police Department.

He also said SSDP is looking to open a “safe house” off campus, as a location for students to consume marijuana without the risk of being charged with a felony for possession of an illegal substance in a school zone. With E.O. Smith High School immediately adjacent to the Storrs campus, Fulton said many students are in danger of violating that law without realizing it.

The trend at UConn during the last three years has been in direct contradiction to statewide trends, according to SSDP Chief Financial Officer Tyler Williams. While drugrelated arrests have dramatically decreased around the state since the 2011 legislation was enacted, Williams said, UConn has seen more than a 35 percent increase in arrests on campus.

“Whether they were using (marijuana) before and being more careful and not getting caught,” Rhynhart said, “or as to now where the penalty isn’t at the point where they’re as concerned as they were if they were arrested, it’s hard to tell what the reason is.”

The trends, however, are clear and the UConn Police Department plans to investigate the data in the coming weeks and month, according to Rhynhart.

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Limit on transfer credits for freshmen proposed by officials

credits for matriculating freshman than most other comparable universities, which allow an average UConn administrators are pre- of about 30 transfer credits for senting a proposal to limit certain freshman.

“We believe these regulaoutside credits for matriculating tions have not changed since the freshman at 30.

The authors of the proposal, 1940s,” said Reis.

Reis said that although freshVice Provost of Academic Administration Sally Reis and man are currently allowed to transVice President for Enrollment fer 90 credits, the mean number of Wayne Locust, claim that this credits that they typically transfer change will protect the academic in is eight, excluding AP or ECE credits. integrity at The proposal UConn. will have to pass The current the Scholastic policy states Standards that the univerCommittee, sity accepts 90 which includes transfer credits a student repfrom matricuresentative. lating freshman If it passes, it in all bachwill move on elors’ programs to the Senate excluding nursExecutive ing, pharmacy Committee. and engineerThe next step ing. would be for Reis stressed Sally Reis it to be passed that the new policy, if Vice Provost by the Board of Trustees. enacted, would of Academic Depending only apply to Administration on how long this matriculating process takes – freshman, and it could require would not affect the vast majority of students. She a few months – the policy could explained that there had been mis- potentially be in place either next conceptions about who would be semester or within the next acaaffected and that this would not demic year.

Reis said that there will be a affect transfer students.

According to Reis, under its clear appeal process for the first current policy UConn allows more

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Members of USG watch a presentation on the proposed new recreation facility. The administration is looking for student feedback on the project.

about the recreation facility at their formal meeting on Oct. 9.

According to Courchaine, USG will be doing their own research on the project and the resolution would delineate USG’s position on the project and - should they support it outline their expectations.

Cynthia Costanzo, the executive director of the department of recreational services, said

the plans for a 200,000 square foot recreation facility is the largerof two options that were p r e -sented to the Board of Trustees in August and is much preferred.

Michael Kirk, the deputy chief of staff to University President Susan Herbst, is a member of the working group of university officials that is

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Connecticut man arrested with goat in his trunk

EAST HARTFORD (AP) — A Connecticut man has been charged with animal cruelty after police found a goat and some chickens in the trunk of his car.

State police say 36-year-old Ernesto Rodriguez was arrested on Monday after witnesses videotaped him putting the goat into his trunk after purchasing the animal at the Middlesex Livestock auction.

Police used a license-plate number supplied by witnesses to track Rodriguez to his home in East Hartford, where they say they found the animals still in the car’s trunk.

Rodriguez is due in court on Oct. 18. Attempts to reach him Wednesday were not successful. It was not clear if he has hired a lawyer, and he does not have a listed telephone number.

Clinton to speak at Yale Law School even

NEW HAVEN (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to give a talk at a Yale Law School ceremony when she receives an award from the school from which she graduated in 1973.

The former secretary of state, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, is scheduled to speak Saturday at Yale University’s Woolsey Hall in New Haven. Clinton will receive the Yale Law School Association Award of Merit, which is presented annually to those who have made a substantial contribution to public service or the legal profession.

Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, received the award in 1993.

The award ceremony and Secretary Clinton’s remarks will be streamed live on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2mA3oRAOL0Q .

New Haven seizes electronic items in store raids

NEW HAVEN (AP) — New Haven police have raided four stores, made several arrests and seized thousands of electronic items believed to have been stolen.

The New Haven Register reports that police learned from interviews of robbery and burglary suspects who were arrested that the stores allegedly were destinations for selling stolen electronics.

Police say that in several undercover operations electronic items were sold for cash to the stores.

Arrests on Tuesday were for alleged violations of the secondhand dealer law regulating the purchase and sale of used goods in Connecticut.

Police say they are seeking additional arrest warrants and that charges could be added.

Danbury man held for manslaughter in child’s death

DANBURY (AP) — A Danbury man has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 19-month-old boy he was babysitting.

The News-Times reports that Christian P. Williams was charged with first-degree manslaughter and risk of injury to a minor.

He was being held on bonds totaling $850,000. It was not known Wednesday morning if the 25-year-old Williams is represented by a lawyer.

The state medical examiner’s office said the child, Ayden Baskay, died from blunt-force injuries to the head.

Police said they received a 911 call at about 5:45 p.m. Sunday for a child who was not breathing. When authorities arrived, an unidentified person was trying to resuscitate the child. The boy was taken to Danbury Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The homicide was Danbury’s first in two years.

Pequot tribal treasurer resigns amid theft charges

MASHANTUCKET (AP) — The treasurer of the tribe that owns Foxwoods Resort Casino has resigned from the tribal council as he faces federal theft charges, tribal officials said Wednesday.

Steven Thomas, who has pleaded not guilty, also has a change of plea hearing scheduled for Thursday in U.S. district court in New Haven. His defense attorney did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The tribal council of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation in southeastern Connecticut said it received correspondence from Thomas confirming his resignation.

“We are grateful for his hard work and dedication since assuming his position on Council and wish Steven and his family the best in his future endeavors,” the council said in a statement.

When the charges were first announced, the council said it was confident in Thomas’ dedication to his tribal duties, but the U.S. Interior Department declared this spring that Thomas would be ineligible to enter into government contracts for at least year.

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laying the groundwork for the project.

“We want you to tell the board what you think,” Kirk said to the USG members Wednesday.

“You’re the only representative student body on campus.

Whatever your view is, we want you to make it clear.”

Lara Cruickshank, the university’s master planner and chief architect, said student input is vital to the project.

“From my perspective as an architect that’s the only way to do it,” Cruickshank said. “And we’ll do that formally and informally.”

Cruickshank added that the building would follow uni-

versity standards for environmental friendliness as well, which requires a minimum of a “Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Silver” certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Additionally, depending on the amount of money the board approves, the new facility would include three to five basketball courts, multipurpose rooms, up to 300 additional pieces of cardio and weight equipment, two to three swimming pools, a multi-activity court, and an outdoor field that could potentially house additional parking underneath.

In response to the presentation, the senators had mixed feelings about the proposal.

“I’m still mixed about it. It seems really nice, but that $488 [per year in student fees], I’m not sure about.” Shabaz Kahn, a freshman Towers senator, said.

But Kevin Alvarez, a sophomore Northwest senator, said he sees a new recreation facility as a necessary update.

“This facility is need-based because we are well beyond capacity for our gym and I think we should do the best we can so that we don’t have to go back to it somewhere down the line,” Alvarez said.

Constanso said the current 22,000 square foot facility is made to service roughly 2,500 students per day, while the

This Friday the fall lunchtime STEM research seminar series for undergraduates will begin with a presentation by Ph.D. student J.B. Shepard called “EGFR Signaling Stimulates Anabolic Changes in Articular Cartilage.” J.B. Shepard, who is from the Health Center at UConn’s Farmington campus, will be giving a student-friendly version of the defense of his dissertation that he gave last Friday.

The purpose of the STEM series is to educate undergraduates who are currently involved or would like to be involved in

STEM research about the different projects currently going on at the various UConn campuses.

The Office of Undergraduate Research and the McNair Scholars Program, who organized the series, have selected two Ph.D. students and one postdoctoral to present this fall.

By selecting researchers who are much closer in age to the undergraduate student audience, the organizers hope to make the idea of research seem much “more realistic and attainable,” said Dr. Renée M. Gilberti, the Program Coordinator for the McNair Scholars Program.

All students, faculty members, or visitors are welcome to

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attend the lecture which will take place in room 139 in the David C. Phillips Communication Science Building at 11:45 on Friday morning. Those planning to attend are encouraged to bring a lunch although light refreshments will be served during the event. Dr. Caroline McGuire, the Interim Director for the Office of Undergraduate Research, would like to let students know that they are welcome to come late the event and to “bring good questions for the Question and Answer session” which will take place in the last 15 minutes of the lecture.

five years of the new policy and that students with financial concerns can appeal.

Reis feels that other students would agree with this policy change because it would add value to a UConn degree.

“To me, if you get a UConn degree it means you have taken the vast majority of your credits at UConn,” said Reis, “We want our students to take most of their courses with our own faculty in our own curriculum.”

Reis claims that many of the credits students want to transfer in are from classes that are less rigorous than comparative UConn classes.

Philip Jones, Academic Affairs Committee member for the Undergraduate Student Government, has a different idea of what it means for a degree to have integrity.

“I believe the change would be negligible at best,” said Jones, a 7th-semester geography and history double major. “Other factors such as research and awards matter so much more.”

Jones said he would support the administration’s proposal because allowing 30 transfer credits for freshman seems reasonable, but he is wary of the administration’s agenda.

“It feels like the administration is focusing more on becoming elite instead of focusing on getting the best education possible for the most Connecticut residents,” said Jones.

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Pressure mounts to fix health insurance (AP) The pressure is on for the federal government and states running their own health insurance exchanges to get the systems up and running after overloaded websites and jammed phone lines frustrated consumers for a second day as they tried to sign up for coverage using the new marketplaces.

In some ways, the delays that persisted Wednesday were good news for President Barack Obama and supporters of his signature domestic policy achievement because the holdups showed what appeared to be exceptionally high interest in the overhauled insurance system. But if the glitches aren’t fixed quickly, they could dampen enthusiasm for the law at the same time Republicans are using it as a rallying cry to keep most of the federal government closed.

“It was worse today than it was yesterday,” Denise Rathman of Des Moines said after she tried for a second day to log onto the Iowa site.

Rathman has insurance through Dec. 31 but said she is eager to sign up for a policy because of her psoriatic arthritis, which has caused her to be denied insurance in the past.

David Berge, a pastor with two young children in Shoreview, Minn., tried unsuccessfully at least 10 times to create an online account on the state-run site MNsure. His highdeductible plan expires at the end of the year.

“I’m anxious to see what the insurance is going to look like for my family at the beginning of the year,” Berge said. “That’s

AP

A counselor uses a tablet to show various health plans available at an information table at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles as people seek information on state-provided health insurance, while a celebration is underway to inaugurate the first day people can enroll Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Californians who buy their own health insurance and those who have been hoping for coverage began using the state’s online marketplace Tuesday after it opened for business on the first day of enrollment.

a big unknown right now. I want to figure that out as soon as possible so we can begin planning.”

In California, home to 15 percent of the nation’s uninsured, officials pulled the enrollment portion of the Covered California site down overnight for emergency upgrades.

It was restored midmorning Wednesday, and 7,770 people had started applications by then, spokesman Roy Kennedy said.

California is one of a handful of mostly Democratic states that opted to set up their own exchanges rather than let the federal government do it for them. In the 36 states being operated by the federal Department

of Health and Human Services, consumer patience was still being tested.

Agency spokeswoman Joanne Peters said many Americans successfully enrolled on the first day, but she declined to put a number on it. She said the delays were due to “overwhelming interest” and high volume.

It’s not as if nobody warned them. Just three months ago, the congressional Government Accountability Office said a smooth and timely rollout could not be guaranteed because the online system was still getting finishing touches and had not been fully tested.

The Obama administration

shrugged off the evaluation.

The bumpy debut has the hallmarks of a technology project that may have rushed to meet the Oct. 1 deadline, said Bill Curtis, chief scientist at CAST, a software quality analysis firm, and director of the Consortium for IT Software Quality, which develops standards.

“When you are in a rush, you typically make a lot of mistakes and you don’t have time to test them all out,” he said.

High volume can also expose software flaws that were not detected in testing, Curtis said, like the recurring problem consumers encountered trying to set up accounts on the federal site.

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Rouhani: Iran to discuss nuke details, not rights TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that Iran is open to discussing “details” of nuclear activities including the enrichment of uranium, hinting that the Islamic Republic is willing to broaden the terms of negotiations with world powers.

He spoke shortly after receiving support from a wide range of legislators for his policy of reaching out to the West.

Rouhani emphasized Tehran’s longstanding position that its fundamental right to enrich uranium, a key ingredient of nuclear weapons that Iran says it needs for peaceful purposes, is not up for discussion. But his statement was a veiled hint that Iran is open to negotiating on the level of uranium enrichment as part of a deal in return for lifting of sanctions.

Rouhani was elected this summer with the backing of centrists and reformists, pledging a new approach to relations with the West. During a visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly last week, he held a historic phone conversation with President Barack Obama, a gesture aimed at ending three decades of estrangement between the two countries.

In his remarks Wednesday after meeting with the Cabinet, Rouhani said Iran has drawn up a “precise plan” to put on the table at the next round of talks with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany in Geneva later this month.

“Iran’s enrichment right is not negotiable but we must enter into talks to see what would the other side proposes to us about the details,” he said.

Uranium enrichment is a week in a first meeting since technology that can be used to Rouhani was elected president produce nuclear fuel but further in June. The next round of enrichment makes it suitable talks will be held Oct. 15-16 in for use in nuclear weapons.

Geneva.

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“We have nothing to hide. Our record is clean and our hands are open.”

Conn. ACLU: Illegal to separate classes by gender HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A civil liberties group called on Connecticut education officials Wednesday to reject a report on creating single-sex classrooms to address a gender achievement gap, saying separating boys and girls would be unconstitutional.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut sent a letter to state Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor criticizing the report as inadequate and expressing concern that educators who read it would decide to try singlesex classrooms. The ACLU also urged Pryor to notify all public schools in the state that separating classes by gender would be illegal.

"Our state constitution prohib-

its this kind of segregation," said David McGuire, staff attorney for the state ACLU. McGuire said he was unaware of any public school in Connecticut with single-sex classrooms.

The report was released earlier this year by the Middletownbased State Education Resource Center, a nonprofit funded by the state Education Department.

Marianne Kirner, the center's executive director, didn't return messages seeking comment.

State Department of Education officials are reviewing the ACLU's letter, said agency spokeswoman Kelly Donnelly.

"We are pleased that the SERC report and ACLU response have

catalyzed this critical dialogue," Donnelly said. "The issue of gender equity — and the question of providing a high-quality education to our girls and young women — are highly important."

The report presents the pros and cons of separating classes by gender to address an achievement gap in which girls score higher on standardized tests and have fewer problems in school than boys. The report discusses potential legal problems and says it doesn't endorse or oppose singlesex classes.

The report says that the concept of single-sex classrooms is gaining momentum in many states but that there are conflicting studies on its effectiveness.

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erates and conservatives within the ruling establishment.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters, has supported a strategy of “heroic flexibility” in foreign policy, opening the way for Rouhani’s outreach.

Rouhani reiterated Iran’s pledge that it’s not seeking nuclear weapons, and that it will keep its nuclear facilities open to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog group.

“This is our principle: to keep doors of our nuclear facilities open to IAEA inspection,” he said. “We have nothing to hide. Our record is clean and our hands are open.”

Iran is living under U.N. sanctions as well as tough U.S.led oil and banking sanctions

that have slashed oil exports by half and shut Tehran out of the international financial system.

Rouhani said he was not surprised to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing anger at Iran’s “charm offensive.”

Netanyahu on Tuesday called Rouhani “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” and accused the leader of being “a loyal servant of the regime” who has done nothing to stop Iran’s nuclear program since he took office in June.

“Such remarks show that we are moving in the right direction,” Rouhani said. “When Israel sees that its sword doesn’t work and that wisdom has prevailed in the world and that the Iranian people’s message of peace is heard . they definitely get angry.”

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Government shutdown’s hit magnified for tribes

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Crow Tribe Chairman Darrin Old Coyote talks about the federal shutdown after sending more than 300 employees home on furlough, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 in Crow Agency, Mont.

CROW AGENCY, Mont.

(AP) — American Indian tribes have more than access to national parks on the line with the government shutdown, as federal funding has been cut off for crucial services including foster care payments, nutrition programs and financial assistance for the needy.

For the 13,000 members of southeast Montana’s Crow Tribe, the budget impasse had immediate and far-reaching effects: Tribal leaders furloughed more than 300 workers Wednesday, citing the shutdown and earlier federal budget cuts.

As a result, tribal programs including home health care for the elderly and disabled, bus service for rural areas, and a major irrigation project were suspended indefinitely.

“It’s going to get hard,” said Shar Simpson, who leads the Crow’s home health care program. “We’re already taking calls from people saying, ‘Who’s going to take care of my mom? Who’s going to take care of my dad?’”

Some tribes intend to fill the gap in federal funds themselves, risking deficits of their own to cushion communities with chronic high unemployment and poverty against the effects of the budget battle.

“Do we just throw kids onto the street, or do we help them?

Most likely we’re going to help those families and do whatever we can until this is unresolved,” said Tracy “Ching” King, president of northern Montana’s Fort Belknap Reservation.

But for other tribes, basic services stand to take a direct hit. That includes programs heavily subsidized by federal agencies and others paid for with tribal money that is suddenly unavailable because it’s being held by the Department of Interior, tribal leaders said.

Essential activities such as law enforcement, firefighting and some social services will continue, said Bureau of Indian Affairs spokeswoman Nedra Darling. Programs that did not make the list include residential care for children and adults, cash assistance for the poor and payments to vendors who provide foster care.

How long those programs will continue on reservations depends on the duration of the shutdown and how much money individual tribes can spare. The BIA provides services to more than 1.7 million American Indians and Alaska Natives from more than 500 recognized tribes.

Crow Chairman Darrin Old Coyote said his tribe decided to

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furlough workers now, hoping the move will be only temporary, rather than push into deficit a budget stretched thin by earlier federal cuts and recent declines in revenue from a coal mine on the reservation.

“We’re taking a proactive approach,” Old Coyote said.

The 316 furloughed workers represent about half the tribe’s employees.

In South Dakota, Yankton Sioux Tribe Vice Chairwoman Jean Archambeau said the shutdown means money for heating assistance won’t be coming this fall.

“I don’t know what we’re going to do,” she said. “They’re already predicting snow out west and possibly in this area of the state.”

General assistance payments, which help people with general needs not covered by other programs, also have been cut, Archambeau said.

The National Congress of American Indians and tribal leaders said the “double whammy” of the shutdown and the earlier automatic spending cuts known as sequestration illustrates their vulnerability in the federal budget process.

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Colombian government approach to peace talks is sensible, proactive

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mid the news of resurging violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is a success story. Colombia, the United States’ third-largest nation building project, is making strides toward a long-term peace agreement with FARC, the largest rebel group in the country. If the deal goes through, it will end 50 years of violence between the government, rebels and paramilitary groups.

The peace talks themselves are historic, but one of the most significant things is the attitude the government is bringing to what will hopefully soon be a new era for Colombia. The country is trying to anticipate and address the issues that will arise in a post-conflict situation before they threaten newfound stability.

Colombia’s peace talks center around six main issues: land reform, political participation, disarmament of rebels, drug trafficking, the rights of victims and the actual implementation of the peace deal. Instead of focusing on simply getting an agreement signed, they’re trying to solve some of the problems that have allowed this conflict to feed on itself and continue for decades.

While it sounds like a common sense approach, Colombia’s situation is unique, especially for a region that’s experienced U.S. involvement. Recent attempts at conflict resolution in the Middle East show this. Libya is having a difficult time getting a government together after 30 years of dictatorship and is slowly descending into lawlessness. Egyptians are still protesting in the streets because of high unemployment, a weak economy and police brutality, as well as unresolved religious divisions. Tunisia, the supposed model for the Arab Spring, just had their government resign this week.

Colombia is different because of its history and the billions of dollars in international support it has received, but what’s really making the difference is the current government’s approach. They acknowledge that the country has been traumatized by decades of violence and that many of the men hopefully about to be demobilized have been in combat for most of their adult lives. There are victims on every side of the conflict.

The Colombian government has been reluctant to address the atrocities they perpetrated against their own people during this time, but they’ve slowly become more open, especially under the current president, Juan Manuel Santos. The government formed a historical memory commission aimed at documenting the violence through the eyes of the victims and identifying the reasons for its emergence in the first place.

The group released their final report this summer, which acknowledged and preserved stories from many sides of the complicated conflict.

This openness has paved the way for an international response. Academics from several other countries worked with the Historical Memory Group and many more are assisting with the demobilization and reintegration of fighters into society.

Colombia is doing their best to look forward to a time without conflict. Hopefully, they will be a model for other countries in the future.

Ted Cruz: The lowest of the low

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n the circus of congressional politics over the last few weeks, there have been innumerable developments that seem to have weakened collective faith in American governance. The fact that we have to go through another round of debt ceiling negotiations is cause for pessimism, to say nothing of the fact that every debt ceiling fight has been more ridiculous than the last.

In the mire of delusion and recklessness currently engulfing the capitol, there is one thing that stands out as the point of absolute rock bottom: the epitome of everything

By Kristi Allen wrong congressional Weekly Columnist politics. That thing is Ted Cruz. “Most insane character of a government shutdown negotiation,” a title once believed to be secure in the hands of Newt Gingrich, has been conferred upon the freshman Republican senator from Texas.

Like his predecessor, Cruz is a paragon of arrogance. While his party as a whole demonstrated their willingness to put their agenda above all responsibilities this week, Cruz takes that Republican characteristic to a whole new level. Shutting down the federal government over Obamacare, a law passed by Congress, upheld by the Supreme Court and signed by a president who was reelected after campaign-

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efforts to get nothing done as loudly and ignorantly as possible. His 21-hour speech was not a filibuster and had no effect on the vote time of the legislation he spoke about. In fact, he voted to advance debate on the legislation he spent a day railing against. So he did virtually nothing to further his views except “raise awareness” (at this point, we are all very aware Republicans don’t like Obamacare), and brought the country closer to the shut down.

Cruz’s priority, however, was never averting the shutdown. He wanted to cause a scene and reaffirm his commitment never to compromise, another one of his party’s favorite moves.

Previous government shutdown crises have featured abuses on both sides, but this time around it’s the Republicans who’ve been driving this sinking ship.

Their complete failure to govern is seen by the “defund caucus” as a victory, or at least not a real loss.

No one is sure what the Republicans and Cruz actually expect to gain from dragging the country into a shutdown.

The Obamacare insurance exchanges opened on Tuesday, and opinion polls are showing that most Americans blame them for the shutdown.

For now, Republicans seem happy to blame Democrats and maintain that they made their point and did not bow in the face of pressure. Or, as the rest of the country sees it, they held firmly to their myopia and did not bow in the face of logic.

Weekly Columnist Kristi Allen is a 3rd-semester journalism major. She can be reached at Kristi.

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New tone from Vatican is good for Catholic Church

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ing on it, was not enough. Last Tuesday and Wednesday, Cruz took it upon himself to educate the American public on his personal distaste for Obamacare in a 21-hour speech on the Senate floor.

In that time, he managed touch on Star Wars and Duck Dynasty, quote Ayn Rand, recite passages from the Declaration of Independence and accomplish absolutely nothing of substance. While the country moved a day closer to a catastrophic shutdown, Cruz read children’s books on live television in an attempt to raise his profile for a presidential race. He figuratively gave his party and the rest of Congress, or for that matter anyone toying with the idea of compromise, the finger. He also compared his fearless day of standing to the Bataan Death March. Cruz’s own pro-business values don’t even mean more to him than the attention he’s getting. The shutdown, should it go on long enough, has the potential to harm not just the U.S., but the global economy.

The self importance involved in using a marathon speech on the floor of the United States Senate to slow progress on a major issue simply to elevate your position isn’t new, but this case was a new low for congressional hubris.

The Republican’s list of demands in exchange for their permission to fund the federal government – gutting Obamacare, ending environmental regulations and allowing the keystone oil pipeline to be built, among other things – should have been the most insane development in the shutdown negotiations. No Republican expected the Democrats to accept those terms; it was pure partisanship and stubbornness.

Cruz outdid his party in their ongoing

ope Francis has drawn much positive attention during his nearly seven-month tenure as pontiff. First, it was his remarkable unpretentiousness and his insistence on continuing to live modestly and humbly, despite the grandeur of Vatican City; more recently, it has been attempting to soften the perceived rigidity many have of the Catholic Church.

A sharp contrast from his highly conservative doctrinaire predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, Francis wants the Church to put less emphasis on currentBy Paul DaSilva ly divisive political Staff Columnist subjects like gay marriage and abortion. In July for instance, he asked rhetorically “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” And just two weeks ago, he expanded on this stance in an interview with a fellow Jesuit, the Rev. Antonio Sparado.

When asked what type of Church he dreams of, he replied that no longer can the Church “insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage, and the use of contraceptive[s]” because “the dogmatic and moral teachings of the Church are

not all equivalent.”

And this week, the Pope has opened a landmark meeting with the intention of reforming the Catholic Church and reworking its constitution.

Echoing a familiar tone of his, he desires for the Church to be more traditionally missionary in nature, one that gives hope to the elderly, the ill and the underprivileged.

The centricity of the Vatican and the long-held papal infatuation with its “courtesans” was denounced by Francis, and he reiterated his aspiration for a Church that bears a more humble tone.

The Roman Catholic Church is an ancient institution, and one that bases its belief off Scripture. I say that because I do not want it to be expected that any fundamental doctrinal changes will occur in the near future. It is completely unrealistic for the Church to suddenly alter its position on homosexuality or abortion, nor would I not condone any such changes.

However, it is perfectly reasonable that Church leaders go about messaging in a slightly different manner.

Such heightened emphasis on those issues in particular has led to an overall weakening on broad Catholic teaching. Consequently, religiosity in the developed, Western world has been declining: In the United States, nearly one-third of those who

were raised Catholic no longer describe themselves as Catholic. Overall, American Catholic churches have lost 5 percent of their membership in the last decade alone. And Mexico today is 84 percent Catholic, down from more than 98 percent Catholic in 1950. I think this has been driven in part by the Church’s emphasis on divisive social issues in a world that is, unfortunately, becoming more secular and more liberal. The Church, however, is growing in the developing world, enough to more than offset its decline in the North. In Africa and Asia, where the population is considerably more conservative on issues like abortion and gay rights, the Church’s outreach efforts have proven effective.

In my view, the Church must speak more broadly about Catholicism and its doctrinal beliefs. It must spend less time talking about a dozen or fewer lines in the Bible that refer to the aforementioned issues, and instead preach more exclusively about Jesus’ core messages of love and compassion. Church leaders and priests can still address issues they deem as societal ailments, but should do so more comprehensively by elevating issues like greed, the consumer culture or even the degradation of the family. They need not

completely ignore the current political issues in contention, and they would be remiss if their opinions were not injected into the public arena. But, the perception that there is this obsession, as Pope Francis identified it, must be corrected.

The College of Cardinals’ decision to elect Francis, an Argentinian by birth, may just have been the perfect decision to make. Since March, there is little doubt that he succeeded in at least establishing the foundations for a more positively viewed Church. He took the important step of making child abuse a crime in Vatican City law, and soon carried out the law, removing the Vatican envoy to the Dominican Republic in light of a child prostitution scandal. Furthermore, he has sought to make the Vatican more transparent, less fiscally corrupt and more focused on achieving his goal of an expanded “missionary Church.”

In short, Pope Francis’ efforts to change the messaging tone of the Catholic Church, particularly on divisive issues like gay marriage and abortion, is positive for the Church’s overall future.

Staff Columnist Paul DaSilva is a 1st-semester political science and economics major. He can be reached at Paul.DaSilva@UConn.edu

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Commuter Appreciation Week contented Wednesday afternoon at the Homer Babbidge Library with “Lunch at the Library,” a casual gathering of commuter students to enjoy a free lunch while receiving some time saving research tips from the library staff.

At the engagement, commuter students were greeted and presented with a flash drive containing helpful information about utilizing the library’s various research utilities. Commuters were then invited to grab a sandwich complete with chips, a cookie, an apple and soda.

In lieu of a speaker or PowerPoint presentation, students were encouraged to mingle with each other and approach event staff with questions about library amenities.

This was the second time the library has hosted this event, and the staff was planning for a crowd of approximately 60 students to show up between noon and 2 p.m.

However by 12:15, the initial supply of prepared boxed lunches had been depleted.

The crowd far exceeded the estimate of 60 that staffers had in mind based on past attendance.

“We increased the amount of food available from last year’s event,” explained Ashley Trotter, the Program Coordinator for Off-Campus Student Services. “We obviously don’t want to run out of food, we even just called catering to bring more over”.

Trotter seemed pleased with the event’s large turn out: “We hold events like these so that commuter students feel appreciated, and to help bridge the disconnect they might feel from living off campus.”

Quite a few of the commuters in attendance were only recently made aware of the event and Commuter

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In honor of Commuter Appreciation Week, the Homer Babbidge Librart held a special “Lunch at the Library” with free lunch for commuting students. Students were encouraged to mingle with one another and speak to library staff and ask any questions they may have. The turnout was much greater than the library anticipated.

Appreciation Week as a whole and were pleasantly surprised.

“I actually didn’t even know UConn had a commuter week until my friend told me she saw a Twitter post,” 7th-semester sports management major Jennifer Gobin said. “I’m definitely going to consider going to the remaining events later in

the week now.”

Dawn Cadogan a librarian, discussed the library’s role in the event: “We want our students particularly commuters, to know that we are here for them.”

Indeed, much of the lunch highlighted features of the library that would be particularly useful to commuting students. Cadogan noted

that students have the ability to rent iPads, Kindles and laptops for library use and can also rent bicycles at the library to assist students in getting around campus.

Commuter Appreciation Week will continue on Thursday with “Commuter Time Out,” providing commuting students with unlimited free tokens at the Student

Union game room and Friday with “Spot the Hippo,” a scavenger hunt around campus. The festivities conclude with free vouchers for popcorn and soda that will be given to commuting students before the weekly Friday night flick at the Student Union Theater.

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On Oct. 5, UConn is offering students the opportunity to practice a select group of standardized tests. The examinations that will be available to practice are the MCAT, LSAT, PCAT, and GRE. All tests will to be administered in Laurel Hall.

In order to participate, students must register for the practice exams using the following website: http://bit.ly/ uconnpractice.

This is a great chance for students preparing for careers in law, medicine and others to get real experience taking their respective test.

Students preparing for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), should be at Laurel Hall at 11 a.m. The MCAT is a standardized, multiple-choice examination. Its purpose is to assess knowledge of concepts relevant to the study of medicine.

Similar to the MCAT exam is the LSAT. The Law School Admission Test (LSAT), is another standardized test administered only four times a year. It is designed to measure skills that are essential for success in law school. An examinee must be prepared for five 35-minute sections of multiple choices. There is also a writing portion that is not scored, but is given to schools as another determining factor for admission.

This test will be given out in Laurel Hall at 11:30 a.m.

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Practice MCAT, PCAT, LSAT and GRE tests will be administered to students who would like to practice for the test before they take it. The tests will be administered at Laurel Hall.

At 12 p.m., future veterinary doctors can sharpen their skills, when the practice PCAT exam is administered. The Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) is a specialized test that differs from the above-mentioned

standardized tests. While its goal is still to test knowledge in the field, it is a computerbased test, unlike the written LSAT and MCAT. The final practice exam given out is the GRE. The Graduate Record

Examination is an entrance exam to a number of graduate schools. Its focus is to test knowledge with a General Aptitude Test and a separate portion that targets the individual’s field of study. Students that desire to

attend this practice test must be at Laurel Hall at 12:30 p.m.

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One type of food that I’ve had countless times over the course of my life is dim sum, a style of Cantonese food prepared as small bite-sized or individual portions of food traditionally served in small steamer baskets or on small plates, usually alongside copious amounts of tea. Dim sum is well known for the way it is served in some restaurants: whereby fully cooked and ready-to-serve dishes are carted around by the servers and patrons can freely select from these carts while seated at their tables. Fun fact: the name “dim sum” aptly matches this way of serving. “Dim” means “to point or select” in Cantonese, and “sum” means “heart,” so together, it means “pointing to one’s heart’s desire;” in this case, what food you want.

There are many dishes that fall under the dim sum umbrella, far too many to list for you here. Typically, a dim sum meal starts with savory entrees, and ends with some form of sweet dessert option.

The main entrees are typically bite-size items that are easily picked up and eaten with a pair of chopsticks.

For example, all manner of dumplings are usually part of a dim sum meal. My personal favorites are har gow, steamed shrimp dumplings, and shaomai, small steamed dumplings with pork, prawns or both, usually topped off with crab roe and mushroom.

Another commonly eaten dim sum food is the bau, which is a baked or steamed bun filled with anything from meat to vegetables to bean pastes. My grandfather’s favorite is char siu bau, a bun filled with Cantonese barbecued pork filling. It has a slightly sweet flavor and, if baked, is topped with a light sugar glaze. Bau are also used as dessert – for example, the nai wong bau is a steamed bun filled with milk custard filling.

My favorite dim sum is the rice noodle rolls, or coeng fan. They are wide rice noodles that are steamed, then rolled, and are filled with different types of meat or vegetables. They are then topped with sweetened soy sauce.

Other savory dishes I recommend are sticky rice, pai gwat (spare ribs), lo baak gou (turnip cake) and if you’re feeling particularly adventurous, gai gyok, chicken feet that have been deep fried, boiled, marinated in a black bean sauce and then steamed. Don’t turn your nose up at that just yet – the texture is light and fluffy while still being moist and tender, and the flavor is quite good. These were a favorite for me as a child, which is saying something.

Finally, a dim sum meal is concluded with dessert items, which can be a delicious departure from traditional Western desserts that are high in fat, sugar and other “bad” things. My personal favorite is the daan taat, which is a flaky pastry with a sweet egg custard filling. Other good options are dou fu fa (silky tofu served with sweet ginger or jasmine flavored syrup), mango pudding and the aforementioned nai wong bau. If you’re ever in a Chinatown with a good dim sum place nearby, I highly recommend you give it a try. You won’t regret it!

Jason.Wong@UConn.edu

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This Los Angeles trio of ladies are getting some serious buzz on the music blogosphere, and for good reason. This is their debut album and it’s packed full of catchy pop and rock tunes that are extremely accessible and fun to listen to! Haim has featured in Rolling Stone, Entertainment as atheFeather” Weekly, “Light and became first Americans to win the “BBCNorah SoundJones of 2013” contest!

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Most times, little to no anticipation stirs when we’re told that “part 2” of an album is nearing its release. There’s always the knee-jerk assumption that a second piece is relatively unnecessary and – of course - incomparable to its predecessor. That, however, is not the case with Justin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2.” The EP unabashedly outshines its forerunner, making us wonder why JT ever put his solo career on hold. On the new album, Justin dives to new depths in every aspect key to music. Whether it’s a complete evolution in production or simply a stint in experimentation championed by right-hand man Timbaland, Photos courtesy of Celebuzz I’m uncertain. Regardless, the results are astonishing.

Fans were pleasantly surprised last spring when Justin Timberlake returned to music with his album “The 20/20 Experience”. This week, From the first track, “Gimme Timberlake has released the second part of his album which he also kept a surprise from his fans for a while.

What I Don’t Know (I Want),” even though I’m a professional, Timberlake makes it clear he tive falsetto, animal-related The unmistakable difference I like to do my work at home.” endorses two major things: innuendos, and unsympathetic between “Part 1” and “2 of 2” Spicy, even for Justin. females in control, and PDA bass.

“True Blood” makes itself a of “The 20/20 Experience,” as On the rare occasion that – lots of it. The track, built strong candidate for theme song mentioned before, is edginess. he’s not seducing listeners upon a beat-boxed sample (by Justin himself), pulls you in of Halloween 2013; its con- “Part 1” was innocent JT and “2 with naughty metaphors, Justin and doesn’t let go. He whispers tent is fairly consistent with of 2” is pure bad JT, someone Timberlake tributes the pop to his girl of interest, who is the aforesaid television show, we’ve missed since his “Cry Me idols like himself. He chanindulging the A River” days. Each song car- nels classic, circa-1983 Michael apparently a memvampire/blood- ries with it an attractive quality, Jackson on “Take Back The ber of the shyer The 20/20 Experience2 sucking trend almost as if every melody was Night,” a disco-reminiscent type: “you act like a so distinct to handcrafted like a radio hit — piece that allows us to “get Justin Timberlake lady, don’t have to our generation. without any of the fluff. some air” between the other 10 cover it up…things 10/2/13 The main charDrizzy fans will be tickled steamy tracks. you wanna show 12 tracks acter? Another to find that Justin made room The second part of “The me.” Carnality is t e m p t r e s s . for him on the third track, 20/20 Experience” is so, so the key theme. The “Something just “Cabaret,” which flaunts the much more than a second half. dance floor anthem got you fiendin’/ duo’s ability to master the slow It’s a “whole,” all on its own. It makes a fantastic /10 Once she starts jam.

The two express their prefis a reflection of every kind of opener, and so do to evoke the erence for one-on-one interacimprovement and skill-sharpenJT’s sultry words of spirit, it comes at night when tions, away from the buzz of a ing JT has worked at. And for encouragement; “now take me to your jungle, I’m not afraid/ you’re dreaming.” A whop- club. Justin lets the girl run the those who deny the pop vetAnd if you’re looking for your ping nine-and-a-half minutes, night, counting on her alone to eran’s musical maturity, “2 of animal, hop in my cage.” And the track mysteriously flies by create that at-home club atmo- 2” removes any doubt in their here you have the supporting before it can even get settled in sphere, keeping up those innu- minds. endos; “It’s a cabaret/Cause Emily.Herbst@UConn.edu cast of “2 of 2:” Justin’s seduc- our ears.

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I wrote in my column last week that Lorde was a new artist, but was going to be big within a year. This week, as she releases her first full-length album “Pure Heroine,” she absolutely cements her status as one of the queens of new pop music.

You’ve probably heard “Royals” everywhere, it has been playing non-stop on the radio for weeks and for good reason. It’s catchy and funny, but also relatable. It highlights the decadence and excess of the upper classes and I can’t help but agree with Lorde’s take on how silly and unproductive class distinctions are.

Aside from “Royals,” the album has nine other tracks all of equally good or better caliber. Opening track “Tennis Court” is my favorite. It starts with a lusty, smooth vocal contribution by Lorde juxtaposed against a metallic percussion beat. The combination is edgy, cool and attention grabbing.

The song then climbs into a smooth but powerful chorus that rises and then falls back into the development. With lyrics like “Baby be the class clown/ I’ll be the beauty queen in tear/ It’s a new art showing people how little we care (yeah)/ We’re so happy, even when we’re smilin’ out of fear,” there’s a lot more than meets the eye with Lorde. Her lyrics are deep and meaningful, which comes as no surprise considering that she is the daughter of Sonja Yelich, award-winning New Zealand poet.

“Ribs,” another stand out track is slow to start and crescendos and speeds up into a climax that drops away into subdued humming. The effect is stunning. Your attention is immediately grabbed as the music speeds up and gets louder and when the sound drops

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You may have heard Lorde’s song “Royals” played everywhere in the last month. Her first full album “Pure Heroine” was recently released and is an instant classic guaranteed to help Lorde maintain her status as one of the queens of new pop music.

away, you hardly feel disap- ing song on the album. With pointed because it sounds so single melodic guitar chords pleasing. over a sparse “Glory and harmony, Gore” is a more Lorde’s voice Pure Heroine standardized pop is the highlight Lorde track, but has the of the track.

9/27/13 ethereal feel of The listener 10 tracks an Of Monsters can truly see and Men number. her vocal abiliIt’s powerful, but ties in this track so delicate that as she displays /10 you don’t want to a wide range. breathe while it The middle of plays. the song speeds “World Alone,” the final track up and gets more complex in of the album, is the most uplift- its harmonies, but quickly falls

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away to die slowly in a quiet and modest, decrescendo.

Although I only picked my five favorite tracks, the other half of the album is superb.

It is heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time and demonstrates an immense talent. I think it’s safe to say that Lorde will soon be joining the ranks of fellow New Zealander Kimbra, Florence and the Machine and Regina Spektor as the most respected female musicians of our generation.

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Rhythm and Soul: Lady Gaga is not original

By Katie McWilliams Senior Staff Writer One of my pet peeves of pop music consumers is the absolute idolatry of Lady Gaga. Let me be clear, I think Lady Gaga is a pretty awesome human being. She defies stereotypes, advocates for LGBTQIA rights and has brought comfort to many a lost soul, but she hasn’t really changed anything about pop music. Her worshippers often can be caught saying things along the lines of “Lady Gaga is the first person to bring performance art to pop music,” or “Lady Gaga is one of the first musicians to advocate for social issues.” Now that’s just uninformed.

Avant-garde music started in the 20th century with composers like Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy and Benjamin Britten. These men incorporated elements that had never before been used in classical music and shocked audiences at concert halls across Europe.

The blatant use of dissonant chords and aggressive styles of play made these men innovators of music.

I don’t think anyone can reasonably say that Lady Gaga is a pioneer in the music industry. She uses the same chords as most other pop stars, sticks to electronic music and uses the same auto-tuned vocal patterns. If you need evidence of this, compare “Born This Way” to Madonna’s 1989 song “Express Yourself.”

The parallels in the melody and lyrics are ridiculously similar to the point that you wonder if Gaga ripped off Madonna’s hit song and recreated it for modern audiences.

Now, on the subject of performance art in musical performances, there is no argument that Gaga is the most popular performance artist of this generation.

She shocks, she dazzles and she even makes you feel uncomfortable. But Gaga’s penchant for art on stage is not a new phenomenon in the music industry and she’s definitely not the only artist bringing shock factor to the stage. Yoko Ono is still doing performances that include a lot of artistry, as is Bjork and even more mainstream artists like Katy Perry. Elton John was doing outrageous performances back in the 1970s, including wearing an ornate and colorful bird suit to a performance on “The Muppet Show.” David Bowie and Michael Jackson continued to bring the ridiculous into their performances into the 80s, making way for ladies like Cyndi Lauper and Madonna to achieve superstardom.

I don’t mean to be too critical of Gaga, but I think people sometimes see someone different, such as Gaga, and assume it’s revolutionary.

But there’s nothing particularly revolutionary or even controversial about Lady Gaga, she’s a cookie-cutter musician with an egalitarian worldview and the want to change the world. She’s no different than those who paved the way for her. She’s fabulous and continues the tradition honorably, but she isn’t groundbreaking.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame continues to overlook deserving inductees

Dangerous Animals provide live music at UConn party scene

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is expected to announce its nominees for the 2014 induction sometime within the next week. The back catalogue of bands that remain overlooked by the Hall is vast and eclectic, with some having been eligible for over 20 years. Select artists including Linda Ronstadt, Deep Purple and Chic are anticipated to finally earn recognition this year.

Here are several artists who displayed musical excellence worthy at least of a nomination.

The Hall of Fame has always been marginal to the genre of progressive rock, which did receive some political scrutiny during its heyday in the 1970s, but since has gained a sizable following and is considered an important subsection of classic rock. For many years the only prog artists in the hall of fame were the undeniably legendary Pink Floyd, and strangely enough, Traffic. But in recent years the relationship between the hall and the genre has begun to thaw, with the recent inductions of Genesis and Rush and the nomination of Procol Harum last year. However prog rock’s core bands including Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and King Crimson have been ignored. Perhaps the biggest snub of this is kind is The Moody Blues, whose 1967 album “Days of Future Passed” one of the most groundbreaking albums in not only progressive rock, but psychedelic rock.

Their ability to fuse rock and classical styles is unmatched in the classic and contemporary rock scene.

Gram Parsons is an artist who has been snubbed on two levels. He was not included when The Byrds were inducted in 1991. Despite only being a member for one album, he pushed them towards the country-

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio. While the hall of fame is expected to announce their nominees within the next week, they have been known to ignore the genre of progressive rock.

influenced direction persistent in their last seven albums. He is considered an influential figure in both rock and country, and is one of the first to merge the contrasting styles in an era where hatred between their fans high. The Byrds’ landmark performance at the Grand Ole Opry was met with extensive hecklers and jeering. He also worked with notable groups, The Flying Burrito Brothers and The International Submarine Band. In 2005, he was placed at 87 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Artist of All Time. He was nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times, but not since 2005, and he is by no means a figure that should fall out of consideration.

While the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has recognized a number of folk rock artists, including Leonard Cohen, Donovan and Joni Mitchell.

But they have greatly overlooked the British folk scene. Four interconnected artists worthy of induction

are Fairport Convention, Richard Nick Drake only recorded three Thompson, Sandy Denny and Nick studio albums before his death at Drake. the age of 26 in 1974, but all three Fairport Convention (of which have received near perfect critical Thompson and Denny were mem- reviews. While they received little bers of in its peak years) is perhaps attention at the time, Drake has the most important band in all of accumulated remarkable posthufolk rock. Their 1969 album “Liege mous popularity. His songs have and Lief” jumpstarted the electric been featured multiple feature films folk and was the first album to and even a Volkswagon commeradapt traditional folk songs to rock cial. His acoustic guitar ability has arrangements andUCONN modern DAILY produc- CAMPUS been cited as influential by Peter 5”x5.74” tion styles. Thompson has had a Buck of R.E.M. and Robert Smith RUN DATES:9/26& number of acclaimed albums as a of10/3/13 The Cure, which gets its name solo artist and with his wife Linda from Drake’s song “Time Has PR# 52-0037 Thompson, two of which, “I Want Told Me.” His songwriting is best To See The Bright Lights Tonight” described as the enigmatic poetry and “Shoot Out The Lights,” were of a tortured but deeply passionate included in the Rolling Stone’s individual. His backing band, which 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. appeared on his first two albums Denny was one of the most angel- and deserves significant credit for ic and arresting vocalists in all of the elegant beauty of the baroque music, whose voice could suit any “Bryter Layter,” was none other lyrical character. Her work includes than Fairport Convention. stints with Strawbs, Fotheringay and a notable duet with Robert Plant on Brendon.Field@UConn.edu “Battle of Evermore.”

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Live rock and roll does not normally exist between the hours of 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. hours on a UConn Friday night, but Dangerous Animals is here to change that.

Live music at college parties has declined in popularity as music trends have evolved over the past decade.

Rock music no longer dominates the charts, and it no longer dominates the basements of college students, as it is simply easier to entertain guests with the infinite playlist of the internet.

However, Dangerous Animals have found this niche venue as an effective way to boost their popularity.

Michael Holler, 7th semester senior political science major as well as lead singer and rhythm guitarist for Dangerous Animals said, “We play parties because parties are the best. The reaction from the crowd is great. Even if a bar is willing to pay us $300 we would rather play for free for that reaction.”

Dangerous Animals, which consists of Holler, John Hudak, 7th semester senior political science major and drummer, Kevin Yuliawan, 7th semester senior computer science engineering major and bassist, and Connor McTaggart philosophy and psychology double major and lead guitarist, have played

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together for over two years, with Holler and McTaggart remaining from the original line-up. In this time they have recorded three tracks on dangerousanimals.bandcamp.com and are expected to reveal their first full length LP this month on their Facebook page.

Their live sound is frenetic and groovy leading to a packed dance floor.

Shockingly, on this dancefloor there is none of the usual grinding or even much touching at all, only the fast jumping and swinging expected from a rock concert.

This approach does have its drawbacks, however. At one venue the band found itself competing for an audience with the DJ on the floor above. That dancefloor found itself at maximum capacity throughout the night, while the basement featuring the band played to a small crowd who had known of the band previously.

The fan base and fan loyalty will increase much faster, the band believes, by playing at these venues. Their indiepunk and classic rock sounds can be heard on dangerousanimals.bandcamp.com, or, if you’re lucky, on a UConn Friday night. “Any party that wants to hire us we will play, unpaid, because live music is an essential part of the college experience,” said McTaggart.

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One of the albums most popular songs “The Wire” contains themes that are both lighthearted and highly relatable. As with many hit songs, the lyrics pertain to excitement and then disappointment over relationships turned sour. “You know there is no rhyme or reason to the way you turned out to be.”

However, the enduring quality of the lyrics is not necessarily the words themselves, but the way in which they are sung.

The three sisters harmonize and synthesize their voices to create arrangements that use a wide variety of pitches and tones. The sound that HAIM produces is not distinctly feminine, as one would expect from the topics of their songs, but instead incredibly soulful.

Larry Fitzmaurice from Pitchfork.com agrees with the quality of HAIM. “The lyrics on “Days Are Gone” aren’t necessarily built to withstand close analysis; largely, the words function to add a bit of weight to the effortless, feather-light melodies, but HAIM do know how to turn a phrase.”

Ultimately, the trio’s power is in their chemistry as a group, not their femininity or the themes of their songs.

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Sports

Dodgers, Braves look to regain their edge in NLDS

Los Angeles manager Don Mattingly watches batting practice Wednesday in Atlanta.

The Dodgers are scheduled to face the Braves in Game 1 of the NLDS Thursday.

ATLANTA (AP) — It's been a while since either team played a truly meaningful game.

The Los Angeles Dodgers took control of the NL West with an amazing 2 1-2-month stretch and could let off the gas over the final weeks.

The Atlanta Braves won the East going away, their commanding lead not at all threatened by a losing record over the final month.

Now, it's time to get serious again.

They meet Thursday night in Game 1 of the NL division series.

“I don't think we necessarily let up,” Dodgers infielder Michael Young said after a workout at Turner Field. “In our situation, we had to get some guys healthy. A couple of guys needed a couple of days off, so we gave it to them. Now we're ready to roll.”

Despite having some room for error, the Dodgers are far from healthy going into the playoffs.

Slugger Matt Kemp is out for Atlanta was bolstered by the postseason with an ankle unlikely contributors such as injury, while outfielder Andre Evan Gattis, who made the team Ethier will likely be limited to as a non-roster player in the pinch-hitting duties because of spring, hit 21 homers and paced his own ankle issues. He hasn't all NL rookies with 65 RBIs. He's played in the field since Sept. 13. expected to bat cleanup againWhile stDodgEthier took ers ace part in the Clayton workout, he Kershaw ruled out (16-9, 1.83 any chance ERA) in of playing the series 0-0 0-0 in the field. opener. “ T h e Gattis Turner Field, Atlanta, ankle is is not 8:30 p.m., TBS getting betalone. The ter every Braves day,” he said. “It's not as fast playoff roster is filled with as we want, but it's definitely guys who no one would've on the timetable that we knew expected just a few months ago. going in. Every day that it Journeyman Elliot Johnson, doesn't get more sore and set me acquired off waivers in August, back is a good day.” will start at second base. Veteran The Dodgers certainly won't pitcher Freddy Garcia, purchased get any sympathy from the from Baltimore late in the seaBraves, who lost seven players son, is set to start Game 4 if the to season-ending injuries. best-of-five series goes that far.

CLEVELAND (AP) — When the NFL announced its TV schedule, the Bills-Browns matchup on a Thursday night in October didn't figure to shatter any ratings records.

It still won't, but it's much more watchable than it figured to be.

The Bills and Browns are two of the league's early surprises at 2-2 under first-year coaches. Buffalo andCleveland have been sparked by opportunistic defenses, and one team will emerge from a short week and with momentum before the leaves drop and the weather along Lake Erie turns harsh and unforgiving.

The chance to play in the national spotlight has Browns nose tackle Phil Taylor revved up.

“Oh, yeah, the whole world is watching,” he said. “Every little thing you do, you know everyone is going to see it.”

Two weeks ago, the Browns

terback EJ Manuel. He passed for just 167 yards last week against Baltimore, but Buffalo's defense intercepted Joe Flacco five times to win.

While all 32 NFL teams play on a Thursday — not so for Sunday or Monday nights — this is a chance for the Bills and Browns to prove worthy of future exposure.

“If you're on Sunday or Monday nights it means you are bringing in the Ws,” Taylor said.

“We've got to keep winning.”

Five more reasons for tuning in to see the Browns host the Bills: RUNNING ON EMPTY: Buffalo's robust rushing attack may not be so healthy this week.

Running backs C.J. Spiller (left ankle) and Fred Jackson (sprained left knee) both got hurt last Sunday against the Ravens. They were limited in practice this week and Jackson plans to play in a brace. The Bills are averaging 152 yards

per game — second in the league — and they'll be facing a stingy defense limiting teams to just 79 yards and 2.9 per carry, a league low.

“They're very strong,” Bills coach Doug Marrone said.

“They do a very good job of holding the edges.”

M-I-N-G-O, MINGO IS HIS NAME-O: Browns rookie linebacker Barkevious Mingo is a rising star.

In just three games, the No. 6 overall draft pick has three sacks, knocked down a couple passes and would have blocked a punt if he wasn't held. The 6-foot-5, 250-pounder seems to be playing in a different gear as he has blown past offensive linemen with ease.

Mingo is the first player with a sack in his first three games since 2004.

ROOKIE THIEF: The Bills have a special rookie linebacker, too. Kiko Alonso is a ball magnet.

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Rookie David Hale, who made two September starts after the rosters expanded, made the bullpen as a long reliever.

“We got a lot of contributions from a lot of guys who, coming into the season, a lot of people didn't expect,” catcher Brian McCann said.

There also were some huge disappointments. Three-time All-Star second baseman Dan Uggla hit just .179 and didn't even make the 25-man squad, despite 22 homers. B.J. Upton was demoted to a backup role in the outfield after batting .184 with nine homers and 26 RBIs. With Kemp out and Ethier hurting, the Dodgers are counting on veterans such as Young, Skip Schumaker and Jerry Hairston to step up. Plus, they have one of the most exciting — and sometimes exasperating — rookies in the game, 22-year-old Yasiel Puig, who batted .319 with 19 homers and 42 RBIs. “Matt is a great player,” first

Detroit has a tough Bills and Browns primed for Thursday Night Football spotlight pitching decision seemed ready to slide into a hole and disappear. After dropping to 0-2, they traded star running back Trent Richardson to Indianapolis, a stunning move that had some Cleveland fans ready to storm the team's training facility with pitchforks and torches. But just when things seemed bleakest, quarterback Brian Hoyer, a lifelong Browns fan himself, rode to the rescue.

Displaying poise and leadership he learned as Tom Brady's understudy in New England, Hoyer has been a revelation for the Browns, and now must deliver again. He kept the starting job this week despite Brandon Weeden being cleared to play after spraining his right thumb.

“As a competitor, you want to be the guy out there on the field, so I'm obviously excited about that,” Hoyer said.

For the Bills to keep making progress, they'll need more consistency from rookie quar-

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So even if he was just 13-12 this season, he still was effective compared to his normal stat lines.

This being said, the Tigers will know what to expect when they send Verlander out there, which is why he is the safe bet for Game 1.

Zampini: Verlander’s ERA was trumped by Scherzer’s 2.90 ERA. Verlander’s 217 strikeouts were trumped by Scherzer’s 240.

If anything, Scherzer earned the right to start over Verlander by beating him in every statistical category. I’ll go back to what I said before about starting the hot hand.

He is 2-0 in his last three starts and has struck out 25 batters in those three starts. He has pitched well the entire season and I don’t see him showing any signs of slowing down.

Oakes: I will agree with you that Scherzer has the hot hand, but in the end I just think it is too hard for them to ignore the veteran presence that Verlander gives them on the mound. Last year

in the postseason, Verlander went 3-1 with a 2.22 ERA including a complete game shut out. He has also made 12 starts in the postseason compared to Scherzer’s seven.

Verlander is definitely the leader of the staff, whether on an “off” year or not, which is why the Tigers must ignore the hot hand for one game and allow Verlander to start Game 1 and let Scherzer take on Game 2.

Zampini: You can argue Verlander’s numbers in last years postseason, but I can also argue Scherzer’s numbers too. In one less start, Scherzer recorded a 1-0 record with an ERA of 0.92, only giving up one home run. It is not like Scherzer doesn’t have any postseason experience. He has seven starts in the playoffs, like you said, so he has been there before. It is not like he is a rookie and the Tigers are throwing him for his first postseason start. I think Scherzer will be just as good in the playoffs as he was in the regular season.

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Pirates prep for Wainwright, Cardinals in NLDS

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates are riding high after their first postseason victory in 21 years. They're confident they can beat anybody, anywhere.

A few hours after defeating Cincinnati in the NL wild-card game Tuesday night, the Pirates touched down in St. Louis.

They're about to face another familiar foe in an unfamiliar month when they take on the NL Central champion Cardinals in a best-of-five division series.

“We know them, they know us,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. “There won't be any ball tricks, I hope. No Statue of Liberty plays.”

A.J. Burnett, set to start the series opener Thursday, was a part of three New York Yankees teams that made it to October.

He said Wednesday there's a sense of euphoria with this experience that was lacking before.

“I guess the main thing is, over in New York, it's expected every year, you know?” Burnett said. “You tend to get in there a couple of weeks before the season ends. And this one was more of a 'Shock the world, we're going to do it, we made it!'“ The Pirates won the season series 10-9, but the Cardinals overtook them for the division

lead with a four-game sweep a row to end the season. They at home in early September. won their first NL Central St. Louis also has quite an crown since 2009 and secured advantage h o m e in postseaf i e l d son experiadvantage ence, with throughseveral out the NL holdovers playoffs. from the Their 0-0 1-0 2011 World .330 averS e r i e s with Busch Stadium, St. Louis, age championrunners 5 p.m., TBS ship team in scorand from ing posilast year, too, when St. Louis tion was the majors' best datfell one win shy of a second ing to 1974, when the statistic straight pennant. was first used. So far, they've The Cardinals earned some done fine without injured Allen time off after winning six in Craig, who missed almost all

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of September and isn't expected back from a left mid-foot sprain until at least the NL championship series.

“We played really well most of the year minus a couple of dips here and there that every team has,” said Matt Holliday, who batted .378 over the final month to finish at .300. “I'd say, just try to roll that momentum into the postseason.”

Adam Wainwright has to like this matchup, too. St. Louis' ace will pitch the opener and would also be available on full rest for a possible deciding Game 5. He went 1-0 with a 3.00 ERA in three starts against Pittsburgh this season.

Wainwright (19-9, 2.94 ERA) got rocked for 15 runs over eight innings in consecutive starts against the Reds.

One of them he labeled, “the worst start of my career,” before rebounding in the win that put the Cardinals in first place to stay. He was 4-0 in his final five starts, working seven or more innings in all of them except for a tuneup his last time out.

“Well, aside from Clayton Kershaw this year, I'd argue that you could look at any single pitcher in the history of the game and they're going to have a bad game or two in the course of 35 starts,” Wainwright said.

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(AP) — Vince Wilfork helped his rookie backups as they tried to learn the New England Patriots' complex defense.

Now, results of his teaching could be tested.

The star defensive tackle is expected to miss the rest of the season after tearing his right

Achilles tendon. That should mean more playing time for Joe Vellano and Chris Jones.

Vellano wasn't drafted and Jones already has been cut by two teams.

“Obviously, somebody is going to have to replace him,” New England coach Bill Belichick said Wednesday,

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There's no one person that can replace Vince Wilfork.”

The five-time Pro Bowl player is probably heavier than his listed weight of 325 pounds.

Vellano is listed at 300 and Smith at 309. And they're way behind him — about nine years — in knowing what to do in the middle of the defensive line.

Wilfork, drafted by the Patriots in the first round in 2004, has missed just six games in his career.

But he was injured on the Patriots' first defensive series of their 30-23 win over the Atlanta Falcons last Sunday night. He underwent surgery, and his wife tweeted a photo of him on a recliner and giving a thumbs-up sign while his right foot was in a cast.

“Vince was the rock in there, man,” safety Steve Gregory said.

“He's a heck of a football player and a big loss for our team.”

He still should be around Gillette Stadium, rehabbing and eventually attending team meetings.

“You can't learn enough from him. He's miles ahead of everybody, so you're trying to just pick up here and there,” Vellano said. “Vince is irreplaceable, one of the best guys at the position and a leader.”

The Patriots signed Vellano in early May, about a week after he went undrafted out of Maryland.

He played in 38 percent of the snaps in the first three games, then in 43 percent against Atlanta. He picked up his first sack against the Falcons.

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grow to 32 teams from CORASANITI, page 12

Certainly there are enough current teams in the NHL that are struggling to find any consistent success in the record books let alone filling their stadiums with fans, but that doesn’t make it naïve to think that there are still cities and markets out there that would thrive with a hockey team.

Let’s talk Seattle and Quebec City, as the two have been the most vehement options for either relocation or expansion in recent years.

I am a big fan of putting a hockey team in Seattle. Seattle has an interesting hockey history, as the Seattle Metropolitans were the first American team to ever win the Stanley Cup in 1917.

There have been opportunities to get a team to the area, as Seattle had been courting the NBA’s Sacramento Kings to move to Seattle with the prospect of building a hockey- and basketball-friendly stadium for its market (the 12th largest in the U.S.). Unfortunately, the Kings were unable to be wooed away from their current home, but with a wealthy potential ownership group, the possibility is still in the works.

Quebec City, on the other hand, held an NHL team from 1972-1995, the Nordiques, before the franchise moved to Colorado. The team ultimately left Quebec City due to financial issues, but a better ownership group could help a team survive in a city that has been calling on other failing franchises to move back to the area for years.

The Quebec market is bigger than Winnipeg, which just got its Jets back, and it’s proximity to Montreal offers an immediate potential for a rivalry if both teams end up being competitive at the same time.

This isn’t to say, of course, that Seattle and Quebec City are the only possible options for expansion.

Houston, for example, is easily the biggest market in North America without a hockey team.

The city has a history of hockey through the World Hockey Association, minor league hockey, and the American Hockey League. But the recent departure of the AHL’s Houston Aeros may be a sign that they may not be that desperate for a hockey team at the moment.

Portland, the No. 22 market in the country, may also be a viable option, giving a possible Seattle team an automatic rival in proximity.

Maybe somebody could even try putting a team in Hartford.

They could play their home games in the XL Center and bank on the history of the Whalers to give fans in between Boston and New York somebody else to root for (a guy can dream right?).

Expansion for the sake of expansion is never a good idea.

It can lead to flimsy teams playing for markets that couldn’t care less about their existence, which the NHL definitely doesn’t need with some current teams struggling themselves.

But when some teams have a literal statistical advantage at making the playoffs, something needs to be done about it. It’s that simple.

In reality, expansion is almost definitely not the most practical option. But for a league aiming to thrive in excitement, fan participation and competition amongst its teams, it is easily the most stirring option it has.

Follow Mike Corasaniti on Twitter @mikecorasaniti.

Michael.Corasaniti@UConn.edu

Huskies tie Owls in Philadelphia from HUSKIES, page 12

The Huskies dominated the possession in the first half and out shot the Owls, 5-2. Freshman forward Cyle Larin and junior midfielder Edir DaGraca led the offense which had several opportunities to find the net early on but Temple junior goalkeeper Dan Scheck, who has posted a shutout in each of the Owls’ six wins this season, was able to foil those bids and kept the score even at the time.

In overtime, the Owls struggled to piece together an offense, but both Allando Matheson and Ethan

Decker had chances to end the match for UConn. The Temple defense and Scheck, however, held on against the Huskies’ attacks and forced the teams to settle with the draw. Scheck ended the match with seven saves on 19 shots.

UConn will return for a home match this Saturday for the first time since Sept. 21 and host conference rival University of Central Florida at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium at 7 p.m.

Michael.Peng@UConn.edu

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What's Next Home game

Oct. 19 Cincinnati TBA

Oct. 9 Rutgers 7 p.m.

94

The number of losses the Cleveland Indians finished the 2012 MLB season with. The Indians won 92 games this year.

Oct. 26 UCF TBA

Oct. 12 Memphis 7 p.m.

» NBA

» That’s what he said - San Francisco 49er safety Donte Hitner, who has legally changed his name from “Whitner”

Nov. 8 Louisville 8:30 p.m.

Nov. 16 SMU TBA

LeBron tops NBA’s global jersey sales list

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Donte Hitner

» Pic of the day

Buff in Cleveland

Men’s Soccer (3-2-3) Oct. 5 UCF 7 p.m.

Stat of the day

“My last name was Whitner, now it’s Hitner...I asked my mom first, though. She said no in the summer, then she said yes three nights ago. It’s pretty cool.”

Away game

Football (0-4) Oct. 12 USF Noon

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Oct. 15 Columbia 7 p.m.

Oct. 19 Louisville 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer (8-4-0) Oct. 6 USF 1 p.m.

Tomorrow UCF 7 p.m.

Oct. 11 Temple 7 p.m.

Oct. 17 Cincinnati 7 p.m.

Oct. 20 Louisville Noon

Field Hockey (9-0) Tomorrow Providence 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 Boston College 2 p.m.

Oct. 13 BU 2 p.m.

Oct. 18 Georgetown 2 p.m.

Oct. 11 Rutgers 7 p.m.

Oct. 18 Temple 7 p.m.

Oct. 6 Oct. 5 Oct. 10 Quinnipiac Quinnipiac Quinnipiac Invitational Invitational 3 p.m.

All Day All Day

Oct. 15 Marist 3 p.m.

Volleyball Tomorrow UCF 7 p.m.

Oct. 6 USF Noon

Oct. 11 Louisville 6 p.m.

(8-8) Oct. 8 Sacred Heart 7 p.m.

Men’s Tennis (3-0) Tomorrow Quinnipiac Invitational All Day

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Cleveland Indians fan Jim Stamper holds one of his many signs during batting practice before the AL wild-card baseball game between the Indians and Tampa Bay Rays, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, in Cleveland.

Women’s Tennis Oct. 9 UMass 3 p.m.

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PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — LeBron James has the world’s best-selling NBA jersey.

The Miami Heat star and four-time league MVP tops the NBA’s global list of jersey sales for this past season, according to numbers released Tuesday. James — who also has the top-selling jersey in the United States — outsold Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers, Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Heat teammate Dwyane Wade for the No. 1 spot.

James said having the world’s top-selling jersey “means everything” to him.

“To know that so many people look up to me, so many kids, that’s what means more than anything, that I continue to inspire the youth and they look at me as a role model,” James said after learning the news at Heat training camp in the Bahamas. “I understand, when you wear someone’s jersey, you actually like believe in them. You believe they can do supernatural things. It’s like an extension of our family and I really appreciate that.”

The league unveiled the rankings — based on Adidas’ global sales for the past season — just three days before the start of NBA Global Games 2013, which include eight preseason games in seven different countries, then regular-season games in Mexico City on Dec. 4 and London on Jan. 16.

Many of the top names on the global-sales list — including Rose, Bryant and Durant — are on teams taking part in this season’s international matchups.

Carmelo Anthony is sixth on the globalsales list, followed by Dwight Howard (his now-former Lakers jersey), Deron Williams, Blake Griffin and Rajon Rondo to round out the top 10. In spots 11-15 on the global list are Steve Nash, Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Garnett (his now-former Celtics jersey) and Joe Johnson.

In U.S. sales, James is followed by Rose, Bryant, Durant, Anthony, Wade, Howard, Williams, Griffin and Rondo.

Despite missing all of last season with a knee injury, Rose had the top-selling jersey in China, Latin America and Europe. James had the top-seller in the Philippines.

To James, finishing atop these rankings further signified how things have changed since he made his decision to sign with Miami in 2010 after spending the first seven seasons of his career in Cleveland.

“I’ve come a long way,” James said. “I’ve come a long way. I’ve grown as a basketball player and as a person off the floor in every aspect since 2010. I’m definitely humbled by it, appreciative. You always hear me say that I’m just a kid from Akron, and to be able to have this stature and that accomplishment, I think that’s pretty cool.”

» NCAA

Farrell: Lester will Boeheim against start ALDS Game 1 paying student-athletes BOSTON (AP) — Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell waited until all of his players safely made it out of a simulated game on Wednesday before confirming what he’d only hinted at before: Left-hander Jon Lester will start Game 1 of the AL division series.

“He’s been outstanding in the second half,” Farrell said in the clubhouse. “The last couple of starts he’s put together for us have been very strong.”

Lester, who was 15-8 with a 3.75 ERA this season, but he won his first six decisions and seven of his last nine decisions. From May 20 through the All-Star break, he went 2-6 with a 6.27 ERA. Lester will be followed in the rotation by John Lackey and Clay Buchholz, with Jake Peavy ready to pitch Game 4 of the best-of-five series if necessary. The Red Sox will play the winner of Wednesday night’s AL wild-card game between the Cleveland Indians and the Tampa Bay Rays.

The Red Sox have not played since finishing the regular season on Sept. 29 with a 97-65 record that tied the St. Louis Cardinals for the best in base-

ball. In order to stay sharp, the Red Sox held a workout on Tuesday and played a simulated game — red vs. blue — on Wednesday.

“Today is part of doing what we can to ensure that we’re prepared, and not letting a four-day layoff affect us,” Farrell said. “No one’s looking at the layoff as a detriment.”

Almost 4,000 fans came to the ballpark to hear public address announcer Dick Flavin announce, “Welcome to today’s game between the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Red Sox.” Children lined up for balloon animals or to have their faces painted while former Red Sox infielder Ted Lepcio signed autographs in the concourse.

The blue team, which included most of the regulars, won 1-0 on a first-inning double by Jarrod Saltalamacchia.

“Obviously, it wasn’t a real game atmosphere,” infielder Will Middlebrooks said, adding that it was good to see live pitching after one day off and another with a more traditional workout. “Today we picked it up a bit. Two days off is a lot for us. You don’t want to get too used to that.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim isn’t on board with paying college athletes.

Speaking Wednesday in Syracuse at an annual Associated Press meeting of New York newspaper editors, Boeheim said he’s heard the most recent talk about paying college athletes and doesn’t agree with it one bit.

“That’s really the most idiotic suggestion of all time,” Boeheim said. “I don’t believe players should be paid. I believe they are getting a tremendous opportunity.”

Boeheim took exception with retired NBA star Chris Webber’s complaint he received nothing after his team shirt was sold.

In a documentary released earlier this year, Webber lamented that while a student-athlete at Michigan, his team jersey sold in a campus store for $75 without any money going to him.

Boeheim noted that Webber received a free education and the exposure that allowed him to go on to a lucrative professional career.

“He didn’t get his $30,000 or $40,000,” Boeheim said. “But he got his money.”

Boeheim also noted that col-

lege athletes who demonstrate a financial need are awarded Pell grants that can be $6-$7,000 on top of the free tuition, room, board and at least a half-dozen pairs of athletic shoes a year.

Boeheim is preparing for his 38th season with the Orange, a team that made the Final Four last season for the fourth time since 1976. The school officially joined the Atlantic Coast Conference on July 1, leaving the Big East.

With Duke and North Carolina on the schedule now, Boeheim assured fans that new rivalries will blossom. He pointed out that before the Big East formed on May 31, 1979, by far the biggest game of the year for Syracuse was against in-state foe St. Bonaventure. He figures fans will forgive the fact that Georgetown is not on the schedule this year when they see 35,000 people in the Carrier Dome for Duke on Feb. 1.

“It’s a great league,” he said.

“I think this league will be the greatest basketball league ever.”

Syracuse and Georgetown plan to continue the rivalry going forward, and former Big East rivals Villanova and St. John’s remain on the schedule for the upcoming season.

» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

P.11: Lester to start ALDS Game 1 for Red Sox / P.10: Pirates go into St. Louis for NLDS opener / P.9: Dodgers and Braves return to playoffs

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ALL TIED UP IN PHILLY

The puck has dropped, now expand

Huskies draw even on the road against Temple Owls

By Mike Peng Staff Writer

Mike Corasaniti I have always thought it to be a simple concept that divisions in sports should be divided up equally. In the simplest statistical terms, each team should have the same percentage chance of winning their division and making the playoffs.

Enter the NHL, which began its season Tuesday night with newly aligned conferences and divisions, leaving the Eastern Conference with 16 teams and the Western Conference with 14 after years of working with two conferences of 15. Instead of having three divisions of five teams in each conference, there are now two divisions in each conference (two divisions of eight teams in the Eastern Conference and two divisions of seven teams in the Western Conference).

Realignment does offer some benefits. The realignment guarantees that at least three teams from each of the four divisions make the playoffs (as opposed to just the Top 8 teams in each conference) allowing for a team that may not have had much of a shot in the old format to have more incentive to fight for a weaker third seed in a weaker conference and, in a sense, making for more interesting playoff qualifications.

The realignment also eases travel pains as the Winnipeg Jets are now rightfully in the Western Conference and the Detroit Red Wings and the Columbus Blue Jackets are in the Eastern Conference which makes travel woes much easier for all three teams involved, but it does make things more difficult for the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lighting, whose divisional foes are now in Michigan, New York, Massachusetts and Canada.

The benefits do not outweigh the issues of fairness the league faces with its new alignment.

There are a few routes the NHL could take to fix what I’m sure is a flawed system from the start, but the best answer is to somehow add two more teams to to put the league’s total up to 32.

In an address last week, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman commented on possible expansion among other topics. The gist of the address: There is no organized pursuance of NHL expansion at the moment according to Bettman. So let me be the first to accept that expansion at this point in time is a somewhat farfetched idea, but a guy can dream right?

Sophomore forward Nicholas Zuniga scored his first goal of the season but the No. 24 UConn men’s soccer team again was not able to hold the lead as the Huskies earned another 1-1 double overtime draw, this time against conference foe Temple (6-3-1, 0-1-1 The American), on Wednesday afternoon at the Ambler Sports Complex in Philadelphia, Pa. UConn is now 3-2-3 (0-0-2 The American) on the season.

Zuniga’s goal came about 16 minutes into the second half when freshman defender Jakob Nerwinski sent a pass that led Zuniga to the right wing. The Norwalk native then fired a shot from approximately 16 yards out that found the upper left corner to put UConn on the board. The goal was Zuniga’s second with the Huskies, with the first coming in last year’s NCAA Tournament against New Mexico.

Temple scored the equalizer with just under 12 minutes remaining in regulation when freshman defender Robert Sagel headed in a goal off a cross from sophomore midfielder Jared Martinelli. The goal was only the fifth allowed by UConn junior goalkeeper Andre Blake in 780 minutes played this season.

Both sides entered play as good defensive teams this season. Temple has allowed only six goals— none at home before Zuniga’s strike—in its nine contests, while UConn has conceded only four in seven matches.

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UConn freshman midfielder Cyle Larin (10) driblles the ball up the field in a Sept. 10 match against the Washington Huskies. UConn played to a 1-1 tie against the Temple Owls Wednesday afternoon in Philadelphia.

» HUSKIES, page 9

Football needs a plan with Pasqualoni out

By Scott Carroll NCAA Football Columnist

Paul Pasquoloni has finally moved on from UConn. With the program in a period of transition, it is important that the athletic program have a plan. Athletic director Warde Manuel is in luck because when I’m not writing columns I can be found in my dorm creating college football dynasties on EA Sports’ popular game “NCAA Football.”

Here is my foolproof plan to improve the state of Huskies Football.

The number one thing that the Huskies need to do is bring in a young coach who is going to bring an exciting brand of football with him. Fans don’t want to see constant rushes for three yards a down, they want to see flashy offenses with constant passes and hurry ups.

Let’s bring Oregon’s offense to East Hartford.

» CORASANITI, page 10

If the Huskies don’t go the route of the young coach with the up-start system, why not bring in a big name as the coach? Lane Kiffin isn’t doing anything right now and if the Buccaneers continue their implosion then chances are Greg Schiano will be available too. UConn should be marketing themselves as a program a coach can mold into their own as the Huskies really have few traditions other than a bell and haven’t had any success in their 13 years as a BCS team, aside from one BCS Bowl game.

Any coach that comes in could leave their mark on a program instead of just inheriting someone else’s program.

Michigan will always be Bo Schembechler’s program and Ohio State will always belong to Woody Hayes, but UConn’s program has yet to be claimed as a particular coaches’ program. A coach has the chance

to do what Jim Calhoun did with the university’s basketball program and turn a zero into a hero.

This coaching decision might be the most important decision the athletic program will have to make for the future of Huskies sports.

With conference realignment looming it’s important that our football program be up to snuff with the rest of the nation in order to attract a potential suitor for our conference.

So, college football coaches of America, when you look at UConn Football don’t look at the current state, but look at what it can become. See yourself leading a school with your own implemented traditions and slogans. You could be the man who puts UConn football on the map.

Scott.Carroll@UConn.edu

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Former UConn head coach Paul Pasqualoni looks on during an Aug. 29 game against Towson. UConn needs to have a plan in deciding its next long-term head coach.

Who should start Game 1 for the Detroit Tigers in the ALDS? Justin Verlander

By Spencer Oakes Campus Correspondent

AP

Should the Tigers go with their reliable ace...

The Detroit Tigers are faced with a very tough decision. The emergence of Max Scherzer this season makes picking their Game 1 starter for the ALDS difficult, considering that Justin Verlander has been Detroit’s ace for a few years now, and quite possibly the best pitcher in the league over that span. But Verlander has been in this position before and he knows how to get it done. It has been proven across all sports that experience is one of the most lethal things a team can have, so why wouldn’t the Tigers let Verlander go out there and use that experience in the first game of the series.

Spencer.Oakes@UConn.edu

» POINT/COUNTERPOINT Oakes: It is hard to argue about Scherzer being the best pitcher in the MLB this season. That being said, Verlander by far has the better track record. Very few pitchers, if any, can throw a 100-mile per hour fastball and not have it be known as their best pitch. The arsenal of pitches Verlander displays, led by his curveball, make him nearly unhittable at times.

He just seems to have that “it” factor, especially when it comes to pitching big games. The Tigers would be crazy to leave him on the bench for Game 1.

Zampini: Verlander may have the better track record, but I don’t think it matters what happened in the past. The Tigers are focused on winning now, and I think Scherzer will give them the best shot to win Game 1. Verlander can throw the ball 100 miles per hour every pitch, but the question

is, can he get batters out with it?

And this season, I think he has struggled.

Verlander is 13-12 this year, which is a major down year for him. Verlander has had some great years but this year it has been different. Scherzer may not have much playoff experience but like I said before, I think you have to ride the hot hand in Game 1.

Oakes: Although Verlander did not have a record up to his normal standards, he still had a solid season. A starting pitcher’s record tends to overshadow his actual performance. Verlander finished the season with a 3.46 ERA, which is just over his career ERA of 3.41. He also topped 200 strikeouts once again this season, a feat not many pitchers reach on a regular basis.

» TIGERS, page 9

Max Scherzer

By Matt Zampini Campus Correspondent This season, Max Scherzer has been MLB’s best pitcher.

His record of 21-3 is the best in baseball and, along with a 2.90 ERA and a 0.97 WHIP, he has been almost unhittable this season. He was second in the league in strikeouts and only gave up 152 hits. There is no reason why the Detroit Tigers should not throw Scherzer in to pitch Game 1 of the ALDS. He has been the best pitcher all year, so why would you go away from the hot hand? Tiger’s manager Jim Leyland would be smart to match up his No. 1 pitcher against the opponents No. 1 pitcher.

Matthew.Zampini@UConn.edu

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... or is their new superstar the best bet?