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Adderall, not as helpful as students think By Katherine Tibedo Campus Correspondent
GAME OF ATTRACTION DRAWS PEOPLE TOGETHER: WITH ROCKS Demonstration of new game with magnets attracts students. FOCUS/ page 5
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Students feeling the pressure of imminent finals often find themselves looking for ways to increase productivity levels. Some of those students will turn to prescription drugs, like Adderall, as a solution. In a 2009 survey found that college students were twice as likely to have used Adderall than those in their same age group who were not enrolled in college. The study, conducted by the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health, estimate that 6.4 percent of fulltime college students, ages 18 to 22, have used Adderall in the past year. “People probably haven’t planned well and haven’t planned out their studying and are looking for any perceived boost in performance,” said Dr. Elizabeth Cracco, Interim Director of Counseling and Mental Health Services. She explained that Adderall is a stimulant that causes a rush of energy. However, that rush of
energy is typically followed by depressive moods and low energy. When prescribed for attention deficit disorders, Adderall can be helpful but using prescription medicines improperly can be dangerous. When taken as prescribed, Adderall is not addictive. However, methods used to quicken the effect such as snorting or injection can cause an addiction. Moreover, overdosing on Adderall has been seen to cause psychosis. Cracco said CMHS does not see many cases of Adderall abuse in their offices. She contributed
this in part to the through review of students CMHS preforms before prescribing medication and that students getting and using the drug from other services typically only end up at CMHS in severe abuse cases. The 2009 study found that students who used Adderall without a prescription were far more likely to engage in excess alcohol and other drug abuse. It found 89.5 percent of students abusing Adderall reported binge drinking in the last month and over half were heavy alcohol users. The study showed that 28.9 percent of Adderall users
reported cocaine use, compared with 3.6 percent of their nonAdderall using counterparts. CMHS has an alcohol and other drugs specialist who is available to help students struggling with prescription drug abuse, although the entire staff is trained to aid students with drug problems. CMHS has doubled walk in services for finals and offers a group everyday at 3:30 p.m. where students can talk about the pressure of finals, stress management, and other things weighing on them.
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Hanukkah at the Hillel Security breach at » UNIVERSITY
WCSU exposes files
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FIGHTING THE LIONS
Jewish doughnut) at Hillel and ordered food from the kosher kitchen at Towers, including latkes, otherwise known as potato pancakes. “The doughnuts were really delicious,” said Abbie Beckoff, a junior communication disorders major and Hillel’s vicepresident of first-year students. “The whole event was a lot of fun,” Beckoff said. Beckoff and her fellow board members decorated Huskies Bar with Hanukkah decorations. “We started setting up an hour before kick-off,” she said.“Huskies was great and
really accommodating to us.” Students were able to enjoy a night of dancing and music without having to pay a cover charge. According to the Hillel Facebook page, 354 students said they were in attendance. “The music was great and everyone seemed to be having an awesome time dancing. The place was packed,” said Fleischacker. Hillel is a student run, Jewish community center. “The students run everything here,” Beckoff said. “We are even in charge of locking up at night.”
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On Nov. 29, Western Connecticut State University in Danbury announced that there was a gap in its computer system for over three years. Until Sept. 26, when the breach was discovered, the files of 235,000 people were left exposed. The files included information about students, their families, and high school students the university purchased information about, such as SAT scores. The vulnerable information included important private information such as Social Security numbers. WCSU’s administration maintains that there is no evidence that the records were “inappropriately accessed.” “The vulnerability resulted from an incorrect setting on a piece of hardware associated with the university. Computer systems are complicated Director of University Relations Paul Steinmetz said. “This came out through routine maintenance and looking at the systems. Ideally it would have been found sooner.” The records involved were collected over the past 13 years. Once the problem was discovered, an investigation was launched by the Board of Regents Information Security and Policy Office. The state Attorney General’s office was also notified. Although the investigation has not discovered any theft of information or “inappropriate access,” the school has taken precautions. “I’d have to say that the security breach hasn’t really affected anything about day to day campus life, but WCSU is offering free identity protection services for those
Funding for closed events on or near campus was also cut to 60 percent. While this is not the first time that USG has had to deny funding due to insufficient funds, it does mark the first time an entire category of requests has been denied funding for the entire semester. Funding Board Chair John Giardina, a 5th-semester economics and molecular cell biology double major, explained this semester’s new funding policies are the reason for this change. Under the old policies, the semester was divided into funding sessions. Running out of money meant the cancella-
tion of an entire funding session, and the result was that a variety of categories would be denied funding for a funding session rather than just one category be denied completely for the entire semester. Of the total $1 million requested for Tier II funding, approximately $530,000 was approved, more than any previous semester. “That’s roughly $40,000 more than we’ve every allocated in a semester,” said Comptroller Edward Courchain, a 5th semester structural biology and biophysics major. Other groups were denied or cut funding based on the
nature of their application. For example, events deemed social gatherings or networking events were denied funding, along with office supplies, giveaways and personal items, such as t-shirts. In addition, organizations with incomplete applications or invalid SOLID status were denied funding. Club sports and other organizations requesting camcorders were denied if the camcorder was not in constant use with the club sport, as USG has camcorders in inventory that will be made available for organizations to use. A system for using those camcorders will be established in the coming semester.
Huskies face Penn State in Top 10 game. SPORTS/ page 12 CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTE SHOULD BE USED FOR UCONN OPERATIONS
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Hillel, a student run Jewish community center, held their annual outing at Huskies Bar last Wednesday. Students enjoyed a night of music and dancing without having to pay a cover charge.
By Daniel Candella Campus Correspondent Hillel rang in Hanukkah early this year with their annual outing to Huskies Bar last Wednesday. “Hanukkah is during finals week so we decided, why not start it off early?” said Justin Fleischacker, a sophomore majoring in bio-medical engineering who is also a member of Hillel and the Jewish fraternity better known as Alpha Epsilon Pi. The students prepared by frying safganiyah (a type of
who want it, so I’d say that they handled the situation quite well,” said Noah Adams, a first semester student at WCSU. The university has instituted identity theft protection through AllClear ID. The program is available to students, their families and high school students whose SAT scores were bought by the university, and the service is available for two years. There is also a searchable database available on the Western Connecticut State University website for potentially affected individuals.
“The vulnerability resulted from an incorrect setting on a piece of hardware associated with the university.”
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“We are disappointed that the potential existed to have these records exposed, but we will do everything we can to protect our students, their families and other with whom we have worked,” WSCU President James Schmotter said. “The steps we are taking and the solutions we are offering to every one of those affected are designed to address any problems this situation may have caused.”
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USG denies roughly $200,00 in Tier II funding
By Katherine Tibedo Campus Correspondent The Undergraduate Student Government denied roughly $200,000 in Tier II funding for the coming semester due to insufficient funds. All requests requiring travel or overnight accommodations without active participation in an event will not receive funding for the spring semester. Nineteen similar requests that involved active participation in an event will also not receive funding due to the lack of funds; the rest of those requests were funded at 60 percent.
Courchain and the Funding Board will be analyzing the breakdown of spring funding to assess exactly where money is being spent and ways to improve allocation. “We’ll have a better idea of where our money is going and how it relates to USG’s priorities,” said Giardina. Organizations can appeal the denial of or cut in funds to the Comptroller within five days of being notified of the denial or cut.
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What’s on at UConn today... Winter Holiday Celebration 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Rome Ballroom UConn faculty and staff are invited to join President Susan Herbst and Interim Provost Mun Choi for the annual Winter Holiday Celebration and Gingerbread House Decorating Contest.
Partition, Prison and Politics 3:30 to 6 p.m. Laurel Hall, 101 A lecture with Dr. Ruth Gilmore on reflections of race, gender and freedom in an era of financial crisis.
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp Information Session 5 to 6 p.m. Laurel Hall, 206 Founded in 1988 by Paul Newman, The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, Conn. is a nonprofit, residential summer camp and year-round center serving children and their families coping with cancer and other serious illness and conditions.
Symphony Orchestra 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. von der Mehden Hall The Symphony Orchestra will be playing classical pieces from composers including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jean Sibelius and Howard Hanson. – NIKKI SEELBACH
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Hillel holds annual outing at Huskies Bar
from HANUKKAH, page 1 “We want people to know Hillel is a community center, not a religious center,” Fleischacker said, “Everyone assumes you need to be Jewish to come here, but that’s just not true.”
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Guatemalan police arrest software guru McAfee
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Software company founder John McAfee was arrested by police in Guatemala on Wednesday for entering the country illegally, hours after he said he would seek asylum in the Central American country. The anti-virus guru was detained at a hotel in an upscale Guatemala City neighborhood with the help of Interpol agents and taken to an old, three-story building used to house migrants who enter the country illegally, said Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla. It was the latest twist in a bizarre tale that has seen McAfee refuse to turn himself in to authorities in Belize, where he is a person of interest in the killing of a neighbor, then go on the lam, updating his progress on a blog and claiming to be hiding in plain sight, before secretly crossing the border into Guatemala.
Earlier Wednesday, McAfee said he had formally requested asylum in Guatemala after entering the country from Belize, where he says he fears for his safety because he has sensitive information about official corruption and refused to donate to local politicians. “Yes, we are presenting this, and I want it to be clear, because of the persecution, not because of the murder,” he told the AP about his asylum bid. Police in Belize deny they are persecuting McAfee and say there is no warrant for his arrest. The country’s prime minister has even questioned McAfee’s mental state. Since there are no restrictions on his travels, it’s unclear why McAfee would need any special status in order to stay in Guatemala. The 67-year-old went on the run last month after officials tried to question him about the killing of Gregory
Viant Faull, who was shot to death in early November on the Belize island where both men lived. McAfee had engaged in a series of clashes with neighbors and authorities over allegations he kept aggressive dogs, illegal weapons and drug paraphernalia in his beachfront home on a Belize island. McAfee acknowledges that his dogs were bothersome and that Faull had complained about them, but denies killing Faull. Faull’s home was a couple of houses down from McAfee’s compound. The Faull family has said through a representative that the murder of their loved one on Ambergris Caye has gotten lost in the media frenzy provoked by McAfee’s manipulation of the press through phone calls, emails and blog posts detailing his life on the lam. McAfee dropped out of
sight after police said they were seeking him, although he grabbed global attention with regular phone calls with reporters and blog updates. He claimed to be wearing disguises and watching as police raided his house. It was unclear, however, how much of what McAfee — a confessed practical joker — said and wrote was true. At one point, he even posted on his blog that he mounted an elaborate ruse in Mexico to cover his flight. “My ‘double,’ carrying on (sic) a North Korean passport under my name, was detained in Mexico for pre-planned misbehavior,” McAfee wrote in the posting, “but due to indifference on the part of authorities (he) was evicted from the jail and was unable to serve his intended purpose in our exit plan.” McAfee hasn’t provided details on how he crossed from Belize into Guatemala.
He had earlier said he didn’t plan to leave Belize but ultimately did because he thought “Sam” was in danger, referring to the young woman who has accompanied him since he went into hiding. McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus program, has led an eccentric life since he sold his stake in the antivirus software company that is named after him in the early 1990s and moved to Belize about three years ago to lower his taxes. He told The New York Times in 2009 that he had lost all but $4 million of his $100 million fortune in the U.S. financial crisis. However, a story on the Gizmodo website quoted him as calling that claim “not very accurate at all.” He has dabbled in yoga, ultra-light aircraft and producing herbal medications.
“We want people to know Hillel is a community center, not a religious center.” Justin Fleischacker Sophmore bio-medical engineering major
The basement at Hillel has a pool table, several board games, foosball tables and even a Red Bull vending machine. Another way Hillel hopes to raise awareness for its center will begin this Saturday at the Student Union with the annual lighting of the menorah. Hanukkah last eight nights and a different member will light one candle each night at the Union. “It’s for the community and for the people who miss being home for the holidays,” said Beckoff. Hanukkah runs from Dec. 8 to Dec. 16. Finals run from Dec. 10 to Dec. 17. “When I get home from school, there’s only two nights of Hanukkah left,” Fleischacker said, who calls Bedford, NH home, “So it was nice to kick it off early this year and enjoy some traditional Jewish food and share the holidays with my Hillel family.”
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Texas student shoots self while in police custody HOUSTON (AP) — A student taken into custody for his own protection Wednesday at his Houston-area high school shot himself with a hidden gun while handcuffed inside a patrol car, authorities said. The student, a senior whose name was not released, was conscious when taken to a hospital and was in critical but stable condition Wednesday evening. Police say deputies searched the 17-year-old before placing him in the back of the patrol car and are investigating how the gun was not discovered. Galena Park school district spokesman Jonathan Frey said deputies picked up the student between 10:30 and 11 a.m. Wednesday at North Shore High School after he sent a text message to a friend saying he wanted to hurt himself. “He was taken into custody to protect him for his safety,” Frey said. Capt. Jon Moore with the Harris County Precinct 3 constable’s office, which provides security at the school, said deputies handcuffed and escorted the student to a patrol car. Frey said the student was searched by deputies before being placed in the vehicle. Deputies were driving away with the student and taking him to a hospital when he apparently retrieved a gun he had on him and shot himself in the back of the head. “Somewhere the gun was hidden really well. A gun was never retrieved off of him,” Frey said. Moore said his agency is still investigating the shooting and how the student obtained the gun. Christina Garza, a spokeswoman for the Harris County sheriff’s office, which is also probing the incident, said investigators have found that the student had made threats to harm himself prior to Wednesday. Frey said he was not aware of any previous problems at his school involving the student. The campus, which has about 3,000 students, was not locked down after the shooting, and classes continued after the incident. But afterschool activities were canceled and counselors were called in, Frey said. Counselors will be on campus Thursday as well. “We just hope that he gets better,” Frey said. Wednesday’s shooting is similar to one in July in Jonesboro, Ark. In that incident, 21-year-old Chavis Carter was in the back of a patrol car when he fatally shot himself in the head while his hands were cuffed behind his back. A state crime lab report concluded that Carter was on meth at the time.
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and soldiers who perished in a flash flood that swamped two emergency shelters and a military camp. “Entire families may have been washed away,” said Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, who visited New Bataan on Wednesday. The farming town of 45,000 people was a muddy wasteland of collapsed houses and coconut and banana trees felled by Bopha’s ferocious winds. Bodies of victims were laid on the ground for viewing by people searching for missing relatives. Some were badly mangled after being dragged by raging floodwaters over rocks and other debris. A man sprayed insecticide on the remains to keep away swarms of flies.
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Correctional institute should be used for UConn operations
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he Bergen Correctional Institute prison system in Mansfield was closed in August 2011 as part of state budget savings and consolidations through the state Department of Criminal Justice. The 11.25 acre facility is now sitting dormant, with no prisoners and no immediate usage, right across the street from the Depot Campus section of the University of Connecticut. So why not have UConn use it? Talks of this nature have recently begun, according to Michael Lawlor, the governor’s secretary on Criminal Justice Policy and Planning. He said the building could be used as “storage, offices or even laboratory space,” and the location could not be better. The structure was originally building as a residential facility for people with mental disabilities, whose usage was only converted into a prison in 1989. As a result, the interior resembles less of a prison than most other such facilities used for that purpose. The prison held to over 1,000 inmates before its closing last year. Such a plan would seemingly allow cost savings on the part of the university. The land would be transferred between state agencies, from the Department of Criminal Justice and the Department of Corrections to the University of Connecticut system. As a result, UConn would not have to spend millions on construction of new buildings or similar expenditures. This proves especially valuable in light of the $15 million university budget cut announced last week, with possibly more to come. With the university set to hire many new professors as part of the faculty hiring initiative announced by President Susan Herbst earlier this year, new offices and teaching space may be needed. Whether Laurel Hall and Oak Hall’s opening are sufficient to meet all of UConn’s new needs remains to be determined. Still, the empty building residing essentially right down the street from the main center of UConn and across the street from the Depot Campus section of UConn seems a perfect fit for the university’s expanding needs at a reasonable price. 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.
2012: What will you remember?
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s we wrap up the semester as well as the year 2012, it’s important to look back on where we’ve been and how we got here. It is my opinion that nothing helps measure a year better than collective memories. There are certain pop culture phenomena that break out of the background and into the mainstream. These phenomena are able to unite us as a collective group. Below are my top five moments of 2012 that united us this year. The London Olympics: From July 27 to August 12, no living room By Tyler McCarthy was complete without the Summer Games Commentary Editor being on the television screen. While these games didn’t have the fervor surrounding a single man like the 2008 Beijing Games did with Michael Phelps, athletes from the U.S. didn’t fail to impress, bringing home the most gold medals as well as the most medals overall. The Olympic games are enough to make the whole world gather around and watch. Therefore, it sits at the top of this list. The Avengers: Not only was this my personal favorite movie of the year, it was one of the most impressive accomplishments for the film industry. The success of Joss Whedon’s “The
Avengers” was the culmination of one of the longest and most anticipated projects ever. Not only was it a box office success, it wasn’t a busy mess of too many superheroes. No one has ever made a sequel to four movies at once, so when that endeavor not only turned out not to be a complete failure, but was one of the best films of the year, the country was almost unanimously impressed. My jaw dropped and I left it on the floor of the theater out of respect. Barack Obama is reelected: Elections are a special time in our nation. Everyone likes to complain that they hate sudden influx of people who become political experts for just a brief few months before returning to ignoring all but who will be voted off “The Voice” that week. However, if we want to talk about bringing people together this year, it will be hard to trump the three presidential debates, the one vice presidential debate and the counting of the votes on election night. Not only did this bring us together as a country, it brought several important issues to the forefront of our national consciousness. Some examples of this include, the death of a U.S. Ambassador in Libya, the downfall of the New England republican and the three states; Maine, Maryland and Washington, voting in favor of same-sex marriage. So while the general public might go back to neglecting politics by 2013, at the very least we all were somewhat educated for a little bit there. The Aurora Theater Shooting: Unfortunately, not all of the things that brought us together this year were all smiles. During a midnight screening
of Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman installment, “The Dark Knight Rises,” James Eagan Holmes stood up and opened fire on a crowd of innocent moviegoers. The tragedy brought the community of Aurora together and gave the country a glimpse into the horrors of gun violence and the impact that it can have. This wasn’t a local story, but a national one that made the entire country think about the impact of mass shootings and gun violence. While it isn’t the most pleasant addition to this list, it is nonetheless an important one, because if we don’t keep these kinds of things on our minds, then the senseless crime will be even more senseless. NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on Mars: The car-sized robotic rover landed on Mars’ Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. The aptly named rover set out to discover the Martian climate and explore whether the crater was ever capable of sustaining microbiotic life. It found evidence of a stream that used to exist, proving to all of us back on Earth that, despite every lesson that we think we’ve learned, there’s much more out there to be discovered and we’ll be there soon. Space enthusiasts can look forward to the year 2020 when Curiosity will be the basis for another unnamed rover. Soon we’ll have a better understanding of our neighboring planet and when humanity looks back on all that Mars has given us, they’ll say that it started this year, with a little Curiosity.
Commentary Editor Tyler McCarthy is a 7thsemester journalism and English double major. He can be reached at Tyler.McCarthy@UConn.edu.
Organ donors begin endless cycle of generosity
Perfect time to get a Twitter. #notstudying It’s only 5 o’clock and you’re awake already? My professor matter-of-factly announced to the class, “The final is from 6-8. Everyone must be done by then... because I’m a Patriots fan, and I’m walking out the door at 8.” My roommate tried to stretch after sitting at her desk for hours and got Charley horses in both buttcheeks. #finals Would anyone else have expected that Snoop Dogg’s guilty pleasure is kpop? I can’t be the only one that wonders that if you can see your own breath in the cold if you can see your own farts in the cold. I’m not worried about a fiscal cliff. I’m worried about my bank account which looks like a fiscal desert. “Hmmmmm…..I wonder what life as a fruit would be like…” “Fruity.” Shoutout to the girl who glued every InstantDaily she was in to her wall. She is an inspiration to us all. Conference realignment is like Watchmen. All the UConn fans looked up and shouted “Save us!” And John Swofford whispered, “No.” I fed my girlfriend gelato and spaghetti and now she wants to leave me. Baylor vs. Notre Dame gets Weezy and we get Bobby Valentino. I see how it is. (Like a cop car). I think if it weren’t for skunks going on and skunking people, we’d all find skunks pretty cute as a society.
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lmost everyone has seen the clip from “Superbad” in which McLovin hands over his ID in a panic and waits for a few unbearable seconds until the cop responds, “You’re an organ donor…I didn’t want to be one but my wife insisted.” Many people have rarely given organ donation a second thought. But the next time you go to the DMV, I implore you to become an organ donor. I fully By Lauren Smith understand Staff Columnist the power of organ donation. On Oct. 14, I lost one of my best childhood friends, Marisa Auerbach, to heart failure and complications from Post Transplant Lymphoma, a kind of cancer that is caused by medications used against the immune system following a transplant. She was only 22, but her life expectancy was extended 10 years due to the heart transplant she received in 2001. Before her transplant, she could not run or do many daily activities, but after her transplant she was able to do everything. You would never have guessed that she had ever been sick. Even I often forgot. She was a completely normal young adult. She received her heart from Cynthia Lucero, who died while running the Boston Marathon. The heart was a perfect match, and Marisa didn’t have heart problems again until February 2012, when she was diagnosed with cancer. Besides being an amazing friend, Marisa was an advocate for organ donation. When she met some-
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one who was not an organ donor, she was always able convince him or her to become one. She was living proof that a transplant can add valuable years to a person’s. Marisa was unbelievable; I mean it from the bottom of my heart. We spent every summer together on Cape Cod, talking in the ocean for hours and enjoying barbeques every night. We often spent holidays together with our families. In July, despite the fact that she had cancer, we made slightly premature plans to celebrate our 30th birthdays together (in eight years) on the beach where we met when we were five. She wanted so badly to find a guy who treated her right and wanted to spend her life helping cancer and transplant patients get through their illnesses, while advocating for organ donation. Nothing was going to hinder her dreams, because she had persevered through a lot already. She thought she was invincible because, in many respects, she was. She attended college in Pennsylvania; she even went skydiving. I never heard her complain once during chemotherapy. She would admit to having bad days, but that was the extent of it. She would tell me she was doing well, and then would say, “I don’t want to talk about myself; tell me about your life!” Due to the generosity of her organ donor, she gained 10 years of health and was able to become an extraordinary woman. Yes, her life was cut too short and there are still times I wake up in the middle night and ask myself how this could have happened. When I do this, though,
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I remember what she would have wanted me to do: urge other people to be organ donors, so others can have a chance at life just like she did. She made a huge impact on my life as a result of her 10 extra years. So, if you find yourself at the DMV or Triple A this break, think about my friend Marisa and check off the box to become an organ donor. Believe me when I tell you that it can truly impact someone’s life.Trinity College in Connecticut, in an effort to fix the school’s social and academic image, has recently decided to make a new rule that will force all Greek life on campus to go completely co-ed. The move is part of a strategic plan to help balance the school’s social life, which tends to have students running in cliques and has caused academic culture to become out of sync with non-academic life, according to those behind the change. Not being students at the school, we can only speculate as to whether or not this problem actually exists. However, assuming for the sake of argument that every reason for the change that the administration is giving is true, is completely changing the way sororities and fraternities work a solution? The result of the change is that a lot of these sororities and fraternities are in danger of being eradicated completely. Although the administration is not using this as an excuse to get rid of Greek life, by forcing them to be co-ed many are no longer going to be recognized by their national charters that stipulate that fraternities are for men and sororities are for
women. The administration determined that low grades and high rates of drinking were synonymous with Greek life. They also were responsible for setting the social tone on campus. So, while they say that this isn’t an attack on Greek life, the response seems to run contrary to what they say. Students can apply to be a “society” which means that they will be recognized as a student group but not a nationally recognized sorority or fraternity. Therefore, the attack on Trinity college’s Greek life is an empty gesture at best, at least in terms of fixing the social order on campus, the main reason that it’s happening at all. The whole question apparently resulted in the administration trying to determine where they wanted the university to be in 2023, which is their bicentennial. However, eliminating the normal way that Greek life works seems more like it is merely the illusion of fixing the problems on campus rather than an actual solution to them. Not to mention that it is an unnecessary sacrifice on the part of the school because of all of the obvious benefits that organized, nationally chartered Greek life brings to student’s social life and campus life. Students who rely on the tradition and socialization that comes from sororities and fraternities can only hope that Trinity College will rethink this unnecessary foe solution to their problem. Staff Columnist Lauren Smith is a 7thsemester history and political science double major. She can be reached at Lauren.Smith@UConn.edu.
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Game of AttrAction draws people together (with rocks)
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Rabbi Jeff Glickman, center, demonstrates the proper method in playing his ‘Game of AttrAction.’ One of the game’s greatest strengths is that it does not require the players to share a common language.
By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer Dozens of students and faculty members passing through the Co-Op Bookstore were attracted to a new game that made its debut at UConn on Wednesday afternoon. The Game of AttrAction, according to creator Rabbi Jeff Glickman, is a game that you cannot resist. The game consists of 25 magnetic stones which players arrange on a table. The goal of the game is to collect as many magnets as possible at the end by having the tallest or longest chain of magnets. Glickman set up a long wooden table at the Co-op with 75 magnets arranged on it. Before he had the chance to explain the rules of the game, there were already 10 people interested in playing. He told the players
to stand around the edge of the table and gave each player their own magnetic stone. The objective was to throw the stone across the table and try to make the biggest cluster of magnets from the impact. The game started off slowly as players got accustomed to throwing the stones and creating strategies. When the first stone fell off of the table, Glickman explained how the player who threw it had to give the fallen stone to the player next to them. He also said that it was a rule for the person receiving another stone to thank the person giving the stone, out of courtesy. As the game progressed and each player aimed to create clusters of magnets to keep, the magnets on the tables thinned out. Eventually, some players didn’t create any clusters at all and their magnets would stay
on the table alone. Glickman explained that if the magnet thrown did not attach to any others or cause other magnets to join, the player would have to leave the magnet on the table. At times the magnets would create suspense by almost joining preexisting clusters and rattling a little before they stopped moving. When the magnets did join, they created a loud clattering sound. “It brings diverse people together, and they giggle,” said Glickman. Glickman and his wife traveled to countries like Haiti, Mexico and Brazil, where they played the game with natives with whom they didn’t share a common language. Regardless, the game proved to break language barriers as each participant would keep playing, applauding when someone had a nice shot and laughing with
Magnetic Zeroes. The rest is pure Mumford; rising choruses, banjos and harmonies. I actually mixed up Philips’ “Home,” at No. 12, with Mumford and Sons while I was driving to work the other day. I didn’t realize my mistake until the chorus, immediately recognizable from the Olympics and movie trailers, came up. Others, like “Little Talks” by Of Monsters and Men, combine aspects of more dramatic indie music, specifically the brass of Arcade Fire, with Mumfordesque influences. But they’re from Iceland, so maybe they just hit the right place at the right time.
the rapper uses the album to tell a story about losing and finding his way through fame, riches, poverty and the city. It doesn’t hurt that he does it through a set of fantastic songs that also stand on their own; “Swimming Pools (Drank)” is the breakout song at No. 16, as it’s the most party-ready, but the four others (at 50, 60, 81 and 93) show a wide array of his talent, especially “Backseat Freestyle.” The songs list is skewed a bit by the most-listened albums at the time, accounting for a huge amount of the top 100; between the Lumineers, One Direction at No. 2, Michael Buble’s “Christmas” in third, fun.’s “Some Nights” and the Mumford and Kendrick albums, the top six albums account for about a quarter of the top 100; “Some Nights” and “Babel” only have two top tracks each, meaning their strengths mostly lie in their singles, while the others have been more wellreceived or are more immediately popular. There are a lot of repeat offenders lower down with multiple older hit singles that haven’t quite gone away, like Justin Bieber and Drake. And as for the rest of the top 10? No. 2 owes No. 29 some credit, as Rihanna’s “Diamonds” aped last year’s M83/”Drive” renaissance, specifically “Midnight City” on the opening, to get where it is. Ke$ha’s “Die Young” and Fun.’s “Some Nights” are No. 3 and No. 4; they’re both songs dragged down by single flaws. When Ke$ha sings the chorus of “Die Young,”
them if something unexpected happened. Glickman came up with the idea when he attended a rock show in Tucson, Arizona. It was not a rock music show, but one where explorers brought in rocks they found and put them on display. Glickman picked up a couple of the magnetic stones and began playing with them. It didn’t take long for Glickman to start coming up with ideas to integrate the rocks into a game. Through a process of trial and error where Glickman and his wife would ask their friends to try out different strategies, they decided on an idea and sat down to create rules. After researching the game industry, Glickman and his wife met with several toy companies including Bananagrams and Hasbro, both of which were very interested in the game. But the couple
didn’t get signed to a company until they met R&R Games at the New York Toy Fair this past February. They quickly gained international recognition for the game and plan to sell the game at the next Toy Fair. They explained that not only can people play it internationally, but any person can play it in general. That includes senior citizens, persons with disabilities, children, and more. Glickman’s original goal for the game was to see it hanging in a toy store, whether or not he received money for it, and now he enjoys seeing how the game brings people together. The game is on sale at the Co-Op for $15.95.
Spotify: conquering the Top 100
By Joe O’Leary Focus Editor
Since its launch in America last year, Spotify has quickly become one of the most used music-streaming services in the country, with the company reporting more than four million premium users as of August 2012, each of them paying $9.99 monthly for access to more than 10 million songs. As Spotify links through Facebook, users can see their friends’ “listening now” pages live on Facebook feeds, and the company has recently started releasing weekly “most-played” lists. But the information doesn’t stop there. Its software comes with an app, “Top Lists,” that live updates streamable playlists of the most popular songs in the nation. Not only is this app a great jumpingoff point for users looking for new music, it’s also information about trends in music. Watching the charts for a few days can tell a lot about what America’s into right now. The most notable thing about the Top-100 right now is its “Mumfordification.” Not only do Mumford & Sons, the original agreeable blues-folk mainstream band, have four of their songs on the list (two each from “Babel” and “Sigh No More”), but many imitators or eerily similar groups are leap-frogging them onto the chart themselves. The current No.1 song, “Ho Hey” by The Lumineers, has a stompchant running throughout that is either a ripoff or coincidentally reminiscent of Edward Sharpe and the
“Spotify Top 100” The Lumineers dominate a major portion of the top 100, with five songs from their breakthrough album, which currently tops the albums chart, making appearances. They’re pretty forgettable songs, the lower-ranked of which will soon fall off the list. Faring better was Kendrick Lamar, who also has five songs from a breakthrough album perched in the list. His “good kid, m.A.A.d city” is No. 6 on the top albums list in the U.S., meaning a big chunk of fans are listening to it front-toback. It’s easy to see why
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with a great guitar backing, her voice sounds fantastic; when she sing-raps, it really, really doesn’t. And “Some Nights” could have hit No. 1 if it wasn’t for that awful Autotuned moment from 3:11 to 3:31. “Locked Out of Heaven” by Bruno Mars and “It’s Time” by Imagine Dragons are fifth and seventh, respectively, and both follow Rihanna’s lead of appropriating others’ musical styles; the former apes early songs by the Police (“Roxanne” in the guitars), while the latter directly lifts the backing of Matt & Kim’s “Daylight” with a more radio-friendly voice. Taylor Swift is fine by me in 10th place, if only for that little “We-e!” in “We Are Never Getting Back Together,” and the less to be
said about Flo Rida in eighth, the better. (I like to remove the space and pretend Florida is a famous rapper.) And, finally, we have the novelty songs. Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” the inescapable Youtube video well on its way to a billion views, so popular my parents have actually heard of it, is slowly slipping away from the top slot (it was blocked from No. 1 on Billboard by Maroon 5’s “One More Night,” currently 11th on Spotify), while the goofy “Thrift Shop,” probably destined for one-hitwonderdom, is actually really entertaining at No. 9. It’s basically filling the tragic gap left by the horrible hiatus of LMFAO.
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Writing stories for children
By Jason Wong Senior Staff Writer This may just be my own experience, but I’m under the impression that all of one’s best holiday memories typically take place during childhood. More specifically, I remember being read lots of stories when I was younger, regardless of the time of year. Those are some of my best memories and they no doubt play a role in my love of literature now. Some people might say that children’s books are easily written because their storylines are simplistic enough for a child to grasp, but I think writing a good children’s story is a noble thing because it ultimately leads a child to love reading (a quality the youth seems to lack more and more these days). Granted, I’ve never taken a class on children’s literature, but I’ll take what I liked best from the books I read in my early youth and offer up some advice for aspiring children’s story writers. As in all stories, I think the most important part of a children’s story is the main character. Sure, the characters in a children’s story don’t have the pages to be as complex and interesting as they would be in a novel, but nevertheless, they can still be made relatable and compelling to their intended audience. For example, there’s the giving tree, a maternal figure that will remind the reader of their own mothers or grandmothers. Characters like the Grinch make them giggle, and characters like Matilda will give them something to aspire to (not that Matilda doesn’t also make them laugh). Another thing to keep in mind with children’s literature is of course the idea of brevity. Because of the format, picture books need to be concise; the entire story needs to be told in a matter of 15 pages or less. Even in longer children’s books like Roald Dahl’s, one has to restrict oneself from using language that is too verbose. Sentences need to get right to the point, with little room for wandering or wordplay. There are of course exceptions – Doctor Seuss springs to mind – but generally try to keep being concise in mind when writing for children. Like longer works, children’s stories tend to have overarching themes, and these themes need not be restricted to childlike ones like sharing and such. “Yurtle the Turtle” is about tyranny, and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” has some pretty interesting parallels with “Dante’s Inferno.” So basically, don’t be afraid to include slightly heavier subject matter in your child-targeted stories. Kids are smart; they can definitely handle that kind of thing. Children’s literature and the characters among its ranks are beloved and I would argue integral parts of the growing up process. Youth who like to read are more likely to do well in school, and reading imparts important skills like comprehending text and conveying ideas in a clear and efficacious way to readers. Moreover, children’s literature isn’t going to be looked down on for being a little crazy or silly – it’s practically encouraged. Get out there (figuratively) and create something great.
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Indie Turns Sickeningly Sweet for “Holidays Rule” Upon a first listen to “Holidays Rule,” the 17-track Christmas music compilation, shock may take ahold of the ears. Prominent indie artists like The Head and the Heart, The Civil Wars, The Shins and Heartless Bastards collaborate to produce an altogether audibly-unpleasant holiday collection. Covering classics like “Auld Lang Syne,” “Baby It’s Cold Outside” and “The Christmas Song,” the otherwise inventive artists transform treasured carols into saccharine pop. Furthermore, their voices are altered to assumingly retain that signature “Top-40” feel. The album starts with fun. – who, unfortunately, delivers something contrary to what you’d expect of their name. Singing a rendition of “Sleigh Ride” (or in their usual case, an auto-tuned chant), the group brings shame to the Leroy Anderson tune. I’m not sure if it’s Nate Ruess’ grating voice or the perpetual laser beam noises, but next time, leave the alien/intergalactic sound effects out. Even the next song, which features the Shins covering the beloved Paul McCartney tune “Wonderful Christmastime,” fails. This is perhaps the greatest let-down of the EP, seeing as the Shins are highly regarded as a band with a
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very natural and appealing indie sound. On “Holidays Rule,” this is simply not the case. Scratchy and unsettling instrumentation laid the foundation for the saddening sub
“Sleigh Ride” - fun. par vocals of James Mercer. The saving grace of the album is Paul McCartney’s cover of “The Christmas Song.” Unlike the others, Paul sticks with a natural sound, despite the noticeable – but inevitable – hint of aging. The performance is overall smoothly sung, providing a breather for the musical mess to come. Other tolerable tracks are “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” by the Civil Wars and “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” by the Punch Brothers, both
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The cover of various artists’ album of Christmas music. It features music both traditional and modern.
of which feature acoustic, woodsy instrumentals and matching eclectic vocals. Additionally, Irma Thomas and Preservation Hall Jazz Band surprise listeners with a pleasantly jazzy “May Ev’ry Day Be Christmas,” the only song worthy of replay. Those completely undeserving of spots on the record would have to be Holly Golightly and Black Prairie, whose voices and rhythm defame indie rock and turn Christmas into a Christ-mess. Most will not last for the full
listen, anyway. The problem with this Christmas collection is a split between the overly digitalized production and the purely inappropriate artist-song pairings. Not every talent is meant to perform covers, especially that of Christmas songs. For your seasonal and holiday anticipation, skip this one and honor Christmas with the originals.
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By Joe O’Leary Focus Editor
I’ve always thought that Christmas music gets worse every year. Standalone classics like “All I Want For Christmas Is You” and the melodrama of “Do They Know It’s Christmas” are untouchable, but Christmas music ranges from the peaks, like those ones by Mariah and Band-Aid, to the lows. I’m talking “Christmas Shoes” levels of quality. So if you’d like to build a Christmas-themed playlist without resorting to a roster full of Michael Buble, here’s where to go for an enjoyable, alternative holiday playlist. Definitely kick things off with “Christmas in Harlem,” a leftover G.O.O.D. Music recording released by Kanye West in 2010 after “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” dropped. It’s a light, jingle-filled jam with a wonderful hook sung by Teyana Taylor. To keep the playlist in the rap game for a bit, add the Run D.M.C. classic “Christmas in Hollis,” and top it off with DMX’s new Youtube cover of “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Next, add some humor. Though it’s not for everyone, I love the track “Christmas Suite” by Heidecker and Wood, the side project of “Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!” star Tim
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Rapper DMX on the red carpet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2009. He appeared on Power 105.1 FM radio in New York Monday, and his rendition of the Christmas classic has spawned a viral video and overall positive reactions online.
Heidecker. It’s a seven-minute-plus progressive rock jam that parodies Christmas staples about orphans, caroling and the meaning of Christmas. A more mainstream way to get a Christmas laugh is Stephen Colbert’s “A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!” In 2008, Colbert hosted a musical special on Comedy Central, and this is the soundtrack to that show. It includes duets with Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith and Feist. Jon Stewart is featured in the best song: “Can I Interest You in Hanukkah?” If you’re looking for recent Christmas music by bands that won’t make you fall asleep, first turn to the Killers. For the past six years, they’ve released Christmas singles to raise money for charity. This year’s release is “I Feel It in My Bones,” but most of the songs are worth
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checking out. 2006’s “Great Big Sled” is a nice slice of nostalgia, while “Don’t Shoot Me Santa” alternates between humor and an outright good song. Weezer has a 2008 Christmas covers album, but much like their music post2004, it’s lifeless and clearly done as a cash grab. Instead, look for their early B-side “Christmas Celebration.” It’s two minutes of “Blue Album” Weezer at their sarcastic best. Guster ’s “Tiny Tree Christmas” is a sweet piece commissioned by Target. Julian Casablancas of the Strokes released a cover of the “Saturday Night Live” Christmas skit “I Wish It Was Christmas Today” that’s fairly rocking. The pinnacle of recent Christmas music, though, are the two releases by Sufjan Stevens, 2006’s “Songs for
Christmas” and this year’s “Silver and Gold.” Each album consists of five discs, each with a different spin. But there are dozens of covers of famous Christmas songs and originals mixed in too. Everything from “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” to “Sleigh Ride” to classic hymns are represented, though the real joys are in the originals. “Mr. Frosty Man” is a short but sweet snippet of Christmas rock, while the 12-minute “Christmas Unicorn” is ridiculous in its ambition. Though some of his covers are off-putting (his “Silver and Gold” cover is disturbingly haunting; as a result it’s been renamed “Justice Delivers Its Death”), most should complete any modern holiday playlist.
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I realize that the Daily Campus runs a finals week issue of the paper, where there will likely be a legitimate finals week soundtrack. That’s why I decided not to run with my original idea (your average finals week soundtrack). Instead, in my desperate crunch for time I’ve enlisted the help of my 5th-semester communications major roommate, Sadie Doyle, to compile a soundtrack for the weekend before finals week. You know, the weekend where you’re gonna “study all night, every night, no matter what…” See you all at Ted’s. 1. “All Blues” Miles Davis This is the song you’ll put on when you’re still in the mindset that no matter what, this Friday is meant for studying. You’ll say, “If I don’t study for that [insert test] test, I’m going to fail my [insert class you’re going to fail] class, and my GPA is going to drop from [insert mediocre GPA] to [insert nearly-failing GPA].” Thus, you’ll put this on and start reviewing your notes. 2. “Ignition (Remix)” R. Kelly Your roommate enters carrying a brown paper bag. “Hey, Roommate. What do you have there?” you ask as she pulls out a handle of Smirnoff. “Ready to have some fun?” your roommate replies. You insist that you have to study for finals, it’s important, it’s crucial, it’s— Your roommate begins playing R. Kelly. 3. “Skinny Love” Bon Iver A fight ensues. You win (sort of). Your roommate begrudgingly watches you study while making herself a vodka cranberry. You play “For Emma, Forever Ago,” because it’s a mellow album and you can tune it out while continuing to re-learn everything from the class you spent an entire semester sleeping through. 4. “Yeah 3X” Chris Brown You’re getting distracted, typical after a full hour of studying. You need a break, a reward. “How about just one little, tiny shot?” your roommate suggests. “No, I have to get back to work,” you remind her. “One shot isn’t going to do anything. It’ll help you work. C’mon, it’s Friday.” She sings the one line she knows from this song (“You like to drink? So do we”) and before you know it, you’re toasting to finals week. 5. “Beauty and a Beat” Justin Bieber Somehow, one shot turned into six and you find yourself in a bodycon dress with glitter all over your face, ready to go to your friend’s house party. “We’ll just stop by for a minute,” your roommate promises. “Okay,” you say, even though you’re well aware that this is obviously a lie. 6. “Birthday Song” 2 Chainz Your last cohesive memory involves a sweaty dance floor and this song. Afterward is a series of images—pretzels at the U, your heel snapping off, a lost (and eventually found) cell phone and finally, your pillow. 7. “Ignition (Remix)” R. Kelly Your hangover wore off after three hours of sucking on ice and complaining. You’re finally ready to start prepping for that final (Hey—at least it’s only Saturday! You still have two whole days before finals week!) Then, just as you’re about to play some Miles Davis, your roommate appears with a brown paper bag. Good luck, everyone.
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the debate end: Grammy Capitalism and socialism Letnoms anybody’s guess wed as words of the year
NEW YORK (AP) — Thanks to the election, socialism and capitalism are forever wed as Merriam-Webster’s most looked-up words of 2012. Traffic for the unlikely pair on the company’s website about doubled this year from the year before as the health care debate heated up and discussion intensified over “American capitalism” versus “European socialism,” said the editor at large, Peter Sokolowski. The choice revealed Wednesday was “kind of a nobrainer,” he said. The side-byside interest among political candidates and around kitchen tables prompted the dictionary folk to settle on two words of the year rather than one for the first time since the accolade began in 2003. “They’re words that sort of encapsulate the zeitgeist. They’re words that are in the national conversation,” said Sokolowski from company headquarters in Springfield, Mass. “The thing about an election year is it generates a huge amount of very specific interest.” Democracy, globalization, marriage and bigot — all touched by politics — made the Top 10, in no particular order. The latter two were driven in part by the fight for same-sex marriage acceptance. Last year’s word of the year was austerity. Before that, it was pragmatic. Other words in the leading dictionary maker’s Top 10 for 2012 were also politically motivated.
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The word malarkey, from the 11th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, is shown in this photograph. The word rose to prominence this year when Vice President Joe Biden used it in the Vice Presidential Debate.
Harken back to Oct. 11, when Vice President Joe Biden tangled with Mitt Romney running mate Paul Ryan in a televised debate focused on foreign policy — terror attacks, defense spending and war, to be specific. “With all due respect, that’s a bunch of MALARKEY,” declared Biden during a particularly tough row with Ryan. The mention sent look-ups of malarkey soaring on Merriamwebster.com, Sokolowski said, adding: “Clearly a one-week wonder, but what a week!” Actually, it was more like what a day. Look-ups of malarkey represented the largest spike of a single word on the website by percentage, at 3,000 percent, in a single 24-hour period
this year. The company won’t release the number of page views per word but said the site gets about 1.2 billion overall each year. Malarkey, with the alternative spelling of “y’’ at the end, is of unknown origin, but MerriamWebster surmises it’s more Irish-American than Irish, tracing it to newspaper references as far back as 1929. Beyond “nonsense,” malarkey can mean “insincere or pretentious talk or writing designed to impress one and usually to distract attention from ulterior motives or actual conditions,” noted Sokolowski. “That’s exactly what Joe Biden was saying. Very precise,” especially in conversation with another Irish-American, Sokolowski said. “He chose a word that resonated with the public, I think in part because it really resonated with him. It made perfect sense for this man to use this word in this moment.” An interesting electionrelated phenom, to be sure, but malarkey is no dead Big Bird or “binders full of women” — two Romneyisms from the defeated
candidate’s televised matchups with Obama that evoked another of Merriam-Webster’s Top 10 — meme. While malarkey’s history is shaded, meme’s roots are easily traced to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, a Brit who coined the term for a unit of cultural inheritance, not unlike genes and DNA. The retired professor at the University of Oxford made up the word in 1976 for “The Selfish Gene,” a book he published light years before the Internet and social media’s capacity to take memes viral. Sokolowski said traffic for the word meme more than doubled this year over 2011, with dramatic spikes pegged to politicalrelated subjects that included Romney’s Big Bird and binders remarks, social media shares of images pegged to Hillary Rodham Clinton texting and Obama’s “horses and bayonets” debate rebuke of Romney in an exchange over the size of the Navy. Dawkins, reached at home in Oxford, was tickled by the dictionary shoutout.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It’s a brutal year to be in the Grammy nominations handicapping game. Sure, there are a few safe bets. Mumford & Sons and Frank Ocean are expected to take a share of nominations when they’re announced Wednesday night on national television during “The Grammy Nominations Concert Live!” in Nashville. And popular songs by Gotye, fun., Taylor Swift and Carly Rae Jepsen may land those artists on the list as well, though Jepsen harbors some doubt her omnipresent song “Call Me Maybe” will net a nod. “I would be so shocked,” the 27-year-old singer said last week. “But this year has taught me to look forward to surprises and just be ready for anything. So, cross your fingers for me.” Viral songs like Jepsen’s seemed to be the theme of the year, and with no watershed albums during the nominating period for the 2013 Grammys like Adele’s “21” or Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” it’s not clear who will turn out as this year’s top nominee. Thus the guessing game. The Grammy nominations period ended Sept. 30 and three of the year’s top four debuting albums — from Swift, One Direction and Jason Aldean — came after that date. Rihanna also released a new album after the period ended. All could have songs nominated, but a popular album is the quickest way to accumulate multiple nods. Mumford & Sons slipped in just under the deadline. Introduced to much of their burgeoning fan base through a 2011 appearance on the Grammys, the British folk-rock band could return with a flourish after selling 600,000 copies of “Babel” in the first week of release and setting streaming records on Spotify. And Ocean showed the kind of bravery that might be rewarded by The Recording
Academy’s voters when he announced in liner notes for his album “channel ORANGE” that he’d had a same-sex encounter, causing an industrywide discussion of the issue. Questions surround many of the other artists who might be considered sure bets, however. Gotye should be a lock in multiple categories, but his viral song “Somebody That I Used to Know,” featuring Kimbra, wasn’t submitted in the song of the year category because of a sample, eliminating one of its most viable prospects. Others who might be considered possible top nominees like Drake and The Black Keys released their platinum-selling, hit-spawning albums late last year and they’ll have to overcome short-term memory issues among voters. Sean Garrett, a producer for artists like Usher and Beyonce with multiple Grammy nominations, said a lack of clear trends during the nominating period made it difficult to guess going into the show. “It was sort of an iffy kind of year in my opinion,” Garrett said in a phone interview. “I’m going to be honest: I think the politics kind of slowed the music down.” He expects pop stars like Jepsen, Bieber, Swift and Korean sensation PSY to take home nominations, but doesn’t see an artist accumulating a high number of nominations. That could leave room for newer acts, including fun., one of his favorites. “They have a very clever sound,” Garrett said. “The lead singer (Nate Reuss) has an amazing, amazing voice. I feel like they just came with something that was a bit different. It was mainstream pop music and it had some edge to it. And there was great songwriting there.” Fun., with their anthemic hit “We Are Young,” are among the night’s performers, joining Maroon 5, Ne-Yo, Luke Bryan, The Who, Hunter Hayes and others.
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Horoscopes To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. 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
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Club Hockey splits games with pair of Boston schools
By Eddie Leonard Campus Correspondent
The UConn club men’s ice hockey team had a pair of games over the weekend, one against Boston University and one against Northeastern. The Huskies split the two games, losing 7-3 to Northeastern Friday night and beating BU 5-3 on Saturday night. UConn now has a record of 13-3, and is ranked second according to the most recent ACHA Division II rankings. “Overall I was pleased with our effort over the weekend,” head coach Chris Myers said. “We took a small nap during the
Northeastern game and it cost us. We need to remember that these games and the season go by quickly, and you have to play hard every shift. Both games were hard fought. “Northeastern has a strong team, and they showed us on Friday that we need to be ready to go and play our position to have a chance to win. BU played us hard on Saturday, however we brought our A game, and our forwards did a great job working down low and getting pucks to the net.” As has been the case for the entire season, the Huskies’ top forward line had a very solid weekend. Senior forward Miles Winter (26 points), and junior
forwards Rui Encarnacao (21 points) and Paul Cinquegrana (22 points) have formed a dynamic offensive triumvirate, and their stellar play has been a key to UConn’s success. “The top line played well on both nights,” Myers said. “Miles had two goals on Friday, and Paul had two goals on Saturday.” Coach Myers was also quick turn the spotlight on freshman goalie Andrew Furbush, who put together a solid one-goal outing on Saturday night en route to a victory. “Our defense did a great job of limiting BU’s scoring chances, playing a physical game which meant BU spent less time in
our end,” Myers said. “Andrew played well on Saturday also.” The Huskies have two more games prior to the winter break one on Friday at 8 p.m. against Northeastern, and another Saturday at 8:30 p.m. against Central Connecticut. “Over the break the boys will have some time off to enjoy the holidays and eat some turkey,” Myers said. “They will be getting on the ice at least once a week to keep the hands and legs sharp. Other than that, we won't have a structured schedule till the season starts back up on Jan. 20.”
them; she gets the ball where it needs to go and she’s as athletic as all heck. That guard combination is as good as anybody we’re going to face all year.” Lucas and Bentley are the Nittany Lions’ two leading scorers, averaging 21.4 and 12.3 points per game respectively. Lucas has been lethal from three-point range so far this season, shooting at a 56 percent clip. Despite the challenge it presents, Auriemma believes the short turnaround and the large
gap in playing styles between the two UConn opponents this week is a positive for his team. “You want to try and play as many different styles as you can during the season,” Auriemma said. “And certainly right now there’s a big difference between Penn State’s style of play and Maryland’s style of play, and that’s good. I think that helps us – just like the Maryland game helped us – recognize a few things that we needed to isolate on a little bit more.”
The matchup with the Nittany Lions will be difficult for UConn because sophomore Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis is listed as questionable for the game. She sustained a quad contusion during the first half against Maryland – her first game back from a concussion –and was unable to return. Game time is set for 7 p.m. and can be seen on SNY. WTIC and WHUS will have the call on the radio.
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UConn faces short turnaround in second straight Top 10 matchup from FIGHTING, page 12 players. Auriemma expects a different style of play from Penn State, because they are led primarily by stellar guards. “I think [Penn State junior guard] Maggie Lucas, and she was just a prolific shooter and probably her first two years at Penn State that’s what she’s done,” Auriemma said. “I think now she’s a little more of a scorer, she knows how to get buckets. And [senior guard] Alex Bentley runs the team for
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Stern wrong to fine Popovich for benching star players against Heat from POPOVICH, page 12 would have beat the Miami Heat had it not been for a Ray Allen three with less than a minute left in the game that sealed the deal for Miami. Even though people say the Spurs lost, Popovich does not perceive it as a loss. He got his "no name” bench players to step up and play with the best players in the world. They got to put up their shots and did not have to defer to Duncan, Parker, or the other stars. They were able to build up their confidence so that down the road when Pop brings them into a big game
they will be ready to shoot at will and can handle the pressure. Popovich’s other wise motive may have been to rest and prepare for the Grizzlies, who were their next opponent. Pop wanted his stars to be fully rested, which they were, when they played the No.2 team in the Western Conference right after the Heat loss. Their win against the Grizzlies was a big confidence boost. They knew they could beat the best in the west with their starters and almost beat the best team in the east with their bench. Overall Gregg Popovich
was in the right. David Stern overreacted. Stern wanted a power struggle, but frankly you cannot do that with Gregg Popovich because he just does not care. I would not be surprised – correction - I actually would expect Popovich to rest his starters again this season, regardless of the fine. You have to remember that even though these are pro athletes, they are also human beings. When your stars are in their mid thirties they need time to rest. If Stern’s only argument was that it is not fair to the fans, lets just say that Popovich picked the perfect
game to rest his starters. I can not count the number of times I have watched Miami games and it takes till halftime for the fans to all settle in. David Stern needed to do what his job demanded him to do. He needed to make sure that the revenue and popularity of the league is maximized. Popovich did what his job demanded. Which was to do whatever you have to to be ready to win playoff games in April. They both were right in a way, but Stern’s right went to a wrong the minute he fined the Spurs.
Callahan: Predictions for 2013 from FEARLESS, page 12 The Miami Heat will repeat as NBA champions. Armed with a fuller roster than last year, the Heat will go on to win their second straight title. The East may boast better depth this season to test the reigning champs, but no team will be able to push them like Boston did last year. The Celtics themselves have tremendous rebounding issues and Brooklyn, New York and Chicago are a step behind. In addition, given the Lakers’ chemistry struggles and poor mesh with Mike D’Antoni’s system, no one from the West will be able to even bring the Finals to seven games. Peyton Manning will win Super Bowl MVP. Yes, the Broncos are headed to the Super Bowl and Peyton Manning will bring the parade to Denver for the first time since the days of John Elway. The pass rush will be too much for teams in close playoff games with Denver and Manning is arguably the current regular season MVP. Jon Gruden will be the head coach of either San Diego or Philadelphia and take his team to the playoffs. Coach Gruden’s broadcasts have me falling for him. The man is going to have plenty of options this offseason. To me, this is the year he will trade in his headset in the booth for the one on the sidelines. Despite their monumental struggles this year, both teams boast considerable talent for Gruden to mold. Louisville and Indiana meet for national basketball championship. Upsets be damned. This is one
of those years that the top dogs stay on top. I love Indiana’s back and frontcourt balance Louisville’s veterans who figure to bring the same tenacious defense that carried them an overachieving Final Four berth a year ago. UConn women’s basketball will take home title against Baylor in thriller. Certainly not the most fearless of these forecasts, but, to me, these two clubs appear destined to meet in New Orleans. Baylor recorded the first 40-0 season in women’s basketball last year, and returns nearly all its players this year. UConn’s added experience and incredible freshmen talent makes for a much improved club from last season’s that reached the Final Four and nearly took on the Lady Bears in the title. This year they will do it and it will be one for the ages. Write it down. Bryce Harper will hit 40 home runs, will win NL MVP. The biggest news for the Nationals as of late is Dan Haren’s one-year, $13 million contract that will bolster the pitching staff. The Nats kept their opponents in the park better than almost any other team in baseball, but next season the headlines will be about the balls going out. To say Harper is an unbelievable talent would be an understatement so lets praise him with the MVP honor. Three of these predictions will have come true when I look back 364 days from now. What a nice Christmas gift that would be. Happy Holidays everybody.
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Dec. 17 Maryland Eastern Shore 7 p.m.
Dec. 21 Fordham 7 p.m.
Dec. 19 Oakland 7 p.m.
Jan. 1 Marquette 8 p.m.
Dec. 29 Washington 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 22 Hartford 1 p.m.
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Women’s Basketball (7-0) Today Penn State 7 p.m.
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Dec. 29 Stanford 4 p.m.
Tomorrow Dec. 29 Jan. 4 Jan. 5 AIC Army Penn State Penn State 7:05 p.m. 7:15 p.m. 7:05 p.m. 7: 05 p.m.
Jan. 8 BU 7 p.m.
Champions out of breath
Dec. 31 Oregon 3 p.m.
Jan 11 Robert Morris 7:05 p.m.
Jan. 12 McGill 3 p.m.
Jan. 15 Harvard 7 p.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
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Men’s Swimming & Diving
Chelsea striker Fernando Torres catches his breath during the Blues’ 6-1 rout of Danish side Nordsjaelland. Despite the win, the defending European champions were eliminated from the 2012-13 UEFA Champions League.
Feb. 2 Dartmouth 1 p.m.
Jan. 26 Seton Hall 1 p.m.
Women’s Swimming & Diving Jan. 26 Seton Hall 1 p.m.
Feb. 2 Dartmouth 1 p.m.
Softball Feb. 15 FIU Tournament 11 a.m.
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By Nick Danforth Campus Correspondent
The UConn basketball program became what it is today because of Jim Calhoun. However, if we were to credit one player with turning Storrs into a basketball powerhouse, it would undoubtedly be Donyell Marshall. Marshall grew up in Reading, Penn. and was a very talented player in high school. After playing in the McDonalds All-American game, he fielded offers from various schools, but it ultimately came down to a decision between the University of Syracuse, University of Maryland and UConn. After a visit with Jim Calhoun, however, Marshall made his choice. As a freshman, Marshall averaged 11.1 points and 6.1 rebounds per game. It was clear that he possessed a tremendous amount of skill. In his sophomore year, Marshall improved his averages to 17 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. However, the team underachieved and finished the season with a 15-13 record. Before his junior season, Marshall was selected to be a member of the USA under-22 Olympic Team. The experience paid huge dividends for Marshall as he practiced against the best college players in the nation. His improvement was obvious and Marshall grew into one of the most talented players in the country. With averages of 25.1 points, 8.9 rebounds and 3.2 blocks per game, Marshall was named a First Team All-American as well as a finalist for the Naismith Player of the Year, both firsts for a Connecticut Husky. Marshall also led UConn to a 29-5 record and a Sweet Sixteen appearance in the NCAA Tournament. He finished his career with 1,648 points and 245 blocked shots, which rank No. 11 and No. 3 in UConn history. Marshall’s success at UConn as a basketball star from outside the state of Connecticut paved the way for talented players such as Ray Allen and Richard Hamilton to come to UConn and play for Calhoun. Marshall left for the NBA after his junior season and was selected No. 4 overall in the 1994 draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves. Marshall played just 40 games for Minnesota before being traded to the Golden State Warriors. Marshall played with the Warriors until 2000 and has since played for multiple teams, including the Utah Jazz, Chicago Bulls, Toronto Raptors, Cleveland Cavaliers, Seattle Supersonics and Philadelphia 76ers. He averaged a career high 16.2 points and 10.8 rebounds in 2004 while playing for the Toronto Raptors. Marshall finished with career averages of 11.2 points and 6.7 rebounds. After retiring, Marshall briefly worked for Comcast SportNet as an analyst. He is currently an assistant AP coach with the NBA D-League’s Maine Red Claws.
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Players and owners making progress in NHL labor talks NEW YORK (AP) — Negotiations between hockey owners and players are going so well that NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says he’s “pleased with the process” — even if he has been left outside the latest rounds of discussions. Still stuck on the perimeter with players’ association executive director Donald Fehr, Bettman made a brief statement Wednesday on the state of the ongoing lockout after the league’s board of governors met for about two hours. Bettman declined to take any questions as he stood at an NHL podium in a Manhattan hotel, just one floor away from where talks resumed for a second straight day. A ray of hope that a season-saving deal could be made emerged late Tuesday night after about eight hours of bargaining. “We are pleased with the process that is ongoing, and out of respect for that process I don’t have anything else to say,” Bettman said. Some executives spoke briefly as they scurried on New York streets and hopped into cars after the board of governors meeting. No details emerged, but the mood seemed positive. “We feel good about the information we got,” new Columbus Blue Jackets president John Davidson said. Larry Tanenbaum of the
Toronto Maple Leafs, one of the six owners participating in these negotiations, also painted an optimistic picture as he walked the few blocks back to the hotel hosting the meetings. “We’re going to continue to talk up until we get a deal,” said Tanenbaum, who added there is more clarity on both sides where each group stands. “All I can say is as long as we’re talking we’re hopeful.” If a breakthrough can be made soon, the delayed and shortened hockey season could get going quickly. “I’ve always been hopeful there would be a season,” said Lou Lamoriello, the New Jersey Devils president and general manager. “Right now we just have to leave it in the hands of the people that are talking.” The same negotiators were expected to participate in talks Wednesday, with minor tweaks to the large contingent of players. Bargaining stretched on Tuesday night until about midnight, and it was clear progress was made when deputy commissioner Bill Daly stood side by side with union special counsel Steve Fehr and issued a rare joint status report. Negotiations took place in a pair of sessions that included various sized groups. The sides are trying to avoid another lost season. The
NHL became the first North American professional sports league to cancel a full year because of a labor dispute back in 2005. The deal reached then was in place until this September, and the lockout was enacted on Sept. 16 after that agreement expired. The lockout reached its 81st day Wednesday. The main issues are how to split revenue and issues surrounding how player contracts are set up. The league had more than $3 billion in the 2011-12 season but an analysis by Forbes magazine recently showed a major gap between profitable teams those that operate in the red. “We had a long day,” Steve Fehr said Tuesday. “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.” Daly echoed Fehr’s comments, and spoke well of the talks. “I appreciate the efforts of the players,” Daly said. “Everybody is working hard. I think everybody wants to get a deal done, so that’s encouraging. We look forward to hopefully making more progress.” 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. All games through Dec. 14, along with the New Year’s Day Winter Classic and the All-Star game, have been wiped off the schedule. Originally the thought was no one other than owners and players would be in attendance for Tuesday’s meeting, but each side had staff present, as well. The six selected owners were Tanenbaum, Ron Burkle (Pittsburgh Penguins), Mark Chipman (Winnipeg Jets), Murray Edwards (Calgary Flames), Jeremy Jacobs (Boston Bruins), and Jeff Vinik (Tampa Bay Lightning). Jacobs, considered one of the hard-line owners, and Edwards are the only members of the group of six to have taken part in previous negotiations. The NHL had no objection for more than six players to take part, so Sidney Crosby, Jonathan Toews, Shane Doan, Brad Richards, Martin St. Louis, Ryan Miller, Craig Adams, David Backes, Michael Cammalleri, B.J. Crombeen, Mathieu Darche, Ron Hainsey, Shawn Horcoff, Jamal Mayers, Manny Malhotra, Andy McDonald, George Parros and Kevin Westgarth joined the union’s negotiating team on Tuesday.
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Huskies face Penn State in Top 10 game By Matt Stypulkoski Staff Writer
Andrew Callahan It’s something that happens too infrequently in columns like these: an admission of “Boy, I was wrong. Just dead ass wrong.” We sportswriters can project until we’ve made the most outlandish Doomsday prophets proud. We’ll tell you this, tell you that and after almost everything flies in the other direction, still only face little ridicule. Sweet gig, eh? Well, here’s to owning up to our miscalculations. Exactly one year ago, I offered my sports predictions for the new year in this very column, asserting eight things that would happen in 2012. Looking back, I was further off the mark than a blind archer shooting in a hurricane. Now, misfiring once, twice or even six times is no reason to quit, so below you’ll find projections for 2013. But before I lay out more forecasts, here’s a look back at a few of the trip ups of 2012: UConn men’s basketball will reach Final Four, fall to North Carolina. They were in the top 10 at the time of publication and of course Husky nation knows the rest. But yes, at this moment I’m thinking the same thing: Nice going, Callahan. Carolina Panthers will make the NFL playoffs. I swear, there was a time when this team showed promise and Cam Newton scored points instead of tear-soaked tissues into the nearest trash bin - I promise. I also promise never to err so badly again. Oklahoma City Thunder will win NBA championship over the Miami Heat. So. Close. NHL will give a lockout a shot again just because everyone’s doing it. OK, I’m kidding—take two… Note to self: Cut the jokes. UConn men’s soccer will triumph in NCAA college cup. This one was the toughest of all the predictions to look back upon. The Huskies had all the firepower, talent and ingredients, but a couple of key injuries and the annual crippling dose of bad luck late in the season moves the cup to someone else. Only two of these predictions will have come true when I look back 364 days from now. Well, at least this wasn’t far off. Now onto the next 365:
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The UConn women’s basketball team will welcome Penn State to Gampel Pavilion Thursday night in a rematch of last year’s Sweet 16 matchup. In that contest, the Huskies, ranked third in the country at that point, beat the 11thranked Nittany Lions by a comfortable 18-point margin. This season, each team enters the 7-0, 0-0 matchup ranked one spot higher than a year ago – UConn (7-0) at No. 2 and Penn State (6-1) at No. 10. The Huskies are fresh off their first win against a top 10 6-1, 0-0 opponent, as they beat 9 Maryland at the Today, 7 p.m., No. XL Center on Monday night. SNY “I like that. I think Gampel Pavilion everybody likes it,” Coach Geno Auriemma said about playing back-to-back top 10 teams. “Our players like it, I believe our fans like it. I think everybody likes it because you know you’re going to get a real competitive game.” The Terrapins – decimated by injury at the guard position – played physical in the
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Popovich justified in benching Tim Duncan, other stars
By Eddie Leonard NBA Columnist Last Thursday the Miami Heat faced the San Antonio Spurs on TNT. Every NBA fan was looking forward to seeing potentially seven future hall of famers all on the court: LeBron, Wade, Bosh and Allen, Duncan, Parker and Ginobili. The two teams were the best in their respective conferences. All signs pointed to a fantastic game. It did turn out to be a fantastic game, with a nail-biting Miami Heat victory. But it was not at all in the way we planned it to be. Gregg Popovich, the prestigious coach of the Spurs, decided not only to rest his star players, but also to send them all home. None of the Spurs best players played in the game. This outraged David Stern,
the commissioner of the NBA, and he fined the Spurs organization $250,000. This caused major controversy around the league concerning whether the Spurs should have been punished or not. Was it fair? Who was right - Popovich or Stern? Well, lets go straight to the facts. Popovich is commonly referred to as the best coach in the NBA. Popovich has a career winning percentage of .680 and has won four World Championships with the Spurs. He was selected as coach of the year in two of those years. So Popovich knows what he is doing, and he knows exactly what it takes to win. Popovich did nothing out of the ordinary when he held back the reigns on his starters in last week’s spotlight game. Popovich does what he wants and always gets in the best
interest of the Spurs organization. Popovich has rested his stars many times. He knows that records and individual games do not win championships, but keeping your veteran star players healthy for the playoffs does. Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan are 34-and-35 years old. The Spurs played four games in five days on the road leading up to the Heat game. That is a tough road trip for young players, never mind Duncan, a 15-year veteran. Hey, David Stern, if one of those three star players, Duncan, Parker, or Ginobili gets injured, the Spurs season is over. They need all three of them for a deep playoff push. Popoivch’s job is not to please fans of other teams or help TNT make money. His job is to win basketball games. He made a decision that for
has been loud and obnoxious at points and they always point out their reasons why the little guy shouldn’t get a shot. Well, here are your reasons why this little school in Northern Illinois deserves a chance. The Huskies finished 12-1 this year and won their respective conference unlike the likes of Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas A&M. While I understand that the MAC Conference that NIU plays in features far less competitive teams than conferences such as the Big 10 and SEC. However, they can’t help the fact that they are not a good enough team to compete in a powerful conference year in and year out. They were good enough this year, so why not give them a chance to perform against some of the big dogs? Some people might say that based on the eye test, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas A&M are far superior teams and would blow out NIU 99 out of 100
times. Well in the words of famed “Little Giants” head coach Rick Moranis that still leaves “one time.” Unfortunately for larger schools who feel like they could easily beat on smaller schools, we don’t have a head-to-head playoff system for them to prove that. So those teams are forced to take a back seat. Georgia and Texas A&M should be especially mad at the post season rules as the BCS only allows a maximum of two schools per conference into BCS bowl games. Alabama and Florida took those spots leaving Georgia and A&M without an invitation to the dance. One of the worst arguments I’ve heard through my television came from ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit who stated that NIU was undeserving of a BCS bowl because they lost to Iowa who would go on to finish with one of the worst records in the Big 10. What he failed to mention was that this loss came in week one, when most teams are still
getting used to their personnel and finding out what kind of team they are. NIU is a totally transformed and different team than they were in week 1 and if larger schools are allowed to slip up in the early going and still compete, then why shouldn’t a smaller school like NIU? Everybody has Florida State favored in the Orange Bowl and it’s for good reason, but this is a possibility for an enormous upset that could be a classic for years to come. NIU is lead by their quarterback Jordan Lynch who threw for nearly 3,000 yards and rushed for over 1,500 yards this season and has 43 total touchdowns. If he can get the ball rolling and the Florida State offense stalls like it did against NC State, we could be witnessing college football history to close the door on the BCS and move towards a playoff system.
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San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich was fined by NBA Commissioner David Stern after benching Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker against the Miami Heat.
their sixth road game in nine days, he was going to rest his starters. Also, Popovich may have seen that his players were tired and that it may have not been in their best
interest to play. However all this being said, he may have had another motive. The Spurs bench
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Northern Illinois Huskies are this season’s underdog story
By Scott Carroll NCAA Football Columnist
We all love the underdog. The sports movie genre is built on this premise. We all love to watch the small Indiana high school take down the giant. We love to see Rick Moranis lead his “Little Giants” against the towns favorite Pop Warner “Cowboys,” and we love to see the ragtag little league team go from bad news bears to league champs. This year might provide us with another tale suitable for the silver screen. The much-unknown Northern Illinois Huskies have qualified for the BCS Orange Bowl this year and are set to play the Florida State Seminoles in a battle of notoriety and football. The Huskies were able to bypass powerhouse teams such as Georgia, Oklahoma, and Texas A&M. The outrage that has poured out of the talking heads on ESPN and other networks
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Northern Illinois will play Florida State in the 2013 Discover Orange Bowl in Miami.