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Rep. Courtney supports Obama’s changes to SAFRA By Christine Peterson Staff Writer
‘THE MISER’ EXAMINES FRUGALITY 340 year old production’s critique of thriftiness still relavent. FOCUS/ page 7
UCONN TAKES CARE OF ASSUMPTION IN EXHIBITION Freshman MosquedaLewis leads Huskies in victory.
SPORTS/ page 14 EDITORIAL: STUDENT LOAN DEBT NEEDS TO BE PUT IN PERSPECTIVE $1 trillion debt should be taken seriously and fixed.
COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: ATTORNEY GENERAL DEMANDS CL&P INVESTIGATION Jepsen concerned that some towns went fifth day without power.
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On Oct. 26, President Barack Obama signed an executive order that will bring changes to the Student Aid and Fiscal responsibility Act (SAFRA) in order to help college students manage their debts. Congressman Joe Courtney of the 2nd District for Connecticut made it clear that he fully supported the President’s efforts to help swelling student debt, which has passed $1 trillion.
This fall, the average instate tuition and fees at fouryear colleges rose another $631. The College Board has estimated that 56 percent of bachelor’s degree recipients graduated with a debt of around $22,000. “A college degree is still vital to competing in our global economy, but obtaining that education should not require incurring a lifetime of debt,” Courtney said in a press release. For this reason, Courtney, who is a member of the House Education and Labor
Committee’s Higher Education Subcommittee, applauded Obama’s acceleration of changes to the law passed by Congress last year to lower the maximum required payment on student loans. The new incomebased repayment plan will enable borrowers to cap the payments on student loans from the annual 15 percent of discretionary income to 10 percent and will forgive any remaining debt in 20 years, as opposed to the original 25. Entitled the “Pay As You Earn” proposal, the plan is
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supposed to make benefits available as early as 2012 instead of the original date of 2014. The new plan will reduce payments for an approximate 1.6 million borrowers, saving some up to several hundred dollars a month. “Building on the income caps established by SAFRA will give Americans more disposable income, something that, by itself, has potential to inject new spending into our economy,” Courtney said. The plan was created with borrowers in mind who have
Book talk confronts intimate violence against women By Loumarie Rodriguez Staff Writer
As the semester dwindles, UConn seniors may be reminiscing about the past four years and cherishing these last months with friends, faculty and staff. The UConn Alumni Association is offering access to its programs for two years after graduation with its Senior Year Access Pass. The pass costs $30. Not only will the pass provide students with membership to the UConn Alumni association for the next two years, but it will also give them access to university networking resources with more than 250,000 alumni around the world. “A challenge we’ve faced for years is that seniors are not aware of the opportunities available to them through the Alumni Association,” said Cynthia Bidorini, the Alumni Association’s director of membership. “It is a priority for us to alert seniors of the valuable resources we have to offer.” Besides the benefits that the pass provides for students with alumni connections, it also gives them opportunity for more amusement in their last few months. Purchase of the pass includes free admission to the traditional Oozeball
The Women’s Center hosted Ching-In Chen and Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha, editors “The Revolution Starts at Home,” a book about confronting intimate violence, Wednesday. Using a PowerPoint presentation, the two guest speakers talked about their latest book, which examines the extent of violence affecting our communities. According to their statistics, 1 in 3 women will experience intimate violence in her lifetime. Both women read excerpts and explained the reasons women find it hard to rely on law enforcement or justice systems. Chen and PiepznaSamarasinha said these systems have failed women everywhere, especially women of color. The programs set up by the government to help with these types of problems are often do not work for those dealing with intimate violence, they said. In order to prove their point, the speakers asked the audience if a friend was dealing with this type of problem, whether they would immediately call either the police or another type of public program. The main
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jobs but don’t make enough to make loan payments. “Pay As You Earn” is supposed to provide financial relief by reducing these exorbitant levels to affordable ones. The new changes, however, will not be available to borrowers already in default. This part of the incomebased repayment plan will only apply to students who take out loans sometime from 2008 to 2012 and after. In order to be eligible for the
response was there were too many technicalities and complications within these systems. To provide help for those who do not rely on the police or other government-established programs, private programs have been created to provide a safe environment for victims. One example is Philadelphia-based Feminist Anti-Violence Association (Philly Stands Up). There are similar organizations that can be found across the country to provide services for all victims of this type of violence, not only women. These services aim to figure out ways to put an end to the violence in the relationship without making things too complicated. Chen and PiepznaSamarasinha explained how the likelihood of isolation and irreparable harm can be even greater in the LGBTQ community. They emphasized how we ought to challenge the system in order to create some sort of change and continue to be a strong community that helps one another in times of need. “I was blown away by the amount of people that came out and by the community here,” Chen said. “The Women’s
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UBS exec describes rise to CFO position
By Jimmy Onofrio Staff Writer
This week’s 30-20-10 lecture series, hosted by the School of Business Career Center, allowed students to hear about the Swiss financial giant UBS AG. Thursday’s speaker was Thomas Gustinis, managing director and CFO of Group Treasury at UBS. UBS is an international financial services company with nearly $1.4 trillion in assets and more than 66,000 employees in 50 countries. Its main operations are located in Zurich, London and Stamford, Conn. UBS currently has more than 100 UConn alumni in various positions at the company and has hired on average four graduates a year for the past few years. The company actively recruits from UConn for its Stamford operation as well jobs abroad. The goal of the series is to “give students the opportunity to engage with employers of choice,” according to SBCC
director Jim Lowe. Open to students of all majors, the lectures are split into a presentation about the company and an opportunity for students to talk to the speaker on a more individual basis. Part of the lecture series’ purpose is to give students an idea of how successful executives reached their positions. Gustinis began his presentation with some background on his life, including a summary of his education and employment prior to UBS. He said that he had wanted to study accounting from early in high school. His first employment was in auditing, but after earning his CPA certification he transitioned into financial services. Gustinis also shared a story about his twin brother, who works for UBS as well but followed a very different path. His brother studied political science, and after graduating, decided to hitchhike across the country. He ended up settling in Seattle, where
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Thomas Gustinis, Managing Director and CFO of Group Treasury at UBS, shares stories about his background and advice about working in business, Thursday. The lecture took place as part of the School of Business’s 30-20-10 lecture series.
What’s on at UConn this weekend... Friday: Internship Workshop 1 to 3 p.m. Student Union, 304 This workshop will provide information for students who plan to i-ntern in sales, advertising and for nonretail companies.
Saturday: ZumbaTHON 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Student Union Ballroom Kappa Sigma is hosting a ZumbaTHON to raise money for the Fisher House Foundation, which provides homes for wounded veterans. Registration is $10.
Saturday: Acrobat Performance 8 to 10 p.m. Jorgensen
Sunday: Men’s Basketball 1 to 3 p.m. XL Center
The National Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China will showcase their talents in tumbling, spinning and dancing combined with traditional music and optical illusions. Tickets start at $25.
The Huskies will take on C.W. Post in an exhibition game. Call 1-877-AT-UCONN for tickets.
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Convict got mixed up in satanic cult, teacher says
NEW HAVEN (AP) — A man facing a possible death sentence for killing a woman and her two daughters was involved in a satanic cult as a teen and claimed to hear voices telling him to kill himself, so his family turned to tearful prayers and pastoral mentoring, witnesses testified Thursday. Joshua Komisarjevsky, 31, faces life in prison or the death penalty after being convicted of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters in their Cheshire home in 2007. The girls were tied to their beds, doused in gas and left to die in a fire. The defense says Komisarjevsky’s religious family was opposed to psychological counseling and medications. His attorneys say he was sexually abused by a foster teen as a child.
Two state universities to offer nursing Ph.D.
NEW HAVEN (AP) — Two state universities in Connecticut will offer a doctoral program in nursing education next fall to add to the ranks of teaching faculty. The New Haven Register reports that the Board of Regents for Higher Education approved the doctorate of education degree in nursing Wednesday. It will be a collaborative effort between Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven and Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. Most nursing programs in the state have too few teachers, hampering their ability to accept more students. Few programs in the U.S. offer doctorate degrees in nursing. Most focus on research and clinical skills. The degree requires students to earn 51 credits, including teaching experience. The 25-member student body will be divided between Southern and Western.
Winning $254M Powerball ticket sold in Conn.
HARTFORD (AP) — The winning Powerball ticket for a $254 million jackpot has been sold in Connecticut, and it’s the largest prize in state lottery history. The one ticket with all six winning numbers from Wednesday’s drawing was sold at an undisclosed location in Fairfield County, and lottery officials are waiting for the winner to step forward. The jackpot winner can claim a $254 million annuity paid over 29 years or a lump sum of nearly $152 million in cash. Wednesday’s winning Powerball numbers were 12-14-3439-46, Powerball 36. There were nearly 2.3 million tickets with winning combinations sold nationwide, including about 29,000 in Connecticut.
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» STORM UPDATE
Attorney General demands CL&P investigation HARTFORD (AP) — Attorney General George Jepsen called on Connecticut utility regulators Thursday to investigate Connecticut Light and Power’s response to last weekend’s October nor’easter, which knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers. As of early evening, more than 406,000 CL&P customers remained in the dark for a fifth day. Jepsen said he filed a formal request with the state Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, which already opened an investigation into utilities’ response to outages from the remnants of Hurricane Irene. He asked them to expand the probe to include this latest storm and the response by the state’s largest utility. “I have received numerous complaints from affected citizens, many of whom are still waiting for their power to be restored,” he said. “Reliable electric service is a matter of public health and safety, and Connecticut’s citizens deserve to know that the utilities and the state are doing everything possible to provide electric service as soon as possible.” Jepsen asked PURA to look at CL&P’s preparedness, how it reserved out-of-state contractors to help with storm recovery, its payment procedures for those contractors, and its effectiveness in responding to the storm’s damage. Earlier in the day, Jeffrey D. Butler, president and chief operating officer of CL&P, said
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In this Oct. 30 file photo, a fallen tree rests on power lines in Glastonbury a day after a major snow storm hit the Northeast.
the utility expects to spend as much as $100 million for cleanup and restoration related to last weekend’s rare early snowstorm. That cost will be on top of a $100 million charge to clean up damage from Irene in August. Because the winter storm is the “same magnitude” as Irene, the utility is looking at a range between $75 million and $100 million “minimum,” he said. Parent company Northeast Utilities told investor analysts in September that ratepayers, not investors, will pay for the Irene-related cleanup as utilities seek to avoid taking a hit to its
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Judge: NY man suing Facebook must return to US
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man who’s been staying in Ireland while his lawsuit claiming half ownership of Facebook is argued has been told to come home. The Buffalo News reports that a federal judge ordered Paul Ceglia (SEHG’-lee-uh) on Wednesday to return to western New York to search for a missing flash drive that Facebook attorneys believe contains important evidence. The Wellsville man claims he’s got emails and a 2003 contract with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that entitle him to 50 percent ownership of the social network that’s worth an estimated $50 billion. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook says the claim is baseless, built on a doctored contract and made-up emails. Zuckerberg’s lawyers believe the missing drive will help disprove Ceglia’s case. Ceglia says his experts concluded the contract is authentic.
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Kevin M. DelGobbo, chairman of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, told lawmakers in September that CL&P maintains insurance for storm-related expenses through a Northeast Utilities policy. The policy is limited to $15 million per occurrence, with a $10 million deductible. A spokeswoman for CL&P would not give details about the policy. The utility reported on its website Thursday that more than 406,000 customers had no power, down by less than half from the peak of 830,000 when the storm struck Saturday. Elected officials have criticized CL&P, which also
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A white man claims he was fired as manager of a suburban Panera Bread shop for repeatedly having a black man work the cash register instead of putting him in a less visible location and having “pretty young girls” be the cashiers. Scott Donatelli contends in a federal lawsuit he was denied extra medical leave and was fired in September after double hip replacement surgery earlier this year. He claims the reason was that he bucked race-related personnel rules communicated to him by a district manager for Sam Covelli, a franchisee based in Warren, Ohio, about 80 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. Earlier this year, Donatelli says, the district manager told him, “It’s what Sam wants and what our customers want. They would rather see pretty young girls” at the cash register.
profit. It’s standard in the industry for ratepayers to pay operating costs such as electrical restoration and storm clean-up. The utility must ask state regulators for permission to pass the costs to ratepayers. Regulators will examine CL&P’s costs to determine what can be reimbursed. Dennis Schain, a spokesman for the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, said CL&P has not yet submitted its request for Irene-related expenses. “I believe the costs we’ve incurred are costs necessary to serve our customers,” Butler said.
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Editors of their new book, “The Revolution Starts at Home,” Ching-In Chen, left, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha discuss violence against women on Wednesday.
Center here has a beautiful space, and there is a great vibe of community. It’s inspiring to see what they have to offer.” The event ended with a post-program reception in the Women’s Center. “The Revolution Starts at Home” was also being sold outside the theater, and the Women’s Center provided pamphlets with more information about their center. “In some universities, only a few people care enough to
attend these events,” PiepznaSamarasinha said. “It was incredible that over 200 people care enough to attend and have such intense questions. It was very heartening.” Matt Tuscano, 9th-semester psychology and human development and family studies major, said, “I think that if you look at a survivor’s life, that the community that they are involved with is what makes or breaks their experience.”
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Courtney working in DC to expand Senior pass popular among students, on sale at Alumni Center access to higher education from CONGRESSMAN, page 1 consolidated loan component, borrowers must have a government-issued direct loan as well as a loan from the Federal Family Education Loan Program; and for certain borrowers, the benefit would be around $3 a month, so it would make sense not to put their loans into this program. However, according to the White House, the plan will be free for taxpayers because when the loans are consolidated, the government will not pay a subsidy to private lenders on loans from the Federal Family Education
Loan Program. These changes do show a step for student loan relief, especially to the 1.6 million who stand to profit from the SAFRA plan. Congressman Courtney has been an advocate in Washington for expanding access to higher education. These changes will come as “welcome news to Americans struggling with massive student loan debt,” he said. They will help open up the opportunity of higher education for more students and relieve some of the fiscal burdens as well.
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David Berliner, 7th-semester journalism major, is excited to buy his Senior Year Access Pass. “I just wanted it because I could be in the Alumni Association, because this is a great opportunity to stay in touch with UConn, even after I graduate,” said Berliner. The Senior Year Access Pass is currently available for purchase at the UConn Alumni Center, located on 2384 Alumni Drive or online at www. UConnAlumni.com/seniors, where more information is available. Cash, Husky Bucks, Debit and Credit are acceptable means of purchase.
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In European crisis, Obama sees risks back home
CANNES, France (AP) — His political fortunes and his nation’s economy at risk, President Barack Obama on Thursday implored European leaders to swiftly work out a eurozone rescue plan, aware of the potential fallout at home if they fail. Obama, at the French Riviera for a summit of the Group of 20 leading industrialized and developing economies, pledged to be a partner in helping the Europeans cope with the economic emergency. But his aides insisted that Europe’s problem, brought on by the threat of a Greek default, was one it had to fix. Taking his jobs-first message abroad, Obama said the goal was getting people back to work. “That means,” Obama said, “we’re going to have to resolve the situation here in Europe.” For Obama, an incumbent seeking a second term in a time of economic peril, the stakes in Europe are immense. Europe is the largest U.S. trading partner, and its intertwined financial institutions mean that a worsening crisis in Europe inevitably would spread across the Atlantic. The timing could not be worse as the weak U.S. economy is beginning to show some signs of life even with the unemployment rate stuck at 9.1 percent. Obama’s economic options
and his leverage are limited, and the European debt crisis consumed all attention at the summit meeting. The Greek government was in danger of collapsing over Prime Minister George Papandreou’s call for a public vote on the rescue deal. The Greek leader later scrapped the referendum but ignored repeated calls to resign, while the eurozone remained in turmoil. Obama declared his solidarity with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, two architects of the debt bailout plan. Obama said resolving the financial crisis is “the most important aspect of our task over the next two days.” But with aspects of the rescue undefined, he added: “We’re going to have to flesh out more of the details about how the plan will be fully and decisively implemented.” Underscoring the threat posed by Greece to Europe and the U.S., Obama, Sarkozy and Merkel met with other eurozone leaders late Thursday, well after the G-20’s working dinner had concluded, and continued their consultations, the White House said. The debt bailout plan would cut by half Greece’s debt and create a $1.4 trillion firewall to protect other vulnerable European economies. It
also would impose strict and unpopular austerity measures on Greece. A Greek default alone would not necessarily send ripples to the United States, as long as the bailout fund could contain the damage and keep countries such as Italy or Spain from going into a financial swoon. Publicly, Obama, Sarkozy and Merkel said little about the drama in Greece. Obama met earlier in the day with Sarkozy for about an hour and said afterward they discussed Greece and “how we can work to help resolve that situation as well.” The U.S., he said, “will continue to be a partner with the Europeans to resolve these challenges.” At a meeting with Merkel, Obama spoke of the need to “make sure that not only is the eurozone stable but the world financial system is stable as well.” White House aides said the upheaval in Greece showed the need to put a rescue plan in place regardless of the outcome in Athens. “The steps that need to be taken are clear, again, irrespective of the political personality or situation at any given moment,” said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser. Obama’s participation in the G-20 is more limited than his role in the past four summits he has attended.
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he landed a job with IBM. Gustinis used this example to illustrate that there is no set path to success. Gustinis sought to share a number of lessons with the roughly 40 students in attendance. The most important lesson, according to Gustinis, is confidence and boldness. “You can never get what you don’t ask for,” he said. “The worst they can do is say no.” He backed up this statement with a few personal accomplishments he achieved by creating his own opportunities. When he saw what he perceived as unsustainable growth at UBS, he convinced the company to let him head a new treasury control group to provide another safeguard against failures. Another lesson he stressed is the importance of finding a workplace environment you like. “It’s not only about what the company wants, it’s also about
what you want,” he said. Some companies are very strict, while others are much more laid back. Speaking about his own experiences working in Zurich, he talked about the differences between the way the Swiss and Americans do business.
“You can never get what you don’t ask for. The worst they can do is say no.” – Thomas Gustinis CFO of Group Treasury at UBS “Decisions are much more consensus based there,” he said. “I wasn’t used to getting everybody
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Obama’s central message has been that economic growth must be balanced, and he has called on surplus nations to use their reserves to help spur growth. Rhodes said the concluding agreement from the G20 nations will address some of the issues Obama has been pressing, including a signal that China and other emerging economies will increase demand within their economies. Yet Obama’s push been overwhelmed by the immediate
crisis. Obama is pressing for a quick resolution, but cannot offer any tools of his own to give the Europeans a boost. Barbara Perry, a political scientist and senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said Obama’s plight is evidence of globalism’s effect on the American presidency. “He was getting some good economic news, things were picking up with the stock market,” Perry said. “You would think, ‘Oh, finally, the president gets a
break.’ And then something that, let’s face is, he has no control over. ... If he thinks Congress is beyond his control, the world stage, with this world economy – that’s truly beyond his control.” Among the questions facing Europeans is how they will amass a $1.4 trillion bailout fund. The Obama administration has no desire to pour money into the package; few can imagine Congress ever signing off. That has left the Europeans looking to China to help build the fund.
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together in a room and saying, ‘What do we want to do?’” Students asked Gustinis questions about what UBS, and financial services corporations in general, looks for in applicants. “We need people who can write, speak and express themselves,” he said. Pointing again to his brother, he said good communication skills and confidence are as important as any degree. The lectures are Thursdays at 5 p.m. in the Classroom Building. The next lecture will be about personal finance on Nov. 10. More information about the lecture series and the companies brought to UConn can be found on the SBCC’s website. 30-2010 refers to the format of the lectures; 30 minutes are dedicated to a presentation followed by a 20-minute sponsoring employer session and a 10-minute questionand-answer segment.
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Document may shed light on origins of JFK speech
HARTFORD (AP) — A document discovered at the Connecticut prep school attended by John F. Kennedy bolsters a theory that a former headmaster provided inspiration for his famous line, “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country,” a school archivist said Thursday. A notebook where the Choate School headmaster kept fodder for his sermons included a quote from a Harvard University dean who wrote: “The youth who loves his Alma Mater will always ask, not ‘What can she do for me?’ but ‘What can I do for her?’“ Kennedy, who sat through the chapel sermons as a teenager in the 1930s, used similar language when he called the nation to service in his 1961 inauguration address. For years after that speech, other alumni of the school in
Wallingford, Conn. said they heard an echo of headmaster George St. John’s sermons in Kennedy’s address. But archivist Judy Donald at the school now known as Choate Rosemary Hall said they did not have any evidence until she found the quotation three years ago on the first page of one of his notebooks. “When we found these prose books, we felt OK, here’s the link we were missing,” Donald said. The document’s discovery was reported first in a new book by television host Chris Matthews. Historians have debated how much credit for the legendary speech belongs to presidential adviser Theodore Sorenson versus Kennedy. In a 2004 book on the inaugural, “Ask Not,” author Thurston Clarke concludes that Kennedy is the author and explores the connection to Choate, saying the headmaster used to say it’s “not
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Melanie Deziel, Editor-in-Chief Arragon Perrone, Commentary Editor Ryan Gilbert, Associate Commentary Editor Michelle Anjirbag, Weekly Columnist Tyler McCarthy, Weekly Columnist Jesse Rifkin, Weekly Columnist
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Student loan debt needs to be put in perspective
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s of 2011, Americans have surpassed the $1 trillion mark in total student loans owed. $1 trillion sounds like one of those abstract figures used when discussing military budgets and national debt – it is doubtful that most of us taking on the parts that make this whole can even conceive of what the total debt looks like. Consider that Americans owe more on student loans than they do on credit cards and mortgages. The total debt owed has doubled in the past five years, and, after accounting for inflation, students today borrow twice as much as students did a decade ago, according to a report by the College Board. This debt is a bubble waiting to burst above all of our heads. If that sounds scary, it should. We just saw what happens when an economic sector is inflated with debt and defaulted on – or have the housing crisis and double dip recession slipped everyone’s mind? What should scare people is that allowing the student debt bubble to burst would have an impact similar to other financial catastrophes in our recent history. Before the housing crisis came the dot com burst. Before that, the Great Depression occurred. We should not need to hit the bottom again before re-evaluating how we as a nation handle our finances. The difference between this bubble and the credit bubbles of the past is that this time, neither lenders nor taxpayers are at immediate risk of losing money if and when students are no longer able to pay off their loans, according to an article in USA Today. Because lenders of student loans, including the government, have been granted broader powers of collection than other collection agencies, students cannot lose their debt through post-graduation bankruptcy. The ensuing danger is that instead of starting our lives according to a certain financial timeline, certain financial events, such as car and house purchases or getting married and starting a family, will be postponed. Nick Pardini, a graduate student in finance at Villanova University, has warned for years on his blog that this generation will mark the return to wage-slavery. Many suggestions are being tossed about the political arena on how to fix this problem, but few mention making students fully aware of the possible future consequences. Finding a job is near impossible, even with a “good” degree, and many organizations are pulling the funding that provided scholarships. With little money to help us out, how are we going to pay back $1 trillion? While we certainly don’t have an answer to that question, we hope that we can provide some perspective on what the price we are all paying for our education truly is. 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.
Tonight we learned that Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis doesn’t just look like Maya Moore, she plays like Maya Moore. Dear UConn basketball student section: we jump on defense at women’s games too, not just men’s games. Welcome to UConn Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, may you make us proud in #23. Kelly Faris, will you marry me? Or, at least let me be your facebook friend. I could settle for that. Quote from public policy professor: “In a good economy, there’s a lot of wealth, a lot of happy people, and a lot of sex.” So I was at Big Y tonight and some little girl pointed at me and said “Mom! that girl right there looks like grandma.” Is it weird that I sometimes ride the bus randomly for a long period of time when I’m conflicted with a problem? To the person who barks in the Northwest Quad every night....STOP. To the kid in the CUE who didn’t know England was part of the United Kingdom: FAIL! That awkward moment when a guy’s ex-girlfriend is listed as his sister on Facebook. To the girl in Putnam who tried to pose for a picture with her chocolate cake and dropped it: thanks for making my dinner
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Burden is shared in failure of Solyndra LLC
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epublicans are hammering the Obama Administration over a $528 million loan it awarded to the now-bankrupt Solyndra LLC despite concerns within the Energy Department that the solar panel manufacturer was struggling financially. The accusations have merit, though blame for ignoring recent warning signs rests with incompetent federal officials rather than the President himself. Nevertheless, the White House does not escape all criticism. The unrecoverable loan is the product of a dangerous economic policy begun under the Bush Administration and which Obama has perpetuated: using the federal government, and millions of taxpayer dollars, to meddle into the affairs of By Arragon Perrone private companies, controlling whether Commentary Editor they live or die. Some federal officials, Energy Department emails reveal, knew of the company’s financial problems, but no evidence suggests that they notified the White House. None currently support the Republicans’ major claim that President Obama made the loan, the first in the economic recovery package, as a reward to Solyndra executives who supported his campaign. Republicans want top aides to turn over all forms of internal communication, including the president’s Blackberry, for inspection. This seems excessive, especially considering the 80,000 documents the administration has already released, and the only conclusion points to DOE officials not doing their jobs – a likely scenario in a bloated federal bureaucracy – rather than the President engaging in favoritism with taxpayers’ money. To the Obama Administration’s credit, it
could have bailed out the failing company in September and refused. Lazard Ltd., an investment banking firm that the federal government hired for $1 million, recommended a bailout. The firm concluded that the government would have to prop up Solyndra in order to recoup the majority of its loan. If not, Solyndra would fall into bankruptcy and the feds could kiss their money good-bye. The Energy Department chose the latter, doing what even President George W. Bush couldn’t do (except for Lehman Brothers): let the company file for Chapter 11 protection. The Energy Department shoulders blame for ignoring recent warning signs; the Obama Administration deserves condemnation for making the loan in the beginning. The Bush Administration, which set the precedent for billion-dollar bailouts, was the first to consider loaning money to Solyndra. The Office of Management and Budget warned about the high-risk nature of this endeavor and the Energy Department voted down the proposal on Jan. 9, 2009. President Obama, sworn in weeks later, took a different approach. Ultimately, over half-a-billion dollars went to the private manufacturer. This decision marks yet another chapter in the government’s failed efforts to stimulate economic growth by intervening in struggling private companies. Usually, the end result is taxpayers losing millions of dollars while bailed-out executives receive huge bonuses. Solyndra is no exception. In April and even July, just weeks before the company filed bankruptcy papers, top Solyndra executives received hefty retention bonuses. The company’s vice president of marketing, who enjoyed a $275,000 base salary, obtained a $55,000 bonus during
each of the two months. The executive vice president of operations and engineering garnered a plush $60,000 bonus on top of his $300,000 base salary. Even Solyndra’s chief financial officer, who failed at his main task, received $60,000 during both months. The ship was sinking and its officers were rewarded for hitting the financial iceberg. Companies who make poor financial decisions must fail in order for real economic competition to exist. In 2009, the White House may have anticipated that massive government intervention would save Solyndra. But if Big Brother catches the entrepreneurs whenever they fall, then entrepreneurs will simply throw risk calculations out the window and take greater risks with smaller chances of success. Consider the $43 million that the federal government gave to Beacon Power Corporation, which also declared bankruptcy. In its Chapter 11 paperwork, Beacon reported $72 million in assets and $47 million in debt. Without the U.S. government’s intervention, Beacon’s debt outweighed its assets. Is this, like Solyndra, the kind of company that the Energy Department supports? Energy officials were right to let Solyndra fail, in the end. If they originally rejected the loan, however, the manufacturer would have failed long ago, sparing taxpayers the $528 million loss. The White House does not need to reward failure, nor should it reward success. Instead, let it keep the federal government operating its own expenditures rather than tinkering with private industry.
Commentary Editor Arragon Perrone is a 7th-semester English and political science double major. He can be reached at Arragon.Perrone@UConn.edu.
Research a good idea before donating to causes like Haiti
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hile the earthquake that rocked Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010 may seem like stale news, we must remember the thousands of Haitians still suffering in its catastrophic aftermath. Donors, however, need not only to remember Haiti but also to be extremely careful about where money donated By Danielle Muir is to support Staff Columnist Haitian relief efforts. Many Americans make donations to fund this cause, and it is simply depressing that the efforts of so many can be counteracted by unscrupulous individuals who would steal funds from such a noble cause. Since many UConn organizations and students’ money continually fund earthquake relief efforts, we must prevent this to the best of our ability. Theft occurs on both large and small scale accounts. There was a case in Boynton Beach, Fl. on Jan. 29, 2010, for instance, in which over $100 intended for the Haitian relief fund was stolen from a Shell gas station. The report stated that “About 9 p.m. Thursday a man walked into a Shell gas station and paid for gas.
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He returned within minutes and took a box on the counter filled with $100 to $200 in donations, police said, then escaped in a black SUV.” This was the second report in one week that money intended for Haiti was stolen in that city. In another incident, a collection box containing approximately $500 intended for Haitian organizations was stolen from a fundraiser at Cornell University. Luckily the money was refunded by staff members but this should still serve as a warning to UConn students to be very wary of the safety of donations being collected. There were also several online scams which collected money in the name of Haitian relief. While I would hope that most college students are capable of better judgment than to impulsively donate to unknown websites, some of these sites can appear very legitimate and fool even the best of us. They tend to target basic human emotions and many who become sympathetic to those suffering from the aftermath of the quake may be persuaded. One such internet scam claimed to be from the British Red Cross. It was sent with the subject line “Make Your Donations Now” and may have
seemed legitimate because it used the actual physical address of the British Red Cross Society. The email requested money to be wired through Western Union Money Transfer. The body of the email contained sentimental statements such as “Please give what you can today to help thousands of people there in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.” The British Red Cross however said the email is clearly fraudulent because they do not use Western Union money transfer to collect donations. A simple background check would have therefore indicated that the email was false. Even more horrifying is the fact that some well known nonprofit organizations have also had questionable methods of disbursing funds to Haitian Relief efforts. The Red Cross, which is not unfamiliar with scandals, could have possibly misallocated several millions of dollars for Haiti. While many displaced Haitians continued to go without aid long after the earthquake, a large percentage of donations remained with the organization. Red Cross expressed that funding has to be carefully spent and cannot be distributed all at once. While this is obviously true it
seems rather curious that the Red Cross only responded to questions about unspent funds after serious public pressure. I am not saying that the organization has used funds improperly; I am saying that every donor needs to be concerned with how your money is being spent and take action when things seem like they may not be right. Questions like what happens to the interest acquired on such large sums of money must be posed. The next time you decide to contribute to any cause, remember to really explore where your money may end up. My suggestion would be to thoroughly investigate a few reputable non-profit organizations and to generally stick to the ones with a good reputation and history when making donations. It is not enough to drop money in a jar and feel at peace with saying you have played your part. Be very careful of donation jars. If it does not look safe, save your money for something you trust.
Staff Columnist Danielle Muir is a 3rd-semester history major and a student ambassador for UNESCO. She can be reached at Danielle.Muir@UConn.edu.
“P resident O bama gave candy to trick - or - treaters at the W hite it H ouse . O bama wanted people to like his costume , so he went as himself from 2008.” –J immy F allon
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Estate tax punishes hard workers, should be abolished
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ost of us share a common desire for wealth, and we are willing to work hard for it. For all but a few purely selfish people, wealth represents By Nicolas Tomboulides the ability to take care Staff Columnist of not just oneself, but also one’s family. Parents accrue wealth so their children may live better lives with more opportunity. If a father dies and leaves money to his daughter, that means he worked hard and gave up his own consumption in order to provide for her – a very noble decision. But in the eyes of the U.S. government, the transfer of wealth from one family member to another at death is an act deserving of punishment. The IRS imposes an estate tax of
35 percent, which will affect all inheritances in excess of $1 million value by 2013. If a person tries to escape the tax by moving the assets before death, they’re hit with a gift tax of the same percentage share. Some liberal pundits, like CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, have recently called for a new estate tax rate of 50 percent, “because nothing is more un-American than an inherited elite that perpetuates itself.” One must question, however, if Zakaria’s definition of “un-American” would match that of America’s founders. The Stamp Act of 1765, imposed by the British Parliament on the Colonies, was America’s first true estate tax. It created a tax on all legal documents, including wills. Rioting in the streets, Stamp Act supporters burned them in effigy in the public square, and a
full repeal from King George III was prdered in 1766. President John Adams brought back the tax in 1797, which helped fuel his landslide defeat by Thomas Jefferson in the election of 1800. Jefferson’s government abolished the tax again in 1802. From inception, Americans have opposed foolish and unjust taxes like the one Zakaria wants to increase. Historical inaccuracy notwithstanding, Zakaria is also ignoring the shocking implications of his argument on the role of government. By having an estate tax at all, let alone a very onerous one, the government is making a dangerous value judgment about which forms of spending it will tolerate in full. If a man decides to spend his entire estate on alcohol and pornography, he will pay less in taxes than he would have had he decided to
give it to his children. Such a system is not only wrong, but perverse. It punishes people for doing the right things, and gives the government far too much authority over our lives. If Zakaria is serious about finishing off the “inherited elite,” he should be logically consistent and support more draconian measures to effectively stop them. He could propose a law prohibiting wealthy parents from providing housing, food or college education to their children. They wouldn’t be able to inherit their parents’ elite status if they were made homeless, famished and uneducated. Once Zakaria had succeeded at making these individuals poor, he would still be faced with the challenge of confronting their inherited genetic traits. Major League Baseball is filled with examples of second-generation
players who have inherited their fathers’ hand-eye coordination – Ken Griffey Jr. among them. Should government pass a law mandating the eye gouging of players like Griffey to create a more level playing field? The great economist Milton Friedman once said, “A society that tries to eliminate inheritance only forces inheritance to take different forms. The human desire to improve the lot of one’s children isn’t going to be eliminated by any government in this world.” The estate tax forces individuals to hire teams of lawyers and accountants in order to reduce their liabilities through estate planning and tax avoidance. This spending is harmful for the economy on balance, and would be put to a more productive use in a world without an estate tax. According to the
Club for Growth, for every $1 raised by the estate tax, $1 is lost in avoidance, enforcement and compliance costs. Through estate taxes, the government has invented a wasteful industry that the country never really needed. Finally, the estate tax should be rejected on purely moral grounds. Every estate has survived a lifetime of taxation, so tacking on more at the end is akin to shooting a man who is already bleeding to death. And by taxing inherited transfers but nothing else, the government is endorsing riotous living over the most noble of pursuits – the family. The estate tax must go.
Nicolas Tomboulides is an 8th-semester economics major. He can be reached at Nicolas.Tomboulides@UConn.edu.
» THUMBS UP OR THUMBS DOWN
People are still without power.
We didn’t even get to EXPLOIT Connecticut being declared a state of emergency.
BASKETBALL. Megabus is still running.
Costumed Thanksgiving parties!
Totally saw that coming
Totally rad
Totally bad
» LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Power Outages and our Failing Electrical Infrastructure
Recent major storms, including hurricane Irene and the more recent snow storm have highlighted two important failures that must be acknowledged and addressed. First, is the frailty and weakness of our failing electrical infrastructure. Second, is the inability of the private or public sector to adequately and efficiently respond when our already failing infrastructure is compromised. There are many faults that have ultimately contributed to this situation. Nevertheless in identifying certain faults, corrective measures and protocols can be put into place in order to avoid widespread power failures in the future. Corrective measures such as moving power lines, which are generally found above ground, below ground. This accomplishes a couple of things. Removing a critical piece of infrastructure away from weather related effects by placing them underground and stimulating Connecticut’s economy by creating jobs to achieve this goal.
Additionally, CL&P has not improved its support operations to properly deal with weather based events. Based on information provided by their website for restoration of power after major storms, there has been little improvement since the 70s in the time it takes to restore power that averages 5.5 days. It’s time for CL&P to improve its act.
or Willington Oaks.” In Renwood, no power is translated into unlivable conditions: no heat, no water, and no electricity. UConn, at the very least, should offer students an opportunity to have a hot meal. For the state flagship university, the top public university in New England, shouldn’t we expect better? - James McColl
-Eric Nunes
Power Outages
Here we are again, for the second time in approximately two months, with widespread power outages across the state of Connecticut. While other universities are cancelling classes and making efforts to help their students, the University of Connecticut administration is once again standing by with their hands in their pockets. I think it’s absurd that a university that prides itself on goodwill and charity would offer so little in assistance to their students who live offcampus; the university’s motto might as well be “Students Today, Huskies Forever unless you live in Carriage, Celeron, Renwood, Cedar Ridge
Religious Liberties
I am finding it difficult to understand how students at an institution of higher education can manage to misconstrue what is a very simple concept. Nicolas Tomboulides’ commentary “Obama’s healthcare plan violates religious liberties” (10/19/11) is spot on, however the letters to the editor on 10/21/11 by Austin Logendyke and Christopher
Kwolek titled “One’s Religious Beliefs Should Not Oppress All” and “N.T. Commentary” respectively, attack Tomboulides for claims he does not make and present inaccurate and irrelevant information. Tomboulides is not trying to impose his beliefs on others, in fact, he is not even Catholic despite Logendyke’s assumption. Tomboulides never states in his commentary that there exist any services to which women should not have access, he merely states that no organization should be forced to provide services with which they have qualms. The implication of this is not that women will be denied access to any services, but that women may have to go to organization A instead of organization B to obtain a particular service. This concept is hardly worth getting bent out of shape over and Mr. Kwolek can therefore dry his tears. In addition to refuting claims that were never made, Logendyke and Kwolek both go on to give inaccurate information on so-called emergency contraception. Plan B and the like can, as a matter of fact, induce abortions. There is a tremendous consensus in the scientific community that life begins at conception, and conception can occur within 30 minutes of intercourse. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is being extremely deceitful when it claims that a pregnancy
begins at implantation rather than conception. They can define things how they like, but the biological facts remain. Perhaps the most disconcerting part of all this is the venomous and slanderous language with which the two authors use to attack their peers and the Catholic Church. Criticizing the Catholic Church for having an all male hierarchy not only displays a lack of theological and cultural knowledge, but also displays hypocrisy when one also so passionately supports the 1973 Roe v. Wade case which was decided by an all male supreme court. They may call the Church antiquated if they wish, but G.K. Chesterton was right when he said ?9 out of 10 of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.? - Nathan Harrison
How do you expect the men’s basketball team to do this season? – By Rachel Weiss
“Honestly, they’re probably going to be amazing, I’m banking on them winning.”
“They’re about to go Looney Toons like in ‘Spaceballs’!”
Jenny Balogh, 5th-semester political science major
Ryan Virvo, 5th-semester psychology major
“I wanna say, amazeballs. They’re going to bring home another national championship.” Christina Intrieri, 7th-semester communications major
“Repeat.” Francis Burke, 7th-semester finance and political science double major
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New law will let Cubans buy and sell real estate HAVANA (AP) — For the first time in a half-century, Cubans will be allowed to buy and sell real estate openly, bequeath property to relatives without restriction and avoid forfeiting their homes if they abandon the country. The highly anticipated new rules instantly transform islanders’ cramped, dilapidated homes into potential liquid assets in the most significant reform yet adopted by President Raul Castro since he took over the communist country from his brother in 2008. But plenty of restrictions remain. Cuban exiles continue to be barred from owning property on the island, though they can presumably help relatives make purchases by sending money. And foreigners can also hold off on dreams of acquiring a pieda-terre under the Caribbean sun, since only citizens and permanent residents are eligible. The law, which takes effect Nov. 10, limits Cubans to owning one home in the city and another in the country, an effort to prevent speculative buying and the accumulation of large real estate holdings. While few Cubans have the money to start a real estate empire, many city dwellers have
struggled over the years to maintain title to family homes in the countryside, and the new law legalizes the practice. The change follows October’s legalization of buying and selling cars, though with restrictions that still make it hard for ordinary Cubans to buy new vehicles. The government has also allowed citizens to go into business for themselves in a number of approved jobs – everything from party clowns to food vendors and accountants – and permitted them to rent out rooms and cars. While Castro has stressed that there will be no departure from Cuba’s socialist model, he has also pledged to streamline the state-dominated economy by eliminating hundreds of thousands of state jobs and ending generous subsidies the state can no longer afford. Cuba’s government employs about 80 percent of the workforce, paying wages of just $20 a month in return for free education and health care, and nearly free housing, transportation and basic foods. Economists and Cuba experts say the new property law will have a profound impact on people’s lives, though probably will not be
» ADVENTURE
TAKING FLIGHT
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This 2008 file photo shows Kent Couch flying away from his gas station in Bend, Ore., riding a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons for a flight that ended in an Idaho farm field.
Oregon lawn-chair balloonist plans Baghdad launch (AP) – Lawn-chair balloonist Kent Couch boarded a plane Thursday for the start of a journey that he hopes will end in Iraq with a safe launch and landing beneath a huge cluster of party balloons. Couch made headlines worldwide in 2008 when he flew a specially rigged lawn chair supported by more than 150 helium-filled party balloons from the parking lot of the gas station he owns in Bend, Ore., to an Idaho field. The trip spanned 235 miles. Couch says Iraqi daredevil Fareed Lafta invited him to Baghdad for a Nov. 15 flight at a youth conference in the Green Zone. Couch said he was “pretty sure I had hung up my hat on this” before Lafta called. But the timing for another airborne adventure was right. “Now that Saddam Hussein is gone, and the U.S. is pulling out, it is time Iraq really steps up and begins to dream about putting the country back together,” Couch told The Associated Press from the airport in Redmond, Ore. “I think between having a U.S. citizen and an Iraqi citizen launch together, where we are saying we are fulfilling our dream, it will encourage them to dream, knowing the sky is the limit if they just reach out and try.” Couch plans to rig 300 balloons to lift the two men sitting in a pair of lawn chairs for an overnight flight of 400 miles at 25,000 feet, which will require
oxygen masks. The flight was first reported by KTVZ in Bend. He has shipped a pair of lawn chairs, the framework to support them, and hundreds of party balloons to Dubai, where Lafta lives. Lafta has gotten the visas and permissions they will need for their flight. The cherry Kool-Aid that Couch favors for flavoring the ballast tanks is in his luggage. “I said, ‘Do you have any lawn chairs?’’“ Couch said of his contacts with Lafta working out logistics. “He says, ‘What?’ I emailed a picture of one, and he said, ‘I’ve never seen one of those. Better send a couple.’ So I sent over a couple.” Couch’s original lawn chair from the July 5, 2008, flight is in a museum. He tried to make an even longer flight to Montana last year, but the winds were too strong. He failed to reach Idaho in a 2007 attempt. This time his wife, Susan, is more supportive, and is flying to Dubai with him. So is a film crew from White Knuckle Productions in Bend. Couch said he did not try to ship a BB gun to shoot out balloons for landings, because he figured it would not get past baggage inspectors. “(Lafta) said, ‘If you need guns, we’ve got lots of them here,’“ Couch said. “I said, ‘OK, we’ll figure something out.’“ Couch said his biggest fear is floating into neighboring Iran, but he hopes to have favorable winds. “I’m pretty confident we can make 25,000 feet,” he said.
enough by itself to transform the island’s limping economy. “This is a very positive step in the right direction toward greater economic freedom and individual and family rights of private property,” said Ted Henken, a professor at Baruch College in New York who has extensively studied Cuba’s economy. “It will immediately increase the personal wealth of millions of Cubans.” Omar Everleny Perez, lead economist at Havana University’s Center for Cuban Economic Studies, said legalization of the sale of cars and property could help Cubans who want to go into business for themselves acquire seed money. “These are small things, but they point us toward an economy that is more normal compared to the rest of the world,” he said. According to the Official Gazette, a government publication that disseminates new laws, the new system will eliminate the need for approval from a state housing agency, meaning that from now on, sales and exchanges will only need the seal of a notary. Cubans will also be allowed to inherit property from relatives, even if they don’t live
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Nilda Bouzo, right, speaks with her husband Ives Lopez next to a sign that reads in Spanish “ Exchange Apartment Two for One” in their home balcony in Havana, Cuba, Thursday.
together, and they will be able to take title of property of relatives or others who emigrate. Previously, such properties could be seized by the state. One caveat contained in the new law is that the government retains the right to nullify any sale if it finds that it resulted in someone being left homeless.
Cuban exiles in South Florida – many of whom lost family homes when they left the island – were ho-hum about the changes. “How in the world are they going to establish the title for these homes?” asked Jorge Amaro, a retired realtor in Miami. Amaro said he came to the U.S. from Cuba in 1961 at age
13 on the so-called Peter Pan flights. His parents later joined him, leaving behind the family’s six-bedroom home on one of Havana’s main boulevards. “For instance, the property that my family had, who owns it? They’re going to have to pick an arbitrary date to decide ownership,” he said.
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Hundreds of Iranian students storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages
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Book talk dispels human rights myths
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‘The Miser’ examines frugality Healthy eating on a college budget
By Jason Wong Staff Writer The UConn Co-op hosted a book talk for “Human Rights in Our Own Backyard,” by Davita Glasberg, professor and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Bandana Purkayastha, professor and acting department head of sociology. Their book is an edited collection of articles about the role of sociology in human rights issues. Glasberg started the talk by stating that a good deal of the discussion in human rights is grounded in legal studies and political science, meaning that it is mostly state-based, or “human rights from above,” as she put it. That implies that human rights are formal agreements, decisions made as a result of discussions in the ivory tower. Glasberg went on to say that she was not denying the importance of state and international agreements, but sociology brings important information to the conversation. Sociology shifts human rights’ focus from formal agreements to institutional structure, informal practices and the actions of private organizations. It sheds light on the issue of human rights from the bottom up, rather than making it necessary for the state (the socioeconomic top, so to speak) to endorse them. Glasberg argued that the people below should have the say when it comes to what constitutes human rights, as human rights are a social construction. Glasberg also brought up a 2007 survey that found 80 percent of U.S. adults believed that “the U.S. does a better job than most countries when it comes to protecting human rights,” and that discussion among scholars and public officials in the U.S. often frame human rights issues as concerning people, policies and practices “over there.” But many human rights issues take place right in our backyard, said Glasberg, citing the healthcare problem as an example where politicians and media stay away from charged human rights language to describe it, and instead focus on more emotionally neutral words like “affordability.” “It’s very important to hear about these things and implement solutions accordingly,” said Jon Christoff, a 3rdsemester exploratory major. Afterward, Purkayastha gave a few examples of the articles contained in the book, talking about a variety of human rights issues happening or having happened recently in the U.S. She talked about UConn sports apparel being made in sweatshops prior to 2006 and the work of movements like Food Not Bombs that help alleviate human rights issues at ground level. The author of the article on Food Not Bombs in their book said that people should work to meet the needs of the people, and not have to beg politicians to do it. Near the end of the talk, Glasberg praised the Occupy Wall Street movement as a prime example of what they are advocating in their book – people getting out and demanding their human rights be enforced. “I didn’t know the Human Rights Institute at UConn was so prestigious,” said Anna Ebora, 3rd-semester psychology and English major. “It really makes me consider taking Human Rights as a minor.”
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Loretta Swit – 1937 Laura W. Bush – 1946 Jeff Probst – 1962 Sean “Diddy” Combs – 1968
By Lauren Cardarelli Campus Correspondent
Courtesy of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre
Andrea Pane as Harpagon with Mischa Goodman as Frosine in a scene from Moliere’s The Miser, performances will continue through Nov. 6 in the Studio Theatre.
By Elmira Fifo Staff Writer Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s 2011 season continues with “The Miser,” a 340-year-old production written by French playwright Moliere and directed by drama professor Karen Ryke. Moliere takes thriftiness to comic proportions in his story about an old Harpagon, a wealthy miser whose obsession with money clouds his judgment and propels him to act in the most unfair and irrational way toward his household. Moliere’s comedic skill is embodied by the thrifty Miser, whose greed easily outshines even his care for his own children. A penny-pincher in the most neurotic manner, Old Harpagon is willing to marry off his daughter to a man near 60 years-old and his son to widow, simply to make a pretty penny. At the opening of the play, Harpagon’s daughter is pro-
posed to by Valere, who is working for her father. They fear his disapproval because the Miser naturally does not share his wealth with his son or daughter. Likewise, Harpagon’s son, Cleante, energetically exudes his deep love for a girl he has met and wants to marry. Their father has other plans and reveals that he, in fact, plans to marry the same girl his son has just described. In this play about all-consuming avarice, Moliere takes the audience through a wickedly funny and fast-paced look at monetary and societal anxieties in 17thcentury France. As the play continued, a series of intertwining events become more complicated by the cook and coachman, Master Jacques, a hyper-energetic, clumsy servant whose lies at the end of the play create a web of confusion that contributes to the hilarity of the situation. Ryan Jordan, an acting
major who portrayed Master Jacques, described the character as “eager to please, tries to do what he thinks is right even when that is completely wrong.” Contrasting Master Jacques against the hard-to-please Miser adds to the satirical dynamic of a servant-to-master relationship. As Ryker writes in her director’s notes, “[The play] pokes fun at the follies, vices, hypocrisies of our less than perfect society.” The themes of old age, anxieties of losing money and power to another generation are explored hilariously in a scene where a deviously persuasive Frosine points out how the young Mariane prefers “old men” with “spectacles” instead of “insipid, selfish” young ones who do not have the experience of someone who has lived life. As Dom Berger, a 7thsemester finance major said, “You get lost in the performance, it is just so funny.” In
this way, the play is a blend of humor and an overarching expression of human fault and reproof. By the end of the play, the Miser rants on so madly about his money being stolen that he prompts the Police Commissioner to arrest everybody, even himself. This character exudes such ridiculousness in his frugality that as an audience member, one cannot help but laugh. The theme of saving resonates as one contemplates the differences in the lives of the poor and the wealthy in France. Mary Ann Campbell, a visitor at UConn, agreed that this was her favorite part. “I loved it, and the social commentary was there, but it was so funny you laugh,” she explained. In a humorously relieving way, The Miser is also a reminder of the down side of being too thrifty.
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Improvisation off of the audience integral to comedian’s routine
By Stephanie Ratty Staff Writer Redheaded comedian Darren Carter beat boxed his own introduction to the stage for a modest crowd in the Student Union Theatre Thursday night. The Los Angeles-based performer jumped right into his set, probing the room for reactions to the Justin Bieber paternity scandal and the 72-hour Kim Kardashian nuptials. He took to the audience in hopes of finding a student to help him sing the now-comical adaptation of Bieber’s hit song, “Baby,” and then proceeded to give a recap of his escapade of dressing as Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian for Halloween. It was noticeable from the start that Carter, dressed in a simple black puffer jacket and jeans, was comfortable interacting with the crowd. The lights of the theater stayed up throughout the performance as he jumped back and forth between audience members for comment and inspiration. Carter talked about female stereotypes. He joked about a woman’s ability to be
clingy, as well as the “need” to have chocolate on hand at all times. He also reminisced about his adoration for Krispy Kreme donuts and Girl Scout cookies, two weaknesses of his workout plan. Throughout the show, Carter would spontaneously burst out into rap, tagging the audience for input to fill in the blank of “I like my women how I like my…” Each time he was able to seamlessly play off the random word that students shouted out. After a string of jokes about his wife’s affinity for country music, Carter took things to a more personal level, describing growing up as a ginger in an adoptive family. “People say ‘every child is a gift,’” he said, “but I feel like when you’re adopted, you were re-gifted.” Carter rounded out the show as he described how he wants to see other gingers like himself move up. “I want to see a gang of all redheads,” he said. “They can be called the ‘Justin Bieber of Freckles.’” “He was pretty good,” said Carlos Rodriguez, a 7th-semester urban commu-
Baroque orchestra’s international tour begins in Storrs
By John Tyczkowski Associate Focus Editor
Apollo’s Fire, a Baroque orchestra from Cleveland, is visiting Storrs for a matinee performance Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Jorgensen. The show will feature noted vocalist Philippe Jaroussky, a French countertenor. Jaroussky was nominated as the “Classical Artist of the Year” in France in 2005 and won the French “Lyric Artist
of the Year” award in 2007, according to his website. Apollo’s Fire will be performing a range of pieces, including the Concerto for Four Violins and an arrangement of Sorrell’s “La Follia,” or, “The Madness.” Tickets are on sale at the Jorgensen box office from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with prices of $33, $37 and $40. Student discounts are available.
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nication studies major Carlos Rodriguez. “My favorite part was when he did the ‘I like my women’ rap.” Marcel Arnold, a 7th-semester sociology major, said Carter “was just hilarious, because he had a crowd of at least 30 people and he still made them all laugh.” Carter earned a lot of nervous laughter throughout his set by putting students on the spot. “I thought it was hilarious when he made my roommate uncomfortable,” said 7th-semester allied health major Sorlyz Pagan of her friend, whom Carter called “a shy little bunny.” Carter said his favorite part of the night was performing new material about being adopted, which he thought went over well with the audience. “He has an improv background, so I really knew he liked to work the crowd,” said SUBOG comedy chair and 7th-semester allied health major Aaron Roscoe. “He’s really quick on his game.” SUBOG’s next free comedy show will be Jay Montepare on Dec. 1 at the Student Union Theatre.
Stephanie.Ratty@UConn.edu
Chinese acrobats come to UConn this weekend By Purbita Saha Focus Editor Acrobats may seem like an old-fashioned notion, but the National Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China is anything but outdated. The troupe will be demonstrating death-defying feats at Jorgensen this Saturday at 8 p.m. This will be this troupe’s first performance in the U.S., even though the group has been traveling around the world for 60 years. The National Acrobats have won awards, such as the
international Golden Clown Award. Their shows generally consist of stunts, ballet, illusions, music and incredible displays of flexibility and balance. The acrobats undergo rigorous training and participate in multiple science and research studies to improve their show skills. Tickets for the show are $30, $27 and $25, with student prices being even cheaper. The Jorgensen box office is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and one hour before show time.
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Leading a healthy lifestyle is beneficial for your overall well-being but has the potential to be financially damaging, especially in a recession. I mean, why do you think the Ramen Noodle diet is so popular among college students? Although challenging, savvy food shopping is possible. With a few easy tweaks, you will be on your way to creating nutritious meals without having to sacrifice quality ingredients. Here are three economical tips to consider next time you are perusing the aisles of BigY or Stop & Shop. Plan and stick to the list The first step to frugal grocery shopping is creating a financial plan. By outlining all of your expenses, you can allot a certain amount of money per month for food costs. Track spending by saving receipts along the way and documenting them in a spreadsheet. Available financial smartphone apps, like Shoeboxed for iPhones, make things easy, too. Just snap a photo of your receipt and the app does the work for you, storing your expenses in an organized manner. In attempt to limit those pesky impulse buys, try planning your meals ahead of time and writing down only the ingredients you truly need. Your handy list will guide you through the store, keeping you focused so you can refrain from dawdling down aisles containing nonessential items. I highly suggest being concise with your list, giving the exact measurements of your recipe’s ingredients. By doing so, you will avoid being wasteful with perishable items and save money in the process. Also, going to the grocery store hungry can be detrimental. If you’re like me, you’ll find yourself snacking your way through the market! Avoid temptations by eating a light meal before shopping. Get the biggest bang for your buck To save money, compare food prices properly by looking at the “unit price.” You will be surprised how the cost per volume can differ especially since many companies are deceptive in their packaging. Even though pre-cut vegetables and fruit are easier, resist the higher price tag temptation. Buying generic or the store’s brand is another great way to cut costs for the same nutritional value. I challenge you to think beyond brand name products! Warehouse stores like B.J.’s or Costco are a bargain shopper’s heaven. The annual membership fees are worth it to get staple items for cheap! Look for steals and deals Buying sale items is one of your best bets for saving extra moola. Even if you are not in desperate need of it at the moment, stock up on items like canned goods and nuts when they are marked down in price. Oftentimes certain produce like fruit, grains and meat can be frozen for later use. Turning to the freezer aisle will also save your hard earned cash when the ingredi-
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How to make carrot cake muffins By Megan Toombs Campus Correspondent
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Carrot cake is one of my favorite things to eat. I was craving carrot cake the other day, but clearly didn’t want to make an entire cake that would go bad within a day or two. So what better to do than turn that into delicious carrot cake muffins! If I did this, then I could have my carrot cake muffins for breakfast warmed with cream cheese, on the go on my way to class as a snack, or even as a little dessert with cream cheese frosting after dinner.
Let’s face it: pilot licenses are difficult to get, and aircraft are very expensive to maintain. So why not skip all that, grab a harness and a sail, and do it yourself? Though the idea of paragliding has been around since the days of Leonardo da Vinci, the sport formally emerged in France in 1978. Though the equipment setup for Makes 12 muffins paragliding is quite simple, consistPrep Time: 15 minutes ing of solely an airfoil, a harness, Cook Time: 25 minutes Total Time: 40 minutes and an electronics package for measuring height and communicating Ingredients with other pilots. 1 ¼ cup wheat flour ¾ cup brown sugar In addition to recreational flight, ½ cup rolled oats there are many types of paragliding ½ tsp baking powder tournaments held throughout the 1 tsp baking soda world. These include aerial acrobats, 1 tsp cinnamon ½ tsp ground nutmeg landing accuracy and races. A tip for ¼ tsp salt prospective challengers: South Africa 1 tbs vanilla extract is a popular locale. The sport requires a license and training in most countries, the requirements for which can be strict from place to place. However that hasn’t By Alyssa McDonagh stopped over 60,000 people world- Campus Correspondent wide from taking to the air!
2-3 tbs water ½ cup vegetable oil 1 cup grated, packed carrots (2 to 3 carrots) Optional: ¼ cup chopped walnuts Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. In one bowl, mix all of your dry ingredients thoroughly. In a separate bowl, mix all of your wet ingredients, except for the water. Add your wet ingredients, to your dry ingredients and mix well. If your mixture doesn’t look wet enough, add the water. It is important to adjust this based on what your mixture looks like because if you add the water and your mixture becomes too wet, it will not cook properly and will not taste good. I usually end up needing two tablespoons of water, so that’s what I would recommend. Once your carrot cake batter is mixed well, pour equal amounts into your nonstick or sprayed muffin tin. Place them in the oven on the middle rack and bake for 25 minutes. Let cool for about 10 minutes and enjoy!
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Fall pumpkin-flavoured treats can be healthy as well as tasty. Also, a wide range of ingredients, such as nuts and fruit, can be mixed in for plenty of variety.
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Look to the ‘Book of Awesome’ when in need
-John Tyczkowski
Words to Live By
“I am thankful to all of those who said ‘no’ to me. It is because of them that I did it myself.” -Albert Einstein, physicist APP-tastic Sound Pellegrino
We are a little more than halfway through the fall semester right now and for some of us, it is our first ever college semester. With all of the new experiences and a complete change in lifestyle, it is only natural to be living an emotional rollercoaster, not knowing what to do with yourself when life knocks you down. Even returning students know the feeling of wanting to hide in their room and not come out. Whether you failed an exam, miss your family, haven’t seen your friends or boyfriend/girlfriend in weeks or you are always tired and have homework to do (or all of the above), it is important to realize that you can turn the negatives in life into positives. While it may seem impossible (all the cloudy, rainy days Storrs weather brings us certainly does not help brighten one’s spirits), it needs to be done. Living your life depressed like Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh will do nothing but hurt you. It’s time to get upset, mope, cry and
then… move on. Moving on with your life after you have been dealt a major blow sounds difficult, but it actually isn’t as challenging as it seems. Happiness can be easily achieved if one just remembers the little things. A book by Neil Pasricha, called “The Book of Awesome” is an encouraging book designed to remind readers of the good in life. Pasricha writes a paragraph to a couple pages about many random parts of life that are often overlooked, but when you realize they are happening to you, you can’t help but step back and smile. Based off of his blog, 1000awesomethings.com, Pasricha’s book reminds readers that, “Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right now. And that moment is counting down. And that moment is always, always fleeting. You will never be as young as you are right now.” So what does that basically mean? Be happy! Don’t let a failed exam become the failure of you as an individual. Don’t give up the dreams you always
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had because life isn’t living up to your expectations. We are young and have endless opportunities to explore, opportunities that will all perish if we can’t keep marching on, despite obstacles that may be in the way. And who wants to live their life focusing on the bad while letting the good pass them by? It’s time to make your own Book of Awesome. Need some inspiration? How about when you can’t find your ID card and someone comes around the corner and opens up the door to your building for you? When the Blue Line pulls up just as you arrived at the bus stop, no waiting involved? When you come to Towers for pasta bar just before the line becomes huge behind you? Or when someone takes all your clothes out of the dryer and folds them for you? That day when you realize you don’t have tons of homework to do? The dining hall has your favorite flavor of ice cream? You’re in the InstantDaily? As Neil Pasricha would say, “AWESOME!”
Awards show celebrating black women aims to uplift and support
Whether you live on or off campus, mobile entertainment is a must for all students, and with the iPhone there really is never a dull moment. So when you download the free Sound Pellegrino app, there is no telling how obsessed you may become. Equipped with every podcast from the Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team, made up of DJs Teki Latex and Orgasmic, you can enjoy their smooth hourlong mixes and interviews, released every Wednesday. Other cool features, like a news feed of their happenings and a preview of every released track, really makes it a complete program. But the coolest feature has to be the soundboard, filled with classic phrases by the two French-house underground gods. So go download it, right now, for free!
In this Oct. 15, 2011 photo released by BET, Elle Varner performs at the 6th annual Black Girls Rock! Awards in New York.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Beverly Bond started the organization Black Girls Rock!, her goal was to empower young girls of color and give them better images than the often negative depictions seen in the media. She made a list of women she believed lived up to the mantra, from Beyonce to civil rights figure Ruby Bridges. While the world knows Beyonce by one name, Bridges and other important black women are not as celebrated, and Bond felt that needed to change. “We have to show them and expose to them these incredible women, and we also have to honor these women,” she said. “Some don’t get their just due in history and in the world. And more important, our youth don’t know about these women.” The 6th annual Black Girls Rock! Awards show is part of Bond’s mission to change that. The event, to air Sunday for the second straight year on BET, will pay homage to celebrities such as Oscar-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson, actress Tatyana Ali and gospel legend Shirley Caesar. But it will also honor political activist Angela Davis, WNBA President Laurel J. Richie, and Imani Walker and Malika Saada Saar, the
co-founders of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights. Singer and actress Jill Scott said she was on board with Black Girls Rock! from the moment she first heard the title. “We are so valuable to this planet; anytime we can see that and hear that and show that, I’m there,” said Scott, who performed at the ceremony, taped in the Bronx last month. Other performers included Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Melanie Fiona, Mary Mary, Estelle and newcomer Elle Varner. Tracee Ellis Ross, who stars on the BET sitcom “Reed Between the Lines,” cohosted the awards show with actress Regina King. Scott said the awards show how multi-faceted black women are. She most enjoyed hearing Davis’ speech during the ceremony, calling it “super powerful and invigorating.” Bond said the honorees are “women who support women” and understand the importance of paying it forward and passing on their wisdom. “I want our young girls to be inspired to not settle for being less than their best selves,” Bond said. “I want them to feel proud of who they are and who they can be and who we have been.”
Normally I would argue that autumn in New England is the best seasonal experience in the entire country. Well, that was until Mother Nature smacked us with a record breaking snow storm before Halloween. Power was lost, flights were cancelled and most people were completely flabbergasted by the snow. Just because the fall months haven’t had their usual identity doesn’t mean that your day to day fashion should follow suit. Around campus, style choices have definitely already began the cold weather transformation. Girls have brought out their arsenals of UGGs and the entire campus is hidden under one big North Face fleece. To properly take on the harsh winter of Storrs, your footwear should definitely be in order. So guys, here are a few tips on how to keep your feet warm and protected with some of this season’s better boot options. If you really want to impress people with your footwear this winter, the first step is to ditch the Timberland boots completely. Unless you need to shovel your car out of snow or kick down a door, Timberland boots do not belong in 2011.There are plenty of other brands, styles, and colors of boots that you can wear in place of your unlaced butteryellow Timbos. If you still want a lug sole boot similar to the classic Timberland design, there are plenty of options available. These boots have a rugged and grooved bottom, and are versatile for different weather conditions. If you aren’t afraid of the taboo surrounding the brand, UGG makes a really clean lug soled boot, entitled the “Montgomry,” If being a guy and wearing an UGG product still creeps you out, Polo Ralph Lauren also has a huge variety of very similar styles of winter boots. Is weather your main concern? Please, don’t fall into the trap of huge rubber rain boots. L.L. Bean is a New England staple company based out of Maine and they make a classic all-weather boot in different heights and colors. You never can go wrong with the classic Bean boot. One of the more popular trends across the country for this winter is the return of the Vibram sole. This thick white sole was engineered for performance, yet translates to a very comfortable street style. Many brands are featuring this type of sole; Red Wing makes a chukka that is suitable for all occasions. Looking for a more casual approach to winter? One company you need to know about is Clarks. Clarks is my personal favorite for any of these previously mentioned styles. Whether comfort, style, or weather performance, you can find what you need from Clarks. Some models to definitely check out are the Weaver, the Desert Boot and the immortal Wallabee.
Jamil.Larkin@UConn.edu
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Craig, Bardem star in new Bond Twitter changes business of celebrity thriller ‘Skyfall’ endorsements, advertisments
LONDON (AP) – Ah, Mr. Bond, we’ve been waiting for you – and at last 007 is back, several years after his last screen adventure. Producers announced Thursday that filming has begun on “Skyfall,” the delayed 23rd film in the series and Daniel Craig’s third outing as the suave British superspy. Craig, who has brought a hard edge to his portrayal, told reporters that the movie, directed by Sam Mendes and shot in London, Scotland, Turkey and China, would be “Bond with a capital B.” Craig said he was “tremendously excited” to be stepping back into the role for the first time since 2008’s “Quantum of Solace.” Work on the film was postponed, and Bond’s future looked uncertain, when studio MGM filed for bankruptcy in 2010. But MGM’s new management and EON Productions announced earlier this year that the spy would live to fight another day. Craig will be joined by Spanish star Javier Bardem as Bond’s nemesis, while British actors Albert Finney, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw will play as-yet-undisclosed roles. Judi Dench returns as spy chief M and the film introduces two new Bond girls – English actress Naomie Harris as a field agent named Eve and French performer Berenice Marlohe as “a glamorous, enigmatic character” named Severine. “There’s lots of surprises,” said Mendes, who won an Academy Award for his 1999 film “American Beauty.” “I think this has all the elements of a classic
Bond movie, including – to quell any rumors ‑ a lot of action,” Mendes said. Some have questioned the choice of Mendes, best known for his stage work and emotionally intense dramas like “Revolutionary Road” and “The Road to Perdition.” But he and the producers said they did not plan to take the series in a radically new direction. Producer Michael G. Wilson said the series had “started down a path” with Craig’s first appearance as a gruff, muscular Bond in “Casino Royale” in 2006. “And we’re sticking to that path,” Wilson said. “An interesting story, well written, with a great cast and plenty of action.” Mendes said action movies were “a world that’s new to me, and I’ve embraced it.” “The action needs to coexist with the drama, and that’s the balance we’ve got to strike,” he said. Filming will take place in London’s government district of Whitehall, at Pinewood Studios outside the British capital and on location in Istanbul, Shanghai and the Scottish wilderness. Early reports that the film would shoot in India and South Africa have not materialized, but the producers insisted they had not trimmed Bond’s budget since “Quantum of Solace,” which was widely reported to have cost roughly $200 million. “It is in the same range as the last one,” Wilson said. “We haven’t had to change anything in the script to get what we want.”
Julie Taymor eligible for a Tony for ‘Spider-Man’
NEW YORK (AP) – Julie Taymor might have been fired from the “Spider-Man” musical, but she could still walk away with a Tony Award next year for directing the stuntheavy mega-show. The Tony Awards Administration Committee said Thursday that Taymor will be considered eligible in the best direction of a musical category for “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.” Taymor, the original book co-writer and director, was let go in March after delays, accidents, poor audience reaction and money woes turned
the musical into a punch line. Philip William McKinley, who directed the Hugh Jackman musical “The Boy From Oz,” in 2003, was hired to steer the ship. He was billed as creative consultant when the musical opened in June. Taymor was credited with original direction. The decision by the Tony committee means only Taymor will be eligible for the “Spider-Man” directing Tony. Rick Miramontez, the show’s spokesman, said the production wouldn’t comment “on the particulars of any of today’s rulings,” but added,
“We’re looking forward to an exciting spring.” The Tony committee also decided two other routine matters Thursday involving the musical – that Reeve Carney is eligible for a Tony as a leading actor in a musical and that Jennifer Damiano is eligible in the female category. Carney, who plays Peter Parker and Spider-Man, recently extended his contract until May 2012, but Damiano, who plays Mary Jane, is leaving the show this month. She is being replaced by Rebecca Faulkenberry.
NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Snoop Dogg gave props on Twitter to an ad for the Toyota Sienna minivan. Actress Tori Spelling linked to a website for rental cars. And reality TV star Khloe Kardashian soliloquized about the brand of jeans that accentuates the famous Kardashian derriere. “Want to know how Old Navy makes your butt look scary good? Ask a Kardashian,” the reality TV star wrote, or tweeted, on the social media website. Of course, she capped off the reflection with a smiley face. These celebs aren’t just writing about family cars and fashion choices for the heck of it. Stars can get paid big bucks – sometimes $10,000 or more per post – to pontificate about clothes, cars and movies in the 140 characters or less allowed per tweet. That’s adds up to about $71 per character. Twitter, which in its fiveyear existence has reshaped how people shop, vote and start revolutions, is now changing the business of celebrity endorsements. Just as Match. com and eHarmony pair up singles for dates, a growing number of startup firms are hooking up companies with stars who get paid to praise products to their thousands – sometimes millions – of Twitter followers. The list of celebs and the things they hawk is long and getting longer all the time. The endorsements range from subtle to blatant; the celeb pairings from sensible to downright odd. Singer Ray J urged his 600,000-plus Twitter followers to see the horror movie “Saw 3D.” Football star Terrell Owens gave a shout-out in front of his more than 1 million followers to a hotel chain giving away sports tickets: “Comfort Inn is hooking up 3 days of it!” Lamar Odom, L.A. Lakers forward, tweeted to his nearly 2 million followers about
hip-hop artist and entrepreneur Jay-Z’s book “Decoded”: “My man Jay-Z ... only rapper to rewrite history without a pen. Until now.” Of course, anything on Twitter is short-lived and reaches only a small, selfselecting audience: Research firm eMarketer estimates that only 11 percent of U.S. adult Internet users are on the microblogging site. And even though some celebs have faithful groups of followers, it can be hard to measure whether their tweets lead people to spend. Still, celeb tweets can be a way to grab a captive audience at a time when many people are skipping TV commercials with their digital video recorders. And paying a celeb to tweet is much cheaper than a traditional advertising campaign. Want a tweet from Khloe Kardashian? That will cost about $8,000, according to prices listed by social media marketer Izea. Looking for a cheaper option? Ray J is about $2,300. Companies like Izea, Ad.ly and twtMob usually pair products with celebs through a combination of software algorithms and Hollywood instinct. The companies say they use many metrics to gauge the effectiveness of a paid tweet, such as the number of times it gets reposted by others. When Ad.ly got Charlie Sheen to tweet for Interships. com in March, the actor was in the midst of getting fired from his sitcom “Two and a Half Men” over accusations of hard partying and drug use. Within an hour of Sheen’s first post, Internships.com got more than 95,000 clicks. “I’m looking to hire a (hash) winning INTERN with (hash) TigerBlood,” tweeted Sheen, who had just recently signed up for Twitter and now has more than 5 million followers. Dan Smith, vice president of marketing for the website CampusLIVE, which helps
advertisers connect with college students, hired Izea to help him get a celebrity to tweet about his company. Izea gave him a short list, which included names like “Jersey Shore” reality TV star JWOWW, comedian Michael Ian Black and rapper Bow Wow. Smith polled his interns and they picked Lindsay Lohan, the actress most famous for her run-ins with the law. According to Smith, CampusLIVE paid Lohan about $3,500 for one tweet: “These challenges for college kids on (hash)CampusLIVE are SO addicting!” The post to Lohan’s 2.6 million fans drove about 4,500 clicks to the website, Smith said. But he also said he wasn’t sure if he’d use her again – not because of her troubles, but because he’s already tapped her fan base. His interns wanted to know if comedian Will Ferrell is available. Said Smith: “That would be a cool one to get.” For the record, Ferrell isn’t on Twitter, says his spokesman, Matt Labov, who adds that the Twitter handles sporting his name are “imposters.” For her part, Lohan on her own time tweets about topics like fulfilling her community service sentence. But she has also posted comments for Izea on a few occasions, the company says. Her tweets about wind energy (“While saving the world ... save money! I love it!”) and about a gold mining company (“R ur savings safe? Think again!”) were paid endorsements, according to Izea’s website. Those posts, along with the CampusLIVE tweet, included the characters “(hash)ad” at the end, which indicates that a post is a paid endorsement. But Lohan’s publicist, Steve Honig, says that Lohan does not “sell” her tweets: “She uses Twitter to communicate with her fans and let them know what she’s up to.”
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Friday, November 4, 2011 I Hate Everything by Carin Powell
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Royalty Free Speech by Ryan Kennedy
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Horoscopes by Brian Ingmanson To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Consider your priorities and your strategies. Traveling isn’t as easy now. Slow and steady does it. Stick to simple work, and it goes well. Chart your course of action. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Don’t let rejection get you down. Beatle Paul McCartney was rejected from the school choir for “lack of musical talent,” and look where he ended up. Persistence is key. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- As the poet Tagore wrote, “If you cry because the sun has left your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.” Learn from your challenges today. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Discover an error that saves you money. Conditions look good for travel and romance, so budget to make them happen. Together, you’ll think of something. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Focus on financial planning today and tomorrow. First, make sure there are no leaks. Consider the previously impossible. Promises alone won’t do it. Get into action.
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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Pay bills and support your partnerships. With teamwork, you can accomplish what otherwise would seem impossible. More brains are better than one, especially when it comes to imagination. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- You may be putting yourself under too much stress. Sometimes you have to let go of attachments for things to work out. Ride the waves. It gives health. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Edit your own dream to get to the real juice. What do you really want? What do you really love? Ask those who know you well; they’ll tell you. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Your spiritual practices clear your mind. Believe you can attain what you’re after. Then start cleaning house (literally and figuratively), and stay active.
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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- A failed experiment will teach you more than success. Figure out how to achieve an old goal. Don’t waste time on arguments. Stick with your team. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- Resist the urge to spend. Work can get in the way of romance. It’s not a good time to gamble, but you can take advantage of a twist of fate. Get feedback from friends. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Today’s metaphor: You’re Neptune, king of the seas. You have willing teammates, ready to fulfill your every whim. Like water, expand in the direction of least resistance.
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UConn hosts two in final homestand
By Matt Stypulkoski Staff Writer
ly contested matches, as all three fight for its postseason lives. Seton Hall, who the With four games left to play Huskies will face next weekand sitting two games out of end, currently occupies the the eighth and final spot of eighth spot in the Big East the Big East Tournament, the standings and would be the UConn volleyball team will final team in the tournament continue its fight if the season were to for a chance at postend today. season play at home However with two this weekend. wins this weekend, vs. West the Huskies could The Huskies will face West Virginia play themselves Virginia and Pittsburgh, as closer to the Pirates Tonight both sit at 4-7 in and set up a poten7 p.m. the Big East comtially huge match ing into the weeknext Sunday. Gampel end, and are in the But for that to middle of the battle happen, UConn will for a tournament bid with first need to take care of busiUConn, who is currently 3-7 ness against the Mountaineers in the conference. and Panthers. The Huskies and both of Being at home for the sectheir competitors should be ond straight weekend should placing a lot of focus on this be a big lift for the Huskies, weekend, which should make as they are 8-3 in Gampel for some exciting and close- Pavilion so far this season.
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UConn has also won five to her big hitters like she straight on their home floor, a was last weekend – the junior streak that dates back to Oct. registered a staggering 107 4 against Hartford. assists in the two matches – The biggest key of late the Huskies should be able to for the Huskies has been the keep up the efficient attack. improved play on the defenPerhaps the most imporsive side of the ball, anchored tant improvement of late for by libero Kelsey Maving. the Huskies has come from Maving, who regthe service line, as istered 66 digs the team is starting last weekend, was to force its opponamed the Big East nents on their heels vs. Player of the Week with aggressive on Monday for her serves, something Pittsburgh that Coach efforts during the Holly Sunday two victories. Strauss-O’Brien has The Huskies have been stressing all 2 p.m. also been much season long. Gampel more successful at The Huskies will finishing points and open the weekputting balls down end against West recently. This played Virginia at 7 p.m. on an important role in their win Friday, and the match against over Depaul Sunday, as the Pittsburgh will be at 2 p.m. Huskies hit at .223 clip dur- Sunday. ing the match. And if setter Angela Roidt can keep distributing the ball Matthew.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu
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Freshman outside hitter Devon Maugle ready to bump the ball vs. Fordham.
Huskies look to bounce back from tough losses By Tyler Morrissey Campus Correspondent
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Defender Maude Blain and forward Emily Snodgrass fight for the puck in a game against Minnesota Duluth on October 16.
The women’s hockey team will travel to Boston Friday to take on the 6-1-0 Northeastern University Huskies, followed by a second game at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum in Storrs on Saturday. Last weekend UConn only scored one goal, and it was off the stick of sophomore forward Stephanie Raithby. The Huskies would go on to lose 4-0 to Syracuse Friday night and 2-1 in Saturday’s contest against the Orange. The Huskies of Northeastern are tied for 3rd in Hockey East play with a conference record of 1-0. UConn and Vermont are in a tie for fourth with a conference record of 1-1. So far this season, Northeastern is undefeated at home, with only one road loss two weeks ago. Northeastern’s offense is led by junior forward Casey Pickett.
She currently leads the huskies in points, goals scored and power play goals. In order for UConn to put "W" in the win column this weekend, the team will need to shut down the powerful Northeastern offense as well as create opportunities and crash the net of senior goalie Florence Schelling. Schelling is 5-1 this year between the pipes for the Huskies. UConn will look to regroup and refocus their attention as they take the ice this weekend. The Huskies have only one victory over Hockey East opponent Maine and will need to start winning games if they are going to compete for the Hockey East title. “Our mental focus needs to be more consistent for each game, each period, each shift,” said head coach Heather Linstad. “As a team, we are not gritty and tough, we are not winning battles and when push comes to shove we (UConn) are the ones getting back
on our heels or falling down. We also need better team chemistry on the ice.” UConn will once again look to its young talent to step up as five out of seven of UConn’s top goal scorers are underclassmen. They all have two goals each on the season thus far. Between the pipes, senior Alexandra Garcia and sophomore Nicole Paniccia have been sharing the net minding duties since the start of the season and both are expected to do so this weekend. Up to this point in the season so far, UConn has been outscored by their opponents 32 to 19. The its have also been outshot as their opponents average 33.4 shots a game while UConn averages just 21. The puck drops on the first meeting of these two teams in Boston on Friday at 7 p.m. at Matthews Arena. Action returns to Storrs on Saturday at 4 p.m.
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Cerullo: UMass a good fit for the Big East Conference from BIG EAST, page 14 ity of their home games at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., and will earn the distinction of becoming the third FBS football program in New England. I suggest UMass because it is uniquely positioned to step in immediately and fill the void in a way that Temple and Memphis are not. The university is also not subject to any waiting period like Memphis would be with Conference USA, and its geographic location isn’t likely to bring about the kind of petty, territorial, Gene DiFilippo-style resistance that Temple would likely generate from Villanova. More importantly, UMass is the most likely to grow into a great program. The school has always been a sleeping giant athletically, the school’s enrollment is about the same as UConn’s, and if the school had decided to invest the kind of money that UConn did in athletics earlier, then who knows what they could have become? Perhaps the best place to look for a clue is in the mirror. Since UConn became a member of the Big East in 2004, the program has reached five bowl games, including four in a row dating back to 2007, and two Big East Championships, including one
outright title and a BCS bowl to go with it. With the sizeable Boston metropolitan market to back it up, who’s to say that UMass couldn’t grow just as quickly? If nothing else, adding UMass would lend some credence to the conference executives and university presidents who talk about prioritizing academics and minimizing travel distractions while discussing the possibility of adding schools on the west coast. UMass is located just 90 minutes away from campus, and getting to Gillette would be even easier for most of the Big East’s other schools, as it’s only a half-hour trip from Boston’s Logan Airport. And from a totally selfish, UConn-centric perspective, how cool would it be to have a genuine conference rivalry against a legitimate UMass team? UMass joining the Big East would finally give UConn a real conference rival. Not only would every game be a huge deal, but also the schools are so close that students could actually travel to the road games without any real difficulty. That can’t be said about Syracuse, Rutgers, Pittsburgh or any of the teams in the Big East now. Plus, as I’m sure Duke and North Carolina can attest to, there’s
nothing like having a good rivalry to galvanize a fanbase and increase interest. UConn and UMass would have the chance to grow together and capture the interest of the New England market. Think Harvard vs. Yale, only on a bigger scale. UConn is already scheduled to host UMass to open next season, so why not have UMass’s first game at the FBS level also be its first as a member of the Big East conference? One last thing to consider, when UConn made the jump to FBS, it wasn’t scheduled to join the conference until 2005. But once Miami and Virginia Tech defected to the ACC, the Big East needed a team and UConn stepped up and joined a year early. History has already repeated once, with three more teams leaving for greener pastures, so why not take a page out of UConn’s playbook and make an investment in the Minutemen? They did used to say, after all, that they were called Minutemen because they could be ready for action in less than a minute. So who better to call than them? Follow Mac Cerullo on Twitter at @MacCerullo.
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UConn to face Syracuse in do or die matchup from PASQUALONI, page 14 1-2 Big East record. Syracuse’s big win of the season came on Oct. 21 when they beat West Virginia 49-23 at home. The Mountaineers were ranked No. 11 in the AP poll heading into their loss against the Orange. “The Syracuse players and staffs did a very good job on both sides of the ball,” Pasqualoni said of the Orange’s effort against West Virginia. “I thought they attacked West Virginia on defense and gave them a lot of pressure type
looks…Offensively, Syracuse did an excellent job with the multiplicity of formations.” UConn will have to try and stop Ryan Nassib, the starting quarterback for the Orange. Nassib has been efficient this season, throwing for 16 touchdowns and four interceptions. Pasqualoni said he is a “pure pro style quarterback.” He has good feet and is elusive in the pocket, Pasqualoni said. He can make first downs running. He throws the ball accurately and knows the system. He is very good with the protections and concepts
of the routes. He knows where he wants to go with the ball. You can see the confidence and comfort level he has in this system. At running back, Antwon Bailey has rushed for 748 yards and 6 touchdowns this year. He averages 93.5 yards per game. There will be a Winter Wear Drive Saturday at the Rent. Fans and students can drop off donations at the FanFest outside of Gate B.
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Huskies take on C.W. Post in exhibition By Matt McDonough Sports Editor The UConn men’s basketball team will conclude its two-game exhibition slate against C.W. Post at 1 p.m. Sunday at the XL Center. The Huskies defeated American International College 78-35 on Wednesday night in the team’s first preseason game. After a quick start, the UConn offense had a sluggish and somewhat sloppy first half before pulling away from the Yellow Jackets in the second half. Jeremy Lamb led the team with 17 points and Shabazz Napier had nine points, 15 assists, seven rebounds and zero turnovers. Alex Oriakhi finished with 13 points and eight rebounds, but it was Tyler Olander who received the most praise from coach Jim Calhoun after the game. “Tyler understands concepts, he understands angles, he under-
stands how to hedge… I thought “I’ve been coming to UConn Tyler did a great job,” Calhoun games forever,” Drummond said. said. “From Rip to Ray to Olander, who averaged 1.5 Hasheem to Stanley Robinson, points and 1.8 rebounds per game Jerome Dyson and Kemba last year, scored nine points and Walker, you name it.” grabbed nine boards. He said his Drummond said he had confidence level has gotten much dreamed of making his UConn higher over the offseadebut for as long as he son and will not only could remember. post up, but also take “I got my first game jump shots. jitters out today, so I’m “If I’m open, I’m going to be less timid going to take the vs. C.W. Post and be out there playing shot,” Olander said. exhibition my game and perform Andre Drummond, to the best of my abil1 p.m. who scored 10 points ity,” Drummond said. and had four rebounds Sunday’s opponent, XL Center against AIC, will play the Pioneers, lost an Hartford his first game at the XL exhibition game at Center. Drummond, a St. John’s 110-80 on native of Middletown, played Oct. 25. C.W. Post, a Division high school basketball at Capital II school and member of the Prep in Hartford before trans- East Coast Conference, comferring to St. Thomas More. petes against the likes of the The freshman center has been University of Bridgeport and going to UConn games in the Post in Waterbury during the Insurance Capital since the regular season. The Pioneers arena was named the Hartford went 21-10 last year as Stefan Civic Center. Bonneau led the team and con-
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ference in scoring with 18.9 points per game. C.W. Post’s roster is sprinkled with talent that played at Division I colleges across the country. Senior Terry Coleman played at Portland State, and Tyreak Johnson is a transfer from Howard. Some of the players have local ties as well. Vince Rosario, from New York, is a graduate student who started seven games for Central Connecticut State last year. Jon Schofield, also a New York native, played five games at Southern Connecticut State in 2009-10. His teammate on the Owls that season was Tobin Carberry. Carberry, a native of Hamden and former Hamden High star, is a junior guard for the Pioneers. After playing his freshman season at Southern, Carberry transferred to C.W. Post and scored 10.2 points per game last season.
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Tyler Olander inbounds the ball during UConn's exhibition win against AIC.
UConn faces Louisville in Big East semifinals game against Princeton was cancelled last Sunday, last played last Friday at Rutgers. The Huskies beat the Scarlet Knights 5-0 in the The No. 4 UConn field hock- contest. The Huskies were led by ey team is set to begin Big East forward Anne Jeute who scored tournament play today twice for the Huskies against Louisville in the and goaltender Sarah conference semifinals Mansfield who finished as they seek their 12th the game with five Big East title. saves en route to her The Huskies are the vs. Louisville seventh shutout of the No. 1 seed in the Big season. Today East tournament after The Cardinals finwinning its 12th regu12:30 p.m. ished their season lar season Big East title 10-8 and fell 1-0 to this year. The Huskies Northwestern in their are 18-3 all-time in Big East semi- final game of the season. They final games and has won 14 con- also went 3-3 in conference play, secutive semifinal games. capturing the fourth seed for the The Huskies finished their Big East tournament. season with 16-1 regular season The last time these two teams record and went 6-0 in Big East faced, the Huskies defeated the play. The Huskies, whose final then No. 19 ranked Cardinals 4-2
By Carmine Colangelo Staff Writer
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Junior back Vicky Arthur makes a pass vs. Syracuse on Oct. 23, a double-overtime victory for the Huskies.
on Oct. 1 at home. Four different Huskies would score in the game as back Allison Angulo led the way for the Huskies with a three-point performance. The last time these teams met in the playoffs was in the semifinals of last year’s Big East tournament and the Huskies topped the Cardinals 2-1. Since their national championship in 1996, the Huskies are 25-4 in the Big East tournament. Head coach Nancy Stevens, who is in her 22nd season with the Huskies, is 28-9 in the Big East tournament. The Huskies have only lost one tournament game between 1998 and 2008. The game will start today at 12:30 p.m. in Syracuse and will be streamed for free on www. BIGEAST.org.
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Huskies make short work of Assumption in first exhibition matchup from UCONN, page 14 finished with 13 points, seven rebounds, six assists and four steals in the contest, while Faris had 10 points, six rebounds, six assists and three steals. “Everybody pretty much was the way they’ve been since Oct. 15,” Auriemma said. “There weren’t a whole lot of surprises out there from our end. We passed the ball pretty well…and we’ve been really good at shooting the ball.” The game didn’t start out smoothly for UConn, though, as the teams traded baskets through-
out the first 10-plus minutes. With 9:23 remaining in the first half, Assumption guard Gabrielle Gibson hit a 3-pointer to make the score 22-16. “Defensively I thought we struggled a little bit,” said Auriemma, “because we’re not that big and we’re not able to cover a lot of ground. We’re going to make some mistakes ‘cause we’re doing things a little bit differently than we did last year. “But other than that, once we found our rhythm I thought it was pretty good.” That “rhythm” Auriemma described started shortly after
Gibson’s three. After five-straight points from Hartley, raising UConn’s lead to 11, MosquedaLewis poked the ball away on defense, before diving on the floor and passing it off to Hayes. The senior dribbled then found Mosqueda-Lewis in transition for an open 3-pointer on the left wing, which swished through the net to make it 30-16. The Huskies went on a 34-3 run to end the first half, and took a 56-19 lead into the break. Hayes led the way with 15 points and five assists, while Mosqueda-Lewis netted 14 points on four first-half threes.
Freshmen strong in collegiate debut By Danielle Ennis Staff Writer All five of the starters put up double digits for the Huskies in their 89-30 rout over the Assumption Greyhounds. Eleven of the 12 starters put points on the board, and the team tallied an impressive 28 assists. From freshman to senior, the teamwork was as present as the individual statistics. Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis It didn’t take long for the Southern California native to warm up to Connecticut. In her first 19 minutes of collegiate play, she put 14 points on the board, going 4-7 from the three-point line.
At the half, when Coach Auriemma said. “She does a Geno Auriemma was asked little bit of everything…She about the performance from makes shots when she gets a the Huskies, he chance to, makes said, “One of them plays when she gets is a really good a chance to. All in shooter.” all she did what I And when she hoped she’d do.” came out of the Tiffany Hayes locker room for the She’s the only second half, she senior on the team, continued to prove pressured to take just that. She finthe lead for the Notebook ished 6-10 on field mixed squad. Right goals and 5-9 on three-pointers, from the start she came out scoring 17 points on the game. strong, scoring 15 points. In Shooting with as much ease 24 minutes total play, Hayes and comfort as a senior, she started her season with a douturned 18 last night. ble-double, finishing with 18 To Auriemma, her perfor- points and 10 assists. mance was no surprise. “That’s kind of the way her practices have been going,” Danielle.Ennis@UConn.edu
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Blain: Super Bowl rematch a must-see game from A MUCH, page 14 for both teams and the Giants will be threatening to hand the Patriots their first home regular season loss since 2006. Also, interestingly enough, earlier in the year Eli Manning was quoted comparing himself to the elite status of Tom Brady. We’ll definitely be comparing the two field generals all day on Sunday to see how valid that may be. Historically, these teams have met nine times in the regular
season, with the Patriots leading the all-time series 5-3. Obviously most fans will tell you only the Super Bowl mattered, but for historical purposes the last meeting was in 2003 when Kerry Collins was still the Giants QB and the final was 17-6 Patriots. While we’re not going to see Eli Manning evade multiple Patriot linemen miraculously and hurl the ball up to the unlikely hero that is David Tyree (the Giants cut him September 2009), who will then proceed to catch
the ball off his helmet, and we’re not going to see an Eli Manning strike to Plaxico Burress (now a Jet) to take a late lead and seal the deal to win the Giants the greatest prize in football, we will see one hell of a game. And because of the history between these two teams, it will be a game played with passion and guts. And it will be a game that I will find to be a hard one not to watch.
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“The beginning was a little rocky, but after that I started getting into a rhythm,” MosquedaLewis said. “And we’re playing good defense as a team and it got rolling from there.” UConn began the second half on a similar note, scoring five points in the first five minutes off a Dolson fastbreak layup and Mosqueda-Lewis’ fifth 3-pointer. The freshman came out of the game a minute later because of a sore calf, according to Auriemma. The Huskies’ lead grew to 68-19 before Assumption scored its first second-half points – a layup by Gibson, who led the Greyhounds
with 10 points. Forward Sabrina Siciliano added nine points and four rebounds in the contest. Forward Kelly Meredith, Assumption’s leading returning scorer at 18.7 points per game in 2010-11, was held scoreless. Freshman guard Brianna Banks was the first substitution for the Huskies, checking in with 12:46 left in the first half. Banks had two points, two steals and two blocks in 24 minutes of action, while fellow newcomer Kiah Stokes added seven points, six rebounds and a block. “The freshmen are good. There’s no two ways about it,”
Auriemma said. “But it’s a work in progress for them. “Those four players that are starters from last year, for the most part we need every one of them to play great every night. Every day, every night, every minute, they have to play great.” UConn will get back to work Wednesday, Nov. 9, when it concludes exhibition play with a game at the XL Center against Pace University. The Huskies will then open their season that following Sunday against Holy Cross.
Ryan.Tepperman@UConn.edu
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Huskies looked strong in first round victory
penalty kick, one free kick and even helped set up the fourth goal. “I played a one-two with The UConn men’s soccer [Cascio] and then he got team advanced to the Big East brought down in the box. Quarterfinals Thursday after We’ve been practicing PK’s easily dispatching the DePaul because it’s the post season Blue Demons 4-0. The win now so I knew I wanted to take it,” Alvarez said came after a disabout the penalty appointing 1-0 kick. “Then with loss to Seton Hall the free kick I saw Saturday, which some space, and dropped UConn I thought I could to third in the Big curl it around the East Blue Division wall.” and forced the team Alvarez’s dipout of an automatping free kick gave ic bye to the Big Notebook DePaul keeper Joe East Quarterfinals. Ferrari no chance. “We wanted to come out and show people we Up 3-0 at half time Alvarez were better than that, and we then helped set up the final did that tonight,” said senior goal just after a DePaul red card. Tony Cascio. “We always practice set UConn showed no signs of disappointment in having to pieces but I really just wanted play the Quarterfinal and were to find Mamadou [Diouf] at up 3-0 at half time. The main the back post,” Alvarez said. offensive outlets were Captain After Alvarez played a ball to Carlos Alvarez and sub Tony the far post, Diouf headed it Cascio, who played perhaps back across goal for Andrew his finest match all season. In Jean Baptiste to put in to give the first half Alvarez netted the Huskies a 4-0 lead. Cascio showed his versatila pair of dead ball goals, one
By Miles Degrazia Campus Correspondent
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ity in the game, starting his night in the 25th minute. His first involvement was bringing down a corner and drilling a low shot that beat DePaul goalkeeper Joe Ferrari only to be cleared off the line by another DePaul player. “I just had to adjust. I’ve been a starter here for three years and to now come off the bench is a change,” Cascio said. “But I had a good talk with Coach, and he wanted me to come off the bench just to bring something different, to bring in some fresh legs.” Cascio was the player fouled for all three of the set piece goals. “I think [Coach] will want to bring me off the bench again. I mean it worked well tonight but who knows – maybe I’ll start next match.” The team will travel to Piscataway, N.J. to face the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights in a Big East Tournament Quarterfinal Sunday at 1 p.m.
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The Daily Question the Men’s soccer team give you confidence that they can go deep in Q : Does the NCAA tournament? As much as I hate to say it, no they don’t. They haven’t had a A : “successful postseason in 10 years. Tons of hype. Bigger letdown.”
Nov. 19 Louisville TBA
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Dec. 3 Cincinnati 12 p.m.
Home: Gampel Pavilion, XL Center Nov. 14 Wagner 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 17 Maine 7 p.m.
- Patriots’ cornerback Devin McCourty on the secondary’s struggles.
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By James Huang Campus Correspondent
Taiwan Tour.
Men’s Basketball (0-0) Sunday Nov. 11 C.W. Post Columbia (exhibition) 7 p.m. 1 p.m.
Huskies face Army in meet at West Point
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Nov. 26 Rutgers TBA
The men’s swimming and diving team will face off against the Army Black Knights Saturday at noon in West Point, NY. The team will be looking to earn its thirdstraight win of the season after achieving two straight wins in Big East Quad Meets against Villanova and Georgetown. This will be the Huskies’ first dual meet of the season. Apart from the Alumni/ Homecoming meet, the Huskies have only competed in group meets so far, such as the Husky Invitational and the Big East Quad Meets. Army gave UConn a handful last season in a meet from which the Huskies narrowly escaped with a win. Swimmers to watch out for from the Black Knights include seniors Daniel Borchik and Taylor Whitten. Other swimmers that the Huskies should also be careful of are freshmen William Vianna and Casey Woudenberg. The Black Knights currently have a record of 4-3.
Nov. 20 Coppin St. 1 p.m.
Women’s Basketball (0-0) Home: Gampel Pavilion, XL Center Nov. 9 Pace (exhibition) 7 p.m.
Nov. 25 Nov. 21 Nov. 13 Nov. 15 Fairleigh Stanford Holy Cross Pacific Dickenson 2 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m
Men’s Soccer (15-2-2) Sunday Big East Tournament quarterfinals Rutgers, TBA
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Manning era not over in Indy
Field Hockey (16-1) Today Big East Tournament Semifinals Louisville, 12:30 p.m.
Men’s Ice Hockey (3-2-1) Tonight Nov. 5 Mercyhurst Mercyhurst 7:05 p.m. 7:05 p.m.
Nov. 12 AIC 7:05 p.m.
Nov. 16 Sacred Heart 7:05 p.m.
Nov. 19 Yale 7 p.m.
Women’s Ice Hockey (1-7-2) Tonight Nov. 5 Nov. 12 Northeastern Northeastern Providence 7 p.m. 4 p.m. 1 p.m.
Nov. 19 BU 3 p.m.
Nov. 20 Vermont 2 p.m.
Men’s Swimming & Diving Tomorrow Army Noon
Nov. 18, 19, 20 Pitt Invite All Day
Nov. 12 Penn Noon
Women’s Swimming & Diving Tomorrow Army Noon
Nov. 12 Penn Noon
Nov. 18, 19, 20 Pitt Invite All Day
Volleyball (13-12) Tonight Nov. 6 West Virginia Pittsburgh 7 p.m. 2 p.m.
Nov. 12 Rutgers 2 p.m.
TBA Nov. 13 Big East Seton Hall Tournament 2 p.m. TBA
Men’s Cross Country Nov. 12 NCAA Northeast TBA
Nov. 21 NCAA Champs. TBA
Women’s Cross Country Nov. 12 NCAA Northeast TBA
Nov. 21 NCAA Champs. TBA
Tweet your answers, along with your name, semester standing and major, to @DCSportsDept. The best answer will appear in the next paper.
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Home: Rentschler Field, East Hartford Tomorrow Syracuse Noon
How far do you think the UConn women’s basketball team will go in the NCAA tournament this year?
–Kyle Campbell, 7th-semester visual media studies major.
“ We’re just trying to get better, and we’re trying to do it as soon as possible.”
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Robinson Cano of the New York Yankees swings a strike during top of the 4th inning during the first game of the Taiwan Baseball All Star Series in Xinzhuang, Taiwan.
THE Weekend Ahead Volleyball hosts Senior Day, Football and Orange face off By Carmine Colangelo Staff Writer Game to Attend: UConn football vs. Syracuse. On Saturday the Huskies will return to Rentschler Field to take on Syracuse. The Huskies are coming off of 35-20 loss last week at the hands of Big East opponent Pittsburgh. Quarterback Johnny McEntee struggled to hit his targets ,going 17 of 33 for 193 yards and two touchdowns. Running back Lyle McCombs rushed for 124 yards on 25 touches, the fifth time this year he has had over 100 rushing yards in a game. With the loss the Huskies fall to 3-5 on the season and 1-2 in the conference. The Orange are also coming off of a loss, falling 27-10 against Louisville. The Orange are 5-3 on the season and 1-2 in conference. Before working in the NFL and coming to UConn, Paul Pasqualoni was the head coach at Syracuse for 14 seasons and is the winningest coach in their history with 107 career wins. Kickoff for the
game starts at noon. Senior Day: UConn volleyball vs. Pittsburgh. On Sunday ,the Huskies host Big East opponent the Panthers in their final day of the season, bidding farewell to their senior class. The Huskies, who also play again at home on Friday against West Virginia, are 13-12 this season and 3-7 in conference. The Huskies are coming off of a 3-1 win on Sunday against DePaul. The Panthers are coming off of a 3-0 loss against Syracuse and they are 13-12 this season. The Huskies will be honoring seniors Allison Nickel and Jordan Kirk. The game will begin at 2 p.m. in Gampel, on Sunday. Number of the Week: 15. In their first exhibition game, point guard Shabazz Napier recorded 15 assists for the Huskies on Wednesday as the No. 4 UConn men’s basketball team defeated American International College 78-35. The Huskies will play again this Sunday in their second and final exhibition game against C.W. Post in the XL Center.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Peyton Manning and Jim Irsay agree on one thing: The Manning Era isn’t over in Indianapolis. Manning said Thursday he hopes to return to practice this year and still holds out hope of playing if doctors say he is finally healed from his Sept. 8 neck surgery. Irsay, the team owner, said he expects the four-time NFL MVP still has some good years in that right arm. There are some big questions looming in Indy. The Colts (0-8) must decide whether to opt out of Manning’s five-year contract or pay a $28 million bonus to keep him on the roster. And if they have a high draft pick next year, Indy also will have to decide whether to take Manning’s heir apparent, someone like Andrew Luck or Landry Jones. “It’s something you talk about and scenarios, who could be behind Peyton and how long you want him to sit and how much money you have committed to quarterbacks,” Irsay said. “I think theoretically, you could have Peyton for two or three more good years and then have someone behind him, but that’s theoretical.”
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Huskies head to Pennslyvania to face off against Mercyhurst
goal with 44 seconds left. A crucial component to the Huskies success in the early stages of the season has been The UConn men’s hockey the play of goaltender Garrett team will hit the road this week- Bartus. The junior goaltender end for a pair of games against from St. Charles, Ill., is currentupstart Mercyhurst in Erie, ly tied for second in the nation Penn. with 217 saves and has posted The Huskies had their last an impressive .935 save rate. game, a showdown After starting the with Army last season a woeful 0-4, Saturday, postponed Mercyhurst has seen due to the snowstorm a drastic turnaround that left millions in in its last two games. the Northeast withOn Oct. 28, they edged vs. out power. Two days Rochester Institute of before, UConn had Mercyhurst Technology 2-1 and defeated Holy Cross 7:05 p.m. followed that up one by a score of 4-2 to day later by knocking Erie, Penn. off No. 19 Cornell, 5-4. improve their record to UConn entered this 3-2-1 (2-0-0 Atlantic season with very high Hockey Association). expectations, as they In the Holy Cross game, the Huskies were able to are returning eight of their top emerge victorious from a hard- nine scorers from last season. fought, back-and-forth battle. So far, they have been sparked With the game knotted at 2-2 offensively by Brant Harris who eight minutes into the third peri- leads the team with six goals od, sophomore Billy Latta col- and eight points. lected a loose puck at the blue line, faked out the goaltender, and buried what would prove to be the game-winning goal. Cole Schneider added an empty net Peter.Logue@UConn.edu
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Big East should invite UMass
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UConn takes care of Assumption in exhibition Freshman Mosqueda-Lewis leads Huskies in victory By Ryan Tepperman Staff Writer
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In the coming days, the Big East is expected to finally stop the bleeding and add six new members to the conference’s ranks. Boise State, Air Force and Navy will reportedly join as football-only members, and Central Florida, Houston and Southern Methodist University will reportedly join in all sports. That will bring the Big East back to 11 teams, which means the league will have to find one more school to fill the void left by West Virginia if it hopes to reach 12 teams and have a conference championship game. Only problem is, none of the schools are expected to join the Big East until at least 2013, and West Virginia has filed a lawsuit against the Big East hoping to avoid the conference’s 27-month waiting period so it can join the Big 12 next season. If that happens, the Big East will be stuck with only seven teams next season, and NCAA rules require each conference to have at least eight members, meaning the Big East would need to fill that void immediately. People have speculated that Temple or Memphis would be the most likely fits, but I’d like to float a different school, a school that’s not so different from what we were not too long ago. I’m talking about UMass. Next season UMass is scheduled to complete its jump to FBS by joining the MAC conference as a football-only member, along with Temple. The Minutemen will play the major-
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A much anticipated rematch By Darryl Blain Tri-state Sports Columnist Super Bowl XLII was definitely a Super Bowl to remember. The Giants’ upset over what was the undefeated New England Patriots was something fans of neither team have forgotten, and likely never will. It was one of the most unlikely results – very much a Davidand-Goliath story. It was one of those Super Bowls that will go down as one of the best. This weekend, the two teams will meet for the first time since that epic battle. The questions on everyone’s mind include: Will the Patriots be looking to exact revenge, or is this just another game? How much does a Super Bowl played Feb. 3, 2008 really affect the emotion of a regular season game to be played this Sunday? The Giants will tell you none at all, and the Patriots can say whatever they want, but they won’t convince me they aren’t going to have that game in the back of their minds. It’s business as usual for the Giants this week. Giants probowl guard Chris Snee said, “There has been a lot of turnover on both teams, so it doesn’t make sense to think about a game four years ago.” That is the right way to go about approaching this weekend. If you dwell on winning a Super Bowl, you probably won’t find yourself helping your team much getting back there, just focus on the task ahead. While this weekend probably won’t be quite as dramatic as the last time these two teams met, it certainly promises to pack its share of entertainment. There’s the revenge factor for the Patriots, the playoff push
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Last night was a familiar sight for Husky fans, with No. 23 draining 3-pointer after 3-pointer to lead the No. 4 UConn women’s basketball team past Assumption 89-30 in the team’s first exhibition game at Gampel Pavilion. Except that No. 23 wasn’t being worn by alltime leading scorer by Maya Moore. Kaleena MosquedaLewis, the top-rated prospect of the incoming freshman class, scored 17 points in 21 minutes, knocking in five of her nine 3-point attempts. The Anaheim Hills, Calif. native, playing on her 18th birthday, added three rebounds, three assists and four steals in the contest. “That’s kind of the way her practices have been going,” said coach Geno Auriemma. “She does a little bit of everything, kind of like she did tonight. She makes shots when she gets a chance to, and makes plays when she gets a chance to.” All five starters scored in double figures for the Huskies, with senior captain Tiffany Hayes and sophomore center Stefanie Dolson posting double-doubles. Hayes poured in a game-high 18 points and dished out 10 assists, while Dolson had 12 points and 10 rebounds. Guards Bria Hartley and Kelly Faris, meanwhile, put forth complete-game efforts. Hartley
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One of the three impressive UConn freshman, Briana Banks, handles the ball on the sideline against Assumption in the Huskies opening exhibition game.
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UConn easily handles DePaul in first round
By Dan Agabiti Senior Staff Writer
The UConn Huskies made light work of the DePaul Blue Demons last night in the first round of the men’s soccer Big East tournament, defeating them 4-0. It was made clear from the start of the game which team was superior. Tony Cascio and Max Wasserman were not on the field to start the game. Cascio entered the game 25 UConn minutes in a sub, but Wasserman did not DePaul come in at all. Wasserman has been nursing an injury for the past two weeks, and coach Ray Reid did not want to risk losing him for the rest of the year. For Cascio, it’s been about a change of roles for the past few games and getting him off the bench in hopes of creating a spark for UConn. “We just wanted to come out and just play our game and get the W,” Cascio said. “Then hopefully
[we can] just make a deep run in this tournament.” The Huskies had a few more chances early on, but nothing came of them. In the 14th minute, it looked like forward Stephane Diop had scored the game’s first goal, but he was offsides. In the 27th minute, Depaul’s defender Kyle Gustafson fouled Cascio inside the box, giving UConn a penalty kick. Midfielder Carlos Alvarez scored 4 on the penalty kick, putting the ball into the 0 left side of the net on the ground, giving the Huskies a 1-0 lead. Five minutes after Alvarez’s goal, Cascio was fouled again, just outside the left corner of the box, giving the Huskies a free kick from about 20 yards out. Alvarez fired the ball over the wall and his shot bent into the left side of the net. “I was fortunate that it went in,” Alvarez said. Diop then scored on a run
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in the 38th minute, making the game 3-0. His run started at midfield and, after juking out a few defenders and dribbling his way into the box, he finished the play with a shot into the right side of the net. Matters were made worse for DePaul when the team lost defender Austin Toth in the 67th minute to a red card, after earning his second yellow card. This left the Blue Demons to face the angry UConn attack with only 10 men. The Huskies added their fourth goal when Carlos Alvarez took a free kick from the right side that was headed by Diouf on the left side. Defender Andre JeanBaptiste finished the play, heading the ball into the net. The Huskies dominated possesion throughout the game and outshot the Blue Demons 26-4. UConn will take on Rutgers in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament Sunday at 1 p.m. in New Brunswick, N.J.
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A UConn player dribbles the ball down the field during the Huskies 4-0 victory against DePaul in the first round of the Big East Tournament.
Pasqualoni takes on former team at the Rent By Colin McDonough Associate Sports Editor
tion for this game is a distraction,” Pasqualoni said. “The fact that I worked at Syracuse, that’s a distraction. It’s not fair to the At 3-5, the UConn football team. It has nothing to do with team is in danger of missing a this game. It’s all about the playbowl game for the ers and being prepared first time since 2006. to play and going out But the Huskies have and playing a Big East a three-game home conference game. This stand to try to turn the vs. Syracuse will be a hard fought season around, and it Noon, Sat. game and that’s what it starts tomorrow against about. Anything else Rentschler istakes Syracuse at Rentschler away from that.” Field Field. As a young football The game also means program, some conESPNU coach Paul Pasqualoni’s sider the Huskies’ chief first game against rival to be Syracuse. the Orange since being fired by But to some of the players don’t Syracuse in 2004. The Syracuse think the rivalry on the hardwood media has dubbed the Orange’s translates to the gridiron. visit to the Nutmeg State, “The “We’re just going to take it Pasqualoni bowl.” But the former like any other game,” said Kashif Syracuse head coach will have Moore. none of that. As for Pasqualoni’s history at “Anything other than prepara- Syracuse, it doesn’t mean much
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Freshman running back Lyle McCombs runs makes a cut during the Huskies win vs. USF.
to his players either heading into the game. “Whether he was at Syracuse or not, it’s still a winning situation,” said Sio Moore. “Obviously it puts a little heat on him.” Lyle McCombs said Pasqualoni did not talk to the team about his past coaching the Orange. “Right now, we’re just worried about preparation and getting this win,” McCombs said. Johnny McEntee will be the starter on Saturday. McEntee has eight touchdowns and four interceptions on the season. UConn is coming off a 35-20 loss at Pittsburgh on Oct. 26 where the offense gained 316 total yards. The defense also didn’t play up to par, giving up 529 yards, including 433 through the air by Tino Sunseri. The Orange are 5-3 on the season and, like the Huskies, sport a
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