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UConn Health Center researchers aim to lessen functional decline in the elderly
By Domenica Ghanem Campus Correspondent
HUSKYTHON 2013 BREAKS RECORD Students danced for 18 hours to raise a recordbreaking amount of money for charity. FOCUS/ page 5
NO DICE AGAINST NOVA UConn falls to Villanova Wildcats 70-61. SPORTS/ page 12 EDITORIAL: A PROGRESSIVE POPE MAY BE EXACTLY WHAT CATHOLICISM NEEDS A younger, progressive pope may be better equipped to handle the issues of the modern world.
UConn Health Center physicians are looking at lower blood pressure as a way to slow functional decline in the elderly. The UCHC study, called the INFINITY trial, examines the impact of guiding hypertension therapy through ambulatory blood pressure monitoring on accumulation of hypertension and brain function over a 3-year period. Hypertension is known to be associated with vascular disease of the brain, heart and kidney, particularly in older people, limiting their cognitive function and physical mobility. The researchers believe maintaining a constant healthy blood pressure could slow these effects. Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology Division of the Department of Medicine in the Calhoun Cardiology Center at UConn, Dr. William B. White noted that after checking for other factors such as high cholesterol or a history of smoking, high blood pressure remains the major risk factor that causes too much white matter in the brain. “The INFINITY study is a follow-up to what we’ve learned from previous research,” White said. “We’re not just observing anymore. Now we’re working on prevention methods.” The trial consists of three types of blood pressure monitoring: typical doctor’s office, self-measurement at home and the 24-hour ambulatory type. The doctors do a standard set of blood pressures on participants like the kind you receive at a regular check-up. They also have participants perform at-home blood
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At the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, pictured above, researchers are studying blood pressure and its effects on the longevity of human life. Researchers will be recruiting patients over 75 years old until 2014 for their study, which aims to find a way to lessen functional decline in older people.
pressures, where patients measure their own blood pressure for a week using a digital device. The third type of testing, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), is round-the-clock monitoring of blood pressure levels. Leslie Wolfson M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Neurology, said that the blood pressure taken by a doctor may be a poor reflection because it is one sample taken over the course of an entire day. ABPM is taken every 15 minutes during the day and every half hour at night over a 24-hour period. Greater control over testing blood pressure is allowing the doctors to study how blood pressure is affecting hypertension in the brain. A study White and Wolfson published in Circulation: Journal of the American
Heart Association showed that the 24 hour blood pressure monitoring can best predict the headway of cognitive function decline in the elderly with white matter brain hyperintensities. The study is recruiting participants over 75 years of age with a history of hypertension because too much white brain matter due to high blood pressure is much more common in this age group. “This study is about improving people’s quality of life. The things that our older patients are most worried about in this point of their lives are losing their mental capacity or mobility,” White said. The researchers want to help the elderly maintain their independence for as long as possible. In a controlled setting, such as a clinical study, it is easy to monitor blood
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Students participated in the annual HuskyTHON event to raise funds for the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. The 18-hour dance marathon had students moving from Saturday at 6 p.m. to Sunday at 12 p.m. SEE MORE: Focus, Page 5.
Coventry fire officials accused of sex with teens COVENTRY, Conn. (AP) — A former chief of the Coventry Volunteer Fire Association and a lieutenant have been charged with sexual assault on allegations they had sex with teenage members of the department. Joseph Carilli, the ex-chief, was charged with second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. Carilli, who is 53,
was held on $500,000 bond. His lawyer did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Lt. Joe Fragoso was charged with second-degree sexual assault. The 35-year-old Fragoso was released on $250,000 bond. He did not immediately return a call. Police say the two men had
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pressure around the clock. However, there are practicality issues that need to be worked out if patients are going to be able to be responsible for their own health once they leave the doctor’s office. While at-home blood pressure tests are not especially expensive, the accuracy of them still needs to be determined by the researchers. This trial began in March 2012 and will continue to recruit patients until 2014. According to Wolfson, past research has shown that lower blood pressure is related to less brain damage and thus better functioning. By the end of the study, researchers aim to be able to decrease the damage to the brain and lessen functional decline in older people.
sexual relations with teens in the department’s junior firefighters program. Young people between the ages of 14 and 17 participate in training, emergency calls and public education in the department’s program. Carilli was chief from 2006 to 2012 and also was the department’s training officer.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials plan to seek additional federal reimbursement for storm-related expenses incurred by the state and municipalities during the recent blizzard, saying their request is justified given the enormity of the storm. Starting next week, the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will begin the process of collecting information from cities and towns about their costs, DESPP spokesman Scott DeVico said. That data will be included in an application by the state for a major disaster declaration by the federal government, a designation that could lead to more federal funds. Connecticut received an emergency declaration by President Barack Obama shortly after the blizzard hit, which DeVico said is unusual for snowstorms. That declaration authorizes 75 percent federal reimbursement of certain storm-related costs over a 48-hour period. The major disaster declaration, however, would cover an additional 24 hours of costs. “We feel that the impact of this storm on the state warrants us to get more than 48 hours of assistance and we will be making that case to the federal government,” DeVico said. A total price tag for the storm, which left up to 3 feet of snow in some places, has not yet been determined. That was welcome news to
Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch, whose city was hit hard by the blizzard. Nearly all roads were not made passable until Thursday, six days after the storm arrived. “We’ve had crews working around the clock,” said Elaine Ficarra, a spokeswoman for the mayor. She said city officials have not yet tallied up their costs. “It’s an extraordinary event. It’s almost an extraordinary expense,” Ficarra said. “It’s probably going to be outside our normal realm of spending on a normal snowstorm.” Jim Finley, executive director and CEO of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, said many of his member cities and towns are still trying to add up their costs from the massive storm. He said the hefty bills could cause cash flow problems for some municipalities, because even if the state is granted the additional federal reimbursement, it could be months before any checks are cut. “The towns have fronted the money,” he said. Brenda Bergeron, an attorney for DESPP, said some municipalities are just now receiving funds from 2011’s Hurricane Irene and the October 2011 snowstorm. Cities and towns have not yet been reimbursed for costs associated with Superstorm Sandy, which hit the state this past October. She said the federal reimbursement process can be time-consuming, requiring detailed documentation of certain costs.
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Pair accused of fabricating story about dead baby
PLYMOUTH, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman and a friend are accused of fabricating a story about the death of a baby in 2001. The Republican-American reports that Rosemary Eaton and Jesse Brown were charged with falsely reporting an incident concerning serious injury or death and two misdemeanor counts of reporting false statements. Police say the 29-year-old Eaton told a Waterbury social service case worker that she gave birth at an abandoned house 12 years ago. Eaton said Brown helped with the childbirth. The case worker alerted police that Eaton said she buried the baby behind a ball field in Terryville. Police, who found no remains, said Eaton eventually admitted she made up the story. A phone number could not be found for Eaton and Brown was held on a $50,000 bond. It’s not known if they are represented by lawyers.
Bridgeport nuns inspired to teach, not preach
BRIDGEPORT (AP) — While the Vatican and the largest group of nuns in America debate the role of women in the Roman Catholic Church, the School Sisters of Notre Dame here quietly continue their mission of teaching English and basic life skills to low-income women and children. The women work out of a simple, yellow house on Stillman Street in the city’s East Side. The focus in the colorful, toy-filled preschool rooms at Caroline House is on learning the ABCs, numbers and colors in English. And, in the adult classrooms here, the emphasis is on learning how to communicate and assimilate in this country. “We’re not here to evangelize,” Sister Connie Carrigan, a staff member since 2001, said quietly. “We are here to be good people, and good people are good people.” The nuns help to break down communication barriers between children and their parents. It is this evolving dialogue that makes Caroline House work, the women say. Alma Farez has been in this country for eight years and can speak some English. “But one day my child come home from school and asked me, ‘What is this word?’ and I didn’t know the meaning of the word,” Farez, 30, said. She promised her 8-year-old son, Steven, that she would find the definition. After being referred to Caroline House, Farez no longer has trouble communicating with her son or helping him with his homework.
Conn. bills address bed bug infestations HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers are considering legislation that spells out the responsibilities of landlords and tenants when it comes to bed bug infestations. The General Assembly’s Housing Committee is scheduled to hear testimony Tuesday on several bills addressing bed bugs. One bill, proposed by Bridgeport Sen. Andres Ayala, would establish the responsibilities of landlords and tenants. Another bill, proposed by Waterbury Rep. Larry Butler, would establish guideline and procedures for exterminating bed bugs found in public housing and non-public housing units. Last year, lawmakers considered a bill that would have created a task force to study ways to control infestations in multifamily housing and recommend legislation to help landlords and tenants. The bill passed in the Senate, but was not taken up for a vote in the House and subsequently died.
Naugatuck officer returns while fighting cancer
NAUGATUCK (AP) — She collapsed next to her patrol car in August 2011 in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Doctors found cancer in her lungs and brain. They told her she had four months to live. The Naugatuck Police Department held fundraisers and held its breath. A year and a half later, lighted police cars escorted Officer Danielle Parady down Spring Street for her first day back at work. “I feel normal,” Parady said. “I don’t know if normal is the right word or not. Lucky.” Parady, now 41, stopped working after she first fell ill but did not leave the department. She used her accumulated sick time, then sick time donated by other police officers and firefighters, while being treated at the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. She is still undergoing chemotherapy and radiation but said she feels well enough that her doctor finally agreed to let her work again, as long as she is confined to light administrative tasks. “I’ve been asking him all year,” Parady said. “I like doing what I do.” Parady said she has a type of melanoma that only grows inside the body. Doctors have tried different types of chemotherapy, some experimental, and Parady has undergone six surgeries, including two to her brain.
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Will the next pope be American?
NEW YORK (AP) — Conventional wisdom holds that no one from the United States could be elected pope, that the superpower has more than enough worldly influence without an American in the seat of St. Peter. But after Pope Benedict XVI’s extraordinary abdication, church analysts are wondering whether old assumptions still apply, including whether the idea of a U.S. pontiff remains off the table. Benedict himself has set a tone for change with his dramatic personal example. He is the first pontiff in six centuries to step down. Church leaders and canon lawyers are scrambling to resolve a litany of dilemmas they had never anticipated, such as scheduling a conclave without a funeral first and choosing a title for a former pope. The conclaves that created the last two pontificates had already upended one tradition: Polish-born Pope John Paul II ended 455 years of Italian papacies with his surprise selection in 1978. Benedict, born in Bavaria, was the first German pope since the 11th century. “With the election of John Paul, with the election of Benedict, one wonders if the former boundaries seem not to have any more credibility,” New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said, discussing Benedict’s decision this week on SiriusXM’s “The Catholic Channel.” The election also follows a pontificate that featured Americans in unusually prominent roles. Cardinal William Levada, the former San Francisco archbishop, was the first U.S. prelate to lead the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s powerful guardian of doctrine. Cardinal Raymond Burke, the former St. Louis archbishop, is the first American to lead the Vatican supreme court. And Benedict appointed others from the U.S. to handle some of his most pressing concerns, including rebuilding ties with breakaway Catholic traditionalists and overseeing the church’s response to clergy abuse cases worldwide. But as Christopher Bellitto, a historian at Kean University in New Jersey who studies
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In this Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 file photo, newly-appointed U.S. Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke walks past Pope Benedict XVI after receiving Cardinal’s ring during a mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican.
the papacy, said, “There’s a big difference between letting somebody borrow the car and handing them the keys.” “The American church,” he said, “comes with a lot of baggage.” Among the negatives is the clergy sex abuse scandal, which has affected every U.S. diocese and bishop. The 11 U.S. cardinals expected to vote in the conclave will include Cardinal Roger Mahony, the former Los Angeles archbishop who was recently stripped of public duties by his successor over his record on handling abuse cases. Also attending will be Cardinal Justin Rigali, who stepped down as Philadelphia archbishop after a landmark indictment of priests revealed he had kept several clergy on assignment despite claims they had molested children. The cardinals are also struggling against the perception, held particularly by Europeans,
that most Americans aren’t sophisticated enough to handle the papacy. In a faith 2,000 years old, the United States is considered relatively new ground. Europe was still sending missionaries to the U.S. to create the church through the early 1900s. Popes are also expected to be multilingual, or to at minimum speak Italian fluently. Dolan, considered to have one of the highest profiles in the U.S. church, speaks only halting Italian and a little Spanish, but no French or Latin. He led the North American Seminary in Rome, a kind of West Point for American priests, but has never worked in a Vatican office. “There really never has been any American who rises above his American-ness and holds the esteem of the international group of cardinals because of his service, because of what he’s done for the church,” said Brother Charles Hilken, a historian at Saint Mary’s College of California, who has studied the papacy. Beyond the qualities of individual candidates, the cardinals take church history into account. The church has tried to keep the papacy separate from a reigning superpower for centuries, whether the Holy Roman Empire, France or Spain, according to the Rev. Thomas Reese, author of “Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church.” When France captured the papacy, the nation moved the seat to Avignon in 1309 and kept it there for seven decades. But the role of the United States in the world today is what weighs most heavily against a American pope. The Vatican navigates complex diplomatic relations within the Muslim world, in China over the statebacked church, in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and beyond. An American pope could be perceived as acting in the interests of the United States instead of Catholics. “That would be enough of a concern for enough cardinals to make them leery about voting for an otherwise good American candidate,” Hilken said. “These men come from places. They’re citizens of other countries of the world.”
Cruise Study: Hummingbirds are now migrating earlier in spring passengers
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Ruby-throated hummingbirds are migrating to North America weeks earlier than in decades past, and research indicates that higher temperatures in their winter habitat may be the reason. Researchers say the early arrival could mean less food at nesting time for the tiny birds that feed on insect pests, help pollinate flowers and are popular with birdwatchers. “Hummingbirds are charismatic, and they do things that fascinate us,” said Ron Johnson, a scientist at Clemson University and one of the study’s authors. “They fly backward, and they hover, and they will come to feeders at homes so people can easily see them.” Johnson and colleagues from Clemson; Taylor University in Upland, Ind.; and the University of Nebraska last month published an article on the migration of the hummingbirds in The Auk, the Journal of the American Ornithologists Union. The birds, which weigh little more than a nickel, fly hundreds of miles over the Gulf of Mexico from their wintering grounds in Central America to arrive in North America. The research compared data on their first arrival times from 1890 to 1969 with arrival times during the past 15 years or so. The comparison found that the birds are arriving in North America 12 to 18 days earlier than in the past.
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In this June 10, 2008 photo provided by Terry Sohl, a male Ruby-throated hummingbird feeds at a honeysuckle plant, in Brandon, S.D. Ruby-throated hummingbirds are migrating to North America weeks earlier than in decades past, and research indicates that higher temperatures in their winter habitat may be the reason.
Jason Courtier of Taylor University said the historical data on hummingbirds is based on government surveys from about 3,000 naturalists around the country who recorded the first spring arrival time of bird species over the decades. About 6 million such records exist and are being scanned into computer databases by the North American Bird Phenology Program. The research compared the historical documents with about 30,000 recent records on hummingbird arrivals. Scientists say the earlier arrival times could be problematic for hummingbirds, of which there are an estimated 7 million. “With any bird that migrates
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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Passengers of the Carnival Triumph tried to put the memories of their nightmarish cruise behind them Friday, boarding buses and planes for home after five harrowing days aboard a vessel adrift at sea without power or working toilets. Many of the roughly 3,000 passengers were bused to New Orleans to catch a flight home or to the ship’s home port in Galveston, Texas. And as if they hadn’t suffered enough, one of the buses broke down during the two-hour ride to New Orleans. Passengers on a different bus reported losing their luggage. “I’m very frustrated that now our luggage is gone and missing,” said Deborah Day of Plano, Texas, adding that she had made sure to check through every transfer point herself, only to lose it when she trusted Carnival to put it on a separate truck instead of the bus she was riding on. But she had kind words for the crew aboard the disabled ship, adding, “Those people were incredible.” Other passengers were taking things more in stride as they got closer to home. Georgia Jackson, 66, of Cedar Hill, Texas, said that while the cruise was not ideal, it was not all bad either.
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Submerged superstorm debris threatens tourism
MANTOLOKING, N.J. (AP) — On the surface, things look calm and placid. Just beneath the waterline, however, it’s a different story. Cars and sunken boats. Patio furniture. Pieces of docks. Entire houses. A grandfather clock, deposited in a marsh a mile from solid land. Hot tubs. Tons of sand. All displaced by Superstorm Sandy. “We did a cleanup three weeks ago. Then when we went back the other day, you could still see junk coming up in the wash,” said Paul Harris, president of the New Jersey Beach Buggy Association, which helps take care of beaches on which the group goes surf fishing. “They go and clean it again, and two days later, you have the same thing again. There’s nothing you can do about it; you can’t vacuum the ocean.” Coastal areas of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut are racing to remove untold tons of debris from waters hardest hit by the Oct. 29 storm before the summer swimming and boating seasons begin — two of the main reasons people flock there each year and the underpinning of the region’s multibillion-dollar tourist industry. The sunken debris presents an urgent safety issue. Swimmers could cut themselves on submerged junk, step on one of thousands of boardwalk nails ripped loose, or suffer neck or spinal injuries diving into solid objects. Boats could hit debris, pitching their occupants overboard, or in severe cases, sinking. The cleanup won’t be easy, fast or cheap. “The amount of debris that needs to be removed is mind-boggling,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said, ticking off the statistics in his state: 1,400 vessels sunk, broken loose or destroyed during the storm. In just one shore town
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alone, Mantoloking, 58 buildings were washed into Barnegat Bay, along with eight vehicles, and a staggering amount of sand carried from the ocean beaches into the bay. “Everything you can imagine is sitting in our waterways,” he said. Barnegat Bay is likely to have some no-go zones in place for at least part of the spring and summer as cleanup work progresses. “Big Al” Wutkowski, a locally famous striped-bass fisherman who volunteers as the Barnegat Bay Guardian for the American Littoral Society environmental group, is worried about what still lurks beneath the waves. “When people start putting their boats back in the water in April, I know they’re
going to start hitting stuff,” he said. “It’s impossible not to hit stuff. It’s also a lot shallower in places now. A lot of the lagoons are filled in with sand. People can’t get their boats in or out.” Florida-based contractor AshBritt Environmental removed 42 boats from New Jersey waterways in recent weeks. Others were corralled by the State Police, or by private salvage companies acting on behalf of owners. Property owners are not being held financially responsible for debris that washed or blew off their property into waterways unless they hire a private company to retrieve a boat they plan to repair and keep, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.
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The state, which issue contracts last week for the water cleanup work, plans to seek full reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of $60 billion in Sandy relief approved by Congress. Much of the work will involve cranes atop barges that pluck the largest debris from the bottom. Divers could be used for smaller pieces. Once that’s done, many waterways will need to be dredged, with the sand placed back on beaches. The private owners of an amusement pier that collapsed in Seaside Heights, N.J., pitching the Jet Star roller coaster into the ocean, are working with insurers to devise a plan to dismantle the ride and get it out of the ocean. Seaside Heights also plans to send teams of divers to scour the ocean bottom in popular swimming areas before letting people back into the water, fearing parts of the wooden pier, metal pieces from boardwalk rides and other debris still linger in the ocean. Cars from the pier’s amusement rides were found on beaches as far as 8 miles away in the days after the storm. The Polar Bear Plunge, in which swimmers briefly dash into and out of the frigid surf to raise money for charity, was moved this year from Seaside Heights to Long Branch, a beach 24 miles to the north where hidden debris wasn’t a concern. New York and Connecticut face similar problems. “We have everything from floating oil barrels, gasoline tanks, household hazardous waste products, buckets, tires, bathtubs, you name it,” said Adrienne Esposito, executive director of the Citizens Campaign for the Environment on Long Island.
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Cruise industry comes under scrutiny after stranded ship MIAMI (AP) — A byzantine maze of maritime rules and regulations, fragmented oversight and a patchwork quilt of nations that do business with cruise lines make it tough for consumers to assess the health and safety record of the ship they’re about to board in what for many is the vacation of a lifetime. Want to know about a ship’s track record for being clean? Want to assess how sanitary the food is? It’s not that easy to find, in part because there’s no one entity or country that oversees or regulates the industry with its fleet of ships that are like mini cities floating at sea. In the case of Carnival Cruise Lines, the owner of the Carnival Triumph that spent days in the Gulf of Mexico disabled after an engine fire, the company is incorporated in Panama, its offices are based in Miami and its ships fly under the Bahamian flag — a matrix that is not unusual in the cruise line industry. For potential passengers seeking ship information, there’s no central database that can be viewed to determine a track record of safety or health inspections. No one agency regulates everything from the cruise line’s mechanical worthiness to the sanitation of its kitchens. The U.S. Coast Guard inspects each cruise ship that docks in the U.S. every year for a range of issues, from operation of backup generators to the lifeboats. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a database of recent disease outbreaks and other health inspection information for cruise ships. Had Triumph vacationers looked up information about the cruise ship through those two agencies before boarding, they would have found mostly clean marks and few red flags. And when something goes wrong, as it did on Triumph, there are limits to how much the Coast Guard can investigate. These are not new issues — they had been raised by members of Congress before the Triumph incident. “This horrible situation involving the Carnival Triumph is just the latest example in a long string of serious and troubling incidents involving cruise ships,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., who led a committee hearing on cruise safety last year.
Last year, after the Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Giglio, Italy, Rockefeller held a Commerce Committee hearing to examine deficiencies in the cruise line industry’s compliance with federal safety, security, and environmental standards and review industry regulations. “As I remarked then, they seem to have two lives: One is at port, where the Coast Guard can monitor their operations; the other is at sea where, it appears once they are beyond three nautical miles from shore, the world is theirs,” Rockefeller said in letter he wrote this week to Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr., the commandant of the Coast Guard. “The Carnival Triumph incident only serves to further validate this view.” The Triumph left Galveston, Texas, on Feb. 7 for a four-day cruise to Cozumel, Mexico. An engineroom fire paralyzed the ship early Sunday, leaving it adrift in the Gulf of Mexico. Passengers described nightmarish conditions on board: overflowing toilets, long lines for a short supply of food, foul odors, and tent cities where vacationers slept on deck. Tugboats slowly towed the 14-story vessel to Mobile, Ala. It arrived there late Thursday. Before a ship like the Triumph sets sail, it’s possible — but not easy — to find information about past incidents and safety or health issues. The CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program is viewable online. The database shows recent disease outbreaks aboard cruise ships and how they were addressed. Records for the Triumph show it was last inspected July 7, 2012. It scored 96 out of 100. The CDC considers scores of 85 or lower unsatisfactory. The lowest score the ship received was an 88, in 2009. The Coast Guard also has a database, known as the U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Information Exchange, with inspections and any deficiencies found aboard ships, dating to when the vessels entered service. A search on the exchange’s website for the Triumph turns up its certifications for things like passenger safety and pollution prevention as well as inspections. No violations or red flags are immediately evident. Searching a little deeper, the most recent report shows a propulsion issue from a Jan. 28 incident involving a short in a connection box of one of the ship’s generators.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is getting an unwelcome look at the shady side of the hacking culture that CEO Mark Zuckerberg celebrates. Intruders recently infiltrated the systems running the world’s largest online social network but did not steal any sensitive information about Facebook’s more than 1 billion users, according to a blog posting Friday by the company’s security team. The unsettling revelation is the latest breach to expose the digital cracks in a society and an economy that is storing an evergrowing volume of personal and business data online. The news didn’t seem to faze investors. Facebook Inc.’s stock dipped 10 cents to $28.22 in Friday’s extended trading. The main building at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters lists its address as 1 Hacker Way. From there,
Facebook serves as the gatekeeper for billions of potentially embarrassing photos and messages that get posted each month. This time, at least, that material didn’t get swept up in the digital break-in that Facebook said it discovered last month. The company didn’t say why it waited until the afternoon before a holiday weekend to inform its users about the hack. It was a sophisticated attack that also hit other companies, according to Facebook, which didn’t identify the targets. “As part of our ongoing investigation, we are working continuously and closely with our own internal engineering teams, with security teams at other companies, and with law enforcement authorities to learn everything we can about the attack, and how to prevent similar incidents in the future,” Facebook wrote on the blog.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A House committee has rejected four bills intended to patch a 2011 law that banned medical marijuana commercial transactions but was ultimately blocked with a preliminary injunction by a state judge. Lee Newspapers of Montana reports that the House Human Services Committee on Friday also tabled the bills by Democrat Rep. Kelly McCarthy of Billings. District Judge James Reynolds of Helena issued a preliminary injunction blocking the law in January, saying thousands of ill cardholders would be harmed in Montana if their providers went out of business and users were forced to try to grow their own. The restrictive 2011 state law limited providers to three users and banned compensation in an attempt to squeeze out profits from what was a booming medical marijuana industry in the state. The revised law allowed those with medical marijuana cards to grow their own pot or find someone to grow it for them for free. The Montana Cannabis Industry Association sued, saying the law would unconstitutionally deny patients access to the medicine they required. The four bills aimed to fix the 2011 law that resulted from Senate Bill 423. All four were voted down 12-4, with all 10 Republicans and two Democrats opposing the bills. Four Democrats supported them. Committee Chairman David Howard, R-Park City, called marijuana “a joke.” “This stuff is disguised as medicine,” said Howard, a former FBI agent. “It makes you delusional. It is psychologically addicting and physiologically addicting, and it absorbs in your fat cells, which is the most dangerous drug there is. This is not a drug. It’s a poison.” The four bills combined would eliminate the requirement that the Board of Medical Examiners automatically review any physicians who have given written certification for more than 25 people in any 12-month period to use medical marijuana. They also would allow medical marijuana providers to be paid for providing marijuana to cardholders, remove the three-person limit for the number of cardholders that medical marijuana providers can serve, and eliminate medical marijuana record keeping. Rep. Amanda Curtis, D-Butte, said the 2011 law essentially made the use of marijuana as medicine illegal. “The injunctions put on the court facilitated limited use, and we saw the number of cardholders drop from 30,000 to 8,000 with those injunctions,” Curtis said. “We would have had zero without those injunctions.”
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A progressive pope may be exactly what the Catholic Church needs
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ast week, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would be resigning from his position as head of the Catholic Church. Beginning Feb. 28, the pope will no longer be the infallible leader. In the announcement, the pope cited old age and infirmity as his reasons for resigning. He believes that if the pope is no longer physically or mentally strong enough to continue to lead the church, it is his duty to step down. Having said that, Benedict is the first pope in six centuries to resign from the position. Saying he had examined his conscience “before God,” Benedict decided that he was no longer up to the challenge of guiding the world’s one billion Catholics. The news comes as a shock to most but a relief to many who are worried about the future of the Catholic Church. Many hope that whoever replaces Pope Benedict will be better equipped to manage the problems facing church today, in an age where Islam is rising in Europe and Protestant evangelical groups are becoming prominent in the United States, Latin America and Africa. That is not to mention the many others around the world who consider themselves secular. In addition, the church is still marred by the sexual abuse scandals that have become a major repeating topic of contention for the church in the past decade. Benedict was considered by many to be a strongly conservative leader, keeping the church’s scope relatively small and geared toward the devout. However, there are many in the Vatican who believe that the church can broaden its appeal by tackling social issues such as celibacy of priests, ordaining women, allowing divorced people who remarry without an annulment to receive communion or revisiting the church’s view on the use of condoms in an effort to prevent AIDS. Perhaps these people are right. Although the Catholic Church has its enemies and very vocal critics, it cannot be argued that it has a major scope and reach in the modern day. During Pope Benedict the XVI’s time as head of this organization, Catholicism has mostly stagnated. Perhaps the new pope should be a bit more progressive, using the resources of the church to make changes and adapt it for a growingly secular world. The church is currently looking to fight a battle of demographics that Benedict didn’t seem to be interested in. The distribution of Catholic people is mostly stuck in Latin America, Africa and Europe. As mentioned, those numbers are shrinking and Catholics everywhere aren’t interested in being obsolete in a modern world. When the conclave begins in the next few weeks, the College of Cardinals will try and select which devout Catholic will become the new head of the church. Hopefully this time they will pick one whose mantra isn’t “business as usual.” A progressive pope might be just the shot in the arm that Catholicism needs. The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.
Ken Carter, Kevin Ollie and the true championship
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n 1978, the Hartford Civic Center’s ceiling collapsed after a heavy snowstorm and last Wednesday it seemed that the rechristened XL Center would do so again. The floors were shaking. The noise was deafening. The building seemed almost unable to contain the magnitude of the energy. Last Wednesday brought one of the greatest, most triumphant, most jawdropping home performance that the University of Connecticut basketball team has achieved during any current student’s tenure here. Was it all for nothing? That depends on who you ask. By Jesse Rifkin So let’s ask Ken Associate Commentary Editor Carter. Mr. Carter, who stops by the Student Union Theater tomorrow night at 7 p.m. to deliver a free lecture, was the inspiration behind the film “Coach Carter” starring Samuel L. Jackson. As head coach of Richmond (California) Oilers high school basketball in 1999, Carter led an undefeated 13-0 team ranked third in the state among similarly-sized schools. That is, until he started a self-imposed lockout against competing until his athletes raised their academic scores. Carter became a national media sensation, forfeiting his team’s games and refusing to allow re-entry into competition until players attained sufficient grades. The team eventually returned, finishing the season with an excellent 19-5 record and earning a bid to the state playoffs. UConn has something of a Ken Carter figure, except his name is Kevin Ollie. When Ollie accepted the head coaching job this season, his nonexistent head coaching
experience meant signing a mere seven month contract, unlike the multiyear contracts typical in the sport. For all he knew, this could be the only season he coached UConn. And it just happened to be the one season the team was ineligible for competing in the postseason NCAA Tournament or Big East Tournament, as punishment for low academic scores among former players. During Ollie’s introductory press conference in September, he looked around for a moment before starting. “It’s about UConn basketball and how we go forward. And we’re going to go forward. And we have enough, right here in this room, we have enough,” Ollie asserted. “I believe in you and I want you to be better, not only basketball players, but I want you to be better men. Better men, that you all come back, and the only thing I ask from you is that you come back and help the other guys that we’re trying to coach, that we’re trying to get to that next point. I want you to always come back and do that for me. I want you to believe in me as we go through this journey and know for a fact that I believe in you.” Most UConn fans had the same reaction: That’s all good and well, but win us some games. Last Wednesday he did. That unlikeliest victory against Syracuse, the sixth-ranked team in the nation while UConn remained ranked outside the Top 25, came following the Orange defeating the Huskies in all three matchups last season. With the championship as impossibility, the win against a top championship contender was UConn’s champion-
ship. It only served to prove the lesson of Ken Carter: Basketball success and academic achievement are not mutually exclusive. By all indications current UConn players are achieving an Academic Performance Rate sufficiently high to qualify for tournament play – but remain barred regardless due to former players, not a single one of whom remains on the team. During the finale of the film “Coach Carter,” Samuel L. Jackson looks around the locker room at his dejected players following their state tournament loss ending their season. He raises his voice loud and clear. “Well, not quite your storybook ending. Not for us, anyway. But you men played like champions. You never gave up. And champions hold their heads high. What you achieved goes way beyond the win-loss column or what’s going to be written on the front page of the sports section tomorrow. You have achieved something that some people spend their whole lives trying to find. What you achieved is that ever elusive victory within. And gentlemen, I am so proud of you. Four months ago when I took the job at Richmond I had a plan. That plan failed. I came to coach basketball players and you became students. I came to teach boys and you became men. And for that I thank you.” When Kevin Ollie took the job at UConn a few months ago, he had a plan. That plan failed too.
“[Last Wednesday’s win] only served to prove the lesson of Ken Carter: Basketball success and academic achievement are not mutually exclusive.”
A ssociate Commentar y Editor Jesse Rifkin is a 6th- semester journalism major. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.
Banning used video games would be a bad call for industry
To any who say that they don’t like Mooyah, I’d have to follow by asking if you even like freedom. I would then follow by showing you the door. If campus is blown away by the time this InstantDaily is actually read, I wouldn’t be surprised. My feet are about to fall off and I’m still quite delirious, but my HuskyTHON experience is one that I’m never going to be able to forget. For the kids!!! Best quote ever from my girlfriend: “We know these truths to be self-evident: Duke sucks.” HuskyTHON has made me very keen to yelling “for the kids!” after every positive thing I do now. Hopefully nobody will mind. First time I’m having my Monday class in two weeks...can we PLEASE have another snow day? I was so ready to start complaining on behalf of the UConn men’s team for being unranked, but then they lost to Nova and I’m just going to sit here and eat this ice cream. Is it weird that my dream job is to be the guy with his finger on the “bleep” button for a live television show? I’m just so good at catching people swearing. I’ll tell ya what, I will NEVER get sick of eating grey poupon. And if that makes me a condiment elitist, then so be it. I am the 1 percent.
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t’s no secret that game companies dislike the market for used games. When you buy a used game, not a single dime of that purchase goes to the developer. Many developers have tried to combat the used game market with tactics such as requiring an online pass to access multiplayer features. Those who buy new games automatiKayvon Ghoreshi cally get the pass, but Staff Columnist those that buy used have to shell out a little extra to buy a code separately. Now rumors have been circulating that the next generation of consoles, tentatively known as the PS4 and Xbox 720, will up the ante in the war on used games by supposedly making games only playable on one console. However, I hope that such a feature isn’t part of the next cycle of consoles because it would be detrimental to the industry as a whole. First and foremost companies would need to deal with the backlash and disdain of the gaming community. Many would not take it well that
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they suddenly are no longer allowed to purchase used games and would likely boycott the new consoles. But for argument’s sake, let’s suppose any resentment eventually dissipates and now everyone is subject to purchasing only new games. For starters you would see a lot of businesses struggle. Gamestop makes a majority of its profits on used games so it would likely take a big hit. Game rental services like Gamefly would be nonexistent if games couldn’t be played on more than one console. Not mention this could also get rid of the ability to simply loan a game to a friend. Well at least the game developers and publishers are making more money, right? Actually, developers could hurt their own profits with such a move. Used games are a two way street. Someone is buying the used game, but only after someone sells it. Plenty of stores offer credit in exchange for games. This credit can then be put towards a purchase of a new game. Banning used games prevents this transaction from taking place. The
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inability to sell a game back to recoup some money not only hurts gamers’ wallets but it can also deter them from purchasing new games out of fear that it will be terrible and they won’t be able to get any of their money back. This would also make the word of reviewers and Metacritic scores carry much more weight, which may not always help developers. Developers may also fail to realize that used games can lead to new game purchases. For example, I originally bought both “Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune” and “Infamous” as used games. Both were new series at the time and I was unsure about them. I fell in love with the games and bought the sequels on day one. It’s very rare for a new IP to generate enough buzz to get people to buy new on the first day. A cheaper used version is a good way to attract interested gamers and possibly make them day one customers for the sequel. The solution to used games isn’t to ban them. The industry’s attitude thus far has been to punish those that buy used, rather than providing incentive to buy new. One way is
to work on lowering the price of games so as to entice more consumers to buy new. The most recent example of this is Sanzaru Games which launched “Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time” at the price point of $40 as opposed to the usual $60. Also, in the same way Gamestop has a rewards program that gives more points and bigger discounts to people that buy used games; companies can further develop rewards programs that incentivize buying new games. To be clear, I don’t consider used games to be my right as a consumer. If companies and developers wanted to implement technology that prohibited used games, it is well within their rights to do so. However, it is almost a backwards move for what they want to accomplish. Banning used games would hurt multiple aspects of the game industry, reduce the number of games sold, and only upset the audience game companies are trying to sell to. Staff Columnist Kayvon Ghoreshi is a 2nd-semester molecular and cell biology major. He can be reached at Kayvon.Ghoreshi@UConn.edu.
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Huskython 2013 breaks record By Rachel Dobin Campus Correspondent HuskyTHON’s conclusion, after its 6 p.m. Saturday to noon Sunday run, ended with the announcement that a record breaking $343,416.57 had been raised this year “for the kids” at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. HuskyTHON is an annual 18-hour dance marathon that takes place at Hugh S. Greed Field House to celebrate a yearlong effort: to raise money for CCMC. CCMC is “dedicated to improving the physical and emotional health of children through family-centered care, research, education and advocacy,” according to the organization’s website. This year at HuskyTHON brought 1,619 participants, according to Ricky Holtz, a sixth semester social interaction and new media major and the member of the management team in charge of Dancer Relations. 1,292 dancers (people who did not sit, or leave the venue for the full 18 hours), 150 were morale captains, there to boost the morale of their fellow dancers, 150 volunteers to help set up, clean up, and maintain the event, and several visiting alumni. Every dancer was required to raise a minimum of $100, a new rule implemented this year, but many exceeded that requirement. The top fundraiser was William Janetschek of Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity who raised $10,800. Following Janetschek was Katie Pepe of the management team, who raised $3,330 and Christine Lewis of Delta Gamma who raised $2,471. The top three fundraisers raised over $16,000 for the kids at CCMC, which is more than the total raised in 2001 at UConn’s first dance marathon, Husky
Midnight Marathon. Lindsay Rauch, an 8th semester communications and Spanish major, and the co-director of the HuskyTHON management team, expressed why she is so passionate about this cause. “With everything CCMC does, they are so creative. Patients can decorate their rooms, they can be taken to surgery in a red wagon—the doctors don’t make the kids feel like another number. The staff at CCMC truly care for each child there and make them feel comfortable and safe,” said Rauch. When asked her favorite part about HuskyTHON, Rauch struggled to pick just one thing. “Obviously finding out the total amount of money we raised is exciting. But what I always look forward to most is the last morale dance, a ten minute dance morale captains learn prior to HuskyTHON that is performed every hour, on the hour of the event that other dancers are encouraged to learn. I love seeing the entire field house dancing together. It’s especially exciting for me this year since I choreographed it,” said Rauch. There were 79 teams at HuskyTHON this year, including its management team who organize and run the event after going through a competitive application process, fraternities, sororities, sports teams, learning communities, and other organizations. Out of these organizations, the management team was the top fundraiser, with $28,506.99. Shortly behind the management team was Delta Zeta sorority with $28,451.00, according to HuskyTHON’s donors website. Daniel Bolson, a 6th semester marketing major and the director of entertainment on the management team, got involved with HuskyTHON after being
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Huskython broke record this year and raised money for the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. The dance marathon ran for 18 hours in the Hugh S. Greed field house. Huskython this year brought in 1,619 participants.
inspired by his fraternity brothers’ passion for the event. “Two of my brothers and best friends were on the management team in previous years, in addition to being involved with many other things on campus like tour guiding, Community Outreach, Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, and more. Out of all the things they were involved with, their biggest passion was HuskyTHON. This is what inspired me to become more involved beyond being a dancer. I knew it would enhance my college experience and for the past five months it certainly has,” said Bolson.
There were a record-breaking amount of “miracle families” at HuskyTHON this year, according to Scott Organek, the Director of CCMC. Each team is assigned a “miracle child,” a young patient from CCMC who has battled and survived, or is still battling, a serious illness. Each team decorates posters for their miracle child, gets to know him or her and their family, and surprises them with gifts. After the morale dance every hour, a miracle child and his or her family goes on stage and shares their story as the rest of the Field House takes a knee out of respect for the emotional story being told.
“Seeing the dollar total is great, but the coolest thing is seeing the patients out there being treated like kings and queens,” said Organek. “We’ve got kids who have survived cancer, there’s a kid who was born at one pound, there’s a girl with half a heart…and you would never know. And it’s amazing seeing the UConn community come together to support these kids.” Bolson spoke for the management team when asked his favorite part about HuskyTHON. “For us it’s the ability to change the lives of so many children and motivate so many students to be
passionate about something like HuskyTHON. At the reveal when you see everyone’s faces and you see everyone crying…to make someone experience that is a great feeling,” said Bolson. HuskyTHON started out as “Husky Midnight Marathon,” which raised $15,160 in 2001. Now, HuskyTHON is the largest student led philanthropy in the state of Connecticut. Additionally, after raising $304,375.24 last year, HuskyTHON was added to the list of top ten dance marathons in the country.
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Love is in the air for AACC pageant Blend of cultures take stage at Jorgensen By Katie McWilliams Staff Writer
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The AACC held their annual pageant this past weekend with a Valentines theme. With a variety of talent including rapping, guitar playing and much more the pageant eventually crowned their king and queen.
By Zarrin Ahmed Staff Writer Sophomores Sloan Wilson and Shantel Honeyghan were crowned winners of the Mr. and Ms. African American Cultural Center Pageant Friday night at the Student Union Ballroom. From performances that included raps and guitar solos to evening wear and a question and answer session, the eleven competitors showcased themselves to judges in a true pageant style. By impressing the judges and their peers in the audience, Wilson and Honeyghan both took home crowns. With a theme titled “Love With All Your Heart,” the pageant took place just a day after Valentine’s Day and was decorated by many red and pink heart balloons. In front of dozens of students, seven women competed for the title of Ms. AACC and four men participated to be crowned as Mr. AACC. Director of the AACC and affiliate professor Dr. Willena Price, who organized a majority of the event, began the show with an introduction and welcome, presenting the master and mistress of ceremonies, Justis Lopez and Vicki Daniel. Lopez and Daniels asked the crowd to cheer for the
judges of the pageant for taking their time that night to crown a winner: Assistant Dean of Fine Arts Dr. Ted Yungclas, President of the African American Faculty Dr, Shayla Nunnally, Hall Director Jordan Turner, Director of PRLACC Ms. Fany Hannon, Hall Director Joliana Yee, and Mrs Amanda Canada from the Institute for African American Studies. After an introduction of the contestants, Isaiah Jamal Jacobs performed the poem “Love With All Your Heart.” The first portion of the pageant was casual wear, where contestants showed off their style in everyday outfits. Next came the talent portion of the night. Kicked off by the first contestant, Alyssa Hughes, the crowd was treated to singing and guitar playing, ending with some slam poetry by the freshman. Next was Chelsea Murray who spit some raps and got the crowd chanting the “Huskies” chant. Richard Miller took the stage after with an electric guitar solo and although there were technical difficulties, the crowd clapped along to build up spirit. Alexis Russell began her talent by playing a tune on the keyboard and then dancing with a partner, taking on stunts and lifts that had the crowd amazed. All Stars step-
per Richard Miler decided to show off his stepping skills with two back up dancers. Jovonne Pullen incorporated singing and spoken word into her routine, while Sloan Wilson signed the American Sign Language to the song “Imagine” by the cast of Glee and Honeyghan did a spoken word skit that began with stuttering the letter “I.” Jalisa Williams translated a Spanish poem into English and Crystal Lewis sang “Saving All My Love” by Whitney Houston. Last but not least, Kenneth Miller showed the audience an entirely self-made video with music, shots of scenes from around UConn, and narration of his thoughts. Before the formal wear portion of the night, the hosts invited attendees to do the Cha Cha Slide with them, getting almost twenty students to dance in the middle of the floor. After the contestants answered some questions about life goals, volunteer work, helping people, and causes that they are invested in, the judges conferred to name a winner and their two runners up. Second runners up included Miller and Hughes, and in second place were Smith and Lewis.
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The annual Dancers for a Difference event took place in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts Friday night. The event was coordinated by UConn Surya, a dance team on campus which hosts a number of dance performances by UConn groups as well as teams from the greater Boston area and aims to raise money for a charitable cause. The show itself was a whirlwind display of many cultures and styles of dance. All of the groups that performed were of South Asian origin, but many groups blended Eastern and Western dance styles to create truly beautiful performances. The first group to take the stage was the University of Massachusetts’s Dhadak team, who blended Bollywood, Salsa, Hip Hop and traditional dance styles into a stunning performance. Following Dhadak was an all-female Dheem group from Boston University, who enthralled the audience with their classical Indian dance routine. “They were beautiful,” said Alma Outunye, a fourth-semester philosophy major in attendance. After the captivating performance by BU Dheem, Boston Garba brought the style of Western India to Jorgensen in their delightful Garba performance. While the troupe was only composed of four members, they held the audience’s attention with their colorful costumes and fast paced dancing. The first half of the show was closed by a stunning performance by UConn’s own Husky Banghra. The talented group amazed the audience with their fast paced dancing, heralding from Northern India and the Punjabi state and the reverberating sound of their drummer’s beat. “They are so high energy,” said fourth semester psychology major Kristine Salamanca. “I can’t imagine doing that!” Following an intermission, Brown University’s Badmaash team took the stage in colorful ensembles resembling school
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Jorgensen hosted Surya a dance team on campus and showcased a number of dances as well as their colorful attire.
children’s outfits and delighted the audience with their recess themed dance that combined the styles of classical Indian dance as well modern moves. Badmaash was followed by UCThunderaas, UConn’s own team that recently hosted the SurvivorRaas tournament at Jorgensen. As usual, Thunderaas kicked up a storm on stage, entertaining the audience with their superb dance skills and their colorful performance. ThunderRaas was followed by Boston College Masti and the show closed with an electric performance by the hosts, UConn Surya. Usually the proceeds of the show are donated to The Save Darfur Coalition, but this year audience members were given the opportunity to vote for the proceeds to go to three charities, ASHA for Education, UConn Empower, and The Sandy Hook School Support fund. ASHA for Education is a charity that funds the education of underprivileged children in India, while UConn Empower: A Better World
Cameroon is a student organization that aims to fund public health and educational projects in Cameroon starting this summer, and The Sandy Hook School Support fund was set up by United Way, after the events of December, to continue to support and provide resources for the victims and families of the tragedy. All the charities were worthwhile causes, but at the end of the night, the Surya captains announced that UConn Empower had won the $1800 the event had raised that night. Aside from the $1800 in donations, audience members donated to the individual charities throughout the night, and by the end of the night every organization was honored. After the show, the hosts graciously took the stage and honored not only UConn Empower, but their team members who all contributed to the success, and the help of the UConn community who made the evening possible.
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What I’m Watching Supernatural
Underrated: The CW
Friday 9 p.m. It feels like ‘Supernatural’ has been on forever with Sam and Dean chasing down the latest demonic entity or fighting to stop the portal to hell from being opened. There is always a demon to fight or witch to take down within the show and it surprises it me that it’s still on because of the repetitive content. For some reason we still come back week after week to tune in for Dean and Sam’s latest adventure. What makes this show unique is the fact that there is continuous brotherly love despite that both of them have been to hell and back (literally). Sometimes the episode ends on a depressing note but the fact that there is a great brotherly connection makes the show great. They actually understand the meaning of family. -Loumarie Rodriguez
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A taste of ‘Jerry Springer’ ‘Mad Men’ well crafted TV drama By Alex Sferrazza Campus Correspondent
So the writers telegraph everything of importance and add pointless action or suspense moments just to keep the audience entertained and ensure that viewers don’t miss anything. Personally, I feel that these unnecessary action/suspense sequences (like Joe’s sister being kidnapped) seem really out of place and detract from the rest of the story. They could be great for the show if they actually added anything or helped the story flow in some way. So far though, some of these sequences just seem like pointless throw-ins for sheer entertainment value. This review probably sounds scathing, but I honestly still really enjoy watching “The Following.” I’m just afraid that it’s going to turn into another mindless primetime drama. Hopefully next week’s episode will be of higher quality.
One of the most popular television shows around these days, especially among college aged viewers, is undoubtably “The Walking Dead” on AMC, it’s undeniably a well crafted program, it is a shame that another program on AMC, arguably one of the best television dramas in history, is comparatively ignored. I am, of course, speaking of “Mad Men,” which is a four time winner of the “Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series.” The show won the award in the first four of its five seasons, a record total which is shared by only a select few programs including “The West Wing” and “L.A. Law.” Despite such rabid acclaim, and while the premiere of the most recent season of “The Walking Dead” garnered an audience of over 10 million viewers, last years season premiere of “Mad Men” barely garnered more than 3.5 million viewers. For those who have not yet taken the plunge, “Mad Men” is the brainchild of television writer Matthew Wiener, who has served as a writer and producer on the later seasons of a little HBO show called “The Sopranos.” Set in 1960’s New York City in an advertising agency on Madison Avenue, “Mad Men” follows the professional and personal lives of Don Draper (Jon Hamm), creative director of the agency, as well as those of his co-workers. The program features a large ensemble cast with nearly every role played masterfully from Don’s alcoholic boss Roger Sterling (John Slattery), to Don’s creative protege’ Peggy Olson (Elizabeth Moss) with seldom a weak link to be found among them. One of the program’s hallmarks is its intense authenticity of the 1960’s. Costumes and sets are authentic to the time period. Nearly every character can be seen smoking indoors, and most interestingly, as episodes pass by, actual historical events are interwoven into the plot line. Among these are the 1960, Presidential election and the assassination of President Kennedy among others. While subsequent shows have attempted to re create a 60’s setting in the wake of “Mad Men’s” success (“Pan Am,” “The Playboy Club”), most have been dismal failures. Despite a comparatively small audience, those wise enough to watch the program are in for a real treat. The program has many fans, including U.S. President Barack Obama, who sent a letter to creator and show runner Matthew Weiner praising the show after its 3rd season. On the recent series finale of the NBC comedy program “30 Rock,” Tina Fey’s character attempts to persuade a co-worker from committing suicide by asking, “Don’t you wanna know how Mad Men ends?” She makes a good point. AMC has announced that “Mad Men’s” penultimate 6th season will premiere on April 7th, on AMC. For those wishing to catch up on the fantastic program, the first four seasons are available for instant streaming on Netflix, while season five is available for purchase on DVD, and digitally on iTunes and Amazon Instant Video.
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‘Pretty Little Liars’ manages to stay strong midway through their season 3 despite their flop of a Halloween special. Despite the show being based off a book series the TV show stands alone only using the books as background story.
By Loumarie Rodriguez Senior Staff Writer After an epic fail in their Halloween episode “Pretty Little Liars” needed to come back strong in order to bounce back for the second half the third season. Despite the unsuccessful Halloween special, the show has managed to live up to its original potential of being dramatic. ABC Family doesn’t typically have a good track record airing shows that actually have substance although “Pretty Little Liars” has already been renewed the show for a forth season. Originally following the series of books by Sara Shepard, the TV show has taken a turn far from the books making ABC Family’s “PLL” its own thing that still has a good storyline without relying on the books. At this point the TV show is a standalone only
using the books basically for Jerry Spring Show.” She literally a background story rather than springs at Mona across a table using direct plots from the book. while wrapping her hands around Every week the show reveals her throat, leaving me wondering a new twist to the complicated if she would have actually killed murder of a childhood friend her if others around her didn’t of the main characters, Spencer, stop her. The once conservative Aria, Emily and Hanna. When and well put together Spencer it seems like they are one step is now a hot mess with a cloud closer the mysteriof despair shadowing ous ‘A’ just sends her reasonable thinkPretty Little Liars them 10 steps back ing, even pushing away ABC Family with another revthe help of her close Tuesday 8:00 p.m. elation. friends. At this point in the Aria is in a rough third season Mona spot now that Ezra has is back and obvioustaken off to meet his ly hasn’t changed kid and is stuck with his her ways ,although good looking younger she has managed to fool the rest brother. Of course there is some of the school that she is a good spark between them since Aria is person. While she is in the midst always the one with some type of of fooling classmates, she also relationship issue or conflict that manages to push Spencer to her gets in the way of the unusual age breaking point where she com- difference between her and Ezra. pletely loses it and attacks Mona Who knew it would be his younglike something you see on “The er brother getting in the way? Oh
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wait I did see that coming. Hanna’s sassy attitude continues as she tries to fix Caleb’s relationship with his father, but of course that backfired on her since he’s a thief and seems he will always be a thief. Emily again seems to be the only one who actually cares about solving the murder of their friend Alison. She runs off with Jason to investigate more clues but shortly he is injured then disappears from the hospital bed. It’s pure madness in the world of “PLL” because Spencer still hasn’t told the gang that she knows that Toby is in the A-team. I’m not quite sure what she is waiting for despite a threat from ‘A’ but since when has any of them actually listened to instructions by ‘A?’ The episode was slow, but I suppose there is bound to be one episode in the season that might be a bit slow.
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Great potential, poor character development
By Stephen Skularek Campus Correspondent As interesting as “The Following” is, I don’t feel that it’s been living up to its potential as of late. It’s not as if the past couple of episodes were bad–on the contrary, week three’s episode had some seriously shocking moments. All of the episode have been quite entertaining thus far. I just feel that this week’s installment wasn’t as interesting as the rest. This just adds to some of the concerns I’ve had with the show already. I’ll start with episode four, entitled “Mad Love.” Without trying to give too much away, I can say that this is definitely more of a character development-centered episode. The focus this time is on antagonist Joe Carroll’s “star trio” of serial killers, the group that kidnapped Carroll’s son on his orders. While I find it interesting that the show is providing back story for some of these serial killers, I have a couple of issues with this. First, it’s only episode four; considering that the viewer really knows next to nothing about protagonist Ryan Hardy or serial killer Carroll, I don’t think it’s a good call to spend most of an early episode focusing on this trio of killers. More importantly, I think it was pretty obvious by this focus that at least one of the trio was going to get killed soon. I guess the writers wanted to get the character development in while they still could. The audience does get a better look into Hardy’s back story this time around, but it just seems rushed. The writers seem to make up for lost time by providing Hardy with a particularly depressing background. His mother died after a long battle with leukemia when he was a
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Latest episode of ‘The Following’ is not living up to its original potential and even risks falling into the usual mindless primetime dramas. The character development episode did not live up to its usual expectations.
teenager. His father was mur- There just wasn’t anything that dered while trying to be a good really grabbed my attention, Samaritan during a convenience like in past episodes. Episode store holdup. His brother was four just seemed like a trana firefighter killed during 9/11. sitional one to me. Its purI’m sorry, but when you add this pose was to provide depth to to the fact that his life some of the charwas nearly ruined by acters, while pushThe Following a run-in with a serial ing the plot along FOX killer, Hardy’s life is until next week. I Monday 9:00 p.m. just not believable. believe that there No one has this much will be great things bad luck. There is to come on “The no need to cut this Following,” but many corners to porI really hope that tray the fact that he’s things change for a dark, unstable character and an the better in the coming weeks. alcoholic. This point is underThe writers need to stop telestandable based on Hardy’s his- graphing all of the plot twists. Just tory with Carroll alone. Dealing because you’re trying to appeal to a with the pure evil of a serial wide audience does not mean you killer is enough to make any- need to dumb down your writing. one lose it; adding the rest of It’s like the writers are afraid that Hardy’s background on top of the show, with all of its references this just makes him seem less to the occult, Edgar Allan Poe and believable. the like, is too deep or cerebral to This wasn’t a bad episode. appeal to a mainstream audience.
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The UConn Marching Band flaunted some of their creativity this weekend at their annual talent show. Here, Emily Pakstis showed off her tap dancing skills to “The Remedy” by Jason Mraz.
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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -There’s some urgency. Imagine the project in its completed form, and stay active. Delegate the help from partners and friends. Give up control, and accept contribution. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Consult with partners over the next few days. Brainstorm and gather info. No need to make big decisions yet. Leave your money buried. Stay and finish up. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Loved ones encourage you to take on a new challenge. Heed an unsolicited suggestion. Choose privacy over publicity. There’s a temporary block, so get rest. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your team is ready. Put their ideas into practice. The next two days are good for making changes at home. Save enough for the highest quality. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- The pressure increases, but you have what it takes. Follow a strong leader. Everything starts to make sense. Don’t pour money down a hole. Review work before sending. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Get farther than expected, and discover new things about yourself. You’re entering a lucrative phase, but stick to your blueprints. Your actions speak louder than words. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your confidence gets a boost later today. Getting clear on your purpose or focus inspires you to take action. Direct traffic; folks want to contribute. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Time to get your hands dirty with an art project. Find your creative side. What do you love? What tickles your fancy? If you’re lost, let a partner take the lead. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Romance requires patience and flexibility now, but it’s well worth it. Balance short-term goals with long-term sustainability. There’s a test. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- New energy propels you to create goals for the future and take action. Find a quiet place where you can concentrate, and think up some revolutionary ideas. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Get ready for an adventure that could last into the weekend. Tie up the loose ends from older projects so you can launch a new one without looking back. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- It’s easier to concentrate now, especially in the financial realm. Why not get your taxes done early? Or at least go over the paperwork to see where you can save.
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Softball splits two games of Florida tournament By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer
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A UConn softball player throws the ball in a recent game last fall Burrill Family Field. The Huskies took two games of a four game tournament.
The UConn softball team is 2-2 to start the 2013 season after splitting four games during a tournament at Florida International University. The Huskies were supposed to play five games over three days this weekend. But rain caused their opening game against Binghamton to be postponed after four innings and their first of two games against FIU to be cancelled completely. As a result, the season did not begin for UConn until Saturday and it started with a 6-4 win in extra innings over Morehead State. The Huskies did most of
their damage in the third inning, scoring four runs. Third baseman Lexi Gifford led the UConn offense. Gifford went 2-3 with an RBI and scored the winning run for the Huskies when shortstop Emily O’Donnell reached on an error by the Eagles’ second baseman. Alyson Ambler got the win for UConn. Ambler allowed four runs over eight innings and finished with six strikeouts. Later in the day, the Huskies fell 3-2 to Florida International. UConn had the lead for most of the game, but the Panthers took the lead with two runs in the bottom of the sixth to seal the win. Left fielder Maddy Schiappa went 2-3 and drove in a run for
the Huskies. Katelyn Callahan was the losing pitcher, allowing three runs over 5.2 innings of work. On Sunday, UConn completed their rain-shortened game with Binghamton. The game resumed with the Huskies on top, but Binghamton made it close. A sixth-inning error cost Binghamton a chance at the win. UConn catcher Andrea Huelsenbeck hit the ball to Binghamton’s shortstop, who misplayed the ball, allowing Schiappa to score. UConn’s Kiki Saveriano allowed two runs in the top of the seventh, but still got the win as Ambler came in to get the last two outs, earning her first save of the season.
UConn dropped the second game to Binghamton 5-1. Ambler was lit up during the game, allowing five runs over only 2.2 innings of work. The lone run for the Huskies came in the fifth inning when Binghamton’s center fielder misplayed a hit by UConn second baseman Brittany Duclos, allowing Schiappa to score. The Huskies will return to Florida next weekend for the Florida Atlantic University Strike-Out Cancer Tournament, where they will play Towson, FAU, Northern Illinois, Providence and North Florida.
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Huskies in a four way tie for fourth place in AHA By Miles DeGrazia Staff Writer Following their weekend split with Holy Cross the University of Connecticut men’s hockey team sits in a three-way tie for fourth place with just four games left in the regular season. UConn’s final four games feature an all-away series with 10th place Army and a home-and-home series with Connecticut rival and last place Sacred Heart. On paper, this relatively easy schedule puts UConn in good contention to grab an extremely important top-four finish in the Atlantic Hockey Association. In the AHA conference tournament, the top four regular season finishers enjoy a bye into the quarterfinals and home ice advantage
when they do enter the tournament. UConn knows how important both those advantages can be. Last season, UConn fell to the #1 seed Air Force in the third and final game of a series in which Air Force won their two home matches. Despite the quantified importance of a top four finish, UConn interim head coach David Berard says confidence and understanding could prove to be more important. “We want to just play the best hockey we can and try to go into the playoffs with confidence, and understanding how we need to [play] in order to have success and obviously we want to try to get home ice whether it’s in the top four or five through eight,” said Berard. Coach Berard’s players certainly
know how much is on the line the final two weeks of the regular season. Senior defenseman Alex Gerke highlighted the physical play as an important factor come the end of a season. “Every season, whatever level you play at, you know, you get down to the grind of the year, towards the playoffs, it starts getting more physical, more chippy out there. It’s just the game,” said Gerke. Gerke and Junior forward Brant Harris both spoke of the importance of home ice advantage. “It’s huge. I think we play pretty well at our ice, and not only that but traveling to other teams rinks is harder on the legs and just more uncomfortable compared to playing at home,” said Harris.
“It’s huge, I mean if you get a bye obviously it’s big, and being at home is so much better for the playoffs,” said Gerke. Instead of focusing on home ice and its importance Coach Berard chose to talk about his teams level of play, and how important that is. “Once you get into the playoffs there’s a lot of good teams and if you’re playing your best hockey, you’re going to give yourself a good chance to win, no matter who you play,” said Berrard. The University of Connecticut men’s hockey team takes on Army twice this weekend in West Point, New York before heading home to play a home-and-home series with Sacred Heart.
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A UConn hockey player avoids a Holy Cross player at center ice in a recent game at the Mark Edawrd Freitas Ice Forum.
UConn comes up short in home loss to Villanova as Wildcats freshman scores 25 points from NO, page 12 break. The Huskies received a nice boost from a pair of back-to-back threes from freshman Leon Tolksdorf, but were plagued by turnovers, committing a total of 19 on the afternoon. “The killer for us was turnovers,” said head coach Kevin Ollie. “When we had the ball in our hand, we didn’t take
care of it like I envision my team to take care of it.” Villanova took control of the game with a 16-2 run in the middle of the second half to take a 52-45 lead with 9:35 remaining. A huge three pointer by freshman Omar Calhoun cut the lead to four, but Villanova would not relinquish their advantage and was able to run away from the Huskies in the final minutes
for the 70-61 victory. “Every day is a new day and a new challenge that we need to rise up to, and we didn’t do that today,” said Ollie. “We didn’t raise our standards up, and Villanova did, and you are going to get beat like that. In every failure when you get knocked down, you need to make sure that you pick up something. We have to keep building.”
No. 1 Baylor will pressure UConn at the XL Center from HUSKIES, page 12 more prepared and ready to play [against Baylor this season].” In addition to neutralizing Griner, the Huskies face the task of trying to guard junior Odyssey Sims on the perimeter. That, Auriemma says, could be an x-factor in the game. “She makes their offense a lot better because you can’t just concentrate all your attention on Brittney Griner because Odyssey will make a play and will make all that strategy worthless,” Auriemma said. “And as much defensively as offensively – she’s a really, really tough on-the-ball defender. And I guess you can be when you’ve got that shot blocker behind you [in Brittney Griner]. You can take all the chances you want.” A squad like Baylor, Auriemma knows, is capable of putting a tremendous amount of pressure on anyone, even a talented group like his own. A string of bad pos-
sessions and empty offensive trips could mean the difference, as the Lady Bears are capable of quickly putting the game out of reach. These are the hard-fought, challenging games he looks forward to coaching. “The kind of games that coaches like, I think – the kind of games I like is a game where if you play your A-game you could still lose,” Auriemma said. “Those are great games to coach in because now your goal is to play your A-game. And then if you win you win and if you lose you lose, but it’s not that exciting to go into a game knowing that if three of our starters foul out we’re still going to win by a bunch.” Ironically, the Huskies are coming off of a game in which it took far less than their A-effort to leave with a victory. On Saturday, UConn entered the Rutgers Athletic Center and looked extremely lethargic throughout the opening 10 minutes, and even after turning it
around, never looked particularly sharp, yet still walked out with a 20-point victory. “It’s in the back of our minds but we’re trying to move forward from it,” UConn redshirt senior Caroline Doty said of the 65-45 win against Rutgers. “It’s a learning experience now, we can’t really do anything to change it, but we just know that whatever our mentality was, the way we approached it that game is not acceptable. So we know what not to do.” Viewers everywhere will be hoping that the Huskies indeed learned what not to do and manage to bring their best effort against the Lady Bears, as the ESPN-televised game is, in the eyes of most fans, the marquee event of the women’s college basketball regular season. Tip-off is set for 9 p.m. and the game can also be heard on WTIC 1080 AM
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Villanova was led by freshman sharpshooter Ryan Arcidiacono’s game high 25 points, including five three pointers, while Calhoun paced UConn with 16. Deandre Daniels and Niels Giffey each chipped in with 13 and 11 points, respectively. The woes of Boatright and Napier continued throughout the afternoon, and the two leading scorers on the team
combined for only six points on 3-15 field goal shooting, while committing ten turnovers. Meanwhile, UConn was outrebounded 41-25 and allowed twenty offensive rebounds. “We definitely got outtoughed,” said Calhoun of his team’s rebounding struggles. “We have to do a better job of battling and fighting down there. They were able to do
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Agabiti: Consider history before court rushing from QUANTIFYING, page 12 Blue Blood) should not have rushed the court against Texas back in the ’09-’10 season after the Longhorns had already lost to Kansas State five days earlier. Lastly, you have to consider the history between the underdog and the favorite. If the both teams would consider their opponent a rival of theirs, and the win total on both sides is fairly close throughout their meetings, then nobody should be storm-
ing the court. If you’ve beaten that team enough times before, it shouldn’t be a functional holiday just because you won like you did 20 other times. It’s expected that the games be close regardless of how the teams are ranked, that’s why it’s called a rivalry. Did I miss anything? When is it permissible for a team to rush the court? Follow Dan on Twitter @ DanAgabiti
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whatever they wanted to.” UConn will look to bounce back from the loss when they host Cincinnati in a crucial Big East contest on Thursday evening at the XL Center. The game will tip off at 7 pm.
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Bruins defeat Jets 3-2 in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Brad Marchand scored 36 seconds into the third period to lift the Boston Bruins to a 3-2 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday night. Tyler Seguin and Daniel Paille also scored, and Patrice Bergeron had two assists for the Bruins (9-8-2). Tuukka Rask stopped 22 for Boston to earn his seventh win of the season. Alexandre Burmistrov had a goal and an assist for Winnipeg (5-8-1), while Evander Kane recorded his fourth goal of the season and first in nine games. Ondrej Pavelec made 23 saves for the Jets, who lost their third straight and fourth in a row at home — the longest home losing streak for the team since the franchise moved from Atlanta prior to last season. Just nine seconds into the third period, Marchand was breaking in alone on Pavelec when he was tripped up by defenseman Ron Hainsey.
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Yavarone has impressive weekend in season opener
By Matt Stypulkoski Staff Writer
It may still be chilly in Storrs, but for the UConn baseball team, spring has already begun. Friday marked the begining of college baseball’s season, and the Huskies traveled to Dunedin, Fla. to kick things off against Purdue. The Boilermakers jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the top of the fourth inning as they chased UConn ace Anthony Marzi. Marzi hit three batters and gave up four hits, all with no outs, allowing Purdue to build up a lead. The Huskies attempted a comeback, scatching across six runs in the middle three innings, but the Boilermakers’ gap proved to be insurmountable as they held on for an 11-8 win. After falling to Purdue, UConn took the quick trip to St. Petersburg for their Saturday matchup against
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Indiana. The contest against the Hoosiers saw plenty of excitement early on, as the two teams were tied 3-3 after four innings. But the run-production dried up after that, and the game turned into a nearly five-hour long marathon that went 15 innings before the Huskies finally won on a walk-off wild pitch. UConn Coach Jim Penders used five pitchers in the game, and senior Dan Feehan went 1 2/3 innings to pick up the win. Penders’ squad stayed put in St. Petersburg for their game on Sunday and the Purdue Boilermakers met up with them to square off once again. Senior LJ Mazzilli turned in a stellar 4-for-4 performance with a double and a triple against the Boidlermakers, a solid bounceback game after going 0-for-6 against Indiana. Despite his efforts and those of
starter Brian Ward, the Huskies fell to Purdue for the second time by a score of 5-3. Ward gave up only three earned runs over his six innings, but an error by right fielder Jon Testani and Warn’s own throwing error cost him two more unearned runs which left him stuck with a loss and dropped UConn to 1-2 on the young season. Despite the team’s struggles over the weekend, sophomore Eric Yavarone and freshman Max McDowell both put together impressive weekends as they hit .357 and .333 respectively. The Huskies will return to action next weekend when they take part in the UCF Tournament in Orlando. Games against UCF, Troy and Texas await UConn on their return to Florida.
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A UConn pitcher throws the ball mid-windup in a game last season at J.O. Christian Field. The Huskies lost two of their first three games and will play in the UCF tournament on Feb. 22.
Women's hockey swept by Boston College By Scott Carroll Campus Correspondent
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UConn freshman forward Michela Cava plays the puck in a recent game against Boston College at Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum. The Huskies were swept 6-1 and 4-0.
The UConn women’s hockey team dropped both of their games this weekend to the Boston College Golden Eagles, losing the first half of the doubleheader 6-1 and the second game 4-0. UConn opened up the weekend Saturday in Chestnut Hill at the home ice of the No. 2 team in the country. The Golden Eagles got off to a strong start and were able to stretch the lead to 3-0 in the first period with two goals by their top overall goal scorer Alex Carpenter, who would finish with four points on the night. The Huskies would attempt to mount a comeback with a goal of their own towards
the end of the second period, as freshmen Michela Cava beat the goaltender for her ninth goal of the season. The goal was assisted by senior Kelly Horan and freshman Brittany Berisoff. Unfortunately, the comeback would not last as the Golden Eagles would score another three goals in the third period, netted by Jackie Young, Emily Field, and Kristina Brown for Boston College. UConn’s Sarah Moses would finish the game with 42 saves as the Huskies dropped the opening game 6-1. The Huskies were back on Sunday, at home in Freitas Ice Forum. UConn came out with intense energy and focus, ready to take on the No. 2 team in the nation. The Huskies were able
to get in the way of the Golden Eagles’ shots early as they blocked five shots in the first period alone. UConn was also able to successfully kill off two penalties in the first period. The Golden Eagles would eventually squeak a goal by Elaine Chuli in goal, as Haley Skarupa netted the first goal of the game. The goal was assisted by Alex Carpenter and Melissa Bizzari. The first period would close with the Huskies being unable to take advantage of a fiveon-three power play. Alex Carpenter would add a goal of her own in the second period giving, Boston College a 2-0 lead on the Huskies, and halfway through the Golden Eagles would strike again. A one-timer off the stick of Melissa Bizarri extended
the lead to 3-0. The Golden Eagles would finish off the game and the weekend with yet another goal by Carpenter, bringing her weekend goal total to four. The game would end 4-0 with UConn goaltender Elaine Chuli stopping 36 shots. The two losses bring the Huskies’ overall record to 3-253 and their conference record to 1-16-1. UConn will have little time to relax after this weekend as they are right back on the ice Tuesday against the Huskies of Northeastern. UConn will take on the Huskies at 7 p.m. at the Freitas Ice Forum in for a rare weekday match-up.
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Napier and Boatright nonexistent in home loss to 'Nova By Danny Maher Staff Writer Entering Saturday, junior Shabazz Napier and Ryan Boatright averaged 32.8 points, 7.3 rebounds, 8.8 assists, and 3.7 steals per game. The guard tandem both individually ranked in the Big East top ten in scoring and had the highest scoring average of any duo in conference play. In Saturday’s 70-61 home loss to Villanova, Napier and Boatright both had one of their worst performances of the season. Napier never found his rhythm after he picked up two early fouls and was limited to only nine minutes in the first half. “I think in the first half I just got into foul trouble and then in the second half I wasn’t aggressive. I took a lot of three pointers and just didn’t connect,” Napier said. Napier’s only field goal came 30 seconds into the second half. He crossed-over to lose his defender, then knocked down a jump shot. Everyone in the building believed Napier was going to take over once again. “Last year, [Napier] and Boatright killed us in the second
half and that’s exactly what we were thinking about at halftime,” Villanova Head Coach Jay Wright said. “As a staff we were saying, “this doesn’t look good right here. We know these guys are capable of going off.” They would not go off. Napier finished with just two points on 1-of-8 shooting including 0-for5 from behind the arc. Although Napier was having an off night shooting the ball, he was able to get the ball to the hot hands. He had six assists in the first half and ten assists for the game along with four rebounds. Boatright could not manage to do the same. He finished with just four points and didn’t score until the final minute even though he played 31 minutes. He had five turnovers compared to only one assist and one rebound. The worst stat of all was Boatright’s minus-21 on the plus/ minus chart. This means that UConn was outscored by 21 points when Boatright was on the floor. Slow start After a thrilling win over Syracuse on Wednesday, the loss to the Wildcats was a letdown that was characterized by an 11-0 Villanova run in the first half.
Four regular season games remain for men's hockey from UCONN, page 12 the game, and took a permanent lead only three minutes into the game, when Brant Harris became the first Husky to reach 10 goals this season. Billy Latta scored the gamewinning goal midway through the second period and Brad Smith and Patrick Kirtland added goals late in the third period to seal the win. The Huskies still have a lot of work to do. Four games remain before the conference tournament. UConn need to keep playing the hockey they have been playing all month, as the difference between fifth place and ninth place is only two points. A ninth place finish or lower would result in the Huskies playing on the road in the first round of the tournament. “If you get a bye, obviously that’s big, and just being at home is just so much better for the playoffs,” captain Alex Gerke said. The schedule is favorable for
the Huskies. Next weekend they will be in West Point, N.Y. for two games with 10th-place Army. The last weekend of the season will be a home-and-home series with Sacred Heart, who are 0-26-2 overall this season. Prior to this weekend, UConn had moved away from the physical play that had kept it in big games throughout the season. The team will need to get back to that grinding style of hockey if it wants to be successful in the final four games and the tournament. “That’s the way we play,” Interim Head Coach David Berard said. “We want to be physical. We want to be aggressive and be able to skate and pursue and get in on teams.” UConn’s matchups against Army are scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Both games will begin at 7:05 p.m. and will be aired live on WHUS 91.7 FM.
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Freshman Omar Calhoun made a pair of free throws to give UConn an early 6-2 lead. At 16:49, Napier missed a three-point attempt then picked up his second foul and was immediately replaced by RJ Evans. Over the next six minutes and 58 seconds, the Wildcats went on an 11-0 run thanks to a pair of threes by freshman Ryan Arcidiacono, who finished with a game-high 25 points. During the nearly 7-minute drought, the Huskies turned the ball over six times and managed just four shots once Napier was taken out of the game. Calhoun missed badly on a wide-open three-point attempt. Then Boatright shot an uncontested 12-foot jumper about a foot long. Junior Tyler Olander botched a lay-up and junior Niels Giffey air balled a long jump shot from the corner. The Villanova run ended with sophomore DeAndre Daniels’ onehanded, break-away dunk followed by Giffey’s only three of the game. UConn erased the deficit and even held a seven-point lead in the second half but Villanova outscored Connecticut 34-18 over the final 14:26 and left the XL Center with a nine-point win.
The Road Ahead Head coach Kevin Ollie’s team is banned from the postseason. Therefore the goal for the 20122013 was to win the Big East regular season title. UConn took a step towards that goal with the upset-win over No. 6 Syracuse, but the Huskies took a step back with the loss to Villanova at home. Through Sunday, UConn (17-7 overall, 7-5 in the Big East) finds itself in seventh place in the conference, two games out of first place but just one game ahead of tenth. UConn knows the date of its last game of season, a rare feat in sports. Win or lose, March 9 against Providence will be the final game of the 2012-2013 season. The Huskies have six games remaining including the season finale at home against the Friars. Next up is the first of a homeand-home against Cincinnati on Thursday in the final game at the XL Center this year, followed by a trip to DePaul, a home game against No. 15 Georgetown and road contests against Cincinnati and South Florida.
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UConn guard Shabazz Napier dribbles around a Villanova player in a recent game at the XL Center in Hartford. The Huskies lost 70-61. ww
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Golf hits the links in South Carolina
By Scott Bernier Campus Correspondent
In the midst of a rather white winter for the Northeast, the UConn Golf Team traveled down south to begin the second half of their 2012-2013 season, where the only white to be seen on the ground are golf balls nestled within the confines of the fairway. The Huskies are looking for a strong start, as they will spend the next two days playing in the Wexford Plantation Intercollegiate Tournament held at the Wexford Plantation Golf Club in Hilton Head, South Carolina. The forecast calls for plenty of sunshine and bright skies for the 36 hole, shotgun start beginning Monday morning at 8:30 am, as the Huskies will compete against host college Francis Marion
University, as well as other Big East foes such as the University of Louisville, DePaul University, and fellow in-state adversary University of Hartford. This begins a very challenging spring schedule that will also have the Huskies participating in six other tournaments spread across the East Coast that will test not only their mettle, but also their ability to play to each course’s style and shape. After the Wexford, the team will make a return trip to South Carolina to play in a new event for UConn, the Charleston Shootout on March 4th and 5th. A packed March continues along with the Mission Inn Spring Spectacular on the 16th and 17th in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida, followed by a three day jaunt in Lake Worth, Florida for the FAU Spring
Break Championship March 29th -31st. April brings the Huskies much closer to home as they look to make a splash in the New England D-1 Championships held at Newport National Country Club in Rhode Island on April 12th and 13th. Speaking with uconnhuskies.com, Coach Dave Pezzino noted, “Newport National provides a great challenge for college players…it combines cerebral play, an imaginative short game, and a disciplined course management plan.” From there the Huskies will compete in the Rutherford Intercollegiate Tournament, their final regular season event, on the Penn State Blue Course in State College, Pennsylvania April 20th and 21st. With such a competitively constructed spring slate, it would be no surprise
to see the Huskies place high in the Big East Conference Championship, occurring during the final three days of April at The Watson Course in Reunion, Florida. Recent history suggests that this young squad is ready, as their fall schedule yielded such favorable results as two top-five finishes and four finishes in the top eight teams in five tournaments overall. UConn freshman Zach Zaback was named Big East Player of the Month for October and will look to lead the team forward along with junior team captain Michael Masso. As the temperatures reach the high 60’s and low 70’s, the Huskies will aim to shoot similar scores and look to make a name for themselves this spring.
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Men’s Hockey (14-13-3) Feb. 22 Army 7:05 p.m.
March 2 Sacred Heart 4 p.m
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Women’s Hockey (3-25-3) Feb. 24 Boston University 2 p.m.
Feb. 23 Feb. 19 Boston Northeastern University 7 p.m. 3 p.m.
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Feb. 27 Georgetown 7 p.m.
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Crosby sets up game winner in Pens’ 4-3 victory
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Sidney Crosby is so prolific, good things happen even when the Pittsburgh Penguins’ star isn’t attempting to make a pass. That was the case in how Crosby helped the Penguins rally to a 4-3 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday. Crosby finished with a goal and two assists, including setting up defenseman Paul Martin’s go-ahead goal with 2:04 remaining. Accurate as Crosby’s pass was in finding an open Martin in the high slot, the Penguins’ captain acknowledged he wasn’t looking to set up his teammate. “Honestly, the puck was poked off my stick,” said Crosby, who had dug the puck out of the corner of the Sabres zone and was attempting to skate into the middle. The Penguins got another break when Martin’s shot deflected in off Sabres defenseman Christian Ehrhoff and past goalie Ryan Miller, who was screened. What’s not a fluke is Crosby in the familiar position of being among the NHL points leaders a month into the season. With 24 points (seven goals and 17 assists), Crosby ranks second following a 10-game surge, in which he has four goals and 14 assists. “I think the speed of the game and the comfort of timing and all that is starting to feel a little bit better,” Crosby said. After five seasons in Pittsburgh, coach Dan Bylsma still marvels at Crosby’s play. “It’s not ordinary,” Bylsma said. “You realize you’re watching somebody at a different level. So to say you ever take it for granted it’s absolutely not at all.” Pascal Dupuis had two goals and an assist for Pittsburgh, which won its third straight and improved to 8-2 in its past 10 to move one point ahead of idle New Jersey atop the Eastern Conference standings. After building a 2-0 lead before the game was 90 seconds old, the Penguins were forced to rally from a 3-2 deficit. The Sabres, in comparison, had nothing to show for their comeback after giving up two goals in the final 13 minutes. Miller was so upset with how the team lost in squandering a third-period lead, he resorted to using several profanites in addressing reporters following the game. “Either we’re not confident enough or experienced enough with a lead in the third period,” Miller said. “That burned us. That’s not acceptable.” Thomas Vanek had a goal and assist, while Steve Ott and Cody Hodgson also scored for the Sabres. Buffalo failed to build off a 4-2 win over Boston on Friday, and has now gone 4-9-1 in its past 14 games. Buffalo has yet to win two in a row at home, and dropped to 2-9-0 in its past 11 against Pittsburgh. AP Turnovers and defensive breakdowns cost the Danica Patrick displays the award after winning the pole during qualifying for the NASCAR Daytona 500 Sprint Cup Series Sabres on Sunday. auto race at Daytona International Speedway. She is the first woman to win the pole for a Sprint Cup race.
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Texas routed by No. 14 Kansas 73-47 LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Trailing by 34 points with mere minutes left in the second half, Texas guard Myck Kabongo refused to retreat to the bench. Whether it was the thrill of playing his second game after a 23-game suspension, or a last shot at redemption during a poor shooting night, Kabongo and the Longhorns refused to quit even with the game far out of reach. Kabongo missed his first seven shots before finishing with 13 points, playing all but two minutes in the Longhorns’ 73-47 loss to No. 14 Kansas on Saturday night. “I’ll let him play as long as he wants to play,” said Texas coach Rick Barnes, whose team is in danger of missing the NCAA tournament for the first time in 15 years. “If you would have seen timeouts and huddles and seen them talking, it makes you proud. We’re not going to quit.” The Longhorns (11-14, 3-9 Big 12), who were second nationally in field-goal percentage defense, went toe-to-toe with the only team better — and shot just 19 percent in the Kansas first half. Texas It didn’t get much better after the break. Texas finished the game shooting 21.8 percent from the field, and a dismal 2 of 21 from beyond the arc. The Longhorns made 21 free throws, nearly double their number of field goals. “It really came down to execution and they were better,” said Texas forward Ioannis Papapetrou. Jeff Withey had 15 points and 11 rebounds while becoming the Big 12’s career blocked shots leader. Elijah Johnson finished with 12 points for the Jayhawks (21-4, 9-3 Big 12), Travis Releford added 15 and Ben McLemore had 13, including a 360 jam in the closing minutes that capped off quite a show for more than a dozen former players in attendance. Among them was Mario Chalmers, whose buzzer-beating 3-pointer forced overtime in the 2008 national title game won by Kansas. The Miami Heat guard was honored at halftime by having his No. 15 raised to the rafters, where it joined names such as Wilt Chamberlain and Paul Pierce. Perhaps one day, Withey’s name will reside there. The senior center had his 265th block early in the second half to move past former Texas star Chris Mihm for the most in league history. The reigning Big 12 defensive player of the year even had four steals
while making life miserable for the young, undersized Longhorns. “It means something to me. I put a lot of hard work in it,” Withey said, “but I have a lot more games to play. Hopefully I can put some distance between it.” Texas had already fallen behind 11-8 when they went the next 8-plus minutes without a field goal, missing 10 straight shots, three free throws and turning the ball over twice. By the time Papapetrou got to the rim for Texas, the Jayhawks had built a 24-11 lead. It never got a whole lot better for Texas. The Longhorns went another 6½ minutes without a field goal before Demarcus Holland’s steal and layup got them within 28-15 at halftime. That meant the final 15:55 of the first half, Texas had precisely as many shot-clock violations (two) as they had made field goals. It was the Longhorns’ lowest-scoring half of the season. “We did a good job of making them uncomfortable on the offensive end,” Releford said. Kansas didn’t waste any time delivering the knockout 73 punch in the second half. 47 Johnson was the catalyst, scoring the Jayhawks’ first seven points and finally starting to shake out of a season-long slump that has been frustrating and, at times, embarrassing for one of the key players on last season’s national runner-up. The senior guard started Kansas on a 13-4 run by getting to the basket and drawing a foul. He missed the free throw, but moments later did the exact same thing and converted the three-point play. Johnson finished off his own spurt with another basket, and by the time Releford scored in transition, the Jayhawks had built a 41-22 lead with 14:32 remaining in the game. Texas coach Rick Barnes, whose team is in danger of missing the NCAA tournament for the first time in 15 years, was powerless to stop the onslaught even with a full complement of timeouts. Kansas eventually pushed the lead to 55-28 when Withey scored six straight points, including a follow-up dunk off his own miss with just less than 8 minutes left in the game. McLemore put the exclamation mark on a celebratory night for the Jayhawks when he got ahead of the fast break with about 4 minutes left and elevated for a 360 dunk that brought down the house and gave Kansas a 68-34 lead on the dazed, checked-out Longhorns.
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Quantifying court-storming
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NO DICE AGAINST NOVA UConn falls to Villanova Wildcats 70-61 By Peter Logue Staff Writer
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Let every student section of every college and university with a Division 1 basketball team take note; rushing the court is not something to be taken lightly. You don’t just storm on to the court after a big win against a top-five opponent. Just any old upset of a rival doesn’t automatically give you grounds to run on to the court after a win. As Reuben said in “Ocean’s 11,” “This sort of thing used to be civilized.” But now, it’s chaos. We need rules before anarchy ensues and everybody is rushing the court after every win. The first thing to consider when pondering whether or not an upset is storm-worthy is the victor’s tournament presence. If the winning team has won a National Championship, or has even been to a Final Four, within the past six seasons, that team has lost its right to rush the court. I don’t care if you’re VCU and you made the the Final Four by a total upset, it shouldn’t happen. A Final Four presence or a National Champion means that your team has been elite at some point in recent memory. Elite teams don’t get that excited for a win in the regular season. Going off of that, if your team has been to the NCAA Tournament in at least two of the past five seasons, you shouldn’t be storming the court. For crying out loud, your team has consistently been one of the top 68 teams in the country. Please act like it. Finally, if you’re one of the “Blue Bloods,” then you can never rush the court, regardless of circumstance. That means if you’re Kentucky, Duke, UNC, Kansas, UCLA, Indiana or even UConn, your team is so successful historically that it’s become an integral part of the culture of college basketball. If that’s the case, then you don’t act like an Atlantic Sun team just because you beat ‘Cuse at the XL Center—that wasn’t even veiled. The second thing to consider is the quality of the opponent. The losing team must be one of the top five teams in the country in both the Associated Press and the USA Today Coaches’ Polls. There must be little to no debate that the team an underdog just beat is one of the premier teams in the nation. But, even if the previous criterium is met, the heavily favored team can’t have lost any game within the past three weeks. The team being upset has to be a juggernaut, a powerhouse, a team that takes down anyone and everyone. Court-storming is a right and the only time an underdog may exercise that right is when an elite team— not just a good or even a great team—loses on the court of the unlikeliest opponents. Something else to keep in mind is that there have been times when a Top-Five loses a key game toward the end of a poll cycle and goes to the court of an inferior opponent already wounded. If an upset occurs at such a time, the winning team may not storm the court. This means that UConn (already a functional
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After one of their most impressive games of their season Wednesday night, the UConn men’s basketball team fell back to Earth with a disappointing loss to Villanova on Saturday afternoon, falling 70-61. With the loss, UConn fell to 17-7 overall and 7-5 in the Big East. Both teams were slow out of the gate, and it appeared that UConn was dealing with a bit of a hangover effect following the emotional mid-week win against #6 Syracuse. Things took a turn for the worse for the Huskies with 16:49 remaining when Shabazz Napier picked up his second foul and was forced to spend time on the bench, a rare occurrence for the star point guard. With their leading scorer on the bench, UConn struggled mightily to get anything going offensively and did not score for the next seven minutes, falling behind 13-6. Fortunately for the Huskies, a ferocious breakaway slam dunk by Deandre Daniels and an ensuing salute to the student section pumped some life back into the XL Center after a lackluster first ten minutes and ended an 11-0 run by the Wildcats. Although Napier (16.3 ppg) and Ryan Boatright (15.4) were unable to get themselves going offensively in the first half, UConn took a 33-30 lead into the
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UConn freshman guard Omar Calhoun attempts a three-pointer in a recent game against Villanova at the XL Center in Hartford.
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Huskies handle Rutgers, prepare for Baylor By Matt Stypulkoski Staff Writer Despite a matchup against top-ranked Baylor, no one within the UConn women’s basketball team is willing to call Monday night’s game the biggest of the season. No game in mid-February can carry such a title in Storrs. “The interesting thing about some of the games we play all year long are if you get that far in the NCAA Tournament,” Coach Geno Auriemma said after practice Sunday, “there’s a pretty good chance you’ll have to play them all again. “Regardless of what we did against Duke or Stanford or Notre Dame or Penn State or Maryland or what we do [against Baylor], hopefully we’ll be in a position to play them again and at that point it’ll really matter who wins and who loses.” But even under the somewhat minimalized expectations lead-
ing in, Auriemma’s Huskies know that Monday night at the XL Center is an important measuring stick. “We know the tournament is coming up and everyone’s going to play their best game,” UConn center Stefanie Dolson said, “so we’ve got to go into it with the right mentality and kind of go in to work on things – work on our game, our defense, executing on offense and just playing good basketball.” Dolson has been at the center of media attention in the days leading up to the game, mostly because of her role as the main defender on the Lady Bears’ leading scorer Brittney Griner. She has struggled mightily to match up the past two seasons; Griner has scored 44 total points in the two games to Dolson’s eight. But after a first fourth months of the season in which she has been dominant, and an offseason conditioning program got
her into better shape, Dolson feels she is better prepared for the challenge this time around. “I think just my overall game this year is completely different – my confidence level is different than the last two years,” Dolson said. “I can consistently make my outside shots more often and spread the floor out more because I can make threes, and I’m just quicker. I don’t know, I think I’m a smarter player, I’ll make better decisions.” Despite the fact that Dolson may be better equipped to deal with Griner, she’s well aware that guarding the reigning Naismith College Player of the Year is more than a one-person effort. “It’s not just going to be me,” Dolson said, “it’s going to be other girls on the team going to be there in help defense and I think everyone is definitely
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UConn center Stefanie Dolson attempts a free-throw in a recent game at Gampel Pavilion. The Huskies will face No. 1 Baylor tonight at the XL Center.
UConn splits series with Holy Cross By Tim Fontenault Staff Writer
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A UConn hockey player chases the puck up ice in a recent game against Holy Cross at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum.
The UConn men’s hockey team split its weekend series with Holy Cross, maintaining its position in the Atlantic Hockey Association standings. The Huskies (14-3-3, 11-102 AHA) remain in fifth place in the AHA with four games to go. If the Huskies are able to hold the position, they will receive home-ice advantage in the first round of the conference tournament, which is set to begin on Mach 8. UConn went into the weekend series feeling good. They were the hottest team in the conference, posting a 4-1-1 record over their previous six games and were coming off a 9-0 win over Bentley on
Monday night. The hot streak came to an end on Friday, as Holy Cross handed UConn a 4-1 loss. The Huskies looked flat from the opening whistle, and were unable to capitalize on a number of quality scoring chances. The Crusaders got the scoring started about halfway through the first period when UConn goaltender Matt Grogan went behind the net to clear the puck, but he put it right on the stick of Adam Schmidt, who tapped it into the open net to give Holy Cross a 1-0 lead. UConn would get the goal back just before the intermission, when a shot from the point by Brant Harris was tipped in front by Jordan Sims and into the net to send the
teams into the locker room on level terms. From the beginning of the second period on it was all Holy Cross. The Huskies were unable to capitalize in the offensive end and the Crusaders put three more past Grogan in a 4-1 Holy Cross win. “We definitely weren’t as mentally prepared as we think we should have been,” Harris said. “We had a couple of mental mistakes that led to their goals. It’s definitely something we have to sharpen up on.” The Huskies recovered on Saturday night, ensuring a split of the points from the weekend with a 4-1 win. UConn never trailed during
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