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Uconn Health Center: Quality, care, and proximity

By Kathleen McWilliams Senior Staff Writer A Storrs Center branch of the UConn Health Center opened in December of last year and the facility is already seeing a steady flow of patients.

“In the one month we have been open, we have seen about 35 patients every day and that’s with the snow we’ve had recently and the fact that for the majority of that month students and faculty were not on campus,” Director of Strategy and Planning, Jim Thibeault, said.

The health center, a local branch of the UConn branded health service, features everything from a family practice to a public blood draw station to cardiology to plastic surgery.

Urgent Care will be opening in the next few weeks, according to Executive Director of the Mansfield Downtown Partnership, Cynthia Van Zelm. With state of the art medical tools, such as digital radiology, they aim to serve locals, including students, staff and faculty as well as citizens in Mansfield.

Prior to the health center’s opening, the nearest hospitals were in Manchester and

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The West Hartford Uconn Health Center, shown above, is an associate of the new Uconn Health Center located in downtown Storrs. The new health center increases the availability of high quality medical services by having such a close proximity to campus. The new health center has found itself with at least 35 patients attending per day, without heavy advertising.

Windham, 16 and eight miles away, respectively, and the Mansfield area has only four private practices. Thibeault said the opening of the health center eases the burden of getting to a hospital or trying to book an appointment at a private practice that may or may not have space.

“It’s convenient because it’s close to Storrs and it’s right downtown,” Thibeault said.

Additionally, the Nash-

Zimmer Transportation hub located behind the Health Center will open in a few months and will bring patients to a stop right outside the health center.

Thibeault also stressed the proximity to campus posed a great benefit to faculty and staff who did not receive medical services on campus.

“We are now providing services to employees,” Thibeault said. “They can

force, which included both students and staff, was tasked with providing detailed recommendations for ways to improve the campus culture.

The Task Force presented the report to Herbst last year on December 15th. The recommendations include the formation of a central office to serve as a location with staff members to work with student victims of sexual assault, implementation of a bystander program for students (planning is already underway), expansion of educational programming on topics like alcohol, drug use and sexual violence prevention and a student-led effort to change the name of the path often referred to as “Celeron Trail.”

In her email, Herbst said

“Implementing these recommendations will begin immediately, and, as you will see, specific individuals and offices have been assigned to oversee their implementation within an appropriate time frame.”

Herbst also said that “These are only a few of the accepted recommendations; there are many others … My thanks to all the dedicated faculty, staff and students who made this process positive and productive; they have performed a valuable and lasting service to the university.”

In closing, Herbst said, in part, “Our goal is to remain at the forefront of the battle against sexual assault and harassment by doing all we can to mirror best practices

ished to see that on the second floor you needed to log onto the computers in order to be able to use them. I asked a librarian about it and was told that “software issues” prevented members of the community from using the computers. I wasn’t convinced.”

20 percent of the computers are already available to the public without a NetID, according to Martha Bedard, Vice Provost for University Libraries.

These include two computers in each central lobby on the second, third and fourth floors, 18 computers in Bookworms Cafe, six on the wall across from the reserves desk, one outside of the lei-

sure reading room on Level B and one across from the elevators on Level A.

Additionally, 60 computers in the library classrooms do not require a NetID. Bedard said that while a map featuring these computers would be useful, such a map does not currently exist.

Bedard listed security concerns among the reasons for not making all computers accessible to the public.

“The university takes some responsibility for making the computers secure,” said Bedard. “I also believe it’s important that the computers we have in the library are used for academic purposes.”

make an appointment at work, or just stop in.”

For students, who all have health insurance, the health center is often a cheaper alternative to going to the Emergency Room, which can often cost hundreds of dollars, or taking an ambulance for a non-life threatening medical issue, according to Thibeault.

Unlike most hospitals and practices, however, the doctors that staff the health cen-

ter are not only doctors, but educators who teach UConn’s medical students.

“We’re looking at people who have an academic mission. They are looking toward new research and education,” Thibeault said. “You’re getting people who are credentialed by the university and it makes a big difference.”

The full array of occupational medicine, surgeons and doctors has been well received

by the Storrs-Mansfield community, according to Van Zelm.

“People were glad to have them serving our community.

We’re happy to have a variety of businesses in downtown, because they help each other,” Van Zelm said.

Thibeault added while their business is growing, the feedback from patients has been positive.

“Just the fact that people are finding us [without doing any marketing] is a good sign,” Thibeault said. “We don’t turn anyone away.”

Urgent Care will open in the next few weeks and the Health Center will have its grand opening in the spring, once the town green and surrounding projects near completion. As the center prepares to officially open all of its offices, Thibeault affirms that just because it is the “UConn” Health Center, it doesn’t just belong to students, staff and faculty at Storrs.

“What I really want people to know is that it is not just for UConn. UConn is our brand,” Thibeault said.

Herbst backs task force One ton of ice cream and fun for students

By Miles Halpine Campus Correspondent

UConn President Susan Herbst has announced a new plan to address the prevalent issue of sexual assault on campus.

In an email to the university community sent out on the morning of Friday, Feb. 7th, Herbst said she has authorized the implementation of several new policies following a report by the UConn Task Force on Civility and Campus Culture.

Last summer, the task force was created and, since then, they have been getting feedback from students and others at UConn through many means, including a website for anonymous input and several public meetings. The task

NetID login excludes public

By Molly Miller Campus Correspondent

When students use the Homer Babbidge Library computers, they can do so easily by logging in with a personalized NetID and password.

However, as a public institution, does the library have a duty to make more computers accessible to members of the public without NetIDs? Margarita Halpine, a member of the public who earned a PhD from UConn in 1995, believes it does.

“Last summer... I was doing research in the library and needed to use a computer,” Halpine said. “I was aston-

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Students enjoy the many flavors of One Ton Sundae on the Student Union Terrace. Over 600 students were served 200 gallons of ice cream

By Madiha Shafqat Campus Correspondent At 11 a.m. on Friday, students started rushing to the Student Union Terrace to be first in line for One Ton Sundae, one of UConn’s earliest traditions.

“I was here last year and I had a great time, but this time I figured I would come early because I knew there would be big crowds. I was first in line!” 8th semester Economics major Orlando Marin said.

Within fifteen minutes, the line of students awaiting their chance to dig into their bucket of ice cream grew longer and longer, even with the extremely low temperatures outside.

Marin was first in line partly because of the perks that seniors had at this popular event. Seniors with their senior buttons had their own line, separate from all the other students and non-students that participated in the One Ton Sundae event. The senior

perks were considered a luxury because it allowed them to receive their ice cream within a matter of minutes.

“It was a great experience because we didn’t have to wait in the cold for so long,” 8th semester Political Science and Geography double major Greg Coffee said.

Students could choose from an assortment of colorful flavors ranging from “Chocolate Lovers

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Pre-K education: Pivotal point for republicans and democrats

By David Weigand Campus Correspondent Pre-primary education has increasingly become a political issue. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. ranks in the bottom third in preschool education among developed countries, and the majority of Americans seem to think it’s time to improve.

Though it finds support from Republican and Democratic camps alike, the main problem public preschools face is finding funds in these cashstrapped times. Instituting public pre-primary education on a nationwide level by some estimates would cost the federal government $10 billion a year.

Some look to increasing taxation. A telephone poll conducted by the First Five Years Fund “found that 60 percent of registered Republicans and 84 percent of Democrats supported a proposal to expand public preschool by raising the federal tobacco tax,” according to Richard PérezPeña and Motoko Rich of the New York Times.

Politicians of every rank have used preschool issues to expand their demographics, appealing to the left and right, as well as minority advocates. Democrats have until recently been the only voices

for public preschools, but as say that in most cases, any Pérez-Peña and Rich explain academic benefit fades after a it, “outside Washington, it has few years. In states that have become a bipartisan cause, already established high-qualuniting business groups and ity programs, the longitudinal labor unions, with Republican data is not yet ready, and the governors like Rick Snyder of jury is still out on long-term Michigan and Robert Bentley benefits. of Alabama pushing some of In fact, according to research the biggest increases in pre- by economists at the National school spending.”

Bureau of There are hidden “We know this works. E c o n o m i c incentives; in addiResearch, tion to increasing So let’s do what the estimateconomic growth ed benefits and creating jobs, works and make sure granted to addressing the issue students of high-quality none of you children involved in preschool appeals start the race of life the feder“particularly to ally funded women and minori- already behind” Head Start ties, groups whose preschoolvotes are needed ing proby Republicans,” U.S. President gram “were according to Perezno longer Barack Obama s i g n i f i c a n t Peña and Rich.

Of course, not when meaeveryone is convinced of the sured at the end of kindergarneed for public preschool. ten or first grade.”

Oft-cited preschool studies Most states already have that point to incredible ben- public preschool measures in efits are subject to debate. place, although the general According to Lindsey Burke, consensus is that more should a writer for the Heritage be done in each individual Foundation, “the limited sam- state to universalize highple size, concentration of low- quality programs. Perhaps income participants, and the with financial incentives from home-visitation component the federal government, there limit the usefulness of the will be enough funding for Perry Project findings in the more states to enact programs. preschool debate.”

In many cases, however, the Skeptics point to valuable issue of preschool still rests in lost family time as a draw- the community, or in private back to preschool, and some companies.

President Obama has stated that improving as well as universalizing pre-k education is a high priority for the federal government. In his 2013 State of the Union address, the President urged the public to get on board with public preschool.

“Studies show students (with high-quality preschool education) grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, form more stable families of their own.

We know this works. So let’s do what works and make sure none of our children start the race of life already behind.”

The Obama administration has established agendas, such as the Preschool for All Initiative, that aim to raise pre-k education standards in the US significantly, according to the administration’s website, whitehouse.gov.

Increasingly, politicians are making the claim that the distinction between mediocre and high-quality preschool programs correlates with a difference in future high school graduation rates, job attainment, and upward social mobility. The highquality programs cost a great deal more, but the United States may bite the bullet and invest in this important social upgrade.

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New Microsoft CEO creates optimism

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was a fleeting moment once the camera had gone off, but some say it’s indicative of the leadership style Satya Nadella brings to his new job as CEO of Microsoft Corp.

Nadella’s impromptu town hall webcast had interrupted business meetings between Microsoft employees and outside partners at the company’s Executive Briefing Center in Redmond, Wash. Hours earlier, he had been named only the third leader in company history. When the brief webcast was over, he didn’t want to hog the limelight.

“If you have to get back to (a meeting) because it’s more interesting or important, please...,” Nadella said as the town hall transitioned into a light reception.

The gesture is just one example of Nadella’s calming, collegial style, which stands in stark contrast to the blustery, passionate, rally-thetroops approach employed by Microsoft’s previous CEO, Steve Ballmer.

Experts on leadership say the change in tone is a necessary cultural shift for a mature company transitioning into new businesses while letting go of past successes and missed opportunities.

“It’s very symbolic,” says Suresh Kotha, a professor at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business in Seattle. “I think that sends a very strong message, that work is important.”

“He’s saying ‘I’m here to help you, I’m humble, I’m

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Chocolate” to “Old- Fashioned Vanilla” to “Moose Tracks” to “Strawberry.” Students also had many toppings to choose from.

A special ice cream flavor was present in the midst of other delicious ones: The Senior Scoop.

This year’s Senior Scoop, a flavor that was designed and named by the senior class, was coffee ice cream with Oreo and fudge swirl.

“It was quite good,” said Coffee.

Although the Senior Scoop was provided by the Dairy

Bar, the rest of the ice cream was not. Instead, it was provided by Gifford’s.

“As much as we would love to get all of the ice cream from the UConn Dairy Bar, the number of gallons we need to serve over 600 students is more than the Dairy Bar can produce,” Elise Yonika, Major Weekends Coordinator at the Student Union Board of Governors, said.

SUBOG served approximately 600 students and over 200 gallons of ice cream were used.

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Guest access proposed for non-student users from LIBRARY, page 1

Bedard said that the tech fee students pay each year is used to maintain computer usage but they also want computers to be a resource to the community.

Because Connecticut residents pay taxes that contribute to UConn, Bedard sees the value of ensuring public usage.

“We are a library available to the public. We want the public to use it,” said Bedard.

“We are also an academic institution, and our priority is to meet the needs of the students.”

Bedard’s advice for nonstudent computer users was to avoid busy times of day and times when computers are most in use.

“Don’t come during finals,” said Bedard. “That may not be convenient, but that’s the reality.” Bedard mentioned that the computers in Bookworms, the library cafe, are available to the public 24 hours a day.

Guests can also access the wireless network by registering for a GuestID. Bedard explained that the university can’t afford the licenses necessary to make all of the library’s resources available to the public, but

does believe in the importance of providing the public with a way to use more of the library’s resources.

“We are looking at a way to make the rest of the computers available through guest access,” said Bedard, suggesting that people who weren’t students might use temporary identification cards.

“I was surprised we didn’t have guest access already,” said Bedard, who came to UConn during the fall semester, leaving a position at the University of New Mexico.

Bedard said that many of the institutions she has previously worked at had greater access for members of the public.

However, Bedard said that guest access has been in the talks at UConn since before she arrived. She said that implementing a guest access system would cost a great deal of time and resources, although she was not able to provide a dollar estimate.

There is no set timeline or definite plan for implementing a guest access system. Bedard explained that while public access is important, priority for the library’s resources has to go to the students.

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Task Force goals to be implemented soon from TASK FORCE, page 1

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at the company’s annual shareholders meeting, in Bellevue, Wash. Microsoft announced Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, that Satya Nadella will replace Steve Ballmer as its new CEO. Nadella will become only the third leader of the software giant.

willing to listen,’” Kotha says. “Symbolically I think it’s very important to see he’s separating himself from Steve Ballmer.”

Ballmer is known for his larger-than-life displays of emotion. At his farewell address to Microsoft employees in September, he highfived and hugged audience members, pumped his fists in the air, and even shed tears as the popular 1987 song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” played on the sound system. In a video of the event widely viewed on YouTube,

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he screams: “You work for the greatest company in the world!”

Observers still remember Ballmer’s intense competitiveness. At a 2009 company meeting at Seattle’s Safeco field, he pretended to stomp on an iPhone he snatched from a Microsoft employee.

During a public Q&A in 2012, he slammed Google’s Android mobile operating system as “wild” and “uncontrolled.”

Compare that to Nadella’s comments at a financial analysts meeting in September, where he described how

Microsoft’s mobile device management software has to handle devices that run on Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows equally: “Enterprises are heterogeneous, and we recognized that,” he said.

Richard Metheny, a management coach for executive search firm Witt/Kieffer, latched onto comments Nadella made in introducing himself as CEO, about how he buys more books and signs up for more online courses than

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nationally, and to be a leader in the field.”

The Task Force Report, titled “Toward a Culture of Inclusion: Striving for Acceptance,” detailed specific goals to be implemented in the coming months. The ideas include both educational programming as well as sexual violence prevention and safety initiatives.

“We learned that paradoxically UConn has many resources for students in many locations, physical and virtual, students are not aware of them,” the Task Force report stated, “nor able to access them readily, necessitating a student-focused re-“vision” (in the root sense of the word) and re-organization.”

Just over two weeks ago, on January 22nd, President Barack Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum to

combat the growing problem of sexual assault on college campuses. The memo, which established the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault, directed the Office of the Vice President and the White House Council on Women and Girls to lead the efforts on the Task Force.

Some of the members of the Task Force include Obama Administration officials Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Valerie Jarrett, who serves as senior advisor and assistant to the President for intergovernmental affairs and public engagement.

All the UConn Task Force reports and documents can be found by going to www.

President.UConn.edu/communications then clicking February 2014.

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Future of cigarettes in question ATLANTA (AP) — Health officials have begun to predict the end of cigarette smoking in America.

They have long wished for a cigarette-free America, but shied away from calling for smoking rates to fall to zero or near zero by any particular year. The power of tobacco companies and popularity of their products made such a goal seem like a pipe dream.

But a confluence of changes has recently prompted public health leaders to start throwing around phrases like “endgame” and “tobacco-free generation.”

Now, they talk about the slowly-declining adult smoking rate dropping to 10 percent in the next decade and to 5 percent or lower by 2050.

Acting U.S. Surgeon General Boris Lushniak last month released a 980-page report on smoking that pushed for steppedup tobacco-control measures. His news conference was an unusually animated showing of antismoking bravado, with Lushniak nearly yelling, repeatedly, “Enough is enough!”

“I can’t accept that we’re just allowing these numbers to trickle down,” he said, in a recent interview with the AP. “We believe we have the public health tools to get us to the zero level.”

This is not the first time a federal health official has spoken so boldly. In 1984, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop called for a “smoke-free society” by the year 2000. However, Koop — a bold talker on many issues — didn’t offer specifics on how to achieve such a goal.

“What’s different today is that we have policies and programs that have been proven to drive down tobacco use,” said Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. “We couldn’t say that in 1984.”

“I do think, in another few years, that pharmacies selling cigarettes will look as anachronistic” as old cigarette ads featuring physician endorsements look today, said CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden.

These developments have made many in public health dream bigger. It’s caused Myers’ organiza-

tion and others to recently tout the goal of bringing the adult smoking rate down to 10 percent by 2024, from the current 18 percent.

That would mean dropping it at twice the speed it declined over the last 10 years.

The bigger goal is to reduce U.S. smoking-related deaths to fewer than 10,000, from the current level of 480,000. But even if smoking rates dropped to zero immediately, it would take decades to see that benefit, since smoking-triggered cancers can take decades to develop.

But while some experts and advocates are swinging for the fences, others are more pessimistic. They say the key to reaching such goals is not simply more taxes and more local smoking bans, but action by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regu-

FDA from outright blocking the sale of cigarettes, but the agency was free to take such pivotal steps as prohibiting the use of appealing menthol flavoring in cigarettes and requiring cigarette makers to ratchet down the amount of addictive nicotine in each smoke.

But nearly five years after gaining power over cigarettes, FDA has yet to even propose such regulations. Agency officials say they’re working on it.

Many believe FDA’s delay is driven by defense preparations for an anticipated battery of legal and political challenges.

A spokesman for Altria Group Inc., the maker of Marlboro, said the company supports FDA exer-

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Before Dashawn Revels was convicted of murder and sentenced to 55 years in prison in 2011, a Connecticut judge allowed the jury to hear testimony from a prosecution witness who saw the shooting at night from 265 feet away in her fifthfloor apartment.

The witness, Fidelia Carrillo, didn’t see the shooter’s face but identified Revels as the killer later the same night, when New London police drove her by Revels and shined the cruiser spotlight on him as officers detained him. She said he was wearing the same clothes as the killer.

Two years later in a courtroom, Carrillo misidentified an intern from the public defender’s office as the shooter as he sat next to Revels during a hearing on whether to allow Carrillo’s identification as evidence.

The state Supreme Court is now mulling whether Revels’ murder conviction should be overturned. But the justices are taking the case a step further by considering whether Connecticut

should join other states and abandon a balancing test created by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1977 and used by judges nationwide to determine whether to allow eyewitness identifications as evidence.

Flaws in the test have been revealed by scientific research over the past three decades that shows how unreliable eyewitness identifications can be, and the result is judges are using a bad method to decide when to admit identifications into evidence, defense lawyers and psychologists say.

“There’s growing indication that eyewitness identifications can be problematic,” Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Richard Palmer said in December when the court heard Revels’ appeal, which is one of three cases in which the court is considering witness identification issues.

The Innocence Project, a New York-based national legal group that has won the exonerations of more than 300 people based on DNA tests, says 75 percent of those people were wrongfully convicted, at least in part, by

mistaken witness identifications.

The Innocence Project, the American Psychological Association and the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association are urging the Connecticut Supreme Court to devise a better method than the U.S. Supreme Court test, which came in a case named Manson v.

Brathwaite.

“What we’re really concerned with is preventing wrongful identifications,” said Karen Newirth, a senior fellow at the Innocence Project in Manhattan.

New Jersey and Oregon already have replaced the test, and Massachusetts is considering doing the same.

The balancing test is used in cases where judges find that police were suggestive when witnesses identified suspects.

When judges make that finding, they then must determine whether the identifications are still reliable by considering the witness’s certainty, the accuracy of the description and other factors.

The biggest problem, defense lawyers say, is that studies show

late smoking.

A 2009 federal law gave the FDA the authority to regulate tobacco products. The law barred

Among the changes —Cigarette taxes have increased around the country, making smokes more expensive. Though prices vary from state to state, on average a pack of cigarettes that would have sold for about $1.75 20 years ago would cost more than triple that now.

—Laws banning smoking in restaurants, bars and workplaces have popped up all over the country. Airline flights have long been offlimits for smoking.

—Polls show that cigarette smoking is no longer considered normal behavior, and is now less popular among teens than marijuana.

—Federal officials are increasingly aggressive about anti-smoking advertising. The Food and Drug Administration launched a new youth tobacco prevention campaign last week.

—Tobacco companies, once considered impervious to legal attack, have suffered some huge defeats in court. Perhaps the biggest was the 1998 settlement of a case brought by more than 40 states demanding compensation for the costs of treating smoking-related illnesses. Big Tobacco agreed to pay about $200 billion and curtail marketing of cigarettes to youths.

—Retailing of cigarettes is changing, too. CVS Caremark, the nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain, announced last week it will stop selling tobacco products at its more than 7,600 drugstores. The company said it made the decision in a bid to focus more on providing health care, but medical and public health leaders predicted pressure will increase on companies like Walgreen Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to follow suit.

cising its regulatory authority over tobacco products. But as a whole, the industry has tended to fight regulation. Some of the nation’s largest tobacco companies — though not Altria — sued to stop FDA-proposed graphic warning labels on cigarette packs.

A federal court blocked the ads.

“The industry makes money as long as they can delay regulation,” said Kenneth Warner, a University of Michigan public health professor who is a leading authority on smoking and health.

Warner and Michigan colleague David Mendez estimate that, barring any major new tobacco control victories, the adult smoking rate will drop from its current 18 percent only to about 12 percent by 2050. If health officials do make huge strides, the rate could drop as low as 6 percent, they think.

But Lushniak said zero. Will that ever happen?

Some experts doubt it. As long as cigarettes and other combustible tobacco products are legal, it’s likely some people will smoke them. Efforts to prohibit them are likely to fail, they say. (Remember Prohibition?)

“It’s hard to do a ban on cigarettes because you’re taking something away from people they have and are using. Once you have something, you hold tight,” said Richard Daynard, a Northeastern University law professor who focuses on tobacco issues.

Better, he said, to bar people from having a product in the first place. He is intrigued by legal efforts in Singapore and a handful of other countries to ban sales of tobacco to anyone born after a certain year — 2000, say. That would be constitutional, he said.

The question is: Would our culture accept it?

Probably not, said Ruth Malone, editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Tobacco Control.

“In our culture, we tend to think we have a right to things even if they’re terrible for us,” she said.

A growing number of experts believe the most promising option is to get people to switch voluntarily to something else, like electronic cigarettes.

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he could possibly finish.

“It means he’s open to ideas, open to others,” Metheny says. “Perhaps he’ll have the ability to get Microsoft to loosen up a little and focus on innovation rather than be accused of bringing in a solution that brings in money immediately.”

One problem Microsoft faces is its legacy of competing internal fiefdoms, says Douglas McKenna, a management consultant who advised Microsoft from 1985 to 1993 and worked at the company from 1993 through 2001.

Founder Bill Gates and Ballmer believed the clash of ideas resulted in the best rising above the rest, McKenna says. That style of management, coupled with a socalled stack ranking system that graded employees on a bell curve, resulted in a company full of “competitive people who learned that climbing over each other and battling across divisions is the way to get ahead,” McKenna says.

Breaking down those barriers will be important for Microsoft at a time when software and services are expected to work across many platforms and devices, McKenna says. It’s a task that could benefit from Nadella’s collaborative approach.

“You have to have people who are willing to release their convictions and try something new,” McKenna says.

The company has already begun the shift — with a reorganization launched in July that Ballmer called “One Microsoft.” And in November, the company eliminated the bell-curve performance review system that rewarded workers for outdoing their peers. It was an acknowledgement that the tactics that helped Microsoft grow into one of the world’s most dominant software companies isn’t

working anymore.

What’s often required of companies that have hit their peak is a leader who is analytical — rather than driving and expressive as Ballmer was — especially when trends point downward, says William Klepper, a professor of management at Columbia Business School.

Microsoft’s stock price peaked in 1999 and the wave of success the company rode on the back of its Windows operating system for personal computers is ending, he says.

“What they need to do is start their ‘second wave’ thinking,” Klepper says. “That takes patience, due diligence and a deep dive to do that kind of thing. That is very much in the style of both Nadella and Gates.”

Nadella has already indicated that innovation will be key for Microsoft, and in another collaborative turn, he asked Gates to increase his time at the company to help plot future strategy, to which Gates agreed. Nadella has said repeatedly since being named CEO that the technology industry “doesn’t respect tradition.”

Riverbed Technology CEO Jerry Kennelly, who persuaded Nadella to join his computer networking company’s board last March, credits Nadella with preventing the company from “taking a wrong turn.” As management was considering moving in a new direction, Nadella delivered hard-edged advice “in a way that is constructive and collaborative,” Kennelly says.

“At the end of the day, technology is all about having the right product at the right time in the right market,” Kennelly says. “The keys to the kingdom are your product strategy and your market strategy, and that is where Satya has been helpful for us.”

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“The test has a very perverse result,” Newirth said.

“The Supreme Court basically directed trial courts to balance suggestion against (witness) reliability. What we know is that suggestion inflates confidence. It inflates people’s recollection of how good their attention was.”

Revels’ public defender, James Streeto, says New London police were extremely suggestive when they drove Carrillo past a detained Revels and shined the cruiser spotlight on him. But the judge ruled that Carrillo’s testimony nonetheless was reliable.

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Classrooms in MSB need attention more than stairwells

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ast semester, the University of Connecticut renovated the staircases in the Math and Science Building (MSB). Meanwhile, the remainder of the building is still in terrible condition and is falling apart. UConn should have focused on fixing the more important parts of the building rather than making such a trivial fix.

Many classrooms in MSB have windows that lack screens. This presents a major safety hazard if the windows are open. Furthermore, it is often necessary to open the windows to cool off even in the middle of winter because the heat is always on full blast. There seems to be no way for it to be turned down. Installing a better heating system and putting screens in the windows would be far better fixes than renovating the staircases.

The lack of screens can also be distracting at times when the windows are open. In addition to keeping students safe, the screens serve to keep noise out. If there is a field hockey or lacrosse game going on nearby in the Sherman Family Sports Complex, students in MSB may be disturbed by the sounds from the public address announcer, the music playing over the loudspeaker or the noise of the game in general. The screens would at least keep out some of that noise and if it were cool enough to close the windows, almost all of the noise would be kept out.

Students should not be distracted during class by the national anthem playing before a field hockey game or the announcement of the starting lineups over the loudspeaker. These sounds distract the class from learning.

Additionally, many classrooms on the top floor have leaks coming from the ceiling. There are also many classrooms with loose ceiling tiles. These problems are highly distracting to the learning environment.

Students do not have class in the staircase–they have class in the classrooms. The purpose of a university is to educate students. Certainly, nobody would argue that having nice staircases is an integral part of one’s education.

However, having classrooms which are in decent condition is very important. Sadly, the university has failed to renovate any of the classrooms in MSB, instead opting to focus on the staircases.

While MSB is in desperate need of renovation, UConn should not have made the staircases their primary focus.

Considering the university is looking to hire additional faculty in the science and mathematics fields, having a building in a decent condition is very important. Many potential new professors might visit the campus, see the poor shape of the building and decide to accept jobs elsewhere. The condition makes it seem like UConn does not care about math or science. This is not to say they don’t care, but sometimes perception is just as important as reality. UConn needs to renovate the classrooms in MSB, not the staircases.

Rift opens between al-Qaeda and ISIS

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ast Monday, al-Qaeda chief Ayman Zawahri issued a statement on behalf of his Islamic militant organization that officially declared Islamic State in Iraq and that the Levant (ISIS)–another Islamic insurgency organization operating in Iraq and Syria–was unaffiliated with al-Qaeda. Zawahri’s decision to deny ISIS recognition under al-Qaeda was the result of ongoing clashes with ISIS leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi.

By Dan Gorry Baghdadi’s Weekly Columnist incessant efforts to absorb Jahbat al–Nusra–Syria’s official al-Qaeda affiliate–into ISIS created a violent rift between the Islamic militant groups, resulting in the death of 1,800 rebels since the beginning of this year. The increasingly violent ruptures that have ripped apart formerly allied Islamic militants pose a vital opportunity for counter–terror specialists to better analyze and frustrate insurgencies, especially within the conflagrated areas of the Middle East.

The loss of al–Qaeda’s values is devastating to ISIS. As the American Enterprise Institute’s Katherine Zimmerman points out, al-Qaeda is much more than the core group of Islamic militants under Zawahri who relocated from Afghanistan to Pakistan.

Instead, al-Qaeda is an intercontinental network of loosely affiliated insurgencies who share similar goals and methods. Their methods are quite familiar to us, but the goals are much more

complex than “the destruction of freedom,” as George W. Bush claimed. Each branch of al-Qaeda strives to achieve the removal of foreign-funded dictators like Bashar al-Assad, the establishment of a fundamentalist Wahhabi Caliphate –codified by Sharia law–across their regions of influence, and a perpetually successful jihad to frustrate the imperialist pursuits of foreign powers.

This brings us to the question of how ISIS and al-Qaeda ever came to be at odds with each other, given that both have such similar goals. As recently as last April, ISIS was formally allied with Jahbat al-Nusra, resulting in the rampant success they enjoyed against Assad’s isolated regime, which garnered both organizations a great deal of respect and envy from rival rebel factions. The entrance of Shiite Lebanese militants from Hezbollah on the side of the Syrian government is ultimately what tipped the balance of the war back into Assad’s favor, and resultant frustrations with this reversal of fortunes is what prompted Abu Bakr Baghdadi to unilaterally declare al-Nusra’s absorption into ISIS. Zawahri and al-Nusra field commander Abu Mohammad alJolani seized Baghdadi’s declaration of preeminence over armed jihad as an excuse to distance themselves from ISIS. The reason they sought fit to abandon ISIS, rather than merge for a chance at resurgent success is because of the horrible reputation ISIS had accumulated over the years of conflict within Syria and Iraq. A December 2013 report from Amnesty International details the various list of abuses committed by ISIS operatives within the territories that they occupy; which includes summary sentencing to weeks-long detention for minor offenses such as smoking, the

wanton murder of soldiers belonging to more moderate rebel factions, and the extensive use of torture even against children as young as eight years old.

Essentially, ISIS was so ruthlessly draconian that even al-Qaeda decided they did not want their brand’s reputation to be sullied by association with such a brutal organization.

This turn of events poses a serious threat to the potential for unified jihad, as detailed in Saif al-Adel’s “Al-Qaeda’s Strategy to the Year 2020.”

In spite of the falling out with al-Qaeda, ISIS continues to grow in strength and has become somewhat of a legitimately centralized rival to al-Qaeda. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights remarked in November 2013 that “ISIS is the strongest group in Northern Syria −100%- and anyone who tells you anything else is lying,” which is compounded with the organization’s recent successes in freeing 500 members from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq as well as commanding the insurgents in Fallujah.

Now, the principal backers of Sunni militant jihad in the Arabian peninsula must hedge their bets on who they believe will emerge as the more dominant terror organization, whereas counter-terror networks have been gifted a wedge with which they may exploit to weaken the ever-expanding armed jihadi movements. Though this fissure may resemble the conflict between the Judean People’s Front and People’s Front of Judea from Monty Python’s “The Life of Brian,” it could turn out to be the moment that Islamic militancy begins to decline and collapse.

 Daniel.Gorry@UConn.edu  8th-semester poltical science

Bad trends are allowed to continue in our decade

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“I don’t believe in beans.”

Leaving the snow on top of the roof so it blows off behind you is like having an asshole hat for your car.

“I wonder what the lady at the CVS clinic will say when I go in dry heaving and dripping sweat. Turn down for alcoholism and possibly the flu” So we have a new bane of the people on campus, and its name is UCONN-TEST. Figure skating and biathlon are nice and all, but I’m excited for the ice hockey to get started.

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hen one is immersed in an artistic field where their body is their paintbrush, whether it be ballet, modeling or even figure skating, the desire to achieve a slender and lengthy body is all-consuming. Dancers, for example, work tirelessly to stretch and twist their forms to look as sylph-like as possible, and this obsesBy Alexandra Bell sion carries over into Staff Columnist the way they clothe themselves. They learn what styles, colors, and shapes are truly flattering on them as individuals. They don’t try to dress the same, because dancers, like normal people, cannot all wear the same style of costume. This is not to say that there are dressing options to flatter everyone’s natural shape.

Unfortunately, instead

of dressing our own bodies and personalities, many of us seem to be determined to wrap ourselves in society’s latest regurgitation. Every period since the beginning of fashion has had its more unfortunate trends. There have been funny shoes with wobbly platforms, frilly tights and cross-gartered men’s stockings, corsets so constricting they caused organ damage, and hoop skirts so large one had to shuffle into rooms sideways.

The 80s had shoulder pads up the yin yang, not to mention a whole other slew of confusing trends. The 90s had parachute pants, Company Bugle Boy, and sadness. Now, it’s the skinny jeans and Uggs look.

Most of us ought to take a long introspective look and meditate on what we really want to wear before we go shopping and spend all our money on the latest trend. Many of us, how-

ever, are guilty of falling into this unfortunate cluster of style tragedy at the moment. However, this is a valid opportunity to reflect on both our clothing choices, and how we feel about allowing ourselves to fall into a category of this sort in the first place.

Fashion is one of the most important ways in which we are able to express our personalities, moods and tastes. It is unfortunate that the majority of us seem so at peace with reproducing the humdrum style choices of the masses. Surely this cannot mean that all who dress the same are the same by nature. What is the logic behind wishing to have the same fashion products and appearance as the next girl?

Is it the desire to fit in? Is it a fear of our own creative potential? Is it a simple lack of variety in the market? Are we too lazy to come up with our own ideas? What is it

about many of us that we are so tempted to fall in line?

These questions cannot be reserved for our fashion choices, but again, fashion and style are a reflection of much deeper issues, whether social or personal. Fads and trends exist because we are so prone to push aside our true selves and ingest whatever nonsense we are fed, whether it be corsets or short shorts. Life in general has such an unfortunate tendency to be bland and repetitive. Things like art, literature and fashion are our opportunity to break free of that uniformity and enjoy some variation. Style is a chance for each and every one of us to be different than we were the day before.

 Alexandra.Bell@UConn.edu  English major

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Students combine the calming movements of yoga with an upbeat Zumba workout accompained by electronic dance music at SUBOG’s Electric Yoga Experience. The event was part of the Snolympics Winter Weekend.

By Kathleen McWilliams Senior Staff Writer Juxtaposing the relaxing and meditative nature of yoga with flashing lights and Electronic Dance Music, the Electric Yoga Experience brought exercise and fun to UConn students.

Part of SUBOG’S Snolympics themed Winter Weekend EYE had students moving around and staying warm as temperatures dropped outside.

EYE was started a few years ago to promote fitness and fun on a college campus, where exercising is often seen as an additional item on a never

ending to do list. According to their website, they combined yoga and the feel of an EDM festival to bring people closer to relaxation with music.

The event started with a block of yoga supplemented by electronic trance music and relaxing blue lightning. The instructor worked participants through a series of strenuous sun salutations and challenged students with difficult yoga poses.

After 45 minutes of intense yoga, the hosts switched gears and moved to the Zumba portion of the event. For another 45 minutes, participants were coached through a heart rate rising Zumba workout to EDM music, flashing lights and light up hula hoops.

Students enjoyed the energy of the event and remarked on how it was a good opportunity to exercise on a weekend night that would usually be spent avoiding the gym.

“It was electrifying good fun,” 6th– semester allied health sciences major, Avery Desrosiers said. “It was a great way to relieve stress because it started with yoga and relaxation and worked its way into high cardio Zumba. It was really needed to shake off the stress of the week.”

Similarly, sixth semester Allied Health Sciences major Sumia Hussain said the event was a good way to spend a Friday night.

“It was fun, exciting and I would

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Students attended the Winter Concert at Jorgensen Saturday night. GrooveBoston states their goal as creating “legendary dance parties by combining massive-scale production with professional in-house talent, led by a world-class touring crew of some of the most talented audio, lighting, staging, and special effects professionals in the industry.”

definitely do it again,” Hussain said.

“It was like a Zumba rave and very high energy. No regrets, it was a great way ti spend a Friday night.”

However other students’ expectations were not met.

“It was too fast paced for relaxing yoga,” said 6th–semester political science major, Sarah Walsh.

All things considered, however, Walsh said that despite the fast pace of the yoga, the night was enjoyable.

“All in all it was a good time and I can’t wait to do it again,” Walsh said.

Kathleen.McWilliams@UConn.edu

Transgender experience explored in film

By Brian Passeri Campus Correspondent The Rainbow Center hosted a screening of the documentary “Gendernauts” on Saturday in order to raise awareness of transgender issues on campus.

A 1999 documentary directed and produced by Monika Treut, a German filmmaker famous for her queer films, “Gendernauts” follows the lives of a group of transgender individuals living in San Francisco.

The film began by introducing Sandy Stone, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the founders of the academic discipline of transgender studies. A transgender woman herself, Stone serves as a narrator and periodically adds commentary in order to further develop important themes brought up by the various interviewees.

Susan Stryker, the first individual to be interviewed, is a male to female transsexual who also works as a professor of transgender history. She describes San Francisco as a “Queer Mecca” of sorts, lauding its acceptance of the LGBTQ community and its integration with the social and economic power structure. Annie Sprinkle, a sex artist and educator, later declares San Francisco the “sex capital of the world.”

Max Velario, a poet, author, and actor, describes his experience transitioning from female to male. Primarily, he chronicles his history with hormone injections, explaining the medical community has come a long way in terms of offering safe and effective care to trans individuals. At the beginning of his transition, he had no choice but to receive testosterone from a sketchy backroom clinic where patients were not allowed to do their own injections. He says he began to feel

the effects “almost immediately,” later deciding to undergo chest surgery, which he shows off to the camera, expressing his happiness with the result.

He explains his desire to eventually undergo genital reconstruction surgery and his desire to acquire large testicles, saying, “I think you need big balls in a world like this.”

Hida Viloria, an intersex person, is the last person to be interviewed. She explains her experience growing up, saying she didn’t feel she quite fit in with either sex.

“I felt different,” says Viloria, “sort of in between sexes.”

Stone explains there are many more hermaphroditic individuals born than we realize, as they are forced to grow up as one distinct sex rather than embrace their uniqueness.

Overall, the film, while somewhat outdated, does a good job in portraying the variety of gender identities that are both possible and present in our community.

Anna Ebora, an 8th semester psychology major, enjoyed the fact that the film was “a positive portrayal of gender issues, whereas most documentaries focus too much on the negative.”

The upbeat character of the movie seemed to be appreciated by all present.

“The documentary was an enjoyable insight to the genderqueer community,” 6th semester history and education major Christina DeVecchis, said, “which opened the viewers’ eyes to a variety of gender expressions while maintaining a positive tone.”

The film was part of the Rainbow Center’s Rainbow Cinema series, which screens films tackling LGBTQ issues every Saturday.

Brian.Passeri@UConn.edu

The first ever Zelda game, “The Legend of Zelda,” was released in 1986 in Japan and was a huge hit. It was huge not in the sense that it was immensely popular, which it was selling 6.5 million copies (more than any other NES game), but in the sense that, for a video game in the 80s, the map and length of the game were beyond expectations.

I’ve played through it and it is frustratingly difficult to the point where it really isn’t even that fun. Playing it was more for the sake of the pride of finishing it. The game however laid important groundwork for future games and the first Zelda game of the 90s, “A Link to the Past”.

“A Link to the Past” originally released for the Super Nintendo, was the last console Zelda game in aerial view, much like the first game. Once Nintendo 64 came out and “Ocarina of Time” became the instant favorite with its third person view and extensive controls and maneuvering, aerial view Zelda games got sidelined to handheld consoles.

Don’t get me wrong, that was the right move, and “Ocarina of Time” is one of my favorite games of all time, but it is a completely different game than “A Link to the Past.” The major differences between styles are in the top-down view you can only really face four directions, which gets frustrating at times, but it did make it easier for aiming ranged weapons.

It also made it easier to see around corners so enemies wouldn’t take you by surprise.

More importantly, there were corners as opposed to the original title in which every dungeon was just a series of square rooms with different obstacles and enemies inside.

If you have ever played the two games that came before “A Link to the Past,” you have noticed the scarcity of recovery hearts compared to every other Zelda game which made the games much more difficult. “A Link to the Past” was the first one to have a reasonable amount of hearts, mostly because the dungeons were so much longer and more elaborate as compared to the precursors.

I now want to take a second to ask a question that has always bothered me. Why is this game called “A Link to the Past?” For a Zelda game, there is virtually no time travel whatsoever. The dark world you eventually travel to is not past nor future, or at least indicated so, but rather just another dimension of sorts.

I guess the argument can be made that the character you play as is part of the bloodline of the hero, which is why he was chosen to save Hyrule, but that doesn’t satisfy me to the point where the title is justified.

Recently Nintendo released “The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds,” which would have made a much better title for “A Link to the Past.”

Consequently, the game is the sequel to “A Link to the Past,” though I haven’t played it.

Obviously I’m a huge Zelda nerd. If you are too and just want to talk about it or enjoy my occasional tweets on the matter, follow me @GiGantoss.

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1. FOX Super Bowl XLVIII (FOX) - 39.3 2. FOX Super Bowl Post Gun 2/2 (FOX) - 34.6 3. FOX Super Bowl Post Game 2/2 (FOX) - 25.5 4. New Girl 2/2 (FOX) - 11.4 5. Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2/2 (FOX) - 6.9 6. Big Bang Theory (CBS) - 5.2 7. American Idol 1/29 (CBS) - 3.8 8. How I Met Your Mother 1/30 (CBS) - 3.8 9. American idol 1/30 (FOX) - 3.2 10. 2 Broke Girls 1/27 (CBS) - 3.0 Ratings from TVbytheNumbers.com Week ending February 2

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Sochi Olympics It only comes around once every four years, so you don’t want to miss it.

There are so many thrillseeking sports in the winter Olympics that you normally don’t get to watch, such as the skeleton, luge and bobsledding, so now’s the time to get four years worth of them in.

Some of the most entertaining television comes from the dangerous yet amazing tricks that the snow boarders and skiers pull off in the slope style events.

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“New Girl” premiered two new episodes last week, one following the Super Bowl on Sunday night, and a second on Tuesday.

By Emily Lewson Campus Correspondent Fox’s hit show, “New Girl,” aired two new episodes this past week. “Prince” and “Exes” focused on the meaning behind serious relationships in a broken world.

Following the Seattle Seahawks’ win in Super Bowl XLVIII, “Prince” aired to a rousing 26.3 million viewers. The NFL lead-in increased the number of viewers by six times compared to normal averages.

According to “Entertainment Weekly,” this makes “New Girl” the highest-rated scripted entertainment TV show in three years.

Viewers were in for a treat. The episode was a comedic masterpiece that featured singing legend Prince, while still following the lives of our heroine Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson).

The plot twists were unexpected, yet hysterical. Jess gets invited to Prince’s party and when seated in the limousine to leave, Nick tells her he loves her for the first time. The limousine pulls away with Jess pointing finger guns at Nick still standing on the sidewalk. Their relationship is strained as both parties struggle

with commitment. Luckily, Prince solves all their troubles with his peculiar outfits, trance-like butterfly and powerful performance.

“We were so excited to have Prince on the show, but we really wanted to make it feel organic and not such a step out from the world of the show,” Liz Merriwether, the show’s executive producer, told TVGuide. com. “The fact that these characters aren’t the kind of people who rub shoulders with celebrities ever, we’re trying to make sure that still feels real for these characters.”

After premiering “Prince” Sunday night, “Exes” aired Tuesday, Feb. 4th. This episode lacked the hysterical nature “Prince” offered. It felt uncomfortable throughout the thirty-minute segment and the resolve was forced. Nick and Jess’s ex-partners appear and problems arise. Neither makes amends and yet Nick and Jess remain blissfully happy in their own unrealistic world.

“The challenge of this year has been finding the comedy in the two of them being in a happy relationship, which is never as funny as two people not in a happy relationship,” Meriwether told TV Guide.

Despite the unrealistic state of euphoria Nick and Jess remain in, “Exes” had other issues as well. Author Nina Pedrad focused too closely on stereotypical gender roles while contemplating an unrealistic experience. Jess tries to convince Nick to become friends with his ex-girlfriend Caroline, while the other suitemates were all in the other apartment becoming intimate.

As Entertainment Weekly journalist Lanford Beard said, the women were either “adorably naïve or vengeful psychopath” while the men were simply seeking a one night stand. To assume that Jess is only a cute face, Caroline an angry woman and Nick an uncomprehending male stretches gender stereotypes to an unidentifiable extreme. This narrow view of people removed the hilarity that usually encompasses “New Girl” and caused it to have more of a reality TV show feel.

While “Exes” flopped this Tuesday night, the “Prince” episode was one for the books. Tune in Tuesday at 9 p.m. on Fox to see whether season three will get better.

Emily.Lewson@UConn.edu

22 year reign comes to an end

By Alex Sferrazza Staff Writer Long live the king.

Ever since the retirement of the legendary Johnny Carson, the world of late night television has become increasingly divided with multiple shows across various networks duking it out in the same crowded time slots.

In spite of ever increasing competition, Jay Leno has managed to consistently keep his program atop the ratings and this past Thursday, he left the “Tonight Show” as he found it: at No. 1.

Critics and fellow comedians can denounce his “safe” brand of comedy as stale, unoriginal and unimpressive, but like it or not, if you lead the ratings for the better part of twenty years, you must be doing something right.

Fittingly, Jay’s final “Tonight Show” lacked the pomp and circumstance the retirement of such an icon one might expect.

Although packed with a flurry of celebrity support, the tone of Leno’s last show wasn’t that of a jubilant retirement party, but that of a somber send off that could be summarized in three simple words “We’ll miss you.”

Leno came out and delivered one final monologue, the part of the job he’ll probably miss the most, before settling in for an outpouring of support by a flurry of celebrities.

Jack Black, Kim Kardashian, Chris Paul, Jim Parsons, Sheryl Crow Oprah Winfrey and Carol Burnett made very memorable appearances singing a personalized rendition of “So Long, Farewell” with the latter doing her famous Tarzan yell.

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Jay Leno, after 22 years as host of the “Tonight Show,” is stepping down. His final show aired last Thursday night.

Other notable celebrities appeared via videotape including Kevin Bacon and President Barack Obama, the latter of which humorously named Leno the new U.S. ambassador to Antarctica.

Billy Crystal, Leno’s very first guest on “Tonight” all the way back in 1992, made a return appearance as Leno’s very last guest, offering the host a very kind series send off of words.

A notable absentee from the festivities was Kevin Eubanks, Leno’s longtime bandleader, who Leno mentioned on air as currently being on tour.

When at last it came time for Leno to say his final goodbye

to his devoted audience, a visibly emotional Leno thanked his crew, whom the host told the audience had been his family.

To finish it off, musical guest Garth Brooks played off the host for the very last time with “Friends in Low Places.”

It was a sendoff fitting of a man who had always claimed he was just a regular guy.

Jay Leno has gained as many detractors as he has fans in his time hosting late night’s crown jewel. He’s played it safe, and in an age where the subject of late night humor frequently turns to America’s fractured politics, Leno is one of the few who can be praised for distributing

punchlines evenly amongst the left and the right. A plain spoken man who appealed to the best of middle America, Leno was fired from his job not once, but twice, for no reason other than a misguided attempt to attract a younger viewing demographic.

His well documented efforts to acquire the show instead of Carson’s favored successor David Letterman, or his refusal to stand down rather than take back the program from Conan O’Brien in 2010 withstanding, few can deny that Jay Leno deserved better treatment by NBC.

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A big problem we often see on television is a show overstaying its welcome. While a lot of shows are forced to end prematurely for one reason or another, we more often see the other problem where high ratings and greedy networks force longer seasons and more of them in order to keep a popular show on air. We are currently witnessing this in CBS’s “How I Met Your Mother.” I suppose, given the nature of the show, its ending has been long overdue, but the sitcom was so well written and funny that fans didn’t really care if they ever met the mother or not. After approaching last season as if it were the final one, CBS struck an expensive deal to keep the show on air for one more season. How has this affected the show? By forcing the audience to watch a 24 episode season take place in the course of a weekend where each episode is usually an hour or two and is just some random and ridiculous shenanigan occurring before the big wedding. After a few episodes, it became so repetitive and unnecessary that it began to annoy me, even if I am still laughing.

Another show that went on just a bit too long was “Lost.”

Fans will recall that ABC originally refused to give the writers an end date although they argued the show needed one in order to progress toward an end. How did the writers respond to this? They began writing ridiculously awful episodes for the sake of wasting time. One infamously awful episode showed a flashback of how Jack got his tattoos which contributed absolutely nothing to the show or its mythology. After this, ABC finally decided to give them an end date a few seasons away and the show’s quality increased, although it did still go on a bit too long.

It’s a shame we don’t see many more writers with this kind of courage.

Recently, AMC’s ‘Breaking Bad’ concluded. Rumor has it, both the network and an executive at Dreamworks offered the show’s creator a substantial amount of money to continue the show and then to extend the final season, but they were both declined.

Whether or not this is the full true story, this is the kind of trend we should see more of in television. “Breaking Bad” not only ended perfectly, but at the right length. While fans were sad to see it go, did anybody really want to sit through another five seasons of Walt fighting cancer and battling drug dealers before it finally caught up with him? I could imagine another one or two before it lost substance.

Unfortunately, we don’t see this much integrity for shows in other production teams.

While funny, “How I Met Your Mother” is long overdue for an ending which is bound to be anticlimactic anyway in that we have already been given excess hints of who the mother is, and how they meet, in order to keep us watching. While the show has overstayed its welcome, we should be happy that it probably will still end better than “Dexter.”

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Inconsistency hurts ‘American Horror’ Monday, February 10, 2014

By Maurilio Amorim Staff Writer

You can call it whatever you want, but “American Horror Story” has been on a decline since its perfect first season.

The first season of FX’s horror anthology told the story of a troubled New England family moving into a haunted house in Los Angeles. Filled with disturbing sequences, memorable characters and legitimate thrills, the season was one of the most original and terrifying shows to come about in some time. The second season was a bit convoluted with too many characters and plot arcs to follow. The writers, of course, made it gorier, more disturbing and weirder, but it lacked the real terror that made season one so memorable. Overall, it was still enjoyable. The show appears to have finally hit rock bottom in its third season which is no longer scary, entertaining or even disturbing. In fact, it’s hardly watchable.

Season three got off to a great start in its season premiere. We met a lot of interesting characters and were given a rather original premise. Unfortunately, the season did not follow. Let’s begin with the characters. As if it

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weren’t bad enough that they are inconsistent and poorly written, not a single character is likeable. The only woman you can somewhat root for is Cordelia, but the writers have made her to be a weak, poor female role model. I found myself upset with her character and unable to like her.

The male characters are all poorly developed and lack motivation for most of their actions. Both male and female characters on the show fall victim to what I call poor writing. None of them are their own people with beliefs, feelings, values or personality.

They merely change and act however the plot needs them to in order to progress. As if this weren’t bad enough, most of them are poorly acted with awkward screen presence.

While the characters frequently annoy and the plot is poorly developed, the show manages to remain watchable and somewhat entertaining throughout most of its season.

There is a feeling that it is building up to a big climax.

Unfortunately, this never happens. The last three episodes feel as if the writers are merely moving down their checklist of loose ends to wrap up. Big characters and plot arcs end abruptly and anticlimactically

considering how much time was spent on them all season.

It is all rather predictable too.

For example, we wait all season to see what Kathy Bates is going to do when she escapes and can have her revenge. She finally does and what happens? We see her run around town for five minutes before somebody figures out a way to kill her. I suppose after the negative backlash from fans that came from last season’s unanswered questions the writers felt pressured to wrap everything up, but it is done so poorly and rushed that it hardly feels as if your hours spent all season paid off.

I’ve already mentioned it, but the biggest problem all season and in the finale is the inconsistency present in every aspect of the show. Sometimes, we get a glimpse into a character and then we never find out much more about them.

Sometimes, the writers expect us to feel sympathy for certain characters, which is impossible given their poor development and their un-likability.

The last two seasons had the problem of sitting in the first season’s shadow. The fourth season should be amazing as it only has to live up to this one.

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Like peanut butter and jelly

By Kathleen McWilliams Senior Staff Writer What do peanut butter and jelly have in common with Leslie Knope and Anne Perkins?

One can’t happily exist without the other by its side. Yes, unfortunately the time came last Thursday for Leslie and Anne to say goodbye, as actress Rashida Jones exits the show for good.

Chris and Anne are off to Michigan to be closer to Anne’s parents when their baby is born, leaving Leslie and Ben in Pawnee with the rest of the “Parks and Rec” crew. The good-bye episode opens with Leslie displayPhoto courtesy of complex.com ing her 103 scrapbooks comAmy Poehler and Rashida Jones go hand-in-hand on “Parks and Rec” on NBC. memorating her friendship with Anne, a small testament to their great friendship. Leslie also divulges that she is going to fill in the lot that ous and fitting to each character’s personality. brought her and Anne together as a final tribute to As usual, Ben gets flustered and annoyed by the results and keeps on scheming. her best friend.

It wouldn’t be an episode of “Parks and Rec” Cut scene and Leslie is hosting a massive party for Anne that celebrates every holiday from however, if there wasn’t a parks emergency and Easter to Flag Day because Leslie is unsure when Leslie and Anne had to team up to get something the two will see each other again. In the words done. In this case, Public Works is blocking the of Knope, “Ain’t no party like a Leslie Knope ground breaking on the empty lot outside Anne’s party has 30 parties.” In typical Leslie fashion it’s house that brought her and Leslie together, and the two have to team to get it done. I’ll give you extravagant and thoughtful.

The goodbyes are said by each member of the a hint, it takes Sweetums, Pistol Pete, ‘Ya Heard department and range from genuine to downright With Perd’ and a “Damn Perkins!” headlock.

I won’t ruin the ending for you, but I will say hilarious. Donna’s goodbye is essentially a “Now that you’re gone you know I’m taking control of the 13th episode of the sixth season is a fitting the dating pool.” Ron’s goodbye is simple and tribute to Anne and Chris and two cast members curt, but elicits tears from Jerry (oh excuse me, that will be sorely missed by fans. The episode fits in well with the rest of the season and keeps the Larry) and Anne alike.

While Anne is busy being showered with com- banter and humor alive in the ways that fans have pliments and goodbyes, the boys, Andy, Ben, Ron come to expect. and Tom are trying to find meaningful gifts for Chris who went on a limb for them buying gifts of personal significance. The results are hilari- Kathleen.McWilliams@UConn.edu

Sochi provides entertaining television daily

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Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States, centre, wait in the results area after competing in the team free ice dance figure skating competition at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, in Sochi, Russia.

By Kim Halpin Focus Editor For many of us, sports enthusiasts and frowners alike, the next two weeks will be spent with our eyes glued to the T.V. screen watching sports. The Olympics offer a very

different type of sports watching experience though, because while nearly no one follows the competitive luge circuit on a regular basis, it suddenly becomes one of the most interesting sports you’ve ever seen.

It’s also pretty easy for most of us to pick a favorite to watch, even if it’s

your first time watching a competition in the sport. Just look for the athlete with “U.S.A.” on their uniform.

There are 15 different sport disciplines represented at the Sochi games and all are played on snow or ice. These 22nd Winter Games have ushered in a few new events that

have never been recognized at the Olympics before. One of the most exciting to watch will be the women’s Ski Jump. American athlete Lindsay Vonn was instrumental in petitioning for the sport to be added to the Sochi schedule, and will be competing in the event herself. Prime time replay of the event will be shown on Feb. 11th at 8 p.m.

Among the 11 other new events added in Sochi are the snowboard parallel slalom, where two snowboarders race down identical courses and the first one to the bottom wins.

There will also be skiing and snowboarding slopestyle events for men and women, a team figure skating competition and a luge team relay.

In the men’s halfpipe, American icon Shaun White will be competing for his third gold medal. White is so focused on bringing home gold in this event that he pulled out of the slopestyle competition a couple of days ago to be more prepared for his main event. White’s biggest competition in the half pipe is likely to be a 15 year-old from Japan, Ayumu Hirano.

Lolo Jones and Lauryn Williams are other names that might sound familiar to you, but from differ-

Disney releases shorts between seasons

By Darragh McNicholl Campus Correspondent This week marked the release of “Mabel’s Guide to Life,” the second series of shorts to appear between the first and second season of “Gravity Falls.”

Disney Channel released this cartoon involving a pair of twins spending their summer in the supernatural stuffed town of Gravity Falls, Oregon in the summer of 2012.

“Gravity Falls” sporadically premiered the 20-episode season over an entire year. Even with the stretched out scheduling it gained enough popularity to garner several Annie Award nominations, the ‘Best Voice Acting’ Annie Award for Kristen Schaal, who plays main character Mabel Pines, and a second season.

Unfortunately the second season will not be premiering until what will most likely be the summer of 2014; in the mean time, Disney has been releasing these series of shorts to tide fans over.

If you were a fan of “Gravity Falls” during the air of the first season then you will love both series of shorts as they excellently capture the many different aspects of the show itself. If you have never watched it before then these shorts are a perfect

option for deciding whether to give it a try. “Gravity Falls” has bizarre humor that usually involves crazy monsters, mysteries and a multitude of supernatural plotlines.

Sometimes, Mabel will just do something completely spastic and equally hilarious. In fact, the two series of shorts encapsulate those different styles separately.

“Dipper’s Guide to the Unexplained” stars the other main character, Dipper Pines, as he films himself trying to solve the supernatural wonders that reside in Gravity Falls. It is the essence of the weird and surreal world that is deeply a part of the series.

Monsters and secrets are the focus for these five shorts that are just as off-putting as they are fun.

It should also be noted “Gravity Falls” has a particular interest in leaving codes and secret messages in almost every episode and “Dipper’s Guide to the Unexplained” is no different. In fact, these shorts were revealed to hint at a plot for the second season.

“Mabel’s Guide to Life” stars Mabel Pines as she films herself giving random, nonsensical advice about various topics. These five shorts are less concerned with the mysteries of Gravity Falls or hidden riddles needing to

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The Disney Channel released a series of shorts in between the first and second season of “Gravity Falls.”

be decoded as they are with Mabel’s cooky, spastic personality. Many of the greatest jokes from “Gravity Falls” come from Mabel alone and “Mabel’s Guide to Life” simply doubles the amount of hysterical Mabel moments.

“Dipper’s Guide to the Unexplained” was released in October, two months after the first season ended, while “Mabel’s Guide to Life” was

released this week. The Disney Channel has been spacing out these shorts all year to keep fans from forgetting that “Gravity Falls” will be returning sometime this summer.

Though the time between seasons has been frustrating, at least these shorts are worth the wait.

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ent Olympics. The two women are Olympic track runners and have participated in previous Summer Games.

They have come to Sochi, however, as part of the women’s bobsled team. Women’s heats one (featuring Williams) and two will race on Feb. 18th, and heats three (featuring Jones) and four, will race on Feb. 19th.

Of course the last event of the Olympics that you won’t want to miss out on are the closing ceremonies. The ceremony will take place at the same venue the opening ceremonies did, Fisht Olympic Stadium.

The stadium was built exclusively for the opening and closing ceremonies and holds over 40,000 people. The official end to the Winter Games is set for Feb. 23.

If you’re ever frustrated that there’s nothing good on T.V., check out what sports are competing in Sochi.

Despite the drastic time difference between the East Coast and Sochi, many events can be streamed live on your computer, and coverage is widespread on NBC in the afternoon, primetime and evening hours.

Kimberly.Halpin@UConn.edu

LaBeouf makes a scene at Berlin film festival BERLIN (AP) — Actor Shia LaBeouf hit the Berlin Film Festival in memorable style Sunday, first walking out of a press conference for the film “Nymphomaniac Volume I” and then wearing a paper bag over his head at the red carpet premiere.

The actor posed for photographers in a stylish tuxedo — and a paper bag with eyeholes and the words “I am not famous anymore” written across it. LaBeouf has frequently used the statement on his Twitter page, and he was identifiable by a tattoo on his hand.

The unconventional attire came shortly after the star walked out of a press conference with costars Uma Thurman and Christian Slater to promote Lars von Trier’s film, the first installment of a two-part drama about a woman’s sexual life from girlhood to age 50.

A reporter’s question as to whether the actors were worried about the film’s sex scenes elicited the response: “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much.” He then walked out.

LaBeouf’s line was borrowed from French soccer player Eric Cantona, who baffled reporters with it in the mid-1990s following his suspension for a flying kick on a heckler.

The actor has come under fire for borrowing dialogue and story

line for his short film, “Howard Cantour.com,” which closely resembled a 2007 graphic novel

by Daniel Clowes.

“In my excitement and naiveté as an amateur filmmaker, I got lost in the creative process and neglected to follow proper accreditation,” LaBeouf said on Twitter in December in response to Clowes’ publisher’s claim that he stole dialogue verbatim.

LaBoeuf wasn’t the only one making a statement. Von Trier turned up to a photo call sporting a t-shirt with the logo of the Cannes Film Festival and the words “Persona non grata, official selection.”

In 2011, von Trier was ejected from the Cannes event after a bizarre, rambling news conference in which he expressed sympathy with Adolf Hitler. He said afterward he had been joking, later issuing an apology and then saying he would refrain from future public statements.

The director skipped Sunday’s news conference to talk about the film. The version at the festival increases to nearly 2 ½ hours the first installment.

At the press conference, Thurman said she enjoyed letting off the “fury of woman scorned” in a monologue von Trier wrote for her in the movie. “It was a real great challenge to memorize seven pages of Lars’ female diatribe of rage,” she told reporters.

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Missouri All-American Sam announces he is gay (AP) Missouri All-American Michael Sam says he is gay, and the defensive end could become the first openly homosexual player in the NFL. In interviews with ESPN, The New York Times and Outsports that were published Sunday, Sam said his teammates and coaches at Missouri have known since August.

"I am an openly, proud gay man," he said.

The 255-pound Sam participated in the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., last month after leading the SEC in sacks (11.5) and tackles for loss (19), and he is projected to be a mid-round NFL draft pick.

"It's a big deal. No one has done this before. And it's kind of a nervous process, but I know what I want to be ... I want to be a football player in the NFL," he said in the interviews.

There have been numerous NFL players who have come out after their playing days, including Kwame Harris and Dave Kopay.

Last year, NBA player Jason Collins announced he was gay after the season. Collins, a 35-year-old backup center, was a free agent and has not signed with a new team this season.

MLS star and U.S. national team player Robbie Rogers also came out a year ago.

Division III Willamette kicker Conner Mertens, a redshirt freshman, said last month he was bisexual.

"We admire Michael Sam's honesty and courage," the NFL said in statement. "Michael is a football player. Any player with ability and determination can succeed in the NFL. We look forward to welcoming and supporting Michael Sam in 2014."

Sam said many people at the Senior Bowl all-star game for NFL prospects seemed to know that he was gay.

"I didn't realize how many people actually knew, and I was afraid that someone would tell or leak something out about me," he told ESPN. "I want to own my truth. ... No one else should tell my story but me."

Before coming out to all his teammates and coaches, Sam said he told a few close friends and dated another Missouri athlete who was not a football player.

"Coaches just wanted to know a little about ourselves, our majors, where we're from, and something that no one knows about you," Sam said. "And I used that opportunity just to tell them that I was gay. And their reaction was like, 'Michael Sam finally told us.'"

Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said in a statement Sunday night he was proud of Sam and how he represented the program.

"Michael is a great example of just how important it is to be respectful of others, he's taught a lot of people here first-hand that it doesn't matter what your background is, or your personal orientation, we're all on the same team and we all support each other," Pinkel said.

"If Michael doesn't have the support of his teammates like he did this past year, I don't think there's any way he has the type of season he put together."

Missouri linebacker Donovan Bonner has been a teammate of Sam's for five years.

"We knew of his status for 5 years and not one team member, coach, or staff member said anything says a lot about our family atmosphere," Bonner tweeted.

In this Sept. 21, 2013, file photo, Missouri's Michael Sam (52) sings the school song after Missouri defeated Indiana in in Bloomington, Ind. The All-American athlete says he is gay, and the defensive end could become the first openly homosexual player in the NFL.

"This is not how I conduct myself," said Smart, a top NBA prospect. "This is not how the program is run. This is not how I was raised. I let my emotions get the best of me.

It's something I'll have to learn from, a lesson I'll have to learn from. The consequences that are coming with it — I'm taking full responsibility. No fingers pointing — this is all upon me."

Late in Saturday night's game at Lubbock, Texas, Smart tumbled out of bounds behind the basket after trying to block a shot. He was helped to his feet and then shoved Jeff Orr with two hands after it appeared the Red Raiders fan said something to him. Teammates quickly pulled Smart away as he pointed back and shouted in Orr's direction.

Smart will miss games against Texas, Oklahoma and Baylor. He can return for a Feb. 22 home game against Texas Tech. But Ford said Smart will be allowed to practice.

"These guys mean a lot to me, and for me not to be able to be out there with them — it hits me in my heart," Smart said.

Texas Tech released a statement saying it conducted a

thorough investigation. Orr denied making a racial slur, and Tech said the evidence backs up Orr's statement.

Orr, who goes to many Texas Tech games every year, has voluntarily agreed to not attend any Red Raiders home or away games for the remainder of the season, according to the statement.

"I would like to take this opportunity to offer my sincere apologies to Marcus Smart, Oklahoma State, Tubby Smith and the Texas Tech Men's Basketball program," Orr said in the statement. "My actions last night were inappropriate and do not reflect myself or Texas Tech — a university I love dearly. I regret calling Mr. Smart a 'piece of crap' but I want to make it known that I did not use a racial slur of any kind."

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby, who is at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, condemned Smart's actions in a statement.

"Mr. Smart's actions were a clear violation of the Big 12 Conference's Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct Policy," Bowlsby said. "Such behavior

has no place in athletics, and will not be tolerated. I appreciate the efforts of Oklahoma State University athletics director Mike Holder in addressing this matter, and believe this is an appropriate response to an inappropriate action."

Ford said Smart already is learning from the incident.

"He understands, and we talked a lot about it, that no matter what is said or anything like that within a context of the game or life in general, whether it's the heat of the moment or no matter what it is, you've got to try to keep your composure as much as you can," Ford said.

Ford said Smart is a good teammate, "no sir, yes sir, dowhatever-you-ask-him-to-do" guy who is positive, even when he struggles.

"I hate it because he gets painted with a certain brush," Ford said. "I understand that. I get that."

Considered one of the best all-around players in the country, Smart has showed frustration more than once during an inconsistent season.

The sophomore guard got off to a fantastic start, leading to speculation that he could be the

No. 1 pick in the NBA draft this year. He has struggled in some recent games, though, including a four-point effort against West Virginia when he kicked a chair on the bench. That led to him apologizing to his teammates afterward.

"Marcus puts a lot of pressure on himself at times. It's something we have been addressing for a while," Ford said. "On many occasions he has handled it well, and on a few occasions he hasn't. I never fault his intention to be at his best every time he steps on the court. At times, it may not come across as his best, but Marcus does a pretty good job of analyzing himself and the areas in which he can improve."

Holder said everyone involved in college athletics can learn from the situation.

"Some things are more important than winning and losing," he said. "Your respect you have, your self-image, all that that takes a lifetime to build, can be gone in the blink of an eye. Playing competitive athletics is a privilege. It's not a right, it's a privilege. And that privilege can be taken away from you."

SEATTLE (AP) — Kelsey Plum led Washington to a big lead against No. 3 Stanford.

When she fouled out with 1:39 to go, the freshman guard could only watch as the Cardinal rallied.

The Huskies held on for an 87-82 upset but not before giving Plum a scare. Stanford cut a 12-point deficit with 39 seconds left down to three with 8 seconds on the clock.

"That's the most nervous I've ever been in my life," Plum said. "I was sitting there grabbing people's knees and elbows, and biting towels and stuff. But we had a silent confidence that we earned that game and we're not going to give it away in the last minute."

Aminah Williams sealed the win for the Huskies, making a pair of free throws with 4 seconds remaining, and as the final buzzer rang the Washington players danced in celebration at half court.

Plum scored 23 points, one of five players in double figures for the Huskies, which led almost the entire game. It was the highest-ranked opponent the Huskies have beaten since winning against No. 2 Stanford

in 1990.

The loss snapped a 62-game road conference winning streak for Stanford (22-2, 11-1 Pac12), as well as a 14-game run against Washington (1310, 6-6). The Cardinal's last loss in road or neutral conference games was Jan. 18, 2009, against California in Berkeley. Stanford's only other loss this year came at No. 1 Connecticut.

"That was crazy," said Washington forward Talia Walton. "It was a lot of fun to be out there. We knew it was going to be hard, but we wanted it. We really wanted it."

Chiney Ogwumike, the Pac12's leading scorer, had 23 points but was held in check for most of the game, and her teammates were unable to pick up the slack. The Cardinal especially had trouble from long-range, shooting 9 for 41 on 3-pointers.

"I thought we slowed them down just enough, and we made them work just enough," Washington coach Mike Neighbors said. "They could have easily gone 15 of 41 and we would not be sitting here, but they didn't."

Mikaela Ruef set career highs with 16 points and 22 rebounds, and Bonnie Samuelson scored 14 for Stanford, which last lost to Washington Dec. 22, 2005, in Seattle.

Washington led 85-73 with less than a minute to go when Stanford started a desperate attempt at a rally. Four straight missed free throws for Washington opened the door as Bonnie Samuelson hit a 3-pointer with 39 seconds to go to start the flurry and then another 3-pointer by Samuelson with 9 seconds left cut the lead to 85-81. The Huskies were called for a 5-second violation on the inbound, and with 7.8 seconds Ogwumike made one of two free throws to make it 85-82. Stanford nearly pulled off another steal on the inbounds pass, but it turned into a tie-up and Washington had the possession arrow. This time, William pulled in a long pass and was fouled for the final free throws.

"It was a little too little, too late," Ogwumike said. "We were really motivated to play toward the end, but the first 38 minutes we were a little lackadaisical on offense."

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Marcus Smart suspended three games for shoving fan

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Oklahoma State basketball player Marcus Smart looks on as OSU coach Travis Ford addresses members of the media during a news conference in Stillwater, Okla.

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Marcus Smart was quiet and subdued as he apologized at a podium, a demeanor in stark contrast to the one that sent shockwaves through Oklahoma State's basketball program hours earlier.

Smart was suspended three games Sunday by the Big 12 for shoving a fan in the closing seconds of the Cowboys' loss at Texas Tech on Saturday night.

The conference acted swiftly in banning the All-America guard, saying in a statement the penalty was handed down for "inappropriate conduct with a spectator."

Smart apologized to the fan, his teammates and his family for his role in the altercation before coach Travis Ford expressed support for the sophomore without dismissing the severity of his actions.

More struggles for Moyes as United draws with last-place Fulham at home LONDON (AP) — So often the beneficiary of late goals under Alex Ferguson, it seems everything is being turned on its head at Manchester United under David Moyes after his team's latest stumble in the Premier League.

Deep into stoppage time at Old Trafford, Darren Bent scored a goal for Fulham for a 2-2 draw for the league's worst team on Sunday.

And a difficult first season for Moyes continues, with the champions adrift in seventh, after winning the title by 11 points under

Ferguson in May. "We crossed it, passed and tried to get through, but we didn't quite have the finishing touches," Moyes said.

Also tough for Moyes is that his team had turned the match around to be in a winning position.

Trailing from Steve Sidwell's 19th minute-goal, Robin van Persie and Michael Carrick scored rapid goals to put United up 2-1 going into the final 10 minutes.

But Bent's score leaves United nine points adrift of the fourth Champions League qualification

place, let alone the summit where Chelsea is 15 points ahead.

United's draw was compounded by Tottenham moving three points from fourth place on Sunday by sending Everton from fifth with a 1-0 victory over the Merseyside team.

Tottenham scored from its only shot on target. Emmanuel Adebayor connected with a free kick, taken swiftly and smartly

by Kyle Walker, and dispatched the ball past U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard in the 65th minute.

By Matt Kren Campus Correspondent

senior Kyle Twombly in second and sophomore Robert Hovanec in third. In the 600–meter dash, the Huskies got first and second, Robert Rhodes capturing first followed by senior Paul DeSalvo in second. Finally, the Huskies won the distance medley relay with the team of sophomore Robert Rhodes, senior Kyle Twombly, sophomore Alvaro Chavez and freshman Michael O'Donnell.

Counting the first place finishes the men’s track and field team finished with 33 top 10 finishes. This week featured a great performance by Craig Hunter had a personal best 5.11 meter leap. With Hunter in second senior Cory Duggan in third, sophomore Connor Grunwald in fifth and sophomore Timothy Murphy in sixth. Other notable

performances were turned in at the 5000 meter run with a second place finish by sophomore Bryan Fowler and a third place finish by sophomore David Cotton. The Huskies had a second and third place finish in the 4x400 meter relay, a third place finish in the 35 pound weight throw, a third place finish in the shot put and a third and fourth place performance in the triple jump.

With three more weeks to the AAC championships the Huskies are in prime form right now as they look to bring home silverware to Storrs. Next week the Huskies will travel to New York for a new event for the team, the Lafayette/Rider Invitational.

Men's track stays hot at No. 7 Penn State

Another week, another win for the UConn men’s track and field team as they bested No. 7 Penn State at the Sykes-Sabot Challenge at State College, Pa. snapping the Nittany Lions’ three-year streak of winning their challenge at home.

At the beginning of the second day of competition, the Huskies were in third, but at the end of the day the huskies finished with 162.50 points to best their rivals. The men had four first place finishes with senior captain Darnell Cummings capturing first in the 60 meter dash. In the 500 meter dash the Huskies swept the podium with freshman Chinedu Amonu in first,

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Four Huskies win in practice meet in Storrs

By Eugene Joh Campus Correspondent

The UConn men’s swimming and diving team hosted the UConn Husky Open this past Saturday, Feb. 8, at the WolffZackin Natatorium. It was their last meet before heading into post–season tournament play.

Four Huskies won races this past Saturday with junior Lachezar Shumkov, sophomore Greg Baliko, sophomore

Jeff Magin and junior Sawyer Franz finished ahead of the pack en route to victory. The meet, however, which included six schools, was contested in a time trial format and declared no winners or losers.

The purpose of the Husky Open is to keep the teams active and to evaluate which events the swimmers should participate in for conference championships, according to UConn head coach Bob Goldberg.

The Huskies ended their

regular season on a high note, defeating Colgate last Sunday to bring their record to a perfect 6-0 in head-to-head dual meets.

They look to carry their regular season momentum and solid Husky Open results into the American Athletic Conference Championships, which are set to take place from Feb. 19-22 at the Ralph Wright Natatorium in Louisville, Ky.

Eugene.Joh@UConn.edu

No. 3 Stanford shocked by Washington

Women's track shines at Armory Collegiate

By Cody Milardo Campus Correspondent

This weekend, the UConn women’s track and field team competed in the Armory Collegiate meet in New York, N.Y. and posted a strong finish thanks to several athletes achieving nationally-ranked times.

Senior Celina Emerson finished the 400 meter dash with a time of 53.38 seconds, which broke the UConn team record for the event, and achieved the 14th-best time in the country.

“I’m very proud of how far I have come,” Emerson said.

“Honestly, the school record wasn’t even on my mind. I just wanted to drop my time because the ultimate goal is getting to nationals. It’s exciting to walk

away knowing that I ran the fastest indoor time of my life and am breaking records while I’m at it. I’m so happy to have my name go down in the UConn record books.”

Associate and interim head coach Clive Terrelongue took note of Emerson’s work.

"We are really proud of Celina for the progress she has made this year. She is leading the Huskies in the right direction with her focus and performance,” Terrelongue said.

Sophomore Emily Durgin also had a good day for the Huskies, posting a time of 16:44.13, the 21st fastest time in the nation, in the 5000 meter College Championship Race.

The 4x200 meter relay team of seniors Chantal Scott, Tiffany Daley, sophomore Domonique Smalls and freshman Taylor

Anderson rounded out an impressive day for the UConn runners, finishing in eighth place with a time of 1:41.23.

As for the jumpers, sophomore Melodee Riley posted UConn’s top finishes in the triple jump and the long jump.

Riley placed fifth in the long jump while setting a new personal record with a 5.77-meter leap, and she captured second place in the triple jump with a length of 12.28 meters.

Sophomore Odrine Belot also set a personal best in the triple jump with 12.26 meters, placing third in the competition.

UConn returns to action next weekend at the Brown Invitational in Providence, Rhode Island on Feb. 15.

Cody.Milardo@UConn.edu

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Women's hockey shocks No. 7 BC, tops UNH

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Members of the UConn women's hockey team celebrate after Stephanie Raithby's third period goal put the Huskies up 2-0 over No. 7 Boston College Saturday afternoon in Storrs.

By Matt Zampini Campus Correspondent The UConn women’s hockey team defeated the No. 7

Boston College Eagles on Saturday and then upended the University of New Hampshire Wildcats on Sunday to top off the weekend. UConn came in on a 10-game losing streak

against the Eagles, but pulled off a victory.

The last time UConn defeated a nationally ranked opponent was on March 6, 2010 when the Huskies conquered the Providence Friars in the Hockey East Tournament.

Boston College’s highflying offense was buzzing early on. Multiple times in the first period, the Eagles held the puck in their offensive zone for over a minute but were unable to score on any of their 12 shots in the first period.

UConn winger Kayla Campero got the Huskies on the board 6:19 into the second period when she deflected a shot past BC goalie Corinne Boyles for her 10th goal of the season. After the goal, the Eagles came back firing

in attempt to get an equalizer but again, weren’t able to convert as UConn goalie Elaine Chuli stopped everything that came her way.

Steph Raithby added a goal 10:41 into the third period to double the Huskies’ lead.

“I’m not necessarily the team's biggest goal scorer so whenever I get to put one between the pipes it’s pretty exciting,” Raithby said.

Boston College kept coming, but UConn’s defense was able to stay strong in front of Chuli, who made 45 saves in the game and the Huskies were able to pull off the upset 2-0.

“We really competed hard this week to get ready for this game,” head coach Chris MacKenzie said. “We got some fortunate goal scoring

and our goaltending continues to play well, it was enough today to get the victory.”

The Huskies played outstanding defense on Saturday, keeping the top ranked offense in the Hockey East off the board. It was just the second time all season in which the Eagles were unable to produce a goal.

“They had a lot of possession time in our zone but for the most part they were outside,” MacKenzie said. “If we were willing to battle in front and maybe block some shots, which is what we did today, we were able to keep them off the board.”

UConn had to regroup quickly after the win over BC and head to New Hampshire to take on the Wildcats. New Hampshire got on the board

first, scoring at 11:21 of the first period but the Huskies were able to put together a valiant comeback, scoring three unanswered goals and walking away with a 3-1 victory.

Brittany Berisoff, Sarah MacDonnell and Michela Cava all lit the lamp for the Huskies, who moved to fifth in the Hockey East standings with the win on Sunday.

Chuli stopped 38 of 39 shots on Sunday, making it the 13th straight game in which she registered 30 or more saves.

UConn will be back on the ice next weekend when they travel to Massachusetts to take on Northeastern.

Matthew.Zampini@UConn.edu

Rebounding edge crucial in win over Cardinals

By Matt Stypulkoski Associate Sports Editor

The UConn women’s basketball team didn’t dominate Louisville on the scoreboard in their 81-64 win, but they certainly dominated on the glass, especially early. And for a team that has said rebounding its biggest weakness, raking in misses at such an impressive rate Sunday could be a shot in the arm.

The Huskies won the battle on the boards 39-36 Sunday, but most impressive might have been their tally on the offensive glass. 13 offensive rebounds, 11 of which came in the first half, is tied for their third-highest total of the season.

UConn’s opponent is no rebounding slouch, either.

The Cardinals entered the day No. 13 in the country in rebounding margin at 9.8 and averaged 44.8 rebounds over

their first 24 games.

“We knew that Louisville was going to come crash the boards pretty hard,” Breanna Stewart said. “I think that we did a pretty good job of stopping them doing that.”

UConn’s rebounding edge was far more pronounced in the first half, as they led 23-13 in that category before the break. Despite losing some of that advantage as the game progressed, coach Geno Auriemma was still pleased with the way his squad played in that aspect of the game during the final 20 minutes.

“The longer the game goes and the more shots you miss, when you get down by 20, all of a sudden you start going to the offensive glass a little bit harder,” Auriemma said of Louisville’s adjustment.

“The more they went and took a chance – they got more rebounds in the second half and they gave up more transition baskets in the second

half. So that’s the trade-off and we’re OK with that.”

The effort on the glass was mostly a two-headed effort – Stewart and Stefanie Dolson had 10 and nine boards, respectively.

It’s the elbow, again The scene was eerily familiar. A brimming Gampel Pavilion, a play under the basket in front of the student section and a pained Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis in a heap on the floor.

It happened in November against No. 2 Stanford. It happened again Sunday. The first time it was her right arm.

This time, her left.

This time, however, the end result was seemingly less serious.

Mosqueda-Lewis sprinted back out of the UConn locker room a few seconds before the end of halftime and rejoined her team on the bench, sporting a black compression sleeve on the affect-

“I’ve worked a lot with Tyler Bilton, our goalie coach,” Nichols said. “He’s helped me improve a lot. And obviously watching [Matt] Grogan. He’s pushed me a lot and I’ve tried to follow his game a little bit.

He’s really composed and that’s something I needed to work on when I first came in.”

Senior Jordan Sims was able to tally his 98th and 99th career points on Friday night, leaving him one shy of 100 points on his career.

“Really It’ll just make reflect on the past and who I’ve player with,” Sims said. “I’ve played with a bunch of great players: Cole Schnedier…, I’ve played with Brant [Harris] and I’ve played with Billy [Latta] my four years. Just as a team, it just shows that if we just pay good, the stats will make themselves.”

Cavanaugh also agreed that 100 points would be very special for his player.

“In college hockey it just seems

to be the milestone,” Cavanaugh said. “As Jordan alluded to, I just think that when his career is done he can reflect back on it and it’s a pretty nice accomplishment.

I hope he gets there tomorrow night.”

The Huskies would lose Saturday night to Falcons 4-1.

This puts them into a tie for third place in the Atlantic Hockey Conference with Air Force, as they sit one point behind Bentley.

Mercyhurst currently leads the conference with 30 points, but four teams, UConn, Bentley, Air Force and Robert Morris are four points or less behind.

The Huskies have three more conference double headers to play this season and will look to narrow the gap in the competitive field.

The Huskies take on the Providence Friars this Tuesday in Providence, Rhode Island at 7:05 p.m.

Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis also went down within seconds of the half ending landing on her elbow.

Gampel went silent bringing back memories of the Stanford game where she was writhing in pain on the court. Although MosquedaLewis was escorted to the locker room holding her left arm, she was able to come back and play with a compression sleeve on her arm.

“From what I was able to see, I don’t think it is as bad as last time.

The doctors are looking at her right now; it’s in a similar spot but just a different elbow,” said head coach Geno Auriemma. “We have a week off before we play again and we will know more in a day or so. But right now there was not that same sense of urgency I saw that first time.”

Despite some of the setbacks UConn faced throughout the game, Stewart was a constant threat offensively. Asia Taylor said Louisville’ game plan for Stewart was to “just frustrate her” and try to limit her with what she can do best on the court.

“She is a special player,” Walz said. “I told our players there’s no question she is the best player in the country in my opinion.

What she does and when you have

breakdowns she makes you pay for them.”

Throughout the game Stewart showed her star power and dominance on the court. Although five UConn players had double digit points, Stewart led the way for the team in points and rebounds, racking up 24 points and 10 total rebounds, as she was central player in both the backcourt and frontcourt.

“Every one of [Stewart’s] points seems to mean something,” Auriemma said. “It’s like a guy who gets two home runs in the eighth inning when you are up 12-3. You know who cares? She hits three run homers when we are down by two and that’s what separates her from everybody else.”

Louisville was the last major opponent this regular season, proving the Huskies to be a dominant force that cannot be stopped.

Although they meet again in the last regular season game in Louisville, UConn will take each game as a lesson.

“You need games like this I think to just kind of get that mindset again of what is going to happen again in February and early March,” Auriemma said.

ed elbow for the start of the second half.

“From what I’ve been able to see, it’s not as bad as what happened last time,” Auriemma said. “[…]But right now, there’s not that same sense of urgency that I saw the first time.”

She played seven minutes of the final 20, but checked out of the game with 7:19 to play. In the short secondhalf stint, Mosqueda-Lewis took just one shot – a miss – and tallied one rebound, one assist and one turnover.

The injury came with 19 seconds left in the first half of the win; Mosqueda-Lewis went for a layup on a drive but was blocked by two Cardinals on the way up. The official call was a tie-up, resulting in a jump ball.

In the process, MosquedaLewis crumpled to the ground and aggravated the elbow, grabbing at it in pain on the ground before UConn’s ath-

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UConn center Stefanie Dolson drives past Louisville's Emmonnie Henderson to the hoop Sunday afternoon at Gampel Pavilion. The Huskies topped No. 4 Louisville 81-64.

letic training staff rushed to her side. The scene this time was far more brief and far less dramatic than her prior injury – there were no real audible cries of pain and she was up and walking just a few moments later.

At halftime, the official

word from UConn was a left elbow contusion. Auriemma said during his press conference that Mosqueda-Lewis was being examined and hoped to know more in the next day or so.

Matthew.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu

Nichols, Sims on display for UConn Chuli, women's hockey beat ranked opponent for first time since 2010

By Scott Carroll Staff Writer

The UConn men’s hockey team split a pair of games with the Bentley Falcons this weekend, winning Friday night as 3-0 on Friday night and falling to the Falcons 4-1, Saturday.

Freshmen Robby Nichols was on full display Friday night as he turned away 28 shots in UConn’s first shutout of the season.

“Robby’s been solid all year long,” head coach Mike Cavanaugh said. “As long as we score one more goal than them, I know it’s an important thing and it’s a credit to Robby for the shutout and the team defense, but I think he’d tell you as well that if we won 3-2 we’d be just as happy.”

The freshman goalie has shown a lot of growth in his first year in Storrs. After this weekend he has a record of 5-1-2 on the year.

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are up 15 everybody can make a shot,” Walz said. “But all of a sudden when it’s a five or six point game, now all of a sudden that basket becomes a little bit smaller and the pressure starts to build. That’s something that they have not had to face yet.”

Despite such hype with the two powerhouse teams, UConn has only lost one game against Louisville. The Huskies fell to the Cardinals 74-71 in 1993, which was the teams’ first meeting. In the last five matchups UConn has won by an average of 25 points.

The closest margin UConn won by was ten points in 2010.

“You can’t have mental breakdowns [if you want to beat UConn] and that’s what it takes,” Louisville’s Shoni Schimmel said.

“That’s where we got abused on because we had those mental breakdowns…For us to not have those, we have to let up on that.”

By the end of the first half, Louisville started to get scrappy out of frustration. Stefanie Dolson went to the floor bringing Breanna Stewart to the ground as well, as Dolson tried to get her arm untangled from the Cardinal’s Asia Taylor.

Erica.Brancato@UConn.edu

By Ryan Tolmich Staff Writer The UConn women’s hockey team picked up back-to-back victories, as the team was able to win two straight games for the first time since late October.

The Huskies opened the weekend with an upset of No. 7 Boston College 2-0 before knocking off New Hampshire 3-1 on the road the following day.

With these victories, the Huskies find themselves with a 6-10-1 conference record and a 9-19-2 record overall.

Huskies knock off ranked opponent for first time since 2010 With the victory over nationally ranked Boston College, the Huskies were able to knock off a ranked foe for the first time since 2010.

“It’s my first time beating BC,” senior Stephanie Raithby said.

“I’m a senior on the team, so it’s quite a gift, with it being my last time playing BC. It was nice to score a goal today, obviously, but

the team is just ecstatic.”

However, knocking off a team like BC is about a lot more than pride. Raithby also believes it is a testament to the team’s worth ethic.

“It’s really nice to see that we can beat a top 10 team because we know we’re there,” Raithby said.

“But to actually finally beat a top 10 team is really saying that what we’ve been working for is coming together.”

Chuli continues her hot streak UConn goaltender Elaine Chuli was able to add yet another pair of 30 save performances to her résumé, as the sophomore goaltender was able to stop 83-of-84 shots over the weekend.

Chuli was also able to pick up her second shutout of the season, as her blanking of nationally ranked BC ended an 11-game winning streak for the Golden Eagles.

“I just like to keep it consistent every game and not get too high and not get too low,” said Chuli, who was named Hockey East Co-Goaltender of the Month for her performances in January.

However, Chuli was quick to mention the play of those in front of her, as the UConn defense was a major part in the weekend’s success.

“We did a great job of keeping it simple and cleaning out rebounds for me,” Chuli said. “They did a great job in our zone of clearing things out and it really helped a lot.”

Coach Chris MacKenzie also recognized the contributions of his defense, as keeping opponents off the scoreboard has been a major focus.

“They had a lot of possession time in our zone, but for the most part they were outside,” Mackenzie said after the win over BC. “If we’re willing to battle in front and maybe block some shots, which is what we did today, and obviously have the goaltending there, we were able to keep them off the board. That’s a feat in itself and we’re happy with that.”

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Furiously fast and fluid, Felix Loch is an Olympic gold medalist again.

And at 24, he's only just begun.

Germany's newest luging lord locked up the title he won four years ago in Vancouver on Sunday by easily beating a field of racers he left in his icy wake.

Loch completed four runs down the Sanki Sliding Center track in 3 minutes, 27.562 seconds — 0.476 seconds ahead of Russia's Albert Demchenko, who won the silver in his seventh Olympics.

Italy's Armin Zoeggeler won the bronze, giving him a record six in six games.

Loch arrived at the Sochi Games expected to win. It seemed to be a mere formality that he would add another gold medal to Germany's cache of Olympic hardware.

He dominated and delivered.

"Unbelievable. It's so crazy for me," Loch said. "I don't have any words, but yeah, it's so cool."

With IOC President Thomas Bach and German soccer great

Franz Beckenbauer in attendance, Loch showed why there's no one currently in his class. Not even close.

Loch began the second day of competition leading Demchenko by 0.294 seconds, a sizeable advantage in a sport where the difference between podium and pedestrian can be the blink of an eye.

On his third trip down, Loch completed the 17-curve course in 51.613 seconds, bettering the track record he set on his second run a day earlier. It was going to take a major mistake for anyone to reel in Loch, but he was precise throughout his descent, staying away from the walls and trouble.

Demchenko, who won silver at the 2006 Turin Games and had a raucous crowd backing him, needed to find speed anywhere he could on his home track. But when he posted a time of 51.707 seconds, Loch's lead had swelled to 0.388 seconds.

At that point, Loch only needed to stay upright during his last run to secure Germany's 10th

gold in 14 events since luge debuted at the 1964 Innsbruck Games.

Loch's final trip was essentially a victory lap.

He paddled down the start ramp, the spiked fingertips of his gloves digging into the slick surface. Loch stole one last look at the pristine ice before him before lying back and weaving his way to an easy victory. After crossing the finish line, he pumped both fists and let out a scream.

The 42-year-old Demchenko was nearly as excited with his silver, and as he celebrated Russian fans chanted "Four more years!" in hopes he'll keep sliding.

"Why would I be disappointed," said Demchenko, who indicated he will retire and possibly coach. "There is no reason to be disappointed with any medal."

Zoeggeler, 40 and likely to hang up his racing helmet, was thrilled to add a third bronze to the Olympic collection he started 20 years ago in Lillehammer.

"I'm happy for the sixth medal," he said. "It's a very hard job for these two days."

Ryan.Tolmich@UConn.edu

German Loch wins second gold in luge

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Standing in their way Monday night, an old rival from a few miles down Tobacco Road. As ESPN begins its coverage of Rivalry Week, Duke and North Carolina will battle it out on the big stage.

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“It’s tough. I mean you have to play a perfect game [against UConn].”

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UCF center Justin McBride scored 13 points Sunday against UConn.

The 7-foot, 300-pound freshman had not scored before Sunday.

The men’s teams face off later this week.

Men’s Basketball: No. 8 Kansas vs Kansas State, 9 p.m. ESPN The Border War is no more. Missouri is in the SEC, so Kansas will focus all of its hatred on its long-time rival from Manhattan.

Another great opener to Rivalry Week on ESPN, Kansas and Kansas State’s rivalry has escalated in recent years as the games become closer and more physical.

It is a down year for the Wildcats (16-7, 6-4 Big 12). Can they pull the upset on the hated Jayhawks (18-5, 91 Big 12)?

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NEW YORK (AP) — The St. John’s Red Storm found a way to keep Creighton’s Doug McDermott from beating them a second time this season — they didn’t let him shoot for the final 8:40.

Without the nation’s leading scorer to turn to, the 12th-ranked Bluejays struggled offensively and the Red Storm came away with a 70-65 victory Sunday night, their sixth win in seven games. The only loss during that stretch came at Creighton two weeks ago.

“McDermott beat us last time,” St. John’s swingman Sir’Dominic Pointer said. “Let someone else try and beat us this time.”

Nobody stepped up for Creighton, but D’Angelo Harrison scored 19 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:08 to play, for St. John’s (15-9, 5-6 Big East).

“The game was still in hand and we got a big shot from a big player,” Pointer said before changing his description slightly.

“We got a great shot from a great player.”

McDermott matched his nation-leading average with 25 points for the Bluejays (19-4, 9-2), who had won 14 of 15 and were tied for first place in the conference with Villanova.

“They did a great job of taking me away,” McDermott said.

“I thought they did a great job of switching whenever I came off screens. They were really disciplined a lot more down the

stretch, so you’ve got to give them credit.”

McDermott had 39 points when the teams met two weeks ago, including a long 3-pointer with 2.4 seconds left for a 63-60 victory. The Bluejays led by 18 points with 12 minutes to play in that one and were barely able to escape with the win at home.

This time, the Red Storm stayed in front or at least close during the second half and Harrison put them ahead for good with a 3 that gave St. John’s a 65-63 lead.

Harrison made five free throws in the final 19 seconds to offset a drive by Devin Brooks.

“D’Angelo relishes having the ball in his hands at crunch time,” said St. John’s coach Steve Lavin, who got his 200th win in 11 seasons as a head coach — seven at UCLA and the last four with the Red Storm.

St. John’s started 0-5 in the Big East, and things were dire to say the least.

“I knew we would struggle but I didn’t think we’d start 0-5 in the league — maybe 2-3,” Lavin said. “I have always thought we could keep getting better. ... Another hurdle cleared that shows this team is maturing.”

The Red Storm did a tremendous job on defense. They held the Bluejays, who came in leading the league in scoring (81.2), field goal percentage (49.2) and 3-point percentage (42.8), to 41.1 percent from the field (23 of 56) and 22.7 percent from 3-point range (5 of 22).

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Creighton’s Doug McDermott (3) shoots against St. John’s Orlando Sanchez (33) during the Red Storm’s 70-65 win Sunday. McDermott did not shoot for the last 8:40 of the game.

Creighton hurt itself at the free throw line by making just 14 of 25 (56 percent), well below the 75.9 percent mark it had coming into the game.

“We’ve been a 75-76 percent free throw shooting team all year and we shot 56 percent tonight and shot 22 percent from the 3-point line, and we’ve usually been really good in that regard,” Creighton coach Greg McDermott said. “Obviously, some of that credit goes to St. John’s. Their length certainly impacts your ability to shoot the basketball and get clean looks at the basket.”

This was the Bluejays’ first visit to the newest Madison Square Garden, where they will return next month for the Big East tournament. They have to hope they have a better offensive

showing than this.

McDermott made his first four shots from the field, but the Red Storm didn’t allow him many looks from outside the 3-point line. Instead, he was down low calling for the ball almost all game.

“I’ve got to be a little more aggressive, too,” said Doug McDermott, a two-time AllAmerica selection. “I think I kind of went away from what I was doing to start the game and I’ve got to recognize that. That’s when we’re successful is when I’m moving without the basketball.”

After Creighton went on an 8-0 run to take a 47-46 lead with 13:45 to play, neither team led by more than three until the final 20 seconds. There were seven lead changes and five ties in that span.

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WHO CAN BEAT THEM? No. 1 UConn tops No. 4 Louisville in title rematch

Tyler Morrissey On a cold Saturday morning, hundreds of die-hard Red Sox fans braved the elements to gather at one of baseball’s last great cathedrals, Fenway Park. It wasn’t to watch a game, practice or even meet the players.

Last Saturday was “Truck Day” in Boston.

Since 2003, the Boston Red Sox have allowed fans to take part in a unique celebration to build excitement for the upcoming baseball season.

Truck Day is the day when the equipment truck for the team is packed for its 1,400 mile journey to Fort Myers, Florida in anticipation of spring training.

While Fenway Park was blanketed in snow from last week’s snowstorm, for most Red Sox fans this is the official start of spring.

Items on board the truck include bats, baseballs, socks and cases of sunflower seeds, the bare necessities to bring home another World Series trophy. In fact, on Saturday, last year’s World Series trophy was on display for fans to see as they waved goodbye to the truck as it pulled away to warmer weather.

In the grand scheme of things, Truck Day doesn’t equate to much when it comes to the standings of the American League East.

However, it does get people across New England and “Red Sox Nation” to start thinking about baseball once again.

For the Red Sox, the offseason was inactive with the exception of Jacoby Ellsbury signing with the New York Yankees as a free agent.

Ellsbury’s departure from Boston was no surprise to me or any Red Sox fan. The Sox will have to find a new leadoff hitter and centerfielder when they take the field on opening day. Shane Victorino could easily fulfill the top spot in the lineup and Jackie Bradley Jr., among others, could fill the gap in centerfield.

The other decision manager John Farrell will have to make is who will make up the fiveman starting pitching rotation.

Returning to the mound this year for the Sox are Jon Lester, Clay Bucholz, John Lackey, Jake Peavy, Ryan Dempster and Felix Doubront. I could see any of these guys making solid starts for Boston and it appears the Red Sox’ pitching woes of 2012 are far behind them.

As a Red Sox fan, for the first time in quite a few years, I feel very confident about this ball club heading into spring training. This group of guys created excitement in the city and turned those who doubted them into believers. I already have plans to attend two games this year and I can’t wait until I hear those magic words echo out of Fenway’s public address system: “Play ball.”

It has been 14 years since a team repeated as champion.

The last team to do it was none other than the “evil empire.”

Painted on the side of the equipment truck was the phrase “On the road to greatness.” As with any baseball season, that road is usually filled with many bumps along the way. But with the Red Sox returning a similar lineup to the field as last years’ championship team you have to wonder if that road will lead them to the baseball promise land again this October.

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By Erica Brancato Staff Writer

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Tensions were high and Gampel was packed Sunday afternoon as the No. 1 UConn women’s basketball team proved to be too much for No. 4 Louisville, defeating the Cardinals 81-64 in a rematch of the 2013 National Championship Game.

“It’s tough. I mean you have to play a perfect game [against UConn],” Louisville’s head coach Jeff Walz said. “It is an absolute battle. You have to have 40 minutes of mentally tough basketball. Not just physically, but you have to be in every play.”

Going into this game, both teams had an undefeated conference record with 11 wins. However, with this victory over Louisville, UConn clinches the top seed in the American Athletic Conference still sporting their perfect conference record.

With such anticipation for this rematch, the Huskies knew it wouldn’t be an easy task to contain the Cardinals. Both teams have the highest scoring offenses along with the two highest three point field goal percentages in the conference. Although Louisville’s offense gave UConn a run for their money a few times throughout the game, they could not hold off the Huskies in the long run.

“What you have to do when you are playing [UConn] is that you have to get it to about ten minutes to go in the second half where shots still matter. Because when you

UConn guard Bria Hartley dribbles down the floor against No. 4 Louisville Sunday afternoon at Gampel Pavilion. The No. 1 Huskies defeated the Cardinals 81-64 in the first meeting between the two teams since UConn beat Louisville for the 2013 national championship in New Orleans.

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After loss to Cincinnati, No. 22 Huskies top UCF

By Mike Peng Senior Staff Writer

The No. 22 UConn men’s basketball team made sure they did not repeat Thursday’s mistake and allow a first-half lead to slip away.

Holding onto a 41-24 lead at halftime, UConn withheld a UCF rally behind five doublefigure Huskies scorers to take down the Knights, 75-55, at CFE Arena in UConn Orlando, Fla. to UCF bounce back from the loss in Cincinnati on Thursday.

Shabazz Napier and Lasan Kromah led UConn with 17 points and seven rebounds apiece, while DeAndre Daniels – playing for the first time since injuring his ankle at Rutgers on Jan. 25 – scored 16 points and grabbed seven rebounds. Ryan Boatright

and Phil Nolan chipped in 11 and 10 points, respectively, to help the Huskies improve to 18-5 on the season and 6-4 in the American Athletic Conference.

UConn closed out the first half with a 15-3 run, but UCF’s Isaiah Sykes and Justin McBride mustered a rally in the second half, cutting the deficit to just eight with 7:21 remaining in the game. Napier and company, howwould foil the 75 ever, Knights’ upset bid 55 and pull away again to send UCF to its eighth consecutive loss.

Napier shook off his poor shooting in Cincinnati in which he went 5-for-19 from the field and made six of his 11 shots Sunday night, including 3-for-4 from 3-point range. The senior guard was just 2-for-12 from beyond the arc on Thursday.

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UConn collectively outrebounded UCF 42-31, with an 18-12 edge on the offensive glass while holding the hosts to just 39 percent shooting from the field.

The Huskies also forced the Knights to cough the ball up 18 times with Napier, Kromah and Boatright JESS CONDON/The Daily Campus combining for 10 UConn point guard Shabazz Napier dribbles down the floor during the Huskies’ 80-43 win over Houston on Jan. 30. steals.

Sykes finished with 17 freshman, scored 13 points in Wednesday at the XL Center in Hartford. Tipoff for that points despite playing a major- just 13 minutes.

UConn will return home contest is scheduled for 7 p.m. ity of the second half with four times while McBride, to host USF in the teams’ a 6-foot-10 and 310-pound first meeting of the season on Michael.Peng@UConn.edu

Men’s hockey splits with Bentley, remains third in AHA

By Tim Fontenault Sports Editor

For the second straight week, the UConn men’s hockey team won a crucial, potentially momentum-building game to start a weekend series on Friday, only to falter on Saturday.

The Huskies (14-9-4, 12-6-3 Atlantic Hockey) started the weekend strong, posting a 3-0 win over Bentley at the Freitas Ice Forum in Storrs. But after UConn’s first shutout since March 2013, the Falcons responded with a convincing 4-1 win in Watertown, Mass.

Saturday night.

With a split against Bentley, UConn remains in third place in the Atlantic Hockey Association with 27 points – Bentley remains in second with 28. However, Air Force’s sweep against first-place Mercyhurst moves them into a tie for third with the Huskies.

UConn’s loss Saturday means that the Huskies will drop the season series against Bentley, with the Falcons winning two of the three matchup during the season.

“Through my experiences when you get towards the end of the year it always comes down to a point or two,” UConn coach Mike Cavanaugh said. “If you have that tiebreaker, it can be really influential in where your seeding is at the end of the season.”

UConn started the weekend as well as Cavanaugh could have possibly hoped. About one minute into Friday’s game, the Huskies’ line of Jordan Sims, Trevor Gerling and Brant Harris jumped on the ice and immediately put pressure on Bentley in the offensive zone.

The puck ended up on Sims’ stick, and after three quick chances were stopped by Falcons’ goaltender Branden Komm, Sims finally put in his seventh goal of the season.

“I just wanted to shoot everything,” Sims said. “I’ve been told to shoot a little more, so I wanted to get pucks to the net and get to the net, play on the inside which we talked about too all week, not playing on the outside. That’s how the result of the first goal was, just off me somehow.”

Harris sent UConn into the first intermission with a 2-0 lead when he took a pass from Billy Latta, who was wrapping around the net, and tapped in the power play goal as Komm continued to follow Latta.

Sims recorded the secondary assist on the goal, bringing his career point total to 99. With the goal, Harris moved into a tie with former Huskies Sean Ambrosie and Matt Scherer for second on UConn’s all-time Division I scoring list with 105 points.

Freshman Brent Norris made it 3-0 in favor of the Huskies early in the second period with a shot that

slipped through a Bentley defender and caught Komm off guard.

UConn had little issue securing its first shutout of the season, a defensive effort anchored by freshman goaltender Robby Nichols, who made 28 saves to improve to 5-0-2 in his first season with the Huskies.

“I think I was feeling about the same as any game,” Nichols said.

“Coach said it, it doesn’t bother me what the score is. What matters most at the end of the night to us and also to myself is a win. The two points is huge, regardless of the score.”

Cavanaugh stuck with Nichols in the net Saturday night in place of senior Matt Grogan, opting to go with the hot hand. Things went cold quickly, however, as the Falcons struck for three goals in the opening period in Watertown, resulting in Nichols being benched in place of Grogan.

UConn had plenty of opportu-

nities to strike back on Saturday, especially with Bentley offering up six power play chances.

Normally one of the most successful power play units in the nation, the Huskies fell out of the top 10 in success rate with a 0 for 6 showing with a man advantage.

Trevor Gerling scored two minutes into the third period, but UConn was unable to climb back into the game. Bentley’s Max French put the puck into an open net to seal a 4-1 win for the Falcons to put them back in second place.

Before a pivotal weekend series with Holy Cross, UConn will play its last nonconference game of the season Tuesday night, when the Huskies head to Schneider Arena to take on No. 12 Providence, who UConn will join in Hockey East next season.

Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu