The Daily Campus: February 13, 2012

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UConn names new athletic director

By Colin McDonough Associate Sports Editor

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UConn’s search for its next athletic director is over. Warde Manuel, who held the same position at the University at Buffalo the last six years, was named the new athletic director at UConn.

“I am so honored and excited to come to the University of Connecticut,” Manuel said in a statement. “UConn is

synonymous with greatness, excellence and achievement.

It is without a doubt one of the legendary schools that is at the pinnacle of intercollegiate athletics. The opportunity to be the athletics director at UConn and lead this extraordinary division is the role of a lifetime.”

Manuel’s contract is for five years, with a two-year extension option. His salary will be $450,000 a year.

Manuel graduated from the University of Michigan in 1990, where he played football and ran track and field. Before going to Buffalo, Manuel spent time as the assistant and associate athletic director at Michigan. At Buffalo, Manuel was in charge of all 20 sports for the Bulls.

“We are incredibly proud and thrilled that Warde will be joining the Husky family,” said UConn president Susan

Herbst in a statement. “UConn is one of the great American universities and our athletics program is the envy of many.

It’s because of this that we were able to attract an amazing pool of candidates from across the nation - and an ideal, stand-out candidate of Warde’s exceptionally-high caliber.”

At Buffalo, Manuel directed all 20 sports teams to post an APR score above 975. On the field, the Bulls made the

International Bowl in 2009, where they lost to UConn, and the men’s basketball team made the postseason three out of the last seven years.

In 2008, Sports Business Journal named Manuel a national 40-under-40 honoree. Manuel currently serves on the NCAA Division 1 Championship/ Sports Management Cabinet.

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Renovations planned around campus for older buildings

‘Queen of Pop’ Whitney Houston passes away at 48

By Loumarie Rodriguez Staff Writer

Renovation budgets were approved for the Bousfield Psychology building, Beach Hall, Young Building and McMahon dining hall in order to update these buildings and accommodate more space for students.

The renovation plan was originally part of the UConn 2000 plan according to Dr. Cameron Faustman, the Associated Dean of the Academic Program for the college of agriculture and natural resources. He is also the one of the two principle contact personals for the renovation project of the Young Building.

It was only recently that the board of trustees approved for each building an individual budget that will best fit the needs.

Bousfield will receive $22.5 million, Young building $15 million, Beach Hall $2 million and McMahon Dining Hall $9.9 million.

The Bousfield Psychology Building has multiple problems including a leaky roof due to the snowstorm back in October 2011. Their program has grown to become one of the top undergraduate programs. “It’s an old building and the physical structure has been suffering for a number of years,” said Professor Janet Barnes-Farrell in the Psychology department. “There have been water issues for years.”

Within the Young Building renovations will replace mechanical and electrical devices in order to update the building. During the renovation the building will be closed and all the classes will be placed in various buildings

SLICED IN SYRACUSE No. 2 Orange pull away from Uconn at Carrier Dome SPORTS/ page 14 EDITORIAL: HIGHER EDUCATION COMMITTEES’ EFFORTS ARE COMENDABLE State body shows committment to education.

COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: IN CONN., MORE MEN THAN WOMAN USE PHONES WHILE DRIVING Contrary to popular opinion, men are caught more on the phone.

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In this photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, Whitney Houston performs during the Billboard Awards at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Dec. 7, 1998. Often referred to as the Queen of Pop music at her best, Houston ex-wife of singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday, Feb. 11, at the age of 48.

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In our modern world, it’s not often that one has the privilege to attend a truly inspirational and informative lecture that is both engaging and exciting, all without using a powerpoint presentation. Thanks to Dr. Zbigniew M. Bzymek, on Friday Feb. 10th, the School of Engineering had the honor of hosting both Igor Sikorsky Jr. Esq. and Nikolai Sikorsky, sons of the famous Aviation Pioneer for the 2012 MEM Senior Design Class Lecture.

The presentation was cosponsored by the UConn student section of The Association of Mechanical Engineers

(ASME), with the help of Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Michael Gwara and support by the Management and Engineering for Manufacturing (MEM) Society.

In addition to learning some of the little-known facts about the beginnings of aviation, audience members were granted unique anecdotes about Mr. Sikorsky, providing insight to his demeanor and secrets to his success. Nikolai Sikorsky shared heartfelt comments about knowing “the man” Igor Sikorsky Sr., the philosopher, the astronomer, the engineer, the pioneer, providing a true context and personality behind the great innovator responsible for numerous

aircraft designs, including the first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft flight in 1913. One chord that truly stuck with the audience was the notion of Mr. Sikorsky Sr. being a great ‘respecter’ of all people, from the several U.S. presidents he met, to the employees sweeping the floors in his plants.

This, combined with his ability to be a great listener were key tools that enabled his intuition and design expertise to fuel innovation in the aircraft industry.

Once Igor Jr. took the stage, listeners were provided with an incredible description of his father’s life dedication to aviation. Through this timeline, Igor Sr. was able to experi-

ence an astounding development in aviation technology and capability, prompting Igor Jr. to comment on his father’s intuitive knack of “flying by the seat of his pants.” Drawing comparisons with today, Igor Jr. commented that engineers during his father’s generation were inventing in a time when there weren’t as many review boards, committees and protocols, and were able to operate with the notion “just build it.” Though modern engineers have the advantage today of sophisticated computer technology, there are a number of safeguards and committees in place that require the regulation of design and somewhat hinder the speed of the innovation pro-

cess. This insight all helped to further illustrate the true magic of Sikorsky Sr.’s brilliance in aviation design throughout the 1900s, and how a similar feat is unfathomable today.

At the conclusion of the lecture, Nikolai and Igor Jr. generously provided autographed photographs of their father: a black and white snapshot of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 in flight with their father at the controls, wearing his signature hat—never a flight helmet or goggles. This moment in time perhaps best exemplifies Igor Sikorsky Sr.’s innovative personality and passionate pioneering in the aviation industry.

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Lawmakers want more healthy food for kids

HARTFORD (AP) — Some Connecticut state lawmakers and school nutrition advocates want to expand children’s access to healthy foods.

The coalition plans to call attention to the need to provide adequate funding and administrative support for child nutrition programs and nutrition professionals in schools. A legislative lobbying event is planned at the state Capitol on Wednesday.

Last month, first lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced new guidelines for school lunches. It marked the first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years, offering food with less sodium, more whole grains and a wider selection of fruits and vegetables on the side.

Lieberman calls on US arms support for Syrians

HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman says the United States should provide weapons to the Syrians to fight President Bashar Assad.

In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, the Independent senator said it’s time to give Syrians weapons so they can battle Assad, whom he called a dictator. He said other nations also should help arm the Syrians.

Lieberman, who was elected to a fourth term in 2006 as an Independent, caucuses with the Democrats.

He lost the Democratic Party nomination after antagonizing liberal Democrats with his support of the war in Iraq. Lieberman is not seeking re-election this year.

Assad’s regime has pursued a harsh crackdown against an uprising that began last March. A U.N. estimate in January says more than 5,400 people have been killed.

Norwalk man injured in botched police hdq. escape

NORWALK (AP) — A Norwalk man has been hospitalized after he injured himself while trying to escape from police headquarters.

The Hour of Norwalk reports that police say Jester GabrielLopez tried Sunday to scale the steel bars in the booking cage where he was held on assault charges.

Police say the 20-year-old man tried to break through the ceiling tiles but lost his grip at the top of the cage and fell, striking his head on the concrete floor. He was taken to Norwalk Hospital.

Gabriel-Lopez was arrested Sunday morning after his girlfriend told police he punched her repeatedly during an argument.

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Experts: Stanford’s trial not won with 1 witness

HOUSTON (AP) — From testimony about bribes, blood oaths, faked profits and secret Swiss bank accounts, the ongoing fraud trial of jailed and former jet setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford has had its share of drama.

And many of the details about the alleged fraud that prosecutors say bilked investors out of more than $7 billion in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history were provided by Stanford’s former top money man and the prosecution’s star witness, James M. Davis, over more than four days of testimony.

But Stanford’s attorneys did their best to tear down Davis and portray him to jurors as a liar, adulterer, tax cheat and the true mastermind of the scheme who has pleaded guilty to three fraud and conspiracy charges as part of a plea deal with prosecutors and will say anything to avoid a lengthy prison term.

More remains found in Calif. with killer’s help

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities searching with the help of a convicted serial killer found more human remains Saturday — the first bones discovered at an abandoned well on a cattle ranch where a death row inmate claimed 10 or more victims may be buried, authorities said.

The discovery marked the third straight day that remains were found with a map prepared by Wesley Shermantine. He and his childhood friend, Loren Herzog, were called the “Speed Freak Killers” for a methamphetamine-fueled killing spree that had as many as 15 victims.

Two sets of remains had been found Thursday and Friday near property once owned by Shermantine’s family about 60 miles south of Sacramento.

The latest remains were found after crews dug slowly through 30 feet of soot and debris at the well near Linden, Calif., said San Joaquin County sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Les Garcia.

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RI city vs. Brown in latest town-gown money clash PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When Providence Mayor Angel Taveras recently warned that Rhode Island’s capital could run out of cash by June and face bankruptcy, he singled out the city’s largest employer and one of its most prestigious institutions — Brown University — for what he called a failure to sacrifice.

The Ivy League school, which as a nonprofit enjoys taxexempt status, makes voluntary payments of a few million dollars a year to the city under an earlier agreement. But Taveras maintains the university should give more at a time when city taxes have gone up, services have been cut, schools have been closed — and he trimmed his own salary by 10 percent.

“Our taxpayers already subsidize the tax-exempt institutions in this city,” Taveras declared at a news conference at City Hall, noting that some residents saw their taxes hiked nearly 13 percent last year. “It takes the revenue collected from 19,000 taxpayers like the one I just mentioned to account for the $38 million in property taxes not paid by Brown University.”

Struggling U.S. cities are increasingly looking to private universities and other taxexempts for cash to cover what they would otherwise fork over in property taxes on valuable parcels. That has sometimes created strained relations with those institutions, which defend their special status by saying they bring jobs, generate eco-

nomic activity and offer critical services in education and health care.

But the town-gown dispute has become particularly pronounced in Providence, where the city faces a roughly $22.5 million deficit in the current fiscal year and the mayor has warned of “devastation” if Brown — and other local colleges and universities — don’t contribute millions more and

city pensions aren’t cut.

Negotiations on Brown’s voluntary payments resumed last week when Gov. Lincoln Chafee, a Brown alumnus, brought together Taveras and two of Brown’s highest-ranking administrators, President Ruth Simmons and Chancellor Thomas Tisch. Representatives from both sides say they are trying to reach a fair agreement.

The city says Brown’s 200-plus

buildings are worth more than $1 billion and would mean $38 million in revenue if they were taxed at the regular commercial rate. Brown is hoping to continue its expansion into a key economic development parcel on the edge of downtown; the so-called Knowledge District, where Brown opened its new medical school building in August, has been identified by the city and state as critical to the fiscal recovery of both.

BRANFORD, Conn. (AP) — When it comes to chatting on the phone or texting while driving, it’s the men who are more often the culprits.

Contrary to the stereotype that women talk more, men in Connecticut have consistently gotten more tickets than women for driving while texting or talking on cell phones since the law went into effect six years ago, a review by The Associated Press shows.

Male drivers received between 52 and 54 percent of the distracted-driving tickets annually since 2006. Females comprise slightly more than half the 2.5 million licensed drivers in the state, according to records obtained by AP. Last year, for instance, Connecticut men got nearly 16,000 tickets while women received 13,690. In 2010, men received 25,392; women 21,346.

Patrick Michael, 20, of Branford, was recently ticketed for talking on the phone while driving. He said he wasn’t surprised to hear that more men get tickets and speculated that police are more likely to let female drivers go without a ticket, “especially if they can bust out the waterworks.”

Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia ban tex-

ting while driving, while nine states and Washington, D.C., bar handheld cellphone use.

Thirty states ban all cellphone use for beginning drivers. No state bans the use of hands-free devices for all drivers.

The bans apply to cell phone use, regardless of whether an accident was involved, said Jonathan Adkins, spokesman for the Governors Highway Safety Association.

There were 3,092 national fatalities blamed on distracted driving in 2010, 408 of which involved cellphone use, federal highway safety officials said .

Connecticut’s higher rate of violations by men is not surprising, said David Snyder, vice president and associate general counsel of the American Insurance Association, a trade group that represents 300 companies. He said that’s consistent with other findings involving male drivers.

“Statistics show that male drivers are more likely than female drivers to engage in risktaking behavior and more males than females die in motor vehicle crashes every year,” Snyder said.

A survey by the Pew Research Center in 2010 found that 51 percent of men who use text messaging have sent or read

messages while driving, compared to 42 percent for women.

The survey found 78 percent of men reported talking on the phone while driving, compared to 72 percent of women.

Similar findings have been reported by researchers in Utah and Washington state, separate studies in Arizona and Texas showed little difference in how much men and women talked.

And federal researchers have mixed findings.

phone calls than women, 42 percent to 39 percent.

In Connecticut, drivers get a $125 ticket for the first offense and $250 for a second offense.

Drivers under 18 also face license suspension.

Michael said he was talking to a cousin in the hospital when he was stopped.

“I don’t really find it distracting,” Michael said.

He was stopped in Branford, a suburb of New Haven that has been among the top towns for tickets issued.

Branford cracked down after reviewing accidents and concluding that many were caused by inattentive driving such as talking or texting on the phone.

Branford police officer Bryan McGinnis, one of two officers dedicated to enforcing the law and other traffic violations, said he can easily spot 10 to 15 violations in a day. He was quickly able to spot drivers talking on cellphones as he patrolled the town Jan. 19.

Kelly DePalma, a 28-yearold New Haven resident, was one of several women McGinnis ticketed.

“It’s garbage,” DePalma said.

“I pay for this car. What I do in it, you know. You can get distracted from anything.”

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In this Feb. 10, 2012 photo, Tara Kane Prendergast, a senior from Colorado and one of 16 Brown University students supporting the position that their school needs to sacrifice more financially to support the city of Providence, speaks at an informational protest on the Brown campus in Providence, RI.

In Conn., more men than women use phones while driving

“I pay for this car. What I do in it, you know. You can get distracted from anything,” Kelly DePalma Ticketed Driver The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said last year that researchers observing drivers found women slightly more likely to use handheld cellphones than men. But a NHTSA telephone survey had more men reporting they made or accepted

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US sex abuse lawsuit against Vatican dismissed MILWAUKEE (AP) — Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a school for the deaf have withdrawn their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants, a major victory for the Holy See, which has long insisted the pope bears no liability for the actions of an abusive priest.

Attorney Jeff Anderson had filed the lawsuit with great fanfare at the peak of a European explosion of the sex abuse scandal in 2010. He alleged that the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and his deputies knew about allegations of sexual abuse at St. John’s School for the Deaf and prevented internal punishment of the accused priest.

The lawsuit had helped shift the blame for priestly sex abuse in the public mind away from bishops — who are responsible for their priests — to the Vatican and Benedict himself.

The Vatican at the time had rejected Anderson’s lawsuit as a publicity stunt, and the Vatican’s U.S. attorney said Saturday the dismissal demonstrates that the case was meritless and never should have been filed in the first place.

Anderson’s firm filed a voluntary notice Friday in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee to dismiss the lawsuit.

Anderson said a key reason for the suit, which named Ratzinger as one of four defendants, had been to hold the pope and Vatican account-

able for abuse. He claimed that the goal was now accomplished in a secondary way, after a favorable ruling this past week from a federal court in which the Archdiocese of Milwaukee had filed bankruptcy. He said he was given 30,000 pages of new documents that show how Vatican officials were indifferent to reports of clergy sex abuse.

“There really is no compelling reason to move forward with this battle on two fronts when we’re making ground on one,” he said Saturday.

While his initial goal was to depose Ratzinger and other top officials, Anderson acknowledged that the legal impediments were proving to be enormous. He said at the least the new documents represent a “consolation prize — it’s not a victory but it’s still a real prize.”

Jeffrey Lena, a Vatican attorney, said Anderson had settled on a convenient excuse for dismissing the lawsuit.

“The real reason is, he was required to file a response to our motion to dismiss, and he knew he was going to lose the suit,” Lena said.

On Jan. 31, the judge rejected a bid by Anderson to respond to the Vatican’s motion to dismiss the case in two separate, sequenced filings, with one response covering jurisdictional issues and the other on stating a claim. By forcing Anderson to respond to both at the same time, Lena said, Anderson was put in a box: forced to use facts one way to support the jurisdic-

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Max Pons is already anticipating the anxiety he’ll feel when the heavy steel gate shuts behind him, leaving his home isolated on a strip of land between America’s border fence and the violence raging across the Rio Grande in Mexico.

For the past year, the manager of a sprawling preserve on the southern tip of Texas has been comforted by a gap in the rust-colored fence that gave him a quick escape route north in case of emergency. Now the U.S. government is installing the first gates to fill in this part of the fence along the Southwest border, and Pons admits he’s pondering drastic scenarios.

“I think in my head I’m going to feel trapped,” said Pons, who lives on the 1,000-acre property of sabal palms, oxbow lakes

and citrus groves he manages for the Nature Conservancy’s Southmost Preserve. “I need to have something that is much easier for me to have to ram to get through” if necessary.

Pons’ concerns illustrate one of the complications in the government’s 5-year-old effort to build a secure barrier along the border that would keep out illegal activity from Mexico without causing worse problems for the people living in the region.

In this lush area, the Rio Grande’s wide floodplain precluded building the fence right on the border so it was set back more than a mile in places, running behind the levees.

The result is a no-man’s-land of hundreds of properties, and the people who work on them, on the wrong side of the divide.

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throughout campus that include Arjona, the White building, the Jones building and a few others according to Dr. Faustman.

The building needs to meet the standards for the American with Disabilities Act and will also have a fire suppression system installed.

“This renovation is going to be tremendous,” Dr. Faustman said.

“It will be more welcoming to our current students, alumni and donors.”

The building had many leaks, no A/C, leaked mineral deposits, bad plumbing, and a many others that will be taken care of during the renovations which are set to begin June 2012.

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A seagull flies over the statues of St. Peter, left, and Jesus at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 12. With alleged money laundering at the Vatican bank, corruption in the awarding of Vatican contracts and even a purported plot to kill Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican is being besieged by near-daily leaks of confidential documents.

tion issue, another way to keep the underlying claims alive.

“Caught in this impossible bind, he of course had to dismiss,” Lena said.

The dismissal of the suit now leaves Anderson with one main sex abuse lawsuit naming the Holy See as a defendant, a case in Oregon. In 2010, a lawsuit against the Holy See was dismissed in Kentucky after the lawyer for the victim withdrew it.

The Wisconsin lawsuit named as defendants Ratzinger, who is now Pope Benedict XVI; Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state; his predecessor, Cardinal Angelo Sodano; and the Holy See. Anderson’s lawsuit had claimed the three men knew about allegations of sexual abuse at a Milwaukee-area school for the deaf, and called off internal punishment of the accused priest.

The Rev. Lawrence Murphy,

who died in 1998, was accused of sexually abusing some 200 boys at the school from 1950 to 1974.

The Vatican has long insisted that bishops are the masters of their dioceses and that they, not the Vatican, should be held liable for the actions of abusive priests. The Murphy case had been seen as a potential problem for the Holy See, however, since documentation showed that Bertone at one point had told the

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Pons hopes the gates will open fast. “Because when is reinforcement going to show up?”

Some landowners also worry they’ll become kidnapping targets for smugglers seeking passage through the 18-foot-tall metal fence.

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Beach Hall has faced many leaks and water stained walls throughout the years and will finally have some repairs. As the oldest building (1929) out of the four it will have roof and the brick façade repairs. The windows were recently replaced although there are still problems with the heat. “[Beach Hall] is in need of maintenance. When ice falls off the gutters it leaks into the building,” said Dr. Sally McBrearty the department head of anthropology. “There has been an enormous neglect to this building.”

McMahon dining hall will be undergoing a modernization as well with the plan of making the dining space, which now seats 300, into one that seat 500. The eatery needs a new way to modernize the cooking as well as the service in order to make it more efficient. The renovation will be replacing mechanical/electrical and the fire protection system.

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Higher education committee’s efforts are commendable

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n Connecticut, the state general assembly maintains a higher education committee. Many states do not. Though much of the mission does not relate to our university specifically, some of it does, and all of it relates to higher education in our state. In this way, our state maintains a focus on the importance of higher education to not only the financial security and job opportunities of the state’s citizens, but the second-hand economic benefit to the state’s revenue intake as well.

According to its official mission statement, in part, “The Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to public and independent colleges and universities.” During this specific legislative session which began last week, the committee set off to work.

Eleven bills were raised, with wide-ranging policy proposals and solutions.

One attempt to keep costs and tuition in line by requiring that “The executive director of the Office of Financial and Academic Affairs for Higher Education shall report annually to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies on state, regional and national trends regarding Connecticut higher education, including expenditures, funding, enrollment, faculty and staff positions, cost sharing and student financial aid.”

Another tries to prevent sexual crimes on campuses by mandating that “Each institution of higher education shall adopt and disclose in such institution’s annual uniform campus crime report a policy regarding sexual assault and intimate partner violence” and “offer sexual assault and intimate partner violence primary prevention and awareness programming for all students and employees that includes an explanation of the definition of consent in sexual relationships and information concerning the reporting of incidences of such assaults and violence, bystander intervention and risk reduction; and ongoing sexual assault and intimate partner violence prevention and awareness campaigns.”

Yet another attempts to prevent remedial course retakes by students by necessitating that “Any student enrolled at a public institution of higher education may take an entry level course in a college level program offered by such institution Public institutions of higher education shall offer remedial support in the classroom to students who demonstrate shortcomings in any entry level courses in a college level program.”

With public higher education receiving less and less funding from most states (including our own), it is worth appreciating the effort our higher education committee puts in to ensure that our public universities are not kept by the wayside. UConn students are better for it in the short-term and the whole state will be better for it in the long-term.

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I went to church today and the sermon was one hour long. Is it bad that I was praying for it to end?

I think Georgetown just missed again.

Sometimes I think the basketball team’s strategy is just to lose in the most painful way possible.

Did Nicki Minaj actually want to wear that red hooded dress to the Grammy Awards or did she lose a bet?

I miss the days when the only thing a person could judge you by was what was in your AIM profile.

The only way the NCAA will ever get off UConn’s back is if someone here places them under an Imperius curse.

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Jokes should not be met with outrage

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Muslim convert from Brooklyn, N.Y. plead guilty last week to using the “Revolution Muslim” website that he created to threaten and encourage other radicals to commit violent acts against the creators of the popular Comedy Central series “South Park.”

The controversy began in 2010 when the show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker depicted the prophet Muhammad in a bear costume.

Following this, the creator of the “Revolution Muslim” website, Jesse Curtis Morton, posted inflammatory posts such as postBy Tyler McCarthy ing the address of Associate Commentary Editor the Comedy Central headquarters where the show is written and encouraging outraged readers to “pay a visit.” Morton, with his guilty plea, is acknowledging that his comments, thinly veiled as they may have been, were in fact threats against Stone and Parker. As a result, he currently finds himself looking at up to 25 years in prison.

When commenting on the guilty plea, Associate Editor of the comedy blog “Splitsider,” Hallie Cantor, wrote that it was a “good reminder for all of us to take comedy a little less seriously, maybe.”

While the writer probably meant her comment in the usual tongue-in-cheek style that the site is known for, perhaps it’s not an

idea to be scoffed at.

By their very nature, jokes are not meant to be taken seriously. Every comedian from Carlin to Seinfeld has had some thoughts on the philosophy of jokes and whether or not there is such a thing as subject that simply cannot be broached by comedy. In the most technical of terms, brutally honest comedy writers believe that there is no line and that comedy is the exception to every rule. A good laugh can reach across all social, racial and cultural barriers and make anything okay to talk about in a lighthearted manner.

That is a nice image and many people wish that they lived in a world like this, the cold hard truth is that they don’t. All people, especially comedians, should be free to say and do whatever they deem artistic enough for their craft. However, it has been said that freedom of speech does not guarantee someone the right to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. Comedy, like everything else, is governed by the principles of good taste. Take, for example, jokes about rape on the show Family Guy. While it cannot be denied that there are people who think that these jokes are funny, good taste would dictate that the amount of laughs doesn’t equal out the number of people who would be offended by the joke. It is not necessarily a restriction of free speech; it’s just a good way to exercise it.

This point isn’t meant to condemn the actions of Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

They are considered by many to be some of the best comedic minds today. It’s no secret that they were trying to make a free speech issue out of their portrayal of Muhammad

to demonstrate the lunacy of taking a joke or one’s personal beliefs too seriously. The truth is that the philosophies of free speech versus good taste can apply to both the comic and the audience. As Cantor jokingly stated, Morton is an example of what can happen to a person who is willing to take a joke too seriously.

There is a problem in the world. People take advantage of every slight opportunity to turn something innocuous into a call to arms for a barely related cause. For example, last year comedian Tracy Morgan came under fire for some jokes he made about how he would handle is son if he turned out to be a homosexual. People forced Morgan to choose between his freedom to say what he wanted on stage and his reputation. The fact of the matter was, it was a joke that didn’t land, not Morgan’s attempt to bash the LGBT community. It was a joke in poor taste, but the backlash was in poor taste as well. Vilifying Morgan was unnecessary and useless to everyone involved.

It comes down to a give and take.

Comedy writers and actors need to filter their work through the principles of good taste. However, the public needs to understand that everyone is human and not every bit will land perfectly. The duty to respect the principles of good taste is then on the audience to question what they will accomplish with their complaints and if those complaints are really relevant to the issue.

Weekly Columnist Tyler McCarthy is a 6th-semester journalism and English double major. He can be reached at Tyler.McCarthy@UConn.edu.

Robotic hearts blur lines of what is ‘human’

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y friends and I used to emulate (Mega Man, RoboCop and even Cyborg from Teen Titans) when playing with toy guns and fighting crimes. The thought of being half human and half robot was beyond anything that we could fathom. But, there we were, pretending to have all of the abilities that can only come with being a robot. What once existed only in the realm of special effects, green screens, imaginations of little kids and in the minds of the most brilliantly creative writers, is now becoming reality.

The doctors

By Fariya Naz at the Texas Staff Columnist Heart Institute can now say that they have successfully installed an artificial heart into a living, human being. There is now a man in this world who has no detectable heartbeat or pulse.

What is most striking is how far engineers are going to make life possible though it could eventually lead to nonexistence. No life, meaning, no one would be “living.” Everyone would just be functioning. If there can be an artificial heart made today, then one day, there may very well be key components of the brain being made. Personalities might be dictated by which microchip is placed in one’s head. How many advancements can we make before a person is

no longer considered a person?

People rely on machines to survive. To say that the loss of the machinery used in foods we eat, the work we do and the things we use on a daily basis would be detrimental is clearly an understatement. People say that they cannot “live” without their iPhones, but imagine a world where you really could not “live” without some piece of technology because it actually sustains you in some medical way.

A while ago, people began using organs from other animals. Namely, pigs’ hearts were used to replace dysfunctional human hearts.

The body rejected the hearts for various reasons and no transplants were successful. The idea seemed plausible because the pig anatomy is similar to that of humans’. Is it just as plausible to use an artificial heart? To us, the answer is most likely yes, but that is because we are living during a time that is at the heart of the Earth’s technological boom.

Where can we draw the line and call something not man?

How many vital organs must

be run by a machine in order for the body to be considered a machine? Will this question actually ever need to be answered?

Abnormalities in health arise daily. They are more widespread now than ever before because of technological advances. We do less because we have technology that does more for us. If we keep doing less, our organs might just decide to stop working. Granted this will take a long time, but it is possible. The reason we have vestigial organs is because evolutionarily speaking, if you stop using it, you eventually lose it. The main point is, if the vital organs that are characteristically known to differentiate us from machines are created using technology, one by one, we will lose who we are. We will not know the difference between the Terminator and the guy who lives down the street.

It is because everyone’s brain is different in some way that we are considered individuals. This is why we have new ideas and unique thoughts. Some time

“... having a

heart that does not beat does

not constitute a living person.”

back, Watson, a super computer created by IBM appeared on “Jeopardy!” and went head- tohead against the game’s all time champions. Watson won, but if all of the knowledge that Watson has is put into the brain of a person, then would that person be Watson? It depends on whether or not the person retains his or her earlier characteristics. How convenient would it be if everyone had access to that seemingly infinite amount of knowledge in their brain because of some technological breakthroughs?

Although equalizing intellectual backgrounds by giving everyone the same knowledge feels like a better idea than perhaps learning at a school, it still cannot serve as the only means of learning.

Similarly, having a heart that does not beat does not constitute a living person. Yes, there is a humming where there should be a beating, but that is still not the same—this man, by all intents and purposes is “dead.”

If his brain had a chip that let him breathe or eat and drink, he would still be considered living since people get help for that all of the time. One still wonders, though, how incapable is one allowed to be, to still be considered “living?”

Staff Columnist Fariya Naz is a 2nd-semester psychology major. She can be reached at Fariya.Naz@UConn.edu.

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Arab League wants UN peacekeepers in Syria CAIRO (AP) — The Arab League called Sunday for the U.N. Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria and urged Arab states to sever all diplomatic contact with President Bashar Assad’s regime, the League’s latest effort to bring an end to the violence that has killed more than 5,000 people.

Syria immediately rejected the moves, spelled out in a resolution adopted by League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo.

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal conveyed the 22-nation League’s deep frustration with Syria, telling delegates that it was no longer appropriate to stand by and watch the bloodshed.

“Until when will we remain spectators?” he said. The bloodshed in Syria “is a disgrace for us as Muslims and Arabs to accept.”

Syria’s state news agency said the regime rejected the Arab League decisions, which were taken without a Syrian representative present.

Syria’s ambassador to the Arab League, Ahmed Youssef, was quoted as saying that Saudi Arabia and Qatar were “living in a state of hysteria after their last failure at the U.N. Security Council to call for outside interference in Syria’s affairs and to impose sanctions on the Syrian people.”

The Arab League has been at the forefront of regional efforts to end 11 months of bloodshed in Syria. The group put forward a plan that Assad agreed to in December, then sent in monitors to check whether he was complying.

When it became clear that Assad’s regime was flouting the terms of the agreement and the killings were continuing, the League pulled out the observers last month.

“The time has come for a decisive action to stop the bloodshed suffered by the Syrian people since the start of last year,” Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby told the Arab foreign ministers. “We

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Police walk through the main market area of Manama, Bahrain, following clashes Saturday, Feb. 11.

Bahrain security tight before uprising anniversary

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Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby, left, and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Althani, right, are seen during a meeting in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Feb. 12.

must move quickly in all directions ... to end or break the ongoing cycle of violence in Syria.”

The League called for the U.N. Security Council to adopt a resolution that provides for an immediate cease-fire in Syria, the protection of civilians and overseeing a humanitarian effort for victims of the violence. It demanded that regime forces lift the siege on neighborhoods and villages and pull troops and their heavy weapons back to their barracks.

It urged Syrian opposition groups to unite ahead of a Feb. 24 meeting in Tunisia of the “Friends of Syria” group, which includes the United States, its European allies and Arab nations working to end the uprising against Assad’s authoritarian rule.

The group was created after last weekend’s veto at the U.N. by Russia and China of a Western and Arab draft resolution that would have pressured Assad to step down. That resolution also would have demand-

ed that Assad halt the crackdown on dissent and implement the Arab League peace plan that calls for him to hand over power to his vice president and allow creation of a unity government to clear the way for elections.

Elaraby told the Cairo meeting that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wrote him a letter Saturday saying Russia would agree to a joint U.N.-Arab League peacekeeping force.

The League also said it wanted to provide Syrian opposition groups with political and material support. It called for a halt to all diplomatic contacts with Syria and for referring officials responsible for crimes against the Syrian people to international criminal tribunals. It urged a tightening of trade sanctions previously adopted by the League that have not been fully implemented.

The foreign ministers were also expected to consider a proposal by Gulf states to expel Syrian ambassadors from Arab capitals, but the resolution made

no mention of that.

Meanwhile, Washington piled more pressure on Syria.

President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Jacob Lew, said it was only a matter of time before Assad’s regime collapsed.

“The brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable and has to end,” Lew told “Fox News Sunday.” The U.S. is pursuing “all avenues that we can” and “there is no question that this regime will come to an end.

The only question is when,” he said.

Late Saturday, al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri threw the terror network’s support behind Syrian rebels trying to topple Assad, raising fears that Islamic extremists are exploiting the uprising that began peacefully but is quickly transforming into an armed insurgency.

The Syrian regime has long blamed terrorists for the revolt, and al-Qaida’s endorsement creates new difficulties for Western and Arab states trying to figure out a way to help force Assad out of power.

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain on Sunday deployed thousands of security forces to confront anti-government protesters ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Shiite-led uprising that seeks to loosen the ruling Sunni dynasty’s monopoly on power.

Opposition groups urged marchers to stream toward an empty lot dubbed “Freedom Square” outside the capital Manama. Some activists seek to occupy the site before Tuesday’s anniversary of the start of the wave of protests, and turn it into a new semi-permanent hub for the uprising to replace Pearl Square.

The central Manama roundabout was the opposition’s headquarters during the first weeks of the Shiite majority’s campaign against the Sunni monarchy. Security forces stormed the protesters’ encampment at the landmark square after authorities imposed martial law in March and tore down the pearl sculpture that marked the site.

The now heavily-guarded square holds great symbolic value for Bahrain’s opposition movement, and protesters have repeatedly tried to retake it. But the capital has largely been off limits to demonstrators since March.

Street battles between security forces and protesters still flare up almost every day in the predominantly Shiite villages around the capital.

Rioting engulfs Athens, buildings burn before the vote is held

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after rioters in central Athens torched buildings, looted shops and clashed with riot police.

The historic vote paves the way for Greece’s European partners and the International Monetary Fund to release $170 billion (euro130 billion) in new rescue loans, without which Greece would default on its debt mountain next month and likely leave the eurozone — a scenario that would further roil global markets.

Sunday’s clashes erupted after more than 100,000 protesters marched to the parliament to rally against the drastic cuts, which will ax one in five civil service jobs and slash the minimum wage by more than a fifth.

At least 10 buildings were on fire, including a movie theater, bank and cafeteria, and looters smashed dozens of shops in the worst riot damage in years.

Dozens of police officers and at least 37 protesters were injured, 23 suspected rioters were arrested and a further 25 detained.

As the vote got under way early Monday, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos urged calm, pointing to the country’s dire financial straits.

“Vandalism and destruction have no place in a democracy and will not be tolerated,” Papademos told Parliament. “I call on the public to show calm.

At these crucial times, we do not have the luxury of this type of protest. I think everyone is aware of how serious the situation is.”

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A petrol bomb explodes over riot police during clashes in Athens, Sunday, Feb. 12. Riots engulfed central Athens and at least 10 buildings went up in flames in mass protests late Sunday as lawmakers prepared for a historic parliamentary vote on harsh austerity measures demanded to keep the country solvent and within the eurozone.

Since May 2010, Greece has survived on a $145 billion (euro110 billion) bailout from its European partners and the International Monetary Fund.

When that proved insufficient, the new rescue package was approved. The deal, which has not yet been finalized, will be combined with a massive bond swap deal to write off half the country’s privately held debt.

But for both deals to materialize, Greece has to persuade its deeply skeptical creditors that it has the will to implement spending cuts and public sector

reforms that will end years of fiscal profligacy and tame gaping budget deficits.

As protests raged Sunday, demonstrators set bonfires in front of parliament and dozens of riot police formed lines to keep them from making a run on the building. Security forces fired dozens of tear gas volleys at rioters, who attacked them with firebombs and chunks of marble broken off the fronts of luxury hotels, banks and department stores.

Clouds of tear gas drifted across the square, and many in

the crowd wore gas masks or had their faces covered, while others carried Greek flags and banners.

A three-story building was completely consumed by flames as firefighters struggled to douse the blaze. Streets were strewn with stones, smashed glass and burnt wreckage, while terrified passers-by sought refuge in hotel lounges and cafeterias.

“I’ve had it! I can’t take it any more. There’s no point in living in this country any more,” said a distraught shop owner walking through his smashed and looted

optician store.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis said rioters tried to storm the City Hall building, but were repelled. “Once again, the city is being used as a lever to try to destabilize the country,” he said.

Conservative New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras said the rioting “hurts the entire country.”

“We are seeing scenes from a future that we must do our utmost to avert,” he said.

Papademos’ government — an unlikely coalition of the majority Socialists and their main foes, New Democracy — had been expected to carry the austerity vote, even if by a narrow margin.

Combined, they control 236 of Parliament’s 300 seats, although at least 20 lawmakers from both main parties said they would not back the private sector wage cuts, pension reductions and civil service layoffs dictated by the draft austerity program.

Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said the measures were vital to the country’s very economic survival.

“The question is not whether some salaries and pensions will be curtailed, but whether we will be able to pay even these reduced wages and pensions,” he said. “When you have to choose between bad and worse, you will pick what is bad to avoid what is worse.”

The new cutbacks, which follow two years of harsh income losses and tax hikes amid a deep recession and record high unemployment have been demanded

by Greece’s bailout creditors in return for a new batch of vital rescue loans.

Bahrain’s ruling Sunni monarchy has warned it would not tolerate a spike in protests to mark the anniversary. Sporadic clashes occurred Sunday with police firing tear gas.

The island’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa said last year’s events were regrettable, although he downplayed the severity of the threat the protests had posed to the 200-year-old-rule of the Sunni dynasty.

The king says that a massive opposition movement does not really exist in the country.

“I regret the events of the past year,” he told the German weekly Der Spiegel in an interview that was published Sunday. “But there is no opposition in Bahrain, not in the sense of a united bloc. Such a thing is not in our constitution.

There are just people with different views, and that is good.”

Shiites account for about 70 percent of Bahrain’s population of some 525,000 people, but say they have faced decades of discrimination, such as being blocked from top political and security posts.

Bahrain’s Sunni rulers have promised reforms, although they refused to make the farreaching changes the protesters and the main Shiite group, Al Wefaq, have demanded.

These include ending the monarchy’s ability to select the government and set all-important state policies.

German city ousts mayor criticized over parade

BERLIN (AP) — Voters in the German city of Duisburg ousted their mayor in a ballot Sunday prompted by persistent anger at his refusal to quit following the deadly mass panic at the Love Parade techno music festival in 2010.

City authorities said 129,833 people voted to remove Adolf Sauerland from office in a recall ballot and only 21,557 wanted to keep him. His term was due to end in 2015.

Sauerland has long faced calls to take political responsibility for poor safety planning at the festival, where 21 people died. However, he repeatedly brushed aside suggestions that he should resign and said it was up to courts to decide who was responsible.

The mayor hasn’t been targeted personally by prosecutors investigating the deadly crush in the western German city on July 24, 2010, but several city employees are under investigation.

A previous attempt to force out Sauerland, a member of the conservative Christian Democrats in a region long dominated by the center-left, failed in September 2010 because opponents couldn’t muster the necessary two-thirds majority in a vote by the city council.

Critics then gathered enough signatures to force the recall election. On Sunday, they easily obtained the 91,228 votes, a quarter of Duisburg’s registered electorate, that they needed to force his departure.

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We will always love you Whitney Houston: Brilliant, troubled pop star dies

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A year ago, Clive Davis’ glittery pre-Grammy showcase was winding down after a number of electric performances when the grandest name of all, Whitney Houston, walked on stage to close the evening with what promised to be a show-stopping tribute to her famous cousin, Dionne Warwick.

Instead, what transpired was yet another troubling display of erratic behavior from the superstar, and a foreshadowing perhaps of what was to come.

Though she looked spectacular, her once-stunning voice sounded frayed and hoarse.

She didn’t seem to follow the rehearsed plan and looked out of sorts at times. Even when Davis, her longtime mentor and producer, announced that the show was over, Houston appeared to try to get back on the microphone, only to be stopped by Davis with the joke: “I found you when you were 19; I’m still your boss!”

On Saturday, Houston was once again the focus of Davis’ annual party, but her presence was a posthumous one. Pop music’s former queen, until her majestic voice was ravaged by drug use and her regal image was tarnished by erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died on the eve of the Grammy Awards she once reigned over. She was 48.

Houston was pronounced dead Saturday afternoon in her room on the fourth floor of the Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills police Lt. Mark Rosen said. “There were no obvious signs of any criminal intent,” he said.

The cause of death was unknown, said Houston’s publicist, Kristen Foster.

Houston’s death came on the night before music’s biggest showcase, the Grammys. She will be remembered Sunday in a tribute by Jennifer Hudson, organizers said. Houston had been at rehearsals for the show Thursday, coaching singers Brandy and Monica, according to a person who was at the event but was not authorized to speak publicly about it. The person said Houston looked disheveled, was sweating profusely and liquor and cigarettes could be smelled on her breath.

At her peak, Houston was the golden girl of the music industry.

From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world’s best-selling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful and peerless vocals rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen.

Her success carried her beyond music to movies, where she starred in hits like “The Bodyguard” and “Waiting to Exhale.”

She had the perfect voice and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer who had sex appeal but was never overtly sexual, who maintained perfect poise.

She influenced a generation of younger singers, from Christina Aguilera to Mariah Carey, who when she first came out sounded so much like Houston that many thought it was Houston.

But by the end of her career, Houston became a stunning cautionary tale of the toll of drug use.

Her album sales plummeted and the hits stopped coming; her once serene image was shattered by a wild demeanor and bizarre public appearances. She confessed to abusing cocaine, marijuana and pills, and her once pristine voice became raspy and hoarse, unable to hit the high notes as she had during her prime.

“The biggest devil is me. I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy,” Houston told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an infamous 2002 interview with thenhusband Brown by her side.

It was a tragic fall for a superstar who was one of the topselling artists in pop music history, with more than 55 million records sold in the United States alone.

Davis, went ahead with his annual concert Saturday at the same hotel where her body was found. He dedicated the evening to her and asked for a moment of silence. Houston was supposed to appear at the gala, held downstairs in the hotel where her body lay for most of Saturday night.

Aretha Franklin, her godmother, said she was stunned.

“I just can’t talk about it now,”

Franklin said in a short statement.

“It’s so stunning and unbelievable. I couldn’t believe what I was reading coming across the TV screen.”

Houston seemed to be born into greatness. In addition to being Franklin’s goddaughter, she was the daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston and the cousin of 1960s pop diva Dionne Warwick.

She first started singing at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., as a child. At the church on Sunday morning, a couple of sympathy cards were tied to a fence post. “To the greatest songstress ever,” one said, and tied next to it was a small bouquet of fresh flowers.

The pastor asked for strength for Houston’s family, said churchgoer Shawn Cooper, 32, of Newark. He said he hadn’t regularly attended church but felt compelled to go on this Sunday.

“The Houston family means a lot to this community, they have done a lot for this community, and being there for them is the best thing we can do as a community,” he said.

In her teens, Houston sang backup for Chaka Khan, Jermaine Jackson and others, in addition to modeling. It was around that time when music mogul Clive Davis first heard Houston perform.

“The time that I first saw her singing in her mother’s act in a club ... it was such a stunning impact,” Davis told “Good Morning America.”

“To hear this young girl breathe such fire into this song. I mean, it really sent the proverbial tingles up my spine,” he added.

Before long, the rest of the country would feel it, too.

Houston made her album debut

in 1985 with “Whitney Houston,” which sold millions and spawned hit after hit. “Saving All My Love for You” brought her her first Grammy, for best female pop vocal. “How Will I Know,” ‘’You Give Good Love” and “The Greatest Love of All” also became hit singles.

Another multiplatinum album, “Whitney,” came out in 1987 and included hits like “Where Do

Broken Hearts Go” and “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.”

Her decision not to follow the more soulful inflections of singers like Franklin drew criticism by some who saw her as playing down her black roots to go pop and reach white audiences. The criticism would become a constant refrain through much of her career.

She was even booed during the “Soul Train Awards” in 1989.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Foo Fighters captured five Grammys and Adele won four, including the song of the year trophy for “Rolling in the Deep,” at a Grammy ceremony that had the difficult task of celebrating music’s best while mourning the loss of one of their greatest, Whitney Houston.

Houston’s death on the eve of the awards forced a delicate balance between the exuberance of the show’s winners and performances with the loss.

Adele, who owned the year’s best-selling album with “21,” was triumphant in her first performance since vocal chord surgery forced the cancelation of a tour and months of vocal rest.

As the world wondered whether her voice would still soar, she answered with her performance of her hit “Rolling in the Deep,”

and received a rousing standing ovation from the crowd.

The song also won her one of the night’s most prestigious awards, song of the year, as well as one for best pop vocal performance.

“I can’t believe I’m getting emotional already,” she said after picking up the latter award.

“And seeing as it’s a vocal performance, I need to thank my doctors, I suppose, who brought my voice back.”

The night’s other big winners, the Foo Fighters, noted that they made their album “Wasting Light” in a garage declared.

“To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of making music is what’s most important. Singing into a microphone, learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the

most important thing for people to do,” he said as the band accepted their best rock performance trophy for “Walk.” ‘’It’s not about being perfect. It’s not about sounding absolutely correct. It’s not about what goes on in a computer. It’s about what goes on in here (your heart) and what goes on here (your head). ... Long live rock ‘n’ roll!”

Among the evening’s performances was a dance-heavy number by Chris Brown, a performance by Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen, who kicked off the show by performing his new song “We Take Care of Our Own,” a rousing song that references the troubles of the nation.

But soon after the show opened, a somber LL Cool J, the show’s host, appeared in black, and told the audience: “There is

no way around this. We’ve had a death in our family.”

He then led the audience in prayer to “our fallen sister, Whitney Houston.

“Heavenly father, we thank you for sharing our sister Whitney with us,” he said, as celebrities like Lady Gaga and Miranda Lambert bowed their heads in prayer. “Though she is gone too soon, we remain truly blessed to have been touched by her beautiful spirit.”

He introduced a clip of a glowing Houston singing one of her best-known songs, “I Will Always Love You.” LL Cool said afterward: “Whitney, we will always love you.”

In his performance of “Runaway Baby,” Bruno Mars also mentioned the death: “Tonight we’re celebrating.

Tonight we’re celebrating

the beautiful Miss Whitney Houston.”

A tribute to Houston featuring Jennifer Hudson was to take place during the main ceremony.

Houston died on the eve of the Grammys at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she was preparing to attend a pre-Grammy party. Before the death of one of pop music’s most important figures, the pre-Grammy buzz focused on whether Adele — 2011’s top-selling artist and set to make her first public performance on the show since having vocal cord surgery — would be the queen of the Grammys. Although Kanye West led all nominees with seven and Bruno Mars and the Foo Fighters tied Adele with six nominations, she was favored to sweep all of her categories.

By Joe Pentecost Staff Writer

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Top: In this photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, Whitney Houston performs during the Billboard Awards at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Dec. 7, 1998.

Bottom: In this March 25, 2001 file photo, Bobby Brown and his then wife Whitney Houston arrive at Vanity Fair’s Oscar party at Morton’s in Hollywood on March 25, 2001.

Foo Fighters and Adele winning big at Grammys

As an ongoing theme in our modern health-conscious and quality-seeking world, organic and artisanal products have seen a sustained boost in popularity.

Much like the craft beer industry, the growth of competitors helps to fuel the overall success and publicity of the industry. This leads to a wider customer base and opportunities for growth.

Then, it should be no surprise that many microbrewers have teamed up with local farmers and producers of artisanal goods in order to collaborate on specialty ales and lagers that feature both of their products.

For years now, brewers like Rogue (Newport, Ore.) have been utilizing locally grown barleys and hops for many of their beers. A new line dubbed “Chatoe Rogue” has debuted several styles including a Black Lager and a Wet Hop Ale made of 100 percent Oregon ingredients. While smaller breweries may not have the ability to grow and/or source large quantities of locally grown barley and hops, they do have other ways to collaborate with local farmers and artisans.

Despite having just opened in Aug. 2011, Kane Brewing Company (Ocean, N.J.) has already begun to support New Jersey agriculture by sourcing 100 gallons of a local farmers’ freshly pressed apple cider. The cider was boiled down and caramelized over the course of a couple of days, ultimately turning into a deep red syrup that will be used as a kettle addition to a Belgian-Style Red Ale with spices. Look out for this small batch specialty to debut in 750mL bottles and select draft accounts in N.J. over the coming months.

Shorts Brewing (Bellaire, Mich.) is world-famous for a number of inspired offerings stemming from concepts such as Key Lime Pie, Whiskey Sour Cocktail, PB&J Sandwich, Carrot Cake and S’mores. But their collaboration with local produce came in with the brewing of their 7 percent ABV Black Cherry Bourbon Porter. This rich ale incorporates fresh Michigan cherries to complement the rich porter base and bourbon barrel aromatics.

Not all breweries are teaming up with local farmers of fruits and vegetables. Connecticut favorite, Thomas Hooker Brewing Co. in Bloomfield just released a new Chocolate Truffle Stout produced in collaboration with New England favorite Munson’s Chocolates (Bolton). The new seasonal from Hooker clocks in at 6.3 percent ABV and is brewed with oats and Munson’s proprietary cocoa powder blend for a rich, silky smooth chocolate taste that is boosted by another addition of Munson’s cocoa nibs postfermentation. The Chocolate Truffle Stout is available in sixpacks and limited draft distribution through March.

If these breweries are any indication, the trend of collaborating with local artisans will maintain full throttle going into 2012. The ability for friendship and cooperation between likeminded artisans is not only unheard of across other industries, but also serves to promote both companies products and the overall concept of quality, artisanal offerings for customers. It’s safe to say that we can all drink to that. Cheers!

Joseph.Pentecost@UConn.edu

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A still from the season eight episode of “The Office,” “Pam’s Replacement,” featuring Brian Baumgartner as Kevin Malone and Ed Helms as Andy Bernard. The hit comedy has returned from its winter hiatus to the satisfaction of fans.

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What I’m watching “‘Til Death”

Netflix, online services The first two seasons of the shortlived Fox sitcom “‘Til Death” are an example of the sitcom at its most generic and banal. But as it progressed into its writers’s-strike-hampered third season, a strange synergic move between Sony and Fox led to a fourth season being produced.

Of course, it was known by everyone involved that the fourth season would be its last and be dumped onto the schedule at times when it wouldn’t reach more than two million viewers, so things got crazy.

Martin Mull appears as a sexaddicted priest. A supporting character receives a plot-line where he realizes he’s a character in a sitcom, complete with fourth-wall breaking humor and cameos from other famous sitcom actors such as Mayim Bialik from “The Big Bang Theory.” And most hilariously, the show’s establishing shots are met with purposely-bad transition music. The fourth season of “‘Til Death” is an interesting, insane experiment in deconstructing the sitcom.

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“The Office” has returned from its winter hiatus, halfway through its first season without Steve Carell and still has not recovered from his loss. That is not to say that “The Office” is not still a worthwhile show to watch, only that it used to be better. The fact that 7.64 million people tuned into the first episode of the season, and only 5.19 million did so for the most recent episode, reinforces my opinion.

The first episode following the winter break, “Trivia,” features Andy finding a novel way to improve sales in order to reach a bottom line, while Dwight attempts to get corporate opportunities outside Scranton. This episode was fairly weak plot-wise, and failed to address some potential sto-

rylines brought up before the play themselves up to Robert break, like Mrs. California hit- was a nice bit of continuity, but ting on Andy. There were some ultimately ended with an sight great one-liners in the episode, I certainly did not want to see. but apart from that and a possiNext, in “Jury Duty,” Jim lies ble cameo appearance by Carell, about jury duty to spend time the episode had few redeeming with Pam and the kids, and qualities.

Angela has her own secret to Following that was “Pool hide. This episode was actually Party,” in which Robert fairly good. In addition to getCalifornia invites the staff to his ting to see Pam again, if only house for one last party before briefly, we get a bit of continuthe home goes up for ity in that Angela’s sale. Like the previous baby’s father is The Office episode, this one relied almost certainly NBC heavily on one-liners Dwight.

Dwight 9 p.m.

(Val: “Does Darryl not gloating over Jim swim?” Kevin: “That’s getting caught in his racist!”) to make up lie was fairly stanfor its shortcomings. dard behavior on While Erin enlisting his part, but as a Dwight to help her make Andy whole, the episode was more jealous produced some very entertaining than the previous funny situations, Andy’s reac- two, especially considering the tion (or lack thereof) wasn’t “Footloose” opening with Andy. funny, and was actually sad.

Finally in “Special Project,” Ryan and Gabe’s attempts to Dwight is recruited to lead a

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team to Florida to create a chain of Sabre retail stores. Dwight was hilarious in this episode; between screaming like a drill sergeant, releasing mosquitoes in the conference room and his one-liners, he really made the episode shine. The other staff also had fantastic moments, including Stanley’s choice of attire, Nate’s reactions to Darryl’s gift and Pam’s initial reaction to Angela coming back so soon, the episode was a success. Best of all was a cliffhanger from Kathy, who has plans to sleep with Jim while the two are in Florida.

The next few episodes of “The Office” have the potential to be brilliant, especially since next week will see the return of Catherine Tate as Nellie Bertram.

Jason.Wong@UConn.edu

In dire need of supervision

By Jason Bogdan Senior Staff Writer

blissfully dark actions show up as awkward and discomforting as it’d be in real life. In other FX’s second and latest ani- words, these characters just mated series, “Unsupervised,” is aren’t likeable, even with their an unfortunate existence. Even if optimism. the show was just decent, having But underwhelming lead charto stand up after the consistently acters are just the top of the brilliant “Archer’s” timeslot is iceberg. It’s unfathomable that a really tough sell. So in a way, some of the executive producit’s a good thing that the show is ers are from “It’s Always Sunny terrible. Viewers can at least be in Philadelphia” – a show that sure that they should be doing makes detestable people an something else at 10:30 p.m. absolute riot – yet this show still The best way to describe has a plethora of misanthropic “Unsupervised” is “Beavis and characters without a shred of Butthead” with a slathering of quality writing to back them up. urban realism. Like the MTV “Unsupervised” also has the classic, it’s about two two major flaws of Unsupervised friends, Gary (Justin another forgettable, FX Long) and Joel (David recent nighttime car10:30 p.m.

Hornsby), who live toon: “Good Vibes.” with no parental The first is that there supervision. Though, is so much talent in instead of living in the lineup of voice constant, hormoneactors, including the fueled stupidity, these likes of Kristen Bell two teens ignorantly think of the and Romany Malco alongside positive while living in poverty. Long and Hornsby, but there is Instead of “Beavis and nothing to gain from it. These Butthead” which was tongue- characters are still vapid. And in-cheek in depicting how stu- the second is that the animation pid young adults can be in our itself is really abysmal. Even flawed society, “Unsupervised” with the low standard that other makes the drastic mistake in tak- primetime comedies have when ing itself seriously. Gary and Joel it comes to aesthetics (“Archer,” do things like help their school for example, has car chases that baseball team and support their look as dated as the infamous firefighters, but with so much polygon work in anime series sincerity that their warped and “Initial D”), this show looks bad

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Gary and Joel, the protagonists of FX’s “Unsupervised.” Despite a promising voice cast and a realistic depiction of poverty, the show suffers from poor animation and writing.

and suffers worse because of it.

But at least “Good Vibes” had the decency to be good enough to follow up from the latest season of (interestingly enough here) “Beavis and Butthead.”

That was a show that didn’t cause regret to the viewers who were too lazy to change the

channel. “Unsupervised,” on the other hand, made me tearfully reminisce of the laughs that I actually did just have in “Archer’s” stellar third season.

Jason.Bogdan@UConn.edu

If you have not yet heard, Valentine’s Day is tomorrow and in honor of the lovefilled holiday, here is a list of some of the cutest TV couples.

For over 10 years, we have watched Ross and Rachel’s love/hate relationship in “Friends.” Ross is the nerd who is infatuated with the spoiled princess, Rachel.

“Friends” taught us that fate brings together the unlikeliest of people and in the season finale, we saw that Ross and Rachel were always meant to be more than just friends.

Who is your favorite couple in “Modern Family?”

Between Gloria and Jay, Phil and Claire and Cam and Mitchell, I would have to go with Cam and Mitchell.

These two partners know how to have a good time with their ridiculously adorable Vietnamese adoptee, Lily.

Cam and Mitchell show us that a healthy relationship is filled with lots of laughs and some occasional screaming.

Before either of those couples, there was Lois Lane and Clark Kent. For a very long time, these two were stuck in a love triangle in which Clark was obsessed with Lois, who ironically, was infatuated with Superman, Clark Kent’s other identity.

Speaking of saving the world, another fictional couple is from the spy series “Alias.” In the first season, Sydney Bristow was introduced to the world as a heart broken agent who is determined to bring justice to the death of her fiancé. As the series progressed, Sydney found it in her heart to love Vaughn, also an agent for the CIA and Sydney’s point of contact with the CIA. I grew up watching the “Gilmore Girls” and for over four seasons, I wanted Luke to have the courage to ask Lorelei out. In season five, Luke and Lorelei started dating but this only lasted a short time because of Lorelei’s mother and her ex’s meddlesome ways. But don’t fear, the finale of “Gilmore Girls” hinted that Luke and Lorelei will end up together.

Another classic TV couple is Meredith and Derek from “Grey’s Anatomy.” From the beginning of the show, it was clear that these two were destined to be more than just coworkers. In a later episode of the series, Derek proposed to Meredith in possibly the most romantic way you can propose to a surgeon. I can already picture their children being ridiculously goodlooking and unbelievably smart.

Another adorable couple is Chuck and Blair from “Gossip Girl.” Even though Blair ended up marrying someone else (the evil Prince Louis), I have a strong feeling that she will soon come to her senses and run back to Chuck. I cannot think of two individuals who are more perfect for each other than Chuck and Blair.

Some other cute couples include Homer and Marge from “The Simpsons,” Joey and Pacey from “Dawson’s Creek,” Carrie and Mr. Big from “Sex and the City,” and Marissa and Ryan from “The O.C.”

Hima.Mamillapalli@UConn.edu

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The Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts hosted a performance of “Clifford the Big Red Dog Live!: A BIG Family Musical” on Sunday, Feb. 12 as part of the Jorgensen’s Children’s Series. The musical is touring in conjunction with the icon’s 50th anniversary, and celebrates “the values of Clifford’s BIG Ideas – Share, Play Fair, Have Respect, Work Together, Be Responsible, Be Truthful, Be Kind, Believe In Yourself, Be A Good Friend and Help Others,” according to a Jorgensen press release.

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Spencer (Troian Bellisario), Emily (Shay Mitchell) and Aria (Lucy Hale) in a scene from the episode titled “The Naked Truth” from season two of “Pretty Little Liars.”

By Loumarie Rodriguez Staff Writer It appears the truth finally comes out about certain things within the latest episode of “Pretty Little Liars.” The four girls are locked in school together in order to complete a program that involves students telling the truth about problems they have faced in school.

It’s always a toss up on whether Emily or Hanna gets it worse from the mysterious blackmailer “A.” Emily still faces banishment from the swim team and Hanna deals with the judging faces from fellow students after being framed for sending a scandalous text message.

When Emily tries to confront the principal about her banishment he suddenly snaps at her for being a bad person. Lucky for her she gets help from unlikely sources such as Hanna’s BFF, Mona.

Ironically, Mona has the idea of blackmailing the principal since

he’s involved with a lot of sketchy soon learns that Allison’s older dealings involving athletes get- brother is in fact her half brother. ting away with bad grades.

Spencer is furious with her Hanna, on the other hand, is mother for holding out on her all ganged up on during her truth ses- these years but the trouble isn’t sion but it’s only a matter of time over just yet. Aria is out trying to before the truth comes out that her find Caleb but gets locked on the new step sister is the definition of roof of the school where she is the evil step sister. She was the almost attacked by Noel. Luckily real culprit who sent out a mass a friend comes to the rescue. text message framing Hanna. The The episode overall was a episode is called “The Naked bit over-hyped as portrayed in Truth” for a reason, since her the commercials, leaving many stepsister doesn’t get Little Liars” Pretty Little Liars “Pretty away with it for long. fans disappointed.

ABC Family Aria and Caleb are There were a few 8 p.m. in the same truth telling key questions finally group as Jenna which answered, but there makes things extremeis a lot more to learn to figure out Allison’s ly uncomfortable for murder. As usual, the two of them. Jenna the last scenes leave tries to cause trouble, but it backfires when she fails you with 20 more questions than to realize that Caleb still knows answers since Caleb’s laptop is private information about her. being swiped and a mysterious Meanwhile, Spencer is slowly phone call for the girls. putting the pieces together on a secret her family is hiding. She Loumarie.Rodriguez@UConn.edu

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Bundchen back on runway NEW YORK (AP) — There they were: Gisele Bundchen, Shalom Harlow and Karolina Kurkova, along with Alexander Wang's slick, glossy fall collection, all on the catwalk Saturday evening at New York Fashion Week.

Wang assembled a most impressive group of top models for a test spin of his newest looks boasting leather, shine and chiffon in black, oxblood red and an optic white he called "peroxide."

Wang's runway always has a good turnout of big names, but most of these top models don't work the seasonal previews anymore. He gave them a grand stage with a complicated layout of mirrors and narrow pathways.

The clothes, however, were more straightforward than Wang has offered recently. The downtown vibe he embraces often limits his appeal to the cool-girl, downtown model types. This time, the militaryinspired trenchcoats (including one worn by Bundchen), wool sweaters and tweed jackets — waxed and with vinyl visors for effect — potentially work for anyone who needs an outfit

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Model Gisele Bundchen walks the runway in the Alexander Wang show during Fashion Week in New York, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.

for a dressy event or even for the office. That's not to say the looks were dowdy or boring; in fact, they showed that Wang is maturing into a more sophisticated designer.

Model Liya Kebede didn't

walk the show, but she sat in the front row. She said she enjoys the view from there.

"I really enjoying seeing the full collection. I love to see the designer's real vision. Back there, you see bits and pieces,"

she said.

Still, she had her Wang on, including her shirt and shoes.

"I like that it's hip and young."

Wang came out with his usual bouncy step and big smile for his bow.

Siriano brings on creatures of the night NEW YORK (AP) — With winged dresses and swirls of piping to evoke veins, Christian Siriano paid homage at New York Fashion Week to Fay Wray and vampire bats in a stark, cavernous runway space worthy of the creatures of the night.

The fourth-season winner of the cable TV fashion designer competition "Project Runway" said he was inspired by old horror films, particularly "The Vampire Bat," a black-and-white from 1933 starring Wray.

He used a near blood red, silvery gray, midnight black and shimmery gold brocade to set the scene, along with a bright white as a nod to Fay's skin tone and wardrobe in the movie.

"Think of it almost like you're watching an old film," Siriano said. "I thought this whole idea of bats, these flying demons in the night, was kind of cool and very different."

The theme, including blood red lips on models, is darker than Siriano's previous looks. He was helped along by shiny black leather jackets and skirts, some in snake and crocodile patterns.

He went for a little romance in loose shapes and long trumpet

NEW YORK (AP) — It's time for the well-heeled women who shop from New York Fashion Week runways to pull themselves up by their bootstraps — preferably Christian Louboutins — and carry off clothes rooted in strength, confidence and even toughness.

Even glamorous Victoria Beckham, rarely seen without stilettos on, sent some of her models down the runway Sunday in motorcycle boots.

(They were indeed Louboutins.)

The fiercer, fitted looks are a contrast to the flowing, airy silhouettes that dominated the spring season. Adam Glassman, creative director of O, The Oprah Magazine, said it likely is time for something new.

Structured pieces also hang well on racks in stores — and are flattering on many figures, he noted. "The military shapes and jackets give good shape to a woman, from her shoulders to her waist," he said.

In addition to military influences and menswear looks for women, other themes emerging by Day 4, halfway through the previews for next season, include leather (Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul), python prints (big at Carmen Marc Valvo) and other textured fabrics. Skaist-Taylor, the new brand from Juicy Couture founders Pam Skaist and Gela Taylor, used a print they called "cowhide."

Traditional fall hues like black, loden green, wine and plum have ruled the runways, but white, an unusual choice for the season, has had a strong showing, too. Lela Rose on Sunday showed an ivory silk crepe collared sheath, an ivory silk cloque dress with embroidered shoulders and a white silver mosaic embroidered dress.

Victoria Beckham

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The Christian Siriano Fall 2012 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Saturday Feb. 11, 2012.

skirts, which fit tightly and flare at the bottom, in loose palazzo trousers and in his signature gowns in crepe and tulle. He added wearable gold beading on a red cocktail dress, a faux fox infinity scarf in near silver against a black skinny pant and

top, and used a leather bodice with a flowing, pleated skirt.

Siriano also played with fur in a coat. But he stayed true to his bat buddies with chiffon pieces at the shoulders of a white evening gown and his swirls of texture in eveningwear and cocktail

dresses.

"She's a very powerful girl," Siriano said. "I'm really in love with outerwear right now in great jackets."

Actress Gabourey Sidibe of "Precious" sat in Siriano's front row.

Beckham back to sophisticated form

Victoria Beckham offered a no-nonsense, tough-girl fall collection: shiny python shirt-style collars on second-skin dresses with gold hardware and zipback striped sheaths. Interesting twists included dresses with epaulets but no sleeves to hang them on, and harness-style backs on dresses that had high necks in the front. There was a hint of a schoolgirl vibe in some looks with the collars and flared-hem skirts.

Gone from this collection were the looser shapes Beckham had been experimenting with in past seasons.

This was Beckham's sexy, sophisticated look to the core.

OK, the exception might be the motorcycle boots that one can't imagine Beckham giving up her stilettos for.

DKNY For her DKNY brand, Donna Karan wrapped up models in high-neck aviator coats and fitted blazers but gave them flirty short skirts with bouncy hemlines. She put them in cozy collars and feminine bow-neck blouses.

Even more diversity came from the textures: embossed crocodile, shiny leather, cozy shearling, sexy sheers and slim twill. When she tired of black, which Karan really never does, she switched to navy, gray or the occasional flash of red.

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Left: Victoria Beckham appears at the end of her Fall 2012 collection runway show on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 in New York. Right: Fashion from the Fall 2012 collection of Victoria Beckham is modeled on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 in New York.

NEW YORK (AP) — She may be chic and petite, but don't mess with Victoria Beckham.

She offered a no-nonsense, tough-girl fall collection at New York Fashion Week on Sunday that she said she hoped would forge an "emotional attachment between the garment and the wearer."

She explained in the notes for attendants of her small runway show at the New York Public Library that she used this season to explore her interest in details

Halfway through Fashion Week, fierce fitted looks

and technique. The crowd did include husband David, in his Sunday-best suit.

"The idea of how the body can connect to the clothes through their construction and detail fascinates me," she wrote.

That translated on the catwalk to shiny python shirt-style collars on second-skin dresses with gold hardware, and zipback striped sheaths. Interesting twists included dresses with epaulets but no sleeves to hang them on, and harness-style

backs on dresses that had high necks in the front. There was a hint of a schoolgirl vibe in some looks with the collars and flared-hem skirts.

Gone from this collection were the looser shapes Beckham had been experimenting with in past seasons.

This was Beckham's sexy, sophisticated look to the core.

OK, the exception might be the motorcycle boots that one can't imagine Beckham giving up her stilettos for.

There was not much opportunity to see Beckham when she took her bow: It was a brief wave as she peeked from backstage.

"She is so determined and focused in anything she does, whether it's her career, figure or clothing line," said Nina Garcia, Marie Claire fashion director and "Project Runway" judge.

"She's her best advertisement.

She always looks great, is a fashion icon herself and has a passion for what she's doing."

Tracy Reese Bold juniper green, lame in gold and violet and a tomato orange lit up Tracy Reese's runway in pants, dresses, skirts, sweaters and coats long and short.

Reese heavily embellished sleeveless and short-sleeve cocktail dresses with metallic beading front and back. She put feminine fringe on loose, cozy sweaters and combination bowler-baseball caps on the heads of her models.

Much of her outerwear was a crowd pleaser, including a shimmery gold coat belted at the waist. She did another in lemon yellow and a third was cropped with a feminine peplum.

Reese had fun with jacquards, enlarging one in black and white in a cropped jacket and mini skirt. She used colored jacquards and leaf motifs throughout.

Diane Von Furstenberg

Diane von Furstenberg, who as president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America is the de facto leader of the U.S. fashion community, used jigsaw puzzle pieces as a prominent theme of her fall collection.

There was a puzzle print on a pink sleeveless dress, and lasercut pieces on a black embellished one. A model carried a puzzle-box bag.

Von Furstenberg alternated between sophisticated, simple and sometimes smoldering jersey dresses in dark colors and fun cocktail numbers in bright, almost tropical shades of pink, lime green and bright blue.

Carmen Marc Volvo

Carmen Marc Valvo offered a palette of ivory, black, camel and deep reds and browns, and used illusion effects, with sheaths sparkling in sequins and insets in a suede python print on waists, chests and backs.

A python pattern was created from small double-face wool pieces sewn onto netting. He then placed his snake over a silk sheath underlay in champagne.

He included some looks he hopes will land on red carpets this year: a four-ply silk crepe illusion gown in ruby and another of the same style in a lively moss.

Valvo also went full-on fur in an ombre mink patchwork coat in a light camel with a darker back and in wide mink stoles wrapped around the necks of models. He used shaggy black goat fur on the sleeves of a jacket and feathered fox in oatmeal for a sumptuous vest.

A belted ivory coat had simple lines, a similar cut in camel and a cashmere cocktail dress in moss with straight, tight sleeves just above the elbow.

Thakoon Panichgul

Thakoon Panichgul, a favorite of first lady Michelle Obama, designed a line heavy with bright neon colors and rich materials.

Panichgul mixed the refined, like a black satin sleeved dress, with the modern — a striking red and orange print he calls "neon beam."

Red leather, red lipstick and shiny red high heels were also prominent. He paired a fuchsia fur knit sweater with a raspberry patent skirt that had a paper bag waist. He ruched red leather at the biceps and waist for a dress and used a hearts-and-lips print for a jacquard bomber jacket.

The collection was filled with outerwear inspired dresses, from a black satin tuxedo jacket dress to a crinkled deep blue trench coat dress.

Derek Lam

Derek Lam offered lovely chunky but sleeveless sweaters on a cold day, one black, one white, each paired with a long silk georgette evening skirt of the same color.

Lam also had an ivory shearling and a series of nice pea coats, in white or navy wool, or, even warmer, in shearling, plus a black-and-white tweed jacquard coat, paired with black lambskin trousers.

Other practical yet pretty and luxurious looks from Lam included shoes — a gold patent leather oxford and a black lizard oxford with a gold toe. In prints, he favored both a floral satin — in a jacket, a T-shirt, and a coat — and a paisley jacquard, in a black-and-white dress or T-shirt, or a gold-andblack skirt.

Shiny leather also played a prominent role, not only in trousers, but also in dresses — such as a white lambskin dress paired with a black lambskin turtleneck, or a wine-colored cap sleeve lambskin dress, also paired with its own turtle.

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First black NBA player gets honor at Hawks game

ATLANTA (AP) — Earl Lloyd remembers when he suited up for the Washington Capitols more than 60 years ago as the first black to play in an NBA game and wondering if he would make a good enough impression to stick around.

Lloyd and the Capitols lost the game. But he played well enough to earn a roster spot and break the color barrier in a league that had only three black players in 1950 and now features the highest percentage of African-American athletes in any of the major professional leagues.

"Before the game, I was terrified," recalled Lloyd, who scored six points and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Capitols in a 78-70 loss to the Rochester Royals on Oct. 31, 1950. "I had a fear of disappointing the people who depended on me.

Luckily, letting people down was not a part of my DNA. "I'm glad I was part of something that helped pave the way for others."

Now, as part of Black History Month, the 83-year-old Hall of Famer will be honored for his breakthrough at halftime of the Atlanta Hawks-Miami Heat

game on Sunday. The former West Virginia State standout along with six other AfricanAmericans will be recognized at all Hawks home games this month.

"I'm blessed to still have my health," said Lloyd, who also became the Detroit Pistons first black coach in 1971. "I know that there are a lot of people who didn't make it to 61 years of age. So for me to be around this long and still get some recognition."

Since Lloyd made history, the NBA has increased its number of black players to 78 percent, according to the league's racial and gender report last year.

About 83 percent of the players in the league are people of color.

These days, Lloyd said some of his favorite players to watch are LeBron James and Dwyane Wade of the Heat. He personally met James a couple years ago, but has yet to meet Wade.

"They might be too busy with the game to come and see me," he said with a chuckle. "I've met LeBron before but hopefully if Dwyane slows down for a moment and decides to give me a high five, I'll be sure to return the favor."

Lloyd, who was drafted in the seventh round, was one of three blacks to play in the NBA in 1950. His debut was a couple of days before two other AfricanAmericans who helped integrate the NBA — Chuck Cooper of the Boston Celtics, the first black draftee; and Nat Clifton of the New York Knicks, the first black to sign a league contract.

The 6-foot-5 Lloyd had his best season in 1955, averaging 10.2 points and 7.7 rebounds for Syracuse, which beat Fort Wayne for the NBA title. He and Jim Tucker became the first blacks to play on an NBA championship team.

Lloyd played in more than 560 NBA games in the league and became known for his defensive prowess. In eight seasons, he averaged 8.4 points and 6.4 rebounds.

When Lloyd first appeared in an NBA game, he said he couldn't have imagined the league as it is today. He gives credit not only to himself, but also to Cooper and Clifton for breaking the color barrier.

"The league has come a long way," he said. "I'm happy that Chuck, Nat and myself helped pave the way for others."

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In this April 5, 1955, file photo, Ft. Wayne's Mel Hutchins and Syracuse's Earl Lloyd stretch for a ball in Indianapolis.

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Rondo's triple-double carries Celtics over Bulls

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BOSTON (AP) — Rajon Rondo recorded a triple-double with 32 points, 15 assists and 10 rebounds to lead the Boston Celtics to a 95-91 win Sunday over the Chicago Bulls, who were without star guard Derrick Rose.

Kevin Garnett added 13 points and 12 rebounds, reserve JaJuan Johnson had 12 points and Ray Allen 11 for the Celtics, who snapped a two-game skid. Rondo had season highs in both points and assists.

The win came after what Boston coach Doc Rivers called an "awful" performance in an 86-74 loss at Toronto on Friday. Rivers was very frustrated after the game and spoke about how it was "un-Celtic."

C.J. Watson, who started in Rose's spot, scored 22 points for the Bulls, whose win streak ended at five in the finale of a 6-3 road trip.

Carlos Boozer also scored 22 and pulled down seven rebounds, while Joakim Noah had 16 points and nine boards.

Rose, the reigning league MVP, missed his second straight game with what coach Tom Thibodeau called

"stiffness" in his back.

Rose is expected to see a specialist Monday after the team returns to Chicago. He originally suffered the injury earlier in the week and was limited in Wednesday's win at New Orleans before missing Friday's victory over Charlotte.

The Bulls trailed by 14 with just over 5 minutes to play, but they turned up the pressure defensively and made a late run, pulling to 91-88 on Luol Deng's two free throws with 1:23 to go.

After a turnover by Paul Pierce, Watson was short on a 3-point attempt and Rondo grabbed the rebound with 21.5 seconds to go. He was fouled and hit both free throws.

Watson missed the second of two free throws and Rondo grabbed his 10th rebound with 9.8 seconds on the clock.

Without having to worry about covering Rose, Rondo seemed to roam free on offense for most of the game, driving the lane for easy baskets, taking open jumpers and setting up teammates. He had 28 points, nine assists and six rebounds entering the final quarter.

The Bulls had closed the score to 72-68 early in the final quarter before Allen and Pierce nailed 3s during a 10-3 run that helped Boston take charge. Rondo had assists on both 3-pointers, driving the lane to collapse the defense before kicking the ball outside.

Rondo had fast-break alleyoop lobs for dunks on consecutive possessions to Johnson and Chris Wilcox that made it 86-72 midway through the fourth.

The Celtics had opened a 59-50 third-quarter edge on Rondo's free throw before the Bulls scored eight of the next 10 points, closing the gap to three. But Boston improved its advantage to 72-66 after three on Rondo's two free throws with 3.3 seconds left.

Boston held Chicago to 34 percent shooting in the first half and led 48-43 at intermission. The Bulls stayed close behind 11 offensive rebounds.

Part of the reason for Boston's quick start may have been the poor showing in Toronto. It was just the third time in club history that the Celtics scored below 75 points and the first in 11 years.

» GOLF

What happened to Tiger Sunday?

(AP) – The pretenders were as obedient as ever and folded early, just like they always seemed to when Tiger Woods was in his prime.

Still mostly ahead of him was a course he knew well, one where he once rewrote the record books.

Beside him was a player he knew well, a guy who used to always look for an excuse to blink.

It was the perfect opportunity to put more than two years of misery behind him. The perfect time to make the statement that, yes, he was finally back.

Unfortunately, there's nothing perfect about Tiger Woods anymore.

He used to threaten to make history every time he teed off.

Now he just makes excuses, and they all sound the same.

He says he's at peace with himself, and that may well be true. Put him in a red shirt on Sunday, though, and the demons seem to all come back.

It happened last time out in Abu Dhabi, when a mop-haired Englishman who had won only one time in his career stared him down in the final round. It happened again on Sunday at Pebble Beach, where he seemed to be trying so hard not to fail that he gave himself no chance to succeed.

Phil Mickelson blew by him like Woods was playing in the pro-am instead of teeing it up

with the big boys. Things got so bad you almost wanted him to move up to the forward tees, where at least his amateur partner Tony Romo was finding some success.

He walked up the 18th fairway to the cheers everyone expected when the day began. But they were for Mickelson, who had walked ahead of him after stiffing a wedge to the final green.

It got worse. Mickelson was already in the hole for his final round 64 when Woods lipped out one final short putt for a big, fat 75. He could have — make that should have — putted out before Mickelson to avoid the final embarrassment, but Woods never really practiced the proper etiquette for finishing out of contention.

For what seems like forever now we've been asking what's wrong with Tiger. Now the question becomes what's wrong with Tiger on Sunday?

The record books will show he lost by nine shots in a tournament he trailed by four on the final day. Even worse, he was thrashed by Mickelson, his playing partner, by a stunning 11 shots.

Say what you will about his game getting so much better that he has been in contention in his four more recent tournaments.

This would have never happened to the Tiger Woods of old.

He didn't always win on

Sundays, even if it seemed that way. But he was never blown out the way Mickelson disposed of him on a course where he was once untouchable.

"Anything I tried to do wasn't working," Woods said. "What was frustrating was I had a chance, all I had to do was get off to a good, solid start today and I didn't do that."

Actually, the start wasn't all that bad. It was the middle, where Woods missed two short putts in a row and made three bogeys in a row that destroyed what little chance he had left. By then his body language had conceded defeat, even if he hadn't.

To put his round in perspective, only four of the 68 players who teed off on the final day shot worse. On a day Pebble Beach was there for the taking, Woods got taken.

And then the excuses began.

"I didn't hit it as bad as the score indicated, but I putted awful," he said. "I just could not see my lines. I couldn't get comfortable."

For those keeping score at home, he hasn't won a real tournament (I don't count the 18-man invitational he hosts and won in December, though Woods does) in 27 months; hasn't won on the PGA Tour in 29 months. It's been nearly four years since he won his last major at Torrey Pines, and he's now 36 with a history of

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» MEN'S HOCKEY

UConn skates to tie at home with lowly SHU

By Willy Penfield Staff Writer A hat trick from UConn Forward Cole Schneider was not enough to give the Huskies the victory over Sacred Heart on Friday night as the two teams played to a 5-5 tie.

It was Schneider’s second hat trick of the season, and third of his career but he wasn’t the only one to score three goals on the night. Sacred Heart’s Drew George equaled the feat.

UConn’s record UConn moved to 12-14-3 (11-9-2 AHA) while SHU Sacred Heart goes to 2-24-3 (1-18-3 AHA) and both teams picked up a point in the conference standings.

The team now sits in eighth place alone in the AHA standings and will need to pick up some valuable points down the stretch to improve their playoff positioning.

“Every second is important as the points become more precious here,” head coach Bruce Marshall said. “We need to treat every game like it’s a playoff game.”

The game did not start well for the Huskies as they were

down 4-1 to the A.H.A’s worst team midway through the second period.

Despite the early three-goal deficit, the Huskies were able to turn it around in the second half of the game scoring four unanswered goals to take the lead 5-4.

However, George completed his hat trick with 58 seconds left in the game to force the 5-5 tie.

UConn goalie Garrett Bartus had his worst game of the season, allowing four goals on 11 shots in the first 32:16 before being pulled. Redshirt sophoMatt Grogan, 5 more, replaced Bartus and 5 recorded 13 saves.

The Huskies got the scoring started in the first period when Marcello Ranallo scored a goal assisted by Sean Ambrosie at the 10:19 mark.

The Pioneers answered with two goals of their own in the first to make the score 2-1 heading into the second period.

Sacred Heart created some separation in the second period with three goals to make the score 4-1 and forced Bartus out of the game.

At the 14:57 mark, Schneider began the UConn comeback with his first of three on the night,

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assisted by Brant Harris and Tom Janosz. He added a second goal assisted by Harris and Janosz at the 19:35 mark and then just 20 seconds later, he completed the hat trick with five seconds left in the second period.

With the game tied 4-4 headed into the third period, the Huskies completed the comeback and were looking for a fourth consecutive goal when Ryan Tyson scored at the 7:21 mark.

George completed his hat trick with just 58 seconds left in the game to force overtime despite the Huskies dominating the third period with a 19-9 advantage on shots.

The Huskies outshot the Pioneers 6-4 in overtime but neither team was able to convert as the game ended in a 5-5 tie, a disappointing result for the Huskies against a team that has recorded just two wins (one in the conference) on the season.

Action continues for the Huskies this Friday when they begin a home-and-home series with conference foe Bentley, a team they fell to 4-2 in Storrs back in December.

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Jacob Poe handles the puck by the boards in Saturday's 5-5 tie against the Sacred Heart Pioneers at Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum on Saturday.

» WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Faris unsung hero of Huskies' blowout win

By Dan Agabiti Senior Staff Writer

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Junior Kelly Faris looks to pass the ball during UConn's win over the Hoyas in Storrs on Saturday.

Georgetown’s guard Sugar Rodgers leads the Big East in scoring and was looking to have a big game against the Huskies. The burden of guarding her belonged to UConn guard Kelly Faris, who had not been playing well in the past few games.

“I never worry about how Kelly Faris is going to play,” said UConn coach Geno Auriemma. “Although she has been playing lousy for the past couple of games. Lousy. And it bothers her.”

Faris responded to the challenge by holding Rodgers to a mere 10 points, half of what she typically scores. Rodgers shot just 4-13 from the field and looked frustrated for almost the entire game.

“We take a lot of pride in our defense,” Faris said. “If they have one of the best players and we don’t stop them, then we’re going to hear about it.”

While those 10 points don’t look like a lot when compared to Rodgers’ season average, Faris said that those are still 10 extra points that the opponent had and those 10 points might hurt the team during tougher games.

Faris further contributed with six rebounds, six assists and a three-pointer that got the momentum started for a second half of which the Huskies took control.

“Kelly is one of those players where she’s not going to make all the headlines because she’s not scoring all the points,” said

freshman Kaleena MosquedaLewis. “But Kelly Faris is probably the glue that holds our team together. Kelly does all the dirty work. She gets the rebounds, she hits people at the right moment...we need Kelly out there as much as she can be out there.”

“I never worry about how Kelly Faris is going to play.”

Geno Auriemma UConn coach Slump Buster UConn forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis had been in a bit of a slump for the past four games. In that stretch, she’s averaged a lackluster 6.5 points per game and has looked hesitant on the floor.

But last night, the pre-season Big East freshman of the year got hot at the right time and was a big reason why the Huskies beat the Georgetown Hoyas 80-38.

In one seven-minute stretch of the first half, MosquedaLewis scored or assisted 15 consecutive points for UConn.

From 10:29 to 3:22 – when the game was tied at 9 – she had eight points, four assists, four rebounds and two steals.

“It feels good to finally make some shots,” MosquedaLewis said.

Auriemma was not surprised that Mosqueda-Lewis went through a rough stretch. He said that all great shooters go through one, but sooner or later the shots just have to start going in.

Throughout her muchanticipated freshman season, Mosqueda-Lewis has drawn comparison to another No. 23, Maya Moore and Auriemma agrees that the two have a similar tendency to rely too heavily on a jump shot, rather than taking the ball to the basket.

“It was a struggle to get Maya to go to the basket,” Auriemma said. “But I told her, ‘I don’t want you to end up being called just a great shooter, I want you to be called a great basketball player.’”

He still has his fastball Auriemma was not happy with the way the Huskies played in the first half. He said that while there were spurts where his team played well, there were other spurts where the team looked confused.

“I wasn’t very thrilled at halftime,” Auriemma said.

“I’m too old now to yell and scream and do the stuff I used to do, but every once in a while I still have it in me.”

Although he doesn’t yell at halftime very often, he said that when he does it feels refreshing.

“I actually feel good because it means that I still have my fastball. And I don’t have to throw curves for the rest of my career, or change-ups.”

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Drummond comes back after injury, Huskies look NCAA punishes wrong players for past actions forward to seeing Syracuse again in two weeks from ET TU, page 14 from FOURTH, page 14 Drummond injured his ankle in the second half and went into the locker room.

He returned to the bench with 10:39 left and came in the game.

“We had the momentum going and that kind of slowed us down a little bit,” Drummond said.

An Olander dunk cut the deficit to 54-52 with over 12 minutes left in the game.

Although the Huskies lost, some of the players touched on the team effort. Last Monday night, UConn showed little fight in an 80-59 loss at Louisville. On Saturday at

Syracuse, it was different.

“I think we definitely fought,” Lamb said. “In the last two minutes they stretched it out, but the game wasn’t as bad as the score says.”

Drummond said his ankle was feeling better after the game. He also thought the entire team bought in to fighting prior to the game.

“I’m proud of my teammates,” Drummond said. “We played great as a team. We gutted it out and we fought throughout the whole game.”

UConn went on a 10-5 run to start the game. The Orange got control back and Syracuse took a 25-15 lead on a C.J. Fair alley oop dunk. With

5:35 left in the first half, Kris Joseph hit a 3-pointer to make the score 30-21. A Boatright 3-pointer followed by an Alex Oriakhi dunk cut the deficit to four points. The Huskies were down 37-34, but Syracuse went on a 6-0 run to close out the half.

“I think we feel better about how we played,” Boatright said. “We’re going to see them again.”

UConn will play the Orange Feb. 25 at Gampel Pavilion.

But before that, the Huskies return to action on Wednesday night against DePaul.

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season’s tournament. But here’s the kicker: that two-year and four-year system was set up in October 2011. Shouldn’t the new system start with the 2011-2012 school year? That would make sense and that

would be fair. Heck, even if UConn did get punished, the least the NCAA should do is accept the hefty actions UConn is willing to take.

But that’s not how the NCAA operates. They punish for past actions that were yet to have consequences. That’s just how

it rolls.

The sad part is that none of this even surprises me. It’s just par for the NCAA’s course.

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UConn's relentless defense forces 21 G'Town turnovers from HOYAS, page 14 defense, guard Kelly Faris still saw room for improvement.

“For Sugar Rodgers to get 10 points, it’s not as much as she normally gets, but at the same time, she still got 10 points off us some how,” Faris said. “So we’re going to have to go into

film tomorrow and see where we didn’t stop her.”

UConn was relentless in its defensive pursuit and forced 21 turnovers on a Georgetown team that on average will cause seven more turnovers than it commits. The Hoyas shot just 14-56 from the field and the shots that they did make were

made under heavy UConn pressure.

“We take a lot of pride in our defense,” Faris said. “If they have one of the best players and we don’t stop them, then we’re going to hear about it.”

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What's Next Home game

Away game

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Feb. 26 Syracuse 9 p.m.

Feb. 28 Providence 7 p.m.

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Phil Mickelson

Feb. 18 St. John’s 7 p.m.

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No stopping Rondo

Feb. 27 Feb. 20 Pittsburgh Notre Dame 9 p.m.

7 p.m.

Men’s Ice Hockey (13-14-3) Feb. 17 Feb. 18 Bentley Bentley 7:05 p.m. 4:30 p.m.

Feb. 24 AIC 7:05 p.m.

Feb. 25 AIC 7:05 p.m.

AHA Playoffs TBD

Women’s Ice Hockey (4-21-7) Feb. 18 Boston University 2 p.m.

Feb. 19 Boston University 3 p.m.

Hockey East Playoffs TBD

Men’s Swimming & Diving Feb. 15, 16 Big East Diving Championships All Day

Women’s Swimming & Diving Feb. 15, 16 Big East Diving Championships All Day

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Boston Celtics’ Kevin Garnett, left, creates a screen as Rajon Rondo (9) drives for the basket in front of Chicago Bulls’ Carlos Boozer, right, in the first quarter in Boston. Rondo finished with a triple double.

THE Storrs Side Warde Manuel leaves Buffalo to take over as AD at UConn

By Aaron Kasmanoff-Dick Campus Correspondent

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The former director of athletics of the University at Buffalo has accepted the top job at UConn. Manuel’s appeal may be directly linked to his success at boosting the academic performance of his student-athletes at Buffalo.

When he came to the Bulls, the football, wrestling, men’s basketball and baseball programs were all far below the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate Cutoff of 925. Manuel’s focused academic plan was instrumental in ensuring that all four programs met the four–year APR cutoff.

Manuel was a studentathlete at the University of Michigan, where he lettered in both football and track and field, graduating in 1990.

Since then he has served on the Collegiate Model Rules committee, a working group of the Division I committee on Academic Performance.

His teams have also shown great dedication to commu-

nity service and involvement.

Women’s Basketball vs Georgetown The No. 3 UConn women’s basketball team defeated Big East rival Georgetown easily on Saturday afternoon.

The 80-38 victory helps the team’s cause in a run for the Big East regular season title.

Big challenges loom ahead however, as Notre Dame (110 Big East) sits last on the Huskies schedule.

Freshman standout Kaleena Mosqueda Lewis ended the first shooting slump of her collegiate career, in which she shot just 9-39, with a huge 23-point performance on the night. It was her sixth 20-plus point game of the season.

Connecticut extended its home winning streak of 99 straight, the longest active home winning streak in women’s basketball history.

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NCAA denies UConn’s request

By Mac Cerullo Managing Editor

Home: Gampel Pavilion, XL Center

Tomorrow Feb. 13 Georgetown Oklahoma 4 p.m.

9 p.m.

“Who is the better team: Kentucky or Syracuse?”

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– Golfer Phil Mickelson on his win at Pebble Beach.

Feb. 20 Villanova 7 p.m.

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Home: Gampel Pavilion, XL Center Feb. 18 Marquette Noon

The Daily Question the UConn men’s basketball team make the NCAA tournaQ : “Will ment?”

A : “Sure, if they go hard.”

“Pebble Beach ... it feels awesome no matter what number it is.”

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The University of Connecticut announced today that its waiver request to participate in the 2013 postseason has been denied by the NCAA. The university requested the waiver as a result of the men’s basketball team’s Academic Progress Rate scores, which fell below the new minimum standards that were implemented by the NCAA this past October. UConn will appeal the decision.

Because the school’s APR scores fall below the minimum standard, UConn will be ineligible for the 2013 postseason unless the decision is overturned on appeal. UConn could also become eligible if the NCAA Committee on Academic Performance votes to allow schools to use the most recent possible APR scores available at its next meeting on Feb. 20.

In that scenario, UConn would be able to use its APR scores from 2010-11 and 2011-12 instead of 2009-10 and 2010-11. UConn’s APR scores from those years would meet the minimum standards to be eligible for the 2013 postseason. The minimum standards passed in October dictate that a school must have a four-year rolling APR average score of 900 or an average of 930 between 2009-10 and 2010-11.

In 2009-10, UConn’s APR score was a dismal 826, which caused the school to fall short of both marks.

The 2010-11 score is reportedly around 975, and the school has indicated that the academics of this year’s team has improved greatly as well.

Here is the university’s statement in its entirety: The University of Connecticut was informed on Friday by the NCAA that its waiver request to participate in men’s basketball postseason competition for the 2012-13 season, including the 2013 NCAA Tournament, has been denied. Connecticut will now appeal the decision to the NCAA Division I Committee on Academic Performance Subcommittee on Appeals. The waiver was submitted to the NCAA as a result of the UConn men’s basketball team’s performance in the Academic Progress Rate (APR).

“We are deeply disappointed that our request for a waiver was denied, but we look forward to continuing in the process,” said UConn President Susan Herbst. “We continue to believe that we have made a very compelling case in our waiver to the NCAA and we are pleased with the recent outstanding academic success of our men’s basketball student-athletes.

“I want to be clear that during my entire career as a scholar and a teacher, I have been in full support of high academic standards in collegiate athletics.

However, in this case, there are good students who could be penalized for the problematic behavior of students who have not been enrolled for years.

“Educators and parents need to do what is right for their students, and not allow them to be caught in the dynamics of public relations.”

Michael.Cerullo@UConn.edu

THE Pro Side ‘Linsanity’ hits New York, Rondo records triple-double

By Darryl Blain Staff Writer Game of the week: Knicks “all-Lin” against Kobe In front of a national audience, a star was born. That star came in the very unlikely form of undrafted Harvard alum Jeremy Lin, who dropped 38 points against Kobe Bryant and the Lakers on Friday night. Many skeptics of the hyped Chinese point guard said coming into the game that the Lakers defense was going to expose him. They could not have been farther off. His career high points total (also highest for any Knick this season) coupled with his seven assists and four rebounds proved to the rest of the country that there is “Linsanity” in the air at Madison Square Garden.

Big Letdown: Kings offense continues to struggle The L.A. Kings have a morethan-solid goaltender and are in the thick of the playoff race this year. While that all sounds promising, their offense gives fans a reason to believe otherwise.

Their stagnant play continued on Saturday afternoon with a 2-1

overtime loss to the Islanders.

So far this season the Kings have been shut out six times and have been held to only one goal 16 times, all while their offense is ranked 30th in the NHL (2.07 goals per game). With only about a month remaining in the season, the team will have to up their game to hold on to a playoff spot.

Wish we were there: Rondo records triple-double to squeak past Bulls Despite the absence of guard Derrick Rose, this game turned out to be a very tight matchup. The Celtics ended up taking home the win by a score of 95-91, largely thanks to Rajon Rondo’s 32 points, 15 assists, and 10 rebounds. Kevin Garnett added 13 points of his own and Ray Allen contributed 11. The Bulls filled in for Rose quite nicely on the other side of things, with C.J. Watson and Carlos Boozer recording 22 points each, but as the score indicates it just wasn’t enough. Boston held the Bulls to shooting a mere 38.6 percent from the field while they shot 49.3 percent, a disparity that proved to be the difference.

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P.13: UConn’s waiver request denied. / P.12: Men’s hockey ties Sacred Heart at home. / P.11: Rondo paces Celtics past Bulls.

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SLICED IN SYRACUSE

No. 2 Orange pull away from UConn at the Carrier Dome

By Colin McDonough Associate Sports Editor

Dan Agabiti Here’s a definition that the Oxford English Dictionary gives for the word tyrant: “A king or ruler who exercises his power in an oppressive, unjust, or cruel manner; a despot.”

That sounds precisely like the NCAA. Now don’t get me wrong.

I’m not some overly ticked off Huskies fan sitting in his dorm room in a UConn snuggie, cuddling up with a stuffed Husky dog while screaming at the governing body for taking away Ryan Boatright for several games or preventing UConn from being in the 2013 tournament. I’m going to put emotional attachments aside and look at this objectively.

One of the founding principles of the United States justice system is “innocent until proven guilty.” The NCAA laughs in the face of that premise and takes the opposite approach.

Case in point: guard Ryan Boatright. Boatright was suspended indefinitely because the NCAA wasn’t 100 percent sure that his eligibility was legitimate. So they figured it would be just to suspend him for an undetermined period of time while a committee makes sure everything is okay. Sound reasonable?

Now I know some of you are reading this thinking, “I know you haven’t been a sports reporter for very long. You don’t truly know how these things work.”

Here’s a quote from Joe Nocera of The New York Times who is wrote about the Ryan Boatright suspension.

“When the N.C.A.A. investigates an athlete for breaking its rules, not only is he presumed guilty but his punishment begins before he knows what he’s accused of... And it will hand down its verdict without so much as a hearing.

Reputations have been ruined on accusations so flimsy that they would be laughed out of any court in the land. Then again, the N.C.A.A. isn’t a court of law. It’s more powerful.”

I’ve heard it said that the NCAA is simply trying to preserve the integrity of its athletes and its member institutions.

Garbage. It’s on a power trip.

Late last week, it was announced that the selfimposed sanctions by UConn for not having a high enough Academic Progress Rate (APR) were rejected by the NCAA. These actions on the part of the university include a shorter schedule, forfeiting revenue from the Big East, prohibiting coach Jim Calhoun from meeting off-campus with recruits in the fall contact period, bringing a former or current NBA player to inner-city schools for educational sessions and even an Academic Improvement plan.

The APR guidelines state that a school must have a twoyear average rating of 930 and a four-year average of 900, both of which UConn will fail to meet. UConn’s sanctions were offered as a substitution for ineligibility in the 2013 tournament, which is the penalty for failing to meet these standards.

So what? UConn did the crime and now it does the time. It doesn’t matter what it offers, the school gets what it deserves. Shouldn’t that be the case? Well, not exactly.

The academic year that’s causing these issues is 20092010. UConn looks like it will be ineligible for the 2012-2013

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SYRACUSE N.Y.- The UConn men’s basketball team hung around with No. 2 Syracuse, but in the end, the Orange were too much for the Huskies. Syracuse beat UConn 85-67 on Saturday at the Carrier Dome.

The loss dropped the Huskies to 15-9 and 5-7 in the Big East. The win moved the Orange to 25-1 overall and 12-1 in conference play. Jeremy Lamb scored 18 points, Ryan Boatright had 14, Andre Drummond scored 13 and Shabazz Napier added 11. For Syracuse, Scoop Jardine poured in 21 points and had six assists, while C.J. Fair had 14 points and 12 rebounds. Dion Waiters scored 18 points off the bench.

UConn was poised to pull off the upset in the second half. Lamb hit a 3-pointer and then dunked it to cut the score to 63-60. After UConn stopped the Orange, Tyler Olander made one of two free throws to quiet the Carrier Dome and make the deficit two points.

“We got it to 63-61 and we got a little careless both offensively and defensively,” said associate head coach George Blaney.

Jardine killed the comeback for the Huskies with two daggers. Jardine hit back to back 3-pointers and increased the lead to eight points for Syracuse with 4:57 left. UConn wouldn’t get closer than seven in the final five minutes.

Syracuse pulled away and finished the game on a 16-5 run to blow out the Huskies.

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Syracuse’s Dion Waiters flexes his muscles after scoring against Connecticut during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Syracuse, N.Y. The Orange won by 18.

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Blaney: Calhoun still in pain, Drummond mum

By Matt McDonough Sports Editor SYRACUSE, N.Y.– The UConn men’s basketball team ran out of gas on Saturday against Syracuse at the Carrier Dome.

“We got it to 63-61 then we got a little careless on offense and defense and we let it get away,” said UConn George Blaney.

The Huskies seemed to be happy with their performance despite the loss, saying it was a better road effort than the loss at Louisville on Monday.

“They stretched it out but the game wasn’t as bad as the score says,” said Jeremy Lamb.

After cutting the deficit to two, the Orange outscored UConn 18-1 to pull away and blow the game open. The Huskies couldn’t keep up with Syracuse at the end

of the game, or defend them on 28 minutes of action on 5-of-13 the perimeter. The Orange shot shooting. In the second half, 63 percent from behind the arc Drummond was more aggreson 10-of-16. sive by the basket and went for “We’re going to see them dunks rather layups. again,” said fresh“We started man guard Ryan screaming at him, Boatright. you’ve got to go Although a sectwo-handed, full ond half ankle injury force,” Blaney said. took freshman center Drummond said Andre Drummond that when the injury out of the game, occurred he thought the freshman cenhis ankle was broken. ter came out of the He said that his ankle Notebook locker room for the was sore after the second half with a game and started to different intensity. tighten up.

“I was really excited about Off the Rim Andre Drummond finally going The 33,430 fans in attendance to the rim like we know we on Saturday was the fourth–largcan,” Blaney said. est crowd in Carrier Dome history Drummond scored 13 points and the largest crowd for an onand grabbed seven rebounds in campus college basketball game

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this season.

Blaney said coach Jim Calhoun, who has missed the last three games while on medical leave, is still in pain. Blaney said Calhoun told him he’s spoken to doctors at UConn, New York and Boston about his back trouble and that a decision is expected soon.

“The problem with backs is there are all different solutions,” Blaney said.

With the announcement of the Big East and West Virginia settling, Blaney was asked about the possibility of Syracuse leaving early for the ACC. Blaney said the rivalry between the two schools and their coaches, Jim Boeheim and Calhoun, is great for the Big East. He hopes to continue to play the Orange.

“I think it’s a natural game, it’s been a rivalry game,” Blaney said.

“You can talk about a number of rivalries in the league and certainly Syracuse– UConn has been as good as any.”

On Friday, UConn’s request for a waiver to play in the 2013 NCAA tournament was denied.

Drummond was asked if this would affect his decision on whether or not to go pro early.

“I don’t know,” Drummond said bluntly. He continued to say he’s only focused on this team and winning a championship this season.

The quotable George Blaney “I would have liked Jeremy [Lamb] to be a little more ready to pull the trigger... I want him shooting open shots,” Blaney said.

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Hoyas can’t keep up with Huskies

By Dan Agabiti Senior Staff Writer

the first half. The Huskies were 12-30, including a dismal 2-14 from three-point range. For the first 20 minutes it looked like the After an ugly start to the Huskies couldn’t buy a basket, first half, the UConn Huskies but in the second half, it looked settled down and put away the like they couldn’t miss if they Georgetown Hoyas 80-38. tried. UConn went 15-24 from The Hoyas were leading for the field, including 6-10 on threemuch of the game’s first 10 min- pointers in the second half. utes and the Huskies seemed “In the second half, we just unable to estabcame out and lish an offensive attacked them,” rhythm. The game said coach Geno was scrappy with Auriemma. several loose balls Midway through

80 the first half, and turnovers for UConn both sides. got a spark Georgetown 38 UConn With 10:15 to from freshman go in the first half, forward, Kallena Georgetown’s guard Rubylee Mosqueda-Lewis, who has been Wright hit a three to give the struggling in the past few games.

Hoyas a 12-11 lead. UConn In a seven-minute stretch, responded with a 20-6 run to Mosqueda-Lewis was directly end the first half and the Huskies involved with 15 consecutive outscored the Hoyas 69-26 in the points for the Huskies. In that final 29:45 of the game. time, she had eight points, four UConn did not shoot well in assists, four rebounds and two

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steals.

Early in the half, she showed some of the timidity that she had been showing in the past few games and Auriemma shouted out at her to shoot the ball.

“I’ve learned that when coach tells me to shoot the ball, it doesn’t necessarily mean to shoot it every time you get it,” Mosqueda-Lewis said. “It means be smarter, take the open shots and not be so hesitant.”

A tough defense has been a constant this year for UConn.

Georgetown’s Sugar Rodgers, the lead scorer in the conference and a member of last week’s Big East Honor Roll, was held to just 10 points on 4-13 shots.

“If you’re just going to go out there and think that you’re going to get your average on Kelly Faris, you got another thing coming,” Auriemma said.

Though pleased with the team’s

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Freshman Brianna Banks runs the fast break in the Huskies’ 80-38 win over Georgetown at Gampel Pavilion on Saturday.