The Daily Campus: December 5, 2012

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Free sexually transmitted disease testing will be available to students Wednesday, December 5 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Rainbow Center.

Blood and urine sample will be collected to test for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, hepatitis C and HIV. Students can choose to be tested for all of the listed STDs or just a selected few. In addition to testing free treat-

ment is available for gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia.

This months testing is part of monthly free STD testing offered by the Student Health Services, and while it is limited to the first 20 people, students can get STD testing through other means on campus.

Patricia Moriarty, an advanced practice registered nurse at SHS, said, “Free STD testing is available monthly at various locations across the Storrs campus,” she added, “A student can

also obtain STD testing through an appointment as a patient at Student Health Services which is a billable visit to the student’s insurance company.”

Moriarty explained that the testing done through SHS consist of taking urine, blood and saliva samples. Gonorrhea and chlamydia are tested for via a urine sample, and patients are asked not to urinate an hour beforehand. Syphilis and hepatitis C are tested for using a blood sample and a mouth swab is

used to test for HIV. The Center for Disease Control’s Sexual Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2010 found that adolescents age 15 to 24 account for nearly half of all new STD cases despite being only 25 percent of the sexually experienced population.

In 2010 rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea showed an increase from 2009. With the rates of chlamydia increasing

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Olivia Belfonti judges the Mr. and Miss Huskython competition on Tuesday afternoon at the Student Union Theatre. Belfonti,8, who was born with half of a heart and has undergone three heart surgeries, determined which students will compose the Mr. and Miss Huskython court.

NY trader charged in Conn. with $1B Apple scheme

NEW HAVEN (AP) — A trader from New York has been charged in a scheme that involved the unauthorized purchase of about $1 billion of Apple stock that wound up costing his Connecticut-based employer $5 million, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

David Miller, while employed as an institutional sales trader for Rochdale Securities LLC in Stamford, executed a trade to buy 1.6 million shares of Apple Inc. stock in October on a day the company was scheduled to announce earnings, prosecutors said. The scheme was designed so Miller would profit if the stock price rose, but it declined, they said.

A Rochdale customer stated it had ordered only 1,625 shares of Apple, the Cupertino, Calif.-based maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads. Miller falsely claimed that he had made a mistake in ordering many multiples of what was written in a client’s order, authorities said.

In telling Rochdale that he was simply executing a customer order, Miller misrepresented that the customer was at risk of loss if the trade proved unprofitable when he knew that it was Rochdale that would bear the risk of loss, prosecutors said.

As a result of the scheme, Rochdale was left holding more than 1.6 million shares of Apple stock, authorities said.

It promptly traded out of the position but suffered losses of about $5 million.

Miller was charged with wire fraud. His attorney, Kenneth C. Murphy, declined to comment Tuesday.

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Suspect being questioned in deadly subway push

NEW YORK (AP) — Police questioned a suspect Tuesday in the death of a New Yorker who was pushed onto the tracks and photographed just before a train hit him – an image that drew virulent criticism after it appeared on the front page of the New York Post.

Investigators recovered security video showing a man fitting the description of the assailant working with street vendors near Rockefeller Center, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said.

Witnesses told investigators they saw the suspect talking to himself Monday afternoon before he approached Ki-Suck Han at the Times Square station, got into an altercation with him and pushed him into the train’s path.

Police took the man into custody Tuesday, but he hasn’t yet been charged.

Han, 58, of Queens, died shortly after being struck. Police said he tried to climb a few feet to safety but got trapped between the train and the platform’s edge.

The Post published a photo on its front page Tuesday of Han desperately looking at the train, his arms reaching up but unable to climb off the tracks in time. It was shot by freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi, who was waiting to catch a train as the situation unfolded.

Abbasi said in a video inter-

been taken and published.

“I’m sorry. Somebody’s on the tracks. That’s not going to help,” said Al Roker on NBC’s “Today” show as the photo was displayed.

“I wanted to help the man, but I couldn’t figure out how to help.”

– R. Umar Abbasi Photographer of New York Post photo

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Uniformed and plainclothes police officers stand outside a New York subway station after a man was killed after falling into the path of a train, Monday. Transit officials say police are investigating whether he could have been pushed onto the tracks.

view on the Post’s website that he used the flash on his camera to try to warn the train driver that someone was on the tracks. He said he wasn’t strong enough to lift Han. “I wanted to help the man, but I couldn’t figure out how to help,” Abbasi said. “It all happened so fast.”

Emotional questions arose Tuesday over the published photograph of the helpless man standing before the oncoming train accompanied by the headline that read in part: “This man is about to die.”

The moral issue among professional photojournalists in such

situations is “to document or to assist,” said Kenny Irby, an expert in the ethics of visual journalism at the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based nonprofit journalism school.

Other media outlets chimed in on the controversy, many questioning why the photograph had

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien tweeted: “I think it’s terribly disturbing — imagine if that were your father or brother.” Larry King reached out to followers on Twitter to ask: “Did the (at)nypost go too far?”

Subway pushes are feared but fairly unusual. Among the more high-profile cases was the January 1999 death of Kendra Webdale, shoved her to her death by a former mental patient.

After that, the Legislature passed Kendra’s Law, which lets mental health authorities supervise patients who live outside institutions to make sure they are taking their medications and aren’t a threat to safety.

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Acquitted blogger sues Conn. officials for $50M

HARTFORD (AP) — A blogger who urged readers to “take up arms” against Connecticut officials is suing state government leaders for $50 million after being acquitted of threatening and inciting violence.

Harold “Hal” Turner, of North Bergen, N.J., filed the lawsuit in federal court in Newark, N.J., on Nov. 21 claiming he was falsely arrested, wrongfully imprisoned and maliciously prosecuted. A jury acquitted him last year.

Defendants in the lawsuit referred questions Tuesday to the Connecticut attorney general’s office, which will defend them. A spokeswoman for Attorney General George Jepsen declined to comment and said her office will respond to the allegations in court.

Turner couldn’t be reached for comment Tuesday. There is no phone listing in his name.

Turner was arrested after a June 2009 blog posting suggesting Connecticut officials “obey the Constitution or die” and urging readers to “take up arms and put down this tyranny by force.” He added that if authorities tried to stop his cause, “I suspect we have enough bullets to put them down too.”

Conn. teacher arrested on child porn charges

BRIDGEPORT (AP) — Federal authorities have arrested a teacher at a Connecticut private school on child pornography charges.

The U.S. Attorney’s office said 63-year-old Richard Doyle of Litchfield was arrested Tuesday at his home on charges of receiving, distributing and possessing child pornography. Prosecutors say a federal agent logged on to a public Internet file sharing program in October and downloaded child porn images from shared directories Doyle maintained. Federal agents seized computers and components at his home and office.

Doyle is a drama instructor at the Taft School in Watertown. A school official, Susan Henebry, tells the Hartford Courant Doyle has been placed on administrative leave, and the school is cooperating with authorities. She said there’s no indication that any Taft students were involved or at risk.

Incoming Bridgeport lawmaker arrested again

BRIDGEPORT (AP) — The winner of a Bridgeport state legislative race is facing domestic violence charges, nearly five months after being arrested in a hit-and-run accident.

Bridgeport police arrested Christina Ayala on a breach of peace charge Tuesday morning. Authorities told the Connecticut Post Ayala slapped her boyfriend at their home Monday night. The Democrat takes office next month.

She was arraigned in Bridgeport Superior Court and released on a promise to appear. She also was ordered to stay away from her boyfriend. She didn’t comment outside court.

Ayala’s phone number isn’t listed and she couldn’t be reached Tuesday. A message was left with her lawyer.

Ayala has pleaded not guilty in the hit-and-run case. She has said she drove away after the minor accident in August because she was scared of a man who was yelling at her.

NU officials dispute breaking Conn. deal

HARTFORD (AP) — Hartford-based Northeast Utilities is disputing allegations by Connecticut officials that it broke a requirement to notify the state of layoffs.

New England’s largest utility company issued a statement Monday saying its interpretation of the reporting requirement is different from that of state Attorney General George Jepsen and Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz. NU will file a response with state regulators. Jepsen and Katz say NU broke the reporting rule and demand information about NU layoffs and staffing levels.

State officials say 319 employees have left NU since its $5 billion purchase of Boston’s NStar was completed in April. NU says when new hires are factored in, there have only been 155 job reductions.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The unemployment rate in New England was unchanged in October and remains below the national average.

The New England Information Office of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday that the jobless rate in the six-state region was 7.4 percent in October, the same as in September. The regional rate was 7.5 percent a year ago.

Rhode Island’s unemployment rate of 10.4 percent is the highest in New England and the second highest in the nation. Vermont’s rate of 5.5 percent is the lowest in the region.

The national unemployment rate in October was 7.9 percent – down one percentage point from a year ago.

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‘In Cold Blood’ murders being re-investigated in Florida OSPREY, Fla. (AP) — At the end of 1959, two families of four – one in Kansas, the other in Florida – were brutally murdered.

Two men were arrested, charged and executed in the Kansas case, and writer Truman Capote captured the horrific tale in his iconic true crime book, “In Cold Blood.”

The Florida murder of two parents and two children was investigated by dozens of detectives over the years, but it remained unsolved. Now, a detective is trying to prove that the men who were executed in Kansas were also responsible for the Florida slayings.

“It’s like putting together a jigsaw puzzle,” said Sarasota County Sheriff’s detective Kimberly McGath, who began re-investigating the murders of Cliff and Christine Walker and their two young children in 2007.

McGath said there is evidence that points to two men who are now in a Kansas cemetery for executed prisoners: Perry Smith and Richard Hickock.

DNA recovered from semen found on Christine Walker’s underwear could be compared to the remains of Smith and Hickock, said McGath. She is working with Kansas authorities to petition a judge there to approve exhuming the bodies of the two men.

Linking long-dead killers to unsolved homicides is becoming more common.

In Chicago, the Cook County Sheriff’s Department is trying to find out whether serial killer John Wayne Gacy could be responsible for any more deaths. Officials there are entering murderers’ DNA profiles into a national database shared with other law-enforcement agencies. The move is based on an ironic legal distinction: The men were technically listed as homicide victims themselves because they were put to death by the state.

Authorities hope to find DNA

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In this Jan. 6, 1960 file photo, Perry Edward Smith is led by police officers into the courthouse at Garden City, Kan. Smith was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with first degree murder in the slaying of four members of the Herbert Clutter family at their farm house in Holcomb, Kan.

matches from blood, semen, hair or skin under victims’ fingernails that link the long-dead killers to the coldest of cold cases. And they want investigators in other states to follow suit and submit the DNA of their own executed inmates or from decades-old crime scenes.

Kansas officials said this week they have talked with Florida detectives and would continue to help if the Florida detectives file an exhumation petition in court.

Hickock and Smith are buried on a gently sloping hill at the Mount Muncie Cemetery in Lansing, Kan. The state of Kansas interred its executed

criminals there when their families didn’t claim the bodies.

There are about 28,000 graves.

Cemetery manager Gene Kirby said the Hickock and Smith graves regularly draw visitors, particularly around the anniversary of the Clutter slayings or when “In Cold Blood” receives media attention.

“We have a fair amount of people come out and ask where they’re buried, want to come down and actually see the graves,” Kirby said. “If there’s anything in the news that kind of piques the interest.”

The possibility that the pair was involved in the Florida murderers has been consid-

ered since 1960, according to records released by the Sarasota Sheriff’s Office.

After Smith and Hickock killed the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kan., on Nov. 15, 1959, they fled to Florida in a stolen car. They were spotted at least a dozen times from Tallahassee to Miami and points in between.

On Dec. 18, the two men checked into a Miami Beach motel and checked out the next day. That day, the Walker family was killed at their home on a ranch in the small community of Osprey about four hours northwest of Miami near Sarasota.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Kinky sex has been admitted to Harvard.

The nation’s oldest university has formally recognized Harvard College Munch, a group promoting discussions and safe practices of kinky and alternative sex. The school has no record of a similar group being recognized in its 376year history.

The Committee on Student Life recognized Munch on Friday, making it one of 400 independent student organizations on campus. The decision occurred more than a year after members began meeting informally over meals.

“Applications for recognition are decided by a studentfaculty committee following the review of a committee composed of students and administrators,” Harvard spokesman

Jeff Neal said in a statement Tuesday. “The college does not endorse the views or activities of any independent student organization.”

Harvard is not the first school in the country to formally recognize kinky sex groups, and several active groups exist within the larger community in Cambridge and neighboring Boston.

Organizers of Harvard College Munch did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Tuesday.

In a statement posted on a Harvard website, organizers say the group is for students interested in kink and alternative sexualities to meet and organize relevant events including speakers, discussions and screenings. Munch also has created a safety team to enable victims of abuse or

trauma get help.

“It exists to promote a positive and accurate understanding of alternative sexualities and kink on campus, as well as to create a space where collegeage adults may reach out to their peers and feel accepted in their own sexuality,” the statement said.

“Though existing campus groups range from representing women and men, queer sexualities and orientations, all the way to groups dedicated to abstinence, no other group exists as a forum for students interested in alternative sexualities to explore their identities and develop a community with their peers,” organizers said.

The group started with seven people and now has about 30 members. The statement didn’t identify any of the members.

Harvard recognizes group promoting safe kinky sex

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Highlights of White House, GOP budget plans (AP) - The Obama administration and House Republicans have unveiled their opening offers in talks to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff. Details are scant but the White House estimates its plan would carve $4.4 trillion from the deficit over the coming decade, including previously enacted cuts ($1 trillion) and savings from reduced costs for overseas military operations ($800 billion), as well as interest payments on the national debt ($600 billion).

House Republicans say their plan would cut deficits by $2.2 trillion over 10 years, but they don’t claim previous cuts, war savings or interest costs toward that total. Both plans would block automatic spending cuts set to hit the economy in January and renew Bush-era tax cuts set to expire at the end of the month.

The two plans both draw upon ideas from 2011 talks between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, including a secret plan by top Obama aide Rob Nabors that was made public by author and Washington Post writer Bob Woodward.

Here are the highlights of all three approaches: TAXES Obama: Increase taxes by $1.6 trillion over 10 years, raised by permitting tax rates on individual income exceeding $200,000 and family income over $250,000 to return to Clinton-era levels of 36 and 39.6 percent, up from 33 and 35 percent now. Increase taxes on dividend income and reduce the value of deductions and exemptions for those earning above $200,000 and 250,000. Renew the 2 percentage point payroll tax holiday or a similar tax cut for

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President Barack Obama, flanked by National Governors Association (NGA) Chairman, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, left, and NGA Vice Chair, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, meets with the NGA executive committee regarding the fiscal cliff, Tuesday, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington.

workers. Return taxes on large estates to 2009 levels. Permits tax reform to replace the existing code so long as it maintains the $1.6 trillion tax hike.

House GOP: Increase taxes by $800 billion over 10 years, raised through a comprehensive overhaul of the tax code that would curb various unspecified tax breaks while lowering tax rates overall.

Extend all expiring Bush-era tax cuts on income, investments, married couples and families with children. Maintains the estate tax

at current, more generous levels exempting estates up to $5.1 million from tax and sets a top rate of 35 percent. Permits payroll tax cut to expire.

Obama 2011: Raise taxes by $1.2 trillion over 10 years through overhauling the tax code along similar lines advocated by House Republicans, including lowering each tax rate by reducing tax breaks and deductions.

HEALTH CARE Obama: Cut $350 billion over 10 years from federal health care

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programs Medicare and Medicaid, including lower Medicare drug costs and other cost curbs on health care providers.

House GOP: Cut $600 billion over 10 years. Includes unspecified cuts to health care providers and assumes an increase in the eligibility age for Medicare and increased Medicare costs for higherincome beneficiaries.

Obama 2011: Cut $360 billion over 10 years, including at least $250 billion from Medicare,

in part through savings from raising the eligibility age and increased premiums for doctors’ visits and the Part D prescription drug program.

OTHER SPENDING CUTS Obama: Cut the deficit by $250 billion through other spending cuts and new fees.

Options include requiring federal workers to contribute more to their retirement, cut farm subsidies, increase airline security fees, overhaul Postal Service operations, and increasing fees

on some enrollees in the military’s Tricare health care plan.

Leaves in place existing “caps” on agency budgets passed by Congress each year.

House GOP: Deficit cuts of $300 billion through such cuts and fees from miscellaneous programs. Cut another $300 billion over the decade from agency operating budgets.

Obama 2011: Cut $200 billion from such programs. Several items on the list have been subsequently used to pay for other legislation.

G O V E R N M E N T INFLATION MEASURE: Obama: No proposal.

House GOP: Reduce deficits by $200 billion over 10 years by replacing the current inflation adjustment for Social Security and income tax brackets with a less generous “chained CPI” that, on average, is 0.3 percentage points less than the current measure. Doing so would reduce Social Security cost-of-living increases and cause a greater portion of taxpayer income to be taxed at higher rates.

Obama 2011: Apply less generous inflation measures to both Social Security and tax brackets, but boost benefits for the oldest Social Security beneficiaries with low incomes.

NEW SPENDING Obama: $200 billion in new economic “stimulus” initiatives, including payroll tax cuts, continued write-offs of business equipment purchases, extended unemployment benefits, help for borrowers “under water” on their mortgages, and new spending on infrastructure.

House GOP: No proposal.

Obama 2011: $43 billion to extend unemployment benefits to the long-term jobless.

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Oklahoma executes inmate NASA aims to send another rover to Mars in 2020 for 1993 shooting deaths

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma death row inmate whose attorneys had claimed he was mentally unfit to be executed was put to death Tuesday for the 1993 shooting deaths of a couple during a home invasion.

In the final moments before he was injected with lethal drugs, George Ochoa maintained he was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Francisco Morales, 38, and Maria Yanez, 35, on Oklahoma City’s south side.

Strapped to a gurney with his arms outstretched, he proclaimed, “I’m innocent” when asked if he had any last words.

He blinked rapidly as the drugs began to flow and appeared to stop breathing after about a minute. The time of death was announced as 6:07 p.m. CST. None of Ochoa’s relatives or attorneys witnessed the execution. But more than a dozen of the victims’ family members

watched Ochoa die through glass beside the death chamber and on a closed-circuit television.

The punishment came less than a month after the state Pardon and Parole Board rejected Ochoa’s request that it recommend Gov. Mary Fallin reduce his death sentence to life in prison.

Investigators say Morales was shot 12 times and Yanez 11 times in their bedroom on July 12, 1993. Three of the couple’s children were inside the house at the time of the shootings and later testified at trial.

Ochoa, 38, claimed he had been shocked and suffered injuries during his incarceration, but prosecutors said his claims of hallucinations and harm were likely an attempt to feign mental incompetence. Courts prohibit the execution of people who do not understand why they are being punished.

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Ochoa’s attorneys had maintained that his mental status deteriorated in recent years and that the state’s process for determining competency is unconstitutional, claims that were rejected Monday by a federal judge and a federal appeals court in Denver.

Ochoa lost a late attempt at having his execution postponed when the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied his request for a stay.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA is headed to Mars – again.

The space agency said Tuesday it plans to launch another mega-rover to Mars in 2020 that will be modeled after the wildly popular Curiosity. To keep costs down, engineers will borrow Curiosity’s blueprints, build from spare parts where possible and use proven technology including the novel landing system that delivered the carsize rover inside an ancient crater in August.

The announcement comes as NASA reboots its Mars exploration program during tough fiscal times.

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This artist’s rendering provided by NASA shows the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.

NASA announced Tuesday it plans to send another Curiosity-like rover to Mars in 2020.

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Sexual assault ads could have same positive effect at UConn as in Canada

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successful campaign designed to combat sexual assault in Edmonton, Canada, has been reinstated and given new life both in the Edmonton and in several other cities across the country.

Sponsored by the Sexual Assault Voices of Edmonton (SAVE), the ads are a part of the “Don’t be that guy” campaign, which began trying to combat alcohol related sexual assaults and has since branched out to include all types of sexual assault, including same sex. Their most recent ad features a man rejecting another man’s physical advance with the caption reading “It’s not sex when he changes his mind…”

The “Don’t be that guy” campaign is different from most of its kind in that it doesn’t target the victims of sexual assault to either comfort them or teach them safety. Instead, the ads speak out against the potential offenders. The ads take common situations that may result in a sexual assault and confronts the public with them. For example; an ad that specifies that a woman who is drinking is not necessarily a woman who is looking for sex or another that makes the point that helping a woman home does not mean you can “help yourself.”

The impact and importance of these ads is their educational value to the public, bringing these situations that men and women might otherwise find themselves in to the forefront of the public’s consciousness and shows them for the serious issue that they are. While there is value in tailoring these ads to victims, it makes more sense to go after the offenders and place the blame and responsibility exactly where it belongs. This is especially true in the case of alcohol culture where these assaults aren’t necessarily premeditated. It doesn’t universally blame all men or condemn them right out of the box. The name of the campaign itself, “Don’t be that guy,” implies that the men reading them are not guilty and if they want to remain that way, they’ll keep the content of these ads in mind. While this may sound like common sense advice, the sad truth is that it isn’t.

We would like to go as far as to condone picking up these ads in the U.S. and UConn specifically. While we aren’t responding to any particular event or problem, we feel that these ads are an important and successful educational tool that can prevent sexual crimes simply by nature of being on everyone’s minds.

In 2011, sexual assaults were down for the first time in several years by ten percent. We believe that were we to have a similar campaign active here at UConn, it might be a big step toward prevention and safety in our community.

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

Presentation on Recycling in the US? 5 minutes. Presentation on Recycling in Germany? 50.

Once again, it has rained on a Tuesday here in Storrs. I can’t be the only one completely creeped out by this.

Dad, I know you read this everyday. So HA! I’m in the InstantDaily.

Talking about how pumped I am to see the Hobbit is pretty much the only time I’m not embarrassed about showing off how much of a nerd I am.

Yup, there’s a bird in the dining hall right now. Please don’t poop in my food.

Everyone should watch DMX rapping Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I’m soon suggesting it as a new family tradition.

Boatright’s tweets get me through the week.

Finals studying was actually going pretty well tonight. And then the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show came on and...sorry.

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WELCOME TO MOE’S!!!!

Anytime I’m the best basketball player in the rec center, I know something is wrong with all the athletes on campus.

Attention females on campus: I am accepting applications for future wife from anyone willing to name our firstborn Emeka or Kemba. Or Preferably both.

Ok, I’ve studied for 5 minutes. Guess that’s enough for tonight.

I was sad today until I saw the picture of Paul’s Pasqualoni during his booger interview and I became happy.

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North Korea no gray area, needs our help

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pretty much never advocate war until it concerns oppression. Then I’d gladly give my life to help liberate others. Where it gets sticky is what qualifies as a “dictatorship” worthy of toppling. Hitler’s Germany qualifies. Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam doesn’t.

Hussein’s Iraq is iffy. The point here is that there’s a lot of gray area between what qualifies as a dictator we should tear down and one that we should leave alone. But there’s nothing gray about North Korea.

Short history lesson: Korea was a part of the Japanese Empire until World

By John D. Nitowski War II. After the Weekly Columnist Russians took over parts of Japaneseoccupied China and American forces occupied Japan, Korea was stuck in the middle. We (without consulting a single Korean) decided to split the country down the 38th Parallel. The north side of the country would be a Soviet-influenced Communist dictatorship, the south side would be an American-influenced “democracy” (in fact, just a dictatorship that promised to fight the Communists).

When Mao conquered the southern half of China from the Nationalists, it inspired Kim Sung Il (the current President’s grandfather) to invade the southern half of Korea. In response, the United Nations (led by the United States) went to South Korea’s aid and almost managed to entirely defeat the North Korean army. Three years later,

a cease-fire was declared, but the war never ended. The two Koreas are still technically at war. During the course of the war, the North almost completely conquered the South. While they were in control of central and southern Korea, they captured and kidnapped thousands of civilians, relocating them to the north side of the country.

That’s where Shin Dong Hyuk’s story begins. He was born 30 years ago in a place called Camp 14. His parents were also born as prisoners in Camp 14, and had their marriage arranged as a reward for good behavior. In an interview with Shin (who escaped Camp 14 seven years ago) Anderson Cooper asks if he ever knew why he was in Camp 14. Shin responds, “No. Never. Because I was born there I just thought that those people who carry guns were born to carry guns. And prisoners like me were born as prisoners.”

In fact Shin was there as part of Kim Sun Il’s “three generations of punishment” program. It follows a philosophy that the children and grandchildren of Koreans who fought against Pyongyang would still be loyal to their ancestor’s cause, so they must all be punished. Shin grew up never even thinking he could escape: he had no reason to believe outside of the prison would be anything different from inside the prison. He had no idea there were other countries, other people, or even basic facts about the world (“I had no idea if [the world] was round or square.”)

Shin, who spent his entire life hungry in the camp, changed forever when a new prisoner, Park, was brought in and began to tell Shin about outside. He told Shin about Pyongyang and China, and especially about food: broiled chicken and

barbecue pork. In the prison, Shin was only ever fed a mash of cornmeal, so the concept of broiled chicken became a shining star of freedom.

Eventually, Shin escaped Camp 14 and was amazed that, “People were laughing and talking as they wanted. They were wearing what they wanted. It was very shocking.” He bribed his way into China, made it to Shanghai and took asylum in the South Korean consulate.

Since then, Shin has spent his life traveling and telling his story to human rights groups all over the world.

He’s recently come clean to tell the story about how his brother and mother were killed in the camp: he reported their attempts at escaping in the hope of receiving more food as a reward.

Shin was forced to watch them die. He’s previously withheld those details of the story, telling them now as a form of redemption.

Shin’s story is just one of (surprisingly) many stories we have of escaped North Koreans. If there was ever a country that needed liberating for the sake of human compassion, it’s North Korea. This is a country where Camp 14 is such a hell-on-earth that the rest of the country is described as “heaven,” by a prisoner. When we think of Heaven here in the West, we typically don’t think of 23 million people on the brink of starvation. Please pay attention to North Korea: not about Kim Jong Un and his antics, not about how the situation will affect international relations, but about the people and their suffering.

Weekly columnist John D. Nitowski is a 7thsemester English major. He can be reached at John.Nitowski@UConn.edu.

Prisons in America in need of some corrections

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merica’s prison system is broken.

The Department of Corrections, the formal name for the agency who operates prisons, has turned into the Department of Punishment. Prisons should be about rehaBy Gregory Koch b i l i t a t i n g criminals Staff Columnist and making them into productive citizens, not just punishing them for the sake of punishing them.

The United States is currently one of only 11 countries that allow life without parole for juvenile offenders. However, the USA is the only one of those 11 that currently has minors serving these sentences. It’s not just a few of them, either.

According to a 2009 study by Human Rights Watch, there are 2,589 criminals in this country serving life without parole for crimes committed as minors.

What purpose does this serve?

Teenagers make mistakes all the time. Instead of locking them away for the rest of their lives, the prison system should teach them how to live productively as citizens, then give

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them an opportunity to do so as responsible adults. Locking a 17-year old away for the rest of his life isn’t going to help him or society. When we punish for the sake of punishment, we are stooping to the level of the very criminals who harmed their victims for no good reason. That is not the path we should be taking.

In fact, many progressive countries do not allow life sentences even for adults. In Norway, the maximum prison sentences is 21 years, although this can be extended indefinitely if the criminal is still -deemed a danger to society.

However, the Norwegian prison system ensures that this almost never happens.

Bastoy Prison in Norway is located on a remote island.

While this may conjure up images of Alcatraz, nothing could be further from the reality. Although Bastoy is a prison, it is also a working farm where the prisoners raise animals and perform other farm work to learn how to be productive members of society when they get out. As reported by CNN in May, Jan Petter Vala, a convicted murderer serving time in

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Bastoy after strangling his girlfriend in a drunken rage, helped deliver a baby calf in Bastoy just a few years later. After serving his 10-year prison sentence (which here in America would be remarkably short for such a crime), Vala hopes to put his skills to productive use and raise his own cattle. That’s an opportunity he would probably never have had in this country.

But in Norway, the Department of Corrections actually is about corrections and not punishment. The numbers show that this method works. Within two years of release, only 20 percent of Norwegian prisoners will commit another crime, compared to 43 percent in the United States, according to a 2011 Pew Center report. At Bastoy itself, that rate is only 16 percent. Although it may seem too lenient, this method works.

Had Vala been convicted of the same crime in the United States, he probably would have faced a very long sentence, possibly life without parole, and maybe even the death penalty.

If he ever got out of prison, he would never have experienced such a dramatic change in his

behavior. If anything, prison would have hardened him and he would have been a worse criminal than before he went in. He would be so used to the prison lifestyle that he wouldn’t know how to live his life productively. He would most probably commit another crime and wind up back in prison.

But because his country’s Department of Corrections is actually intended to correct the offender and not merely punish them for the sake of punishing them, he will be able to turn his life around when he gets out.

The over 2,500 Americans sentenced to life without parole while minors will never get that chance. They, even more than adult offenders like Vala, deserve a chance to turn their lives around and a chance to learn the skills to do that. But as long as the Department of Corrections continues to focus on punishment rather than correction this will never happen.

The Department of Corrections needs to live up to its name.

Staff Columnist Gregory Koch is a 5thsemester actuarial science major. He can be reached at Gregory.Koch@UConn.edu.

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1933 The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment and bringing an end to prohibition.

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UConn Dance Company takes over Jorgensen’s stage

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer

The UConn Dance Company explored a variety of tones, dances, and music Tuesday night at the Jorgensen during their Fall Showcase.

With rows of family members and friends in the audience, the Dance Company kicked the show off with a number to Christina Aguilera’s “Show Me How You Burlesque,” choreographed by Alyssa Mutarelli and Paige Moylan. Then six girls from the company dressed in black with flowing purple wraps danced to the song “Alive” by Natalie Grant. The dance was dedicated to choreographer Gina Guerrera’s parents.

A cappella group the Conn-Men made a guest performance in the show.

They sang “Let It Snow” and “Under the Bridge” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Though the group consists of 12 members, eight singers performed and received a loud ovation from the crowd. Between performances, the double screens in Jorgensen played short slideshows of the dancers practicing accompanied with acoustic songs.

Performing to Notwist’s “Off the Rails” were seven female dancers and one male dancer from the company.

Following them were a group of dancers clad in flannel shirts performing to “The Guy That Says Goodbye”

by Griffin Thomas. The company described the dance as “an uplifting dance about learning from past relationships.”

UConn dance group ENCORE put on a show, as they danced to a mix of rap, hip-hop, reggae, and African beats. They danced in groups and broke off into duos at times. Before intermission, the company performed a “stylized hip hop dance that shows a harder, darker side of things” to Lupe Fiasco’s “Little Weapon” and Jay-Z’s “Interlude.”

“The show was awesome, actually,” said Alexander Eloi, a seventh semester communications major. “I loved the music selection. This was the first time I’ve seen a fall showcase and I was thoroughly impressed.

They switched between hip-hop and

Consent should be the norm, not ‘sexy’

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Three dancers from Tuesday’s annual fall semester showcase of the UConn Dance Company, held at Jorgensen, perform on the main stage. The performance featured a cappella group the Conn-Men, dance group ENCORE and dance group B.A.I.L.E.

contemporary dance which made it interesting.”

Act Two kicked off with Lady Gaga’s “Schiebe,” where dancers wore outfits adorned with glitter and glitter face paint. In the next dance segment, the dancers took on an old school style by popping and locking in basketball shorts to DMC’s “It’s Tricky” and “Buzzin’” by Mann. Next, the same dancers that danced vogue to Lady

Gaga now wore white outfits and danced to the slower beat of Lykke Li’s “Tonight.” They twirled and transitioned into duets and trios.

After a guest performance by B.A.I.L.E., a latin dance group that showcased their salsa and merengue skills, dove into another performance, this time to Santigold’s “You’ll Find A Way.” The last performance of the night consisted of a slow and seduc-

tive dance to “Business of Love”

by Domino. The company took their bows while grooving to “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” by Whitney Houston.

Zarrin.Ahmed@UConn.edu

Author discusses career, traveling the world and new book at Co-Op

Netflix outbids Starz for rights to Disney movies

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix’s Internet video service has landed the U.S. rights to show Disney movies shortly after they leave theaters, a coup that could turn into a costly mistake if the deal doesn’t bring in more customers.

The multiyear licensing agreement announced Tuesday represents a breakthrough for Netflix as it tries to secure more exclusive programming for a popular service that streams video over highspeed Internet connections. The approach is making Netflix more like traditional pay-TV channels such as HBO, Starz and Showtime.

Financial terms weren’t disclosed, but analysts estimate that Netflix will pay Disney more than $350 million annually. That’s a hefty bill that will require Netflix to accelerate its subscriber growth or consider raising its prices — something that management has vowed not to do after rankling customers with rate hikes last year.

Netflix is snatching the rights to the Disney movies from Starz, which had failed to reach terms on renewing a separate licensing agreement with Netflix. Until February, Netflix’s streaming service had access to Disney movies through that Starz deal. The loss had been interpreted as a blow that diminished Netflix’s market value.

Investors applauded Netflix Inc. for trumping Starz to get the Disney rights directly from The Walt Disney Co. — and for winning an exclusive provision that shuts out Starz and other rivals.

Netflix shares surged $10.65, or 14 percent, to close Tuesday at $86.65, its highest closing price since April. That’s still far below its peak of nearly $305, reached around the time that Netflix announced it price increase in July 2011. Rates went up as much as

Author David Maine imparted wisdom about traveling, writing and life to students at the Co-op on Tuesday afternoon during a book talk that introduced his latest novel, “An Age of Madness.”

“You write stuff because it’s how you interact with the world,” said Maine when asked about the business of publishing. “It helps you filter your life into a manageable shape. If you get money for it, that’s awesome.”

A Connecticut native, Maine has lived in several different places in the United States, but a majority of his life has been spent overseas in Morocco and Pakistan. There, Maine taught at high schools and was able to observe the culture, religion and traditions of Pakistan.

Though integration was difficult, Maine explained how he was able to understand himself and how he was raised by seeing the contrast in the society he lived in. Maine currently lives in Hawaii and has taught at the University of Phoenix, Hawaii-Pacific University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Amongst a crowd of students interested in creative writing, he shared how he had seven written books before he published his first book at the age of 30.

“An Age of Madness” is Maine’s fifth published book, following his publications of “Fallen,” “The Book of Samson,” “The Preservationist,” and “Monster.” At the Co-op he shook hands with each audience member and asked for everyone’s names. A soft spoken man with his hands in his pockets, Maine chatted with the audience for a few minutes, before reading an excerpt from the first part of his newest book.

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Author David Maine speaks to a crowd at the Co-op on Tuesday. Maine recently released ‘An Age of Madness,’ his fifth published work.

“I’ll read but I’d much prefer to have conversations,” he said. “So feel free to ask me questions about whatever. Don’t be shy.”

Maine explained how the protagonist of the novel, Regina Moss, is a psychiatrist at a mental hospital in Massachusetts. She’s a mother, daughter and wife; the story is told from her perspective.

Although Maine is none of these things, he describes the novel as being his most autobiographical book. With sharp descriptions and intricate details of Moss’s experiences, realizations and observations at her job, Maine laces his novel with the same sarcasm and wry humor that he possesses.

“I’m always surprised cause oftentimes people tell me my

books are funny,” he said.

As the youngest of four children, Maine equates this sense of humor with the need to interact with older siblings. He enjoys revealing parts of Moss’s characters through other characters, which is why he chose to write the book in first person limited.

By doing so, readers are about to see and understand Moss’s personality and psychology.

From his experience working at a mental hospital in Boston, Maine understood, after 14 years of attempting to write the novel, that he wanted to shed light on psychiatrists as opposed to the patients themselves.

Zarrin.Ahmed@UConn.edu

60 percent for those who wanted to stream Internet video and keep receiving DVDs through the mail, too.

The stock of Starz’s owner, Liberty Media Corp., sank $5.49, or nearly 5 percent, to $105.56.

Disney shares added a penny to $49.30.

It’s the first time that one of Hollywood’s major studios has sold the coveted first-run rights to Netflix Inc. instead of a premium TV network.

DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. licensed the pay-TV rights to its movies to Netflix last year under a deal that begins in 2013, but those movies don’t wield the same box-office appeal as Disney.

“It’s a bold leap forward for Internet television and we are incredibly pleased and proud this iconic family brand is teaming with Netflix to make it happen,” said Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer.

Netflix CEO Reed Hasting is counting on more compelling movies and TV shows to attract more customers. The company is hoping they will become loyal subscribers once they see how much video is available for just $8 per month — a price that undercuts the rates of most pay-TV channels. Furthermore, Netflix is available as a stand-alone service, while premium channels such as Starz require cable or satellite TV packages that average about $80 a month.

Netflix had 25.1 million Internet video subscribers in the U.S. through September, up from 21.5 million at the same time last year.

Starz’s premium channel had 20.8 million subscribers at the end of September, up from 19 million a year ago.

Recently, I saw an advertisement for Victoria’s Secret underwear with slogans like “Consent is Sexy” written across it. The advertisement turned out to be a fake, but the idea that it had come across someone’s mind as a reasonable feminist concept bothered me. The sexualization that occurs in ads is nothing new, but coupled with a desire to decrease the amount of rape and sexual assault, it doesn’t appear as anything other than a well-meaning idea that ultimately adds problems.

Consent should not have to be sexualized. It speaks a lot about our society in general that companies are trying to achieve attention and support for the idea of a “sexy” consent, when, actually that shouldn’t be an applicable adjective at all. Consent should not have to be made alluring in order to appeal to people and communicate an important lesson. While the intent was to educate the wearer’s sexual partners and make them realize that the person wearing the underwear wasn’t bound by any sort of rule to have sex with them, it seems to contribute, in a way, to rape culture by trivializing the matter of consent. By manufacturing it in such a way–by reinforcing the opinion that consent needs to be fashionable–it ceases to be a lesson that ought to be taught soberly, and instead lighthearted enough to almost make a mockery of the issue.

It merely becomes another way to sexualize serious events for profit, instead of encouraging thought.

There are, of course, ads in which the matter of consent is displayed plainly, without any frills. The Scottish media ad “Not Ever” depicts a woman holding a skirt in front of her body and remarking cheerfully to a shop assistant that she wants something that’ll encourage a guy to have sex with her against her will.

Almost immediately, the cold voice of the narrator says “Nobody asks to be raped.

Ever.” It is displayed without question, and is free from any sort of belittling or pandering towards potential predators (which is unfortunately done with the Zula “Real Men Don’t Rape” ad, in which the speaker’s focus at the end is for “men to take back their pride” instead of simply stating “don’t sexually assault people”). It gives the issue of sexual assault the gravity it deserves.

It speaks a lot about where society is at the moment, that the only way to grab attention is through such a means of modification and accidental mockery. Consent should be regarded as something plain, routine and completely ordinary. Asking for consent should be a common practice among sexual partners, and shouldn’t have to go through a process of sexualization in order for it to cement in people’s minds. To say that consent needs to be pleasurable for someone else, for it to be “sexy” or “hot” or that men shouldn’t sexually assault solely to save their pride contributes to a field that only serves to set back the work we’ve done on trying to exhaust rape culture.

Imaani.Cain@UConn.edu

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Enjoy winter break! Be good readers and make sure you do nothing but play video games from December 16 to January 20. See you in the spring semester and happy holidays!

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The Party God, a sentient wolf head featured in the season 2 episode of ‘Adventure Time’ called ‘Party Animal,’ compliments series protagonists Finn and Jake for succeeding in a quest in their new DS/3DS game, ‘Adventure Time: Hey, Ice King, Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?’

By Joe O’Leary Focus Editor After two and a half years or so of entertaining and occasionally disturbing fun on television, Finn the human and Jake the dog, the stars of Cartoon Network’s “Adventure Time,” make their first leap into video games with the new DS/3DS release, “Adventure Time: Hey, Ice King? Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!!”

The show has attracted a huge fanbase due to its mature humor, absurd situations and ridiculously mythological backstory, so fans are expecting a lot from this first foray into gaming for a series so original. The verdict?

It’s a little slight on content, but it’s fun and captures a lot of what makes “Adventure Time” fun in the first place.

Modeling itself somewhat after “The Legend of Zelda 2,”

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the game features Finn and Jake Princess, a dachshund made out traveling across the land of Ooo, of a hot dog, asks Jake to use his the show’s fictional setting, try- transformation powers to turn into ing to find the answer to the a bridge so she can “walk all over title question. There’s something his dirty back.” Jake is disgusted involving a garbage princess, but by this, but the idea is implanted I digress. Finn and Jake have into his mind, so it becomes an an overworld map ability availthey traverse much Adventure Time: Hey, Ice King, able to Finn like an RPG, comJake. Only Why’d You Steal Our Garbage? and plete with eneon “Adventure 3DS/DS mies to attack or Time” would dodge; once they something like enter an area, the this happen; it’s level changes to a a great entry /10 Castlevania-like point into things.

2D sidescroller or Enemies, dungeon, where players use Finn backgrounds and situations are and occasionally Jake to defeat all quite similar to the show enemies. with clear reverence to its epiThe game has a good grip on sodes. Dumb-looking rocks from a lot of what makes the show “Dad’s Dungeon,” hypnotizing great, including awesome chip- worms from “Evicted” and “King tune music and quirky, character- Worm” and Donny, the jerk from specific dialogue, most of which “Donny,” are all fightable eneis pretty hilarious. For instance, mies at the beginning of the early in the game Hot Dog game, and more continue from

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there. The Earl of Lemongrab, a fan favorite from “Too Young,” makes an appearance. It’s some of the best fanservice ever found in a game.

Unfortunately, the game is a bit short, and gameplay becomes super repetitive with few instances of relief throughout. Randomly dropped power-ups provide a little relief, but not enough to make things THAT fun. However, it isn’t that bad considering the game’s so short. There’s a New Game + option available after completion, though, so that’ll keep fans occupied for a while.

Overall, this one’s a great one for “Adventure Time” fans to pick up; by the way, there’s no difference between the 3DS and DS versions except for some notable, but not fantastic, 3D clouds and stuff, so it’s possible to save money on this one.

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Looking ahead to 2013’s releases

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PS2 Speaking of synergy, one of my favorite synergistic moves that has ever occurred in gaming was by the creators of Sony’s ‘Hot Shots Golf Fore,’ released in 2004. Two Sony protagonists, Jak from the ‘Jak and Daxter’ series and Ratchet from ‘Ratchet and Clank,’ were unlockable as extra golfers.

Not only did this add one more hook to entice buyers, but once the characters were earned it became clear they were some of the strongest, and thus best, golfers in the game. Add all that on top of a fantastically fun golfing maingame and you’ve got one of my favorite games of the last generation.

-Joe O’Leary

Two of 2013’s most desired games, ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ and ‘Bioshock Infinite,’ are both scheduled for release in the first half of the year. ’

By Alex Sferrazza Campus Correspondent With 2012 winding down to a close and only a few game releases slated between now and the year’s end, as gamers are undoubtedly busy playing recent releases including “Call of Duty: Black Ops 2,” “Halo 4” and the like, one need only take a look at the calendar to be reminded that some major game releases are slated for the early months of 2013. While 2011 is fondly remembered for being a giant year for AAA titles, if the early months are any indication, 2013 just might rival that colossal year.

“Bioshock Infinite,” the first title from Irrational Games and creative director Ken Levine since 2007’s “Bioshock,” the title will place players atop the floating American city of Colombia at the dawn of the 20th century.

“Infinite,” like its predecessor, belongs to that all too rare genre of the solely single player first person shooter, while also combining elements of role playing games.

“Tomb Raider” will attempt to reboot the classic series in an attempt to create something the series hasn’t seen since the 90’s; a blockbuster. The game, designed to be rated “M,” attempts to inject a dose of survival into the gameplay of the typical action platformer series. On the gunplay front, cover and shooting mechanics have wisely been carried over from the “Uncharted” series.

“Grand Theft Auto V” needs no introduction; its predecessor stands as the 4th most critically acclaimed game of all time on review aggregate site gamerankings.com. Returning players to the fictitious city of Los Santos (a.k.a. L.A.), the map is said to be larger than those of GTA IV, GTA San Andreas and Red Dead Redemption combined. Players will play as three separate protagonists, a series first and multiplayer will be returning as well.

Other heavy hitters slated for release early next year include “Metal Gear Rising Revengance” a hack and slash take on the stealth series, “God of War Ascension,” the first

installment in the series to feature multiplayer and “Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm” the latest in Blizzard’s real time strategy series.

One also mustn’t forget that the latter half of 2013 will be packed full of new releases, spurred by the releases of the next generation Playstation and Xbox consoles whose existence and late 2013 release, barring an official announcement, are almost certainties.

In addition, it’s all too easy to forget the fact that numerous anticipated games can quite possibly be released in 2013 such as “Watch Dogs” and “Star Wars: 1313,” they simply have not had release dates announced as of yet.

And of course, the 2013 E3 expo will surely be packed with surprise announcements, per usual. Considering the fact that all three console manufacturers, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, have next to no major first part releases slated for next year, E3 2013 will undoubtedly be one of the most exciting conventions in years.

Alex.Sferrazza@UConn.edu

The console wars seem to have flared up a bit again, this time over “Playstation All Stars Battle Royale.” Nintendo fans are accusing Sony of inept plagiarism while Sony and Microsoft fans are sniping about exclusives and online. This is all despite all three consoles being available for under $200 now, a clear sign that it’s pretty easy to complete the fabled “PSWii60” household, which should make fanboyism pretty much extinct.

But I’ve seen a different trend recently related to Battle Royale and it’s actually made gaming a much better thing: synergy.

Yep, I’m doing what Andy Samberg’s character in The Lonely Island’s “Like A Boss” did. No, not turn into a jet and crash into the sun; I’m promoting synergy.

For example: I had a free RedBox rental texted to me on Wednesday, and having nothing better to do, I decided to try “Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed.” I figured it would be mediocre (I was wrong, it’s actually quite good, it’s just hard to unlock stuff so repeating levels gets stale), but I was surprised to see someone new in the racer roster list. It was Wreck-It Ralph, the actual lead character from Disney’s blockbuster hit “Wreck-It Ralph.”

At face value, this seems silly and just a way to promote both things. But strangely, it works. For those who haven’t seen “Wreck-It Ralph,” the main character is a Donkey Kongin-“Donkey Kong”-esque villain character who leaves his game to be a hero in another. Not only does Ralph go to a kart racing game in the movie, which is what “Sonic and All Stars” is (meaning the character would actually be at home in a racing game), but his character trait is driven by winning, and in the game he’s always a high-performing racer. Not only that, but his commentary is hilariously self-aware; my favorite comes before a race, when Ralph asks Sonic “Why are you in a car?”

Synergy’s also common in fighting games, which has formed some great mash-ups; “Marvel vs. Capcom,” Sonic and Snake in “Super Smash Bros. Brawl,” and characters like Dante and Big Daddy in “All Stars Battle Royale.” And who could forget the ridiculously awesome PR move of “Soul Caliber IV” and its “Star Wars” character inserts; Darth Vader, the Apprentice from “Force Unleashed” and Yoda, the cheap little mo-fo who had that unstoppable forward-slash?

Now, I’m not calling for synergy to hold sway all the time. Honestly, a lot of it sucks; “Call of Duty,” “Halo,” Doritos and Mountain Dew and their respective synergistic marketing is gross, and pushes unhealthy food on people who are planning on sitting down and yelling at their televisions every third kill for hours on end. And games that have wall-to-wall ads are just ridiculous (looking at you,, EA).

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Focus

Censorship’s alive and well in 2012

By Maurilio Amorim Campus Correspondent We never think that in the United States our films are censored, but it’s actually a fairly common occurrence.

2012 in particular has been a strange year for censorship. Many films have been censored this year due to political and social pressures, in response to current events or due to overall content.

In 1984, “Red Dawn” was released and the idea of the Soviet Union invading the US was a realistic fear of many people, not an offensive topic. This year’s remake was about the Chinese invading us due to our outstanding debt to them. We don’t necessarily fear this happening, but we can all agree it could. Unfortunately, we will never see this version of the film because in context of an increasingly global movie marketplace, and in fears of creating international turmoil, China was removed from the film completely.

Strangely, this was after the finished product was completed. Due to this and MGM’s bankruptcy, the producers said they never thought this film would see the light of day. Eventually Open Road Films picked it up, and scenes were cut that referenced the Chinese and everything was edited digitally to make them North Koreans now invading us just because they’re North Korean. While I enjoyed the remake, it was really short and I was wondering the whole time how much was actually cut. My guess is that we got a downgrade in quality and just don’t know it.

Three other films this year were affected by current events. Ben Stiller’s new film “The Watch” opened to universal negative reviews and a very poor opening despite the popularity of the film’s stars.

It was originally titled “Neighborhood Watch,” but after Treyvon Martin’s shooting in Florida, the film was renamed to just “The Watch.” The plot about aliens was intended to be a surprise, but after the shooting every commercial had the alien premise in it to distance it from the event. A week before its debut, Aurora, Colo. was rocked when a gunman killed 12 during a midnight screen-

photo courtesy of theepochtimes.com

This picture depicts early viral marketing for this year’s ‘Red Dawn’ remake, before it was announced in March 2011 that the film’s original villain, the Chinese, had been censored and replaced by North Koreans.

ing of “The Dark Knight Rises.” Though the movie performed well, competitors such as “Ice Age: Continental Drift” and “The Watch” underperformed notably on resulting box office charts. When asked, many Americans said they did not feel ready or comfortable to go the theaters in the wake of the shooting. “The Watch” never had a chance, it appears.

“The Dark Knight Rises” was not edited in any way after the Colorado shooting. It would have been difficult as the film was already released. However, premieres were canceled in other countries and a large portion of Warner Bros.’ advertisements were pulled to avoid its ads running alongside news reports of the tragedy. The film was predicted to shatter records. It still opened big, but analysts said as much as $50 million left the table after the shooting.

The upcoming Warner Bros. film “Gangster Squad” was supposed to be released September 14. In the film, there

is a shootout in a movie theater. Because of this, the film was pulled, rewritten and reshot to remove these scenes, and reportedly change the entire film’s climax. Its new release date is January 11; we’ll see then how the film’s quality may or may not have been affected by this.

Many films this year have been affected by content ratings and given small releases. The documentary “Bully” was given an R rating upon initial release instead of a PG-13 because of six profanities, many of which were in the same scene. As a result it was released unrated rather than with an R because the Weinsten Company, who distributed the film, and Lee Hirsch, its director, wanted to protest the MPAA’s standards.

It did not get a very wide release initially, but after a re-edited version of the film removed two of the profanities, a rereleased PG-13 cut reached 263 theaters.

Matthew McConaughey’s “Killer Joe” was given an NC-17 rating due to a

scene where his character, a contract killer, simulates oral sex with a chicken wing on a women he beat up. The film was released with the rating, but with an NC-17 rating you cannot get a very wide release as the rating is not marketable and mainstream theater chains largely refuse to screen them. Last year, the Michael Fassbender film “Shame” depicted the difficult life of a sex addict, and was given an NC-17 for its disturbing, graphic sexual content. It deserved the rating, but the scenes were necessary to show the audience the dark life of these people. Fassbender even managed a Golden Globe nomination for his role.

Censorship happens in film for a variety of reasons; sometimes it’s a necessary move, but it often ruins the quality or message of the film. It seems that even with freedom of speech, there is always some pressure to restrict it at times.

Maurilio.Amorim@UConn.edu

Louvre comes to poor French Fleetwood Mac, 35 years after ‘Rumours,’ readies tour and new city, raising eyebrows

LENS, France (AP) — The Louvre has embarked on an ambitious quest — opening a €150 million ($196 million) extension in an abandoned coal mining town in northern France that has an unemployment rate nearly three times the national average.

The “Louvre-Lens” project — housed in a futuristic glass and aluminum complex — opens this week in an attempt to silence critics who say French art is limited to the country’s Parisian elite.

Proponents say the complex will offer culture to the less cultivated provinces and give residents a unique opportunity to see high-end art.

But for all its trumpeting of uniting everyone through art, the slick museum building instead highlights the contrasts with Lens’ depressed city center, which is riddled with closed shops, abandoned houses, angry residents and a boarded-up cinema.

French President Francois Hollande, who visited the museum on Tuesday, didn’t even bother to stop off in the city, let alone meet any residents.

To locals, the Louvre’s gesture to bring culture to their forgotten city was a bit patronizing.

“Why do we need a museum and culture here? We need money and jobs,” said resident Amandine Grossemy, 26. “Who’s da Vinci, anyway?”

“We weren’t consulted on whether we wanted one,” cafe worker Veronique Roszak, 53, said of the museum. “Young people here are looking for work.”

“Whoever it helps, it won’t be us,” said Mounira Hadhek, 26.

“They’ve made us pay for parking now in the city center, I’ve got €80 ($105) fines already. We can’t afford this, all we can afford is one euro on coffee.”

“They said that Lens is now alive. Look around, it’s dead, all dead,” added Roszak, standing next to the closed Apollo theater.

“Who’ll come here?”

Officials hope Louvre-Lens can help transform the city the way the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, turned a struggling industrial area into a hot travel destination. Lens was picked precisely because it was in such need of a reversal of fortune.

“It’s important, as Lens is a territory that has suffered from every crisis, from every war,” said Louvre director Henri Loyrette.

The city was reduced to rubble

music for next year

AP

France’s President Francois Hollande, right, is seen with a former miner, Lucien Laurent in front of “ La Liberte Guidant le Peuple”, a painting by Eugene Delacroix during the inauguration of the Louvre Museum in Lens, northern France, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012.

in World War I and occupied by the Nazis and battered by Allied bombings in World War II. Then workers risked their lives daily in the city’s coal mines for decades — including enduring a 1974 tragedy in which 42 miners died.

When the mines closed — the last one in 1986 — the area was plunged into poverty.

“France abandoned us when the coal stopped, and we became a ghost town,” said regional president Daniel Percheron.

The statistics agree: Lens, one of the country’s poorest cities, has an unemployment rate of 24 percent, well above the national average of 9 percent.

The museum, designed by a Japanese firm, transformed a former coal mine into a grand, verdant space that boasts 6,600 trees, 26,000 shrubs and a glistening infrastructure of sleek anodized aluminum. The inside is equally impressive, with two sprawling exhibition spaces teaming with works as diverse as ancient Cycladic sculptures, Egyptian diorite statues, 11th

century Italian church mosaics and Leonardo da Vinci’s restored masterpiece, “The Virgin and Saint Anne.”

The permanent open-plan exhibition space offers an encyclopedic overview of two millennia of art along with an avant-garde system of presentation. No work is hung from the aluminum walls, which serve as a mirror for the art.

But it’s not clear this will be enough to attract 700,000 visitors in the first year and increase the city’s economic output by 10% in 10 years, as officials hope.

The area does not have Bilbao’s beaches or its noted Basque cuisine.

“It’s close to Belgium, southern England and close to Germany,” noted Loyrette.

Officials say the museum, eight years in the making, is just the first step in the city’s rehabilitation.

“We are telling entrepreneurs and companies: Come here....

Here there is a real future,” said Percheron.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fleetwood Mac is heading back on the road, and that means the top-selling group will release new music — sort of.

On its 34-city North American tour, which kicks off April 4 in Columbus, Ohio, the band will perform two new songs, and it could mean a new album will follow. Or not.

Stevie Nicks recently sang on tracks that Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie worked on, calling the sessions “great.” But Nicks also says she’s not sure where the band fits in today’s music industry.

“Whether or not we’re gonna do any more (songs), we don’t know because we’re so completely bummed out with the state of the music industry and the fact that nobody even wants a full record,” she said.

“Everybody wants two songs, so we’re going to give them two songs.”

Nicks said depending on the response to the new tracks — which Buckingham calls “the most Fleetwood Mac-y stuff ... in a long time” — more material could come next.

“Maybe we’ll get an EP out of it or something,” Buckingham said.

Nicks will continue to record solo albums, though. The group is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the best-selling “Rumours” album, which has moved some 20 million units in the United States. She knows that’s not possible again, despite the success of Adele’s “21,” which has sold 10 million units in America in less than two years.

“This is Adele’s ‘Rumours,’” Nicks said. “She had a baby, she’s going to take a year off to take care of her baby — that’s why I never had any kids. She’s

going to go back and start writing again, you never know what the next record’s going to be.

Is it going to sell 10 million records? You don’t know,” she said.

Buckingham said he initially wanted to record a new album, but Nicks “wasn’t too into that.”

But the guitarist and singer knows that new music isn’t a priority for the band’s fans.

“It wouldn’t matter if they didn’t hear anything new. In a way there’s a freedom to that — it becomes not what you got, but what you do with what you got.

Part of the challenge of this tour is figuring out a presentation that has some twists and turns to it without having a full album,” he said.

Fleetwood Mac, which was formed in 1967, last released an album in 2003, though they hit the road in 2009. Nicks and Buckingham — who originally joined the band in 1974 as a couple — both released solo albums and toured last year.

Buckingham had suggested that Fleetwood Mac tour last year, but says getting everyone to agree was tough.

“If you look at Fleetwood Mac as a group, you can make the case of saying we’re a bunch of individuals who don’t necessarily belong in the same group together, but it’s the synergy of that that makes us so good. But it also makes the politics a little more tenuous,” he said. “You can say that not only can it be a political minefield, someone’s always causing trouble, right?

I caused trouble for years so I can’t point any fingers.”

The tour also includes cities such as New York, Chicago, Boston, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and will end June 12 in Detroit.

AP

This March 19, 2009 file photo shows John McVie, left, and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac performing at Madison Square Garden in New York.

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New search engine connects literary dots

NEW YORK (AP) — Author Jennifer Gilmore is reading a biography of the late David Foster Wallace. She’s curious about his most famous book, the novel “Infinite Jest,” and wants to poke around on the Internet to learn more.

Her destination is Small Demons, www.smalldemons. com, an encyclopedia and “Storyverse” that catalogues names, places, songs, products and other categories for thousands of books.

Officially launched in August, Small Demons is the book world’s latest mind game and guilty pleasure and a proving ground that everything really is connected. You can find out how many books mention the Beatles or the Pacific Ocean or Rice Krispies. You can find answers to questions you never meant to ask, like whether writers favor Marlboros or Camels (Camels have the edge, 85-65), or which brands of cold medicine are cited in EL James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” (NyQuil, Advil, Tylenol).

“I was sure they featured ‘Infinite Jest,’ which of course they have,” Gilmore, whose novels include “Something Red” and “Golden Country,” wrote in a recent email. “I can get deep(er) into the Wallace brain there and as I do so, learn about the context, the ether around the book. I can relent and buy Wittgenstein or ‘Ethan Frome’ or Irving Berlin.”

Small Demons founder Valla Vakili, a former Yahoo executive, dates the idea back to 2005, November to be exact. He read Jean-Claude Izzo’s novel “Total Chaos” and became curious about the book’s setting, in Marseille. The main character was a French police officer with a taste for malt whiskey and jazz and blues.

“I had a vacation planned to Madrid and Paris, and I changed my Paris leg to go to Marseille instead,” Vakili says. “I spent a week in Marseille drinking the drinks, eating the food, and roaming the streets described in the book. I came back from that trip convinced that many of the best experiences we can find are within books. And that if we could gather them all up and put them in one place, we could unlock a world of pretty incredible discovery.”

The company’s name, which could be mistaken for a New Wave band, is itself a game of free association. Vakili was inspired in part by a Jorge Luis Borges passage declaring that history “is the handwriting produced by a Minor god in order to communicate with a Demon.”

As Vakili sees it, “minor Gods” are writers, and demons the passion to read and to write.

And so, “Small Demons,” or, as Vakili likes to joke, the devil is in the details.

Looking through the site is like knocking on a door, then another and another. You might start with Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals,” the basis for Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” Click on the image of the book’s cover and you will find a variety of sub-categories: People in the book (from Lincoln himself to abolitionist Frederick Douglass), places identified, songs mentioned (“The Star-Spangled Banner,” ‘’La Marseillaise”), newspapers cited.

Gamer’s Piece: Synergy is underrated from CHOCOLATE, page 1

But a surprising majority of the time, when the marketing departments have some common sense, the effect can be really fun. Even if it’s just a free demo for another game, like on the old PS2 editions of “Ratchet and Clank,” “Sly Cooper” and “Jak and Daxter” games.

While synergy can easily have its drawbacks, most gamers should realize they’ve taken it for granted; it’s led to some of gaming’s finest moments.

Joseph.O’Leary@UConn.edu

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

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Comics

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Horoscopes

by Brian Ingmanson

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Complete the projects that have been waiting, even if you don’t want to anymore. Clear space for the new. Make plans with the people you love most.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Listen to a dear one explain. Support them even when you’re upset. Complete a home-improvement project. Choose the path that you’re most passionate about.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Oh, the things you can learn. Don’t push yourself too hard. Drink plenty of water, and get good rest. Cash flow improves. Only buy what you need right now.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Money makes the world go round, even when you’re not paying attention.

Turn a need into a possibility. You have more than you think. Save resources.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Finish up tasks without a fuss. Sit down with an accountant. It feels so good when it’s done. Balance your work and your love life. Reward yourself with relaxation.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -Problems are becoming easier to solve, but hold off traveling for now. Find the right balance. A friend or a dream may provide an answer.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Your friends appreciate your discipline, which gives you more time to play. Get into both work and fun modes, and involve your team.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Avoiding controversy is not so easy now. You may have to use diplomacy. It’s all for the best of the community, anyway.

Incidentally, your reputation grows.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You’re in the middle of a growth spurt.

Take your vitamins and get plenty of rest.

Not knowing can be a good thing. Let your mind wander.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Learn from young people: They haven’t decided that they can’t yet. A partner plus distant contacts equal profit.

Help comes from unexpected sources.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Your work behind the scenes is paying off. You can rely on others, and they rely on you. You’ve built a web of mutual support. Now refine for costefficiency.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Take on more responsibility. Listen to group members, and put their logic to good use. Crowd-sourcing has practical applications. Your enthusiasm’s attractive.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

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Sports

Casillas and Ramos make up FIFA World XI

By Miles DeGrazia Soccer Columnist With less than a month left in 2012 and with most major leagues winding down for their winter breaks, now is a perfect time to reflect and discuss the top performers during this calendar year.

In 2012 UEFA and OFC were the only two confederations to crown champions. There were exciting domestic competitions all over the world and one of the most unpredictable UEFA Champions League and Copa Libertadores campaigns ever saw world class play from many different players, some of which make up this years FIFA World XI. Goalkeeper – Iker Casillas (Real Madrid – Spain) Iker Casillas is not only one of the best goalkeepers on earth right now; he may be the greatest of all time. A life long Madridista, in 2012 Casillas won his second European

Championship along with his fifth La Liga crown, and his fourth Spanish Super Cup. Defender – Philipp Lahm ( B a y e r n Munich – Germany) Philipp Lahm is the quintessential silent leader, captaining both Bayern Munich and the German National team with his tireless work ethic. In 2012, Lahm led Bayern to second place in the Bundesliga, and runners-up in the UEFA Champions League and German Cup along with making it to the semifinals of the European Championships.

Defender – Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid – Spain) Sergio Ramos is perhaps the best all around defender in the

world right now. Once one of the best right backs in the world, Ramos shifted to center back for Real Madrid and the Spanish National team for whom he won both the La Liga title and lifted his second European Championship.

Defender – Mats Hummels ( B o r u s s i a Dortmund – Germany). Mats Hummels is next in a great line of German center backs. Part of the en vogue Borussia Dortmund team which won a Bundesliga and German Cup double, he also recently topped a UEFA Champions League group containing; Real Madrid, Manchester City and Ajax.

Defender – Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus – Italy). Giorgio Chiellini is gifted with the

“Sergio Ramos is perhaps the best all around defender in the world right now.”

rare combination of strength and speed, which enable him to function as either a center back or left back for Juventus or Italy. An integral member of Juventus’ and the Italian National team’s backline, Chiellini only lost four matches all calendar year out of a possible 58.

Midfield – Xavi Hernández (Barcelona – Spain). At this point its commonly accepted that Xavi is the heartbeat of Barcelona and the Spanish National team, and one of the finest central midfielders ever. Although Barcelona only won the Copa del Rey, Xavi’s performances at the European Championships helped Spain win their second straight title in an unprecedented 4-6-0 formation. He shows that his is still a cut above everyone else.

Miles.DeGrazia@UConn.edu

AP

Manchester City's Javi Garcia, left, and Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos, right

Niagra leads the Atlantic Conference Power Rankings

By Joe Crisali Campus Correspondent

Troy Caldeira/The Daily Campus

A UConn hockey player plays the puck in a recent game at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum. The Huskies are ranked eighth in this weekes power rankings.

Some would disagree, but there have been changes this past week in the Atlantic Conference.

12. Sacred Heart (0-12-2, 0-9-2) The Pioneers have allowed 48 goals to conference opponents in 11 games. Sacred heart has a mere two ties on the season, one to Army and one to American International.

They have no wins.

11. American International (3-7-3, 0-5-3) The Yellow Jackets are 0-2-1 in their previous three games. AIC has scored only one goal per game in those three contests and has surrendered eight goals.

10. Rochester Institute of Technology (2-8-3, 1-5-2) RIT is 0-4-2 in their pre-

Thunder hold off Nets 117-111 for 6th straight win NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder looked spectacular most of the night even when the ball didn't go in.

The blowout didn't last, but their winning streak did.

Durant had 32 points and just missed what could have been the dunk of his career, Russell Westbrook added 25 points and nine assists, and the Thunder held off the Brooklyn Nets 117-111 on Tuesday night for their sixth straight victory.

Serge Ibaka scored 18 points

and Thabo Sefolosha 14 for the Thunder, who revved up the NBA's No. 1 offense to surpass 100 points in a 10th straight game for the first time in 15 years. They beat the Nets for the seventh consecutive time, but had to work much harder for this win than they have lately.

"It's a good win, good test for us. We were up, we should have did a better job of playing with the lead, but they're a good team," Westbrook said.

Oklahoma City, which had won its last four by an average

of 25 points, leads the NBA in victory margin, beating teams by 9.6 points per game. But their 16-point lead was sliced to two down the stretch, even as they shot 60.6 percent for the game.

Deron Williams scored a season-high 33 points for the Nets, who had their six-game home winning streak snapped.

They played without starting center Brook Lopez (sprained right foot) and reserve forward Reggie Evans (flu), leaving them without their leading scorer and top rebounder.

vious six games, and have entered overtime in three straight games. The Tigers will look to get things going against winless Sacred Heart in their next two contests.

9. Air Force (4-7-3, 3-4-1) The Falcons, after being swept by UConn, dropped a 5-4 decision to division foe Mercyhurst. Air Force will face Bentley in a two game set following their 3-2 overtime victory over RIT. 8. Connecticut (4-7-1, 3-6) Unfortunately, following a two game sweep of Air Force and dropping them down in my rankings, the Huskies had to face a hot net minder in Canisius’ Tony Capobianco.

UConn dominated the Golden Griffins in the shot department in both games with a combined 82-39 advantage, but were only able to put one puck in net. The Huskies will face Army next.

7. Bentley (6-7, 5-4) Bentley has lost its previous two decisions and has been inconsistent as of late. One of those losses came at the hands of division rival Army, 3-2.

6. Army (5-6-1, 5-2-1) The Black Knights are dead even at 3-3 in their previous six games, but all three of those wins were decided by one goal.

5. Mercyhurst (5-5-1, 5-2) The Lakers split a two game series with Bentley recently, a 4-3 win in overtime and a 5-1 loss. Mercyhurst defeated Air Force 5-4 in their previous contest, and will face AIC next.

4. Holy Cross (7-4-2, 6-3-2) Holy Cross has gone winless in their past four games with a tie and loss to Robert Morris, and a 3-3 tie to division opponent RIT, but are still 6-3-2 in conference play.

3. Robert Morris (5-4-1,

Urlacher could miss rest of regular season

CHICAGO (AP) — Brian Urlacher acknowledged he could miss the rest of the regular season because of a hamstring injury, meaning the linebacker might have played his last game with the Chicago Bears.

In an interview Tuesday with FOX Chicago, Urlacher said doctors told him he could be out "two to four weeks, three, could be four."

The Chicago Tribune, citing sources, reported earlier in the day that he was expected to miss three games and possibly the rest of the regular season because of a Grade 2 right hamstring strain.

Urlacher, who has an expiring contract, came up lame in coverage on the second-tolast snap of Sunday's overtime loss to Seattle. The eight-time Pro Bowl player said "100 percent, yes," he expects to be ready for the postseason,

assuming they make it.

That's not quite a given at the moment, even though they're tied with Green Bay for the NFC North lead at 8-4.

A win at Minnesota this week would go a long way toward securing a spot, but with four games left, they still have some work to do.

Their only remaining home game is against the Packers, and after that, they travel to Arizona and Detroit. They've been banged up lately and dropped three of four, so the Bears are hardly peaking at the moment.

With an uncertain future in Chicago, it's possible Urlacher has played his final down for the Bears.

"I do not think that's going to happen," he told the TV station. "But, if it does, I have had a really good and long career so I would be sad, but I would not be crushed."

4-3-1) The Colonials have been impressive as of late, defeating division rival Holy Cross 4-3, and also tying them 1-1.

2. Canisius (5-6-4, 4-2-2) Going out on a limb here, but pristine goaltending has me bumping the Golden Griffins up this list. A shutout, and three straight wins allowing one goal or fewer, Canisius looks to be on the up and up after sweeping UConn this past weekend. They will face a stern test in Mercyhurst up next.

1. Niagara (10-2-3, 9-0) Nothing new here, the Purple Eagles remain undefeated in conference play and are currently riding an eight game winning streak.

Joseph.Crisali@UConn.edu

Morrissey: Conference Realignment effects everyone from COMMON, page 12

Universities. The AAU is an organization of universities that have a commitment to academics and research; UConn is not a member of this group. Big 10 commissioner Jim Delany stated that he wants all Big 10 members to be a part of the AAU to be a member of the conference.

There is one exception to this rule, the University of Nebraska was kicked out of the AAU for not meeting certain standards but they were allowed to retain membership in the Big 10. As the landscape of college sports continues to change at a rapid pace, the Big 10 is going to have to abandon this requirement.

Conference realignment does not just affect smaller conferences like the Big East; it even affects the powerhouses like the SEC. This year was the first season that Texas A&M played in the SEC after leaving the Big 12 and I would not shocked if conference realignment shook up conferences like the Big 10 and the SEC in the coming years.

As for UConn and the future of our athletic programs, I have confidence that the Huskies can weather this storm. Conference realignment is not a death sentence but rather a chance for a new beginning.

However in order to have that new beginning we need to get off the sinking ship that is the Big East conference. It may take weeks or even months but at the end of the day, this university will see the writing on the wall and make the sensible decision.

Follow Tyler on Twitter @ TylerRMorrissey

Tyler.Morrissey@UConn.edu

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Sports

» NBA

WashingtonWizards find themselves off to poor start

By Joe Crisali Campus Correspondent

So let’s see, what is there to talk about going on in the Eastern Conference in the NBA? Well, LeBron James was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the year, becoming the first NBA player to receive the award since his Miami Heat teammate, Dwayne Wade, accomplished the feat in 2006.

James essentially accomplished all you could accomplish as an NBA star in 2012. He led the Miami Heat to an NBA title, his first, he won the NBA Finals MVP trophy, he landed his third NBA MVP trophy and he attributed to the U.S. Olympic basketball team winning gold.

At 27.1 points per game, to go along with 7.9 rebounds and 6.2 assists per game in 2012, Mr. LeBron James seems deserving. He did back all of that up in the playoffs last season too, while he averaged 30.3 points, 9.7 rebounds, and 5.6 assists per game.

But I’m not here to tell you about how good of a basketball player LeBron James is, nor am I here to tell you that the Miami Heat, led by James, are sitting atop

the Eastern Conference standings.

I am here to talk to you about the Washington Wizards AND the Charlotte Bobcats. The Wizards and the Bobcats; really? Yes. The Wizards finally won two games and are 2-13 on the season thus far. Their first win came against the Portland Trail Blazers in late November, 84-82, while their second came against the Heat.

Nine teams have started a season 0-13 in NBA history, and something must’ve lit the fuse under the Wizards to push them towards victory. It was most likely all of the local and national ridicule they were receiving as they crept closer and closer toward the then New Jersey Nets’ NBA record worst start of 0-18.

It all just doesn’t make sense either. Sure point guard John Wall has been out so far this season due to injury, but the Wizards do have some players on their team. For one, they acquired center Nene Hilario towards the end of last season from the Denver Nuggets for centers JaVale McGee and Ronny Turiaf. Hilario averaged roughly 14 points and 8 rebounds in his tenure with the Nuggets.

People forget Hilario was once a first round draft pick, as the New

York Knicks took him 7th in the 2002 NBA Draft. Hilario never played for the Knicks, as himself, center Marcus Camby, and aging guard Mark Jackson were traded to the Nuggets for forward Antonio McDyess, and the 25th choice in the NBA draft, guard Frank Williams. Ouch.

The Wizard’s starting lineup: Center Emeka Okafor (a 1st round pick), forward Kevin Seraphin (a 1st round pick) and forward Trevor Ariza, guard A.J. Price and guard Bradley Beal (a 1st round pick). Okafor and Price are both UConn alums, and Ariza has bounced around the league so far in his eight year NBA career playing for the Knicks, the Orlando Magic, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Houston Rockets, the New Orleans Hornets and now the Washington Wizards. Ouch, again.

Seraphin is a product of basketball in France, and Beal is a rookie from Florida. They’re good players, but not the right set of players.

These players are not leaders.

There, I said it.

The Wizards have not drafted rookies that can lead their team to victory in the foreseeable future.

You know who has recently drafted rookies to lead their team in the foreseeable future?

The Charlotte Bobcats!

They drafted UConn savior Kemba Walker. Need I say more?

Walker is currently averaging roughly 16 points and 6 assists per game this season. The Bobcats already have as many wins (7) through 16 games this season that they had all of last season. Walker can take at least half of the credit for that as he has posted double digit points in all but one game this season.

The other half of the credit can be attributed to the acquisition of guard Ramon Sessions, guard and UConn alum Ben Gordon, and none other than 2012 first round draft choice Michael KiddGilchrist.

Gilchrist has averaged roughly 11 points and seven rebounds per game and has maintained a 45% field goal percentage so far in the 2012-2013 season. Could this guy be granted rookie of the year honors? If he leads a previously horrendous team to a respectable one, it’s extremely possible.

Neither the Wizards nor the Bobcats are quite ready for the NBA playoffs, but for the Bobcats at least, the future looks bright.

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Washington Wizards center Nene, left, and forward Chris Singleton celebrate in the closing moments of an NBA basketball game against the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday,

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Huskies drop second game of 2012, despite close finish

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drawing even the score even at 24-24 with 5:28 to play on a Leslie foul shot.

The teams remained neck and neck for the remainder of the half, with the Wolfpack taking a 32-31 lead into the intermission after a Lorenzo Brown to beat the buzzer with a jumper in the lane.

The competitive play intensified after the break as both teams traded basket for basket throughout the half, with no team seeing a lead over than three points until the final minutes.

Enosch Wolf was a crucial part of UConn’s effort, providing the necessary offensive spark to keep them in the game. With 7:42 remaining, he pulled down an offensive rebound and hit the fade away jumper to bring the game even once again at 51-51. The 7-footer pounded his chest as he ran down the court amidst his 12 point and nine rebound effort.

“Enosch did a wonderful job coming in,” said head coach Kevin Ollie. “He loves the big stage. Whenever we are in a big game, he shows up big time. He has confidence,

he gets to his spots, and he knows his limitations, which is a great strength of his.

We’re going to need him.”

It wasn’t until the four-minute mark that NC State was able to finally to break the mold and add a bit of padding to their lead. Leslie continued his dominant performance (16 points, 13 rebounds) with a steal and resounding slam that extended the lead to 59-53 with 4:16 minutes left.

With inside of two minutes to play, Boatright stepped up and drained a deep three pointer that cut the score to 61-58. However, the Huskies

would not get any closer as NC State was able to knock down six free throws in the final minute and hang on for a 69-65 victory.

“I really like how the guys battled,” said Ollie. “They gave it out on the line for me, for our great university, and I can’t say enough about those guys. We made some mistakes, but they played hard.”

UConn will be back in action when they host Harvard on Friday night at Gampel Pavilion.

with the same group before the league's planned board of governors gathering, and could get back together after that is completed.

"We had a long day," Fehr said. "We thought it was a constructive day. We had a good dialogue. In some ways I'd say it might be the best day we've had, which isn't too overly optimistic of a picture. There is still a lot of work to do and a lot to be done.

We will be back at it tomorrow morning."

Daly echoed Fehr's comments, and spoke well of the talks that included 18 players and six team owners.

"I appreciate the efforts of the players," Daly said. "Everybody is working hard. I think everybody wants to get a deal done,

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down the stretch and have three key divisional games left (remaining 4: @MIN, GB, @ARI, DET), while Green Bay can all but lock up the North by beating Chicago in their Week 15 tilt. The Vikings (CHI, @STL, @HOU, GB) and Lions are in trouble, plain and simple.

NFC SOUTH Division Leader: Falcons (11-1) Postseason Bound: Falcons (division winner) Still Alive: Buccaneers (6-6) Saints (5-7), Panthers (3-9) Eliminated: Sean Payton Rundown: Atlanta is up 2.5 games on the 49ers for the #1 overall seed in the NFC, and now one must wonder if the Falcons will rest their starters against the Giants (Week 15) and Buccaneers (Week 17). Those Bucs are a sleeper pick for a wildcard slot depending on what a couple of other contenders do.

NFC WEST Division Leader: 49ers (8-3-1; not the Pick-3 Lotto) Postseason Bound: none yet Still Alive: Seahawks (7-5), Rams (5-6-1), Cardinals (4-8) Rundown: Seattle must love the fact that their only road game left is at Buffalo, while they get all three divisional foes at home. The 49ers, meanwhile, are vying for a bye in the playoffs but must maneuver tricky games versus the Patriots and Seahawks away from Candlestick Park.

so that's encouraging. We look forward to hopefully making more progress tomorrow.

"Hopefully, we'll have more to update you on tomorrow.

We are going forward with our board meeting. Hopefully be back at it after that, as well."

That was the extent of the details revealed by the two sides, which could be another good sign that neither group wanted to say anything that could throw the discussions off the rails.

A group of six owners and 18 players — many more than were originally expected — gathered to try to find some common ground as the search for a deal that would save the hockey season continued. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and union executive director

Donald Fehr were at the hotel but stayed outside the meeting room.

Not much had worked up until Tuesday so the sides agreed to a different format to see if that would shake things up.

"I'm hoping we get to where we need to be," Bettman said before talks got under way Tuesday afternoon.

The dialogue continued, sometimes in smaller groups, throughout the day until the sides separated for a dinner break. The owners left while the players stayed to have a meal inside the hotel. The owners then returned to the hotel later Tuesday night for another round of talks with the union.

McCurry: Divisional guide to the NFL playoffs

Chiefs (2-10) Rundown: Denver, the hottest team in the NFL streak-wise with seven consecutive wins and counting, is currently the #4-seed and has the schedule (@OAK, @ BAL, CLE, KC) to move up and get that first-round bye. If that’s an easy schedule though, think about all that free time on Philip Rivers’s agenda once the playoffs roll around.

NFC EAST Division Leader: Giants (7-5) Postseason Bound: none yet Still Alive: Redskins (6-6), Cowboys (6-6), that dysfunctional group in Philly (3-9) Rundown: Victor Cruz summed it up best after Monday night’s loss to Washington: “In typical Giants fashion, we’re going to make it difficult for ourselves.” Once again, almost becoming an annual tradition, the NFC East is in a gridlock as we find ourselves coming down the home stretch. New York (remaining 4 games: NO, @ATL, @BAL, PHI) controls its own destiny with a one-game edge, while the Redskins and Cowboys are very much alive for the division title or wildcard. The Cowboys play at the Redskins Week 17 in one of those potential one-gameplayoff-for-the-playoffs.

NFC NORTH Division Leader: Tie; Packers (8-4), Bears (8-4) Postseason Bound: none yet Still Alive: Vikings (6-6), Lions (4-8) Rundown: The Bears are reeling

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NEW YORK (AP) — Rick Barnes knew he would have a lot of teaching to do this season with a roster that has 10 sophomores and freshmen and still doesn't know when starting guard Myck Kobango will return to the lineup.

The Longhorns struggled offensively in a 64-41 loss to No. 15 Georgetown on Tuesday night in the opening game of the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden.

Otto Porter had 14 points and eight rebounds to lead Georgetown. Nate Texas Lubick added 13 points and Markel G'Town Starks had 11 for the Hoyas, who led by 13 at halftime. The lead grew to 23 and was never less than eight in the second half.

"I thought we were quite attentive to defense," Hoyas coach John Thompson III said.

"With the exception of giving them some free throws and some baskets in transition, they had to work for everything they got and that's what we wanted to do."

The Hoyas (6-1), whose only loss this season was to No. 1 Indiana in overtime, scored the first nine points of the game, the last four from Lubick on layups.

Sheldon McClellan had 12 points to lead the Longhorns (5-3), who had their lowest point total under Barnes, who took over as coach for the 199899 season. Texas had won three straight after losing two in a row.

"After these games, we're making the same mistakes," Barnes said. "Throwing passes to guys they know can't catch it. Getting the ball tipped away from behind. I don't understand.

We wanted to throw the ball inside all night. We didn't. I still don't think they can guard us. If I could have 20 timeouts a game so I could tell them things we would have more wins."

The Longhorns struggled with their shooting and turnovers throughout the first half.

The Hoyas led by as many as 17 points in the first half, the last time at 30-13 on a jumper by Porter with 2:55 to go.

"We defended them well enough. We really did," Barnes said. "It was our offense again.

We don't put pressure on people

the way we should."

Texas shot 28.6 percent (8 of 28), including 1 of 6 from 3-point range, in the first half against Georgetown and committed 12 turnovers that the Hoyas turned into 14 points on the way to a 30-17 halftime lead.

The shooting was almost as bad in the second half. Texas, which came in averaging 64.4 points per game, finished 6 of 20 (30 percent) from the field in the second half and was 14 of 48 (29.2 percent) overall. The Longhorns 64 were 2 of 13 from 3-point range.

41 "What I'm disappointed most in is just the will to continue to fight wasn't there," Barnes said. "We start the game and all we talk about is not turning the ball over. They don't do what we practice. They didn't do one thing we didn't expect."

Georgetown shot 41 percent (25 of 61) for the game but the Hoyas made only 4 of 18 from beyond the arc.

Porter hit some big shots early.

"The team trusts me to be aggressive and that's what I wanted to pick up coming into this season," he said.

The win over Tennessee was the Hoyas' worst offensive effort of the shot clock era, their lowest point total since a 37-36 win over Southern Methodist in the second round of the NCAA tournament in 1985. Georgetown shot 36 percent in the game and Tennessee made 33 percent.

Kabongo is out because of an ongoing NCAA eligibility investigation.

"That doesn't matter right now," Barnes said. "Right now it's not about that. We're better than we're playing."

It was just the second meeting between the programs. Texas beat Georgetown 78-70 on Jan.8, 1972, in Austin.

"I have to do a better job coaching. If you have a will to win you have to understand that and not make the same mistakes over and over," Barnes said.

"The 50-50 balls, having the ball ripped out of your hands. ... There's such a fine line. We don't understand yet that we have to make it work for ourselves by turning them over."

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NHL talks resume with owners, players meeting NEW YORK (AP) — The best news on the 80th day of the NHL lockout was that hockey owners and players did most of their talking in front of each other instead of making public statements.

The dueling sides in hockey's labor fight met for nearly eight hours — over two long sessions — on Tuesday, and those conversations lasted until midnight. NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly stood side-byside with union special counsel Steve Fehr at the end of the long and seemingly positive day, but didn't take questions from a large group of reporters who staked out the meetings at a Manhattan hotel.

The sides already have plans to meet Wednesday morning

Texas loses 64-41 to No.15 Georgetown

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New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin reacts to a call during the first half of an NFL football game against the Washington Redskins in Landover, Md., Monday, Dec. 3, 2012

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What's Next Home game

Dec. 17 Maryland Eastern Shore 7 p.m.

Dec. 19 Oakland 7 p.m.

Dec. 21 Fordham 7 p.m.

Jan. 1 Marquette 8 p.m.

Dec. 29 Washington 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 22 Hartford 1 p.m.

Dec. 29 Stanford 4 p.m.

Dec. 7 Jan. 4 Jan. 5 Dec. 29 AIC Army Penn State Penn State 7:05 p.m. 7:15 p.m. 7:05 p.m. 7: 05 p.m.

Dec. 31 Oregon 3 p.m.

Jan 11 Robert Morris 7:05 p.m.

Women’s Hockey (2-12-2) Jan. 3 Princeton 7 p.m.

Jan. 8 BU 7 p.m.

Jan. 12 McGill 3 p.m.

Jan. 15 Harvard 7p.m.

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

Jan. 5 Winter Opener All Day

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

Women’s Track and Field Jan. 12 Armory Invite Alll Day

Jan. 18 Jan. 25 Great Dane Terrier Invite Classic Alll Day Alll Day

Feb. 1 Armory Collegiate All Day

Men’s Swimming & Diving Feb. 2 Dartmouth 1 p.m.

Jan. 26 Seton Hall 1 p.m.

Women’s Swimming & Diving Jan. 26 Seton Hall 1 p.m.

Rick Majerus acquired during his 64 year life. Majerus passed away Saturday.

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Jan. 2 Princeton 7 p.m.

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“I would never say never”

Women’s Basketball (7-0) Dec. 6 Penn State 7 p.m.

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Away game

Men’s Basketball (6-1) Dec. 7 Harvard 7 p.m.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The fastmoving Boston Red Sox made their second splashy move of the winter meetings, agreeing Tuesday to a $39 million, three-year contract with free-agent outfielder Shane Victorino.

A day after giving Mike Napoli a $39 million, three-year deal, the Red Sox made Victorino their fourth free-agent addition of the offseason following agreements with outfielder Jonny Gomes and catcher David Ross.

Nicknamed The Flyin’ Hawaiian, Victorino tweeted earlier Tuesday that he planned to spend the day in Maui on a snorkeling trip aboard the Alii Nui catamaran.

“Just agreed to join the Boston (at)RedSox in the middle of paradise,” he tweeted later on. “(hash)BLESSED!!! Can’t wait to get to Boston!”

Victorino would earn $13 million annually. The deal is subject to a physical, as is Boston’s agreement with Napoli.

“Added another great addition to our team!” Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester tweeted.

Victorino hit a combined .255 with 11 home runs and 55 RBIs last season for Philadelphia and the Los Angeles Dodgers, who acquired him in late July. He also stole a career-high 39 bases.

A two-time All-Star and three-time Gold Glove winner, Victorino turned 32 on Friday.

He also had been pursued by the Cleveland Indians, who offered a $44 million, fouryear contract.

Victorino played mostly center field for the Phillies and shifted to left with the Dodgers. He likely would play right field for the Red Sox but could shift to center if Jacoby Ellsbury is traded or leaves as a free agent after next season.

“It’s probably the toughest right field in baseball to play, just in terms of the space to cover,” new Boston manager John Farrell said earlier in the day. “So that range comes into play. And yet you try to combine the best range available along with offensive production. It might not be your prototypical right fielder where it’s a power bat because we do value the defense in that area. That’s not to exclude anyone, but defense takes a high priority, in that position at Fenway particularly.”

Boston finished last in the AL East and is trying to boost its offense. Napoli, an AllStar catcher with Texas this year, appears likely to shift his primary position.

“We see him as a first baseman primarily, but with the ability to catch,” Farrell said.

“We would have him catch in spring training early on, but then certainly make sure that AP we’ve got enough reps at first base for not only him to feel comfortable there, but for Kentucky coach John Calipari reacts to his team’s play during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game us as well.” against Samford at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. Kentucky won 88-56.

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Calhoun Reveals Surgery on YES Networks’ Center Stage

By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer

Former UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun had surgery in May to remove a cancerous growth from his lungs, the Hall of Famer revealed on Monday.

Calhoun was in New York on Monday to film an episode of “Center Stage,” a program on the YES Network hosted by Michael Kay. It was during the taping that he revealed that there had been a suspected cancerrelated growth on his lung.

Fearing that it stemmed from his previous trouble with skin cancer, doctors removed it immediately.

“It was cancer-related, yes,” Calhoun told The Associated Press. “I’m not going to talk about it. I was out for a day and a half. I’m completely healthy now.”

Calhoun, 70, retired from coaching after 40 seasons this September. Health issues are believed to have played a major role in his decision to call it quits.

In 40 years with Northeastern and UConn, Calhoun missed 29 games for medical purposes, and he had to leave 11 others due to health concerns.

Calhoun’s health in recent years has been particularly troublesome. He has fought prostate cancer and two bouts of skin cancer in the last 10 years.

Prior to the revelation on Monday, it was already known that Calhoun had gone through surgery for a spinal issue in February and again after fracturing multiple ribs in a bicycle accident in August.

Calhoun posted a career record of 873-380. In his 26 years as head coach at UConn, he won seven Big East Tournament titles and three national championships.

Another big talking point of Calhoun’s interview was that he left the door open to a return to coaching.

“I would never say never,” Calhoun told YES.

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THE Pro Side

MLB Winter Meetings Bring About a Flurry of Transactions

By Andrew Callahan Senior Staff Writer

Beginging in 1876, Major League Baseball’s annual winter meetings have long served as a time where employees and executives of all kinds congregate during the sport’s dormant months.

However, now past the halfway point of the scheduled convention, there’s been little dormant in the world of America’s favorite pastime.

Just yesterday the Washington Nationals signed former Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Dan Haren to a one-year $13 million deal. Haren suffered a down year by his standards this past summer after going 12-13 with a 4.33 ERA the highest of his career.

Rumors have also circled concerning another Angels starter from a year ago, Zack Greinke, who is currently a free agent. Greinke has been courted by the Texas Rangers who recently added Royals’ reliever Joakim Soria.

The Boston Red Sox, one day after signing catcher Mike Napoli to a three-year $39 million contract, agreed to the similarly structured contract with outfielder Shane

Victorino. Victorino was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers from Philadelphia mid-season a year ago and batted a combined .255 average with 11 home runs and 55 RBIs. The 31-year-old Napoli hit a paltry .227 last season, but crushed 24 homers to go with a .469 slugging percentage.

Elsewhere, the New York Yankees announced that declining third baseman Alex Rodriguez will miss half of their 2013 campaign due to hip surgery. The former MVP has seen his slugging percentage drop each of the past seven seasons and there is rumored talk of potential retirement. He is scheduled for the procedure next month. This news comes on the heels of the other starting third baseman to call New York home, David Wright, receiving a $138 million deal from the Mets.

The Miami Marlins continue to face in-house turmoil as starting pitcher Ricky Nolasco has requested a trade. Already faced with a largely gutted roster due to its deal with Toronto that sent away Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson, the Marlins also face a trade request from star outfielder Giancarlo Stanton.

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» INSIDE SPORTS TODAY

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Common Sense

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BACK OF THE PACK Huskies Fall to NC State 69-65 at MSG

By Peter Logue Staff Writer

Tyler Morrissey

I’m not going to sit here in rehash everything that’s already been said. You all know the story, the ACC failed to select UConn as their 14th member to replace Maryland who left for the Big 10 conference.

I have been doing a lot of thinking about the future of UConn athletics and the future of this university in general. It is a cause for concern that we did not get into the ACC and I think everyone will agree that it is common sense to leave the Big East at this point. By staying in the Big East, the damage that would be done to our athletic programs would be catastrophic.

First and foremost, our recruiting would take a major hit. How do you sell the Huskies to a young man or women out of high school who has dreams of playing collegiate sports at the highest level? When the dust finally settles on conference realignment, the once proud Big East will be reduced to a handful of somewhat decent basketball schools, subpar football teams and Tulane and Eastern Carolina University.

If UConn remained in the Big East we would be the big fish in a small pond, but what good would that do the Huskies on the national level? So now begins the question, what does the future hold for our athletic teams now that the ACC has left us out in the cold once again?

The other day I was talking with a classmate of mine about this issue and we came up with an interesting solution to this problem. UConn should make a pitch to join the Big 10.

I know what you are thinking, how could UConn, particularly the football team, compete in one of this country’s most powerful conferences? I will get to that later. If the Huskies were to join the Big 10 the conference would need another team to make an even number of teams, 16 to be exact now that Rutgers and Maryland are in the Big 10.

Cincinnati would be my first choice for a number of reasons.

The Bearcats have a history of success in athletics, with six national championships in team sports, including two NCAA men’s basketball titles. They have the adequate facilities to compete in the Big 10 conference and would make sense geographically. Since conference realignment has taken off, geography has sort of flown out the window, but it shouldn’t.

Geography is important to college athletics as it creates rivalries with nearby schools and creates long lasting traditions that do wonders for college athletics. If UConn and Cincinnati were to join the Big 10, you could easily divide the conference through the state of Ohio to create and east and west division consisting of eight teams.

One big question that arises is how can our football program, which has had back to back disappointing seasons compete against powerhouse teams like Ohio State and Michigan on a year to year basis? Every major college football program had to start somewhere. Some schools in the Big 10 have been playing on the national stage for over 100 years now but they all had to start from humble beginnings. Also, if the Big 10 let Rutgers in, whose football program has never been a national powerhouse, why couldn’t they do the same for Connecticut?

The major problem with UConn joining the Big 10 has to do with something called the Association of American

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NEW YORK - The UConn men’s basketball team fell to No. N.C. State in an emotional game at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night as part of the Jimmy V Classic.

Shabazz Napier led the Huskies with 19 points.

Napier, who scored only five points in a gritty win last Thursday against UNH, came out of the gate red hot for the Huskies, scoring their first ten points on a mesmerizing display of shooting that featured a trio of quick three pointers and a foul shot as the Huskies jumped out to an early 13-7 lead over the Wolfpack.

UConn continued to build off of the momentum asserted by the inspired play of their star point guard. With 11:38 to play in the half, Ryan Boatright drove to the lane before kicking out to a wide open Omar Calhoun, who knocked down the three pointer, giving UConn a 20-9 advantage.

However, NC State showed their resiliency by bouncing back with an 8-0 run off their own, capitalized by a monster block by C.J. Leslie with just over nine minutes left in the half. NC State continued their relentless attack, eventually

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UConn sophmore guard Ryan Boatright closes out on a shot by an NC State shotter last night at Madison Square Garden in New York City

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Huskies fade late in Jimmy V Classic

NEW YORK-- The UConn men’s basketball team fell to No. 25 NC State, 69-65, Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, but the night was about admiring the life of the late NC State head coach, Jimmy Valvano. Jimmy V led the Wolfpack to the 1983 NCAA Championship Game and upset the heavy favorite “Phi Slama Jama” Houston Cougars team that featured future NBA Hall-of-Famers Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler. Valvano died in 1993, but gave one of the most memorable speeches in sports history just two months prior at the ESPYs, imploring everybody watching “don’t give up, don’t ever give up.”

Although the NC State ties to the The Jimmy V Classic are obvious, Valvano was once a UConn assistant from 1970-72.

“It’s just an honor to come back to Madison Square Garden as a coach and be around this whole event, how it impacts the people,” said UConn head coach Kevin Ollie. “Even after his death, it’s

beyond basketball. The legacy of his name lives forever. We’re going to beat this disease, but it’s going to take everybody’s effort to come out and keep giving funds to the research.”

Ollie also said that he’d “come back as many times as possible to support it.”

Shabazz strokes early Junior guard Shabazz Napier seemed to be a little gun shy shooting the ball in UConn’s previous game against UNH, scoring only five points (2-9 from the field) in the contest.

However, Tuesday night was a completely different story.

The UConn leading scorer hit three shots from behind the arc in the first four minutes of the game and scored 15 points in the first half, going 4-6 from three-point land before the intermission.

However, Napier wasn’t able to keep his hot start going, as he only scored four points during the second half.

“I wasn’t as aggressive as I was [in the first half], but I also feel like we didn’t run through our plays with the same intensity we did in

the first half,” Napier said.

Ollie called Napier and Boatright “the focal points of our pick and roll offense,” and that “other guys need to step up.”

Wolf breaks out UConn’s reliable big men Tyler Olander and DeAndre Daniels struggled against the size of NC State, so Head Coach Kevin Ollie was forced to go to his bench.

Seldom used center Enosch Wolf answered Ollie’s call and provided an impactful spark off the bench for the Huskies. Wolf had four points in the first half, but came to life in the second as he caused NC State slashers fits getting to the rim.

“He seem like he likes the big stage, whenever we have a big game he shows up big time,” Ollie said of his German center. “He has confidence, but he knows his limitations,” Ollie said. “Some other players don’t know that sometimes.

That’s a great strength of his.”

Wolf finished the game with 12 points (6-8) with nine rebounds and an assist.

TJ.Souhlaris@UConn.edu

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Your guide to the NFL playoffs

By Mike McCurry NFL Columnist Not counting the rift that grows larger every Sunday in the Jets locker room, there are eight divisions in the National Football League. Just four weeks remain in the regular season, and although a couple of teams have clinched postseason berths there are many others fighting for their playoff lives. The Atlanta Falcons (NFC South), Denver Broncos (AFC West) and New England Patriots (AFC East) can already add “division winners” to their already impressive resumes this year. In the AFC South, the magic number is 2 for the 11-1 Houston Texans to take the divisional crown. The Texans have at least a wildcard spot in their back pockets, however a win at New England this Monday could all but secure home-field advantage until the Super Bowl.

The remaining four divisions

are still up for grabs, with the Baltimore Ravens holding the largest first-place lead out of those four with a two-game cushion. Per usual, the NFC East is an absolute mess. The Chicago Bears, losers of three of their past four, now share the NFC North lead with the Green Bay Packers. And, way out west, the Seahawks have closed the gap with the 49ers by taking advantage of San Fran’s overtime blunders against the Rams.

There are many aficionados out there who want to know exactly how the postseason picture looks right now, which teams still have a fighting chance, and some of the big games that will determine who gets the opportunity to keep on playing post-Week 17. That, my friends, is where I come in.

Consider this your guide to the playoffs, and please do not hesitate to print this out and place it right on your fridge. When, not if, you want to express

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AFC EAST Division Leader: Patriots (9-3) Postseason Bound: Patriots (division winner) (Technically) Still Alive: Jets (5-7), Bills (5-7), Dolphins (5-7) Rundown: New England captured their fourth straight AFC East title on Sunday by winning at Miami, and now the goal is to stay within the toptwo of the conference to ensure themselves a first-round bye. It won’t be easy, as the Pats host Houston and San Francisco the next two weeks. As crazy as it may sound, the Jets, Bills and Dolphins could all sneak into that last wildcard spot with (a lot of) help from Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. New York has to travel for three of the final four games, but those four opponents (JAX, TEN, SD, BUF) are a combined 15-33 on the

year. And if anyone can pull the unthinkable, its Greg McElroy, right?

AFC NORTH Division Leader: Ravens (9-3) Postseason Bound: none yet Still Alive: Ravens, Steelers (7-5), Bengals (7-5), Browns (4-8) Rundown: Let’s begin by eliminating the ancient Brandon Weeden and his Browns. After that, it becomes anyone’s guess as to how the AFC North will shake out. The Ravens are in the driver’s seat but have just a grueling schedule the rest of the way (@ WAS, DEN, NYG, @CIN). Pittsburgh, desperately awaiting the return of Big Ben, would be awarded the last wildcard spot if the season ended today. The Bengals have climbed back into the picture and get the Steelers, on the road, in Week 16. That one could very well resolve the sixth-seed in the AFC. AFC SOUTH Division Leader: Texans (11-

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Postseason Bound: Texans (clinched berth) Still Alive: Colts (8-4), Titans (4-8) Eliminated: Jaguars (2-10) Rundown: If not for Andrew Luck, the Texans could have clinched the AFC South back in the summer. As it stands, Houston and Indianapolis will meet up two times in the final four weeks, with the Colts probably needing both head-to-head wins to challenge for the division crown. Hopefully, the Colts hang on to the wildcard and get paired up with the Broncos come the first round. LuckPeyton, anyone?

AFC WEST Division Leader: Broncos (9-3) Postseason Bound: Broncos (division winner; thanks Philip Rivers!)

Still Alive: Chargers (4-8) Eliminated: Raiders (3-9),

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