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The Social Science Research Council & CLAS honor recent faculty book publications Uconn symphonic band dazzles with final concert of semester The band showcases its harmoniously mixed instruments.

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DOWN GOES DETROIT No. 19 UConn defeats Detroit in first game of 2K Sports Classic.

SPORTS/ page 12 EDITORIAL: NOT a good month for susan herbst Herbst accepts $660,000 house from UConn Foundation.

COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger sentenced to life Bulger’s sentencing for his murderous reign in the 1970s and ‘80s is brought to a close.

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By Marissa Piccolo Campus Correspondent The Social Science Research Council and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences hosted a book publication celebration to honor the recent work of UConn faculty in the field of social sciences this Thursday. The event was energized with discussion about past successes throughout the discipline and promise for the upcoming years.

Below are profiles of just a few of many recent publications honored at the event:

‘Handbook of Early Childhood Development Research and its Impact on Global Policy’

‘American Jewish Yearbook’ Since the release of its first edition in 1899, the “American Jewish Yearbook” has been the continuous record of what is happening to Jewish culture. However after production ceased in 2008, Arnold Dashefsky, of the Department

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UConn professors and adjuncts were honored for their published works Thursday, in a celebration of social science research done on campus. Faculty hopes that their past successes pave the way for future success as well.

of Sociology and director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, and Ira M. Sheskin of the University of Miami part-

nered with an international publishing company out of the Netherlands to revive the series. The yearbook contains reference articles on contem-

“We want to involve as many people as possible in the ongoing discussion about sexual violence at UConn, and what can be done to stop it,” said Giardina.

Courchaine hopes this event will create an environment where students and staff can discuss these issues with each other as a community without any pressure.

“We do not expect concrete changes to campus culture or violence at UConn to come from this event,” said Giardina.

“We do hope, however, to bring together people who do not usually interact with each other, and give them an opportunity to share their ideas, so that the UConn community as a whole can begin to move forward with solutions.”

There will be a USG member to moderate and guide the discussion so that the dialogue stays on track and to make sure

attendees are respectful of others’ opinions.

“We’ve had help from other organizations on campus that have been supportive of this issue,” said Courchaine.

“Organizations such as WHUS have been helpful with sending information out about the discussion.”

Giardina believes the UConn community can join together in this event to create positive change regarding this issue.

having to deal with the process of scheduling an appointment.

Open office hours, a tradition which Herbst started when she began at the university, also gives all students a chance to express any concerns, questions, comments or suggestions they may have about UConn or life on the campus.

UConn will post reminders for students regarding the office hours on go.uconn.edu and on the university’s Facebook page.

This is not the first time Herbst

is having office hours available to all students. Seven weeks ago, on Thursday, Sept. 26, the UConn President held open office hours from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Even earlier in the semester, Herbst answered student questions on Fri., Sept. 6, during an on-air interview with John Dankosky, the host of WNPR’s “Where We Live” daily call-in news program.

porary trends and demographics. For example, at the time of the first release in 1899, there were 2,500 Jews in Florida, however now there

In less than one year, Charles M. Super’s of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies book sold more than 1,000 copies from the Oxford University Press.

This is the highest number of sales for a book of the scholarly genre at Oxford, which reflects its impact and influence worldwide. UNICEF has purchased copies for staff worldwide, due to its deep insight into early childhood development policy. Early childhood development is increasingly visible and the basis of many UN Millennial goals and policy.

USG will hold open Pose with horses for the holidays conversation on violence, harassment

By Ann Riley Campus Correspondent

The Undergraduate Student Government will hold a discussion titled “A Community Dialogue on Violence, Culture and UConn” on Monday, Nov. 18 in the Wilbur Cross Building North Reading Room from 5 to 7 p.m.

“We were looking at how conversation has been going on around campus regarding violence and sexual harassment and how it has been portrayed in the media lately,” USG president Edward Courchaine said.

“We want to see if there is a way we could get the community at large to feel like they can take ownership of this issue.”

This event is not designed to be debate, but instead to be a forum to share ideas and options on violence at UConn, according to the USG Chief of Staff John C. Giardina said.

“With this event, we hope to help all members of the community understand the opinions others hold, and, in the process, empower them to work together to eliminate sexual violence and harassment at UConn,” Giardina said.

Food and beverages will also be served during the discussion, according to Courchaine.

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Herbst holds office hours Monday

By Miles Halpine Campus Correspondent

Susan Herbst, the University of Connecticut president, will hold open office hours available to all students on Monday, November 18th in her office located in Albert Gurdon Gulley Hall from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

This opportunity will allow students to meet with Herbst, who has been president of UConn for a little over two years, without

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The UConn Equine Club are bringing the holiday spirit to campus early this year. Students and families will be able to take their photo with one of three decorated horses Sunday.

By Molly Miller Campus Correspondent If you’re looking for a fun way to get hyped for the holidays, consider donning some yuletide apparel and having your pictures taken this weekend with UConn’s own festively costumed horses.

On Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. the UConn Equine Club will host its annual Holiday Horse Photo Event at the Horse Barn Hill Arena.

For five dollars per person, you and your friends can choose one of three horses to pose in a picture with. Although the horses will be pre-decorated, everyone is welcome to bring their own small decorations as well.

Crafty types will have the opportunity to decorate horse-

shoes and coloring books will be provided for younger kids.

All are welcome to participate in trivia games and purchase hot cocoa, coffee and tea.

If weather permits, the pictures will be taken outdoors, so dress warmly!

The money raised will help the Equine Club travel, compete and bring in speakers.

Equine Club president Katie Fiore, a 7th-semester animal science major, said that although this event is focused towards families, all ages are welcome.

“We’ve had newborns come, and we’ve had students come,” said Fiore. “It’s a really fun way to raise funds and everyone who comes seems to enjoy it.”

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What’s going on at UConn this weekend...

Elect Her: UConn Women Win Friday, 1 to 6:30 p.m.

Student Union, 421 This student leadership training is a unique campus-based program that teaches a whole new generation of college women how to run for campus-based elective office as well as to run for office later in life. First come, first serve.

All School Art Show Friday, 6 to 7 p.m.

Depot Campus, Storrs Tips on how to reexamine past tests and understand what needs to change before finals come rolling along. Sign up online on the Academic Achievement Center Workshop Schedule.

UConn Football at SMU Saturday at 3 p.m.

ESPN 3 The UConn Huskies take a ride to Southern Methodist University to face the Mustangs in an afternoon match. Stream the game at ESPN3.com. Go team!

UConn Voices of Freedom Saturday, 4 to 7 p.m. von der Mehden Recital Hall Spend a night with UConn’s very own gospel choir. Students and children are free, general admission is $10.

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HARTFORD (AP) – Connecticut announced Thursday that it is reviewing President Barack Obama’s announcement that insurance companies should be given the option to continue offering consumers plans that would otherwise be canceled because they don’t meet minimum levels of coverage required by the federal health insurance overhaul.

The Department of Insurance wants to examine the “full effect that this change” will have on all Connecticut policyholders, Commissioner Thomas Leonardi said.

The president reversed course Thursday and said millions of Americans should be allowed to

renew individual coverage plans pegged for cancellation under the new federal health care law.

But the National Association of Insurance Commissioners voiced concern with the move, saying the group has been clear from the beginning that “allowing insurers to have different rules for different policies would be detrimental to the overall market and result in higher premiums.”

Leonardi called the law expansive and complex and said “any change deserves careful and thoughtful analysis.”

Kevin Counihan, CEO of Connecticut’s new health insurance marketplace, Access Health CT, said the state has not experienced a lot of policy cancellations because it already has numerous state mandates that impose minimum coverage requirem e n t s .

Connecticut is not tracking the number of cancellations. “ W e AP just don’t President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks about his signature have those health care law Thursday, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White k i n d s

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of plans in our state that many states do,” he said, giving the example of so-called mini-med plans, which can have annual dollar limits on benefits.

Jerry Labriola Jr., chairman of the state’s Republican Party, contended that “many of Connecticut’s hardworking families learned the hard way that President Obama and other Democrats lied” when they were told that Americans could keep their existing health care plans.

Labriola called on Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to instruct Leonardi to immediately recertify the plans that were canceled due to the law.

Malloy, a vocal supporter of the law, said he appreciated Obama’s efforts and wanted to assure all consumers that the ramifications of the administration’s changes were being examined. Malloy said he has asked Leonardi to review the legal and regulatory questions they pose.

As part of that review, Malloy said Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman will convene a meeting with Access Health CT and others to review the issue.

In the meantime, Malloy said residents should still visit Access Health CT’s website and compare their existing policy to the ones being offered.

“As is often the case, these plans provide a superior level of coverage at a lower cost,” he said.

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In this Monday, Nov. 4, Central Connecticut State University senior David Kyem, 21, son of CCSU geography professor Peter Kyem is seen outside a campus building in New Britain, Conn. Reports of a person carrying a sword led to a 3-hour campus lockdown. Kyem, 21, was charged with breach of peace and posted bail Monday.

Hearing postponed for CCSU student who set off lockdown NEW BRITAIN (AP) – A court arraignment has been postponed for a Central Connecticut State University student who set off a campus lockdown and massive police response by wearing a ninja-like costume.

Twenty-one-year-old David Kyem of Newington was scheduled to make his first appear-

ance in the case Thursday at New Britain Superior Court. His lawyer had a scheduling conflict and the hearing was moved to Dec. 11.

Kyem is charged with breach of peace and trespassing.

Campus police say Kyem wore a hooded Halloween costume with a mask, sword and

BB handgun on campus Nov. 4. Officials locked down the school for three hours and scores of police including SWAT teams responded. Students were told to get inside and stay away from windows.

School officials say Kyem has since left the school.

Mohegan Tribe bets on Conn. report says energy a hotel at Pa. casino unaffordable to thousands HARTFORD (AP) – A nonprofit emergency energy assistance program says more than 295,000 Connecticut households can’t afford to pay their energy bills.

Officials at Operation Fuel say many low-income families are falling behind and face the possibility of having their services terminated. The organi-

zation estimates there’s a gap of about $700 million or more between what these families pay for energy and what they can afford.

For the average low-income household, that’s $2,363.

Operation Fuel’s annual affordability report was released Thursday. It says an energy bill is considered unaffordable if it

exceeds six percent of a household’s annual income.

Operation Fuel provides energy assistance through a state network of more than 100 fuel banks to lower-income working families, the elderly and people with disabilities who are ineligible for energy assistance offered by government-funded programs.

NEW YORK (AP) – A psychic convicted of bilking more than $100,000 from clients was sentenced Thursday to five to 15 years in prison, as a judge said the self-described clairvoyant was a flat-out con artist.

Sylvia Mitchell also was ordered to pay a total of about $110,000 in restitution to two former clients in a case about the line between selling an unusual service and exploiting people longing to change their lives.

Mitchell, 39, apologized and said a month in jail after her conviction had prompted her to reflect on her behavior.

“I have had a lot of time to think, and I realize that what I have done is wrong,” she said tearfully, adding that she wanted to “start my life over again.”

But Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro said she deserved years behind bars

for honing in on people who are “having some dramatic stress” and sapping cash from them.

Mitchell’s lawyers, Kenneth Gribetz and Deborah Loewenberg, said they would appeal her conviction and sentence. They noted that a probation report had recommended only six months in jail.

Mitchell, who lives in Mystic, Conn., worked from a Greenwich Village storefront where the sign read: “Zena Clairvoyant.”

Former clients said they turned to Mitchell at troubled points in their lives, and she persuaded them to part with huge sums after telling them they were blanketed by bad energy or dogged by problems from past lives. Both said they were skeptical but desperate for guidance or alarmed

by Mitchell’s claims.

“I have always believed in compassion, but Sylvia Mitchell

preyed on that to steal from me,” former customer Lee Choong wrote in a statement read in court Thursday.

Choong, a Singaporean businesswoman, was grappling with an unrequited workplace crush when she went into Mitchell’s shop.

The soothsayer told Choong that her family had harmed the object of her affection in a prior existence, that she had “negative energy” and that Mitchell could help, according to testimony and prosecutors.

Choong gradually paid Mitchell more than $120,000 even as Choong lost her job.

Another client, ballroom-dancing instructor Debra Saalfield, had just lost a job and a boyfriend within a day when she sought Mitchell’s advice.

NYC psychic from Mystic gets prison in 6-figure scam case

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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) – Exactly seven years after the Mohegan Tribe launched Pennsylvania’s gambling industry, it is cutting the ribbon on a $50 million expansion that tribal leaders hope will position the state’s oldest casino for growth in a maturing market.

A 238-room hotel and 20,000-square-foot convention center are the latest additions to the Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs casino complex in northeastern Pennsylvania. Officials debuted both on Thursday.

“The hotel certainly is part of our strategy to get more and more people from farther and farther distances to come more often and stay longer,” said Michael Bean, who attended the casino’s opening and now serves as its second president and CEO. Mohegan Sun has come a long way since its Nov. 14, 2006 launch, when thousands of gamblers mobbed a temporary, no-frills facility overlooking an old harness-racing track.

The tribe opened a $208 million permanent casino on the site in 2008, introduced table games two years later and now hopes to boost business with a hotel that features iPad minis in each room, touch-screen room service and other amenities.

Mohegan Sun’s expansion has tracked the rapid rise of the state’s casino market, which has emerged as the nation’s second largest after Nevada with more than $3 billion in annual revenue. But that market has shown signs of cooling off as compe-

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Video gambling machines are displayed at the Monticello Casino and Raceway in Monticello, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 6. New York voters approved an amendment to the state constitution on Tuesday, Nov. 5, that authorizes seven Las Vegas-style casinos.

tition from surrounding states heats up.

Mohegan Sun hasn’t been immune. Casino revenues dipped 5 percent last year to about $267 million — a result Bean chalked up to overall economic conditions as well as the fact that Mohegan Sun has been a construction zone for more than a year.

Mohegan Sun hopes adding a hotel will expand its reach by peeling gamblers away from competitors that don’t offer lodging. An overwhelming majority of Mohegan Sun’s existing customer base lives within an hour’s drive, and Bean said it’s unclear how much more growth can be achieved in the local market.

“The people who are already

gamers, who have utilized just about every amenity at their primary or convenient casino, would then be looking for a new and different experience, and we believe we can provide that very well,” he said.

Competition could come from New York state, where voters last week approved seven new casinos — including one in the Binghamton area, on the edge of Mohegan Sun’s home territory.

While the casino hasn’t traditionally drawn much business from New York, a competitor so close to home could prove to be something of a challenge now that Mohegan Sun hopes to attract gamblers from a wider area.

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Friday, November 15, 2013

Boston crime boss Suit challenging Google’s Whitey Bulger digital library tossed sentenced to life » TECH

BOSTON (AP) – Former Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger was led off to prison Thursday for the rest of his life, accepting his punishment in stone-faced silence as a judge castigated the 84-year-old gangster for his “almost unfathomable” depravity.

Bulger’s sentencing for his murderous reign in the 1970s and ‘80s brought to a close a sordid case that exposed FBI complicity in his crimes and left a trail of devastated families whose loved ones were killed by Bulger or his henchmen.

Many of the relatives had vented their anger at Bulger during the first day of his sentencing hearing on Wednesday, calling him a “terrorist,” a “punk” and “Satan.”

So when U.S. District Judge Denise Casper announced the punishment — two consecutive life sentences plus five years — there were no shouts of joy or applause from the families, just silence.

Afterward, many said they took some satisfaction in knowing that Bulger will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

“That old bastard is finally going to prison. He’s going to die in prison,” said Tom Donahue, whose father was gunned down

by Bulger after he happened to offer a ride home to a man who was Bulger’s actual target.

Bulger, the former boss of the Winter Hill Gang, Boston’s Irish mob, fled the city in 1994 after being tipped off by a former FBI agent that he was about to be indicted. He was a fugitive for more than 16 years until he was captured in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011.

His disappearance became a major embarrassment for the FBI when it was learned that corrupt Boston agents had taken bribes from Bulger and protected him for years while he worked as an FBI informant, feeding information on the rival New England Mafia.

A jury convicted Bulger in August in a broad racketeering case. He was found guilty in 11 of the 19 killings he was accused of, along with dozens of other gangland crimes, including shakedowns and money laundering.

At his sentencing, the judge read off the names of the 11.

She told Bulger she sometimes wished that she and everyone else at his trial were watching a movie because the horrors described – including stranglings and shootings – were so awful.

“The scope, the callousness, the depravity of your crimes are almost unfathomable,” she said before imposing the punishment prosecutors had requested.

The judge also ordered Bulger to pay $19.5 million in restitution to the victims’ families and to forfeit an additional $25.2 million to the government, based on prosecutors’ estimate of how much his gang took in from drugs, extortion and gambling.

It is unclear how much Bulger will be able to pay. Prosecutors did find $822,000 in cash stashed in the walls of his apartment when he was caught.

Bulger, who was known for his volcanic temper, snarled obscenities at several once-loyal cohorts during his trial, but he said nothing at all at his sentencing and left the courtroom

without even looking at one of his brothers or other supporters.

J.W. Carney Jr., one of Bulger’s lawyers, said Bulger was “pleased that he held to his principles” by staying silent and refusing to participate in the sentencing.

Bulger’s lawyers said he believes his trial was a “sham” because he was not allowed to argue that a now-deceased federal prosecutor gave him immunity to commit crimes.

Defense attorney Hank Brennan blasted prosecutors for plea bargains given to Bulger associates who testified against him, including hitman John Martorano, who served only 12 years in prison after admitting to killing 20 people, and Kevin Weeks, who did five years behind bars after he admitted taking part in five murders.

Greek life, residence halls and other student groups will be joining for Dodging for Dollars on Saturday at the Field House from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Teams of students will compete in a dodgeball tournament hosted by the office of Community Outreach to raise

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‘Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States’

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TOP: In this courtroom sketch, Steven Davis, second right, brother of slain Debra Davis, is comforted by his wife, right, as he testifies at the sentencing hearing. BOTTOM: Sandra Patient, niece of Arthur “Bucky” Barrett, holds a photo of Barrett as she hugs Patricia Donahue, wife of slain Michael Donahue, outside federal court in Boston Thursday.

money for Special Olympics Connecticut (SOCT).

SOCT is a nonprofit organization that was established in Connecticut in 1969. They set up events for athletes with disabilities to take part in.

“The SOCT is one of the most innovative and dynamic in the world,” Program Director Anuj Patel said, “it involves thousands of people throughout the

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Google Inc. came out on top when a 2005 Authors Guild lawsuit was dropped Thursday.

The group argued that Google was not making “fair use” of copyright material by offering snippets of the works.

digital books, Google’s search engine is likely to be seen as an even more indispensable resource.

Although Google doesn’t display ads next to the excerpts from digital books, anything that spurs people to think of its search engine as the best place to find information usually boosts the company’s profits. That’s because habitual use of Google’s search engine typically produces more opportunities to show the ads that generate most of the company’s revenue.

Chin conceded Google might make money from its bookcopying project, but concluded it is being done in a way that complies with intellectual property laws while enriching society.

“In my view, Google Books

provides significant public benefits,” Chin wrote. “It advances the progress of the arts and sciences, while maintaining respectful consideration for the rights of authors and other creative individuals, and without adversely impacting the rights of copyright holders.”

Paul Aiken, the executive director for the Authors Guild, maintains that Google is exploiting writers.

“Google made unauthorized digital editions of nearly all of the world’s valuable copyrightprotected literature and profits from displaying those works,” Aiken said in a statement vowing to appeal Chin’s decision.

In its statement, Google said it was delighted with the decision.

Sense of International Relations Theory,” a book that yields a comprehensive look at international relations theory. The books ask scholars of different “-isms” such as realism, liberalism, and Marxism to explain the same event in history, and each form their own chapter. Their different accounts of the same event shed light onto the complexity of perspectives in international relations. The first book discusses NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in the 1990s, while this second edition deals with the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

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NEW YORK (AP) – A federal judge handed Google Inc. a victory in a long-running legal battle on Thursday, tossing out a lawsuit claiming the Internet giant was violating copyright laws by scanning books without the writers’ permission to create the world’s largest digital library.

The 28-page decision by U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in New York is the latest twist in a circuitous journey that began nine years ago when Google set out to make digital copies of all the books in the world.

The ambitious project prompted the Authors Guild to sue Google in a Manhattan federal court in 2005, claiming the Mountain View, Calif.-based company was not making “fair use” of copyright material by offering searchable snippets of works in its online library.

The lawsuit was seeking $750 for each of the more than 20 million copyright books that Google has already copied. Google had estimated its damages could have surpassed $3 billion — a significant blow even to a company with more than $56 billion in the bank.

Chin’s ruling won’t necessarily close the book on the case.

The Authors Guild plans to appeal, opening the next chapter in a legal saga that some experts believe will ultimately land in the U.S. Supreme Court.

If the decision stands, Google’s Internet search engine will be in a better position to become an even deeper reservoir of human knowledge.

As it expands its stockpile of

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state in exciting competition, training and events.”

Teams of four have raised $50 each to participate.

There will be prizes for Best Team Name and Best Uniform.

The winners of the tournament will receive trophies.

The event is open to all UConn students, staff and alumni.

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Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Davita Silfen Glasberg and Bandana Purkayastha of the Department of Sociology and Asian American Studies Institute wanted to examine human rights in the United States from a different point of view. With the UN Declaration of Human Rights, there are initial agreements regarding human rights yet ultimately it is up to the states to enforce them. Much human rights scholarship focuses on top-down, state to citizens, relationships, yet Glasberg and Purkayastha took a bottom-up perspective– looking at the pressures citizens put on their government when it comes shortcomings of their rights. The book is an edited collection and comparison of paper from both activists and scholars. The book, also worked on by former UConn graduate student Bill Armaline, won the 2013 Hirabayashi Book Award from the American Sociological Association Human Rights Section.

‘Making Sense of International Relations Theory: 2nd Edition’ This year, Jennifer SterlingFolker of the Department of Political Science published a second edition of “Making

‘Prosecution among Friends: Presidents, Attorneys General and Executive Branch Wrongdoing’

Christine Sylvester, professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, published “War as Experience” this year.

While many war analyses look at the causes, types and strategies, Sylvester looks at the more social and less abstract. Her aim is to theorize how people think about war: not just how people suffer through it, but how they live it. The book comes just two years after her “Experiencing War” project, an edited collection looking at war experiences of average individuals.

‘White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings David A. Yalof, department of Race’

head of Political Science, published a look into the dynamic role of the Justice Department in Executive Affairs in 2012. The attorney general, as the highest ranking law enforcement officer, is responsible for uploading legally accountability even in the face of government corruption by both colleagues and superiors. It analyzes how the federal government has investigates its own wrongdoing, in scenes from history such as the Watergate Scandal, Iran-Contra Affair, and the Superfund Scandal.

Throughout his research, Yalof was surprised how attorneys generals have been able to divert from political pressures and stay loyal to the pursuit of justice and rule of law, even when against

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Upon writing his book, Matthew W. Hughey spent 14 months immersing himself in both a white supremacy and a white antiracist group, through attending meetings, interviewing members and reading their literature. Yet despite obvious political and ideological differences, there are similarities in how white across the broad conceptualize race and their white racial identity. The word “bound” in the title is meant to show a contradicting double meaning: signifying both an attachment and a trajectory. The book was published by the Stanford University Press in 2012.

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UCONN CLASSICS: HOLY CHICKENS! IT’S ALREADY FRIDAY! WHAT A STROKE OF LUCK MY FRIENDS.

Today's Birthday (11/15/13). What if you could save the world just by doing what you really love?

This is that kind of year. Productive documentation fulfills a long-term personal goal. Passion especially sparks in autumn and again in spring. Harness it for a launch or show next summer. Build partnership, and it flowers. Blast off together.

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

Classic Nothing Extraordinary Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- An by Tom Feldtmose accident or misunderstanding could ruin a romantic moment. Move past it by crafting harmony.

Shopping for household items becomes top priority.

Make sure you know how much you have in savings. Then get what you need.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 7 -- A change at the top could throw you off balance momentarily. Focus on finishing up old business for the next couple of days.

Technical breakdowns could tangle. If you don't feel like going, maybe a friend can go get what you need. Rest up.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Your plans today go better with friends.

Don't get intimidated to invite people. They can choose for themselves. Compliment your circles on their contributions. Your network and partners move the game forward with maximum fun and style.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- You're discovering wonderful things. Shop later. Consider new opportunities, even ones that you may have dismissed earlier. Add a mysterious touch. Your status rises.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- One pleasant surprise leads to more.

Resistance could be encountered. You can run or confront it. Add a touch of glamour and a dash of creativity. Above all, include humor. Your studies move ahead.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- It takes more study to figure costs. You have what it takes to make it work. Seek better tactics or convince others to try again. Make water part of the scenery, but keep it close to home. Support family.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Your reputation precedes you. Share your future vision, venture farther out, and work smarter to make money. Save for a rainy day. Some temporary confusion could disrupt the calm. Restore peace with gentle music.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Love what you do; do what you love.

Then focus on the game. Soon you can relax. Move quickly now and save money.

Follow a hunch, and you'll learn more that way. Discover hidden treasure in plain sight.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- There's no need to spend what you don't have. Use what's at hand to improve your personal abode by cleverly repurposing something. Home and family take center stage now. Imagination lights up your writing. Fill it with love.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -Schedule carefully. There's no such thing as a stupid question, but your timing could be off. Don't speculate ... calculate. Congestion or breakdown could delay your plan. Make a call. Get help building your dream.

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Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- You have extra confidence. Get as much done as physically possible. Notice ways to cut expenses without sacrifice, for yourself and others. Express your thoughts clearly to avoid confusion. Savor the sunset.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Frustration entangles. Sharing the load makes things easier and more fun, not just now but tomorrow too. Have faith in your partner, and make sure you know what you're supposed to be doing. Minimize risks with planning.

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THIS DATE IN HISTORY

BORN ON THIS DATE

1917 76-year-old Georges Clemenceau is named prime minister of France for the second time.

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UConn Symphonic Band dazzles with final concert of semester

By Claire Galvin Campus Correspondent

Bold orchestral pieces and harmoniously mixed instruments floated in the J. Louis von der Mehden Recital Hall from the UConn Symphonic Band.

The band gave their second and final concert of the semester at 8 p.m on Thursday.

Featured during the concert was “Kirkpatrick Fanfare”

by Andrew Boysen, “Chorus Angelorum” by Samuel Hazo, “English Folk Song Suite”

by Ralph Vaughan Williams, “Bandancing” by Jack Stamp and “La Forza Del Destino Overture” by Guisseppe Verdi.

At the beginning of the concert, David Mills said the “English Folk Song Suite” was a tribute to Willy Halpin, an Irishman who conducted the band last semester. The piece hints to “Oh Danny Boy,” an Irish composition.

Mills also thanked the audience for attending the concert rather than the basketball game.

Nicole Cardamone, a 3rdsemester music education major and a trumpet player in the symphonic and marching band explains how performing in a large ensemble differs from small groups.

“It’s fun to have a bigger goal. You have to individually know your part or you’re letting down everybody else,” Cardamone said. “You have so many people working for the same thing, but individually you need to know what you’re doing to benefit the ensemble.”

Mills conducts and leads the band and also teaches the marching band. The symphonic band chooses pieces that work well with the instrumentation they are provided. Mills

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The J. Louis von der Mehden Recital Hall was blown away Thursday evening with a bold performance by the UConn Symphonic Band, their second and final concert of the semester.

chooses challenging pieces for the symphonic band that are still interesting and fun, said Cardamone.

Mills is assisted by graduate student Michael Black. He conducted two of the movements during the concert.

Rehearsal is held twice a week year round for about 2.5 hours. The band is audition only, and they hold two concerts per semester around UConn.

The band is comprised of about 50 students. They have

a variety of the typical instruments in an orchestra, such as trumpets, flutes, clarinets and tubas. In Thursday’s concert, two members played the water glass.

However, some members may switch sections to provide the band with the needed instrumentation. For example, trumpets are pulled for percussion because they do not have enough percussionists.

In addition, two oboe players are learning the instrument solely for symphonic band.

Linda Kress, a 3rd-semester music education major and a horn player in the band explains how the pieces the symphonic band has performed changed since she joined in her first semester.

“The band does more modern pieces, but a lot of them have influences from the older stuff that it is originally composed from,” Kress said.

Audience members respectively clapped for the soloists, band members and the conductors between each move-

ment. Although scheduled from 8-10 p.m., the concert ran just over an hour.

Megan Ferrara, a 3rdsemester music major said she thought the show was very well played.

“Dr. Mills knows what he’s doing,” Ferrara said. “He picks pieces that he knows his band can play well. He likes to pick big classical pieces, but also newer works.”

Claire.Galvin@UConn.edu

Students learn from past exams, Urbanization receive study tips discussion at CUE presents challenges

in modern India

By Carles Lopez Campus Correspondent

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Students were advised in a variety of study tips in anticipation of final exams only a few short weeks away. Among the tips offered, students were advised to take advantage of take home exams and were advised to study from past exams also taken earlier in the semester.

The annual Radha Devi Joshi Lecture on Thursday discussed the path India has taken towards the urbanization of its cities and what it means for India as a whole.

Miloon Kothari, a Martin Luther King visiting professor at MIT and a United Nations special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, presented this year’s lecture, titled “India’s Urban Transformation.”

Kothari explained the wide array of the deplorable living conditions of 54 percent of the population of India.

Around one million Indian citizens are relocated to cities every year since India’s independence in 1947. This rapid urbanization of India that India has been experiencing has led to vast of resettlement.

However, because of India’s urbanization movement areas commonly referred to as “slums” have been decreasing in recent years. This has caused a huge shortage in homes, rapidly raising the percentage of homeless people in cities. Delhi, one of the biggest cities in India has between 80,000 and 300,000 homeless citizens.

India’s government has been taking over slums in order to construct social buildings like shopping malls or sporting centers. The people living in the slums are evicted with no prior notice, which causes loss of documentation, school materials and most of the families’ personal.

All of these evicted families are then resettled in already overpopulated slums, creating more homeless individuals.

“India’s cities are becoming playgrounds for the rich,” Kothari said, describing India’s urbanization policies.

Kothari explained that there are many being programs working to change India’s urbanization policies.

Civil society organizations are claiming that India should be focusing on “poverty-free cities” instead of “slum-free cities.” Enforcing housing rights and planning ahead to save land are two important steps to take to give citizens under the poverty line some legal protection against being moved by the government, Kothari explained.

Kothari has been quite active in Delhi, where he’s had many successful campaigns. Some of these achievements include getting urban rights for homeless people and around 160 shelters in Dali.

In addition, Kothari is involved in campaigns for protection of violence against women and an organization to help people who do not have any identification because of the government evictions in slums.

“Global recognition is not based on the market it has to be based on human rights of people and communities,” Kothari said, finishing off the lecture by reminding his audience the importance of helping people, not industries.

Carles.Lopez@UConn.edu

For most of you, it has gotten to be the time in the semester where decisions must be made. The point where your stressful classes and exams take over your life and your exercise plans go by the wayside may seem inevitable. However, it is during the periods of highest stress that your workout routine becomes most important. The numerous health benefits of exercise are only magnified during periods of high stress.

One of the biggest benefits of still working out when you are stressed is the time it affords you from the stream of e-mails and the mountains of studying. In fact, exercise can help you deal with these problems in two ways. For those of you that just need to escape, you can go and workout with the only thing on your mind being the task at hand.

On the other end of the spectrum, individuals who can take their time working out to think can find benefits as well. Personally, by walking through problems and planning out tasks while I exercise and am not distracted, I am able to be more productive overall.

Exercise overall is a stress reliever in itself. The act of exercising releases a slew of hormones and chemicals in your body that can help you relax and stay relaxed. Endorphins causing the “runners high” are a great example. The extra energy you can be afforded through a short workout may help you power through that all-nighter.

Working out can also help you combat some of the other negative health risks associated with stress.

Many individuals stress-eat and these extra calories can quickly pack on the pounds.

There is no better way to burn off those wings than a stress fueled run or lifting session. Many individuals can “take out” their frustration with the minutia of their daily life with a quick trip to the gym. One of the other benefits of exercise is that it helps reign in poor sleep habits. Whether you can’t sleep because of stress or because you have messed with your circadian rhythm from too many late nights, a quick workout can help keep you regular.

To make your stress relief workout routine work in your best interest, there are some rules you should follow. Schedule the time to workout. This means if you said you were going to go for a run at 9, keep your promise to yourself. Also, the simpler you keep your workout plans the less likely it is to be a point of stress in your life. Simply plan on going to the gym and keep your commitment to any larger plans minimal during periods of stress. If you are only able to do something small, do it anyways.

We all experience stress in our life, but it should not become an excuse to ignore healthy habits.

Luke.Belval@UConn.edu

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“The Return of Navajo Boy,” a documentary chronicling the 40-year journey of a missing son reuniting with his family, was screened Thursday evening at the Konover Auditorium in the Thomas J. Dodd Reasearch Center.

By Darraugh McNicholl Campus Correspndent A family of Navajo people from Monument Valley was filmed a few decades ago as part of a movie titled “The Navajo Boy.” Since then the family has lived through separation from a baby son, the dangers of uranium mines, and abandonment from a government that has taken so much away from them. Last night the Native American Cultural Society held a screening of the documentary “The Return of Navajo Boy” at the Dodd’s center.

The story returns to the Navajo family of “The Navajo Boy,” the Clys. As they explained the movie and the events that occurred

during it, the film presents the tribulations the Navajo people have experienced in recent years. They have been exploited through the decades by their presentations in Western films and their uncompensated work in uranium mines within Monument Valley. On a positive note, thanks to the second film and screenings of “The Navajo Boy” the missing son of the Cly family was able to find them almost 40 years later.

This is chronicled in the latter half of the “The Return of Navajo Boy,” which continues to show the exploitation and poor treatment of the Cly family and all Navajo people in the area.

After the screening a discussion was held with the film’s director Jeff Spitz and John Wayne Cly, the boy separated from the Cly family.

Their main topic of discussion was the film’s fight for environmental justice. Those who worked in the uranium mines have dealt with issues of cancer and the pollution of their environment yet have received close to zero help or compensation. Although Spitz said, “there’s no compensation for having your health stolen from you,” he believes that the Navajo people and anyone affected by uranium mines around the world deserves compensation. John Cly, who worked in a uranium

mine for three years, jokingly said “Who knows, I may glow and don’t even know it.”

Getting laws or bills passed that gives compensation to all the people who have been affected by uranium mines is the current challenge. “The red tape around these laws revictimizes them,” said Spitz pointing out how closing the uranium mines did not solve the health and environment issues that had already done great amounts of damage.

The government has cleaned up the polluted area around the Cly family’s home and a few family members have even received compensation due to the release of “The Return of the Navajo Boy.”

Unfortunately, there are still hundreds of Navajo people just in Monument Valley who have not received the compensation they deserve, but this documentary shows that awareness can help.

The Cly family has suffered through much as so many other Navajo people and other indigenous groups. If you desire to help or become aware of the issues visit the Native American Cultural Society at the Student Union, room 416 B next semester every other Thursday.

was led to this small town by a recommendation written by another user of a LBGT website.

Located among the Appalachian Mountain range, it is frequented by those who seek a spiritually healing experience and peaceful isolation. The user raved about the progressive atmosphere presented by this special place, upholding comparisons drawn by others Eaves consulted.

This small commercial and social hub was described to her as “the San Francisco of the southest,” and even toting a higher population of lesbians per capita. However, what Eaves found next was somewhat of a shock; the general population, consisting mostly of allies to the

lesbian lifestyle, was not necessarily tolerant of blacks. In fact, some of these lesbian allies were downright racist.

Eaves extracted a potent message from her interviews with these five women: “the distinction between race and sexuality is a false dichotomy.” She paid special attention to each woman’s “race consciousness,” a term used to describe the awareness of their individual relation to their race. The women chosen were purposely not androgenous, a control to her social experiment.

Eaves examined the, “structural implications of ‘race and place’,” in Asheville, finding that it was not the diverse environment she had expected. The

most interesting aspect of life in Asheville was not the prominence of its “token” black phenomenon which most predominantly white areas foster, but by a vividly apparent disconnect between the LGBT and overall communities within the region.

On an individual or dyadic basis, the “token” effect was strongly in-play, but not on an intercultural level; i.e. white people hoped to learn more of black culture and benefit from specific perspectives, but not mutually constructed culture.

Sitting in on this lecture has expanded my horizons and I recommend that other students venture into the Rainbow Center every once in a while to experi-

ence the same enlightenment. The black and lesbian culture is still, “trying to find a [comfortable] home,” in our society. There is an obvious psychological longing in the hearts of young blacks today, to go back down South and finally assimilate properly in an environment of people which once rejected their pursuit of life and liberty. Eaves chose a very interesting and psychologically deep subject to research and I applaud her for pursuing such a seemingly unreachable goal. I strongly believe that her research will have a positive effect on the disillusionment of such a detrimental social constraint.

Darraugh.McNicholl@UConn.edu

Living as a black lesbian in rural North Carolina

By Evan Goad Campus Correspondent

Latoya Eaves, a graduate student here at UConn, gave a brief lecture on her dissertation at the Rainbow Center this afternoon.

She was very passionate about American ignorance to blacklesbian literature and the hedging of queer scholarship by way of heteronormitivity. This prompted her exploration of such an unneeded social constraint, as well as the Southern area and nature of “space” black lesbians reside within.

Eaves rooted her investigation in the rural town of Asheville, North Carolina, where she conducted interviews with five black, lesbian women. She

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Preview: Open mic Husky The Daily Show’s Records concert Saturday John Oliver to star in weekly HBO comedy

By Matt Gantos Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — HBO says that John Oliver is getting his own weekly show after his winning turn as substitute host for Jon Stewart.

Next year, Oliver’s new Sunday-night program will take a satirical look at current events for the week, HBO said Thursday.

HBO President Michael Lombardo said the channel wasn’t in the hunt for another weekly talk show.

But Lombardo said in a statement Oliver’s handling of “The Daily Show” in

Stewart’s absence this summer convinced HBO his “distinct voice” belong on the channel.

Stewart was away directing a film.

Oliver thanked Stewart for teaching him everything he knows during his years with “The Daily Show” — then joked that if he fails it’s entirely Stewart’s fault.

The debut date and title for Oliver’s new show were not announced.

Tired of the same old parties with the same pop songs that you hear every day on the radio? This weekend Husky Records invites you to change it up and support local musicians!

A not-so top-secret underground show is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 16 at the Guild Hall, an offcampus house on Westwood Road in Storrs.

The venue is walking distance from everywhere on campus and all UConn music junkies and generally friendly people are welcome.

In an effort to keep excessive noise to a minimum late in the night, music will start at about 7 p.m. and continue until about 11 p.m. After each artist has per-

formed the microphones will still be set up in an open mic fashion for anyone to try their hand performing any original or cover music.

Already confirmed to play at the event are UConn artists Salitter, Dangerous Animals, Asa Powell and UConn alumni Grinning Dog. Each group brings something different to the table. Dangerous Animals, who have played various shows in the Storrs area including last year’s UConnapolooza, are a light rock and roll group that can jam. You have probably already seen them perform and don’t even know it.

Grinning Dog, a progressive psychedelic rock band has the capability to shake the pillars from the foundation with instrumental precision. If your tastes lean more

toward the obscure side of rock and roll, don’t miss this act!

Asa Powell is a 21st century experimental hip hop artist that has also played at UConnaroo, the Student Union and been featured on WHUS 91.7. An experienced party performer, Powell certainly knows how to entertain a party.

Representing the punk rock scene, Salitter is planning to get the party on its feet with a high energy performance full of vocal harmonies and strong but simple riffing.

Husky Records and the bands invite you to come and enjoy some local music and stay to hang out with the bands afterwards!

Matthew.Gantos@UConn.edu

On a visit to an eco-village in Massachusetts this summer, I was surprised to learn the community primarily met its heating needs by burning wood. I had naïvely believed that cutting down trees was always a bad thing – and I was shocked that my hosts, who were so obviously devoted to the environment, would opt for this as a fuel source.

My guide, an amateur forester himself, explained to me that as long as the trees are harvested at a rate that allows them to replenish, lumber harvesting can indeed be performed sustainably.

In fact, according to Martin Crawford, a contributor to the scholarly publication Agroforestry Research Trust, “many environmental groups are championing wood and biomass-burning as a sustainable carbon-neutral source of energy – both for heating and electricity production – for the future.” Wood-burning can be seen as carbon-neutral because the carbon dioxide that is released in the combustion process was originally captured from the atmosphere in the first place, and so there are no net CO2 emissions. The notion seems simple enough – but is relying on wood really a sustainable long-term energy strategy?

According to Crawford, there are three fundamental flaws regarding the sustainability of wood as a fuel source. First, wood burning is not carbon neutral. Second, the smoke produced from burning wood is a health hazard, even in “clean” burners. Third, a large land-area needs to be dedicated to growing fuel wood to meet the needs of heating a home. Crawford believes that burning wood is not carbon-neutral because fossil fuels are used in the harvesting and transport of timber.

Furthermore, it is a fallacy that there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases. The combustion of wood involves the release of nitrogen dioxide, which (although released in small quantities) is “300 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and lasts 120 years in the atmosphere,” as well as methane, which is over 20 times as heat-trapping as carbon dioxide.

This issue is of pressing importance as New Englanders are increasing their consumption of fuel wood. According to National Geographic, 20 percent of New England homes (1.1 million households), half of those in rural areas, use wood as either a primary or secondary fuel for space heating, water heating or cooking, nearly twice the national rate. Many Yankees turned to wood in recent years when home heating oil became too expensive.

The Northeast leads the nation in its dependence on heating oil – “only 6 percent of U.S. households depend on heating oil, but 80 percent of them are in the Northeast” (National Geographic). The fuel of choice for most Americans is natural gas, which is cheaper than oil and heats roughly half of the nation’s homes, followed by electricity, which is utilized in roughly 30 percent of homes.

Crawford calculated that if every home in Britain were to transition to sustainably-harvested wood, it would require more open space for the forestry parcels than the country has. America certainly has more open space than Britain, but could it support enough sustainable forestry parcels to meet the heating needs of a significant portion of the population? And is this even truly desirable, given the air pollution and associated health risks that result from wood combustion?

As the chilly nights of winter come upon us, how we heat our homes and how we will heat them in the future is becoming an increasingly relevant issue.

Kelsey.2.Sullivan@UConn.edu

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Not a good month for Susan Herbst

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ith recent decisions that the Hartford Courant calls “tone deaf” to the needs and voices of the students, Susan Herbst has further escalated the critiques of her, her image and her administration by accepting a $660,000 house from the University of Connecticut Foundation. At a time when the president of a university is facing backlash from the Title IX complaint and possible fines and penalties as a result, it is not the best time to be accepting such a lavish residence.

The UConn Foundation paid the full $660,000 in cash with the purpose of “(using) the president more strategically in fundraising” as Josh Newton, the new president of the UConn Foundation said to the Hartford Courant.

While it was purchased through donations specifically for this purpose, it seems like an extravagance the president should have diverted elsewhere to many students. Given the multitude of areas that currently lack funding, there is no doubt that $660,000 could have been put to better use.

Moreoever, Herbst is not responsible for the upkeep of the home, given the additional nearly $350,000 in surplus donations to help Herbst move in and maintain her new Hartford abode according to the Hartford Courant. The house won’t even get that much use despite its price tag.

Given that its primary function is to court donors, Herbst will only stay in the house for six nights a month, according to Newton and reported by the Associated Press.

Donations are a big deal for a university, but why aren’t we challenging a system that asks us to purchase such expensive homesteads for the express purpose of entertaining future donors? Will the purchase of this home really increase donations for the University of Connecticut? It doesn’t seem to compute that spending that much money will lead to bigger and better donations, and many are skeptical about the results. The drive from Bradley International Airport to Storrs is not that much longer than the same drive to Hartford, nor it is asking too much for the potential donors to take the extra time to see the Storrs campus. If they are supporting the UConn Foundation, don’t they actually want to see UConn?

With this logic staring us in the face, why is this an offer Herbst accepted? The UConn Foundation needs to reconsider where the donations are directed and Herbst must understand that with such a low approval rating among students and a poor public image, this is a poor choice to have made.

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Why all the best New York Times writers are leaving

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ast week, political predictor Nate Silver – the most-read New York Times writer in all of 2012 – began his new job at ABC News. In October, the newspaper’s most popular technology columnist, David Pogue, announced his move to Yahoo. That day, I emailed my NYT-reading father about Pogue’s announcement, adding, “I just hope that this phenomenon is temporary, and that within the next year or two we don’t read about Brian Stelter, David Carr or Nicholas Kristof leaving too.”

Only three weeks later, media columnist Brian Stelter on Tuesday was hired away by CNN.

By Jesse Rifkin Within a Associate Commentary Editor span of four m o n t h s , perhaps the publication’s top three most popular non-opinion writers left America’s supposedly-greatest newspaper. What is happening here?

There are a few factors at play, but the biggest is the rise of the branded journalism personality. Before the Internet, it was only possible to read your favorite columnist by buying or subscribing to the newspaper in which they appeared. Now instead you can read your favorite writer by getting the RSS feed of their latest content or following them on Twitter, while potentially bypassing the publication’s other material. For example, I read Derek

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ing with ‘2,’ they might be laid off, but would never voluntarily leave. Why would they, if already standing tall atop the summit of Mount Everest?

Now, all of a sudden the hierarchy has flipped. For all too many, the Times now represents another step on the ladder to climb, rather than the top of the ladder itself. This exodus is surely not over – expect at least another one or two of their most famous writers to hop within the next year or two.

Of course, there are other reasons as well. A Dylan Byers exposé for Politico in April revealed tensions between the newsroom staff and senior editors.

Salaries are another component: with pay cuts the past few years, many competitors can afford to pay more, particularly in the much richer television industry.

Still, journalism was never a get-richquick scheme even in the best days, and there have always been inherent clashes between writers and even the most well intentioned editors. The real sea change comes from the popularity surge of journalistic individuals above journalistic organizations. Is the Times still king of the hill? Depends how you measure it. They won the most Pulitzer Prizes in March and edged up one spot to become the second-largest newspaper by circulation. Yet all that will only go so far if your top talent keeps saying sayonara with no end in sight.

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

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Thompson but little else from his magazine The Atlantic, unless, of course, Thompson links to another Atlantic article written by someone else.

As a result, for the first time ever you are seeing individual journalists whose fame and popularity are actually able to exceed the outlet they write for! The idea behind such moves and acquisitions is that given the journalist’s large fan base, their devotees will come along when they go somewhere new. The same principle was famously demonstrated during Howard Stern’s 2006 jump to Sirius satellite radio, adding more than two million subscribers between Stern’s announcement and start date.

I can personally attest that the same effect will likely work on me. I had kept up with Pogue’s weekly Times column “State of the Art” and Times blog “Pogue’s Posts” since 2009 when I met him after a speech he delivered. As was true of millions of people, my Yahoo usage had steadily dwindled over the years, reaching near-zero upon switching email to Gmail, befitting their reputation as a website last achieving cutting-edge status in the late ‘90s. Since Pogue announced his move to Yahoo, I will be back at Yahoo’s site more.

Surely I am not the only one.

This represents a fundamental and abrupt transformation for what has historically been the country’s most prestigious newspaper. The way it always worked was that a reporter would spend decades moving up in their career, in hopes that maybe one day they would be hired by the Times. Once they made it there, it was virtually guaranteed they would not leave. If it was a year start-

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After making the InstantDaily over a hundred times, I fear I might be running out of funny things to say.

Life help: does anyone else clean their shoes after they run outside?

Did InstantDaily finally give up its crusade for more bike lanes?

That SNY graphic of 3D Jonathan looks like the start screen from Super Mario 64, but somehow with worse graphics “Hey it’s Thursday let me prove to you that I, like you, was a child once #tbt” The word ‘moist’ should probably be removed from the spoken English vocabulary.

If I got paid even half of minimum wage for the time I spend at Homer I probably wouldn’t have student debt

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Media focus on speed has a price: accuracy

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ews media outlets are always expected to give out the most accurate of information, but in an age where technology allows us to know what happens the second it happens, it is almost impossible for media to be both timely and accurate, and unfortunately, they tend lean

By Aysha Mahmood to towards Staff Columnist timely.

In order to attract viewers, different stations compete to get the latest updates out first. News stations that have slogans that portray the speed of their information such as, “First to Know” and “Where Coverage Comes First,” seem to only be concerned with luring the viewer to watch their station.

However, because journalists are expected to verify wheth-

er the news is actually true, those news stations also have the responsibility to the public to ensure their information is accurate. Although it’s understandable that every station wants to be the one that “broke” the story, they have to remember that whatever they say will influence public opinion, and therefore what they say, better be right.

When the Newtown tragedy occurred, news stations such as Fox News and CNN identified Ryan Lanza as the killer. According to the Associated Press, “a law enforcement official mistakenly transposed the brothers’ first names.” Instead of just putting that name out there, media should have verified that fact. Their unwillingness to do so resulted in Lanza having to prove his innocence to the public eye. From that moment on his name was

tainted, not just because he was the brother of the actual shooter, Adam Lanza, but because he was thought to be the killer in the short time after the tragedy happened.

In the end, it didn’t really matter that his name was cleared. The mistake these news stations made resulted in death threats and violent postings on his Facebook page. For those few confusing hours, friends, family, his own community members doubted, questioned and judged him. The public took these actions because of what they heard from the news. If we can’t expect the news to give out accurate information, how can we expect the public to act in an appropriate or responsible manner? Some news outlets did correct their error, adding an editor’s note regretting the previous statements. For those who didn’t,

the lack of acknowledgement of the error discredits them as a dependable and transparent news source.

Looking at a more recent example, CBS just issued a short public apology on their show “60 Minutes” last Sunday regarding their Oct. 27 story on Benghazi. The story involved the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, that featured government contractor Dylan Davies. It turned out that Davies had lied about his heroic account of rushing to the scene and had actually been nowhere near the scene when the attack took place.

“We realized we had been misled and it was a mistake to include him in our report.

For that we are very sorry.

The most important thing at “60 Minutes” is the truth – and the truth is we made a mistake.” Although CBS

should be commended that they issued an apology, “60 Minutes,” the fact that they got the Benghazi story wrong hurts their credibility. I commend them for admitting their mistake, but they didn’t even explain how they made the mistake. They didn’t correct their mistake and say what actually happened.

The 77-second, end-of-show apology showed remorse, but no explanation. The fact that it was issued at the end of the show made it seem like they wanted to move past it as soon as possible.

Some could say that there’s no reason to linger on it – make the public apology and move on. They could say the fact that they made such a quick retraction shows that they are still living up to their journalistic standards. But, without explanation, how much is a public

ular one. For example, the REAL ID Act of 2005 was, and still is, very unpopular among Americans. This legislation created a national identity system. By itself, it would not have even gotten to a vote, yet alone passed.

However, it was attached to another bill, the “Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror and Tsunami Relief.” Once it got attached to that bill, anyone who voted against REAL ID also voted against fighting terrorists and helping victims of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Most Americans supported the War on Terror at the time, and almost all of them wanted to help the tsunami victims. A vote against this new bill would be very unpopular. As a result, the bill passed the House 368-58 (with one official abstention) and unanimously passed the

Senate.

Had the three sections of the bill been on separate bills, it is likely the unpopular REAL ID portion would not have even been introduced, while the portions dealing with the War on Terror and tsunami relief would have passed easily. There would have been fewer than 58 nays on both of those resolutions, since those who opposed REAL ID would not be forced to vote against legislation they supported.

This is not just a federal problem, however. The Connecticut legislature, like many across the country, has introduced bills that would have been better off being divided. For instance, many Republicans struggled with how to vote on the gun control legislation earlier this year. This bill dealt with three subjects, not just one.

There was the widely-publi-

cized portion toughening the gun laws, but there were also portions dealing with enhancing school security and promoting a stronger focus on mental health.

Most legislators from both parties supported the last two parts. However, Republicans opposed the gun control portion. Recognizing that the mental health and school security portions were important, a legislator made a parliamentary motion to divide the question. In layman’s terms, this proposed that the original bill be split into two new ones – one tightening gun control and one concerning mental health and school security. The motion failed along party lines.

This left Republicans with a tough decision – vote in favor of restrictive gun control, or vote against the critical portions dealing with mental health and school

security. Many Republicans ran on a platform opposing gun control. If they voted for the legislation, they would have to explain why they flip-flopped. If they voted against the bill, they would have to explain why they opposed measures that would undoubtedly reduce the risk of another tragedy like Sandy Hook. While Republicans would argue that enhanced gun control does not prevent mass shootings, the rest of the bill would certainly reduce the risk.

Six out of 14 Republicans in the State Senate voted for the measure. Eight voted against it. In the General Assembly, 20 out of 52 Republicans voted for the measure, 31 voted against it and one did not vote.

There is a good chance that many of these Republicans will lose their primaries in 2014 as a result of their deci-

apology worth? If an apology rectifies the situation, then news outlets could just release anything they wanted to, hope for the best and then apologize later if they find out they got it wrong.

In this day in age, it’s almost impossible for media to give accurate information the second it occurs. There will be mistakes and there will be slip-ups. But I would rather tune in to a reliable news station that took its time to gather the correct information than a channel that is spewing out wrong information to get the story out first and up their ratings.

Accuracy should be more important than the speed in which information is delivered.

 Aysha.Mahmood@UConn. edu

Omnibus bills are bad for the legislative process

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n May, Congressman Tom Marino, a Republican from Pennsylvania, introduced H.R. 2113, the One Subject at a Time Act. This bill would require any bill voted on by Congress to relate to only one subject. Other topics would have to be voted on as different bills.

By Gregory Koch Several Staff Columnist state legislatures have introduced such measures as well.

When Congress only considers one topic at a time, it makes it easier for elected officials to vote in a way that best suits their constituents and the general public.

Congress has passed many unpopular measures because they were attached to popular ones. Officials were forced to either reject the popular measure or pass the unpop-

sion. In a way, this is unfair.

Most, if not all, of those Republicans would have opposed the gun control measures under a one subject at a time system. In their opinion, the rest of the bill was too critical to oppose.

Suppose I concluded this column by saying al-Qaeda is bad and gave you two choices – agree with the whole article, or disagree with everything. Even those who disagree with one subject at a time would probably say they agree with the whole article so as not to support terrorists. This would be unfair on my part, which is why I am limited to a single topic per article. Congress should have the same restriction on its legislation.

 Gregory.Koch@UConn.edu  7th-semester actuarial science  @gregoryakoch

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Volleyball revisits Rutgers Women's XC competing in hopes to gain win after in 6K NCAA Northeast five consecutive losses Regional Championships UConn closed out the set behind a key Jackie Wattles kill and a Rutgers error.

UConn decimated the Scarlet Knights in the fourth set 25-13 with back-to-back blocks and an ace from Immanuella Anuga.

Ratliff led the Huskies with 17 kills in the match while Anuga and Hayley Cmajdalka each recorded 10 kills.

Co-captain Brianna Datti led the Huskies with 23 digs on defense while Sophia Mar and Amy Christensen each scooped 10 digs.

The Scarlet Knights have gone 0-7 since playing UConn with an overall record of 4-22.

Rutgers has been unable to win a conference game this year.

Their last win came on Sept. 21 against Cornell. Since that win, the Scarlet Knights have only won eight total sets.

Rutgers is led offensively by Lassa, who has accumulated 340 kills this year, more than

double the kills than the second leading scorer on the team. Sofi Cocuz has 193 kills on the season while her teammate Rachel Andreassian has 122 kills.

The Scarlet Knights are led defensively by Ali Schroeter, who leads the team with 495 digs. Lassa has also contributed 274 and her teammate Tracy Wright has scooped 243.

The Huskies come into the matchup on a five game losing streak with an 11-17 overall record. Rutgers is one of UConn only two conference wins. Head coach Holly Strauss-O’Brien believes this could be a great opportunity for her team to pick up a win.

“I hope we can expect a win,” Strauss-O’Brien said. “I hope we come out swinging and just finish it fast.”

points, shooting 3-for-4 from distance, six rebounds and one block. All 15 points came in the first half for the third straight game for Giffey.

“He’s given us another spark,” head coach Kevin Ollie said.

“We’ve just got to execute for him in the second half and get him some shots in the second half. But the first half he’s been coming in and just giving us that spark. He’s been spacing the floor for us too.

“Shabazz is finding him. Ryan (Boatright) is finding him. Our point guards are doing a great job finding the hot hand, and for him to step up that first half and then DeAndre to start playing a little bit better the second half, it just gives us another guy that we

can go to. This team is deep.”

Joining Napier, Daniels and Giffey in double figures were Omar Calhoun, who led the team with 17 points, Boatright with 12 and Tyler Olander, who recorded 10 points, including another three-pointer, in just seven minutes of work.

“We have a lot of depth,” Boatright said. “Our bench players come in and produce. And not only do we have the depth, we’re playing a team game.

Everybody’s sharing the ball tremendously. Me and Shabazz had seven and eight assists a piece and everyone else was sharing the ball. With the ball getting around like that and everybody getting a chance to score, it makes us a dangerous team.”

The Huskies once again got a dominant inside game from freshman Amida Brimah.

Brimah had four points and two rebounds in 14 minutes, but it was once again his shot blocking that awed the crowd.

UConn had the game well in hand, leading 75-37 with 12:10 to go, when Detroit’s Patrick Onwenu put up a mid-range jumper. Brimah knocked it down, but Onwenu was able to grab it and go back up, only to have Brimah bat it away again.

With four blocks Thursday night, Brimah now has 14 this season. As a team, UConn has rejected 26 shots, which has them right near the top nationally with 8.7 blocks per game.

The inside game was better

(AP)- Nearly a decade later, Georges St. Pierre still remembers the exhilaration of his first UFC fight. The future welterweight champion beat Karo Parisyan in Las Vegas at UFC 46, but that win was nothing compared to his victory over his anxieties.

"I almost stayed paralyzed in front of the crowd when I first stepped in the octagon in front of the TV (cameras)," St. Pierre said. "Even though I was fighting in a preliminary, I was very nervous. I remember it was just a feeling of the octagon that it was just something different."

St. Pierre's nerves have been conquered by years of training, experience and evolution into the smoothest UFC champion — but there's always another nerveracking challenge around the corner.

Mixed martial arts' dominant promotion is celebrating its 20th anniversary this weekend by putting St. Pierre into what just might be his toughest fight in years. He defends his 170-pound belt against Johny Hendricks at

UFC 167 on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas.

St. Pierre is an appropriate choice for the promotion's main event on its anniversary show. He debuted in the UFC in January 2004 and steadily worked his way to the top of the division, claiming the belt nearly six years ago and avenging his only two career losses along the way.

"I want to leave a legacy," St. Pierre said. "To leave a legacy, I believe, is (not) only by performing in the octagon, it's by changing things, and that's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to be the best I could be inside the octagon and be the good role model and the best I can be outside the octagon as well."

St. Pierre's approach to his sport somewhat mirrors the UFC's evolution. What started out as a rock-'emsock-'em, no-weight-classes, eight-man tournament at UFC 1 in Denver in November 1993 has become a corporate machine with a highprofile Fox television deal and a sport covering prime real estate among advertisers

catering to young males.

Although St. Pierre is an urbane, intelligent businessman, he's also a vicious fighter with eight consecutive title defenses. He's determined to stay on top of his rapidly evolving sport.

"It's harder to stay champion, because you are the target and everybody looks at you, and they want what you have," St. Pierre said.

"That's why every time I finish a fight, I focus on the next big thing. Right away, my mind gets ready for the next big thing. I'm completely obsessed about that. And that's one of the things I believe that is the reason why ... I've been able to stay champion."

UFC 167 also features Chael Sonnen's light heavyweight bout with Rashad Evans, and St. Pierre protege Rory MacDonald takes on veteran welterweight Robbie Lawler. Welterweight Josh Koshcheck and lightweight Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone also will appear on the undercard.

Hendricks earned a shot at the Canadian champ with

years of steady work of his own, including six straight wins in the last three years.

Although he has never been in a five-round fight, the extra length assigned to the UFC's title bouts and main events, the heavily bearded challenger from Oklahoma is confident he can hang in there.

"There could have been so many more people that could headline this show, and they chose us," Hendricks said.

"So it shows a vote of confidence of what we can do, how we can make this an exciting show. It's a privilege and an honor to be on this 20th anniversary and enjoy it."

Hendricks was an NCAA champion wrestler at Oklahoma State, but he's considered an enormous challenge for St. Pierre largely because of the knockout power in his left hand. He didn't start training in MMA until after college, but his striking has developed into his primary skill set.

That's a remarkable evolution, but it's familiar to St. Pierre, another talented

wrestler who prides himself on neutralizing his opponents' best skills. St. Pierre's jab has grown into a formidable weapon alongside his wrestling, and no opponent in recent years has had any answer for the combination.

St. Pierre hasn't fought in the UFC's hometown since July 2009 at UFC 100, with his last four fights in Canada.

While he has practically whitewashed several of his

recent opponents in lopsided decision victories, St. Pierre realizes this fight is unlikely to be tidy.

"I believe as time goes by, the fighters get better all the time," St. Pierre said. "So Johny Hendricks, I believe, is the best guy that I've fought in my entire career, and I train for Johny to prepare myself against the best guy that I ever faced."

DENVER (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are the NFL's worst undefeated team.

Peyton Manning is the league's most vulnerable 300-yards-agame passer.

It's not often that so many doubts hover over teams and players who have been so good.

Some of the questions will be resolved Sunday night when the Chiefs (9-0) play the Broncos (8-1) in an AFC West meeting between teams with a .944 winning percentage — best combined record of two opponents this deep into the season since the NFL merger in 1970.

But not all the questions.

Because they meet again in two weeks.

"The NFL has a system in place to find out who's the best," said Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith, who has fielded repeated questions about the softness of Kansas City's schedule through nine games. "The speculation of nine weeks in, who's the best team, for me, it's kind of point-

less. Who cares? I want to be the best team come February."

A win for Kansas City would go a long way toward that goal. The Chiefs, whose nine straight victories have come against teams with a combined .357 winning percentage, could take a two-game lead over the Broncos with an early edge in the tiebreaker and a rematch coming up Dec. 1 at home.

If the Broncos win, they'll move into a tie in the AFC West with the toughest stretch of their season — at New England and Kansas City — coming up next.

The buzz about Manning's record-pace of 3,249 yards and 33 touchdowns this season has been replaced this week by concerns over his ankles. They have been bugging him for about a month now and got worse when a Chargers lineman dived at them at the end of last week's game.

The Broncos get ready to protect him while facing the league's top sacks defense; line-

backers Justin Houston (11) and Tamba Hali (9) have combined for 20 of Kansas City's 36 sacks.

The Chiefs also lead the league with a plus-15 turnover margin.

In a matchup between top offense and top defense, who usually wins?

"Well, the NFL definitely made it harder for a really good defense in this league, but you have to play the game to find that out," Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey said. "It could go either way. We know what kind of defense they have and we know what kind of offense we have."

Five things to look for Sunday in "The Game of the Year, Part I:" PEYTON'S ANKLES: An MRI showed no new damage to Manning's ankle after last week and Manning has been saying all along he'll play. Still, it's hard to put a measure on the weekafter-week toll of having players diving at his feet, let alone sacking and stripping him from

the blind side, which has happened in the last three games.

"It's part of football," Manning insists. Clearly, though, this is not the perfect week to be going up against the league's top sacks team.

KC KEEPING UP: The Chiefs' defense has scored five touchdowns this season. The offense: four TDs over the last three games. The Broncos average 41.2 points a game. Even if the Kansas City defense keeps Manning and Co., in partial check, and even if the defense scores a few points itself, it figures there will be at least some pressure on Smith and the KC offense to score a bit. The Chiefs rank 26th on converting trips inside the 20 into touchdowns (82.8 percent). "You want sevens, and when you get them, the chances of winning go up," Smith said.

BRRRR: Temperatures are forecast to be in the 30s for kickoff, which means Manning could very well don his cold-

weather glove for the first time this season. The last time he wore it in a meaningful situation, the Broncos lost to Baltimore in the playoffs in single-digit weather. The time before that, they beat Kansas City 38-3 in the 2012 regular-season finale.

Either way, Manning is far less effective when the weather is cold — 8-10 lifetime when the temperature is 40 or below — and the surgeries he's had on his neck have caused some nerve degeneration that make it harder for him to grip the football when the temperature drops.

DISTRACTION BOWL: The Broncos adjusted well with Jack Del Rio taking over for John Fox while Fox rests at home following heart surgery.

This week, the glare of the distractions goes to Kansas City's side, where receiver Dwayne Bowe was arrested last weekend during the team's bye and charged with speeding and possession of marijuana. Coach

Andy Reid has said virtually nothing, other than that his star receiver would play and start.

The Chiefs need him. Hard to match the Broncos point for point without the man who has caught more passes (33) for more yards (369) than any Kansas City wideout.

RUNNING BACKS: If the Chiefs are going to win, it would figure Jamaal Charles will have a(nother) big game. He leads the Chiefs in both yards rushing (725) and receiving (389). Yet, strange as it sounds for a team led by Manning, Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno could have every bit as big an impact for the Denver offense.

Moreno kept his starting job this season because he's best at protecting Manning.

As Manning's protection has faltered a bit and teams have pressed the Denver receivers, Moreno has turned into his quarterback's favorite target: He leads the team in receptions over the last four games, with 24.

By Scott Carroll Staff Writer

The UConn volleyball team will take on the Rutgers Scarlet Knights Friday night in New Brunswick, N.J. The Huskies have already faced Rutgers this season and walked away with a 3-1 win in Storrs.

UConn dropped the first set of the match to the Scarlet Knights 27-25 despite having a strong chance to win late. Rutgers’ Alex Lassa finished off the set with one of her 21 kills that night.

The Huskies bounced back after losing the opening set by winning three straight. UConn took the second set 25-20 after falling behind early 10-5.

UConn won the third set in another close finish, notching a 26-24 victory behind several hard-hit Karson Ratliff kills.

Scott.Carroll@UConn.edu

By Eddie Leonard Campus Correspondent The UConn women’s cross country team will be competing today in the Bronx at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships. The 6K race is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. in Van Cortlandt Park. There will be 40 teams competing in the meet.

Syracuse, Providence and Boston College are the only three schools to have won the race since 2005, with Providence being the reigning champion.

UConn’s coach Amy Yoder Begley said that she respects all 40 of their opponents, but especially those three schools due to their running traditions.

“All three of those teams have great program traditions,” Begley said. “It is

something that we are striving have to run hard and stay to achieve. Once you start a in the front if they wish to tradition, there is no looking qualify,” Begley said. “I hope back, it just keeps building.” that the whole team, especialConnecticut inched closer ly Durgin and Mania, run very to starting their hard and end the year own tradition last with personal records. year, when they It is exciting that the placed second at the season is coming to Northeast regional an end and to see that championships. the girls are feeling However, this year good.” is a different story Van Cortlandt due to the fact that Park is known as a the Huskies lost flat » Preview predominantly almost all of their course and Begley veteran runners. said that it may work “We are coming here to get to Connecticut’s advantage. experience,” Begley said. “We “The course is a flat course have a really young team that in a large field with only one has had a fantastic year.” big hill in the woods,” Begley Begley will be racing five said. “This is a great opporrunners in this week’s race: tunity for our team. I believe Emily Durgin, Brigitte Mania, PR’s are definitely obtainable Emily Howard, Abby Mace in this race.” and Laura Williamson.

“Durgin and Mania will Edward.Leonard_III@UConn.edu

» CROSS COUNTRY

Giffey gives team 'another spark' after slow start against Detroit from DOWN, page 12 But while Daniels went off in the second half, his performance could easily be overshadowed by the continued first half hot streak of Niels Giffey.

The Huskies trailed 8-6 when the senior guard entered the game, but Giffey went on a tear.

Trailing 14-8, Giffey hit a layup on the fast break to get the Huskies within four. Thirty seconds later, a rebound at the other end turned into a pull-up threepointer that cut the lead to one.

With the Titans leading 17-16, Giffey drove the lane and hit another layup to give the Huskies a lead they would never relinquish. He finished with 15

in general Thursday night for the Huskies. After being outrebounded by Yale Monday afternoon, the Huskies made rebounding an emphasis in practice, and it showed against the Titans, as UConn grabbed 49 rebounds and had a plus-15 advantage on the boards.

“It’s just focus,” Ollie said.

It’s determination. It’s going and get the basketball, and that’s what they did tonight.”

The major talking point in college basketball this season has been the number of fouls being called as a result of the new rules regulating when a defender can have his hands on an offensive player.

UConn fouled 45 times in the first two games combined, but

on Thursday, the discipline was apparent, as the Huskies only fouled 14 times, and they made sure to keep their arms as far away from the player as possible when pressuring the ball.

“I’m very satisfied,” Ollie said. “One of our goals was to not foul because Detroit was averaging something like 27 free throws a game, and that’s a big number. ... They did a great job moving their feet.”

UConn will continue the 2K Sports Classic Sunday at noon when they host the Boston University Terriers at Gampel Pavilion.

Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu

St. Pierre defends his title vs. Hendricks in UFC's anniversary show

AP

The UFC is celebrating its 20th anniversary this weekend by putting its most decorated champion into what's likely his toughest matchup in years: St. Pierre vs. Hendricks.

Kansas City Chiefs, Manning get some solid answers before Sunday

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Football revisits SMU after 1989 upset victory

By Tim Fontenault Sports Editor In February 1987, the NCAA gave Southern Methodist University’s football program the death penalty for serious violations that included illegal benefits to players.

Due to cooperation with the NCAA’s investigation, it was an abbreviated penalty – the program would be shut down for the 1987 season and the program’s four scheduled home games in 1988 were cancelled.

However, SMU decided that it would be impossible to field a team in 1988, and cancelled the season on its own.

The Mustangs returned to the field in 1989, losing their opener at Rice 35-6. Even prior to the blowout, it was a foregone conclusion that SMU would lose every game that season.

On Sept. 16, 1989, the

Mustangs trailed 30-14 with 7:31 to play in the fourth quarter of their home opener. At that point, some fans rushed for the exits.

But SMU quickly responded with an eight-play, 87-yard drive, a stop and then a 43-yard field goal to get within six.

On the final play of the game, the 13th of what at that point had been a 51-yard drive, quarterback Mike Romo dropped back to pass. Romo hit Michael Bowen in the end zone for the game-tying touchdown. The extra point attempt won the game for the Mustangs.

To this day, the Miracle on Mockingbird is one of the greatest moments in both SMU and college football history.

The victim of that comeback: The UConn Huskies.

That is the only time that UConn and SMU have met on the football field.

On Saturday, the Huskies, a

team that may itself go winless without a miracle, travel to Dallas to take on the Mustangs in their first ever American Athletic Conference matchup at Gerald J. Ford Stadium.

UConn (0-8, 0-4 AAC) is a team looking for an answer, any possible way to remedy what has been the program’s most miserable season since it moved to the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2000.

With eight losses to begin the season, the Huskies now have a nine-game losing streak, dating back to last season, and have matched the 1977 team for the worst start in program history.

The start has UConn on the verge of joining some unsavory company. The 1977 team is the only team in the program’s history to lose 10 games or more, company the 2013 team would join with one loss in the final four games. Failure to win any of the remaining games would

see UConn join the teams from 1898 (0-3), 1911 (0-5) and 1932 (0-6-2) as the only teams to go an entire season without a win.

But interim head coach T.J. Weist and the Huskies elect not to torture themselves with the statistics. Instead, Weist is willing to try anything to get things right and win a game.

Weist, who has coined the motto “All in” for the Huskies, has shown his next card, as redshirt freshman Casey Cochran will start at quarterback Saturday afternoon.

The former Masuk High School star replaces true freshman Tim Boyle, who completed 58 of 132 passes for 619 yards and no touchdowns while throwing eight interceptions through four starts.

Boyle had originally replaced redshirt junior Chandler Whitmer after the Huskies’ 0-4 start. Whitmer was 71-for-129

son, with games against NebraskaOmaha, Maine, Merrimack, Harvard and reigning national champion Quinnipiac. Bentley defeated American International 8-7 in its most recent game on Nov. 8.

“They beat Nebraska-Omaha, so they’ve played a really tough schedule,” head coach Mike Cavanaugh said. “It sounds like they had a barnburner with (American International). So obviously they’re a team that’s very explosive offensively, and they can score goals.”

Cavanaugh said the team will have to maintain its stalwart defensive play in order to mitigate the Falcons’ high-octane offense, which currently ranks second in the conference in goals scored with 26.

“We have to continue to play solid defense,” Cavanaugh said.

“I’ve been very happy with the way we’ve been playing defense lately, and that’s going to have to continue this weekend because I

know perennially [Bentley] has always been a good offensive team.”

Tonight’s game also marks the return of senior captain Brant Harris, who will be making his season debut after being out for the Huskies’ first six games due to a knee injury he suffered in the preseason.

“He’s such a well-liked kid in the locker room,” Cavanaugh said of Harris. “He plays the right way, and I think guys felt terrible when (the injury) happened to him. But I think we’ve survived it pretty well. We’ve played six games without him and I’m pretty confident though that we’ll be a better team with him in the lineup.”

Cavanaugh said he and his staff have not yet determined where Harris will fit in tonight’s lineup.

“We have to sit down as a staff and try to figure out where it will be best to plug him in,” Cavanaugh said.

Cavanaugh’s squad will bookend tonight’s game with a Sunday

road trip to Boston to take on Boston University (4-5-0, 2-2-0 Hockey East).

The Terriers, a perennial college hockey power, have a new look this season due to the retirement of long-time head coach Jack Parker, who ended his storied 40-year tenure at the university in March.

“I’m sure they’re doing some things differently with (new head coach) David Quinn there, he’s a friend of mine and he’s an excellent coach,” Cavanaugh said. “I haven’t seen them play yet, but they have some excellent players, I’m familiar with their personnel. I think (BU forward) Danny O’Regan’s as good a forward as there probably is in Hockey East.”

Cavanaugh said that despite the storyline of UConn’s departure from Atlantic Hockey to join Hockey East after this season surrounding Sunday’s game, his focus remains first and foremost on winning an Atlantic Hockey title.

“Quite frankly I’m just really

for 896 yards, five touchdowns and six interceptions.

Cochran has appeared in four games so far this season, completing 17 of 28 passes while throwing two touchdowns and only one interception.

“When I heard the news I think what I was most excited about was for this game, maybe not so much knowing that I was a starter,” Cochran said.

“I think I was more excited for the opportunity to play in this game with my teammates, the guys who I’ve been working with all season, the guys I’ve been here with for two years.

That’s what I’m most excited about.”

Cochran’s counterpart for the Mustangs (3-5, 2-2 AAC) Saturday afternoon, Garrett Gilbert, ranks among the best quarterbacks in the country this season. Gilbert ranks second nationally in completions (35.38 per game), third in pass-

ing yards (379.6 per game) and first in total offense (409.4 yards per game).

“It’s an impressive offense, an efficient offense, I think it goes all across the board,” Weist said. “The players buy into that system.”

Cochran struggled initially when called upon earlier this season, but the Huskies’ new starter, who has mostly faced second-team defenses and prevent coverage, is confident in his ability to help UConn get a win Saturday at 3 p.m.

“Me going in at the end of the game, I think when there was a little less pressure for me, I think that really helped a lot, which was nice,” Cochran said. “I know now that things might rev up, but it was nice to get some snaps under the lights.”

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Men's hockey faces Bentley, BU as senior captain Harris returns

By Jack Mitchell Staff Writer The UConn men’s hockey team has a pair of games this weekend, the first coming tonight against Atlantic Hockey rival Bentley and the second on Sunday in Boston against future Hockey East opponent Boston University.

After a pair of wins two weekends ago against Army and Sacred Heart on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2, respectively, the Huskies (3-21, 2-0-0 AHA) extended their winning streak to three games Tuesday night against conference opponent Holy Cross, defeating the Crusaders 4-3.

Tonight’s game against Bentley (2-7-0, 1-2-0 AHA) marks UConn’s third conference game of the season. The Huskies are currently undefeated in Atlantic Hockey play and in second place in the conference behind Army.

The Falcons arrive in Storrs having played a taxing non-conference schedule thus far this sea-

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UConn forward Sean Gaffney stops the puck and helps the Huskies continue their winning streak against Bentley and BU. Gaffney will be joined by Harris in his first game back.

focused on Bentley,” Cavanaugh said. “The BU game like I said is going to be fun and I understand all the hype around the game, but the game really doesn’t mean as much to me as Bentley does for a couple of reasons. One, Bentley’s a league game. BU’s a non-league

game. Our goal is to win a regular season title and hopefully an Atlantic Hockey championship.”

Tonight’s game against Bentley starts at 7:05 p.m. at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum.

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Field hockey revisits BC Knicks' JR Smith finds Twitter trouble again, in NCAA tournament may face ban from social networking site

By Erica Brancato Staff Writer

important as well.”

Despite their close loss in regular season against the Eagles, UConn The No. 4 UConn field hock- has prepared and changed their ey team won the Big East tour- tactics and skills to improve. They nament after defeating then-No. 5 believe they are a different team Old Dominion 1-0 in overtime on from when they played Boston early Sunday and earned an automatic in the season.

“We are much more sound on bid to the NCAA tournament. The Huskies will face No. 11 Boston the defensive end, coming off of College at a neutral site in Syracuse four consecutive shutouts,” Stevens said. “We have been working hard on Saturday.

“Our team reached the goals it set to neutralize counterattack plays by for itself in regard to conference play the opponent and have also been by winning both the regular season working on maximizing our counchampionship and the conference terattacking opportunities. Our team tournament championship,” head has been playing its best hockey coach Nancy Stevens said. “That of the season, so we will not be being said, we now enter a new sea- changing much before playing this son – one in which every team starts Saturday. However, if we advance with a clean slate. In effect, each to the regional final on Sunday, we team in the NCAA tournament has a have several options available for record of 0-0. The last team standing our line-up, pressing and out letting wins the national championship. Our schemes and corner variations.”

Although UConn has become a goal is to advance as far as we can in better team than they were at the the NCAA tournament.”

Boston College, their opponent beginning of the season, they are not in the first round, was the first team counting out their opponents. They to break the Huskies winning streak believe that in order to advance, they in regular season. UConn went have to take each game one step at a 10-0 early in the season before the time and play the best that they can Eagles defeated them at home 4-3 in each game.

“The first time around we went overtime. Boston College’s Emma Plasteras scored the game-winning to overtime with BC. This game goal in the 80th minute, leaving the could be just as close,” Stevens said.

Huskies with their first loss of the “If we advance to the regional final on Sunday and Syracuse wins on season.

“As you can imagine, every ath- Saturday as well, it will be a rematch lete would like another shot at a of the 2012 Big East championship team that edged them during the sea- game in which we overcame at 1-3 son. That is the case with our team deficit to score three goals in the facing BC on Saturday,” Stevens final 20 minutes and win the Big AD FORhave THE DAILY East championship.” said. “Both teams good speedCAMPUS FRI 11/15/13 COL. x 3.0" and counterattack well. 2Attack corner execution will be critically Erica.Brancato@UConn.edu

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New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith (8) dives over Atlanta Hawks forward DeMarre Carroll (5) for a loose ball in the first half of an NBA basketball game.

NEW YORK (AP) — J.R. Smith might be in trouble again because of Twitter.

The New York Knicks guard, who was fined $25,000 by the NBA last year for a racy tweet, had a new problem Thursday after an exchange with Detroit's Brandon

Jennings that appeared to include a threat.

"I'm always in trouble with Twitter," Smith said before the Knicks played Houston. "I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it."

His latest issue started Wednesday after Jennings

made a critical comment about Smith's little brother, Chris, who also plays for the Knicks.

Jennings noted that Chris Smith is in the NBA though Pooh Jeter and Bobby Brown aren't. J.R. Smith, saying he is tired of people disrespecting his little brother, responded with a couple of tweets, the one that appeared threatening toward Detroit later taken down.

But Smith denied any bad intent, saying he and Jennings have played together in the summer and had a good relationship.

"There's a way to threaten somebody and that's not the way, to publicly threaten somebody," Smith said.

He added that he didn't think his tweets were a big deal, but said coach Mike Woodson spoke with him about it. He said he hadn't heard yet from the NBA, which could decide to penalize him.

The league did in March 2012 after Smith posted a picture of a scantily clad woman on his account.

Smith said he had stayed off Twitter recently but grew tired of the criticisms of Chris, whose roster spot has been a source of controversy. Chris Smith hasn't proven himself to be an NBA player, and Woodson said during the preseason that being J.R. Smith's brother would be a factor when he decided on his final cuts.

Now J.R. may go back to ignoring the site again.

"I haven't tweeted in a couple of months until the other day, so it was working kind of, so I might just go back to that," Smith said.

He may not have a choice.

Woodson said he only wanted players tweeting positive things, but might decide to put in a policy prohibiting them from tweeting entirely.

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Nov. 21 Boston College 7 p.m.

Today Nov. 17 Maryland Penn State 6 p.m.

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Dec. 2 Florida 7 p.m.

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“ We’re excited. Guys are healthy. I feel like we’re kind of hitting on all cylinders. We’re right where we want to be. We’re in a good situation. We’ve just got to capitalize.”

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Nov. 23 Monmouth 4:30 p.m.

Football (0-8) Tomorrow SMU 3 p.m.

Nov. 23 Temple TBA

Nov. 30 Rutgers TBA

Dec. 7 Memphis TBA

Men’s Soccer (10-2-5) Nov. 17 American Athletic Conference Semifinals UCF 2 p.m.

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Volleyball Today Rutgers 7 p.m.

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Nov. 29 Cincinnati 1 p.m.

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Nov. 24 Boston College 2 p.m.

Nov. 29 Yale 1 p.m.

Nov. 30 Quinnipiac/ RIT TBA

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Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard (0) drives to the basket past Phoenix Suns P.J. Tucker (17) to score the winning basket late in the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game. The Blazers won the game 90-89.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Another baseball tradition is about to largely disappear: a manager, with a crazed look in his eyes, charging the field and getting into a face-to-face shouting match with an umpire.

Instead, most calls on the field next season will be subject to video review by umpires in New York, Major League Baseball took the first vote in a two-step process Thursday, unanimously approving funding for expanded instant replay in 2014. They plan to approve the new rules when they meet Jan. 16 in Paradise Valley, Ariz., after agreements with the unions for umpires and players.

“We made a gigantic move today,” Commissioner Bud Selig said. “This is quite historic.”

Selig long opposed replay and watched from afar as it was first used by the NFL in 1986, the NHL in 1991, the NBA in 2002 and Wimbledon in 2006.

Even the Little League World Series put replay in place for 2008.

MLB allowed it starting August 2008 but in a limited manner: to determine whether potential home runs were fair or cleared fences.

Now, virtually every decision likely will be subject to review, except balls and strikes, checked swings and some foul tips.

“Tag plays, out/safe at first, fair/foul past the bags, those are all going to be included,” said Rob Manfred, MLB’s chief operating officer.

So no more blown calls, like Don Denkinger’s at first base that turned Game 6 of the 1985 World Series or Jim Joyce’s bad decision at first base that cost Detroit’s Armando Galarraga a perfect game in 2010.

“We want to get more plays right, the ones that matter,” Manfred said.

Manfred said when a manager wants to challenge a call, he will notify an umpire, triggering a review in New York by what are likely to be present or retired big league umps. A headset would be brought to the crew chief, who would be notified of the decision.

There will be a maximum of two challenges per manager in each game — “it could be less,” Manfred said — and if the challenge is upheld it would not be counted against the manager’s limit. If a manager is out of challenges, umpires probably will be allowed request a review on their own.

“Getting more plays right can only enhance the game,” St. Louis Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said.

Manfred appeared to indicate that the video being reviewed in New York could be show to fans in stadiums or possibly on television broadcasts.

“I think you can expect that there will be as part of this package expanded use of in-stadium video boards,” he said.

Selig has emphasized that he doesn’t want replay to slow games, whose increased length in recent decades has been targeted for criticism.

“The current thinking is that if a manager comes out and argues, once he argues, he can’t challenge that play,” Manfred said. “One way to control the timing of challenges is to use the natural flow of the game, that is the next pitch cuts off your right to challenge.”

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NHL: Boston Bruins vs. Ottawa Senators, Friday, 7:30 p.m., NESN

The Boston Bruins (11-5-1) travel to the Canadian Tire Centre to take on the Ottawa Senators (7-7-4).

After Boston’s game aginst the Blue Jackets Thursday night, the Bruins look to continue their winning streak.

With the Senators tough 5-0 loss against the Fliers on Tuesday night, they will be looking to redeem themselves and break the Bruins streak.

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NFL: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Denver Broncos, Sunday, 8:30 p.m., NBC The Chiefs (9-0) will travel to Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Denver to play the Broncos (8-1) Despite Peyton Manning’s continuing ankle injury, the quarterback will be playing Sunday night in the highly anticipated game of the season.

Both teams will be tested to prove which is the better competitor.

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(AP)- When Northwestern linebacker Collin Ellis and his teammates take the field against Michigan on Saturday, the Wildcats will trade their familiar purple for a set of patriotic uniforms like no other — stars and stripes across the shoulders and a distressed pattern that to some looks like blood stains on a flag.

They’re simply the latest push by companies that supply athletic equipment to schools to honor the military, and the players love it — especially when they help raise money for soldiers injured in the line of duty.

“I’m proud we get to wear them,” Ellis said. “It’s just reassuring that we’re (supporting) a good cause, so much bigger than just the game. It’s about the project, and it’s about supporting the troops that go out there and fight for our freedom.”

The jerseys, designed by Under Armour, will be auctioned after the game, and the school said all proceeds will go to the Wounded Warrior Project.

The uniforms have evoked enough criticism to elicit a clarification from the school. Northwestern spokesman Paul Kennedy said the design “was inspired by the appearance of a flag that has flown proudly over a long period of time” and apologized “for any misinterpretation.”

Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald said he, too, is honored and doesn’t understand the criticism.

“I’d looked at the design that a couple of other teams wore last year,” Fitzgerald said. “I didn’t see anything wrong with them at that time, so I’m not quite sure why there’s been such the negativity about it, especially when there was none last year.”

College football is well into the patriotic era first evoked by the camouflage uniforms that debuted in the Army-Navy game five years ago.

Not every fan is enthralled.

“I’m as patriotic as anyone, but to me all this excessive flag waving, ‘Thank you for your service,’ and stuff like that is just over the top,” said Norm Linden, a Vietnam veteran and 1969 graduate of Norwich University, the oldest private military college in the country. “Does every sporting event these days have to become a mini-Nuremburg rally? Honor the vets by giving them a discounted ticket or a free replica game jersey or something like that, but please stop dressing like clowns out there.”

According to Charity Navigator, a nonprofit watchdog, 36.9 percent of the money collected for the Wounded Warrior Project is earmarked for fundraising. Still, the charity received a three-star rating because that’s actually a good ratio.

Retired Army veteran Jose Lachapel figures all this flag waving is about the bottom line, not the front line.

“Both private and public entities

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have jumped on the support-ourtroops bandwagon. Colleges and sports teams that go overboard with the salute to the troops are doing it for economic reasons — sponsors, TV, etc.,” said Lachapel, who retired from the Army Corps of Engineers after 23 years, including a one-year tour in the Middle East, and now serves as a project manager for the Social Security Administration. “Donate tickets to lower enlisted, donate to armed services charities like USO and official services charities, but the rest are started and are still in it for the money and continue to ride the tidal wave of military patriotism nationwide.”

Uniforms represent something special to those who serve, which is why Mark Cunningham isn’t too fond of the military surge on the gridiron.

“As a former Marine, I think all this over-the-top stuff is superficial and, in many regards, an insult to the troops,” said the 48-yearold Cunningham, a former combat engineer who served in Operation Desert Storm. “Wearing camouflage football uniforms and sticking flags everywhere does not mean that you understand what any Marine, sailor, airman or soldier has experienced in war or in garrison during peacetime.”

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No. 19 UConn defeats Detroit in first game of 2K Sports Classic

By Erica Brancato Staff Writer

The No. 1 UConn women’s basketball team will not only face the challenges that come with No. 8 Maryland and No. 13 Penn State, but they will face them with only nine healthy players.

After a nasty fall that left Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis writhing in pain in the second half of the Stanford game, doctors said she suffered a nerve contusion in her right elbow.

Although a date for her return has not been set, she will be evaluated next week for a better understanding on her injury.

“To be able to hear that, yeah, it’s not terrible and its not as bad as it could have been (was a relief),” sophomore forward Breanna Stewart said. “We just want Kaleena back, healthy and ready to go. However long that takes we are fine with.”

However, what came as a surprise was that sophomore forward Morgan Tuck, who would have been the likely replacement for Mosqueda-Lewis, underwent surgery on Tuesday to fix and stabilize the cartilage in her knee. It is said Tuck will be out four to six weeks.

Tuck said it came as a shock to her when her knee started swelling. She knew she had to get surgery so she made the most out of the time she had left.

“I knew I was going to be out before Kaleena got hurt so it wasn’t really a shocker that I wasn’t going to be able to play,” Tuck said. “I wish I could be out there helping my team. I don’t really know anyone who wouldn’t want to, but you know, I think our team is still going to be pretty good.”

Tuck said her knee started swelling as the season started. Her knee did not hurt while she was playing; she said she felt the pain before and after playing which was why she scheduled her surgery after the Stanford game.

“I think for young players that’s a huge lesson,” head coach Geno Auriemma said. “I remember telling you guys this, I said I hope we have to face a lot of adversity along the way I just didn’t expect this much.”

Despite the setback of having two key players out for important games, the team is confident in their abilities to bounce back. They see it as a test.

“Our expectations are still the same. We plan on going in there playing well and winning the games,” Stewart said. “It’s going to be an adjustment because we are used to playing with two key players, Morgan and Kaleena, but it’s going to test us. We had a test of Stanford and now we have a test of when players are out.”

With Bria Hartley and Kiah Stokes stepping up to the plate in the Stanford game, the team seems to have leadership they can rely on.

Auriemma and the team are confident they can come together and overcome obstacles to be as successful even without two key players.

“I haven’t seen Bria that aggressive since her sophomore year, and the fact that she’s able to do that and consistently, that’s a great sign for us and for her,” Auriemma said. “I know that as a senior, for her and Stephanie (Dolson), I’m not worried about them. I know exactly what we are going to get from them going forward, and that’s comforting.”

UConn is playing two tough teams on the road, but they are confident in their abilities, and the Stanford game reinforced this idea.

The team has taken it easy after the Stanford game; they haven’t been pushed too hard in practices in the hopes of performing better when it counts.

“We are not spending a lot of time here. We are not going to kill them.

We are not keeping them on their feet for a long time,” Auriemma said. “We didn’t practice yesterday – at this time of the year that’s a little bit shorter than we would normally go, but there’s a lot of time between now and March.”

Erica.Brancato @UConn.edu

By Tim Fontenault Sports Editor

The depth on the UConn men’s basketball team becomes more apparent every game.

Six players scored in double figures, five players grabbed at least six of the team’s 49 rebounds and 11 players played at least 10 minutes even though the team only fouled 14 times as the No. 19 Huskies blew past Detroit 101-55 Thursday night in the opening game of the 2K Sports Classic at Gampel Pavilion.

The Huskies hit the century mark for the first time since March 19, 2009, when UConn beat Chattanooga 103-47 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, en route to the team’s third appearance in the Final Four.

After senior point guard Shabazz Napier became the first UConn player ever with two career triple-doubles Monday afternoon against Yale, he very nearly became the first to three.

Napier finished with 10 points, eight rebounds and eight assists in 22 minutes, sitting out a majority of the second half after the game was in hand.

It appeared that Napier was limping at the start of the second half, bringing back memories of his injured foot from last season. But the captain stayed in the game, helping to spark a run that included the reemergence of junior forward DeAndre Daniels.

Daniels, who only averaged four points through the first two games of the season, recorded 11 points, grabbed four rebounds and blocked a shot for the Huskies.

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UConn senior Niels Giffey tied his career-high in points which he set against Yale on Monday. Giffey had 15 total points against Detroit which were all in the first half. After a shaky start for the Huskies, Giffey lifted UConn up with his intensity on the court to help the team get its momentum.

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Calhoun, Giffey lead the way to victory over Titans

By Mike Peng Senior Staff Writer The No. 19 UConn men’s basketball (3-0, 0-0 American) cracked the 100-point mark for the first time in over four years as the Huskies topped the Detroit Titans (1-2, 0-0 Horizon) with a dominating 10155 win Thursday night at Gampel Pavilion to start off a four-game 2K Sports Classic tournament benefiting the Wounded Warriors Project.

“It was a great game,” head coach Kevin Ollie said. “We were anticipating them to come out and try to pound the backboards… and we just showed our muscle down there. It was just a great job by our bigs, by our guards again.”

Calhoun and Giffey spark a well-rounded team win All 14 players on the team got in the game Thursday night and everyone apart from walk-on Pat Lenehan got in the scoring column as well. Six Huskies were able to score double figures, with Omar Calhoun and Niels Giffey leading the way with 17 and 15 points,

respectively. Shabazz Napier and Ryan Boatright combined for 15 of the team’s 21 assists.

“It was just a collective effort,” Ollie said. “It was a team-made victory, not a self-made victory.”

Calhoun got off to a hot start by scoring 13 points in the first half, including three 3-pointers before tallying on two more baskets in the second half.

Giffey carried over his hot shooting as well.

The Berlin, Germany native went 5-for-6 from the field, including a 3-for-4 shooting from beyond the arc to tie for a career-best 15 points. He is now 11-for-13 from 3-point range on the season and has missed only three shots overall.

“He’s giving us another spark,” Ollie said. “He’s been spacing the floor for us, too … Our point guards are doing a great job of finding the hot hand.”

Giffey is also averaging 14.7 points in the first half per game, but zero in the second, causing Boatright to joke about Giffey’s uneven performances.

“We call him the 15 killer because every game he scores 15 in the first half and then he doesn’t score in the second,” Boatright said.

“It’s sad, but it’s true,” Giffey laughed off the joke. “I know I can pick it up in the second half again, I just didn’t force any shots. I’m just trying to be really picky with my shot selection, trying to take the right shots.”

DeAndre Daniels’ shakes off offensive struggles Heading into the season, Daniels was considered to be one of, if not the primary offensive option for the Huskies. After scoring just eight points against Maryland in the season opener and going scoreless on Monday against Yale, however, Daniels appeared to be unable to find an offensive rhythm.

Daniels struggled again in the first half Thursday night, missing his first four shots before needing to sit out the remainder of the half due to two quick fouls in six minutes.

The 6-foot-9 forward managed to turn things around in the second

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UConn senior guard Shabazz Napier had 10 points with eight rebounds and assists this game. Napier’s eight rebounds were a huge benefit to the Huskies’ victory over Detroit.

half, and went on to score 11 points in just eight minutes for a new season-high.

“It was great,” Ollie said on seeing Daniels bounce back. “We didn’t do anything special. We didn’t run no plays for him. He hit a 3 and then his energy just started

picking up. He got some offensive rebounds. He ran the floor, got a dunk … then everything was flowing off that. It was good to see him get some baskets in.”

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Men’s soccer new favorite to take AAC title

By Mike Peng Senior Staff Writer

The inaugural American Athletic Conference’s tournament championship is almost UConn’s for the taking.

After Rutgers upset topseeded Louisville, 1-0, in the quarterfinals last week, No. 11 and second-seeded UConn (10-2-5, 4-0-4 AAC) is now the new favorite to capture the first AAC tournament title. The Huskies will take their first steps toward that goal when they travel to Frisco, Texas to face Central Florida (7-4-5, 4-1-3 AAC) in a semifinals match on Friday at 8:30 p.m. at the Toyota Stadium.

UConn has not lost in 12 consecutive contests and is coming off the team’s best

offensive performance of with only nine goals allowed the season after the Huskies and has also recorded a clean topped the SMU Mustangs sheet in five of the six matchlast Saturday, 5-0, in their es he played since he made quarterfinals matchup. his return on Oct. 15, apart Freshman forward Cyle from UConn’s 2-2 draw on Larin continued to stamp his the road against Louisville. mark around Blake’s solid the league as and reliable perhe added two formances over more goals in the three years that blowout. he has been in a He now has 10 UConn uniform goals and 22 has earned high points overpraises from all, leading the coach Ray Reid, team in both who claimed categories.

Blake as the Preview Junior goal“best goalkeeper keeper Andre [he has] ever had Blake has been magnificent in college soccer.” since he came back from Sergio Campbell, George a neck injury he suffered Fochive and Michael in a match earlier in the Mercado, three conference regular season, against none Defensive Player of the other than Central Florida. Week winners this season, Blake has posted a 0.57 goals have been just as impressive against average all season playing in front of Blake.

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Collectively, the Huskies have posted a miniscule 0.50 team goals against average – good for third in the nation – to go along with a fourthbest 0.59 shutout percentage.

The Knights have players to match Larin and Blake’s numbers as well. Sophomore forward Romario Williams, who also has 22 points and 10 goals on the season, leads the UCF offense while redshirt junior goalkeeper Sebastian Evers has been equally outstanding with his 0.67 goals against average and an identical nine goals allowed.

In the earlier meeting between the two teams this season, UCF got off to a quick 2-0 first-half lead at Morrone Stadium on goals

by Williams and Omar Vallejo before UConn junior forward Allando Matheson was able to knock in a goal to cut the deficit in half with

just one second remaining in the opening interval.

The Huskies then got their equalizer in the 57th minute on a Larin goal before the teams played out the remainder of regulation and overtimes in scoreless action.

That draw was the first time the Huskies were not able to defeat the Knights in the five matches they played all-time.

Fans can listen to the match live on WHUS.org and 91.7 FM or watch a live video stream of the contest on www.TheAmerican.org.

The winner of this match will face the winner of the other semifinal between No. 5 South Florida and No. 8 Rutgers. ESPN3 will broadcast the final on Sunday at 2 p.m.

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