The Daily Campus: November 28, 2012

Volume CXIX No. 71

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McMahon dining hall hours to change

By Samm Roberts Campus Correspondent

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COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: RECORD POWERBALL RESULT OF CHANGES TO BOOST SALES Jackpot boosted to $500 millon, Tuesday.

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Starting next semester, the hours at McMahon’s dining facility will change as the hall will no longer be open in the early afternoon.

The decision was made following an observed increase of popularity at the dining hall, as the number of students has trippled since the recent renovation.

C. Dennis Pierce, the Director of Dining Services, said that the original plan was to employ the new hours on Monday, November 26, but they will be implemented in the spring semester instead.

“We can’t go out there and make this change and have students not know,” he said. “It’s just not a good time to do something like that.”

He explained that students needed to know that there would be a change and that in order to give them more time to spread the word, they were postponing the change until January.

“See, we’re kind of switching the hours around,” Pierce said, “and we need students to realize that there is a trade-off.”

South Dining Hall, which is

currently closed during the lunch hours from 2:15 p.m. until 4:30 p.m., will be open during these hours come January.

“There will be a window between 2:15 and 3:45 p.m. that McMahon will be closed,” Pierce said. “But South will no longer be closed.”

When asked about the new hours being put into place for the spring, many students were disgruntled.

“Well, that’s kind of annoying,” said Evan Winebrenner, a sophomore living at McMahon.

“Because that’s normally when I eat, is right during those times. At least, this semester it is. But I don’t know about next semester yet.”

“Sometimes that hour in between the meals is the only time I have to eat,” said Thomas Musler, who lives off-campus but often eats at McMahon. “I’ll have to go elsewhere, or else pay for my own food.”

Other students had mixed feelings about how the change would affect their eating habits.

“Well I don’t really care that much,” said Oscar Herrera, a finance student also living at McMahon. “I mean, they have

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Students make themselves sandwiches at McMahon dining hall on Tuesday afternoon. The hours at McMahon will change beginning in the spring.

good food sometimes, but I’m not always here anyway.”

“I usually eat somewhere else anyway,” said Mike Kolman, an accounting major. “So it doesn’t really bother me.”

Still, with the popularity of McMahon’s dining facilities

UConn alum makes New York Times crosswords

By Christopher Kelly Campus Correspondent A UConn School of Engineering graduate, Tim Croce ’05, has made crosswords his passion. Having completed them since he was a child with his mother and grandparents, Croce now makes his own puzzles to submit to the New York Times for publication.

The NYT accepts submissions for the crosswords it publishes each day of the week.

The puzzles become progressively more difficult from Monday to Sunday. Croce, 29, an environmental engineer for the city of Pittsfield, Mass., has published on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Contributors are paid $200 for each puzzle, except for the more complex Sunday puzzle which earns $1000. Saturdays are Croce’s specialty, according to Will Shortz, NYT puzzle editor.

“This means it’s really, really hard. Only the most expert solvers can probably do it,”

he said.

Using a combination of logic and knowledge of words, Croce puts together his puzzles with a sort of system.

He does not repeat clues and begins with something interesting.

“UConn fueled my competitive fire.”

– Tim Croce UConn ‘05 alum

“I’ll just hear a current, fresh word or a phrase on the news, so I’ll put it at 1 Across,” Croce said.

To fill in difficult spaces Croce uses a computer program where he types in what letters he has and it gener-

ates possible words. Creating these puzzles can be much more difficult than it sounds however, and he admits that some puzzles he has not been able to finish for months or even years. And despite all of his effort, there is no guarantee that the newspaper will accept his puzzle. Of the 70 or so puzzles he has created, about 50 of them have not been published.

To deal with the rejection and to continue making the puzzles, Croce has to have a competitive spirit that urges him on. He attributes this spirit to his time at UConn.

“UConn fueled my competitive fire. You couldn’t just get by in the competitive UConn School of Engineering – you had to have a competitive spirit that made you stick out and not get lost. The rigor of the program didn’t let you graduate without knowing that you could thrive in a competitive environment,” said Croce.

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increasing, the changes were only logical.

Pierce said that, while the hours usually change for the fall semester, this was a necessary change that couldn’t wait.

“There’s a greater participation at the dining unit,” he said, “and

that, along with the other factors, called for the change now.”

McMahon will continue to open at 7:15 a.m., and will continue to stay open until 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.

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THE SNOW GOES ON

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A female student walks in the snow outside the School of Business. Classes remained in session on Tuesday, despite the snow.

UConn looks to lease former correctional institute

MANSFIELD (AP) — A year after the last inmate left the Bergin Correctional Institution, the University of Connecticut is in talks with the state to lease the shuttered prison in Mansfield as it seeks out more space for offices and laboratories.

Bergin is one of three prisons the state has closed in recent years as crime drops and the inmate population shrinks.

While the state is interested in leasing Bergin, officials say the Department of Correction wants to retain control in case it needs to use it as a correctional facility in the future.

“In the meantime it would certainly be a savings to the taxpayers to have someone else using it and maintaining

it for whatever purpose,” said Michael Lawlor, the governor’s top aide for criminal justice policy. “It’s not like a prison type setup, it’s more like a dormitory type setup, part of it seems more like you’re in a college dormitory than you’re in a prison.”

The 11.5-acre complex was originally part of the Mansfield Training School and Hospital, a facility for people with mental disabilities that opened in 1917 after a merger of the Connecticut Training School for the Feebleminded and the Connecticut Colony for Epileptics.

Bergin’s main two-story, brick building opened as a prison in 1989. The facility at

times housed more than 1,000 inmates, many in pre-release programs, before it was closed in August 2011. It sits across the street from a section of UConn known as the Depot Campus, which also used to be part of the Training School and houses some graduate programs, offices, and the school’s puppetry museum.

University spokesman Tom Breen told The Associated Press it is in the early stages of talks that have focused on the length of the possible lease and how the space could be used.

“We are in need of lab space, and that’s one of the uses we are looking at, along with office space, classrooms and other things,” he said.

Other states also have found new uses for closed prisons. In Boston, a former jail is now a hotel, a former prison in Virginia is now an arts center, and in Newark, N.J. a correctional facility was turned into office space.

Connecticut’s prison population has been falling steadily from an all-time high of nearly 20,000 inmates in February 2008, dropping to just more than 16,600 as of last week.

In addition to Bergin, the state closed the Webster prison in Cheshire in January 2010 and the Gates Correctional Institution in Niantic in June 2011. Webster is being converted by the Department of Correction into a centralized

records storage facility.

While the main building at Gates is closed, several buildings still house about 600 minimum-security inmates involved in pre-release programs or on work details in southeastern Connecticut. The staff comes from the neighboring York Correctional Institution Correction Department spokesman Brian Garnett said prison officials estimate the closings are saving the state about $27 million a year in staff, maintenance and other costs.

Union officials say they would like to see Gates reopened to relieve stress on intake facilities, the prisons where inmates are housed while awaiting a prison assignment.

What’s on at UConn today...

Food Drive 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

McMahon Hall, Intl. Center The International Women’s Group is holding a holiday food drive to benefit the Covenant Soup Kitchen in Willimantic.

Therapy Dog Study Break 4 to 5 p.m.

Student Union, 403 Relieve some stress by spending time with therapy dogs.

Art4AIDS 7 to 9 p.m.

Student Union 310 Student and faculty artwork will be displayed and A Capella groups will perform to raise awareness for HIV/ AIDS.

Women’s Basketball 7 to 9 p.m.

XL Center Cheer on the Huskies as they take on Colgate.

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UConn coach bringing business leaders together

STORRS (AP) — Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma is teaming up with UConn’s business school to bring some of the biggest names in business together for a forum on leadership.

The Auriemma-UConn leadership conference will be held in April at the Mohegan Sun casino. Participants include Wal-Mart chief executive and UConn graduate Bill Simon, ESPN president John Skipper and others.

The two-day program is targeted to new business leaders and will focus on how to lead a multigenerational workforce, and lead through crisis.

The forum was Auriemma’s brainchild. He says he wanted to showcase the university’s business school, and bring top business leaders to Connecticut to showcase their experience.

He says he also wants to learn from other leaders and get better as a coach.

Case continued for lawyer with gun at Batman movie

NEW HAVEN (AP) — The case of an attorney arrested in August after he brought a handgun to a movie theater showing the Batman film has been continued.

A prosecutor said Tuesday that Sung-Ho Hwang is due back in New Haven Superior Court on Dec. 3.

Hwang was charged with breach of peace and interfering with police after officers said they found a loaded handgun in his waistband. Police say he had a permit to carry the weapon but didn’t comply with their commands.

Hwang says the misdemeanor charges are baseless and he followed police directions. He said he brought the gun to protect himself late at night.

Conn. seen rebounding slowly from recession

HARTFORD (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget director says it’s taking more time than expected for Connecticut to rebound from the national recession.

Ben Barnes, secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, told members of the General Assembly’s two budget committees Tuesday the state is not expected to recover until the quarter beginning next July 1.

He said the state has had to frequently revise its economic forecasts. For example, the department expected the state’s unemployment rate would be 5.8 percent in fiscal year 2014. It now predicts it will be 7.4 percent.

Barnes presented the state’s annual Fiscal Accountability Report for the next four years. He said unlike previous economic recoveries, the rate of growth expected now for revenue from Connecticut’s income and sales taxes has not materialized.

FEMA administrator tours storm-hit Conn. cities

MILFORD (AP) — The top administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has toured areas of Connecticut that were hit hard by Superstorm Sandy.

Craig Fugate stopped in Milford, Fairfield, Norwalk and Bridgeport on Tuesday and promised that the agency will help through the duration of the state’s recovery.

He said after a tour of storm-devastated properties in Fairfield that the agency knows the recovery will take years.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said some 10,000 claims have been submitted to FEMA in Connecticut. He said the agency has paid out more than $9 million to state residents and another $2.5 million has been provided through the Small Business Administration.

New Britain: Officer improperly used state data

NEW BRITAIN (AP) — New Britain officials say a city police sergeant improperly used a state data system to find information about a man he saw with his estranged wife.

Sgt. Michael Baden has been accused of improperly using the Connecticut On-Line Law Enforcement Communications Teleprocessing system that details criminal histories, license plate numbers and other data.

An internal affairs investigation concluded that Baden improperly used the system, which is a felony, on June 2 after spotting his estranged wife, also a New Britain police sergeant, at a diner with the unidentified man.

Baden, who retired Nov. 6 while facing misconduct charges, says he committed no violation. He says he was doing a routine check on a driver who committed a traffic violation.

Police say Baden followed the man for nearly 5 miles while on duty.

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Record Powerball result of changes to boost sales

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The historic Powerball jackpot boosted to $500 million on Tuesday was all part of a plan lottery officials put in place early this year to build jackpots faster, drive sales and generate more money for states that run the game.

Their plan appears to be working.

Powerball tickets doubled in price in January to $2, and while the number of tickets sold initially dropped, sales revenue has increased by about 35 percent over 2011.

Sales for Powerball reached a record $3.96 billion in fiscal 2012 and are expected to reach $5 billion this year, said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Des Moines, Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association, the group that runs the Powerball game.

There has been no Powerball winner since Oct. 6, and the jackpot already has reached a record level for the game. It was first posted at $425 million but revised upward to $500 million when brisk sales increased the payout.

It’s the second highest jackpot in lottery history, behind only the $656 million Mega Millions prize in March.

It took nine weeks for the Mega Millions jackpot to get that high, before three winners – from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland – hit the right numbers, each collecting $218.6 million for their share of the split.

With soaring jackpots come soaring sales, and for the states playing the game, that means higher revenue.

“The purpose for the lottery is to generate revenue for the respective states and their beneficiary programs,” said Norm Lingle, chairman of the Powerball Game Group. “High jackpots certainly help the lottery achieve those goals.”

Of the $2 cost of a Powerball ticket, $1 goes to the prizes and the other dollar is kept by the state lottery organization, said Lingle, who also is executive director of the South Dakota Lottery. After administrative overhead is paid, the remaining

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A customer purchases lottery tickets for the Powerball lottery at Foster Stationery in Bergenfield, N.J. on Saturday. The jackpot for Powerball’s weekend drawing has climbed to $325 million, the fourth-largest in the game’s history.

amount goes to that state’s beneficiary programs.

Some states designate specific expenditures such as education, while others deposit the money in their general fund to help supplement tax revenue.

The federal government keeps 25 percent of the jackpot for federal taxes.

Most states withhold between 5 percent and 7 percent. A New York City winner would pay more than 12 percent since the state takes 8.97 percent and the city keeps 3.6 percent.

Powerball and Mega Millions games are seeing jackpots grow faster and higher in part because the states that play both games agreed in 2010 to sell to one another.

Both games are now played in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands. The larger pool of players means jackpots roll over to higher numbers faster, which tends to increase the buzz about the jackpots which increases sales. It all can result in

higher jackpots sooner.

“It really happened with both of these games became national games,” said Terry Rich, CEO of the Iowa Lottery.

Still, just seven of the top 25 jackpots occurred after January 2010 when the crossselling began. That just points to the unpredictability of games of chance like lotteries. It still comes down to the luck of the numbers, Rich said.

It has been proven that once the jackpot reaches a certain threshold more players buy.

The Quick Shop in Ottumwa, Iowa, is one of the state’s highest-volume lottery ticket sellers due to its location across the street from a John Deere farm implement factory.

“It’s picking up by the minute,” said store owner Mark Ebelsheiser.

“We’re selling probably 60 to 70 percent more than normal. When it gets up this high they really come out and get them.”

Bob Allison, a retired Indian Hills Community College

instructor and administrator, buys tickets weekly for a group of people at the college in Ottumwa. On Tuesday he and two golfing and fishing buddies went in together to buy additional tickets. Allison said he usually buys a few additional tickets when the jackpot gets so high.

He said he’d make a lot of people very happy if he won.

“My kids would probably retire quick,” said the father of three daughters.

Between $20 and $30 million in tickets were sold between Wednesday and Saturday drawings for most of October. Once the jackpot hit $100 million on Oct. 27, nearly $38 million worth of tickets were sold by Oct. 31.

As the jackpot grew to more than $200 million on Nov. 17, sales surged by nearly $70 million by the next Wednesday.

Then the jackpot reached over $300 million on Nov. 24 and ticket sales over the next four days surpassed $140 million.

CA boy swept to sea still missing

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Howard Kuljian and his family were out for a walk on a damp, overcast morning at Big Lagoon state beach on Saturday, playing fetch with their dog Fran as eight-to-10-foot surf churned the water just feet away like a washing machine.

Kuljian tossed a stick that took the dog down to the water’s edge, and in an instant, authorities said, a wave swallowed it, setting off a nightmarish scramble.

In the end, Kuljian, 54, his wife Mary Scott, 57, and son Gregory “Geddie” Kuljian were all engulfed by the roiling waters after trying to save the dog, then each other. The two parents’ bodies were later recovered, but the Coast Guard called off a search for the boy.

The Humboldt County coroner’s office said Tuesday that the body of the 16-year-old boy

still had not been found.

The couple’s 18-year-old daughter, Olivia, and Gregory’s girlfriend could only watch from the beach as the horror unfolded. The dog later made its way safely back onto the beach.

Mourners wore green again on Tuesday in a gutwrenching tribute to teenage boy. Students at Arcata High School wore his favorite color as they tried to come to terms with the sudden, tragic loss of the well-liked family.

“His parents treated me like I was one of their own. They treated everyone like their own children no matter who it was,” said Jacob Swindle, a close friend of the family.

More than 1,600 people “liked” a Facebook page set up by the teenager’s friends called “Wear Green for Geddie” — using his nickname. Dozens

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In this photo provided by the Arcata High School Pepperbox, Arcata High School student Blaire Floyd writes on a poster for fellow student Gregory Kulijan Monday, at Arcata High School in Arcata, Calif.

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China’s party paper falls for Onion joke about Kim BEIJING (AP) — The online version of China’s Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the “Sexiest Man Alive” – not realizing it is satire.

The People’s Daily on Tuesday ran a 55-page photo spread on its website in a tribute to the round-faced leader, under the headline “North Korea’s top leader named The Onion’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2012.”

Quoting The Onion’s spoof report, the Chinese newspaper wrote, “With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyangbred heartthrob is every woman’s dream come true.”

“Blessed with an air of power that masks an unmistakable cute, cuddly side, Kim made this newspaper’s

editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, of course, that famous smile,” the People’s Daily cited The Onion as saying.

The photos the People’s Daily selected include Kim on horseback squinting into the light and Kim waving toward a military parade. In other photos, he is wearing sunglasses and smiling, or touring a facility with his wife.

People’s Daily could not immediately be reached for comment. A man who answered the phone at the newspaper’s duty office said he did not know anything about the report and requested queries be directed to their newsroom on Wednesday morning.

It is not the first time a state-run Chinese newspaper has fallen for a fictional report by the just-for-laughs

The Onion.

In 2002, the Beijing Evening News, one of the capital city’s biggest tabloids at the time, published as news the fictional account that the U.S. Congress wanted a new building and that it might leave Washington. The Onion article was a spoof of the way sports teams threaten to leave cities in order to get new stadiums.

Two months ago, Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency reprinted a story from The Onion about a supposed survey showing that most rural white Americans would rather vote for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than President Barack Obama. It included a quote from a fictional West Virginia resident saying he’d rather go to a baseball game with Ahmadinejad because “he takes national defense seriously.”

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In this July 2012 file photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his wife Ri Sol Ju, waves to the crowd as they inspect the Rungna People’s Pleasure Ground in Pyongyang, North Korea.

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ConAgra buying Soldiers: Mexico beauty queen had gun in her hands Ralcorp for about

CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — A Mexican beauty queen killed over the weekend in a shootout between suspected drug traffickers and soldiers likely was being used as a human shield, a federal official said Tuesday.

Maria Susana Flores Gamez, crowned 2012 Woman of Sinaloa in February, came out of the car first with a gun in her hands during the confrontation, with the other gunmen hiding behind her, according to the official from the attorney general’s office.

He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.

The official said he read the military report of Saturday’s shootout in Flores Gamez’s hometown of Guamuchil in western Sinaloa state, home to Mexico’s most powerful cartel of the same name. The attorney general’s investigators are still trying to determine if the 20-year-old fired the gun she was holding.

The report said she went down in a hail of gunfire. She was found dead near an assault rifle along with two others.

“They used the woman as a human shield,” the official said.

The slender, 5-foot-7-inch brunette had competed with seven other contestants for the more prestigious state beauty contest, Miss Sinaloa, but didn’t win. Miss Sinaloa state winners compete for the Miss Mexico title, whose holder represents the country in the international Miss Universe pageant.

Mexico’s Ximena Navarrete was crowned Miss Universe in 2010.

Local media outlets continue to misidentify Flores Gamez on Tuesday as Miss Sinaloa.

The organizers of the Miss Sinaloa pageant issued a statement on the pageant’s Facebook page, seeking to make clear Flores Gamez was not their queen.

The misidentification “damages the image and tranquility of our queens, their families and friends,” the statement said.

Neither the state nor national pageants responded to requests for comment on Flores Gamez’s death.

It was at least the fourth documented case of a beauty queen or pageant contestant becoming involved with Mexican drug traffickers, the theme of the critically acclaimed 2011 movie “Miss Bala,” or “Miss Bullet,” Mexico’s official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of Academy Awards.

The film tells the story of a young woman competing for Miss Baja California who becomes an unwilling participant in a drug-running ring, finally getting arrested for deeds she was forced into performing.

In real life, top Sinaloa cartel drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman married local beauty queen Emma Coronel, who later crossed into the United States to give birth to twin girls in 2011.

In 2008, former Miss Sinaloa Laura Zuniga was stripped of her crown in the Hispanoamerican

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — ConAgra Foods is buying the private-label food maker Ralcorp for about $5 billion, which will make it North America’s biggest manufacturer of cereals, crackers and other packaged foods sold under store brands.

The deal caps a year of acquisitions for ConAgra, which makes Banquet, Chef Boyardee and Marie Callender’s. In the past year, the company also snapped up brands including National Pretzel, Bertolli frozen meals and Del Monte Canada.

The Ralcorp deal comes at a time when private label brands – also known as store brands or house brands – are gaining popularity with shoppers.

Supermarkets and drug stores have been working to improve the image of their store brands as a way to control the rising costs for national name brands.

Private label brands now account for 28 percent of all food and drink consumed in the U.S., up from 20 percent about a decade ago, according to market researcher The NPD Group.

As private labels become a bigger business, however, major supermarkets have also invested in producing private label brands in their own factories.

Ralcorp’s customers include Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Kroger Co. and McDonald’s Corp.

“Clearly, consumer dynamics have changed since the reces-

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In this April 26, 2012 photo, Maria Susana Flores Gamez poses for a photo for a story about upcoming representation of Mexico at a beauty pageant in China, in Culiacan, Mexico.

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ConAgra Foods Inc. said Tuesday that the acquisition will strengthen its overall position in the North American packaged food business. Ralcorp’s products also include pasta, snack mixes and frozen waffles.

The companies said that their products are complementary to one another, with very little overlap. The combined company will have total sales of about $18 billion annually and more than 36,000 workers.

ConAgra will pay Ralcorp Holdings Inc. stockholders $90 per share, a 28 percent premium to its Monday closing price of $70.23. St. Louisbased Ralcorp currently has about 55 million outstanding shares, according to FactSet. Ralcorp’s stock jumped $18.66, or 27 percent, to $88.89 in premarket trading. Shares of ConAgra gained $1.64, or 5.8 percent, to $29.93 in trading more than an hour before the market opening.

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Compromise necessary for deficit reduction deal

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or decades, signing on to Grover Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge was a virtual requirement for running for Congress as a Republican. For any politician hoping to win a seat in a conservative district, denouncing the pledge was political suicide.

Wondering who Grover Norquist is, or what this pledge of his says? Norquist is a lobbyist in Washington, DC. He runs an organization called Americans for Tax Reform, which advocates for elected officials to pledge to “oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses; and oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates.”

Simply put, they make politicians pledge to never increase government revenues. With the federal budget facing automatic spending cuts and tax hikes unless Congress reaches an agreement, such an absolutist position is unacceptable.

While unknown to many voters, Americans for Tax Reform has been quite successful. As of the 2012 election, 39 senators and 219 House members have endorsed it. 218 of the House’s 435 voting members constitutes a majority. Because of this, it looked unlikely that Congress would be able to pass any fiscal cliff agreement that included revenue increases.

However, things may be changing. Over the past few days, many prominent Republicans have denounced the pledge, saying that everything needs to be on the table for Congress to reach a deal.

Sen. Bob Corker, (R – Tennessee), Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R – Georgia ), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – South Carolina), Rep. Peter King (R – New York), and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R – Virginia) have all come out against the pledge. Others, including Sen. Jeff Sessions (R – Alabama) and Speaker Boehner (R – Ohio), have hinted at being open to cutting deductions as part of a deal.

We applaud the brave elected officials who are stepping away from the extreme Taxpayer Protection Pledge. In our system of government, compromise is necessary, and staking out absolutist positions hurts the entire country. We would similarly denounce a pledge stating that elected officials will never agree to any spending cuts, and are grateful that no such pledge has caught on.

In order to avoid the fiscal cliff’s automatic cuts, Congress needs to pass a bill including $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction. Rather than be composed entirely of spending cuts or tax increases, any agreement should include a smart combination of the two. This does not necessarily require increasing tax rates, as tax revenues can be increased through other methods such as capping deductions.

It is good to see politicians distancing themselves from extreme positions and being willing to compromise. We sincerely hope that more of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge’s signatories denounce the document, and commit themselves to avoiding the fiscal cliff.

The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.

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Nobody should be too sensitive to survive

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o you know what a microagression is? I was recently introduced to this insanity in a bathroom newsletter. In the past five minutes, I scrapped my initial article as my ears started smoking and my keyboard started to melt as I began a rage-fueled typing spree based on this bathroom-installed newsletter.

Microaggressions “are remarks or actions that demean a person’s heritage or identity… they are symptomatic of larger (macro) systems of oppression.” The danger in microaggressions (which are for the most part, unintentional) is

By John D. Nitowski “the way that they Weekly Columnist can accumulate.”

Now, I understand this even if I don’t agree with it. Where I encounter a problem with this concept is under the categories of “explicit” and “implicit” microaggressions.

Here’s a few example of explicit microaggressions: “Using racial slurs or other hate speech. Whistling at a woman on the street. Displaying hateful symbols such as swastikas or Confederate flags.” The first one is rather simple, I don’t think any one should say anything hateful to anybody else.

As for the “hateful symbols:” that just gets really sticky. Swastikas are universal symbols representing the cycle of seasons.

Archeologists turn up artifacts with swastikas all the time in Germany (hence why

Hitler was so fond of it), and virtually every socially awkward and the very existence of other country. It’s an especially prominent this newsletter is a microaggression against symbol in India and Japan where lots of people with poor social skills.

Western tourists get very confused to find That’s the inherent problem with overBuddhist temples on maps are represent- sensitivity, it creates boundaries around ed by swastikas. Lots of certain “untouchables” other symbols have very while claiming to supnegative connotations in (and simultaneously “That’s the inherent port the wrong historical conignores) the rest of the text. Is wearing a cross population. problem with around your neck unacAgain, I think my bigceptable in the vicinity gest issue with the newsoversensitivity, it of the Americas because letter is the term used.

Christians murdered the creates boundaries Microaggressions sure are Indigenous people? The micro, but the examples around certain moment someone admits given are hardly aggresto me that it is, then I will sive. Whistling isn’t an ‘untouchables’ be on board with “microaggressive act, assault is. while claiming to aggressions.”

Touching someone’s hair The implicit microyou’re too awksupport ... the rest because aggressions were even ward to bring it up in more bizarre: “Not using or just ask of the population.” conversation someone’s preferred politely isn’t aggression, name or gender pronouns. burning a cross on someAssuming that someone one’s lawn is. would not speak English well or be from the There’s some truth to the “sticks and U.S. because they are a person of color or stones” adage. All “microaggressions” have an accent (‘You speak English so well! amount to are words. Words are great. I use Where are you really from?’) Touching them to tell you what to think once a week, someone’s hair without asking or asking if I have a personal library of more than 500 they hair is ‘real’ (commonly experienced books and I hope to be a novelist one day. by those with braids, afros, etc.) Turning Words can inspire hope, or change history. someone’s identity into an insult (‘That’s so But here’s the secret: words only have as gay” or “That’s retarded.’)” much power as we give to them.

The main problem I have with these At least this newsletter was placed in the “implicit microaggressions” is that there’s right room, without entirely making its way nothing aggressive about them. People who to the proper container. touch other people’s hair without asking, or say things like “What’s wrong with that guy in the wheelchair?” aren’t aggressive at all. Weekly columnist John D. Nitowski is a 7thThey’re some combination of stupid and semester English major. He can be reached at rude. Or, alternatively, they’re incredibly John.Nitowski@UConn.edu.

Why hipsters don’t need your social change

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ew subcultures have been more analyzed or more reviled than that of the common hipster. The usual subject of easy jokes, hipsters have been called everything from poachers of legitimate culture to the ruin of the same, to things far too impolite for this upstanding paper to

By Nate Herter print. Yet most in Staff Columnist the mainstream, if you’ll excuse the irony, really miss the point.

Christy Wampole recently became the latest to try to diagnose hipsterdom with her recent post on the New York Times’ Opinionator blog; doing her level best to stop her argument from degenerating into a crotchety fistwag at “today’s youth”; she fails, spectacularly. Briefly summarized, she suggests that new technology have made us chronically incapable of relating to each other in a real way, stunting us emotionally and driving us towards nostalgia and the obscure as an ironic barrier to real emotion. Right, blame it on the iPhones.

To be fair, Wampole is quite right in her suggestion that hipsterdom is a defense, but her inability to see past her own irritation and

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nostalgia is painfully ironic in itself. Yet her angle is not unpopular; people have legitimately in publications everywhere been saying much of the same.

Like all good generational prejudice, however, analyses of hipsterdom need first ignore the real origin. Hipsters are perhaps most reviled for their self-conscious appropriation of the retro and the niche as a substitute for true inspiration and creation. The fixed gear bicycles and fashions, the self-indulgence in irony, and not to mention the terrible tastes – PBR springs to mind – of yesteryear, emblems of an era of bygone prosperity or blue-collar struggle are, in the minds of the critics and kvetchers, the outward signs of a deep, core unbelief, and the posturing of a truly vapid or arrested interior life. “Emptiness” is the word of choice for most.

Nonsense. This snarling, upturned-nose approach to perceived cultural decline is the perennial approach to counterculture. And this rebellion, it must be understood, is a response to the culture itself, because we live not in the Age of Irony, but the Age of Broken Promises. Rather than bemoan the meta streak of our culture’s trend, we might do better to ask, to paraphrase a movie that is, now, acceptably retro: “What

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sincerity has ever done for us?”

These hipsters grew up in a cocoon, right alongside you and me. They were told that if they went to school, they would get into college, and if they worked hard in college they would get a job. That job would lead to more opportunity, and eventually to the comfortable middle-class lifestyle in which they grew up. The last decade or so, between the fall of the towers and the market and beyond, has demonstrated just how lunatic this idea was.

Instead, hipsters have inherited an age of increasing uncertainty.

The skills we are taught in college such as abstract reasoning, analysis and writing seem – falsely, but that is another issue and another column – no longer of value.

Indeed, recent college graduates were hit hard during the recession, with over half remaining unemployed for some time. And the jobs they did find were often underpaid, or worse, unpaid. The unpaid internship, as any ambitious undergraduate today knows, has become de rigeur in the professional world. Now it is not uncommon to find college graduates behind the counter at your local Starbucks. And those that sought more education, as I wrote in a recent column, saw even more difficulty, when they barely

managed to convert their Ph.D’s into subsistence wages. A rude awakening for the self-esteem generation, to say the least.

Faced with the stark absurdity of the basic contrast between the honeyed propaganda of the older classes and their newly hopeless situation, however, the hipsters have channeled those seeminglyworthless skills into an unending search for personal fulfillment through quixotic hobbies or mining our popular culture for ironic amusement, of which they have found loads. And what is wrong with that?

Now, I don’t mean to defend all the behavior of every hipster – anyone who has been scoffed at for not appreciating some particular subgenre of music that only existed between 1987 and later in 1987 knows that some of these people are utterly insufferable; but like the hippies and punks before them, the countercultural impulse of hipsterdom is nothing more than a rebellion against a hostile status-quo. And, with a grim and absurd alternative, escapist though it is, living the life ironic might just be a good way to cope.

Staff Columnist Nate Herter is a 5thsemester classics major. He can be reached at Nathaniel.Herter@UConn.edu.

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Kenan tells ‘All That’ at Jorgensen Thompson dishes about ‘SNL’ and his career’s start in the 1990s

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By Zach Lederman Campus Correspondent Actor and comedian Kenan Thompson held a comedythemed lecture at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday night. The first half of the show focused on his life and career in film and TV, before inviting audience members to come up to the stage and ask any questions they might have about him or his work.

Thompson’s lecture about his career was the main focus of the show. He started by describing how he originally made his way into entertainment through commercials, and other smaller roles, before finally getting into movies and TV in films such as “The Mighty Ducks” and “Heavyweights.”

Of particular note was his time on “All That,” a Nickelodeon comedy sketch show that Thompson preformed on from 1994 to 1999.

As Thompson said, “It was great…we were just a bunch of kids, running around a huge studio…everything about my time there is a memory.” He seemed to believe that All That would fetch the largest applause among an audience primarily composed of students who would have been watching the show in the early 90s, and spent a significant amount of time discussing it.

Following that, Thompson moved onto discussing “Saturday Night Live,” which he has been on for ten seasons; he’s still currently a member of the cast. Thompson gave a full description of his history with the program, starting with the

‘Moonrise,’ ‘Silver Linings’ lead Spirit Awards

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The oddball romances “Moonrise Kingdom” and “Silver Linings Playbook” picked up five nominations each Tuesday to lead the Spirit Awards honoring independent film.

Both films are competing for the best-picture prize at the Spirit Awards, one of Hollywood’s first big announcements on the long road to the Oscars.

Also competing for best picture are the father-daughter tale “Beasts of the Southern Wild”; the black comedy “Bernie”; and the gay drama “Keep the Lights On.” “Silver Linings Playbook,” a comic drama centered on a man just released from a mental hospital and a troubled young widow, earned lead-acting nominations for Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. “Moonrise Kingdom,” a first-love story between a precocious boy and girl who run away together, received a supportingactor nomination for Bruce Willis.

The films each have directing and screenplay slots for “Moonrise Kingdom” filmmaker Wes Anderson, who co-wrote the script with Roman Coppola, and “Silver Linings Playbook” filmmaker David O. Russell.

“Moonrise Kingdom” also was nominated for cinematography.

Matthew McConaughey received two nominations, for best actor in “Killer Joe” and supporting actor in “Magic Mike.” Past Academy Award winner Helen Hunt has a supporting-actress nomination for “The Sessions.”

Child star Quvenzhane Wallis, who had never acted before, has a best-actress nomination for “Beasts of the Southern Wild.”

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Kenan Thompson, a comedian who has been a cast member on ‘Saturday Night Live’ for ten seasons, spoke about his experiences with both ‘SNL’ and his early career, where he acted on Nickelodeon television shows including ‘All That’ and ‘Kenan and Kel.’

initial audition and made mention of the many celebrities he’s met. He also did some quick performances of some of his most famous characters on the show such as Jean K. Jean, an African-American comedian signed by Def Jam France, and Deandre Cole, the host of the fictional show “What Up With That,” right before he did some celebrity impersonations for Bill Cosby

and Al Sharpton. Thompson is most notable on SNL for his impressions.

Katie McWilliams, a third semester English and history double major and staff writer for The Daily Campus, said, “This guy is absolutely hysterical. I’ve never watched Saturday Night Live, and I never really watched All That when I was a kid, but now I think I have to start, even if it

means I only get to see him on TV once in a while.”

Following the lecture, Thompson allowed the audience to come up to the microphones near by the stage and ask questions regarding Thompson’s career or his personal life. The questions and comments ranged from the serious, to the complimentary, to the just plain weird.

Thompson seemed willing to

answer just about any question, even questions regarding offers to smoke marijuana, take photos, or shake hands, although most questions regarded Thompson’s career during the 90s or on “SNL.” After the show, Thompson was true to his word, taking photos with audience members who asked.

Local author reveals the hidden ‘Jerks in Connecticut History’

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Author Dan Bendici speaks about his new book, ‘Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Connecticut History,’ Tuesday afternoon at the UConn Co-op. ‘Speaking Ill’ is about historical figures in Connecticut famous for less than honorable reasons, including Benedict Arnold and William Stuart.

By Julie Bartoli Senior Staff Writer Dan Bendici stopped by the Co-op yesterday to talk about his book, “Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Connecticut History.”

Bendici, associate editor at Connecticut Magazine and the driving force behind DamnedCT.com, is no stranger to the state his novel is about.

The author lives in Shelton, but has spent time roaming all of Connecticut doing research for “Speaking Ill.” “It took me about a year to do all the research for the book,” Bendici said. “I tried to go to the sources for a lot of stuff, too. I didn’t want it to be a collection that just regurgitates information from other biographies.”

From that research came “Speaking Ill,” a collection of fifteen different stories of Connecticut historical figures that were less than ideal.

“We all enjoy bad boys and bad behav-

ior. Think of the show ‘Cops.’ No one watches it for the cops,” Bendici reasoned. “We’re interested in the bad guys – the jerks.”

Bendici admits that he was apprehensive about touring with the book, saying, “I wasn’t sure how this whole thing would be taken. You know, calling people jerks isn’t usually well received.”

However, he’s been relatively successful in his travels so far. “Only one bookstore in Connecticut told me they ‘didn’t think I would be a good fit,’” he laughed.

As for his readership, Bendici joked, “I did get a fan letter… from someone in a correctional facility in North Carolina.”

Regardless, the book is a well-researched look into Connecticut jerk history.

One of the first “jerks” Bendici mentioned was Benedict Arnold, who he referred to as “one of America’s greatest traitors.” Arnold was born in Norwich, CT and lived in New Haven for some time.

Another inclusion was Bridgeport’s P.T. Barnum, of whom Bendici said, “Barnum

completely embraced his jerkiness. He felt it was okay to tell a lie as long as entertainment was the ultimate result.”

Other historical figures include Reverend Samuel Peters, who wrote the Connecticut Blue Laws, George Mateski, the New York Bomber born in Waterbury and Lydia Sherman, Connecticut’s own “Black Widow.”

Of course, Bendici also included his favorite Connecticut jerk, William Stuart.

“He wrote his own autobiography, “William Stuart: The First and Most Celebrated Counterfeiter of Connecticut, As Given by Himself.” He was very modest,” Bendici joked.

He added, “If he did one tenth of the stuff in this thing, he’s a terrific jerk.”

Bendici enjoyed researching Stuart so much that he hopes to soon write a screenplay out of his autobiography.

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The idea that “all kinks are good kinks” is remarkably faulty. The concept is a part of the current sex-positivity movement, wherein a free pass is given to any couple (or group, for that matter) that can make a claim that it’s consensual without analyzing their sexual desires at all. One in particular that was brought to my attention was a facet of BDSM called “raceplay,” in which racial stereotypes and a sickening display of trivializing cultural struggles are brought to the surface. It’s the prime example of “othering” in a sexual environment, and creating an unsafe place for what should be a fun, consensual experience.

The most common acts that occur during raceplay are the sexualizing of slavery and the threatening of deportation and use of racial slurs. This is considered somehow ‘liberating’ for both partners, and the whole argument for it seems to be based on a forced nonjudgmental, “as long as everyone climaxes it’s okay” status.

There is the concept with sexpositivity and its sanctioned kinks is that every sexual act somehow exists in a sort of vacuum, where because the act occurs within the privacy of one’s home, it somehow does not affect society at large. This, however, is simply not true.

In accordance with raceplay, doing so perpetuates the acceptance of casual and sexualized racism. The idea with it is that because it’s freely chosen, it somehow is acceptable.

Another sanctioned kink is the rape fantasy, wherein the submissive has a fantasy of being totally dominated by their partner. There is no way in which this can yield positive results, as the key element in rape fantasies is being ignored despite their protests–in fact, an online women’s magazine, The Frisky, laid out the details of an encounter where an argument between the writer and her partner turned into sexual assault, under the idea that the writer was merely “playing along.”

In addition to the danger for both partners by acting this out, this is also an example of how certain kinks can involve the trivialization of a person and jeopardize their emotional well-being. Humiliation play (which can involve forcing the submissive to carry out acts that they would rather not do) and subspace (involving putting the submissive in a mentally altered state where they might become more compliant to their dominant partner) are also damaging–most BDSM and kink sites remind the reader that ‘aftercare’ is necessary– but isn’t it abusive to commit an act on your partner where they’ll need a good amount of comforting and/or reassurance of their safety afterwards?

The sex positivity movement currently prioritizes individual pleasure over the need to analyze sexual activities and proclaims it is “progressive” for accepting all kinks. To look further into certain sexual kinks and realize that they advocate an unsafe (or emotionally unsound) environment is to be denounced as being “sex negative.” However, to truly be sex positive, we must realize what our desires are communicating, not only to the person we’re with but to society at large.

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New Super Mario Bros. 2 - 3DS If you’ve read my column this week, you’ll understand what I mean when I say that I didn’t intend to rent “New Super Mario Bros. 2,” but it was instead thrown at me.

Once I got past the frustration of not getting what I wanted, I picked up my roommate’s 3DS and tried it. And man, was I missing some old-school Mario action. The 3D in this one’s really effective, showing the depth and detail of the beautiful 3D models. And while it’s not especially challenging, “NSMB2” is tons of fun with lots of replay. There’s surviving a level... then there’s eight red coins, three Star Coins, and tons of secrets to unlock on every stage. Oh, and I really want a Tanooki suit in real life.

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Renting in 2012

By Joe O’Leary Focus Editor

oper, attempted to improvise or improve on the formula? Sure, the money of parents who don’t know what to buy their kids for Christmas and just pick the thing that looks inoffensive has probably kept them afloat in the volatile modern gaming market. But it comes at the expense of their games being completely ignored by anyone who knows better. There are a few features in this LEGO game that show future promise, but not nearly enough for me to recommend it to anyone, unless that person is babysitting nine-year-old kids.

In the past few years, Blockbuster and similar video stores have largely gone out of business, felled by the likes of Netflix and streaming video channels. Renting a brand-new game has gone from being a simple trip to your neighborhood brick-andmortar to being nearly impossible. And with games costing $60 a pop, buying a crapfest of a game can be costly nowadays. For those of you unwilling to shell out a considerable chunk of your cash, here are the remaining ways you can check out new games without breaking the bank.

First there’s Redbox, the nationwide disc rental kiosks common in grocery stores and the like.

(The nearest one to UConn is at the CVS in Mansfield, which is a three-minute drive or twenty minute walk from W Lot and Husky Village). Redbox is nice for convenience, as you can select what you want, pay and leave in three minutes, and their prices aren’t too bad; games cost $2.13 a night after tax. However, their selection is a bit lax. While there are dozens of games listed on their website, depending on what’s being rented and returned at a specific kiosk there may only be a few games available at any given time. Overall, though, Redbox is pretty decent to rent from if you want to check out something new for a night or two; it can get expensive fast, though.

For those who can’t get out to Redbox, there’s always mailbased rentals from companies like Gamefly and Blockbuster Online.

The most popular one, Gamefly, offers a huge selection of games from the present to the past, offering everything from brand-new Wii U games to classic Xbox, Playstation 2 and Gamecube releases. Though many online and television ads claim you can start for free or as low as $9.99, the default prices the company offers are one disc at a time for $11.95 per month or two discs at a time for $22.95 per month.

Gamefly’s service is pretty good in our neck of the woods, as the nearest game shipping center the company owns is in Pittsburgh; games won’t spend more than three days in the mail getting to Storrs. The selection is pretty good, but be wary of the company’s queue system if you’re looking to get new games. Much like with Netflix, games have an availability rating, but the system is more likely to send older, more available games almost always, even if it’s a game’s release date.

This means there are only two ways to use the service, both of which are somewhat disappointing; you’ll either have to exclusively get new games with only two or three items on your queue at a time or only rent older games you may have missed, hoping an occasional gem will slip through.

Will the world ever return to brick-and-mortar stores for game rentals? Unless the internet suddenly stops existing, no. But it’s still possible in this day and age, though a bit frustrating, to rent.

Be wary while you’re doing it, though; it’s tough to get exactly what you want.

Joseph.O’Leary@UConn.edu

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A futuristic warrior stands primed for battle in this screenshot from Treyarch’s ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 2,’ released to record sales on November 13. The Activision-produced sequel improves upon its predecessor with thrilling action and fantastic online multiplayer.

By Stephen Skudlarek Campus Correspondent As a huge fan of the Call of Duty series, I was somewhat wary when the reveal for Black Ops II showed futuristic technology gone wrong. I felt it was more akin to something out of the Terminator series rather than Call of Duty. However, I decided to give the new game a shot and try it out. I’m happy to say that despite major alterations to the typical COD formula, the latest addition to this franchise does not disappoint.

The new approach injects the series with a shot of adrenaline. The loadouts are completely customizable for every single regular campaign mission, including perks.

More weapons, attachments and perks can be unlocked

by completing missions and additional challenges. The special missions also add an interesting take, allowing you to command multiple units on the ground to accomplish a timed objective. As a twist, the outcomes of these special missions (as well as the regular missions) influence how the campaign’s story and ending will play out. All of these changes combine to provide unprecedented autonomy for how the player would like to play the game.

It’s fairly difficult to discuss a story with various possible outcomes and endings. It’s possible that others will have played through a different storyline than I have, and will have different issues with the

game. In my play-through, though I felt the fast paced action was thrilling and enjoyable, I was left with a lot of questions at its end. Without spoiling too much, the main villain, Menendez, inflicts an extraordinary amount of damage to the United States and its allies, and then seemingly abandons his own plan, calling to his followers to finish his work. One wonders if this is how Treyarch sets up Black Ops III. I suppose I understand why he did this, but it’s still a stupid ending – he brought his hated enemies to their knees and then showed them mercy – why?

There’s also a huge betrayal at one point in the story, during a point where your

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group of Navy SEALs could stop Menendez. Thanks to this betrayal, Menendez is able to execute major attacks on several large cities. Yet, this backstabbing makes no sense, and is never explained.

Maybe others had different results in their play-throughs, but I found it extremely disappointing.

The game is as much about Alex Mason, the protagonist from the first Black Ops, as it is about his son David. In addition to the 2025 battles, the campaign takes place throughout many past conflicts, including the 1980s Angolan Civil War, the 1989 American incursion into Panama and the CIA’s assisting the Taliban-precursor, the Mujahideen, in Afghanistan.

Conflicts like these have rare-

Toss this one into Mordor

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By Joe O’Leary Focus Editor In 2005, “LEGO Star Wars,” the first LEGO adaptation video game, was released to coincide with the final episode of the saga, “Attack of the Sith.” It received high sales and rave reviews for its entertaining, though slight, adventure game treatment of the first three movies, made especially for children to enjoy. After its success, LEGO has attached its horse to about half a dozen different franchises, each one using the same engine as the others.

Now that the long-awaited “Hobbit” is three weeks away from hitting theater screens, the latest adaptation has hit stores shelves perfectly timed with it: “LEGO The Lord of the Rings.” Adapting the three films/ books’ storylines in classic yellow blocky LEGO style, the game doesn’t differentiate itself far from any of its fellow LEGO games, which is both a good and bad thing.

“The Lord of the Rings” is a solid franchise to give the LEGO treatment, both due to its wide cast of characters and its sprawling storyline rife with moments to relive. The gameplay of the series is pretty straightforward: LEGO figures of characters from the “LOTR” series act out the story of Frodo, Aragorn, Gimli and the like, with frequent family-friendly jokes thrown in along the way and dialogue taken directly from the films. Gameplay-wise, you’re basically roaming Tolkien’s lush settings with familiar characters, with light platforming, puzzles and hack-and-slash elements thrown in. However, the game’s idea of a puzzle is “break everything until you can progress” and there’s no penalty for death, removing all challenge from the game. As such, the game’s perfect for kids, but too repetitive for anyone over the age of 13 to enjoy for more than a little while.

The graphics are pretty solid, the gameplay’s decent until you get sick of it, and the extras and gag jokes are all quite fun and funny. But that doesn’t mean “LEGO The Lord of the Rings” is really all that passable.

In seven years, the franchise’s gameplay has

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A LEGO version of Gimli, a dwarf from J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ in the latest LEGO film adaptation, “LEGO The Lord of the Rings.’

barely changed, with only a change of characters, scenery and box art between releases. The core elements have remained the same, and they’ve pretty clearly stagnated.

LEGO The Lord of the Rings 360/PS3 - 5/10 While I understand the reasoning behind “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” – as I’m sure there’s a small-to-medium Scrooge McDuck money vault belonging to whoever came up with the “LEGO” video game concept – why hasn’t Traveller’s Tales, the devel-

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‘Two and a Half Men’ actor not expected on set ‘Black Ops 2’ shines with online madness

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AP

In this March 12, 2012 file photo, actor Angus T. Jones arrives at the Paleyfest panel discussion of the television series “Two and a Half Men” in Beverly Hills, Calif. Jones, the teenage actor who plays the half in the hit CBS comedy “Two and a Half Men” says it’s “filth” and through a video posted by a Christian church has urged viewers not to watch it.

NEW YORK (AP) — The teenage actor who stars in “Two and a Half Men” and called the CBS comedy “filth” may have some time before he faces the show’s producers.

Angus T. Jones wasn’t expected at rehearsal Tuesday because he is not going to be in the episode they are filming, according to a person close to the show who spoke on condition of anonymity because producers were not commenting publicly.

Jones, 19, has been on the show, which used to feature bad-boy actor Charlie Sheen and remains heavy with sexual innuendo, since he was 10 but says in a video posted online by a Christian church that he doesn’t want to be on it anymore.

“Please stop watching it,” Jones said.

“Please stop filling your head with filth.”

The person familiar with the production schedule said Jones does not appear in either of the two episodes filming before the end of the year, so he wouldn’t be expected back at work until after the New Year.

His character has been largely absent because he has joined the Army.

CBS and producer Warner Bros.

Television have not commented.

In a radio broadcast, “The Voice of

Prophecy,” recorded for the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Jones’ birthday in October, he described his religious path.

He has been attending a Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Los Angeles area.

Jones said he felt drawn to God after a tough time in his life when his parents were going through a divorce and he experimented with drugs.

“I never drank,” he said. “That was one thing God protected me from, and I’m still a virgin. God protected me from those things.”

Jones said that “it’s very weird that I’m on a television show, especially now that I am trying to walk with God. My television show has nothing to do with God and doesn’t want anything to do with God.” Jones said that he had no plans to get out of his contract, which reportedly pays him $350,000 an episode.

“Two and a Half Men” survived a wild publicity ride less than two years ago, when Sheen was fired for his drug use and publicly complained about the network and the show’s creator, Chuck Lorre.

Jones plays Jake, the son of Jon Cryer’s uptight divorced chiropractor character,

Alan, and the nephew of Sheen’s hedonistic philandering music jingle writer, Charlie. Sheen was replaced by Ashton Kutcher, who plays billionaire Walden.

In the video posted by Forerunner Chronicles in Seale, Ala., Jones describes a search for a spiritual home. He says the type of entertainment he’s involved in adversely affects the brain and “there’s no playing around when it comes to eternity.”

“You cannot be a true God-fearing person and be on a television show like that,” he said. “I know I can’t. I’m not OK with what I’m learning, what the Bible says, and being on that television show.”

The show was moved from Monday to Thursday this season, and its average viewership has dropped from 20 million an episode to 14.5 million, although last year’s numbers were somewhat inflated by the intense interest in Kutcher’s debut.

It is the third most popular comedy on television behind CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory” and ABC’s “Modern Family.”

The actors on “Two and a Half Men” have contracts that run through the end of the season.

-ly been explored in popular media, let alone video games, so it’s interesting to see them in the COD franchise.

My main problem with the game is that I feel it was marketed incorrectly. Black Ops II was presented as a technology-gone-wrong kind of story, but it doesn’t become this until its end. It’s still a blast to play through though, and it’s interesting to fight through unusual locales, like a billion-dollar floating ocean resort, or a city in Pakistan during a major flood.

The multiplayer is where Black Ops II really shines, however. I was severely disappointed with the online multiplayer for the first Black Ops game; for the most part, all of the weapons felt the same: high rates of fire and terrible accuracy. The maps were way too open, and sniping spots were limited. I felt that these issues were also present in Modern Warfare 3, and was unable to really get interesting in the multiplayer there as well.

Now, all of the weapons feel unique. Classes are more customizable than ever before.

Want two perks from the Perk 3 category? Three attachments on your assault rifle?

You can make this happen.

All of your classes are completely customizable – there are really not a lot of limits to what you can do here.

The maps are also much improved, with sections of each map potentially beneficial to every type of class.

Sniping, especially the rifles themselves are much improved, as are shotguns – two of the biggest complaints heard about the game last time around. The game remains fast-paced and mostly balanced, while seeming more challenging than previous installments. For the first

time since Modern Warfare 2, I’m legitimately happy with Call of Duty’s multiplayer.

The wildly popular Zombies portion of the game has also returned, bringing with it the new Tranzit mode. In Tranzit, players ride a bus around to five separate maps, accomplishing objectives and collecting parts for constructing items as they go. Players can play most of these maps in classic solo mode, or in versus mode with two teams of four.

Be warned, no matter what mode you’re playing, all of these maps are very challenging. The zombies are stronger and faster, and you now must worry about being damaged by fire and lava, in addition to the undead.

To be honest, I enjoyed Zombies mode more in the first Black Ops, but I’m sure it will grow on me. It’s still a lot of fun with four people, or even by yourself; it’s just more unforgiving than before, even early on. The addition of fire damage is completely obnoxious and unnecessary.

The downloadable maps were some of my favorite in the game however, and Nuketown Zombies will be out in December, which should be a good time. From what I’ve seen, this map plays out more like classic zombies maps and is devoid of any fire elements, so I’m looking forward to it.

A mix of old and new, Black Ops II is a great gaming experience. Between the campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies modes, there’s a ton of playability here. The game also looks beautiful and sounds fantastic no matter which mode you choose to play. I’d highly recommend this to any Call of Duty fans, or fans of first-person shooters in general.

The Grammy-winning band sued in June and both companies denied copying the songs.

Attorneys for the band informed a federal judge in Los Angeles of the Pizza Hut settlement on Monday. The settlement agreement with The Home Depot was reached earlier this month.

No details of the settlements were included in court filings.

Stephen Holmes, a spokesman

for The Home Depot, didn’t have an immediate comment.

Representatives for Pizza Hut and the band did not immediately return message seeking comment.

Attorneys expect to file formal dismissals by early January, the court filings state.

Both songs appeared on the rock group’s seventh album, “El Camino,” which was released last year and has sold nearly 840,000 copies.

The Black Keys are comprised of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney. Musicianproducer Brian Burton, who is known as Danger Mouse, also sued the companies.

“Lonely Boy” and “Gold on the Ceiling” both topped the Billboard alternative music chart after being released.

The Black Keys won two Grammy Awards in 2010 for music from their album “Brothers,” which won the Best Alternative Music Album award that year.

Stephen.Skudlarek@UConn.edu

Black Keys settle cases over music ‘misuse’ in commercials LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Black Keys told a federal judge the band has settled copyright infringement lawsuits against Pizza Hut and The Home Depot claiming misuse of their music in commercials.

The band alleged the song “Lonely Boy” was improperly used to sell power tools, and “Gold on the Ceiling” to sell pizza.

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Horoscopes Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Pace yourself with all this action and activity. Take care of your health. Balance motion with rest and good food. Counter stress with peace. A quiet evening refreshes.

by Brian Ingmanson

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Try something new. You’ve got your sights set on moving up the career ladder, which has seemed a bit shaky. Take inventory of those skills: There’s an appreciative audience.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Something may not work as intended. Follow directions exactly. Consider external factors.

Go outside to clear your head, and get back at it later.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Figure out the costs of a promising plan.

Research the pros and cons, and consider purchases that might be required. Two minds are better than one here.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Don’t always trust the voices in your head, especially if they’re trying to put you down. Tell your fears to take a long walk and focus on what needs to be done.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Schedule time for relaxation, but don’t overspend. Act consistently with what’s most important to you, even in difficult situations.

Don’t just go along with the crowd.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- All the world’s a stage, and you, a player. Your role is “peacemaker.” Give it your best effort, for huge applause and flowers from loved ones.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Your mind wants to travel, but it’s best to stay close to home now. If you have to go, expect delays or some type of challenge. Home is where the heart is.

A:

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -Use your wits and imagination to create money, regardless of what others might say is possible.

Stay true to your values and integrity. What goes around comes around.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Start getting practical. The next two days could prove quite lucrative. Figure out the finances first, and then make your move. Think it through, and prep your materials in advance.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 6 -- You’re building something of value. Stash profits, and keep to it. If roadblocks develop, find alternate routes. Cool persistence pays. It eases tomorrow.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Quiet work behind the scenes goes far.

Conserve resources, and reward yourself for finding clever ways. Review priorities. Fine tune structures of support.

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Sports

The best moments at Morrone Stadium since 2010

By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer While basketball and football have always been seen as the two most popular sports at the University of Connecticut, the UConn men’s soccer team boasts one of the premier soccer programs and one of the greatest fan bases in the game.

The Huskies (17-3-1) are the No. 4 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. With two straight wins over Northeastern and No. 13 New Mexico, UConn finds themselves within one game of the College Cup, the men’s soccer version of the Final Four.

The Huskies will take on the No. 12 Creighton Blue Jays, who defeated No. 5 Akron in the last round on penalty kicks, this Sunday at Morrone Stadium at 1 p.m.

A win puts the Huskies in their first College Cup since winning the 2000 national championship, and a sell-out crowd is expected at Morrone, a regular occurrence for a UConn men’s soccer game.

The Huskies are looking to make Sunday the most memorable match any of them has ever played at Morrone Stadium. However,

everyone on the team, from the freshmen up to the seniors, has been involved in some pretty spectacular matches in their time in Storrs. There are a lot of moments and matches that will last forever in the minds of the players and the 4,000-5,000 fans that fill Morrone each game.

As UConn prepares for its final home game of 2012, here is a look at five of the greatest matches and most thrilling moments at Morrone Stadium since 2010.

5) Sep. 24, 2011- UConn defeats arch-rival St. John’s with two thrilling goals One of college soccer’s biggest rivalries returned to Morrone Stadium as an energetic crowd of 5,100 helped the No. 2 Huskies take care of their most hated rival, who were ranked No. 12 at the time.

Freshman Allando Matheson headed home his second career goal with 16 minutes left to give the Huskies the advantage, resulting in a back flip that has become the Canadian’s signature celebration.

Sophomore Mamadou Doudou Diouf chipped the ball over St. John’s charging goalkeeper Rafael Diaz with a minute to play to seal

the win.

4) Sep. 4, 2010- Sanchez’s long-range volley helps Huskies beat Yale In UConn’s annual game against in-state rival Yale, the Huskies dominated their way to a 3-1 victory over the Bulldogs.

While Diouf led the way with his two goals, then-sophomore Jossimar Sanchez found one of the goals of the season. Off of a corner kick, the ball deflected to Sanchez who was waiting about 25 yards away from goal to rope a one-time volley into the top corner of the net, sending Morrone Stadium into an uproar.

3) Sep. 24, 2010- Cascio’s hat trick helps Huskies crush No. 22 South Florida Junior Tony Cascio recorded the first UConn hat trick since 2007 as the Huskies cruised to a 4-0 victory over the No. 22 South Florida Bulls. Cascio’s off-balance goal from the corner of the six-yard box which completed his hat trick was featured as a Top 10 play on SportsCenter the next day.

2) Sep. 7, 2012- Wasserman golden goal free kick helps UConn defeat No. 21 Washington In a nationally televised match-

up, UConn and Washington went to extra time in a back and forth defensive battle.

After a Washington defender was sent off for a foul just outside the box, Max Wasserman and Carlos Alvarez stepped over the ball for a free kick, both clearly looking to go to goal. Wasserman was the one to take the kick, and in typical Wasserman fashion, the senior right back curled the ball into the top corner to give UConn a 1-0 win.

1) Nov. 25, 2012- Zuniga’s first career goal sends UConn to the Elite Eight After Diouf equalized for UConn with 14 minutes to go in the second half of their Sweet 16 matchup with New Mexico, the Huskies and Lobos found themselves only minutes away from penalty kicks.

With six minutes to go in the second period of extra time, freshman Nicholas Zuniga, who had gotten so close to scoring so many times down the stretch this season, scored the first goal of his collegiate career and put the Huskies into a showdown with Creighton this Sunday.

Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu

UConn ranked fifth in latest AHA Rankings

By Joe Crisalli Campus Correspondent So we’re already a couple of weeks into the collegiate ice hockey season and here are the Atlantic hockey association power rankings; at least how I perceive them.

12. Sacred Heart (0-10-2, 0-7-2) The Pioneers are winless with two overtime ties on the season: 4-4 vs. Army and 2-2 vs. American International. Division foe Niagara is next up on the schedule for Sacred Heart.

11. American International (3-6-3, 0-4-3) Winless within the Atlantic conference, the Yellow Jackets have had trouble putting the puck in net scoring only seven goals combined in their last four games. AIC will face Army in their next game in search of their first conference victory of the year.

10. Rochester Institute of

Technology (2-7-3, 1-4-2) RIT has only one win in their past 11 games and have allowed 48 goals in those 11 games. The Tigers finished each of their last two games in overtime, with 2-2 ties in both of those contests.

9. Canisius (3-6-4, 2-2-2) The Golden Griffins split a two game set with AIC defeating the in their last matchup 4-1. Canisius is dead even at 2-2-2 in conference play.

8. Air Force (3-6-3, 2-3-1) Air Force has dropped their last two games, both of which were against Connecticut: a 2-1 loss and a 3-2 loss in overtime. The Falcons have fallen in their last three decisions and will face division rival Mercyhurst next.

7. Robert Morris (4-4, 3-3) The Colonials are 2-2 in their past four games, and have a 4-1 loss to Air Force on their resume.

Robert Morris’ four wins have come against Canisius, Bentley,

RIT, and Quinnipiac.

6. Army (3-6-1, 3-2-1) Coming off of a 3-2 win over winless Sacred Heart, the Black Knights fell 3-0 to Brown in their last game. With only a 7-2 victory over division rival Holy Cross on their resume, Army goes into Bentley this weekend with something to prove.

5. Connecticut (4-5-1, 3-4) After going their first six games without a victory, the Huskies are 4-1 in their last five games and swept a two game series this past weekend vs. Air Force. The Huskies will look to ride their hot streak as they face Canisius at the Mark Freitas Ice Forum this weekend.

4. Mercyhurst (4-5-1, 4-2) The Lakers took one game out of a two game set in overtime this past weekend vs. division rival Bentley.

Mercyhurst is 4-2 in conference play thus far, and Air Force is next on their schedule.

3. Holy Cross (7-3-1, 6-2-1) Although the Crusaders hold a 4-3 victory over Bentley, they also withhold a 7-2 loss vs. Army and a 7-0 loss vs. Air Force on their resume. Holy Cross will face Robert Morris next.

2. Bentley (6-5, 5-3) This past week Bentley encompassed both the Travel Team USA player of the week and Travel Team USA rookie of the week in sophomore defenseman Steve Weinstein and freshman forward Andrew Gladiuk. The Falcons have scored 19 goals in their last four games.

1. Niagara (8-2-3, 7-0) At 7-0 in conference play, Niagara stays at No. 1 in my power rankings. The Purple Eagles are currently riding a six game winning streak and have only allowed two goals total in those six games, while shutting out their opponent in four of those contests.

Joseph.Crisalli@UConn.edu

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Former UConn star Tony Cascio became the first player since 2007 to record a hat trick for the Huskies when he did so against South Florida in a 4-0 win on Sep. 24, 2010.

Huskies face Raiders in battle of the Herbst family

from OPENING, page 12

An ankle injury sidelined junior point guard Bria Hartley for the first two games of the year. At the Paradise Jam, Hartley made her return to the team and played in all three contests, but in the final game of the tournament, against Purdue, sophomore Kaleena Mosqueda – Lewis went down with a concussion.

Mosqueda – Lewis started all five games on the year, but has been ruled out for the game against Colgate because of the head injury, forcing Auriemma to find someone to insert in her place.

On the plus side for the head coach, Hartley should be available to make her first start of the season, putting her in line as the most likely replacement.

Aside from being the team’s first game back after Thanksgiving Break and the Virgin Islands,

Wednesday night’s game holds another interesting storyline.

Auriemma said he scheduled the game in large part because he knows Colgate coach Nicci Hays Fort from her time as an assistant at DePaul. What he did not know at the time was that he would be heating up a sibling rivalry for one of UConn’s own.

“It wasn’t until after the fact that we realized it was going to be a Herbst versus Herbst WWE smackdown,” Auriemma said.

“Susan, the president here, and her brother, the president of Colgate.

I don’t know if that’s going to be the halftime entertainment [Wednesday] but I’ve gotten quite a few memos from our fearless leader about what she wants the score to be.”

The game is set for a 7 p.m. tip and can be seen on SNY.

Matthew.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

Southern Miss coach fired after 0-12 season

(AP) - Southern Mississippi has fired coach Ellis Johnson after one disastrous season that saw the program plummet from Conference USA champion to the worst record in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

Athletic director Jeff Hammond announced the decision on Tuesday morning, three days after the miserable 0-12 season ended with a loss to Memphis on Saturday.

"At Southern Miss we expect to compete hard and succeed both in the classroom and on the field," Hammond said in a statement.

"This is not the exception.This is in fact the standard, the norm, our identity and who we are."

The decision wasn't unexpected, though it will cost the Golden Eagles. The 60-year-old Johnson is due a $2.1 million buyout over the next three seasons.

The veteran coach had been a successful defensive coordinator at several schools, including South Carolina, Mississippi State, Alabama and Clemson before his arrival in Hattiesburg, Miss.

He was also the defensive coordinator at Southern Miss in the late 1980s and was hailed as an

experienced coach who had good ties to recruiting in the deep South when he was hired.

His experience didn't translate into head coaching success with the Golden Eagles — and the program suffered a stunning fall under his leadership.

Hammond gathered players for a meeting on campus Tuesday afternoon. Southern Miss linebacker Alan Howze said the AD explained the decision to fire Johnson and asked the players to continue to work hard during the search for a new coach.

"Personally, I thought we were going to get a second chance," Howze said. "I'm not going to say I never saw (Johnson) leaving, but I thought he was going to come in here again. We were going to work as a unit again and prove ourselves as a team."

Southern Miss finished without a victory one season after a school-record 12-2 campaign that included a Conference USA championship and a win in the Hawaii Bowl. The Golden Eagles were the only team in the Football Bowl Subdivision not to win a game this year.

It is the first time Southern Miss has had a losing record since 1993 and the first time the Golden Eagles have missed the postseason since 2001.

Southern Miss fullback Bruce Johnson said the team is ready for a return to winning.

"Going through this as a 21-year-old guy, I'm going to look back on it one day and be thankful," Johnson said. "I know that's not what the fans want to hear or what the people who give this program money want to hear. But we're growing as men around here.

We went from 12-2 to 0-12 and we can go to 14-0 if we want to. We can make this whatever we want it to be."

Hammond said the search for Johnson's replacement has already started.

"Today marks a new beginning, a new season and a new start," Hammond said.

Johnson took over the program in December after Larry Fedora left for North Carolina. He inherited a roster that had 13 returning starters, but could never find consistency on offense or defense.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Sports

The NFL Bandwagons: Week 12

By Mike McCurry NFL Columnist A wise man (you can immediately rule out Lions coach Jim Schwartz) once said that there are two certainties in life: death and taxes. Not that I disagree with the saying, but I want to tweak it a little bit and apply it to Thanksgiving.

So, in memory of the splendid careers of Larry Fitzgerald and Tim Tebow (they are both done for, correct?) here goes nothing. There are three certainties on Thanksgiving: that one family member of yours consumes too many beers, Lions fans placing paper bags over their head, and Tony Romo completing rather accurate passes to the opposing team. There, that’s better.

Honestly, in a society that suddenly worships FaceTime and Snapchat and unfathomably refuses to buy Twinkies, it is beyond refreshing to know that some things never do change. Every time the Lions eventually cough up the game, you smile knowing that the same outcome will occur exactly one year from then. And, just when you think Tony Romo is finally cleaning up his act, you lift your head up from your mashed potatoes and are unfazed when No. 9 attempts another bonehead throw.

Cowboys Stadium already has a field-level VIP bar and Victoria’s Secret, so why not add a state-

of-the-art bakery to boot? Romo could always supply the turnovers.

If you were busy eating pumpkin pie or planning a Black Friday rendezvous, or your nickname unfortunately happens to be Fireman Ed, chances are you didn’t catch all of the NFL action on Thanksgiving.

Luckily, that is where I come in.

The Texans, Redskins, and Patriots all won. The Lions, Cowboys, and Jets all lost. But who were the real winners and losers on the national holiday?

WINNERS 1.

J.J. “Swat” Watt: If the San Francisco 49ers didn’t have their own freak of nature in Aldon Smith (30.5 sacks in 27 career games), J.J. Watt would have Defensive MVP honors locked up already. Watt collected another three sacks against the Lions (AFC-leading 14.5 on the year) and, unlike Ndamukong Suh, does not have to cheap-shot quarterbacks in order to prove a point.

2. Andre Johnson: Remember when the fantasy football world was freaking out over the inconsistency of Andre Johnson earlier this season? Well, Johnson is doing just fine now, thank you. A lot of the earlier contests were Texans blowouts, in which case Houston stopped the aerial onslaught and wisely ran some clock. The last two games have been dogfights against the

Jaguars and Lions, however, and Andre’s numbers directly reflect that. Johnson has an absurd 461 receiving yards in those two contests, and Thursday’s nine catch, 188-yard masterpiece should put an end to all those questioning whether the guy is still elite.

3. Matt Stafford’s Fantasy Owners: With a backfield that could probably still find carries for Tiki Barber, it must be nice for Matt Stafford to sit back in the pocket and throw the ball around all day. That is, unless he cares about that whole winninggames thing. Stafford’s 61 tosses on Thanksgiving may appear asinine to some, but it’s simply another day on the job for the Lions QB. Stafford leads the NFL in passing yards and passing attempts, but his completion percentage (60.7 %; completed just 31/61 vs. Houston) is way too close to that of Mark Sanchez. That spells bad news for Detroit fans (hence the bags over their head), yet I’m positive that fantasy owners will take 441 yards and 2 TD’s out of their starting quarterback every week.

4.

Dez Bryant: Besides from those who earn their living on the pole and New York Giants fans, Dez Bryant doesn’t receive compliments all that often. The holidays are a time for giving, though, and I have thus decided to throw some kudos at the

WAC loses Denver, adds Grand Canyon DENVER (AP) — The troubled Western Athletic Conference is adding Grand Canyon University to replace the University of Denver, which is bolting for the Summit League after just one year in the WAC. But the WAC must find another school — and quickly — in order to keep its automatic qualifying berths in the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments.

Grand Canyon University President Brian Mueller called Tuesday a historic day.

"We have made a commitment to excellence in athletics, just as we have academically, and that commitment has been recognized

by the invitation to join the Western Athletic Conference, a conference with a storied past," Mueller said in a statement.

He predicted Division I status will raise the university's profile.

Grand Canyon, located in Phoenix with an enrollment of 6,500, would join Cal StateBakersfield, Idaho, New Mexico State, Seattle and Utah Valley in the WAC starting in the 2013-14 academic year.

Keith Baker, the director of athletics at Grand Canyon, said Tuesday the school has already started the division transition process, which takes four years.

Following the transition period,

Grand Canyon will become a full Division I member provided that it meets all NCAA standards.

For the rest of the 2012-13 season, the university said its teams will remain eligible for all Pacific West Conference Championships as well as NCAA Division II postseason play.

WAC Interim Commissioner Jeff Hurd said the conference will help Grand Canyon as it makes the transition to the competitive Division I. "This is another important step in the rebuilding process of the WAC as we continue to strengthen the conference," Hurd said.

Cowboys wide out (he’d probably drop them). Dallas was down 28-3 versus Washington at the half, and Bryant quickly became the main beneficiary of Tony Romo’s frantic try at a comeback. Two late touchdown catches and 145 receiving yards later, Bryant turned in his best statistical performance to date.

Congrats, Dez. Enjoy watching the playoffs on Jerry Jones’ big screen.

5.

Patriots Defense: Four forced fumbles, two sacks, one interception, (not bad, Sanchez!) and two return touchdowns are the numbers on the stat-sheet for the Patriots defense in their pasting of the Jets on Thanksgiving night.

Over 100 bruised ribs from laughing at Mark Sanchez can be found on the postgame injury report for New England. Forcing diehard Jets fan Fireman Ed to leave the game at halftime? Priceless.

LOSERS 1. Jim Schwartz: You should all be familiar with the play by now. Texans running back Justin Forsett was given the handoff, appeared to be down after an 8-yard run, got up, and ran the rest of the way for a touchdown. The ruling on the field was a touchdown and, like all scoring plays this year, was to be reviewed by the officials.

Lions coach Jim Schwartz, clearly frustrated that the refs let Forsett keep running, threw the challenge flag. A play that absolutely would

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Dez Bryant was a star in Week 12, catching eight passes for 145 yards and two touchdowns in the Cowboys' 38-31 loss to the Redskins on Thanksgiving Day.

have been called back instead may have been the difference in the game. Because Schwartz tossed the red flag, the scoring play was not reviewed. Final score: Texans 34, Lions 31. Ouch.

2.

Ndamukong Suh: Last Thanksgiving, Suh helped himself to a two-game suspension by stepping on a Packers lineman. For an encore this year, the Lions bad boy perfectly swung his foot between Matt Schaub’s legs. Not only is Suh dirty, but he is overrated. He didn’t record a single tackle on Turkey Day.

3. Tim Tebow: What’s more insulting: being shipped from Denver to New York to backup Mark Sanchez, or not even getting garbage time in a 49-19 loss? You tell me, Mr. Tebow.

4.

Fireman Ed: Now that he is done attending Jets games, I have some ideas for Fireman Ed on how he should spend his newly acquired free time: attend a Broadway play, become a Giants fan, meet Jay-Z. Hey, you think he is old enough to try-out for the Knicks?

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ACC files lawsuit against Maryland over exit fee GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The Atlantic Coast Conference has filed a lawsuit against Maryland seeking full payment of the approximately $53 million exit fee for the school's move to the Big Ten. According to the 10-page lawsuit, the ACC said the school must pay $52,266,342, which is three times the league's annual operating budget for the 2012-13 season.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the lawsuit filed Monday in Guilford County Superior Court, home to the league headquarters in Greensboro.

The lawsuit also states that Maryland President Wallace D. Loh has "refused to provide assur-

ance" that the school will pay the exit fee and "has made it clear that defendant Maryland does not intend to pay the amount."

In a statement, Commissioner John Swofford says the ACC's council of presidents unanimously decided "to file legal action to ensure enforcement of this obligation."

"We continue to extend our best wishes to the University of Maryland; however, there is the expectation that Maryland will fulfill its exit fee obligation," Swofford said.

Brian Ullmann, Maryland's assistant vice president for marketing and communications, declined

to comment in an email Tuesday afternoon.

The league argued that all ACC schools have "agreed to be bound" by votes taken by the league's council of presidents, which approved the increase.

The league raised its exit fee to roughly $50 million in September after adding Notre Dame in all sports except football, though it's still unclear exactly when the Fighting Irish will begin play in the ACC. The exit fee is three times the league's annual operating budget so it could fluctuate from year to year.

By TJ Souhlaris NBA Columnist

might remember: Kemba Walker.

There’s no question that Walker has been crucial to Charlotte’s success this year. The Bobcats are two points better (per 100 possessions) than their opponents when Walker is on the court. When the former UConn star is off the floor, Charlotte is a putrid 13.7 points worse. Translation: Charlotte is pretty awful when Walker is off the court, and seem to trade punches when he is out running the point.

Now here’s the question: Is Walker really that much better and improved than he was when he was a rookie? Is he doing the same things he did last year, just with more playing time?

Let’s look at his numbers from last year, shall we? In 27.2 minutes per game, Walker averaged 12.1 ppg, shot an ugly .366 from the floor, dished out 4.4 assists per game and also turned the ball over 1.8 times per game. This season, Walker’s scoring is up (18 ppg), his field goal percentage is considerably higher (.401, which isn’t too efficient, but still better) and is averaging 5.7 assists and 2.5 turnovers in about 37 minutes per game. The raw numbers indicate that Walker is enjoying a significantly better year this season as opposed to last.

However, because Walker is playing almost a full quarter of play more than he did in 2011-12, it’s biased to put these numbers sideby-side and objectively say that Walker is definitely playing better.

Even though we’re talking about one of my favorite players in the NBA, I have to at least try to stay objective.

So, how can we measure Walker’s numbers in a vacuum? I measured Walker’s average per 36 minutes, a tool that NBA analysts and columnists use to project what a player would do if he were to play 36 minutes a game.

If Walker played 36 minutes per game and his numbers stayed absolutely the same in 2011-12, here’s what he’d average: 16.1 points, 5.8 assists, 2.4 turnovers, 4.7 rebounds per game and 1.2 steals. And here are this season’s numbers, if Walker’s numbers minutes were to dip to 36 mpg: 16.2 points, 5.5 assists, 2.4 turnovers, 3.6 rebounds and 2.2 steals. If that’s too many numbers for you just know that those numbers are eerily similar.

Does this mean that Walker

hasn’t improved at all this season?

Absolutely not. In his familiar No. 15 (and fresh new Bobcats jersey at that) Walker has focused more on playing defense and also is taking smarter, better shots, as evidenced by his elevated field goal percentage. Moreover, Walker is only taking about 2.5 shots from behind the arc this season, whereas he took nearly four per game in 10 less minutes per game last year. In a more static role as the team’s starting point guard, due to Augustin’s departure, Walker isn’t forcing up shots to try to give his team a boost off the bench like he was last year.

This isn’t saying that Walker isn’t capable of putting up a few bad shots per game, because if you watched any of the Oklahoma City evisceration of Charlotte the other night, you probably know that this isn’t true. Overall, Walker is taking better shots and causing more problems on defense, which will always be a recipe for a team’s success.

As far as comparing Walker to fellow point guards, it’s premature to say that he’s one of the best point guards in the Eastern Conference.

I saw on Twitter the other day that Walker “might be the best point guard in the entire conference,” which is absolute heresy. If I had to rank him, he’d fall somewhere in the middle of the pack along the likes of Kyle Lowry and Jrue Holiday, and under guys like Deron Williams, Kyrie Irving, Rajon Rondo and Derrick Rose (when he gets healthy, of course.)

Walker is going to be a solid NBA player and is making the most of his minutes right now, which is really all you can ask for out of a young player. He’s going to have his off nights (like his zero-point performance against OKC) but barring any injury, Walker is going to play solid and close to 40 minutes a game by the end of the season because Charlotte is so young.

I’d be shocked—shocked—if Charlotte sustains their pace and makes the playoffs. With Walker at the helm, however, it wouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to see the New York City native take a young team much further than anybody would’ve ever dreamed.

After all, it wouldn’t be the first time.

Walker, Bobcats on a roll

There have been more than a few surprises in the first month or so of the NBA season, especially in the Eastern Conference. The New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets sit atop the Atlantic Division in what has already developed into a heated rivalry, while in the Central, led by gunning guards Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis, Milwaukee is making division foes fear the deer as they lead the division with a 7-5 record. There is a team in the Southeast division that is making waves thus far this season with their exciting play, and it is not the Miami Heat.

We’re talking about the Charlotte Bobcats.

The Bobkitties (as their endearingly called due to their youth) are 7-6 right now and have matched last season’s win total in just 12 games. There are a few reasons for this. Some might say it’s because Charlotte hired Mike Dunlap to replace Paul Silas as its head coach.

This is true; Charlotte is in the top five in the NBA in possessions per game this season, whereas the Bobcats were middle of the pack last year. This means Charlotte is getting up and down the floor more, leading to more opportunities to score. And it’s shown on the stat sheet. Charlotte was dead last in the Association with 87 points per game last year, but this season the Bobcats are up four extra baskets to 95 PPG. It’s not the Seven Seconds or Less Suns of 2006, but it’s still a drastic improvement compared to last year.

A function of Charlotte scoring more points this season is its roster turnover. Corey Maggette, who shot a dreadful 37 percent from the floor last year, and inefficient minutes hog DJ Augustin have both left Charlotte. To replace these two very dispensable players, Charlotte drafted Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Jeffery Taylor, and also signed guards Ramon Sessions and former UConn alum Ben Gordon. Simply put, Charlotte is performing better because, well, they’re just better.

The main reason, however, why Charlotte is out to such a hot start (7-6 isn’t “hot” I know, but it’s relative with Charlotte) is due to the play of a certain diminutive point guard that students around Storrs

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What's Next Home game

Dec. 4 N.C. State 9 p.m.

Dec. 17 Maryland Eastern Shore 7 p.m.

Dec. 7 Harvard 7 p.m.

Dec. 3 Maryland 7 p.m.

9

The number of former Conference USA member schools that will be in the Big East Conference in 2014.

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Dec. 21 Fordham 7 p.m.

Women’s Basketball (5-0) Today Colgate 7 p.m.

Stat of the day

Dec. 6 Penn State 7 p.m.

Dec. 19 Oakland 7 p.m.

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Dec. 22 Hartford 1 p.m.

Dec. 1 Cincinnati 3:30 p.m.

Men’s Soccer (17-3-1) Dec. 2 - NCAA Quarterfinal Creighton University 1 p.m.

Men’s Track and Field Jan. 9 Jan. 10 URI URI Heptathlon Heptathlon All Day All Day

Jan. 18 Jan. 12 Great Dane Yale Invite Classic All Day All Day

Men’s Hockey (4-5-1) Dec. 7 Dec. 1 Nov. 30 Army Canisius Canisius 7:05 p.m. 7: 05 p.m. 7:05 p.m.

Jan. 4 Dec. 29 AIC Penn State 7:15 p.m. 7:05 p.m.

Women’s Hockey (2-12-2) Dec. 1 Vermont 1 p.m.

Dec. 2 Vermont 1 p.m.

Jan. 2 Princeton 7 p.m.

Jan. 3 Princeton 7 p.m.

Jan. 8 BU 7 p.m.

Nov. 30 USA Swimming Winter Nationals All Day

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Johnny Manziel

NEW YORK (AP) — Marvin Miller was a labor economist who never played a day of organized baseball. He preferred tennis. Yet he transformed the national pastime as surely as Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, television and night games.

Miller, the union boss who won free agency for baseball players in 1975, ushering in an era of multimillion-dollar contracts and athletes who switch teams at the drop of a batting helmet, died Tuesday at 95. He had been diagnosed with liver cancer in August.

“I think he’s the most important baseball figure of the last 50 years,” former baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent said. “He changed not just the sport but the business of the sport permanently, and he truly emancipated the baseball player — and in the process all professional athletes. Prior to his time, they had few rights. At the moment, they control the games.”

In his 16 1/2 years as executive director of the Major League Players Association, starting in 1966, Miller fought owners on many fronts, not only achieving free agency but making the word “strike” stand for something other than a pitched ball.

Over the years, his influence was widely acknowledged if not always honored. Baseball fans argue over whether he made the game fairer or more nakedly mercenary, and the Hall of Fame repeatedly rejected him in what was attributed to lingering resentment among team owners.

Players attending the union’s annual executive board meeting in New York said their professional lives are Miller’s legacy.

“Anyone who’s ever played modern professional sports owes a debt of gratitude to Marvin Miller,” Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Chris Capuano said.

“He empowered us as players. He gave us ownership of the game we play. Anyone who steps on a field in any sport, they have a voice because of him.”

Major League Baseball’s revenue has grown from $50 million in 1967 to $7.5 billion this year.

At his last public speaking engagement, a discussion at New York University School of Law in April marking the 40th anniversary of the first baseball strike, Miller said free agency and resulting fan interest contributed to the increase. And both management and labor benefited, he said.

“I never before saw such a win-win situation in my life, where everybody involved in Major League Baseball, both sides of the equation, still continue to set records in terms of revenue and profits and salaries and benefits,” Miller said. He called it “an amazing story.”

Miller, who retired in 1982, led the first walkout in the game’s history 10 years earlier, a fight over pension benefits. On April 5, 1972, signs posted at major league parks simply said: “No Game Today.” The strike, which lasted 13 days, was followed by a walkout during spring training in 1976 and a midseason job action that darkened the AP stadiums for seven weeks in 1981.

Tulane President Scott Cowen speaks during a news conference in New Orleans on Tuesday. Tulane and East Carolina agreed to join the Big East Conference in 2014.

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Big Easy to Big East

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Jan. 5 Winter Opener All Day

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THE Storrs Side UConn’s potential exit a cause for Big East expansion

By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer

Maryland’s departure last week, and could add a 14th member this week. UConn or Louisville are the likely candidate to join the conference.

Reports suggest that both schools are looking to get out of the Big East, which has added Central Florida, Tulane, Houston, Southern Methodist and Memphis as its replacements for departing schools Syracuse, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and TCU (who officially announced they would join the Big East, but backed out to join the Big XII).

Unfortunately for either UConn or Louisville, this week’s potential decision could leave the loser looking elsewhere, as Fowler reports that the ACC have no intention at this time of expanding to 16 full members.

In order for either school to be approved for an invitation to join the conference, the presidents of the current ACC institutions must first vote to invite them with a three-fourths majority decision in favor of adding them.

The Big East Conference added two new members on Tuesday, with Tulane joining as a member in all sports while East Carolina will be for football only, which according to ESPN’s Brett McMurphy, is partially related to UConn’s potential move to the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Both school are set to join in 2014. At the moment, that would mean a 13-team conference in football.

According to McMurphy, the reason for adding only two schools to bring the total to 13 is that the Big East expects either UConn or Louisville to leave for the ACC very soon.

The ACC is looking to add a new member after Maryland announced it would be leaving for the Big Ten Conference, which also added Rutgers from the Big East, sparking speculation about a UConn departure from the conference once again.

According to Jeremy Fowler of CBS Sports, the ACC, has been relatively Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu silent about its plans since

THE Pro Side Manziel closing in on Heisman with one weekend left

By Andrew Callahan Senior Staff Writer In what was once thought to be a two-horse race between veteran signal callers Collin Klein of Kansas State and Geno Smith of West Virginia, the competition for the 78th Heisman trophy has likely found itself going in the other direction. Through a spectacular and consistent campaign playing for Texas A&M, redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel has put himself out ahead for college football’s most prestigious award.

Trailed closely by linebacker Manti Te’o of Notre Dame and Klein, Johnny Football has been projected as likely to be named the best player in all the sport by ESPN.com and other media outlets. The young gunslinger has thrown 400 passes this season for 3,419 yards and 24 touchdowns at a completion rate of 68.3 percent. He’s also rushed for nearly 1,200 yards and 11 scores as the leader of the country’s fourth highest scoring offense. Manziel would be the first second-year player to win it since Tim Tebow in 2007.

The quarterback’s remarkable run has led No. 9 Texas A&M to a 10-2 record this year, as they suffered just two losses at the hands of new conference rivals Florida and LSU. The Aggies did however top a fierce SEC foe in No. 1 Alabama, when Manziel pulled out his best performance in Tuscaloosa back on November 10. Manziel completed 24 of 31 passes for 253 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions, while also gashing the top ranked Tide defense for 92 rushing yards in a 29-24 win.

It was this performance timed with the late season falters of Klein and Smith that pushed Manziel into first place consideration for voters.

The ceremony is scheduled to begin December 8 at 8 p.m. in New York City, two days after Manziel’s twentieth birthday.

Winning the award would be a far cry different from how Johnny Football started his campaign after an arrest for disorderly conduct and possessing a false identification card back in late June.

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Huskies to take on Colgate Raiders in Hartford

By Matt Stypulkoski Staff Writer

Tyler Morrissey After UConn’s 24-17 victory over the Pittsburgh Panthers on Nov. 9, senior defensive tackle Ryan Wirth told members of the media that this UConn football team was going to silence the critics.

Wirth and the Huskies have delivered on this promise.

After a disappointing 13-6 loss on the road to South Florida, this Husky team beat a Pittsburgh Panther squad that nearly upset the No. 1 team in college football, Notre Dame. UConn followed that performance by knocking off No. 19 Louisville in a stunning three overtime victory. Just when everybody was counting UConn out of the postseason, the Huskies won their first two games in a row under Paul Pasqaloni and are now just one win away from reaching a post season bowl game.

Since their loss to USF, the ground game has seen quite the improvement, as the Huskies have recorded 100+ yards on the ground in back to back games. Before the Pittsburgh game, you have to go all the way back to UConn’s win against Buffalo for the last time the Huskies recorded 100+ rushing yards. Part of this is due in part to the success of sophomore running back Lyle McCombs. McCombs rushed for 120 yards against Pittsburgh and season high 133 yards against Louisville.

The most consistent component of this UConn football team all season has been a solid defensive front. With the exception of the game against Syracuse, where the Huskies were routed 40-10, this defense has kept the Huskies in every game this season. UConn has lost five games by a total of only 35 points, which includes two games where the Huskies only lost by a margin of three points.

At the start of the season, sophomore linebacker Yawin Smallwood was an early Defensive Player of the Year candidate. He has anchored this UConn defense with his 100 total tackles, including five games with 10 or more. Senior defensive end Travardo Williams leads the Huskies in sacks with 11.5. Williams recorded three sacks alone in the game against Louisville. Senior corner back Blidi Wreh-Wilson reeled in his first interception of the season against the Cardinals, which just goes to show how other teams have respected his presence in the secondary and have thrown the ball away from him all year.

Since the South Florida game, the UConn football team had one goal and that was to win their next game, which is exactly what they accomplished. However, there are still some statistics that show the Huskies will need to bring their “A” game when Cincinnati comes to the Rent on Saturday. For example, UConn has only scored three points in the second half against all Big East opponents they have faced this season. In order for the Huskies to go bowling this winter, they will need to find a way to score points in the second half, plain and simple.

All year the Huskies have struggled to put teams away in the second half.

When UConn takes the field at home for one last time this season, I really don’t know what to expect.

Will we see more of the same, a UConn offense that comes out strong in the first half and then all but disappears in the second half?

Or will UConn silence the critics once again and give us an offensive performance that will help fans forget about the struggles this team faced earlier in the season. When the clock hits 0:00 in the 4th quarter Husky fans will have that answer but until that moment comes, sit back and enjoy the game. It could be the last football game we see until next fall.

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The Huskies have returned from paradise and now it’s back to business as usual.

Geno Auriemma and his squad will be back in action Wednesday night at the XL Center when they take on Colgate.

UConn enters the game as the secondranked team in the nation, 5-0 on the season and fresh off a 3-0 trip to the U.S. Virgin Islands, where they 5-0, 0-0 won the Paradise Jam tournament title.

Colgate, on the other hand, brings a 2-3 record to Hartford.

The Raiders have struggled early on this season, especially on the offensive side of 2-3, 0-0 the ball; they scored Today, 7 p.m., just 33 points against Drexel on Sunday.

SNY That may lead to XL Center trouble for Colgate, as they will receive little help from a UConn team that leads the nation in field goal percentage, field goal percentage defense, assists, assist to turnover ratio and scoring margin.

For the Huskies, the only real problem early on in the season has been a more personnal issue than an on-court one: injuries.

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Junior center Stefanie Dolson and the UConn women’s basketball team had a successful trip over Thanksgiving break, completing a 4-0 road trip. The Huskies return home for a game against Colgate on Wednesday at the XL Center.

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Williams, Christen earn Big East football honors

By Tyler Morrissey Associate Sports Editor

UConn defensive end Travardo Williams and kicker Chad Christen earned Big East player of the week honors after their performances in the Huskies’ 23-20 three overtime victory over Louisville.

Williams recorded seven tackles against the Cardinals, which included an impressive three sacks. He now leads the Huskies in total sacks on the season with 11.5 and is now the school career leader in sacks with 30.5. Williams’ seven tackles matches his season high tackles in a single game, as he recorded seven tackles in UConn’s 24-17 victory over Buffalo on Sept. 29.

Christen was a perfect 3-3 kicking field goals in UConn’s victory over Louisville. His longest of the afternoon was a 39 yard field goal in the first quarter of the game. So far this season Christen has made 14 of 21 field goals he has attempted. Head coach Paul

Pasqualoni said in his weekly press conference that the cold temperatures of playing football this late in the season have not affected Christen’s game and that his kicker has been able to put rough outings behind him.

FOOTBALL Notebook “He’s doing good,” said Pasqualoni. “He had that one off day but Chad is a tough guy and he put it behind him the way you have to. He has a routine that he goes through every week and he has been kicking really well.”

Chandler Whitmer Update After suffering a head injury in the beginning of the fourth quarter against Louisville, sophomore quarterback Chandler Whitmer

is indefinite for Saturday’s game against the Cincinnati Bearcats and will see limited action in practice this week, according to Pasqualoni.

“Chandler Whitmer is doing pretty good, he’s going to see limited work today and he will be evaluated each day,” said Pasqualoni. “We are optimistic that he will work through the week, Chandler will be available but this is a day to day process.”

In Whitmer’s absence, senior quarterback Johnny McEntee finished the game against the Louisville Cardinals. McEntee threw for 20 yards and completed just two of the seven passes he attempted. However, he also threw a touchdown pass in the second overtime to give the Huskies a chance to win the game. Pasqualoni has confidence in his backup quarterback if Whitmer is unable to start on Saturday.

“Johnny has handled everything terrifically and Johnny is a team guy,” said Pasqualoni.

“John’s interested in doing what’s in the best interest of the team, and he has not been anything but a team guy since day one.”

“Chandler will be available but this is a day to day process.”

Paul Pasqualoni Football Head Coach Senior Moments This Saturday’s game against Cincinnati may be the last game in college football that UConn will have the chance to play in. The Huskies have an overall record of 5-6 and need another victory to become eligible for a post season bowl. The 16 mem-

bers of this senior class were contributors to the 2010 Big East Championship as well as three bowl games, including the 2011 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Pasqualoni has been pleased with the efforts from the senior class despite the adversity that have faced on the field this season.

“As everybody knows, we have lost some close games this year and haven’t accumulated the number of win that we wanted to have but this senior class is very resilient and tough,” said Pasqualoni.

“There is excellent leadership in the group, guys like Ryan Wirth show a lot of toughness.”

The Quotable Paul Pasqualoni “They may forget their wife’s birthday but they will never forget that win in Louisville.” Coach Pasqualoni on the importance of the win over Louisville to the graduating senior class.

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Tulane, East Carolina to join Big East NEW YORK (AP) - The Big East moved quickly to replace Rutgers and braced for more possible departures, getting Tulane and East Carolina to agree to join the re-invented conference in 2014.

“I would go as far to say as this is a historic day for Tulane University ... the Big East is coming to the Big Easy,” school President Scott Cowen said Tuesday.

Tulane, in New Orleans, and East Carolina, in Greenville, N.C., will make it six Conference USA schools to join the Big East in the last two years.

Rutgers announced one week ago that it would leave the Big East for the Big Ten. Cowen and athletic director Rick Dickson said serious talks with the Big East began about a week ago.

“This is an unprecedented opportunity to join a national conference,” Dickson said.

Rutgers would like to join the Big Ten by 2014, along with Maryland, but the Scarlet Knights have left their departure

date from the Big East ambiguous. Conference bylaws require members to give the league notification of two years and three months before departing, but the Big East has negotiated early exits for Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia in the past year.

West Virginia joined the Big 12 this year. Syracuse and Pitt will begin play in the Atlantic Coast Conference in September.

With Maryland leaving the ACC, there has been strong speculation that Connecticut or Louisville will be the next to leave the Big East as the Terps’ replacement.

If either does, the conference is still on target to have 12 football members in 2014, just not the same ones it will have in 2013 when the new Big East debuts.

“We’re not finished,” Big East Commissioner Mike Aresco said.

“We obviously have some other plans for expansion.”

Boise State and San Diego State, currently in the Mountain West, are set to join for football

only starting in 2013, anchoring the Big East’s new West Division.

Also on schedule to join next season are current C-USA members SMU, Houston, Memphis and Central Florida.

Navy has committed to join the Big East for football in 2015. The conference had planned to find a 14th member to balance out its divisions even before Rutgers left.

BYU and Air Force were top targets for that spot.

Aresco said that the Big East could even expand to 16 members, depending on what schools are available.

“We have to let that play out,” he said.

Officials from San Diego State and Boise State have said they are still committed to joining the Big East but have expressed a desire for the conference to add more western schools.

“They absolutely are extremely committed to the Big East,” Aresco said. “We absolutely will be looking at some western schools.”

AP

East Carolina will join the Big East in 2014 as a football-only member. Tulane announced today that they will join as a full member in 2014.