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Professor develops solar technology
Newly patented device is 50 percent more efficient than popular silicon solar panels By Domenica Ghanem Campus Correspondent
HOUSE PETS TAKE OVER JORGENSEN Popovich Pet Comedy Theater delights Joregensen audience. FOCUS/ page 5
CONQUERING THEIR DEMONS Huskies defeat DePaul Blue Demons 91-44.
A UConn associate professor has developed a new solar power technology called selective area atomic layer deposition (ALD). Brian Willis, an associate professor of chemical, materials and biomolecular engineering, has been working with ALD to develop efficient solar energy. ALD is a technology that makes it possible to construct and test nano-sized antennas that can harvest more than 70 percent of the sun’s electromagnetic radiation, while current silicon solar panels are only capable of collecting 20 percent. These rectennas also convert
the sun’s rays into usable electric power. The improved efficiency of these devices would make solar power a cost-effective replacement for conventional fossil fuels. The Penn State Nanofabrication Facility is utilizing ALD technology to refine its nano-sized antenna devices. These devices are developed along with SciTech Associates, a company that is “focused on developing commercially viable scientific applications for emerging technologies.” Willis and his partners at Penn State Altoona have been working on this project for about a year now, but they still have a ways to go. They predict that it will take several years of basic research to perfect the science. Graduate students
have conducted all of the research for this project. “We are still in the basic science part of it,” said Willis. A grant from UConn’s Center for Clean Energy Engineering in 2011 made it possible for Willis to design a prototype rectenna and do preliminary research with ALD. This groundwork helped to assure a $650,000 federal grant over three years from the National Science Foundation. “It usually takes many rounds of funding to get a project completed,” said Willis. Since typical research grants are not usually enough to complete a project, Willis said that they “look for milestones” in their research. The next step
Conn. struggles to return Study shows some to normal after storm autism symptoms may lessen with age UConn takes on Nemo’s aftermath
EDITORIAL: MALI ISLAMIST MILITANTS DESTROYING THE GOLDEN AGE OF TIMBUKTU Destruction of the city of Timbuktu should not be condoned. COMMENTARY/page 8
INSIDE NEWS: PHOTOS: HITTING THE SLOPES AT HORSEBARN HILL
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always considered to be a lifelong disability, but with aggressive early structured intervention it is New results have been discov- possible for a small proportion ered for optimal outcomes in indi- of them to lose their diagnosis viduals with a history of autism, and to function within the normal according to a study pioneered range,” said Barton. by UConn psychology professor Although possible deficits in Deborah Fine and published in more subtle aspects of social the Journal of Child Psychology interaction or cognition are not and Psychiatry. ruled out, the study’s results show The study, “Optimal Outcome the possibility of optimal outin Individuals with a History of come and demonstrate an overall Autism,” was published in the level of functioning within norFebruary edition and suggests mal limits. that some children diagnosed “This reinforces the idea that with autism in early childhood we need to get kids detected early have lost all of the symptoms as and into treatment because it realthey have gotten older. ly makes a difCo-author ference,” said and Professor Fine. “There Marianne Barton, is this outdirector of clinicome of a poscal training and sibility, it is director of the still a minority Psychological and not every Services Clinic kid who has in UConn’s intervention Department of will loose all Psychology said, of their symp“One of the bigtoms, but it is gest issues in a possibility.” early childhood is According autism…we were to Fine and seeing kids in our Barton, the clinical practices study has not at the age of 4 concluded. who looked terThere is other rific…so we were data on the Marianne Barton subjects that curious about those kids.” UConn Clinical still needs to The study conbe analyzed. Training Director And the analysists of individuals with a history sis of the data of ASD and optimay answer mal outcomes, high functioning questions about brain function in individuals with a current ASD the children. diagnosis, and typically develop“Our thought is that these finding peers. According to the study, ings are an argument for idenwhen referring to optimal out- tifying kids early, for knowing come, the child has lost all symp- the younger we identify kids the toms of ASD in addition to the better their response to the interdiagnosis and is functioning with vention. These findings are an the non-autistic range of social argument for making sure they interaction and communication. get adequate intensive treatment, “We studied kids who were for encouraging families to be equally impaired in terms of lan- involved in that treatment, and guage, equally impaired in terms for recognizing this is a heterogeof repetitive behaviors and maybe neous disorder. There’s so much slightly impaired in terms of the variability in the kinds of kids that social functioning,” said Barton. get ASD diagnosis and we have to Results of the study suggest appreciate that they all deserve to that kids who had autism early on have intensive early treatment. I and who had slightly less social think there is hope,” Barton said. impairments lost all of their symptoms. “The most important finding is that it is possible for a subset of kids with autism, which we have Breanna.Suden@UConn.edu
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Students flocked to Horsebarn Hill to sled, ski and snowboard during the weekend.
for this team of researchers will be to test and improve the efficiency of rectenna prototypes. Since this method for retrieving and converting solar power is entirely new, it is hard to say how expensive the new technology will be until they get further along with the project, but the more efficient the process is, the more costcompetetive it can be with other energy sources in the future. This patented, innovative method can also be used to enhance other areas of science, including the conversion of photo energy into electrical energy, and infrared sensing.
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University vehicles cleared snow near Gulley Hall on the Storrs Campus. Storrs received over two feet of snow in the wrath of winter superstorm Nemo, which blasted the Northeast Friday and Saturday with snow, high winds and freezing temperatures.
HARTFORD, (AP) — Connecticut was struggling to return to normal just days after a massive storm dumped more than 3 feet of snow in much of the state. POWER: By early Sunday evening, power outages numbered fewer than 4,800, down from as many as 38,000 a day earlier. Most were in southeastern Connecticut, which was hardest hit by snow and wind. MONDAY COMMUTE: Gov. Dannel P. Malloy ordered state employees working the evening and midnight shifts to report to their jobs on Monday, though nonessential workers on regular day schedules are required to stay home to keep traffic to a minimum as road crews continued to clear snow. Heavy Monday morning traffic will delay cleanup work and “the last thing we need at this point is a typical morning rush-hour commute,” Malloy said. The University of Connecticut will be closed Monday, but expects to resume regular operations Tuesday.
Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra ordered schools closed on Monday to make it easier to plow streets and tow abandoned vehicles. Schools in numerous other municipalities also will be closed on Monday. Connecticut state courts and state’s 12 Department of Social Services offices, too, will be closed on Monday. The DSS offices are also closed Tuesday for the Lincoln’s birthday holiday. T R A N S P O R TAT I O N : Kevin Nursick, a spokesman for the state Department of Transportation, says all state highways are open. Still, roads will not be in ideal condition for about 10 days when all snow is removed to widen access or remove piled snow hindering visibility at intersections, he said. During the storm, the state had all 850 plow trucks of its own and those of contractors and 150 payloaders “from wherever we can find them,” Nursick said. Metro-North says normal Sunday service to Stamford operated on schedule on the
New Haven line, though service between Stamford and New Haven remained suspended until further notice. Rail service will operate on the New Canaan and Danbury branches, while busing on Waterbury branch. Bradley International Airport re-opened at 5:55 a.m. on Sunday. Spokesman John Wallace said Sunday he was “pleasantly surprised” that airline traffic rebounded quickly at the airport. Sunday, it was at 85 percent to 90 percent of normal activity and he expected it to be close to 100 percent on Monday. FORECAST: A wintry mix of snow and ice was expected Sunday night into Monday morning when it will turn to rain. Roofs already under a foot or more of a snow will be weighed down with the added moisture. The state agriculture commissioner urged farmers to assess the condition of barns and buildings after roofs on two barns collapsed and a greenhouse was damaged due to the blizzard.
“The most important finding is that it is possible for a subset of kids with autism ... to lose their diagnosis and to function within the normal range.”
What’s on at UConn today... Incomplete Grades Deadline All Day Event
This is the last day for Undergraduate students to make up Incomplete or Absense grades from Fall 2012 and Winter Intersession2013.
Husky Ally Safe Zone training 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Rainbow Center, SU 403 The 3-hour workshop offers a highly interactive learning experience about being an ally within and to the LGBTQ community. If interested, please e-mail your name to huskyally@uconn.edu.
Acing the Interview 4 to 5 p.m. Laurel Hall, Room 202 This session will walk you through what you should do before, during and after your interview.
Neag Town Hall Meeting: Response to Sandy Hook 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. ITE, C80 This forum will call on educators to discuss how to honor Newtown and what educators need to learn in order to handle catastrophe. – KIM L. WILSON
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Hitting the slopes at Horsebarn Hill
Hundreds of students flock to Horsebarn Hill to sled, ski, snowboard and even mountain bike
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Horsebarn Hill – the largest unpaved hill on campus – was a popular destination for students seeking to enjoy the snow during the weekend. Hundreds hit the slopes to play in over two feet of snow that accumulated as Nemo blasted the Northeast Friday and Saturday, undeterred by the freezing temperatures and harsh wind.
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A student, with his face protected against the strong wind, snowboards down the hill.
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One skier jumps over the barbed wire on Horsebarn Hill as the sun begins to set Saturday evening.
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A mountain biker successfully makes his way down the hill.
Several students attempt to sled down Horsebarn in a sled train.
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A snowboarder jumps the barbed wire at the top of the hill.
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Baby born in blizzard in hospital parking lot
NORWICH, (AP) — Her timing could have been better, but to her parents, the baby who was born in a hospital parking lot in the blizzard is perfect. The Bulletin reports (http://bit.ly/XmXAup ) that the baby, Elizabeth Judy, wasn’t due until Feb. 23 and was to be delivered at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford. But Donna Ambrosia went into labor at home on Friday and a Colchester ambulance took her and her husband, James, to Norwich. James said that even with a plow escort, the ambulance ride took 45 minutes through the blizzard. The baby was born in the back of the ambulance as it arrived at the hospital, helped by a doctor who ran out of the emergency room and into the ambulance as it pulled into the parking lot.
Conn. man dies in storm while shoveling snow
SHELTON, Conn. (AP) — Shelton police say a 49-year-old man died during the snow storm, apparently while shoveling snow. Police say they responded around 4 a.m. Saturday to a residence, where the man was found unconscious and pronounced dead. Police say a preliminary investigation reveals the man had been plowing his driveway, and his vehicle became stuck. They say it appears the man suffered a “medical event” while shoveling out his vehicle. Police say roadways were nearly impassable and a snowmobile with a sled had to be used to help get the man to the ambulance. The Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner planned to do an autopsy. The man was not identified pending notification of next of kin.
3D printers turn library into place of dreams
WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) — The hottest attraction at the Westport Library is not a book or collection of DVDs, but rather two manufacturing units. At the heart of the spacious library, an area called MakerSpace has been carved out to encourage creativity and the spirit of invention. Inside the space are two MakerBot Replicator machines — 3D printers, as they are more commonly known. The stuff they can do is amazing. The machines are open boxes, with a small platform in the center. At the bottom a computer mother board sits unseen and on the top a small machine, called an extruder, slides left to right on two rails as it applies hot plastic to the surface of the platform to make the desired object. In the back of the machine, a spool of plastic wire feeds material to the extruder as it lays a 2-millimeter layer over and over again, hundreds of times, to create an object. The inside of MakerSpace resembles an inventor’s shop, with a large architect’s desk for drawing and drawers of materials underneath. On one wall hang drawings and pictures of a 1930s-era racing airplane. A halfsize replica of the airplane is being produced on the 3D printer by Joseph Schott, an engineer and the library’s maker in residence.
Financier to be sentenced in May in Conn. fraud
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A Venezuelan financier who ran a fraud scheme in Connecticut involving hundreds of millions of dollars has a sentencing date. Francisco Illarramendi (ee-yah-rah-MEHN’-dee) pleaded guilty in 2011 to several counts of fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice in a scheme to conceal huge losses. Illarramendi had been under house arrest in New Canaan since entering the guilty plea, but a judge ordered him detention last week. The sentencing had been postponed several times as Illarramendi changed attorneys. A judge has set sentencing for May 29 in federal court in Bridgeport. Illarramendi ran unregistered hedge funds out of offices in Stamford. His biggest client was a pension fund for state oil workers in Venezuela.
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Solar industry has pollution problem Solar panel manufacturers grapple with hazardous waste issues
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Homeowners calculating solar’s carbon footprint, giving on the hunt for sparkling solar panels are lured scientists and consumers who use the meaby ads filled with images of pristine land- surement to gauge a product’s impact on scapes and bright sunshine, and words about global warming the impression that solar is the technology’s benefits for the environment cleaner than it is. — and the wallet. After installing a solar What customers may panel, “it would take one to not know is that there’s a three months of generating dirtier side. electricity to pay off the energy While solar is a far less invested in driving those hazpolluting energy source ardous waste emissions out of than coal or natural gas, state,” said Dustin Mulvaney, many panel makers are a San Jose State University nevertheless grappling environmental studies profeswith a hazardous waste sor who conducts carbon footproblem. Fueled partly print analyses of solar, biofuel by billions in government and natural gas production. incentives, the industry is The waste from manufaccreating millions of solar turing has raised concerns panels each year and, in within the industry, which the process, millions of fears that the problem, if left pounds of polluted sludge unchecked, could undermine and contaminated water. John Smirnow solar’s green image at a time To dispose of the matecompanies are facing Solar Energy when rial, the companies must stiff competition from each transport it by truck or rail Industries Assoc. other and from low-cost panel far from their own plants manufacturers from China to waste facilities hundreds and elsewhere. and, in some cases, thousands of miles away. “We want to take the lessons learned from The fossil fuels used to transport that waste, electronics and semiconductor industries experts say, is not typically considered in (about pollution) and get ahead of some of
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these problems,” said John Smirnow, vice president for trade and competitiveness at the nearly 500-member Solar Energy Industries Association. The increase in solar hazardous waste is directly related to the industry’s fast growth over the past five years — even with solar business moving to China rapidly, the U.S. was a net exporter of solar products by $2 billion in 2010, the last year of data available. The nation was even a net exporter to China. New companies often send hazardous waste out of their plants because they have not yet invested in on-site treatment equipment, which allows them to recycle some waste. Nowhere is the waste issue more evident than in California, where landmark regulations approved in the 1970s require industrial plants like solar panel makers to report the amount of hazardous materials they produce, and where they send it. California leads the consumer solar market in the U.S. — which doubled overall both in 2010 and 2011. The Associated Press compiled a list of 41 solar makers in the state, which included the top companies based on market data, and startups. In response to an AP records request, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control provided data that showed 17 of them reported waste, while the remaining did not.
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Philippine town mourns largest captive crocodile
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The world’s largest saltwater crocodile in captivity has died, sending villagers to tears in the backwater southern Philippine town that had started to draw tourists, revenue and development because of the immense reptile. The crocodile had been blamed for deadly attacks on people before it was captured in 2011 and sent to live at an eco-tourism park that was built to house the giant. The reptile quickly became a star attraction of marshy Bunawan, a far-flung town of 37,000 people in Agusan del Sur province about 515 miles (830 kilometers) southeast of Manila. The 1-ton crocodile flipped over with a bloated stomach Sunday and the veterinarian declared it dead a few hours later, Bunawan town Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde said. It had been estimated at more than 50 years old, Elorde said. Authorities will try to determine the cause of death. Guinness World Records had proclaimed it the largest saltwater crocodile in captivity last year, measuring the giant at 20.24 feet (6.17 meters). The reptile took the top spot from an Australian crocodile that measured more than 17 feet (5 meters) and weighed nearly a ton. Veterinarian Alex Collantes said he and park personnel tried to revive the crocodile by immersing it in lukewarm water, adding that unusually cold weather this month may have affected the crocodile. Its death sent its caretaker and
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In this Sept. 4, 2011 file photo, residents watch as Mayor Cox Elorde of Bunawan township, Agusan del Sur province, pretends to measure a huge crocodile, later named “Lolong,” after its capture by residents and staff of a crocodile farm along a creek in Bunawan in southern Philippines.
some villagers that gathered at the park to tears, he said. “I’m really depressed,” Elorde said by telephone from Bunawan. “I’ve come to love that crocodile. It had brought fame to our town and the Philippines.” The crocodile’s capture in September 2011 sparked celebrations in Bunawan, but it also fostered concerns that more giant crocodiles might lurk in a marshland and creek where villagers fish. The crocodile was captured
with steel cable traps during a three-week hunt after a child was killed in 2009 and a fisherman went missing. Water buffalos have also been attacked by crocodiles in the area. About 100 people led by Elorde pulled the crocodile from a creek using a rope and then hoisted it by crane onto a truck. It was named “Lolong” after a government environmental officer who died from a heart attack after traveling to Bunawan to help capture the beast,
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Mali Islamist militants destroying the Golden Age of Timbuktu
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t’s ironic that in a persistent quest of declaring the greatness of their religion and civilization, Islamist militants in Mali are doing their best to destroy everything that made it great to begin with. The Malian effort at declaring a native Tuareg nationstate in the northern (almost entirely desert) portion of the country is a fairly typical casus belli in the geopolitical arena. It is also fairly typical in any country with a majority Muslim population, when a radical group fails to achieve its goal through secular means, they resort to religious extremes. As the Malian military pressed against separatist forces in the northern half of the country, the Tuareg leaders became superseded by Islamist powers, which soon came to control the conflict. Islamist leaders, as we in America should be familiar with by now, want to replace all forms of secular law with Islamic sharia law. Sharia law (despite the implication that it is a set standard of legal code) takes on different forms. For example, some groups, like Ansar Dine in Mali, use certain Islamic traditions as part of sharia. One of the traditions they seek to uphold is the destruction of all forms of idolatry. Timbuktu, contrary to popular phraseology, is an actual city. It’s a historic place in Mali that was once a powerful center of Islamic civilization when Europe was still locked in the Dark Ages. Many Sufi saints (a vehemently peaceful sect of Islam) are buried in Timbuktu, only to have their tombs, which were once protected UNESCO World Heritage sites, leveled to the ground with mining tools and AK-47s. This is where the Timbuktu Manuscripts come in. As Timbuktu was a great center of civilization at the end of the world in the Medieval period, a lot of Islamic scholars came to study there. They left literally hundreds of thousands of documents on mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and religion that have remained largely in the hands of private families. Most of the manuscripts have survived as heirlooms passed down from generation to generation. In the early part of the century, about 160 were digitized in the “Tombouctou Manuscript Projects.” In contrast, 700 were destroyed in a single flooded household. As the French military, deciding to intervene in the conflict now to try and stem the loss of life, entered Timbuktu, the Islamic militants left the city, setting fire to much of it as they left. While many of the documents were destroyed and many people died, it is worth at least a moment to appreciate the debt history owes to the French Operation Serval. We hope for a speedy end to the conflict, but as academics, we should be thankful that the Golden Age of Timbuktu, which Ansar Dine seems so intent on destroying, is not completely erased yet. The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.
It took me a while Sunday to realize that I should stop praying for a 2-hour delay, because I’m not in high school anymore that’s why. The fact that I’ve graduated and I’m STILL writing in to the Instant Daily must mean my life is really going somewhere. Reporting live from The Daily Campus...the heat is broken. Getting snowed in four essentially the entire weekend is pretty good motivation to make a new bucket list. Now that I’m back from my long weekend of visiting my family down in South Carolina, did I miss anything? If I had the choice between being Beyonce and Adele, I honestly wouldn’t be able to choose. Please forgive me Beyonce. Somebody please explain to me my logic for not parking in the closest parking garage I could find this weekend. Who’s down for like a two and a half month vaca to Canada? Or anywhere else with less snow than Storrs right now? I really just want to be Beyonce. Still. Gonna be really annoyed by any super obvious InstantDaily submissions today. We all know it freaking snowed a poop ton this weekend. I think it snowed.
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How the Great Recession affects popular music
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he No. 1 song in America on September 6, 2008 was “Whatever You Like” by T.I., in which the rapper assures his girl that money was no object and he could buy “whatever you like.” Sample lyrics: “You need never ever got to go to your wallet / Long as I got rubber-band banks in my pocket.” Within the following month, Lehman Brothers would go bankrupt, Congress would pass the financial industry bailout, and the full unemployment rate would reach its highBy Jesse Rifkin est levels in 14 Associate Commentary Editor years. This week the No. 1 song in America is “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Wanz – in which not merely one individual lyric but the entire song celebrates the savings found at discounted bargain outlets. Sample lyrics from the chorus: “I’m gonna pop some tags / Only got twenty dollars in my pocket / I’m hunting, looking for a come-up / This is awesome.” Welcome to popular music in the age of the Great Recession. Much as our most popular stories feature relatable characters facing hardship who achieve happiness, music audiences during times of economic hardship evidently desire relatable lyrics while wanting the music itself to be happier and faster. Robert J. Brym at the University of Toronto and Gabriel Rossman at UCLA analyzed every song to reach the Billboard top 100 between 1955 and 2009, graphing the results against the corresponding contemporary stock market performance. Strong correlations indicate that the worse the stock market, the faster the songs’ tempos
and the higher the songs’ modalities. (Higher modality means the chords are major rather than minor, sounding “happier” to the ear.) People flock to music which create positive emotions at a time when the outside world outwardly provides no reason to feel good at all. Although the “Thrift Shop” lyrics relate to modern pennypinching, the song itself showcases an upbeat rhythm and has received play at dance clubs. Specific historical examples also bear out this finding. In the immediate aftermath of President Kennedy’s assassination, radio stations looked for lighter and happier fare while Americans turned to religion for comfort. This unique combination resulted in what remains among the most unusual songs to ever reach No. 1: “Dominique” by The Singing Nun, a Belgian nun singing gleefully in French about a traveling Catholic priest. Neuropsychologists provide a scientific explanation. Robert Zatorre at McGill University conducted fMRI brain studies on participants listening to music, and reported “clear evidence that intense pleasure in response to music can lead to dopamine release,” the chemical which stimulates pleasure in the reward centers of the brain. This likely explains why, as cultural anthropologist John Blacking famously noted, every known human society has music. Perhaps this basic truth has even saved
lives. In 1916, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew traveled to Antarctica, where their ship became trapped inside pack-ice. Facing dwindling supplies and rations, unable to communicate with the outside world, and sheltered in a steadily collapsing vessel, Shackleton permitted each crew member to salvage only two pounds of possessions before abandoning ship to cross the frozen continent on foot. As one man was discarding his banjo, Shackleton stopped him. “We must have that banjo,” the captain commanded. “It’s vital mental medicine.” All 28 men of the crew survived. And so it is today that, in an era of mass unemployment, unease, and anxiety, a phenomenon emerges in popular music. Just as Shackleton was unsure if he and his crew would survive the brutal Antarctic winter, America remains uncertain if we will ever escape our present economic condition. Indeed, many skeptics contend that these last few years represent not a temporary setback but rather “the new normal.” Let us hope that our most popular music soon features slow tempos, minor chords, and lyrics about spending.
“This week the No. 1 song in America is ‘Thrift Shop’ by Macklemore and Wanz, which celebrates the savings found at discounted bargain outlets... Welcome to popular music in the age of the Great Recession.”
A ssociate Commentar y Editor Jesse Rifkin is a 6th- semester journalism and major. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.
So you want to be a doctor, but is it even worth it?
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f you’re one of the 20,000 undergraduate students at UConn you most likely have a career in mind, whether it is urban planning, nursing, or even medicine. Likewise, if you’re serious about your potential, you probably Omar Allam have had secStaff Columnist ond thoughts about what you want to do in the future, and often think about whether or not your career choice is right for you There is no magical algorithm for determining the right job for you. Although there is no “right” career for anyone, there are a lot of wrong professions for certain people. Lately, I’ve noticed that students are choosing medicine for the wrong reasons, in my opinion. I am just a student who questions and tries to apply the answers to his problems to society. The field of medicine attracts a lot of students for several reasons ranging from “wanting to
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apply the scientific knowledge acquired ” to the cliché “wanting to save lives.” And there are a lot of pseudo benefits to being a physician, such as wealth, admiration from the public, and a guaranteed perfect lifestyle that attract students. A retired Swiss radiologist once told me that “people see medicine as a spectacular dwelling, but only when they do enter the house medicine do they realize that hell they’ve gotten themselves into.” Nonetheless, a lot pre-medical students, when asked why the want to pursue medicine, will tell you that they want to go into medicine because they “want to save lives,” but who doesn’t? Usually, there is an underlying cause for spitting out this knee jerking “saving lives” response, a cause that most people will not explicitly state. This cause ranges from wanting approval from parents or society, such as the case with a lot cultures, or job security. Nonetheless, they have
decided to pursue medicine due to something they lack, and not because they enjoy the potential of practicing medicine. And, if you truly due “like saving lives,” and you insist on committing your life to saving people, then there are a lot of more practical ways of “saving lives” such as politics. One statute, preventing war, can save hundreds if not thousand of lives. Now, if you’re going into medicine because you want to be filthy rich, cross medicine off the list right now, medicine is not for you. There are many more efficient/sleepless free careers for attaining wealth. The amount of work you put into medicine in respect to your salary is not very appealing, and should not be the reason for wanting to pursue medicine. Nonetheless this should not discourage students at looking into medicine, as a career. I’ve always seen medicine as an amazing and admirable profession. There are so many great
aspects of medicine, such as understanding the relationship between the healthy and the sick, and connecting the relationship to a cure or the art of being able to place your hands inside the mechanics of the human body, to alter nature’s mishap to a better more efficient structure, and nothing in the world can beat that. My recommendation to premed students is to keep your minds open, do what you love whether it is chemistry or poetry and structure your life about what you find interesting and not just medicine. If you really want to be physician for the right reasons, you’ll realize that medicine will come to you. Be honest to yourself and go out and experience the world before committing yourself to a very very long ride. Staff Columnist Omar Allam is a 2nd-semester chemistry and English double major. He can be reached at Omar.Allam@UConn.edu.
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House pets take over Jorgensen By Zack Lederman Campus Correspondent This Sunday, the world famous Popovich Comedy Pet Theater stirred up laughs and audience applause at Jorgensen Theater. The show, which has been featured by both Jay Leno and David Letterman, stars Gregory Popovich and his cast of over 25 cats, dogs, birds, and mice, as they perform dazzling tricks and feats of agility for the audience. The show tells the story of Popovich as a young man, kicked out from his job as an acrobat at the local circus. But, with a strong will and the help of some talented felines, he manages to put his life back together, and form the Pet Theater. From there he becomes a world famous star. While the main stars of the show were certainly the various animals, there was no shortage of human performers, who, alongside Popovich, showed off their most wonderfully dangerous stunts and juggling abilities. However, whenever the animals were on stage, the seemed to steal the show away from everyone else. From the cats diving through hoops, six feet in the air, to the dogs and mice, climbing onto a train and answering math questions, there seemed to be no limit to what these animals could do. In the words of Popovich himself, “Who says you can’t train a cat?” True to its name, the show delivered as a comedy, eliciting laughs from children and adults
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Despite the blizzard taking over the UConn campus Popovich still performed his comedy routine using household pets such as cats, dogs, birds and more. His show has been featured on Jay Leno and even David Letterman.
alike at every turn. The slapstick humor and talking animals had the young ones at the edge of their seats. “She absolutely loved it,” said the mother of a young girl, “She was asking me the whole time if I thought that she’d be allowed to go up and play with the animals at the end of the show” However, it was the feats of acrobatics that had students like Kathleen McWilliams, 4th
semester English and history major and staff writer for The Daily Campus, absolutely on edge the whole time. “I can’t imagine how someone can train themselves to preform such absolutely death-defying stunts,” said McWilliams. The show certainly went all out in order to cater to the children in the audience, varying up all acts with relative speed in order to hold their attention. Before the
Never fear of missing out
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Students roll around in zorbs at the student union ballroom last semester. Trying to make everlasting memories can take some creativity but not limited to strictly UConn activities.
By Joe O’Leary Focus Editor This weekend, like most of campus, I spent the snowstorm trapped in my house by two and a half feet of snow. Luckily, I had taken an early-Friday excursion to Ted’s to avoid full cabin fever, but the weekend’s end came quick when all I could do was watch “Saturday Night Live,” “Battleship” on HBO (spoilers: one battleship sinks) and “Comedy Bang Bang!” on Netflix. Rousing myself from hibernation to brave the cold and shovel, this poor excuse for a weekend helped me realize something: not counting Spring Break, which technically covers two weekends in mid-March, there are a grand total of ten weekends left this semester. For seniors, those are their last ten weekends on a college campus… EVER. (Barring some strategically-failed courses come May, of course). While FOMO, or “Fear of missing out,” is mostly BS that The New York Times made up to start conversations, it’s definitely applicable to the end of a college year (or college career, perish the thought). To fight off the tears and goosebumps, these tips can keep students in the Husky spirit and away from existential dread. First: despite what you think, Late Night is extremely underrated. Sure, a boring night at the U playing games and doing crafts with your friends seems worthless when Storrs has three bars and nightly house parties to go to. Two things you’re missing: you don’t
have to spend your whole night there and, more importantly, you don’t have to be sober. I’m not condoning anything, but how else can anyone manage the nerve to energize the food court with a stirring karaoke rendition of “Call Me Maybe”? Plus, the U is playing great films like “Wreck-It Ralph” and “Django Unchained” through May, making it a perfect place to kick back with a few friends, or a significant other, and relax for two hours. UConn’s events as a whole are underrated on second thought. SUBOG just sponsored a ski trip to Mt. Southington on Saturday, and before break they’re bringing comedians like Kyle Kinane, inspirational lecturers like Coach Carter (yes, from the movie “Coach Carter”) and sponsoring trips to Boston, Broadway and Providence. These are less impressive if you have a car, yes, but it’s a way for friends, whether they’re roommates or a whole dorm floor, to make everlasting UConn memories. Jorgensen, right on campus, shouldn’t be overlooked wither as they’ve got a stacked schedule: rapper Wale on April 11, Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski on February 28, even jazz artist Esperanza Spalding on April 25. Speaking of memories, some of the best will happen at the XL Center or Gampel Pavilion as our Huskies, both men and women, will be playing some of the best basketball in the country. Syracuse comes to town Wednesday for their final Big East duel with UConn’s men; Baylor heads into Hartford
Feb. 18 for a No. 1 matchup against the women. Sure, it’s a postseason ban on the men’s side, but they’re playing like they’re in the tournament; the women, as always, have a shot at a national championship. The men’s season ends March 9 against Providence, while the women are in control of their own destiny. And don’t forget UConn’s baseball team, which has made the NCAA Tournament in the past two seasons; they start play on March 22. Horsebarn Hill, at least this week, will be a haven for fans of winter. This past weekend saw crowds of hundreds brave the end of the winter storm for some sledding, skiing and snowboarding action, which will continue as long as there’s snow on the ground (though a screwy New England winter will be the boss of that). Even after the snow melts (give the ground a few weeks to harden), Horsebarn is a beautiful point of campus frequently overlooked by students with great trails to hike on and majestic shots of campus that span from Towers to Gampel to Buckley. Otherwise, the best advice for enjoying UConn’s beautiful spring semester, even if spring doesn’t show up for a while, is to try new things. If you’re a wallflower, head to a party; if you’re at six parties a week, spend a night in with some floormates. Getting out of your comfort zone is how you expand your comfort zone.
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show started, various booths were set up in Jorgensen with games and activities for the kids to enjoy while they waited for the show to begin, including mazes and face painting booths. Popovich and his group seemed to do all they were capable of in order to make sure that each kid had a fun time from start to finish. Popovich himself is a trained circus performer. He was born to Russian performers, and trained
in juggling since he was six years old. He has toured with the famous Moscow Circus, as well as with Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey in the U.S. The Comedy Pet Theater was officially formed in 2006, and Gregory has since toured worldwide, performed in Las Vegas, and broken multiple worldrecords in the art of juggling.
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Bacchus parade is on, despite weather threat
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In this March 8, 2011 file photo, crowds throng Bourbon Street in the French Quarter on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actor G.W. Bailey will share the spotlight Sunday as celebrity king of the Bacchus parade — one the biggest in the run-up to Mardi Gras — with more than two dozen child cancer patients from across the country. When Bailey suits up in his Bacchus tunic and cape, 28 teens and children being treated for cancer will board a float and ready themselves for an hourslong ride through New Orleans, where they’ll toss Mardi Gras beads and trinkets to throngs of crowds well into the night. Even with the threat of nasty weather — the National Weather Service said thunderstorms were likely from 3 to 6 p.m. — the parade was on. On Sunday afternoon, Bacchus spokesman Clark Brennan said, “We’re rollin’.” Bailey — known as the costar of “Major Crimes” on TNT and for roles in the “Police Academy” movies and the series “The Closer” — said New Orleans at Mardi Gras is a great place to escape, especially for teenagers needing a break from cancer treatments and doctor appointments. “I’ve had the opportunity to travel a good deal of the world, and I am not just saying this, there is no question I am in my favorite city in the world,” he said. “I mean, the color, the sounds, the smells, the energy, the people, the food and obviously the music, how can you not love it?” Bailey grew up in Port Arthur, Texas, near the Louisiana bor-
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der, and says he has fond memories of visiting “that magical place” where he would walk the French Quarter, catch beads at Mardi Gras and eat some of the best food he’s ever tasted. He said this weekend he relished the opportunity to share those experiences with young cancer patients. As executive director for the Sunshine Foundation, a nonprofit organization with the mission of bringing joy to children being treated for cancer, Bailey arranged for 28 patients known as “Sunshine kids” to join him in New Orleans for his Bacchus reign. The group arrived Tuesday to a packed schedule that included trips to the Aquarium of the Americas, Audubon Zoo and French Quarter. The group also took a south Louisiana swamp tour and attended Saturday’s Endymion parade. Bailey said he’s been involved with the Sunshine Foundation for 27 years and has been executive director for 12. He said the foundation regularly organizes trips for young cancer patients to major U.S. cities. He said that for years, patients would ride in suburban parades or downtown New Orleans parades in the weeks before Mardi Gras. But Bailey’s reign as Bacchus thrust the actor and kids into the city’s biggest Carnival weekend and atop floats on one of its biggest parades.
Fun. takes Song of the Year at Grammy Awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) — You can cross one major trophy off the list for fun. at the Grammy Awards. The pop-rockers won song of the year for their transcendent anthem, “We Are Young,” featuring Janelle Monae, during Sunday night’s telecast, taking the first of four major awards the group’s been nominated. “I don’t know what I was thinking when I wrote the chorus to this song,” lead singer Nate Ruess joked. “This is in HD, everyone can see our faces, and we are not very young.” Most of the attention has been on Frank Ocean going into the awards — he won a trophy for urban contemporary album and is up for four more trophies during the telecast. But his fellow lead nominees got an early lead on the R&B singer. “We Are Young” helped fun. earn a starring role at these Grammys with nominations in all four major categories after the release of their first album, matched only by Christopher Cross in 1981, and six overall. The band turned in a powerful early performance of “Carry On” early in the show as a downpour on stage began midsong and guitarist Jack Antonoff got a kiss from girlfriend Lena Dunham of “Girls” fame after winning. Fun. may have picked up a major win, but it was The Black Keys and Skrillex who had the early lead thanks to strong runs in the pre-telecast awards show. The Black Keys singerguitarist Dan Auerbach took the early lead during the pretelecast show, picking up three trophies and assisting with a fourth. Auerbach won producer of the year alone and best rock song for “Lonely Boy” and rock album for “El Camino” with his bandmate Patrick Carney, joining electronic dance music innovator Skrillex atop the early leaderboard. He was also producer for another winner, Dr. John. A slew of artists sit one back going into the main awards show at the Staples Center, including fellow top nominees Kanye West and Jay-Z, Gotye, former best new artist winner Esperanza Spalding, jazz man Chick Corea and Christian singer-songwriter Matt Redman. West and Jay-Z won best rap song and best rap performance for the song “... in Paris” from their “Watch the Throne” collaboration and lost a third for short form video for “No Church in The Wild,” which featured Ocean. Ocean will be up for five awards later in the evening. Other early winners included Rihanna, Beyonce, Mumford & Sons and Taylor Swift, who opened the show as the Mad Hatter. Swift dressed in white top hat, tails, shorts and tall boots during the surreal version of her hummable hit “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” that included a troop of mime clowns and a guy on a tricycle with a flame-thrower attached. The singer pretended to talk to the offending boyfriend on the phone: “I’m busy opening the Grammys and we’re never getting back together.” Justin Timberlake debuted new tracks “Suit & Tie” with Jay-Z and “Pusher Love” in a performance that was broadcast in retro black and white. Elton John and Ed Sheeran teamed on “The A Team” and Miguel and Wiz Kalifa teamed up on “Adorn.” Adele won the first award of the night on the main telecast, taking home best pop solo performance for “Set Fire to the Rain (Live),” in one of the night’s least-surprising moments — though the singer was somewhat taken aback. “I just wanted to be part of the night, because I loved it last year, obviously,” she said of winning a record-tying six awards in 2012.
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‘Community’ finally airs after being delayed for some time due to scheduling conflicts with NBC. The Greendale gang are back for their senior year however they are coming back from a summer break throwing viewers through a loop.
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The Greendale Seven have returned for their senior year in NBC’s “Community” on Thursday, Feb 7 at 8 p.m. after an unexpectedly long hiatus. The fourth season of “Community” was scheduled to begin last October 19 but scheduling conflicts at NBC meant that the premier of the new season had to be pushed back. The long break between seasons has caused a few problems. The characters of the show are just returning from summer vacation as students at UConn were preparing to face Winter Storm Nemo. Not only that, but next week’s episode intended to be aired near to Halloween will aired on Valentine’s Day. Thursday’s episode starring Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, and Jim Rash, entitled,
“History 101,” was a spoof of known for being socially inept, “The Hunger Games,” a seem- yet an organizational machine ingly stale reference since the with more than a taste for pop film was in theatres in March culture. 2012. The reference would have Nadir is known for being incredbeen more appropriate had the ibly imaginative and “meta,” placepisode aired in October as ing situations inside of situations. planned. This time Abed has completely Fans of shut down in his fear Community “Community” expect of the last “first day of a certain high brow school” and created a NBC subtle comedy of a sitcom in his head for Thursday 8:00 p.m. sharp-tongued cast, he and the rest of his set-up style jokes, friends to live forever mixed with the slapin community college. stick humor of Chevy As with many Chase and the obscusitcoms that make rity of Jim Rash and Ken Jeong. it a few seasons, the writers of Unfortunately this week’s episode Community have focused more on featured very little of Chase and developing characters and using Jeong, the two A-list actors on the those developments to make jokes show while still using fragments at previous season’s antics. While of previous season’s humor styles. this is a great device for storytellThe show revolved around ing, it seems to force the cast from Pudi’s character, a trend in past characters to caricatures of previseasons, Abed Nadir as he strug- ous seasons. gled with the concept of the last The cast includes nine incred“first day of school.” Nadir is ible actors but this episode
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focused on three. Previous seasons have distributed screen time relatively equally amongst the cast, but this season seems to be venturing in direction of feature episodes, highlighting one character more than the others. The characters have evolved into more independent characters where fans can see inside the character’s minds rather than interpret and work out jokes for themselves. A higher budget in the fourth season allows the show to do more, but the theme to do more with less, is what made the earlier seasons more authentic, whereas this episode had been much more fantasy. Fans do not be discouraged! Next week’s episode is Halloween themed and the writers hardly ever disappoint on holiday special. The episode airs on Thursday Feb 14.
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Scott Aukerman and Reggie Watts, two of the funniest comedians of NYC’s alt-comedy scene, received some great news last week. On the heels of ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ getting a twenty-episode second season, the absurdist comedy’s first set of ten episodes has landed on Netflix. While the show’s special guests can be hit and miss, the adaptation of Aukerman’s comedy podcast leaves no easy joke on the table. Whether’s it’s a parody of a game played on a usual talk show (one episode features ‘What’s Their Ailment,’ where the guests must guess the ridiculous reason someone in a picture is in pain) or a small joke (Amy Poehler, while wearing a wig, frequently comments that’s she’s not wearing a wig, until the credits “reveal” she is), the show takes its humor very seriously. -Joe O’Leary
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By Maurillio Amorim Campus Correspondent “How I Met Your Mother” fans have been waiting eight seasons to find out who the mother is. While hard negotiations over raises and the return of the cast for another season led the writers to write this season as if it were the last, the show has officially been renewed for another season. Since this season has been approached as a final season we have already basically seen everything. Since we already know who everyone else ends up with the question is why do we care who is this stranger to us that Ted meets? It would be foolish to have him meet her and then make her a regular because what if the audience didn’t like her? It seems unlikely we will get a plot twist
or an amazing pay off at the end, but I have some suggestions for alternate endings that would be more exciting. Ted and Robin Together The show kind of has set this one up. Robin is the reason Ted never meets a woman he can have anything real with. That’s why he meets the mother after Robin’s wedding. There have been several clues and hints even in recent episodes almost teasing viewers that this will happen. So let’s say Ted’s wife and Barney have both passed away. The story isn’t how he met their mother, but why he and Robin are really meant to be and this is his explanation to his kids. We have never seen Robin and Barney in the distant future as we have the rest of the gang so it is plausible. We did see them in a sooner flash
forward for comedic purposes where Barney was pretending to be dying. What if he wasn’t pretending? Likelihood: 6/10 Barney and Robin Dead Fans have been assuming this for years because we never see the older versions of the two as we do the rest of the cast periodically. Maybe the kids aren’t Ted’s. Barney always says Ted is his number one best friend even if Marshall is Ted’s. As the obvious godfather to their kids, Ted took custody after the death of his friends. Robin cannot have children, but perhaps Barney and her adopted even though Robin has said she is against it. Ted and his wife have been raising the children as their own and this all is his way of telling the truth. Likelihood of them dead: 5/10 Likelihood of this: 4/10
Victoria and Ted Ted appears to be done with Victoria, but besides Robin she is the only serious relationship Ted has had during the show. She told Ted last season the reason they didn’t work out and none of his relationships have is because of Robin. Maybe once she’s finally gone they reunite. She would obviously not be the mother, but they could still be together and the mother could be written out as dead or divorced. Why should Ted end up with somebody we never met anyways? The show has definitely left this possibility open, but it doesn’t seem too likely. Likelihood: 4/10 Ted Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest There are no kids or mother. Ted has done extremely crazy things throughout the show
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It’s quite a strange thing indeed. Many years ago, I can remember watching an old episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” during which, through the miracles of futuristic medicine, a citizen of 21st century America is revived. Of all things, one of the citizen’s biggest surprises is learning that the human race had stopped using television as a means of entertainment by the 22nd century. As a child, this idea of television disappearing perplexed me. However after seeing many new developments in the medium over the past decade, I can easily see this possibly coming to fruition in the far future. Now while the ending of the usage of the medium of film, whether it be in the theater or in the home, is far too incomprehensible to envision today, even now we can see the institution of broadcast television beginning to end. Ever since the DVR became mainstream, it has no longer been fair to judge a television program simply by the number of viewers of the live broadcast. And while today networks are starting to account for DVR playback when factoring in the number of viewers a show has, this does not do many programs justice. When great television programs routinely suffer dismal ratings toady, it greatly perplexes me. A prime example of this is NBC’s comedy shows. Historically, the network has produced an unrivaled number of critically acclaimed shows including “The Cosby Show”, “Cheers,” “Frasier,” “Seinfeld” and “Friends” among many others. Besides garnering critical acclaim, all of these programs have proved to be huge ratings successes. Today the network has still been pushing out quality comedy shows like clockwork including “30 Rock,” “Parks and Recreation” and “Community.” Like NBC shows of yesteryear, these programs have received much acclaim however all of them are significantly challenged with very poor ratings. However, each program has a very devoted fan base, which adds confusion to the ratings problem. With such rabid fans, one wonders why a show’s ratings are not higher? The answer is simple: many of these people are viewing the show online after episodes are initially broadcast and/or discovering a series for the first time when offered on streaming services such as Netflix, and Amazon Prime. The former option is also prevalent in the late night television space, with many viewers unable to stay up late and therefore choosing to view the previous nights program online. Streaming services have become a major dent in the television space. Today, people are less and less patient to wait weeks, and months for a new episode of a favorite program to air and are more likely to turn to streaming services when they can blow through
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Suggestions for Disney on ‘Star Wars’ spinoffs NEW YORK (AP) — Having recently purchased the “Star Wars” franchise from Lucasfilm for $4 billion, the Walt Disney Co. is shifting the films into hyperdrive. Not only has Disney already begun working on a new trilogy, to start with J.J. Abrams directing episode seven, but studio chief Bob Iger said this week have said possible spinoffs are being developed for young Han Solo, the bounty hunter Boba Fett and Yoda. Obviously, the tauntaun is totally out of the bag. The “Star Wars” universe is set to rapidly expand, with every penny drained out of George Lucas’ franchise. But why stop with a few predictable choices when there are others deserving of a close-up? Here are a few lighthearted suggestions for further “Star Wars” spinoffs. ADMIRAL ACKBAR: Sure, the leader of the Rebel Alliance’s Endor assault doesn’t exactly have the matinee looks you’d normally want in a star. Truth be told, he looks like a fish. But he’s a master tactician and no one is better at taking evasive action. An Ackbar film could revolve around his deepseated paranoia of constantly being ambushed. Ackbar drives into a parking garage: “It’s a trap!” Ackbar drops off his dry cleaning: “It’s a trap!” THE CANTINA BAND: An obvious one, perhaps, but who doesn’t want to know more about the Mos Eisley Cantina Band? Technically known as Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, one can’t help
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but wonder about the band dynamics. Is Figrin D’an like the Sammy Hager of the outfit and Doikk Na’ts the Eddie Van Halen? Do they tour? And what about Max Rebo, the blue elephant-looking guy who plays keyboards in Jabba the Hutt’s palace. Do they ever jam together?? LIFE ON THE DEATH STAR: It was an entire planet (twice) created by Dark Side, but what’s it like to live there? How are property values? The whole thing looks entirely grey. Where are the parks? Where do the Stormtroopers get their helmets? This would have to be directed by the comedian Eddie Izzard, who contemplated the scene of a Death Star cafeteria in a famous stand-up bit. Izzard imagined Darth Vader ordering the penne alla arrabiata
and arguing with a caterer over whether he needs a tray. C-3PO AND R2D2 ON HOLIDAY: Because droids need a vacation, too. R2D2 and C-3PO finally get away for an eventful week in the Caribbean where the two learn some lasting lessons on friendship, love and the effects of salt water on their parts. The tagline: “These ARE the droids you’re looking for.” ANOTHER SKYWALKER: It was long ago that on his death bed, Yoda uttered his last words: “There is another Skywalker.” It turned out, of course, that Princess Leia was that Skywalker, the twin sister of Luke. But what if Yoda came back to say, “There is another another Skywalker”? Not twins, but triplets. Imagine the possibilities.”
by letting him live it out. That trick worked in Shutter Island. After the end Ted introduces his wife and kids to the gang and after they all but Marshall leave, he asks Marshall to drive them all to the pizza place they traditionally went to in college. Marshall says yes and cries realizing his friend is long gone and kisses
him on the forehead before smothering him with a pillow. He walks out crying. This ending was anonymously posted to the How I Met Your Mother Facebook page. It’s near impossible, but I’m not ruling it out. Likelihood: 1.5/10
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‘Lincoln’ screenwriter concedes inaccuracy
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The screenwriter for the movie “Lincoln” has conceded taking some liberties in its portrayal of a 19th century vote on slavery, but he said his changes adhered to widely accepted standards for the creation of historical drama. A congressman who pointed out the flaw, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, said Friday that he was pleased screenwriter Tony Kushner acknowledged that Connecticut congressmen did not vote against a constitutional amendment outlawing slavery, as depicted in the film. He said he hopes a correction can be made before the film is released on DVD. “My effort from the beginning has been to set the record straight on this vote, so people do not leave the theater believing Connecticut’s representatives in the 38th Congress were on the wrong side of history,” Courtney said. After watching the movie over the weekend, Courtney praised the artistry of the film about President Abraham Lincoln’s political struggle to abolish slavery, but he took issue with a scene that shows two Connecticut congressmen vote against the 13th amendment. He asked the Congressional Research Service to investigate, and it reported that all four Connecticut congressmen backed the amendment in a January 1865 vote. In a letter to the film’s director, Steven Spielberg, the fourterm Democratic congressman includes a tally of the 1865 vote by the state’s congressional delegation and a passionate defense of the state’s role in emancipat-
‘Identity Thief’ swipes No. 1 spot with $36.6M
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ing millions of blacks. A spokeswoman for Disney, which distributed the DreamWorks film, had no comment on whether any changes will be made to the film either theatrically or in DVD form. Kushner, the screenwriter, said in a statement Thursday that the film changed two of the delegation’s votes to clarify the historical reality that the 13th Amendment passed by a very narrow margin. He said the film made up new names for the men casting the votes so as not to ascribe actions to real people who did not perform them. “In making changes to the voting sequence, we adhered to time-honored and completely legitimate standards for the creation of historical drama, which is what ‘Lincoln’ is. I hope nobody is shocked to learn that I also made up dialogue and imagined encounters and invented characters,” Kushner said.
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out of frustration of never finding his match. Seeing Robin get married and losing her forever to one of his best friends was too much to take so he imagined everything. He is telling this story to his friends visiting him in a mental institution who are trying to snap him out of it
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entire series in a matter of days or at their own connivance. . So here’s hoping that show executives, advertisers, and creative talent take notice of this trend. Great television will almost always yield financial rewards if given the chance. No longer does a simple rating of a live broadcast provide a clear image of how many people are watching a program and judging a program by that standard today is unfair. Streaming services, and online viewership are an essential part of modern television viewing, and for many now the primary
sources from which television productions are now enjoyed. With these new trends in viewing, it appears that slowly but surely, broadcast television is becoming increasingly less relevant. Compounding these developments, streaming services are beginning to air first run original programming on their own services such as Netflix’s “House of Cards.” While it may still be a ways away, the writing is on the wall for live broadcast scripted television as we now know it.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Identity Thief” has turned out to be the real thing at the box office. The comedy starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy debuted at No. 1 with a $36.6 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Identity Thief” opened solidly despite the winter storm that buried much of the Northeast. Distributor Universal Pictures estimates the storm might have choked off as much as 10 percent of the movie’s business. “It took such a chunk out of the business this weekend. But we can’t control Mother Nature,” said Nikki Rocco, Universal’s head of distribution. “We probably could have hit $40 million if it weren’t for the weather this weekend.” The previous weekend’s top movie, the zombie romance “Warm Bodies,” fell to No. 2 with $11.5 million. That raises its domestic total to $36.7 million. The weekend’s other new wide release, Steven Soderbergh’s thriller “Side Effects,” had a modest opening of $10 million, coming in at No. 3. Tom Cruise’s 1986 hit “Top Gun” took flight again in theaters with a 3-D reissue that pulled in $1.9 million in narrow release of 300 theaters. The movie has a short run on the big-screen leading up to its Feb. 19 3-D release on DVD and Blu-ray. Bruce Willis’ latest “Die Hard” sequel, “A Good Day to Die Hard,” got a jump on its domestic release next weekend with a $10.1 million opening in seven Asian markets, including South Korea, Indonesia and Hong Kong. Overall domestic revenues were down sharply from a year ago, when four movies had big openings — “The Vow,” ‘’Safe House,” ‘’Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” and a 3-D reissue of “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.” Receipts totaled $105 million, down 45 percent from the same weekend last year — which was the only nonholiday weekend to have four movies open with more than $20 million, according to boxoffice tracker Hollywood. com. “The same weekend a year ago was such a tremendous weekend,” said Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “It’s really tough to live up to a weekend like we had last year. It was sort of a foregone conclusion that this was going to be a down weekend.” “Identity Thief” came in above industry expectations despite the storm and poor reviews for the comedy, which stars Bateman as a man chasing down a con artist (McCarthy) who has racked up thousands of dollars of charges in his name. The combination of the actors and the premise made it a review-proof comedy, Rocco said. “I think people just want to be entertained,” Rocco said. “The chemistry between Jason and Melissa is the reason why this picture is doing so well.” Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Identity Thief,” $36.6 million ($230,000 international). 2. “Warm Bodies,” $11.5 million ($4.6 million international). 3. “Side Effects,” $10 million. 4. “Silver Linings Playbook,” $6.9 million ($6.5 million international). 5. “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,” $5.8 million ($11.6 million international). 6. “Mama,” $4.3 million ($6.1 million international). 7. “Zero Dark Thirty,” $4 million ($2.7 million international). 8. “Argo,” $2.5 million. 9. “Django Unchained,” $2.3 million ($18.7 million international). 10. “Bullet to the Head,” $2 million.
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Horoscopes
by Brian Ingmanson
Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -There’s some urgency. Imagine the project in its completed form, and stay active. Delegate the help from partners and friends. Give up control, and accept contribution. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Consult with partners over the next few days. Brainstorm and gather info. No need to make big decisions yet. Leave your money buried. Stay and finish up. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Loved ones encourage you to take on a new challenge. Heed an unsolicited suggestion. Choose privacy over publicity. There’s a temporary block, so get rest. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your team is ready. Put their ideas into practice. The next two days are good for making changes at home. Save enough for the highest quality. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- The pressure increases, but you have what it takes. Follow a strong leader. Everything starts to make sense. Don’t pour money down a hole. Review work before sending. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Get farther than expected, and discover new things about yourself. You’re entering a lucrative phase, but stick to your blueprints. Your actions speak louder than words. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your confidence gets a boost later today. Getting clear on your purpose or focus inspires you to take action. Direct traffic; folks want to contribute. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Time to get your hands dirty with an art project. Find your creative side. What do you love? What tickles your fancy? If you’re lost, let a partner take the lead. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Romance requires patience and flexibility now, but it’s well worth it. Balance short-term goals with long-term sustainability. There’s a test. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- New energy propels you to create goals for the future and take action. Find a quiet place where you can concentrate, and think up some revolutionary ideas. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Get ready for an adventure that could last into the weekend. Tie up the loose ends from older projects so you can launch a new one without looking back. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- It’s easier to concentrate now, especially in the financial realm. Why not get your taxes done early? Or at least go over the paperwork to see where you can save.
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Sports
Men's swimming ends dual meet season on high note By Sarah Levine Campus Correspondent The UConn men’s swimming and diving team has propelled themselves back over the .500 mark with their win over Colgate on Saturday, concluding their dual meet season with a final record of 4-3. The Huskies defeated the home team handily by a score of 200-81, posting first place finishes in almost all of the events. The men started the day off snagging the top spot in the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:34.56. The success continued from there, with five athletes dominating the field in two events each. Senior Kyungsoo Yoon continued his string of successful meets by winning the 50-yard freestyle in 21.03
seconds as well as the 100yard butterfly in 51.57 seconds. Yoon has been a twotime winner in almost every dual meet this season. Three other swimmers were two-time winners that day. Junior Keith Piper took home first place in the 100-yard backstroke in 52.28 seconds and the 200-yard backstroke in 1:53.77. Diguan Pigot and Mike Lennon came out strong for the freshman class. Pigot won the 100-yard breaststroke in 57.28 seconds and the 100-yard freestyle in 47.39, while Lennon topped the field with a 4:48.41 500yard freestyle and a 9:47.85 1000-yard freestyle. On the diving end, Grant Fecteau was another twotime winner for UConn. He won the one-meter with a score of 300.15 and the three meter with a score of 302.40.
His teammate Tony Cortright , who had recently been dealing with flu-like symptoms, followed close behind him with second place scores of 278.10 and 286.50. Other contributors to the Huskies’ win included sophomores Lachezar Shumkov, who won the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:07.51, and Sawyer Franz, who defeated his opponents in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:43.60. Senior Joe Glowacki also had a win on Saturday in the 200yard butterfly. UConn will compete again next Saturday when it hosts the UConn Open in the WolffZackin Natatorium.
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Senior Joe Glowacki propels himself forward in a recent meet at the Wolff-Zackin Natatorium. The men's swimming and diving team will compete at home again this weekend when they host the UConn Open.
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Cardinals lose to Irish 104-101 in 5-OT Wisconsin beats No. 3 Michigan 65-62 SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Louisville found a different way to lose at Notre Dame. After losing by 10 points or more in its three games in South Bend since 2007, including an overtime loss two years ago, the Cardinals squandered an eightpoint lead in the final minute of regulation before losing 104-101 in five overtimes Saturday night. Louisville coach Rick Pitino said it was a typical Notre DameLouisville game as it marked the sixth time in the last eight meetings that the game went beyond regulation. But it had never gone more than two overtimes, going that long twice previously. The game turned out to be the longest game in Big East regular-season history. "They just made incredible shots," said Pitino, who didn't take any questions from the media. "I can't fault our defense. We were on them. ... I've never
seen shots like that and I've been coaching a long, long time." Chane Behanan, who led the Cardinals (19-5, 7-4) with a career-high 30 points and 15 rebounds, said Pitino's message to the team afterward was that it was a good game. "They were the better team," Behanan said. Both teams got help from players who usually don't contribute as five players fouled out, two for Louisville and three for Notre Dame. Luke Hancock played 46 minutes and scored a career-high 22 points for the Cardinals. "Everybody just has to be ready to get their number called in games like this," Behanan said. Notre Dame (19-5, 7-4) watched a video of great boxing knockouts on Friday knowing their game against Louisville would probably be bruising. "I talked about it being a 15-rounder and taking punches
and being put on the mat," Irish coach Mike Brey said. "At the fourth or fifth timeout I said, 'Has there ever been a 20-rounder?" If so, it couldn't have been any more thrilling. Afterward, even Pitino forgot how long the game was, referring to it as a fourovertime game. The previous record for the conference in the regular season was a four-overtime game that happened 11 years ago to the day and also involved Notre Dame. The Irish beat Georgetown 11611 in 4 OTs on Feb. 9, 2002. Jack Cooley, who fouled out in regulation, said the Irish players scoffed at Brey when he talked about a 15-round boxing match. "We're like, 15 round matches, that doesn't happen. And then we played five overtimes. So that's how it went," he said. There was no knockout punch in Saturday night's game — just some body blows.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With a three-point lead and less than 3 seconds on the clock at the end of regulation, Michigan coach John Beilein's plan was to foul. Wisconsin's Ben Brust never gave the third-ranked Wolverines the chance. Brust tied the game with a shot from just inside midcourt as the clock expired and then hit a 3-pointer with less than 40 seconds left in overtime to give Wisconsin a 65-62 victory. "We had two fouls to give, go foul," Beilein said. "(Brust) turned the corner on Caris (LeVert), and he couldn't get it done in time." Brust's shot at the end of regulation was a dramatic turn of events for Wisconsin (17-7, 8-3 Big Ten) and a soul crusher for Michigan (21-3, 8-3). Just moments earlier, Tim Hardaway Jr. hit a contested 3-pointer to put the Wolverines up 60-57 with less than 3 seconds left in regulation.
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Maple Leafs blank Canadiens 6-0
MONTREAL (AP) — The rivalry between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens got more heated on Saturday night. There was also a 37-save shutout by James Reimer, and Leo Komarov's first NHL goal only 59 seconds into the game that started the Maple Leafs' 6-0 win. The third period was filled with fights, and there was an accusation by Montreal's Max Pacioretty that Mikhail Grabovski bit him and also Colton Orr's apparent attempt to knee the Canadiens' Tomas Plekanec. "We had a really great start to the hockey game," said Toronto coach Randy Carlyle, whose team completed a sweep of a three-game road trip and is 6-1-0 away from the Air Canada Centre including a season-opening 2-1 win in Montreal on Jan. 19. "We did a lot of things in the first 10 minutes that kind of set the tone for our group for the rest of the night. We got the twogoal lead and then you know they're going to push back." The Canadiens answered with 20 shots in the second period, but couldn't beat Reimer who got his first shutout of the season and seventh of his career. Most of Montreal's shots were far from the net, but Reimer made sharp saves on an Erik Cole one-timer and Brian Gionta shot from in close in back-to-back plays. "This has been a good road trip for us," Reimer said. "We wanted to finish it off on a good note and the team worked hard and we were able to do that." Tyler Bozak scored later in the first period, James van Riemsdyk and Phil Kessel added second-period goals and Korbinian Holzer and Dion Phaneuf, with his first of the season, scored in the third for Toronto. "We weren't ready to start," Montreal defenseman Josh Gorges said. "Toronto, at home,
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Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price, left, can't stop a shot by Toronto Maple Leafs' Leo Komarov (not shown) as Canadiens' Alexei Emelin (74) and Maple Leafs' Nikolai Kulemin look for a rebound during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Montreal.
in our building, and we're not ready to play? That's not good enough." The game got heated in the third period, which started with a fight between Mark Fraser and Montreal's Brandon Prust at 1:09 and increased after Holzer made it 5-0 at 4:20. First, Montreal rookie Brendan Gallagher took on Michael Kostka. A few minutes later, Prust was handed four minutes for roughing Toronto's Grabovski. Pacioretty, who emerged from the melee showing his wrist to the officials, saying that Grabovski bit him. Both players were given 10-minute misconducts. "That doesn't belong in our sport," Gorges said. "If you get in there, stand up for yourself,
be a man, drop your gloves, and you'll have respect. But bite somebody? That doesn't belong in our league." "I saw the bite," Montreal coach Michel Therrien said. "You can see that on the video. I'm sure the league's going to pay attention to that." After Phaneuf scored during a two-man advantage at 13:15, more aggression broke out when Orr clipped Plekanec's leg, although the Canadiens center avoided a direct hit with a last-moment leap and was not injured. Gionta and Rene Bourque jumped in, but it was Gorges who ended up fighting the 6-foot-5 Frazer McLaren, who was smiling as he held off the Canadiens defenseman. Therrien said the NHL's dis-
ciplinarians should look at that incident as well, but Carlyle pinned the focus on Prust. "We've got to take care of our own selves and we've got to look after business," he said. "And all the complaining that they want to do about it, the whole thing was started by what we felt was one player. "Well, Prust, we know what kind of player he is and he goes out and cheap shots Grabovski. Well, what are we supposed to do? We're not supposed to play the rest of our players for the rest of the night? Well, they've got another thing coming. That's not happening to our group." The Canadiens are 0-2-1 in their past three games and head south this week for games in Florida and Tampa Bay.
Following a timeout, Mike Bruesewitz passed up his first option in the inbounds play and then hit Brust in stride. The guard took one dribble across halfcourt and launched the shot, which hit nothing but net. Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said the play was drawn up to see how Michigan defended the first cutter, Brust read the defense and reacted. "The best thing was Mike's pass on the dime on the run, didn't have to reach back for it, able to catch it all in one motion," Ryan said. Michigan still had fouls to give before the shot, and Beilein said the order coming out of the timeout was to foul. He also put LeVert on Brust to bolster the defense. It was then time for Beilein to try rallying the troops. "You're always picking them up in overtime, you're always saying something — even if you're lying like crazy," Beilein said. "'Guys, we've got them where we want them. We're in better shape.' It's
always the idea of what we're doing." For all the fireworks in the final 3 seconds, the teams only managed seven points in overtime, including Brust's winning 3-pointer. Following Brust's shot, Hardaway couldn't connect on his drive to the hoop on the next Michigan possession, and Glenn Robinson III fouled Jared Berggren on the rebound. The Wolverines went to a fullcourt press with two more fouls to give. But the Badgers broke the press, and Michigan had to foul twice more to finally put Ryan Evans on the free throw line. Evans, who shoots less than 43 percent from the line, missed the front end of a 1-and-1, and Trey Burke couldn't connect in a rushed final possession for the Wolverines. It was another grinding win for the Badgers keyed by their defense. Michigan came in as one of the
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Celts thrive on new offensive style without Rondo BOSTON (AP) — The outlook was bleak. Rajon Rondo's season-ending knee injury was certain to hurt the Celtics hopes for a playoff berth. How could Boston possibly survive without its offensive catalyst, the NBA leader in assists and triple-doubles and one of the best rebounding guards in the league? But not only have the Celtics survived, they've thrived. They're 6-0 since Rondo tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, including wins over LeBron James and the Miami Heat and Blake Griffin and the Los Angeles Clippers. They've adjusted quickly to coach Doc Rivers' new approach now that Rondo isn't controlling the ball, waiting to make a pass or drive to the basket: Shoot it if you're open, pass it quickly if you're not and spread the court to get more unchallenged looks at the basket. And they're 4-0 since losing another key player for the season when rookie Jared Sullinger, an outstanding rebounder, underwent back surgery. "Our guys just think they're good," Rivers said after the most lopsided win in the stretch, 116-95 over the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night. "They didn't ever doubt themselves. Others did, and they should have, really. When you lose guys like Rondo and Sully, I get that. But the guys in the locker room, they like what they are." After Rondo's last game, the Celtics held the eighth and final playoff spot in the East, just 2 games ahead of Philadelphia. Thursday's win left them in seventh place with a 26-23 record, 4½ games ahead of the 76ers and 1½ behind the sixth-place Atlanta Hawks. "We're not going to make excuses, who's out there, who's not out there," Paul Pierce said after scoring 24 points against the Lakers. "We've got a lot of talent in this (locker) room. The rest of the teams are going to take it how they're going to take it. We're fine
with flying under the radar (with) no expectations and everybody doesn't expect anything of us, but we're going to keep moving along like we're moving and trying to get better." In their six games since losing Rondo, the Celtics have outscored opponents by an average of 102.892.8 and hit 49.1 percent of their shots. Before his injury, they were outscored 96.4-95.0 and made only 45.7 percent of their shots. But as well as the Celtics have played, other factors have contributed to their success. Of the six wins, five came at home and four were against teams with records of 23-27 or worse. Pau Gasol of the Lakers and Chris Paul of the Clippers missed the games against the Celtics with injuries. On Sunday, the Denver Nuggets bring an eight-game winning streak into TD Garden. The Celtics did, of course, beat a healthy Heat team in double overtime, 100-98, to start the streak. And the loss of Rondo has given other players opportunities. "Rondo does so many different great things for this team, you can kind of get lackadaisical," Kevin Garnett said. "It's very similar to if you have someone cooking for you and you're expecting it every day. "And, all of the sudden, that someone is not there, obviously, to do that, and it's up to you to feed yourself. And, all of the sudden, you start making these gourmet dishes and then you have some more people over to the house, more people eating. You never know you possessed that, unless you lost that person who was cooking. It's kind of like that." Without Rondo, the Celtics have tossed in an extra dash of guards Courtney Lee, Jason Terry and Leandro Barbosa, forward Jeff Green and center Chris Wilcox. And another, Avery Bradley, has been one of the NBA's top defensive guards after missing the first 30 games while recovering from surgery on both shoulders.
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Paternos issue report, challenge Freeh's findings STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A report commissioned by Joe Paterno's family says the late coach did nothing wrong in his handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal and portrays Paterno as the victim of a "rush to injustice" created by former FBI director Louis Freeh's investigation of the case for Penn State. The family's critique, released Sunday, argues that the findings of the Freeh report published last July were unsupported by the facts. Former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, one of the experts assembled by the family's lawyer to review Freeh's report last year to Penn State, called the document fundamentally flawed and incomplete. Freeh's report reached "inaccurate and unfounded findings related to Mr. Paterno and its
numerous process-oriented deficiencies was a rush to injustice and calls into question" the investigation's credibility, Thornburgh was quoted as saying. In a statement released Sunday through a spokesman, Freeh defended his work. "I stand by our conclusion that four of the most powerful people at Penn State failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade," he said. Paterno's family released what it billed as an exhaustive response to Freeh's work, based on independent analyses, on the website paterno.com. "We conclude that the observations as to Joe Paterno in the Freeh report are unfounded, and have done a disservice not only to Joe Paterno and the university community," the family's report said, "but also to the victims of
Jerry Sandusky and the critical mission of educating the public on the dangers of child sexual victimization." Freeh's findings also implicated former administrators in university president Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and retired vice president Gary Schultz. Less than two weeks after the Freeh report was released in July, the NCAA acted with uncharacteristic speed in levying massive sanctions against the football program for the scandal. "Taking into account the available witness statements and evidence, it is more reasonable to conclude that, in order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful leaders at Penn State University — Messrs. Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley — repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to
Dolson's confidence extends to the free throw line go 0-for-2, that’s the same as a turnover. And the fact that she’s a terrific free-throw shooter really But coming into Sunday, that puts a lot of pressure on the other average had dropped to just 71.7 team. They have to percent – a number that guard her, they have she was unhappy with. to be careful around “I think I got a little her where some other complacent, maybe, centers maybe they I thought it was really play a little more good so I didn’t pracaggressive because tice it as much and it got you don’t mind if you away from me,” Dolson foul them.” said. “But I refocused For those instancand I was like ‘I’ve got to es down the stretch practice my free-throws when Dolson may a lot,’ and I did and it’s Geno Auriemma have to shoot from better now.” line at the end That rededication to UConn women's basketball coach the of a tight game, her the free-throw and rebuilt rebuilt confidence confidence in her shootcould make all the ing could be crucial for difference between the Huskies down the stretch as they enter crucial – and that’s like turning the ball over. wins and losses. Somebody smacks you and you potentially close – games. “Big guys get fouled a lot,” go to the free-throw line and you Matt.Stypulkoski@UConn.edu
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Auriemma said, “and if you’re not a good free-throw shooter – if you’re a big guy and you’re not a good free-throw shooter,
“The fact that she’s a terrific free-throw shooter really puts a lot of pressure on the other team.”
Sandusky's child abuse" from authorities, trustees and the university community, Freeh wrote in releasing the report. The former administrators have vehemently denied the allegations. So, too, has Paterno's family, though it reserved more extensive comment until its own report was complete. The counter-offensive began in earnest this weekend. The family's findings said that Paterno: — Never asked or told anyone not to investigate an allegation made against Sandusky 12 years ago, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2001. — Never asked or told former administrators not to report the 2001 allegation. — And never asked or told anyone not to discuss or hide information reported by graduate assistant Mike McQueary about the 2001 allegation.
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This Feb. 6, 2013 photo released by ABC shows Sue Paterno, widow of legendary football coach Joe Paterno, right, with Katie Couric for an exclusive interview for the "Katie" show
Hartley has another good outing in Huskies' victory over DePaul at Gampel from CONQUERING, page 12 same time, I just saw [former UConn men’s basketball coach] Dee Rowe and I talked to him on the way down here and that’s what these teams did all the time – except they took buses. You know, five hours on a bus and then they’d have to get out and play.” Though Bruno may not have wanted to use the less than ideal travel schedule as an excuse for his team, they did appear sluggish and struggled mightily throughout the night. Brittany Hrynko, DePaul’s leading scorer, finished the game with six points and was held to an 0-for-15 shooting performance, and Katherine Harry, their leading rebounder, was held without a rebound on the evening. Preventing Harry from crashing the glass was a point of pride for UConn center Stefanie Dolson,
who chose that accomplishment over her game-high 23 points when asked about which she statistic she was happier with after the game. “I mean, going into the game we knew she was averaging double-figure rebounds and for all the posts, that was definitely an emphasis for us,” Dolson said, “ and I think we did a great job of just playing great defense and finishing off with the box out.” The Huskies certainly did their fair-share of boxing out, as they beat the Blue Demons up on the glass and finished with a 49-27 advantage. Seven of those rebounds came courtesy of Bria Hartley, who added 18 points in the effort. For Hartley, who missed the first month of the season and has struggled to return to form, this marks the second-straight game in which she felt she played at her pre-injury level.
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“It’s good to have two games in a row now – I just want to start stringing some more games along,” Hartley said. Bruno too was able to detect the difference between Hartley’s earlyseason performance and the strides she’s made to where she is now. “Bria looked a lot more like herself,” Bruno said. “She’s getting better and she needs to and she is. And that’s a very important ingredient for this team.” Hartley’s next chance to keep the confidence rolling will come on Tuesday night in Providence. The Huskies will not be able to practice on Monday due to the cancellation of classes and closing of the school, but they will take on the Friars at 7 p.m. Tuesday night. That game can be seen on SNY and heard on WTIC 1080 AM.
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Indians near deal with RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka
CLEVELAND (AP) — With at least one spot open in his rotation, new Indians manager Terry Francona will give a pitcher he knows well a shot to win a starting job. Japanese right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka has agreed to a minor league contract with Cleveland. Matsuzaka, who pitched for Francona with the Boston Red Sox, must pass a physical for the deal to be finalized. The Indians' pitchers and catchers reported to camp in Goodyear, Ariz. on Sunday, with physicals scheduled to take place Monday. The 32-year-old Matsuzaka has won 50 major league games since signing a $52 million, six-year contract with Boston as free agent in 2007. Dice-K went 33-15 with a 3.72 ERA in 61 starts for Boston in 2007-08. However, he has been limited to 18 starts and 83 innings the last two seasons after right elbow surgery in 2011. Justin Masterson, Ubaldo Jimenez and Brett Myers are the only pitchers with guaranteed spots in Cleveland's rotation. Zach McAllister comes to camp favored to win the No. 4 spot, leaving Matsuzaka in a group with Scott Kazmir, Trevor Bauer, Carlos Carrasco, Corey Kluber and David Huff fighting it out this spring. Matsuzaka pitched in Japan from 1999-2006, going 108-60 with a 2.95 ERA for the Seibu Lions. The Red Sox won a bidding war over several teams to sign him and he went 15-12 in 32 starts in his first season in the AL. He was dominant in 2008, going 18-3 with a 2.90 ERA and recording 154 strikeouts in 167 2-3 innings. He finished fourth in voting for the Cy Young Award. But Matsuzaka's numbers have dropped alarmingly in the past four years. He has gone 17-22 with a 5.53 ERA and underwent Tommy John reconstructive surgery in June 2011. He began last year in the minors before joining the Red Sox and going 1-7 with an 8.28 in 11 starts.
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Feb. 21 Cincinnati 7 p.m
Feb. 16 Villanova Noon
Feb. 23 DePaul 8 p.m.
Feb. 16 Rutgers 4 p.m.
Feb. 18 Baylor 9 p.m.
Feb. 27 Georgetown 7 p.m.
Feb. 23 Feb. 26 Seton Hall Pittsburgh 4 p.m. 7 p.m.
Men’s Hockey (11-12-3) Today Bentley 7:05 p.m.
Feb. 15 Holy Cross 7:05 p.m
Tomorrow Bentley 7:05 p.m
Feb. 16 Holy Cross 7:05 p.m.
Feb. 22 Army 7:05 p.m
Women’s Hockey (3-22-3) Feb. 12 Feb. 17 New Northeastern Hampshire 7 p.m. Noon
Feb. 16 Boston College 2 p.m.
Feb. 17 Boston College 2 p.m.
Feb. 23 Boston University 3 p.m.
Men’s Track and Field Mar. 2 IC4A Championships All Day
Women’s Track and Field Feb. 16 BIG EAST Championships Alll Day
Feb. 17 BIG EAST Championships All Day
Men’s Swimming & Diving Feb. 16 UConn Open TBA
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The number of points center Stefanie Dolson scored against the DePaul Blue Demons.
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Syracuse beats St. John’s 77-58
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — James Southerland scored 13 points in his first appearance in seven games, C.J. Fair had 17 points and nine rebounds and No. 9 Syracuse beat St. John’s 77-58 on Sunday. It was the 37th straight win in the Carrier Dome for the Orange (20-3, 8-2 Big East), extending the nation’s longest active home streak in Division I. The win also gave coach Jim Boeheim his 35th season with 20 or more victories. Boeheim holds the NCAA record in that category. St. John’s coach Steve Lavin missed the game due to the overnight death of his 82-year-old father, Cap, leaving the reins to assistant coach Rico Hines. Lavin informed his coaching staff around 9 a.m. and then flew to New York City. St. John’s (15-9, 7-5) had won six of seven, the only loss coming last week at Georgetown, and was 2-2 against ranked teams this season. Southerland, a senior forward, missed the previous six games due to an eligibility issue regarding academics. He was restored to the lineup before the game and played 26 minutes, going 4 of 10 from the floor, 3 of 7 on 3-pointers. Michael Carter-Williams had 17 points, eight assists and a career-high six steals and Brandon Triche had 16 points and matched his career high with seven assists as the Orange backcourt excelled. Freshman JaKarr Sampson had 21 points to lead St. John’s, D’Angelo Harrison had 13 on 4-of-13 shooting, and Phil Greene 10. Chris Obekpa, second nationally with 101 blocks, finished with one to go with seven points and five rebounds. After trailing the entire first half, twice by 15 points, the Red Storm rallied early in the second. Harrison drained a pair of 3s in the opening minutes and pulled St. John’s to 43-34 with an off-balance attempt from the top of the key as the shot clock buzzer sounded at 16:08. After Southerland’s slam dunk in transition, St. John’s went on a 9-2 run. A corner 3 by Marco Bourgault, his only make of the game, and two straight baskets in close by Obekpa pulled the Red Storm to 48-43 with 11:45 remaining. Fair halted the spurt with a baseline runner and Southerland’s pretty behind-the-back feed to Triche for a dunk in transition got the Orange rolling again. Southerland then hit two 3s from the top of the key in a 64-second span as the crowd roared and Syracuse had restored its 13-point halftime lead. St. John’s never got closer than eight points in the final 8 minutes. The Orange hit 10 of 22 from behind the arc and held the Red Storm to 5 of 22 from long range. Syracuse was 14 of 28 from the floor, 5 of 11 from long range, and held the Red Storm to 8-of24 shooting and 2 of 11 from behind the arc in building a 37-24 halftime lead. Syracuse had seven steals in the period and AP built a double-digit lead midway through. Stephen Gallacher of Scotland, right, shakes hands with Richard Sterne from South Africa after he wins the final round of Triche’s 3-pointer and Baye Moussa Keita’s the Dubai Desert Classic Golf tournament in Dubai. Rico Hines
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Late goal lifts Red Wings to 3-2 win DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Red Wings have put together their best streak of the lockoutshortened season, winning three straight in a span of four days that included the puck dropping twice in less than 24 hours. Detroit defeated the Los Angeles Kings 3-2 Sunday on a game-winning goal from Jonathan Ericsson with 5 seconds left — less than a minute after the defending Stanley Cup champions tied the game. “I knew it was going to be ugly,” Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. “But, I just wanted it to be an ugly win.” The Red Wings, coming off victories against Edmonton on Saturday afternoon and at St. Louis on Thursday night, were seconds away from settling for a point after Henrik Zetterberg set up goals for Pavel Datsyuk and Damien Brunner in the first period. Los Angeles, which got within a goal late in the first period on Anze Kopitar’s goal, pulled goaltender Jonathan Quick to add an extra skater. Forward Kyle Clifford got off the bench in time to keep the puck in Detroit’s
end. Clifford’s shot rebounded off Jimmy Howard and Alec Martinez scored on a putback to make it 2-all at the 19:07 mark of the third period. With Quick back in, the Kings failed to clear the puck and Ericsson took advantage with a slap shot from above the right circle that trickled in for the win. Ericsson refused to be hailed for the victory. “We owe Jimmy this one,” Ericsson said. Howard made 45 saves, his highest total in more than a year. “Every single night, points are at a premium,” he said. “You have to get points to stay in the mix and stay in the playoff hunt.” The Kings have some work to do over their last 38 games to have a chance to defend their championship. They started the day among the Western Conference teams with the fewest points and have won only one of their last five games. Kopitar, though, was more encouraged than discouraged by the latest loss. “That was our best game of the year,” he said. “Playing like that, you’re going to win more times
than not.” Los Angeles isn’t dealing with a favorable schedule. After raising the franchise’s first Stanley Cup banner on Jan. 19, the Kings have played just two home games. They close a fivegame trip on Monday night at St. Louis, return to Los Angeles for one game, then hit the road again for games in Chicago, Edmonton and Calgary. Los Angeles will play 13 of 16 games from Feb. 23 through March 23 at home, a stretch in which it may have to rally for a spot in the playoffs as it did last year en route to becoming the first eighth-seeded team to win an NHL title. “I think we’re a comfortable team on the road,” Kings forward Dustin Brown insisted. “We showed that in the playoffs last year.” Los Angeles defenseman Drew Doughty tried to give his team a boost in Detroit by checking Datsyuk hard early in the first period. Datsyuk bounced back within a couple minutes to score on a wrist shot to the top right corner of the net. “He was looking for an even up,” Red Wings coach Mike
Babcock said. Brunner took a pass from Zetterberg and put Detroit up 2 late in the first period, scoring a team-high sixth goal on a sharp shot from the right circle. Kopitar scored at the 19:19 mark of the second period. “I think it was Kopie’s best game of the year,” Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. “He had some bounce in his game.” The Red Wings held onto the 2-1 lead because Howard made 23 saves in the scoreless second period. “Howie stole that one for us, no doubt about that,” Niklas Kronwall said. The Red Wings gave up more shots (38) through two periods than they had in an entire game this season and that total also set a season high for the Kings. Los Angeles couldn’t turn that into an advantage one game after being shut out 3-0 despite outshooting the Nashville Predators 32-14 on Thursday. “Probably our best 60 minutes in a long time,” Brown said. “Got to forget about the last 10 seconds.”
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CONQUERING THEIR DEMONS Huskies defeat DePaul Blue Demons 91-44
By Mike Corasaniti Associate Managing Editor In the midst of nearly three feet of snow this weekend, local baseball fans may be yearning for a warm thought this week. Hopefully pitchers and catchers reporting for both the New York Mets and Yankees on Wednesday will be enough. Spring training brings to fans both the warmth and promise that only baseball can bring, but like any year, it brings a truckload of questions for New York’s baseball squads. For the Yankees, 2012 ended roughly and the offseason only turned things from bad to worse. After an exciting division series win over the upstart Baltimore Orioles, the Detroit Tigers swept the Yankees in the ALCS, booting them out of the postseason. And while the Yankees may have been swept out of the playoffs before, it was never quite like this. Their pitching was absolutely lit up by Detroit bats that would eventually be crushed themselves by San Francisco. Their own bats went silent, and the saga that is Alex Rodriguez took another dramatic turn after his own offensive woes took him right to the bench and out of the starting lineup. The Yanks just may be worthy of your pity, but at least they made it to the playoffs last season. The Mets, who have not seen October baseball for six straight years, finished last season 14 games below .500 and the same amount of games away from the second National League Wild Card spot. In typical Mets fashion however, they were well in the hunt fairly late into the summer, not truly dipping off until August (formidable for a Mets team as of late). But thanks to a shoddy bullpen and inconsistent offense, they floundered all the way back to fourth place in the division. But 2013 offers interesting prospects for both New York clubs. The Yankees surprised some by signing Kevin Youkilis and letting Nick Swisher walk, but again, any headline with “Rodriguez” in it has taken center stage. Being further linked to a steroid distributor is no good for any ball player, and for the much maligned A-Rod, it may just signal the end of his tenure in the Bronx. And even if the Yankees were to make more positive changes heading into next year, some believe that it may nonetheless be the end of their tenure as top dog in the AL East. The Orioles, who returned to the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade last season, and the Toronto Blue Jays, who have undoubtedly had the most exciting offseason so far, look to be slowly taking over the division they have been in the basement of for so long. On the flip side, the Mets outlook seems to be a bit more promising, if for nothing more but the fact that they can’t get much worse than they have been. Re-signing David Wright to his monster 7-year deal may be costly, but bringing their undisputed captain back for at least the remaining bulk of his career was the only sure thing to do. And in terms of pitching, the blue and orange are doing the seemingly right thing by signing any relief pitcher (Houston’s Brandon Lyon being the latest) they can get their hands on to replace the circus that was their 2012 bullpen. Hope, intrigue and a lot of controversy await the 2013 seasons for the Mets and Yankees, and it’s all beginning a lot sooner than you may think.
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Despite a winter storm that pounded the Northeast for much of the weekend, the UConn women’s basketball team did not appear frozen in their game against DePaul Sunday evening. The game was far from pretty, as the Huskies turned the ball over 15 times and struggled to stay away from sloppy play during some stretches, but the effort was overwhelmingly positive when the Blue Demons came to town. “I think it shows a lot more maturity than we’ve shown in the past,” Bria Hartley said of her team’s ability to stay crisp despite the issues caused by the storm. “That’s good and I think that’s a step in the right direction. We want to continue to come out here and be focused like that for every game regardless of what the circumstances are.” Those circumstances – which severely hindered DePaul’s travel plans and forced them to arrive in Storrs just an hour and a half prior to the game – were unfortunate in the eyes of Blue Demons’ Coach Doug Bruno, but he did not want to use them as an excuse after the game. “I don’t want to minimize what our kids, our players, went through,” Bruno said, “but at the
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UConn center Stefanie Dolson dribbles the ball up the court in a recent game against the DePaul Blue Demons at Gampel.
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Napier scores 22 as UConn beats Seton Hall NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The blizzard that dumped almost three feet of snow in Connecticut forced the men’s basketball team to ride the bus to New Jersey for five to six hours on Saturday for a game against Seton Hall, so it’s not surprising the Huskies appeared a little out of sorts. Connecticut needed a little time to find its game and once Shabazz Napier took over, the Huskies were more than enough for struggling Seton Hall. Napier had 22 points, nine assists and six steals and led a second-half comeback that carried Connecticut to a 78-67 victory over Seton Hall on Sunday. “We feed off him and feed off his energy,” said Connecticut coach Kevin Ollie, who had to be picked up in Hartford by the team bus because he could not get to the campus in Storrs. “That’s what the great ones do. When you need him, he’s there. He’s been consistent all year. He’s doing a great job leading
this team, and without him I don’t know where we’d be.” Ryan Boatright added 20 points and Omar Calhoun had 10 points as the Huskies (16-6, 6-4 Big East) rallied from a sevenpoint deficit and handed Seton Hall (13-11, 2-9) its fifth straight loss and ninth in 10 games. Aaron Cosby had a careerhigh 25 points to lead Seton Hall, while Fuquan Edwin, playing with a sprained ankle, added 19 points. Napier scored 18 of his 22 points in the second half and finished 8 of 12 from the field while playing 39 minutes. He hit a free throw, a fast-break layup and a 3-pointer in a 9-0 run that gave Connecticut the lead for good. “The first half, I wanted to be more of a distributor and I didn’t want to mess up the chemistry,” Napier said. “In the second half, I had to be more aggressive and stay in control of things. Fortunately, I got good shots and
I made the shots.” The Huskies, who shot 54.2 percent from the field, didn’t get to New Jersey until around midnight, but Napier said the trip wasn’t bad. “Things happen for a reason,” the junior said. “It took us a little while to get to New Jersey and to the hotel. But we had so much fun on the bus. Even though we were stuck a few times, we took the time, and since we were having fun we didn’t realize how long we were on the bus. We just had fun.” The Huskies got sloppy in the final eight minutes of the first half and blew a 13-point lead. Seton Hall led by one at the half and pushed the margin to 43-36 early in the second half as Cosby and Edwin hit 3-pointers to ignite an 8-0 spurt. Reserve R.J. Evans came off the bench and scored four points and Tyler Olander scored off an assist from Napier to cut the deficit to 43-42.
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UConn guard Shabazz Napier runs up the court in a recent game at Gampel. The Huskies defeated Seton Hall on the road in New Jersey Sunday.
Dolson shines in victory over DePaul By Matt Stypulkoski Staff Writer
what had become a 38-point game with about 14 minutes remaining by UConn Coach There’s just something Geno Auriemma. about playing DePaul inside “It’s always tough to play Gampel Pavilion that works against talent and Dolson well for Stefanie Dolson. is talented,” DePaul Coach Two seasons ago, when the Doug Bruno said after the Blue Demons made game. “Her taltheir last trek to ent is [versatile]. Storrs, she posted a I mean she’s then-career-high 21 multi-faceted in points. that she can beat When DePaul you short of the came back to basket with her the UConn camstrength and size pus Sunday night, and she can beat Dolson threatened you face-to-theNotebook to break her nowbasket with her career-high of 25 ability to shoot points. and pick you apart.” In fact, Dolson may well One of those many talents, have set a new career mark and perhaps the most impreshad she not been pulled in sive statistic Dolson posted
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UConn freshman Moriah Jefferson stares down a DePaul player in the Huskies 91-44 victory over the Blue Demons at Gampel.
against the Blue Demons, is her ability to hit shots from the free-throw line. Dolson hit her first 10 shots from the charity stripe on the evening before finally rimming out on her 11th and final attempt of the game, giving her a 91 percent performance from the free-throw line. “I pride myself a lot on that,” Dolson said of her freethrow shooting. “I haven’t been doing great with my free-throws this year, and I’ve been practicing a lot and it’s good to see that it’s been paying off.” Over her first two seasons as a Husky, Dolson hit 81.3 percent of her attempts from the free-throw line.
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