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Students were outraged by the basketball season tickets scalping this week, which spurred the creation of a USG task force to find a better way for UConn to sell the soughtafter seats, said President Sam Tracy at the Senate meeting Wednesday.

Senators Jordan Hegel, Steven Massucci and Connor Mullen created a Facebook event where students can voice their complaints about the lottery. After two days, the senators received a deluge of input from the student body, which Tracy said prompted him to put the task force together.

“There’s a lot of debate

about it going on on Facebook,” Tracy said. “We saw that people were really caring about it.”

Mullen said he doesn’t like the lottery system because students looking to make a profit off the tickets decrease the chances a student who genuinely wants to go to games has to get a ticket. Mullen said it is unfair that students win the lottery and then turn around to sell the tickets for a huge profit. He said the lottery shouldn’t be seen as a business opportunity.

“It’s an opportunity to support a team that we all have a mutual connection to,” Mullen said. “The system is flooded with people who just want profit.”

Hegel also said that scalp-

ing tickets for more than a $3 mark-up is illegal in Connecticut. When purchasing the tickets, every student signed a contract agreeing to follow that rule.

“You’re violating the contract that you signed in the first place,” Mullen said.

The task force will initially research, compile opinions and gather ideas, Hegel said.

They plan to look at other universities’ programs, and to speak with the athletic director and the ticket office. They will then write a report and further down the line draft a piece of legislation. Tracy said this is not urgent because this year’s lottery has already passed, but he hopes the sys-

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A USG Senator addresses the Senate during the meeting Wednesday night, where one topic was problems with the basketball lottery.

Apple says company co-founder Steve Jobs has died HUSKIES PREPARE FOR WVU Conference play begins this weekend.

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COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: COMMUTERS LEARN TO STAY HEALTH Professionals discussed staying healthy while on the go.

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In this Jan. 9, 2007 file phtoo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up an Apple iPhone at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco.

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed eversleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died. He was 56.

Apple announced his death without giving a specific cause.

“We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” the company said in a brief statement.

“Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives.

The world is immeasurably better because of Steve” Jobs had battled cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant in 2009 after taking a leave of absence for unspecified health problems. He took another leave of absence in January — his third since his health problems began — before resigning as CEO six weeks ago. Jobs became Apple’s chairman and handed the CEO job over to his hand-picked successor, Tim Cook.

The news Apple fans and shareholders had been dreading came the day after Apple unveiled its latest version of the iPhone, just one in a procession of devices that shaped technology and society while Jobs was running the company.

Jobs started Apple with a high school friend in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, was forced out a decade later and returned in 1997 to rescue the company. During his second stint, it grew into the most valuable technology company in the world with a market value of $351 billion. Only Exxon Mobil, which makes it money extracting and refining oil instead of ideas, is worth more.

Lecture focuses on 30 years of AIDS » JOBS, page 2

By Christine Peterson Campus Correspondent AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency syndrome, is defined as the final stage of the HIV virus in which the immune system undergoes severe damage.

Over the past 30 years where the disease has emerged as a deadly enemy, the World Health Organization estimates that a total of 25 million people have died from this affliction. That’s without taking into account the over 30 million people currently living with HIV/AIDS throughout the world.

On Oct. 5, 2011, the Rainbow Center hosted another “Out to Lunch” lecture, featuring John

Manual Andrioter and his presentation entitled “Canaries in a Coal Mine: 30 Years of AIDS in America’s Gay Communities.”

Andrioter is a Connecticut native. He began reporting on AIDS and HIV in 1986, and based on his 25 years specializing on this epidemic, he discussed how and why gay American men are the most affected by this virus (nearly two-thirds of all diagnosed HIV infections result from male homosexual activities), as well as their role as advocates against HIV/AIDS. With the second edition of his book, “Victory Deferred,” released this past week, Andrioter continued his presentation by explaining how the history of

this disease has shaped the present view of gays in present-day America.

“When Rock Hudson came out and told the media that he had HIV, people began to realize that anybody could get the disease, and it intrigued me as a journalist and a gay man,” Andrioter said.

This was the 1980s, when the disease was new and running rampant throughout the country.

“I was 26 and my peers were dying from this dreaded, terrifying disease,” he said.

It was during this time that Andrioter began writing freelance articles about the issue.

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John Manual Andrioter gives a lecture on a 30-year history of AIDS in the gay community during the Rainbow Center’s lecture series.

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DAILY BRIEFING Charges dropped against man in Hartford deaths

HARTFORD(AP) — A state judge has dropped murder charges against a man accused in the killings of two teenagers in Hartford, after a prosecutor said the case was weakened by the deaths of the state’s only witness and a police detective.

The Hartford Courant reports that capital felony and murder charges against 23-year-old Ronald Perez were dropped Wednesday in Hartford Superior Court. Perez, who had faced the possibility of the death penalty, declined to comment as he left the courthouse.

Perez had been charged in the 2009 shooting deaths of two 16-year-olds from East Hartford, Justin Pickering and Hector Sample, as they rode motor scooters in Hartford.

Prosecutor Donna Mambrino said an eyewitness was later shot to death in Hartford and one of the lead police detectives has also died.

State eyes ‘burden of proof’ in special education

HARTFORD (AP) — Officials are considering updates to Connecticut’s special education regulations, including whether to continue requiring school districts to bear the burden of proof in disputes with parents over how much help a child needs.

Dozens of states put the heavier legal burden on parents if they dispute the district’s conclusions, but Connecticut’s legislature has rejected efforts several times to follow suit.

School officials say bearing the burden of proof drives up their costs. Parents say it helps them reach equal footing against administrators who already have the advantage of having taxpayer-funded experts and attorneys.

The state Board of Education received an update Wednesday on the issue, but took no action. That board and legislators will revisit the issue in early 2012.

State tech schools task force plans hearings

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A task force examining Connecticut’s state-run technical high schools plans to hold several public hearings in the next few months.

Patricia Ciccone, superintendent of the system that manages the 16 schools, told the state Board of Education on Wednesday that the task force might have a draft report as soon as mid-December.

About 11,000 students attend the schools, which offer a college prep curriculum and training in 38 technical areas.

Connecticut lawmakers created the committee this year to suggest ways to strengthen the schools and compare the cost, benefits and drawbacks of transferring them to the control of the municipalities where they are located. That idea drew strong protests when legislators considered it last spring.

The task force’s next meeting will be Oct. 17 at Eli Whitney Tech in Hamden.

Friendly’s files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection NEW YORK (AP) — The parent of the Friendly’s restaurant chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday and said that it has already closed 63 of its stores.

Each store employed about 20 people, so about 1,260 jobs were lost.

The 76-year-old company known for its ice cream and hamburgers is the latest restaurant chain to file for bankruptcy, as consumers continue to eat out less, a habit they picked up during the recession, and food costs remain high.

Other companies that have sought bankruptcy protection this year include Perkins & Marie Callender’s; Real Mex, which operates El Torito Restaurant and Chevys Fresh Mex, and SSI Group Holding Corp., which operates Souper Salad and Grandy’s restaurant.

Friendly’s said the economic downturn coupled with higher costs and high rents drove it to file for bankruptcy protection.

State disaster recovery centers to begin closing

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Most of the disaster centers set up in Connecticut to help residents and businesses affected by Tropical Storm Irene will soon be closing.

The Disaster Recovery Center at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport and six U.S. Small Business Administration loan outreach centers are closing at 7 p.m. Thursday. The centers are in Farmington, Groton, Guilford, North Haven, Orange and Torrington.

But the loan outreach center at East Haven Town Beach will remain open until Oct. 13.

Reuben Bradford, commissioner of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, said residents and businesses that had damage from the Aug. 28 storm may register online for disaster assistance. They can also contact the Federal Emergency Management Agency by calling 1-800-621-FEMA.

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Commuters learn to stay healthy

By Abby Ferrucci Staff Writer Commuter Appreciation Week continued yesterday with a lecture on “Staying Healthy On-the-Go” in the Student Union. Students from a variety of off-campus houses, apartments and condos arrived and were greeted with healthy snacks like fruit, vegetables and yogurt.

The students watched a presentation by Sarah Brown and Hayley MacDonald from the Office of Nutrition and Physical Activity Services. The presentation gave tips on how students can choose healthier meals and get exercise, even when they don’t have time to hit the gym.

According to MacDonald, anyone can go to their office, located in the Student Health Services building, for free one-on-one nutrition and physical activity counseling appointments. These appointments can include anything from advice on how to start a new exercise routine to tips on a healthier diet, according to Brown.

Students in attendance were there for a variety of reasons, with the most popular being the door prize, a $100 gift card to Nike.

Michael Price, a 5th-semester finance major and a commuter from the off-campus SAE house, was the lucky winner.

“It is going to be cool to check out some of the trails around campus that they talked about,” Price

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Students present on ways to stay healthy as a commuter on the go during a presentation as part of Commuter Appreciation Week on Wednesday.

said. “They really lured me in with a prize. It feels great to win it, and I need a new raincoat so now I will probably buy one.”

Other students came to get exercise and nutrition advice.

“The tips were helpful, especially about when to eat and the post-workout snacks,” said Eric Mensinger, a 7th-semester communications major who commutes from Willimantic. “They also explained why eating every 3 to 4 hours is helpful, and I usually eat more spaced out than that.”

The presentation organized

by Cat Carter, a graduate student of higher education and student affairs. Carter works for the Office

of Student Services and Advocacy, which has been responsible for Commuter Appreciation Week this semester.

“This semester, we are pushing to have programs that make commuters’ lives easier,” Carter said.

The office is responsible for a variety of services helpful to students, like helping off-campus students with leasing agreement, landlord disputes and finding a place to move to, according to Carter.

“During Hurricane Irene we brought water trucks to places like Carriage and Celeron apartments,” Carter said.

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tem will change next year. “[The task force] is to get this ticket and lottery program to do what it’s supposed to do, to allow students to support the team they love,” Mullen said.

Both USG members and non-members are invited to be in the task force. Mullen said one of his goals is to keep students updated throughout the process. He doesn’t want this to be a quick spurt of fury soon to be forgotten as the semester progresses.

“We want to keep students involved because students are really the fuel to the fire,” Mullen said. “We are all equals at this school.”

At the meeting, Tracy also said the UConn Cycles program is ready to use. Bikes are available to rent at the library. They just need to be returned by 5 p.m.

Grace Collins, academic affairs committee chair, said the committee has joined with Marc Walsh from PIRG to draft legislation to reduce the cost of textbooks. They are still in the research stage of the process, and Collins said it will still be a ways away.

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Gov’t slow to fund AIDS Jobs helped change computers during 30 year career help and research from LECTURE, page 1 He said he wanted to fight the stigma that is attached to someone who is gay or a lesbian. This disease did not help the stigma.

Middle class men suddenly were becoming impoverished and experienced what poor people had to live with. Charity programs, even Meals-on-Wheels, were not designed for professional young men, nor were they were not meant for men at 30 years old.

“People were calling for quarantines. ‘Round up the gays and put them on an island,’” he said.

People were frightened and confused, and the gay community had the constant reminder of the disease hanging over its head.

There was no help – not from the government or from the state – when the disease was in its infantile stages. This required the gay community to come together.

They created buddy programs where volunteers would go to someone’s home to help clean and cook, or even just to be a friend.

The first and one of the most famous, gay activist groups called ACT UP, which was founded in 1987, fought to make the first HIV treatment available to everyone.

“Their first mission was to put drugs in bodies,” Andrioter said.

The big question at the time was who controlled the flow of the medication: the government or the people? There was a huge confrontation at the time of who would live and who would die, and whose decision was it?

“It was during the Regan administration when the Christian right-wing government didn’t like the idea of doing anything,” Andrioter said.

Andrioter said he felt there

was a rash of hypocrisy in America for these unChristian attitudes toward gays.

“The gays were blamed for the moral breakdown of the country, and they had their own disease,” he said. “And in this dark time, gay people really organized and mounted this community-level response…to take care of one another. Some of the best and brightest wound up in Washington organizing a political response.”

They had to, because it wasn’t until six years later, after thousands had died of HIV/AIDS, that the government approved any money for the fight at all.

And it wasn’t until 1990 that the government passed the federal act to ensure any help at all. Andrioter commented on the fact that, while so many in the country were preaching traditional values, the gay community was actually living them.

“I feel like I’ve lived in a time of giants; these amazing men and women who had come out and risked so much because they were speaking out about this injustice being down to fellow Americans and neighbors,” Andrioter said.

People always concentrate on the death, disease, and fear that accompanies the AIDS epidemic, but Andrioter requested people to realize the other side of it, which is the extraordinary level of heroism.

“Vive la revolution,” he said. “It’s a good thing when Americans speak up about this injustice.”

It is important for the reality of this disease to be made public because gay males are the ones who suffer most.

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Cultivating Apple’s countercultural sensibility and a minimalist design ethic, Jobs rolled out one sensational product after another, even in the face of the late-2000s recession and his own failing health.

He helped change computers from a geeky hobbyist’s obsession to a necessity of modern life at work and home, and in the process he upended not just personal technology but the cellphone and music industries. For transformation of American industry, he ranks among his computer-age contemporary, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and other creative geniuses such as Walt Disney that left an indelible imprint on the world. Jobs died as Walt Disney Co.’s largest shareholder, a by-product of his decision to sell computer animation studio Pixar in 2006.

Perhaps most influentially, Jobs in 2001 launched the iPod, which offered “1,000 songs in your pocket.” Over the next 10 years, its white earphones and thumb-dial control seemed to become more ubiquitous than the wristwatch.

In 2007 came the touchscreen iPhone, joined a year later by Apple’s App Store, where developers could sell iPhone “apps” which made the phone a device not just for making calls but also for managing money, editing photos, playing games and social networking. And in 2010, Jobs introduced the iPad, a tablet-sized, all-touch computer that took off even though market analysts said

no one really needed one.

Steven Paul Jobs was born Feb. 24, 1955, to Joanne Simpson, then an unmarried graduate student, and Abdulfattah Jandali, a student from Syria. Simpson gave Jobs up for adoption, though she married Jandali and a few years later had a second child with him, Mona Simpson, who became a novelist.

“I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.”

Steve Jobs

Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs of Los Altos, Calif., a working-class couple who nurtured his early interest in electronics. He saw his first computer terminal at NASA’s Ames Research Center when he was around 11 and landed a summer job at Hewlett-Packard before he had finished high school.

Jobs enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Ore., in 1972 but dropped out after a semester.

“All of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition.

After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it,” he said at a Stanford University commencement address in 2005.

“I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.”

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Sarah Palin says she will not run for president of the US

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday she will not run for president, leaving little doubt that the eventual Republican nominee will come from the current field of contenders.

After months of leaving her fans guessing, Palin said in a statement that she and her husband Todd “devote ourselves to God, family and country.” She said her decision maintains that order.

Palin sent the statement to supporters. She told conservative radio host Mark Levin that she would not consider a third party candidacy because it would assure President Barack Obama’s re-election.

Sen. John McCain plucked Palin from relative obscurity in 2008 by naming her as his running mate. She electrified Republican activists for a while after she delivered a well-received speech at the party’s national convention.

Palin later seemed overwhelmed by the national spotlight, faltering at times in televised interviews even when asked straightforward questions.

Palin’s announcement Wednesday was much anticipated but not greatly surprising.

Her popularity had plummeted in polls lately, even though she remained a darling to many hard-core conservatives. Some Republicans felt she waited and teased too long about a presidential candidacy. Some remained perplexed by her decision to quit her job as governor with more than a year left in her single term.

Palin also angered some Americans with a defensive speech shortly after a Democratic congresswoman was gravely wounded in an Arizona shooting in January that killed six people.

Palin’s announcement came one day after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he would not run. Republican insiders say the

field is set.

It includes former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whom party insiders see as the strongest contenders. Libertarian-leaning Rep. Ron Paul of Texas continues to draw a devoted following, and former pizza company executive Herman Cain has gained in recent polls.

Voting in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary election will start in about three months.

Because Palin’s star had faded, it is unclear whether her decision will have a big impact on the Republican race. Some analysts said Palin might have drawn significant conservative support, especially in Iowa. If so, she might have split that constituency with Perry, Cain, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and others, possibly giving Romney a chance to win the caucus with a relatively

modest plurality.

Others felt Perry benefits from Palin’s decision because it helps him portray himself as the best-known conservative alternative to Romney.

Republican adviser Matt Mackowiak said Romney benefits from Christie’s decision, and Perry benefits from Palin’s, so it’s “a wash.”

In a statement, Perry called Palin “a good friend, a great American and a true patriot.”

“I respect her decision and know she will continue to be a strong voice for conservative values and needed change in Washington,” he said.

McCain, whose staff often clashed with Palin, said he was confident “she’ll continue to play an important role in our party and for our nation.”

Palin fans expressed frustration and disbelief on conservatives4palin.com, a supporter Web site.

“Oh! Big mistake, Sarah, for the

country and for you. And why wait so long? Geez,” wrote a poster identified as militantfeather.

Another, identified as Mark Dormann, said: “Sarah I feel betrayed. You are the one we are waiting for. No one else will reform America. ... you have broken my heart :(“ Palin repeatedly stoked speculation about a presidential bid, in part by visiting Iowa, home of the leadoff nominating caucuses, seven times since leaving the governorship in 2009.

Last month, she gave a campaign-themed speech at a tea party rally that drew thousands to a town south of Des Moines.

“I’ve said all along she’s a force in her own right,” said Des Moines, Iowa, Republican Becky Beach, who became a friend and part of Palin’s small circle as her principal planning contact in Iowa. “In this capacity, however it takes shape, she’ll be someone who has an impact on the 2012 election.”

Palin loses the opportunity to seize a network of organized supporters in Iowa, put together by California lawyer Peter Singleton, who has spent the better part of the year in the state. He said there is no one candidate who can lay claim to the voter database, mailing list and team of campaign volunteers he put together in Iowa.

In her statement, Palin said, “my decision is based upon a review of what commonsense conservatives and independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office — from the nation’s governors to congressional seats and the presidency. We need to continue to actively and aggressively help those who will stop the ‘fundamental transformation’ of our nation and instead seek the restoration of our greatness, our goodness and our constitutional republic based on the rule of law.”

lies.”

Of the camping protesters, he said, “We feel kinship with them. We’re both looking for the same things.”

People gathered in front of the courthouses that encircle Foley Square, then marched to Zuccotti Park, where they refueled with snacks and hurriedly painted new signs as the strong scent of burning sage wafted through the plaza.

The protesters have varied causes but have spoken largely about unemployment and economic inequality and reserved most of their criticism for Wall Street. “We are the 99 percent,” they chanted, contrasting themselves with the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.

Susan Henoch, 63, of Manhattan said she was a “child of the ‘60s” and came out to the park for the first time

Wednesday. She held a sign that read, “Enough.”

“It’s time for the people to speak up,” she said. “Nobody’s listening to us, nobody’s representing us. Politics is dead.

“This is no longer a recognizable democracy. This is a disaster,” she said.

Some of the union members traveled from other states to march.

Karen Higgins, a co-president of National Nurses United, came down with a group of colleagues from Boston. She said they had seen patients who skipped important medical tests because they couldn’t afford them.

“Tax Wall Street,” she said.

“Those who make all the money need to start paying their fair share.”

The Occupy Wall Street protests started 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 nearby in Zuccotti Park and have become increasingly organized, lining up medical aid and legal help and printing their own newspaper.

Several Democratic lawmakers have expressed support for the protesters, but some Republican presidential candidates have rebuked them.

Herman Cain, called the activists “un-American” Wednesday at a book signing in St. Petersburg, Fla. “They’re basically saying that somehow the government is supposed to take from those that have succeeded and give to those who want to protest,” the former pizza-company executive said. “That’s not the way America was built.”

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In this Sept. 5, 2011 file photo, former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waves to supporters before addressing a Tea Partly Express Rally in Manchester, N.H. Palin’s husband Todd, released a statement on Thursday, Sept. 15.

Colo. school shooting verdict: not guilty, insanity

GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A man charged with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting and wounding of two eighthgraders at a Colorado middle school was found not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday.

Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood, who was armed with a rifle, was tackled and held by two teachers shortly after the February 2010 attack at Deer Creek Middle School that recalled memories of the 1999 mass shooting at nearby Columbine High School.

Eastwood was charged with a total of 15 crimes. Jurors found him not guilty by reason of insanity on all but one charge: possession of a weapon on school grounds, which carries a sentence of up to 1 ½ years in prison. Sentencing will be Nov. 15.

After the verdict, Deborah Weber, mother of one of the wounded students, said she was disappointed because she felt prosecutors proved that Eastwood was sane at the time of the shootings “I don’t think that people should confuse mental illness with insanity, which is of the legal kind,” Weber said. “I don’t think that legal insanity should absolve someone of doing time.”

Defense attorney Katherine Spengler said she would appeal that conviction.

Eastwood, who has been at the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo since the summer of 2010, continues to struggle to understand why he did what he did, Spengler said.

“Mr. Eastwood is an extremely ill man ... and he is incredibly remorseful about what he did, and we’re glad that the children are recovering,” Spengler said.

She said he continues to get treatment at the state hospital.

District Attorney Scott Storey said Eastwood will remain at the state hospital for an indeterminate time until he is deemed legally sane and released. His case will be reviewed every six

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months. Storey added that the average stay in the state hospital, for homicide cases is 7 ½ years and in Eastwood’s case could be less.

“It was a case that had to be tried,” Storey said afterward.

“You can’t have somebody come onto our school grounds and shooting at students ...

He’s profoundly mentally ill. I respect the jury’s verdict, but I don’t agree with it .... I have no regrets for taking this case to trial.

“There are certain cases that just outrage me to the core. This is one of them.”

During the trial, defense lawyers showed jurors portions of Eastwood’s rambling journal that referred to mutants or transformers that were taking over his body.

“They want me to have nothing. Instead, they have me suffering, alive but in pain,” Eastwood noted in one entry.

Eastwood had written in his notebook before last year’s shooting that the voices were becoming more threatening.

The notebook included doodles of a man under attack.

Prosecutors told the jury that Eastwood knew the difference between right and wrong when he shot the two children as they were leaving their school.

Unions, students join Wall Street protesters

NEW YORK (AP) — Unions lent their muscle to the longrunning protest against Wall Street and economic inequality Wednesday, with their members joining thousands of protesters in a lower Manhattan march as smaller demonstrations flourished across the country.

Protesters in suits and T-shirts with union slogans left work early to march with activists who have been camped out in Zuccotti Park for days. Some marchers brought along their children, hoisting them onto their shoulders as they walked down Broadway.

“We’re here to stop corporate greed,” said Mike Pellegrino, an NYC Transit bus mechanic from Rye Brook. “They should pay their fair share of taxes.

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Melanie Deziel, Editor-in-Chief Arragon Perrone, Commentary Editor Ryan Gilbert, Associate Commentary Editor Michelle Anjirbag, Weekly Columnist Tyler McCarthy, Weekly Columnist Jesse Rifkin, Weekly Columnist

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Students should participate in protests responsibly

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he Occupy Wall Street movement, though not covered excessively by major media outlets, is being touted as an American “Arab Spring” revolution.

But this is a misnomer. The revolutions that almost brought the Middle East to a standstill were born from decades of frustration with oppressive governments, which eventually caused citizens to band together by any means possible to show that they had had enough of the current situation and were demanding the agency to have a voice in the governing system. What is happening on Wall Street is not the same thing. While it is admirable that people in this country are starting to look for the means to stand up to a system that no longer addresses their needs, it does not have the same power as the true Arab Spring Revolutions.

That being said, we would like to encourage students to find ways to involve themselves in protest movements in ways that best suit them. This is not the 1960s or 1970s; we have a lot more to lose now if we choose to deviate from the “normal” way of life. But just because we may not be able to emulate the revolutions of the past, nor those of the Middle East, that does not mean that we as students cannot find our own ways to join, or even start, political and social movements. Can’t join Occupy Wall Street, or any other sit-in movement? Write about it. Talk to people about issues that mean something to you. If you have a message you want to spread, or a topic you want to educate people about, find a way to get it out there. Find the right audience and you will be able to affect change.

Protest movements help shape the political landscape of any country. They are the means by which citizens keep the government honest and accountable. Just as the government needs to change to fit the needs and lives of the citizens it serves, we as citizens need to reform how we protest so that we can be as involved with what we care about as we are with our own lives. Everyone has a different comfort level when it comes to protest. Not being able to, or comfortable with taking a very dramatic stand, should not make students feel like their voices are not as valid as those of the people who gather in the streets.

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 know we’re the Huskies, but since I don’t have fur or anything, could you please turn on the heat UConn?

Dear UConn, I don’t very much appreciate all the toilets on my floor being linked together. This is the last time that the water bubbles and touches my butthole when someone else flushes. Fix it.

Got pulled over by a cop... while riding my bike... yeah i was going that fast.

Currently watching someone play Pokemon Red...on youtube. This is my life.

I don’t just sleep, I hibernate.

To Tom: I know it was you hating on fezzes. Fezzes are cool, so are bow ties and Stetsons.

Dear Fez Hater: Fezes are cool.

I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.

I just saw a 5 year old girl cover Superbass online. My mind has been blown.

I would just like to point out that there is not nearly enough historical evidence to prove that Charles and Augustus Storrs were ever referred to as “Chuck & Augie”. Just sayin’.

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Despite what you may think of Apple, or their products.

The world has lost a man who was one of the largest contributors to modern technology. USB, MP3 players, tablets, and smartphones would not nearly be as widespread as they are without the help of this man and his company. Anyone would be foolish to disagree. RIP Steve Jobs.

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Gay men shouldn’t be kept from saving lives

U

Conn hosted its first weeklong blood drive of the semester last week, I was reminded of my first time giving blood. I was 17 years old, and the American Red Cross had come to my high school and transformed our gymnasium into a makeshift clinic.

Tables, chairs, partitions and rollaway beds covered the lacquered floor. I wasn’t exactly the biggest fan of gym class, so I was more than thrilled to see that big, ugly, smelly room

By Ryan Gilbert finally being put to Associate Commentary Editor some good use.

As I waited in line, I remember being scared, but also proud of what I was about to do. My blood was going to save lives! And instead of having to play some ridiculous game of dodgeball, I was going to lay down for a bit, chitchat with some nurse, eat some cookies and drink some orange juice. I was the picture of nobility.

Until I lied.

The nurse asked me intimate question after intimate question. Had I ever been diagnosed or treated for a sexually transmitted disease in the last year? No. Had I had an organ transplant in the last five years? No. Had I visited a prostitute in the last year? Of course not. And then, one question hit me like the stupid dodgeball I thought managed to avoid that day: Had I ever had sex with another man, even once?

What was I supposed to say? Why did this even matter? I already told her that I only had protected sex and that I never

had any sexually transmitted diseases. So what if it was with a man? I was confused and panicked by the question. I wanted to help save lives. I wanted to brag to all my friends who were too chicken to give blood that I did it. I wanted to get that “Be nice to me, I gave blood today!” sticker.

So, I lied. I told the pretty nurse with the round glasses and the fun pink Koosh pen “no.”

“Maybe the ban on giving blood for men who have had sex with other men was acceptable in 1983, when HIV testing was pretty oblivious, but it can no longer be supported.”

Maybe the ban on giving blood for men who have had sex with other men was acceptable in 1983, when HIV testing was pretty oblivious, but it can no longer be supported. Until a few weeks ago, the United Kingdom, like the United States, had prohibited blood donations by any man who had ever had sex with another man. However, a new analysis of infection risk has determined that having sex with another man shall no longer prevent a gay man from donating blood.

The U.K. Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs resolved that the “gap” period for viruses, the period during which a gay man might

be infected from a sexual act but not yet show up as infected on blood tests, is now 9-to-15 days for HIV. The committee also proposed a “deferral” period of one year. If a gay man has had sex with another man in the last year, his blood could be indiscernibly infected. But past that point, blood tests are dependable. He can donate.

The U.S. is poised to follow suit with similar determinations, which will certainly come as a relief to many gay men who would like to give blood and help save lives. However, the “gap” period and “deferral” period are still missing the larger point here. Under these new guidelines, a gay man in a committed, loving and monogamous relationship who maybe has only had oral sex will still automatically be unable to give blood, even though a straight man who has had several partners and not worn a condom will not even be questioned about his sexual behavior.

Donors should be screened as individuals and not as groups.

Fighting for basic civil rights and personal freedoms is not a new undertaking for the LGBT community. We’ve seen some long-standing discriminatory practices and policies repealed (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) and, of course, there are some rulings that still antagonize and demean us (Defense of Marriage Act). Some may think I’m a careless and dangerous liar for donating blood, but the only thing that’d be careless and dangerous would be if I didn’t do everything I could to help save lives. And it sure beats the hell out of playing dodgeball.

Associate Commentary Editor Ryan Gilbert is a 7thsemester journalism major. He can be reached at Ryan.Gilbert@UConn.edu.

Peaceful calls for freedom in Tibet must be heard In 1959, His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV, Tibet’s spiritual leader, fled the country for India as the People’s Liberation Army moved in from China and decimated the Tibetan countryside.

Since then, His Holiness has not returned to his country of origin, and thousands of Tibetans

By John Nitowski have followed Staff Columnist him out of Tibet, resettling in India, Nepal or the West. Thousands of Tibetans arrive in Dharamsala every year and find their way to one of the many extensive Tibetan communities abroad (the Central Tibetan Authority, Tibet’s government-in-exile, claims that 9,000 Tibetans live in the United States). This hasn’t led to any less of a concern for their homeland.

Tibetans have found a rebirth of their culture and a concern for their homeland among strangers. Yet with all the “Free Tibet” bumper stickers and Dalai Lama books, we tend to forget the plight of the people still living in a conquered country.

On Sept. 26 and Oct. 3, three Tibetan monks in Sichuan Province attempted to light

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themselves on fire. These actions inspire strong questions: How do we go from diaspora to self-immolation? Why should we care?

For the politically minded, Tibet should be an issue of national security. The United States’ biggest competitor is China. It is virtually inevitable that the People’s Republic will take over America’s economy within the next 10 years, with the Yuan eventually becoming the world’s strongest currency. At which point, the People’s Republic of China would officially become one of, if not the, worlds biggest superpower. China has already bullied Tibet politically, economically and religiously.

China claims that it has always ruled Tibet and is simply enforcing its rightful claim, but China also holds that the oil-rich Spratly Islands have “always” been part of Chinese territory. It hasn’t been an issue yet, but what if China decides to defend this claim against Vietnam, the Philippines and the United States? What if Beijing decides it has had enough of the 23rd Province (Taiwan) acting like it’s own country?

From this perspective, Beijing’s actions in Tibet are an indicator of

how the PRC will act elsewhere if given the chance.

In Tibetan Buddhism, the protecting spirit watching over the Tibetan people is Chenrizi, the embodiment of the Buddha’s compassion, which is intimately tied to Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama XIV. Tibetans all over the world are named after him, Tenzin, to honor him as their spiritual leader and show their support for his philosophy of compassion on a global level.

It is because of compassion that Tibetans cannot keep silent: To do so would accept what the PRC is doing to Chinese civilians, ethnic minorities including the Uyghur, Mongolians, Koreans and of course, fellow Tibetans.

But between protesting Chinese rule (equivalent to shouting at a brick wall) and starting a terrorist campaign across China, which would kill innocent Chinese and Tibetans, there has to be a solution in between.

In 1963, Vietnamese Buddhists were being persecuted: monasteries were destroyed and the monks mistreated.

Buddhism in Vietnam was on the precipice. Thich Quang Duc, a Vietnamese monk, called

Buddhists to action by setting himself on fire. His act of sacrifice evidenced his compassion and earned him the status of a Bodhisattva – the same status His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, carries.

Why does Tibet matter?

Because a philosophy based on compassion is a stark contrast in a world that glamorizes violence and wars of independence (i.e. ours).

In 2004, several young Tibetan exiles fasted for 32 days to gain the attention of the international community. After all, the UN advocated peace and discussion, but only seemed to listen to the voices that threatened violence.

Like the hunger strikers outside the United Nations, Tibet matters because they are among the few people advocating conversation and peaceful resolution.

But time has a way of changing things. If we – Chinese or Western – don’t listen to the Bodhisattvas, we might be forced to listen to bombs.

Staff Columnist John Nitowski is a 5th-semester agriculture and philosophy major. He can be reached at John.Nitowski@UConn.edu

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by Brendan Albetski and Brendan Nicholas

Horoscopes To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

by Brian Ingmanson

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 9 -- The stress you’ve been under is easing now. You can make anything happen through strong (not loud) communication.

Be thoughtful and considerate, and gently repeat if needed.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 5 -- You may notice increased pressure (especially around finances), but don’t worry, you’ll think of something. Find support with friends, and let off a little steam.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Too much of a good thing could cause problems ... the solution of which could serve as a platform to invent unprecedented innovations. Set aside notions of “good” or “bad.”

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Some of the things you try won’t work.

This is how you find out what does. Don’t be too hard on yourself (even if you think you deserve it). Take breaks outdoors.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -You’re being challenged. There’s a tendency to fall into an argument now. It’s best to avoid trouble and continue working towards your common goals.

Monkey Business

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Listen to the wisdom of your elders. Their experience can save you trouble. Focus your energy towards productive adventure.

You may find an answer in a dream.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -When things get tough, turn to your friends.

Take your time to get it right, and call for reinforcements, if needed. Emotion wins over logic today.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Work quickly (but carefully), so you can focus on family matters today.

You’re earning brownie points as well as experience and are almost ready to move to the next level.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- If there’s a solution to the problem, why worry? If there’s not a solution, why worry?

Apply insights to a family dilemma. Doublecheck your appointments.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Stick to practical morning routines. Writing or recording projects can be profitable today.

Apply your grandmother’s wisdom to a problem for smooth results.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Things may not go according to plan, so prepare to shift as needed. Trust the structure that you’ve built. There’s more work coming in. Craft your vision statement.

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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- You don’t always have to say “yes.” Give up a fantasy to discover a new reality that’s been hiding there all along. It’s better than what you thought you wanted.

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Egypt’s ruler vows military will step down

CAIRO (AP) — The leader of Egypt’s ruling generals said Wednesday the army has no interest in staying in power for a long time, but insisted the military council won’t step down until it has “fulfilled its commitments.”

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has come under increasing criticism of its handling of Egypt’s transitional period following the popular uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February.

Many of the activists that engineered the revolt have accused the military council of moving too slowly in dismantling the former regime and bringing former officials acccused of abuses to justice.

In comments broadcast on state television and carried by the official news agency, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi brushed aside the criticism, saying “we will not abandon Egypt before we finish what we pledged to do and committed ourselves to before the people.”

“The military council has no interest in staying (in power) for a long time,” he said. “Given the chance, the military council will step down tomorrow.”

Tantawi did not elaborate, but the military has pledged on various occasions to oversee free parliamentary and presidential elections and bring corrupt former officials to account. His comments appeared designed to debunk claims by some politicians that he and the ruling generals do not intend to hand over power to a democratic government as they promised.

On Wednesday, six presidential candidates called on the generals to hold presidential elections by the end of April to speed up the transfer of power. One of the candidates, Mohammed Salim al-Awa, said the plan is “the ideal way to end the fluid political situation, the security chaos and the economic

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Egyptian army helicopters carry the army flags during a military parade in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct.5, to mark the 38th anniversary of the Oct. 6 Arab-Israeli war in 1973.

crisis and to set the nation for the first steps toward freedom, democracy and stability.”

Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh were among the other candidates to support the timeline. Egypt’s top reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei and a presidential candidate, boycotted the meeting because he disagrees with the proposal.

A timetable put forward by the military council would hold presidential elections near the end of 2012, meaning the generals would be in power for nearly two years before they step down, rather than the six months they had initially set as a deadline when they took over from Mubarak.

Parliamentary elections, the first since Mubarak’s ouster, are scheduled to start on Nov. 28.

Last week, state television

broadcast footage of Tantawi, who served as Mubarak’s defense minister for 20 years, walking around downtown Cairo in civilian attire, giving rise to speculation that he might be considering a run for the country’s top job.

The military has given Egypt all of its four presidents since young officers seized power in a 1952 coup that toppled the country’s monarchy. It has since been Egypt’s most powerful and secretive institution.

But on Wednesday, Tantawi denied that the military intended to nominate one of its own for the president’s job.

“These are rumors that are not worthy of stopping to consider, and neither should we spend time talking about them,” he said.

However, there are lucrative benefits the military could gain by holding on to power or at

30-20-10 Spotlight: The Hartford Financial Services

By Christopher Zielinski Campus Correspondent The School of Business Career Center (SBCC) has launched the 30-20-10 speaker series as a new initiative.

The 30-20-10 sessions are held every Thursday and are open to all students.

As the name depicts, the sessions include a 30-minute learning initiative, a 20-minute sponsoring Employer Infosession and a 10-minute Q&A followed immediately by opportunities for networking with employer representatives. Overall, the series provides a great opportunity for students pursuing a career in business to gain insight into a variety of esteemed companies. The format lends itself to a dynamic presentation, and junior and senior business students who attend five 30-2010 seminars, along with two SBCC “Special Events” such as the Annual Networking Forum, will be awarded with the Certificate of Corporate Professionalism.

For this week’s presen-

ly. Williams was named captain of the U.S. Elite Cycling Team in 2004. In addition, Williams has competed on the international cycling scene, including his triple-medal performance at the 2003 European Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

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least have one of its men grab the country’s top job.

There has been intense speculation that a civilian with a military background, like a retired general, would be the army’s preferred choice for president.

Such a figure would be loyal to the military, foiling, for example, any attempt to bring the armed forces and its budget under parliamentary scrutiny.

Alternately, the military could insist on a political role as a “guardian” of the nation in a new constitution due to be drafted next year, giving the top generals a collective say in all key policies.

Three Egyptian columnists and a film critic, meanwhile, withheld their regular commentaries in an independent daily on Wednesday to protest what they said was censorship by the country’s military rulers.

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Latino population grows in CT

Rodriguez gives presentation on Latino future

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Orlando Rodriguez speaks to students about the growing population of Latinos in Connecticut and gives many statistics about the topics he discussed in his presentation.

in the next 15 years, some towns in Connecticut would have more non-workers than workers, and therefore the state would need not only more kids, but more middle-class jobs as well – something very difficult to do in a state where costs are so high and often prohibitive.

Rodriguez stated that Connecticut has the fifth highest unemployment rate in the nation, and that the recession hit minorities the hardest.

Nearly a quarter of Hispanics in the Hartford metro area

are unemployed, and nearly a quarter of all Hispanics in Connecticut live in poverty. The data shows that in 2010, the median income for Hispanics went up. Rodriguez, however, said that that was not due to because socioeconomic progress, but was instead a factor of lower-end jobs being lost.

He then briefly talked about child-living arrangements in Connecticut, displaying data that showed that about a third of Hispanics under the age of

Nazrul recognized in event

By Zarrin Ahmed Campus Correspondent Keynote speaker and Bangladesh Ambassador of the UN Dr. A.K. Abdul Momen spoke on “The Poetic Tradition of Bangladesh” at Asian American Heritage Observance Opening Event on Oct. 5th at the Student Union. Performer Dr. Leena Taposhi Khan recited poetry and sang songs of national poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam.

The event began with a brief introduction of Kazi Nazrul by Dr. Cathy SchlundVials. She called him a “revolutionary in every sense of the word… a pioneering artist, committed to exploring new forms, seeking out marginal voices, and using arts as a vehicle for anti-colonial action.” He came from a humble family and became a high school dropout in order to work to support his family.

He joined the British army at the age of 18 and began to write poetry at the age of 20.

For the next 23 years, Nazrul dedicated his life to writing poetry, stories, essays, novels and songs that have not only shaped Bengali culture, spirit and pride, but also enlightened the entire world.

Momen delivered a detailed biography of the poet and his legacy. Among the many praises he gave Nazrul, one explained how “his words electrified the oppressed people in Bangladesh.” Nazrul was very active in the revolution in India, which was supported by his anti-colonial works. His central messages of peace and understanding were shaped by war experiences as well as religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims. Momen said, “His poems are rich and versatile.

They are powerful and under-

Break the fast in the best ways possible

By Becky Radolf Staff Writer

By Jason Wong Staff Writer The Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center (PRLACC) hosted a presentation entitled “Are Latinos Connecticut’s Demographic and Economic Future?”

Wednesday evening. Orlando J. Rodriguez, a senior policy member with Connecticut Voices for Children, conducted the presentation.

Rodriguez’s presentation included several statistics and graphs of various topics relevant to the question at hand.

After defining Hispanics as people who speak Spanish and whose ancestry hails from a Spanish-speaking country, he stated that the Hispanic population is the largest growing population in Connecticut, increasing 50 percent from 2001 to 2010. In fact, since 2000, the number of towns with over a 10 percent Hispanic population has increased by seven. However, Rodriguez was quick to note that that dramatic growth was not a result of fertility rate, but rather of immigration.

Following that, Rodriguez discussed ways in which the population was aging and the decrease in the number of taxpayers paying for the aging population. He displayed data that showed that the Latino population was keeping the median age of the state down.

Rodriguez warned that with-

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A performer of the Asian American Heritage Observance Opening Event plays the bongos for students who attended the event.

standable even to common men and women, and they correctly reflect the social evils.”

Political Science emerita Professor Betty Hanson said, “It is important for Americans to learn about Nazrul because he has an important message that concerns peace and how to deal with relations concerning women, religion, culture, and more. He lived a life that exemplified it.”

Momen ended his speech by welcoming the executive of the Nazrul Institute, Rashid Haider. Mr. Haider traveled all the way from Bangladesh to speak at UConn. Concerning Nazrul, Mr. Haider said, “We needed him. We demanded him…

He wrote about 4,000 songs; it’s simply unbelievable for a high school dropout, but it’s true.” Following his speech, Rashid Haider invited performer Leena Khan to the stage. Seated on a traditional Indian rug with microphones, a set of five drums, a table and a keyboard were Khan and three other musicians.

They were dressed in traditional Indian clothes - the

men in sherwanis and the women in saris. Though they could not include the many themes Nazrul wrote about, they did play songs that were boat riding tunes, Hindi and Islamic songs, and songs that encouraged women’s revolution and spiritual guidance.

Students Aksa Ahmed and Munzareen Khan were impressed by the event. Aska, a 3rd semester undecided major said, “It was good to learn and hear about Bengali poets, especially Kazi, because his poems relate to Hinduism and Islam.”

Munzareen said, “It’s great to see things like this happening here. Growing up in Bangladesh, we kind of took his poetry for granted. It makes me feel more connected and appreciate his poetry more.”

The event, sponsored by the Asian American Studies Institute and India Studies, marked the opening of Asian American Heritage Observance Month and the beginning of many similar events to come to UConn.

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18 in Connecticut live below the poverty line, and about half of them in non-nuclear households. Many of them are also raised by single mothers.

Building off of that, Rodriguez spoke about how Hispanic females account for more than half of all births under the age of 18, a figure that has dropped since 2000.

Lastly, Rodriguez discussed the Hispanic voting population.

While the number of Hispanic voters is going up, participation rates are going down. This is

partially because of the young population, but also because many Hispanics feel disenfranchised, Rodriguez said.

“It was fascinating to see the growth over the years,” said Lynn Dombroskas, a Spanish education masters student.

“He had insight that covered a lot of things and was very knowledgeable about all questions asked, whether they were directly related to what he was talking about or not.”

By Katelyn Scott Campus Correspondent

actual trafficker, he tells the men (whom he believes are also working in the cocoa industry) that if other people on the border of the Ivory Coast say that they don’t traffic children, they are lying. The trafficker tells them about how he is paid by plantation owners to bring the children to them.

Another undercover conversation with a plantation owner informs Romano and Mistrati that children will be sold for 230 Euros (without haggling). This price includes transportation and indefinite use of the child.

After the film concluded, a brief discussion was held. A student asked, “What can we do to help this problem?” Shareen Hertel, a political science and human rights professor at UConn and the facilitator of the discussion, responded that there are three important ways which the producers of this film will agree with: one, buy from fair trade; two, write to and/or ask companies why they are not using fair trade; and three, support NGO’s.

“It’s disturbing, yet not surprising to see multi-billion dollar American companies profiting from child labor,” said Ethan Talbot, a 7th-semester physiology and neurobiology major.

Another student agreed. “[The film is] eye-opening. I feel like crying because I didn’t know all of this was happening and we’re suppose to be blind to it,” said Adriana Gonzalez, a 7th-semester Spanish major.

The producer of this film will be at UConn in April to speak about his work. His film is one among many in the Human Rights Film series for Human Rights and Ethical Consumption that will be aired throughout the year.

“These movies are one of the best ways to raise awareness to issues. It empowers students to feel that they can make a change in the world,” Hertel said.

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Film reveals ‘dark side of chocolate’

Indulging in a bar of chocolate may induce guilt for more than just its calorie intake after watching the film “The Dark Side of Chocolate,” produced by Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano in 2010.

Students gathered in the Konover Auditorium of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center on Tuesday afternoon to watch the documentary. It follows two men’s search to uncover the truth about the cocoa trade, an industry accused of covering up trafficking and child labor in Africa.

Mistrati and Romano’s journey began in Cologne, Germany, where they question representatives of many different chocolate industries about the existence of the alleged child trafficking. Nobody admits to hearing or believing these “rumors.” Therefore, the men travel to Mali of West Africa, one of the world’s poorest countries, to see for themselves. By teaming up with a local and going undercover with a hidden camera, they are able to gather the information local authorities continue to deny.

Their findings prove that children from the age of seven and up will get snatched from their own home without their parents’ knowledge.

In the small town of Zegoua, Africa, a man reports to them that in just one day, 130 children were taken. The children will be brought to a bus stop and smuggled over the boarder to the Ivory Coast, where 42 percent of the world’s chocolate comes from.

In a meeting with a CEO from a major chocolate company in Abidjan, Africa, the documenters ask him about the child labor issue.

He responded, “I can assure you that the Ivory Coast has never had child labor nor trafficking.”

However, they continue to find more evidence to refute this. In an undercover interview with an

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I am a huge proponent of breakfast.

I’m a huge proponent of all meals actually, but breakfast in particular. You hear over and over that it’s the most important meal of the day – your mother probably even tried to shove Eggos down your throat before you went off to elementary school so you had something in your stomach – but the old cliché really is true. Those who eat within an hour of waking up are less likely to be obese, less likely to overeat during the day and more likely to have energy to make it through hours of classes.

That being said, sometimes you want to go somewhere to pig out at 11 a.m., hopefully hit food coma and then go back to sleep. Tolland County may not be bustling with restaurants likely to satiate your every craving, but one thing this place does damn well is breakfast. A few special landmarks in particular stand out.

One of the first places that pops into my head is The General Store off Route 32.

It’s a little white building that looks like it’s been collecting random memorabilia since the early 1800s, but inside is a smorgasbord of breakfast-y wonderment waiting to settle in your stomach.

Every Sunday, The General Store has an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet for $10. The food is basic breakfast staples like eggs, sausage, bacon and toast. It’s all home cooked by the family that owns the store.

Yes, a home-cooked buffet exists, and for the price it costs to eat way beyond your limits, a one-day-a-week treat is a great thing to look forward to (and it’s a nice way to ease a hangover).

Windham harbors another amazing breakfast gem on Boston Post Road, about 20 minutes away from campus.

This place is called Aero Diner, and if you ever wanted to see what a real, authentic diner is like, you need to check this place out. Not only does it have little jukeboxes at every table filled with songs from the 1950s (the jukeboxes don’t work anymore, but they’re fun to look through), the food is dirt cheap.

When I say dirt cheap, I mean “come in with $5 and you’ll still leave with a massive food baby” cheap. You can get amazing creations, like mammoth-sized white chocolate chip pancakes, huge omelettes loaded with gooey cheese stuffed inside and sugary, cinnamony French toast made on huge slices of Texas Toast Bread. On top of the large portions, most of their meals don’t cost more than five or six bucks, and some go as low as three.

Whenever I go here, I try multiple things and wrap whatever I don’t finish – because it’s so outlandishly inexpensive that you have the luxury of ordering more than one food and getting two or three meals out of it.

Last but not least, the Mecca of breakfast havens in the Mansfield area: The Wooden Spoon. Nestled near a package store in Ashford (can you say “convenient?”), Wooden Spoon continually satisfies the hunger pangs of UConn students, who have managed to hear about it through word of mouth. And now, here I am, spilling the secret of this phenomenal restaurant to you all.

Seriously, every student here should be required to go to The Wooden Spoon before he or she graduates. It’s that good. They give you huge portions of food, and everything they make is a unique twist on an otherwise normal breakfast item. Their

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This Day in Music 1964 The Beatles spent the afternoon recording ‘Eight Days a Week’ at Abbey Road studios in London.

1967 Pink Floyd appeared at the Miss Teenage Brighton Contest, Top Rank Suite, Brighton, England, playing the musical interlude during the contest.

1991 Michael Jackson gave away the bride at Elizabeth Taylor’s seventh wedding, held at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.

People Under the Stairs’ Thes One performs for the audience at the Outside Lands music festival on Aug. 14, 2011, in San Francisco, the group’s home town.

By Jessica Boris Campus Correspondent On June 17, Thes Ones and Double K of the indie hip-hop group People Under the Stairs performed at The Governors Ball Music Festival in New York City. The group had amazing chemistry with the crowd, who danced along to the funky beats throughout the entire set. At the conclusion of their performance, PUTS announced that they would be releasing “Highlighter,” their eighth album, on Sept. 23.

However, People Under the Stairs pushed back the release of “Highlighter” an additional week. They explained on their website that the album was not yet mixed to the standards they felt fans deserved. PUTS produced the album themselves directly from Piecelock 70 studio. “Highlighter” is available for download through their website in HD-AAC, which is the same sound quality as it is in the studio The beats that Thes Ones and Double K work with are the strongest characteristic of PUTS’s first album in two years.

“Highlighter’s” sound is completely unique to the type of instrumentals people are subjected to by the typical popular rap artists today. Absent of auto-tune, their sound is similar to the style of ‘90s group A Tribe Called Quest, but with a more psychedelic, modern twist. The use of vibraphone and piano on tracks makes for a unique combination that’s extremely pleasing to the ear.

The funky melody of the track “Ascension to Nowhere” stands out. The song transitions from an upbeat high energy into that of a more tranquil character, all while Thes Ones and Double K maintain excellent flow throughout.

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make reference to their hit “Acid Raindrops”: “From the moment you’re born until the day you die when the Acid raindrops seem to fill the sky.”

While the instrumentals of the album, as well as the diction and rap skills of the duo, are superb throughout, the lyrics are not up to par with most tracks of the album.

“Too Much Birthday” was undoubtedly the worst track. It came off as corny and was actually somewhat painful to listen to, as it constantly repeated the mantra “happy birthday to me.”

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in your head long after listening to it. People Under the Stairs raps about their lifestyle on the track. This song is PUTS at their best; rapping about what they know over fun beats that you can’t help but bob your head to.

The gospel element of the 19th track, “Left Foot, Right Foot,” makes it another song impossible not to dance to. The lyrics speak to the theme of the album of not letting stress get the best of you and to always keep moving forward. Thes Ones and Double K

People Under The Stairs’ album illustrates the age and experience of the artists. This element is what makes the album great at times and weak at others. It is evident from PUTS’s amazing flow and rap skills that they’ve been at this since 1997. Yet at times, songs on the album such as “Sonic Elders” and “WRLA” have the feel of being from a different era, and the lyrics felt repetitive and meaningless.

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McCartney’s album is not impressive

By Julie Bartoli Senior Staff Writer This is the second time I’m writing this review. It’s late.

Or, if you want to get technical, it’s extremely early. I’m

of steam, followed by a momentary, fizz-crackle-choking sound before the orange light at the bottom went out.

And quite honestly, listening to the sound of that coffee maker breaking was far more enjoyable than Paul McCartney’s bal-

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2005 A Rolling Stones concert at the University of Virginia, in the US, was halted eight songs into the show at the Scott Stadium after police received a bomb threat targeting the stage area.

The sampling used on the album is highly effective. The opener “Selfish Destruction” includes a deep, haunting announcer voice saying, “The knowledge that one begins to die a split second after birth is a cringing scream that echoes throughout your body.”

This introduction immediately catches your attention. Thes Ones and Double K waste no time going into the deeper lyrical subject of society’s cultural demise.

The highlight of the album is the track “Uprock Boogie.” It’s the catchiest song on “Highlighter,” the kind that ends up replaying

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tired. I broke my roommate’s coffee maker because I tried to brew myself a cup without adding water. It let out a bunch

let score “Ocean’s Kingdom.”

In my first review, I said things like, “Macca’s ballet score, released Oct. 4, barely met basic

requirements,” and, “The entire thing was banal and tedious with sparsely placed flickers of ingenuity that were immediately snuffed out.” I name-dropped a couple of apparent influences, particularly Tchaikovsky during the second movement. I also made a snide comment about McCartney’s daughter designing costumes for the show.

I basically tore the score apart.

And upon rereading it, I realized there was no need for my review, because everyone tore this album apart. Type “Ocean’s Kingdom” into your search bar and I can almost guarantee the first review you come upon will be negative. And the second one, and so on.

The basis of the score’s below-mediocre quality is McCartney’s attitude. He stated on BBC, “The offer came up

and I love writing music, the two went together and I said, ‘Yeah,’ so I just accept things before I even know what I’m doing.”

McCartney makes it sound so callous, as if his thought process centered around the phrase “why the hell not?”

On top of that, he continues to proudly admit that after over 50 years in the music business, he is still unable to read or write in notation. This project was doomed from the get-go because Macca opted to use software as opposed to taking a moment to learn the art of orchestral writing.

You can’t begrudgingly create a ballet score. That’s like nonchalantly pitching in the World Series. I have nothing

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Wanted: music in other languages and music that we can’t understand.

It’s odd how Rihanna and The Black Eyed Peas can dominate the radio waves in other countries, yet artists from other countries fail to make an impression on the American music market. There are six other continents out there, which means that there’s a wealth of international singers and bands that are still left undiscovered to our red, white and blue ears.

So for these next two months, I’m going to devote each column to a separate continent and highlight a few of its most impressive, potent artists.

Let’s start with Africa, where art is born from strife and perseverance. One of my personal favorites is Nneka, a musician that I discovered through Paste Magazine.

Nneka, a native from Nigeria, is now based in Germany. She blends the English language with her traditional Igbo dialect, and writes lyrics about contemporary African problems. One of her most prominent singles is “Kangpe.”

The song is about the immorality of a man who uses his physical strength to beat his wife, and the salvation that an abused woman will undergo for bearing so much pain during her earthly existence.

Nneka is slowly emerging in the U.S. charts. She has been dipping into the reggae and hip-hop genres by working with Nas, Damian Marley and Sean Paul, and has also contributed to the soundtrack for the film “You Got Served.”

Furthermore, she gained an international audience by writing a song named “Viva Africa” for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Youssou N’Dour is one of the most famous artists in Africa. He works from within his culture to fuse story-telling lyrics with exotic drumbeats and Caribbean rhythms. He has been a fixture in African music since the ‘70s and has collaborated with a multitude of American musicians during his extensive career. The most famous of these alliances is when he performed a cover of Bob Marley’s “Get Up, Stand Up” alongside Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel and Sting at the Amnesty International concert in 1988.

South Africa is a hub for musical craftsmanship. The three-man band Glaskas originated there, and has since won several South African music awards for its innovative alternative-rock sound.

All of Glaskas’ music is sung in Afrikaans, which is derived from Dutch and dominant in both South Africa and Nambia. The band, however, hasn’t been very active for the past five years and has only released one full-length album to date.

Civil twilight refers to the brightest point between sunset and nightfall. It is also the name of another band that hails from South Africa. This one however, has had a moderate amount of success in the U.S. Ever since it was featured on television shows like “One Tree Hill” and “House”, Civil Twilight has picked up gigs at music festivals and as openers for premiere concerts.

Lead singer Steven McKellar has a voice that is reminiscent of Bono’s, while the band’s electric-rock tone is similar to that of Coldplay and Life House.

Although Civil Twilight’s lyrics are about universal topics such as romance and war, its identity is still dependant on the gritty South African atmosphere that it was created in.

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By Ronald Quiroga Campus Correspondent

5) L-Vis 1990 – “Neon Dreams” Synth-driven house music never quite sounded like this.

English producer, Mad Decent and Night Slugs double-dipper and overall cool guy, L-Vis 1990, dropped his debut album earlier this week. Featuring plenty of old-school influenced house tracks and chocolaty R&B backup vocals, this is a definite winner.

4) Vybz Kartel charged with murder Jamaican dancehall giant Vybz Kartel was arrested and charged with “murder, conspiracy of murder and illegal possession of a fireman” Monday night, reported “Billboard” and Pitchfork Com. The arrest occurred outside of Kingston. This is Kartel’s first criminal charge, woah.

3) The Rapture - “How Deep Is Your Love” (A-trak remix) DFA records recently released “In The Grace of Your Love” by The Rapture. Fool’s Gold head honcho and world-renowned DJ A-Trak took one of the highlights from the album and dedicated the remix to his late friend, DJ Mehdi. It’s absolutely worth a listen, proper respect.

2 ) Sleep ∞ Over Stuck somewhere between Shoegaze, lo-fi and chillwave (wiki them if you need to), these genre-bending, Austin Texans are doing big things (pun intended).

They recently released their debut LP, “Forever.” If you want a taste, head over to Alteredzones.com and download their two freebies.

1) Oct. 15 and 16: Creators Concert Series Intel, yes the computer company, and VICE magazine are bringing some serious musical thunder to Brooklyn, NY, next weekend with acts like Four Tet, Girl Unit, Clams Casino and headlining powerhouse Florence and The Machine. Attendance is free – yes, I said free – so head over to thecreatorsproject.com and make your reservation. It is almost too good to be true. And yes, it is free.

The Misfits’ new album is missing everything it needs

By Aaron Burnstein Campus Correspondent I honestly don’t know why bands like these even bother. It shouldn’t be

from MCCARTNEY, page 8 against experimentation, and if McCartney had entered this project with enthusiasm, interest and drive, I would respect that.

But he seems so uninterested in his own work that naturally listeners are turned off.

When Lou Reed released “Metal Machine Music” in 1975, yes, it was a terrible album. But he worked so passionately on it and spoke so proudly of it that the result was endearing.

“Ocean’s Kingdom,” however, is simply a half-hearted attempt at higher art from a man with seemingly nothing better to do.

Point blank: if you’re a ballet fan, you’re not going to enjoy this album because it’s a poorly done ballet score. And if you’re a McCartney fan, this might just break your heart.

Julie.Bartoli@UConn.edu

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main specialty is their breakfast sandwiches. Here, they know how to cook breakfast foods correctly, with never-mushy eggs, perfectly crisped home fries and hash browns, and the food is all very fresh. Not only that, but the food, usually comes in under 10 minutes.

So, round up a few friends and head over to one of these joints for a morning or early afternoon treat. After all, if breakfast really is the most important meal of the day, it might as well be the tastiest one too.

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most beloved punk bands of their time is shamefully absent, and in its place is an aimless mess of an album. In a nutshell, “The Devil’s Rain” is a big, fat “who cares?”

To be fair, the album is not entirely unlistenable.

Though it’s not necessarily an The Devil’s Rain ear-scarring The Misfits release, the 10/4/11 most compli16 tracks mentary thing I can say about it is that it’s moderately boring. /10 For a punk rock album, “The Devil’s Rain” really drags. It always comes up just a little bit short.

The songs could be faster, the drums could be more aggressive, the vocals could be angrier and the melodies could be catchier. The result is an album in

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a surprise to anyone to hear that The Misfits are long past their prime, but their latest release, “The Devil’s Rain,” is downright pathetic. All the grit and energy that made The Misfits one of the

Mannequin’s album offers nothing new

By Holly Battaglia Campus Correspondent Jack’s Mannequin’s new album “People and Things” was released Tuesday, with not too many surprises to offer fans. The album starts off with the single “My Racing Thoughts.” While the track is catchy, featuring an upbeat melody, it gives the leader a misleading impression.

The album goes pretty downhill and becomes repetitive from here.

However, the chorus gives an honest evaluation of the entire album, as evidenced in the line “I think

a sweet and sunny taste on their tongue.

The absolute lows of the album include “Television” and “Hey, Hey, Hey [We’re All Gonna Die].” “Television” is probably the least original song on this entirely unoriginal album. “Hey, Hey, Hey [We’re All Gonna Die]” is, as you may guess, just another alternative, somewhat depressing introspective rock ballad. The melody and instrumentals are just as predictable and obvious as the message the song tries to convey.

Overall, Jack’s Mannequin fans should be nothing but disappointed with this final product.

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I’m running short on inspiration.”

The vocals throughout the album lie flat. It often feels like listening to the track 14 times with slight variations. While the group gets creative with the introductions of the songs, the drum and guitar lines from track-to-track seem to blend together. The content of the album is angsty, bland and boring.

The album as a whole is more of a downer version of their previous albums than a new, freestanding album. One high point of the album includes the track “Platform Fire,” which features a more unique melody than the other tracks. The album also ends on a high note, as “Dancing With A Gun,” carries a refreshing melody. This particular closing song at least leaves the listener with

Especially for a band that takes three years off between albums, their albums should be expected to be more original, or at least more thoughtful. It’s unfortunate when a band peaks on its debut album, and Jack’s Mannequin seems to fall into this category.

“People and Things” also seems to lack focus, which is actually impressive for such a repetitive and ambiguous album. Some fans may still like this final product because the vocals are consistently good and unique. At times, the album is also lyrically clever.

Unfortunately, it is just hard to appreciate the lyricism with so much focus on the unimpressive musicality.

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which more than half the tracks feel too long before they even reach the oneminute mark.

Perhaps the issue lies in the production. It’s got a fairly sleek sound to it, which doesn’t quite work. Realistically, The Misfits need that crappy, lo-fi sound. Sound quality just isn’t punk. It needs to be a little grimy. Additionally, the vocals are mixed in the foreground, and they are just awful. The guitar and the drums are nothing to write home about, but the singing is definitely the album’s worst aspect. Jerry Only’s range is virtually nonexistent. The melodies might have been better if he was able to hit the notes, but he can’t. As a result, the album really suffers. And although high caliber vocal ability has never been a necessity for good punk rock, Only’s delivery is so bland and homogenous that it successfully robs “The Devil’s Rain” of any edge it might have had.

Despite its flaws, there are a few good

moments. “Father” has a pretty nice flow to it, “Jack the Ripper” has the fast-paced feel that the album struggles so hard to maintain and “Death Ray” has a pretty cool-sounding vocal/guitar rhythm to contrast the stupidly straightforward drumming. Not coincidentally, Dez Cadena does the vocals on “Jack the Ripper” and “Death Ray,” providing a much-needed break from Jerry Only’s abysmal performance. While these tracks are far from the band’s saving grace, they definitely help to make the album a little more tolerable.

At the end of the day, “The Devil’s Rain” is a punk rock album that is tragically devoid of energy. It’s a tepid release from a washed-up band that has long since had every ounce of charisma drained from its persons. The Misfits have always been partial to songs about the dead. In the classic Misfits fashion, this album is a corpse.

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Feist’s 3rd album contains meaningful and interesting music

By Ronald Quiroga Campus Correspondent Parents and teachers alike teach children early on the importance of not judging a person or event simply by its appearance. Everyone remembers the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but what does it really mean? Do we have to subjectively pry into lives and history in order to make a clear assessment of who or what a person stands for? How do we know when we’ve found it?

With Feist, prying has never really been a problem. Her third official album, “Metals,” finds a uniquely clear and direct way of conveying her messages.

Recorded in a barn near the oceanside in Big Sur, CA, the album takes on the aesthetics of the landscape, in which she and her team decided to settle in. Each track has a jagged edge that is smoothed over by gently orchestrated strings, horns, pianos and of course, Feist’s voice floating above it all.

The opening track, “The Bad In Each Other,” gradually builds on itself, layering each element that ultimately culminates to a complex, unified and climactic end. It’s a counterintuitive approach. Often it seems that making songs, and even albums, can be a flood of different pieces that need to be filtered, while Feist goes directly against that protocol opting for the simplest of arrangements. The album

opener is a perfect example – a slow, almost misleading drum pattern followed by a twangy guitar lick accented with Feist’s vocals and fluttering strings.

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album truly lays its priorities on building a setting, an atmosphere where the listener can indulge in a slow-paced, retrospective and often bittersweet statement. “I felt 100 percent

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booby traps and making sure that there was never an easy bow,” Feist said in an interview with online music publication Pitchfork.com about the nature of the albums instrumentals.

She describes the record’s musical notes as “keeping things open and unanswered,” avoiding closure for her and the listener.

Nature is a large element in this album. A majority of the tracks have an organic feel that lends well with the overall theme. Tempos fluctuate, and leads and back-up vocalists huff and sing falsettos. Then suddenly, the track is over. The unpredictability of the album could be seen as its only downfall. It doesn’t leave an obvious trail leading to a radio smash.

This, on the other hand, is not the objective of “Metals,” the

selfishly satisfied with “The Reminder.” And I feel the same way with this album. I just made something for myself. …I did what I wanted to do,” Feist said in the same interview about her previous breakthrough album and her recent release, “Metals.”

Mostly noted for her popradio-friendly single “1234,” Feist is a seasoned musician.

She has been making music and touring non-stop since the release of her first underground album, “Monarch,” in 1999. She is a member of the Canadian super-group, Broken Social Scene, and has collaborated with several other bands and musicians. She is currently on tour in support of her newly released album.

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Hola, Hulu! Univision telenovelas come online

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Univision, the nation's No. 1 Spanish-language broadcaster, is bringing its popular telenovelas and other primetime TV programming to online video service Hulu.

The deal announced Wednesday gives Hulu a way to sell advertising to a growing Hispanic population and entice them to pay for subscriptions that unlock more content. Univision gets a chance to make the kind of money from reruns that English-language programs have long enjoyed.

Hulu's paying subscribers will get the majority of Univision's prime-time offerings the day after airing on regular TV. Hulu says more than 1 million people pay $8 a month for Hulu Plus, which lets them watch shows on devices other than a computer and access a deeper library than the free version.

Full episodes of certain shows will also be available on the free version of Hulu a day after being broadcast on TV. Both free and paid versions of Hulu come with ads.

Univision's popular shows include the current telenovela "Teresa" and variety show "Don Francisco Presenta."

The multi-year agreement is the first major online deal since Univision Communications Inc. settled with Mexican producer Grupo Televisa SAB late last year for the right to show Televisa programs to U.S. audiences over the Internet.

Hulu said it will launch the service with a revamped website later this year.

Hulu is up for sale by its owners, The Walt Disney Co., News Corp., Comcast Corp. and Providence Equity Partners. The length of the deal suggests that the arrangement would continue under new owners if a sale is completed soon.

Until now, Hispanic audiences haven't had a good reason to turn to Hulu on the Web. They represent 16 percent of the U.S. population — around 50 million people

— a large untapped group for Hulu and its advertisers.

"It is a significant audience.

It's young. It's vibrant. It's growing," said Andy Forsell, senior vice president of content acquisition for Hulu.

"This audience is of huge interest to advertisers."

Univision turned to the online video service for its reach and advertising sales force, as well as the ability to benefit from Hulu's subscriber fees in a way that the free-to-air broadcaster has not enjoyed before. Hulu and Universal aren't saying how much Hulu is paying for the rights.

Popular English-language shows such as "Two and a Half Men" can make millions of dollars from reruns. By

contrast, Spanish-language telenovelas haven't profited from a rerun market until now.

Tonia O'Connor, Univision's president of distribution sales and marketing, said the deal with Hulu marks the first time its shows have a life beyond the initial broadcast.

O'Connor said Univision plans to explore other deals to reach Internet-savvy Hispanic audiences in the U.S. Next year, it also plans put shows on its own website but reserve them for subscribers who pay for their TV signals through distributors such as cable and satellite TV companies.

Univision experim e n t e d with online distribution last year by putting episodes of telenovela "Eva Luna" on its website a day after airing on regular TV. The show's TV audience reached 5.2 million viewers in April, while drawing 790,000 online video streams and 318,000 streams from mobile devices that month.

Univision was allowed to market Televisa shows online after the two sides reached an agreement in October last year that settled a long-running dispute.

Televisa agreed to invest $1.2 billion in New Yorkbased Univision in exchange for a minority stake, while Univision received the U.S. rights to distribute Televisa shows online, to cellphones and to video-on-demand services through at least 2020, on top of its ongoing TV broadcast rights.

$60 home movie? Sure, but it's still in theaters

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Movie studio Universal Pictures and its new parent, cable TV giant Comcast Corp., will try giving film buffs a chance to watch a movie that's still in theaters from the comfort of their living rooms. But the price tag for a single movie could have consumers spitting out their popcorn: $60.

The test involves "Tower Heist," a PG-13 rated comedy caper starring Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller due out Nov. 4.

Subscribers to Comcast Corp.'s digital cable service who have a high-definition TV and live in Atlanta and Portland, Ore., will be able to rent the movie starting Nov. 23 and watch it unlimited times in a 48-hour window. The test is available to about 500,000 people.

The cities were chosen because they are Comcast markets in which a significant number of people pay for digital cable and an HD channel package, a requirement to participate. Such services combined

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cost about $60 a month.

The two cities' residents also regularly go see movies in theaters and are therefore, making the cities perfect petri dishes for testing whether people take up the offer without cutting back on theater-going. The idea is to target families who might pay just, including tickets, popcorn and a babysitter, but have chosen not to because they'd rather stay at home.

Studios are looking for ways of generating new revenue as DVD sales sag but want to avoid hurting box office revenue. The test includes copy protection measures so it doesn't end up spurring a new wave of piracy.

Offering the watch-at-home product so soon after a movie's release will allow customers willing to shell out the money to take part in whatever cultural zeitgeist the film creates. The price is close to what sports fans have paid to watch exclusive live boxing or mixed martial arts matches.

"This experiment will allow the two companies to sample

consumer appetite for this film in this window at this price while allowing the film to achieve its full potential at the box office," a Universal spokeswoman said in a statement.

John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theatre Owners, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It's not the first such experiment and it won't be the last.

Earlier this year, several studios, starting with Sony Corp. offered movies for rent to DirecTV subscribers for $30 in a 48-hour window 60 days after they were released in theaters.

Movies usually take much longer to get to the home market — on average, a little more than four months — and people can rent those via set-top boxes for about $5 apiece.

The earlier test at DirecTV, dubbed "Home Premiere," created a backlash from big-name directors like Michael Bay of "Transformers" and James Cameron of "Avatar" who felt it would jeopardize theater-going.

Cancer battle delays next Oktoberfest finally goes wet Vince Flynn thriller Alabama town's dry

CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) — With German roots and Bible Belt values, the north Alabama town of Cullman marked Oktoberfest for decades with oompah music, lederhosen and bratwurst, but no beer. Now the party long billed as the world's only dry Oktoberfest is finally going wet.

Organizers tapped a keg for the first time Monday at Cullman's Oktoberfest, ending an autumn prohibition in a town of 14,000 that had banned alcohol sales outright until church leaders lost that fight last fall.

Hundreds of people sipped beer and cheered at a steinhoisting contest Monday night.

A blocked-off downtown street was full of people enjoying $4 drafts; a few men wore traditional German pants and socks; couples washed down brats and spicy pretzels with brew.

In a compromise aimed partly at helping ease the concerns of townspeople who worried about adding booze to the party, there was still an alcohol-free side to the celebration located about 50 yards away under a big, open shed. There, children did "The Chicken Dance" and cans of Pepsi sat on mostly empty tables; the crowd on the dry side was less than half as large as the crowd on the wet side.

The chairman of the Oktoberfest committee, Ernest Hauk, expects the entire event to only get bigger now that there's a biergarten.

"I think once people get over being worried about who's going to see them drinking ... it will just grow and grow," said Hauk.

Finally able to have a drink at Oktoberfest, Jason Hicks enjoyed a beer with his wife Ashley as German music played in the background. They didn't used to come.

"Before it was just two old guys dancing," said Hicks, 30.

"It's not about the beer now, but

it adds something."

"It's fun," said his 27-year-old wife.

Located about 50 miles north of Birmingham, Cullman was founded in 1873 by John Gottfried Cullmann (the town eventually lost an "n''), a German who came to America after the Civil War and picked out the area's rolling hills as a spot for immigrant settlers.

The city was laid out in squares with unusually wide streets, a design Cullmann imported from Europe.

The city had its first Oktoberfest in 1977, when a church staged the event for its 100th anniversary celebration, but beer was always verboten because alcohol sales were illegal in Cullman County. In place of alcohol, revelers drank root beer and organizers came up with their own sparkling apple cider, Oktoberzest.

Cullman's Oktoberfest added events like a car show and a beauty pageant through the years to help lure a crowd, but the event stayed small. In Germany, Oktoberfest means tens of thousands of people downing beers in giant tents. In Cullman, the big tradition was hay bales painted to resemble a German man and woman.

Everything changed late last year, when voters decided to legalize alcohol sales in the city despite the opposition of some local church leaders. With the measure backed by local business interests, citizens signed off on something they had shot down several times before, with some saying it was simply time for the town to move forward.

As Hauk put it: "Hell froze over on Nov. 2."

It took months for city leaders to write laws governing sales, but stores finally began selling alcohol in February.

That allowed time for Hauk and other leaders to add beer to the event.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Best-selling author Vince Flynn is delaying his next Mitch Rapp thriller, "Kill Shot," until February while Flynn battles prostate cancer.

Flynn posted a statement on his website Tuesday telling his fans he is fighting fatigue from radiation treatments and finding it difficult to focus on the book.

"I have never missed a pub date and it pains me to come up short on this one. I desperately wanted to keep my commitment to my publisher, the trade, and most important, you," Flynn said in his statement.

The Twin Cities-based author said he was hoping to get "Kill Shot" out in time for Christmas.

But he said doctors have told him he will not be back to full strength until November. "After that, they say I will feel better than I've felt in two years," Flynn's statement said.

Rather than hand in a "substandard Rapp novel," Flynn said he decided with his agent and his editor to delay publication until Feb. 7, 2012.

"I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you, and I promise that I will do my best to make sure the extra months are worth the wait," Flynn's statement said. He closed by thanking fans for their "patience, prayers, and goodwill" and told them to "Keep the faith!"

Flynn's longtime editor, Emily Bestler, said in an interview Wednesday that what Flynn has written so far "is absolutely fantastic and there's no reason to rush it."

Flynn, who self-published his first book "Term Limits" in 1997 before landing a publishing deal, has been averaging a book a year — something Bestler said "is a very hard thing to do."

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Cardinals force Game 5 with big win

ST. LOUIS (AP)—David Freese homered, doubled and drove in four runs as the St. Louis Cardinals tagged playoff nemesis Roy Oswalt and beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3 Wednesday night, forcing a deciding fifth game in their NL division series.

Center fielder Jon Jay made a sliding catch on Placido Polanco’s soft fly for the final out, and was already pointing his index finger before he got to his feet.

Now it’s back to Philadelphia for Game 5 on Friday night.

Roy Halladay, who won the opener for the Phillies, will face St. Louis ace Chris Carpenter.

Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has already called it a dream matchup.

The 102-win Phillies are favored to win it all. But first they must dispose of the wildcard Cardinals, who clinched a playoff spot on the last day of the season and have gotten the best of two members of the Phils’ star-studded rotation.

And suddenly, this first-round series has gotten squirrelly for the Phillies. An omen, maybe: Right after Oswalt threw a pitch in the fifth, a squirrel darted across the plate.

Albert Pujols was hitless in four at-bats in what could have been his final home game with the Cardinals. He received thunderous cheers every trip to

the plate from a standing room crowd of 47,071, second-largest at 6-year-old Busch Stadium.

Pujols made his presence known on defense, catching Chase Utley going for an extra base in the sixth. Utley drew a leadoff walk and kept running on Hunter Pence’s grounder to short, but Pujols alertly jumped off first base to catch the throw and made a sharp relay to third for the out.

Edwin Jackson recovered from a rocky beginning to win his first playoff start. After giving up two runs on his first five pitches, he wound up throwing six solid innings.

Jason Motte a St. Louis 5 worked perfect ninth Philadelphia 3 for his second save of the series.

Phillies cleanup hitter Ryan Howard was 0 for 4 with three strikeouts. He is 0 for 8 the last two games with five strikeouts and has hit only one ball out of the infield.

Oswalt had been 5-0 with a 3.25 ERA in 10 previous postseason starts, the biggest closing out old Busch Stadium and the Cardinals in 2005 to get Houston to its first World Series. The right-hander also worked seven shutout innings against St. Louis in the Phillies’ NL East division clincher in mid-September.

The biggest jolts for the

BASEBALL

Cardinals came from their seventh-place hitter. Freese was 2 for 12 the first three games with one RBI before punishing the fourth of the Phillies’ aces.

Freese’s two-run double down the third-base line in the fourth put St. Louis up 3-2. His two-run homer to straightaway center in the sixth whipped the crowd into a towel-waving frenzy.

Oswalt walked Lance Berkman and hit Matt Holliday, making his first start of the series, to start the fourth. Right fielder Hunter Pence made a fine running catch at the warning track to rob Yadier Molina of extra bases, but Freese jumped on a hanging curveball with a drive down the left-field line.

Holliday singled with one out in the sixth and Freese hit a 1-0 pitch to the pasture in straightaway center, not far from where a squirrel made an early appearance, for a three-run cushion. A squirrel also interrupted play in the fifth, racing across the plate an instant after Oswalt’s pitch to Skip Schumaker passed for a ball.

Oswalt argued with home plate umpire Angel Hernandez, asking for no pitch. Phillies manager Charlie Manuel also argued without success and Schumaker, flied out to center on the next pitch.

In Game 3 Tuesday, a squirrel was seen scampering in foul territory along the third base line.

Men's cross country team ready for New England Championships

By Darryl Blain Campus Correspondent After a solid start to the season, the men’s cross country team is getting set to compete in the New England Championships on Saturday.

The team has recorded firstand third-place finishes in its only two invitationals so far.

Last year, the Huskies placed 10th in the 47-school event. Three out of four of their top-four finishers from

last year – Nick Aguila, Jordan Magath and Ryan McGuire – are back this year.

Dartmouth was the winner in last year’s tournament.

Associate head coach Richard Miller said he believes the team has shown “significant development” in the past-year-and-a-half, and that he will be looking to see an improvement in the team’s performance in the tournament this year.

Their most recent event, the Ted Owens Invitational

in New Britain, Conn., was a promising one for the Huskies, as they saw consistency in their seasoned runners to go along with performances from their freshmen.

The New England Championships are Saturday, Oct. 8, in Franklin Park, located in Boston, Mass. The men’s varsity 8K race is set to begin at 1:15 p.m.

Darryl.Blain@UConn.edu

Prescott: Comebacks are not all about the numbers

AP

Former Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona pauses while addressing the media during a news conference, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, in Boston.

from WHICH, page 14 Brendon: While the statistical analysis of your statement is 100 percent correct, sometimes a collapse is based on the subjective aspect of things. The Red Sox name had become synonymous with losing when the going got tough.

In fact, the 2011 collapse was one of Red Sox nature (see 1978). The New York Yankees are the single most successful franchise is sports history. No one – and I mean no one – could have possibly predicted the Yankees' loss in the ALCS in 2004, considering a team had never blown a 3-0 lead in a playoff series. You cannot compare this collapse to any regular season sweep because it was more than just a sweep.

Perhaps what was even more significant happened after the ALCS, when the Red Sox won the World Series.

Darryl: If you were to take a time machine back to the beginning of September, the Red Sox were not only up in the wild card standings by nine games, but they were ahead in the division as well. And I’ll bet you that you wouldn’t find a single soul that would

have predicted them missing the playoffs and collapsing, just like no one would have predicted the 2004 ALCS. So that doesn’t exactly differentiate the collapses at all. Lack of predictability is a fundamental part of any historically bad collapse. I don’t have a basis for comparison to the Red Sox following up by winning a World Series because we have yet to see the result of this season, but I can tell you this: The team the Red Sox let sneak up behind them in September has already been eliminated from the playoffs. At least the Yankees collapse was to the eventual champions.

Brendon: Does that make it any less significant? I think it makes the Yankees collapse even more significant to baseball. Regardless of whether the Red Sox collapse was statistically less likely, 10 years from now I can guarantee more people will remember the collapse of 2004 because the Red Sox won the World Series. A collapse is a collapse, but the true excitement of the Red Sox collapse was short-lived because the Rays were knocked out of the playoffs. Now Rays fans cannot look back and say how

excited they were for weeks on end about making the playoffs because most of them are sitting on their couches wondering how so much momentum could turn into a terrible disappointment in the ALDS. The Red Sox did not have what it took to make the playoffs. The Rays were a slightly better team, but they were not championship contenders.

Darryl: I don’t think it makes it any less significant, but it does at least mitigate how embarrassing it was.

Also, the fact that people are more likely to remember the collapse just means it had more press coverage. It doesn’t mean that the collapse was fundamentally worse, which is my point. The Rays fans have nothing to do with it, because we’re focusing on just how badly the Red Sox blew their lead (i.e. the collapse itself). The Red Sox set the standard this year of bad collapses – a standard that we may never see broken in our lifetimes. I believe that it may even be more likely to see a team come back from three games down than to see a team blow a nine-game lead in September again.

AP

St. Louis Cardinals' Jon Jay, left, celebrates with teammates Nick Punto and Marc Rzepczynski after Game 4 of baseball's National League division series against against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Callahan: There's only been one 'Dream Team' and it's not this year's Eagles from DREAM, page 14 Over the first quarter of the 2011 season, we’ve seen strong evidence suggesting that the Eagles’ offensive line should be fitted not for their gameday uniforms, but rather the standard dress of hotel doormen.

“Welcome to the Hotel Vick sir please make yourself at home and a decapitated mess of our quarterback.”

We’ve also seen a Philly linebacking core whose ability to stop the run has drawn countless comparisons to Swiss cheese. But now, with the unit’s continued misery, those similes are doing a real, undeserving disservice to the dairy. Not to mention after seeing his head spin around so often trying to catch running backs, you might even suspect Casey Matthews is out there doing a one-man show of the ending to “The Exorcist.”

The two-fold point here is this: The Eagles aren’t a “dream team.” In the history of sports, there has only ever been one such unit – the 1992 USA Olympic men’s basketball team.

Nearly 20 years ago, the moniker of “Dream Team” was bestowed upon this group, and over time it deservingly stuck with Jordan, Magic, Bird and co. They showed the world the true meaning of greatness and sheer dominance on the basketball court en route to their gold medal victory. The men sporting red, white and blue couldn’t and wouldn’t be touched. It was truly the Dream Team.

But it wasn’t just their incredible talent and performance that earned them such a title. The ’92 squad was the one and only Dream Team because there was never any debate as to who should or

shouldn’t been on the team.

That collection of players in those Olympics was undeniably the best in the entire world. There was no better combination of men for the job, and thus everyone in the world knew that a driven USA club was playing with tremendous house money.

These assertions also meant that there was no debate as to who would win the Gold.

It was one of those incredibly rare moments in sports where victory seemed almost 100 percent. One of the most beautiful, understated aspects of sport–that any team or player may triumph over another at any given time– was removed from the equation. It was quite literally a dream.

Yet to this day, we still see different teams branded with this label, or ones synonymous to it, even before they take the field or court together. Nonsense!

Think about the 2011 Eagles; or last year’s NBA runner-ups, the Miami Heat; or this summer’s Boston Red Sox; or maybe even the 2007 New England Patriots. After their staggering offseason acquisitions, each of those clubs was dubbed as a sort of “dream team,” and to this point in time, if not before, each has failed to live up to their impossible billings.

Those squads, and many similar ones before them, proved to have a weakness – and later those weaknesses proved to be detrimental to achieving their fantasy-like goals.

However, this failure wasn’t completely their fault. The coaches of those teams knew about the weak spots. Most of their opponents did, too.

The only ones who could be counted as fully unknowing

were certain media members and fans just like you and I. Too often we forget that the look of a team on paper doesn’t mean a thing. In fact, not a damn thing. Even better than the sports truism I shared earlier about anyone having a shot at victory is the reality that the score always starts at 0-0. Competitors have to earn everything, and once the whistle blows, you and/ or your team writes its own story.

So, when we declare a team to be indeed a “dream team,” one that is perfect in all facets and never to be stopped, we not only do a disservice to MJ, Magic and Bird, but also to our own understanding of sports. We leave out the two truths described above, which we all seem to accept, but also conveniently forget when it serves us or certain media outlets as they build insatiable hype for their city’s team.

Just as you and I must awaken daily from our dreams back to reality, athletes will always have to go out and play in order to realize their supposed potential.

And whatever happens during our day or between the foul lines, sidelines and boards is what truly matters.

Just yesterday, Vick announced the death of the “dream team” label for his Eagles. Smart man.

“The dream team thing is over,” Vick said. “Now we just have to forget about everything that’s happened and take it one game at a time.

Nobody’s happy about this.”

Nobody’s happy indeed.

The “dream team” moniker has developed into a full on nightmare, and it’s about time for all of us to wake up.

Andrew.J.Callahan@UConn.edu

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WR Nelson staying in Green Bay with new deal

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP)— Certainly, Jordy Nelson could have played out his existing contract and seen what the free agent market had to offer in the offseason.

But Green Bay has become home for the Packers wide receiver and his family— and now it will be for at least another three seasons.

Nelson confirmed Wednesday that he has signed a contract extension that will keep him on the team through 2014. He certainly had thought about playing out his existing contract and exploring free agency, perhaps going to a team more desperate for wide receiver help.

But he thinks the Packers will be contenders for years to come, and that’s more important than going to a less talented team where he might

get a few more passes thrown his way.

“I think some people are in this league to get the money, and are excited about it,” Nelson said. “For myself, I love winning. I don’t know why you would want to leave a team like this, an organization like this.”

Besides, Nelson joked, he wasn’t entirely sure his family would have been willing to move with him.

“My wife loves it here,” Nelson said. “She probably would have thought about staying and (have) me go play somewhere else. Obviously you have a kid, and hopefully more in the future. As you get settled in, I mean, there’s so many things, you get settled in with doctors and stuff like that. And you have a base, a family here that you kind of have to put into

consideration.”

And Nelson is only 26, so this might not be his last shot at a big contract.

“You want to hit as many contracts as you can,” Nelson said.

“Right now, it’s great to have this one, but you’ve got to keep playing football. And hopefully there’ll be another one because that means we’ll be here for quite a while and hopefully having great success.”

Nelson, a second-round pick out of Kansas State in 2008, began to blossom toward the end of last season. He caught nine passes for 140 yards and a touchdown in the Super Bowl.

He’s showing no signs of slowing down this season, with 15 catches for 292 yards and three touchdowns in four games—including a 50-yard touchdown from Aaron

Rodgers in Green Bay’s rout of Denver on Sunday.

“I’m getting comfortable with Aaron, Aaron’s getting comfortable with me, and the coaches as well,” Nelson said. “There’s that trust factor that has to go along with it. I’ve always said it’s one thing to know the playbook, but it’s another to know exactly what to do. I mean, Aaron wants certain things, and we’re still working on that. There’s stuff today in practice that we’re still discussing. We want that perfect thing.”

With the Packers preparing for a Sunday night matchup at Atlanta this week, Nelson points to last year’s regular-season game against the Falcons as a significant point in his career.

The Packers lost, but Nelson’s late game-tying touchdown was a sign that he was comfortable with the offense and Rodgers.

AP

Green Bay Packers' Jordy Nelson runs past Carolina Panthers' Captain Munnerlyn for a touchdown after a catch during the fourth quarter of the Packers' 30-23 win.

Top U-20 players in the world Running backs continue

By Miles DeGrazia Futbol Columnist

Every year, managers all over the world hope they can find and develop young talent that can make an instant impact, and sometimes those players go on to drastically change the course of a club’s history. Players like Andrea Pirlo, Ryan Giggs and Lionel Messi have all made the transition from promising young stars to recipients of some of most prestigious trophies in the world.

The next crop of young players may not be well known now, but soon they will be the best players in the world. In fact, they will soon be as well known as Xavi, Rooney and Ronaldo.

Aaron Ramsey, central midfielder, Arsenal (Wales): At 19, Ramsey is already the captain of his country and has established himself as one of the best boxto-box midfielders in the English Premier League.

Alan Dzagoev, attacking midfielder, CSKA Moscow (Russia): During Dzagoev’s first two sea-

sons at CSKA Moscow, he played in a Champions League quarterfinal, scored at Old Trafford and was named the Best Young Player of the Year in the Russian Premier League.

André Ayew, winger / striker, Olympique Marseille (Ghana): One of many great young Ghanaian players who played a pivotal role in the team's 2010 World Cup run, Ayew is an extremely pacey player with exquisite dribbling ability. He helped Olympique Marseille finish third in Ligue 1 in 2010.

André Schürrle, striker, Bayer Leverkusen (Germany): Another great young German striker in the mold of Thomas Müller, Schürrle led FSV Mainz in goals in 2010 with 12 before moving to Bayer Leverkusen this summer.

Brek Shea, left midfielder, FC Dallas (USA): Perhaps the MLS MVP for 2011, Shea has had a breakthrough last 18 months, including his first five U.S. National Team caps and even being the subject of transfer rumors to clubs like Manchester United and Arsenal.

Christian Eriksen, attack-

ing midfielder, Ajax (Denmark): Coming from perhaps the finest youth program in the word at Ajax, Eriksen has established himself as one of the best players to wear No. 10 in the world. Eriksen was the youngest player at the 2010 World Cup, and since then has turned down moves to Chelsea and Manchester City to remain in the Eredivisie.

Danny Welbeck, striker, Manchester United (England): Welbeck continues the tradition of great Manchester-born players to play for Manchester United. After a successful stint at Sunderland, Welbeck returned to United and has started the season well, scoring three goals in five appearances, including a brace against FC Basel in the Champions League.

David de Gea, goalkeeper, Manchester United (Spain): Despite being only 20, de Gea has already won the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Super Cup with Atlético Madrid, as well as the UEFA U-17 and U-21 European Championship with Spain. In modern football, with goalkeepers peaking in their early 30s, de Gea

Lacrosse team looking for a good start

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A UConn player cradles the ball in her stick with contention from a defender during the Huskies' matchup with the Cincinnati Bearcats last season.

By Eric Scatamacchia Campus Correspondent Looking to get off to a good start, the UConn women’s lacrosse team opened up fall competition on Sept. 24, at the HEADstrong Tournament in Hempstead, NY, hosted by Hofstra University.

The tournament consisted of 13 teams: Hofstra, Adelphi, Central Connecticut State, Connecticut, C.W. Post, Iona, Johns Hopkins, La Salle, Long Island, Monmouth, Vermont, New York Athletic Club and Team HEADstrong, which is made up of Hofstra lacrosse alumna. Although the teams do not keep score during the tournament, coach Kathleen Woods was pleased with the team’s performance.

“Overall we did well,” Woods said. “It was great to compete against teams like Johns Hopkins and Hofstra because we don’t usually play them. The intensity was great.”

Going into the fall season, Woods said the Huskies are looking to grow as a team and create group chemistry.

“We’re hoping that we’ll come together as a team this

fall, on and off the field. The fall is such an important time for the team and our cohesiveness. We also take the time in the fall to create our identity as the 2012 team,” Woods said.

With the loss of some valuable seniors from last season, the new crop of upperclassmen will be relied on to set an example for the entire team. The Huskies’ leading goal scorer and overall points leader from last season, M.E. Lapham, will look to build off of last year and provide leadership for the team, along with fellow seniors Kiersten Tupper, Megan Lally, Stephanie Norton and Colleen DeRonda.

Last season, UConn finished with a 9-7 record, including a 3-5 mark in Big East play.

This year, the Huskies are a new-look team, but will try to build off of the confidence they gained from last season, according to Woods.

“I think the team is very different from last year to this year. We had some great games and solid wins last year within our conference, which has given them confidence,” Woods said. “They believe they can be a top team in the

Big East, but understand that they need to stay focused, work hard and pay attention to detail.”

Woods added, “We lost a great group of seniors last year who were great players and leaders. We miss them every day, but it’s been fun to see the other players step up and take ownership over their team.”

UConn’s remaining fall season competition includes a trip to play Brown, the Princeton Playday where they will face Princeton, Fairfield, Lafayette and Villanova, and the University of Vermont Catamount Classic, where UConn will compete against Boston University, Iona, Bryant and the hosts, Vermont. The Huskies will conclude their fall season with a playday at Boston College, with games against Boston College, Boston University and UMass.

Woods said the team is looking forward to building off a solid season last year and is excited to get the ball rolling this season.

“It’s a very exciting time for UConn lacrosse,” she said.

Eric.Scatamacchia@UConn.edu

could be one of the world’s best for almost a decade.

Eden Hazard, winger, Lille (Belgium): With more Belgium caps amassed than total years living, Hazard has had a whirlwind 36 months. Hazard won the Young Player of the Year award in 2009 and 2010, was named to the Ligue 1 Team of The Year in 2010 and 2011 and was the Ligue 1 Player of the Year in 2011.

Federico Macheda, striker, Manchester United (Italy): Most people know Macheda as the player who scored “that” goal against Aston Villa in 2009. Since then, he has made 30 top-flight appearances for Manchester United and Sampdoria.

Fábio & Rafael, right back / left back, Manchester United (Brazil): Fábio & Rafael are identical twins that make up a formidable fullback tandem for United. Despite only being at United for three seasons, both players have already established themselves as important members of Sir Alex’s squad.

Miles.DeGrazia@UConn.edu

to split carries for UConn

from HUSKIES, page 14 “We’ve got JJ (Jonathan Jean-Louis) there, JJ has been working and waiting for an opportunity.” Pasqualoni said.

“With the way things have gone with DJ, this opportunity is going to present itself.”

Jean-Louis carried the ball twice against Western Michigan for seven yards.

He has 25 yards on seven attempts this season.

Gary Wilburn received a start against the Broncos on Saturday, and due to Blidi Wreh-Wilson’s injured knee, Wilburn will continue to see time at the cornerback position.

“I’d like to see Gary come back and play tough, show mental toughness,” Pasqualoni said. “It kind of goes with the territory when you’re playing the cornerback position.”

Wreh-Wilson will not play at West Virginia on Saturday.

Pasqualoni said that WrehWilson has a chance to be back by South Florida on Oct. 15. Wreh-Wilson has been injured in the Huskies’ 17-3 win over Buffalo two weeks ago.

One position that is finally locked up is starting quarterback. Johnny McEntee is coming off the best game of his college career, throwing four touchdowns, zero interceptions and 300 yards against Western Michigan.

“Each week you see Johnny getting better,” Pasqualoni said. “It’s progressive every week. He’s more consistent with his reads and his timing.

Can it be better? Yup. Am I happy? I’m happy with the progress he’s made.”

Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu

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The Daily Question Q : “Who is the National League favorite right now?”

A : “Let’s go, Brewers!”

Home: Rentschler Field, East Hartford

– Ray Ng, 7th-semester chemistry major.

» That’s what he said

Oct. 26 Pittsburgh 8 p.m.

Nov. 19 Louisville TBA

Oct. 15 West Virginia 7 p.m.

AP

Pasqualoni officially names McEntee starter

» Pic of the day

Just out of his reach

Men’s Soccer (11-0-0) Oct. 8 Oct. 12 Oct. 15 Notre Dame Providence Pittsburgh Noon 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

» QUICK HITS

-Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback Michael Vick on the state of his team.

Nov. 5 Syracuse TBA

Oct. 22 Georgetown 7:30 p.m.

Women’s Soccer (5-5-2) Tomorrow South Florida 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 9 Marquette 2 p.m.

Oct. 14 Pittsburgh 7 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.

Field Hockey (10-1) Tomorrow Georgetown 3 p.m.

Oct. 7 Oct. 9 Virginia Georgetown 3 p.m.

11 a.m.

Volleyball (9-9) Tomorrow South Florida 7 p.m.

Oct. 11 Fordham 7 p.m.

Oct. 15 St. John’s 7 p.m.

Oct. 21 Oct. 23 Villanova Georgetown 7 p.m.

2 p.m.

Oct. 9 Quinnipiac All Day

Oct. 12 Bryant 2 p.m.

Men’s Tennis Tomorrow Quinnipiac All Day

Oct. 8 Quinnipiac All Day

Oct. 28 Conn.

Champs.

All Day

Women’s Tennis Tomorrow Bowdoin College 2:30 p.m.

Oct. 12 Bryant 2 p.m.

Oct. 15 New England’s All Day

AP

Oct. 16 New England’s All Day

St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay cannot reach a ball hit for a double by Philadelphia Phillies’ Jimmy Rollins during the first inning of Game 4 of baseball’s National League division series.

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

Women’s Cross Country Oct. 8 New England’s TBA

Oct. 15 Conn.

College TBA

Oct. 21 CCSU Mini Meet TBA

Nov. 12 NCAA Northeast TBA

Nov. 21 NCAA Cham.

TBA

Golf Oct. 10-11 Oct. 15-16 Oct. 30 Connecticut Shelter Kiwah Island Cup Harbor All Day All Day All Day

Rowing Oct. 22 Head of the Charles All Day

Oct. 29 Head of the Fish All Day

Nov. 1 Kiwah Island All Day

Email your answers, along with your name, semester standing and major, to sports@dailycampus.com. The best answer will appear in the next paper.

The Daily Roundup Michael Vick

Oct. 15 South Florida TBA

“Red Sox fans, were you watching to cheer against the Yankees, or just not watching at all?”

“I think the ‘Dream Team’ -- that word is dead now,”

Football (2-3) Oct. 8 West Virginia Noon

Next Paper’s Question:

After seeing most of the action over the last several weeks, coach Paul Pasqualoni finally made it official by naming redshirt junior quarterback Johnny McEntee the starting quarterback in this week’s depth chart.

Up until this week, the depth chart listed McEntee, redshirt freshman Scott McCummings and true freshman Michael Nebrich atop the depth chart, separated by an OR. This week, the OR is gone, and McEntee will likely play the whole game.

Running back D.J. Shoemate is likely done for the year after missing the last two games due to a severely separated shoulder. Shoemate has applied for a medical redshirt, allowing him to return next year.

With basketball season approaching, Jeremy Lamb and Alex Oriakhi of the men’s team were named to the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top-50 on Monday.

Oriakhi, a junior forward, averaged 9.6 points and 8.7 rebounds per game last year. He recorded 11 double-doubles on the year, including an 11-point, 11-rebound, four-block performance in the National Championship game.

Lamb, a sophomore guard, averaged 11.1 points per game as a freshman and earned All-Rookie honors.

Lamb and Oriakhi are two of the 10 players from the Big East selected, and make UConn one of nine schools to have more than one player.

The Wooden Award is handed out annually to the nation’s best player, and the preseason watch list delineates the top players going into the season. The list does not include any incoming freshmen.

On the pitch, the No. 1 UConn men’s soccer team has now recorded eight consecutive shutouts, tying the program record set in 2009.

The NCAA record for consecutive shutouts is 11, which has been done on three occasions. Most recently was last season, when Akron recorded 11 straight shutouts on its way to the National Championship.

Freshman goalkeeper Andre Blake has now gone 770:56 without allowing a goal. He has only allowed two goals all season.

The volleyball team broke out of its recent slump on Tuesday by shutting out Hartford 3-0. In the contest, junior libero Kelsey Maving became the 10th UConn player ever to record her 1,000th career dig.

Maving led the team with 20 digs on the day and finished the match with 1,004 for her career, moving her into ninth all time on the career digs list.

After helping to lead the field hockey team to three wins in a week, senior back Jestine Angelini was named the Big East Defensive Player of the Week on Monday.

Angelini earned the honor after she helped anchor a Husky defense that shut out Yale, who boasts the sixth-highest scoring offense in the country.

Angelini also scored a goal in the Huskies’ 3-1 win over No. 9 Louisville.

» NCAA HOCKEY

Notre Dame hockey to join Hockey East SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)— Notre Dame is leaving the Central Collegiate Hockey Association for Hockey East beginning with the 2013-14 season and will bolster the program’s national profile through another TV deal with NBC. The network, which has done Notre Dame home football games for more than two decades, will televise Irish hockey, likely beginning with the school’s first season in the new league.

“The University of Notre Dame’s hockey team will have a more robust national television platform than any hockey program in the country,” athletic director Jack Swarbrick said at a news conference held Wednesday on the ice rink of the school’s new $50 million Compton Family Ice Arena.

Jon Miller, president for programming for NBC and Versus, said the plan is to do a big schedule of Notre Dame games and include Hockey East teams in the telecasts when the opportunity is there.

Details of the TV deal have not been completed.

Notre Dame, which has been a member of the CCHA since 1992, will become the 11th member of Hockey East. Current members include Boston College, Boston University, Maine, UMass,

UMass-Lowell, Merrimack, New Hampshire, Northeastern, Providence and Vermont.

Conference realignment is shaking up college hockey.

The Western Collegiate Hockey Association has invited five teams from the CCHA to join in two years, when the Big Ten starts its hockey league. The new National Collegiate Hockey Conference will also begin play that year with eight schools.

At least 18 of the 58 teams currently playing NCAA Division I hockey—31 percent—will change conferences by 2013.

Swarbrick said the Irish considered three options—go independent, join the NCHC or Hockey East.

“I would say the discussions with both conferences were very detailed and very earnest,” Swarbrick said. “Both had great assets, great reasons to consider them. At the end of the day I’m very comfortable with our choice.

That’s not to say the other option wasn’t a very attractive one.”

He said Hockey East would have a positive impact on the hockey players’ experience and the media markets would provide high exposure. But mostly, he said, it was a matter of being the right fit good fit for the program.

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Boston College’s Matt Price hoists the trophy after defeating Maine 7-6 in overtime of the Hockey East NCAA college hockey tournament final Saturday, March 20, 2010, in Boston.

» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

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HUSKIES PREPARE FOR WVU

Dream-Team Nightmares

Conference play begins this weekend

By Colin McDonough Associate Sports Editor

Andrew Callahan The NFL lockout sucked. It just flat-out sucked. Like poorly executed tanning and the ill-fated discovery of there only being one square of toilet paper left, thrown together with the entire Twilight movie saga­–kind-of suck.

Yet back in late July, when the billion-dollar bickering finally ceased, football fans everywhere bore witness to something unprecedented: An entire offseason’s worth of trades, free agency and draft pick signings rolled into three short days.

Now that, ladies and gentlemen, turned out to be pretty awesome.

And when the three days concluded, and a few sunsets afterward had passed, the National Football League already had itself a champion: the Philadelphia Eagles. Or as their newly signed locker-room idiot – scratch that, eccentric backup quarterback Vince Young so ingeniously described them as the “dream team.”

Post lockout, Philly became a magnet for the best free agency and trades had to offer, and later it appeared there would be no stopping last year’s NFC East champions. Putting together all that talent had seemed inconceivable, and this team would ever losing a game appeared to be the same.

Fast forward, and the Eagles are now licking their wounds at 1-3. Last Sunday, they enjoyed the good fortune of having their wings clipped by a San Francisco 49ers team that began last season 1-6. Oh, and four days ago Philly faced a 20-3 deficit with less than a half to go.

So what happened to the socalled “Dream Team?” The squad that signed not only Nnamdi Asomougha, but Cullen Jenkins, Ronnie Brown, Jason Babin, Steve Smith and later traded for Dominique RodgersCromartie? What about the Olympic-caliber 4x100 team already standing in at key skill positions in the form of quarterback Michael Vick, running back LeSean McCoy and wide receivers DeSean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin?

Uhh… Well, here’s the first thing: they were never a “dream team.” Many Eagles players even said as much in August while trying to erase the media’s memory of Young’s blunder at his introductory press conference. There was a snowball’s chance in Hell of that happening, of course, but you knew they were actually right.

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The UConn football team is 2-3. But with Big East play beginning this weekend, the Huskies have a chance for a fresh start.

“We’ve done good things, we’ve just got to do them in a little bit of a more timely manner,” Pasqualoni said.

UConn’s three losses are by a combined 14 points. The Huskies have also been within a score in each loss. UConn couldn’t pull out a win at Vanderbilt, nor at home against Iowa State and Western Michigan.

“You’re always optimistic,” Pasqualoni said. “I’m optimistic that we’re going Notebook to be 5-0.”

Pasqualoni said that he looks at the schedule as 12 one-game seasons.

In his first year at the helm of the Huskies, he knew that it would take time for the team to adjust.

“Certainly there’s going to be growing pains and we’ve had these growing pains,” Pasqualoni said. “We’re learning the system on offense and we’re learning the system on defense, and that’s a process that never really ends.”

The Huskies have not only dealt with getting used to a new system, but have also been hit by injuries. After the Western Michigan game, Pasqualoni announced that D.J. Shoemate and Jimmy Bennett were injured for the rest of the season. Shoemate is likely to miss the season after shoulder surgery this week. Pasqualoni will have to use other running backs to complement Lyle McCombs.

Redshirt freshman, Lyle McCombs carries the ball up the field against Western Michigan during Saturday’s loss at Rentschler Field. This weekend, the Huskies start their Big East Schedule.

» RUNNING, page 12

FOOTBALL

Men’s tennis team prepares for Quinnipiac

By Mike Corasaniti Campus Correspondent

Coming off their second dominant duel match of the season with a 7-0 win over the Hartford Hawks, the UConn men’s tennis team is returning to fall tournament action this weekend with a trip down to Hamden for the annual Quinnipiac Invitational.

The Huskies will see many familiar faces this weekend when they face Hartford, Fairfield, Sacred Heart, Boston University and the hosting Bobcats. Between match play, the Fairfield Doubles Invitational and the Brown Invitational, UConn will be seeing each of these teams for either the second or third time so far this fall season. The Huskies still aim to acquire as much positive experience as possible for the spring season.

“Just getting good quality matches in again is always one of our main goals,” said assistant coach Dan Gal. “We got a couple of the Northeast teams coming in, some of them we’ve seen already

» CALLAHAN, page 11

and also a couple new ones such as Villanova, one of our Big East rivals. So it should be good.”

Villanova, who was eliminated from the Big East tournament by the Huskies last spring, has enjoyed success with strong outings at the St. Joseph’s University Invitational and their own Villanova Invitational.

Regardless, UConn is not focusing too much energy on the Wildcats this weekend.

“If we win when we play Villanova, that’s great. If we lose, that’s fine. But it’s not that important,” Gal said. “It is good to get a benchmark and see where we’re at but our first Big East match isn’t for another five months or so.

We’re not really worried.”

The Huskies have been enjoying a surplus of success in both tournament and match play. With their successes though, the team is working hard to stay focused along with the help of senior captain Scott Warden.

“Scott is just doing a great job keeping the guys focused and in line,” Gal said. “He’s been keeping the guys motivated and so far the team’s been showing good heart

in their matches and in practice.”

To make things even better, sophomore Ryan Carr, with a spring 2011 record of 9-9 under his belt, returned to action this Monday against Hartford with a straight set victory. Carr looks prepared to help the team again this weekend.

“His return is definitely going to give us more depth,” Gal said. “He got a middle finger injury about two weeks right before school started so all he could do for a while was condition. But coach Glenn Marshall and I thought he was ready for competition Monday and he got in there and he did a great job.”

The Quinnipiac Invitational and the Huskies kick things off this weekend with doubles play at 3 p.m. on Friday with singles play then continuing on throughout the weekend. This will be the Huskies’ fourth tournament and last appearance of the fall season before they return to dual-match action in Rhode Island against Bryant University the following Wednesday.

Michael.Corasaniti@UConn.edu

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Junior Wei Lin moves along the baseline and lines up his shot for the UConn men’s tennis team.

Which team did a better job of choking?

The 2011 Red Sox

By Darryl Blain Campus Correspondent While both collapses were unprecedented, the Red Sox’s September collapse this season was simply unbelievable.

Being up nine games going into September should mean an automatic playoff bid. The Red Sox managed to botch the lead in every way a lead could be botched. Almost nothing was done right. The team played with no heart throughout the month, and it certainly showed. Almost every player on the team underachieved. I doubt we’ll see another collapse of the same magnitude in our lifetimes.

Was it this year’s Boston Red Sox...

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» POINT/COUNTERPOINT

Brendon: What differentiates the Yankees’ dramatic and unbelievable collapse in 2004 from the Red Sox collapse in 2011 was the shear effect it had on the media at the time.

With the Yankees a mere out away from booking a ticket to the World Series, the Bronx Bombers shocked the baseball world and proved, for perhaps the first time in their history, that they were susceptible to losing to the “cursed” Red Sox. The 2011 Red Sox collapse was one of injuries, team morale and incredibly bad baseball. The 2004 Yankees collapse was one of pure heart that overcame 86 years worth of doubt.

Darryl: The “Curse” ending was inevitable, as are all curses in sports. They are really just coincidental events and

have no effect on the game. If you look at the collapses for solely what they were, the Red Sox’s 2011 collapse was simply much worse than the 2004 Yankee debacle. First off, the Yanks lost four straight playoff games to the best team in baseball that year. If you count how many times the Red Sox beat a team four straight games that season, you would come up with at least five times (try it).

Now when you look at the collapse of 2011, the Red Sox had to play consistently horrible baseball for a month straight, and many times to sub-par teams, in order to complete the unthinkable. If you look at this comparison objectively, you would say the Sox were much worse.

» PRESCOTT, page 11

The 2004 Yankees

By Brendon Prescott Campus Correspondent

In 2004, the most unlikely team in baseball, the New York Yankees, did what no other team in history had done: blow a three-game lead in the American League Championship Series. To make matters even more shocking they lost to none other than their franchise rivals, the Boston Red Sox, whose “Curse of the Bambino” had eluded them of a World Series championship for 86 painful years. The upset was talked about for weeks on end.

Up until that point, the Sox had always been in the shadow of their rivals. the single biggest and most significant collapse in baseball history.

Brendon.Prescott@UConn.edu

...or was it the 2004 New York Yankees?

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