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The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration awarded the UConn Office of Technology Commercialization a fiveyear $483,830 grant. The EDA administered the grant to UConn through their University Center Program, which is designed to improve regional economic development tools that will create jobs.
“The grant is to operate a program for five years that’s focused on economic development through university activities,” said Rita Zangari, executive director of the Technology Incubation Program. “It’s called the University Center Program. We’ve had the program for six years, and we can now maintain it for another five years.” With the grant, UConn is expected to boost economic development efforts that promote technology transfer, entrepreneurship and assist local government and nonprofit organizations. For the past six years, UConn has focused on technology-based economic development, according to a UConn press release. Funding from the grant will allow for the university’s developmental efforts to continue.
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By Katherine Tibedo Campus Correspondent Fourth-year UConn medical student Jessica Johnson was recently awarded a 2011 Pisacano Scholarship. Johnson is the first UConn student ever to receive a Pisacano Scholarship and is one of only five senior medical students nationally who have received this award. Johnson has also been elected to the board of directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), as reported in UConn Today. “The Pisacano Leadership Foundation…is charged with identifying and assisting the future leaders of the specialty of family medicine. As such, the most important characteristic we look for in our applicants is the potential to be a leader in family medicine,” said Robert Cattoi, executive director of Pisacano Leadership Foundation, in an email. As stated on UConn Today, Jessica plans to utilize her leadership skills in family medicine, to support healthcare reform, and to one day bring her experiences into the classroom teaching medical students. Johnson’s history of dedication to the community and family medicine has brought her into the spotlight. Her
record, listed on UConn Today, includes working as an Urban Service Track scholar, organizing the UConn Migrant Farm Worker Clinic, volunteering at the South Park Inn Medical Clinic, a free student-run clinic in Hartford targeted at the homeless, and a 2010 induction to the Gold Humanism Honor Society. “Jessica not only shows great promise in the classroom, we believe that she has the potential to have a salubrious effect not only on her patients, but all those around her,” Cattoi said. The Pisacano Scholarship aims at alleviating a part of medical school debt. The scholarship, which gives up to $28,000, is awarded over the recipients’ fourth year of medical school and their following three-year residency. “As someone who is interested in family medicine, I am happy to see her recognized for her hard work and dedication to a specialty that is really in need of talented and passionate doctors,” said Pooja Uppalapati, co-president of UConn’s Pre-Medical Society. Along with receiving a Pisacano Scholarship, Johnson is the only student member elected to the board
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Besides UConn, the EDA awarded grants to 20 other institutions across the country. The EDA divided a total of $12 million amongst these institutions, according to a UConn press release. Universities such as UConn can impact their regional economies by leveraging assets such as faculty, students, laboratories and research and development centers to create regional economic growth through innovation. “Universities have the ability and the responsibility to help drive economic growth in their states,” said UConn President Susan Herbst. Herbst said that UConn is prepared to do its part to help the Connecticut economy. “We’re thrilled to receive this grant as we continue to ramp up and unify our economic develop-
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ment efforts aimed at building a highly-skilled workforce, aiding businesses and creating jobs here in Connecticut.” Senate President Donald Williams said that recent investments helped make UConn an attractive candidate for the grant. “UConn is in a position to attract this type of grant because of the investments we’ve made in the university over the last few years,” Williams said. “There’s no doubt UConn’s emerging reputation and capacity as a research and technology center can spur economic growth.” Although UConn is direct recipient of the funding, Zangari said that the real benefactor from the grant is the entire state of Connecticut. ”The expected outcome of this proposal is job creation and
retention, company formation, and new product development,” Zangari said. “It combines our missions.” “This is welcome news for UConn and for the statewide economy,” said Governor Dannel P. Malloy. “UConn’s potential as an economic engine in Connecticut is tremendous. We have the components to make this a worldclass research facility; we have the resources to attract top talent, research and development investment, and the best students that Connecticut and the world has to offer. This funding is an important step to attracting additional dollars that will help us achieve our overall goals of a stronger university and a stronger Connecticut economy.”
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Many undergraduate and graduate students attended the “Cookies with Career Services” event Monday afternoon as part of Commuter Appreciation week. Rachel Larson, a career consultant in career services, exposed students to the variety of available career services in her interactive presentation that required students’ involvement. “I’m not the type of person to stand here for 45 minutes and lecture you about career services,” Larson said. Addison Zhao, a 5th-semester psychology major, enjoyed the distinctive presentation. “The instant preach, teach and learn method was innovative and let me get a hands-on for what real network situations seems like,”
Zhao said. Yafeng Wang, a graduate student majoring in applied financial mathematics, was one of many students surprised by the style of presentation. “I was really surprised by your presentation,” Wang said to Larson. “I thought I was just going to sit here for 45 minutes.” Cat Carter, a graduate student majoring in higher education and student affairs, agreed with Wang. “I was very pleasantly surprised by the engaged presentation she gave,” Carter said. Larson had students practicing essential networking skills like professional introductions, appropriate handshakes and correct body language with other students. “A handshake is your first impression,” Larson said as students practiced firm, consistent handshakes with one another. Students also practiced appro-
priate body language in mock interviews. Larson spoke of the importance of gestures, such as good posture, nodding and smiling, which all show your possible employer your focus and attentiveness on the conversation. “I found that the most beneficial part of the Career Services presentation was the intention to make people network, or at least try to practice the networking tips that were taught,” Zhao said. Larson’s final networking note was the importance of business cards. “Once you get someone’s business card, take a minute to write down something about that person,” Larson said. Students were surprised by the simplicity of the task, which can have huge benefits when you’ve accumulated dozens of business cards and are having trouble telling
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What’s on at UConn today... West Indian Student Org. Food Sale 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Student Union, 104 The student group will be selling baked Jamaican patties from Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill.
How to Change a Flat Tire Noon to 1:30 p.m. Fairfield Way This demonstration is for those who want to be prepared in case cell service or AAA is unreliable.
Interning in the Government 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. SU Ballroom The event sponsored by Career Services includes an alum speaking about living in Washington, D.C., a workshop on composing a federal government resume and an employer panel.
True Colors Conference meeting 6 to 8 p.m. Rainbow Center The True Colors Conference is a meeting of LGBT people from around New England. Planning is happening now, but the event is during Spring Break.
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Conn. takes back 56 trooper layoffs HARTFORD (AP) — The head of the Connecticut State Police says enough money was saved from retirements of senior state troopers to rehire 56 who were recently laid off. Reuben Bradford, commissioner of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, said Monday that notices for the troopers laid off beginning Aug. 24 are rescinded. The majority will return to the road on Oct. 7 and Oct. 21. Forty officers have retired, saving the state $2.3 million in salaries. Annual pay for the 56 troopers who would have been laid off totaled $1.9 million. The state police union recently asked a Hartford Superior Court judge to require the state to abide by a law setting the minimum number of troopers at 1,248. Bradford said he commissioned a study to determine adequate staffing levels.
Home invasion suspect had gas on his clothes
NEW HAVEN (AP) – A Connecticut man charged with a gruesome home invasion had gas on his boots, pants and sweatshirt, a state lab official testified Monday, potentially undermining defense efforts to blame a co-defendant for dousing the house in gas and setting it on fire. Prosecutors finished calling witnesses Monday in their case against Joshua Komisarjevsky, who faces a possible death sentence if convicted of the July 2007 attack on a family in its Cheshire home. His co-defendant Steven Hayes was convicted last year and is on death row. Komisarjevsky had gas on his clothes, testified Jack Hubball, a chemist at the state forensic lab. Komisarjevsky has blamed Hayes for pouring the gas. Michaela Petit, an 11-year-old girl who was killed in the fire along with her 17-year-old sister, Hayley, had bleach on her shorts, Hubball said. Komisarjevsky is charged with sexually assaulting the girl. Hayes’ attorney said during his trial that Komisarjevsky had poured bleach on her clothes to try to eliminate his DNA.
ExlService buys Trumbull Services from Hartford
NEW YORK (AP) – ExlService Holdings Inc., which provides business outsourcing services, said Monday that it has acquired Trumbull Services LLC from The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. Trumbull provides premium collection and policy administration services to clients. It also has expertise in subrogation, a process in which an insurance company tries to collect from another party partially responsible for a claim. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Trumbull employees associated with the transaction have been offered comparable positions with ExlService. Trumbull has offices in Hartford, Conn., and Columbia, S.C. ExclService shares fell 8 cents to $21.92 in midday trading. They’ve traded between $17.94 and $26.55 in the past year.
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Lawyers argue against delaying Loughner’s transfer
PHOENIX (AP) — Prosecutors are asking an appeals court to deny delaying the Tucson shooting rampage suspect’s return to a Missouri prison facility. Jared Lee Loughner’s attorneys on Friday asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to delay his transfer from Tucson back to Springfield, arguing that it would cause him “irreparable harm.” Prosecutors filed their response Monday, saying Loughner gets constant medical care and psychiatric treatment at the Missouri facility, and has greatly improved since he arrived there four months ago. They also argue that delaying Loughner’s transfer isn’t in the public interest, saying that “the victims in this case have a right to a prompt resolution.” Loughner has pleaded not guilty to 49 charges stemming from the Jan. 8 shooting that killed six and injured 13, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
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Sept. 26 Melanie R. Nicholson, 19, of Canterbury, was arrested at 7:03 p.m. at the UConn police station and charged with criminal mischief in the first degree. Nicholson turned herself in with an active arrest warrant. Nicholson vandalized a car on July 6, which was why she had a warrant out for her arrest. Her bond was set for $499 and her court date is Oct. 4. Sept. 27 Maribel Figueroa, 37, of Willimantic, was arrested at 2:43 a.m. at the field house and charged with breach of peace in the second degree. Police were dispatched to the field house for the report of a disturbance between two female cleaning staff. Figueroa was found to be involved in the disturbance, yelling loudly and pushing the other female into metal lockers. Her bond was set for $1,000 and her court
date is Oct. 4. Sept. 29 Alfred M. Chock, 21, of Hampstead, N.H., was arrested at 1:27 a.m. at Snow Hall and charged with interfering with an officer. Police responded to a complaint about potential marijuana use in a dorm room. Chock and another male did not allow police to conduct the investigation. His bond was set for $500 and his court date is Oct. 11. Brian A. Tamburello, 21, of Colonia, N.J., was arrested at 1:27 a.m. at Snow Hall and charged with interfering with an officer. Tamburello was with Chock and also did not let police conduct an investigation of the dorm room associated with the reported smell of marijuana. His bond was set for $500 and his court date is Oct. 11. Jeeha Park, 19, of Cheshire, was arrested at 9:20 a.m. at the
Oct. 1 Norbert J. Heil, 22, of East Hampton, was arrested on Hunting Lodge Road and charged with following too close, reckless driving, unsafe movement in a motor vehicle, driving without proof of insurance and driving while under the influence. Heil was pulled over for driving recklessly and was unable to produce proof of insurance. Officers suspected Heil to be under the influence. Heil proceeded to fail a series of sobriety tests. His bond is set for $2,000 and his court date is Oct. 11. Matthew J. Clement, 18, of Mansfield, was arrested at
Oct. 2 Joseph R. Reiser, 19, of Storrs, was arrested at 1:18 a.m. at Celeron Square Apartments and charged with assault in the third degree, breach of peace in the second degree and criminal mischief in the second degree. Officers went to Celeron because of a report that an intoxicated male threw a rock at a motor vehicle. It was found that Reiser threw the rock and assaulted a Celeron Security Guard who attempted to stop Reiser. His bond was set for $2,000 and his court date is Oct. 11. Brian D. Murtha, 19, of Monroe, was arrested at 10:35 p.m. at La Flesche Hall at Hilltop Apartments and charged with possession of a controlled substance or less than four ounces of marijuana. Officers responded to a complaint of marijuana odor. Brian Murtha was found to be in possession of 0.67 ounces of marijuana. His bond was set for $1,500 and his court date is Oct. 11.
a candidacy. At the swearing-in ceremony of a superior court judge in Patterson, N.J., Christie remained coy Monday night, joking about coming to the ceremony “a little preoccupied.” But campaign operatives, fundraisers and veteran presidential campaign advisers in Iowa and New Hampshire say no one with Christie has contacted them in recent weeks. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who has said he was wowed by Christie’s plainspoken style and call for reforming public employee benefits, would be a natural entry point for Christie in the leadoff caucus state. But Christie and Branstad haven’t talked since Christie headlined an education conference at the Iowa governor’s invitation in July, said Branstad spokesman Tim Albrecht. Christie advisers have kept in loose touch with some Iowa Republicans, led by Branstad’s top fundraiser Bruce Rastetter, who urged Christie to run when
they met in New Jersey in May. Rastetter declined to say whether he had recently heard from Christie. In South Carolina, organizers close to the New Jersey governor have been making calls to key activists in the first Southern primary state to feel them out on organization and strategy. “People who are involved in trying to get the governor to run have begun to come up with campaign plans in case he decides to run,” said a South Carolina GOP leader who did not want to be identified to avoid pre-empting a possible Christie announcement. The Christie organizer “called up and said, ‘If he decided to run, do you think he would be able to be competitive in South Carolina?’” Christie buzz was even quieter in New Hampshire. The governor has visited neither New Hampshire nor South Carolina since taking office last year.
UConn Co-op and charged with larceny in the sixth degree. Co-op staff saw Park slip a remote control valued at $45.35 into his pocket. He then left the store without paying for the item. His court date is Oct. 11.
No sign of Christie in early voting states
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been silent in early voting primary states, and if he decides to join the Republican presidential race, would face the challenge of launching a campaign from a standing start. Neither Christie nor his political team has reached out to GOP strategists or top party officials in Iowa or New Hampshire as the first-term governor reevaluates his oft-repeated refusal to seek the Republican nomination for president. His lack of spadework would complicate an undertaking that already requires raising millions of dollars and establishing campaign operations in several states simultaneously. Adding to the challenges, Florida last week moved its primary into January, pushing the start of the 2012 nominating contests to barely three months away. But Christie’s renewed look at a presidential bid without
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making a round of calls even to new, influential friends in Iowa and New Hampshire reflects confidence within Christie’s circle that the adoring and hungry Republican elites who have courted him can compensate for his organizational deficit with momentum. As early as this week, Christie could announce whether he will run and reverse himself after more than a year of ruling out
Event part of Commuter Johnson only student Appreciation Week elected to AAFP board
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them apart. “I particularly liked the business card tip,” Zhao said. “It was incredibly novel to me and made incredible sense in terms of practicality for further networking opportunities in the future.” Larson also introduced students to the career services website and all that career services has to offer students from resume critiques to internship listings to career consultations. “We are a full service office,” Larson said. “We can help you if you’re a first year undergraduate or a graduate student. We also have alumni services as well.” Larson wanted students to know
that they should get to the career services office. “The stats are that you’re more likely to find a job sooner than you would have otherwise if you use career services often,” Larson said. Cat Carter, a graduate student majoring in higher education and student affairs and the coordinator for the Commuter Appreciation week events, pointed out that this was just one of the many upcoming events as part of the Commuter Appreciation week. “This year for Commuter Appreciation week, we’re trying to expose commuter students to the large amount of resources available free on campus,” Carter said.
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from MED., page 1 of directors to the AAFP. The AAFP represents over 100,300 members in all 50 states, and D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam, according to the AAFP website. As a student member Johnson is tasked with representing the National Congress of Student members with the AAFP, as well as supporting family physicians and patients in order to bring progressive change to the American health care system, reports UConn Today. Samip Shah, co-president of the UConn Pre-Medical
Society, said, “I can say that we are proud of Jessica, and that we wish her the best of luck in her future.” Johnson’s latest accomplishments add to a list of other achievements. Her dedication to the field of family medicine, has earned her a Pisacano Scholarship and a position of the board of directors of the AAFP. “We are so excited that someone from our community has won this scholarship and we know she will do great things,” Uppalapti said.
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Scientist wins Nobel for medicine days after death STOCKHOLM (AP) — A pioneering researcher was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday, three days after dying of pancreatic cancer without ever knowing he was about to be honored for his immune system work that he had used to try to prolong his own life. The Nobel committee said it was unaware that Canadian-born cell biologist Ralph Steinman had already died when it awarded the prize to him, American Bruce Beutler and French scientist Jules Hoffmann. Since the committee is only supposed to consider living scientists, the Nobel Foundation held an emergency meeting Monday and said the decision on the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) prize will remain unchanged. “The Nobel Prize to Ralph Steinman was made in good faith, based on the assumption that the Nobel laureate was alive,” the foundation said. Steinman, 68, died Sept. 30, according to Rockefeller University in New York. He underwent therapy based on his discovery of the immune system’s dendritic cells, for which he won the prize, the university said. “He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer four years ago, and his life was extended using a dendritic-cell based immunotherapy of his own design,” the university said. Beutler and Hoffmann were cited for their discoveries in the 1990s of receptor proteins that
can recognize bacteria and other microorganisms as they enter the body, and activate the first line of defense in the immune system, known as innate immunity. Nobel committee members said the work by the three is being used to develop better vaccines, and in the long run could also help treatment of diseases linked to abnormalities in the immune system, such as rheumatoid arthritis, Type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis and chronic inflammatory diseases. The work could also help efforts to make the immune system fight cancer, the committee said. A new treatment, Provenge, uses this concept to attack advanced prostate cancer. Nobel committee member Goran Hansson told The Associated Press that hoped-for vaccines are in the pipeline. “I am very touched. I’m thinking of all the people who worked with me, who gave everything,” Hoffmann said by telephone to a news conference in Paris. “I wasn’t sure this domain merited a Nobel.” Beutler said he woke up in the middle of the night, glanced at his cellphone and realized he had a new email message. “And, I squinted at it and I saw that the title line was ‘Nobel Prize,’ so I thought I should give close attention to that,” Beutler said in an interview posted on the Nobel website. “And, I opened it and it was from Goran Hansson, and it said that I had won the Nobel Prize, and so I was thrilled.”
Calif. lettuce recall covers 19 states, Canada
SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — A California farm that issued a voluntary lettuce recall over listeria contamination concerns said its notice has gone out to 19 states and Canada. True Leaf Farms of Salinas initially announced a recall of 90 cartons of romaine lettuce shipped to an Oregon food service distributor, which shipped the produce to Washington and Idaho. But the chief executive of Church Brothers, which sells and markets the farm’s produce, clarified Saturday that the recall involved nearly 2,500 cartons. Only 90 cartons went to retail sales, said CEO Steve Church, and those were the ones mentioned in the initial announcement. The rest of the cartons, Church said, went to institutions such as restaurants and cafeterias, which were notified about the recall. The company recalled the 33,000 pounds of lettuce after a check by federal officials found that a sample from one bag tested positive for listeria. No illnesses have been reported. The chopped and bagged lettuce, grown in Watsonville
and processed in San Juan Bautista, was shipped Sept. 12 and 13. The recall covers products with a “use by date” of Sept. 29. The bag and box code is B256-46438-8. The states covered by the recall include Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Vermont. Lettuce currently picked at the Salinas farm is safe to eat, Church said. A listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes from a Colorado farm has caused at least 72 illnesses, including up to 16 deaths, in 18 states. The Salinas Valley is known as the “Salad Bowl of the World” for its production of lettuce and numerous other crops. The Food and Drug Administration, which is investigating the contamination, has not yet identified the source of listeria, said FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Yao. The lettuce recall, Yao said, is not related to the recall of cantaloupes due to listeria.
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Still, he was a “little disbelieving” until he checked his laptop, “and/// I saw my name there and so I knew it was real.” Since 1974, the Nobel statutes don’t allow posthumous awards unless a laureate dies after the announcement but before the Dec. 10 award ceremony. That happened in 1996 when economics winner William Vickrey died a few days after the announcement. Before the statutes were changed in 1974 two Nobel Prizes were given posthumously. In 1961, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize less than a month after he died in a plane crash during a peace mission to Congo. Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt won the Nobel in literature in 1931, although he had died in March of that year. “The Nobel Foundation thus believes that what has occurred is more reminiscent of the example in the statutes concerning a person who has been named as a Nobel Laureate and has died before the actual Nobel Prize Award Ceremony,” the foundation said following its meeting. Nobel officials said the situation was unprecedented, and that Steinman’s survivors would receive his share of the prize money. It wasn’t immediately clear who would represent him at the ceremony in Stockholm. Nobel Foundation chairman Lars Heikensten, who started his job in June, said he was stunned when he found out that Steinman
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Nobel prize winner Ralph Steinman’s family, from left to right, daughter Lesley Steinman, son Adam Steinman, wife Claudia Steinman and daughter Alexis Steinman, speaks to the media after a ceremony honoring him at Rockefeller University in New York, Monday. Steinman, a cell biologist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discoveries about the immune system but hours later his university said that he had been dead for three days. The Nobel committee had been unaware of Steinman’s death.
was dead. “My first thought was: ‘Wow, this is a remarkable thing to happen now that I’m involved in this for the first time. How do we handle this now?’” he told AP. Hansson said the medicine committee didn’t know Steinman was dead when it chose him. “It is incredibly sad news,” he said. “We can only regret that he didn’t have the chance to receive the news he had won the Nobel Prize. Our thoughts are now with
his family.” Beutler, 53, holds dual appointments at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and as professor of genetics and immunology at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. He will become a full-time faculty member at UT Southwestern on Dec. 1. Hoffmann, 70, headed a research laboratory in Strasbourg, France, between 1974 and 2009 and served as president of the
French National Academy of Sciences between 2007-08. Steinman had been head of Rockefeller University’s Center for Immunology and Immune Diseases. Hoffmann’s discovery came in 1996 during research on how fruit flies fight infections. Two years later, Beutler’s research on mice showed that fruit flies and mammals activate innate immunity in similar ways when attacked by germs.
Officials: Mule deer attacked Idaho woman, rescuer BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman was able to escape an attack by a mule deer after a passerby and his daughter fought off the buck, grabbing the antlers and striking it with a hammer until it fled, state wildlife officials said. Sue Panter was on a stroll near her home in rural southeastern Idaho when the buck attacked, raking her body with his antlers and goring her legs, officials said. Michael Vaughan and his 17-year-old daughter, Alexis, spotted the struggle early Friday and tried to intervene, the state Department of Fish and Game said in a statement Sunday. Vaughan's daughter got out of their vehicle and started punching the deer, while he grabbed the buck by the antlers, which allowed Panter to escape, according to the agency. Vaughan said that while he wrestled with the buck, his daughter retrieved a hammer and struck the deer. Vaughan's daughter then drove Panter and her father to a hospital, where they were treated and released on Friday. The man's legs were punctured three times during the struggle, wildlife officials said. The buck in the attack was a
young adult, which on average weigh about 250 pounds, officials said. It was unclear why the animal attacked the woman. Such confrontations are unusual, but the behavior that was reported is typical of deer that have been reared as pets, according to state wildlife officials. "A possibility is that this deer was found in the wild and taken home and raised by somebody," said Senior Conservation Officer Korey Owens. "Then it's become habituated to humans so it's not afraid of humans anymore, that's a possibility." These unprovoked attacks by domesticated, or "pet deer," are very rare but have been reported in Idaho, said Blake Phillips, regional conservation officer for state Department of Fish and Game's southeast region. Panter was "really traumatized" when the hospital called authorities to report the attack, Senior Conservation Officer Korey Owens said Monday. Panter had played dead during the attack hoping that would discourage the deer, wildlife officials said. Her husband, who was at work, told him she had tried to remain in the roadway as the deer gored her, wildlife officials said.
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In this Nov. 8, 2008 file photo, a mule deer buck grazes for food. Wildlife managers say a mule deer injured a woman last Friday near her rural Idaho home.
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Tuition increase shows short-term promise
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Conn’s Board of Trustees made the appropriate choice last week in deciding against a mid-year tuition increase. But there should still be cause for concern about whether the lack of an increase now could mean an even larger increase next school year. First off, some good news. At last Wednesday’s Board meeting, the Fiscal Year 2012 was formally ratified. Many students, parents and members of the community alike had worried in the last few months that tuition might be raised in the middle of the year. These thoughts largely stemmed for two primary reasons. No. 1: the state’s appropriation to the university has been significantly decreased, from $329 million in Fiscal Year 2011 to $284 million, a decrease of over 13 percent. No. 2: the initial tuition increase proposed for this school year, passed on June 23, stood at 2.5 percent, the lowest increase since the 1.4 percent increase of 2000. However, the Board ultimately decided against raising the tuition mid-year. Chief financial officer Richard Gray explained the rationale well. “The decision was to drop that option,” Gray said. “The cost of that [tuition increase] to families and reputational risk would have been a much greater cost.” Moreover, this 2.5 percent tuition increase is less than the national inflation rate so far this year, which has currently averaged 3.01 percent from January through August. What that means, in simple economic terms, is that even with this year’s tuition increase, students are actually paying the inflationary equivalent of less money than they were last year. Still, this lack of mid-year increase – while psychologically and economically comforting in the short-term – could be a short-lived celebration. For each of the past six years, tuition had been raised at a rate between 5 and 6 percent. Assuming this general average was to continue, a 2.5 percent increase this year would seemingly have to be balanced out by a significantly larger increase next year, possibly even reaching into the double-digits. UConn has not been afraid to use such drastic measures before. For proof, just look at the 10.7 percent increase of 2004, or the 16.4 percent increase of 1992. It is certainly a good decision to avoid a mid-year increase. When students and families have budgeted their finances for the entire school year based on a solid and unchanging tuition rate, a January hike would be unimaginable news. This is especially relevant given that 77 percent of UConn students receive some form of financial aid, according to the 2011-12 UConn Fact Sheet. However, do not be satisfied that this is a fully positive step. A small tuition increase earlier this year coupled with no increase mid-year has the possibility of coming back to bite one, two or three semesters from now. The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.
I see UConn went with the “skunk so strong you can taste it” air-fresheners this year. Who run the world? Squirrels. Sometimes I like to lay in my neighbor’s garden and pretend I’m a carrot. I don’t know which site is harder to access: BB Tix or Pottermore. At least with Pottermore I can use the Imperius Curse and get basketball tickets. The InstantDaily should have a SafeAssign filter, to filter out all of the people copying other peoples witty comments... To the guy who wears a fedora to every class: It doesn’t look as good as you think it does. Some people may call texting the InstantDaily while pooping “creepy” or “weird.” I call it commitment and determination. I wonder how people will be totally confused by this true statement: UConn’s football team is ranked No. 1 in the country. Coach Pasqualoni apparently tries to use the Jeremy Lamb approach to games by showing as little emotion as possible. Too bad it’s not working for him. Oh, InstantDaily. I didn’t place in my pageant this weekend and I have to say, being asked to leave the stage was more embarassing than the most awkward walk of shame.
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Suppressing opinions diminishes education
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merica’s political season, which never truly ends, is dominating the airwaves once more. Taxes, taxbreaks, Medicare, Medicaid, deescalation, sustainability and change are all buzzwords that will drown constituencies as our leaders battle once more for the great honor to lead the nation and do nothing functional. One such buzzword, from which no sustainable change will come, is “education.” Now, according to By Michelle Anjirbag the Oxford English Dictionary “educaWeekly Columnist tion” means “2. the process of ‘bringing up’ (young persons)…with reference to social station, kind of manners and habits acquired, calling or employment prepared for, etc.” Theoretically, we think of modern education as “3a. the systematic instruction, schooling, or training given to the young in preparation for the work of life…the whole course of scholastic instruction which a person has received…” But functionally, in America, the word “education” has come to mean “the perpetuation of willful ignorance.” The American education system is made to create obedient drones that will stay within the confines of the system and never challenge it. Students at the University of Essex in the UK organized weeks of protests when their tuition was raised and they pay less than we do. The difference is that we have been conditioned to do so, complacently. It is depressing to think that we are all actively contributing to the demise of the value of our educations, even though we spend more and more each year pursuing a “good” education. These degrees that we work toward for four or
so years are now worthless without continuing education or certifications after graduations. A college degree used to guarantee a job and a societal acknowledgement that a person had committed themselves to a thorough grounding in a subject, which would then qualify them to take on a leadership position in the so-called real world. Today, we don’t have that guarantee, and we as students do not even have the agency to protest or change the system. There is so much risk associated with not completing college or not attaining a degree. Instead of addressing the problems of exorbitant tuitions costs and increases, a lack of corporate responsibility to the American people in light of a globalizing economy and overall, the lack of jobs in the majority of fields that most of us wish to enter, due to lack of funds, we put on the blinders and keep studying. When we do address these issues, we do so within the bounds of the flawed system, with student lobbyist groups, of all things. The bittersweet realization is that leaving the system confines requires people to be more than scared and apathetic. But it is not society’s fault alone. We have all been conditioned to do well in school, to attend universities, and to then get jobs that allow us to pay of the mortgage-sized debts that we accrue. And every single policy that is supposed to help us, or make education more accessible and more equal is a bloody lie. Think about it, the government is pretty comfortable with the way things are right now – the last thing that any politician wants is change. Change will help the masses, but the types of change required now could drastically change the way American politics continue in the future. So by enacting policies that stress the idea that “equal” means identical and
keeping the generation most likely to fight for something chasing after a guarantee for a good life, nothing has to change. It is the best way to create policy that stigmatizes certain groups and keeps states and districts fighting over funding via test scores instead of educating their students. Instead of learning how to use knowledge, students learn how to spit it back onto a bubble sheet. By the time we have the room to think for ourselves in a college setting, we are already aware that if we do not conform, we can kiss the idea of a good future goodbye by virtue of the amount of debt we hold after even a year. If the system won’t contribute to the development of an informed nation, we need to do it ourselves. Share information. Provoke conversation; if someone has an opinion challenge it, and find out why they think a certain way. If you are around younger siblings or if you babysit, find out how these children think the world works. Ask them things even as simple as, “who is the president?” or if they know what freedom is. If they are old enough, ask them if we are at war with anyone. Our generation has straddle the shift in education from creating informed citizens, to filling in a bubble sheet. We know the difference. We are the best defense this nation has against an ignorant, dysfunctional society. If the system is flawed, which it is, we need to then take the responsibility of education into our own hands, instead of allowing the system to perpetuate fear an ignorance so that the status quo is maintained.
Weekly Columnist Michelle Anjirbag is a 7th-semester English major. She can be reached at Michelle.Anjirbag@UConn.edu.
Foreign issues such as Somalia tragedy are too oft ignored
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he desiccated corpses trudge through the desolate landscape, a long line of glassyeyed ghosts. Some are carried in the arms of others because their maggot-riddled limbs are no longer able to support their weight. No, this is not some zombie horror film. By Luke Walsh For thousands of Staff Columnist Somalis this is the perilous journey to Dadaab, Kenya, or one of several other refugee centers located on the borders of Somalia. Absent in Somalia is the food needed to sustain more than 10 million people, constituting a devastating and unprecedented scale of crisis in the Horn of Africa. And for those worst affected by the famine, New York Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman asks, “Is the world about to watch 750,000 Somalis starve to death?” The natural American response would be no, of course not. America is the land of the charitable, the giving, and certainly known for its heavy diplomatic influence around the world. But the underwhelming amount of attention given to such a serious, immediate issue is alarming and completely unacceptable.
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The last time a famine in Somalia was anywhere close to this scale was in 1993, two years after civil war erupted. Similar to the situation now, warlords blocked access to western food aid and forced the United Nations and the United States to combat militants to keep food aid distribution routes open. Some policy groups estimate the U.S. intervention in the 1990’s saved over 100,000 lives, but over 200,000 were still lost to famine. The difference now is that the problem is much worse and the response much less adequate. There is simply no political sense of urgency to intervene. With a turbulent economy and upcoming elections the political agenda has been increasingly shifting towards domestic issues. Washington is paralyzed by a hyper-partisan atmosphere, voters want to see the economy fixed, and presidential candidates are willing to stake their entire campaign on getting that aspect correct. Mainstream media, for its part, has effectively sidelined the crisis.
Besides, the public probably best remembers the situation in the 1990’s by the “Black Hawk Down” incident when more than a dozen U.S. soldiers were killed while intervening in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital. Ever since the casualties, the United States has been hesitant to risk any military assets in the country unless it pertains to counterterrorism operations. For this reason, some of the regions in most dire need are inaccessible because they are controlled by Islamist militant groups like Al-Shabab. Today, history is on the verge of repeating itself. The United Nations and its monitoring agencies could not be more explicit about the impact this crises will have on Somalia. Although the international community has already pledged millions of dollars, it still falls short of the roughly $2.4 billion needed. In the next couple months, three quarters of a million people are at risk of dying from starvation. To put that in perspective, the number of deaths could roughly be equivalent to another Rwandan geno-
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cide, making it far more severe than the famine in 1993. Americans – and by extension, UConn students – have a duty to respond. The weapon of choice: awareness. Of course, money sent in the form of charitable donations will always help close the funding gap for food aid. But the most effective way to bring about political change remains fostering overwhelming public support. I challenge the reader to go beyond the headlines. It’s easy to be sucked up into the mainstream media agenda, especially with all the hyper-partisan political antics in Washington. And the closer to elections we get, the more debt-ceilingshowdown-style politics we will see. If newspapers printed information in order based on its priority, the story of massive deaths on pace with genocide would certainly earn the top spot. However, in reality our priorities and responsibilities are sometimes nowhere to be found on the front page. And that’s the tragedy of Somalia.
Staff Columnist Luke Walsh is a 7th-semester nutritional sciences and resource econimics double major. He can be reached at Luke.Walsh@UConn.edu
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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Find support in your community now. You’re being tested. Gather your strength and optimism to overcome obstacles to reach your highest score. A rise in status is available. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Shopping tempts, but you’re better off saving than spending now. Stay relaxed and calm by spending time (rather than money) in luxurious decadence. An afternoon nap fits the bill. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 6 -- You may have to choose between love and work today. Try not to take things too seriously. Your idea of perfection isn’t everybody’s. Give and take to work it out. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s easier to delegate now. Be clear with your communications, and don’t lose your cool. You’ve got tons of work (good news). There’s still time for love. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Work is coming at you like a fastball. Practice and repetition alters the experience of velocity. For a pro tennis player, the ball arrives more slowly than for a novice. Use your well-honed skills today.
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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- In the face of senseless arguments, love is the bottom line. Veer away from preconceptions to consider new interpretations of the circumstances that could empower you. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -You may end up with a different result than expected. Your peacemaker skills come in handy. Practice accepting your family the way they are, and are not. What you resist persists. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Don’t push yourself too hard. There’s a lot of work to do, and you need to find a good pace. Slow down so that you don’t miss an important detail. You’ve got the time. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- There may be conflict between the time you dedicate to work and family. Choose love over money (if you can’t have both). Stay within the budget, and it works out. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 6 -- Review what’s working and what’s not. Think it over well to see longer-term impacts before taking action. There may be other options hidden from view. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Avoid risky gambles and traveling today. Focus on your task list, and the productivity there will serve you well. Power it out, and get freed up for romance later. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Be patient and thrifty for a while. Not long. Choose from your heart, and don’t break the bank. It’s not a time for big action or travel. Go ahead and hide out.
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Italy appeals court clears Knox of murder PERUGIA, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox left prison Monday, a free woman for the first time in four years, after an Italian appeals court threw out the young American’s murder conviction for the brutal stabbing death of her British roommate after a drug-fueled sexual assault. Knox, 24, collapsed in tears after the verdict was read, a stunning reversal in a sensational saga that became a cause celebre in the U.S. Her codefendant and former boyfriend, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, also was cleared of killing 21-yearold Meredith Kercher in 2007. “We’re thankful that Amanda’s nightmare is over,” her younger sister, Deanna Knox, told reporters outside the courthouse. “She suffered for four years for a crime she did not commit.” About 90 minutes after the verdict was handed down, a black Mercedes carrying Knox was seen leaving the prison. She was expected to board a commercial flight for home on Tuesday. The fatal blow to the prosecution’s case was a court-ordered DNA review that discredited crucial genetic evidence used to convict Knox and Sollecito in 2009. They were sentenced to 26 and 25 years, respectively. While waves of relief swept through the defendants’ benches in the courtroom, members of the Kercher family, who flew in for the verdict, appeared dazed and perplexed. Meredith’s older sister, Stephanie, shed a tear, and her mother, Arline, looked
straight ahead. “We respect the decision of the judges but we do not understand how the decision of the first trial could be so radically overturned,” the Kerchers said in a statement. “We still trust the Italian justice system and hope that the truth will eventually emerge.” The Kerchers had pressed for the court to uphold the guilty verdicts, and resisted theories that a third man convicted in the case, Rudy Hermann Guede, had acted alone. Guede, convicted in a separate trial, is serving a 16-year sentence. There were two options to acquit: that there wasn’t enough evidence to uphold the conviction or that the pair simply didn’t commit the crime. The eight-member jury determined the latter, clearing Knox and Sollecito completely. The verdict reverberated through the streets of this medieval hilltop town, where both Knox and Kercher had arrived with so much anticipation for overseas studies programs four years ago. Hundreds of mostly university-age youths gathered in the piazza outside the courtroom jeered as news of the acquittals spread. “Shame! Shame!” they yelled, adding that a black man had been made to shoulder all of the guilt for the murder. Knox was pale, clearly terrified and appeared breathless as she arrived for the verdict shortly after 9:30 p.m. Presiding Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann read out the verdict in a frescoed subter-
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Amanda Knox bursts into tears after hearing the verdict that overturned her conviction and acquitted her of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher, at the Perugia court, central Italy, Monday.
ranean courtroom packed with reporters. In five minutes, Knox’s fate was reversed. “The appeals Court of Perugia ... orders the immediate release of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito,” Hellmann said. The jury upheld Knox’s conviction on a charge of slander for accusing bar owner Diya “Patrick” Lumumba of carrying
out the killing. But it set the sentence at three years, amounting to time served. Knox has been in prison since Nov. 6, 2007, five days after the murder. After the verdict, Knox dropped her head in sobs and had to be propped up by lawyers on both sides of her. Prosecutors said they would appeal to the nation’s high-
Anti-Wall Street protests spread across nation
NEW YORK (AP) — Protests against Wall Street spread across the country Monday as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show of anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed. In Manhattan, hundreds of protesters dressed as corporate zombies in white face paint lurched past the New York Stock Exchange clutching fistfuls of fake money. In Chicago, demonstrators pounded drums in the city’s financial district. Others pitched tents or waved protest signs at passing cars in Boston, St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo. The arrests of 700 protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend galvanized a slice of discontented America, from college students worried about their job prospects to middleage workers who have been recently laid off. Some protesters likened themselves to the tea party movement — but with a liberal bent — or to the Arab Spring demonstrators who brought down their rulers in the Middle East. “I’ve felt this way for a long time. I’ve really just kind of been waiting for a movement to come along that I thought would last and have some resonation within the community,” said Steven Harris, a laid-off truck driver in Kansas City. Harris and about 20 other people were camped out in a park across the street from the Kansas City Federal Reserve building, their site strewn with sleeping bags, clothes and handmade signs. Some passing drivers honked in support. The Occupy Wall Street protests started on Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Since then, hundreds have set up camp in a park nearby and have become increasingly organized, lining up medical aid and legal help and printing their own newspaper, the Occupied Wall Street Journal. About 100 demonstrators were arrested on Sept. 24 and some were pepper-sprayed. On Saturday police arrested 700 on charges of disorderly conduct and blocking a public street as they tried to march over the
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Protesters from Occupy Wall Street march through the financial district dressed as corporate zombies Monday in New York. The protests have gathered momentum and gained participants in recent days as news of mass arrests and a coordinated media campaign by the protestors have given rise to similar demonstrations around the country.
Brooklyn Bridge. Police said they took five more protesters into custody on Monday, though it was unclear whether they had been charged with any crime. Wiljago Cook, of Oakland, Calif., who joined the New York protest on the first day, said she was shocked by the arrests.
“Exposing police brutality wasn’t even really on my agenda, but my eyes have been opened,” she said. She vowed to stay in New York “as long as it seems useful.” City bus drivers sued the New York Police Department on Monday for commandeering their buses and making them drive to the Brooklyn
Bridge on Saturday to pick up detained protesters. “We’re down with these protesters. We support the notion that rich folk are not paying their fair share,” said Transport Workers Union President John Samuelsen. “Our bus operators are not going to be pressed into service to arrest protesters anywhere.”
est criminal court, the Court of Cassation, after reading the court’s reasoning, due out within 90 days. “Tonight’s sentence is wrong and confounding,” prosecutor Giuliano Mignini told the ANSA news agency. “There is a heavy conviction for slander. Why did she accuse him? We don’t know.” “The Court of Cassation will establish who is right” between the lower court and the appeals court, he added. Mignini said there was “unprecedented media pressure,” revisiting a theme he touched on during his closing arguments. In the meantime, nothing in Italian law prevents Knox from returning home to Seattle. At a news conference earlier in the day, the Kerchers expressed hope that the jury would deliberate without considering the intense media coverage of the case. Stephanie Kercher lamented that her sister “has been nearly forgotten” as attention shifted to Knox and her appeal. “We want to keep her memory alive,” the sister said before the verdict. The trial captivated audiences worldwide. Knox and Sollecito, who had just begun dating, were convicted of murdering Kercher in what the lower court said had begun as a drug-fueled sexual assault. Lawyers for Knox and Sollecito charged that Guede was the sole killer, but the prosecution and a lawyer for the Kercher family said bruises and a lack of defensive wounds on Kercher’s body prove there was more than one aggressor holding her down. After the verdict, the U.S. State Department said it appreciated the “careful consideration” the Italian justice system gave to the case. “Our embassy in Rome will continue to provide appropriate consular assistance to Ms. Knox and her family,” spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. In Seattle, about a dozen supporters began hugging each other at a downtown hotel suite. “She’s free!” and “We did it!” they shouted after they watched the court proceedings on TV. Supporters also expressed sympathy for the Kercher family. “This is primarily a sad occasion,” said Tom Wright, one of the main organizers of the Friends of Amanda group, after
the verdict. “They lost their daughter. We’ll keep them in our prayers.” Kellanne Henry, a friend of Knox’s mother, Edda Mellas, visited the family in Italy. “It’s the first night in four years that (Edda) is going to know her daughter is safe,” said Henry, holding crumpled tissues in her hand. “That was a really overwhelming thought for me.” Earlier Monday, Knox tearfully told the court in fluent Italian that she did not kill the woman who shared an apartment with her when they were both students in Perugia. Knox frequently paused for breath as she spoke to the eight members of the jury in a packed courtroom, but managed to maintain her composure during the 10-minute address. “I’ve lost a friend in the worst, most brutal, most inexplicable way possible,” she said. “I’m paying with my life for things that I didn’t do.” Knox said she always wanted justice for Kercher. “She had her bedroom next to mine. She was killed in our own apartment. If I had been there that night, I would be dead,” Knox said. “But I was not there.” “I did not kill. I did not rape. I did not steal. I wasn’t there,” she said. In his own speech to the jury, Sollecito said: “I never hurt anyone, never in my life.” The prosecution’s case was set back during the appeal when two court-ordered independent experts reviewed the DNA evidence that had been used to link Knox and Sollecito to the crime during the first trial. From the start, the weak point in the prosecution’s case was the lack of motive along with unreliable and at times contradictory eyewitness testimony. Therefore, much depended on the scientific evidence gathered by investigators. Prosecutors maintain that Knox’s DNA was found on the handle of a kitchen knife believed to be the murder weapon, and that Kercher’s DNA was found on the blade. They said Sollecito’s DNA was on the clasp of Kercher’s bra as part of a mix of evidence that also included the victim’s genetic profile. But the independent review — ordered at the request of the defense, which had always disputed those findings — reached a different conclusion.
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There is always a mixed crowd in attendance for home football games at Rentschler Stadium in East Hartford. Families and alumni bring a more sophisticated spread to tailgate with, while packs of college students generally stick to grilled food and drinking games.
Families vs. students: rituals at Rentschler reveal sharp contrast between the two
By Sam Marshall Campus Correspondent It was around 11 a.m. when a roommate slammed on my door. “Game time!” he shouted, with all the excitement of a 4-year-old on Christmas. I threw on my game day shirt and hopped it the car. It was Saturday and UConn had a
football game. This meant only one thing: tailgating. I have been tailgating for the better part of seven years now. What started with my family sitting in a circle of foldable lawn chairs eating pre-made Subway foot-longs has progressed to a three-hour event consisting of my fraternity brothers and pure mayhem. When we parked my mini-
van at Rentschler Field’s parking area, we prepared our usual Saturday ritual. We unloaded the 30-packs, prepared the grill for the superfluous amount of hamburgers we had brought and began mixing the concoction known as jungle juice in a fivegallon water cooler. Directly across from us was a family, the father tossing the pigskin
stand-up comedy. Yet for someone with such an impressive resume, Glover still isn’t satisfied. When not acting or performing comedy, Glover has been making music. Though his first two albums brought him little fame or success, he continued working. His last two albums, “Culdesac” and “EP” have generated a substantial amount of buzz on hiphop websites and blog sites. Released in Summer 2010, “Culdesac” is a full-length album written, rapped, and produced entirely by Glover. Considered Indie-Rap by most in the industry, most of his lyrics are introspective and self-reflexive. His lines (as expected from a comedian) are witty, jabbing, and often will often provoke out-loud laughter, at other times, a simple smile followed by an appreciative smirk. Gambino’s beats on “Culdesac” involve a heavy sampling of alternative rock. His flow is incredibly smooth and he transitions very easily from fast to slow over the course of a line or two. Gambino’s delivery is solid, often very fast, and polished (comedy may have helped him here as well). Listening to Gambino, its clear he studied sampled production from the likes of Kanye West, his delivery and flow ghosts Andre 3000’s earlier work, and his lyrical humor is reminiscent of Lil Wayne. He clearly is an avid student of those who came before him.
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with his son, with a beautiful spread including hummus, veggies and crackers. It is this duality in which the tailgating world lives. The rowdy side respects the calmer one, and the peaceful side laughs at the raucous. I approached the family across from us and asked if they wished to be interviewed for the paper, but they refused
to give their name – probably because of the group of people with whom they just witnessed me. They simply said, “We’ve been doing this for a few years – we’ve got it down to a science.” As I wandered around the massive parking area, this seemed to be the theme. No matter the type of tailgate, everyone seemed to have fun in what they were doing and knew exactly what they were involving themselves in. There were one or two lost freshman girls stumbling about, and one lonely Western Michigan fan that asked me for directions with Smirnoff Blueberry Lemonade drink in hand. But for the most part, the lot looked like one huge Husky family. There was one clear distinction between the two groups. When it got closer to game time, the families began packing up in order to not miss a single moment of the game. The boisterous people, however, seemed to be doing the complete opposite – they continued to drink as if they didn’t want to remember the game at all. I asked Greg Parker, 7th-semester finance major, why he hadn’t moved into the game yet. “That’s what SportsCenter’s for,” Parker said, as he duct-taped his newest beer to the one he just finished. He had done this with each of his previous drinks in order to signify how many he had finished, and by the time he left for the game, his “wizard’s staff” was taller than him. By now, even my veteran body was growing weary and beaten. I headed to the game with the rest of the stragglers, being herded along by men in golf carts and state police. It was then I realized what really separates the two different tailgate groups. For the peaceful ones, the tailgate is a prelude, the introduction to the game. For the others, the tailgate is the event. It is the game.
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Some may know Donald Glover for his portrayal of Troy Barnes on NBC’s Thursday night comedy “Community.” Others may recognize him as the energetic frat bro from the Derrick Comedy video, “Bro Rape: A Newsline Investigative Report” which has garnered almost nine million YouTube views since it was uploaded in 2006. A rising star in the entertainment industry, Glover’s name is now appearing on music blogs and iPod’s under his pseudonym, Childish Gambino. Glover rose to fame as a college student turned YouTube star in the middle 2000s. He was a feature character in a series of skits by Derrick Comedy, a group of NYU drama students who spent their free time making comedy sketches. Though in recent years, the group has remained largely inactive, their videos on YouTube have received over 100 million views in total. Videos like “Bro Rape,” “Jerry” and “Blowjob Girl” have entertained high school and college students for years. Glover was one of the first to prove that YouTube fame can translate to real world success. In recent years, Glover’s acts have been getting bigger. He has a steady and lucrative acting job playing Troy Barnes on NBC’s “Community,” released a movie with Derrick Comedy in 2009, and has toured across the country performing
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How can you make cancer funny? It’s one of the biggest killers in our modern age and we can’t quite find a way to get rid of it. Every day, thousands of lives end because of it, and even more are changed forever. Simply put, cancer sucks. I guess “50/50” screenwriter Will Reiser realized this too. He managed to beat his diagnosis and then decided to write a comedy about it, co-starring his buddy Seth Rogen. I know Rogen gets a bad rap for his occasional crude stoner antics, but not only does he vindicate himself fully in “50/50,” he also helps make the movie the best of the year (so far). The film can at times be crude, funny, heartwarming, heartbreaking, terrifying and somber, often in the same scene. It’s the full package. It makes you feel. It’s why we go to the movies in the first place. The basic plot: Adam, played by “Inception” star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has back pains. He goes to the doctor. He’s got spinal cancer, and his odds of survival are the film’s title. He subsequently has good times with his best friend, Rogan’s Kyle, awkward times with his girlfriend and therapist (Bryce Dallas Howard and Anna Kendrick, both fantastic), and sad times with his mother (Anjelica Huston) and Alzheimer’s-afflicted father.
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By Alessandra Petrino Campus Correspondent
For most of us, the next two weeks bring many cups of coffee, late nights, lack of sleep and stress. All these things are of course brought on by, you guessed it, midterm exams. But, like other stressful situations in life, it is always important to have a plan on how one can get through midterm exams without pulling one’s hair out or contemplating dropping out of school. Some choose to de-stress by exercising, taking a night off to see a movie, setting aside an hour (or several) to play some “Call Of Duty,” or just not caring about the exams whatsoever. Though it’s tempting to go the route of not caring, I know that’s not an option for me personally. Instead, my recommendation for a de-stressing technique is to escape to a place where you feel happiest, even for just a little while. For myself, two types of places come to mind: 1) anyplace I can play with fluffy, lovable puppies and 2) bookstores. Clearly, these are two completely different sides of the spectrum. Yet, seeing how this is a book column, I suppose it’s only appropriate that I discuss why bookstores are a preferable destressing location. Have you ever walked into a place and just thought “I feel at home here?” Can’t think of any place? I’ll give you a hint. It usually happens to women when they walk into shoe stores (and no that is not to be taken as an insult.) I’m a woman, and I get that feeling too when I see rows and rows of shoes. But, back to the books. It’s that feeling when you know you could easily be happy spending hours upon hours in a single place. That’s how I feel every time I walk into a bookstore. I know it might sound a little lame, but think about it. You are surrounded by thousands of books of all different genres from all different time periods. They hold the thoughts and imaginations of people from all over the world, authors and philosophers you may have studied in school or heard about from friends or have no clue who they are. But maybe you’d find them interesting. It’s a place where there’s a feeling of comfort, knowing that somewhere in those rows and stacks of books, there’s something that may be just perfect for you. Even if you have too much on your plate to find time right now to read a book for pleasure, it never hurts to browse through literature and keep a list of what you hope to read in the future. At the same time, walking through a bookstore can also be the most dangerous game of all. For the same reason that bookstores are a place to feel at home -because there is something for everyone- bookstores are also a place to be feared when it comes to emptying out your pockets. Then again, I suppose it’s a lot safer walking out of a bookstore with a $15 book then out of a pet store with a $1,500 puppy.
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Joseph Gordon Levitt (left) and Seth Rogen (right) bring some humor to a critical issue in ‘50/50,’ which had a strong opening in the box office last weekend.
Gordon-Levitt plays Adam with an air of defiance and then anger as the disease progresses and he becomes weaker (and balder). Rogen seems to be playing another typical stoner best friend, but Kyle deepens as the film goes on. In one early scene, Rogen captures the heartbreak and fear that the realization “my best friend might die” would give perfectly, and though he abuses Adam’s cancer to get laid and smoke pot, he sticks by him to the end. But as much as the movie is about two friends who want to spend time together in case
one’s about to die, it’s also about the sudden changes that something as serious as cancer causes. Adam’s mother wants to move in, but he thinks she’s being overbearing, breaking her heart as he tries to go it alone. His girlfriend says she’s trying, but she’s never around (and that’s not close to the worst of it). His therapist is trying, but she’s a novice (Adam compares her attempts at a consoling touch to getting “slapped by a sea otter”). And his dad is confused and disoriented from the advance of dementia, never sure where he is or why his son is so sick. (Serge Houle’s
performance as Adam’s dad is heartbreakingly real, and one of the film’s best parts.) As a whole, though, “50/50” comes together as a cohesive examination of a normal guy’s life, and how something so life-changing can affect it. We feel like we’re watching Adam’s life progress as if it were an incredibly well-shot home movie. The rawness and realness that the cast and material bring to the screen gives the film a rare sense of vulnerability and pain. The movie feels like real life, an incredible achievement I haven’t seen since 2009’s “Up in the Air.” See it.
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I love psychological thrillers. I love the way their complex stories twist and pull on the minds and senses of both the characters and the audience. Notable examples include Stanley Kubrich’s “The Shining” (1980), Ron Howard’s “A Beautiful Mind” (2001) and Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” (2010). The new “Dream House” is a blatant rip-off of all three, particularly “Shutter Island.” “Dream House” is the story of Will Atenton. Atenton is an author who leaves his company to work from his new suburban home with his wife and two daughters. He soon finds out that there was a triple homicide in the home five years earlier. A wife and two daughters were shot and killed, and the accused husband was placed into psychiatric care. Hmm, wife and two daughters, man in mental hospital and a rip-off of “Shutter Island.” Gee, I wonder where this plot is going to go? Other characters include a shady neighbor, Ann Patterson, who is feuding with her exhusband over the custody of her daughter. Said ex-husband wouldn’t even be in the film if he weren’t an obvious and predictable plot point. To be fair, “Dream House” isn’t entirely unoriginal. Unfortunately, its recycled elements happen to be its strongest, as the rest are nonsensical and cliché. Atenton is played by Daniel Craig, who is better known for being the current James Bond, which he really needs to get back to doing before he runs his career into the ground. His wife, Libby, is played Rachel Weisz, who not too long ago won an Oscar for her performance in “The Constant Gardener.” The film is directed by Jim Sheridan, who also made acclaimed
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films “My Left Foot” and “In the Name of the Father.” Anybody else notice a pattern here? “Dream House” is a prominent example of talented people thoroughly wasting their time. The cast actually puts on a decent performance and Sheridan does what he can; but strong acting and directing only add to a good movie, not salvage a bad one. As a matter of fact, there was a strong conflict between the set personnel and the film’s studio, Morgan Creek. Sheridan, Craig and Weisz were so dissatisfied with the final cut they refused to do any promotional work for the film. I can’t say I blame them. “Dream House” is being marketed as a horror film. I didn’t find the film scary in the slightest. The only time I was frightened was by a cheap jump scare that was irrelevant to the story. However, the film doesn’t even try to be scary,
and the marketing technique was likely just a somewhat clever manner of disguising the film from what it really is, a script thief. The first half of “Dream House” is your standard fare for “family moves into the creepy house” films, and while not terrible, is just so slow. It seems like scenes just repeated themselves with minor alterations. “Dream House” decides to take a risk and place its shocking twist, and I use that term loosely, at the film’s midpoint as opposed to the climax. To the film’s credit, this is an interesting take as most character story arcs die out after the big reveal. But “Dream House” prefer to take a U-turn in both its direction and tone. Take note that I’m praising the film for the concept, not the execution. The second half, while more engaging, is riddled with holes. Not to mention, I have
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No wonder “Apocalypse Now” has an 8.6 rating on IMDb.com, it is a classic movie based off of a classic book. The story is an allegorical account of the Vietnam War and all the chaos and failure that ensued after the U.S. decided to occupy the South Asian nation. This film is one of the many Francis Ford Coppola masterpieces that graced Hollywood throughout the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. A young Martin Sheen and a middle-aged Marlon Brando contribute to the sardonic seriousness of the movie, while illustrious scenes of death and gore help it to dispatch a cautionary message about war. – Purbita Saha
The gunman Vash takes on the greedy thief Gasback (above) in the film version of ‘Trigun,’ which has become a cult favorite in the U.S. The show failed to become a fixture in Japan, even though it made its debut there.
Japanese anime flick conveys nostaligia for popular series
By Jason Bogdan Senior Staff Writer One of the most revered anime series that aired on Adult Swim, “Trigun,” has finally returned to the American audience, eight years later, with a feature film. Though it only premiered in a scant few theaters a couple months back, it has recently been released on Bluray and DVD. And for the devoted fans of the fantastic synergy of sci-fi and spaghetti westerns, it’s definitely a must-have. The $60-billion-bounty “Humanoid Typhoon,” Vash, makes his triumphant return as
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Daniel Craig (center) and Rachel Weisz (right) play Will and Libby Atenton in Jim Sheridan’s thriller ‘Dream House.’ The movie follows the typical script of a haunted house story, with the family moving into a home that has a tragic, bloody history.
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here. In fact, this is actually one of the most notable moments that the eccentric, man-of-the-cloth Wolfwood has ever had. The movie has been given an English dub by a different studio than the now-defunct Geneon USA, but it was in great hands in FUNimation. The dialogue and voice work here is superb, and the replacement voice actors for Vash’s friends did an excellent job. The company even made the wise decision of bringing back Johnny Yong Bosh to voice Vash again, who makes it seem like only yesterday when he last gave the Humanoid Typhoon’s English dub. As far as animation studios are concerned, Madhouse has easily become one of the most improved since they animated the original “Trigun” anime. And with the extraordinary amount of detail here in the new film, it makes watching the show now a little more difficult. It’s definitely worth getting the Blu-ray version, just to see all the well-choreographed gunfights in fullHD splendor. Though “Trigun” has become a cult success for anime fans in the U.S., sadly the show was never so popular when it originally aired in Japan. The fact that this movie was made at all is nothing short of a miracle, so fans should appreciate this almost-charity piece from studio Madhouse. Granted, the movie’s plot itself isn’t so memorable, but just seeing the return of the “Trigun” cast in beautiful modern animation after all these years makes this film well worth seeking out for anime fans.
In honor of the memory of my favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, which recently fell out of playoff contention, I’d like to pay tribute to the team’s hometown. Boston has been the setting of a handful of great movies and I’d like to talk about seven of them here. 1. “Good Will Hunting” Matt Damon works as a janitor at MIT whose emotional issues and financial problems stifle his intellectual curiosity and ability. It has a witty script (penned by Oscarwinners Damon and Ben Affleck) and some excellent performances. The movie also established the formula that if Robin Williams has a beard, it must be a serious movie. 2. “Mystic River” Childhood friends Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon are brought back together when Penn’s daughter is found dead. Clint Eastwood’s doomsday dark morality tale elicited a pair of searing performances by the powerhouse Penn and train wreck Robbins. 3. “The Departed.” Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon are both cops, but on opposite sides of the law. DiCaprio goes undercover as a flunky for mob boss Jack Nicholson and Damon as Nicholson’s right-hand man, goes undercover as a police officer. Arguably Martin Scorsese’s best film since “Goodfellas,” this film brought the auteur back to his gangster roots and finally won him his long-deserved Oscar for “Best Director.” 4. “Gone Baby Gone” Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan are two cops – and lovers – who team up to solve the disappearance of a workingclass woman’s daughter. Ben Affleck’s directorial debut goes to some pretty dark places, but it’s handled so well that you forget that the guy from “Gigli” made it all happen. Amy Ryan makes an indelible impression as the hard-living mother. 5. “Shutter Island” It’s 1954 and Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo are two U.S. Marshals (Mah-shulls) who go to an insane asylum to look for a missing murderess, but the two discover much more than they bargained for. Scorsese takes a shot at the psychological thriller and comes up just short of knocking it out of the park. Some weird sound design choices and a predictable ending mar an otherwise superbly crafted nail-biter. 6. “The Town” Ben Affleck, an ace thief, has to balance different parts of his life: his feelings for a former hostage, his tense friendship with his unhinged best pal and his freedom in the face of a dogged FBI agent. Affleck directs his second film and hits another home run. An astounding Fenway Park set piece and a brutal performance by “Mad Men’s” Jon Hamm as the Fed make this a must-see. 7. “The Social Network” The story of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s meteoric rise to the top – and the people who had to fall for him to get there. Although less Boston-y than the other movies here, David Fincher’s claustrophobic masterpiece deserves every bit of recommendation I can give it. Aaron Sorkin’s razor-sharp script is worth the price of admission alone.
the destruction-prone gunman with a heart of gold. After sparing the life of Gasback after a failed robbery 20 years ago, he’ll have to face the ruthless thief again, who returned to exact devastating revenge on the comrades who betrayed him. Despite the fact that the story here was written by the series’ original creator, it’s sadly not so memorable. The new characters are given hardly enough time to give any reason to care for them, and the plot turn revolving around a woman who’s after Gasback’s head couldn’t be less predictable. But even though the story
itself doesn’t become more enthralling than the standalone episodes from the show, it brings exactly what the fans have been waiting a decade for: the return of everybody’s favorite characters in all their glory. It was impossible for me not to have a consistent grin on my face as I saw Vash resolve a tense situation with his goofy charms, be a hilariously terrible flirt, and become so devoted to his precious donuts all over again. The Bernadelli Insurance ladies, Meryl and Milly, and Nicholas Wolfwood also make their likeable return
a half a mind to believe that the reason behind it is the screenwriter just ran out of ideas and decided to puruse his DVD collection. It really is a shame because the plot wasn’t quite dead yet and could have taken a different route. The character of Will Atenton is developed nicely and I did find myself concerned with his situation, but I’ve seen his type of character many places before. The rest of the characters are fairly bland. While it suffers from pacing and expositional problems, “Dream House” is, at its core, a poor man’s version of much better films. If one has never seen any of the beforementioned superior films, then “Dream House” might actually be worth a look. Then again, why buy the sedan when you can afford the Cadillac.
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By Nicole Green Campus Correspondent Up-and-coming rapper Mac Miller performed at the Palladium in Worcester, Mass. last Friday night to a packed venue for his second headlining tour this year, the “Blue Slide Park Tour,” named for his album of the same name which debuts later this year. Casey Veggies and The
Come Up opened for the rapper, whose fans shouted “We Want Mac!” for nearly two hours before the headliner took to the smoke-filled stage. Miller opened with one of his most popular songs, “Best Day Ever” and performed tracks off “K.I.D.S” and “Best Day Ever” for the crowd of loyal fans in their teens and early 20s. Picking up a guitar and slowing down the music show-
cased Miller’s versatility and talent off the microphone during “Another Night,” and his emotional dedication to his deceased grandfather during “Poppy” got the audience even more into in the show. Miller also performed two singles from “Blue Slide Park”, “Smile Back” and “Frick Park Market,” which were met with rowdy applause from the audience. “Blue Slide Park” is Miller’s
first album; the 16-track LP has a release date of Nov. 8. According to MTV News, if the CD hits 25,000 preorders, Miller will release the titletrack; with 50,000 pre-orders he will donate $50,000 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and he plans to drop the album immediately if there are 100,000 pre-orders. “Blue Slide Park” pays homage to a park of the same name in Pittsburgh where Miller,
born Malcolm McCormick, grew up, and the first single “Frick Park Market” refers to a local deli. The cover art, which features colored triangles with a blue rectangle down the center, was drawn by Miller’s older brother, whose first name is actually Miller. The stage setup for the tour features a backdrop of a playground with a blue slide, and a DJ booth painted to look like an ice cream truck.
Miller closed the show with a “Knock, Knock,” encouraging fans to “please, put a thumb in the air,” and an encore performance of “Donald Trump,” which was the first single off the mix tape “Best Day Ever” from earlier this year. The rapper, whose proclaims in many of his songs that “it’s the best day ever,” definitely delivered to his already devoted fans.
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Yet Gambino produces music all his own. Though you might be able to pick out his influences by listening to his music, it’s almost impossible to compare him to somebody else. “Culdesac” is creative, fresh, a pleasure to listen to, and perhaps most importantly, free. Gambino followed “Culdesac” with a five song EP ironically titled “EP” in March 2011. The album’s headlining track, “Freaks and Geeks” was widely praised and spread around amongst hip-hip enthusiasts, writers, bloggers, coworkers, friends, and college room mates. Gambino’s creativity continues on “EP,” his beats become even more refined, his lyrics more polished, and his identity more cemented. Earlier this year, Glover was signed to Glassnote Records, an independent label that houses the acts like Mumford & Sons and Phoenix. His debut studio album, “Camp,” is set to debut on Nov. 15. The album’s first single “Bonfire” was released on Sep. 19th. You can listen to and download Donald’s music, read his bio and check out his tour dates (which include both music and comedic performances) on his website iamdonald.com.
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‘Billy Elliot’ to close in January
NEW YORK (AP) – “Billy Elliot the Musical” is planning its last dance on Broadway. Producers announced Monday that the Tony Award-winning show will play its final performance on Jan. 8, ending a more than three-year run at the Imperial Theatre on 45th Street that will have included 1,304 regular performances and 40 previews. The musical, which recouped its $18 million investment in 14 month, is based on the popular 2000 movie about a young boy who longs to dance ballet but lives in the bleak coal-mining area of Northern England. His story is set against the backdrop of a bitter miners’ strike. The show took its time jumping from a London stage to New York but was greeted with critical acclaim when it did. It had one of the biggest casts on Broadway and multiple young actors playing the role of Billy. In recent weeks, the theater has been between 70 percent and 80 percent full, but the box office has only taken in about 50 percent of its potential because of discounting. Last week, according to The Broadway League, the musical took in $718,015, out of a potential $1,327,900. Producers estimate that the show has been seen by 1,659,867 theatergoers to date since it opened in November 2008 on Broadway. Fans will still be able to see the show in London’s West End, where it is currently playing its seventh year, and on tour across America. It is currently in St. Louis and will be in Philadelphia and Rochester, N.Y., next month.
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NEW YORK (AP) – ABC News and Yahoo Inc. are joining to deliver more online news to their audiences. With the deal, ABC News content will be prominently featured on Yahoo News, the most visited news website in the world. It will also show up on Yahoo's popular front page. The two news organizations have a combined online audience of more than 100 million users per month in the U.S. – something ABC News president Ben Sherwood noted was "the size of the Super Bowl audience." While, the deal helps ABC grow its online reach, Yahoo News can drive further traffic to its own site by featuring original, made-for-online content. For the first time, ABC is launching Web-only news series, starting with a live interview with President Barack Obama by George Stephanopoulos Monday afternoon. That launches a
series, "Newsmakers," with online interviews conducted by the likes of Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Robin Roberts and others. Couric said the deal offers an "incredible opportunity to do extended interviews" and delve deeper into subjects without the constraints of "TV time." Both companies will maintain editorial control of their own content. Yahoo and ABC News have already had agreements to share content online, but the companies say the latest venture goes deeper than that. Sherwood called it a "game-changing day" for ABC News. Outside of Monday's announcement, there hasn't been much reason for fanfare at Yahoo lately. The company has struggled to grow advertising revenue in the last few years, in part, because of
competition from Google and Facebook. The company fired its CEO, Carol Bartz, last month, and is trying to decide whether to sell all or at least part of the company. Colin Gillis, an analyst with BGP Financial Partners said Yahoo's alliance with ABC "is not going to fix Yahoo's problems." Gillis noted: "This is a relatively small event in the broader ecosystem of what is going on with Yahoo." Yahoo's problem, Gillis believes, is that "it doesn't have a strong voice for a lot of its content," the way AOL has Huffington Post, for example. So the ABC deal will help the company share some of ABC's news brand. But Gillis pointed out that Yahoo's bigger issue is its leadership void. "No major deal is going to get done until that void is filled," he said.
Though the quality of its journalism is well-regarded, ABC News has suffered from a business standpoint during the past decade because it doesn't have a regular cable partner, the way NBC News has MSNBC and CNBC. The tight relationship with Yahoo could give the network a chance to step beyond that weakness. ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. "This is about the networks of the future," Sherwood said. "This is about how people get their news and information from different networks, whether it's on television, online, on mobile devices, on tablets and, quite frankly, in ways that we haven't even thought of yet." As part of the deal, ABC and Yahoo will work together to sell advertising. ABC will sell online ads during the spring "upfront" season, when advertisers bid on com-
mercial time for next fall's TV season. Yahoo will take care of sales during the rest of the year. Executives would not disclose how the companies would share revenues created by the venture. Levinsohn said Yahoo has already heard from advertisers and agencies looking to be part of new programming created for the Web. Sherwood and Levinsohn are both new in their jobs, having taken over leadership roles in their companies over the past year. Sherwood said they have known each other for a while through past digital ventures and began talking about ways to work together as soon as they began in their new positions. Also part of the deal, Christiane Amanpour will have a Web-only series discussing the top international stories of the day and "Nightline" anchor Bill
Weir will do a weekly series on innovations titled "This Could Be Big." ABC will work together with Yahoo on political coverage heading into the election year, he said. ABC already contributes video streams to Yahoo's news sites, but the deal deepens the relationship with far more content and makes ABC the top news source on the Web site, executives said. "To be able to go deeper with this array of talent at ABC News is a big statement for us," said Ross Levinsohn, executive vice president of the Americas at Yahoo. Shares of Yahoo rose 81 cents, or 6.2 percent, to $13.98 in morning trading. Investors were buying the shares after the CEO of Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said he would be "very interested" in buying Yahoo.
NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Rooney insisted he's not retiring. He's a writer, and a writer never stops being a writer. Even so, he delivered his final weekly essay on "60 Minutes" Sunday night, his last in his 33 years with the newsmagazine. It was a moment, he said he has dreaded. "I wish I could do this forever. I can't, though," he said. CBS News announced last week that the 92-yearold Rooney would be stepping down from his wellentrenched berth on "60 Minutes" after delivering his 1,097th commentary. "I probably haven't said anything here that you didn't already know or have already thought," he said. "That's what a writer does. A writer's job is to tell the truth." Rooney began his long career by writing the words for people
to say who were on TV or radio. Then when he began his weekly "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" in 1978, he began saying them on camera himself, though not as a television personality, but as "a writer who reads what he's written." Rooney said in his farewell piece that he has lived a lucky life, luckier than most. But befitting his trademark crotchety nature, he voiced one parting complaint: He doesn't like being famous, nor does he like being bothered by fans. "I spent my first 50 years trying to become well known as a writer, and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous," he said. "I walk down the street now or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey, Andy!' And I hate that." So if you see him in a restaurant, Rooney said as he signed off, "please, just let me eat my dinner."
NEW YORK (AP) — Anderson Cooper's new daytime talk show is dealing with the fallout of a skateboarding accident that injured a teenager about to appear in an episode on the science of the teenage brain. The news blog Gawker.com reported the teen hit his head while trying to film himself doing stunts on a skateboard and was in a coma. Cooper's month-old syndicated talk show, "Anderson," confirmed Monday that it had asked its guest for video footage but wouldn't comment on what he had been asked to film. The show didn't provide the teen with the camera and learned of the injury on the morning he and his parents were to travel to New York for taping of the episode, according to a statement provided by spokeswoman Laura Mandel, who wouldn't answer questions about the accident. Cooper said he was "very saddened" to hear about the accident and wanted to express his "deepest concerns for the teenager who was injured." "I take this situation seriously," Cooper said, "and my thoughts and prayers for his health, well-being and recovery are with him and his family." The segment was triggered by an article in the October issue of National Geographic magazine detailing the science behind brain development and how young people can often engage in madden-
ing, self-destructive behavior, the show said. The article, by David Dobbs, opens with an anecdote of Dobbs' 17-year-old son being caught by police driving 113 mph on a highway. Cooper's show initially sought to book Dobbs but later decided not to, and the magazine had nothing to do with the segment, National Geographic spokeswoman Beth Foster said. "Anderson" was launched last month into a competitive marketplace of talk shows jockeying for viewers following the May exit of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" after 25 years. After three weeks, the "Anderson" show's ratings were half that of programs hosted by Ellen DeGeneres and Dr. Phil McGraw, while beating Nate Berkus and Wendy Williams, the Nielsen ratings company said. The Cooper show is having trouble reaching an audience in some major markets but has been doing fairly well in smaller ones, said Bill Carroll, an expert in the syndication market for Katz Media. It's not the first time TV shows have been involved in tragic incidents. The MTV reality pranks show "Jackass" had a handful of incidents of young people hurt trying to copy stunts staged on it. A woman suspected in the disappearance of her 2-yearold son committed suicide in 2006 the day that a pre-taped interview with HLN's Nancy Grace was to appear.
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Actress Elizabeth McGovern poses in Beverly Hills, Calif. McGovern is nominated for an Emmy award for best actress in a miniseries or movie for her role in the British period drama, 'Downton Abbey.' The Emmy Awards will be held on Sunday, Sept. 18.
Britain picks up seven nods for International Emmy awards
NEW YORK (AP) – British television productions picked up a leading seven International Emmy nominations Monday, including acting nods for Christopher Eccleston in "Accused" and Julie Walters in "Mo." Brazil had six nominations, all for TV Globo productions, including best actor and actress nominations for Fabio Assuncao and Adriana Esteves in the TV movie "Songs of Betrayal" about the intense and passionate relationship between two music stars. Sweden's three nominations all went to "Millennium," a miniseries based on the late Stieg Larsson's best-selling crime novel trilogy. "Millennium" is up for best TV Movie/MiniSeries, with its stars, Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace recognized for their portrayal of investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist and eccentric computer hacker Lisbeth Salander. "Millennium" will be competing in the TV Movie/MiniSeries category against "Mo." Walters, who earlier won a British BAFTA TV award for the same role, shaved her
head to play Mo Mowlam, the late Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who battled a brain tumor which she concealed from Prime Minister Tony Blair while working to forge the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement that led to a power-sharing CatholicProtestant government. Eccleston, the former "Doctor Who" star, was nominated for his role in "Accused," an anthology series written and created by Jimmy McGovern, in which each episode tells the story of how an individual came to be on trial for a crime. Eccleston played a financially struggling, lapsed Catholic plumber in an adulterous relationship who finds a packet of 20,000 pounds in the back of a taxi, but ends up accused of money laundering when the prayed for windfall turns out to be forged notes. A total of 40 nominees from a record 20 countries will compete in 10 categories for International Emmys, which honor excellence in TV programming outside the
U.S. They were selected from more than 1,000 entries from 61 countries. The winners will be announced Nov. 21 at a ceremony at the Hilton New York Hotel. Japan had four nominations, followed by Germany and Sweden with three each, and Argentina and South Korea with two apiece. Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Portugal, Singapore and Spain each had a single nomination. "The number and range of countries represented by this year's nominees is astonishing and a testament to the growing strength and skill of television production around the world," said Bruce L. Paisner, president and CEO of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, in a statement accompanying the nominees' announcement. The remaining acting nominations went to Athena Chu Yan for the Hong Kong TV production "A Wall-less World" and South Korea's Jang Hyuk for "The Slave Hunters."
The contenders for best drama series include Britain's "Sherlock ," Brazil's "Under the Law," France's "Engrenages (Spiral)," and Japan's Sakanoue no Kumo (Cloud Above the Slope)." The best comedy nominees were "Benidorm Bastards" (Belgium), "Breaking Up" (Brazil), "Facejacker" (Britain), and "The Noose Season 3" (Singapore). The other British nominees were "Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne" for arts programming and "The World's Strictest Parents" for nonscripted entertainment. Veteran British producer Nigel Lythgoe, executive producer of "American Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," will receive the honorary International Emmy Founders Award at the November gala. The honorary International Emmy Directorate Award will be presented to Subhash Chandra, chairman of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd., which launched India's first privately owned TV channel.
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» MLB
D-backs looking to play better at home in Game 3
PHOENIX (AP)—Down in the standings or down to their last out, the Arizona Diamondbacks found a way to rally all season, riding their comebacks into the playoffs. After two lackluster games in Milwaukee, the Diamondbacks need another big comeback or it’s going to be a short return to the postseason. Trailing the bashing-andbunting Brewers 2-0 in the NL division series, Arizona returns home for Game 3 on Tuesday night, sending out rookie right-hander Josh Collmenter to face Milwaukee righty Shaun Marcum in what should be a raucous atmosphere at Chase Field. “I think it’s good that we came from behind all year,” Diamondbacks third baseman Ryan Roberts said Monday. “There’s no panic mode here.” There at least has to be some concern. Arizona put up a monster May after falling behind by 6 1/2 games in April and mastered the art of the comeback, rallying to win a major league-high 48 times on its way to the NL West title. Unable to catch the Brewers in the regular season to secure home-field advantage in the first round, the Diamondbacks opened the NLDS with two games in Milwaukee. They return to the desert searching for answers after two deflating losses. Playing like the team to beat in the National League, the Brewers put the Diamondbacks on their heels with a tough-tobeat combination of good pitching, power and some small ball mixed in. Milwaukee touched up Arizona’s two best pitchers to start the series, getting to 21-game winner Ian Kennedy for four runs to win the opener 4-1, and 16-game winner Daniel Hudson for five in a 9-4 victory in Game 2. The Brewers’ brawn of Prince
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Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Daniel Hudson throws during the first inning of Game 2 of baseball's National League division series against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday in Milwaukee.
Fielder and Ryan Braun have been brutally effective, combining to go 9 for 16 with two homers, six RBIs and six runs. Milwaukee also has done the little things right, including Jonathan Lucroy’s deftly placed safety squeeze that triggered a five-run sixth inning in the Brew Crew’s Game 2 win on Sunday. It’s been just two games, but the Brewers have been monsters, their “Beast Mode” celebrations against the Diamondbacks putting a scare into the rest of the playoff field. “We’ve done a really good
job of staying in the moment, embracing the moment and trying to accomplish as much as we can every day,” Braun said. Next in line to try to stop Milwaukee is Collmenter, the Paul Bunyan-esque right-hander with the over-the-top delivery crafted from his tomahawkthrowing days as a kid. Buried deep in Arizona’s farm system just a year ago, Collmenter had a superb start to his rookie season, starting with an impressive stint as a reliever after an April call-up, followed by a pair of scoreless starts after being added to the rotation. He
couldn’t keep up that pace as teams figured out how to hit against his quirky delivery, but still finished the regular season 10-10 with a 3.38 ERA. The Brewers were among the teams unable to figure out Collmenter. He pitched 14 scoreless innings and allowed six hits in consecutive starts against Milwaukee in July—a big reason Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson went with the big right-hander for Game 3. “Against the Brewers, I had a lot of things working,” Collmenter said. “I was able to establish the fastball, work a
changeup in on them and really kept them uncomfortable.” The Diamondbacks may have the right man on the mound and the advantage of playing at home, but Milwaukee might have the perfect anti-venom in Marcum. A counterbalance to Zack Greinke’s home dominance, Marcum was Milwaukee’s big man on the road. Just 5-4 with a 4.81 ERA in 17 home starts, the 29-yearold went 8-3 with a 2.21 ERA in 16 games away from Miller Park. After a strong start to the season, Marcum had some
struggles down the stretch, putting up a 6.66 ERA in his final four outings, but he does have postseason experience and has proven to be resilient. “He’s not lights-out maybe like he was earlier,” Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. “He has those stretches where he is, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he came out and did the same thing he did early in the season and occasionally during the season.” Marcum will have to do it against a desperate team that doesn’t like being told it can’t do something.
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this time at No. 8 Louisville. That’s got some fans thinking championships. “For me, I’d hold a basketball and soccer championship in the same regard,” Fontenault said. Both the men’s soccer and men’s basketball programs own three national championships, soccer has one more Big East title, with 18 to basketball’s 17. Although I disagree with Fontenault, obviously a men’s soccer national title would be something that the coaches, players and Goal Patrol have been waiting for. “All that really matters is being No. 1 at the end of the season,” Fontenault said, “We’re eager for a championship.” Fowler wants a national championship too. But in the beautiful game, it only takes one bounce to make or break a season. “I feel soccer wouldn’t be as celebrated here (as much as basketball),” Fowler said. “It’s so much harder to win, it only takes one goal.” Hopefully the Huskies will be in Hoover, Ala. Dec. 9 and 11 for the College Cup, but until then, there is still five home games left, for folks who haven’t checked out the team, to do so. “I’ve made a lot of great friends who are also passionate about soccer,” said Aaron Korteweg, a senior who’s been on patrol behind opposing goalkeepers for four years. “It’s so rare.” It’s not only rare to have a soccer-crazed fan base like UConn, but there can only be one No. 1, and as of now it’s the Huskies. And for freshmen who need more friends, fun or soccer in their life, go to Morrone Stadium. Don’t make the same mistake I made.
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» VOLLEYBALL
Huskies hope to end five-game losing streak
By Matt Stypulkoski Staff Writer
The UConn volleyball team will look to snap their current fivegame losing streak on Tuesday night when they face Hartford at Gampel Pavilion. The Huskies are coming off of a disappointing weekend, losing to both Marquette and Syracuse at home, and falling to 0-4 in Big East play. But on Tuesday night, UConn will take a break from conference play and try to get back in the win column for the first time in over two weeks. The Hawks on the other hand come into Tuesday night’s matchup playing well of late, winning six of their last nine. But Hartford did drop both of their matchups this past weekend, their first two conference matches, and now sit at 0-2 in the America East Conference. But coach Holly StraussO’Brien, who has been frustrated with the Huskies’ play of late, does not think it matters how the team opposing her own is playing at the moment.
“We need to get back to playing our game,” Strauss-O’Brien said. “I don’t think it matters who’s on the other side of the net, we’re our own worst enemy right now.” During the losing streak, UConn has been committing far more errors than they were earlier in the season when they jumped out to an 8-4 record. The team’s hitting percentage has declined considerably over the past few matches, and their serving has been uncharacteristically poor of late as well, putting many serves either into the net or long, and failing to put much pressure on the opponent with those they do put into play. But despite their recent struggles, the matchup against the Hawks provides the Huskies a chance to step things up on the defensive side of the ball and the opportunity to take advantage of a somewhat-undersized Hartford squad with their blocking, which could help the team to return to their early-season form. The match is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday at Gampel Pavilion.
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Junior right-sider Cayla Broadwater hits the ball during UConn's 3-1 loss to Marquette Saturday at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs.
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He also had the luxury of having not one, but two professional basketball players teaching him the game. Horst played for his country over 80 times with the youth national team. In 1981 they won the Bronze Medal in the European Youth Championship in Greece. One of his teammates was future NCAA and NBA player Chris Welp. In 1983, Germany finished in fifth place at the Youth World Championship in Spain. NBA player Detlef Schrempf was Horst’s teammate. He remains in touch with Schrempf and Welp. Injuries limited the rest of Horst’s international career as he played a mere eight games for the men’s national team. He still managed a career that lasted a decade in German professional leagues, playing for several teams in the first and second tier leagues until 2000. Enosch’s mother, Inken, played for Göttingen in the first division and for Ludwigsburg and Heidelberg in the second division. Inken said women’s basketball in Germany isn’t as good as it is in other European countries, but it is getting there. Horst, who still plays in a city-wide league for a team that hasn’t lost a game in three years, and Inken made sure Enosch learned the game of basketball at a young age. “Enosch was in the gym from his first days on,” Horst said in an email interview. “Sometimes Enosch was carried by his mother´s coach while she was practicing. When Enosch was seven-years-old he started playing basketball with me as his coach. So i would say i taught him the fundamentals.” Enosch started to play one-onone against his dad as he got older. Horst wouldn’t let Enosch win. “It was a competition,” Enosch said. Horst coached Enosch’s teams during his youth and was an assistant coach for Enosch’s team when he was 17. Horst would drive to the away games and travel with Enosch. He said the basketball road trips made him close with his dad. “My mom had to be home with my sister [Ronja] so my dad became my coach again later on,” Enosch said. “My mom and I would talk after games. She would tell me what I could do better in her opinion.” There was one post move in particular Horst made sure Enosch knew. “The one thing my dad taught me was the hook shot,” Enosch said. “Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar] was his idol so he taught me the hook shot. The Lakers are my favorite team because of my dad.” “The skyhook is my preferred post move,” Horst said. “The people called me the ‘White Kareem.’ But I am also a good shooter outside the paint. I worked with Enosch on the hook shot sometimes.” “I´m able to make a hook shot too,” Inken said in an email interview. “But Horst looks more professional.” Inken and Horst, now separated, gave all three of their children the tools for success on and off the court. Ronja, 12, plays for the 14U state team. Enosch’s brother, Julius, 18, attended a boarding prep school
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Sophomore center Enosch Wolf's tattoo of his father on his arm. The text reads, "Like father, like son."
since he was 14. He plays on the 18U national team. “I really think that we are a tightknit family still,” Inken said. “Right now, Horst and me are still best friends and do everything for our kids we can do. I always try to show them that I really believe in them and I know that they are finding their own way.” Enosch said he especially feels a close bond with Ronja. “Since she was so young, I watched her grow up,” Enosch said. Enosch turns 21 on Oct. 18. The country of Germany was reunited on Oct. 3, 1990, 15 days before he was born. Ronja was born eight years later, on Reunification Day. A Permanent ‘Thank You’ This summer, Enosch got inked. The first tattoo, on his chest, has each family member’s first initial scripted inside of an oval. Half of the oval is the world, the other is a basketball. The second tattoo he received is of “White Kareem.” A spitting image of Horst is on Enosch’s left arm. Horst is doing his patented hook shot. The saying, “Like Father, Like Son,” is scripted above and below the portrait. Enosch said he had the sketch for over a year. “I am so proud Enosch did that,” Horst said. “It shows the good relationship we have. He showed me the tattoo on Facebook and I had tears in my eyes when i saw it the first time. Of course I like it very much. I think I feel more proud than flattered.” “I like Enosch’s tattoo very much,” Inken said. “I asked him, where is mom? I think the best that can happen is that a son honors his father and I know that he is honoring me too.” Horst has an image on his Facebook page that is split into two photographs. On the right is a photo of himself doing a hook shot over a defender in a small gym in Germany. On the left is a picture of his idol, Abdul-Jabbar, as a member of the Lakers performing his hook shot in an NBA
arena. Both players’ shooting forms are almost identical. A slow start, but bright future Enosch spent last fall at Wilbraham and Munson Academy in Massachusetts before joining the Huskies for the spring semester. He chose an opportunity to play at UConn over mid-major schools where he’d be able to play 20 minutes per game. In seven appearances off the bench, he averaged one point and 0.9 rebounds in 3.7 minutes of action. “It was tough coming in the middle of the year,” Enosch said. “I was out of shape. The game’s so much faster here so I would have had to adjust anyways.” At one point during last season, Enosch felt like he had gotten into basketball shape but a bad case of the flu caused him to lose weight. He also suffered tendinitis in both his knees all of last season and into this summer. “All that stuff kind of slowed me down,” Enosch said. “But in the end it was a great experience. I had a chance to see all that stuff so I’m going to know what’s going on. I’ve seen everything, to the last game, so it’s not going to be anything new, crowd-wise or aspects outside of the team.” Wolf’s only Big East or NCAA tournament action was against Bucknell, but the humble sophomore still treasures the experience of being part of a historic 11-game postseason run. “It’s crazy to me,” Enosch said. “I was still in the gym sweating at practice with the team... It’s not a problem at all. I was just not ready to play. I know that and I don’t have a problem with that. It’s not like, ‘I was so good. I should of played.’ I’m not mad at anybody. I’m realistic and I knew that I probably could not have helped the team that much... [The experience] was great.” The experience was also one to remember for his parents. Horst tried to watch as many games as he could. Despite the time differ-
ence and most games being at 2 or 3 a.m., Horst watched at least 10 games including all of March Madness and the championship. “I was very proud of Enosch and the team’s accomplishment,” Horst said. “I’m really proud of all the boys on the team and I’m really proud of Enosch,” Inken, who watched many of the UConn games on ESPN, said. “Of course he didn’t play, but to be on this team and to fight is more than we ever expected for him. I really hope I find time to come over to America and see a game live.” Enosch knew how big the accomplishment was, but didn’t realize the fanfare and reaction on-campus that would come with being a national champion. “You could not walk around without people noticing you,” Enosch said. “Where ever we went... people would notice you. I had to sign autographs and stuff and I didn’t even do anything.” “We were all going crazy,” Enosch added. “We saw the pictures online of what the students did on campus... It must’ve been nuts.” Wolf is ready for this season to start. He spent this summer playing in the Greater Hartford Pro-Am. “It was good for me to play extra games,” Enosch said. “It was fun because they had a commentator doing the game and the crowd was going nuts.” With the abrupt arrival of recruit Andre Drummond in August, there was speculation Wolf would give up his scholarship and transfer or return home to Germany and play. Those thoughts never crossed his mind. “I always wanted to stay,” Enosch said. “When I got here I knew I was not going to be a big starting player for the first two to three years. I need time to develop here so I knew that.” Wolf said his expectations heading into his first year in Storrs was to just see how it goes. This year he’d like to find a defined role on the team and do a good job in that role. By his junior season he hopes to be an impact player. “If I get to play big minutes this year that’s fine,” Enosch said. “That’s what I want, but I’m realistic. I’ll do whatever it takes to get there but if it’s not happening right away, I’m not going to get frustrated... I knew what to expect when I got here. I was a part of the best team in the country last year and I want to compete and work with the best. Nothing’s going to help me more than practicing with the best players in the country.” Horst would like to see both Enosch and the hook shot on the court in 2011. “I hope he can use it this season,” Horst said. When asked if he will pull out the post move his parents taught him, Enosch gave a response that fittingly mirrored his father’s. “I hope so,” Enosch said with a laugh. And if that happens, Horst wouldn’t have to post a picture of his idol on Facebook doing the hook shot. He could use one of his son.
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from CRAZY, page 14 The Big East has to step it up Western Michigan’s Alex Carder threw for 479 yards and five touchdowns on the road against UConn this past weekend. Louisville was flagged for 11 penalties and had just 27 more yards on offense than yards via the punt (281 to 254) versus Marshall. Both the Huskies and the Cardinals lost at home to inferior opponents on Saturday and the conference that was boasting its unblemished record after Week 1 is now reeling in Week 5. South Florida, who moved all the way up to No. 16 in the country thanks to their win over Notre Dame, showed why they deserve the automatic BCS bid by getting embarrassed 44-17 against Pitt. So everyone in the Big East has a loss, and a conference that is struggling to survive amid talks of ACC and Big 12 expansion is surely not helping its case. Pitt’s Ray Graham may be one of the few exceptions as the Pittsburgh running back earned praise from LeBron James on Twitter after running for 226 yards and 2 touchdowns. Rumor has it that LeBron sent a direct message to Graham asking for advice on how to succeed in the fourth quarter. Texas A&M needs a hug Two weeks ago, Texas A&M was living the high life. They were ranked in the top 10, blowing out cupcakes SMU and Idaho, and looking forward to their move to the SEC. Up 20-3 at the half against No. 7 Oklahoma State on Sept. 24, Aggie fans watched in horror as OSU scored 27 unanswered points to win the game. How does Texas A&M follow up that forgettable performance? By blowing a 35-17 halftime advantage and losing another heartbreaker, this time against No. 18 Arkansas. In the first 30 minutes, A&M scored 5 rushing touchdowns and totally controlled the contest. They then let Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson go off, as the junior gunslinger threw for a school-record 510 yards. Up next for the Aggies is Texas Tech, who oddly enough was down 21-0 Saturday against Kansas before mounting a ferocious comeback and improving to 4-0 on the year. Uh oh A&M, it just might be déjà vu for the third straight week. Clemson needs a beat-down OK, so not only are the southern belles down in South Carolina blonde and beautiful and the weather always 80 degrees and sunny, but Clemson is also undefeated and ranked No. 8 in the country right now. After wins over Troy and Wofford, Clemson has knocked off Auburn, Florida State and Virginia Tech. In the process, the Tiger became
the first ACC team ever to beat ranked foes in three consecutive weeks. Tajh Boyd has been a big reason why, throwing for an average of just under 300 yards per game, with 14 touchdown passes and two interceptions. The defense has also been solid and with a favorable schedule there is no reason why Clemson can’t be 11-0 heading into the season finale against archrival South Carolina. I should be excited about this, having almost went to Clemson and having a couple friends that go there. But no, I want this team to fall, and fall hard. I chose to go to UConn and, although I love the decision I made, I am in the freezing cold and am sick of going on Facebook and seeing those friends’ statuses about just how great it is to be a Clemson Tiger. Remember in two weeks that I was the first to call this upset: Maryland over Clemson, October 15. Then check out my status, and don’t be surprised if I tag a couple people in it. LSU just got scarier It’s kind of strange to think that the best team in the country can get even better, but No. 1 LSU did just that by reinstating Jordan Jefferson as quarterback this weekend. Last year’s starter and one of the team’s best and most explosive players, Jefferson put his entire football career in jeopardy when he and a few teammates got in a brawl outside a bar down in Baton Rouge this summer. Rather than complaining about being suspended and looking to transfer, JJ was beyond appreciative that coach Les Miles even let him stay on the Tigers’ roster. On Saturday, his first game back, Jefferson ran for a touchdown in the first quarter of what ended up being another LSU rout. The boos directed at the quarterback suddenly turned into cheers, and Tiger Nation had a lot more to cheer about in a 35-7 win over Kentucky. Although Jarrett Lee remains the starter for now, look for Jefferson to slowly work his way back into the offense, and once he fully regains the trust of his offense, take back the reigns as starter. I need to exercise on Friday If I don’t have one, I’ll probably have a bed sore come Sunday morning. The reason I say this is because I can’t wait for this weekend’s games: old rivalries (OklahomaTexas, Auburn-Arkansas) a soon-to-be-rivalry (Ohio State-Nebraska), and my two favorite teams playing big games (UConn-WVU, LSUFlorida). Needless to say, I will be attached to my television screen.
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The Daily Question Q : “What would you rather have, a good offense, or a good defense?” A : “I’ll take the shootout over the 3-0 defensive struggle anyday.” – Andrew Chan, 5th-semester economics major.
Away game
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-Hank WIlliams Jr. on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.” Oct. 26 Pittsburgh 8 p.m.
Nov. 5 Syracuse TBA
Nov. 19 Louisville TBA
Men’s Soccer (10-0-0) Oct. 4 Oct. 8 Oct. 12 Manhattan Notre Dame Providence 7:30 p.m. Noon 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 15 Pittsburgh 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 15 West Virginia 7 p.m.
Panthers’ big stats, no wins ‘getting pretty old’
Hank Williams Jr.
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Women’s Soccer (5-5-2) Oct. 7 South Florida 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 9 Marquette 2 p.m.
Oct. 16 West Virginia 1 p.m.
Oct. 22 Providence 1 p.m.
Oct. 9 Virginia 11 a.m.
Oct. Princeton 2 p.m.
Oct. 11 Fordham 7 p.m.
Oct. 15 St. John’s 7 p.m.
Oct. 21 Villanova 7 p.m.
Oct. 9 Quinnipiac All Day
Oct. 12 Bryant 2 p.m.
Oct. 28 Conn. Champs. All Day
Oct. 14 Pittsburgh 7 p.m.
Field Hockey (10-1) Oct. 7 Georgetown 3 p.m.
Oct. 7 Oct. 9 Virginia Georgetown 3 p.m. 11 a.m.
Volleyball (8-9) Oct. 7 South Florida 7 p.m.
Today Hartford 7 p.m.
Men’s Tennis Oct. 7 Quinnipiac All Day
Oct. 8 Quinnipiac All Day
Women’s Tennis Oct. 7 Bowdoin College 2:30 p.m.
Oct. 12 Bryant 2 p.m.
Oct. 15 New England’s All Day
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Oct. 16 New England’s All Day
Milwaukee Brewers’ Rickie Weeks watches batting practice during the team’s workouts, Monday, in Phoenix. The Brewers will face the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 3 of baseball’s National League division series on Tuesday.
Oct. 18 Quinnipiac 2 p.m.
Men’s Cross Country Oct. 8 Oct. 15 Oct. 21 New England Conn. College CCSU Mini Champ. Champ. Meet TBA TBA TBA
Oct. 29 Big East Champ. TBA
Nov. 12 NCAA Northeast TBA
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Oct. 15 Conn. College TBA
Oct. 21 CCSU Mini Meet TBA
Nov. 12 NCAA Northeast TBA
Nov. 21 NCAA Cham. TBA
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)—The Carolina Panthers’ record-setting numbers on offense the first month of the season haven’t translated into wins. Cam Newton is on pace to break Dan Marino’s single-season passing record and wide receiver Steve Smith could shatter Jerry Rice’s singleseason receiving record at this torrid pace, but it hardly matters as the Panthers are just 1-3. In each of their three losses the Panthers have had a chance to win or tie the game late in the fourth quarter. They got it done against Jacksonville, but fell short against Arizona, Green Bay and Chicago. The close-but-no-cigar ending is quickly becoming a source of frustration. “It’s getting pretty old this whole business of `we’re good enough to win, but we don’t win,”’ said tight end Greg Olsen. “We need to learn quick how to win at this level and how to beat good teams. If we don’t, it’s going to be a long year.” The Panthers seemed ready for a long year anyway after going 2-14 last season. Newton’s arrival changed all that. For the first time in quite a while the Panthers have a legitimate playmaker at quarterback with Newton having a hand in all nine of the team’s touchdowns. Newton has set the bar high, but once again the Panthers find themselves in the basement of the NFC South, two games out of first place. “It’s getting old saying that we’re getting better,” said offensive tackle Jordan Gross. “But when you’re 1-3 that’s just the way it is.” Added Olsen: “It’s just a handful of plays every game.” That’s the way it normally is in the NFL, where there’s a fine line between winning and losing. On Sunday, the Panthers essentially gave the Bears 21 points after Newton threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown, Devin Hester returned a punt 69 yards for a score and the Panthers allowed a 73-yard kickoff return that would lead to another score. That offset a franchise-record 543-yard performance by Carolina’s offense. Still, it’s the plays the Panthers aren’t making in the fourth quarter that have hurt the most. The Week 3 win over Jacksonville being the lone exception, the Panthers haven’t come up with the key defensive stop, the big play on special teams or the critical touchdown on offense in the game’s final minutes. They haven’t learned to slam the door. Rivera admits he’s “frustrated,” saying Monday the Panthers should have beat the Bears on Sunday. “We’re playing good enough to win,” Rivera said. “We are continuing to do things to hurt ourselves more so than anything else. We played a good team (Sunday), a playoff caliber team from last year, and we didn’t give ourselves a chance to win. I told our guys it’s hard enough beating one team let alone two.”
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Lewis outpitches Price, Rangers beat Rays 4-3
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)— Back on the road in the playoffs, the Texas Rangers won again. Colby Lewis outpitched AllStar David Price, Mike Napoli hit a go-ahead two-run homer and the defending AL champions survived a shaky night from the bullpen to hold off the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 Monday night in Game 3 of their postseason series. The Rangers’ fourth straight division series road win matches the third-longest streak in major league history and gives Texas a 2-1 lead heading into Game 4 Tuesday at Tropicana Field. Texas won three ALDS games here a year ago, when it eliminated Tampa Bay in five games. Rookie Desmond Jennings hit a pair of solo homers for the Rays, who kept it interesting by scoring twice off Rangers relievers before Neftali Feliz got four outs for his second save of the series. Texas third baseman Adrian Beltre, playing deep and guarding the line to prevent a double in the ninth, started an aroundthe-horn double play on Kelly Shoppach’s grounder to end it. Price was the losing pitcher in two of Tampa Bay’s playoff losses in 2010 and welcomed the opportunity to try to redeem himself against the only AL opponent he’s yet to beat in his career.
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Mike Napoli congratulates Nelson Cruz after the Rangers 4-3 win on Monday in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The left-hander shrugged off a poor outing in his last regular season start to take a 1-0 lead into the seventh, thanks to Desmond Jennings’ fourth-inning homer off Lewis. Beltre singled leading off the seventh against Price and took second a wild pitch. A crowd of 32,828— the first sellout at Tropicana Field since opening day—fell silent when Napoli lifted a 2-2 pitch into the seats in left-center for a 2-1 advantage. Josh Hamilton extended the lead with a two-run single off reliever J.P. Howell. As good as Price was early, Lewis was better in limiting the Rays to one hit over six innings. Jennings’ first homer was the
only hit off the right-hander, who had worked 16 consecutive scoreless innings against the Rays up to that point—a stretch that began with a five-inning stint in last year’s ALDS and continued with an eight-inning performance to beat Price and the Rays on June 1. But the Rangers bullpen nearly let a three-run lead slip away. Johnny Damon, Ben Zobrist and Casey Kotchman singled to load the bases against reliever Darren Oliver in the seventh. Damon scored when pinch-hitter Sean Rodriguez grounded out, and the Rangers escaped further damage when the second pitch-
er of the inning, Alexi Ogando, induced pinch-hitter Sam Fuld to hit a roller to second base. The Rays weren’t finished. Jennings led off eighth with his second homer, trimming Texas’ lead to 4-3. Mike Adams walked B.J. Upton, who was caught stealing, and then walked Evan Longoria and Matt Joyce to get himself into trouble again. The Rangers wiggled off the hook when Michael Gonzales struck out Damon. Feliz came on to fan Zobrist with the tying and go-ahead runs in scoring position. Price lost at home to Cliff Lee and the Rangers twice in last year’s ALDS and was coming off a disappointing outing against the Yankees in which he allowed six runs in four innings of a game that the Rays needed to win to ensure they stayed alive for the wild-card berth on the final night. Tampa Bay rallied from a seven-run deficit to grab the playoff spot on Longoria’s homer, but that didn’t stop questions about whether the Rays could count on him in a big game. The 26-year-old lefty was 0-5 with a 5.40 ERA in eight career starts against Texas before Monday, yet insisted he didn’t lack confidence to get the job done in Game 3.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
First time on patrol
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Wolf comes from basketball family, thanks them with ‘ink’ this summer
Colin McDonough Last week, I attended my first UConn men’s soccer game since my freshman year. My last game was Sept. 3, 2008, a 1-0 Husky win over Stony Brook. It took three years and a No. 1 ranking to pique my interest enough to attend the Huskies’ contest against Yale (a mortal sin in UConn Country). But as most of campus knows, UConn is undefeated, and the team’s student section, “The Goal Patrol” supports them every step of the way. Sophomore Tim Fontenault has been a part of the Goal Patrol the past two seasons. He attended the game with his friends, Brandon Fowler and Brittany Hoppe. Neither Fontenault nor Fowler had shirts on but that’s not to say they didn’t cover up. Both guys wore N’s on their abdomen, and Hoppe, who actually had to cover up, had an “O” on her stomach. The rest of the Goal Patrol regulars helped to spell out “UConn Huskies #1” in the front row. Fitting for UConn’s first game as the No. 1 team in the nation. The Huskies were coming off a 2-0 victory over St. John’s, which is one of many exciting games I’ve missed out on during my break from the pitch. “The atmosphere was just so exciting,” Hoppe said. “It was even amplified because of the rivalry…just constant energy.” Although a Tuesday night against Yale doesn’t hold the same buzz as the St. John’s game, the Goal Patrol was still loud, and the rest of the stadium waited 108 heartstopping minutes for Nickardo Blake to beat the Bulldogs, 1-0. Morrone Stadium erupted on the rebound goal by Blake, which improved UConn’s record to 9-0. The Huskies are now 10-0(Manhattan game pending) after a second straight double overtime win,
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Crazy, crazy college football
By Mike McCurry NCAA Football Columnist Oh, how you perplex me, college football! Just when I thought I had it all figured out, I was wrong. I thought the Dallas Cowboys were the only team in Texas that chokes miserably, then Texas A&M collapses in the second half two weeks in a row, a feat that would make even Terry Francona cringe. To compare UConn’s 11-man ensemble to “swiss-cheese” defense would be generous, and they played a directional school in the Midwest. And please don’t get me started about Clemson, a school whose male students I thought were already pretty fortunate between getting to see sororities in summer dresses at games and having the opportunity to go watch Coach K and Roy Williams every year. Now, with the Tigers off to a fabulous start and in the top 10, that school is more pumped up than Rex Ryan before a foot massage. Even though I’m confused, I did learn some things from Week 5. Here they are:
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By Matt McDonough Sports Editor
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Enosch Wolf keeps a German television station video on his Facebook page. It’s from 1991. His father, Horst Wolf, is speaking to cameras with a basketball poster behind him. After 15 seconds he introduces his son, Enosch. The one-year-old is in his father’s arms, holding a basketball. The camera cuts to the blonde-haired baby in front of a mini basketball hoop. He picks up a ball, dunks and claps. Queen’s “We are the champions” is playing in the background. The 7-foot-1 20-year-old center from Germany became an NCAA national champion as a member of the UConn men’s basketball team last spring. Although he only appeared in seven games after coming to Storrs for the second semester, Wolf had used lessons from both his parents to become a part of the best basketball team in the country. He thanked his family, and first and foremost, his father, in a permanent way this summer. Good Genes Wolf grew up in Göttingen, an old university town of over 120,000 people in the center of Germany, about three to four hours from Berlin. “Cities in Germany look different,” Wolf said, referring to Hartford’s small size but defined skyline. “Not even Berlin has a skyline. [My town’s] all old traditional buildings and when you go downtown it’s nice.” Wolf never had a hoop at his house during his childhood, but there was always one nearby. “I lived in three different places,” Wolf said. “The first one was like an extra house next to a regular house, then we built a house, then I moved into a flat with my dad... It was not really in the city. The city core is very old and all around it gets newer.”
Sophomore center Enosch Wolf celebtrates the NCAA National Championship victory with teammates junior forward Alex Oriakhi and sophomore forward Niels Giffey among others.
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Men’s soccer takes on Manhattan at Morrone By Gregory Keiser Staff Writer
Coach Ray Reid’s No. 1 UConn men’s soccer team will attempt to stay undefeated tonight against Manhattan College. The matchup labeled as “just another game” by freshman goalkeeper Andre Blake is theoretically one of the easier games on the Huskies’ schedule, seeing as the Jaspers are a winless 0-9, but as usual, no UConn player is looking at it that way. “We’re expecting to see a good team. All those teams have a couple of players who are really good,” said freshman goalkeeper Greg O’Brien. “This is their Super Bowl.” The Huskies are coming off two 1-0 double-overtime wins over Yale and No. 8 Louisville. Blake stated, “[In the Yale game]
we didn’t make use of our opportunities. We could have won that game by seven goals.” Reid and O’Brien agreed. “Yale was just an off-night. But it’s good to have a game where the offense isn’t clicking,” O’Brien said. As for consensus preseason No. 1 Louisville, “[They] were just a better team on the night. They were good defensively,” Blake said. Despite the late offensive struggles, the Huskies have continued to excel on the defensive end. The team has allowed only two goals all year. “The thing about our defense is really balanced,” O’Brien said. “Andre is making big saves in each game.” Blake won the Big East Goalkeeper of the Week award for the second-straight week. When asked if he’s surprised with his success, Blake answered, “To be frank, I’m not
surprised because I’ve done the hard work. I would be surprised if I didn’t do the work.” Blake holds high praise for the players in front of him. “The good thing about us is we’re a defensive unit focused on our players. We just understand each other.” Without a loss, the team will likely remain the No. 1 team in the country for the secondstraight week when the polls are released later today. “The feeling is overwhelming and there’s a lot of pressure because other teams are really going to try hard to beat us. It’s nothing new,” Blake said. “We just need to be the hunters.” O’Brien felt the same way. “We’re definitely still the hunters. We haven’t won anything yet. Until we do, we can’t say we’re the hunted.” Coach Reid loved the attitude. “Absolutely we’re doing the hunting.”
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Sophomore midfielder Andrew Jean-Baptiste controls the ball against Yale on Sept. 27 in Storrs.
One thing to look out for is that junior midfielder Jossimar Sanchez will not play thanks to his fifth yellow card of the season against Louisville. Sophomore midfielder Juho Karppinen will likely replace him in the lineup.
“That’s good we have guys on the bench to come in,” O’Brien said. The game will begin tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium.
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Field hockey takes both games over weekend By Carmine Colangelo Staff Writer
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Freshman midfielder Chrissy Davidson runs with the ball against Louisville on Saturday in Storrs.
As another fall weekend passed, the UConn field hockey team continues its winning ways as they completed a sweep of their two weekend games. On Saturday the No. 4 Huskies hosted Big East opponent No. 19 Louisville and defeated the Cardinals 4-2 for their ninth victory of the season. The Huskies are now 3-0 in Big East play. Louisville looked like they could have been in control of the game early after a quick goal and a yellow card by Allison Angulo, giving the Cardinals a one player advantage. The Huskies defense would hold strong however, not allowing a goal during that time and would regain control of the game after a goal from forward Chloe Hunnable on an UConn penalty corner. “I think we played quite well for the majority of the game,” Hunnable said. “We had very split parts where we
weren’t quite as good, but next one, we just need to win.” we’re improving.” On Sunday the Huskies The goal was Hunnable’s traveled to New Haven to ninth goal of her freshman play Yale where they beat the season. When asked about her Bulldogs 1-0. The Huskies experience here at UConn, lone goal was scored by Hunnable said “It’s been really Bolles 5:22 into the second good, I love it here half on an assist by it feels like a home forward Anne Jeute. away from home.” The goal was the 4 sixth of the seaThe Huskies would UConn go on to score three Louisville 2 son for Bolles. The more uncontested goal would prove Saturday goals, before the to be the only score Cardinals scored UConn 1 needed by UConn again towards the end as goalkeeper Sarah 0 Mansfield posted of the second half. Yale All of UConn’s goals her fifth shutout of Sunday were scored on penthe season. alties, three of them The Huskies held an coming from penalty corners 8-6 advantage in shots as well as a and one on a penalty shot from 5-3 advantage on penalty corners. With the victories UConn’s forward Marie Elena Bolles. The Huskies outshot the record improves to 10-1 overall Cardinals 17-10 on Saturday this season. They are also 7-1 at as well as out cornering their home this season and a perfect 3-0 on the road. The Huskies opponent 7-4. “We’re pretty solid but we will play a pair of away games need to start off hard and fast this weekend as they face off and basically maintain through- against Georgetown on Friday out the game at a high consis- and Virginia on Sunday. tent pace,” Hunnable said. “We treat every game as big as the Carmine.Colangelo@UConn.edu
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