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Task force seeking feedback on sexual assault complaints Friday, November 1, 2013

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Task force will hold three open sessions, focus groups for students to share opinions until Nov. 22

By Miles Halpine Campus Correspondent A task force created

by Susan Herbst, president of the University of Connecticut, is currently seeking feedback and opinions from students regarding the recent sexual assault complaints.

The President’s Task Force on Civility and Campus Culture is offering students a chance to provide their opinion on the issue that has recently come to the attention of many not only at the university, but also statewide and even somewhat throughout the country.

The email addressed to the university community began by saying “Last week’s public conversation gives us the opportunity to remind the campus about the President’s Task Force on Civility and Campus Culture, which was formed in August and has

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Stories From a Haunted Campus Dark and dingy, Hawley Armory holds mystery

By Zach Lederman Staff Writer There’s no doubt that UConn has some pretty ancient buildings, some more so than others. Hawley Armory has the distinction of being one of the oldest buildings on campus, and will be 100 years old next semester. The building was first built in 1914 for the school’s thenmilitary department, with the intention of also being used for athletic and social events.

Anyone who has ever been inside the armory can probably tell you that it hasn’t changed much for that purpose, as it is home to practice for numerous club sports, as well as used frequently

by ROTC. However, despite its relatively pleasant past, Hawley is actually one of the creepiest buildings on campus. Perhaps not on the main floor of the building, where everything has been mostly modernized and renovated, but take a look up or downstairs and you’ll get a good sense of what I’m talking about. Unfortunately the attic area was locked, so I wasn’t able to get to the top floor, but if it’s anything like the basement, you can rest assured that you won’t want to go

there by yourself anytime soon.

The basement is dark and incredibly creepy, consisting of a few small exercise rooms, lockers and quite a few locked doors, likely leading to the old pool, which has since been drained. It’s the pool that’s actually the creepiest part of the entire building, according to Linda Valentine, a 1981 UConn alumna.

“I swam in it once and never went back,” Valentine said. “It was dingy down there, with a tiled floor and lions’ heads at one end of the pool that would spit water back into the pool.”

The basement is also extremely dark, as it doesn’t get much natural light. If the building ever lost electricity, it would likely be easy to get lost down there.

Of course, there are no ghosts in Hawley, right?

It may be a creepy building, but that doesn’t make it haunted, does it?

I found no articles on the subject of anyone dying in Hawley armory, or anywhere around it. But there is at least one student whose death is connected to the area upon which Hawley is located.

In addition to once having its own pool, Hawley also once had its own playing fields, where stu-

dents could participate in a variety of sports. The field was located where you can now find Oak Hall, Homer Babbage and the Bousfield Psychology Building, and was eventually expanded all the way up to where Gampel is. It was known as Dow Field, named after Gardner Dow, a young football player for Connecticut Agricultural College, the university’s former name, who was tragically killed in New Hampshire during a game in 1919. Currently, there is a plaque dedicated to Mr. Dow located near the rear entrance of Hawley.

So is it really that large of a stretch to imagine that the ghost of Gardner Dow might haunt the area that holds his namesake?

Could his restless spirit be angered that roads and buildings now cover his former field? For years, the plaque dedicated to him was inaccessible, due to the positioning of the old Co-op’s loading dock (since removed in 2003), so could this have angered his spirit? If you believe in those sorts of things, you might think twice about walking into Hawley by yourself. Mr. Dow might be waiting there to say hello.

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Brittnie Carrier, a 5thsemester psychology and English double major, and one of the organizers for the Solidarity Rally held earlier this week, said “I thought… (the task force) started out well, but then I definitely think it failed its first mission.”

One main concern with the task force Carrier has is with the name including the word civility. She says it makes it sound as if civility means “be nice to one another and no walking on the grass” as opposed to the growing issue of sexual assault on campus.

Carrier said she and her friends are planning what feedback to give, but it includes strengthening punishments like sanctions.

“It’s not supposed to be a

man’s issue. It’s supposed to be a woman’s issue. In reality, it’s a people’s issue,” said Jose Figueroa, a 9th-semester omen’s, gender and sexuality studies major. “Men, women, and people who don’t identify with either gender experience stuff like this.”

According to Figueroa, the task force is not diverse enough in many ways, particularly with race. While he does not personally blame them, Figueroa used the example of how all the student-members are white.

Once all feedback is collected, the task force – which includes four student members, one being student body president Edward Courchaine – will share with Herbst and give specific recommendations.

By Molly Miller Campus Correspondent

getting a lot of new ideas.”

Habitat for Humanity has been instrumental in adding the fundraising component. In the past, the sleep out has been entirely for awareness. According to Ankrah, the student organization Service for a Cause has played a big part in adding activities.

Habitat President Savas Tsikis, a 7th-semester molecular and cell biology major, said that he hopes the event will not only be a good bonding experience for its participants, but also an educational experience.

“We want it to be informative, and we want people to know what it’s like to be homeless and what homelessness entails,” Tsikis said.

“It was such a big eye opener for me as to how much of a struggle it is to live without a real place to sleep at night,” said Ankrah, who participated in the sleep out last year. “Being able to experience it for just one night – it really humbles you. There are much bigger problems than what we deal with every day.”

Students can register for the sleep out on the day of the event on Fairfield Way between the School of Business and the Student Union.

Sign-in begins at 4 p.m., and suggested donations are $10 for groups and $2 for individuals.

Speakers will begin presenting at 6 p.m., followed by a time for participants to set up their shelters.

For more information about the Hunger and Homelessness Sleepout, contact Savas.

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Students to host sleepout for homelessness Sat. In an effort to raise awareness as well as money to fight the issue of homelessness, UConn’s chapters of Habitat for Humanity, ConnPIRG and Students for a Cause will host a Hunger and Homelessness Sleepout this Saturday.

Students who participate will make shelters out of cardboard boxes provided by the organizations that are running the event and spend the night sleeping in their makeshift shelters on Fairfield Way. Students can sign up individually or in groups.

Those with the sturdiest and bestdesigned shelters will win prizes.

Students will also be able to participate in a scavenger hunt and make birthday cards for people in shelters.

There is no fee for participating in the sleep out, but donations will be collected. UConn Irish will provide entertainment, and speakers include state representative Gregg Haddad, Laura Roberts of Food Share, UConn sociology professor Mike Wallace and representatives from the No Freeze Hospitality Center in Willimantic.

UConnPIRG has held this event before, but this is the first year that the organization is partnering with Habitat for Humanity.

“We wanted to try to make this event bigger than it’s been in the past,” said 2nd-semester human development and family studies major Josephine Ankrah, the campaign coordinator for UConnPIRG’s hunger and homelessness campaign. “We’re

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Comedian and ex-nun uses humor for support, addresses LGBTQ community

By Sten Spinella Campus Correspondent

As a part of the Rainbow Center’s “Out to Lunch Lecture” series, comedian, exnun, nurse, poet and author of five novels Kelli Dunham spoke Thursday afternoon in the center’s social room.

The couches were comfortable and the laughs were easy, as an intimate audience listened to Dunham speak on her career and her personal life. Dunham was born in Wisconsin, the youngest of seven children, and much of her comedy focuses on her dysfunctional family life.

“In a family of stoic farmers, I was a whiny, sensitive, coastal queer, a boy-girl with a bleeding heart,” Dunham said.

Her father used to be obsessed with self-help books, instituting “Dale Carnegie days” where the children would have to act in accordance with Carnegie’s book: “How to Win Friends and Influence People.”

Dunham had a strained relationship with her mother, who, when Dunham came out to her, mailed Dunham her birth certificate -torn to shreds.

Dunham has experienced a good deal of personal pain in her life, which she draws upon liberally for her humor. She introduced the audience to this

Children rescued after bus topples into Kan. creek

DOUGLASS, Kan. (AP) — Ten Kansas children and a school bus driver were pulled to safety from a fast-moving creek Thursday after the bus toppled into the water and landed halfsubmerged on its side.

The children, ages 13 and younger, clambered through a roof hatch to await rescue as the 60-year-old driver called 911 to report the accident in rural Butler County, Sheriff Kelly Herzet said.

Investigators were looking into how the accident happened, but County 911 director Chris Davis said the bus apparently went off a bridge that Douglass School District officials described as a low-water crossing.

Emergency personnel decided against using boats because of the swift current, instead reaching the bus on lines and putting the children and the driver in life jackets before pulling them to dry ground.

The accident happened around 4 p.m. outside Douglass, a town of about 1,700 residents southeast of Wichita.

The driver was taken to a hospital to be checked for hypothermia and one child was seen being placed in an ambulance, but the sheriff said all of the children were eventually turned over to their parents.

Logan Parker, a 12-year-old sixth-grader, said the bus “hit a couple of bumps and then we fell into the water.”

“The driver was shaking and a lot of people were screaming and crying,” said Logan, who was still wet more than two hours after the accident.

with an opening sketch called: “Why I don’t get invited to parties anymore.” A “random party-goer” expected Dunham to be funny, but instead she spoke to the early death of her two girlfriends due to cancer and her experience of hardship in Haiti when she was working as a nun.

Dunham detailed her time acting as a spring of solace for her girlfriends who both had to battle cancer. They both died within a 5-year period. Often, she found herself in situations where humor did not exactly fit, but it was necessary.

“Heather, my first girlfriend, wanted me to do a routine for her in her hospital room late one night to cheer her up. I tried, but she said, ‘This is not your best material,’ to which I responded, ‘This is a hard room,’” said Dunham.

After her first girlfriend’s death, which happened by way of assisted suicide, Dunham was, “sad, despondent, and angry,” for an extended period of time. Then she met her second girlfriend. A year and a half into their relationship, though, they learned that she also had cancer.

Dunham again acted as a support system, and she did so through humor. She mentioned snowball fights and the microwaving of candy, quipping:

“The hospice nurse probably thought, ‘Man, those queers sure do have some weird coping strategies.”’

Dunham’s second girlfriend died because of her chemotherapy. “Most people’s lived are saved because of chemo.

My girlfriend died because of it,” Dunham said.

After the deaths, Dunham’s brother, a military man, sent her a letter reading: “Dear sister, it would seem that one situation of this type would be sufficient.”

Dunham’s story is one of perseverance and of the triumph of humor. She points to her life as an LGBTQ individual as a unique one.

“Sometimes, as LGBT people, we don’t fit in,” said Dunham.

She explains that the very nature of the LGBTQ community makes people uncomfortable, and it is their responsibility to question the traditional, and Dunham does so spectacularly. Dunham dealt with ideas of being “funny-looking,” saying “I’m not a girl, I’m not a boy, I don’t know who I am.”

Dunham does not confine herself to a box, and she urges others to do the same.

Dunham has led a distinctly American life. She lived in Haiti working as a nun, where she got kicked out for “insuf-

ficient docility” and because “she walked like her shoulders were angry.” She’s lived in Portland, Ore. and New York.

She also travels regularly for her shows. As a child, Dunham technically worked as a sharecropper, farming on rented land for the company that rented the land out to her family.

One audience member asked Dunham: “What changes have you noticed in your comedy

relating to LGBT issues over the years?”

Dunham answered: “There are so many more ‘out’ performing comics…In the last five years when I’ve performed at the mixed groups, the straight people laughed at the gender stuff.” She points out she has not changed that much, but her audiences have. They have become more tolerant.

The presentation was a time

for students to allow an hour out of their rapidly running and changing lives to face their humanity. It was a serious talk of loss and life and death, and it was a paradox – the speech was about humor in the face of tragedy, and Dunham used humor throughout her speech to lighten the mood.

By Sandy Mueller Campus Correspondent

focus on combat units,” said Kevin Evringham, veterans services specialist in the Office of Veterans Affairs and Military Programs.

By donating the items that the units need, students, faculty and staff can show the military that the country is supporting them.

“I think it is important because we should show our appreciation to all the servicemen and women because I don’t think they get enough of that,” Amanda Roy, 1st-semester marine science major, said.

The office made the care package drive a competition for a prize in order to maximize the number of donations.

According to the care package drive flyer, students and faculty were encouraged to make teams and submit a team name and roster to the office before they started collecting.

“We wanted to make it competitive to try to get people to do it as groups to remind each other and compete against other groups. With the student factor, what I would like to do is have students form groups

whether it be as a dorm unit as a student group as a group of friends and be competitive with other student groups,” Evringham said.

Roy wants to participate because of her family involvement in the military.

“I would like to (participate),” Roy said. “My dad was in the service for a number of years (in the Army and Marine Corps) and my boyfriend is in the service, so it’s really close to home.”

There will be many places to drop off the items for the care

package drive, including the Veterans Oasis in the Student Union Room 224, Student Union Veterans Table on select days and the Veteran Affairs and Military Programs office in Arjona 345.

The packages will be put together with student volunteers as well as the Office of Veterans Affairs and Military Programs after the drive is finished. They will be sent overseas at the end of November.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Obama administration has recruited engineers from several prominent technology companies to help fix the problems preventing people from signing up for government-mandated health insurance.

Oracle and Red Hat are pitching in as well as Michael Dickerson, an engineer on leave from Google, according to a blog post Thursday

by Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison told shareholders at the software maker’s annual meeting Thursday that the Redwood Shores, Calif., company is trying to make

the Healthcare.gov website more reliable and secure.

“Most of us want to see our government operating efficiently and effectively and it is incumbent upon us to help them do that,” Ellison said.

Red Hat Inc. and Google Inc. declined to comment.

Dickerson is a site-reliability engineer at Google. He is now working directly with QSSI, the general contractor hired to upgrade Healthcare. gov, Bataille said.

Exasperation with the website’s buggy technology has been compounded by concerns that the service lacks the security measures needed to protect the sensitive information of people looking for insurance.

Besides Dickerson, the government also identified entrepreneur Greg Gershman as one of its new troubleshooters. Gershman currently is director of innovation at mobile app developer Mobomo, according to his profile on professional networking site LinkedIn. Gershman’s resume says he received a Presidential Innovation Fellowship last year to work with the White House on a project seeking “to re-imagine the relationship between citizens and government around the citizen’s needs.”

The Obama administration has pledged Healthcare.gov will be running smoothly by Nov. 30.

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Kelli Dunham and friend read from Dale Carnegie’s books, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” Dunham discusses her experience with loved ones and her identity.

Military care package drive to be held this week, donations accepted The Office of Veterans Affair and Military Programs will be holding a care package drive for military combat units and service members overseas from Nov. 1 to Nov. 12.

These care packages will include basic and general hygiene items, such as baby wipes, Q-tips and deodorant.

“The combat units are usually deployed and are in locations that get access to less resources so we are trying to

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Screenshot from Healthcare.gov.

The Obama administration has received flack for the technical issues associated with the Healthcare.gov website. They expect it to be running smoothly by the end of November.

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US lawmakers to head to Europe to address NSA HARTFORD (AP) — U.S. lawmakers will head to Europe to help address concerns abroad about alleged U.S. spying and convince the Europeans of the need to continue joint anti-terrorism efforts with the U.S., the chairman of a Senate subcommittee on European affairs said Thursday.

Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said he spoke with European Parliament members and others this week and is concerned about their threats to stop

participating in anti-terrorist organizations because of frustration over surveillance by the National Security Agency.

“It’s really important for U.S. national security interests for Europeans to stay on board with us with respect to our mutual anti-terrorism endeavors,” Murphy, a first-term Democrat and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs, said in an interview from Washington.

“And I’m going to Europe to

make it clear to them that we need to continue to work together in combatting terrorism, notwithstanding their anger over these NSA programs.”

News reports that the NSA swept up millions of phone records in Europe have frayed relations with some U.S. allies, though the agency’s chief said this week that they were inaccurate and reflected a misunderstanding of metadata that NATO allies collected and shared with the United States.

Other revelations cited documents leaked by former analyst Edward Snowden that the NSA monitored German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone and those of up to 34 other world leaders. The national intelligence director, James Clapper, defended spying on allies as necessary and said it’s commonplace on both sides.

Amid the uproar, Murphy said his office is arranging the congressional trip, expected to take place this year, and hopes the

Vatican polls parishes on birth control, marriage » RELIGION

NEW YORK (AP) — The Vatican is taking the unusual step of conducting a worldwide survey on how parishes deal with sensitive issues such as birth control, divorce and gay marriage, seeking input ahead of a major meeting on the family that Pope Francis plans next year.

The poll was sent in midOctober to every national conference of bishops with a request from the Vatican coordinator, Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri,

to “share it immediately as widely as possible to deaneries and parishes so that input from local sources can be received.”

The survey reflects the pope’s pledges to move away from what he called a “Vatican-centric” approach toward one where local church leaders are more involved in decision-making.

Among the questions are whether gay marriage is recognized in their country and how priests minister to same-sex couples, including how church-

es can respond when gays seek a religious education or Holy Communion for their children.

The poll also asks “how is God’s mercy proclaimed” to separated, divorced and remarried couples.

Additional information is sought on the pastoral care of men and women who live together outside of marriage. The survey also asks parishes whether they believe married men and women tend to follow church teaching barring the use of artificial contraception.

The National Catholic Reporter, an independent news organization, was first to report Thursday that the survey will be conducted, and it posted a copy online.

Helen Osman, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, confirmed plans for the poll to The Associated Press.

“It will be up to each bishop to determine what would be the most useful way of gathering information to provide to Rome,” Osman wrote in an email. In England, bishops have posted the survey online to be filled out by a wide range of Catholics, including priests, lay people, parents and nuns.

The poll findings will help set the agenda for an extraordinary synod, or meeting, of the presidents of national bishops conferences in October 2014.

The introduction to the survey lays out a broad list of concerns which the document says “were unheard of until a few years ago,” including singleparent families, polygamy, inter-

NEW HAVEN (AP) — Two dozen people have been charged with participating in a drug ring that shipped cocaine, heroin and marijuana from California to Connecticut.

Federal prosecutors say most of the defendants were

arrested earlier this month but two are still at large.

Officials said Thursday that the defendants had drugs shipped from southern California to various addresses in the Hartford area for sale to customers in Connecticut.

Acting U.S. Attorney for Connecticut Deirdre Daly said a drug pipeline was shut down because of the efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Hartford Task Force.

The defendants are mostly from addresses across cen-

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Pope Francis pays homage to the statue of St. Mary of Fatima at the end of a Mass on the occasion of the Marian Day, in St. Peter’s square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013.

faith marriages and “forms of feminism hostile to the church.”

Surrogate motherhood is lamented in the document as “wombs for hire,” and the survey cites as a new challenge “same-sex unions between persons who are, not infrequently, permitted to adopt children.”

Francis has said the church needs to do a better job preparing young people for marriage, lamenting that newlyweds seem to think marriage isn’t a lifelong commitment but just a “provisional” one. At the same time, he has said the church process for annulling marriages isn’t working and must be reviewed.

Francis’ emphasis on reforming the Vatican bureaucracy and boosting the participation of local church leaders and lay people has prompted speculation about how far-reaching his changes could be.

The pope has urged pastors to focus on being merciful and welcoming rather than emphasizing only such divisive issues as abortion, gay marriage and contraception. At the same time, he has made clear his support for traditional marriage and opposition to abortion.

The introduction to the new survey extensively quotes former popes and the Catholic catechism on marriage being the union of a man and a woman for the purposes of having children.

Baldisseri, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, wrote in his letter that the meeting next year would be followed by another on the topic in 2015.

tral Connecticut but others are from California and New York City.

Over the course of the investigation law enforcement agents seized more than $150,000 in cash as well as 100 pounds of marijuana and a smaller amount of heroin.

Two dozen people charged in Conn. in coast-to-coast drug ring

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delegation will include members of both parties and both chambers. Names of other participating lawmakers were to be released in coming days.

He said the itinerary is still being worked out.

While Murphy said the purpose of the trip is to help improve relationships, he said some “tough love” will also be dispensed. He said European leaders need to be honest with their own people about the kind of espionage programs they’ve

used for years themselves.

“While we can amend our surveillance programs to better protect the rights of Europeans, they also need to come to terms with the fact that we’re not the only ones that are out there spying,” Murphy said.

Meanwhile, Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to head this weekend to the Middle East and Poland to address rancor over U.S. strategies in the Syria, Egypt and Iran as well as U.S. surveillance activities.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that most of Texas’ tough new abortion restrictions can take effect immediately — a decision that means as least 12 clinics won’t be able to perform the procedure starting as soon as Friday.

A panel of judges at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said the law requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital can take effect while a lawsuit challenging the restrictions moves forward. The panel issued the ruling three days after District Judge Lee Yeakel said the provision serves no medical purpose.

In its 20-page ruling, the appeals court panel acknowledged that the provision “may increase the cost of accessing an abortion provider and decrease the number of physicians available to perform abortions.” However, the panel said that the U.S. Supreme Court has held that having “the incidental effect of making it more difficult or more expensive to procure an abortion cannot be enough to invalidate” a law that serves a valid purpose, “one not designed to strike at the right itself.”

The panel left in place a portion of Yeakel’s order that prevents the state from enforcing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration protocol for abortion-inducing drugs in cases where the woman is between 50 and 63 days into her pregnancy. Doctors testifying before the court had said such women would be harmed if the protocol were enforced.

After Yeakel halted the restrictions, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott had made an emergency appeal to the conservative 5th Circuit, arguing that the law requiring doctors to have admitting privileges is a constitutional use of the Legislature’s authority.

“This unanimous decision is a vindication of the careful deliberation by the Texas Legislature to craft a law to protect the health and safety of Texas women,” Abbott, a Republican who is running

for governor, said in a written statement.

Lawyers for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers had argued that the regulations did not protect women and would shut down a third of the 32 abortion clinics in Texas.

In a statement Thursday, Planned Parenthood said the appeals court decision means “abortion will no longer be available in vast stretches of Texas.”

“This fight is far from over,” Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said in the statement. “This restriction clearly violates Texas women’s constitutional rights by drastically reducing access to safe and legal abortion statewide The court’s order is temporary until it can hold a complete hearing, likely in January.

The restrictions are among the toughest in the nation and gained notoriety when Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis launched a nearly 13-hour filibuster against them in June. Davis has since launched her own gubernatorial campaign and could face Abbott in the November 2014 election. Republican Gov. Rick Perry has said he will not seek another term.

The law that the Legislature passed this summer also bans abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy and beginning in October 2014 requires doctors to perform all abortions in surgical facilities.

Officials for one chain of abortion clinics testified in the trial that Yeakel oversaw that they’ve tried to obtain admitting privileges for their doctors at 32 hospitals, but so far only 15 accepted applications and none have announced a decision. Many hospitals with religious affiliations will not allow abortion doctors to work there, while others fear protests if they provide privileges. Many have requirements that doctors live within a certain radius of the facility, or perform a minimum number of surgeries a year that must be performed in a hospital.

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

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Consider the possibility of being lazy, but not so much that you miss new opportunities when they come knocking at your door. Be ready to expand and grow.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- All is not as it appears. Work could be complicated by delays, and a lack of funds could threaten plans. Close review of the finances provides choice.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Humility grants grace. The next two days present extra opportunities for partnership. Work out strategies, delegate who does what and manage it all as a team, with love.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- There could be a conflict between public and private obligations. Changes may be required. It’s getting busy, and there’s more work coming. Keep track of expenses.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your home and family call for your attention. Rebuild old bridges. Write a love letter or a poem. There’s plenty of money, and none to waste.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Be patient with someone who isn’t, and be entirely honest with yourself. It’s a good exercise, to paraphrase Sigmund Freud, whose birthday is today. Notice your feelings.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -Anything is possible, if you set your mind to it. Save the right amount of energy for sustained success. The more you do, the more you’re in demand. Hand out business cards.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Avoid making big decisions today, or at least weigh your options carefully. Your attention to detail is enviable now. Choose privacy over public venues.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Spend more time at home but not necessarily alone. Your friends offer support and love when you need it. Think and grow rich together. There’s creativity afoot.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Now’s a good time to go over your accomplishments and goals. Go for what’s next, even if it requires a change in plans. Surround yourself with friends this evening.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Challenges may show up at your doorstep. You could bravely incorporate them into your plan and emerge a hero.

Don’t deplete your resources. It all works out.

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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Doing the homework increases your chances for success. You’re entering a romantic phase, full of pleasures, social life, children and creativity. Things seem easy.

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Special Halloween SUBOG open mic night showcases a variety of talents

By Emily Lewson Campus Correspondent

On Thursday, SUBOG sponsored a Halloween Open Mic Night in the Student Union Ballroom from 7-9 p.m.

The evening included live guitar and accompaniment singing as well as some comedy. Free refreshments including fall classics of hot, mulled apple cider and pumpkin pie were served alongside piles of candy. The atmosphere was typical of an open mic night: dim lighting, warm snacks, Christmas lights shining and, most importantly, a friendly vibe throughout.

To start the show, Mike Holler, a 7th-semester political science major, played three originals.

“No spooky songs tonight, didn’t want to scare you too much,” said Holler. He sang and strummed the guitar with an enticing but gruff voice.

Following Holler’s first song, Luke LaRosa, a 3rdsemester urban and community studies and geography double major said he liked the song.

“It had pulse,” LaRosa said.

“And it existed at the intersection of rock and whimsical folk: a solid piece.”

This senior plays at open mic nights throughout the school year – typically solo – but can often be seen in the band Dangerous Animals.

Holler helped the open mic night event go off without a hitch, introducing the next performance while also handling the signing in process. His involvement and passion for music has crafted him into a great musician. If you haven’t seen Dangerous Animals, make sure to go see them – and Holler – soon.

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Students showcased their musical talents in another SUBOG sponsored open mic in the Student Union covering a wide variety of artists from Kanye Wes to Katy Perry.

enth-semester communications major Zachary Collins, giving a comedy performance. He constantly critiqued the audience for their lack of involvement, which was the only part of his set that got laughs in response. Despite a rough show, Collins performs weekly at comedy clubs in Hartford and Manchester.

After Holler, Andrew Ibarra, a 3rd-semester allied health science major, took the stage with his guitar in hand. Playing three covers, his remake of the

Kanye West’s “Runaway” was impressive. Most astounding was his ability to play the guitar; his talent is noteworthy.

That being said, Becky Noel stole the show. Her quirky outfit reflected Halloween and her independent, free-flowing style. Round, yellow, John Lennon-style frames graced her face and a sunflower headband held her hair; she demonstrated a hippy personality from first glance.

Playing hits by Jewel and Katy Perry, Noel, a 5th-semes-

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ter nursing major, demonstrated her singer-songwriter vibe.

Noel’s voice was engaging; it drew the audience in and forced them to listen. But most importantly, her stage presence captured the unenthusiastic crowd; her quirky personality caused people in the room to laugh and sing along to “I Kissed A Girl.”

“Love many, trust few, learn to paddle your own canoe,” Noel said after the performance. Her indication to a life well lived, Noel seems chalk

full of inspiring yet funny mottos. Despite her top-notch performance, Noel only performs at a few open mic nights a year.

The next Open Mic, offered by the East Area Council, will be held at Whitney Dining Hall on Friday, Nov. 15, from 8-10 p.m.

By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer

While one wouldn’t expect Otto Octavius to be capable of the same level of banter as Peter Parker, it’s absurd that the writers didn’t play around with the encounter, giving Black Cat some time to realize that something was “off” about the web slinger.

Instead, all we’re given is a rushed and somewhat shocking fight sequence.

Spider Man’s dialogue in both this and other recent issues is far from interesting.

Doc Ock’s villainous tendencies remain present and, quite honestly, the whole mind-switching storyline got old a long time ago, as evidenced when Ock is infuriated by an old colleague and plans to do away with him. There isn’t much excitement or suspense to be seen when following a character who basically re treads the same ground over and over. Rather than constitute a set up for this new ongoing series, it should have remained a minor storyline.

The Black Cat sequence also feels so out of place with the rest of the title, I’d wager a bet that Marvel only had it included as a way to hopefully push more copies of the issue out.

Beyond those complaints, the issue just wasn’t fun to read and felt much like an exaggerated soap opera for most of the time. Take note: this is one “Spider Man” edition gone wrong.

Emily. Lewson@UConn.edu

Latest Spidey a web tangling mess

It’s been a rough time for Marvel’s signature superhero. The Spider Man mythos recently underwent one of the most controversial plot lines in comic book history.

For those not in the loop, Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider Man (spoilers), switched brains with his arch enemy, Doc Ock, in “The Amazing Spider Man No. 700.” Parker then proceeded to die in Doc Ock’s body, while the villain survived by occupying the body of the former Spider Man. Affected by the late Peter Parker’s subconscious, Doc Ock set out to be a better hero than Parker ever was in the new series “The Superior Spider Man.” Issue No. 20 sees Spider Man (now Doc Ock occupying Peter Parker’s former body), focusing on working to build up his career as Peter Parker, the aspiring academic.

The title’s cover would have you believe that this issue centered around the return of one of Spider Man’s most well known foes/flames, Felicia Hardy, a.k.a. The Black Cat. Quite the opposite, her encounter with the new Spider Man is insanely brief, not comprising more than a few pages in the issue.

Basically Spidey runs into Black Cat, Cat delivers a classic flirtatious line and BAM! Spidey punches her square in the mouth. After delivering a few lines about crime fighting as if he were Robocop, Spider Man leaves an enraged Black Cat tied up for the authorities. That’s it.

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The Out to Lunch Lecture Series at the Rainbow Center continued this week with “Ouch That’s Funny: LGBT Humor & the Beauty of Discomfort” a presentation by author, comedian, and ex-nun Kelli Dunham.

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It’s getting to be that time of year, the wonderful time when stress piles up, the weather changes and healthy habits become a thing of the past. These factors all contribute to the perfect storm that can weaken your immune system and leave you susceptible to a wide variety of illnesses and conditions. For the majority of you, this results in the inescapable cold season, while the less fortunate can fall into the grasps of mononucleosis (mono) or whatever flavor of the flu is popular right now.

The unfortunate nature of dorms is that they are petri dishes for a wide variety of ailments, so much so that epidemiological studies can be performed on college campuses to trace the spread of diseases. Even the cleanest dorms feature a large number of people in constant close contact that leads to the rapid spread of infection.

This is most notable in conditions such as mono where the overwhelming majority of students will be exposed to the underlying virus by the time they finish their degree.

The difference between a cold and the flu is often misunderstood and can lead to unnecessary trips to the doctor’s office. Unfortunately, in both cases their origin is viral, meaning antibiotics will have no effect on the illness. Otherwise, flu is a more severe viral condition that results in body pain and fever, while a cold may not exhibit more than a cough or runny nose. The flu shot is available on campus and can provide immunity to certain strands of the flu; however, the makers take statistical gambles on which strain will be in a given year. That said, the benefits of a flu shot often outweigh the risks.

When it comes to prevention of these easily spread illnesses, the largest step is practicing good hygiene.

This, combined with a continual attention to healthy eating, sleeping and exercise habits, can be your greatest defense from the majority of diseases. By ensuring your body is running on all cylinders, you give your immune system the best chance to fight an infection that comes your way.

At the end of the day, there is only so much your immune system can do, and when you do become sick, the need for rest cannot be understated. Whether rest from exercise or simply from life, taking one or two days to allow your body to get back up to speed can prevent you from prolonging your illness. The age-old mantra of staying hydrated certainly applies to ensuring your body can be on top of its game.

Whether it’s a case of the sniffles that won’t go away or a severe fever, you should always seek out your doctor when in doubt. Student Health Services is always a great resource and often provides extended hours to help ensure you can get checked out.

Luke.Belval@UConn.edu

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Umi Sushi overs one of a kind dining experience

By Amaris Vázquez Campus Correspondent Before deciding you don’t like sushi and ruling this restaurant out, hear me out. If you’re looking for a place with a hip and modern atmosphere with tantalizing drinks and food, this is it. If you like sushi, the eel and salmon skin are better here than anywhere else I’ve tried them. I am picky about salmon, but their Philadelphia roll is delicious and my friends rave about the California roll. For vegetarians they have refreshing avocado rolls, amazing inari, and great edamame salad bomb-

ers. That’s just to mention a few though. They have lots of variety including an angry Alaskan roll, shrimp tempura, spicy tuna and more. Now for those who are wary of trying something new, you may have the BLT roll or the chicken teriyaki roll. They also have incredible noodles and salads.

The food is always presented in enticing ways and the looks are not deceiving.

The best part? It is conveyor belt sushi! You actually sit around a conveyor belt that wraps around the sushi chef’s workspace and grab plates as they slink past you. Each plate is priced varying from $1.75-$5.75 and sorted by

color in green, yellow, blue, red, or purple. We’ve been able to eat our fill for $30 per two people, including desert.

You can also build your own sushi roll and they will pack almost anything you choose in there. These lie outside the colored price plates, but are so worth it if you’ve got room to splurge. That being said, I know people who could spend that on their own just because the food is so appetizing it’s almost impossible to stop.

I’ll be honest, I only know of two deserts. In my opinion, they’re the only ones you need to know about. First is a chocolate mousse cake you can grab right off the belt. If

Broadway tap performer Savion Glover set to dazzle Jorgensen tonight

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Focus Staff - Notable tap performer Savion Glover is bringing his SoLe Sanctuary show to Jorgensen tonight. SoLe Sanctuary is described by the Jorgensen Center as a show where “the stage (is) a living alter where (Glover) can pay his respects to the craft he has perfected.” Glover has been featured in a variety of film, television and stage productions. His Broadway debut came in 1985 at the age of 10 when he was the titular character in “The Tap Dance Kid.” Other Broadway shows that he has performed in include “Black and Blue,” “Jelly’s Last Jam” and “Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk.” Since then, Glover has also been responsible for choreographing the character Mumble in “Happy Feet” and “Happy Feet 2.” The show begins at 8 p.m. All seats are $10 for UConn students with their valid ID. General admission tickets begin at $32.

you have ever daydreamed of finding the perfect chocolateparty-in-your-mouth dessert, then look no further. I can barely describe it; you just have to try it. Aside from that, the mochi ice cream is how the ice cream gods eat their dessert. It’s wrapped in sweet rice dough and comes in vanilla, green tea, red bean, strawberry, mango and chocolate flavors. You can’t go wrong with green tea and chocolate.

Their drinks are also not to be overlooked. They have your regular assortment of beer with some Asian varieties. More to my liking is the bubble tea. Not only do they

have the tapioca pearls, but also fruit juice ones that really add a new level of fun. I suggest Mango with the tapioca pearls, and feel free to get it spiked if you’re of age. The mixed drinks amaze me even more. They have so many choices of sake cocktails it’s hard to decide, and they all sound so good.

Honestly, if you are looking for a dinner experience for a date or just with friends that will result in an amazing memory then you have to check out Umi Sushi & Tapas at 53 Isham Rd, West Hartford.

Amaris.Vázquez@UConn.edu

Vests: Half-jacket functional fashion

By Kate Sulzenski Campus Correspondent

Each morning, we all face the decision of whether or not to wear a jacket. Rushing to class quickly gets our blood flowing, making the crisp air a little more manageable. On top of most being too warm for autumn, jackets are restrictive and hide your carefully chosen outfit of the day. The answer these days seems to lie in the half-jacket, also known as the vest. We often forget alternative ways to layer as the air becomes colder.

Vest, versatile and vanity do not all begin with the same letter by accident. Vests warm your core and allow your arms to breathe.

Kara Casale, 1st-semester ACES program major, chose an oversized animal print fur vest to spice up a sleek allblack outfit. The added flair is effortless, but made all the difference. Onlookers cannot help but want to feel it.

Two ladies on campus found a vest too good to even fight over. Olivia Bonner, a 7thsemester electrical engineering major and Danielle Vertiz, a 5th-semester

communications major match their vests with collared shirts and tall boots. If they had worn baggy jackets, fellow sidewalk walkers would have missed out on what was underneath.

Contrary to popular belief and provided evidence, not all vests are furry. Heading to the gym? One Tribe Clothing Store in Storrs Center offers the latest Roxy vests that fit any situation. Just a tad too cold to wear a dress outside?

Try a longer vest.

Vests allow us to design our own jackets through layering. You can wear your favorite hoodie under a jean vest or cable-knit sweater under Kara’s fur. Voila! It looks like the two are seamless. Or you could go as far as to cut the sleeves off a flannel and sew them to the arm openings of a vest. Then to personalize add patches or other decals.

We can make vests as warm and as stylish as necessary. Do not let the cold get the better of you; keep some of your body heat to yourself.

Katherine.Sulzinski@UConn.edu

UK hacking prosecutor: Brooks, Coulson had affair LONDON (AP) — A prosecutor electrified Britain’s phone hacking trial Thursday by revealing that Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson — the two most senior U.K. tabloid editors accused of illegal eavesdropping and bribery — had a secret affair lasting at least six years.

Prosecutor Andrew Edis said the relationship between the two powerful editors — both former top Rupert Murdoch aides and associates of Prime Minister David Cameron — goes to the heart of the case’s key question: Who knew what during years of illicit activity at Murdoch’s News of the World and Sun tabloids?

The fact they had an affair and kept it secret “means they trusted each other a lot,” Edis said. He said there was “absolute confidence between the two of them” about issues at their work.

“Through the relevant period, what Mr. Coulson knew Mrs. Brooks knew too, and what Mrs. Brooks knew Mr. Coulson knew too, because it’s clear ... that as at February 2004 they had been having an affair which had lasted at least six years,” he said.

The two enjoyed close ties to Britain’s media and political elite. Brooks has been friends with Cameron and Coulson served as his communications director before and after Cameron’s election as prime minister in 2010.

Edis said their affair started in about 1998 and covered the period when Brooks was News of the World editor and Coulson her deputy — including the period in 2002 when the newspaper hacked into the phone of 13-year-old Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered.

The prosecution contends that Brooks and Coulson must have sanctioned the hacking.

Brooks and Coulson, both 45, Brooks’ current husband Charles Brooks, and five others are on trial in the first major criminal case spawned by the revelation of the paper’s eavesdropping. The eight defendants all deny a variety of charges related to phone hacking, bribing officials and obstructing a police inquiry.

The phone hacking scandal forced Murdoch to shut the 168-year-old News of the World, triggered police inquiries into phone hacking and bribery by journalists and has created intense pressure on Britain’s freewheeling tabloid press to mend its ways.

In his opening statement Thursday, Edis laid out the prosecution’s claim that Brooks, Coulson and other senior editors must have known about phone hacking that went on for years at the News of the World and its sister paper, The Sun. He said News of the World journalists, with consent

from the tabloid’s top editors, colluded to eavesdrop on the voice mail messages of phones of politicians, royalty, celebrities and even rival reporters in a “frenzy” to get scoops.

He showed the jury detailed records — audio recordings, notes and email trails — of what he said were phone-hacking assignments from the News of the World to private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. The targets included former Labour Cabinet ministers Tessa Jowell, John Prescott and David Blunkett — whose own affair was revealed in a sting on his girlfriend’s phone.

“it’s clear ... that as at February 2004 they had been having an affair which had lasted at least six years” Andrew Edis Prosecutor Mulcaire also targeted royal family member Lord Frederick Windsor, two journalists from the rival Mail on Sunday, and Dowler’s phone, the prosecutor said.

Mulcaire was jailed brief-

ly in 2007 for hacking the voicemails of royal aides.

He has now pleaded guilty to new charges, including hacking Dowler’s phone.

Three former News of the World news editors have also pleaded guilty, but those who were above them, including Brooks and Coulson, have denied knowing about the hacking.

Edis said that claim was barely credible. Mulcaire was paid about 100,000 pounds a year under both Brooks and Coulson for his services.

“Did nobody ever ask, ‘What are we paying this chap for?’” he said. “Somebody must have decided that what he was doing was worth an awful lot of money. Who was that?”

The prosecutor’s forensic analysis of the phonehacking trail was overshadowed by his revelation about Coulson and Brooks’ private lives.

The two defendants, sitting side-by-side in the dock at the rear of the court, did not visibly react as the lawyer spoke.

Edis said the revelation was “likely to attract a great deal of publicity,” some of it “unfair, unkind and unnecessary,” but insisted it was relevant.

He said the affair was revealed when police investigating phone hacking in 2011 found an intimate letter written by Brooks to Coulson on a computer in her London

home.

He said the 2004 letter was Brooks’ reply to Coulson’s attempt to end the affair. It’s not clear whether it was ever sent.

“You are my very best friend. I tell you everything, I confide in you, I seek your advice, I love you, care about you, worry about you, we laugh and cry together,” Brooks wrote in the letter read by Edis in court.

“In fact, without our relationship in my life I am really not sure I will cope.”

Brooks edited the News of the World from 2000 to 2003, then went on to edit The Sun, and later became the chief executive of Murdoch’s British newspaper division.

Coulson edited the News of the World from 2003 to 2007.

Brooks married soap-opera star Ross Kemp in 2002.

They later divorced and she married horse trainer Charles Brooks in 2009. Coulson married in 2000.

The affair apparently ended before Coulson became communications director for Conservative party leader Cameron in 2007, a job he continued when Cameron was elected prime minister in 2010.

Both he and Brooks resigned from their jobs after the hacking scandal exploded in 2011.

Fastrak: Future of CT Transit

Immobility is no joke. Because our communities are sprawled out, transportation is an absolute necessity in order to participate in the work force, go to school, seek medical care and to interact socially. People who do not own a car or are unable to drive are essentially ostracized physically, socially and emotionally. The primary response to this issue must be to make our communities walkable so that everyone can access amenities in a free and healthy way. However, there will always be a need for some form of public transportation, and so the second-highest priority is to build efficient and economical public transit infrastructure.

Connecticut’s transportation systems are indeed antiquated (how is it that the only way to get from UConn to Boston is a $50 Peter Pan bus ride?), but the Department of Transportation (DOT) is making at least one impressive leap forward with the construction of the CT Fastrak system. The CT Fastrak will be a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, a method of high-speed bus transportation that has been growing in popularity across the U.S. The CT Fastrak will be a busonly roadway built between New Britain and Hartford that only stops once per mile (as opposed to the 8-10 stops per mile of a normal bus route). The idea is that the busway will function much like a light rail system, except with more flexibility as buses have more entry and exit points and also have the option to use the regular highway in certain areas if it is not too congested.

The Fastrak is expected to attract 16,000 passengers a day, many of which the DOT is hoping will be commuters who would otherwise be driving.

Altogether, this should result in a yearly reduction of 17 million vehicle miles. Elevated stations will be built at each stop, and are intended to be comfortable waiting areas with shelters, bike racks, maps and landscaping features. The ticketing will be electronic, functioning much like the “T” system in Boston where passengers can pre-load their tickets with money or buy a monthly pass.

The CT Fastrak system will cost about $10 million to operate but will expand operation service by 600,000 hours to the CTransit Hartford Division. Passengers will be able to get to multiple destinations between the downtowns of New Britain and Hartford. The system is also planned to connect to important transportation hubs like the Waterbury train station.

The CT Fastrak system is currently a controversial project in the state. This can plainly be seen on the website that the DOT launched earlier this year, www. transformct.org. The interactive website solicits feedback on public transportation projects from Connecticut residents. On the topic of the CT Fastrak, some residents insist that the system should be expanded even beyond the current plans, to link up with Bradley International Airport and points east of Hartford. On the other hand, many residents are staunchly opposed to funding the project at all, arguing that the state simply does not have money for a new transportation system.

If you are a Connecticut resident, be sure to log in and give your input! Construction for the Fastrak is underway right now, and promises to be the first project in a new era of transportation planning in the state.

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New York’s strategies to discourage texting while driving deserve merit

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ew York has taken strong steps towards combating distracted drivers with new initiatives that Connecticut could also adopt.

According to the Huffington Post, in the six years between 2005 and 2011, there was a 143 percent rise in car crashes caused by cell phones in the Empire State, which also caused 3,331 deaths in 2011. It is clear that the danger caused by distracted drivers is very real and a huge issue in the state and the country. New York is admirably taking a proactive stance on preventing the reoccurrence of such a prevalent problem.

Only 11 states, including New York and Connecticut, ban handheld cell phone use while operating a motor vehicle, which can extend even to when vehicle is stopped but still running, such as when braked at a stop light. Such is the case in Connecticut, where only hands-free devices are allowed and all drivers under 18 cannot use their phone in any capacity. Fines and penalties have continued to increase for violations, with fines starting at $150 and increasing heavily after that. Drivers will also now receive one point on their license for the offense; points on one’s license can eventually lead to suspension of the license itself.

New York’s laws are similarly strict with violators receiving five points on their license. However, they have done more than just increase the penalties on cell phone usage while driving. In September, they announced the addition of 91 new texting zones on the highways which are more feasible areas for drivers to pull over and answer the text or phone. Furthermore, signage has been added to the highways to advertise that you are only a mile or two away from a texting zone, so it can wait until then. With over 5,553 drivers found texting while driving in New York between July 4 and Sept. 2, compared to only 924 drivers in 2012, the allure of the cell phone text needs to be combatted.

Connecticut will be well suited to institute a similar policy to deal with this prominent issue. However, Michael Riley, president of the Motor Transportation Association of Connecticut, raised concerns over the deficiency of rest stops in the area. Twelve years ago, the Department of Transportation reported an addition 1,200 rest area parking spaces (referring to individual parking spots) were needed in Connecticut, though Riley estimates that number to be closer to 100. Connecticut should address this need and work harder to save the many lives lost to distracted drivers, and texting zones are a great place to start.

Can’t tell if you are wearing a Halloween costume or just live in Buckley.

To the guy going from classroom building to classroom building dressed as a ghost yelling Boo! I love you.

Oh say can you see that I can’t sing?

I

have zero history of singing well, at least not without assistance from the “I am T-Pain” Auto-Tune app. So when I auditioned last week to sing the national anthem before a UConn home basketball game, before a crowd of potentially 16 thousand, I was mostly doing so for a fun story to tell at parties. There was no chance I would get the gig.

Sure enough, I didn’t. I got a women’s ice hockey game instead.

Reactions from my family and friends ranged from “You?” to “We have a women’s ice hockey team?”

I asked my dad, mom and

By Jesse Rifkin brother if they Associate Commentary Editor would show up. None of them did. As far as I know, they had no schedule conflicts.

The spot was given to me four days before last Saturday’s game. For those several days, I constantly sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” under my breath, out of paranoia that I would forget the words like Christina Aguilera at last year’s Super Bowl. It could be worse: my friend Cris confessed to me that he didn’t know the words at all.

“How do you not?” I exclaimed. “They do it before every sports game!”

“Well,” replied Cris, “that would explain it.”

Two weeks ago, Seth Meyers came to campus to perform stand-up comedy, and one of the funniest parts of his routine recounted the time he performed “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during

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the seventh inning stretch of a Chicago Cubs game. “Don’t start singing on a really high note,” Meyers warned, “because the song gets even higher later on.” He meant it as a joke, but I kept it in mind.

The day of, I got to Freitas Ice Forum two hours early for a required sound check, which took five seconds and honestly could have been done by anybody saying “Testing, testing, one two three.” My clothes were mostly white with a bit of blue, a conscious decision of both the school colors and two of the three national flag colors.

Good thing I didn’t wear any red too, since that ended up being our opponent Rensselaer’s colors.

Five minutes to go: I am standing on the side of the rink as the fans start filling in, when a worry suddenly occurred to me. “Wait,” I ask the team’s assistant Kevin, “I’m not going to have to skate out to the center of the rink, will I?” Fortunately, they place a three foot mat on the ice, so you walk out in sneakers and stand just inside the rink’s outer edge.

Two minutes to go: The announcer starts booming each player’s name.

“At goaltender, from New Hamburg, Ontario… Sarah Moses!” Ontario?

Turns out the team has nine Canadians, plus somebody from Finland. (By contrast, only two players hail from Connecticut.) That’s a relief. Perhaps if I forget the words it would largely go undetected.

Thirty seconds to go: “Nothing fancy,” Kevin instructs. “Just go out there and sing.” Don’t worry, on the ice hockey rink I wasn’t going to mimic Celine Dion anyway, although the Canadian players might appreciate it if I did.

Next thing I know, everybody is asked to please rise and remove their

hats. Everyone faces the American flag and not the singer, which made things somewhat easier for me. According to the video, my performance clocked in at one minute and nine seconds.

That seems about optimal: not rushing things, but also not drawing it out like Whitney Houston.

There is only one moment that makes me cringe upon reviewing. In retrospect I shouldn’t have attempted to go up a few extra notes higher on the penultimate line “In the land of the free--eee!”

My voice cracked a little, like I was 13 again. Other than that, my performance actually came out decently, all things considered.

But it was not easy. My respect for those who sing the national anthem before sporting events has increased exponentially, especially for the highest-attended games such as basketball or football. With no backing band, no duet or group singing partners, and no instrumentation, performers only have their solitary voice to stand behind.

With crowds as large as UConn amasses at Gampel Pavilion and the XL Center, that prospect can be terrifying.

For me, the fear didn’t stop upon completing “…o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Indeed, it continued for the subsequent two hours, as the announcer cautioned, “Please pay attention to the game at all times, as pucks can – and occasionally do – fly out into the crowd.” If you truly want to conquer your fears at a hockey game, don’t sing the national anthem. Sit in the stands.

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The closest anything to UConn is always in Manchester.

Basketball season could not have come at a better time.

I bet the football team will find a way to lose this weekend even though they don’t have a game.

To the kids who put toilet paper around Oak Hall, what are you like 10 years old or something?

2004 was for those who never got to see one. 2007 was for Red Sox Nation and 2013 was for the city of Boston. #BostonStrong Today my professor said, “A man in the back of the class is distracting me because he is sitting there texting.

Or he is way to happy to be staring at his his crotch, either way I’m distracted.”

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» FOR SANCTIONS

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Sanctions against Iran are Softening sanctions on costly to the United States Iran would be detrimental

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elations between the United States and Iran were permanently soured by a CIA-led bloody coup against President Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. Things only worsened when the U.S.-backed Shah and his authoritarian regime fell to Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1979 Iranian Revolution, which in turn sparked the Iranian

By Daniel Gorry Hostage Staff Columnist Crisis, resulting in the contemporary mutual disdain between the two states. Fortunately, Iran’s failed revolution in 2009 did manage to force the theocratic Ayatollahs to allow for a slightly more moderate Hassan Rouhani to ascend to presidency, and Rouhani has prioritized improving relations with the U.S. above nearly all other matters. President Obama has been presented with a historic opportunity to vastly improve relations with the whole Shiite community as well as help to usher the democracy loving Iranians further into the free world. All President Obama needs do is avoid the reactionary sentiment in Congress and dismantle the United States’ economic sanctions.

Iran’s economy generates about $483 billion a year.

According to the Iranian Central Bank, the vast majority of this income is fueled by oil exports, which account for roughly 79 percent of all Iranian exports.

The ICB also claims sanctions placed upon Iran through the U.N., primarily by the U.S., had diminished Iranian oil production from its high of 3.5 million barrels a day (mbd) to 2.5 mbd in 2011; the European Union’s subsequent sanctions have brought Iranian oil production all the way down to a current produc-

tion rate of a mere one mbd.

According to the International Monetary Fund, these sanctions have reduced Iran’s hard currency reserves from approximately $110 billion in 2011 to about $80 billion a year ago. The independent Foundation for the Defense of Democracies estimates that Iran could completely run out of hard currency by July 2014.

These sanctions have also inadvertently hurt the U.S. economy as the U.S. Energy Department demonstrated that Iran could cut the world’s petroleum prices by 10 percent and save the U.S. economy some $80 billion in annual costs.

These sanctions were imposed primarily by the United States as a way of making life so unbearable for the innocent civilians that they would have no choice but to overthrow the Ayatollahs and erect a more Americanfriendly regime. Yet, when the 2009 Iranian election revolution occurred, the Obama administration made no effort to support the people in their rebellion, and the American populace became wholly distracted by the sudden death of Michael Jackson. Iran’s then-President Ahmadinejad easily crushed the revolution and even consolidated support by providing the poor with limited social welfare programs funded by the hemorrhaging oil industry.

Washington won a mildly more conciliatory Iranian official in Rouhani, but he is widely considered within Iran to be one of the few conservatives who is merely not an incendiary figure like Ahmadinejad.

U.S. officials also claim that the sanctions are a means of persuading Iran to abandon its nuclear weapon development, but this is inherently faulty logic.

Iranian support for their state’s pursuit of nuclear weapons has only increased as time progresses

because the people feel a nuclear deterrent will provide protection from U.S.-Israeli aggression and act as a bargaining chip to remove sanctions already in place. Both of these fears are extremely justified, as Israel threatens preemptive strikes on a nearly daily basis, and the U.S. invasion of Shiite Iraq resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Iranians already feel the US is attacking them through weapons shipments to archrival Saudi Arabia, as well as Sunni insurgencies, and just 20 days ago the House of Representatives voted 400 -to20 in favor of reducing Iran’s oil exports to zero.

The true cost of these sanctions has taken form in the loss of innocent lives. The Guardian reported earlier this year that 85,000 Iranian cancer patients can no longer afford chemotherapy, and 23,000 HIV/AIDS victims have had access to the pharmaceutical cocktail that keeps them alive completely shut off. Some 50,000 patients with inherited blood disorders can no longer find the drugs they need to survive. What few pharmaceuticals make it into the country come from India or China, both of whom sell products with a severe drop in quality. A smuggling-based black market has begun to fester within Iran’s borders, giving rise to gang-violence and the all-to-real possibility of imminent starvation.

These sanctions are costly to the Iranian people and to us.

They do not benefit anyone but the Ayatollahs, whose claims of American tyranny have actually started to ring true. Obama should end the economic warfare, not increase it.

Staff Columnist Daniel Gorry is a 7thsemester political science major. He can be reached at Daniel.Gorry@UConn.edu

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here is strong sentiment in the Obama White House to soften sanctions on Iran’s economy, in spite of a bipartisan effort underway in the Senate aimed at tightening sanctions even further.

The election of Hassan Rouhani in Iran gave the Obama administration hope that the Iran may

By Paul DaSilva be willing Staff Columnist to come to the negotiating table and make substantive concessions as it relates to their nuclear program. Rouhani has been deemed a “moderate” by many world powers, but in reality, he is anything but.

This “moderate” has been a close confidant to Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei. He was called upon the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and basij militia to crush student protests “mercilessly and monumentally” in 1999 according to The Wall Street Journal and has also been highly influential or directly involved in Iranian policymaking since the revolution in 1979. Moreover, the pragmatism and ideological positions of the president is inconsequential in Iran, since the supreme leader has the final say on all matters related to domestic security and foreign policy.

The Obama administration is heavily lobbying against imposing new sanctions on Iran’s already devastated economy, but Congress does not seem to share the idealism the administration has that Iran is enriching uranium solely for the purpose of nuclear energy, not for the pursuit of nuclear weapons.

The House of Representatives passed a harsh sanctions pack-

age this past July, aimed at slashing Iran’s oil exports entirely; only 20 congressmen voted “nay.” Currently, a bill is before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that would cut Iranian oil exports in half. The bill, which has been hailed by the committee chairman, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), has strong backing within Democratic circles, notwithstanding White House pressure.

In my view, softening sanctions would be detrimental, and would send a bright, clear signal that the American government trusts the Iranian regime, which has explicitly expressed their disdain for both Israel and the U.S. It would be grossly ineffective at forcing Iran to cease its uranium enrichment efforts, and worse, could very well incentivize Iran to continue enriching while facing minimal consequences.

If President Obama still firmly believes in the position he took while he was campaigning—that a nuclear Iran is unacceptable—softening the burden of sanctions should be off the table.

President Rouhani has repeatedly affirmed the belief that Iran has a right to pursue nuclear energy, while rejecting the notion that it has any intention to produce a bomb.

Obama has taken the word of the Supreme Leader, who declared that he issued a fatwa against the development of a nuclear weapon, despite international skepticism. The Middle East Research Institute claims that they have been unable to verify the existence of the fatwa since the Iranian regime refused to present evidence for it.

Taking the word of Ayatollah Khamenei reflects the naiveté

and idealism held by Obama. It is illogical to believe that Iran would allow for its domestic economy to fall apart for just for the prospects of nuclear energy. It is equally nonsensical to believe that the election of Rouhnai, someone whose candidacy had to be approved directly by the Ayatollah, is indicative of a new direction in Iranian policy. So why then would Obama be so willing to soften the U.S.’s policies with not an iota of proof that Iran is merely enriching uranium for what it calls “peaceful purposes.”

The American-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) released a report last week asserting that Iran may be as little as one month away from a nuclear weapon, and at most, 11 months away. The Institute claimed that the addition of higher quality centrifuges capable of enriching uranium and significantly faster speeds than the older centrifuges is the primary reason for such a short time-frame. So, nuclear talks, which are set to resume on November 11, are being conducted despite the potential imminence of their possessing a bomb.

To conclude, the White House and the rest of America, including Congress, are in disagreement over how to proceed with Iran. I side with those advocating for newer, tougher sanctions because it is only method that has any chance of forcing Iran to cease its nuclear program.

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

» TOTALLY RAD/TOTALLY BAD Finals are getting closer Rain on Halloween weekend

Totally bad

So much candy

Basketball winning a game before the football team

The fact Halloween lasts more than one day at UConn

The Red Sox won the World Series

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Totally saw it coming what WAS YOUR WORST HALLOWEEN TREAT? – By aSHLEY MAHER

“A religious scroll that read ‘you are going to hell.”

“Toothpaste, oranges, and a box of raisins”

“The Book of Mormon”

“Caramel apple pops”

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A-Rod accuses MLB of 'gross, ongoing misconduct' NEW YORK (AP) — With the World Series over, Alex Rodriguez resumed his criticism of Major League Baseball and Commissioner Bud Selig for its investigation that led to a 211-game suspension that the New York Yankees third baseman is trying to overturn.

In addition to a grievance filed by the players' union, Rodriguez filed a lawsuit against Selig and MLB that accused them of engaging in a "witch hunt."

"I am deeply troubled by my team's investigative findings with respect to MLB's conduct," Rodriguez said in a statement Thursday. "How can the gross, ongoing misconduct of the MLB investigations division not be relevant to my suspension, when my suspension supposedly results directly from that division's work?"

MLB suspended Rodriguez on Aug. 5 for violations of its drug agreement and labor contract, but he was allowed to keep playing pending a determination of the grievance. Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz has heard eight days of hearings,

and the next session is Nov. 18.

Speaking last weekend at the World Series, Selig praised MLB's investigative team, saying "I'm very comfortable with what they did and how they did it."

"I've been in baseball now for 50 years," he said. "I thought I'd seen everything, but I hadn't."

Rodriguez waited to respond until after the World Series had ended.

"It is sad that commissioner Selig once again is turning a blind eye, knowing that crimes are being committed under his regime," the threetime AL MVP said. "I have 100 percent faith in my legal team. To be sure, this fight is necessary to protect me, but it also serves the interests of the next 18-year-old coming into the league, to be sure he doesn't step into the house of horrors that I am being forced to walk through."

Rodriguez and MLB have publicly assailed each other for months.

MLB accused Rodriguez of "possession of numerous forms of prohibited performance-enhancing substances, including testosterone and

human growth hormone, over the course of multiple years."

"This latest, sad chapter in Mr. Rodriguez's tarnished career is yet another example of this player trying to avoid taking responsibility for his poor choices. Given the disappointing acts that Mr. Rodriguez has repeatedly made throughout his career, his expressed concern for young people rings very hollow," MLB chief operating officer Rob Manfred said in a statement.

"Mr. Rodriguez's use of PEDs was longer and more pervasive than any other player, and when this process is complete, the facts will prove that it is Mr. Rodriguez and his representatives who have engaged in ongoing, gross misconduct."

One of Rodriguez's lawyers, Joseph Tacopina, responded by calling for Manfred to be removed from the three-person panel, which includes Horowitz, hearing the slugger's appeal.

"Alex did not use PEDs and Rob Manfred knows it. The fact that Manfred has committed so zealous-

The Huskies and Black Knights met three times last year as UConn took home two wins in the series as well as a tie. UConn seniors Billy Latta, Brant Harris and Joran Sims were able to tally five goals total between the three games.

On Saturday night, UConn will compete against in-state foe Sacred Heart at 7:05 p.m.

The Sacred Heart Pioneers come into the matchup with a 2-3 record. The Pioneers two wins come against 2013 Frozen Four participant UMass-Lowell, 2-1, and Bentley, 3-1. However, the Pioneers were blown out

by Rensselaer twice 7-1 and 6-0 and have also lost to American International 4-1.

UConn played Sacred Heart twice last year, tying them once 4-4 and winning once 4-0. UConn’s Harris was able to score once in the

tie, while Cody Sharib and Skyler Smutek were able to beat the goaltender as well.

Latta was able to net a goal in the 4-0 win, while Trevor Gerling, Tyler Brouchard and Joey Ferris scored as well.

The Pioneers are led in points by Drew George with four points on a team leading three goals and one assist.

Forward Justin Danforth leads the team with three assists.

The Huskies will come into the weekend looking to improve on a 0-2-1 record after an impressive tie to Union last weekend. The puck drops at 7:05 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday night in Freitas Ice Forum.

ly to prosecuting Alex for offenses he knows he did not commit is why he persistently attacks Alex's character with baseless, cowardly allegations," Tacopina said in a statement.

"With today's statements, Manfred clearly has hit a new level of desperation. He knows what his sworn testimony was on the subject of his and Commissioner Selig's approach to PEDs being dealt to children, and MLB's willingness to turn a blind eye to such criminal misconduct in support of its quest to get Alex. He knows he cannot run from his testimony forever. It will follow him the rest of his career — however long that may be — and he knows it is indefensible. Once it inevitably becomes public through other legal proceedings, he will have to answer for that.

"Rob Manfred has gone so far over the line with his latest slanderous attack against Alex (which presumably was approved by Commissioner Selig) that we demand the other two arbitration panel members immediately

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New York Yankees' third baseman Alex Rodriguez sits in the dugout during a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York.

remove Manfred from the panel hearing Alex's appeal. Indeed, we do not see how he can continue to hold any position of responsibility

within Major League Baseball. But we will leave that to the conscience and judgment of the owners within the league."

Men's hockey set to open conference B a n k s b a c k i n a c t i o n play against Army, Sacred Heart to help UConn face challenges

By Scott Carroll Staff Writer

The UConn men’s ice hockey team will take on Army and Sacred Heart this weekend at home in Freitas Ice Forum.

UConn’s first game will come against the Army Black Knights at 7:05 p.m. tonight.

The Black Knights come to Storrs winless in the early going with a 0-2 record.

Army has given up eight goals in two games with a 4-1 loss to Penn State and a 4-2 loss to Merrimack.

The Army’s sophomore Wille Faust has led the team in points thus far this season with two points on one goal and one assist. Freshmen CJ Reuschlein and junior Mac Lalor have also scored goals for the Black Knights this season.

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from BACK, page 12 Now, it’s time for Banks to keep shaking the rust that eight months on the shelf had left her with by getting back into game action.

“She looks, actually, pretty good considering she hasn’t played in a long time,” head coach Geno Auriemma said.

“That’s the best you can hope for. Her stamina is getting better, her conditioning is getting better and little by little, the game will come back.”

There is no plan for Banks to play a set number of minutes, and the junior guard – who averaged 7.3 points and 1.67 assists off the bench before getting injured last season – insists there is no need for care in managing her minutes. Instead, maximum playing time is crucial to getting back into gameshape, she said.

As for the rest of the Huskies, Friday’s scrim-

mage begins a journey that trophy – they’re also anticiis expected to culminate with pated to be perfect in the another national champion- process. ship. After all, they received “When you come to 31 of 32 first place votes and Connecticut, that’s part of were named the No. 1 team the deal,” Auriemma said. in the country in the USA “That’s why you came here.

Today Coaches Poll released It’s what you signed up for this week. and now it’s here. ‘I want “I think the year after you to win a national championwin a national champion- ship, that’s why I’m going ship and you to Connecticut.’ have everyOK, well you body back is did. Now what really hard,” are you going to Auriemma do about it?” said. “People For the think it’s Huskies, Friday easy, it’s provides the really hard. first in a series I remember of 40 chances – we won it in plus two exhiPreview 2000 and had bition games – everybody to answer that back in 2001 and it didn’t question. work out.”

Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. at The challenge of this sea- Gampel Pavilion. son is only heightened by the fact that Auriemma’s team is favored by many to do more than just pick up another Matthew.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

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Men's cross country competes in first ever American championships

By Cody Milardo Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s cross country team will travel to Hammonasset State Beach Park in Madison, Conn. this Saturday to compete in the first-ever American Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships. The 8k race is slated to start at 11 a.m. and the course follows the perimeter of the state park.

UConn will face new

conference foes Houston, Memphis, Temple, Southern Methodist University and the University of Central Florida for the first time, while also competing against familiar opponents Louisville, Cincinnati, Rutgers and the University of South Florida.

This will be the final time UConn will compete against Louisville and Rutgers as conference rivals, as they will move to the ACC and Big 10 following this season.

Junior David Cotton will

be returning to his hometown of Madison to run for the first time, and will look for a strong showing in this championship race. Top runners Michael O’Donnell, Stephen Vento and Bryan Fowler will try to keep their momentum up, going into the NCAA Regional Championship two weeks from now in Bronx, NY. UConn’s toughest competition in this meet seems to be Houston and Louisville, both of which boast two different cross country athletes of the week for the American this season. Last year, Louisville placed 6th in the Big East championship race, which was the highest finish out of the remaining schools. Last season UConn placed 9th.

Head coach Greg Roy will look for his team to run well in advance of the Regional championship with the hope that some can qualify for the NCAA National Championship in late November.

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Lundqvist, Rangers blank lowly Sabres 2-0 NEW YORK (AP) — Henrik Lundqvist was at his busiest when the only thing really in doubt was whether he would skate off with a shutout.

The rest of the New York Rangers took care of beating the lowly Buffalo Sabres up and down the ice.

Lundqvist made 29 saves in his 47th NHL shutout, and Derick Brassard and Chris Kreider provided the offense in the Rangers' 2-0 win over the Sabres on Thursday night.

"This is definitely a game we wanted to win and needed to win," said Lundqvist, who served as the backup when the Rangers beat the New York Islanders on Tuesday.

"The way we started the game, we set the tone right away.

"We did so many good things. I thought we were all over them pretty much the whole game."

Ryan Miller shined in defeat as he turned aside 44 shots just to keep his struggling club in it.

Lundqvist, who missed

two games last week while nursing an injury, lost 2-0 to Montreal in the home opener on Monday — one night before watching backup Cam Talbot beat the Islanders.

Lundqvist was tested the most in the final few minutes as Buffalo pressed to at least avoid the shutout. Lundqvist stopped a shot with the top of his helmet, deflecting the puck into the crowd, and then robbed Marcus Foligno with 1:20 remaining after Miller was pulled for an extra skater.

The Sabres had only one power play.

"The last five or six minutes they came a little harder," Lundqvist said, "but we deserved this one for sure."

Brassard scored a powerplay goal in the first period, and Kreider netted his second in two games in the middle period to power Lundqvist's third win and second shutout this season.

The Rangers (5-7), who played 10 of their first 11 on the road, began a four-game homestand in workmanlike fashion. They recorded a season-high 46 shots.

Buffalo lost its third straight and is a league-worst 2-12-1. The Sabres have been shut out three times.

"If we want this to stop, it will stop," Miller said.

"Everyone has to increase their intensity. When everyone wants this to stop, it will. You have to work your way out of it.

"We have to play hard and work hard for each other.

We have to have the right approach. We're searching.

Enough is enough."

The Rangers followed up a dominant first period with an identical 19-shot outburst in the second. The only thing that kept the game close was Miller.

"Ryan made some extraordinary saves," said newly acquired forward Matt Moulson, who played his second game with the Sabres. "He really kept us in the game. It could have been more than 2-0."

Miller could hardly be faulted for Kreider's goal with 8:39 left in the second.

He stopped a drive by Mats Zuccarello and blocked it to his right. Kreider got to the

rebound along the goal line and banked a shot off the back of Miller from a tough angle for his second in two games.

"That's a play I've tried a lot," Kreider said. "I don't know that it's ever worked for me. I threw it back out front, because you don't have any other option. You see the goalie is a little bit out, and best case it goes in.

"It was a whole lot of luck."

Lundqvist made fine stops in the closing minute of the second to deny Drew AP Stafford and Jamie McBain from the doorstep. Buffalo New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, right, of Sweden, defends the goal from doubled its shot output to Buffalo Sabres' Tyler Ennis (63) during the first period of an NHL hockey game.

12 in the period, but the Sabres were outshot 38-18 the game, but the second screen by J.T. Miller in fron through two. half of the first period, it of Miller to make it 1-0 a The Sabres put pressure wasn't there," Sabres coach 8:28. It was Brassard's sec on the Rangers after the Ron Rolston said. "We went ond of the season, and th game's opening faceoff, and to the box, and they built up Rangers' third power-pla New York had breakdowns a lot of momentum. goal in two games. in front of Lundqvist. But "Our first couple of shifts Another advantage later i Buffalo was kept at bay, and were good ... but it swung the first produced only on then the Rangers dominated. quickly after that." shot. Buffalo had its lon New York was buoyed by With Tyler Myers off for power play in the final tw a pair of power plays — tripping, Brassard wound up minutes of the period an the first resulting in the go- for a drive from above the recorded one shot. ahead goal. right circle that found its "We had a good start to way through traffic and a

Resilient Red Sox win in World Series lifts Boston in wake of bombings BOSTON (AP) — For fans, players and political leaders who celebrated the Red Sox's World Series title with cries of "Boston Strong," the championship provided a jubilant finish to a season that was shadowed nearly from the start by the April bombings at the Boston Marathon.

The morning after he cheered the victory inside Fenway Park, Ed Carlson returned Thursday to the marathon finish line he had crossed months earlier, 20 minutes before the bombs went off, and then had scrambled to find his children in the ensuing chaos.

"It was quite a year," said Carlson, 51, of Princeton, Mass. "To be at the marathon and then to be there for the World Series — I still tear up thinking about it."

The success of the Red Sox, who finished last in their division only a year ago, became a welcome surprise

and eventually a symbol of resilience for a city recovering from the twin bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 260.

Jarrod Clowery, a carpenter from Stoneham, Mass., who suffered severe burn and shrapnel injuries in the April 15 bombings, said he was inspired by the Red Sox, who began bonding in spring training over their beards.

"No one gave them a chance after that season last year ... but they started growing those beards, they became a unit, and they turned around and won a World Series," said Clowery, who has three friends who lost limbs in the blast. "I'm proud of those guys and happy for those guys."

On Wednesday night, after the Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6, thousands of fans clogged the streets around the finish line. It was a quieter scene

Thursday morning as traffic his pocket. sped over the blue and yellow "It put some finality to the line painted permanently on whole thing," he said.

Boylston Street and people His daughter, Maggie, still periodically stopped on the remembers the fear she felt sidewalk to offer a solemn the day of the bombing. tribute.

"It was Carlson, just scary. who took Very scary. in the My dad was s c e n e “It hit too close to running," with his she said.

1 7 - y e a r - home. The World "We were old daugh- Series definitely torn apart ter, wore by this. a new Red brought everything full And we Sox World were able to circle."

S e r i e s come back Champions and win baseball the World -Red Sox fan Series. It hat along with the shows Buddy Shoemaker just same blue how resiland yellow ient we marathon are." jacket he B u d d y wore to every Sox game he Shoemaker, 35, of Gilford, attended over the season. At N.H., was two blocks away Wednesday night's game, he when the second bomb had his marathon medal in exploded. Police told him and

By Eddie Leonard Campus Correspondent

Yoder Begley will be racing the usual six runners on Saturday: Emily Durgin, Brigitte Mania, Abby Mace, Emily Howard, Laura Williamson and Kat Vodopia.

Durgin and Mania have been remarkable in leading UConn this season.

They both had top-10 finishes at the New England Championships in Boston.

Begley expects big performances from both of them this weekend.

"Look for Brigitte to have a strong start to the race and stay near the front of the pack,” Begley said. “Durgin will follow Brigitte off the

line and work her way to the front."

UConn has had a strong season thus far. The Huskies grabbed three second-place finishes during the regular season, including the New England Championships back on Oct. 12.

Begley has continued to stress the basics, as the Huskies prepare for Saturday, saying, “The women just need to do what they have been doing all year, and that is racing with passion and pride.”

Women's XC competes in AAC Championship at Hammonasset The UConn women’s cross country team will race this Saturday in the American Athletic Conference Championship, held at Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison.

The 6K race is scheduled to start at 11:50 a.m. The championship race will be a home meet for Connecticut.

The Huskies will have the opportunity to run in front of their own fans, which may provide a spark for the team.

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By Matt Zampini Campus Correspondent After sweeping a weekend series for the first time since the 2010-11 season, the UConn women’s hockey team will open up conference play against the University of Vermont Catamounts on Friday.

The Huskies were rewarded for their sweep of RPI, in a way, by having the entire week off from any gameplay, but that didn’t slow them down from making any headlines.

Goaltender Sarah Moses received the Defensive Player of the Week and the team earned Hockey East Team of the Week. Coming into this weekend, the Huskies currently have a record of 3-4 and have won three out of their last four games.

Like UConn, Vermont also

has not played since last conference play from all of weekend. The Catamounts last year by defeating the dropped both games in their Catamounts. The Huskies weekend series against went 1-19-1 in Hockey East Robert Morris and come into play last season. the first game of conference Head coach Chris play against the Huskies with MacKenzie has this team an overall record of 2-4-1. heading in the right direcThrough seven games of tion and expects his team to the 2013-14 seacome ready to play son, the Huskies against Vermont on and Catamounts Friday. have one com“We’ll have a mon opponent hard working effort in which they as usual and try both had sucto play our syscess against. tem the best we UConn was can and execute,” able to sweep MacKenzie said.

Preview Rensselaer Friday’s game Polytechnic will complete a Institute last weekend while five-game home stand for the Vermont defeated RPI 3-1 on Huskies before they travel to Oct. 19.

Maine on Sunday to take on UConn has already the Black Bears in another matched their win total from important conference matchall of last year with three. up.

On Friday, they will look to match their win total in Matthew.Zampini@UConn.edu

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his 13-year-old son to run. He returned to the scene for the first time Thursday morning, wearing a new World Series cap and sweatshirt purchased at the game the night before.

"It hit too close to home," he said of the bombing, tears in his eyes. "The World Series definitely brought everything full circle."

The Red Sox embraced the idea of "Boston Strong" from the beginning, with players wearing a logo of it on their left sleeves and a giant "B Strong" logo mowed into Fenway's outfield. The team honored some of the victims on the field during its postseason run, and players said they wanted to honor those affected by the attacks.

"First and foremost, to all the Marathon victims, this one's for you!" tweeted Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester, who won two World Series game.

After the deciding game, 10 arrests were made in the city,

mostly for disorderly conduct, prosecutors said. There were no reports of serious damage but at least one car was overturned. Celebrations turned destructive at several college campuses in New Hampshire and officials at the University of Massachusetts said 15 people — all but one of them students — were arrested after thousands gathered on the Amherst campus following the Red Sox win.

A duck boat parade was set for Saturday morning in Boston to celebrate the championship. The route will take the players from Fenway Park and down Boylston Street before going on to the Charles River.

"We needed this," said Mark Porcaro of Boston.

"They were an easy team to get behind because they stood up for us when we needed them most."

plete 13 kills, Camille Evans 12, Jade Strawberry 11 and Erika Thomas 10. Co-captain Brianna Datti led the team with 27 digs.

The Cougars have gone 4-4 since their match with the Huskies, leading them to a 13-11 overall record and a 5-4 conference record.

Houston has been led offensively by Saritas Mikal with 289 kills while two of her teammates, Cortney Warren and Kadi Kullerkann, have reached 200 kills as well. The Cougars are led in digs by Natalie Keck with 367, while Mikal has scooped 220 digs on the year.

The Huskies also played the Mustangs earlier this season in a 3-0 victory for SMU. Since their match with the Huskies, the Mustangs have gone 5-3 with losses to USF, Temple and Louisville. The Mustangs come into the weekend with a 14-8 overall record and a 6-3 conference record.

SMU is led offensively by Caroline Young with 279 kills.

Maddie Lozano has completed 165 kills on the year while Abbey Bybel has 184, Janelle Giordano has completed 151 and Caitlin Bula has 144.

The Mustangs are led defensively by Morgan Heise with 295 digs while Avery Acker and Bybel have also reached triple digit digs.

“They’re two great teams in the top half of the conference,” said coach Holly StraussO’Brien. “But for us it’s really about us and us taking care of the ball and taking full control.

If you see the error column, we’re pretty high in out errors, and every error is the opponent’s point so we need to make sure we take care of what we can control.”

Huskies set for rematches with Houston, SMU this weekend in two road games

By Scott Carroll Staff Writer The UConn volleyball team will be making a road trip to Texas this weekend as they take on the Houston Cougars Friday night and the Southern Methodist Mustangs Saturday night.

UConn played the Cougars earlier this season in the American Athletic Conference, losing in five sets 3-2. The Huskies fell behind 2-0 early in the match, but stormed back after halftime, taking the third set 25-20 and the fourth set in dramatic fashion 25-23. The momentum wouldn’t be enough though for the Huskies as the Cougars got back to their winning ways, taking the last set and the match 15-13.

The Huskies were led by a balanced attack offensively that saw Karson Ratliff com-

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Men's swimming and diving looks to keep up winning streak against Villanova

By Eugene Joh Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s swimming and diving team looks to build on the success of their first meet this Saturday, when they face Villanova at the Wolff-Zackin Natatorium.

UConn is coming off a strong showing against Army last Saturday in their first meet, winning 197-107 and finishing first in 12 of 16 events.

The Huskies will be looking for another good performance from freshman Chris Girg, who broke a 20-year

Wolff-Zackin record in the The Wildcats then trav500-meter freestyle last eled to Morgantown, W.V. Saturday. Another swimmer for a quad meet with West to watch will be junior Felix Virginia, James Madison and Samuels, who along with Cincinnati, finishing in third Girg, landed place. two firstSaturday marks place finishes the first time the in UConn’s Wildcats and the o p e n i n g Huskies will be meet. facing each other Vi l l a n o v a , in head to head on the other competition since hand, is comthe 2009-10 seaing off two son, when the early seaHuskies were vicPreview son losses. torious. The meet Despite finis expected to take ishing first in six events, Nova place this Saturday at 1 p.m. was defeated by LaSalle in its opening meet, 180.5-110.5. Eugene.Joh@UConn.edu

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IRVING, Texas (AP) — With audio now available to back up Dez Bryant’s claim that he was saying only positive things at Tony Romo in a sideline rant last weekend, the Dallas quarterback was ready to offer a passionate defense of his top receiver.

Romo took care of it without the arm-waving that landed the emotional Bryant in the headlines again.

“Does he need to sometimes maybe look a little different for what’s going to be written and talked about? Sure,” Romo said Thursday in the Cowboys’ locker room.

“Does it really matter in here? No. He’s a positive guy who loves his teammates. What else do you want? He’s passionate and he comes to work every day with a great attitude.

“I’d like a lot of teammates like that.”

Romo tried to warn the masses in the moments after a 31-30 loss to Detroit.

That’s because he knew the cameras would catch what was happening right in front of him — Bryant waving his arms wildly, walking away from the quarterback, turning around abruptly to yell a few more things while coach Jason Garrett made an effort to steer him in another direction.

And he knew Bryant wasn’t saying much.

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“We the best in the NFL on that!” Bryant yelled, slamming a fist into an open hand.

Told you so, said Romo.

“I’m like everyone’s going to go run with it because of the demonstrative hand movements,” Romo said.

“But it’s just not who Dez is. I said that after the game and kind of what happened was obvious what was going to happen, people were going to take it and run with it. Even though it’s wrong.”

There’s no audio of a heated exchange between Bryant and tight end Jason Witten after the Lions scored the winning touchdown with 12 seconds left, but the intent there was pretty clear — and later backed up by both players.

Bryant was agitated by the sudden turn of events, and Witten was afraid his teammate wasn’t ready to go back on the field. Regardless of the hopelessness in those final seconds, Witten wanted Bryant ready for a couple more plays.

Witten had forgotten about the tiff almost as soon as he turned away from Bryant.

“I know he’s got a lot of respect for me, and I’ve honestly got a lot of respect for him,” Witten said. “It’s a close relationship, and really it’s a handful of guys. He wants to make Tony proud and know that he can throw it up to him in any of those situations. That’s what makes him such a great teammate. If it was just about him, it would be different.”

Bryant offered his defense Monday, a few hours before NFL Films released the audio that showed he was telling the truth.

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Silent bats to blame for series flameout

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Clutch hitting deserted the St. Louis Cardinals in the postseason.

The power arms that got them to the World Series finally gave out, too.

For the third straight year there’s satisfaction in the achievement of making a deep October run. They were close to a second title in three years, largely thanks to rookie Michael Wacha, and there’s no reason they can’t keep contending.

The way it ended, it felt as if they’d missed by a mile.

“Unfortunately, the offense during the playoffs, we just didn’t get it going,” Carlos Beltran said after the Cardinals went quietly in a 6-1 Game 6 loss Wednesday night. “Our pitching did a good job.”

The flameout brought back bitter memories from last fall, when the Cardinals had a 3-1 lead over San Francisco in the NLCS and got outscored 20-1 the rest of the way.

The Cardinals did not schedule the usual exit interviews while players cleaned out locker stalls. A team spokesman said the next availability for media would likely be Monday.

“The flood gates opened,” manager Mike Matheny said.

“I told them to hold their head high. They have nothing to be

ashamed of.”

The lineup was off the charts in the regular season, with a .330 average with runners in scoring position that was the best in major league history.

They batted .224 in the World Series and the RISP was a meager .167, and the bottom half of the order vanished with zero RBIs from sixth on down.

David Freese was the NLCS and World Series MVP in 2011, racking up 21 RBIs. He had one homer and four RBIs this postseason and batted .158 against the Red Sox. Shortstops Pete Kozma and Daniel Descalso combined for one single.

Jon Jay (.167) and Matt Adams (.136) contributed little.

In the four losses to Boston, the Cardinals totaled five runs.

“It’s really hard to think about at this point, because it’s so rare and special to be on this stage,” Matheny said.

“And you hate to see anything slip away, not that we gave away — they took it.”

The Series might have slipped out of St. Louis’ grasp in Game 4 at home. The Cardinals might have left Lance Lynn in too long and paid dearly on Jonny Gomes’ tiebreaking three-run homer in the sixth inning off rookie Seth Maness.

“I think that game, it was kind of hard for us to lose that

one,” Beltran said.

Without Wacha’s shutdown run, they would have never made it this far. Matheny made sure the kid knew that.

It might have been a matter of the Red Sox simply getting better looks the second time.

Or the innings load taking its toll on the 22-year-old righthander.

“The game is going to catch up with everybody,” Matheny said. “This kid has been absolutely fantastic.”

There’s plenty of blame to go around. That includes Matheny and general manager John Mozeliak for some puzzling roster decisions.

Shelby Miller led major league rookies with 15 wins but pitched just one inning in the postseason, apparently due to concern about his innings load. Edward Mujica, who had 35 saves before falling apart in mid-September, apparently got a bullpen spot as a reward because he logged just two innings.

Before the division series, manager Matheny was asked what role Mujica would have and he answered cryptically: “Right-handed pitcher.”

Going forward, it appears the NL champions have plenty of payroll flexibility. They haven’t said whether they’ll

seek a contract extension with Beltran, who would like to stay.

“They know, they know. I made it clear I want to come back,” Beltran said after Game 6. “But we have to see their plans.

“I won’t take anything person if I don’t come back to St. Louis.”

Beltran became a free agent Thursday along with Chris Carpenter, Rafael Furcal and Mujica. The Cardinals declined a $9.5 million option for next year on Jake Westbrook.

Including Beltran, who wrapped up a two-year, $26 million deal, that’s more than $42 million off the payroll for next year.

St. Louis also might decline arbitration on Freese, who made $3 million this year. If rookie Kolten Wong is ready to start at second base, Matt Carpenter would likely move to third.

Factoring into the Beltran decision is the need to find regular playing time for Matt Adams in the outfield except when filling in for Allen Craig at first base and getting top outfield prospect Oscar Taveras into the mix, too. Taveras had been on track to contribute last year before a season-ending ankle injury.

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Women’s soccer to play in American quarterfinal

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UConn begins national title defense against Gannon

By Kyle Constable Staff Writer The UConn women’s soccer team hopes to avenge its regular season double-overtime loss to South Florida as the Huskies play in the American Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinal round in Storrs on Sunday afternoon.

The Huskies’ first match against the Bulls on Oct. 6 was a heartbreaker during what was the worst weekend of the season for UConn.

Despite tying up the game 2-2 and forcing two overtimes, the Huskies could not hold on. With just 52 seconds remaining in the game, USF’s Cristin Granados drilled a shot from 18 yards out into the upper right corner to win it for the Bulls.

UConn again put a stop to its own momentum last weekend, recording its worst loss of the season on the road to Memphis in a game the Huskies were favored to win. The 5-1 loss came just after UConn notched a crucial 2-1 win against Rutgers that Thursday.

South Florida has also seen mixed results coming down the stretch, recording two wins and two ties in its final two weekends of play. The Bulls tied Southern Methodist last Thursday, but finished the season with a resounding 6-3 win over lastplace Houston.

The key for USF down the stretch has been the number of players able to score in a game. In the Bulls’ final four games, seven players combined for nine goals. Overall, the team has scored 34 goals in just 18 regular season games.

For the Huskies, the offense has come primarily from freshman forward Rachel Hill, whose 12 goals and five assists lead the team. Sophomore forward Stephanie Ribeiro has also made significant contributions down the stretch, recording six goals and three assists – most of which came in the second half of the season.

But while the number of potential offensive options for UConn is high, the number that have been utilized in the Huskies’ final games is far lower than expected.

In the last four games of UConn’s season, only three players scored, combining for a total of six goals.

Coach Len Tsantaris has used junior midfielder Riley Houle to provide the team with a spark off the bench, but she has been silent in scoring. The same has been true for redshirt junior midfielder Julie Hubbard and senior midfielder Jennifer Skogerboe, who each served as offensive options for the team earlier in the season.

Only Hill and Ribeiro have been truly reliable for the team in their push to reach the NCAA tournament.

The stakes in the game are high for both teams. A win for the 11-8-0 Huskies on Sunday in Storrs will be pivotal if they hope to see the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2010. For the 9-4-5 Bulls, a win would also bolster their tournament prospects.

The quarterfinal matchup is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium. Live coverage of the game will be available on 91.7 WHUS.

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By Matt Stypulkoski, Associate Sports Editor

UConn women’s basketball resumes Friday with its first game since April 4. For Brianna Banks, however, the exhibition against Gannon marks the culmination of a nearly eight-month journey to rejoin the team on the floor.

Banks, who tore the ACL in her right knee Feb. 2 in a game against St. John’s, is more than a little eager.

“It shouldn’t be emotional,” Banks said. “It should be more exciting than anything. I’m just happy to be back on the court with my team0-0 mates and contribute to the team.”

Banks’ appreciation for being able to play again was deepened by the worry that she may not be back in time for the season-opening scrimmage. During the rehab 0-0 process, some complicaToday, 7:00 p.m., tions with her quadriceps Gampel Pavilion muscle temporarily put a quick return to the court in doubt.

“I was (concerned) because it wasn’t getting as strong as it should be as fast as I wanted it to,” Banks said.

In the end, the quad issue was only a minor setback on her road back to full health. The final step – doctor’s clearance – was passed on Wednesday.

“All I could do was smile,” Banks said. “And the doctor was like, ‘That’s the first time I’ve seen you smile.’ (I said), ‘Well, that was the first time JON KULAKOFSKY/The Daily Campus you told me something I wanted to hear.’”

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UConn junior guard Brianna Banks is back in action this season. After eight months of being injured Banks returns to the floor against Gannon in the Huskies first exhibition game tonight at 7 p.m.

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Field hockey looks to rekindle winning flame

By Jack Mitchell Staff Writer Coming off of a rare twoloss weekend, the No. 8 UConn field hockey team will look to break out of a three-game losing streak this weekend in its final two games of the regular season against No. 17 Temple and Yale.

The Huskies (13-4) dropped four places in the National Field Hockey Coaches Association poll released on Oct. 28 – from No. 4 to No. 8 – after losing to two ranked opponents last weekend on the road. No. 10 Old Dominion defeated UConn 5-0 on Friday, while No. 2 North Carolina won a hard-fought 2-1 game on Saturday.

“We learned a lot about our team this past weekend,” head coach Nancy Stevens said.

“Rather than come apart, they pulled together. They play hard for each other and have each other’s backs on and off the field.”

Stevens said the team focused on shoring up its offensive and

defensive strategies this week in practice in preparation for Temple, the Huskies’ eighth ranked opponent of the 2013 season.

“Those two games highlighted weaknesses on our attack and defense corners,” Stevens said of last weekend. “We have made significant adjustments in those areas this week. We have also made changes in our starting lineup.”

Temple (14-4), the Huskies’ sixth Big East opponent of the season, has not lost since Oct. 13 and is currently on a four-game winning streak.

“Temple has won a lot of games with strong defense, good goalkeeping, dangerous counterattacks and excellent corners,” Stevens said. “We will look to neutralize their strikers with a matchup zone on defense. We are excited about new options on our attack corners.”

UConn has not faced the Owls since Aug. 28, 2009, a game the Huskies won 2-0.

Stevens’ squad will round out its two-game weekend series with a road trip to New Haven to take on Yale (6-8), an in-state rival that UConn has faced in each of its last five seasons. The Huskies are 5-0 against the Bulldogs with 19 total goals in those five contests.

“Yale has played us close at their place,” Stevens said. “[They have] gotten stronger as the season has gone on. We must be ready for their best effort, as I imagine they have had this game circled on their calendar for quite some time.”

Stevens said the team’s difficult schedule has accomplished the task of preparing them for the postseason, which will begin next weekend when the Huskies host the Big East tournament starting on Nov. 8.

“Playing such a tough schedule prepares you for the postseason,” Stevens said. “We host the conference championship next weekend, and our schedule was built to prepare us for the opportunity to earn the conference’s automatic

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UConn senior forward Marie Elena Bolles hopes to lead the Huskies out of their two game losing slump. Their next game against Temple will be Bolles last home game.

bid to the NCAA tournament.”

UConn, the defending Big East champions, defeated No. 3 Syracuse on Nov. 2, 2012 to capture the conference crown.

The Huskies will take the field against No. 17 Temple at noon on Saturday at the George J.

Sherman Family Sports Complex.

Saturday’s game against Yale will begin at 2 p.m. in New Haven.

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Men’s soccer fights for AAC position at SMU

By Mike Peng Staff Writer

Unbeaten for 10 consecutive matches now, the No. 20 UConn men’s soccer team (8-2-5, 3-0-4, the American) will wrap up its regular season Saturday when they travel to Dallas, Texas to take on conference opponent, Southern Methodist University (3-10-2, 2-3-2 the American) at Westcott Field at 7 p.m.

UConn rode the momentum of its hot streak to return to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll for the first time since the Oct. 1 rankings. The team was placed as high as at No. 3 by the NSCAA at one point in the season before their two losses and three consecutive draws in midseason dropped them out of

the polls rapidly.

Allando Matheson, have As a result, the Huskies carried the team during the won’t be able to reach dou- absence of the senior forble digits in regular season ward Mamadou Doudou wins – even with a victory Diouf, who has missed over Saturday – for the first time a month of action due to since the 2008 season. The an unspecified knee injury team, however, before making has played bethis return on ter than what Oct. 19 against its record indiLouisville. cates. UConn Diouf, the leadremains as the ing scorer only AAC team from last seato not lose a son, has yet to conference score a goal this match this seayear. Larin and son while scorMatheson, on the Preview ing 1.33 goals other hand, have per match and combined for 13 outshooting its opponents, of the team’s 20 scores this 236-95 in total. UConn cur- season. rently trails the conferenceWith 16 points on seven leading Louisville Cardinals goals and two assists this by three points heading into year, Larin was named the the final weekend. conference Rookie of the A pair of Canadian for- Week for the second conwards, Cyle Larin and secutive week on Monday.

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On the defensive side, senior midfielder George Fochive also earned back-to-back honors when he was named the conference Defensive Player of the Week again as well.

Fochive, along with defenders Sergio Campbell and Michael Mercado, have created one of the best defenses in nation as the team has allowed only nine goals all year with eight shutouts. Not to mention the 2013 MAC Hermann Watch List goalkeeper Andre Blake, who has made 18 saves on the season to go with a 0.64 goals against average as well. Blake was named to the conference Honor Roll on Monday.

The hosting SMU Mustangs will try to snap a mild two-match skid and pick up a win for the first time since Oct. 12 when

they defeated the Cincinnati Bearcats on the road, 3-1.

Junior midfielder Andrew Morales leads the Mustangs with nine points on four goals and an assist this season, followed by sophomore forwards Alfred Koroma and Leobardo Vazquez. Koroma has tallied four goals for SMU this year while Vazquez picked up a hat trick in his team’s win at Cincinnati before being named the conference Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 14.

Should the Huskies pick up a win against the Mustangs Saturday and the Cardinals lose their matchup against the USF Bulls on Sunday afternoon, UConn and Louisville will earn a share of the inaugural American conference title.

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