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Oklahoma received Big 12 bailout Sooners stood to lose $1.8 million in unsold tickets at Fiesta Bowl if not for conference’s help By Mac Cerullo Managing Editor
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The University of Oklahoma clobbered UConn 48-20 in the 2011 Fiesta Bowl on the field, but it narrowly avoided a worse fate financially thanks to some help from the Big 12. According to bowl documents obtained from Oklahoma, the school earned a profit of $9,350 at the game. But if Oklahoma
had been forced to absorb its entire allotment of unsold tickets, it would have instead lost $1.87 million, which would have been more than the $1.76 million UConn lost at the Fiesta Bowl. The Big 12 conference helps its member schools sell tickets, and as a result helps deflect much of the financial damage if not enough tickets are sold. At the 2011 Fiesta Bowl, Oklahoma committed to selling 7,097 tickets while the Big 12
committed to selling the remaining 10,403. Oklahoma sold a total of 5,567, and the Big 12 sold none. As a result, Oklahoma was only hit with a loss of $337,080 on tickets, while the Big 12 ate the remaining $1.8 million. The Big East conference does not help its member schools in this way, which is why when UConn was only able to sell 2,771 tickets to the Fiesta Bowl, it had to foot the entire $2.9 million loss that came with it. As far as expenses related to transportation, meals and lodging are concerned, the two schools compared fairly evenly.
Oklahoma spent about $200,000 less on travel than UConn, but about $200,000 more on food. The key reason for the difference in travel was due to large differences in the schools’ band and cheerleader travel expenses. Oklahoma spent only $91,941 on travel between 337 people in the band and cheerleader party, compared to the $369,817 UConn spent on its party of 335. Oklahoma’s party also spent six days at the game, compared to the three days UConn spent. Oklahoma spent a lot less on entertainment and promotion than UConn did, spending
about $6,000 combined between the two compared to UConn’s $70,000. The discrepancy in promotion could likely be explained by the fact that Oklahoma had already appeared in the Fiesta Bowl four times before, while UConn had never been to any BCS bowl game in its history. All totaled, Oklahoma’s total revenues amounted to $1,859,300 and its expenses $1,849,950. UConn received more in revenue from the Big East, taking in $2,523,200, but its expenses were vast, totaling $4,280,998.
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Students called to don detective hats Romney
wins big in Florida, routing Gingrich
By Katherine Peinhardt Campus Correspondent
FOURTH TIME’S A CHARM? Huskies look to snap three-game losing streak. SPORTS/ page 14 EDITORIAL: CANDIDATES SHOULDN’T ATTACK HIGHER EDUCATION Discouraging support of higher education is contrary to presidential responsibility. COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: YANKEE AND RED SOX FORMER MANAGERS TEAM UP Cashman and Epstein shared trading stories from over the years. NEWS/ page 3
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ject, year, even language of articles were simple check-boxes that redefined what the search system retrieved in its archives, and honed down one’s search results. Labadorf also perused several worldwide resources on UConn’s Worldcat system, which makes available to
UConn students any number of books and articles from libraries across the globe. For the students who were not sure what exactly to look for, Labadorf offered steps in beginning one’s research. Students must read journal articles online, examine their theses, find a theme of interest, and
narrow the search to begin to build up a source base. Professors often find that students do not take advantage of their office hours. Many of these professors are interested in collaborating with undergraduates. Contacting them is a further
independent studies, and students must earn credit for the internship or they will not be able to participate in the program. Interns are placed in one
branch of the DCF office, such as Investigation Services, In Home Services, Out of Home Services, Voluntary Services, Mental Health services, Adolescences Services, Permanence Services, Foster Care and Adoption Services and Probate Services. Lachack and co-presenter Meg Pichette, an intake social worker, emphasized the hands-on approach to the internship, saying that interns would be out in the field and work actively on cases. “Interns aren’t cab drivers, aren’t coffee makers,” said Lachack. “They aren’t doing mundane stuff. Your time [at the DCF] should be actual work experience.” He expanded on this, saying interns are typically
assigned to a couple specific cases. Interns work with DCF employees as well as the families involved in the cases. For this reason, Lachack said he refuses to take interns who work only half a day: interns must work one or two full days. Pichette explained the full day is to the benefit of the intern. She said interns who work half days are significantly limited in the amount of time they can spend in the field. “It’s an exciting job, you’re constantly on the go,” said Pichette. Beyond providing experience in the field, these internships often function as a
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Mitt Romney routed Newt Gingrich in the Florida primary Tuesday night, rebounding smartly from an earlier defeat and taking a major step toward the Republican presidential nomination. Despite the one-sided setback, the former House speaker vowed to press on. Romney, talking unity like a nominee, said he was ready “to lead this party and our nation” — and turn Democratic President Barack Obama out of office. In remarks to cheering supporters, the former Massachusetts governor unleashed a strong attack on Obama and said the competitive fight for the GOP nomination “does not divide us, it prepares us” for the fall. “Mr. President, you were elected to lead, you chose to follow, and now it’s time to get out of the way,: he declared. Returns from 79 percent of Florida’s precincts showed Romney with 47 percent of the vote, to 32 percent for Gingrich. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum had 13 percent, and Texas Rep. Ron Paul 7 percent. Neither mounted a substantial effort in the state. The winner-take-all primary was worth 50 Republican National Convention delegates, by far the most of any primary state so far. But the bigger prize was precious political momentum in the race to pick an opponent for Obama in a nation struggling to recover from the deepest recession in decades. That belonged to Romney when he captured the New Hampshire primary three weeks ago, then swung stunningly to Gingrich when he countered with a South Carolina upset 11 days later. Now it was back with the former Massachusetts governor, after a 10-day comeback that marked a change to more aggressive tactics, coupled with an efficient use of an overwhelming financial advantage to batter Gingrich in television commercials over a 10-day campaign.
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Kathy Labadorf showed students how to take advantage of the amenities Homer Babbidge Library has to offer those conducting research. Labadorf stressed, in line with the title of her seminar, that “it’s not too early to start your research.”
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The research process at UConn is becoming quicker, more in-depth and efficient, aiding students interested in conducing their own projects. The amount of information available to UConn students interested in research is growing each semester. Kathy Labadorf, the host of Tuesday’s seminar on starting your own research, said a student remarked, “The world’s a candy store for you.” The seminar, “It’s not too early to start your research” was part of a Homer Babbidge Library series for undergraduate students, called Tuesdays @ Homer. The series will focus on things like getting started in the sometimes-daunting area of research, and time management. This week’s focus was on the online resources that students have at their disposal. Labadorf conducted specific example searches based on attending students’ majors and interests, ranging from Neuroscience to Spanish. Using ILLiad, UConn’s inter-library loan system and the newly launched Summon Search, Labadorf found countless articles, eBooks and journals related to the topics. The new refined search capability of this system made users’ specific parameters for sources easy to fulfill; things like sub-
The Willimantic office of the Department of Children and Families is hiring an unusually high number of interns, according to John Lachack, Willimantic intake supervisor and intern coordinator. Willimantic consistently takes up to nine interns, compared to other DCF offices that may take only one. Lachack presented the DCF internship program to students at the Center for Undergraduate Education Tuesday. It was aimed at students seeking to apply for internships over the summer. The internships function as
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drivers, aren’t coffee makers...They aren’t doing mundane stuff.”
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What’s on at UConn today... Stuff-A-Husky 12 to 4 p.m. Student Union Lobby
Peruvian Theater Group 2 to 4 p.m. Library Classroom 1947 room
Human Rights Film Series 4 to 6 p.m. Konover Auditorium
Innovation Quest 2012 7 to 9 p.m. CUE Atrium
Looking for a new cuddle buddy? Head to the Student Union tomorrow to get your own miniature version of Jonathan the Husky.
The CUER2 theater troupe from Peru will perform “Interruptor,” which looks at two boys coming of age in the digital world.
“Blood in the Mobile” will be screening tomorrow in the Dodd Center. The film looks at connections between cell phones, the civil war and the illegal mine industry in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Ready to start your own business empire? Join the 2012 Innovation Quest competition for their kickoff event. Awards will be up to $15,000 and winners have the chance to get six weeks in a Business Incubator.
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State democrats call for minimum wage increase
HARTFORD (AP) — A group of Democratic state lawmakers, including the House speaker, is calling for an increase in Connecticut’s minimum wage. They unveiled a plan Tuesday that raises the $8.25 per hour wage to $9 this year and $9.75 next year. Under the proposal, future years would be indexed to keep pace with the rising cost of living, giving employers predictability for their labor costs. Republican lawmakers, however, say this is the wrong time to raise the wage considering how many businesses are struggling. Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he plans to watch the debate and then decide whether to ultimately support the proposal offered by House Speaker Christopher Donovan and several fellow lawmakers. Donovan says more families are relying on the minimum wage and low-wage jobs to make ends meet.
Fla. man sentenced in state child sex abuse case
BRIDGEPORT (AP) — A former Connecticut travel company vice president accused of sexually abusing girls in the U.S. and Nicaragua has been sentenced to 85 years in prison. Fifty-five-year-old Edgardo Sensi of Jensen Beach, Fla., was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Bridgeport. He pleaded guilty in July 2010 to engaging in illicit sexual conduct outside the United States and child pornography. Federal prosecutors say Sensi, who worked at a Norwalk travel agency, went to Nicaragua in 2004 and 2005 and had illicit sexual contact with a 4-year-old girl whose mother he befriended. Officials say he also conspired between 2001 and 2004 with a former girlfriend in Connecticut to coerce her 8-year-old daughter in sex acts. Prosecutors said he video-recorded the abuse.
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step in getting research started. Further, she advised that, “if you’re really interested, don’t quit.” Finding a subject area to pursue is as simple as browsing articles in areas of interest, or even just within one’s major. These seminars are also open resources to undergraduates. They are opportunities for guidance in many areas of collegiate life. Whatever one’s interest areas include, such as Feminist Pedagogy for Labadorf and the Sympathetic Nervous System for one attendee, UConn databases had some resource to show for it. The seminar’s casual and personalized approach to its subject allowed students in attendance to see what is possible for them using these services accessible online or at the Homer Babbidge Library. More seminars are to come, on numerous topics that fall under the title “The Real College Survival Strategies,” such as learning about bibliographies and library technologies. Next week’s seminar is “Time Management and Study Skills,” with the Academic Achievement Center’s Kevin Sullivan at 7 p.m. in the Electronic Classroom 1 on Floor 1 of the library.
means of recruitment. “I have to assess if you have the ability to handle this job; it’s a tough job,” said Lachack. “We take this job very seriously, and we feel you are coming to us asking for an internship and should take the job seriously.” Latasha Thomson, an 8thsemester human development and family studies major, expressed her interest in the internship opportunity. “I want to work with children; I really want to help people. I have family members who went through the DCF, I want to learn how it works,” said Thomson. In regards to qualities DCF looks for in internship candidates Lachack said, “I like an intern who is able to communicate their needs, an intern who is self motivated and has the ability to work independently.” Those interested in applying for the internship were advised to apply as early as possible, the DCF started accepting summer internship applications on Jan. 15 and stops accepting them on March 31, since the process is first come first serve. The application process consist of an online application, found on the DCF website under internships, and an interview.
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Cashman, Epstein can now do business FAIRFIELD (AP) — Brian Cashman and Theo Epstein said that after years of being on opposite sides of baseball’s most bitter rivalry, they are looking forward to being able to make deals with one another. The Yankees general manager and the former general manager of the Red Sox appeared together at a forum Tuesday night at Sacred Heart University. Now president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs, the 38-year-old Epstein says he spent a lot of sleepless nights thinking that Cashman was up making a deal that would put the Yankees in a better position than the Red Sox. “I was never able to totally relax because I felt like he was always lurking,” Epstein said. “He had a great sense of the marketplace.” Cashman said Epstein’s pure objective decision making forced the Yankees to rethink how they did business. “I found the Red Sox were constantly making the right choice, not the popular choice,” Cashman said. “That helped us reset our button a little bit by watching how they went about their business.” Both said that because of the extreme nature of the rivalry, they never had any serious trade talks during the last decade. But they told reporters backstage they expect that to change now.
Over half of women voted for Romney, only three in 10 for Gingrich
NEW BRITAIN (AP) — Connecticut environmental officials say the state’s design for a 9.4-mile, buses-only corridor between New Britain and Hartford would not damage wetlands or sensitive areas nearby. A state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection hearing officer said Tuesday that the busway application satisfies inland wetlands and watercourse protection regulations. People can comment in writing by Feb. 15 to present their opinions before the DEEP’s commissioner, who will decide whether to uphold the hearing officer’s recommendation to grant the permits. The busway, which officials said will ultimately cost $567 million, is expected to provide bus service every five minutes or less to 16,000 passengers daily starting in 2014.
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RI judge sides with ICE officer in detainee death
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge in Rhode Island has sided with a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer sued by the widow of a Chinese immigration detainee who died while in custody. An order dismissing claims against ICE Operations Coordinator Lawrence Smith was filed Tuesday in Providence. Smith and others were sued after 34-year-old Hiu Lui (Hyoo Loo) “Jason” Ng (Eng) died of advanced liver cancer in 2008 while being held at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls. The New York City computer engineer’s death came about a week after he met with Smith in Hartford, Conn. The decision means no more federal employees are named in the lawsuit, which accuses Wyatt staff of abusing and medically neglecting Ng.
Fla. highway patrol defends reopening I-75
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Highway Patrol says conditions were clear when they decided to reopen the interstate highway where 10 people were killed in two deadly pileups amid heavy smoke and fog. Lt. Patrick Riordan said Monday in a news conference that visibility quickly deteriorated after they reopened the highway early Sunday morning. The crashes started shortly after. About midnight, the highway patrol closed Interstate 75 near Gainesville because of low visibility but reopened it about 3:30 a.m. Pileups began about 15 minutes later, with survivors describing smoke and fog so thick they couldn’t see.
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“We just had a few brief talks this winter, but it will be nice to take each other seriously again,” Epstein said. “Yeah, instead of fake talking, we can actually do something,” Cashman added. The two spent a lot of time Tuesday trading old stories. There was the time in 2002 when Epstein had his Latin American scouting director buy up every room in the small hotel in Nicaragua where then free agent Jose Contreras was staying while negotiating with the Red Sox and Yankees as a free agent. “We were smoking cigars with Contreras and drinking rum until about 4 o’clock in the morning,” Epstein said. “He told us he always wanted to be a Red Sox, and then the next morning the Yankees offered him about $10 million more.” Cashman said the hotel move made George Steinbrenner angry. “The Boss, that was something that was a one up on us when they did that, it was a shrewd move, and he (Steinbrenner) was not going to be denied,” Cashman said. Epstein also relayed how Jed Hoyer, his assistant in Boston and now the Cubs General manager, got food poisoning after the famous Thanksgiving dinner he and Epstein shared in 2003 at Curt Shilling’s home, a meal that sealed the trade bringing Shilling to Boston.
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney celebrates his Florida primary election win at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Fla., Tuesday.
from ROMNEY, page 1 For the first time in the campaign, exit polls showed a gender gap in Romney’s favor. He ran far better among women than Gingrich, winning just over half of their votes, to three in 10 for his rival. Only about half of the women voters said they had a favorable view of the thrice-married Gingrich as a person, while about eight in 10 had a positive opinion of Romney. As in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, about half of Florida primary voters said the most important factor for them was backing a candidate who can defeat Obama in November, according to early exit poll results conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks. Not surprisingly, in a state with an unemployment rate hovering around 10 percent, about
two-thirds of voters said the economy was their top issue. More than eight in 10 said they were falling behind or just keeping up. And half said that home foreclosures have been a major problem in their communities. Gingrich, from neighboring Georgia, swept into Florida from South Carolina, only to run headlong into a different Romney from the one he had left in his wake in South Carolina. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, shed his reluctance to attack Gingrich, the former House speaker, unleashing hard-hitting ads on television, sharpening his performance in a pair of debates and deploying surrogates to the edges of Gingrich’s own campaign appearances, all in hopes of unnerving him. Restore our Future, an outside group supporting Romney, accounted for about $8.8 million in the ad wars, and the
candidate and the “super PAC” combined outspent Gingrich and Winning The Future, the organization backing him, by about $15.5 million to $3.3 million, an advantage of nearly 5-1. Gingrich responded by assailing Romney as a man incapable of telling the truth and vowed to remain in the race until the Republican National Convention next summer. He won the endorsement of campaign dropout Herman Cain and increasingly sought the support of evangelicals and tea party advocates, a former House speaker running as the antiestablishment insurgent of the party he once helped lead. Bombarded by harsh television advertising, some Floridians said they had soured on both candidates. “The dirty ads really turned me off on Mitt Romney,” said Dorothy Anderson, of Pinellas Park, adding she was voting for
Gingrich. She said of Romney, “In fact if he gets the nomination, I probably won’t vote for him.” At the same polling place, Romney supporter Curtis Dempsey expressed similar feelings but about Gingrich. “The only thing Newt Gingrich has to offer is a big mouth,” he said. Voters frequently say they are offended or appalled by negative ads. But polls show consistently that the commercials are able to sway the opinions of large numbers of voters, and they are a staple of nearly all campaigns. Santorum had no money for television ads to back up his strong debate performances. He left the state at one point, saying he was going home to Pennsylvania to prepare his income tax returns. But he stayed longer than anticipated, because of the hospitalization of his 3-year-old daughter with pneumonia. The girl has a rare genetic disorder, Trisomy 18. Santorum was already in Nevada Tuesday night, campaigning for the state’s caucuses on Saturday. “Newt Gingrich had his chance. He had his shot,” he said. Now Republicans are “looking for a different conservative.” Santorum and Paul both also campaigned in Colorado on Tuesday as Florida Republicans were voting. The state has caucuses on Feb 7, the same day as Minnesota. Even before that come caucuses in Nevada, a state that Romney won when he sought the nomination in 2008 and is favored to capture again. By contrast, both Romney and Gingrich campaigned across Florida on primary day as the polls opened.
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Higher oil prices lift Exxon’s fourth quarter profit NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil had a simple formula for success last quarter: It sold oil at higher prices. Everything else was a struggle for the largest U.S. oil company. Production fell, its refineries suffered from high costs and falling fuel demand, and it made less money on chemicals. Even its big investment in natural gas hasn’t paid off. But oil’s a different story. Global oil demand is outstripping supply. The U.S. benchmark price for crude rose 10 percent during the final three months of 2011. As a result, Exxon was able to charge customers more for crude — 27 percent more than a year earlier. That helped the company’s fourth-quarter income rise 2 percent. Net income totaled $9.4 billion, or $1.97 per share, compared with $9.25 billion, or $1.85 per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose nearly 16 percent to $121.6 billion. Exxon Mobil Corp., like other major oil companies, is struggling to tap new sources of oil fast enough in an environment where big finds are rarer and costlier to exploit. Potential fields lie deep under the seabed, or in shale rock formations that require expen-
sive technology to crack open. When Exxon can’t find oil fast enough, it is stuck with existing fields where production is declining. In the fourth quarter Exxon’s oil and natural gas production fell 9 percent, even though it has plowed more than $20 billion a year into finding new sources since 2007. Exxon says its investments will pay off long-term. Still, investors worried about the company’s ability to raise production and sent the company’s stock price down 2 percent on Tuesday. Rivals like Chevron Corp. are struggling with the same challenges. Last week Chevron reported 2011 production levels that were the lowest since 2008. Exxon’s is also grappling with its $30 billion bet on natural gas from two years ago. In 2010, the company bought XTO Energy Inc., a huge natural gas producer. Exxon won praise for the deal because natural gas prices were falling. Experts assumed that prices would rise once the U.S. economy strengthened following the 2007-2009 recession. The XTO Energy deal sparked a stampede by major energy companies into North American
gas markets. A surge in drilling has since pushed production to record levels in the U.S., creating record levels of supply. This January, the price of natural gas dropped to its lowest since 2002. Now, Exxon is looking to oil to hedge its natural gas bet. On Tuesday, the Irving, Texas energy giant said that it has shifted U.S. operations to focus more on developing wells rich in oil. It didn’t give more details. But investor relations Vice President David Rosenthal told investors in a conference call that Exxon must commit itself to a “higher value, higher margin” business. In the past year, “we’ve actually doubled the percentage of the rigs in that (U.S.) fleet that are drilling either liquids or liquids-rich plays,” Rosenthal said. Exxon still has high hopes for natural gas. The company said in December that by 2025, natural gas will replace coal as the second most popular fuel in the world. But for now, Exxon said, its focus will be on producing more oil. Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Fadel Gheit said the company needs to do more. He said Exxon should follow competitors like Chesapeake Energy
SEATTLE (AP) — Federal authorities aren’t sure yet who shot several sea lions in the Puget Sound region in recent weeks, but a conservation group has offered up $10,000 for information that helps convict the perpetrators. At least seven dead sea lions and one harbor seal have washed up in Puget Sound and on the Washington coast since early December, Brian Gorman, a spokesman with NOAA Fisheries Service in Seattle, said Tuesday. One of the animals was a federally endangered Stellar sea lion. Bullets or bullet fragments have been found or recovered from all seven sea lions, but biologists are working to determine whether the bullets killed them, Gorman said. He noted that stranded mammals have been found with old bullet wounds that aren’t fatal. The number of dead marine mammals is unusual but not alarming so, authorities say. “This is not uncommon to have dead marine mammals killed intentionally,” said Mike Cenci, deputy chief of enforcement for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, which is assisting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the investigation. “I’m not saying it’s rampant, but we investi-
gate a number of these a year.” Another dead harbor seal, a yearling, was reported Tuesday at a park in Edmonds, but it wasn’t immediately clear how it died, said Kristin Wilkinson, a marine mammal specialist with NOAA Fisheries Service. It’s not uncommon for dead harbor seals to show up this time of year, and because the animals have ear holes rather than external ear flaps, some mistakenly think they’ve been shot, she said. Salmon-hungry sea lions often get entangled in fisherman’s nets or catches, and some consider them to be nuisances. “They’re not warm and cuddly. These are big guys. They’re stinky. They’re carnivores, and they’re doing what they do best — they’re hunting for fish,” which puts them in conflict with fishermen, Gorman said. In biological terms, however, losing this many animals won’t have a measureable effect on the population of California sea lions, which is very healthy, he said. “We do pursue these cases seriously,” Gorman said, adding “Obviously, people can’t go around shooting sea lions willy nilly.” All the animals are federally protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act. But Steller sea lions are also protected under the Endangered
Species Act. A necropsy is being performed Tuesday on one sea lion, and X-rays are scheduled on three others this week. Bullets recovered from the animals could also help determine whether the bullets came from the same gun, he said. Investigating such marine mammal deaths can be challenging, because very often there are no witnesses and such crimes often happen on the water where few are watching, officials said. Bill Giles, deputy special agent in charge of Northwest enforcement for NOAA, said officers are following tips received through its hotline. Many of the animals were dead before they were found. One dead lion discovered last week in West Seattle had been dead for at least three weeks. In 2008 when six sea lions were found dead in traps on the Columbia River, suspicion immediately fell on fishermen, who have long complained that sea lions gobble up salmon at the Bonneville Dam. Federal officials initially said the sea lions had been shot, but necropsies by state and federal experts later found no evidence of bullet wounds. NOAA later said the deaths of those animals were the results of necropsies on all six animals were consistent with death from heat stroke.
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shows the ExxonMobil refinery behind a Mobil station in Torrance, Calif. Exxon said Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, its fourth-quarter earnings rose 2 percent as higher oil prices made up for a drop in production.
Corp. that have slashed gas production while investing heavily in oil wells. “They don’t want to have dead wood dragging them down,” Gheit said. Exxon’s other businesses
struggled in the fourth quarter. Earnings dropped 63 percent at its refining business, which has been hurt by the rising cost of oil and declining gasoline prices. Stricter rules on car and truck fuel economy are expected
to keep demand low for years in the U.S. and Europe. Exxon’s chemicals business saw profits decline 49 percent. For the full year, Exxon’s net income rose 34.8 percent while revenue rose 26.9 percent.
HARTFORD (AP) — Several Connecticut colleges and universities have recouped the millions they lost in their endowment funds when the economy crashed in 2009 and others continue a steady climb toward those benchmarks, according to a new nationwide review. Data gathered from 823 colleges and universities throughout the U.S. showed almost half of them had endowment market values in mid-2011 that were still millions of dollars below what they reported in 2008. Yale, Wesleyan and the University of Connecticut were among those still trying to regain lost ground. But several others in Connecticut, mostly small liberal arts colleges, rebounded last year past their 2008 levels after receiving large donations, limiting interest they drew out of the endowments for expenses or carefully targeting their investments — usually, combining some or all of those actions. At Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, for instance, the 2008 endowment fund of $18 million took a hit that bumped it down to $15.5 million over the following two years. In the 2010-11 fiscal year, though, it jumped to $21.4 million on the strength of investment returns and a large bequest from an alumnus whose estate included
money to bolster scholarships at the school. “We were fortunate with market return and, at the same time, receiving the single large bequest,” said Shawn Harrington, the college’s vice president of finance and administration, declining to provide specifics about the gift based on the donor’s preference for confidentiality. “We’re like everyone else, watching the market closely and hoping it does continue to improve,” he said Tuesday. Endowments are a combination of funds that universities invest as a last-ditch cushion against emergencies, and most try not to touch the principal. They often use some or all of the interest to pay for scholarships, endowed professorships and other operating expenses. Colleges typically spend around 5 percent of their endowment annually on those costs, though elite universities like Yale and Harvard rely on their endowments for about one-third of their yearly budgets. The Commonfund Institute and the National Association of College and University Business Officials (NACUBO) this week released the data on the college endowments nationwide as part of its annual survey of more than 800 higher education institutions in the U.S. It includes 75 colleges and uni-
versities with endowments exceeding $1 billion. In Connecticut, only Yale’s $19.3 billion endowment puts it among that group — though it’s still below the university’s 2008 high of $22.8 billion. Tom Conroy, a Yale spokesman, said Tuesday that the past few years have been challenging as the endowment has been rebuilding, but that they were able to slow the pace of some projects rather than eliminate them entirely. “In general what the Yale Corporation and the officers sought to do, and were successful in doing, was to not allow the dip in the endowment to negatively affect the quality of education and research,” Conroy said. In addition to Yale, Wesleyan and UConn were still moving toward their 2008 amounts, along with Fairfield University and Connecticut College in New London. Connecticut schools whose endowments had reached or exceeded their pre-recession 2008 amounts, including Saint Joseph, were: Trinity College in Hartford ($416.6 million last year), Quinnipiac University in Hamden ($277.5 million), University of Hartford ($114.3 million), Sacred Heart in Fairfield ($108.3 million), Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven ($13.3 million) and Mitchell College in New London ($6.1 million).
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Candidates shouldn’t attack higher education
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ast week, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum accused the political Left of using higher education to indoctrinate students. Speaking before an audience in Naples, FL, Santorum targeted people “who give money to colleges and universities who are undermining the very principles of our country every single day by indoctrinating kids in left-wing ideology.” To combat this alleged brainwashing, Santorum gave a clear recommendation: “Stop it.” Presidential candidates are running for an office whose responsibility involves the improvement of America’s colleges and universities. Discouraging people from wanting to attend or support these institutions of higher education runs contrary to this responsibility. These comments were delivered as a criticism of President Obama’s higher education initiative, but they are little more than an attack on higher education itself. In his words, Santorum presents no alternative to attending a college or university. Are prospective students supposed to abandon an undergraduate education out of fear of brainwashing? According to Santorum, it would seem so. This is the absolute wrong message to send students. These are competitive and economically uncertain times, and higher education gives students a greater shot at financial well-being. Politicians ought to support students in this endeavor. The nation is strongest when its citizens are well-educated. With a college degree, students can attain a broader range of higher-paying jobs in more parts of the world. Their greater success makes the nation wealthier and more competitive. An individual’s pursuit of higher education therefore benefits America on a whole. As students know all too well, personal economic hardship and skyrocketing tuition costs have made college more difficult to afford. Public colleges and universities, which still benefit from state support, remain more feasible financial options than their private counterparts. But state funding is declining. In the last fiscal year alone, state funds to UConn plummeted by $45 million. The battle over the nation’s debt prevents the federal government from stepping in when states cannot. To whom then must public colleges and universities turn? Private donors. Here at UConn, President Susan Herbst has made fundraising a major goal of her administration. Santorum’s recommendation, if carried out, would eliminate private funding to public colleges and universities, devestating them financially. Students would have to choose between massive cuts in their on-campus standard of living, dramatically higher tuition or a private institution. Private colleges are on average more expensive than state schools. Therefore most prospective students would simply abandon their academic dreams. Santorum means to harm President Obama with his words, but they only harm the most financially vulnerable students. To briefly touch upon Santorum’s initial critique, that colleges are “indoctrinating kids in left-wing ideology,” presidents do not have the legal ability to regulate intellectual content on campuses. Selecting professors that express a solely non-Leftist political leaning would taint higher education with the same level of academic bias that Santorum opposes. Also, professors do not force students to abandon a belief. Higher education is a place where students are exposed to many different viewpoints, which allows them to grow intellectually, make more educated choices and increase their competitiveness as future workers. Choosing what to believe is up to them. In regards to alleged indoctrination, students can “stop it” whenever they want. 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.
Is it weird that I love using big words during any class discussions to sound smart? I mean, utilizing gargantuan idioms to fabricate intelligence. Jet packs are a terrible idea, they would burn your legs right off! My roommate’s snoring is so bad it’s could qualify as a form of cruel and unusual punishment. Who uses AIM anymore? Ted’s...the promiseland for guys under 5’9. When you drunkenly lose your glasses, Google searching for “my glasses” doesn’t help. Nothing is better than walking back from the gym and having members of the UConn women’s basketball team singing I’ve had the time of my life to you as you walk by their building as they’re doing karaoke. To the random guy whose car i sat in last Thursday night... Sorry, but i could have sworn you were guard dogs...
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Free Press magazine still relevant today
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ith passionate anger reverberating through every word and psychedelic colors adorning the cover, the alternative student-published magazine UConn Free Press has been a university staple since 1969. Content ranges from extreme and radical to thought-provoking and philosophical. But what is the little-known history behind the publication’s origins? And what does the original reveal about the domino effect culminating in today’s version? Among the founders was Charles Belair, class of ‘69. “The sociology department along with a couple of English professors was the hotbed of By Jesse Rifkin anti-war protests, Weekly Columnist protesting against military recruitment on campus and the like. That’s what the Free Press started from, an outpost of that movement,” Belair, a sociology major, explained in a phone interview. “I remember participating in one demonstration where police outnumbered demonstrators about five to one.” “I was fighting being drafted into the Army at the time,” Belair recalled. “It wound up being a two year period before that was all squared away.” Upon being asked whether he or the government won, Belair replied matterof-factly, “Oh, I did.” On October 15, 1969, the UConn Free Press was born. And they were mad. For one, Jack Roach railed against the UConn Board of Trustees. “Most of our trustees have devoted their lives to the acquisition of wealth and power through manipulations in the world of busi-
ness and commerce,” he wrote. “And that is where they put to use the virtues with which they are really endowed: substantial family background, influential friends, and an entrepreneurial mentality. To many, these may be enviable traits, but unless one conceives of higher education exclusively in terms of socializing youth into the status quo, it is hard to see how they qualify one to be entrusted with the running of a university.” An anonymous writer seethed at administrative reaction to student petitions. “In response to a Student Senate resolution calling for the disarmament of security officers, a cross section of conservatives was appointed,” he mocked. “[Then-universitypresident Homer] Babbidge’s now famous brand of participatory democracy had prevailed again, perpetuating the campus community’s share in ‘decision-making.’” Wayne Lawrence, “Minister of Information” for the newly-formed organization Black Student Union, had taken enough following assassinations of Dr. King and Malcolm X. “We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of the black community,” he demanded. “We believe that this racist capitalist government has robbed the Black Community of its money by forcing us to pay higher taxes for less quality.” Barbara Basset, rejecting national excitement over the just-completed Apollo 11 moon landing, mistrusted governmental spending priorities. “The enormous cost of this scientific delight no one seems to mention,” she noted. “And I only question, remembering Chicago, Harlem, Newark, and all those other hungry communities.” Over 42 years later, the tradition continues. The January 2012 issue featured an engineering major’s defense of arts programs at college; a vicious critique of gender oppression wryly observing that modern women “can run for president, or vote for the males who
always win”; and a feature comparing attending a university to “going to McDonalds, giving them all your money via a contract, and then they decide what food to give you.” UConn needs the Free Press now as much as ever. If the Daily Campus – the university’s foundation for solid journalistic reporting – is the bread and butter of student journalism, the Free Press is the chocolate dessert. Turbulent times sometimes require that extra kick. There is something secretly gratifying about reading words intended not just to inform or persuade but also to jolt and offend. Yet the Free Press does not do so merely for shock value but to challenge preconceived biases and force reconsideration of beliefs. Salvatore Sodaro, a 6th-semester history major and current Chief Organizational Officer, theorized in an interview why the publication still persists. “The students are really the majority stakeholders in this university. Do we have a say in anything that goes on? The truth is, no, not really… It’s just absolutely crazy how close to zero percent actual tangible representation the students have in how the university works.” This fuels student anger, manifesting itself in words on printed pages. “The majority exposure students have ever had [with administration] is when they tell you that you can’t do something, as opposed to that you can. And that is a shame.” The more things change, the more they stay the same. Belair now teaches math at Jamestown Community College in New York. “Maybe the names of the countries changed and some of the terminology changed,” Belair reflected wistfully, “but you would have found the same sentiments back in 1969.”
Weekly Columnist Jesse Rifkin is a 4th-semester political science and journalism double major. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.
African history education shouldn’t be confined to one month
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oday marks the first day of February and consequently, Black History Month. Ever since its creation in 1976, the United States (as well as Canada) has celebrated African-American (and AfricanCanadian) achievements in history during the month of February. Of course, there has been criticism that February is the shortest month, causing some anger amongst the African By Joel Cintron D i a s p o r a . Last year, Staff Columnist I heard the boldest of criticisms that came from the voice of the Century. No, it wasn’t from Kanye, but Morgan Freeman. Mr. Freeman called for the abolishment of Black History Month when he was on 60 Minutes, saying it was “ridiculous” that the history of his people was “relegated to a month”. He then goes into how to stop racism by simply saying “to stop talking about it.” In a clip of just one minute, Mr. Freeman rallied against Black History Month and provides a simple solution to one of the most complex problems in this world, and you know what? I agree with him. No, I am not a racist. The works of Malcolm X, Tupac Shakur and
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Langston Hughes happen to be very influential in my life. I simply feel that African-American history should be taught throughout a school year instead of solely focusing on it for one month. If you really think about it, dedicating a month to learning about one “race” undermines the history of a people whose ancestors built America. Sure, the Founding Fathers might have provided us with the laws and infrastructure that politicians argue over nowadays; however, it is the slaves who ultimately built this nation with their labor. By picking cotton and other agricultural goods for a nominally low price of FREE, they fueled the American economy, leading to its exponential growth as world power. As I mentioned in my last article, the Declaration of Independence claims that “All men are created equal”; however, the slaves were not treated as equals. No, they had masters and were hunted down and shot if they tried to escape. Yes, this is one of America’s darkest chapters; one that has planted the seed of resentment on both sides. It also provides the background for an issue that African-Americans still struggle with today, equality. You may be thinking, “Hey, didn’t they pass an act that grants all people,
regardless of race, gender, etc. equality?” The answer would be yes, in theory. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is supposed to rid these United States of discrimination and inequality. Unfortunately, African-Americans are still not equal to White-Americans, whether it is in terms of education, wealth or social status. There is historical evidence that proves my statement is valid, but how would you know? I’m not trying to be rude, but they don’t teach African-American history in great detail, so how could you know? When students are taught History, specifically U.S. History, they get brief overviews of the Emancipation Proclamation (which didn’t actually free the slaves) and the Civil Rights movement, and that’s about it. Everything else, for lack of a better word, is White History. I remember in high school that one of my African-American friends told me someone said, “Why don’t we have a White History Month?” The answer, as my friend rightfully exclaimed, “We study White History everyday!” By separating them, we only continue to further the division that racism has created. By not learning about Black History as equally as we study U.S. his-
tory, people lose the chance to fully comprehend the constant struggle that African-Americans have faced since the birth of this Nation. A Nation that was created on the principles of liberty and equality, yet Black history is unequally relegated to a month. Even so, only a few topics are touched. How many of people know the details concerning the Black Codes, Dred Scott, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment, and the Black Panther Party? Not many. Unfortunately, they do not receive the same amount of attention when a teacher covers U.S. History. As Tupac Shakur said, “Ain’t no Malcolm X in my history text.” In conclusion, there shouldn’t be a Black History Month. I believe Mr. Morgan Freeman said it best, “Black History is American history.” By removing “race” from the picture, we can only move in the right direction, which is to abolish the concept of racism. We shouldn’t categorize ourselves based on “race,” because last time I checked there is only one race, the human race. I believe it is time we acted like one. Staff Columnist Joel Cintron is a 6th-semester international relations major. He can be reached at Joel.Cintron@UConn.edu.
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Royalty Free Speech by Ryan Kennedy
Procrastination Animation by Michael McKiernan
Editor’s Choice by Brendan Albetski
Horoscopes by Brian Ingmanson
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Allow ideas to gel, for now. Get into research, where it’s all starting to make sense. Pull together facts and data, and sort through them to discover treasure. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- You have plenty of profitable ideas, and some are ripe for the picking. Confer with dreamers for inspiration, and let the wind dictate your direction. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- The Moon’s in your sign, and you’re riding high. A unique character enters the picture. Accept an assignment for the money, and find hidden interest. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Thinking and planning fits your mood. Slow down and contemplate. Fine-tune your domestic environment. Clarify your direction, and get ready to play catch up. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Balance responsibility with a bit of crazy. Don’t take friends for granted. They’re really there for you. It’s a two-way street ... do something fun together.
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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Wake up to a beautiful day full of options. Climb mountains, cross rivers, stop and smell the roses. Watch where you place your feet. The view’s incredible. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Business interferes with fun. Don’t goof off! You’d much rather play. Plan a vacation or trip, even as you manage your responsibilities. Being productive pays. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- With the right company, you can face obstacles that you normally might shy away from. Things don’t seem like such a big deal. Balance action and patience. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Insights battle for your attention. Intuition guides your pen, and emotion fuels your efforts. Imagine that you have it all. What would that look like?
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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- “Do what you love and the money will follow” really rings true now. But really, don’t worry about the money ... it comes. Enjoy the little pleasures. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- You are surrounded by love, but you may not be in the mood to run around. Find the inspiration you need to tackle a creative project. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- It’s best to stay close to home for the next couple of days. Don’t rush any decisions now that you may regret later. Stand your ground, and take it easy.
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Forest Service to Jesus: You can stay, for now
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Freshmen at the University of Montana visit a statue of Jesus Christ at Whitefish Mountain Resort Whitefish, Mont. The U.S. Forest Service said Tuesday it will re-authorize a permit for this 57-year-old statue of Jesus that had been facing eviction.
HELENA, Montana (AP) — A mountaintop Jesus statue can stay at a ski resort in the western U.S. state of Montana — for now. The religious statue, which has been on federal land since 1955, was allowed to remain in place for at least 10 more years after the U.S. Forest Service reversed its eviction order Tuesday. The initial decision came amid heated debate over the separation of church and
state as required by the U.S. Constitution. The agency had faced a firestorm of criticism from religious groups, the state’s congressman and residents after it decided last year to boot the Jesus statue from its hillside perch in the trees above Whitefish. After the agency’s aboutface, opponents promised a lawsuit within the week. They argue the statue’s free placement on federal land is uncon-
stitutional. The statue has been a curiosity at the famed Big Mountain ski hill for decades, mystifying skiers with its appearance in the middle of the woods as they cruise down a popular run. The Forest Service said in its original decision that case law was stacked against such a statue. They previously argued rules prevented the federal government from favoring or promoting religion.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Whether it’s a dust storm in Arizona, a whiteout in Maine or wildfire in Florida, the call to shut down a major highway usually rests with local officials, who in some cases have little, if any, written guidelines to follow. In many cases, officials rely on what officers at the scene are seeing — or what they can’t see — when they make the decision. In Florida, a foggy, smokefilled stretch of Interstate 75 in Gainesville was closed for three hours early Sunday. Just minutes after a decision was made to reopen the highway, cars slammed into tractor-trailers in a pileup that killed 10 people. Florida officials said they were willing to review their protocols, but the Highway Patrol was also quick to put the safety onus on drivers, saying conditions can change in an instant and motorists must be prepared to quickly make good decisions. Federal transportation agen-
cies have never issued guidelines on when to close roads due to fog, fires and dust storms. National groups representing insurance companies, the Federal Highway Administration, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board all said they had not heard of such a policy. The NTSB is investigating the Gainseville crash. Florida, which is vulnerable to smoky roads since it has one of the nation’s most active prescribed fire programs, has a 16-item checklist for “smoke/ fog incidents” that is part of a larger 28-page policy manual for Florida Highway Patrol shift commanders. Closing a road, which can be costly for tractor-trailers shipping goods, is a decision is made by a supervisor who is consulting with troopers at the scene, although any patrolman can make the call to shut down
a road if there is imminent danger, said Capt. Mark Brown, chief of the patrol’s media relations. In the I-75 pileup, a district lieutenant based in Gainesville who was the supervisor at the scene made the decision. A day earlier, a different spokesman said a sergeant and lieutenant determined after about three hours that conditions had cleared enough for drivers. “We rely on the members on the ground, and their physical presence, people who are actually there — their feedback. The person that can actually see what is going on,” Brown said. Troopers also use information and forecasts from the National Weather Service. One key piece of information is an index estimating the humidity and smoke dispersion on a scale of 1 to 10 to help them decide whether to close a road. If the score is 7 or higher, the road should be closed.
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Zoo wants company to stop using chimps in TV ads CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago zoo is mounting a campaign to stop a company from airing a Super Bowl Sunday commercial featuring mischievous suit-and-tie wearing chimpanzees playing tricks on their human co-worker, saying all that monkey business proves deadly for the endangered species. Lincoln Park Zoo officials fear images of the frolicking chimps broadcast worldwide do little to help conservation efforts, inaccurately portraying the animals as unthreatened and even as cuddly and harmless pets. “If people see them that way they are less likely to try and conserve them,” Stephen Ross, assistant director of the zoo’s Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, said of the commercial that shows chimps laughing at a ‘Kick Me” sign on the human. “Individual chimps are being harmed and wild populations are being harmed by this frivolous use of an endangered species.” Ross said he and other animal welfare advocates have been complaining to CareerBuilder.com ever since the company started using chimps in Super Bowl commercials in 2005. But this year is different because he’s armed with a Duke University study that he
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says supports his longtime claims: Commercialized chimps dressed as people — even when running up big banana daiquiri bar tabs — makes viewers less concerned about the plight of wild chimps. “The argument they (CareerBuilder.com) make is it doesn’t matter how they’re portrayed, they are helping to protect them,” said Brian Hare, an assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology who led the study. “The opposite is true. These commercials are negatively affecting people’s decisions about how they support conservation.” CareerBuilder.com declined to comment on the study or any suggestion that the commercials put wild chimpanzees in danger. But in a prepared statement, the Chicago-based company said the “chimpanzee stars” were not harmed and that the American Humane Society watched the commercial being filmed to ensure the animals were “treated with respect.” Hare is particularly concerned about how a Super Bowl commercial — shown around the world — will persuade people in Africa, some desperately poor, to capture and sell the animals. “This advertisement teaches them there is a market for these animals, that there are some crazy people in America and
Europe who would want them as pets,” he said. “Even if there isn’t a market, they think there’s a market.” And that, he said, could devastate the wild population of chimpanzees that has already dwindled from more than 1 million to about 100,000. Further, he and Ross said the message that chimps make good pets is a dangerous one, as was demonstrated in 2009 when a chimpanzee attacked a Connecticut woman, ripping off her nose, lips, eyelids and hands before being shot to death by police. Ross said he’s not optimistic that CareerBuilder.com will pull the ad before this year’s Super Bowl. “They already paid for this one,” he said, adding that the company has never responded to any of the letters he’s written them since 2005. In fact, in an effort to drum up publicity about the ad, the company sent another email to The Associated Press trumpeting the upcoming commercial starring “CareerBuilder’s beloved chimpanzees” that was back by “popular demand.” In that email, the company pointed to statistics that showed CareerBuilder.com business surged after previous Super Bowls and that its brand awareness also has grown dramatically.
But Forest Service supervisor Chip Weber said the revised decision took into account that the statue is eligible for placement on National Register of Historic Places, and that no substantive concerns related to environmental conditions were found in about 95,000 comments received by the agency. The latest decision renews a 10-year special-use permit for the Knights of Columbus Council, members of which placed the statue there. “I understand the statue has been a long-standing object in the community since 1955, and I recognize that the statue is important to the community for its historical heritage based on its association with the early development of the ski area on Big Mountain,” Weber said. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which argues the religious statue does not belong on public land, said it anticipated the agency’s reversal. It argues that the Forest Service was breaching separation of church and state rules by leasing the small patch of land for the Jesus statue. “We have no objection to shrines like these on private property. That is where they belong,” said Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF co-president. “I think it will be very easy to show that this special permit is a sham.”
Study questions proton therapy for prostate cancer (AP) — A warning to men considering a pricey new treatment for prostate cancer called proton therapy: Research suggests it might have more side effects than traditional radiation does. A study of Medicare records found that men treated with proton beams later had one-third more bowel problems, such as bleeding and blockages, than similar men given conventional radiation. This is an observational study so it is not definitive, but it is one of the largest to compare these treatments. Proton therapy is rapidly growing in use — Medicare covers it — even though no rigorous studies have tested whether it is as safe or effective as usual care. It costs around $48,000 — at least twice as much as other prostate radiation treatments. Hospitals are rushing to build proton centers, and nine are operating now — sites include Boston, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Fla., and Loma Linda, Calif., east of Los Angeles. Promoters often claim it is less likely to cause complications. “There’s no clear evidence that proton therapy is better” for prostate cancer, and the new results suggest it may cause more complications, said Dr. Ronald Chen, a radiation specialist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He led the study and will give results at a medical meeting in San Francisco later this week.
They were discussed Tuesday in a telephone news conference sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and two other cancer groups. Proton therapy uses proton particles instead of X-rays. In theory, it targets radiation more directly to tumors and spares healthy tissue, which should lead to fewer side effects. Its value is established for treating eye and certain pediatric tumors. But it often is marketed for prostate cancer — a far more common condition. Researchers checked Medicare records on more than 12,000 men treated for earlystage prostate cancers from 2002 through 2007. Follow-up information was available for four years on average. First they compared an older version of external beam radiation to a newer form that now dominates the field — intensitymodulated radiation therapy, or IMRT. It, too, targets radiation more precisely to the prostate, and this is the first large study to show it was better than the older method — even though it came into use a decade ago. “We found that patients who were treated with IMRT required fewer additional treatments after radiation which indicates better cancer control,” Chen said. There also were slightly fewer bowel problems, although there also were slightly more sexual problems among men treated with IMRT.
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Poetic Release rolls into spring Students use music, poetry to express themselves By Elmira Fifo Staff Writer Creativity was in full swing at UConn last night at the first Poetic Release of the semester. The event garnered a swelling of students who were there not only to express their voices, but to support the other artists. The paramount objective of the Poetic Release was to encourage students to share their work in a comfortable environment. With the support from the crowd, the range of material was refreshing as well as enjoyable. Poetry came in the shape of comedy, entertainment, music, drama and even simple words off a page. One performer, “Mickey” Gilbert discussed how the poem he would read was a part of a workshop to write the worst poem possible. The result; a hilarious silliness of a poem called “My Basket of Kittens.” The poem depicted the sarcastic agony of losing a kitten out of a dozen yet Gilbert was able to perform it so that it entertained and amused. AE Elusive on the other hand, approached poetry through music. He engaged the audience on their feet as he rapped his song constantly entertaining with his energetic “bald man swag.” Singer/Songwriter Laura Udice also used music to express the longing to be close
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An audience gathered in the Student Union theater Tuesday night to hear their peers recite poetry and perform songs in a comfortable environment. Some performances had political undertones, while others were extensions of outside workshops.
to someone with her song “necessity.” Another group, “Four Black Girls” vocalized a few R&B and hip/hop songs such as ‘We Found Love’ and ‘Knock You Down’ with their own flavor. Group members, Samantha Micael and Anla Amin explained how they had just put the group together the night before. “We did it because we always wanted to sing with a group,” they both said. They also concurred that they were very excited for the other performers, especially AE the Elusive. Other poets stuck to the clas-
sic theme of love. For example, the poem “Pandora” read by Nick Delaripa expressed the topic with the short and sweet line, “One last kiss is exchanged, he was the best thing she ever claimed.” Another performer, Takina Pollock, a 4th-semester allied health major, read a piece about being loved for her mind and not her body. She wrote powerfully to the guy that has not treated her right saying, “I look like I object to your nonsense” and continuing to read about how she won’t stand for a guy who will only see her for her body. The poem is
called “What the Back of the Eye Could See” and emitted a strong confidence through her words. “I cut off all my hair last year, and seeing people’s reaction to it kind of inspired it” she explained. She also revealed that writing is something she has always done. A multitude of other singers and poets found strength in sharing their experiences and using their voice to speak out. Abby Rose’s “I know of Roses” spoke about becoming free from the binding snakelike love of an uncaring guy while Stephanie Blasnik performed her poetry to address political
issues important to her. A senior advocate for a third party ballot with Americans Elect, Blasnik explained that, “This is a good way to get people to come out and spread the message out to people.” Politics is something she is passionate about, and she finds writing and performing a great outlet because “places like this, you get more open minds.” Whatever was on their minds, the students had an opportunity to showcase their talents, and share an experience or a good laugh.
Elmira.Fifo@UConn.edu
UConn Colleges Against Cancer prepares for Relay for Life 2012
By Jamie Dinar Campus Correspondent
University of Connecticut’s chapter of Colleges Against Cancer is starting to prepare for this year’s Relay for Life, which will be held Apr. 13. Relay for life is a fundraising event to raise awareness and money for all different types of cancer. This year it will be held in Memorial Stadium, the old football stadium located behind Gampel Pavilion. Everyone is invited to participate. Each team stays up 18 hours through the night, continuously walking and participating in various other events. “The point is that cancer never sleeps, and neither do we” said Andrew Beard, sixth semester management information systems major and student director of UConn’s Colleges Against Cancer. This year’s theme is the 2012 Olympics. Every team, which varies from 5-15 people, must pick a country and is encouraged to decorate their campsite in corresponding adornments. Throughout the night there will be multiple other events and fundraisers, such as bands and a capella performances. Last year there was a “water pong” tournament, where each group contributed five dollars for a chance to play sober beer pong with all proceeds donated to the American Cancer Society. Additionally, there will be ceremonies to celebrate the survivors and to commemorate those who weren’t as lucky. Survivors will walk a
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The UConn chapter of Colleges Against Cancer facilitates Relay for Life on the Storrs campus. The overnight relay will take place this year in Memorial Stadium, where students and campus organizations will walk to raise money and awareness to benefit cancer research.
lap to honor the efforts Relay for Life is making. For those survivors who cannot make it, this year’s Relay for Life set up a “virtual survivor.” That person can be registered online and someone can walk in honor of his or her survival. “It’s hard to find someone that isn’t affected by cancer,” said Beard, a survivor himself. “Virtual survivors are here because most people know someone that can’t make it for the Relay, but they still want to be involved and show sup-
port for the impact and effect Relay for Life has.” Last year, 17 survivors walked, and all of them were UConn students. “You never know how many survivors there are walking around,” said Beard. In total, the fundraiser gained $65,000 for their cause. This year, they are looking to raise at least $80,000 dollars. Students looking to get involved can create a team or donate to the organization by visiting www.relayforlife. org/uconn. Team captains
are encouraged to go to the weekly meetings, Tuesdays at 7:30 pm, to discuss fundraising and other important Relay information. Students can also attend Colleges Against Cancer’s many fundraising events. On Feb. 12 at noon students can attend the UConn Rock Ensemble Variety Benefit Concert for $10 at the Student Union Ballroom. On Feb. 22, students can attend a trivia game show at the Student Union Ballroom. Students can create teams of
Clark Gable - 1901 Pauly Shore - 1968 Michael C. Hall - 1971 Lauren Conrad - 1986
four people and play for only $20 per team. Finally, on March 23 from 8-11pm, students can join the club at the Student Union room 104 for a Tie-Dye event. Students can also spread awareness by liking their Facebook page: Relay for Life of UConn. All students are encouraged to show their support April 13 at 2p.m. at the Relay for Life and help the fight against cancer.
Jamie.Dinar@UConn.edu
No ‘X Factor’ return for Paula Abdul
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Simon Cowell predicted “The X Factor” would be a TV hit and eclipse his ex-employer, “American Idol.” He was wrong, and now his show has been gutted of three of its five stars, including Paula Abdul, putting its future in question. Where does Fox’s “X Factor” go from here in trying to replace them and compete in a crowded field of singing contests when it returns this year for season two? Money is an issue: Aside from its talent contracts, the show’s first season was expensively promoted and lavishly produced. Whether Cowell, others producers and the network will open sufficiently deep pockets when they go in search of stars to replace Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger is an open question. Fox’s favorite son, “American Idol,” reportedly wooed Jennifer Lopez with $10 million for her first season on the show and kept her with a second-season deal worth up to $20 million — proof of Fox’s continued confidence in the show, even as it ages, to earn substantial ratings and advertising dollars. Can a rookie that stumbled out of the gate expect the same? A new host also must be hired to replace Steve Jones, who tweeted Tuesday that his departure was “a shame” but didn’t give a reason for the change. Neither did Cowell, who in a statement Wednesday saluted Abdul on her departure and gave a “massive thank you” to her, Scherzinger of Pussycat Dolls fame and Jones for their work. Fox reality chief Mike Darnell also avoided discussing reasons for the shakeup in a “We love Paula” shout out. But Abdul cut closer to the issue. “I’ve learned through my longevity in this industry that business decisions often times override personal considerations,” she said in a statement, adding that she and Cowell remained friends and she was grateful for the “X Factor” opportunity. The show had reunited Cowell and Abdul, former “American Idol” teammates. Abdul had quit “Idol” following a contract dispute and Cowell left to try to re-create the magic of “X Factor,” a hit in Britain and elsewhere, in the U.S. market. His bravado in promising a top-rated show that would eclipse “American Idol,” which awkwardly also airs on Fox, proved overblown. Although “X Factor” gave Fox a stronger presence on Thursday, a lucrative night for advertising, it failed to match the No. 1 status of “Idol” and often lingered near the bottom of Nielsen Co.’s 20 top-rated shows — good, not great. (Even “Idol” seems to be suffering from singing-contest overload this season, with its ratings down by double-digit percentages. New competitors who may be diluting the genre’s appeal include “The Voice,” with Christina Aguilera and Adam Levine among its heavyweight pop star judges. ) While Abdul and Scherzinger apparently failed to live up to Cowell’s standards, kicking off both the show’s female stars seems less than gallant. Another woman, British pop star Cheryl Cole, lost her place at the judging table in a dispute with Cowell before the show aired and was replaced by Scherzinger. That adds to the challenge of finding replacements: Who wants to come aboard and risk taking the fall if “X Factor” doesn’t improve next season? For now, judge Antonio “L.A.” Reid appears secure. And so does Cowell — until season two airs and Fox takes a hard look at whether his TV baby is growing into the blockbuster that Cowell promised.
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GAMES Upcoming Releases February 7 Shank 2 (PS3, PC, X360) The Darkness II (X360, PC, PS3) Resident Evil: Revelations (3DS) Fallout: New Vegas-Ultimate Editions (PS3, X360, PC) Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (PS3, PC, X360) Jak&Daxter Collection (PS3)
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Reviving a classic What we already know about the next XBox
February 8 Smash ‘N’ Survive (PS3) Jewel Link Chronicles: Mountains of Madness (DS)
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Budget Gems: Resident Evil 4 In case you haven’t already tried out the demo available for download on the 3DS, Resident Evil: Revelations is looking to be a quality game to buy for the system when it’s released next week. Budget conscious gamers likely signed of relief when Capcom decided to lower the price from $49.99 to the standard $39.99 3DS game price last weekend. But, with the recommended Circle Pad Pro peripheral being $19.99, it’ll take a few more price cuts before the game is actually a “bargain.” So for the RE fans out there with a skinny wallet, it wouldn’t hurt to go back to a masterpiece like Resident Evil 4. For PS3 and Xbox 360 owners, the game became available for a $20 download a few months back. Wii owners can also easily find the rerelease -- with surprisingly decent motion controls -- for a dirt cheap price. And because the upcoming Resident Evil 6 will bring back both Leon S. Kennedy and (what appears to be) Ashley from the new trailer, it’s as good a time as any to get your Resident Evil nostalgic fix with the fourth entry. Either way, it’s a much better idea than watching the unbelievably stupid trailer for the next Resident Evil movie. - Jason Bogdan
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Mario Kart 7 maintains the classic gameplay with turtle shells and banana peels, but has dropped the DS “mission mode” and is otherwise not much different from the original.
By Jason Bogdan Senior Staff Writer Although the naming of the newest Mario Kart game from Nintendo does not garner too much excitement, Mario Kart 7 has enough great changes and timeless appeal to make this Kart game a recommendable seventh purchase. Not everyone is a fan of how the races in Mario Kart seem to rubber band the lineup around constantly with all the cheap Blue Shells and devilish banana peels, but I love it. With those crazy items, it presents a gambling edge that makes you want to get good enough to overcome any inevitable projectile damage. Honestly, without them the game would get boringly easy with no incentive to use power slides. And speaking of those speed boosts when sliding, this is the best implementation of that system yet. It’s not as cheaply easy as the DS game, or as frustratingly hard as it was on the N64. In fact, the nuance in every aspect to the driving controls
is, without a doubt, the finest yet. Well, except for the optional motion controls in first-person mode that is…a nightmare. And then there are the new aspects of air gliding
skill to glide the kart off a ramp to your advantage and drive the smoothest in the water. There’s also the new option to build up your own kart
Mario Kart 7
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The Good
-It may still be racing around colorful race tracks with banana peels and turtle shells, but it’s also the best playing implementation yet -The changes like the air gliding, while small, are noteworthy improvements to the Mario Kart formula -It takes some extra battery life to turn on the 3D and online modes, but Mario Kart 7 excels in both departments well enough to be worth a slightly smaller battery life
The Bad
-To anyone who doesn’t feel like paying for a Mario Kart game for the seventh time, it isn’t “revolutionary” enough to turn them back in a flash -I loved that mission mode from the DS version. Why isn’t it in this game too! and underwater which actually make it hard to go back to the previous Mario Karts. Like the speed boost bonuses, it’s incredibly fun to find the
with new parts that actually do make a difference on the racetrack. All of the above is pleasantly wrapped underneath a
splendid conversion to the 3DS. Obviously, a stereoscopic perspective doesn’t make the game easier to play. But it makes the gorgeous visuals -- that puts the Wii version to shame – pop out in a vibrant spectacle with no slowdown or easy headaches. The modes are the same as they will ever be, sans the excellent mission mode of the DS game. But the new tracks are superbly designed, and the retro tracks section is the best addition yet. The online mode also has plenty of meat with fast connecting races with strangers around the world as well as downloadable time trial ghost tracks via SpotPass. So to all the people out there who are exhausted after already playing six Mario Kart games to death, I’ll say this much: with the great changes and superb presentation, it stands as the best entry yet and is worth another purchase. And for the other 3DS owners who are relatively new to the series: this is unmistakably a must buy.
The 3DS; a look at year one
By Joe O’Leary Senior Staff Writer After surpassing the 15 million units sold mark, surviving its first Christmas season and lasting for almost a year now, the Nintendo 3DS is doing fairly well; but one cannot look at the handheld and call it a success just yet. The 3DS doesn’t appear to be in danger of following the Virtual Boy or DSi to extinction but at the same time, Nintendo has a lot of work to do if they’re going to compete with the upcoming Playstation Vita. While I’ve had plenty of handson time with the console, I thought it was a better course of action to ask two friends of mine, and fellow 3DS owners, their thoughts. The first owner, who bought the system at launch, was initially impressed with it. “It’s an innovative system,” he said. “They really took a leap to do everything with it, and a lot of the stuff they threw in is handy. You can download older games in a wireless shop, and many games incorporate motion controls and 3D in some way.” The second, who received the console as a Christmas gift, agreed somewhat saying, “The system itself is awesome, between the shops and apps, but the 3D is
mediocre. I don’t think it’s amazing, but it’s nice.” The 3D of the console has been a bit of a sticking point for Nintendo. Where most people think a 3D setup would involve glasses, the console’s native 3D is hard to align with the eyes and the internet is littered with reports of motion sickness and eye pain. I myself have had trouble with both seeing the 3D well and, after succeeding in seeing it, readjusting my eyes afterward. As nice as they were towards the 3DS, both had just as many complaints about it. The early adopter said that the console’s motion controls and 3D are nice, but don’t work together complimentarily. He added that moving the console ruins the 3D effect in most games, making ones that combine the two hard to play and difficult to enjoy. The early adopter had one huge complaint about the 3DS, involving Nintendo’s early price drop for the console from $250 to $170 in August. Early buyers like him were given digital copies of 20 games, 10 from the NES and 10 from the Game Boy Advance, but he insisted it wasn’t worth it. “It wasn’t worth getting it at launch; I paid an extra 80 dollars to beta-test it, and it wasn’t worth the reward,” the early adopter said. The system’s real problem
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A handful of 3DS users have said that the handheld game system needs additional game development.
Nintendo has to fix, which both gamers agreed upon, is its lack of killer games. Few games have been considered killer apps for the console, and some of the more lauded titles have been criticized for being mere rehashes and remakes of older games. “Even ‘Ocarina of Time’ is a ported, updated version of a game from 1998, and it didn’t really cut the mustard,” the early adopter said. “It has an awful game selection,” the second owner said,
“even considering the online shop, there aren’t any good games.” “Only around November did anything really start,” the early adopter said. “The main problem is they threw so much into it that it doesn’t work together. They didn’t support it the right way and if Nintendo wants to avoid it tanking, they need to support it and give it the software it should have been receiving from Day One that it’s only gotten since November.”
Joseph.O’Leary@UConn.edu
Although Nintendo announced that their next console will be released by the end of this year, the most exciting new console news is coming from the many rumors and leaked information about Microsoft’s next big thing. Last Tuesday, IGN confirmed the initial reports from tech sites, Fudzilla and SemiAccurate, about the processing power of the (tentatively titled) Xbox 720. IGN said, “It will be akin to the Radeon HD 6670, which offers support for DirectX11, multidisplay output, 3D and 1080p output.” That kind of technical horsepower will apparently make it six times the power of the Xbox 360. And just a day later, Kotaku put out an article about “game industry sources” talking about the disc technology for the 720. The report not only included the support for Bluray discs, but also a system that prevents the support of used games. How the latter would even be done hasn’t been explained, but it certainly will put stores like GameStop in a cold sweat, since selling pre-owned games is their bread-and-butter of sorts. The Kotaku article also talked about a source who said that Microsoft will also have a new version of the Kinect to go with it. This actually does make a fair bit of sense since Microsoft just announced that a new version of their hardware is being released for the PC. But there’s also the fact that the Kinect has been notoriously known for not having the highest quality in motion detecting, so there really should be an updated version to go with the new system. With all these leaked facts about what the next Xbox can do, there’s still one major question that gamers are foaming at the mouth over: when is it coming out? If there’s one thing that is fairly certain about it, it’s that it won’t likely come out this year. Tech blog Fudzilla claimed that full production of the system is set to begin this December, making it unlikely to ship in 2012. And the marketing director for Microsoft France recently made a comment to Lepoint.fr, essentially saying that he’s just not convinced it could possibly be released this year. So even with all these leaked facts about what Microsoft’s next video game system can do, it’ll most definitely be some time before consumers can go purchase it. At the very least, it’s good news for people who just recently got a new Xbox 360.
Jason.Bogdan@UConn.edu
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Super Bowl chimp ad faces controversy
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This video grab provided by CareerBuilders.com, shows the executive chimpanzee advertisement that will air during Super Bowl XLVI Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo says there’s nothing funny about a commercial featuring suit-and-tie wearing chimpanzees scheduled to air Sunday during the Super Bowl.
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago zoo is mounting a campaign to stop a company from airing a Super Bowl Sunday commercial featuring mischievous suit-and-tie wearing chimpanzees playing tricks on their human coworker, saying all that monkey business proves deadly for the endangered species. Lincoln Park Zoo officials fear images of the frolicking chimps broadcast worldwide do little to help conservation efforts, inaccurately portraying the animals as unthreatened and even as cuddly and
harmless pets. “If people see them that way they are less likely to try and conserve them,” Dr. Steve Ross, assistant director of the zoo’s Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, said of the commercial that shows chimps laughing at a ‘Kick Me” sign on the human. “Individual chimps are being harmed and wild populations are being harmed by this frivolous use of an endangered species.” Ross said he and other animal welfare advocates have been complaining to
CareerBuilder.com ever since the company started using chimps in Super Bowl commercials in 2005. But this year is different because he’s armed with a Duke University study that he says supports his longtime claims: Commercialized chimps dressed as people — even when running up big banana daiquiri bar tabs — makes viewers less concerned about the plight of wild chimps. “The argument they (CareerBuilder.com) make is it doesn’t matter how they’re portrayed, they are helping to
protect them,” said Dr. Brian Hare, an assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology who led the study. “The opposite is true. These commercials are negatively affecting people’s decisions about how they support conservation.” CareerBuilder.com declined to comment on the study or
any suggestion that the commercials put wild chimpanzees in danger. But in a prepared statement, the Chicagobased company said the “chimpanzee stars” were not harmed and that the American Humane Society watched the commercial being filmed to ensure the animals were “treated with respect.” Hare is particularly concerned about how a Super Bowl commercial — shown around the world — will persuade people in Africa, some desperately poor, to capture and sell the animals. “This advertisement teaches them there is a market for these animals, that there are some crazy people in America and Europe who would want them as pets,” he said. “Even if there isn’t a market, they think there’s a market.” And that, he said, could devastate the wild population of chimpanzees that has already dwindled from more than 1 million to about 100,000. Further, he and Ross said the message that chimps make good pets is a dangerous one, as was demonstrated in 2009 when a chimpanzee attacked a Connecticut woman, ripping off her nose, lips, eyelids and hands before being shot to death by police. Ross said he’s not optimistic that CareerBuilder.com will pull the ad before this year’s Super Bowl. “They already paid for this one,” he said, adding that the company has never responded to any of the letters he’s written them since 2005. In fact, in an effort to drum up publicity about the ad, the company sent another email to The Associated Press trum-
peting the upcoming commercial starring “CareerBuilder’s beloved chimpanzees” that was back by “popular demand.” In that email, the company pointed to statistics that showed CareerBuilder.com business surged after previous Super Bowls and that its brand awareness also has grown dramatically. But, he said in an email, maybe his concerns will find an audience of its own that the response from “a wider segment of the public ... is negative enough for (CareerBuilder.com) not to invest more money in extending the campaign with new ads.” Ross and Hare are encouraged by another conclusion of the Duke study: The commercials may not be all that effective. Contrary to Careerbuilder.com’s suggestion that the commercials helped their business, Hare said people who watched the commercials reported that they found commercials with chimpanzees less interesting than those that featured athletes, music and other things. That is not surprising to Peter Dabol, chief executive of Ace Metrix, a firm that rates the effectiveness of ads. “These kinds of slapsticky, kind of funny ads and these ads in particular, were relatively low scoring ads even though their likeability is high,” he said. “These (CareerBuilder. com) ads performed at the bottom of the pack of all Super Bowl ads,” he said. “That’s typical of what we see as pure humor, cheap laugh ads.”
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Accidental discovery expands story of '2 Malcolms'
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Clear Channel takes on TV DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — Radio broadcasting giant Clear Channel is breaking into the TV production business. The company announced Tuesday that it is taking a minority stake in the production company of "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest. Ryan Seacrest Media produces "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and other spin-offs involving the celebrity family. Its other shows include "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution." In a separate deal, Clear Channel's majority investors, Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital, are committing $300 million combined to work with Seacrest's company to identify, acquire and develop innovative media companies. At an All Things D confer-
ence Tuesday, Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman said the new venture will aim to break into the TV production market and use Clear Channel's massive radio network to help promote the shows. He said the same formula helped launch the Fox network in the late 1980s. "Their secret weapon was they used radio to promote their new shows," Pittman said. "So today, why can't we use our own advertising for Ryan's shows and give them a lift?" Seacrest will remain majority owner of his company, which will keep producing shows for network and studio partners such as Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal. "We aim to build Ryan Seacrest Media into a leading multimedia company with diversified assets and
interests," Seacrest said in a statement. "The entertainment industry is thriving with innovation more than ever before." The announcement is the latest move by Clear Channel to spread its reach into forms of distribution beyond its more than 850 radio stations and network of outdoor billboards. Last year, Clear Channel Radio, a subsidiary of CC Media Holdings Inc., launched the online radio service iHeart Radio to compete with market leader Pandora Media Inc. In mid-January, Clear Channel Radio changed its corporate name to Clear Channel Media and Entertainment. Pittman has said the company aims to reach audiences in all formats and devices. Since joining Clear Channel with a personal $5 million
investment in November 2010, Pittman has tried to expand the company's reach beyond traditional radio. Pittman was named CEO of CC Media Holdings in October. Previously, he was CEO of MTV Networks and chief operating officer of what is now AOL Inc., The company was taken private in 2008 by Thomas H. Lee and Bain but has struggled under the debt load created by the acquisition. The company's long-term debt reached about nearly $20 billion at the end of September. All Things D, a website owned by News Corp.'s The Wall Street Journal, hosts several conferences a year. The latest version, "D: Dive Into Media," focuses on the intersection between traditional media companies and technology.
Legend, Kennedy Center honor Marvin Gaye AP
Marshall Taylor, vice president of the Malcolm X Foundation, goes through papers in Omaha, Neb. The documents are part of more than 1,000 items belonging to the late musician Malcolm Jarvis.
DETROIT (AP) — Documents outlining the crime that landed Malcolm X in prison in the 1940s are among some 1,000 recently unearthed items purchased jointly by the civil rights leader's foundation and an independent collector of African-American artifacts. The documents and other artifacts belonged to late musician Malcolm "Shorty" Jarvis, who served in prison with Malcolm X and was one of his closest friends. Jarvis' 1976 pardon paper also is part of the collection, which was recently discovered by accident. The items had been in a Connecticut storage unit that had gone into default, and were initially auctioned off to a buyer who had no idea what he was bidding on. The Omaha, Neb.-based Malcolm X Memorial Foundation, which oversees the Malcolm X Center located at his birthplace, will house and display the just-arrived archives. It split the cost with Black History 101 Mobile Museum, based in Detroit — the birthplace of the Nation of Islam. Mobile Museum founder and curator Khalid el-Hakim declined to identify the original buyer or the price the two organizations paid for the trove. Still, even after splitting the cost, he said it's the largest acquisition to date for his mobile museum, which includes Jim Crow-era artifacts, a Ku Klux Klan hood and signed documents by Malcolm X and Rosa Parks. He said the buyer first contacted the foundation, which in turn contacted el-Hakim. "Once (the buyer) found out that it was of a significant historical nature, he decided then he didn't want to break the collection up. He wanted to make sure it went to the right home," said el-Hakim, a former Detroit Public Schools teacher now in graduate school at Western Michigan University. Malcolm X foundation
Board President Sharif Liwaru said the public will get its first full look at the collection on May 19, Malcolm X's birthday. El-Hakim said the mobile museum is taking some items on a multistate tour that started in January and includes upcoming stops in Chicago; New York; Cleveland; Lexington, Ky.; and Honolulu. Among the most interesting is a document of the 1946 sentencing of Jarvis, Malcolm X — then known by his birth name, Malcolm Little — and three others. The yellowed jury report describes the 1945 larceny of a home in Arlington, N.J., in which they stole a pair of gloves, flashlights, a rug, two perfume bottles, 20 pounds of sugar and assorted jewelry. As a bookend, the collection also contains a letter of pardon 30 years later from the state of Massachusetts that exonerates Jarvis of the conviction and sentence. The collection also reveals an enduring connection between the two Malcolms after their incarceration, Malcolm X's conversion to Islam and his rise to prominence. There's a 72-page scrapbook of Malcolm X's life that was maintained by Jarvis until after his friend's 1965 assassination. One of the civil rights era's most controversial and compelling figures, Malcolm X rose to fame as the chief spokesman of the Nation of Islam, a movement started in Detroit more than 80 years ago. He proclaimed the black Muslim organization's message at the time: racial separatism as a road to self-actualization and urged blacks to claim civil rights "by any means necessary" and referred to whites as "devils." After breaking with the Nation of Islam in 1964 and making an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, he espoused a more internationalist approach to human rights and began emphasizing that he didn't view all whites as racists.
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In this Jan. 17, 1983 file photo, Singer-songwriter Marvin Gaye is seen at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles. Singer John Legend is joining the Kennedy Center in Washington to start a program in honor of the late Marvin Gaye encouraging young artists to engage in social issues.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Grammy award-winning singer John Legend surprised a high school choir Tuesday at the Kennedy Center to help start a program encouraging young artists to confront social issues with their art, in honor of the late Marvin Gaye. The project, "What's Going On ... Now," echoes Gaye's lyrics and asks young people to express how things have changed in the four decades since Gaye's hit album, "What's Going On." Students can upload videos, photos, poems, music or any recordings of creative expression to the project's website to answer that question. Gaye's groundbreaking 1971 Motown album tackled difficult social issues such as war, drug addiction and poverty, and asked audiences to reflect on the times. His 1972 performance at the Kennedy Center in his hometown was a historic comeback for Gaye — his first live performance in two years since the death of his singing partner and friend Tammi Terrell. It's also believed to be the only time Gaye sang his entire "What's Going On" album in concert. Legend, 33, will recreate Gaye's performance in two concerts in May with the National Symphony Orchestra and other performers. They will also incorporate recordings submitted by students.
The Kennedy Center will feature usergenerated content on the project's website, and two young participants will win a free trip to Washington for the concert. Legend surprised a show choir Tuesday from Washington's Duke Ellington School of the Arts while they were rehearsing for a performance of "What's Going On" at the Kennedy Center. Many of the students' jaws dropped as Legend sat down at the piano to sing with them. Legend said Gaye's tunes were part of his childhood because his parents were big fans. But that memorable album almost never happened. Motown founder Berry Gordy initially was against it but got on board when it started to sell. It takes "a bit of boldness" for artists to take on social issues and political issues like Gaye did, Legend said. "Music right now ... especially in hip hop, no one really wants to talk about poverty," he told The Associated Press. "And if people did make (such music), would the audience respond in a way that would encourage more people to make it?" More often hip hop is about celebrating black wealth and success, he said, because people want music to be an escape, to be inspired. Legend's recent album "Wake Up" with The Roots was more gritty and
political and was successful in its own way, he said, but not like an album of love songs. As Legend sang with the students, India Reynolds, 17, a member of the choir, said they all sang backgrounds a little softer to hear his voice. "If 'What's Going On' came out yesterday, it still would have been a hit," she said. "He wrote that album so that people would listen." Many of the same issues Gaye wrote about still linger today, such as war, violence and unemployment, she said. "Using my craft to help people notice them is an honor," Reynolds said. The Kennedy Center has partners in seven cities for the project, including Cleveland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Fe, N.M., and the Chicago-based Digital Youth Network. The center created curriculum for teachers to bring the program into their classrooms, or students can join on their own. Darrell Ayers, the center's vice president for education, said engaging students with digital media integrates literacy and artistic literacy with lessons about history and issues of the day. It's also a way for young people "to realize the impact the arts can have, not just to make you feel good but to make people think about things."
Gates set to open philanthropy museum
SEATTLE (AP) — People are already joking it's a good thing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation isn't charging admission for its new visitor center, which showcases Bill Gates' multibillion-dollar philanthropy, not his computers. But most people don't know what to expect from the glass-clad public space in front of the new headquarters of the world's largest charitable foundation. Those who decide to peek in the windows or stop inside will find thoughtprovoking and even fun exhibits that encourage visitors to focus on how they can make the world a better place. The center opens Saturday in Seattle, just steps from the Space Needle and Experience Music Project, two of the city's biggest tourist attractions. While it's not exactly a "museum of philanthro-
py," it's also not just a public promotion of the Gates Foundation's work. "We know that there's interest and passion for our work. We haven't had a way to invite the public in to learn about our history, what we do and how we partner with others, and to think about what they can do," said Martha Choe, chief administrative officer of the foundation. The Gates Foundation is one of a handful of large charitable foundations with buildings open to the public. Foundation staff visited a number of others for ideas, including the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the Mercy Corps Action Center to End World Hunger in New York City and the CDC Global Health Odyssey Museum in Atlanta. But the creators of the Gates project also seemed to take inspiration from
modern children's museums and science centers. Bill and Melinda Gates put their own money into building the new headquarters campus, including the 10,000-square-foot visitor center. The Gates Foundation's $33.5 billion endowment comes mostly from Bill and Melinda Gates, but also includes about $8 billion donated by billionaire Warren Buffett. A few years ago, the foundation also started accepting donations from the general public, but says it would prefer people make donations directly to the charities they support. Gates focuses most of its dollars on fighting diseases like polio and malaria, helping poor farmers become more productive, and improving education in the United States. These topics and their complex solutions are explored at length
in the visitor center. The foundation moved in June to an architectural showcase in the center of its hometown. The entire project, including office and meeting space for nearly 1,000 people, cost about $500 million. Inside the center, visitors are greeted by a room full of pictures, of the Gates family, foundation employees and people from around the world who have been touched by their generosity. The first few galleries are focused on the foundation's projects, but visitors are also invited to sit down at a computer to say what they would do if they had their own billions to share. Those ideas scroll on the wall, right next to information about the real work the foundation is doing. In another spot, visitors can also take their own pictures for display larger
than life on a wall, just like the pictures of foundation staff and beneficiaries. Kids of all ages who get bored in museums where you can look and read but not touch will see right away that this is a place where hands-on play is encouraged. In one of the first galleries, a wall of wooden blocks with dates on them can all be flipped to reveal photographs and bits of information. A large wooden globe is fun to spin, but it also works like a computer mouse to sail through a map of the world. Kids could also bypass the interactive displays and go straight to the fun room at the end of the walkway by the windows. There they'll find games and toys and other hands-on activities, including some doo-dads to put together. Who knows? They might just build a world-changing invention.
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Manning says he has no plans to retire
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Peyton Manning isn't ready to discuss retirement yet. The four-time league MVP told a group of reporters Tuesday he doesn't plan to stop playing and that his recovery from a third neck surgery continues to be on schedule. "My plan hasn't changed," Manning said at a hotel after media day at Lucas Oil Stadium featuring the Giants and Patriots. "I'm on track with what the doctors have told me to do, and I'm doing that. I'm rehabbing hard." When asked about reports he may soon retire, he responded: "I have no plans on doing that." Manning's shadow has been looming over the NFL title game for days, and it doesn't show signs of going away anytime soon though he wishes he wasn't such a distraction. "It's not the way it should be," he said earlier in a taped interview with ESPN. "I really don't think it will be as the week goes on." The quarterback of the hometown Colts has not played in more than a year because of a damaged nerve that caused weakness in his throwing arm. He had neck surgery in May, then underwent his third and most invasive neck surgery in 19 months in September. Doctors fused two vertebrae together, a procedure that forced him to miss the Colts' 2-14 season. Since then, Manning hasn't been able to escape the spotlight.
There has been rampant speculation about his recovery, the potential risks of a return, whether the Colts will pay Manning a $28 million roster bonus in early March to prevent him from becoming a free agent or whether the soon-to-be 36-year-old might quit playing. The ongoing saga has spilled right into the first Super Bowl week in Indianapolis. While the marquee story line was supposed to be Manning's brother Eli vs. Brady, it's the older Peyton who continues to make news. Following last week's public spat with team owner Jim Irsay and the ensuing makeup, Irsay joined the city's mayor, the Indiana governor and host committee officials at Monday's news conference to discuss game week. Irsay wound up taking most of the questions and, of course, most focused on Manning's future. He also said he didn't want to discuss the Manning situation again this week. On Tuesday, Manning was the chatty one. Shortly after about 5,000 fans watched more than 1,000 reporters spend two hours interviewing Patriots and Giants, Manning delivered the third part of media day with an impromptu appearance in front of a small group of reporters. His motive was to turn the attention away from him and back to Sunday's game and his brother's quest to win a second Super Bowl ring.
That didn't work too well, either. "I'm working hard, I had a really good session today," Manning said after throwing to several teammates. "I continue to make progress and work hard. The doctors are encouraged and that's encouraging to me." Manning smiled throughout the 10-minute interview and looked happier and more vibrant than he has in months. Not everyone is paying attention to the diversion. "Oh you meant Eli? I got it now," Patriots linebacker Gary Guyton said when asked about coming to Indy with Manning in the headlines. Most Colts fans, meanwhile, have enthusiastically backed Eli in hopes of sending the dreaded Patriots home emptyhanded again from Indy. And Eli chimed in, too. "Peyton has had an unbelievable career. Since I've been watching football, I haven't seen anybody play at a higher level than he has," Eli said. "It has always been my goal to get to his level of football, to get to his level of play. That is something that I've worked on. I've watched him in situations and I'm just amazed on some of the throws and plays he's made in his career. I try to ask as many questions and get as much help from him as I can." Says Peyton: "I'll be rooting hard for the Giants. I've always wanted nothing but the best for Eli and I hope he breaks all of my records."
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In this Dec. 11, 2011 file photo, Indianapolis Colts head coach Jim Caldwell, left, speaks with injured quarterback Peyton Manning.
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Pats' Gronkowski sheds boot, sounds ready
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New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski answers a question during Media Day.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The boot is off and Rob Gronkowski's ankle is feeling much better. New England's All-Pro tight end shed his walking boot in time for media day Tuesday, and sounded optimistic he'd be lining up against the New York Giants in the Super Bowl on Sunday. "I'm improving every day," Gronkowski said. "The only reason it's getting so blown up is because it's the Super Bowl. It's just like any other injury during any other week." Gronkowski, who suffered a high left ankle sprain in the AFC title game Jan. 22, said he could be anywhere from in perfect health to "2 percent" for the game, adding that it's still six days away. The outgoing Gronkowski smiled frequently from the podium during his hour-long appearance that opened with a question, of course, about how he was feeling. "Good. How are you feeling?" he replied. At one point, Gronkowski even put on a red tri-cornered hat, reminiscent of those worn by the original patriots during the era of the American Revolution. "He's obviously making progress," quarterback Tom Brady said of his key passcatcher. "He's out of his boot
today, which makes me feel a lot better. I told him he should write like 'Mom I love you' on his sock or something because I'm sure there'll be a lot of pictures of his sock. "If anybody wants to be out there, it's him. No one's as tough as him." Gronkowski was careful not to convey an overly optimistic
"I told him he should write like 'Mom I love you' on his sock or something...”
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attitude about his chances of playing, repeatedly saying he was working with the Patriots training staff and approaching the situation on a day-to-day basis. He also was non-committal when asked if he could play if he had the injury during the regular season. "I couldn't answer that," he said. "It's not a regular-season game. It's the Super Bowl this week and (we're) just preparing like it's a big game and it's the biggest game. It ain't no regular-season game. So you've
got to treat it a lot differently." Gronkowski set an NFL record for his position this season with 17 touchdown catches and had 90 receptions overall for 1,327 yards. He's made a team-high 15 catches for a 15.5-yard average and three touchdowns in the postseason. He also developed into a powerful blocker. He missed the Patriots last three practices on Thursday, Friday and Monday. They didn't practice on Tuesday. But many of his teammates are confident that he'll be ready to play. "Rob's a big boy. He's tough and everything else, so I'm not too worried about him," wide receiver Wes Welker said. "I know he's going to give his best out there and do whatever he can do to help us win the game." "We're trying to get everybody to play," linebacker Tracy White said. "We're not too worried about Gronkowski. He'll be out there." Gronkowski has started every game this season and was healthy for nearly every practice before the ankle injury. "I think he'll be fine, but it would obviously change the game a lot" if he's not, tight end Aaron Hernandez said. "It would basically be like playing without our main player."
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Twins' Take: Huskies' struggles continue By Matt and Colin McDonough Sports Editors
Another rematch between the New England Patriots and New York Giants this weekend means another Connecticut Super Bowl. The Nutmeg State’s two favorite football teams are the Pats and Giants. New England almost moved to Hartford, and it’s the only pro sports team with some legitimate connection to Connecticut with its name. The Giants played in the Yale Bowl in New Haven, and were New England’s team before the Patriots were established in 1960. It is incredible for our state to have a Boston–New York Super Bowl twice in four years. Along with the Celtics beating the Knicks in the playoffs last year, and countless Yankees and Red Sox memories, it’s been pretty fun for Connecticut lately. The Bruins and Rangers also seem to be on a collision course in the NHL. But first, the big game this weekend. And for our state it may seem like this rematch is the ultimate game. But in what might be the best quote from Super Bowl media day ever, Dallas Cowboy running back Duane Thomas said when asked
how it felt to be playing in the ultimate game in 1993. “If it’s the ultimate game, then why do they play it every year?” Great answer, Duane. –This year’s UConn men’s basketball team is starting to look like a morphed version of the 2006 and 2010 Husky squads. UConn is not guaranteed an NCAA tournament bid just because they are the defending champions. Sitting at 14-6 with a 4-4 Big East record is more than a speed bump on the road to a repeat championship. –Why was “Beat the Irish” such a big slogan during the men’s game on Sunday? UConn was playing them on the hardwood, not the gridiron. We are not huge rivals with Notre Dame and sometimes when you have a “Beat the…” slogan, it seems like you’re trying to pull off an upset. The Husky basketball program is light-years better than the Fighting Irish and we are the defending national champions. It seemed a little bit odd, especially after we had already snapped the Irish’s 29-game home winning streak earlier this season. –Notre Dame flops more than Duke. –Thank you Aspen Dental for giving a lucky fan a chance to attend the Big East tournament
semi-final game. I guess they couldn’t get tickets to the championship. –We’re convinced Big East refs don’t know what a goaltending is. First West Virginia and Syracuse on Saturday, then Notre Dame takes a Drummond hook shot right off the rim and no call. –The only good news for Jets fans is that there seems to be more media attention on Peyton Manning and his situation with the Colts than on the upcoming Super Bowl. –We give Greg Schiano three years before he flops with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and returns to the college coaching ranks. Leaving Rutgers is an upgrade for Schiano and too good an opportunity to pass up, but what was Tampa Bay thinking? Just because you lose out on Chip Kelly, it doesn’t mean you turn to Schiano. Thank you for reading "Twins Take," the biweekly consensus opinion of the McDonough brothers. Do you love the column? Do you hate it? Let us know on Twitter @McDTwin1 and @McDTwin2.
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Even with Ryan Boatright back in the lineup, this version of the UConn men's basketball is starting to look like a combination of 2006 and 2010.
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At Super Bowl media day, wacky questions the norm
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New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning throws a football into the crowd during Media Day for Super Bowl XLVI Tuesday in Indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Quick, Wes Welker, spell Bill Belichick. Hey, Osi Umenyiora, know any other Elis besides that Manning guy? Rob Gronkowski, what's your favorite song by Madonna? Not exactly challenging questions about Sunday's Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. But that's media day, the NFL's annual version of the circus, minus the ringmaster. With players and coaches penned into cubicles, mainstream reporters were joined Tuesday by a guy in a superhero costume, another in an old-time football uniform, kids with microphones and some women who wore dresses that left little to the imagination. They asked the Patriots and Giants anything that crossed their minds. And we do mean anything. "This is crazy, man. It's crazy," said Patriots safety Patrick Chung. "I've never seen anything like this ever." Actually, none of the players had. For the first time, the NFL let fans in on the act, too. For $25 — or more, for those who waited until the last minute to buy their tickets — fans could sit in the stands at the stadium and listen to the interviews over a headset. "We can't hear all of the questions, so we have to guess," said Lee Clifford, who brought his sons, 10-year-old Ben and 8-yearold Nick. "I guess lots of people can get a pass to a media event." Even people who carry their own disco ball, as the camera crew from Telemundo did. Media day has never been the stuff of Woodward and Bernstein. But it's gone from off-the-wall to downright goofy in recent years, the tipping point coming four
years ago when a reporter from Mexico's TV Azteca showed up in a wedding dress from a slasher movie in hopes of winning Tom Brady's heart. Imagine asking Vince Lombardi if he could name three Kardashians. Gronkowski actually did pretty well — he got Kim and Khloe right away, but needed a few more seconds to come up with Kourtney. Or getting John Elway to salsa dance, as New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz did with singer Ciara. There were no brides or proposals for Brady this year, although the fashion-conscious QB did talk about having his nails painted. "They were pretty easy on me," Brady said when asked what it was like to grow up with three older sisters. "They dressed me up a few times in their clothes and painted my nails once, but it was nice." Most of the players were good sports about the whole thing, knowing what they were in for when they arrived at Lucas Oil Stadium. Even the normally dour Belichick managed a chuckle or two. "It's kind of catching me off guard," Patriots cornerback Sterling Moore said. "I definitely thought he'd be a little more strict in his interviews." He might have been a little more cranky if he'd heard Welker when the receiver was asked if he knew how to spell Belichick's last name. "Tough one. B-E-L-I-C-H-I," Welker said, and then paused. "K. Wait, that right? Is it CK?" Told Belichick's name ended in "CK," Welker smacked his head. Umenyiora fared better with the other Elis, naming Plaxico Burress' little boy, Elijah. As for Gronkowski and Madonna, he wasn't crazy for that question. Silly stuff, to be sure. But the
fans loved every minute of it. Parents let their kids skip school — Zane Bishop, a high school senior, had his head buried in a book during the break, cramming for his AP Government exam Wednesday — and the tickets were in such high demand people were actually scalping them. "It's such an intimate experience," said Nick Lowery, a Patriots fan who drove from Columbia, Mo. "This is really cool." Unlike the NFL draft, when rowdy New Yorkers waste no opportunity to heckle picks and boo players, the fans were on their best behavior. Most in the crowd of 7,300 were Colts fans, with many sporting Peyton Manning's No. 18 jersey. But the fans greeted both teams with applause when they came in, and cheered when Eli Manning, Brady and Welker talked about how much they were enjoying Indianapolis and praised Colts fans. They even set aside their hatred for the Patriots, the Colts' biggest rival. "Our philosophy has been 'Fans first.' It's all about Hoosier hospitality," said Toni Meyer of Indianapolis. Added Bill Burns, "The Patriots, we really don't like 'em here. But there hasn't been any animosity." The only complaint was that fans wanted more. Though they could hear interviews with the head coach and four players on the headset, they were restricted to the stands. No autographs, no photographs with their favorite players. "I kind of wish we'd been on the field, but I understand," said Burns, who wore a hat with a "Press" card on the side and carried a toy purple microphone. "It probably would have been a bit of a madhouse."
UConn wants to rebound from loss against the Huskies make it to Constitution's final tryout Irish, make it three straight wins over Georgetown from UCONN, page 14
from FOURTH, page 14 UConn has Shabazz Napier and Lamb in the backcourt. The pair is the top two scorers on the team. Lamb averages 17.9 points per game, while Napier scores 14.3 a game. Boatright is fourth on the squad in scoring with 9.8 points per game and will have a chance to get into the flow even more now that his suspension is over. The Huskies don’t have Kemba Walker anymore, and Calhoun said after the Notre Dame loss that he wants to see more leadership out of the backcourt. “Right now, we just don’t have very good leadership in the backcourt,” Calhoun said. “We’re just not getting much done as far as any kind of direction.” The Hoyas are 16-4 overall and 6-3 in confer-
ence play. Georgetown sits tied with the Fighting Irish and South Florida for third place in the Big East. Like UConn, the Hoyas are also coming off a loss. Pittsburgh beat Georgetown 72-60 on Saturday. It was only the Panthers’ third win in the Big East. Also like the Huskies, the Hoyas have three players averaging double figures in scoring. Jason Clark, Hollis Thompson and Henry Sims average over 11 points per game. Otto Porter leads the team with 6.9 rebounds per game. UConn was outrebounded by Notre Dame on Sunday, 33-29. Coach Mike Brey said it was big for the Irish to box out the Huskies on the defensive glass and it helped lead them to victory. If UConn wants to get back to winning ways, rebounding
will be one focus. Last season the Huskies beat Georgetown twice. On Feb. 16, 2011, UConn beat the Hoyas 78-70 at the XL Center. One of the highlights from that contest was Walker passing it to himself off the backboard and hitting a lay up as the shot clock neared its end. The second meeting took place in the Big East tournament. The Huskies pulled away from the Hoyas at Madison Square Garden in a 79-62 victory in the second round of the tournament. Georgetown was without Chris Wright in the game, and Clark scored 23 points in the loss. UConn would go on to win three more games in New York to win the Big East title and then six more games to win the national championship.
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“I can’t even believe all of this. I used to watch a lot of these guys play when I was just a freshman. It’s just amazing to have the privilege to play with them now and to hear the advice they have to give me,” Baum said. John Korber will be the coach of the Connecticut Constitution and
was impressed by the strong level of play coming from the three players, despite UConn Ultimate being such a young program. “They proved they were premier athletes. They made good decisions and displayed maturity on the field,” said Korber. “They have shown a ton of growth over the past few years and they did an excellent job at proving they
deserved to be here.” The Constitution will be based out of New Britain, CT, and will play their games at Arute Field on Central Connecticut State University’s campus. The season will begin in mid-April and end in August.
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McDonough: Prince's choice parallels "He Got Game" from PRINCE, page 14 The final scene shows Jesus shooting jumpers in Big State’s arena. Jake is shooting around in the prison yard. He takes the basketball and throws it over the jail wall. A moment later, the ball Jake heaved is falling from the rafters of the Big State gym. Jesus catches it on two bounces and is left staring and smiling at the ceiling as
the movie ends. The artistic ending is open for interpretation. It makes people try to interpret the circumstances for themselves. Did Jesus go to Big State because of his father? Did Prince sign with the Tigers to follow in his father’s footsteps? It sounds like we’ll never get a clear-cut answer, but if Prince never thought of his
father when making his decision, then why would he say it is kind of dream come true? Did Prince want his career to come full circle? It’s up for interpretation. And we are left to figure it out. Follow Matt McDonough on Twitter @McDTwin1, but it is time to lead, not follow.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — No one would have guessed while the NFL labor war raged last spring that the three of them would be so happy to see each other again. “We met at a time when football looked like it might not continue,” NFL players union chief DeMaurice Smith said, his arm draped over the shoulders of Patriots owner Robert Kraft. “To be here now and watch a great game unfold, I’m not sure I could ask for anything more.” An hour later, Smith popped up alongside Giants owner John Mara. “I’ve been saying nothing but nice things about you,” he said, extending a hand. “Same for me,” Mara said. Back in March, when negotiations between owners and players hit bottom, and a full regular season was anything but assured, such cordiality was hardly the norm. If Kraft and Mara — optimists both — had even dared dream about a reunion with Smith then, they likely would have chosen a mountaintop in Katmandu. Instead, they got together again Tuesday at the stadium where the Super Bowl will tie a bow on the league’s most successful season ever. “This guy had a lot to do with us having labor peace,” Kraft said, referring to Smith. “We were able to build a bond of trust. ... We came very close to having a lockout. People have no idea.” There was something fitting about two of the owners who played such pivotal roles in ending the lockout facing each other for the game’s biggest prize. Agreement on a new 10-year labor deal came barely a week after Kraft buried his wife of 48 years, Myra, after a months-long battle with cancer. For much of that time, Kraft shuttled back and forth between her hospital bed and the bargaining table, largely because, like Mara, he was one of the few owners the players felt they could trust. When the agreement was announced last summer, Colts center and players’ union rep Jeff Saturday wrapped Kraft in an XXL-sized hug and spoke emotionally about the sacrifices Kraft made, and how that earned their respect. Mara said it wasn’t just the players who felt that way. “Everybody knew what he was going through and he still found the time to be there with us,” Mara said. “Like I said, I don’t think we get the deal done without him being there.” For all the work both owners put in to make sure there was a season, long stretches zoomed by where neither had expectations of meeting again at the end. Mara told the story of how in 2007, after the Giants lost to an undefeated Patriots team in the final game of the regular season, he ran into New England coach Bill Belichick in a hallway on the way back to their respective locker rooms.
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About 637 miles south of their home at Gampel Pavilion, the UConn women’s basketball team has staked their flag in another shrine of college basketball. With a 61-45 victory over No. 5 Duke two nights ago, the Huskies snapped their hosts’ 34-game winning streak at Cameron Indoor Stadium. In fact, the only teams to have beaten the Blue Devils at home over the last three seasons both wore UConn uniforms. Fortunate enough to broadcast this year’s game from the rafters of Cameron, here is a quick rundown of the experience at one of college basketball’s sacred sites. Looking around the house that Coach K built prior to tipoff last Monday, the infamous Cameron Crazies were few and far between. With ESPN and a longtime sport superpower in the house, the crowd nearly filled the place to capacity, but overall failed to provide its usual sting to opponents. As the Blue Devils’ struggled shooting all night against the energized Husky defense, the
atmosphere was rather subdued. However, when sophomore center Stefanie Dolson picked up two early fouls, the Crazies started to live up to their name. Duke center Elizabeth Williams, now had an opportunity to carve into the UConn lead. Then, Kiah Stokes put an immediate stop to any hope of a comeback. Over 28 bench minutes, Stokes stifled any Blue Devil progress into the paint, racking up five blocks and twelve rebounds. Bria Hartley poured in fifteen points at the other end, while Caroline Doty knocked down a trio of threepointers. The Blue Devils trailed for the last thirty-five minutes. Now while the top 5 matchup failed to live up to its billing for both squads, Cameron Indoor Stadium was simply magnificent. Walking on the hardwood and through the halls underneath, the place breathed not only basketball but also storied excellence. Few arenas offer such incredible intimacy and no matter where you went, there was never any doubting its’ heralded greatness – even with a UConn win within grasp.
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By Jimmy Onofrio Staff Writer NHL All-Star Weekend is on the books, with Zdeno Chara’s squad pulling out a 12-9 win over Team Alfredsson on the back of Marian Gaborik’s hat trick, which earned him game MVP. Now we look forward to the last two months of the season. No team has solidly proved themselves a favorite thus far, with a number of teams going on winning streaks then cooling off. Here are the things to watch for in the second half of the season: Rangers / Flyers: As Matt pointed out in his NHL column yesterday, both of these teams have the potential to go far this year. The race for first in the Atlantic Division should get interesting, and the teams still have to play each other three times. New York has proven itself over the last month, but they have until Feb. 27 to pick up player to help them out offensively. Philadelphia has the opposite problem: a few weeks ago they were giving up the fewest goals in the league, but the combination of Bryzgalov
and Bobrovsky in net hasn’t been working out so well lately. Philly finishes with 8 of 11 at home. Sidney Crosby: One of the league’s most polarizing players, Crosby hasn’t played since Dec. 5 because of concussion-like symptoms stemming from back-to-back head injuries last January. The Penguins are just six points behind the Atlantic-leading Rangers, and team officials and Crosby are optimistic that he will return before the season ends. If this happens, the Rangers/Flyers contest mentioned above may have a third party vying for the division title. Western Conference: The West is shaping up pretty similarly to last year, with Detroit, Vancouver and San Jose filling out the top three spots in the standings. The Red Wings have been streaky, but an astonishing 20-2-1 home record is the reason they have the best record in the league. Vancouver is also looking strong, with one of the best offenses in the league and a defense to match. Keep your eyes on the West.
James.Onofrio@UConn.edu
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“Prince Got Game”
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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FOURTH TIME’S A CHARM?
Huskies look to snap three-game losing streak
By Colin McDonough Associate Sports Editor
Matt McDonough “If man is the father, the son is the center of the earth.” – Public Enemy. Last week, Prince Fielder inked a deal with his father’s team. Yes, it was for nine years and $214 million, but I was still shocked that Prince signed with a team that his father, Cecil, had played for. There was a rumor when the prized free agent first baseman hit the market that he wouldn’t consider any of his father’s teams. It’s no secret that the two don’t get along. It’s been well documented. Apparently, Prince sided with his mother during divorce proceedings between his parents and didn’t appreciate, despite Cecil’s financial troubles, that his father took part of his signing bonus with the Milwaukee Brewers. “My father is dead to me,” Prince told the Detroit News in 2004. When Prince was introduced as the newest member of the Detroit Tigers last week, he didn’t want to talk about his father. “I’m just ecstatic about being with the Tigers,” Prince told the Associated Press. “I’m just here to enjoy the day.” Prince returns to the place where his father spent seven seasons. The place where Cecil hit 51 home runs and 132 RBI in 1990. Pictures resurfaced of Prince at spring training and batting practice with his dad. They even were in a commercial together. Now Prince will don the same uniform that his father once did. “This is awesome,” Prince told the Associated Press about joining Detroit. “It’s kind of a dream come true. I’m excited.” I know money talks a lot louder than an estranged father, but a “shocked” Cecil told MLB Radio that he and his son have been on better terms and that he is happy Prince is coming full circle. Still, it wasn’t Cecil that convinced Prince to sign with the Tigers. The signing reminded me of one of my all-time favorites movies: “He Got Game.” The Spike Lee Joint stars my favorite actor of all-time: Ray Allen. Whether Allen or Meg Ryan is the best actor to come out of UConn is up to your interpretation, but in the film, Allen portrays a fictional prized recruit from Coney Island named Jesus Shuttlesworth who plays basketball for the Lincoln High Railsplitters. His father Jake, played by Denzel Washington, is serving time for the murder of Jesus’ mother. Jesus hasn’t talked to Jake for years. He hates him. Jake is let out of jail by the warden by order of the governor. The governor, who attended Big State, wants Jesus to play there and if Jake can convince him to attend the college, then Jake’s sentence will be lightened. At first Jesus wants nothing to do with Jake. And even though Jesus never fully comes around and forgives his father, he compromises with him and plays a game of one-onone. If Jake wins, Jesus signs a letter of intent and goes to Big State. If Jake loses, he gets out of his son’s life for good. Jesus wins. Jake leaves and goes back to jail. On decision day, Jesus chooses to attend Big State and sends prayers out to his father. Jesus never comes out and says he went to Big State because of his father, and for that reason, at the end of the movie, the warden does not know if or when Jake will be released.
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The UConn men’s basketball team fell out of the rankings for the first time in 28 weeks after losing five of seven games. Coach Jim Calhoun and the defending national champion Huskies are 14-6 and 4-4 in the Big East. UConn will look to get back on track tonight at No. 14 Georgetown. The Huskies are coming off their third straight loss. Notre 14-6, 4-4 Dame beat UConn 50-48 in Hartford on Sunday and ruined the return of Ryan Boatright. Jeremy Lamb missed a floater at the buzzer that would’ve sent the 16-4, 6-3 game into overtime. made six of Today, 7 p.m. Lamb nine shots from the field, and after the ESPN2 he said he needVerizon Center game ed to contribute even more. “Yeah, I do think I need to shoot more, be more aggressive,” Lamb said. His coach agreed with him. “I don’t think we set good screens,” Calhoun said. “Conversely, I don’t think we got him the ball. And then I think he passed on a couple shots we would like to see him take. It’s a combination of things.”
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UConn players make big impression at tryouts
By Justin Buzzotta Campus Correspondent Three members of UConn’s club Ultimate team will move on to another day of tryouts for Connecticut’s newest professional team, the Connecticut Constitution. The Connecticut Constitution will be one of eight teams from around the country in the brand new American Ultimate Disc League, or AUDL. From UConn’s club Ultimate team, Kamil Skwarek, Ben Weyers and Matt “Gomez” Baum have all earned a spot on the preliminary roster for the third and final day of tryouts coming off strong performances in each of the previous events. The tryouts, which began with more than 80 of the best players in the region, have since been trimmed down to just 34 men. The final roster, which will be decided upon this Saturday, will have 20
spots. Despite a lack of experience at such a high level of play, recent success on the college level has translated surprisingly well to the pro side for each of the players, a tremendous accomplishment not only for Skwarek, Weyers, and Baum, but also for UConn’s program as a whole. Skwarek, UConn’s star handler and junior co-captain, made an early impression in the tryout sporting the highest score of all players on the throwing evaluation. Skwarek is confident the road won’t end on Saturday. “I am so excited for next Saturday,” said Skwarek. “This whole thing has been such an awesome experience and I think that each of us has a very legitimate shot at making this team.” Weyers, UConn’s other co-captain and a senior on the team, performed well at each event and was able to showcase his strong speed and crippling defense. Weyers was
elated at the accomplishment. “I am psyched. I am really happy to make it through to another round,” said Weyers. “I couldn’t be more proud of my teammates.” Baum was relatively unknown coming into the tryout, but left arguably the biggest impact by the end of the day. His best performance came during the scrimmage portion of the tryout. Despite being guarded by some of the best players in the country, Baum scored with ease and was able to consistently make expert throws. With the day nearing an end, “Gomez” became a fan favorite through multiple highlight reel catches, each one leading to louder and louder cheers from his fellow athletes and spectators on the sidelines. Regardless, the whole thing has not really settled in yet for Baum.
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Kamil Skwarek, Matt Baum and Ben Weyers talk with Coach John Korber (not pictured) after the end of tryouts.
Signing Day: A choice, a school, a future
By Chris Zielinski Sports and Society Columnist
With every passing minute, Wednesday morning draws closer. Moving in unison, the fates of hundreds of high school football players inch closer and closer towards destiny. National Singing Day, the NCAA football’s equivalent of draft day, is a moment players, coaches, families, and entire programs alike have been patiently waiting for. In a generation marred by recruiting scandals, improper benefits, and NCAA sanctions, this new generation of athletes hope to reverse this trend, and focus solely on the ultimate prize: an NCAA championship. However, even with a common goal, the choice faced by each individual is no simple task. On the contrary, everything from demographics to family ties and basically anything imaginable in between contribute to the delicate decision faced by each player. Altogether, the eventual decision selfishly takes the spotlight, while
the complex decision making process goes unnoticed. Thus, I vow to flip the script and analyze what drives these pivotal decisions. Although the positives of getting a scholarship are vividly obvious, many of us are unfamiliar with the pressure that is tied to a decision of this gratitude. High school coaches, college coaches, and communities all exert pressure on these athletes, trying to get them to choose a certain school. Even greater, perhaps, is the media, which with its ever increasing scope, seeps in through the smallest cracks and pulls at athletes, reporting their every move along the way. With so many external forces, how could a clear head ever prevail? Simple. Family. When weighing a decision with potential to influence the rest of one’s left, the best source is always an unbiased one. Friends, coaches, and schools may all see the benefits they may receive, while family represents the inverse. Families provide shelter from the storm, in the form of benevolent and truth-
ful advice. While others take the easy way out and suggest, “the sky is the limit”, families provide athletes similar support, but more importantly, advise their athletes on what is the best solution. The distinction is crucial, and is what separates family from the rest. In a perfect world, family would never falter and these decisions would be permanently straightforward. However, life rarely demonstrates such perfections. Terrelle Pryor’s fallout at Ohio State and Reggie Bush’s lost Heisman trophy both illustrate the negative side of the recruiting equation, but neither of these examples rival the penetrating discord shown by Landon Collins and his mother. Collins, who committed to the University of Alabama on national TV, only to have his mother say she preferred LSU right after. These unfortunate breakdowns force recruits to ask the question, “Where do I turn next?”, to which the only answer is to look in the mirror. Unquestionably, this answer to this question is no easy pill to swallow, but imperative for
success. Considering the burden of choosing the next four years and beyond with one choice can be a harsh reality. However, if handled properly, can make all the difference. When making a decision, a recruit must first consider the importance of demographic location. If staying close to home is a priority, then a large percentage of schools can be eliminated, whereas a lack of demographic preference allows for flexibility in the selection process. Moving forward, the recruit must decide what level of competition he wants to play at. For example, the best of the best should strive to play in the best competition, namely the SEC, but those who prefer to remain a superstar should consider aiming for smaller conferences. Along the same lines, many recruits must decide if they need to play right away, or can handle learning a system and playing down the road. For many, instant gratification is ideal, but for other positions, such as quarterback, recruits can benefit from
a longer learning curve. Finally, and most importantly, recruits must decide is football is the only goal, or if academics are important as well. Although this consideration increases the difficulty of the choice exponentially, it can also become the final determinant for the recruit. Receiving an offer to play football at a school like Harvard serves as an acceptable tradeoff for those in the student athlete category, while “NFL or bust” recruits would laugh at such an offer. All in all, the drama and hype surrounding National Signing Day is warranted, but often overshadows the complex decision making that occurs beneath the surface. Undoubtedly, there is no size fits all answer when it comes to recruiting, but success can be found through the combination of family and selfanalysis. In the end, the athlete is responsible for making the difficult final decision, but with careful consideration and confidence, a solution can come with ease.
Christopher.Zielinski@UConn.edu