The Daily Campus: February 1, 2013

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Az. bill seeks to outlaw online impersonation

By Griffin Colopy Campus Correspondent

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Parody accounts such as @ThePresObama and @ PeytonsHead may be considered illegal under a new bill in Arizona which criminalizes online impersonation.

Arizona State Rep. Michelle Ugenti, a Republican, proposed House Bill 2004 earlier this year.

The bill would make online impersonation a felony in the most extreme cases.

Violators of the bill could face up to one and a half

years in prison if found guilty.

According to the bill, “A person commits online impersonation if the person, without obtaining the other person’s consent and with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate or threaten any person, uses the name or persona of another person.”

Mary Helen Millham, a third year graduate student in communication, said she understood the need for protecting people from online defamation and cyber bullying but worried about the

implications of such a vague bill.

“Parody and satire have been protected under free speech as far back as Mark Twain,” said Millham.

In addition, Millham worries that the bill isn’t specific enough.

“If your ISP address is outside of Arizona, how does the law affect you?”

Millham said.

“It needs more clarity.”

David Yalof, a political science professor, said he doesn’t think the bill would affect parody

accounts because it would only be used to prosecute those, “with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate or threaten.”

“Courts generally do not allow the First Amendment to protect those who engage in threatening or harmful behavior,” Yalof said.

However, Yalof said the bill shouldn’t interfere with parody accounts.

“Impersonating strictly for fun or for parody proposes would not come within this law, at least in theory,” Yalof said.

According to Yalof, this bill is the latest in a series of online laws across the nation. Texas, Washington and New York already have similar laws on the books.

David Atkin, a communication professor, said online laws such as House Bill 2004 have a long way to go.

“Online law is running about a generation behind technology,” Atkin said.

“Congressmen aren’t very tech savvy and they’re the ones making the laws.”

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COMMENTARY/page 8 INSIDE NEWS: MTV SHOW CRAFTED NEW LIFESTYLE FOR UCONN STUDENT Brook Dragon discusses her emotion journey on the show.

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More students going to graduate school

By Kyle Constable Campus Correspondent A new study released by a Connecticut-based company finds that college students opting to enter graduate school may be contributing to a significant decline in Connecticut’s labor force.

Donald Klepper-Smith, the chief economist for DataCore Partners in New Haven, published the results of the stateby-state study that analyzes the changes in labor force over the past year based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The findings indicated that Connecticut’s labor force shrunk by 51,130 workers from December 2011 to December 2012, a 2.7 percent decrease, which amounted to the largest of any state in the nation.

“It’s a mistake to say any one factor is responsible for this,” Klepper-Smith told the Connecticut Post.

However, as the New Haven Register reported on Saturday, Klepper-Smith did list several contributing factors, including one relevant to college students across the state: “Graduating college students electing to seek advanced degrees rather than face the prospect of entering the job market at this time.”

John Dearborn, an 8th-semester political science major, sees graduate school as a necessity for himself. Dearborn has applied to 13 different schools and programs across the country. While his primary motive for pursuing

$1.5 billion to be provided for research at UConn Gov. Malloy launches ‘Next Generation Connecticut’ initiative UConn President Susan Herbst said in a UConn Today press release. “In this era, more than New buildings, an enrollment ever, states must rely on their hike and revamped science and public research universities to be math programs will be introduced the backbone and the driver of at the University economic sucof Connecticut cess – and that under Gov. Dan is exactly what Malloy’s prothis proposal posal to invest would accom$1.5 billion in plish.” the school.

The funds Malloy’s proare a part posal is expected of a plan to revolutionize called Next UConn’s sciGeneration ence, technolConnecticut, ogy, engineering which will and mathematfocus on bringics (STEM) proing the state of grams. Buildings to Susan Herbst Connecticut will be conthe forefront of structed on the UConn President research and Storrs campus academics, as to accommodate well as creatan increase in ing more jobs and companies. enrollment of 6,580 and 259 new The announcement of the start faculty members. of Next Generation Connecticut The Greater-Hartford Campus comes less than one month after will be moved to downtown Gov. Malloy announced that the Hartford, and a residential com- UConn Jackson Laboratory for munity will be created for STEM Genomic Medicine would be students on the Storrs Campus. funded $291 million for con“This will create and sup- struction over the next decade port the very jobs we need to as part of Malloy’s Bioscience be an economically vibrant and Connecticut initiative. successful state in the future,”

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In this Feb. 17, 2012 photo Kyle Haythorn, 8th semester management major, talking with Paul Miao, sales manager of the Boston office of Tom James at the Fraternity Marketing Career Fair. A recent study found ,ore students are opting to go to graduate school rather than enter the labor force.

graduate school is research-oriented, he was frank about additional economic pressures facing him and his peers.

“I also don’t see other opportunities in the economy that would really entice me at this current time and I figure the security of grad school and hopefully getting a stipend … would be useful,” Dearborn said.

He also commented on how he believes it is becoming more difficult for students to be admitted to graduate schools and as said the level of competition between applicants is increasing. Despite this, Dearborn is still confident that he would have pursued graduate school even if he were unsure of his career goals in the future.

“If I wasn’t sure what my career goal was going to be, then I probably would’ve still tried to go to graduate school in some capacity just because of not knowing and not wanting to enter the economy too soon,” Dearborn said.

He isn’t alone. In fact, Emily Mattson, a second-year graduate student in the UConn Human Development and Family Studies master’s program, expressed that similar economic concerns were present when she decided to pursue her master’s degree.

“I was interning over the summer after I graduated and I didn’t have anything lined up,” Mattson said. “My senior year,

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Strong winds knock out power to 85,000 in Conn.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A rainstorm with some wind gusts hitting nearly 80 mph downed trees and power lines across Connecticut on Thursday morning, leaving more than 85,000 homes and businesses without power and causing school cancellations and delays. No serious injuries were reported.

Gusts were strongest along the shoreline. The wind hit 78 mph in Westbrook at about 5:20 a.m., and another gust in Madison was clocked at 73 mph at 5:25 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.

Utility crews worked through the morning and afternoon to restore power.

Connecticut Light & Power Co., which serves more than 1 million customers in the state, reported 46,325 remaining outages early Thursday afternoon, down from about 72,500 earlier in the day. The United Illuminating Co. had about 5,000 remaining outages, down from about 12,900.

Arrest warrants being prepared in cow shootings

NORTH STONINGTON, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut state police say they’re preparing arrest warrants in connection with the shootings of two cows on a family dairy farm in North Stonington.

Trooper David Abely told The Day of New London (http://bit. ly/11aaNLf ) on Wednesday that the charges against the suspects will include cruelty to animals.

Eighteen-year-old Asa Palmer, whose family runs the farm, says three youths known for causing trouble in town are the prime suspects. He says they apparently shot a rifle at 12 cows in a field late Friday or early Saturday. Two cows were shot, including one that had to be put down because its jaw was badly damaged.

North Stonington state Rep. Diana Urban announced Wednesday that a special fund has been set up to help the Palmer family at Chelsea Groton Bank.

Joint Chiefs chairman addresses USCG Academy

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — The country’s highest-ranking military officer told cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Thursday that as they prepare to graduate, they face a world that has been growing more dangerous.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, gave an address and took questions from cadets during a visit to the academy in New London. Dempsey, a 1974 graduate of West Point, said officers today must be more prepared for leadership at a younger age than his generation.

He said no institution in the country gives its young leaders as much responsibility as the military.

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It was Dempsey’s first visit to the academy in his role as joint chiefs’ chairman.

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MTV show ‘Made’ crafted new lifestyle for UConn student

By Abby Mace Campus Correspondent

It’s 6:30 a.m., and while most college students are fast asleep awaiting the dreaded sound of their alarms, UConn sophomore Brooke Dragon is taking on the gym with her morning hour of cardio.

Dragon’s dedicated exercise habits and hard work ethic were jump-started on the MTV hit “Made”--a TV show that transforms aspiring teens into the person of their dreams, when she realized her goal of becoming a bikini fitness model competitor.

When the cameras for “Made” began rolling, Dragon was unaware of the multitude of possibilities that lay before her in the world of fitness modeling.

But as soon as Dragon watched her trainer on the show, Tianna Ta, an International Federation of Bodybuilders (IFBB) bikini pro, compete at a national com-

Judges find North Haven woman guilty of murder

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A three-judge panel has rejected selfdefense claims by a North Haven woman and convicted her of murder in the 2010 stabbing death of a bartender during a dispute over a pool game wager.

The New Haven Register reports (http://bit.ly/WA4ex9 ) 49-yearold Mary Ames was convicted Wednesday of murdering 47-year-old Christopher Hall at Doran’s bar in North Haven. She faces 25 years to life in prison when she is sentenced April 26.

Ames testified that Hall refused to honor a bet that the losing players in the pool game buy drinks for the winners.

She claimed Hall grabbed her by the throat when she tried to pour a drink for her son and she was forced to stab him.

But the judges said evidence showed Ames threatened Hall and lunged at him.

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petition, she realized the aspirations that she wanted to fulfill on “Made”. “I realized an industry I was never exposed to before. This could be a career path for me,” Dragon said.

To sum up the requirements of the bikini division of modeling competitions, Dragon had two words: beauty and fitness. To achieve the toned, lean physique desired, Dragon’s trainer, an IFFB bikini pro, held her to a strict daily diet and exercise regimen that consisted of two hours of cardio and one hour of strength training, along with a diet of frequent, small meals free of processed foods.

The connections Dragon created through “Made” allowed her to create an impact on the fitness modeling world from the start, landing a stint as a spokesperson for the online wellness giant Bodybuilder.com. In addition to creating a video clip for the industry’s web site, Dragon

will travel with the Bodybuilder Dragon felt the pressure to be team to the Arnold Classic fitness extremely fit from her family, model competition in Columbus, she had never desired to improve Ohio to help promote the image her fitness level until a few peers of health and wellness, especially made hurtful comments about her body. for those These comments, who are however, were new to the Dragon’s wakeup sport. call: she was tired of Y e t being self-conscious D r a g o n ’s and decided she aspirawould lose weight to tions have improve her confinot always dence and satisfacbeen so tion in her physil o f t y . cal appearance. “I W h i l e she had Brooke Dragon decided I needed to work out for me, and always led UConn Sophmore I had to do it now,” an active she said. lifestyle, A l t h o u g h her diet Dragon’s new lifeand exerstyle presented its cise habits lacked ambition in comparison fair share of challenges, she was to her parents’--her mom is a open to change in order to be at dance studio owner and her dad her best for her bikini compea former bodybuilder. Although

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a lot of people were saying — I think they’ve been saying it for years — that the job market’s really hard.”

After working with the women’s basketball team for all four years as an undergraduate, Mattson was offered the Graduate Assistant position with the team, which served as her primary motivator for continuing her education. Yet, at the same time, the position prevented her from having to enter uncertain economic conditions without any plans in place.

She also commented on some of her friends’ decisions to pursue graduate degrees, saying that

Bill used to raise Minimum wage rise back awareness of on Conn. legislative appropriate internet behavior

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — For the second year in a row, Connecticut’s largest business group and labor advocates are digging in for a fight in the legislature over raising the minimum wage.

Connecticut Working Families is backing legislation that would increase the minimum wage from $8.25 an hour to $9 on July 1 and to $9.75 a year later. The legislation also calls for automatic raises in the minimum wage tied to increases in the Consumer Price Index, the federal measure of inflation.

Automatic increases would avoid annual political fights, say backers of the legislation.

“I don’t know why any legislature would want to have this fight every year,” said Lindsay Farrell, executive director of Connecticut Working Families.

The Connecticut Business and Industry Association, which represents 10,000 businesses in the state, opposes the legislation. It says higher labor costs will force employers to hire fewer workers and increase prices.

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they did not feel completely prepared for the work environment.

“A lot of my friends just wanted to continue their education,” Mattson said. “They just wanted to learn more before they got in the field, because they didn’t feel as though they had mastered enough to be working out in the work force.”

These feelings about the necessity of work-readiness are not exclusive to seniors on the verge of graduating, however.

2nd-semester health care management major Quian Callender also held similar views about the perceived necessity of graduate school before entering the labor

force.

“For many jobs, you need a master’s degree or some type of graduate degree, so going right after college when you’re motivated to do so — it’s just easier,” Callender said. “It wouldn’t be guaranteed that I would want to go back into college to get a master’s degree or a Ph.D.” In addition, Callender stated that parents, advisors and other people of influence could be sources of pressure, even to students who are only in their first or second semester of college.

The looming economic pressure has influenced many students to pursue more advanced

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Ark. Senate passes measure to ban most abortions

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Senate voted Thursday to prohibit most abortions if a heartbeat is detected, ignoring warnings from opponents that banning the procedure as early as six weeks into a pregnancy would invite lawsuits.

If enacted, the ban would be the most stringent in the nation. The Ohio House passed a similar ban in 2011, but it was sidelined in the Senate last year over concerns that it might be found unconstitutional. Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe told reporters Thursday that’s the same concern that he’s researching.

“I’m waiting on lawyers. I think that’s the big concern right now — does it run afoul of the Supreme Court or constitutional restrictions?” Beebe said. “That’s the first thing we’re looking at.”

The Senate approved the new ban the same day that a House committee advanced two other abortion restrictions, part of a package of legislation antiabortion groups believe are poised to become law now that Republicans control the state General Assembly.

The Senate approved the proposed “Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act” by a

26-8 vote. The measure, which now heads to a House committee, requires a test to detect a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed. If one is detected, a woman could not have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest and if a mother’s life is in danger.

Similar legislation is also being considered in North Dakota and Mississippi. All have faced complaints from abortion rights groups that it runs afoul of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion up until viability, usually at 22 to 24 weeks.

“I’m asking you to stand up for life, and I believe when there is a heartbeat, based upon even the standard the Supreme Court has utilized, you cannot have a viable child without a heartbeat,” Sen. Jason Rapert, the bill’s sponsor, told lawmakers before they approved the legislation.

Five Democrats joined all 21 of the Senate’s Republicans to vote for the restriction. Two Democratic lawmakers who spoke out against the bill said they believed it would be an invasion of women’s rights to make decisions about their own health if the state enacted the ban.

“I don’t want to go back to when women used kerosene and clothes hangers because they didn’t have a choice,” Sen. Linda Chesterfield, D-Little Rock, told lawmakers.

A day earlier, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union told a Senate panel that the group would sue the state if it enacted the new restriction.

Opponents have also noted that the only way to detect a fetal heartbeat at six weeks is by using a vaginal probe.

“Can you imagine what kind of feeling that would cause when inserted into a woman?”

Sen. Stephanie Flowers, D-Pine Bluff, asked Rapert on the Senate floor. Flowers voted against the bill.

“No,” Rapert, R-Conway, replied.

The bill could go before the House Public Health Committee as early as next week, but its fate is uncertain. Democrats control 11 of the 20 seats on the panel, and Republicans only hold a 51 seat majority in the 100-member House.

Though the Legislature has considered abortion restrictions in recent years, most proposals haven’t made it to the governor’s desk under Democrat majorities. Beebe, however, has

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backed some abortion restrictions. He signed into law a proposal two years ago placing new regulations on the clinics that offer the abortion pill and in 2009 he signed legislation that mirrors a federal law ban-

ning late-term abortions.

Abortion rights advocates criticized the Senate for passing the legislation.

“This bill not only jeopardizes the health of all women who become pregnant in Arkansas,

hour and a half of cardio and a half hour of strength training each day. In fact, prioritizing healthy lifestyle choices, Dragon said, is her secret to getting (and staying) in great shape. “It’s all about giving yourself time to change.

People need to know that it’s not going to happen all in one week or even in one month.”

And Dragon is giving herself ample time to prepare for her upcoming competition, the Team Universe Nationals in July, where she hopes to achieve professional bikini modeling status. In addition to becoming a bikini pro, Dragon plans to earn a degree in Nutritional Sciences at UConn in order to become a registered dietician.

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jets crossed into the country over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and bombed a scientific research center. The facility is in the area of Jamraya, northwest of Damascus. and about 15 kilometers (10 miles) from the Lebanese border.

A U.S. official said the airstrike targeted trucks containing sophisticated Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles. The trucks were next to the military research facility identified by the Syrians, and the strike hit both the trucks and the facility, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the operation.

If the SA-17s were to have reached Hezbollah, they would

Rep. Greg Leding, D-Fayetteville, asks a question during a meeting of the House Committee on Public Health, Welfare and Labor at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. A bill dealing with abortion received the committee’s approval.

it’s also unconstitutional,” said Murry Newbern, lobbyist for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland. “It creates an undue burden for a woman seeking safe abortion and contradicts Roe v. Wade. “

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Syria threatens retaliation for Israeli airstrike

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria threatened Thursday to retaliate for an Israeli airstrike and its ally Iran said the Jewish state will regret the attack.

Syria sent a letter to the U.N. Secretary-General stressing the country’s “right to defend itself, its territory and sovereignty” and holding Israel and its supporters accountable.

“Israel and those who protect it at the Security Council are fully responsible for the repercussions of this aggression,” the letter from Syria’s Foreign Ministry said.

U.S. officials said Israel launched a rare airstrike inside Syria on Wednesday targeting a convoy carrying anti-aircraft weapons bound for Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group allied with Syria and Iran.

In Israel, a lawmaker close to hard-line Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stopped short of confirming involvement in the strike. But he hinted that Israel could carry out similar missions in the future.

The attack has inflamed regional tensions already running high over Syria’s 22-month-old civil war.

Israeli leaders in the days leading up to the airstrike had publicly expressed concern that Syrian President Bashar Assad may be losing his grip on the country and its arsenal of conventional and nonconventional weapons.

The Syrian military denied there was any such weapons convoy. It said low-flying Israeli

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have greatly inhibited the Israeli air force’s ability to operate in Lebanon, where Israel has flown frequent sorties in recent years.

Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Jassem al-Shallal, who in December became one of the most senior Syrian army officers to defect, told The Associated Press by telephone from Turkey that the targeted site is a “major and well-known” center to develop weapons called the Scientific Research Center.

Al-Shallal, who until his defection was commander of the military police, said no chemical or nonconventional weapons are at the site. He added that foreign experts, including Russians and Iranians, are usually present at such centers.

titions. And the new lifestyle was a severe adjustment for the 20-year-old, who prior to “Made” had little experience with strength training and had once made doughnuts a regular part of her diet. Most importantly, however, was the drive that Dragon gained through her new routine.

“When I train, I have to be straight-edge,” Dragon said. “It’s one of those sacrifices: you have to hold down and do what you have to do. If you want something that badly, you’re going to do whatever it takes to get there.”

Since training on her own, Dragon has scaled back her workout regimen slightly to allow enough time for her academics, but she still makes time for an

ATLANTA (AP) — A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said.

Multiple shots were fired in the courtyard of Price Middle School just south of downtown around 1:50 p.m. and the one boy was hit, Atlanta Police Chief George Turner said. In the aftermath, a teacher received minor cuts, he said.

The wounded boy was taken “alert, conscious and breathing” to Grady Memorial AP Hospital, said police spokesA woman comforts a child after a shooting at an Price Middle school in Atlanta on man Carlos Campos. He Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. A 14-year-old boy was wounded outside the school Thursday was expected to be released afternoon and a fellow student was in custody as a suspect.

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classes

UConn Women’s Choir welcomes new members for Spring 2013.

Rehearsals MW 4:005:15 in MUSI 109.

Performances on and off-campus. Join us at rehearsal (starting 1/28) or contact Dr. Junda for more information mary.junda@ uconn.edu

activities

Shotokan Karate Take Traditional Karate with the UCONN KARATE CLUB. M/W/F 7pm at Hawley Armory.

Beginners welcome.

Credit option available as AH 1200 section 001. uconnjka@charter.net www.jkaconn.com/ karate.htm

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I guess it’s still technically complimentary water, right? These hi-tech water fountains were recently fashioned right outside the Union Street Market in the Union, hydrating students of all makes and sizes.

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CAPTION CONTEST

by Adam Penrod

INTRODUCING...

THE UCONN DC CAPTION CONTEST! If you’d like to submit a caption for comic to your left,simply email us at d a i ly c a m p u s c o m ics@gmail.com!

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We look forward to your hilarious jokes!

Horoscopes

by Brian Ingmanson

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -Focus on home and family warms the hearth.

It’s good medicine ... take as much as you can, with tea and company. Renew your spirit to go back out into the world again.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Changes could seem abrupt to others. Why not think it over? Handle the basics, do the routines and then take a walk to get lost in thought. No need for decisions.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You have this tendency to say yes when people ask, and then the tasks pile up. Keep checking stuff off the list, and earn some time for yourself.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -Your self-discipline is impressive, but you don’t have to go it alone, you know. You have plenty of friends. Everyone wants to contribute. You would do the same.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- An arrogant mood could take over, if you allow it to. Grand statements from the past could echo back. Own up to them if that happens. Laugh at yourself.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Practical efforts are favored, with Mars retrograde in your sign. There could be changes. Consult with experts and partners.

Rules simplify.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -Concentrate on great service, and the orders flood in. The workload is getting intense.

Consider the previously impossible, and listen to your partner.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You don’t need “no more trouble.” The love of your family is available, as long as you’re willing to harvest it. Fixing a leaky faucet can save money.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s easier to express your thoughts or to start a new writing project. Find an answer in meditation. Others depend on you. Share your peace of mind.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Figure out new ways to bring in income, without sacrificing your core values. Bring the money in before you send it back out. Be proud of your contribution.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re the top dog, and you know it. You’re back in control, but don’t let it make you lazy.

Continue growing. Change is good now. Play with it.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 5 -- There’s no time for procrastination now.

Complete a project in private. Listen only to the positive voice in your head. Hot chocolate could be nice.

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Sustainable prosperity, not growth

of the group is to maintain relevance in the eyes of the collegiate.

The members of HerCampus are constantly looking for ways to appeal to fellow students and help the site gain recognition. Two of their most popular methods are through running a weekly poll, along with the “campus cutie” article, which features either a male or female student on campus whose cuteness has simply stuck out. The process involves an interview, photo and section dedicated to the individual who is chosen.

In the past, these interviews have elicited humor-filled responses and even a feeling of honor from the interviewee.

Having recently hosted a station at UConn’s involvement fair, HerCampus has gained more and more eager writers, (25 so far), yet they are always seeking more. Their upcoming event, a showing of the documentary “Finding Kind”, is all about the battle against bullying. The film, premiering March 6, is meant to spread the word about the effects of hurtful words and actions, primarily amongst young girls and women. Another event in the making is a Francesca’s boutique fashion show-where “campus cutie” volunteers will be much needed.

The show is scheduled for early April and more details will be given soon.

If you are interested in becoming a blog writer and influencing the female (and overall) population at UConn (and many other universities), please contact the leader of HerCampus UConn, senior Caitlin Kelly, via email at Caitlin.kelly@uconn.com or simply through attending a Thursday meeting.

“Sustainable prosperity” is the ultimate goal of transitoning to a Green Economy. The Worldwatch Institute defines sustainable prosperity as: “a result of sustainable development that enables all human beings to live with their basic needs met, with their dignity acknowledged, and with abundant opportunity to pursue lives of satisfaction and happiness, all without risk of denying others in the present and the future the ability to do the same. This means not just preventing further degradation of Earth’s systems, but actively restoring those systems to full health.” One of the most important steps towards attaining sustainable prosperity will be to use economic indicators that reflect human and environmental well-being.

Currently, a worldwide movement is underway to oust the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the standard economic indicator used to evaluate how well a country is doing economically.

The problem with the GDP is that it is too simple, too narrowly focused –technically it is just the total dollar value of all goods and services produced by an economy over a specific time period.

It has absolutely no mechanism for measuring whether the production has improved the lives of human beings or has in fact made them worse, never mind its effects on the environment.

A number of alternative indicators have been proposed in recent years by social scientists and economic experts from around the globe which attempt to measure actual human well-being rather than spitting out a dollar value. One such alternative is the Legatum Prosperity Index, developed by the nonpartisan Legatum Institute based out of London.

The Prosperity Index goes far beyond simply measuring production and monetary profit. It evaluates 142 nations based on 89 indicators grouped into eight categories of human well-being, including: economy, education, social capital, opportunity, governance, health, personal freedom and safety/security. Based on these parameters, the top ten most prosperous nations in 2012 were, in descending order: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Ireland. Notice that the United States did not even make the top ten! In fact, the U.S. worsened in four of the eight categories last year and dropped to 12th place on the list.

We must ask ourselves why we currently use the terms “growth” or “progress” to describe economic activities that worsen human life. Judging whether an economic activity is “good” or “bad” is not a straightforward science, but we can surely improve upon what we have now. Studies such as Legatum’s prove that production alone does not necessarily translate into real good or progress for humanity - the dynamics of social well-being are much more complex than that.

As explained by Forbes contributor Chris Helman: “Happiness means having opportunity – to get an education, to be an entrepreneur. What’s more satisfying than having a big idea and turning it into a thriving business, knowing all the way that the harder you work, the more reward you can expect?” Norway is successful not just because of its high GDP but because of indicators such as 95 percent of Norwegians being satisfied with the freedom to choose the direction of their lives and “an unparalleled 74 percent” believing that other people can be trusted.

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The Birland Big Band, which consists of 15 worldly musicians, came to Jorgensen Thursday night with their leader Tommy Igoe. The group plays mostly jazz pieces that have a forward outlook while still paying homage to the great artists of jazz history.

By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer

At Jorgensen on a Thursday night, an audience filled with fans of jazz went on a journey through the world and its cultures with the most popular weekly musical residency in New York City, the Birdland Big Band.

Named after Birdland Jazz Club, an iconic musical venue in New York that has held famous jazz musicians from the golden age of American jazz, the Big Band is comprised of the country’s finest top-shelf talent, including musicians from Texas to Maine and even Australia. Created by one of the world’s most prominent drummers, Tommy Igoe, the Birdland Big Band plays every Friday night in the big city. The one month tour they have taken between 2012-2013 is an experience Igoe described as being similar to seeing a unicorn – rare and exciting.

Patrons were able to reserve tables with candles at the front of Jorgensen for a dinner before the show itself.

With two logos of the BBB on either

side of the stage, a large sign reading “BIRDLAND,” and music stands that had the words “Birdland Big Band, directed by Tommy Igoe,” the band consisted of 15 musicians spanned across the stage. On the far left was pianist and keyboardist Whitney Ashe, and next to him stood bassist Michael League who performed on both electric and acoustic bass. In the middle of the stage Tommy Igoe was set up behind his drumset. In three rows were the other musicians: trumpeters Nicholas Marchione, Glenn Drewes, Mat Jodrell and Chris Jaudes stood behind trombonists Dave Bargeron, James Borowski and Mark Miller. In the front row were saxophonists Dan Willis, Nathan Childers, Paul Nedzella and Kurt Bachur.

At the beginning of the show, Igoe set some house rules. He first explained that this event was not a concert, but a journey. Rather than dancing on the graves of great jazz musicians, the BBB selects songs that have twists and are usually not hit songs that are emulated

by many other bands. They kicked the journey off with the songs “Be Bop Charlie” by Bob Florence, “Spherical”

by Michael Brecker, and “Moanin’” by Bobby Timmons, songs that had Spanish flares from Venezuela and other parts of the world.

While the band has a mission in which they look forward and mix music, they sometimes pull pieces from the past, especially from the 1950s and 1960s.

The next song they played was by Thad Jones in 1959 and called “Deacon.”

Before they closed the first part of the show, Igoe treated the crowd to a special and rare luxury – he allowed the crowd to take a live poll and pick a song from a select few for the band to perform. The two songs with the most votes would be played in the second act, he promised.

Before intermission, the band played a brand new piece written by one of Igoe’s friends from the band Snarky Puppy called “Quarter Master.” With rapid beats played both quietly and boisterously, multiple solos performed at the same

Trio of techno DJs at Jorgensen perform at Winter White Tour

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ALESSO is one of many DJs that will be coming to the Jorgensen theater this weekend as part of the Winter White Tour. The DJs featured are some of the best ranked in the country for techo and dance genres.

By Emily Herbst Campus Correspondent On behalf of SUBOG and the university, the internationally-acclaimed 21-year-old Swedish DJ Alesso is playing at Jorgensen on Feb. 2nd. Other appearances will include Otto Knows and DJ Manni, ultimately creating a techno trio for attendees. A master of the dance-electronica genre and improviser on synthesizers and keyboards, he has included UConn as a location on his Winter White tour list. The audience is expected to hear a set-list not only comprised of Alesso’s original creations but his widely-appreciated remixes as well. The show and entire tour is apparently “wintry-white” and frost-themed, providing a snow-centered performance and thrilling break from the dull three-month span of cold…at least indoors.

Alesso, born Alessandro Lindbad, got his start in music production and not surprisingly, remixing familiar songs. Through social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and Soundcloud, his work spread like wildfire, gaining him a following in the genres of electronica and EDM. His music has been characterized as “trance,” progressive-house,

a little techno and a tad electronica-quite a melting pot of musical sub-categories. Upon his arrival at #70 on the list of top 100 DJs in 2011 (from DJ Mag), his name was in the mouths of many techno-trance producers and fans. He has covered the best of the best in the electronic genre, DJs such as Avicii, Tiesto, Sander Van Doom and the ultra-popular Swedish House Mafia. He models his music from many trance-based samples and beats, fusing them with his own individualized pace. He has produced a whopping three EPs in just three years, which include Dynamite, Silenced by the Night and Years. As a part of countless collabs, Alesso has earned his spot in the dance/trance music world.

One of the biggest reasons for this upcoming show’s hype is the fact that it will be among the few, if not first, techno/electronic concerts ever to hit UConn’s Jorgensen Theater. From the looks of it, the presentation will be much like that of Dayglow, nationwide touring paint party, possibly with snowflakes in place of paint.

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time, and a drum solo, the upbeat song received a standing ovation.

During the second part of the show, Igoe announced the songs “Norwegian Wood” and “Chicken” as the winners of the poll and proceeded to play them with the band. Next up, the BBB played a piece called “Common Ground” which featured what Igoe describes as the “glorious bass.” He explained how this song has actually saved marriages and reminded couples of the first time they were in love. Igoe playfully talked to the audience, allowing and encouraging feedback for him to respond to.

The band sent everyone home with the song “Birdland”, which received a standing ovation, but not before Igoe shared how the band started off with no fans nor listeners whatsoever, and had exponentially grown within a year.

“Thank you,” he said, “for keeping live music alive!”

Zarrin.Ahmed@UConn.edu

HerCampus blog involved in student life

By Emily Herbst Campus Correspondent There are over 500 registered student organizations at UConn, but there is always room for more.

HerCampus, a national, collegewide organization of female students who produce a blog full of various articles, in addition to hosting social events, started at UConn during the spring 2011 semester. HerCampus UConn has its own unique website, while still remaining linked to the largescale, general HerCampus blog.

There are currently 500 universities in the country with participating HerCampus organizations.

The actual company was started in Spring of 2011 and is stationed in Boston, Massachusetts.

The members of HerCampus meet at the Student Union on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m., in room 410. Meetings primarily consist of brainstorming new article ideas, planning on-campus events, promotional activities and discussion of ways to improve and polish their work. Anyone can be a part of it, including males.

In fact, HerCampus UConn is always requesting “guy advice”, especially relative to their love and relationship columns. They seek to create an entertaining yet thoughtful balance between the genders and article contributors.

The HerCampus site features a range of articles, from health and current events, to fitness and fashion. It’s the perfect option for young women (or men) on campus who want to write-whether professionally or casually. Even photographers are welcomed, as HerCampus also features a weekly photoblog. All articles are selfuploaded; writers have their own accounts and can add and detract columns as they please. Multiple articles are encouraged, as the goal

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Super Bowl

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Evolving halftime traditions represent culture

By Brendon Field Campus Correspondent

The Super Bowl carries with it many traditions, few more notable than the halftime show, which has featured a wide variety of musical styles and is seen as a reflection of American popular culture.

Here is a brief history of the halftime shows and how they have evolved from 1967 to the present.

For the first nineteen Super Bowls, marching bands, many of which were affiliated with universities, performed at the shows. But certain years saw performances from another group, “Up With People,” which is an international group that promotes multiculturalism through music and service. The songs they performed were a combination of traditional marching music and arrangements of songs from other genres including “That’s Entertainment” and “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.” It wasn’t until 1988 a figure from American pop music took the stage. Chubby Checker, a prominent figure in the early years of rock and roll, performed with the combined marching bands of the University of Southern California and San Diego State University.

Until 2004, each year had a specific theme, often celebrating cultural trademarks and milestones such as America’s bicentennial in 1976 and Motown’s 40th Anniversary in 1998. The last theme was titled “Rock the Vote” and saw perfor-

mances from Justin Timberlake, Kid Rock, Nelly and Janet Jackson, whose notorious wardrobe malfunction resulted in the institution of a five second tape delay for all live television.

Throughout the 1990s, many of the performers were iconic figures in pop music; including Michael Jackson in 1993, New Kids on the Block in 1991 and Diana Ross in 1996. While rock bands were featured throughout the decade, it was not until the latter half of the 2000s where the shows become exclusively rock oriented, with little to no collaborators. Acts included The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band and Paul McCartney.

2011 saw a return to contemporary music with a performance by the Black Eyed Peas.

The departure from rock was met with mixed reactions; and the Black Eyed Peas received many negative reviews. Last year’s show stuck to a pop orientation but was headlined by Madonna, who like many of the rock performers, is best known for her work in previous decades.

Madonna’s show featured the largest number of collaborators to date, with appearances by Cee Lo Green, Nicki Minaj, LMFAO and Drumlines from four different high schools and a 200 person choir. Rolling Stone named it the greatest halftime show of all time.

Set to perform this year is Beyonce, who has been the center of recent controversy regarding her lip-synching of the national anthem at

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Beyoncé speaks during a news conference Thursday in New Orleans. Beyoncé is scheduled to perform during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game on Sunday, Feb. 3.

President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.

It has been speculated whether or not she will sing live during her show, Madonna elected not to last year. Collaborators at this point are unknown, but suspected figures include Beyonce’s husband

Jay-Z and her former R&B group, Destiny’s Child, according to the Associated Press.

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Watching the game Losing sight of the sport from a new perspective

By Tom Teixera Staff Writer

By Joe O’Leary Focus Editor

For fans of football, commercials and spectacle, the Super Bowl is a yearly Mecca of culture. More than 100 million people watch the big game annually; 113.2 million saw the Giants take down the Patriots last year in the U.S. alone. It’s an event few want to miss. However, as some students will have work, others will have classwork and still more may not readily have access to a TV, this is one event that’s harder to catch for college students.

Those who are busy on Sunday night shouldn’t fret thanks to CBS, this year’s broadcaster of the big game.

Following in the footsteps of recent sporting events, including last year’s Super Bowl and NCAA Tournaments, the company will be streaming the entire game online as it plays out live.

At CBSSports.com, a video player that should work on

most laptops and tablets will carry CBS’s broadcast of the game, as well as four alternate camera angles. The “Fan Choice” camera will move throughout the game across the field, the camera angles of which will partially be determined by viewers’ votes during the game. There will also be a “Sideline” camera, which CBS says will be especially useful if the Ravens and 49ers end up in goal-line plays and a classic “Cable” one positioned behind the play.

But for football fans and film fans alike, the real attraction here is the “All-22” angle, a high, full-field view from the 50-yard-line, showing all 22 players on the team at once. This is a rare angle, hard to find in normal television coverage, that football fans can use to break down plays and study formations live to see what the brothers Harbaugh will throw at the other team.

CBS has also said a curated

Twitter stream will add live coverage from CBS experts and personalities, whom fans will be able to reach over this new platform. An interactive gallery of commercials will update live as soon as ads air, meaning the instant classics can be seen again in a moment. The network also promises DVR functionality, meaning viewers can make their own instant replays.

Real-time updates of stats are the final piece of the package.

As long as it can hold up to the loads of traffic on their servers, this livestream seems essential not just to those without TVs but also as a tool that can enhance the Super Bowl experience at parties.

Football nerds, your prayers have been answered.

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For all practical purposes, Super Bowl Sunday has become an American holiday. A day initially intended to determine the world’s best football team has become a national monument to our entertainment industries. Most Americans will watch the Super Bowl to be entertained by advertisements, musicians, performers and television personalities. Football, the point of the entire event, has become an afterthought.

The Super Bowl began in 1967 as a championship game that matched the National Football League’s best team against the rival American Football League’s best team. After the success of the first game, the Super Bowl experiment continued and does to this day.

The success of the first Super Bowl led to both leagues being officially united under the N.F.L. and to the rise of football as America’s favorite, most popular sport.

While the Super Bowl undoubtedly plays an important role in the sporting world, it now plays an even greater role in the pop culture and entertainment worlds. The halftime performer and national anthem singers get as much national publicity as the head coaches and quarterbacks. Audiences submit themselves to watching football in order to get to the commercials, beer and wings are primary concerns, not jerseys and hats.

To be frank, this is all backwards. If you prefer entertainment to sports, compare the Super Bowl to a Drake concert. The game has your

leg twitching and your eyes wide and all of a sudden; three minutes of commercials. Drake drops “Successful,” “Best I Ever Had,” then “Headlines,” and then, a mime comes out and juggles for ten minutes.

The football action is really heating up.

Kaepernick is driving, then fumbles. The Ravens are driving and score a touchdown with ten seconds to go in the half and the game looks aweso-- forty minute halftime show.

Drizzy goes with “Over,” “Fancy” and “Take Care,” and then he busts out 2 Chainz and drop “No Lie”, and just when things can’t get crazier, A$AP Rocky comes out and they all 3 perform “F*ckin’ Problems.” Then, halfway through an already incredible set list ,an hour of the International Senior Citizen’s Croquette Championship, on mute.

If football is your primary source for Super Bowl entertainment, everything else is a terrible distraction. While seeing Beyonce on TV is cool, nothing could be more exciting than watching two teams playing excellent football for sixty minutes. Commercials might be funny for some, but for others, they’re nothing more than bathroom breaks.

Unfortunately for football fans, you can expect more commercials, more singing, and more non-football entertainment this year than ever before. My advice-- enjoy Super Bowl XLVII because next year promises to be even less football-orientated.

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Companies compete for consumer attention

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This frame grab provided by Coca Cola, shows a moment in the Super Bowl Coca Cola campaign. Coca-Cola is asking people to vote for an online match between three groups competing for a Coke on Game Day.

This screen shot provided by Hyundai shows the Super Bowl advertisement by Hyundai Motor Group’s Kia. In the advertisment, Kia invents a fanciful way that babies are made, blasting in from a baby planet in its “Space babies” ad for the 2014 Sorento crossover.

By Kim Halpin Associate Focus Editor The Super Bowl is an advertisers dream. You’ve got the audience, and you’ve got their attention. Half the battle is won. Of course advertisers pay dearly for these perfect opportunities, and this year the classic 30 second slot is going for 3.8 million dollars. Prices have been rising steadily over the years, especially after breaking the million-dollar mark in 1995.

There are always people who watch the Super Bowl just to see the ridiculous commercials that companies have made special for the occasion. With so many different advertisements vying for customer attention, salience is king in the marketing arena. The absurd and unex-

pected are what stands out in consumers’ minds, and therefore viewers end up watching commercials like KIA’s newest story about babies in space. Does it say anything about the product? Not exactly. It might even make consumers question whether the company knows what they’re doing. But anyone who watches television knows and remembers the hamsters driving in KIA cars.

Now a major emerging trend in marketing is to have consumers interact more with the product and the advertisement. In an age of mass customization rather than mass production, companies have to keep up with the growing use of technology. In order to better interact with their consumers and hear what they want to see from the brand, a growing

number of companies have been releasing their Super Bowl commercials in whole or in part before the big event.

Consumers then have the opportunity to vote on aspects of the commercial using their smart phones or tablets.

A major example of this practice that viewers will see this Sunday is the Coca Cola ad where consumers will have the power to choose between possible endings. Lost in the desert and in need of refreshment, three different groups of people are all racing to get to the giant Coke bottle. Viewers will have an opportunity to vote and then will wait until the end of the game to see which group will win.

Paying attention to interactions between a company’s market base and

their consumers is an important lesson that some companies are just beginning to fully understand. Taco Bell has heard loud and clear from its customer base that they cannot ignore the vegetable lover population. Taco Bell’s add for the Super Bowl had focused on their meaty products and made vegetables inferior. However, according to ABC News, negative public reactions to the ad have forced Taco Bell to pull it.

There has also been a trend toward sitcom or story like advertisements. This is because they will typically be watched by a large group of people at the same time, like at a Super Bowl party. This is evident in the newly released Doritos’s ad which, like a sitcom, both involve a typical American family and is humor-

ous.

Icons like Budweiser’s Light Beer will still represent the traditional advertising giants. The Super Bowl has provided a playing field for the serious competition between light beer providers for nearly the past thirty years. Beginning with the classic Clydesdale horses campaign in 1982, Bud Light’s commercials always prove to be powerful. This year they have gone as far as to create a commercial for their Super Bowl commercial.

With simply a lounge chair and a pack of beer, they tell viewers to get ready for what’s sure to be another immensely planned out campaign.

Kimberly.Halpin@UConn.edu

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A Cappella auditions available

By Michael McGuigan Campus Correspondent

A$AP: A unique style icon

Musicians and fashion have always gone hand in hand with each other. From Elvis and his bellbottom pants, to Kurt Cobain and his flannel shirts, musicians of all kinds develop their personal styles and serve as a billboard for many trends.

Throughout the growth of the genre, rap music and rappers have always served as nationwide trend-setters, especially with the growing popularity of the music on a mainstream level. With each new wave of trends and artists, a new leader will emerge. A$AP Rocky has definitely taken over the reigns of resident trend-setter.

A$AP Rocky is a charismatic new artist from Harlem. He first appeared on the scene in early 2011, with viral videos for his songs “Peso” and “Purple Swag,” His debut album, “LongLiveA$AP”, recently hit number one on the billboard charts when it debuted in January. Rocky is gaining popularity with every song, video and appearance. Not confining himself to rap, he has appeared in songs by artists such as Rihanna, Lana Del Rey, Usher and Skrillex. His unique style of music is heavily influenced by groups like U.G.K. and Bone Thugz-N-Harmony, but his keen, and eye for style is what makes him stand out as an individual.

ASAP Rocky is no stranger to both high-fashion and streetwear. Through name-drops on songs and product placement in his videos, Rocky has publicly endorsed Jeremy Scott, Raf Simons, Rick Owens, Supreme, Adidas, Black Scale and many other brands and designers. He has joined the likes of Kanye West and Pharrell in regards to the high number of, “what in the world is he wearing?” moments. Some cornerstone pieces of A$AP Rocky’s wardrobe throughout his growing popularity have been Jeremy Scott Adidas and Maison Martin Margiela sneakers, SSUR’s “Comme Des F***down” spinoff apparel, and a fur Balmain vest which he wore on BET’s “106 & Park.” Recently, he even released collaboration pieces with both Black Scale and designer Raf Simons, making sure to have his A$AP moniker displayed prominently throughout. As he becomes more popular and eats up more airtime, there’s no telling the impact that Rocky will continue to have on both the style and hip-hop cultures of today’s generation.

“Hip-hop grunge” is what some people have labeled this new style trend as, but even that is too broad to try and put a name to what A$AP Rocky and his affiliates have curated into their own.

Jamil.Larkins@UConn.edu

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On Feb. 1 at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Union Theater the UConn A Cappella Association will present its Spring Rush Concert for perspective new members.

The doors to the event will open at 6:00 p.m..

There will be a recommended donation of two dollars at the door. Donations from the concert will be split between two memorial funds dedicated to aid those affected by the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. These funds are UConn’s own memorial fund and a fund organized by UConn’s Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority.

The concert will feature all eight of the A

cappella groups here on campus such as the men’s group, Conn Men and the women’s group, Rubyfruit. Rubyfruit’s repertoire includes pieces such as “Lights” by Ellie Goulding and “Stuck like Glue” by Sugarland.

On Feb. 4, the A cappella groups will be holding auditions in the Music Building. Prospective members should go to Atrium of the building.

There will be a brief informational meeting at 6 p.m. where presidents will brief prospective members on the requirements of being in one of the groups. Auditions will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Michael.McGuigan@UConn.edu

Hunter Hayes follows own path to Grammy noms

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President Barack Obama kisses Beyonce at the ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration.

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Hunter Hayes, a 21-year-old Louisiana native, is up for three trophies at the Feb. 10 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, including all-genre award best new artist. The nominations punctuate a period of great growth for Hayes in the 18 months since he released that album.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Being nominated That’s been the case since before Hayes was big for three Grammy Awards has only emboldened enough to wrap his left hand around the neck of a Hunter Hayes to take chances. guitar.

Hayes played every instrument on his self-titled Performing before reaching kindergarten, makdebut album, something he called an “intimidat- ing national TV appearances as a school kid, ing experiment” in a town full of legendary hired releasing self-produced albums from the age of 10 hands. He also went hard against the current trends through his record deal in Nashville, Hayes was in country music in another way, pursuing his already a fully formed performer when he joined interest in pop influences when most of his male Dann Huff in the studio to record his debut. He’s counterparts are riffin’ on rock ‘n’ roll. always played his own instruments on his inde“In the name of experimenting and being pendently issued albums and he saw no reason adventurous and trying new things, I think it’s to stop. important for me to keep doing that and I think Seven months later he emerged with something it’s important to challenge myself in those ways,” very different from what you hear from his peers on Hayes said. country radio. It was an album that recalled Rascal The 21-year-old Louisiana native is up for the Flatts rather than Jason Aldean and referenced some all-genre best new artist award, best country solo of the sounds young country fans have already performance and best country album at the Feb. grown accustomed to listening to Underwood, 10 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The nomina- Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum. tions punctuate a rapid period of growth for Hayes That’s emboldened him as he begins thinking in the 18 months since he released that album. He about recording a new album. He says recent music scored his first No. 1 with “Wanted,” becoming by Train, John Mayer, Mutemath and Coldplay has the youngest solo male country performer to top UCONN chargedDAILY his imagination and is encouraging him to CAMPUS the chart. And he began to play in front of larger consider5”x5.74” more experimentation. crowds on tour with several established stars, RUN “This year I got into two or three different bands DATES:1/24, 1/31 including Carrie Underwood — a onetime best because records, which were not on country PO# their P0027672 new artist herself. radio stations, had elements of the things I love,” Underwood says she voted for Hayes in the cat- Hayes said. “They had bluegrass instruments. They egory because his talent is undeniable. had really cool organic grooves that I love and was “He’s not just a singer, he’s not just a cutie-pie, so excited to hear. ... It’s important for me to sort of which he is,” Underwood said. “He’s adorable, merge all these sounds into one to help me create but it’s not just that. He’s really talented. He’s a mine, whatever that is.” really great vocalist and he plays everything on his And maybe he’ll invite in a collaborator or two album, which I think is something he doesn’t get this time. Or try a new songwriting process in the enough credit for. He’s a great guy, too, and he’s studio. a hard worker. I’ve seen all the stuff he’s running “All these different things I’ve always wanted to and out and doing all over the place and he wants try,” Hayes said. “I think it’s important not to pick it bad.” a process and say this is the way I’m always going to make my record because that turns out the same results over and over. I get bored with something really quickly, so I kind of 5, 2013 • 7 p.m. • Shafer Auditorium want to try something any way.”

U.S. COAST GUARD SWING BAND Tuesday, Feb.

Beyonce admits to pre-recording

Formed in the summer of 1989, “The Masters of Swing” U.S. Coast Guard Swing Band spotlights swing-era music of the ’30s and ’40s, performing compositions by such jazz greats as Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller and George Gershwin. Skillfully arranged by members of the group, the musical selections demand sparkling ensemble playing and highlight the performer’s improvisational expertise. Free admission, but please reserve your seat by calling (860) 465-0036 or e-mailing tickets@easternct.edu.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Beyonce answered critics of her Inauguration Day performance the best way she could — with another sterling performance of the national anthem.

The difference?

On Thursday, it was live: She admitted during her Super Bowl news conference that when she performed for President Barack Obama and the nation, she decided to sing to a prerecorded track because she didn’t have time to practice. Calling herself a selfproclaimed “perfectionist,” she said wanted the day to go off without a hitch.

“I practice until my feet bleed and I did not have time to rehearse with the orchestra,” she said, adding that she was also emotional that day. “Due to no proper sound check, I did not feel comfortable taking a risk. It was about the president and the inauguration, and I wanted to make him and my country proud, so I decided to sing along with my pre-recorded track, which is very common in the music industry. And I’m very proud of my performance.”

It was the superstar’s first public comments on what has become known as “Beyoncegate.”

Her rendition of the anthem was critically praised, but was scrutinized less than a day later when a representative from the U.S. Marine Band said Beyonce was lip-syncing — merely mouthing the words to a pre-recorded track — and the band’s accompanying performance was taped. Shortly after, the group backed off its initial statement and said no one could tell if she was singing live or not.

With the controversy growing each day, and everyone from politicians to other entertainers weighing in, the inauguration performance threatened to overshadow her planned Super Bowl halftime show. So the 31-year-old, wearing a tight, cream minidress, addressed the issue as soon as she took to the podium Thursday afternoon.

She asked everyone to stand, and, with an image of the American flag behind her, performed a live rendition of the national anthem that mirrored the one on Inauguration Day. After, she said with a

laugh: “Any questions?”

Despite her performance, there were.

When pressed about whether any sound was coming from her voice when she sang for the president, she said she was singing along to the track and not mimicking (though it’s unclear how audible her voice was). And when asked if she would be singing live at the Super Bowl, she said: “I will absolutely be singing live.

“This is what I was born to do.”

She added later: “I always sing live. ... The inauguration was unfortunately a time where I could not rehearse with the orchestra, actually because I was rehearsing for the Super Bowl. So that was always the plan.”

Beyonce also got a chance to talk more in detail about the reason why she was in New Orleans — to perform at the halftime show. Calling it one of her career aspirations, she said when she arrived at the Superdome, she was so moved by the experience she took her shoes of and ran on the field, taking in the history at the famed venue.

“It really makes me emotional,” she said. “When I am no longer here, it’s what they’re gonna show.”

Beyonce has teased photos and video of herself preparing for the show, which will perhaps be the biggest audience of her career. Last year, Madonna’s halftime performance was the most-watched Super Bowl halftime performance ever, with an average of 114 million viewers. It garnered more viewers than the game itself, which was the most-watched U.S. TV event in history.

But she would not give anything more away about the performance. While a Destiny’s Child reunion was shot down by Michelle Williams, who is starring in a production of “Fela!”, the third Destiny’s Child member, Kelly Rowland, is in town.

Beyonce laughed off questions of whether Rowland or Beyonce’s husband, Jay-Z, would join her on stage.

“I can’t give you any details, sorry,” she said.

She also would not reveal her set list, though acknowledged she was having a hard time trying to “condense a career into 12 minutes.”

Before the news conference, Beyonce’s “Life is But A Dream” was shown to the media. The documentary about the star’s life features her talking in-depth about intimate details of her life, including suffering a miscarriage; it will air on HBO on Feb. 16.

In it, she also reveals more of her 1-year-old daughter Blue Ivy, whom she called her inspiration.

“I feel like my daughter changed me and changed my life and has given me so much purpose,” she said. She added that she was counting down until 9 p.m. Sunday, when her performance would be over — and she could be reunited with Blue Ivy.

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» EDITORIAL

Proposal for Boy Scout reform is not enough

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fter deciding last July to keep its ban on gay members, the Boy Scouts of America announced this week that they are reconsidering their policy. A spokesman for the organization stated that its board of directors is considering eliminating its nationwide ban on gay scouts and instead, allowing local affiliates to make their own decisions on whether or not to exclude gays and lesbians.

While a small step in the right direction, we think that this change would be insufficient and that the BSA should set a national policy forbidding troops from discriminating against members based on sexual preference.

The Boy Scouts’ reconsideration of its policy comes amidst a large movement by scouts, their families and corporate donors who are opposed to its current discriminatory practices. Zach Wals, an Eagle Scout raised by two loving mothers, worked with fellow Eagles to create Scouts for Equality, a group dedicated to ending exclusion in scouting. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), a national advocacy organization, gathered over 1.2 million signatures on a Change.org petition opposing the discriminatory policy. Additionally, many corporate sponsors, including the United Parcel Service (UPS) and pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., have suspended their financial support of the organization until the policy is changed.

While it will be beneficial for local affiliates to stop being faced with the tough decision of excluding gay members or defying the national organization, that is not enough. Keeping a policy that allows local groups to continue excluding gays and lesbians from scouting and leadership roles will only perpetuate the BSA’s reputation as an intolerant and discriminatory organization. Many scouts and parents have broken ties with the organization due to its anti-gay policy, and the minor change being proposed will not be enough to bring many of them back.

Some will object to a national anti-discrimination policy, claiming that it would destroy partnerships that the Boy Scouts have with churches and other organizations who object to gay rights.

However, we feel that this is not enough of a reason to continue allowing local affiliates to discriminate. The clear trend in public opinion nationwide is towards more support for gay rights, with a majority of Americans now supporting gay marriage, compared to only about 25 percent approval 20 years ago. In order to stay relevant in today’s changing world, the Boy Scouts need to adapt.

Many other groups have instituted similar anti-discrimination policies with great success. The Girl Scouts of America has accepted open lesbians for decades, a policy which has not harmed them as an organization. In 2011, Barack Obama – who, as president of the United States, is automatically the honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America – ended Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military.

This change has not led to any of the problems that its detractors warned of before its passage.

Therefore, we think that the Boy Scouts of America should implement a nationwide anti-discrimination policy, rather than stop with the minor change currently on the table. If this small reform is passed next week, donors such as UPS and Merck should continue their suspension of funding for the national organization and only fund local affiliates who accept openly gay members.

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.

Gotta say, I’m happy with UConn getting Wale. As long as the Spring Concert choice is a little bigger, I’ll be happy then too.

I’ll tell ya what, I was happier with the negative temperatures than I am with all this mud.

Sometimes I just want to join in one of the student tour groups on campus and see if they notice.

Can we start a No-Shave February already? I’m so sick of trimming my locks.

I often consider myself to be on a pretty respectable diet, but then I find myself scraping the mustard out of my iPhone case and reevaluating my life choices.

I wouldn’t mind being Canadian, but just for a day.

After a year study abroad, I’m to happy to see that I approve of all the changes UConn went through I missed while away...wait...THE BUSES TALK?!?!?!

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Culture reflects medieval fascination

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t’s hard not to think of the various societies of Europe and perceive them to be radically different from our own. Their approaches to democratic governance, welfare-state economics and family structure are so unlike the American that, in a sense, we could say that the fates of these two Western societies must have diverged around the year 1492 to have become this different. But we are nonetheless descended from the cultural lineage of Europe.

The foods we eat, the forms of our schools and businesses and

By Chris Kempf the gods we worWeekly Columnist ship are all part of this great inheritance and our fear and hatred of native American cultures possibly explains why it has been so dominant and the Others so marginalized.

America has indeed had its own unique mythology, generated from westward expansion of settlement over the continent. For most of our history, the presence of an almost limitless tract of unexplored and untamed land – by Western minds, at least, served as the rejuvenating force of American culture and promised its moral resurrection from the corruption and debauchery of urban civilization. But the frontier is no more.

The American landscape has been totally consumed. In response to the ending of the great American epoch of Western expansion, our culture has largely turned away from the Western to two new genres – one indulging our fantasies of the not-so-distant future and the other nostalgia for the not-so-distant European past from which we have been orphaned.

The former genre is science fiction, which carries to its logical conclusion the expansionist theme in the “Final Frontier” through fascination with tech-

nology and extraterrestrial exploration.

But while space travel is actually within the scientific grasp of mankind so long as we choose to invest in it mythically and economically, we can never return to the medieval, feudal past of Western Europe, Renaissance faires to the contrary.

Themes and archetypes characteristic of the medieval – or at least our historical understanding of it – are everywhere in the books that we read, films that we watch and figurative language that we use. The Hobbit protagonists of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series inhabit an idyllic pastoral landscape which we would recognize to be basically feudal in its economics.

The narrative of Martin’s “Game of Thrones” contains all of the tropes of medieval fantasy, from honor to nobility to dragons. Even Nolan’s series of Batman films deftly incorporates a modern interpretation of the deeply fraught duties and responsibilities of chivalry – the second and third films refer in their titles, after all, to the “Dark Knight.” Our level of cultural sophistication regarding the medieval is such that we can even subject it to satire and parody – think of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” “Men in Tights” and even the “Shrek” films. But the most fascinating of all our treatments of this theme is the “Harry Potter” saga. Perhaps we read in Harry’s escape from a suburban neighborhood and a cruel, gluttonous pseudo-family to a beautiful and dangerous world of magic and wizardry our own dreams of flight from the banalities of modern life. This is perhaps the great temporal frontier of Western culture – it

» LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

New Spring Weekend policy should remain stringent

The lifting of any restrictions on Spring Weekend is a mistake until all memory of what Spring Weekend “was” is gone. Spring Weekend was historically an event of drunken idiocy and flagrant disrespect of the bounds of social decency, with or without non-student participation.

The oft-mentioned fact of previous arrests during Spring Weekend being predominantly non-UConn students, simply disregards that the majority of criminal activity engaged in by students is left to slide due to the inability to enforce

mass law breaking.

The undergraduate community is primarily under the age of 21 and having mass underage drinking is still illegal. Swarming around a parking lot (formerly known as X-Lot) to drink large amounts of alcohol while engaging in flashing, bottle throwing and the physical acts of violence towards another is not acceptable behavior. It is not surprising that the crackdown on Spring Weekend also happened around the time that the University’s lease on X-Lot expired and the rights to the property returned to the developer. If you think the University is strict, imagine what would happen if mass trespass and criminal

is only accessible through fantasy and imagination.

Our fascination with the medieval recalls, in the words of the elegiac song “Time Table” by the British band Genesis, “a time of valor, of legends born; a time when honor meant much more to a man than life…”. But this is a past that America cannot claim as its own – it must indulge its collective fantasies through the admiration of the literature of medieval Europe and the imitation of its culture. Medievalism is thus condemned, in a sense, to be merely imitative.

History does not permit us to reverse its course, to undo the Enlightenment, the I ndu s trial Revolution, world wars or to dismantle the market economy or the massive state apparatus or the great cities it made possible. Jerusalem may not have been built here among these dark, satanic mills but neither too could it be found among the fiefdoms of medieval Europe or its oppressive serfdom. That is clearly for the best. But the moral atmosphere of medievalism is fundamentally lamentative and insistent that there was something more pure and noble about life in that time than exists today. Peter Gabriel puts it nicely: “Gone the carvings, and those who left their mark; gone the kings and queens, now only the rats hold sway…” What does it mean for the future of our society when we believe that our best days are now behind us?

“Themes and archetypes characteristic of the medieval are everywhere in the books that we read, films that we watch and figurative language that we use.”

Weekly Columnist Chris Kempf is a 6th-semester political science major. He can be reached at Christopher.Kempf@UConn.edu.

activity happened on private property.

When there were nondrinking events, yes students would go to them, but then they would immediately return to drinking. A “holiday” that gives undergraduate students, and some graduate students the perceived right to act like animals on a college campus is something that should never be condoned. Quite frankly, there is a large number of students who continue to prefer STUDYING IN THE SHORT TIME BEFORE FINALS and would prefer not to have a bunch of vomiting wanderers being loud and obnoxious.

People do not enjoy having to return home with their valuables so that they could get some work done. People do not enjoy finding their communal bathrooms cov-

ered with vomit. People do not enjoy having difficulty sleeping because their dorm is close to a parking lot “party” that will continue until all hours of the night. Mansfield residents do not enjoy having to clean up litter, beer cans and bottles left behind by inconsiderate drunks.

It is obvious that the undergraduate community still cannot be trusted, especially when students that are supposed to be University role models, like USG members, possess fake IDs and are not shy about it.

When the concept of Spring Weekend is so dead that people stop asking for lifting restrictions, only then will it be acceptable to start lifting them.

-Joseph Sweet

Blue Versus White Two writers argue their points of view on separate sides of the same issue.

See the debate on page 9 in this issue of The Daily Campus.

This week: “Roe v. Wade on its’ 40th anniversary”

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» IT’S UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL

» LEAVE IT TO THE STATES

Roe v. Wade still the right The Tenth Amendment should legally overturn decision call now 40 years later

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oe v. Wade, the stillcontroversial Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal nationwide, turned 40 just over a week ago. Many people from each side found it an occasion to raise their voices, and I’d like to add mine. I want to affirm that the decision made

By Kristi Allen 40 years Staff Columnist ago was the right one.

Abortion should be legal in this country, no matter what argument is brought against it.

I’m aware that this is a contentious issue, and there are strong feelings on both sides and strong arguments as well. Whether or not abortion is morally right is an extremely difficult question, and I don’t think we’ll come to a peaceful agreement on it any time soon. But those who say that the Supreme Court’s ruling in 1973 was unconstitutional and on those grounds should be overturned are not only wrong, they’re missing the point.

There have been innumerable challenges to Roe v. Wade over the years, but the one I’m going to address here is that it violates the 10th amendment by setting federal rules about something that is not addressed directly in the Constitution. If you want to overturn Roe vs. Wade on the basis that it’s unconstitutional, then you will also be obligated to undo, overturn, dismantle or end an enormous number of laws, rulings and policies that enjoy the support of large majorities of the population and have become integral parts of the way we run this country.

The Departments of Education, Labor, Commerce, Homeland Security, Energy, Health and Transportation, among others, are technically unconstitutional. The FBI, interstate highways and most

of the policies that were enacted under the New Deal could be in a grey area. While there are certainly people who oppose many of these laws, the public has, for the most part, embraced them. The 10th amendment in this particular interpretation doesn’t seem to apply to much that is done on the federal level, why should it apply solely to abortion?

The legality of abortions also wasn’t pulled out of thin air to accommodate changing attitudes, as some opponents might lead you to believe. The decision was based on the 14th amendment, which guarantees that no citizen will be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Since that amendment was adopted in 1868, the due process clause has been cited numerous times to guarantee privacy, which is not explicitly stated under the constitution. It is considered to extend or derive from existing rights established by the 1st, 4th and 9th amendments. Under the Supreme Court’s interpretation, the right to privacy prevents the government from interfering in a woman’s pregnancy.

Due process of law and privacy as interpreted under Roe vs. Wade have been cited in cases for over 100 years. While the ruling may not be in line with a very traditional interpretation of the constitution, this country has established a precedent of governance that Roe vs. Wade absolutely does follow. Just as social security and medicare exist for the betterment of the county, legal abortion exists because it’s the best thing for us overall. If it were deferred to the states, a number of them would ban abortion. This would create problems including excessive demand in states where it was legal, which would affect the quality of care and leave illegal and unlicensed clinics to poorly and dangerously fill the gaps left in the

absence of legitimate care. There’s a practical reason abortion needs to be legal nationwide.

The practical good that legislation may enact should trump arbitrary ideological boundaries.

I’m aware this is a very dangerous policy to operate under, but I believe in the ability of this country to make reasoned judgments about how we interpret the rules.

I don’t believe that anything, including state’s rights, should come before the right of every citizen in this country to privacy and basic individual liberty.

Furthermore, this is the judgment that the U.S. Supreme Court has made. For those who say that legal abortion doesn’t “play by the rules,” consider that the referees in this game, some of the best legal minds in the country, ruled that it does. We have the Supreme Court because we acknowledge that there can be multiple interpretations of our highest laws, and we’ve given them the power to decide which interpretations we will use. The court has stuck by the decision it made.

There have been nearly constant challenges to Roe vs. Wade over the past 40 years, and none of them have managed to overturn the ruling. I believe, and I think American history confirms that the Constitution fosters this kind of debate. Even if I don’t think the other side is right, I’m glad that the country does have the opportunity to constantly reassess its values the way it does, or at least tries to.

We’ve made countless decisions that the founding fathers might not have been on board with. But they don’t run the country anymore. I believe that it’s up to the current generation to set the course for the United States.

Staff Columnist Kristi Allen is a 2ndsemester journalism major. She can be reached at Kristi.Allen@UConn.edu.

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anuary 22 marked the 40th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which declared abortion a constitutionally protected right.

Some people heralded this ruling as a victory in the women’s rights movement while others declared it a travesty

By Gregory Koch and asserted Staff Columnist that the ruling legalized the murder of unborn children.

However, regardless of whether a woman should be allowed to get an abortion, the decision in Roe v.

Wade was judicial activism.

Whether abortion should be legal or not, there is no “right to privacy” embedded in the Fourteenth Amendment, nor is there anything that could be reasonably interpreted to render anti-abortion laws unconstitutional. Therefore, according to the Tenth Amendment, Roe v. Wade should be overturned, and legalization of abortion should be a state issue.

In the 7-2 majority decision in 1973, the Supreme Court wrote “the right of privacy … in the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state actions … is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision on whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”

The cited section of the Fourteenth Amendment, Section I, says in relevant part that “[no] state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, and property without due process of law.” The Supreme Court asserted that this indicated a “right to privacy.” However, nowhere in that clause does it say anything of the sort.

“Liberty” is a general term to indicate one’s freedom, not a

term to indicate a freedom to do any specific activity, as the “right to privacy” is being used to mean. There is nothing in the Fourteenth Amendment or anywhere else in the Constitution that indicates these laws are unconstitutional. The Supreme Court’s assertion to the contrary is pure judicial activism.

Since the “right to privacy” does not actually exist in the Constitution, the Tenth Amendment protects the rights of states to pass laws banning abortion. This Amendment grants to the states any “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states.” Since, as established above, there is nothing in the Constitution concerning abortion or the alleged “right to privacy,” the regulation of abortion is a state issue. Even if the laws in question are uncommonly silly, as then-Justice Potter Stewart described a law prohibiting contraceptives, they are not unconstitutional.

My pro-choice opponent in this debate will point out that there are many benefits to having abortion legalized at a federal level, as opposed to legal in some places and illegal in others. However, “I wish it were so” is not a legal argument.

Whether America would be better or worse off with federally legal abortion, the Constitution makes it a state issue. As the supreme law of the land, this trumps any other argument.

My opponent will also point out the numerous federal programs and agencies that benefit the public, and she will say that since these are handled federally, abortion should be as well.

However, just because these programs are handled federally does not mean that the federal management of them is con-

stitutional. I think the Tenth Amendment renders all but a few federal agencies and programs unconstitutional. While the Supreme Court has not ruled that way, this does not mean they are correct.

Additionally, even if federal regulation of abortion is constitutional, judicial activism is not the right way to handle it.

Federal programs like Social Security and the Department of Education have all been created

by Congress, not the Supreme Court. If federal abortion regulation is constitutional, this is where it should originate.

After Roe v. Wade is overturned, Congress could pass a law forcing all states to allow abortions. Most likely this new law would be challenged on the grounds that it violates the Tenth Amendment. The legal challenge would probably make it all the way to the Supreme Court. At that point, the Court would either decide that the law is unconstitutional, as I believe it would be, or constitutional, as my opponent believes.

However, the Roe v. Wade decision did not rule on any federal law, because there was none at the time. Instead, it invented logic that rendered a Texas state law unconstitutional.

Even if federal regulation of abortion does not violate the Tenth Amendment, it should be handled not through judicial activism but through legislation.

To create a new right to abortion through the Supreme Court, as opposed to through Congress, oversteps constitutional bounds, and it is time to reverse the 40-year-old decision.

Staff Columnist Gregory Koch is a 6thsemester actuarial science major. He can be reached at Gregory.Koch@UConn.edu.

» TOTALLY RAD/TOTALLY BAD Mud. Mud everywhere.

Hangover Monday.

Totally bad

It finally cracked positive degrees on the thermostat.

Can’t stop eating Mooyah.

Super Bowl Sunday!!!

Totally rad

Totally saw it coming

What is your favorite Super Bowl game time snack?

– By Lindsay Collier

“I like Lay’s Cheddar and Sour Cream chips.”

“Blueberries.”

“Nachos- with chili! My mom makes great chili.”

“Boneless buffalo wings. With ranch, not bleu cheese!”

Scarlett Michaud, 6th-semester economics major

Kevin Fan, 4th-semester econonomics major

Whitney Hoffman, 8th-semester psychology major

Patrick Poon, 4th-semester exploratory major

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Sports

» MEN'S HOCKEY

Men's hockey comes to its final stretch

By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer

TROY CALDEIRA/The Daily Campus

UConn's senior Alex Gerke handles the puck during a UConn men's hockey game.

With 10 games left in the 2012-13 regular season, it is crunch time for the UConn men’s hockey team.

Currently in eighth place in the 12-team conference, the Huskies have an opportunity to climb to fifth place this weekend when they travel to New York for a two-game weekend series against Rochester Institute of Technology.

UConn (10-11-3, 7-8-2 AHA) is within three points of fifth place, which is currently occupied by Bentley, who has 19 points in conference play.

The Falcons are in for a tough test this weekend, as they are traveling to take on No. 17 Niagara, who has a nine-point cushion at the top of the Atlantic Hockey standings.

The two teams directly above UConn, seventh-place Army and sixth-place Canisius, are also in for difficult matchups this weekend.

Army is traveling to third-place Mercyhurst for two games while Canisius host fourth-

place Holy Cross.

Unlike the three teams they are chasing, UConn has position on their weekend opponent, RIT. The Tigers (8-11-5, 6-7-4 AHA) are level on points with the Huskies but sit below them because UConn has one more win in conference play.

They may be level on points, but RIT’s conference schedule is almost the exact opposite of UConn’s. The Tigers still have series remaining against Air Force, Mercyhurst, Robert Morris and Canisius, teams that UConn has already played, with mixed results.

If UConn can sweep this weekend, they will be four points ahead of RIT with 21 points.

Based on the results in the aforementioned game, UConn could end the weekend in fifth place with an opportunity to crack the top four.

As the teams close in on the postseason, the battle for positioning will cause teams to play a more desperate, more physical style of hockey.

“What’s happening is everything’s getting tighter,” Interim head coach David Berard said. “The games mean more. Teams are

laying it all on the line because everyone’s jockeying for playoff position. So if you can go into a weekend and win twice, or you lose the first night and get the split, it’s going to be a big deal.”

If the Huskies can get to fourth place, they are guaranteed a first-round bye and home-ice advantage in the quarterfinals. Finishing in fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth would mean that UConn plays at home in the opening round against a lower seed.

Whether they get the bye or not, the team is playing to make sure the road to the AHA title goes through Storrs.

“We had [home-ice advantage in the first round] last year, and I think it was a big deal,” Berard said. “It’s certainly a lot easier to win at home than it is on the road.”

The Huskies and Tigers face off in the first of two games tonight, and they play again tomorrow. Both games start at 7:05 p.m.

WHUS 91.7 FM will be broadcasting both games.

Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu

» WOMEN'S TRACK

Women's track looks to continue winning ways

By Spencer Oakes Campus Correspondent

After placing first as a team in the first two indoor meets of the 2013 season, the UConn Women’s track and field team is ready to take their talents to New York City for the Armory Collegiate Invitational.

The Armory Collegiate, held annually for the last 12 years, is the biggest indoor meet in the country. Over 100 universities from all over the nation will be competing in this weekend’s event, which begins

Friday and finishes on Saturday.

With such a large number of schools competing, the Armory serves as a great test for the team as they approach the Big East Conference Championships.

The team received big news this week when the rankings were released and they found themselves in the top 25, specifically ranked at No. 25. According to associate head coach Clive Terrelonge, the meet will serve as a great test to see just how accurate these rankings are.

“You have fifteen or sixteen of

the top twenty-five teams competing at the meet, including the top three teams in the nation,” Terrelonge stated. “So it will definitely give the team a boost of confidence if we do well and also just to see where we stand.”

When asked what his expectations for the team are, Terrelonge exclaimed that they are exactly where they always stand.

“My expectations for the team are great, we try to go out there and beat the best and we think we are very capable of doing just that. We have some of the best

athletes in the country based on the rankings.”

One of the best athletes, not only on the team but in the country is senior thrower Victoria Flowers.

Flowers, who was just named Big East Field Athlete of the Week for the third consecutive week, is ranked fourth in the nation in the weight throw and sixteenth in the shot put. Flowers, a redshirt a year ago, claims that the redshirt year gave her more time to focus on her strength and technique, which has helped her emerge as a national contender this year.

“It gave coach and I more time to train and focus on the little things and it definitely has worked out so far,” said Flowers.

Flowers says she is not surprised by her success so far, as it is something that her and her coach have talked about since her recruiting visit to UConn.

“All my freshman year we spoke about what I thought I could do and what he thought I could do and what it would take for me to get there.”

One event that coach Terrlonge is particularly interested in seeing

is the Distance Medley Relay or DMR. According to Terrelonge, UConn is consistently competitive in the DMR, reaching Nationals in each of the last three years.

“We are hoping to have the DMR team to qualify for Nationals this weekend. We have some kids on our team that we are excited about; that they can go to this meet and beat all of the top teams in the country.”

Spencer.Oakes@UConn.edu

» CLUB SPORTS

Central Connecticut and Providence among Club hockey opponents

By Jack Mitchell Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s club ice hockey team has a pair of end of the week games on its docket, the first tonight against Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), and the second tomorrow evening against Providence College. The Huskies, who currently hold a record of 17-6 under the leadership of first year head coach Chris Myers, have five games remaining on their 2012 regular season schedule.

“We’ve played CCSU twice this year, so we know what to expect,” Myers said. “They play physical and with a lot of energy, so we need to match them and capitalize on our opportunities.

This will be our first time playing Providence, but as long as we are ready and focused on

defense, we should put up a good game and hopefully get the win.”

In the most recent American College Hockey Association (ACHA) Division 2 power ranking, the Huskies ranked fifth in the Northeast region. The top two ranked teams from each region at the end of the season earn an automatic bid to the ACHA National Tournament, while the teams ranked third through tenth earn a trip to the Regional Playoffs in late February. The first place and runner-up teams at the regional playoffs fill the final two spots in the national tournament, which takes place in mid-March.

“Including this weekend, we have five games left,” Myers said. “Next weekend will be a big test for us. We play three games, one at Boston College on Friday night, one at NYU on Saturday night and one on Sunday against UMass. If we finish [the season] strong, we

should make Regionals.”

The team returned from the winter break and embarked on a series of “tune-up” games in early January, squaring off against Sacred Heart, Army and Eastern Connecticut. Myers’ squad is coming off hard-fought weekend double-header in Fort Myers, Fla., during which UConn dropped a pair of contests against Florida Gulf Coast University.

“We had a tough weekend last week in Fort Myers. We lost both games, Friday in overtime,” Myers said. “I think it was a long trip for the boys, and they did battle hard so I’m not too concerned with the outcomes. We just need to move on and focus on the rest of the season.”

The Huskies are in prime position to make a run at a National Tournament berth, as even the worst-case scenario places UConn squarely in the mix to qualify for the Regional Playoffs.

Boston College and NYU each pose a challenge, as both were ranked inside the top ten in the most recent Northeast region power poll.

But Myers is confident that his team will reach the light at the end of the tunnel.

“We’ve definitely grown as a team and we play for one another. We understand that every night we need to bring energy to the rink and win battles if we want to stay on top,” Myers said. “All of the boys have improved over the course of the season, and I’m hoping we can peak for Regionals and hopefully make a run to the National Tournament.”

The puck for the CCSU game drops tonight at 9 p.m. in the Freitas Ice Forum, while tomorrow night’s matchup will get underway at 8 p.m. in Providence.

Jackson.Mitchell@UConn.edu

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Stat of the day

111 Million

The number of viewers of last year’s Super Bowl between the Giants and the Patriots.

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Feb. 6 St. John’s 7 p.m.

Feb. 10 Seton Hall Noon

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Syracuse 7 p.m.

Feb. 16 Villanova Noon

Feb. 12 Feb. 5 Feb. 10 Marquette DePaul Providence 7 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 7 p.m.

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Feb. 16 Rutgers 4 p.m.

Men’s Hockey (10-11-3) Today RIT 7: 05 p.m.

Feb. 2 Feb. 8 Bentley RIT 7:05 p.m 7:05 p.m.

Feb. 9 Bentley 7:05 p.m

Feb. 15 Holy Cross 7:05 p.m

Women’s Hockey (3-20-3) Feb. 9 Today Feb. 2 Providence Providence Northeastern 7 p.m.

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7 p.m.

Feb. 12 New Hampshire Noon

Feb. 16 Boston College 2 p.m.

Men’s Track and Field Mar. 2 IC4A Championships All Day

Women’s Track and Field Feb. 8 Valentine Invite Alll Day

Today Armory Collegiate All Day

Men’s Swimming & Diving Tomorrow Dartmouth 1 p.m.

Feb. 9 Colgate 1 p.m.

Women’s Swimming & Diving Tomorrow Dartmouth 1 p.m.

Feb. 9 Colgate 1 p.m.

Softball Feb. 15 FIU Tournament 11 a.m.

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Jozy Altidore

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Huskies to face Big Green

“You just pray that it won’t be repeated and that they learn from it and you forgive them.....

We all make mistakes.”

-U.S. striker Jozy Altidore on facing racist abuse during matches.

Feb. 3 USF 2 p.m

» WOMEN’S SWIMMING/DIVING

The UConn women’s swimming and diving team had a successful and memorable last home meet. They not only defeated Seton Hall but paid tribute to the seniors as well. “Senior Day is certainly a worthy recognition for our seniors,” diving coach John Bransfield said. “As a coach, I think of my senior athletes as seniors every day of the year, in practice, on trips, in contests, and most importantly in follow-ups to all the events.

Personally, I feel the emotional part when they climb the ladder after the announcer reads that final dive. From that moment to when they come out of the water is the non-ordinary clip.”

Although senior day marks the end of a journey for most of the graduating athletes, the team looked at it with optimism.

“Senior day is always a fun day for the seniors.

The underclassmen really go all out in decorating the locker room and pool deck,” swimmer Mary DeMarrais said. “It’s a bittersweet day but instead of dwelling on the saddness, we try to focus on how proud we are to be part of such a great team.”

Along with the celebration for the seniors there was also a tribute to the Sandy Hook Victims before the meet started. “I think the highlight of the meet was not only was it senior day but an honor to all the Sandy Hook victims. There was a tribute before the meet started when Brendan cook, Sean Cook’s younger brother, played amazing grace on the bagpipes in honor of the victims,” Mary deMarrais said. “The team also wore green caps with the victims initials on them and there were green paw prints around the pool with all 26 names on them. I think for me personally this was the highlight of the meet because it was just a way for us to honor and pay tribute to such a horrific tragedy.”

The Huskies’ first win of the second semester showed that the long break between meets did not impact them at all.

“I think our biggest strength was that everyone was really excited to come back and race again,” Mary DeMarrais said. “I don’t think that there was any major weakness in the meet.

I’m sure individually everyone found something they could have improved for next weekend but everyone stepped up and did what they had to do this weekend. I was satisfied a great deal by our performances on Sunday,” coach Bransfield said.

“Some changes were visible in areas we have worked the past four months, and with a refined focus will pay come Championships.”

As for their upcoming meets, the team has the utmost confidence they will succeed. UConn will travel to Hanover, N.H. for their meet this Saturday against Dartmouth.

“My expectations against Dartmouth is that we display the skills we have worked since the beginning of the season to shape for this time of AP the year,” Bransfield said.

San Francisco 49ers running back Frank Gore (21) runs a drill during practice on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, in New Orleans. Waiting their turn behind Gore are running back LaMichael James, left, and safety Trenton Robinson, right.

Erica.Brancato@UConn.edu

UConn men’s track heads to Penn. After win, men’s swim and for Sykes-Sabock Challenge dive teams to face Dartmouth

By Nick Danforth Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s track and field team returns to action this Saturday as they take part in the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup at the Horace Ashenfelter III Indoor Track in University Park, PA. Coming off an impressive performance at Boston University’s Terrier Classic last week, the Huskies will be faced with even stiffer competition. Included in the field of 14 schools are Buffalo, ranked No. 3 in the Northeast region according to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association; Cornell, ranked No. 1 in the Northeast region; Princeton, ranked No. 2 in the Mid-Atlantic region, and Penn State, ranked No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The Huskies currently rank No. 2 in the Northeast region.

“We have a regular season scoring meet, which this is, that we point for as the highlight of our season before we go into the Championship competition,” head coach Gregory Roy said.

“We’re more ready for this meet that any meet so far with our training. This is our best, no holding back.”

The Huskies certainly know

how talented a team Penn State is. In last year’s Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup, UConn finished in second place with 91.5 points. However, Penn State ran away with the top spot, finishing with 142 total points.

UConn’s freshmen class may have allowed the Huskies to close the gap, however, as first year athletes claimed six of the teams 13 top 10 finishes at their last meet.

Along with the group of freshmen, junior Cory Duggan (Staten Island, NY) and senior Alex Bennatan (Lake Forest, Ill.) have been impressive in their respective events.

Bennatan seemingly sets a new personal record every meet in the 800 meter run, and Duggan has finished no worse than third in any meet this season in the pole vault.

The Huskies know what they will be going up against, but at the same time are excited to show what they’re made of.

“You’ve got the three top teams, arguably, in the whole Northeast quarter getting together for this meet,” Roy said.

“Yeah, we’re excited.”

The action is slated to get underway at 9:00 a.m. Saturday.

Nicholas.Danforth@UConn.edu

By Sarah Levine Campus Correspondent Coming off of a Senior Day victory over Seton Hall last Sunday, the UConn men’s swimming and diving team will travel to Hanover, N.H. this Saturday at 1 p.m. to take on Dartmouth for their first away meet since returning from winter break.

Comparing the upcoming meet to the last Sunday’s, head coach Bob Goldberg said, “This weekend is an entirely different story. They’re at least as good as we are, maybe a little better. It’s a meet that we can win if we swim aggressively and as well as we possibly can.”

The Dartmouth Big Green are coming off of a first place finish at their home invitational last weekend, and currently stand at 2-2 in dual meet action. The Huskies boosted their record to 3-2 after last Sunday and hope to keep this momentum going on Saturday.

“The team was pretty motivated last week because it was Senior Day,” said Goldberg. “So that same kind of emotion we want to take into this meet and add a little bit more focus for what are going to be some very tough and very close races.”

The Huskies will be facing a team that is their own “mirror image,” Goldberg added. He believes

that the only advantages UConn may have are team depth and a slight edge in the breaststroke. All races are expected to be close, and Goldberg emphasized the need for first place finishes due to the large difference in points awarded for second versus first place.

“If you touch someone out or they touch you out, the point swing is huge and a lot of races are very very close, so whoever gets that touch will get more points for the team. Since the disparity is so much, you’re really rewarded for winning the race. We need to win some of those.”

At their last meeting, the Huskies bested Dartmouth by a score of 172 to 128, a win that was highlighted by current sophomore Sawyer Franz setting a school record in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:21.06. Franz, along with three other swimmers, won two events that day. Grant Fecteau and Tony Cortright dominated the diving platform, winning the one-meter and three-meter events, respectively.

Overall, said Goldberg, the Huskies are “excited about the opportunity to swim against a team just as good as [they are] to see how [they] do.”

Sarah.Levine@UConn.edu

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CUTTING IT CLOSE

Rafael returns

UConn wins a tight one on the road in Providence

By Bea Angueira Campus Correspondent For the first time since 2005 Rafael Nadal has fallen out of the top four player in the world.

The Spaniard has slipped to No. 5 since he was sidelined with knee tendinitis after losing to 100th–ranked player Lukas Rosol in the second round of Wimbledon this past June. As a result, he was unable to defend all the points he earned last year by making the final, allowing compatriot David Ferrer to pass him. Ferrer became the No. 4 player for the first time since September 2005.

Nadal’s injury prevented him from defending his Olympic singles gold at the London games, where he was supposed to be Spain’s flag bearer at the opening ceremony. He also pulled out of the U.S. Open and Spain’s Davis Cup match against the Czech Republic. He was set to return at the Australian Open but withdrew after contracting a stomach virus in December that derailed his training schedule.

Nadal has always been counted on to put on a show in Australia, with his precise adjustment steps that create impossible angles and his showstopping charisma. His unique, artful game is important to the tennis world and was missed not only by the fans, but also his rivals.

Reasons Nadal matters in the top four: He is the only athlete with a winning record against each of the other top players.

When Roger Federer threatened to overrun tennis the way Michael Jordan did with basketball, Nadal provided rivalry and rebalanced the game.

Best career match record on clay in the Open Era with 254-19 and 36-4 in finals; he has only lost to Federer and Djokovic (twice each).

It has been eight years since former No. 1 Nadal, played in an ATP World Tour tournament in South America, where he is scheduled to return to tour next week. Competing in singles and doubles at the Vina del Mar Open in Chile, then the Brazil Open, and lastly, the Mexico Open. These will be the three clay-court events for the Spaniard before he heads to North America hard courts.

Carmen.Angueira@UConn.edu

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Ryan Boatright scored 19 points and Shabazz Napier had 18, including eight in overtime, to lead Connecticut to an 82-79 victory over Providence on Thursday night.

Napier and Omar Calhoun hit 3-pointers in overtime to give the Huskies (14-5, 4-3 Big East) a 79-76 edge with 42 seconds left. Napier hit 3 of 4 free throws in the final 30 seconds to secure the victory.

DeAndre Daniels also scored 18 points for UConn, whose 50 percent shooting (27 of 54), including 52.9 percent (9 of 17) outside the 3-point line, proved too much for Providence (10-11, 2-7), which shot 33.8 percent (22 of 65).

The Friars grabbed 55 total rebounds to the Huskies’ 24.

Neither team led by more than three points during the second half, when Boatright scored 12 of his points. Bryce Cotton’s 3-pointer with 1:30 left pulled Providence into a 66-66 tie, and LaDontae Henton’s layup with 18 seconds remaining for the Friars sent the game to overtime.

Kadeem Batts scored 20 points and Cotton 18 for Providence, and Henton had 15 points and 13 rebounds.

UConn took an early 12-3 lead, as Providence didn’t get its first field goal for 5 minutes. A 9-1 run put the Huskies ahead 25-10, but Providence scored the next eight points and closed the half with a 12-3 run to trail 33-32.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Connecticut head coach Kevin Ollie yells instructions to his team during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Providence.

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» WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

UConn to face St. John’s in search of payback

By Dan Agabiti Sports Editor

The last time the Huskies encountered the Red Storm, St. John’s was ruining UConn’s party.

Going into the Feb. 18, 2012 game between these teams, No. 2 UConn had won 99 straight games at home and St. John’s saw to it that the Huskies never reached 100.

After a 57-56 loss, the streak was over and UConn was left standing around wondering what had happened. St. John’s had come into Gampel Pavilion unafraid of the Huskies and beat them in front of a home crowd that was all too ready to celebrate the milestone 100th home win in a row.

Now, UConn, sitting at 19-1 overall and 6-1 in the Big East,

heads to Queens to take on the well according to Auriemma is Red Storm who are 10-9 overall the play of Stefanie Dolson and and 4-3 in the Big East games.

Mosqueda-Lewis.

Only ten games remain on “Stef and Kaleena are in a UConn’s schedule; it’s about really good rhythm right now,” that time of the season when Auriemma said. the Huskies need to start playEven with Mosqueda-Lewis ing like they will come tourna- playing at such a high level, ment time.

Auriemma is still “By the time looking for her to February comes, improve. He never coach [Geno wants her to think Auriemma] wants to pass when she to make sure has the ball. He we are a differsaid that she’s one ent team than we of few players in were in January the country that Notebook and in December,” when she shoots, UConn’s Kaleena it’s a surprise when Mosqueda-Lewis said. “We’re the ball does not go in. taking steps forward.”

Auriemma said that Tuesday’s game against Mosqueda-Lewis has to learn Villanova brought a lot of the that if she shoots every time she things that Auriemma is look- has the ball, then nobody will ing for as the season winds be upset with her. He wants to down. One of the things going make sure that she knows her

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role on the offense.

Dolson believes that this team has been improving its game tempo as the season has progressed. She noted that UConn is at its best when the Huskies get the ball to the outlet quickly and can then run the floor for easy baskets in transition.

However, in doing so, Dolson has seen that the offense has, at times, mistaken playing fast for playing foolishly, and the Huskies make too many mistakes when they try to rush things.

Turnovers are also a concern of Auriemma’s.

“When you score 85 points a game like we do, 14 turnovers is not a lot,” he said. “What bugs me is when they come and what kind they are.”

Early in the season, UConn committed several turnovers that occurred either right out of

a timeout or in a crucial game situation, both of which drive coaches, especially Auriemma, crazy.

After the game against Duke, Auriemma stressed that while he wants to get more of the bench involved in games, he thinks he’s been doing it the wrong way thus far. Auriemma, instead of putting most of the bench on the court at the same time, wants to start rotating players in and out while still keeping his core group of players on the court.

But, he said that when he does put them in, he wants to know exactly what he can expect out of them and he has really stressed the need for more consistency on their part.

Tipoff for the game is Saturday at 2 p.m.

Daniel.Agabiti@UConn.edu

» WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Huskies to face Providence, wear pink

By Joe Crisalli Campus Correspondent The UConn women’s ice hockey team will be wearing pink jerseys tonight in their annual Skating Strides Against Breast Cancer game at 7 p.m. at the Mark Freitas Ice Forum vs.

Providence.

This game was started in 2005 by coaches within Hockey East to raise awareness for breast cancer and to fundraise for the Friends of Mel Foundation.

Each Hockey East school takes part in fundraising and supporting the foundation.

In light of the event, UConn has been selling pink skates, t-shirts, storming the dorms and collecting change for fundraising, They even ran a clinic for youth kids who got to spend

the day with the women’s ice hockey team on ice and in the Mark R. Shenkman training center last week.

UConn has raised the most money since the program began, and about $10,000 each year for the last three years, UConn women’s ice hockey head coach Heather Linstad said.

The Huskies will have raised about $65,000 total after this year since the program began, Linstad said.

The money raised that is donated to the Friends of Mel foundation is also distributed for breast cancer research and to local organizations such as Necessities Bag, a nonprofit.

UConn will face off with division rival Providence for their Skating Strides game.

“We’re a different team than we were last time we played

them, but I really do think that we have the ability to beat any team in Hockey East,” Linstad said.

The last time these two teams faced off, the Friars got the best of the Huskies in a 5-3 victory. UConn led 3-0 in the contest before allowing five unanswered goals to close out the game.

“We matchup well against Providence, and we understand that we can score against them,” Linstad said. “We have to be stronger in the defensive zone; we have to make a commitment that when the puck is in our defensive zone we make good decisions and all five guys are contributing on defense.”

UConn is coming off of a 0-1-1 weekend vs. the University of Maine and Boston College.

The Huskies went into over-

time against the Black Bears with a 1-1 end result and visited the number three ranked Golden Eagles and lost 8-0.

“We need to expect more of ourselves, and we gave up some very bad goals vs. BC,” Linstad said. “If we’re protecting the crease, we can play with some more passion, heart and some more oomph to have success.

We need to get the job done offensively and defensively.”

This year, the UConn women’s ice hockey team will be selling the pink game jerseys at their Skating Strides game tonight to help their fundraising efforts, and any student in attendance can be entered in a raffle to receive a $100 gift card to D.P. Dough.

FILE PHOTO/The Daily Campus

Joseph.Crisalli@UConn.edu

For tonight’s game the Huskies will be wearing a pink uniform similar to this one.