The Daily Campus: November 2, 2011

Volume CXVIII No. 46

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Speaker encourages students to ‘change world’

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World traveler Jason Connell offered strategies for volunteering globally and spoke about relevant issues in Africa during his lecture “Changing the World 101” in a packed Student Union Theatre Tuesday night.

The lecture was the kickoff of UConn Hillel’s 10th annual Month of Kindness, which began on Sept. 12, 2001.

Connell began his presentation on a light note, showing a 4-year-old picture of him attending a party at UConn and reviewing the Student Union food by giving it a five-star rating. The lecture then shifted to more serious topics, as Connell began to discuss issues of poverty and unjust government in Africa.

Connell relayed stories of unhygienic living conditions,

disease, starvation, political turmoil and government brutality.

“If you’re anything like me, when you hear of these situations, your heart hurts,” Connell said.

Connell advocated the organization Global Camps Africa, a summer camp for impoverished children with which Connell has been involved. He also suggested Microlending through kiva. org, an organization that strives to stimulate local economies in impoverished countries by allowing people to start their own businesses.

According to Connell, 92 percent of people who receive help though kiva.org are able to lift themselves out of poverty.

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Jason Connell spoke about the importance and difficulties of volunteering abroad at the Student Union Theatre Tuesday.

Twenty-eight towns to get $12 million

By Christine Peterson Staff Writer

START OF THE TITLE DEFENSE Drummond to be game-time decision.

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HAND-UPS TRUMP HAND-OUTS Giving money to poor countries may make the problem worse.

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INSIDE NEWS: CONGRESS MOVES TO PROTECT PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS NEWS/ page 2

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Proposed parking changes would cost students $110 per year and $324 for a garage pass.

Parking fee may go up if proposal succeeds

By Stephen Underwood Staff Writer A gradual parking fee increase has been proposed over the next five years in order to operate more efficiently and independently.

As UConn’s enrollment continues to increase so too does the amount of cars on campus. Currently, UConn Parking Services relies on a subsidy from the university to operate.

With many students needing to drive around campus and many others wanting to get around town, parking spots are a scarce commodity. Under the current parking plan, students who do not hold parking permits ultimately still pay under the university’s subsidy.

Under the new proposals, both commuters and on-campus students with at least 54 credits would park for $110 per year and $324 for a garage pass.

William Wendt, Head of Transportation Logistics at UConn, said “UConn’s Parking fees are much lower than similar institutions and because of this, Parking Services has had to rely on a subsidy from the University in order to operate,” according to a UConn Today Press Release.

The average parking cost per UConn student is $95 per year.

However, in comparison to other universities the cost is much less.

UNC-Chapel Hill’s average parking cost per student is $316, the University of Florida’s is $134 and the University of Illinois’ is $485.

“This creates a situation where students who don’t park at UConn

or don’t even have a car are subsidizing those students who do park here,” Wendt said.

As Parking Services cites the need to become self-sufficient from UConn funds, there are also steps being implemented to change parking costs around campus, based on location.

Parking Services made the first step in implementing these plans in the fall, when C-Lot parking was cut to $50 per student. The plans also call for UConn’s campus to be divided into three different parking zones. Based on proximity to the center of campus and desirability, each zone will cost differently. Thus, spaces that are closer to the center of campus will cost more than spaces farther away.

These proposals would mean that Parking Services would operate independently and that only students who intend to park would have to pay a fee. In making UConn’s parking fees on par with similar institutions, there is a higher potential for more maintenance on lots and garages, since there will be more revenue for operating costs.

“I think that this is a good idea, because not everyone has a car and only people who have cars should pay to keep one here,” Andrew Glick, a 5th-semester premed student said. “I have a car and don’t mind paying the extra money.”

Before any action can be taken, the Student Fee Committee has requested additional information.

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced the 28 Connecticut towns and cities that will be benefiting from the small city grants.

The towns benefiting from these grants are Ansonia, Ashford, Bethel, Branford, Clinton, Cromwell, Derby, East Haven, East Windsor, Ellington, Killingly, Ledyard, New Fairfield, North Canaan, North Haven, Plainville, Portland, Rocky Hill, Seymour, Shelton, Sprague, Stafford, Stonington, Thomaston, Wallingford, Watertown, Windham and Windsor Locks.

The total fiscal amount of the grants when combined is $12,343,000. The individual grants range from $125,000 in Thomaston to $750,000, was the largest lump sum, awarded to North Haven. These grants are provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s

Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program in order to aid in economic development, affordable housing, community facilities and other programs that work to help the local communities.

The money is given to Hartford, where Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development then divides and issues sums to each community according to the specific town’s needs.

Many of the towns granted $300,000 or less seem to have similar goals in mind for the grants. In these smaller towns, the money will primarily be used to fund the town’s local Housing Rehabilitation Loan Program. Half of the awarded Connecticut communities, 14 towns, were given the $300,000 (or $125,000 in Thomaston’s case) needed to fund the building or rebuilding of an estimated number of housing units, mostly lower income housing. Ansonia, for example, “plans to assist at least 15 housing units.”

Killingly, which built a new high school within the last three years, will use it’s grant to “rehab 10 units of low-andmoderate-income housing.”

The remaining 14 towns and cities who received larger grants provide detailed outlines of the money’s express purpose and use.

Branford received $500,000 to “make energy efficiency improvements and ADA renovations to the Orchard House Adult Day care…improvements include replacing windows, lights, and exterior doors…”

East Windsor was awarded $700,000 to “renovate Park Hill Elderly & Disabled Housing Complex, and 84-unit rental housing project for the elderly and disabled…”

The largest grant of $750,000 went to North Haven to make “a number of ADA improvements in the town hall, making town offices more accessible to elderly and disabled…”

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Novelist readings 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

UConn Co-op Christopher Boucher will be talking about his novel, “How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive” and Jane Roper, author of “Eden Lake” will be talking about that novel and her new memoir “Baby Squared.”

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DAILY BRIEFING » STATE

Unions talk savings with management

HARTFORD (AP) – Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Tuesday that his administration is committed to creating a better relationship between managers and employees in state government and empowering workers to come up with ways to streamline and improve services.

“I did it as the mayor of Stamford, I intended to do it as governor — to have an administration that is committed to creating a model of government where the ideas of front-line workers are valued,” he said. Malloy said that will ultimately lead to ways of making state government more efficient and making state workers feel appreciated.

The Democrat said his administration is committed to “reversing two decades of leadership who felt that they got stronger by making front-line workers weaker.”

Malloy extends voter registration deadline

HARTFORD (AP) — Would-be voters in Connecticut will get close to an extra week to register, in the wake of last weekend’s snowstorm.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has signed an executive order extending the registration deadline for the local elections to Monday, Nov. 7.

In his order, Malloy notes that the storm’s aftermath has caused widespread transportation problems and forced many town halls to close.

The majority of the state’s 169 cities and towns will hold municipal elections on Nov. 8.

Conn. man found guilty of murdering ex

NEW BRITAIN (AP) – A jury has found a man guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend in a case that influenced changes to Connecticut’s laws against domestic violence.

James Carter II was convicted Tuesday in the stabbing death of 25-year-old graduate student Tiana Notice outside her Plainville apartment on Valentine’s Day 2009.

Defense lawyers did not contest that Carter killed Notice, but they argued the Bloomfield man was emotionally disturbed at the time because of his breakup with the victim, his inability to find a job and a child custody dispute with another woman.

Prosecutors dismissed that and said he knew exactly what he was doing.

Chief of Staff, 2 others, leaving Malloy admin

HARTFORD (AP) – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s chief of staff, communications director and director of operations are leaving the freshman Connecticut governor’s administration.

Malloy said Tuesday said the departures had been planned.

Malloy said Timothy Bannon, his chief of staff, had always planned to work for the new administration on an interim basis.

Bannon was Malloy’s first hire and headed up his transition team.

He is expected to leave the job by the end of year. No replacement has been named and Bannon said he does not yet have another job.

Malloy also announced his communications director, Colleen Flanagan, will become director of public affairs at the newly created Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education.

Alvin Wilson, director of operations at the governor’s office or deputy chief of staff, is also leaving.

Man found dead in house with high carbon monoxide

SHARON (AP) – State police say an 85-year-old man has been found dead in his home in Sharon, where high levels of carbon monoxide were discovered from a faulty generator being used for power.

Police said a neighbor reported Tuesday afternoon that Richard Rothschild was unconscious, and emergency responders pronounced him dead.

Firefighters found high levels of carbon monoxide in the house on Knibloe Hill Road. State troopers found that the generator was properly vented, but had a broken muffler.

Authorities said an autopsy is planned.

Earlier Tuesday, 10 people were hospitalized in Meriden after they were exposed to carbon monoxide in a house where a generator was being used.

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Congress moves to protect Peace Corps volunteers

She was killed in 2009 after reporting a local colleague for allegedly molesting some of the young girls they taught.

Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson introduced the Senate bill along with Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democrat.

Williams said after the vote that it was a fitting tribute to Puzey, and the bill “codifies many of the reforms that the agency has put in place over the past two years to ensure that Peace Corps volunteers serving worldwide receive the support and protection they deserve.”

The Peace Corps has sent more than 200,000 Americans to serve in 139 countries since its founding in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. Currently, more than 9,000 volunteers are serving in 76 nations.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has responded to complaints that the U.S. Peace Corps has not done enough to protect its volunteers from sexual assaults, with legislation requiring the agency to train participants better in how to avoid attacks.

The House of Representatives voted 406-0 Tuesday to pass the bill and send it to President Barack Obama for his signature. The Senate passed it by voice vote in September.

The measure provides whistle-blower protections for volunteers who report threatening activities and requires the Peace Corps to develop sexual assault risk-reduction and response training. The agency also must establish a victim’s support office.

“The Peace Corps has fallen disturbingly short in providing adequate protection for its volunteers and lacks a proper system for responding to crimes, including murder and sexual assault,” said Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She said the bill she co-sponsored would make volunteer safety “the Peace Corps’ overarching priority.”

The Peace Corps, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, has been hit by criticisms that it is doing too little to protect the security of volunteers it sends abroad.

In May, Peace Corps Director Aaron S. Williams appeared before a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing to apolo-

gize for the agency’s shortcomings on volunteer safety issues.

“The Peace Corps has not always been sufficiently responsive, compassionate or sensitive to victims of crime and their families,” he said at the time. “It is heartbreaking to learn, and I apologize for any additional pain the agency has inflicted on our volunteers.”

Williams spoke after the testimony of three volunteers who had been raped while serving overseas and the mother of a fourth volunteer who was murdered in Benin. They charged that the agency did little to train volunteers how to avoid sexual attacks and was unhelpful in the aftermath of the crimes.

The bill was named after the murdered volunteer, Kate Puzey, 24, from Georgia.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City casino workers successfully fought off a management demand that they take pay cuts and contribute for the first time to their health benefits and pension costs.

Members of Local 54 of the Unite-HERE casino union on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract with Caesars Entertainment Inc., Atlantic City’s largest casino owner with four of the city’s 11 gambling halls. A union spokesman said 92 percent of those voting cast ballots in favor of the deal, but the tally was not made public.

The deal calls for union members to get a raise at least once during the three-year deal and raises the possibility of additional pay increases if the casinos’ revenue increases by 10 percent in any of the three years. But the contract is remarkable for what it doesn’t do: insist on steep pay and benefit reductions that all the casinos had been pushing in the midst of a nearly five-year revenue slump that soon will see Atlantic City surpassed by Pennsylvania as the country’s second-largest gambling market after Las Vegas.

“Thirty-five years ago this week, the people of New

Jersey voted to allow casino gaming because of the promise that casino jobs would be good jobs,” said union president Bob McDevitt. “Caesars Entertainment has again demonstrated a commitment to working with Local 54 to ensure the promise is upheld.”

Don Marrandino, eastern division president of Caesars Entertainment, said he is glad the contract is settled, adding both sides can now get back to business.

“It is now time to put all of our attention on providing an even higher level of customer service and commitment to our destination,” he said.

The contract continues free health care for casino workers and their families and a pension plan paid for solely by the companies. It calls for an hourly raise of 25 cents for workers at the top of the salary scale in the second year of the deal; those paid according to a step scale will advance one step on that scale in the third year of the contract.

The contract also includes protections for workers displaced by the possible closing of a casino — a distinct possibility for some of the city’s weaker properties.

In a Sept. 30, 2011 photo, members of Local 54 of Unite-HERE, representing casino service workers, march on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J. The union was voting Tuesday, on a proposed three-year contract with the four casinos.

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Ask businesses to fund volunteering from SPEAKER, page 1 already been solved,” Connell said. “But every person, particularly college students, can contribute to building a better world.”

Connell encouraged students to find and research legitimate volunteer organizations that support students’ cause of choice by browsing the Internet and talking to professors. He also gave students tips for raising funds to support their volunteering opportunities, suggesting that students put together compelling corporate sponsorship packages in order to get businesses to sponsor them.

“Offer to wear their [a business’] T-shirt or logo and send photos back from where

you’re volunteering, write an article about the good the business is doing and offer to get them huge amounts of free publicity by giving interviews and writing press releases,” Connell said.

Facebook can also be used as a fundraising tool, typically yielding about $800 in funds, Connell said.

Connell concluded his presentation by challenging students to make their mission to “will make the world a better place.”

Students applauded loudly when Connell finished his lecture.

“It definitely opened my eyes to how bad it really is in these developing countries,” Kayla Bingham, a 1st-semester mechanical engineer-

ing major, said. “His talking about how we can make a difference had me thinking of different people and businesses I could contact if I were to take a volunteer trip.

I definitely want to get into volunteering at least on some level.”

Shaniel Bowen, a 1stsemester biomedical engineering major, also found the lecture inspiring.

“Listening to him talk made me more confident,” Bowen said. “I used to believe I couldn’t make a difference.

His lecture enlightened me how bad it is in other places.

It makes me want to volunteer more.”

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In Conn., funds have shrunk, needs have not from TWENTY-EIGHT, page 1

Governor Malloy stated in a press release that these federal grants are implicit for these communities to improve the conditions of living and the lives of the residents “through housing programs and community projects.”

“For most Connecticut towns and smaller cities, budgets are stretched thin, but their infrastructure needs and the housing needs…haven’t diminished,” said Malloy.

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Music director: Cheshire killer’s ‘life has value’ NEW HAVEN (AP) – The director of a Christian music tour on Tuesday gave an impassioned plea to a jury to spare the life of a Connecticut man convicted of killing a woman and her two daughters, saying the man is remorseful and will someday need to explain his actions to his own daughter.

Mark Middlebrooks testified Tuesday in the sentencing phase of Joshua Komisarjevsky that Komisarjevsky was an “outstanding” member of the group, which traveled the United States and Western Europe in 1997 when he was about 17. Komisarjevsky worked as a lighting technician for the group.

“Josh’s life has value because I know who he is beneath all the circumstances,” Middlebrooks said, adding Komisarjevsky has a responsibility to seek redemption.

Middlebrooks also said Komisarjevsky will need to answer to his 9-year-old daughter someday when she asks, “What the hell were you thinking?”

He addressed Komisarjevsky directly at that point, saying he’ll need to take responsibility, as Komisarjevsky’s attorney put his hand on his client’s shoulder.

“Josh’s life has value because I know who he is beneath all the circumstances.”

Mark Middlebrooks Christian Music Tour Director Komisarjevsky, 31, was convicted of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters in their Cheshire home in 2007. He faces life in prison or the death penalty.

Prosecutor Gary Nicholson reminded Middlebrooks of the gruesome details of the crimes, in which the victims were tied up for eight hours and the girls doused in gasoline before their house was set on fire. Nicholson asked

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A July 23, 2007 file photo provided by the Connecticut State Police shows Joshua, Komisarjevsky, convicted Thursday, Oct. 13 of capital felony killing and other charges related to the 2007 home invasion in Cheshire. The same jury will later decide whether he should be sentenced to death or life in prison.

if Komisarjevsky’s conviction on all counts had no effect on him.

“It does have an effect on me,” he said, nearly shouting and his face red. “It has an effect on me. I resent that.”

Middlebrooks noted Komisarjevsky has a young daughter and parents who love him. Nicholson asked him if Adolf Hitler had parents and whether other killers have children, prompting an objection from the defense.

Middlebrooks traveled from Colorado to visit Komisarjevsky in prison after the crime.

“I’m here to advocate for Josh’s life,” he told the jury.

But he also said Komisarjevsky has “great culpability for what has happened.”

“I’m aware of his remorse,” he said.

Nicholson cited earlier testimony by Komisarjevsky’s sister that he feels sorrow for the killings, but blames the sole survivor, Dr. William Petit, for not doing more to help his family. Petit was beaten with a bat and tied up but managed to escape to a neighbor’s to get help.

Middlebrooks said Komisarjevsky, as a teenager, had been very good with his 3-year-old daughter during the two three-month tours.

Middlebrooks also recalled

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that Komisarjevsky was deeply affected when they visited a burn center in Trinidad and held the hand of a girl who was burned all over her body as she cried. That prompted Nicholson to remind the jury the two girls were killed in the house fire and that Komisarjevsky had been arrested before the tour for burning down a vacant garage.

He said Komisarjevsky was in legal trouble at the time he joined the group, called the Continentals. But Middlebrooks said he felt “compelled and burdened” to accept him for the tour, a decision he never regretted.

“He responded so well to me and my leadership,” Middlebrooks said. “We developed a trust. I didn’t have to worry about Josh.”

Middlebrooks said Komisarjevsky told him about negative experiences he had earlier with Christian camps. He said he felt rejected by Christians because he was different or acted differently.

“He just felt somewhat discriminated against,” he said.

Komisarjevsky’s sister testified Tuesday that her parents didn’t get counseling outside of church after he sexually abused her because they feared the state could break up the family.

The sister said her parents worried she or her brother could be removed from the home.

The sister told a jury Monday that Komisarjevsky sexually abused her as a child for years. Her name is being withheld by The Associated Press.

The defense says Komisarjevsky’s religious family did not get him proper psychological treatment. His attorneys say he was sexually abused by a foster teen the family took into their home and later as a teen by someone else. Prosecutors say those claims came from Komisarjevsky and emerged years later when he faced prison time for 19 nighttime residential burglaries.

His sister said under crossexamination that she turned out successful even though she was raised in the same house and suffered sexual abuse as well.

Bank of America backs down on $5 debit card fee

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This photo taken Oct. 14 shows a customer at a Bank of America ATM in Hialeah, Fla. Bank of America Corp. is scrapping its plans to charge a $5 monthly debit card fee. The bank’s decision to drop the fee came after a roar of customer outrage in recent weeks.

NEW YORK (AP) – Bank of America Corp. is scrapping its plan to charge a $5 monthly fee for debit card purchases after outraged customers threatened an exodus.

The about-face comes as customers across the country petitioned the bank and mobilized to close their accounts in favor of credit unions and community banks. The outcry prompted other major banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co., to cancel trial tests of their own debit card fees.

Bank of America, the nation’s second largest bank, said it reversed course after listening to an outcry from customers.

Anne Pace, a spokeswoman for Bank of America, declined to say whether there was a spike in account closures following the September announcement that it would start charging the fee early next year.

Higher fees have become a fact of life for bank customers in recent years. But this one touched a nerve because it hit so close to home; many Americans have come to rely on debit cards to manage essential expenses such as groceries and gas.

At the same time, there’s still lingering resentment over the role that banks played in the 2008 financial meltdown and the ongoing home foreclosure crisis. That anger has come to surface in recent weeks with the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The banks have countered by saying that efforts in the past two years to regulate the industry have forced them to raise or

introduce new fees to stay profitable. That made the march to higher fees seem almost inevitable — and makes the rare victory by consumers in this case even more remarkable.

“When I heard about the fee, it was the last straw for me,” said Molly Katchpole, a 22-year-old nanny whose online petition urging Bank of America to drop the debit fee captured more than 300,000 signatures. “I’m living paycheck to paycheck and one more fee was just too much.”

Katchpole said she already closed her account and moved her money to a community bank in Washington, D.C. For her, the damage has been done. She said Bank of America’s decision won’t win her back.

It’s still too early to say whether the bank’s gross miscalculation of consumer sentiment will have a lasting impact.

But Bank of America is also dealing with a host of other troubles, including the potential for large mortgage-related settlements to drain its capital and plans to cut 30,000 jobs to reduce expenses. Last quarter, the company lost its standing as the nation’s largest bank by deposits to Chase.

The news of the debit card fee meanwhile drew criticism from even President Barack Obama and sparked a movement called “Bank Transfer Day” that urged customers to close their accounts by this Saturday.

“This is Bank of America’s Netflix moment,” said Mark Schwanhausser, a banking analyst with Javelin Strategy & Research. “It misjudged what

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consumers would bear. It was the wrong fee at the wrong time.” The bank’s actions echo the reversal of Netflix to split its DVD-by-mail and streaming video services after vehement consumer complaints.

The uproar over a potential debit card fee was particularly strong because it’s fundamentally a fee for customers to access their own cash at a time when consumers are trying to cut back on borrowing, he said.

Diane Abela, a 38-year-old Manhattan resident, said she had been waiting to see if Bank of America would back down on its plan before closing her account.

“I’m unemployed and $5 makes a big difference,” said Abela, who learned of the bank’s reversal just before heading into a job interview. “When you’re working on a budget every week, it’s the last thing you need.”

Unlike Chase and Wells Fargo, Bank of America’s announcement that it would start charging customers a monthly debit card fee came without any testing in the marketplace.

Pace, Bank of America’s spokeswoman, said the decision to roll out the fee was instead based on internal customer surveys. She declined to detail the nature of those surveys but said that in the past couple of weeks “customer sentiment changed.”

The high-profile retreat could signal that the specter of a debit card fee has been extinguished for the time being. But it doesn’t mean customers won’t continue to see higher fees elsewhere.

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Hand-ups trump hand-outs

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or many years the United States, as well as most world leaders, has felt that it is its duty to provide charitable support to third world countries. For example, the U.S. is leading all other countries with its $713 million dedicated to relief in Haiti following the devastating earthquake in 2010. However, despite the finances coming from a place of good-will and charity, the argument can be made that dumping this money into an impoverished country’s general quality of life doesn’t help, but instead exacerbates the problem.

Many third world countries find their governments expecting the billions in aid that they get every year. Despite all of this money going to a country like Haiti, the relief efforts are barely scratching the surface of the problem with many still living without a roof over their heads or medical care, short-term or long-term. The current system isn’t enough, however, it’s arguably the best that can be done financially in terms of what can be given out. Unfortunately, all that this does is foster a sense of dependency by these countries on charity and external loans.

As a result, states are not challenged or encouraged to develop any kind of self-sustaining infrastructure. Citizens have zero motivation or determination to become politically engaged into their states economy or government. They’re simply stuck waiting for the next project of relief from other countries or the U.N., which history has shown, probably won’t be enough.

The leaders of these developing countries should anticipate this problem and take the money that is being dumped into minimalist relief and start building some sustainable infrastructure. It would benefit them greatly to have some kind of government in place that can finance and empower markets within these third world countries, or even ones that can finance entrepreneurial efforts. Even education that steers the people to think in these terms would be a place to start. These countries need something to get them off the crutches created by the reliable sources of external loans and get them walking on their own two feet.

The idea of charity and doing something to help those whose means are far less bountiful is a human characteristic that is not going anywhere, nor should it. The thought and effort put into these programs, as well as those who work in those countries with these people every day to try and make their lives even a little bit better, is something that should be greatly commended.

However, in the modern age it’s important that we don’t just settle for the illusion of progress but rather apply that our tireless efforts to actual progress.

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DC past a lesson in caution with freedom of press

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n May 10, 1960, UConn newspaper Editor-in-Chief Richard McGurk was expelled from school. Though the offense occurred 51 years ago, the lesson of balancing free speech with sensitivity and moral prudence is timeless.

Why was McGurk expelled?

The Daily Campus has long published an annual “Daily Scampus” edition with fake articles and ads. In 1960, with McGurk leading the paper, the “Scampus” printed two feaBy Jesse Rifkin tures that even Weekly Columnist today would offend many eyes.

A fake ad marketed a fictional prostitution business recruiting UConn women. “Earn from $100-$250 an hour,” the fake ad promised, alongside a photograph of a barely-covered naked woman. “If you already have a position awaiting you after graduation, see us anyway. We may have a position you would find more comfortable.”

Moreover, page one displayed an unrelated doctored picture of then-university president Albert Jorgensen alongside thenConnecticut Governor Abraham Ribicoff in sexual postures. Though both were fully clothed, a caption quoted Jorgensen stating, “How cold your hands are!”

Managing Editor Larry Dupuis was then the newspaper’s second-in-command, and ascended to Editor-in-Chief upon McGurk’s expulsion. Dupuis is now retired in New York City, following a career as Director of On-Air Advertising for ABC television and

later as an antiques store owner. Though he has not set foot on the UConn campus since 1962, he graciously agreed to a phone interview.

“We thought it was great fun,” Dupuis recollected. “We were floored by the reaction. That whole thing went right to the capital, right to Hartford, and they thought – as a state university, how could these students even think of doing something like that?”

The Daily Campus became editorially independent of UConn in 1967, remaining so today. However, in 1960 it was strictly affiliated with the university. “While we were screaming freedom of the press,” Dupuis recalled, “they were saying you’re not free. We own you.”

Dupuis speculated as to an underlying motive behind the expulsion. “[McGurk] was very activist and a very radical person,” Dupuis described. “[The administration] didn’t like him. He was out to get the administration and shake them up.”

Dupuis recalled one incident in particular. “There was something called the ‘blue book,’ which was all the rules and regulations for the university. It was this secret book, and he wanted to get the release.

There were a lot of editorials and a lot of articles, and he was the one who did them.” “[McGurk’s punishment] was much too harsh,” Dupuis believed, both then and now.

The controversy’s effects rippled long after the incident.

“It was a very difficult time after that,” Dupuis said. “We were just scared, to be quite honest. And it was hard to get people to come to our newspaper. We were understaffed, and I think it was caused by what went on with the ‘Scampus.’ It muddied the waters for a couple of years.”

The lesson here is simple: make appropri-

ate use of free speech and free press while simultaneously respecting basic moral decency. First Amendment rights serve as the lone guarantee of human expression and the ultimate safeguard against authoritarianism. Yet shocking or offensive content should ideally be utilized for legitimate or important political, social or artistic purposes. Such content should not be merely tossed around haphazardly simply “because it can.”

Hurtful or hateful speech not intended to provoke public debate is exploitative without meaningful purpose. Isn’t such speech thus causing more harm than good?

By attempting to institute policy change in the name of transparency and fairness, McGurk’s seemingly radical editorials calling for administrative release of the “blue book” utilized free speech appropriately.

Advertising a fake prostitution service and falsely insinuating sexual relations between high-ranking public officials did not.

Even McGurk himself eventually arrived at the same conclusion. On the final day of the 1960 school year, McGurk – no longer a student – wrote a letter to the editor acknowledging his judgment lapse. “While catering to the vulgar appetites of those who might find such [material] funny, I had failed to protect the moral sensibilities of those who would not,” he said.

McGurk ended with the final words he would ever print in The Daily Campus. “I cannot say that I have come fully to grips with all the issues surrounding the publication of the ‘Scampus.’ I cannot dream as Jacob. But I think I have begun to see the moral responsibility.”

Weekly Columnist Jesse Rifkin is a 3rd-semester political science and journalism double major. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.

CLASS Act is a financially impossible political vehicle

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he Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced in October that it would slash a key provision of Obama’s 2010 healthcare reform plan, citing no fiscally viable way of implementing it. The long-term care provision, otherwise known as the CLASS Act, would allow people to pay a $123 monthly premium

By Thomas Dilling to receive $75 per day Staff Columnist ($2,250 per month) in benefits. Most people would likely be able to tell from that onesentence description alone how absurd the idea is—of course that’s unsustainable, it’s paying out over 18 times what it’s taking in. HHS made a good move by listening to actuaries, which is more than can be said for the president or for Congress.

Let’s suppose that all you read was press releases by congressmen who voted for Obama’s health care law. You might be convinced that the impossible CLASS Act would somehow reduce the budget deficit by $86 billion over the next decade.

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that way. So, how can something reduce the deficit and bankrupt us at the same time? The answer is liabilities—commitments to pay long into the future.

The central problem in the budget scoring methods is the time frame. In this case, people would be required to pay premiums for five years (a total of $7,380) before receiving any benefit. Considering the $2,250 per month benefit, it’s still a bargain and would pay off in no time. But, in terms of accounting, that equates to a half a decade in which money is being collected but no benefits are paid out. A half decade of positive revenues and no expenses is incredibly significant when your time frame is only one decade. So, because of the time frame created, all that is visible is the short-term deficit reduction, leaving concealed the long-term deficit explosion.

All of this was known during the health care debate, which took place when Obama’s health care plan was passed. At the time, the Chief Medicare Actuary, Richard Foster said, “Thirty-six years of actuarial experience lead me to believe that this program [the CLASS Act] would collapse in short order and require

significant federal subsidies to continue.” Instead of listening to his advice, the Chief Actuary was barred by senior Democratic staff members from providing any additional actuarial analysis beyond the 10-year CBO report.

Not only this, but because the amount paid in is so small relative to the benefit, the program would depend on an endless supply of new enrollees to cover the costs – in a similar fashion to a Ponzi scheme, which depends on an endless supply of gullible investors. Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad said at the time that the CLASS Act “a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of.” Nonetheless, Conrad went on to vote for the bill. This demonstrates the problem: Every congressman was aware of the long-term insolvency the CLASS Act would create but it allowed supporters of Obama’s health reform to say that the bill was paid for or even saved money.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ conclusion that the CLASS Act is financially impossible and unsustainable was actually much of the Republicans’ thesis for opposi-

tion to the president’s health care law. They contended that budget gimmicks were only creating the illusion of savings, while instilling long-term problems time bombs and cost increases. In the televised health care summit with President Obama, Republicans led off with Rep. Paul Ryan stating “what has been placed in front of [the Congressional Budget Office] is a bill that is full of gimmicks and smoke and mirrors…Hiding spending does not reduce spending.”

Fortunately, the Class Act had to be approved by the Department of Health and Human Services for long-term solvency before it could be implemented, which it could not demonstrate. However, the damage caused by using the CLASS Act as a political vehicle to mislead the public into believing the “cost-savings” of President Obama’s health care reforms has already been done.

In the future, this ought to be a case study on the need to think more critically before accepting government-sponsored analysis ipso facto.

Staff Columnist Thomas Dilling is a 7th-semester biological sciences major. He can be reached at Thomas.Dilling@UConn.edu

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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Take care of the basics, and plan an escape as early as you can with someone dear to you. Even if it’s just to catch up over coffee, you appreciate the heart-to-heart talk.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Everything turns out, thanks to your wisdom and charm. Don’t get distracted from what’s important. Surround yourself with people who adore you. You may not always agree.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Tell your people how much you appreciate them. Don’t worry about huge productivity or results today. Put greater focus on human resources. Spread the love around.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Study the history before making a decision. Patience. Adventures and travel are better in discussion and planning than actuality. Plot the itinerary.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Romance and artistic creativity provide the context this month. Who could you invent yourself to be? What could you create? What fun? Make a glorious mess.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Beware of stifling your ambition by burying yourself in busywork. A stroll around the block or on a trail can revive.

Breathe deeply and take peaceful breaks.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Your communication is at a peak until about the end of the year, while Mercury and Venus are in your third house. Take advantage.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- It’s a good time for home remodeling, but don’t spend more than you need to. Use what you have, with a dash of imagination. Get chores done, and play outside.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Allow yourself to play with what you have, and don’t take any loans.

Venus and Mercury enter your sign today, giving you an extra oomph in love and interaction.

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Seeds gestate deep in the ground. Privately prepare. Five minutes of meditation can increase your output.

Enjoy time at home.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- You might talk about distant places or write about them ... just don’t go very far, if you can avoid it. Enjoy simple luxuries like a hot shower.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- You may like the idea of travel or discovery, but getting moving is another thing. Diligence and thrift serve you well now. Write, and plan for tomorrow.

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New Libyan PM was Ala. professor for 20 years

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — For 20 years, Abdurrahim el-Keib taught electrical engineering at the University of Alabama, helped lead the area’s Muslim community and talked little about his home country of Libya. With Moammar Gadhafi’s regime deposed, the professor now has a new role as prime minister of his homeland.

El-Keib was elected to the post late Monday by Libya’s National Transitional Council and will replace outgoing interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, who had promised to step down after victory over Gadhafi’s dictatorship. His selection suggests the country’s interim rulers may be seeking out a government leader palatable both to the West and to Libyans who distrust anyone connected to the former regime.

El-Keib holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, where he also taught, and moved to Alabama in 1985, according to a biography posted by a former employer, the Petroleum Institute in the United Arab Emirates.

Online documents show elKeib was at the University of Alabama for 20 years, becoming involved with the Faculty Senate and serving as a speaker representing Muslims to other faith communities in the city after the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington.

The professor spoke at a Christian church in Tuscaloosa about the beliefs of Muslims in January 2002, and longtime friend Mirza Beg said el-Keib helped raise money for a new Islamic center that opened in Tuscaloosa more than a decade ago, near the university’s football stadium.

“He was the leading force behind it,” said Beg, a chemist with the groundwater assessment program at the Geological Survey of Alabama. “Some people have a knack for management. He collected money for it from friends, from people here, from people in the Mideast, from all over.”

Beg, a native of India, said he and el-Keib worked together on the project and became better friends after the 9/11 attacks as they served as informal liaisons between

Tuscaloosa’s Muslims and people of other faiths.

Beg said he knew el-Keib had “political abilities,” but he said his friend rarely discussed Libya.

“The reasons were obvious. It was a dictatorship, and it was not comfortable for him to talk about because his extended family lived there,” Beg said.

El-Keib lived in the United States for more than 30 years during Gadhafi’s reign, Beg said, and the two men had little contact since el-Keib left the university in 2005. He later worked as a professor and chairman of the electrical engineering department at The Petroleum Institute, according to the resume posted by the school.

Tim Haskew, who worked with el-Keib at the University of Alabama and is now interim head of its electrical engineering department, said elKeib was “well-received” by students there.

“He took care of his classes, did his contract work, graduated his students,” Haskew said.

While el-Keib was at North Carolina State University, his

adviser John Grainger recalled him as a devout Muslim who dedicated his doctoral thesis to Allah. El-Keib talked little about the politics of his homeland and never visited Libya

during his time in Raleigh, Grainger told The Associated Press by telephone.

“He was afraid to go back to Libya,” Grainger said. “He would go to Morocco and his

family would meet him for visits. We never got into any big discussion about why he was afraid. All he said was the environment wasn’t good for him there.”

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – Lawyers appointed to represent some of the most notorious prisoners at Guantanamo Bay accused the U.S. government Tuesday of making it impossible for them to do their jobs by improperly reviewing all communications between them and their clients.

Lawyers for six of the “highvalue detainees,” including prisoners facing war crimes trials for the Sept. 11 attack, sent a letter to a senior Pentagon official urging him to overturn what they said

were new policies that violate attorney-client privilege.

The lawyers said in the letter that officials are reading attorney-client communications, which they assert is illegal, violates legal ethical guidelines and will halt the war crimes proceedings that are supposed to resume soon at the U.S. base in Cuba.

“The review and censorship of legal materials will effectively grind litigation to a halt by barring legally required attorney-client communications,” the lawyers wrote in the letter, a

copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press.

The letter is signed by nine defense lawyers, seven of whom are active military officers, and is addressed to Deputy Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs William Lietzau. Its release is an unusually public criticism of detainee policy by lawyers who are obligated to obey severe limitations on what they can publicly disclose because of the security and secrecy surrounding the high-value detainees at Guantanamo.

One of the lawyers, Navy Cmdr. Walter Ruiz, said the group could not provide details about the new policies at the base or say precisely which communications were being reviewed. He said the new rules were apparently instituted by the detention center commander, Navy Rear Adm. David Woods.

Efforts to resolve the dispute through negotiations have failed and the lawyers will file suit to challenge the policies if they are not reversed, Ruiz said.

“It’s gotten to the point where

all counsel are saying: ‘Enough is enough. You are not taking us seriously; you are not acting in good faith,’” he said.

The communications in question are not classified but, even if they were, all the lawyers representing high-value detainees have security clearances and know not to reveal sensitive information, according to the letter.

Officials at the Pentagon and Guantanamo did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter, which

comes as the military prepares for the arraignment this month of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi man accused of plotting the 2000 attack on the USS Cole.

Al-Nashiri’s lawyer, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Reyes, signed the letter and has filed a motion with the military judge asking him to overturn the military policy as well. Military prosecutors have not yet filed a response to his motion, which has not been publicly released because it is still going through a security review.

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In this photo taken Monday, Libya’s new U.S. educated electrical engineer prime minister Abdurrahim el-Keib speaks in Tripoli, Libya.

El-Keib, an NTC member from Tripoli with a doctorate from North Carolina State University, said he would appoint the government within two weeks.

Military lawyers challenge new rules at Guantanamo

News Corp. told in 2008 reporters broke law LONDON (AP) — A legal adviser to Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers warned the company three years ago there was overwhelming evidence that several senior journalists at the News of the World were using illegal methods, according to documents released Tuesday.

The documents bolster claims that high-ranking executives of Murdoch’s News Corp. global media empire were aware that phone hacking at the tabloid was more widespread than they let on.

British lawmakers investigating the hacking scandal, which incensed the British public, prompted the arrest of more than a dozen journalists and forced Murdoch to shut down the News of the World, released a copy of the opinion provided

to Murdoch’s company and attorneys by lawyer Michael Silverleaf in June 2008.

In it, Silverleaf says there is “overwhelming evidence of the involvement of a number of senior ... journalists in the illegal inquiries.”

At the time, the newspaper was being sued by soccer players’ association chief Gordon Taylor over alleged phone hacking.

Silverleaf wrote in his opinion that News Group Newspapers, publisher of the News of the World and referred to as NGN, should increase its offer for a settlement with Taylor.

Silverleaf said “at least three” journalists appeared to have been “intimately involved” in illegal research into the affairs

of Taylor. In addition to spying on Taylor, Silverleaf noted there was “substantial surrounding material” documenting the extent to which reporters tried to gain illegal access to information about other individuals.

“In the light of these facts there is a powerful case that there is (or was) a culture of illegal information access used at NGN in order to produce stories for publication,” he wrote.

The newspaper later settled with Taylor out of court for 700,000 pounds ($1.1 million).

Executives at News Corp. insisted until early this year that phone hacking had been the work one rogue reporter.

Murdoch shut down the tabloid in July, after evidence emerged that its reporters illegally

hacked into the voice mails of celebrities, politicians and even crime victims in search of scoops.

The scandal has forced the resignations off top Murdoch executives in Britain and the U.S., two senior British police officers and Prime Minister David Cameron’s communications chief, a former News of the World Editor.

While apologizing for the wrongdoing, Murdoch and his son and heir apparent James have insisted they were not aware of it.

But former News of the World editor Colin Myler and former legal adviser Tom Crone have insisted that James Murdoch was wrong when he claimed in testimony to British lawmakers not to have been

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By Holly Battaglia Campus Correspondent

I have been in a few long-term relationships during my adult life, and in hindsight, it is quite easy to identify that they actually were guaranteed monogamous hookups with people that I was somewhat attached to. By the end, all of my relationships ceased for the same reason: boredom. I have witnessed a number of my peers enter relationships with the same delusional giddiness that I once had toward this social norm, and shortly after listened to them complain about the whole affair becoming stale.

When this happens, I usually don’t know what to say because I am not the biggest fan of relationships. Apparently, “Well, if I were you, I would just break up with [insert name of friend’s boyfriend or girlfriend],” only worsens the situation. After talking to a couple of choice friends, and listening to the the suave lyrics of the late-90’s boy band LFO, I have refreshed my previously disenchanted outlook on relationships. Here is some more constructive advice on the topic: ZARRIN AHMED/The Daily Campus

The UConn Jazz Ensemble treated a von der Mehden audience to a concert Tuesday night. The ensemble played with different tempos and styles under the conduction of Earl MacDonald. The concert included both group numbers as well as solo performances on the alto saxaphone, flute, tenor saxophone and clarinet.

By Zarrin Ahmed Campus Correspondent The 10-piece UConn Jazz Ensemble, directed by Earl MacDonald, treated students to the music of Nathan Parker Smith at von der Mehden Recital Hall last night.

Smith, a native of northern California, is currently a performer and composer residing in Brooklyn, N.Y. “Nathan Parker Smith Large Ensemble,” a band Smith formed in 2009, had played shows throughout New York in venues such as the Fat Cat, Spike Hill, Cameo and the Tea Lounge. The band’s most recent tour spanned the West

Coast and ended in 2009. They are currently working on an album expected to be released sometime next year. Smith’s compositions have been performed by multiple ensembles across the country, including the Eastman Jazz Ensemble, the New Jazz Ensemble, the Studio Orchestra, the University of Miami Concert Band, the University of Reno Jazz Band, the Reno Jazz Ensemble, Saxology, the BMI New York Jazz Ensemble and the Humboldt State University Jazz Orchestra. Solo artists such as Louis Lorain and Pat LaBarbera have also performed his compositions.

Smith has received numerous awards and prizes, includ-

ing the ASCAP Foundation Youth Jazz Composers Award and the Raymond and Maxine Schirmer Prize in Jazz Composition.

The night began with “I Know, You Know,” featuring solo parts from trumpeteers Tom Lee and David Dorfman, trombonist Joshua Lubner and bassist Tyler Luppi. The backset of jazzy bass and cymbals immediately provided the kind of mood the ensemble was probably aiming for. The next two songs, “Lost Coast” and “Now What?” kept the upbeat tempo of the first song. “Tango,” the next composition in the set, began slowly with a melodic drum and bass that was later

accompanied by a soothing clarinet and flute combination. It carried a prominent tango beat that the ensemble swayed to, picked up in tempo halfway through and ended the same way it began with the light drum and bass.

“Recollection,” “Almost” and “Reality, Sometimes” were the final songs of the concert, all of which kept the jazz rhythm with cymbals, held out notes at the end of choppy measures and eccentric bass.

Overall, the concert included solos from each of the performers. In addition to Lee, Dorfman and Lubner were Emily Lavins on alto saxophone and flute, Colin Walters on tenor saxophone and clari-

net, Matt Baum on baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, Paul Shim on French horn, Michael Verselli on piano, Nick Trautmann as a second bassist, and Michael Allague on drums.

Each of the performers were given credit and applause at the end of every composition at the request of director Earl MacDonald, who also took time to thank Nathan Parker Smith, who was sitting in the audience.

The ensemble received applause from Smith himself, who gave nods of appreciation and approval toward the stage.

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NYC artist returns to gallery where she gave birth

Spectators look on as artist mother delivers son in studio

NEW YORK (AP) — Marni Kotak gave the performance of her life when she gave birth to baby Ajax in a New York City art gallery turned home birthing center last week.

Now they’re back.

“It’s exactly how I wanted it to be,” Kotak said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, her first since giving birth. “Most of the people hung around for hours holding the baby, talking about the experience together and getting food and other supplies that we needed” until she went home.

The 36-year-old performance artist delivered the healthy 9-pound, 2-ounce baby boy at the Microscope Gallery on Oct. 25 in a performance she described as the “highest form of art.”

The birth was the climax to an installation that began on Oct. 8.

It saw Kotak talking to visitors in a bedroom setting surrounded by her most treasured objects: Her grandmother’s bed, where baby Ajax was conceived; a bright green chair in which she was rocked as a baby; videos and photos of her other performance pieces, including re-enactments of her grandfather’s funeral and her own birth.

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Marni Kotak holds her baby Ajax on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, at the gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y. where she gave birth to him a week earlier. The 36-year-old performance artist said it wasn’t weird to deliver the healthy 9-pound, 2-ounce baby boy during the performance of her life in front of the respectful and quiet gallery visitors.

It wasn’t weird to give birth in front of the respectful and quiet gallery visitors, she said.

“I had met them all ahead of time and got to know them a little through our conversations in the gallery,” she said.

“They were sincerely interested in the project and really supportive of the process.”

Kotak, an artist whose performances focus on everyday life experiences, said she had been in and out of the gal-

lery in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood between Friday and Saturday, then returned Monday to continue being part of her exhibit. She and the baby will be there daily until the installation closes on Nov. 7.

She said she is being visited by about 20 people a day, the same number who came to see her deliver Ajax in a birthing pool.

Gallery curator Elle Burchill

said new features include the birth video and a large artwork by Kotak’s husband, Jason Robert Bell. Kotak said the finished work incorporates the placenta, umbilical cord, and blood tissue.

Blood-stained pillows and sheets are now also part of the inswtallation.

For her next project, Kotak plans to write a memoir of her first year as a mother that she may later present in an

installation-type exhibition.

She said she was surprised by all the media attention her “Birth of Baby X” project got but happy with people’s positive response to it.

Kotak said she and Bell will share the details of the birth with their child “over time as an organic process,” communicating that by being born in an art gallery they were telling the world his life is a precious work of art.

1) Relationships are great if you are dating the right person I talked to someone who used to be somewhat cynical about romantic relationships, and asked her what it was that made her change.

Mistletoe Morrow, a 7th-semester political science major, said, “For other relationships, I changed myself and worked on fitting into their life. With my current relationship, the fact that I don’t ever have to worry about these things means that I am happier and more relaxed.

Do not shortchange who you are and make little exceptions.”

It seems that the trick is finding someone to accept you for you, and who you can put up with. It sounds simple, but that is definitely somewhere to start.

2) They require work if you want them to last I have never had the problem of wanting my relationships to last an excessive amount of time, but that could be because they were with the wrong people.

When asked what makes a relationship last, 7th-semester art and psychology major Sarah Kodel said, “I think that it’s forgiveness and understanding. If you know they’re a genuine person, if they make mistakes you can understand and forgive them as a person.

However, there’s also a difference when something is not working, or when you are trying too hard to make it work. It’s important to understand that people go through phases or moods.”

Basically, don’t bend over backwards to try to make a relationship work if the other person does not seem to give a hoot about the enterprise. At the same time, respect that he or she may be going through something. It’s a bit of a tightrope walk.

3) Remember to go on real dates This is the most important thing that I failed to do in past circumstances. My most recent boyfriend and I began our relationship after going on a number of informal dates. We continued doing this for a month or two until we basically just cuddled in my bed all the time like a couple of hibernating ferrets, failing to acknowledge the outer world completely. Looking back, any person would have been bored after seven months of this behavior. Dates do not have to be elaborate and expensive, but they can be if that’s what you are in to. Try some new cuisine, plan a day trip or go sledding. Just don’t lay in bed all the time, no matter how cute or cuddly your partner may be. It’s just not worth it.

I hope these tips have guided you in the right direction.

Relationships are not all that bad, but make sure you know what you are getting into.

Holly.Battaglia@UConn.edu

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“Infamous: Festival of Blood” is worth the $10 download, as it is packed with intricate settings reminiscent of Halloween. The gameplay can get repetitive, but “Infamous” makes up for it with quality vampire powers.

By Jason Bogdan Senior Staff Writer Halloween is now over, meaning that wearing Darth Vader masks while eating copious amounts of Kit Kat bars is a frowned-upon practice again. But even though the carved pumpkins are currently rotting, this All Hallows’ Evethemed downloadable expansion of “Infamous 2” certainly isn’t.

It’s worth the $10 download, and you don’t even need to own copies of either of the two full games to play it.

“Electric Man” Cole’s best friend Zeke loves to impress ladies at the bar with well-detailed, imaginative stories. This sets us up for this crazy, Zeke-narrated “true story” of Cole being bit by the vampire queen, Bloody Mary, and one night having to stick a cross in her heart to prevent permanent vampirification. As such, he saves the day while being a vampire, meaning that he’s solely in his immoral, red-electricity-spewing Conduit since he has to suck the blood of innocent civilians of New Marais to satisfy his blood lust.

It’s disturbing to say the least, but with the vampire powers you get in this downloadable game you’ll want to bite as many necks

as possible to get the energy to fly around the city in a flock of bats that can kill enemies on-contact.

Unfortunately, the extra abilities are the shining beacon in this slew of new missions that aren’t so much fun. Instead of tasks that have you climb buildings or ride vehicles of destruction, all you really do here is go to locations and beat up Bloody Mary’s minions until the credits roll. You’re given Cole’s full onslaught of electric moves, from electro-rockets to electro-grenades, but unlike the full games, there’s less leeway to get creative in defeating your foes.

The firstborn vampires you fight are an annoying bunch to beat that move too quickly for the camera to follow, and mostly require Cole to just beat them mercilessly with a wooden stake.

Even though Sucker Punch kind of failed in creating new missions, at least the user community has the incentive to be more inventive.

After you beat the three-hour campaign, it opens up the user-generated content mode of “Infamous 2” that lets players build their own levels and share them online. With the new system of creating comicbook-style cutscenes, I’ve seen some rather interesting fan fiction

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ricki Lake again claimed the top spot on “Dancing With the Stars,” her fifth first-place finish so far this season.

Nancy Grace landed in last place on Monday’s Halloweenthemed episode.

Another celebrity will be dismissed during Tuesday’s installment of the hit ABC show.

Each of the six contestants performed two dances Monday: One with their professional partners, and a team dance with two other couples. The team-dance score was applied to each couple in the group.

Despite a rib injury, Lake wowed with both routines. She performed two paso dobles: One with partner Derek Hough and another with her team that included soccer champ Hope Solo and reality star Rob Kardashian.

Judge Bruno Tonioli described the group routine as “powerful, moving, and dramatic” and called Lake’s dance with her partner “another incredible performance.” She earned 27 points for her dance with Hough and 26 points for the team routine for a total of 53 out of 60.

Kardashian finished in second place with 51 points, turning in a tango to the “Addams Family” theme song that one judge called “your best dance so far.” After the show, he said his thoughts are with his sister Kim, who filed for divorce Monday after 10 weeks of marriage to basketball player Kris Humphries.

“We’re here to support her, whatever she does,” Kardashian said.

Solo earned 50 points in all, good for third place.

Actor and Iraq veteran J.R. Martinez, who has tied Lake for first place in previous weeks and held the top spot when she hasn’t, performed two tangos Monday. He earned 25 points for his routine with professional partner Karina Smirnoff, and another 23 points for his group dance with Grace and actor David Arquette.

Judge Len Goodman called Martinez’s first tango “substandard” and criticized the group routine.

“Each one of the individual performances was a disaster,” he said.

Martinez finished with 48 points, one better than Arquette.

of the Infamous characters in this city of vampires. The game has only been out for a week, but I’ve already experienced a slew of lev-

topped off with a great presentation that has the Pyre Night setting of the city with plenty of cool red and neon visuals. Three gigabytes

Infamous: Festival of Blood

PC

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The Good

-Cole is back to take out enemies with some awesome vampire powers this time.

-With plenty of user generated levels and hidden items to find, this download pack is a steal at $10.

-This game looks as fantastic as “Infamous 2,” and in a stylish, Halloween-esque setting to boot

The Bad

-Sucker Punch seemed to be a bit lazy in constructing the missions of the single player campaign -Fighting the vampire enemies can easily be a frustrating and repetitive process compared to Cole’s other enemies els that are great mini-adventures for vampire Cole.

Thanks to a number of hidden collectibles and easy trophies to find in this condensed area of New Marais in “Festival of Blood,” there’s definitely some legroom in this $10 add-on. All of this is

is quite a hefty download, but not having to put your copy of “Infamous 2” in to play this extra downloadable content that looks just as good is definitely worth it.

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Lake strong competition as DWTS heats up

‘Infamous 2’ You can play “Infamous: Festival of Blood” without having to own any of the other Infamous games, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. These games are incredibly fun, open-world games in which you play as a man with tons of electrified tricks up his sleeve.

The latest game, “Infamous 2,” is especially noteworthy for its great improvements on the first game. The climbing controls are more streamlined, there’s a greater onslaught of fun moves including a sword attack, and the improved graphics are some of the best that PS3 has to offer. You’ll be bummed out by the ending, but the journey more than makes up for it.

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TV personality Rob Kardashian, right, and his partner Cheryl Burke perform in the celebrity dance competition series “Dancing with the Stars,” in Los Angeles on Oct. 17.

Last Thursday, Nintendo reported its second-quarter earnings, and it wasn’t great news. Though the losses weren’t as drastic as The Nikkei Business Daily speculated the day before, a loss of 70.2 billion yen ($924 million) is still a lot of money. To be fair, it’s partly attributed to the lackluster foreign exchange rates from the amount of the dollar being weaker than yen and the economy still failing. But this fact aside, the message is still clear as day: the video game publisher is no longer riding so high on the money train.

As far as I can see, there are a few reasons why the sales of Nintendo products are so tragic.

The first is that their console market is in a state that’s arguably teetering toward ruin. The current system, the Wii, is no longer a hot item flying off shells. Sales have been slowing down for a while now and Nintendo has already announced at E3 that the Wii’s successor, the Wii U will have a 2012 release. With a paltry software lineup that only includes a few gems in the near future compared to 2010, the system already feels given up on. Even with the Wii U in the near future, the whole thing feels like a gamble for success. There was actually a 5 percent loss of stock in the Tokyo Stock Exchange right when the console’s release was announced.

The lower expectations aren’t without merit; the graphics only reach the quality of the aging Xbox 360, whose touch screen controller looks more complicated to the casual crowd than the Wii remote, and the software announcements that include ports and mini-games are anything but epic.

Their portable front is also partly to blame. The sales of the 3DS during the second fiscal year grew substantially thanks to the significant price cut, but it’ll take a lot more sales for the $80 decrease to end up being a wholly successful idea. A one-fifth decrease in software sales was also partly responsible. But Nintendo has no one to blame but itself for only having the first-party game, Star Fox 64 3D, to rely on from July to September.

In fact, the steady decrease in revenue over the past year feels inevitable because of its questionable ways of business from the decreased software support, system specs and flawed online system. But if there is a silver lining here, it’s that this financial announcement could be a slap in the face for Nintendo, thus influencing them to change. With sales being the way they are due to their standard methods, maybe they will actually welcome third-party developers with open arms, provide enough incentive to have gamers play their Wii and 3DS all year round like the PS3 and 360 and make the Wii U something that people will look forward to. Time will tell, but Nintendo needs to improve soon if it wants to increase revenue.

Jason.Bogdan@UConn.edu

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Tensions still high over estate 9 playwrites, 6 actors tackle gay marriage of the late James Brown

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Yamma Noyola Brown Lumar, left, Deanna Brown Thomas, center and Venisha Brown, right, daughters of James Brown, leave the South Carolina Supreme Court after justices listened to arguments by lawyers for family and trustees of the estate of James Brown, in Columbia, S.C., Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Trustees who say they were unjustly removed from the charitable trust of the late soul singer James Brown urged South Carolina's Supreme Court on Tuesday to strike down the estate settlement.

The justices questioned an attorney for former trustees Adele Pope and Robert Buchanan about their contention that then-South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster didn't have the authority to push through the deal that ended years of fighting among Brown's heirs. Pope and Buchanan asked that the settlement be reorganized by a lower court.

The dispute began shortly after the Godfather of Soul died of heart failure on Christmas Day 2006 at age 73. The performer's death touched off years of bizarre headlines, beginning with his widow Tomi Rae Hynie being locked out of his 60-acre estate and photographers capturing her sobbing and shaking its iron gates, begging to be let in.

McMaster, who ultimately brokered a settlement in 2009, said the dispute over the estate would have continued without his intervention.

Half a dozen of Brown's adult children had bickered for years after

their father's death before agreeing to the settlement. They said they support the deal and want the litigation to end so that the trust can be put to its intended use: funding education for needy children in South Carolina and Georgia.

But Pope and Buchanan, who were removed as trustees by a circuit judge who approved the deal, sued over the 2009 deal.

That complex settlement gave about half of Brown's assets to an education fund for needy children, a quarter to his widow and young son and the rest to his adult children, arguing that they were not party to the negotiations that led up to the settlement and were removed because of their opposition.

"The attorney general has absolutely no authority to step into litigation and purport to sign settlement agreements," said James Richardson, an attorney for Pope and Buchanan.

Richardson argued that the judge who approved the McMaster plan was misinformed over what role the state's chief prosecutor should play in such cases.

Under McMaster's deal, a professional manager took control of Brown's assets from the estate's

trustees, wiping out crushing debt — more than $20 million Brown had borrowed for a European comeback tour — and opening the way for thousands of needy students to receive full college scholarships. The plan allowed a financial manager to cut lucrative deals that put Brown's music on national and international commercials for such products as Chanel perfume and Gatorade.

Brown was renowned for making famous hundreds of iconic musical works including hits like "I Feel Good" and "A Man's World" and known internationally for his flashy performances and dynamic stage presence. But years of drug problems and financial mismanagement caused his estate to dwindle.

At the time of the settlement, the exact value of Brown's assets was not made public and attorneys said his accounts had little money in them. In 2008, some of his possessions were auctioned for $850,000, in part to pay down debt, and all agreed future income from music and movie royalties and the use of Brown's highly marketable likeness was what remained at stake.

Atlanta 'Housewife' says show promotes bullying

NEW YORK (AP) — It sounded like an impossible task: Write a play about gay marriage that can only have a few characters. Oh, and make it about 10 minutes long.

Such was the mission for nine playwrights that included Neil LaBute, Paul Rudnick, Doug Wright and Moises Kaufman.

They had been asked to write micro plays that were being compiled as "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays."

"It's a technical challenge on a lot of levels: you really want to land your points, you want to make your characters as full as possible and as quickly as possible. I enjoy that. There is almost a sort of comedy mathematics to it," says Rudnick, who wrote the plays "I Hate Hamlet" and "Jeffrey."

The resulting show begins previews at the Minetta Lane Theatre on Nov. 7 with an official opening night set for Nov. 13. Producers will donate a portion of all ticket sales to Freedom to Marry and other organizations promoting marriage equality.

The other playwrights are Mo Gaffney, Jordan Harrison, Jeffrey Hatcher, Wendy MacLeod and Jose Rivera. The cast includes Tony Award-winner Beth Leavel ("The Drowsy Chaperone"), Richard Thomas ("Race"), Craig Bierko ("The Music Man"), Mark Consuelos (TV's "All My Children"), Polly Draper ("thirtysomething") and Harriet Harris ("Thoroughly Modern Millie").

Freedom to Marry founder and president Evan Wolfson, who married his partner in New York last month, says he and members of his group are excited to have such a high level of talent involved and he hopes the work will spark conversation.

"I had the luck of finding my partner and being able to get married here where I live this year, but so many couples still can't do that and so many parents are not yet getting to dance at their kids' wedding," Wolfson says. "I want that for everyone. And that's what this kind of evening hopefully will help move us toward."

Producers plan a special evening when "Standing on Ceremony" debuts in New York. That night, more than 40 theaters in 25 states will also perform the play. An introduction and a post-performance Q&A will be streamed live from the Minetta Lane Theatre.

For the playwrights, who have collectively amassed two Pulitzer Prizes, four Obies, one Emmy Award and three Tony nominations, writing short and yet exploring such a big topic as gay marriage was daunting.

"The thing that I think was most challenging was not knowing what the other writers were tackling in their own work. I wanted to write a piece that addressed the issue without being redundant. Writing

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Actor Mark Consuelos attends the 29th Annual Cartier holiday window unveiling to kick off the holiday season in New York. Consuelos will star in "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays," which opens Nov. 13, 2011 at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York.

in a vacuum that way was very challenging," says Wright, who won a Pulitzer for "I Am My Own Wife" and adapted his latest small play from an actual Facebook thread.

"When I saw all the pieces together, I was stunned. I guess it's emblematic of what playwrights do — we're more interested in the human heart than we are any issue per se. And so many of the plays certainly speak to the heart of the issue but they also go beyond it to talk about the very nature of love and what it means to live in this very particular, very exotic culture."

The plays, which made their debut in Los Angeles this year and now have an open-ended run off-Broadway, come a few months after New York's decision to legalize gay marriage and the debut on Broadway of "8," a play about the legal battle over same-sex marriage in California

by Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black.

Two groups that oppose gay marriage, New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedom and the California-based Protect Marriage, did not respond to requests for comment.

Wright says the collection of short plays at the Minetta Lane will be very different from "8," which relied on court transcripts.

"I think the palette of our evening

is a really broad one because nine very different writers are bringing their own quirky sensibilities and their own life experiences to bear on the topic," he says.

Consuelos, who is married to "Live With Regis and Kelly" star Kelly Ripa, says he joined the project to help promote gay marriage in the 44 states where it is currently outlawed.

As a parent to three children, he says, "It's to show them that I stand for something. One group of people should not be discriminated against. And whenever that happens, to me that's when it becomes a moral issue."

The plays range from cute to funny, moving to sarcastic.

Rudnick wrote two pieces that illustrate the range: In one, a mother gently nags her son about tying the knot on the afternoon that gay marriage is made legal and in the other, "The Gay Agenda," an Ohio homemaker and member of the anti-marriage group Focus on the Family tries to explain her position.

"One of the benefits of an evening like this, of an assortment, is you get so many voices and points of view. So some of the plays are heartbreaking and some of them are more comic; some of them are just delicious. It's always surprising, which I think sometimes is rare in the theater," says Rudnick.

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In this undated image released by Bravo, Phaedra Parks and Sheree Whitfield, right, from "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," are shown in a scene from the series debuting Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011 at 9 p.m. EST on Bravo.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fans of Bravo's "Real Housewives" reality franchise often tune in for the catfights and drama, but one Atlanta housewife says the genre may encourage bullying.

"Unfortunately I do think that reality TV has spawned a whole culture of bullying," said Phaedra Parks in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I believe that the behavior you see on reality TV does not exactly exemplify how adults should be conducting themselves."

Highlights of the series, which has been replicated in seven cities across the country, include volatile tempers, verbal outbursts, name calling and allegations of mean tweeting — and who can for-

get the infamous New Jersey table flip seen 'round the world?

The last season of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" kicked off with a chaotic, physical altercation at a baby christening, while the new season in Beverly Hills, Calif., has focused on veteran castmates ganging up on and ostracizing new girl Brandi Glanville, going as far as hiding her crutches while she had a broken foot.

But Atlanta housewife and recording artist Kandi Burruss says bullying was around long before their hit TV franchise.

"A lot of people try to find reasons or ways to blame people or situations for their grief or sadness," Burruss

said. "Personally, I think reality TV is a mimic of what's happening in real life, not the other way around. People have always had arguments, and there's always been cliques."

Parks said she believes parents need to monitor what their children watch and insists that series like hers are not meant for young viewers.

She also said she thinks reality stars should set a better example.

"We have to say that violence is unacceptable," Parks said. "We have to learn to resolve our issues by communicating effectively."

Season 4 of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" premieres on Bravo on Nov. 6 at 9 p.m. Eastern time.

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NCAA changes aplenty after meetings

By Eric Ploch Campus Correspondent

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NCAA President Mark Emmert, right, talks with university presidents at Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics meeting in Washington.

Storm disrupts Huskies STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The unusual October snow storm that struck Connecticut over the weekend has become an unwanted distraction for the UConn football team as it prepares to host Syracuse this week.

Members of the team's coaching staff are among the hundreds of thousands of Connecticut residents without power. Coach Paul Pasqualoni said they have been focusing their time and energy on keeping their families safe and warm, and several have been living in hotels while waiting to have the power restored.

"You've got to take care of your family, that's for sure," he said.

"That certainly doesn't make this week of preparation any easier for us."

Pasqualoni said he has opened up the team's football complex to

the coaches' families to give them access to electricity and showers.

Meanwhile, the National Guard has been using part of the parking lot at the team's stadium, Rentschler Field in East Hartford, as a distribution point for emergency relief supplies. A similar operation in September in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene forced the program to postpone its season opener for two days.

But Col. John Whitford, a National Guard spokesman, said they are utilizing a more remote section of the former United Technologies airfield to ensure will not happen this week.

"We are set up at the end of one of the former UTC runways," he said. "We will not be impacting anything in regards to the UConn football game."

For Connecticut's players, the

storm proved to be less of a distraction. Only part of the Storrs campus lost power, and just for a few hours.

"Even though we haven't been affected, there's been a lot of people affected by this," receiver Kashif Moore said. "There's a lot of cold homes and people are going through a lot of stressful situations, so I think it will be a good distraction for the fans to come out to the game and hopefully watch us win."

Quarterback Johnny McEntee said he got involved in a snowball fight Sunday, and took some ribbing from students about his throwing ability.

"It's all fun," said McEntee, who is from California, and said he plans to move back after he graduates. "I think I'm going to go back to the warmth and the sun."

Last week was full of meetings for various coaches and members of the NCAA Basketball Committee across the nation, as two main changes took place that could significantly alter the landscape of college basketball. The NCAA decided to crack down and propose NCAA tournament bans for schools not meeting the appropriate APR standards. In addition, new NCAA recruiting rules were proposed.

According to ESPN, it is believed the new rules could change recruiting for players after Jan. 1 of their junior year, in which coaches could then allow proposed prospects to come on official visits. The committee also looks into taking an approach similar to football, where evaluation opportunities are available as is a block of time devoted to recruitment.

In another important change, schools will urge the NCAA to

allow for the payment of two guardians to go with recruits on official visits, unlike the current system where the school only pays for the athlete.

The major issue addressed is an overall increase in communication between prospective student athletes and coaches.

Whether it is on the phone, email or even Twitter, coaches now want access to recruits after June 15 of their sophomore year.

In what seems to be more urgent news to UConn, the Committee on Academic performance decided to raise Academic Progress Rate from 900 to 930 over a four-year period. In addition, if a team misses this deadline, it will be prohibited from participating in the NCAA tournament. Set to go into effect in 2013, the UConn men’s basketball program could find themselves in trouble when trying to get into the Big Dance next year.

“What we are proposing would not go into effect until

the following year (201213),” said Walt Harrison, the University of Hartford president and chairman of the Committee on Academic Performance. “We are trying to change behavior, so we have to give people time to adjust.”

The latter could be a good sign for the Huskies as they may be given a few more years to raise their average. In addition, sources have speculated that the four-year average may be reduced to a two-year average in order to avoid punishing student-athletes who may not have been present at the school when the first of the four years occurred.

NCAA President Mark Emmert also said that he looks to add the same rule to college football, so that a team under the proposed 930 average would be deemed bowlineligible.

Eric.Ploch@UConn.edu

Calhoun reminisces about playing days at AIC from START, page 14 “Offensively, we hope to run the ball and play UConn basketball,” Shabazz Napier said.

“It’s going be a little rusty at the beginning,” said Alex Oriakhi. “Guys are going to be a little nervous, especially the freshman.” Oriakhi, along with Lamb, was named a preseason candidate for the Wooden Award.

Andre Drummond, who broke his nose and had a concussion in practice last week, is questionable for tonight’s game.

Drummond did non-contact drills in practice Tuesday. He is expected to get fitted for the mask at noon today, and it will be a game-time decision as to whether he plays.

“If we get the mask fitted and it feels good on him, we’ll try to get him some work tomorrow night,” Calhoun said.

Enosch Wolf, who is also battling an injury, practiced and will dress tonight. Freshman walk-on Brandon Allen, will likely see time tonight.

The Yellow Jackets are coming off a 20-8 season in the NCAA’s Division II. AIC made it to the East Region quarterfinals last year. The Huskies have beaten the Yellow Jackets four times in exhibition games, sporting a 4-0 record with wins in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Of course, when AIC comes to town, coach Jim Calhoun takes on his alma mater.

Calhoun graduated from AIC in 1968 where he was a two-time All-New England selection and a team captain for the Yellow Jackets basketball team.

On Dec. 1, 1964, AIC came to Storrs for a regular season game at the old Fieldhouse. Calhoun led the Yellow Jackets with 27 points in a 98-67 loss. Toby Kimball led all scorers with 30

points, and grabbed 28 rebounds in the Huskies’ win.

Calhoun said that Kimball gave him eight stitches in the contest, and UConn was much better than AIC. He also said the bleachers at the old Fieldhouse were extremely hard (he found out the hard way diving for a loose ball). Although Calhoun has memories in an AIC uniform playing against his current team, Oriakhi said he hasn’t passed those stories down to the players.

“No he really hasn’t,” Oriakhi said. “He just tells us about the players he’s coached, he never told us about him playing.”

Oriakhi said it is odd to think of his coach during his playing days.

“Yes it’s very weird because when you picture Calhoun, you picture a coach, not a player,” Oriakhi said.

Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu

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Mets bring in Citi Field fences, eye power surge

NEW YORK (AP) — While not exactly tearing down this wall, the New York Mets are putting up a new fence at Citi Field that's shorter and closer to home plate.

In an effort to boost scoring at the pitcher-friendly ballpark, the Mets announced Monday they are cutting the field dimensions by as much as 12 feet next season, lowering the fence height to 8 feet all around and changing the fence color to blue with an orange line at the top.

"We're targeting to try to fit in, to be more normal or more on average with everybody," Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon said.

During their first offseason comments, the Mets said it was too soon to tell whether they would be competitive to re-sign free agent Jose Reyes. General manager Sandy Alderson said he expected David Wright will remain with the Mets next season.

The new fence will be erected in front of the ballpark's daunting 16-foot black fence, which became known as "The Great Wall of Flushing."

"You just keep looking at that thing, and that left-field wall kept getting higher and higher,"

Alderson said.

According to STATS LLC, Citi Field was last in the major leagues in home runs during its first three seasons with an average of 1.43 per game. The ballpark's 3.78 ERA was the sixthlowest in the major leagues.

"Was Citi Field my favorite park to hit in? I'd be lying to you if I said it was," Wright said in comments made through the Mets. "Sure it was frustrating when you hit a ball good and you didn't get the results."

Right-center field is being brought in from 415 feet to 398, although the new sign doesn't match up with the same angle as the old one. Left field comes in from 371 to 358 — with about 100 seats being added behind the new fence in left.

The "Mo's Zone" fence in right field is being pulled in, but still leaving an overhang from the second deck. About 40 additional seats will be in that area.

"I think it's going to be good for everybody," outfielder Jason Bay said through the Mets. "I think cutting down on the space in the outfield will help improve the defense which in turn should help the pitching."

Alderson, hired a year ago,

revised the dimensions recommended by his predecessor, Omar Minaya.

"We didn't want to completely alter the ballpark and make it into the proverbial bandbox," Alderson said. "So that required looking at various dimensions and coming up with something based on home-run rates and park factors and so forth that was more or less neutral as between pitching and hitting, somewhere in the middle of all the ballparks."

Wright hit .279 at home with 22 homers, 103 RBIs and 179 strikeouts in the first three seasons at Citi Field, down from a .335 average at home with 37 homers, 118 RBIs and 105 strikeouts in the final three years at Shea Stadium.

"I don't want to give you the impression that we've done this for David or we've done this for Ike (Davis) or we've done this for anybody in particular," Alderson said. "It's really about having a more neutral ballpark and maybe to even some extent, given that I think offense is exciting for many fans, maybe it will be slightly more entertaining."

Alderson said the Mets projected they would have hit 81 more home runs at Citi Field

over the last three seasons with the new dimensions and could have given up 70 more. During three years at Citi Field, there were only nine opposite-field home runs by left-handed hitters — and none by the Mets.

"One explanation is we just haven't had any left-handed hitters that are strong enough to hit it out there," Alderson said.

"Another explanation is that our left-handed power hitters have just decided that's not a good percentage and have more or less given up on that possibility."

Alderson compared the changes to the ones at Detroit's Comerica Park, where the average increased from 0.80 home runs from 2000-02 to 1.06 since, according to STATS LLC. After the 2002 season, the left-center field wall was moved from 395 to 370 feet.

Alderson said pitching coach Dan Warthen supported the changes.

"His point was maybe our pitchers got a little complacent here and it had an affect on the road as well," Alderson said, "so he felt that these dimensions, that they were fair, would force our guys to maybe bear down a little more here than they have."

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Coco Crisp leaps to make a ctach against the high Citi Field wall on June 21, 2011.

Toss Up? Will Albert Pujols return to the St. Louis Cards?

By Ryan Curto Campus Correspondent It’s official. Another year of Major League Baseball is over, and another champion has been crowned. The St. Louis Cardinals will enjoy a satisfying offseason, as they added yet another tally to their collection of World Series titles. However, with the season ending not even a week ago, the offseason has already proven to be eventful. The Boston Red Sox have been at the center of discussion, as they lost their manager, Terry Francona, and General Manager Theo Epstein went to the Chicago Cubs. The New York Yankees have made headlines as well by successfully re-signing All-Star pitcher CC Sabathia. But the newly crowned World Series champs are dealing with the most serious problems. Manager Tony La Russa retired from the Cardinals after 15 seasons, and left the team with a pair of empty shoes that will be very difficult to fill.

However, La Russa has taken a backseat to another problem the Cardinals face this offseason. Albert Pujols, the Cardinals’ first basemen and baseball’s best hitter, declared for free agency after winning the World Series. It is not too farfetched to think that next season, Pujols will be sporting a different uniform.

Since joining the league in 2001, Pujols has perennially led the league in multiple hitting categories. In only 10 seasons, he has already put up numbers that are Hallof-Fame worthy. He has 445 home runs, a .328 lifetime batting average and over 2,000 hits. It is evident that, with a bat in his hands, Pujols is quite possibly the most devastating player in baseball.

The ability he has to produce at the plate has become a cornerstone to the success of the Cardinals in recent years.

Unfortunately, his ability to put up “video-game” statistics year after year is also a reason why Pujols may not return to St. Louis next season. For many teams in the league,

Pujols becomes the most eyeopening free agent in years.

There is no doubt that he will receive multiple, highpriced offers, as everybody in baseball understands the tremendous skill set he has.

While it is too early to dissect which teams will push to sign Pujols, two things are for certain: he will receive offers, and the Cardinals will fight to re-sign him.

This is not to say that Pujols is definitely leaving St. Louis.

After all, the Cardinals have been very good to him. The city of St. Louis loves him, and he has won two championships since being there. It seems that it would be difficult for Pujols to leave behind his loving fans and championship-caliber team. However, it is possible that free agency will place Albert Pujols in a place outside the walls of Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

For now, Pujols is not a St. Louis Cardinal, and we will have to wait and see if it stays that way.

Ryan.Curto@UConn.edu

Zielinski: La Russa enjoys a perfect ending to career

from RETIRING, page 14 At the simplest level, it means a halt in consistent paychecks. Of course, money can’t buy happiness, but at the same time, no one has said it doesn’t help the cause. From an athletic perspective, for both coaches and players, a similar parallel exists. For these individuals, perhaps the loss of money is at a greater extent.

However, the core ingredients of diminishing leadership and loss of friendships and connection still exist, and it is no easier for an athlete than your everyday individual. Demonstrating an even greater degree of loss, the sports world fosters a sense of competition that cannot be imitated by everyday life. Unquestionably, this unrequited love of competition and passion for one’s team is not an easy hurdle to overcome, and causes some individuals to hold on longer than they should.

Considering the aforementioned situation brings one glaring example to mind: Brett Favre.

Favre, a former NFL quarterback, is known as one of the greatest all-time NFL quarterbacks, holding countless records exemplifying his impact on the game.

Unfortunately, Favre has recently

become synonymous with disdain and displeasure from players and fans alike due to his inability to walk away from a game he helped to define. Following his initial retirement, Favre decided he hadn’t had enough, and signed with the New York Jets.

Long-time fans were far from excited about this development, but understood to some degree Favre’s love for the game, and how hard it was for him to walk away. Yet, in an unprecedented move, Favre signed the next year with the Minnesota Vikings, a Green Bay divisional rival, nearly erasing the entire support from former Packers fans. More recently, Favre even made backhanded remarks about current Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers, which has only hurt his reputation further. Favre may have had his reasons, many of which most of us will never understand. Tarnishing a legacy like Favre’s at one time seemed an impossible thing to do, but he found a way to do so, and will never be cherished in the hearts of fans like he once was.

Reflecting on the potential damage of holding on for too long, especially as shown by Favre, cements La Russa’s decision not only as sound, but the right deci-

sion. La Russa has had a glorified career as a manager, winning the World Series three times – once in the AL and twice in the NL – making him one of only two managers to accomplish the feat. Further, La Russa redefined the game, and instilled passion in his players at a level many managers only wish to reach. In a sports environment where every move is thrust under the microscope, La Russa has shown great poise, making his decision more understandable.

Although he is the only manager to retire after winning the World Series, La Russa’s retirement is far from the “Barry Sanders” retirement. In other words, La Russa may be stepping away from the game, but he left nothing on the table, and had nothing left to prove. Undoubtedly, retirement will continue to be a tough obstacle, both in sports and in society.

Yet, as La Russa has illustrated, if it is handled with poise and humility, retirement can provide clarity and satisfaction that one’s career never could. Yes, all good things must end, but no one forgets a perfect ending.

Christopher.Zielinski@UConn.edu

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By David Marinstein Campus Correspondent The baseball season is officially over. The St. Louis Cardinals shocked the world.

After being nearly 10 games back in the NL wild card standings at the beginning of September, the Cardinals made a historic comeback to make the playoffs (thanks, in large part, to a historic collapse by the Atlanta Braves).

The Cardinals’ magic continued into the postseason, as they defeated the team with the best record in baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies, followed by the powerful Milwaukee Brewers. Then, they defeated the Texas Rangers in the World Series. It truly was a magical autumn for the team. But now that the season has ended, they must focus on a major issue. Cardinals’ first baseman Albert Pujols is largely considered to be the best player in the game of baseball today. After being unable to come to a deal with the superstar in the preseason, St. Louis must conjure a new contract for him soon or

risk losing him to free agency.

After 11 seasons as a Cardinal and two World Series victories, expect Pujols to return.

Ever since coming onto the scene in 2001, Pujols has been a big name. The guy can do it all. He can hit for contact and power, field and straight up win. He’s won numerous awards, including the NL MVP three times, the Silver Slugger six times, the Gold Glove twice and being named to the NL All-Star team nine times. The guy is a huge asset to the St. Louis Cardinals, and they’d be foolish to let him walk away.

And why would the guy walk away? Well, consider the following. Pujols rejected a number of offers from the Cardinals in the offseason.

They tried to work something out, but nothing seemed to satisfy the slugger. Teams such as the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox are always in play when there’s a big free agent, and they could without a doubt sign him. But Pujols has no reason (besides maybe the money) to leave St. Louis.

The Cardinals’ fans love him

and essentially consider him to be a god. He’s the most beloved sports figure in the city, and him leaving would be a crushing blow. After a World Series victory with a very talented team, it’d be foolish for him to walk away. The Cardinals seem to put a championship contender on the field each year. You can rest assured that General Manager John Mozeliak has been up day and night looking to find a way to please Sir Albert and his wish of a 10-year, $23 million per year contract.

After so much success this season, it’d be a poor decision for Albert Pujols to leave the St. Louis Cardinals. The club consists of savvy, hard-hitting veterans, and loads of young, talented players who showed a lot of promise this postseason (point to David Freese). St. Louis is one of the most historic baseball cities in America, and you can expect more history to be made there, with Albert Pujols on board, over the next decade.

total of the places that a school’s top five runners finish in. The gap between first and second was quite large as well, as Georgetown finished with 94 total points.

UConn’s top finisher, co-captain Nick Aguila, finished 41st overall with a time of 24:41.6 and was the only Husky in the top 50.

He was followed by sophomore Ryan McGuire in 57th and fellow co-captain Scott Johnson rounded out the UConn top-three by finishing 62nd overall.

Eight of the nine runners for the Huskies finished in the top

100 of the total 123 runners that were participating this weekend.

The Big East Championship’s top finisher this year was senior Eric Finan of Cincinnati with a time of 23:17.7. Cincinnati finished eighth overall in the competition with 218 points.

Last year’s champion, Syracuse, came in fourth with 97 points.

Next up for the men will be the NCAA Northeast Regional Saturday, November 12 in Buffalo, N.Y.

David.Marinstein@UConn.edu

Huskies take 10th at Big East

By Darryl Blain Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s cross country team finished 10th out of 14 schools in the 2011 Big East Championships Saturday in Louisville, Ky., as Villanova took the first-place title this year. It was the third straight year UConn finished 10th.

The Huskies finished with 274 points, 231 points behind Villanova’s first-place score of 43.

The points system is based on the

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McDonough: For first time in college, the women's team is not favored to win it all from "BAD", page 14 For the first time since I’ve been in Storrs, UConn is not favored to win the National Championship.

In fact, the Huskies are picked to finish behind Notre Dame in the Big East.

The last three years, jokes have been made about how invincible and unbeatable UConn was.

For two of those seasons they were, in fact, perfect. But last year, the Huskies lost to Stanford in December to end their 90-game winning streak. They started another streak that lasted until April, but the Fighting Irish shocked UConn in the Final Four, denying them of a third consecutive title.

Geno Auriemma did one of his best coaching jobs ever last year, although it didn’t earn him an

eighth title. Auriemma lost Tina Charles to graduation and Doty to injury, and still only lost on the court twice last year with Moore at the reigns and freshmen developing under her. If Auriemma could lead the Huskies back to the mountaintop this season without Moore, and with some questions heading into the year, it could be his best coaching job ever.

But it will be a tough task.

Skylar Diggins is ready to be the face of women’s basketball, and Notre Dame will try to avenge last year’s title game loss to Texas A&M. The No. 2 Irish are behind Brittney Griner and No. 1 Baylor, who are also searching for their program’s second championship.

Rival Tennessee returns talented sophomore guard Meighan Simmons, pitting the Lady Vols

ahead of No. 4 UConn at the three-spot. Stanford rounds out the top five in an ultra-competitive field.

This season could make us long for the days when every win came easy, we were always the first highlight on Sportscenter and we were the top dogs, instead of underdogs below Notre Dame, in our own conference.

Time flies by quickly. You truly don’t always know how special something is until it ends. When your comfort level is gone, you need to find out what you’re really made of.

Maybe the women’s basketball team feels this way.

As a college senior, I know I do.

Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu

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The Daily Question Q : “Who is the team to beat in the AFC?” A : “There isn’t one. There are literally eight contenders.”

Next Paper’s Question:

Who is the team to beat in the NFC?

–Ben Allain, 9th-semester actuarial science major.

» That’s what he said

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“Pitching, pitching, pitching. That will be the main thrust.”

Football (3-5)

Home: Rentschler Field, East Hartford Nov. 5 Syracuse Noon

Nov. 19 Louisville TBA

Nov. 26 Rutgers TBA

Dec. 3 Cincinnati 12 p.m.

Men’s Basketball (0-0)

Home: Gampel Pavilion, XL Center Today Nov. 6 Nov. 11 AIC C.W. Post Columbia (exhibition) (exhibition) 7 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

1 p.m.

Nov. 14 Wagner 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 20 Maine 7 p.m.

- Yankees GM Brian Cashman on the team’s needs after re-signing with the organization.

» NFL

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Brian Cashman

» Pic of the day

Scream.

Women’s Basketball (0-0) Home: Gampel Pavilion, XL Center

Tomorrow Nov. 9 Nov. 15 Nov. 13 Nov. 21 Assumption Pace Pacific Holy Cross Stanford (exhibition) (exhibition) 2 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

7 p.m.

Men’s Soccer (14-2-2) Tomorrow Big East Tournament DePaul, TBA

Field Hockey (16-1) Nov. 4 Big East Tournament Semifinals Louisville, 12:30 p.m.

Men’s Ice Hockey (3-2-1) Nov. 4 Nov. 5 Mercyhurst Mercyhurst 7:05 p.m. 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 12 AIC 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 16 Sacred Heart 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 19 Yale 7 p.m.

Women’s Ice Hockey (1-7-2) Nov. 4 Nov. 5 Nov. 12 Northeastern Northeastern Providence 7 p.m.

4 p.m.

1 p.m.

Nov. 19 BU 3 p.m.

Nov. 20 Vermont 2 p.m.

Men’s Swimming & Diving Nov. 5 Army Noon

Nov. 18, 19, 20 Pitt Invite All Day

Nov. 12 Penn Noon

Women’s Swimming & Diving Nov. 5 Army Noon

Nov. 12 Penn Noon

Nov. 18, 19, 20 Pitt Invite All Day

Volleyball (13-12) Nov. 4 Nov. 6 West Virginia Pittsburgh 7 p.m.

2 p.m.

Nov. 12 Rutgers 2 p.m.

TBA Nov. 13 Big East Seton Hall Tournament 2 p.m.

TBA

Men’s Cross Country Nov. 12 NCAA Northeast TBA

Nov. 21 NCAA Champs.

TBA

Women’s Cross Country Nov. 12 NCAA Northeast TBA

Nov. 21 NCAA Champs.

TBA

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Wearing Halloween masks, players for the Kansas City Chiefs celebrate their 23-20 overtime win in an NFL football game against the San Diego Chargers, Tuesday.

THE Storrs Side Lamb tabbed as pre-season AllAmerican, other Huskies honored

By Andrew Callahan Senior Staff Writer Just before his upcoming exhibition match with AIC, sophomore guard Jeremy Lamb was named as one of five Associated Press preseason All-Americans. The squad is named by a panel of 65 media members who also selected Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger, North Carolina’s Harrison Barnes, Wisconsin’s Jordan Taylor and Kentucky’s Terrence Jones.

Lamb averaged over 11 points and 4.5 rebounds during last year’s national title run, while maintaining a field goal percentage just under 49 percent. He shot nearly 80 percent from the free throw line, third best on the team. Junior teammate Alex Oriahki, who also received votes, was selected to the All-Big East second team.

Entering just his second year in Storrs, Lamb was previously named to the All-Big East first team. Four of the five named AllAmericans are sophomores while the Badger point guard Taylor stands as the lone senior. Lamb and the Huskies will open their 201112 season with an exhibition game

against American International College tonight at Gampel Pavilion beginning at 7:30.

In honor of her stellar performance during the most critical weekend of the UConn volleyball season, junior Kelsey Maving has been named the Big East Player of the Week. Snagging a program-record 40 digs in her team’s five-set win over Notre Dame Saturday, Maving led the Huskies to an eventual weekend sweep.

Following UConn’s 3-1 set victory over DePaul, Maving racked up 66 digs and tallied a total of 478 on the season. Her 5.31 per set average is third best in the conference. It was the second time in three weeks a Husky has been named the Big East volleyball Player of the Week.

Senior back Jestine Angelini of the No. 4 field hockey team was named the Big East Defensive Player of the Week last Monday.

The three-year starter recently led a shutout effort for the Huskies against Rutgers, a win that clinched a regular-season championship. She also added a goal and two assists in the UConn win.

Andrew.J.Callahan@UConn.edu

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DETROIT (AP) — Ndamukong Suh got his wish.

Detroit’s star defensive tackle met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and his staff Tuesday to clarify questions about his play and the game.

“I have gained a better understanding how I need to continue to play the game to help my team win,” Suh said in a statement. “I look forward to the rest of the season and doing everything we can to bring the Lombardi Trophy to Detroit.”

Detroit, aiming for its first postseason appearance this century, is 6-2 for the first time since 2007 and next plays Nov. 13 at Chicago. The Lions haven’t won an NFL title since 1956, but Suh and his teammates are playing and talking with a lot of swagger these days.

Suh requested the bye-week session in New York at NFL headquarters to talk about the flags and fines he has received. He was joined by Lions coach Jim Schwartz and team president Tom Lewand, according to Goodell.

The league said senior vice president of football operations Ray Anderson, football operations consultant Jeff Fisher, vice president of officiating Carl Johnson and vice president of football operations Merton Hanks represented the NFL during the session.

“Ndamukong plays the game with great skill and passion and is a major reason for the Lions’ success this year,” Goodell said in a statement.

“In the course of our dialogue today, we reviewed video showing that Ndamukong has clearly made the adjustments to play consistently within the rules so that he can continue to help the team. We commend Ndamukong’s leadership in taking the initiative to schedule today’s meeting.”

Suh’s rough play has led to $42,500 in fines since Detroit drafted him No. 2 overall out of Nebraska in 2009.

In August, he was fined a third time for roughing up a third quarterback in less than a year after grabbing Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton and throwing him to the turf after he had gotten rid of the ball. Suh vowed back then he wouldn’t “by any means” change his game. He was fined twice last year for hits on Chicago’s Jay Cutler during the regular season and Cleveland’s Jake Delhomme in a preseason game. He shoved Cutler hard and high in the back and twisted Delhomme’s face mask and slammed him to the ground.

Suh has been able to absorb the financial hits, making $40 million guaranteed with a chance to get paid as much as $68 million in his five-year contract.

He previously expressed sympathy for officials who try to determine if he’s playing within the rules.

THE Pro Side Scripts flipped as Oilers are hot and Bruins are not

By Jimmy Onofrio Staff Writer The past week has seen a number of NHL teams strengthen their standing, while others continue to slide.

This week featured a number of exciting games, notably Winnipeg’s 9-8 shootout win over Philadelphia. Entering the sixth week of the season, who’s hot and who’s not?

Hot: Edmonton Oilers After starting 2-2-2, the Oilers have won five straight, including a victory over leagueleading Washington. As the winners of five straight, any early worries seem to have gone away. Edmonton’s only concern seems to be offense: its two goal per game average is good for 25th in the league.

However, Russian goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin is 5-0-2 in seven starts, posting a 1.1 goalsagainst average. Edmonton will begin a six-game road trip Thursday against some middle of the pack teams, and will look to continue its success there.

Not: Boston Bruins Sorry Boston fans, but if any parallels are to be drawn between the Bruins’ start and the Red Sox, this may not be your year. The problems are numerous. They average just 2.1 goals per game, placing them near the bottom of the league. And that’s just the beginning. Checking in at 3-7, the Bruins can’t seem to win a shootout. Starting 2-5 on home ice isn’t a good sign either. Six of their next seven will be at home, too. But games against Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton and Buffalo will challenge the Bruins to dig themselves out of this hole.

Boston, coming off its 2011 Stanley Cup championship, will need to turn the tide if there is any hope of a repeat in the “Hub of Hockey” in the summer of 2012.

James.Onofrio@UConn.edu

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P.13: Suh to talk to Goodell. / P.12: Mets bring in fences at Citi Field. / P.11: Snow storm a distraction for UConn football.

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Huskies take on AIC in exhibition, Drummond to be game-time decision

By Colin McDonough Associate Sports Editor

Colin McDonough As much as I wanted my senior year to move slowly, I’ve been anxiously anticipating this UConn men’s basketball season so much that I’m relieved it’s finally upon us.

Thinking about watching the reloaded defending national champions should give everyone on campus goose bumps.

After last year’s indescribable run to the Huskies’ third National Championship in 2011, it was sure to be a thrilling repeat attempt in 2012. Add a stellar recruiting class, including late–arrival Andre Drummond, the return of Jim Calhoun and a No. 4 preseason ranking, and this could be one of the most enjoyable seasons to watch in UConn basketball history. But we shouldn’t be only excited for the opportunity to watch the Huskies attempt to make a third Final Four in four years, or win back-to-back National Titles.

We should be excited to watch a team this winter that didn’t win the National Championship last year.

I don’t think I’ve ever been this energized for the UConn women’s basketball team’s season.

Like Kemba Walker, Maya Moore is also gone. But like the men’s team, the women’s team also reloaded. The Huskies added Brianna Banks, Kiah Stokes and Kaleena MosquedaLewis, while also having Caroline Doty return from injury. Tiffany Hayes is the only senior on the team, and we’ll be able to see if she can be the team leader this year. Watching these players and the rest of the team compete should get the campus ready for this season, but at least for me, I’m eager for another reason.

» MCDONOUGH, page 12

Retiring with Grace

By Chris Zielinski Sports and Society Columnist As the saying goes, all good things must end. A statement applicable both in sports and society, it was especially relevant when Tony La Russa, manager of the World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals, retired from Major League Baseball after 33 dedicated years of service.

Although La Russa’s decision was a surprise to fans and players alike, it is a move that speaks to the understanding and passion La Russa had for the game. Arguably one of the best managers of all time, La Russa’s most recent managerial triumph was his finest, transforming what seemed to be a down-and-out Cardinals team to an inspired title winner in barely a month. Recognizing this feat, and quite possibly that he had nothing left to achieve, La Russa’s decision to retire from the game is a commendable one, and one the sports world and society at large should learn from.

Retiring is hardly easy, and can more often be characterized as a struggle. For most individuals, it means giving up a career that took years to build. It may require giving up a highly esteemed leadership position and the corresponding sense of pride that comes with it. Likewise, it often means a loss of connection with friends and colleagues that took years to construct, making it increasingly harder to do as the years go by.

» ZIELINSKI, page 12

The No. 4 UConn men’s basketball team will hit the floor for its first game since defeating Butler April 4 in Houston to win the National Championship. The Huskies will take on American International College at Gampel Pavilion at 7:30 p.m in an exhibition game.

Jeremy Lamb will be headlining UConn, fresh off being named to the AP preseason All-American team on Monday.

“I think I heard about it yesterday,” Lamb said. “I can’t say it’s surprising.

0-0, 0-0 It’s a good accomplishment and something that makes you work harder.”

The last time Lamb played he scored 12 second-half points to lead the Huskies past the Bulldogs and onto the podium holding the National 0-0, 0-0 Championship trophy. He Tonight, 7:30 said the offseason went p.m. Gampel quickly.

“It’s definitely creeped Pavilion up,” Lamb said. “It’s crazy. It seemed like last season was just over. It came so fast.”

This game will be a much different setting than the Final Four at Reliant Stadium. But that doesn’t mean UConn won’t have focus and intensity on the court.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

VS.

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Alex Oriakhi dunks in practice Friday. The junior captain and the Huskies take the floor for the first time this season against AIC tonight.

» CALHOUN, page 12

Huskies wrap up fall at Connecticut Championships

By Mike Corasaniti Campus Correspondent

opening–round match to Yale’s Patrick Chase 6-2, 6-4.

Ricardo Cardona also did well by making it to the finals The UConn men’s tennis of the consolation bracket team performed strongly at the where he fell in a tie-breaker Cullman-Heyman tennis facil- to Quinnipiac’s J.C. Petrini ity in New Haven to conclude 6-2, 4-6 10-6. its solid fall season, in Lastly, in his spite of being dominatfinal collegiate ed by the Yale Bulldogs tournament, Jai in the Connecticut Yoon defeated Championships this Quinnipiac’s Ben weekend.

Shapiro in a draThe Huskies’ highmatic fashion with lights in singles came a 5-7, 6-1 10-7 from Wei Lin. Lin win before falling defeated Fairfield’s to Sacred Heart’s R.J. Mirabile 6-4, 6-2 » Notebook Chad Sullo 6-4, before dramatically 7-5. falling to the eventual UConn’s Scott tournament champion, Yale’s Warden, Ryan Carr, Peter Daniel Hoffman, in a 6-7, 7-6 Surovic and Teddy Margules match that ended in a 12-10 were also in action for singles tiebreaker. Lin went on to win this weekend. three straight and earn a spot In doubles, Yoon and in the finals of the consola- Margules made it to the second tion bracket against teammate round before dropping a 9-7 Jacob Spreyer, who lost his decision to Yale’s Joel Samaha

»MEN’S TENNIS

and John Huang, the eventual doubles champions.

The duo of Carr and Cardona turned out to have UConn’s only success against Yale when they grabbed an 8-4 win over Tommy Ratchford and Zachary Krumholz. Carr and Cardona would go on to lose their next match.

The duos of Warden and Spreyer and Lin and Surovic were also in action this weekend.

The Connecticut Championsips were the end of a strong fall season for the Huskies in which the improvement could be seen from the senior captain to the promising freshmen. The Huskies will return to action in the spring when they will look to build on the progress they made this fall.

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Junior Wei Lin shows off his forehand during the fall season. UConn moves on to the spring.

Big East to invite Boise State, five others

AP

Kellen Moore, seen here against Air Force on Oct. 22, will never play in the Big East, but his Boise State Broncos were invited along with the Falcons to be conference members.

PHILADELPHIA (AP)—The Big East is ready to start adding members after spending the last month and a half losing them.

A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press the Big East will invite Boise State, Navy and Air Force for football only and SMU, Houston and Central Florida for all sports in upcoming days. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the conference was not ready to announce its plan.

Commissioner John Marinatto declined to elaborate on the Big East’s next moves after meeting with the league’s presidents at a Philadelphia hotel Tuesday.

He said he expected the targeted schools to accept, but details still must be worked out with each.

“As we’ve learned over the last two months, don’t believe anything anybody tells you.

Nothing’s done until it is over.

So I’m obviously being very cautious and that’s why I’m reluctant to say names of schools,” he said.

Marinatto did acknowledge the

league intends to expand west.

Boise State and Air Force, both in the Mountain West Conference, and SMU and Houston, members of Conference USA, would be in the Big East’s western division, along with Louisville and Cincinnati. Navy, an independent, and UCF, also from CUSA, would be part of the league’s eastern division with Connecticut, South Florida, Rutgers and another school. The league would then likely play a conference championship game.

The Big East has been working on a plan to add those six schools and reconfigure as a 12-team football conference since not long after Syracuse and Pittsburgh announced Sept. 18 they would be leaving for the Atlantic Coast Conference.

“We got reaffirmation from our members that that was the way we wanted to go,” Marinatto said.

“It was probably a very small part of our meeting today, where they just reaffirmed everything we had been talking about and authorized

me to move forward with formal discussions to get this all wrapped up as soon as possible.”

Exactly when was unclear.

“We have not received an invitation from the Big East.

However, we understand the things are moving in that direction,” UCF spokesman Grant Heston said.

Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said Tuesday he had not yet heard from any Big East officials.

A couple weeks after the Big East found out about Pitt and Syracuse, TCU announced it was backing out of a commitment to join the league next year and instead accepted an invite to the Big 12.

Then last week West Virginia accepted an invitation to the Big 12, stripping the Big East of its most successful football member in recent years. So even with the six potential new members, the Big East still needs another school to get to 12 for the long term.