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Huskies take down No. 15 Florida Gators IN REMEMBRANCE OF PAUL WALKER FOCUS/ page 5

bazz at the buzzer Napier remains grounded after heroic gamewinner SPORTS/ page 12 EDITORIAL: PENTAGON MUST BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING CLEAN FINANCIAL RECORDS U.S. officials should be held to a higher standard for accounting practices COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: Conn. to end the fight over release of newtown 911 calls The tapes will be released now that a Conn. prosecutor has dropped the case.

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By Mike Peng Senior Staff Writer Shabazz Napier wanted to be Superman growing up.

He didn’t wear any tights or capes Monday night, but he was a hero for the UConn men’s basketball team.

With the Huskies down by one and 17.7 seconds left on the clock, Napier fired up an errant shot after getting trapped by the Florida defense. The shot missed, but DeAndre Daniels chased down the ball and tipped it back to Napier, who drilled a game-winning jumper from the foul line to help the No. 12 Huskies (8-0, 0-0 AAC) defeat the No. 15 Florida Gators (6-2, 0-0 SEC), 65-64, in front of a sellout crowd at Gampel Pavilion.

“You always see how highlight films of guys hitting the last shot or guys at the free throw line making the free

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Senior Shabazz Napier goes up for a layup in this Dec. 3 photo. Napier scored 26 points and hit a buzzer shot to lead the Huskies to a one-point victory over the Florida Gators.

throws,” said Napier, who finished the night with a gamehigh 26 points. “You want to be the hero. You want to be the guy that’s known as a hero at the end of the game. I was just fortunate enough to be in the right spot at the right time.”

After Napier hit the gamewinner, the senior guard rushed off the court and was apparently heading for the locker room.

“It was just momentum,” Napier said. “I didn’t know what I was doing. It’s adrenaline… I just knew that guys

Student does double duty with 50-hour work weeks

By Mariah Monroe Campus Correspondent

University of Connecticut senior Trevor Sanchez sits down at a coffee shop near his job at the University of Connecticut Transportation Department, and says he only has 45 minutes before he has to go back to work. Though Sanchez has been working all day, his shift isn’t over for another three hours.

But this is normal.

Long days spent juggling work and school are what Sanchez has grown accustomed to as a full-time student who has to put himself through college.

Sanchez graduated from Hamden High School in the spring of 2009 and had his heart set on going to college regardless of the financial burden he would have to take on.

“I came from a low class family, neither of my parents [are] well educated or have any sort of extensive degrees,” said Sanchez. “College was my own decision, they pushed me, but the resources weren’t there for [them] to help me.”

Sanchez, who majors in political science and minors in history and Latino studies, aspires to create a non-profit organization to help underprivileged youth around the world build an intercontinental digital network, where they can learn about culture, language and geography directly from one classroom to another.

In order to afford school and living expenses, Sanchez used to work an average of 50 hours a week. At the UConn Transportation Department he wears many hats and splits his time between driving shuttle buses, dispatching from base, training new drivers and working as a preventative mainte-

64 were going to try to trample me and I’m kind of claustrophobic… So I was just trying to run to the locker room and on my way there I met a couple of great students and was just going crazy with them.”

UConn head coach Kevin

Ollie said Napier’s performance Monday night was “phenomenal.”

“Whenever we need a big shot, he makes that,” Ollie said.

“Whenever we need a play to be made, he made that… He’s got so much heart. Hopefully, America is starting to look at him as that man. I love the kid to death. One of the big-time players to ever put this jersey on and walk on the court at Gampel.”

Napier, meanwhile, acknowledged that he could not have done it by himself.

“Superman does it on his own,” Napier said. “I can’t do it without my teammates. They made sure that I got the right picks. DeAndre put a good hand on the ball at the last second.”

Daniels finished the game with 14 points and grabbed seven rebounds for the Huskies while Ryan Boatright and Niels Giffey chipped in nine and eight points, respectively.

Ollie said he was happy about the win but he’s “a little exhausted” with yet another one-point win. Out of the team’s eight wins on the season, three of them have been decided by one point and one was decided

» HUSKIES, page 10

Va. fraud case has broader implications for research schools

By Marissa Piccolo Campus Correspondent

A taxpayer fraud case brought against Dr. Michael Mann, former Physics and Climate Science professor at the University of Virginia, by Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has inspired a larger debate on privacy and the limits of a free marketplace of ideas in public higher education.

It was two years ago that the Attorney General originally brought charges against Dr. Mann for allegedly skewing his data on climate change to apply for and receive more government grants for his research, potentially for per-

sonal profit.

As a public university, these grants were funded by taxpayer money and thus could qualify for a civil investigation. Cuccinelli demanded all of Dr. Mann’s documents and correspondence, including emails, with other professors regarding his federal grantfunded research. Cuccinelli used Virginia’s Fraud Against Taxpayers Act as justification, claiming he simply wanted to review them for possible fraud, the Washington Post reported.

However, last week the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that Cuccinelli does not have the authority to demand

» QUESTIONS, page 2

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Trevor Sanchez, a political science major, used to work 50 hour weeks, splitting time between the UConn Transportation Department and the UConn Police Department.

nance mechanic. Sanchez says the wide range of positions he holds at UTD gives him access to more hours and higher pay.

During the week Sanchez also put in hours as a dispatcher and security watch for the UConn Police Department.

After working 50 hours a week and taking five classes, one would think Sanchez would take the weekends off to relax a little. Instead Sanchez turns his attention to the DJ company he started a few years ago as a means of turning his love for music into a lucrative trade.

“Around the end of sophomore year I began to DJ to bring in money,” said Sanchez. “Then I realized that UConn was a network I could thrive in as a DJ, so I found a couple of investors and started Tre Midi & Co, a mobile DJ service and booking agency.”

He has a 3.0 GPA, but Sanchez said work is the reason he’s a B student and not an A student.

“Why am I working so hard?

So I can go to school,” Sanchez said. “School comes first; I’m here for school so I find time to do it.”

Sanchez is like many young students today who work to put themselves through college. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 79 percent of undergraduate students are working to pay for college in some way.

According to the American Association of University Professors, Sanchez falls into the growing group of college students where “nearly one in ten (eight percent) full-time, traditional-age undergraduates is employed at least thirty-five hours per week.”

» FINDING, page 2

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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli speaks at Liberty Political Action Conference 2012 in Chantilly, Va. on September 15, 2012.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

drive right and operation while under the influence.

The woman was operating a vehicle stopped for swerving and crossing a double yellow line. After being pulled over the officer suspected the woman was under the influence of drugs or alcohol and she subsequently failed a series of field sobriety tests.

Her non-surety bond was set at $500 and her court date is Dec. 9 DRUGS Nov. 17 A man, 20, of Naugatuck, was arrested at 1376 Storrs Road and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of less than four ounces of a controlled substance. Police observed a vehicle parked behind the Young Building and detected an odor of marijuana coming from it. After a brief investigation, police found the occupant of the vehicle to be in possession of 20.2 grams of marijuana, rolling papers and a glass smoking pipe. His non-surety bond was set at $500 and his court date was

Nov. 26.

from VA., page 1

“This is a victory for science in Virginia,” said Michal Halpern of the Union of Concerned Scientists regarding the court’s decision.

Many supporters agree that protecting the freedom of scientists to ask and investigate tough questions without fear of public backlash is central to the spirit of intellectual inquiry and curiosity of higher education. Especially in the state of Virginia, where many political leaders and Cuccinelli himself are skeptical of global warming research, this right to confidentiality must be protected. Arlington County Circuit Court Judge Paul Sheridan stated from the bench, “The concept of the churn of intellectual debate, evolving research, suddenly going up

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE Dec. 1 A man, 22, of Bethel, was arrested at Hunting Lodge Road and charged with failure to drive right, operation while under the influence and a stop sign violation. Police saw the vehicle fail to obey a stop sign and fail to drive right, and the officer subjected the operator to a series of field sobriety tests which he failed. His non-surety bond was set at $500 and his court date is Dec. 9.

Dec. 1 A man, 20, of Higganum, was arrested at Alumni Drive and charged with operation while under the influence. An officer conducted a vehicle check on a vehicle stopped on a corner of Alumni Drive and suspected the operator was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The man failed a series of field sobriety tests.

His non-surety bond was set at $500 and his court date is Dec. 9.

LARCENY Nov. 19 A woman, 22, of Willimantic, was arrested at the UConn Police Department and charged with one count of larceny in the fifth degree and one court of larceny in the sixth degree. The woman turned herself into police after learning of an active warrant for her arrest stemming form a September 2013 incident in which she was found responsible for stealing $1,120 in cash from Panda Express. Her cash bond was set at $1,120 and her court date was Nov. 19.

Dec. 1 A woman, 21, of Groton, was arrested at Hilltop Apartments and charged with failure to

Dec. 2 A man, 21, of Woodstock, was arrested at Moulton Road and charged with failure to drive in the proper lane on a multi-lane highway and operation while under the influence. The police conducted a motor vehicle stop after observing it cross the white fog line on Route 195 and then onto the shoulder of the roadway. Police suspected the operator was under the influence of drugs or alcohol and he subsequently failed a series of field sobriety tests.

His non-surety bond was set at $500 and his court date is Dec. 10.

a dead end in your paths of inquiry, having the ability to come back, all this is part of the intellectual ferment that is protected.”

This case has gained attention nationwide, and may raise questions here at the University of Connecticut.

Being a competitive public research university like UVA, UConn may face similar scrutiny in the future, especially with funding from NextGen Connecticut.

The bill that grants UConn NextGen funding also calls for the creation of a joint standing committee in the Connecticut General Assembly to ensure academic integrity and responsibility with taxpayer funds.

Section 8, Clause C states that starting in January 2016, the committee will annually

review the accordance of pro- in Research calls for the tervisions and a summary of all mination of grant support with “research proposals, awards, situations of falsified data, as and expenditures” in addition alleged in the UVA case, and to “univermisallocated sity and joint funding (all universityare required industry intelto submit a lectual proppreliminary erty activities budget.) The including disguide also closures, patstates that in ents, licensan investies, and new gation of a business and Michal Halpern potential case entrepreneurof research Union of Concerned m i s c o n d u c t , ial activities.”

UConn also Scientists “best efforts has internal will be made policies to to protect the prevent and privacy of the punish facindividual(s) ulty abuse of research grants involved.” and university money. The Policy on Alleged Misconduct Marissa.Piccolo@UConn.edu

Nov. 25 A man, 23, of Chicopee, Mass., was arrested at 2075 Hillside Road and charged with larceny in the sixth degree. The man was observed concealing a pair of $25.99 black gloves and leaving the store without paying for them by loss prevention staff at the UConn Co-Op. His non-surety bond was set at $500 and his court date is Dec. 3

UConn grant spending under review

the release and obtain these records. The Fraud Against Taxpayers Act holds persons accountable who knowingly present false or fraudulent claims for payment with state funds. Yet the Court ruled that under the Act’s Section 2 definitions, the university is not a “person” and that public universities are not considered “corporations.” The university is considered a state agency and therefore cannot be charged.

In addition, under a clause of the Freedom of Information Act, “data, records, or information of a proprietary nature produced or collected by or for faculty or staff at public institutions of higher learning” are excluded from public disclosure.

“This is a victory for science in Virginia.”

Conn. to end the fight over release of Newtown 911 calls HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut state prosecutor said Monday he is dropping his bid to continue withholding recordings of 911 calls from the mass shooting last year at a Newtown elementary school. The tapes are expected to be released to the public Wednesday.

Last week, a judge ordered the prosecutor, State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky III, to provide the recordings to The Associated Press, affirming a ruling by the state’s Freedom of Information Commission that the calls are not exempt from public information laws.

Sedensky, who led the investigation into the massacre, said Monday he decided not to appeal the ruling after consulting with the office of the chief state’s attorney and an attorney for the town of Newtown.

The tapes to be released Wednesday include seven calls that were made to Newtown police, and do not include calls that went to state police dispatchers. The tapes will be made available at the Danbury offic-

Finding a balance for school, work from STUDENT, page 1

Former UConn senior Devin Arch also falls into this category.

As a page editor for the Nutmeg Yearbook her senior year, Arch, a Georgia native majoring in a communication design, worked to afford her personal expenses and more importantly her school project supplies.

“My parents paid for bills such as rent and groceries but not any personal or school related expenses, [but] I didn’t have mom and dad’s credit card to fall back on.”

Arch said many of her classmates worked in order to afford their school supplies. “Pretty much everyone in my major worked, a lot of it [was because] they had to pay for projects too.”

With the expenses of school being so high, Arch pushed herself to take 18 credits a semester in order to graduate in three years.

“Financially it’s a big thing because we couldn’t afford a full other year of out state tuition.”

Students like Sanchez and Arch are becoming more of the norm.

With the cost of education increasing, students are working more hours in order to afford a college education and all the expenses that come along with it.

According to an Inside Higher Ed article titled “The Impact of Student Employment,” “the days are long past when many college students had a choice but to work. As tuitions have risen and more and more undergraduates are enrolling later in life, nearly half of all full-time students and 80 percent of part-time students work – numbers that are likely only to grow in the future.”

Both students said working in college has helped them gain life experience and taught them the value of hard work.

“The path that I’ve had in life, I’m still incredibly grateful for, “ said Sanchez. “I wouldn’t change anything because I’m so grateful for the person I am today.”

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Jimmy Greene, left, kisses his wife Nelba Marquez-Greene as he holds a portrait of their daughter, Sandy Hook School shooting victim Ana Marquez-Greene at a news conference at Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, Conn., Monday, Jan. 14, 2013.

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NTSB: Train going too fast at curve before wreck

YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — A commuter train that derailed over the weekend, killing four passengers, was hurtling at 82 mph as it entered a 30 mph curve, a federal investigator said Monday. But whether the wreck was the result of human error or mechanical trouble was unclear, he said.

Rail experts said the tragedy might have been prevented if Metro-North Railroad had installed automated crashavoidance technology that safety authorities have been urging for decades.

The locomotive’s speed was extracted from the train’s two data recorders after the Sunday morning accident, which happened in the Bronx along a bend so sharp that the speed limit drops from 70 mph to 30 mph.

Asked why the train was going so fast, National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener said: “That’s the question we need to answer.”

Weener would not disclose what the engineer operating the train told investigators, and he said results of drug and alcohol tests weren’t yet available. Investigators are also examining the engineer’s cellphone, apparently to determine whether he was distracted.

“When I heard about the speed, I gulped,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. Engineers may not use cell-

phones while on the train, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs Metro-North.

The engineer, William Rockefeller, was injured and “is totally traumatized by everything that has happened,” said Anthony Bottalico, executive director of the rail employees union.

He said Rockefeller, 46, was cooperating fully with investigators.

“He’s a sincere human being with an impeccable record that I know of. He’s diligent and competent,” Bottalico said.

Rockefeller has been an engineer for about 11 years and a Metro-North employee for about 20, he said.

Outside Rockefeller’s modest house in Germantown, police told reporters that at the request of the family any of them who trespassed would be arrested. Calls to the home went unanswered.

Weener sketched a scenario that suggested that the train’s throttle was let up and the brakes were fully applied way too late to stave off disaster.

He said the throttle went to idle six seconds before the derailed train came to a complete stop — “very late in the game” for a train going that fast — and the brakes were fully engaged five seconds before the train stopped.

It takes about a quartermile to a half-mile to stop a

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Counselors helping people use the federal government’s online health exchange are giving mixed reviews to the updated site, with some zipping through the application process while others are facing the same old sputters and even crashes.

The Obama administration had promised a vastly improved shopping experience on healthcare.gov by the end of November, and Monday was the first business day since the date passed.

Brokers and online assisters in Utah say three of every four people successfully signed up for health coverage on the online within an hour of logging in. A state official overseeing North Dakota’s navigators said he had noticed improvements in the site, as did organizations helping people sign up in parts of Alabama and Wisconsin.

But staffers at an organization in South Florida and a hospital group with locations in Iowa and Illinois said they have seen no major improvements from the federal website, which 36 states are relying on.

Amanda Crowell, director of revenue cycle for UnityPoint Health-Trinity, which has four hospitals in Iowa and Illinois, said the organization’s 15 enrollment counselors did not see a marked improvement on the site.

“We had very high hopes for today, but those hopes were very much quashed,” said Crowell.

She said out of a dozen attempts

online only one person was able to get to the point of plan selection, though the person decided to wait.

The site appeared to generally run smoothly early Monday morning before glitches began slowing people down. By 10 a.m., federal health officials deployed a new queue system that stalls new visitors on a waiting page so that those further along in the process can finish their application with fewer problems.

About 750,000 had visited the site by Monday night — about double the traffic for a typical Monday, according to figures from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Roberta Vann, a certified application counselor at the Hamilton Health Center, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, said the site worked well for her Monday morning but she became frustrated later when the site went down.

“You can get to a point, but it does not allow you to select any plans, you can’t get eligibility (information). It stops there,” she said. “The thought of it working as well as it was didn’t last long.”

In South Florida, John Foley and his team of navigators were only able to successfully enroll one of a handful of return applicants who came to their office before glitches started, including wonky estimates for subsidy eligibility. He worried about how they would fare with the roughly 50 other appointments

train going 82 mph, Federal Railroad Administration spokesman Kevin Thompson said.

Asked whether the tragedy was the result of human error or faulty brakes, Weener said: “The answer is, at this point in time, we can’t tell.”

But he said investigators are unaware of any problems with the brakes during the nine stops the train made before the derailment.

The wreck came two years before the federal government’s deadline for MetroNorth and other railroads to install automatic-slowdown technology designed to prevent catastrophes caused by human error.

Metro-North’s parent agency and other railroads have pressed the government to extend Congress’ 2015 deadline a few years because of the cost and complexity of the Positive Train Control system, which uses GPS, wireless radio and computers to monitor trains and stop them from colliding, derailing or going the wrong way.

Steve Ditmeyer, a former FRA official who teaches at Michigan State University, said the technology would have monitored the brakes and would not have allowed the train in Sunday’s tragedy to exceed the speed limit.

“A properly installed PTC system would have prevented

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Cranes salvage the last car from from a train derailment in the Bronx section of New York, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013. Federal authorities began righting the cars Monday morning as they started an exhaustive investigation into what caused a Metro-North commuter train rounding a riverside curve to derail, killing four people and injuring more than 60 others.

this train from crashing,” he said. “If the engineer would not have taken control of slowing the train down, the PTC system would have.”

On Sunday, the train was about half full, with about 150 people aboard, when it ran off the rails around 7:20 a.m. while rounding a bend where the Harlem and Hudson rivers meet. The lead car landed inches from the water. More

than 60 people were injured.

The injured included five police officers who were heading to work, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday the NTSB findings make it clear “extreme speed was a central cause” of the train derailment. He said his administration is working closely with the NTSB and when the investigation con-

cludes he’ll make sure “any responsible parties are held accountable.”

The train was configured with its locomotive pushing from the back instead of pulling at the front. Weener said that’s common and a train’s brakes work the same way no matter where the locomotive is. Ditmeyer said the locomotive’s location has virtually no effect on train safety.

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friday sales disappoint NEW YORK (AP) — The final month of a stellar year for stocks began with a thud.

All three major indexes closed lower Monday, the first day of trading in December.

Investors sold shares on signs that American shoppers — that seemingly inexhaustible fuel of global economic growth — may hold tight to their cash this holiday season.

Shoppers turned out in record numbers over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend, but plunked down less cash than they did last year.

It was the first decline in

Thanksgiving weekend spending since a retail trade group began tracking it in 2006.

Investors reacted by selling all types of retailer stocks, from department stores to specialty chains. J.C. Penney, Macy’s and Target fell about 2 percent each. Urban Outfitters dropped nearly 4 percent.

“This holiday season is not going to be a gangbuster,” said Lindsey Piegza, chief economist of Sterne Agee.

“Retailers are bracing for declining activity from now to the beginning of the year.”

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Instructor Tammy Maddalena, left, works with Jennifer Mimms as she and others work to process applications for Cover Oregon, the states’ health exchange program, in Keizer, Ore., Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. Despite grand ambitions, an early start, millions of dollars from the federal government and a tech-savvy population, Oregon’s online enrollment system still isn’t ready more than a month after it was supposed to go live. The state has resorted to hiring or reassigning 400 people to process insurance applications by hand.

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Although frustrated, most were not deterred, he said.

“These are people that have policies going away, who have health problems. These are people that are going to be very persistent,” said Foley, an attorney and certified counselor for Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County.

Despite the Obama admin-

istration’s team of technicians working around the clock, it’s not clear if the site will be able to handle the surge of applicants expected by the Dec. 23 deadline to enroll for coverage starting at the beginning of the year. Many navigators also say they’re concerned the bad publicity plaguing the troubled website will prevent people from giving the system another try.

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Pentagon must be held responsible for keeping clean financial records

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asteful military spending is more than a rumor. A recent Reuters report investigated the accounting practices (or lack thereof) at the Pentagon and found that financial reports are systematically fabricated and supplies and money frequently go missing.

Just how much money is being wasted? It’s impossible to tell. Former employees of accounting agencies and others tasked with balancing the Pentagon’s books against the Treasury Department’s said in the report that their accounting procedures included making “unsubstantiated change actions,” which translates to making the numbers up when necessary. Every month, the military turned over records with missing numbers, implausible figures or no information about how money was spent.

Staff at the agencies did their best to resolve these issues and continued to try and find the right information even after the reports had been filed, but often the bogus numbers stood. Because of these practices, the Pentagon is the only federal agency that has not complied with a law requiring annual audits of government departments.

Since 1996, the year the law was instated, the Pentagon has received more than $8.5 trillion and it’s never been accounted for. There are just too many agencies, procedures and rules for the department to know where all its money is going. In 2009, Congress passed a law saying that the Pentagon had to be ready to undergo an audit by 2017, but it doesn’t look like they’ll meet that deadline.

The numbers that we do know are just as stunning as the ones we don’t. In 2012, these “unsupported adjustments” and “reconciling amounts,” known as plugs, totalled $9.22 billion. Between 2003 and 2011, the military lost track $5.8 billion worth of supplies. The current backlog of audits for outside contracts is worth more than $500 billion. A 2012 Pentagon report showed that the military ordered $733 million worth of supplies it already had excessive stocks of.

These miscalculations can have a serious effect on military performance and the lives of those who receive a salary from the Pentagon. The Pentagon inspector general said in a 2012 report that units affected by the loss of supplies “may experience equipment shortages that could hinder their ability to train soldiers and respond to emergencies.” There are numerous cases of soldiers receiving improper payments or having their compensation slashed without warning or explanation.

With a $565.8 billion dollar budget, accounting is a formidable task, but the Pentagon has to do a better job of keeping track of their money.

Why anything I write matters A discussion of minority representation in film

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ow much TV do you watch a day? You’ll watch an episode of “Friends” here and there, and binge watch “Orange is the New Black.” According to Huffington Post, every week you spend nearly 35 hours on the Internet and 31.5 hours watching TV. In the last year 225 individual million people in the U.S. and Canada (68 percent of the population over the age of two) went the theaters at least once with the average moviegoer seeing six (And

By Victoria Kallsen movies. that’s just the Weekly Columnist movies in theaters, not to mention later viewings at home.) Why is this important? For the same reason why articles on feminism, race and media: representation matters.

You’re seeing movies that vastly underrepresent women, African Americans, Hispanics and other minorities. This is done despite the fact that Latinos and Africans Americans are filling seats in theaters.

According to Motion Picture Association of America, whites comprise 56 percent of tickets sold while they are 64 percent of the population; Hispanics are 26 percent and 17 percent, respectively, and African Americans are 12 percent and 11 percent, respectively. Women and men are nearly equal in the population and evenly split in ticket sales. Here is how representation in film breaks down according to the

University of Southern California’s research on the top 500 films released from 2007 to 2012. Looking at the year 2012 (4,475 speaking characters), whites were 76.3 percent of speaking characters, Hispanics 4.2 percent, blacks 10.8 percent, Asians 5 percent, with other ethnicities comprising 3.6 percent. Females were 28.4 percent of speaking characters in 2012. These numbers have varied by only a few percentage points in the past five years.

Not only is the representation skewed, but you have to consider the roles you’re seeing these characters play. In 1939, Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar, for her supporting role of Mammy, a maid in “Gone with the Wind.” In 2011, Octavia Spencer won the same category also playing the maid who was aided by Emma Stone in “The Help.”

Women are most valued for their age and their appearance: the percentage of women shown in sexualized attire or partially naked was 31.6 percent and 31 percent in 2012, respectively. Men were at 7 percent and 9.4 percent respectively. In terms of age, 73.3 percent of female characters are under age 40; however, only 58.1 percent of male characters are in that same bracket. The percentage of female characters aged 13 to 20 shown with some or full nudity has more than doubled from 23.3 percent in 2007 to 55.8 percent in 2012. Hispanic females suffer a similar plight as 41.1 percent are found in alluring attire and 39.3 percent partially naked. Black males are least likely of all the ethnicities to be portrayed as fathers or romantic partners. In only 9 percent of films were black characters 12-14.9 percent of the cast, i.e. near their percentage of the population. In case you’re worried that soon black and female characters will soon dominate

your screens only 2 percent of films in 2012 had either more female characters or more black characters than the dominant white male group.

Now, I’ve told you the problem; let’s talk about the solution. If a non-black director is behind the camera, only 9.9 percent of his characters will be black, on average, compared to 52.6 percent of the cast being of that ethnicity with an African American director. In 2012, the ratio of male to female directors, writers, and producers was 5 to 1, with only 4.1 percent of directors of the female gender. The percentage of females onscreen increased by 8.7 percent with female writers and 10.6 percent for female directors. They were also less likely to be objectified in these films.

Now, why do I care? Most importantly, the misrepresentation of women and minorities is affecting the way we act as a society.

Children aged two to five spend over 32 hours on entertainment devices (TV, DVRS and game consoles), and children aged 6-11 watch over 28, according to Nielson.

According to American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, “By the time of high school graduation, they will have spent more time watching television than they have in the classroom.” They advise against excessive television watching for children.

As brain development occurs, many children aren’t equipped to separate reality from the films they see. These stereotypes will continue to enforce the supremacy of the white male in our society until we confront the inequality behind the camera and the resulting misrepresentation on camera.

 Victoria.Kallsen@UConn.edu  5th-semester mechanical engineering  @Oh_Vicki

Tensions in East Asia provide a test to US commitment to peace

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ensions among the regional powers of East Asia have exponentially increased in severity over the last two weeks. On November 23rd the People’s Republic of China unilaterally announced the establishment of a new Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the East China Sea. This announcement has unsurprisingly sent Japan

By Dan Gorry and South Staff Columnist Korea, as well the U.S., into a bit of a panic, but China’s assertion that the ADIZ was necessary for defensive purposes is not completely devoid of validity.

I believe it’s important to first examine the history of relations between East Asia’s three great powers. China maintained a position of preeminence in the region for the majority of history, which went largely unchallenged until heightened tensions between a resurgent post-Meiji restoration Japan and the late Qing Dynasty of China erupted into an invasion of Korea in what became known as the First Sino-Japanese War. Japan emerged victorious from the conflict, which in turn snowballed into a series of campaigns against China culminat-

ing in the onset of the War in the Pacific - ostensibly beginning with the Japanese annexation of Manchuria and the infamous Rape of Nanking.

Japan’s Imperial pursuits inevitably pulled the United States into the global conflict– resulting in consequences we are all familiar with– and in China the American-backed Kuomintang government was exiled to Taiwan by Mao’s Communist Party. Japan’s constitution was rewritten in 1947, with the extraordinary Article 9 that effectively converted the country into a pacifist state by preventing it from operating a military force; though the US pressured Japan to build up a “defensive” force in the aftermath of the Korean war.

Recent events have drastically accelerated the pace at which each power, along with the US, have approached the potential for violent conflict. South Korea has begun petitioning Washington to renew its administrative control of the South Korean military past the 2015 deadline, at which point command would be formally turned over to South Korea; President Jimmy Carter attempted to cede military authority to South Korea’s civilian government in 1977, but General John K. Singlaub - then head of US and South Korean forces– openly criticized Carter’s decision,

which ultimately cost him his job and scuttled Carter’s plans.

Japan, for its part, has become increasingly militarized under the right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who returned to office in 2012 after resigning in 2007 over his 30 percent approval rating. Abe is a staunch supporter of U.S. involvement in Japanese and East Asian affairs, which stands in stark contrast to former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama; Hatoyama was elected on a platform promising to remove the overwhelmingly unpopular U.S. base on Okinawa, which houses approximately 50,000 troops, but Washington rebuked the proposal by demanding Hatoyama’s resignation in 2010. Abe has since proposed a change or repeal to Article 9 of the constitution, laid wreaths at the tombs of Japanese war criminals and on Oct. 3rd negotiated a deal to relocate 9,000 US troops at the cost of $3.1 billion and the installation of a second U.S.-owned X-band Radar system, which is a blatant attack on China’s nuclear deterrent.

This is not to say that China is an innocent victim; the decades of unwavering support for the ruthless North Korean regime is morally reprehensible and lends a sort of legitimacy– albeit weak– for the US policy of encirclement that President

Obama titled “The Pivot to Asia.” The unilateral declaration of the ADIZ is also counter-intuitive to the interests of China as it justifiably frightens its neighbors into believing that a return to tributary status is imminent. The 2001 Hainan Island incident, in which a Chinese warplane on an intercept mission crashed into an U.S. spy plane, remains a sore in relations because of China’s demand that America apologize before releasing the American pilots and a refusal to make the contents of both aircraft’s black boxes public.

Vice President Joe Biden departed yesterday for Tokyo to discuss an easing in the mounting tensions, and for what it is worth Washington has instructed domestic airlines to abide by the rules of China’s ADIZ. At the same time, however, the U.S. has pushed China into a corner by flying two B-52 bombers through the ADIZ in what can only be called a flagrant dare to the Chinese government. The U.S. has a significant capability and responsibility to prevent its allies, as well as China, from inciting some conflagration of violence, which is what a global superpower should do.

 Daniel.Gorry@UConn.edu  7th-semester political science

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1947 Marlon Brando’s famous cry of “STELLA!” first booms across a Broadway stage during the first-ever performance of A Streetcar Named Desire.

In remembrance of Paul Walker www.dailycampus.com

By Randy Amorim Staff Writer

On Nov. 30, 2013, “The Fast and the Furious” star Paul Walker tragically died in a car crash in Southern California.

He was the passenger in a red Porsche when police said that the driver lost control and crashed into a light post and a tree and exploded. Walker and his friend were leaving a charity event to benefit the Philippines.

At first many believed this to be another internet hoax, but later Walker’s publicist and family confirmed the sad news.

I personally grew up watching Paul Walker’s movies and was a huge fan. I always thought of him to be an underrated actor who starred in many underrated films. I found myself pleasantly surprised to see both Twitter and Facebook universally upset and in shock over Walker’s death.

I am glad to know I wasn’t the only one who felt the man’s work was never fully appreciated. While Walker is best known and will no doubt be remembered for “The Fast and the Furious” series, the actor has done much more memorable work. Walker’s career began in diaper commercials as a baby and continued into television and minor roles.

Walker had supporting roles in both the underrated classics “Pleasantville” and “Varsity Blues.” While you could argue

Boston Babydolls burlesque comes to UConn

By Carles Lopez Campus Correspondent

This past Monday, Dec. 2, SUBOG brought us the funny and sexy Boston Babydolls burlesque group. The dancers and the presenter gave the public an electrifying and eclectic performance, which made the public not only whistle, but laugh during the show.

The performance consisted of Scratch, the Babydoll dancers and a special appearance of Corinne Southern, a burlesque dancer from Rhode Island. The Babydoll performers were Babydoll dancers, Brigatte Besoux, Devora darling and Miss Mina.

The show was Holiday themed, and the dancers were dressed and performed to different Christmas songs.

One of the best performances of the show was Miss Mina’s fan dance. Mina is considered to be a renowned fan dancer. A fan dance is part of the classic burlesque style. This dance consists of a dancer, covering herself with two big feather fans, moving the fans to cover and uncover different parts of her body in a sensual way.

Devora Darling’s interpretation of the first day of snow of the season was also astounding. Devora Darling danced in a ballet-like style, while throwing white con-

fetti around. Darling’s dance, was sensual and classy, never vulgar.

Scratch, the host of the show, did little gigs with the dancers between performances and joked around with the audience.

Scratch’s cheeky, inappropriate sense of humor made the crowd laugh between each dance, making the show flow well with no complete stops.

On one of Scratch’s gigs, he brought a member of the audience and showed her a magic trick.

While instructing the audience volunteer, Scratch made sexually toned comments. “Maybe you should use both hands,” Scratch said, while telling the volunteer to rub a phallus shaped object.

Gerson Mendoza, a fifth-semester economics and Spanish major, was pleased with the event. “It’s a really different show, not the typical UConn event,” Mendoza said, acknowledging the unique spectacle of the Babydolls’ show.

During the show, Scratch kept made comments regarding how usually the dancers are nude in the show. After the show, Scratch said why the dancers stayed in the lingerie during the spectacle in UConn. “The university didn’t permit it,” Scratch said. “Other universities we’ve been at had never imposed the dancers to stay clothed.”

Carles.Lopez@UConn.edu

British diver Tom Daley says he is dating a man

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Thomas Daley of Great Britain holds up his bronze medal after the men’s 10-meter platform diving final during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

LONDON (AP) — Olympic diver Tom Daley says he is in a relationship with a man.

In a video released for his fans on YouTube, the 19-year-old British Olympian says “come spring this year, my life changed massively when I met someone and it made me feel so happy, so

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he was type casted into both, he certainly had an incredible screen presence early on. I would consider “Varsity Blues” to be his breakout role. While James Van Der Beek may have had the lead role, Walker played the injured starting quarterback and the one most affected by Jon Voight’s brutal coaching strategy. If you haven’t seen either film, I would highly recommend both.

After “Varsity Blues,” Walker found himself the lead in “The Fast and the Furious.” Growing up watching these films I will always have a soft spot for the first film, which has become something of a classic. However, while director Rob Cohen did alright, he really didn’t do much to make this film great. The action, plot and characters drove themselves despite somewhat mixed direction, but the actors and their ability to really introduce and bring these characters to life is what truly made the film. Better direction from John Singleton and Justin Lin along with new actors and plot twists made the franchise into the big thing it is today, but Walker always managed to stay the leading man. Walker showed early on he could lead a talented cast and although later on bigger names like Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and now Statham are heavily marketed, he has always been the heart and the soul of “The Fast and the Furious” franchise,

safe ... That someone is a guy.”

Daley says in the five-minute video clip, which he published Monday, that he wanted “to put an end to all the rumors and speculation, and just say it, tell you guys,” adding “is it a big deal? I don’t think so.”

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‘Manuscript Found in Accra’

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FILE - In this April 29, 2011 file photo, actor Paul Walker poses during the photo call of the movie “Fast and Furious 5,” in Rome.

and it will be certainly interesting to see how they can manage to continue without him.

One of Walker’s best films is the underrated “Running Scared.” Walker played Joey, a New Jersey mobster tasked with getting rid of a gun used to kill dirty cops after a drug deal gone wrong. When his son’s friend finds the gun and uses it to kill his abusive father, Joey finds himself on a race against time to find the gun and the kid.

It’s easy to see why this dirty, gritty and violent action film was overlooked, but it truly was and remains a great film. Walker

played a complex character filled with conflicting emotions and motives that he really managed to bring to life despite his usual good guy roles. You probably overlooked this film, but it really deserves another visit.

Walker was recently casted as Agent 47 in a reboot of the “Hitman” franchise, and two weeks ago he confirmed that there would be a “Fast & Furious 8,” adding that the series could go to 10 with many actors already signed on. His new film, “The Hours,” will be released this month which tells the story of a father struggling

to keep his infant daughter alive during Hurricane Katrina. It is unclear what will happen next for both franchises without their leading man. Many celebrities, such as his “Fast & Furious” costars, spoke of Walker as a great and kind man. The actor, who leaves behind one daughter, will surely be missed by his fans and

by Hollywood.

Best Paul Walker Movies: Fast and Furious Series, Running Scared, Varsity Blues, Joy Ride, Flags of Our Fathers, Pleasantville

Maurilio.Amorim@UConn.edu

Crosstalk opens at UConn

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Paintings on display for UConn Crosstalk event.

Schiffrin, rebel of corporate publishing, dies PARIS (AP) — Andre Schiffrin, the literary editor who gave readers Art Spiegelman, Michel Foucault and Studs Terkel before he was forced out of commercial publishing in a defining battle between profits and literature, has died in Paris. He was 78.

Schiffrin, who died Sunday of pancreatic cancer, had sought out authors through his final days, dividing his time between New York and Paris as founding editor and editor at large of the nonprofit New Press, said Ellen Adler, the imprint’s publisher.

Schiffrin founded the New Press after his highly public departure from Pantheon Books in 1990. At least four other Pantheon editors walked out with him, as did numerous authors.

He said he feared for the future of independent ideas in a publishing world increasingly driven by advertising and profits. He believed the best hope for literature was smalland medium-sized publishers.

“The main thing is they decide a book on its merit and not its potential contribution to overhead and profit expectation,” he told The Associated Press in a 1990 interview.

Embracing his identity as a corporate gadfly, Schiffrin’s record of success with the New Press included the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Embracing Defeat” by John Dower and “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander. In his

own books and interviews, Schiffrin argued that corporate control was incompatible with literature and threatened free expression.

That wasn’t to say that Schiffrin’s tastes were incompatible with readership.

Pantheon, where his father Jacques was among the founders, married the avant-garde left and the mainstream. The two were held together by Schiffrin’s belief that a good book will always find readers.

Schiffrin was born into a Jewish family in Paris on June 14, 1935. The Nazis marched into the city on his fifth birthday, and the following year his family fled to the United States. He began working at Pantheon shortly after Random House bought it in 1961.

Terkel, the late Chicagobased radio host and oral historian who was among Schiffrin’s best-selling writers, once described Schiffrin as his “muse.” But most of Pantheon’s books, which tended to a leftist social advocacy that had gone out of style by the 1980s, reached a far narrower audience.

The Random House CEO at the time said he was “publishing a lot of books that no one wanted to read.” Schiffrin was asked to cut back staff and titles. Instead, he resigned.

The response was unprecedented. Arthur Miller, Nadine Gordimer, and Amy Tan were among authors to sign an ad critical of Schiffrin’s treat-

ment. More than 200 writers protested outside Random House headquarters, including Kurt Vonnegut, E.L. Doctorow and Terkel.

Marilyn B. Young, a professor at New York University, was among the writers who left Pantheon along with Schiffrin, never really looking back.

“He was genuinely interested in what you were doing, in its subject matter, not just as a book to be packaged and sold,” Young said. “There’s an immediate and intense loyalty to Andre. Once you’ve worked with him, you never wanted to work with anyone else. It was an opening to the left of center without being sectarian in any way. It was an opening to new ideas and theories.”

Schiffrin likened his new venture, the New Press, to public television and radio, and the imprint he founded in 1992 ultimately flourished, despite his grim predictions for the future of publishing.

“Now publishing is almost entirely a matter of profitability, meaning that if you want to publish something that is immediately profitable, it’s very rare that it will turn out to be predicated on strong ideas, or dissident ideas,” he told The White Review, an art and literary journal, in 2010.

Schiffrin is survived by his wife and two daughters.

Paulo Coelho never fails to write an extremely thoughtprovoking novel. Known for writing “The Alchemist,” his newest novel “Manuscript Found in Accra,” was published earlier this year. The book takes place in Jerusalem in 1099, before the city was invaded. While the citizens anxiously await the impending battle, they are calmed by asking a man known as “the Copt” questions about life. Each chapter of the book begins with a specific question before the Copt delves into his lengthy answer.

His answers are what comprise the manuscript mentioned in the title. The preface tells the tale of how the manuscript was found and states that this book is a translation of the manuscript. The Copt’s lessons sound like they have been passed on from generation to generation. It’s hard to believe that “Manuscript Found in Accra” isn’t a work of fiction.

The disclaimer at the beginning of the novel that “this is a work of fiction” is the only clarifying statement that everything in the text is from Coelho’s ingenuity.

I envisioned the Copt as a wise, elderly man passing his wisdom down to others. His responses were excellent. I often found myself staring at the page I had just finished reading, trying to take in the powerful words I had just read.

I also found myself rereading many sections in an attempt to fully absorb the life lessons Coelho is trying to give readers. Overall, I was constantly in awe at the deep examination of life Coelho must have performed when writing this book.

Coelho helps those who are searching for meaning in their lives. It may be hard to recognize significance when times seem monotonous, but it is important to remember that you have the power to change what you don’t like. Even if you can’t change something immediately, the struggles may only be temporary. Like college semesters, when we are given the chance to start fresh, we should seize that opportunity and make the most of it. When something knocks us down, like a difficult course or upcoming final exams, stay strong enough to finish the fight and move on.

It’s essential to remember what truly matters in your life.

Surround yourself a little bit each day with those you love and what you love and the hard times won’t seem so bad.

It’s also crucial to realize the things that have true importance before it’s too late. Know how fortunate you are to be alive. Things happen unexpectedly so nothing can be taken for granted. Take the time to do what you enjoy before you no longer have the chance.

“Manuscript Found in Accra” isn’t a self-help book but since the questions are about different facets of life, you find yourself being helped without even realizing it. You slowly recognize things that you should and shouldn’t do in your life. If you are looking for an inspirational quote or words to live by, your only challenge will be to determine which is the best passage from the novel. Coelho has captured the art of writing profoundly and of writing words to give us hope.

Alyssa.McDonagh@UConn.edu

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From left to right: Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket and Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in a scene from ‘Catching Fire.’

By Kim Halpin Focus Editor

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By Alex Sfazzarra Campus Correspondent James and the

Peach (1996)

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If you didn’t get the chance last week, take a study break and head to the theater for “Catching Fire.”

Of course it is a sequel, so have someone fill you in on the first movie if you haven’t seen it or read the book. Unlike the first movie, however, “Catching Fire” spends less time describing to you how the games and districts function, which allows for a more intricate plot line and powerful relationships to come through.

In the 75th Hunger Games, or the third Quarter Quell, a new game maker is introduced who has interesting plans for changing up the game. If you’ve seen the commercials you’ll know that this years’ tributes are reaped from the existing victors of each district – meaning round two for Peeta and Katniss

in the arena. The Quarter Quell arena is more interesting than last year’s typical woods scene with random vicious creatures.

The beauty is in watching if they can escape a second time.

The violence is more real in this installment, and the brutal killings and floggings of citizens by the government evokes a powerful sympathy from the audience, especially when it’s directed at a character we all love.

That being said, if you can’t stand a good deal of violence, “The Hunger Games” series is definitely not for you.

Jennifer Lawrence’s performance is more in tuned to Katniss’ character this time around with the trauma of her past and confliction with the present. She’s inadvertently won over Panem’s support, so likely she’ll win you over too. There

are, however, times when you can’t help but get annoyed with Katniss because she’s doing something so obviously stupid or missing signs under her nose.

It’s not Lawrence’s fault though, that’s just how Susan Collins wrote her character.

The struggling love triangle between Katniss, Peeta and Gale is much more interesting to follow now, too. For all the guys that get brought to this movie though, don’t worry. It’s not like a “Twilight” love triangle that would make you walk out of the theater. Different pressures are on each of the characters, leaving us wondering especially where Peta’s true loyalties lie.

If that’s not your thing, the social commentary is perhaps a more interesting plot line to follow. There have been many connections drawn between the

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fictional world of Panem and certain aspects of our culture.

The Hunger Games themselves are normally paralleled to reality game shows such as “American Idol,” which everyone tunes into for their exuberant hosts, not for the potentially damaging effect on the contestants.

There’s an increased focus on political dissent in “Catching Fire” as well when the sparks of uprisings begin in the outlying districts. The lack of communication between districts and the complete control through propaganda and force of the capital is truly heartbreaking and will make you think critically about the American political system.

“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” is a rather long theater experience at nearly two and a half hours, but it’s well worth the ticket price and your time.

‘Frozen’ another brilliant addition to the Disney vault Kimberly.Halpin@UConn.edu

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From left to right: Kristoff and his reindeer Sven and Anna voiced by Jonathan Groff and Kristen Bell respectively in a scene from ‘Frozen.’

By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer

Chicken Run (2000)

Full of style, charm, and sheer musical brilliance, Walt Disney Animation Studios 53rd animated feature film “Frozen” is nothing less than an absolute triumph. Quite possibly the studio’s best effort since “The Lion King,” “Frozen” with its fantastic Broadway style musical numbers and colorful characters stands as not only the best animated film of the year, but the best family film of the year, period.

Loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale “The Snow Queen,” “Frozen” tells the story of sisters Elsa (Idnia Menzel) and Anna (Kristen Bell), princesses of the land of Arendelle. Elsa has the ability to create snow and ice at her own will. Unfortunately she has difficulty controlling her

powers and after her coronation as Queen her secret is discovered and she flees to the mountains plunging all of Arendelle into an eternal winter. Anna sets off to find her sister and along the way enlists the aide of ice merchant Kristoph (Jonathan Groff), Sven his reindeer and Olaf the snowman (Josh Gad) on her quest to console her sister and end the unnatural winter.

The film walks a fine line between comedy and drama, balancing each perfectly.

A very likable cast of characters, including minor ones such as the forest trolls and Oaken the merchant make the film easy like.

Kristen Bell brings a wonderful sense of energy and spirit to Anna, similar to Mandy Moore’s Rapunzel but on a greater level.

Josh Gad’s Olaf the snowman is an immediately lovable comic character that never overstays his welcome.

The song list is fantastic. From the charming “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” and “Fixer Upper”, to more elaborate fare such as “For the First Time in Forever,” the Broadway style tunes are fantastic and while they don’t quite live up to the works of the late lyricist Howard Ashman, they remain some of Disney’s best songs in years.

One particular song, Elsa’s “Let it Go” absolutely steals the show.

Idnia Menzel absolutely nails the show-stopping number, which is sung as Elsa creates her miraculous ice palace. The stunningly beautiful sequence is not only the standout highlight of the film, its also one of the very best sequences ever produced in the storied history of the studio.

Following up on his work with Disney’s Oscar winning short “Paperman,” composer

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Christophe Beck combines traditional orchestration (with clear Germanic and Nordic influence) with timely choral pieces to create one of the best scores of the year.

The animation is, as expected, top notch. “Frozen” adopts a style similar to that of “Tangled” but more stylized with more elaborate settings, gorgeous ice and snow effects and absolutely brilliant costume design.

“Frozen” isn’t without its faults though. The villain isn’t all that memorable, his “demise” even less so and the films climactic confrontation in general could have been a bit more dramatic.

One song “Love is an Open Door” with its modern style and unimpressive lyrics feels out of place with the rest of the film’s otherwise excellent numbers.

Also of note, the short film that proceeds the film “Get a Horse!” starring Mickey Mouse

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December, the undisputed best month for movies, has finally arrived. With top tier Oscar contenders looking for a front row seat in the Academy’s memory bank, combined with the usual handful of holiday blockbusters, winter break is a perfect time to frequent the theatre, at least until January, when the Metacritic scores plunge like the stock market in 1929. Here are several films to keep an eye out for.

“The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug”: The first installment of Peter Jackson’s second Middle Earth trilogy accomplished something extraordinary, it displayed fantasy at its purest and magnificently proved why the genre exists. It may not be “The Hobbit” as Tolkien wrote it, but it made its elements simple but went into extended detail, unafraid to have scenes last 20 minutes for us to absorb the characters and the extravagant setting. Nothing, film or otherwise, felt more like a fantasy book brought to life.

“Desolation of Smaug” picks up right where “An Unexpected Journey” left off, with Orlando Bloom reprising his role as Legolas. I will be very surprised if this is less than a masterpiece.

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”: This film is a contemporary adaptation of a short story by James Thurber about a man with a childlike imaginations who constantly slips in and out of heroic fantasies during his everyday life.

While previously incarnated as a film in 1947, a hefty budget and modern editing techniques could do the story a lot of favors.

It’s stars and is directed by Ben Stiller, who is a more talented director than his filmography would suggest.

“Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”: Despite only coming out less than 10 years ago, “Anchorman” is clearly Will Ferrell’s standout film. Ron Burgundy is his best character, and the film had more staying power than all his other’s combined. This sequel features all central cast members from the original, with the additions of Kristen Wiig and Luke Wilson.

The plot of “Anchorman 2” has Ron Burgundy moving to New York and beginning work on a 24 hour news network. His last film “The Campaign,” didn’t quite cash in on its potential satire, hopefully “Anchorman 2” won’t make the same mistake.

“The Wolf of Wall Street” : Martin Scorsese has done several films about criminals in New York City. But this go around he’s shifting his focus from the mob to the moguls. Leonardo DiCaprio, who may finally win an Oscar this year, plays Jordan Belfort. A real life stockbroker who’s fraudulent stock manipulation in the 1990s already inspired an earlier film, “Boiler Room.”

The cast includes Jonah Hill, Mathew McConaughey and Jean Dujardin. But this film’s focus isn’t on gritty finances. It’s being marketed as a black comedy, focusing on Belfort hedonistic lifestyle after coming into wealth and narrowly avoiding an NC-17 rating.

“A Madea Christmas”: Yeah, I’m just kidding.

“Saving Mr. Banks”: I find few movies more instantly intriguing than those about making movies. “Saving Mr. Banks” stars Tom Hanks, who appears to be entering a second golden age of his career, as the great Walt Disney. Although the film’s true protagonist is Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers, author of “Mary Poppins” who works with Disney during the production of the film.

Walt Disney is a figure that has become almost caricaturized by parodists, so heavy interest rests on how Hanks will handle the role.

Brendon.Field@UConn.edu

Spike Lee’s latest remake adds little to original film Tuesday, December 3, 2013

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Josh Brolin stars as Joe in the Spike Lee remake of ‘Oldboy,’ a relatively obscure Korean revenge film.

By Zach Lederman Staff Writer I’ve never been a huge fan of Spike Lee, but I have a lot of respect for his movies. To his credit, he’s made some absolutely fantastic films and though they may not have necessarily been my cup of tea, I can recognize them for what they are: well made films. As for Spike Lee himself, I’m convinced he’s absolutely nuts. There’s no other explanation for his latest film, “Oldboy,” a remake of the 2003 Korean thriller. I refuse to believe that any sane man or woman would have watched this film and said to themselves, “Yep, this is something that I want to release to movie goers.”

The movie stars Josh Brolin as Joe, an advertising executive and family man who is mysteriously captured and held hostage for 20 years in a small cell, devoid of nearly all human contact. One day, however, he’s released and goes on a hunt to

find the man or woman that stole two decades of his life.

Framed for the murder of his wife, Joe goes on a hunt for justice and to find his now adult daughter.

If you haven’t quite figured out where I’m going with this yet, I’ll sum it up real quick: “Oldboy” was awful. In fact, awful is doing it a little bit too much justice– it was spectacularly awful.

The only thing stopping me from calling it the worst movie I’ve ever seen is Brolin’s acting (who was actually quite good as Joe!), and the fact that Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill has yet to be purged from this planet. Past those two technicalities however, it’s absolutely the worst movie I’ve ever seen.

When I went to see the film, I had high expectations. The original is a cult classic, and one of my favorite Asian films.

I didn’t really think that Spike Lee would necessarily be able to replicate the film, but I trusted

him enough to believe that I was going to get a decent movie going experience for my $12 that at least somewhat lived up to the film’s namesake.

My first clue should have been the fact that I had to drive two hours just to see the film at all. It’s not that I was out in the middle of nowhere either.

Apparently the film was given a “wide release” of 500 screens. That marketing decision was either made by a very inexperienced intern or an executive who knew how bad the film was, and was trying to save the American populace from wasting their money.

In any case, after sitting in traffic, I finally made it to the film and boy was I disappointed from the get go! The film made absolutely no attempt to replicate the feel of the original whatsoever. Rather than filming a suspenseful thriller with some occasional bouts of action, I was ‘treated’ to two hours of

Oldboy 3/10

an action film I hadn’t wanted to see. It wasn’t even exciting action like “Die Hard” or “James Bond.” It was bland, like “Speed 2.” If the original “Oldboy” was like drinking a glass of coke, this was flat diet Pepsi.

I think the absolute worst part about my experience was that Spike Lee added absolutely nothing to the story. I spent $12 to see a bad version of a film I already own. Things would have been ok if maybe the [SPOILER ALERT] plot twist at the end was a little different, instead of exactly the same or if the rest of the cast was able to even hold a candle to Brolin, but they weren’t.

I’m not even going to try and be eloquent about this. Don’t waste your money. Instead use it for something else, like buying a copy of the original on DVD, paying Spike Lee to stop making movies or burning it for heat.

‘Homefront’ offers great action scenes at the expense of plot Zachary.Lederman@UConn.edu

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From left to right: Jason Statham as Phil Broker, James Franco as Gator and Winona Ryder as Sheryl Mott in a scene from ‘Homefront.’

By Randy Amorim Staff Writer It’s really amazing how an actor’s presence can sometimes make or break not only a role, but a movie. Being produced and written by the once great but fading from glory Sylvester Stallone, we must assume that Homefront was at some point a starring vehicle for him. Lucky for us, Jason Statham became involved and saved the day. While Statham is by no means an Oscar worthy actor and is more often than not type casted, he excels as an action star. Statham doesn’t give too many monologues and speeches, but the actor is able to give a convincing screen presence and bring his characters to life solely with his demeanor and likeability. He may not have Dwayne Johnson’s acting ability, but he is certainly next to him as one of the great action stars of this generation. In “Homefront,” he even manages to “outact” big time names like James Franco, Winona Ryder and Kate Bosworth.

“Homefront” tells the story of former DEA agent Phil Broker.

After a drug bust goes wrong leading to the imprisonment of a kingpin and his son’s death, Broker resigns and two years later finds himself widowed and raising his daughter alone in a quiet Southern small town looking for a fresh start. Unfortunately, his fresh start gets off on the wrong foot after his daughter beats up a bully in self-defense. The small town still seems to believe in HatfieldMcCoy-style feuds and one thing escalates to another, eventually leading to the involvement of the bully’s ruthless meth dealer uncle, Gator (James Franco). As the trailer promises, Gator breaks into his house and discovers he was once an undercover DEA agent, and as you can imagine, he doesn’t take too kindly to this. I won’t spoil the complex chain of events that leads up to the big finale, but when you see it you’ll find it rather predictable. “Homefront” may only be a few steps above your

typical formulaic action film, but these steps matter. The supporting cast certainly delivers and brings us some good characters. This, combined with Statham’s likeability as a hero to root for, give us an entertaining action thriller.

Despite its predictability, the film is more or less well written.

The only real problem I had was the presence of minor characters who do absolutely nothing for the film. We meet a corrupt sheriff played by veteran actor Clancy Brown who seems conflicted by everything, but the film does nothing to explain his presence.

“Homefront” reminds me that Stallone is a very good writer, but I almost wish he had directed it too. Director Gary Fleder seems to care about the film, its plot and its characters, but he doesn’t seem to be able to say all he wants to say. That is, if he is trying to say anything at all. The film crosses into “Straw Dog’s” territory, a personal favorite of mine, in terms of theme and plot. I found myself some-

Homefront 7.5/10

what disappointed “Homefront” did not aspire to be as brave as “Straw Dogs.” However, I can’t fault the movie for only aiming to be an action thriller, as it does accomplish this.

Statham’s recent film “Parker” was an interesting achievement.

While the plot was absurd and there was little character development or investment outside of Statham’s lead, the action was so well directed and realistic that I found myself truly believing the story. There was a sort of human emotion and realism present in the violence that you don’t see in too many action films. I was hoping “Homefront” would deliver the same because of Statham’s presence. It doesn’t, but there is enough action, thrills and character investment in the plot to overlook its flaws and enjoy it.

It’s a very good action movie, but if you’d like more I’d recommend “Straw Dogs” or Statham’s often overlooked “Killer Elite.”

Maurilio.Amorim@UConn.edu

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Trial delayed in Ala suit over 2009 piracy case BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama judge delayed the trial set for Monday in a lawsuit crew members filed against two shipping companies after pirates seized a U.S. cargo ship off the coast of Somalia in 2009, an attack portrayed in the recent movie “Captain Phillips.”

Mobile County Circuit Judge Michael A. Youngpeter postponed the case because attorneys for crew members of the Maersk Alabama are entering mediation talks this month with lawyers for the shipping companies, a court official said.

The move means the lawsuit could end without a full-blown presentation before jurors if mediation succeeds, but a trial also remains possible next summer, said an aide to the judge.

Crew members are suing Maersk Line Ltd. and the Mobilebased Waterman Steamship Corp. over the attack that was dramatized in the recent Hollywood drama starring Tom Hanks. The five-day standoff ended when Navy SEALs shot and killed three of the pirates who were holding Capt. Richard Phillips in a lifeboat.

The crew members are not suing Phillips, but the captain gave sworn testimony last year about what happened, records show.

While the movie portrayed Phillips as a hero, the lawsuit con-

tends the Alabama was sailing too close to the Somalian coast when pirates boarded and took it over on April 8, 2009. Maritime warnings told ships to remain at least 600 miles off the Somalian coast because of piracy threats, yet the Alabama was just 250 miles from the coast when it was attacked, the suit claims.

Nine crew members in the lawsuit filed last year say they suffered physical and emotional injuries after Somali pirates boarded.

Some crew members were held at gunpoint with Phillips, and others hid in an engine room.

Maersk has denied the claims about the ship’s proximity to the coast, and it argues that the Somali pirates were criminals and are responsible for any harm to the crew members.

Court documents show Waterman had chartered the ship from Maersk, and the company has adopted many of the arguments made in court documents

by Maersk.

The lawsuit doesn’t seek a specific amount of money, but a similar case filed in Virginia over the attack sought $50 million. Records show the Virginia case was put on hold, and a Texas lawsuit is being shelved, as both sides agreed to allow the Alabama case to take precedence.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan O’Neal told a jury Monday that he owns an Andy Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett and it was not a secret that he had removed the artwork from her home after her death.

“The painting is mine,” the Oscar-nominated actor testified during a lawsuit filed by the University of Texas at Austin to determine ownership of the portrait done in 1980.

The university claims Fawcett left the painting to the school as part of a donation of her artwork.

O’Neal said Warhol created the portrait after shooting Polaroid photos of the actress and adding splashes of color to an otherwise monochrome canvas.

The artist created two versions of the portrait — one that currently remains over O’Neal’s bed at his Malibu beach house and another that is on display at the university’s Blanton Museum of Art in Austin.

O’Neal said Warhol asked him in 1980 whether Fawcett would be interested in being the subject of a portrait and that she agreed. The actor said he requested two versions since he and Fawcett kept separate homes.

He said Warhol made the portrait within two weeks of a brief photo shoot with Fawcett in his New York studio.

“It didn’t take long,” O’Neal, 72, said. “Doing her hair took longer than taking the pictures.”

David Beck, an attorney for the University of Texas, challenged O’Neal, suggesting Warhol approached Fawcett directly about the portrait session during a luncheon in Houston in 1980.

Beck said there was no mention in a journal kept by O’Neal about a deal with Warhol. The actor said some of his journal from that time period had been lost.

O’Neal’s testimony was at times testy and emotional, with the actor nearly breaking

down when he read a letter Fawcett wrote to the couple’s son, Redmond.

After Beck asked O’Neal to read passages from his 2012 memoir “Both of Us,” the actor tersely offered to sign a copy for the lawyer.

Beck also questioned O’Neal about a 1997 incident in which Fawcett caught O’Neal in bed with another woman. The lawyer has contended that changed the pair’s relationship and by the following year, the Warhol portrait that hung over O’Neal’s bed was moved to the home of the actress.

O’Neal said he asked Fawcett to take the portrait because it was making his new girlfriend uncomfortable. The portrait remained with Fawcett until her death in June 2009. She had a Warhol portrait in her living room and the other at her bedroom door.

After Fawcett’s death, O’Neal returned to the condominium and removed the portrait outside her bedroom.

Beck questioned whether the actor ever discussed removing the portrait with anyone, including a trustee charged with carrying out Fawcett’s final wishes.

“Of course I did,” O’Neal said. “I’m sure I did. It wasn’t a secret.”

The university sued the “Love Story” star in 2011 seeking the Warhol artwork that its attorneys have said the school wants to display with its twin in the Blanton museum.

O’Neal has countersued, seeking the return of a tablecloth that Warhol drew hearts on and addressed to him and Fawcett.

He told jurors that if he is allowed to keep the Warhol portrait, he will never sell it. His estate documents call for it to be passed down to Redmond O’Neal, he said.

O’Neal concluded his current testimony Monday, but his lawyer Marty Singer said he expects to call the actor back to the stand later in the trial.

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a run of the mill screwball animated comedy, Disney has been able to trick your average young boy into seeing a quality piece of entertainment made with class and heart of the highest quality.

After over 15 long years of the likes of Dreamworks, Sony and a flurry of other third rate studios flooding the market and lowering the genre’s bar with poorly made, lowbrow and pop culture infused abominations, isn’t that the most important thing?

Ryan O’Neal testifies about disputed Warhol art

Disney releases another classic film is an absolute delight with a throwback 1920s animation style and a fantastic twist that you’ll have to see to believe. Funny, nostalgic and yet daringly original, you’d better believe this one will be a contender come Oscar season.

And about that title, believe me no one is as infuriated as I that the film isn’t titled “The Snow Queen”. But the truth is, much like “Tangled” before it, through the use of a gender neutral title like “Frozen,” coupled with a brilliant marketing campaign that masked the film as

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Comics

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

PHOTO OF THE DAY

Classic I hate Everything

by Carin Powell

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A menorah on display in the Student Union.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO DRAW OR MAKE GAMES FOR THE DAILY CAMPUS COMICS?!

HOROSCOPES Today's Birthday (11/19/13). Plant seeds for creative projects in autumn that will flower in springtime. Indulge your passions this year, inspiring your work in new directions. Assess what you most love doing, and with whom. Partnerships reach new levels, too. You're the star next summer; launch, promote and get public. Then rest up before your career really takes off.

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

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Stand on your toes for a while. A surprise is in the works.

It requires patience and flexibility, but you can handle it. Your communications go farther than expected; make them count.

Wenke

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EMAIL US @ DAILYCAMPUSCOMICS@GMAIL.COM! Classic Procrastination Animation

by Michael McKiernan

UCONN CLASSICS: DOGLANE CAFE WOULD BE A LOT BETTER IF THEY DID NOT CHARGE SIX DOLLARS FOR A DECENT BEER.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Tempers are running short, but there's no need to dwell in any arguments. Focus on chores that increase your income, and postpone the unnecessary ones.

There are more goodies coming in, if you keep your eyes open. Collect them.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is an 8 -- You're a powerhouse right now, and that can be intimidating to others. There may be a disagreement about priorities. Compromise without compromising your integrity or commitment. Keep the trains on time, and then take time to relax and appreciate.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -Avoid grumpy people. Spend time with family or by yourself doing the things you love. Blow off steam on the basketball court or by climbing a mountain (metaphorical or literal). Take care of your spirit.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -Finances are in a state of flux for the better.

There's more money available than it seems.

Group participation contributes. Share the wealth, give and receive. A pizza party could be in order.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- A disruption breaks your routine. Find the motivation to get the job done. The deadline's right around the corner. Count on your friends for help, and return the favor. Talk is cheap.

Have a backup plan.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- More challenges head your way. Your actions and intentions could seem thwarted by circumstances. Keep your humor. Study the terrain. The surprises you encounter could be refreshingly fun. Keep costs down. Physical games are good.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Work together to get farther. Your partner has what you need. Things may not always go according to plan. From the ashes rises the Phoenix. Get creative with an original plan, and articulate your message.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Gently rearrange the facts and make them work. Put in a correction and minimize financial risk. Focus on what you have in common rather than your differences and avoid the obvious argument. Use your words to build partnership.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Take action to provide great service, rather than just talking about it. Some ideas may not work. Keep your stinger sheathed. Avoid reckless spending. Little by little, pay back what you owe. Try a partner's suggestion.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- A new idea has bugs, but it works! Don't throw money at the problem. Use imagination.

Make a fool of yourself if necessary. It could get fun. Look on the bright side, and share that with cohorts.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- It's good to let another drive now. A fantasy seems more real than facts. Go with the flow and stay flexible but without excluding doing what you promised. Draw on your reserves.

Get creative at home.

by Brian Ingmanson

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

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Sports

Big Ten reprimands OSU, Hall after fight

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Big Ten office has decided not to suspend any players or coaches for their actions in the wake of a fight in Saturday's game between No. 2 Ohio State and archrival Michigan.

The conference office issued a public reprimand to Buckeyes starting right guard Marcus Hall and the Ohio State coaching staff on Monday.

Hall was ejected from the game for coming onto the field to participate in the skirmish. As he was leaving the sideline, he angrily threw his helmet to the ground, kicked the team bench and then held up both hands in an obscene gesture to Michigan fans.

"The officials and coaching staffs from both institutions did a good job of containing the situation once it started," the Big Ten said in a statement. "As bad as it was, we're fortunate the incident did not escalate any further. More can, and should, be done by both coaching staffs in the future to prevent similar

A's close to deal with lefty Kazmir

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Free-agent left-hander Scott Kazmir agreed to terms on a $22 million, two-year contract with the Oakland Athletics on Monday, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said.

The deal is pending a physical.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team hadn't finalized the deal or formally announced interest in Kazmir.

Also Monday, the A's reached agreement on a one-year contract with right-hander Fernando Rodriguez. He was one of nine arbitration eligible players — and all were tendered contracts for the 2014 season, including first baseman Daric Barton. Barton is the team's longest-tenured player and will provide infield depth.

The 29-year-old Kazmir went 10-9 with a 4.04 ERA in 29 starts and 158 innings last season for the Cleveland Indians. It marked his return to the big leagues for the first time since making one poor outing for the Angels in 2011, which followed a 9-15 performance in 2010 for Los Angeles.

With the pending acquisition of Kazmir, the A's have filled a rotation spot with a veteran starter as they had hoped to do. That means the two-time defending AL West champions won't necessarily continue to pursue a new deal for 40-year-old 18-game winner Bartolo Colon.

Kazmir will join a rotation featuring Sonny Gray and A.J. Griffin.

General manager Billy Beane said after the season he was hopeful of re-signing Colon after he received a $3 million, one-year contract and bounced back from 2012, when his season ended in August because of a 50-game suspension for a positive testosterone test.

Rodriguez was acquired in a trade with Houston last February that also brought Jed Lowrie to the A's in exchange for Chris Carter, Brad Peacock and Max Stassi.

Rodriguez missed the season after undergoing right elbow reconstruction surgery March 27.

incidents from detracting from this rivalry."

Coach Urban Meyer has said he will issue punishment within the team to Hall, kick returner and backup running back Dontre Wilson and another player he did not identify. Wilson was seen throwing a punch.

"Very disappointed and angry that that happened," Meyer said earlier Monday. "That's not us.

That's not Ohio State and it's not (Michigan)."

Michigan backup linebacker Royce Jenkins-Stone was also ejected.

It appeared that other players from both teams could have faced punishment for perpetuating the fight.

The Big Ten reviewed video of the incident.

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said before the decision was announced that the Big Ten office would be fair in its handling of the situation. He said there was no chance that the conference might allow the players to par-

out. Wilson was surrounded by Wolverines defenders. There was shoving by players from both teams, then Wilson had his helmet ripped off. That led to several players throwing punches.

The fight was a hot topic on social media. Ohio State fans said Wilson did not start the fight. Others said Meyer and the Big Ten should suspend Hall and Wilson for the Big Ten title game. There were also calls for additional Michigan players to be punished for their roles in the fisticuffs.

Hall later apologized on his Twitter account.

"I let my emotions get the best of me and didn't conduct myself properly in the heat of the moment," he said in his post.

"My actions do not reflect who I am as a person and teammate. I love The Ohio State University and appreciate everything it has done for me. From the bottom of my heart, I am truly sorry and hope everyone can accept my sincere apology."

Meyer did not say what team punishment the players might face.

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Ohio State offensive linesman Marcus Hall (79) walks the sidelines after being ejected from the game against Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday, Nov. 30.

Tuck proving self after injuries

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — It wasn't long after getting a career-best four sacks against Robert Griffin III that Giants defensive end Justin Tuck looked down at his phone and saw the message from former teammate Osi Umenyiora.

It probably got Tuck to laugh after the Giants (5-7) rebounded from a loss to Dallas

with a 24-17 decision over Washington on Sunday night for their fifth win in six games.

There has always been a strong bond among Giants defensive linemen. They work, sweat and sometimes bleed in the pursuit of one goal. Even when one plays in Atlanta with the Falcons, the bond is strong.

"Of course I text him,"

Umenyiora said Monday in an email to The Associated Press.

"It was an amazing performance from him and I told him how happy I was for him. And I was going to be very happy for him unless he got 6 sacks.

I told him I will hold on to that record."

Umenyiora set the Giants' single-game mark of six sacks against Philadelphia in 2007, a year New York won the Super Bowl.

The playoffs probably aren't going to be in the picture for the Giants this season after losing their first six games. The 30-year-old Tuck, however, is showing how good he can be when healthy. He played with shoulder and neck injuries the past two seasons and many wondered whether his best days were behind him.

"Like I always say, I don't worry about what critics say, just as long as my teammates support me and know how I go out and play the game," Tuck said Monday. "At the end of the day, you want to have a successful season, you want

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Colts running back Donald Brown waited patiently for a chance to start this season.

When he finally did, Brown delivered.

The strong, silent running back who spent 4½ seasons trying to break through finally did Sunday, rushing for 46 of his 54 yards on the Colts' final drive and scoring Indy's only touchdown in a 22-14 victory over Tennessee that put them on the verge of an eighth AFC South title in 11 years.

"I knew regardless of what happened, my number would get called in some form or fashion," Brown said Monday. "When it is, you just make the most of it."

Coach Chuck Pagano was so impressed with Brown's effort that he said Monday that Brown would start again this weekend

when the AFC South-leading Colts (8-4) visit AFC Northleading Cincinnati (8-4) — a pivotal game for playoff seeding.

Brown has seen just about everything in his 4½ seasons in the league.

As a rookie, he was part of a team chasing perfection on its way to an AFC title. Two years ago, he endured the ignominy of an 0-13 start and the chase of imperfection. Last year, he was part of the second-greatest turnaround in league history, and now the Colts are one win, or one Titans loss, away from clinching their eighth division crown in 11 years.

But for most of that time, Brown has watched those things happened — and this season has been no different.

When starting running back Vick Ballard went down with a

season-ending knee injury after the season opener, Indy turned to offseason acquisition Ahmad Bradshaw. When Bradshaw was lost with a season-ending neck injury after Week 3, the newly acquired Trent Richardson inherited the job even though he was still learning the offense. And as Richardson's struggles continued and the patience of fans waned, the Colts continued to make Brown the change-of-pace guy.

Brown never complained.

Instead, he just kept working, knowing his chance would come.

"He is the ultimate team guy," NFL sacks leader Robert Mathis said. "He doesn't like to talk about himself because he's not his favorite subject. He just goes to work and he just lets his play do all the talking."

Brown prefers it that way.

But this was not the plan Indy

AP

New York Giants defensive end Justin Tuck, left, tackles Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III (10) on Sunday in Landover, Md.

to lead your team to victory.

That's basically what I focused on doing this offseason and last night it finally came together a little bit."

Tuck said the key to this season has been staying healthy.

It allowed him to stay in the weight room and play at full strength. He has also helped himself, eating the right foods and doing the right things.

While the sacks got the nineyear veteran noticed nationally Sunday night, Tom Coughlin has said repeatedly this year that Tuck has been a major factor in the Giants' ability to stop the run.

"I feel like this season I have been more of a complete player," said Tuck, who played every defensive down against the Redskins with fellow end Jason Pierre-Paul sidelined by a shoulder injury. "I feel like I could have had a few games like the one last night, if everything fell into place. I feel like I've had games where I was in the backfield a lot, disrupting plays or was a half a second away from sacks. I think I have

been more of a complete player this year."

The Giants still have work to do and Tuck may have to put in another full game at San Diego this weekend with JPP still a question mark.

"Honestly, the mood has been great," said Tuck, who last played a full game in 2007.

"I think guys have played loose and are having fun out on the football field, which I can't say we did do the first couple of weeks of the season. I think this team is very close right now and we just have to play into each other. I think that's our tremendous difference."

In the meantime, Tuck is following another Giants tradition.

He is mentoring rookie defensive end Damontre Moore.

Lawrence Taylor mentored Michael Strahan. When Umenyiora was drafted by New York in 2003, Strahan taught him. Tuck got the advantage of learning from 'Stray' and 'Osi' and developed into one of the NFL's premier linemen until injuries slowed him much of the past two seasons.

Brown getting 2nd chance to deliver for Colts

Newtown football team won't have to play Dec. 14 NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — The high school football team in Newtown, Conn., went 12-0 as it dedicated its season to the 26 victims killed in the mass shooting at an elementary school there last year, but faced the possibility of playing for the state championship on the anniversary of the massacre.

The Newtown Nighthawks will avoid that overlap. The governing body for school sports in the state, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, announced Monday that it approved Newtown High School's request to hold the Class LL title game on Dec. 13 instead of Dec. 14 if Newtown reaches the championship.

On Dec. 14, 2012, a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Adam Lanza, 20, also shot his mother

ticipate in Saturday's game so that Ohio State — ranked No. 2 in the BCS — would be at full strength and remain a contender to play in the national championship game.

"No. (Big Ten Commissioner) Jim Delany doesn't operate that way," Smith said. "Neither does (Big Ten coordinator of football officials) Bill Carollo."

Smith said he supported Meyer's decision to not suspend the players involved in the fight. "(Hall) made a bad, emotional mistake," Smith said. "It's a teachable moment for him and all of our players. So whatever the conference does and Urban does, I'm going to support them."

Meyer said the players had already served their suspension for fighting.

"Throwing a punch, the rules are clear that you lose a game — and they lost their game," Meyer said.

After Wilson returned a kickoff in Saturday's 42-41 victory at Michigan, a melee broke

to death earlier in the day and killed himself at the school as police arrived.

The Nighthawks will host 9-2 Ridgefield on Tuesday in the quarterfinals. If they win, they'll play in the semifinals Saturday at a location to be announced.

The finals will be held Dec. 13-14 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain.

The lineups for the finals are usually scheduled after the semifinals, but Newtown wanted to make sure it wouldn't have to play Dec. 14.

"The football committee did feel that due to the sensitivity surrounding the Newtown events ... if the school reaches the finals it's appropriate not to ask them to play on that anniversary date," said CIAC spokesman Joel Cookson.

Newtown's football coach, Steve George, didn't return a message.

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Indianapolis Colts running back Donald Brown (31) is congratulated by teammates after scoring a touchdown against the Tennessee Titans on Nov. 14 in Nashville, Tenn.

had when it took the UConn star with the 27th overall pick in 2009. Back then, the Colts

envisioned Brown becoming the workhorse back and the eventual replacement for Joseph Addai.

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Coach Steve Sarkisian takes over at USC

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In this Nov. 29, 2013 file photo, Washington head coach Steve Sarkisian yells from the sidelines in the second half of an NCAA college football game against Washington State in Seattle. Sarkisian has accepted the Southern California coaching job.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Steve Sarkisian was named the head coach at Southern California on Monday, leaving Washington to return to the Trojans' storied football program for another run at national titles.

Two days after USC's regu-

lar season ended with a home loss to UCLA, Trojans athletic director Pat Haden replaced interim coach Ed Orgeron with yet another assistant coach from Pete Carroll's championshipwinning era at the school.

The 39-year-old Sarkisian is

Napier: I couldn't do it by myself

of basketball. He makes the right plays, and he made a big shot. I was happy to be out there He may not want to be the and to be part of a historic game guy. He may be more concerned like that.” with who he is going to use to Napier’s shot capped what beat Brimah in FIFA – Real was one of the greatest games Madrid, Chelsea or Bayern ever played at Gampel Pavilion, Munich – and about studying and the first big non-conference for finals, but celebrity has game against a ranked opponent found Napier, whether he likes in Storrs since UConn knocked it or not. Monday cemented off No. 1 Texas in Jan. 2010. that. That is The 10,167 why he could fans in attennot get back dance will to the locker remember room. That is Napier and his why there was shot. They will a wall of stucontinue to dents waiting compare him to to meet him.

Kemba Walker.

“One of the But the hero big time playof the night, a ers to ever put player that will this jersey on be remembered and walk on Shabazz Napier as one of the the court at Huskies’ allUConn senior guard time greatest, a Gampel,” Ollie said. young man that N a p i e r once dreamed passed up the of being chance to hear his name called Superman, does not buy that. at the 2013 NBA Draft to return This game was won by UConn, for his senior year. His presence he says, not Shabazz Napier, has made a world of difference not Superman. for UConn, but not a single “Superman does it on his one of his teammates or coach- own,” Napier said. “I can’t do es will mention his incredible it without my teammates…We performances without pointing found a way to win when we out his most important attri- couldn’t rebound. We usually bute: being a good teammate battle with the big guys, like we and leader. did with Indiana and Maryland, “He’s just a tremendous but today wasn’t the day. We player,” junior guard Ryan found another way to win.”

Boatright said. “He’s a good teammate. He knows the game Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu

a Los Angeles-area native who went 34-29 in five seasons at Washington, rebuilding a decimated program into a bowl contender. He is the permanent replacement for Lane Kiffin, his former co-offensive coordinator at USC under Carroll.

Sarkisian will be introduced at a news conference Tuesday. In a statement released by USC, the coach thanked the Huskies for his first head coaching opportunity.

"I am extremely excited to be coming home to USC and for the opportunity that USC presents to win championships," Sarkisian said. "I can't wait to get started."

Kiffin was fired in late September and replaced by Orgeron, who didn't get the permanent job from Haden despite going 6-2. Crosstown rival UCLA trounced USC 35-14 last Saturday in what turned out to be the Trojans' final game under Orgeron, who resigned Monday after failing to get the head job.

Haden didn't immediately announce who will coach the Trojans in their bowl game later this month, but it could be Sarkisian, who immediately left Washington. He also could bring a handful of Huskies assistants with him to USC. Haden said USC conducted a major search during the regular season, interviewing five coaches for the job.

"We kept coming back to Sark," Haden said. "He is the only one who was offered the job. I believe in my gut that he is the right coach for USC at

this time. He embodies many of the qualities for which we looked. He is an innovative coach who recruits well and develops players. He is a proven and successful leader."

Orgeron turned himself into a candidate for the full-time job with an impressive revitalization of a program that had grown dour and stale when Haden fired Kiffin, who went 28-15, at the airport five games into the season. Orgeron's tenure was highlighted by the Trojans' victory over No. 5 Stanford last month, but his groundswell of support for the full-time job dissipated with a home loss to the Bruins.

Haden said he spoke to Orgeron about remaining on Sarkisian's staff, but Orgeron said he wants to be a head coach.

In a school statement, Orgeron thanked "all the Trojan players and family members who have become close personal friends during my 11 years at USC. I am especially proud of this year's team and coaching staff, who had to start a new season and then bonded, played together as a family and competed like Trojans."

USC players were told not to speak to reporters after leaving a team meeting with Haden, but many went online to post mixed feelings about the move.

"Words can't explain how I'm feeling right now....just lost a father. Way more than a coach," tweeted USC defensive lineman Leonard Williams, who was named to the all-Pac-12 first team Monday. Orgeron recruited Williams out of his native Florida.

"I'm on board Sark was very close to getting me to come with him to U Dub," USC freshman tailback Justin Davis tweeted.

Sarkisian takes over one of college football's crown jewel programs, a five-time AP national champion with a lengthy history of national prominence. He also inherits a roster stocked with solid talent by Kiffin and Orgeron, yet still laboring under the last of NCAA sanctions stemming from violations during Carroll's era.

Next season is USC's last year of scholarship limitations, keeping the Trojans with just 75 scholarship players on their roster — 10 fewer than other schools.

Sarkisian was on Carroll's staff as the quarterbacks coach for USC's national title in 2003. He left for one season with the Oakland Raiders while the Trojans won another title in 2004, but returned for the next four seasons at USC before Washington called.

Gators chomped

from SHABAZZ, page 12

“Superman does it on his own, I can't do it without my teammates.”

JESS CONDON/The Daily Campus

UConn junior guard Ryan Boatright (11) dribbles the ball up the court Monday night against the visiting No. 15 Florida Gators. Boatright had nine points and four assists as the No. 12 Huskies won 65-64 on a last second shot from Shabazz Napier to remain undefeated.

from HUSKIES, page 1 by two.

“It’s heart that’s going to get you through,” Ollie said.

“Sometimes you can’t go over the top of it, you can’t go under it. You’ve got to go right through it and that’s what this team is doing.”

“We have tremendous heart,” Napier said. “We just believe in every opportunity that we

get that we’re going to be successful. And to be a great team, you want that. We’re not a great team right now, but we’re trying to push for it.”

The Huskies also passed their first major test, playing against a ranked opponent for the first time this season.

“Tip my hat to [Florida head coach] Billy Donovan,” Ollie said. “They are going to be real good. That’s money in the bank right there… In March, they’re

going to be a team to be reckoned with. For us to get this win, in this type of environment, it’s a great learning tool for our team.”

The two teams traded runs for three-fourths of the game.

With the Huskies up 14-11 early in the first half, the Gators went on a 13-2 run to pull ahead at 24-16, only to see the hosts counter with three 3-pointers as part of an 11-0 run to retake the lead at 27-24.

UConn headed into the break with a 30-29 lead.

Florida took a 48-41 lead with a little over 12 minutes to go in the second half, but a 13-1 run from UConn allowed the Huskies to retake the lead at 54-49 just a few minutes later.

The two sides would go on and trade several leads for the final six minutes of the game to set up the dramatic ending.

Michael.Peng@UConn.edu

Oh the soccer kits you will see Fontenault: There's

By Robert Moore Soccer Columnist

Walking around a college campus appears to be the most ideal of times to people watch.

We have the stereotypical yoga, sweat pants and t-shirt, the Vineyard Vines boat shoe wearing frat boy, and the athletics lover.

On an American college campus, it comes to no surprise that walking to and from classes a plethora of professional team jerseys from the NFL, MLB, MLS, Premier League and even a fair few rugby kits are seen.

Rain or shine, the athletic apparel seems to prevail.

Whether it be a retro New York Rangers jersey, or that Godawful Juventus pink kit I see walking around - it’s always pleasant to see another fellow student sporting his or her favorite colors.

We’ve all see the student around campus as he rotates his Wayne Rooney and Marouane Fellaini kit on a weekly basis.

We’ve all see the students with

their fading AC Milan crest on the front, the shirt that’s been worn about one hundred times too many.

And we’ve all envied them at one point or another.

Truthfully, I walked into one of my classes the first week of the fall semester and saw another fellow Manchester United supporter, with the legend Ryan Giggs on the back. I thought I’d strike up some sort of conversation as Giggs has appeared in matches for the world’s most historic club, at the age of 40. Yet, much to my dismay the following week I saw the scruffy-faced kid walk into class sporting his baby blue Manchester City kit, with Mario Balotelli on the back.

I nearly gagged.

However, I’ve come to appreciate the variety of the kits I’ve seen. As Manchester United prepared for a clash against Real Madrid in the Champions League, I felt it only natural to throw on my own Rooney jersey. As I walked around campus chest-out, with more pride than a freshman at his

first party, I saw the pristine white Cristiano Ronaldo kit.

In that exact moment, the fellow soccer supporter and I made eye contact – and gently said to one another in passing “Good luck tonight.” In that gentle smile we shared with one another, the instant bond that both of us had with our beloved clubs was felt immediately. Now come to think of it, it just so happened that he and I have become great friends.

On a sad note, it was Ronaldo who punished United on that fateful afternoon.

Yet that did not matter. What mattered was two individuals loved their clubs so much and found a common ground.

We’ve all looked at the kits on campus and thought to ourselves “Why on earth are they wearing that dreadful piece of clothing?” And before any rational thought could come into our minds, we flash back to our own personal reasons for loving the athletic teams we do.

Win or lose, there will be

support for a team, club, organization, or even country.

Just look at UConn’s football team– who would have thought they’d win two in a row?

It’s belief. College students far and wide believe in their respective clubs, so much so they’ll go as far as to not wash their kit until said club loses a match.

Which, if you support a club like Barcelona - could take months.

Through the interactions, the scrutiny and pure pride students have in their kits: there is a story behind each one. Understandably, while some students may have no particular allegiances to any club, what most do have is passion. The passion to defend why they’re wearing the Highbury vintage Arsenal kit, or the 2002 United States World Cup kit.

Oh the kits we will see. Oh the people we will encounter.

Oh the matches we will witness.

Robert.Moore@UConn.edu

something different about this team from FONTENAULT, page 12 But following that loss on Sept. 17 in upstate New York, UConn went unbeaten into the postseason. Even still, the country seemed to forget about Reid’s squad.

Big mistake.

Without a target on their backs, the Huskies have powered through with resilience and a never-say-die attitude.

It kind of brings me back to May and June and the UConn baseball team, the Dead Men Walking.

The curse of penalty kick struggles seems to be over after winning twice in seven days in a shootout. Now, the Huskies turn towards Virginia, the last team standing in their way of a trip to Philadelphia for the College Cup. And, since there always has to be an “of course” moment, seeing as nothing is ever easy,

of course the most recognizable name on the Virginia roster to UConn soccer fans is Jeff Gal, who was Creighton’s goalie last year and had what is arguably the greatest goalkeeping performance I have ever seen in person when the Bluejays knocked UConn out in the Elite Eight last season.

Hopefully, he continues to sit on the bench, but regardless Virginia will be a challenge, as will any team UConn faces from here on out.

But I’m done thinking anything is impossible for this team. This team is special and is rounding into form at the perfect moment.

The latest UConn version of Dead Men Walking is very much alive.

Follow Tim on Twitter @ Tim_Fontenault

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What's Next Home game

Dec. 6 Maine 7 p.m.

Dec. 18 Stanford 9 p.m.

Dec. 5 UC Davis 7 p.m.

Dec. 17 Duke 7 p.m.

Remaining undefeated men’s basketball teams in the AP Top 25. UConn improved to 8-0 with their win over Florida Monday night.

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» That’s what he said - Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson on playing at CenturyLink field in Seattle.

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Dec. 28 Dec. 22 Dec. 31 Eastern Washington Houston Washington 3:30 p.m.

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Stat of the day

“There is no place like home. Playing here is a special moment.”

Away game

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Dec. 22 Dec. 29 Cal Cincinnati 1:30 p.m. 5 p.m.

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Russell Wilson

Jan. 1 Central Florida 4 p.m.

Football (2-9) Dec. 7 Memphis 1 p.m.

Men’s Soccer (12-2-8) 2013 NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals Dec. 6 Virginia 7 p.m.

Men’s Hockey (4-5-2) Dec. 6 Dec. 7 Niagara Niagara 7:05 p.m. 4:05 p.m.

Dec. 29 Dec. 30 Jan. 3 Sacred UMass/ RIT Heart Quinnipiac 7:05 p.m.

7:05 p.m.

TBA

Women’s Hockey (4-10-1) Jan. 2 Princeton 7 p.m.

Jan. 3 Princeton 4 p.m.

Jan. 7 Harvard 7 p.m.

Jan. 10 Vermont 7 p.m.

Jan. 11 Vermont 4 p.m.

Men’s Track and Field Jan. 11 Jan. 17 Jan. 25 Feb. 1 Yale Great Dane Terrier Coaches Invitational Classic Classic Tribute 9 a.m. 12:30 p.m. 10:30 a.m. TBA

Feb. 8 Skykes Sabock 10 a.m.

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UConn freshman center Amida Brimah blocks a shot taken by Florida Scottie Wilbekin (5) in Monday night’s Top 25 matchup against the Gators at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs. The Huskies beat Florida 65-64.

Jan. 10 Gotham Cup TBA

Jan. 17 Jan. 24 Jan. 24 Great Dane Cherry & Terrier Invite Classic Silver 2 p.m.

7 p.m. 10:30 a.m.

What's On TV

NCAA Basketball: Indiana vs. Syracuse, 7:15 p.m., ESPN

Despite at Nov. 22 loss to UConn in the 2K Sports Classic, the Hoosiers have started their season strong headed into their Big Ten/ACC matchup with Syracuse.

The No. 4 Orange have started their season 7-0 behind senior forward C.J. Fair’s 18 points per game.

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Fair and the rest of Syracuse will have their glass work cut out for them though; the Hoosiers are the No. 1 rebounding team in the country.

NCAA Basketball: Illinois vs. Georgia Tech, 7:15 p.m., ESPN2 Georgia Tech has already had it’s fair share of struggles this season, with losses coming to St. John’s, Ole Miss, and the now No. 25 Dayton Flyers.

Behind junior guard Rayvonte Rice, the undefeated Illini are favored to beat the Yellow Jackets handily on the road.

The other game in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge may not be such a cakewalk though for Illinois. Senior guard Trae Golden has put up 13.5 points per game this season.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Geno Smith is staying put as the New York Jets’ starting quarterback.

His hold on the job, however, is tenuous at best.

“He’s our best shot, in my opinion,” coach Rex Ryan said.

Ryan confirmed Monday that he’s sticking with the rookie despite Smith’s struggles in the last several games.

“I believe in Geno,” Ryan said. “I think he has the tools to be a good quarterback in this league.”

Smith wasn’t surprised when he was told Monday morning by quarterbacks coach David Lee that he would start the home game Sunday against the Oakland Raiders.

“Every day I come into this building, I fully expect to play,” Smith said. “I prepare that way.

When I got the news, it wasn’t a major reaction.”

Smith was benched in favor of Matt Simms at halftime of the Jets’ 23-3 loss to the Miami Dolphins following another brutal performance.

The rookie was 4 for 10 for 29 yards with an interception and an 8.3 quarterback rating in two quarters.

“If it was a tactic to wake me up or get me going,” Smith said, “it definitely worked because right now I definitely feel a sense of urgency.”

He has one touchdown pass — against New England on Oct. 20 — and 11 interceptions in his last seven games. The Jets (5-7) have lost three straight to go from controlling their playoff destiny a few weeks ago to barely hanging on in the postseason mix.

Still, Smith will get the start against Oakland over Simms and veteran David Garrard, who hasn’t played a regular-season game since 2010.

“His perseverance is impressive to me,” Ryan said about Smith. “He’ll bounce back from this, and I’m just waiting for him to have a great game.”

Simms said he was anxious coming to the facility, not knowing if he would get his first NFL start or remain Smith’s backup — at least for the next game.

“Obviously, when you get out there on the field and you get a little taste of the real action, all you want is you want more of it,” Simms said.

“But nonetheless, Geno’s the man and I’m going to support him and prepare like I have been.

“If my number’s called again, then I’ll go out there and play as hard I can again.”

Smith was booed loudly by the MetLife Stadium crowd at times before being replaced

by Simms. The son of former Giants star Phil Simms was cheered as he jogged onto the field to start the third quarter, but didn’t fare much better. He was 9 for 18 for 79 yards with an interception, and was sacked three times.

Washington unexpectedly Broncos’ Fox back at left with coaching search work after heart surgery

Women’s Track and Field Dec. 7 BU Season Opener 10 a.m.

Struggling Smith remains Jets’ starting QB

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SEATTLE (AP) — Based on his limited statement, Washington athletic director Scott Woodward is quickly moving ahead with trying to find a new football coach.

Washington was left in need Monday after Steve Sarkisian took the head coaching job at USC after five seasons of rebuilding the Huskies from an winless program and taking them to a bowl game in four of his five years.

Sarkisian will begin his duties at USC immediately, leaving the Huskies in need of an interim coach for their yet-to-be announced bowl game.

“The search for Steve’s successor has already begun,” Woodward said in a statement released by the school. “I will work hard in the coming days to find the absolute best fit for the University of Washington but I will not comment on or speculate about the process. We have tremendous tradition, fan base and a world-class institution, and I am confident we will find the right man.”

Woodward plucked Sarkisian from USC after the Huskies went 0-12 in 2008. He was an unproven commodity as a head coach, but immediately made Washington respectable again. Sarkisian finished his Washington career 34-29, including an 8-4 regular season this year, capped by a 27-17 win over Washington State in the Apple Cup last Friday. It’s

the Huskies first eight-win season since 2001.

But the attempts at finally joining the upper echelon of the conference this season were turned back in losses to Stanford, Oregon and Arizona State. Sarkisian never defeated the Ducks in his tenure, an issue that stuck with Washington fans tired of getting beaten up by their neighbors to the south.

Sarkisian is the first Washington coach to voluntarily leave for another position since Darrell Royal in 1956 when he departed for Texas. Royal was at Washington for one season.

“Steve has led the rebuilding of our program to new heights and we are in a much better position than when he arrived,” Woodward said. “I am happy for Steve and his family as they can return home and I wish them the best of luck in the future.”

Sarkisian announced his decision to Washington’s players during a team meeting on Monday afternoon. The meeting was short, with Sarkisian telling his team the decision was difficult and that the chance to return to his roots in Southern California was a major draw.

While fans may have been annoyed, current Huskies players did not begrudge Sarkisian his decision. Given ample opportunity to take a shot at his former coach after the meeting on Monday, quarterback Keith Price refused.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Denver Broncos coach John Fox returned to work Monday, four weeks after open-heart surgery, his newfound energy matching his renowned enthusiasm.

“I feel tremendous. As my surgeon said, I had a valve that was the size of a pinhead and now it’s the size of a 50-cent piece,” Fox said. “Obviously, the doctors feel good about me getting back to work. I actually would have preferred to be back sooner, but there was a pretty hard deadline of four weeks post-surgery and I honored that and here I am.”

Truth is, Fox has been telecommuting for weeks.

As soon as he was released from the hospital after having his aortic valve repaired, a surgery he had hoped to put off until after the Super Bowl, Fox set up a sort of command center at his offseason home in Charlotte, N.C., some 200 yards from the spot on the golf course where he fell ill on Nov. 2 during the Broncos’ bye.

Not only was he in daily contact with defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio, who guided the Broncos (10-2) to three wins in four games during in his absence, but Fox was also in constant communication with his captains, including quarterback Peyton Manning, over the toughest stretch of Denver’s season.

Fox was able to keep track of his team on his big-screen TV on

game days and on his iPad play book, watching cut-ups of practices and helping to formulate game plans.

“Other than that I was in another state, (it was) much the same as what I would have done in my office at Dove Valley,” Fox said.

“I want to be careful how I say that. I was involved, just like everybody in this building is involved. Like I said, it’s not one guy. It’s a team. And it’s a lot of people doing their job. As I mentioned before, it’s a tribute to the staff and the players that did a tremendous job as I went on the longest bye week in history.”

Del Rio maintained his defensive play-calling duties while he was interim head coach and he allowed offensive coordinator Adam Gase to continue calling plays for Manning & Co. Fox admitted there were times he cringed at the play-calling while watching the games on TV. “In fairness, a couple times,” he said, chuckling. “But I’m sure a lot of people do the same thing when I’m doing that. It’s just part of the game.”

Fox and his wife, Robin, flew home on team owner Pat Bowlen’s jet on Wednesday and at Del Rio’s suggestion he visited with the team on Thanksgiving morning, then watched from his home in Denver as the Broncos beat the Chiefs 35-28 Sunday at Kansas City to take charge of the AFC West.

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BAZZ AT THE BUZZER Napier remains grounded after heroic game-winner

By Tim Fontenault Sports Editor

Tim Fontenault Thirteen minutes into the UConn men’s soccer team’s Sweet Sixteen game at No. 1 UCLA, it seemed fair to say that the season as over.

The Bruins scored in the 12th minute and then converted a penalty kick 37 seconds later.

2-0.

Over. Done. See you next year.

At that point, it only seemed to make sense. The NCAA tournament has been a struggle for UConn in recent years. Since winning the national championship in 2000, the Huskies have not been back to the College Cup, soccer’s Final Four, and virtually every season has ended in heartbreak.

There is still a chance that season ends in utter tragedy.

But it did not end in the Sweet Sixteen.

A goal from Cyle Larin in the 35th made it 2-1 at halftime, a decent result given the circumstances. Thirteen minutes after halftime, his longtime teammate in Canada and fellow freshman, Kwame Awuah pulled a Nick Zuniga, scoring his first career goal in incredible fashion in a Sweet Sixteen game.

The joy of a 2-2 game was ripped away almost immediately, when UCLA took a 3-2 lead three minutes later. But Larin’s 14th goal of the season leveled matters again with 20 minutes to play.

From that point on, classic postseason UConn: plenty of chances to win it and none of them fell. Overtime was not enough and penalty kicks followed.

Penalty kicks are the worst.

If UConn’s run without a trip to the College Cup is like the Curse of the Bambino, penalty kicks are the New York Yankees. We needed to exorcise that demon in order to progress. There was a part of me that didn’t think that was possible 10 days ago.

But what I saw with my own eyes in Baltimore last Sunday, when UConn won its first ever shootout under Ray Reid, made me think that there was a chance, albeit a miniscule one, to win this game, to beat the No. 1 seed, to win a national championship in 2013.

Naturally, they had to make it painful, as Juho Karppinen’s chance just missed, and UCLA held a 2-1 edge through two rounds.

The Huskies kept at it, and they did not miss again. A horrendous miss Leo Stolz, a sure thing for a spot on the AllAmerican team this year, gave UConn its opportunity.

After Alex Sanchez slotted his shot past the keeper, Andre Blake stared down UCLA’s Victor Munoz.

Seconds later, college soccer’s greatest goalkeeper slapped away the Bruins’ national title dreams and the UConn fans in attendance piled onto the field.

Down 2-0 on the road to the No. 1 team in the nation in the NCAA tournament, down in penalty kicks, UConn prevailed and is now back in a familiar spot, the Elite Eight.

It is the Huskies’ third straight trip to the national quarterfinals, and it has to be the charm, right?

There is something about this team.

This is a team that started the season ranked No. 5, a perennial power that once again found itself in the mix for a national title. But injuries and difficulty adjusting to new players in new roles hurt the Huskies early on. With September losses to Bradley and Syracuse, UConn fell out of the national conversation.

» FONTENAULT, page 10

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After the No. 12 UConn men’s basketball team knocked off No. 15 Florida in the most dramatic way possible Monday night, Shabazz Napier did not want to bask in the glory of being the hero.

He does not want people to focus on him being the guy to make the winning shot. He just wants them to remember the win; the 65-64 win that ended with a buzzer-beating shot that came out of his hands from about 12 feet from the hoop.

All Napier wants to do is go back to his room and continue his ongoing series of FIFA games with Amida Brimah.

Napier scored 26 points against the Gators, moving into 22nd on the all-time scoring list at UConn with 1,370, and no shot was bigger than the one that he threw up with 0.9 seconds left on the clock, with Florida leading 64-63.

After an effort from about 16 feet away hit the bottom of the backboard, DeAndre Daniels made what UConn coach Kevin Ollie, Florida coach Billy Donovan and Napier all agree was the biggest play of the game, tipping the ball back to Napier at the top of the key. When the captain put up the second shot from just beyond the foul line he began backpedalling towards the locker room.

When it fell through the hoop and the red light illuminated the glass, he went into an all-out sprint to get off the court. That task proved impossible, however, as Napier was met by a swarm of students, shortly followed by his teammates, who simply wanted to celebrate a win over an elite opponent that puts the Huskies’ record at 8-0.

“I just knew that guys were going to try and trample me, and I’m kind of claustrophobic with that – I don’t like guys on top of me,” Napier said.

“I was just trying to run back to the locker room, and on the way there, I met a couple of great students and was just going crazy with them.”

UConn senior guard Shabazz Napier (13) looks to make a move against the Florida Gators defense Monday night at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs. The No. 12 Huskies beat the No. 15 Gators 65-64 thanks to a last second shot by Napier to keep the Huskies undefeated.

» SHABAZZ, page 10

Rangers juggling positional battle at goalie

By Ryan Tolmich NHL Columnist

When it comes down to it, hockey is a sport with so many ingredients for success.

You need a productive offense, because at the end of the day, goals are what win you games. You need a stout defense, as you can’t lose a game if the other team can’t score.

You need a roster full of depth, as lines need to flow seamlessly in and out of the game.

However, the most important part of any hockey team is the man between the crease. As the goaltender is the glue that holds the team together.

Without a top-notch goalie between the pipes, it’s all for naught.

Luckily for the New York Rangers, they have been blessed with arguably the best goaltender in the NHL, as king Henrik Lundqvist has patrolled the pipes in Manhattan for the past eight seasons.

Lundqvist has been the backbone of the Rangers for years,

as evidenced by his five Vezina Trophy nominations in the past seven seasons.

However, new head coach Alain Vigneault has a bit of a selection crisis on his hands, as the emergence of rookie Cam Talbot is a significant threat to King Henrik’s throne.

Talbot has been spectacular in his inaugural NHL campaign, as evidenced by his 6-1 record to go with his 1.49 goals-against-average. Meanwhile, Lundqvist has sputtered out of the gates, allowing 2.51 goals per game to go with an 8-11 mark.

Now, lets not get ahead of ourselves and throw Lundqvist under the bus so quickly. The King is still an elite NHL goaltender who is off to an early season slump, while Talbot is an NHL rookie who has come in hot.

However, the Rangers have a major decision on their hands, as Lundqvist’s contract is set to expire this upcoming spring. It comes down to this: Is Lundqvist going to be worth paying a king’s ransom for a team that may have a

stud waiting in the wings?

What the Rangers need to find out is whether or not Talbot truly has what it takes to take the reigns from The King. If yes, it may be worth it to avoid making Lundqvist the highest paid goaltender of all time. However, letting go of one of the NHL’s top goaltenders in his prime would be a major PR disaster that could potentially set the franchise back for years.

The Rangers have themselves a good old-fashioned positional battle, as these two will duke it out for the foreseeable future. On one hand, there’s the incumbent star looking to distance himself as the NHL’s top goaltender. On the other, the young stud that looks to have the game to make himself a true number one goaltender for years to come.

There’s a dynasty war brewing in New York, as King Henrik is going to have to defend his throne from the young Prince Talbot.

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New York Rangers goaltender Cam Talbot, right, makes a save on a shot on Saturday, Nov. 30 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

ATLANTA (AP) — Talk about an SEC surprise.

Just a year ago, the Auburn Tigers won all of three games and fired their coach. Just a year ago, the Missouri Tigers looked very much like a school that had no business joining the mighty Southeastern Conference.

Well, look at the matchup for Saturday’s championship game.

Tigers vs. Tigers.

“We’re playing a very good Missouri team that’s very similar to us,” Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said. “I think about both teams being very hungry.

We were both kind of down at the bottom at the start of the year. But we’ve improved. I feel like we’ve improved each game. They would probably say the same thing.”

Indeed, that’s exactly what

Missouri coach Gary Pinkel says.

“We just kept getting better,” he said Sunday. “Our kids played hard every single game at a very high level. I’ve been around a lot of good football teams, but I’ve rarely been around a team like that, playing at the level they did on a consistent basis.”

No. 3 Auburn (11-1, 7-1 SEC) earned its trip to Atlanta with one of the most remarkable victories in college football history, returning a missed field goal 109 yards for the winning touchdown on the final play to beat two-time defending national champion Alabama 34-28. (Somehow, these Tigers managed to surpass their previous Miracle on the Plains, the 2-week-old “Immaculate Deflection” victory over Georgia.)

Mizzou and Auburn to meet for SEC title

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Missouri quarterback James Franklin, left, and Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel greet each other following Missouri’s 28-21 victory on Saturday, Nov. 30.

Meanwhile, fifth-ranked Missouri (11-1, 7-1) locked up the SEC East by holding off Texas A&M and reigning Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel 28-21 on Saturday night, showing off a stout defense that helped push those Tigers to the top of the division in a year when traditional powerhouses Georgia and Florida were plagued by injuries and failed to meet expectations.

What a change from Missouri’s debut season in the SEC, when Pinkel’s team went 5-7 and won just two conference games after moving over from the Big 12.

“I thought we would have a very good football team,” he insisted. “But we could have been a very good football team and not be sitting here 11-1, either.”