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Jason Connell emphasizes importance of passion and effectiveness in success lives Volume CXX No. 75

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By Marissa Piccolo Campus Correspondent “What do all world-changing leaders have in common?”

Jason Connell asked, pointing to the wide spectrum of leaders from Mother Theresa to Steve Jobs, two that could not be less alike but have both changed the world in far-reaching ways.

“They work on projects they are wildly passionate about,” Connell revealed, “and their work is more effective than the average person’s work.”

This message was central to founder of Ignited Leadership Jason Connell’s “Leadership Accelerator” talk, urging the audience to change their world, whether it was in terms of raising grades, making a couple new friends, or more long term objectives, Connell offered advice to start achieving their goals no matter what stage of their life they are in.

Before the event, Connell and SUBOG student leaders sent a questionnaire to 100 UConn students in the audience asking, “what project they were thinking of taking on next?” 59 percent said they weren’t sure. This isn’t uncommon: 92 percent of millennial generation can’t easily identify the top three things they are passionate about in life.

Connell had the audience pause and reflect with the question, “If I had $100,000,000, what project would I be working on now?” as a tool to pinpoint what each individual is passionate about. As members of the millennial generation, with academic, social, famil-

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Jason Connell interacts with the audience at the “Leadership Accelerator” talk, hosted by Subog. During the talk Connell, founder of Ignited Leadership, stressed the importance of self confidence, the importance of overcoming ones fears of failure, and time management as the major factors of finding success in ones life.

ial, and economic pressures following us, we are often left with no time for ourselves.

Without this self-reflection, young adults are in danger of being out of touch with their self and their goals, leaving them “unable to pick up the momentum that makes us an effective leader.”

Connell recommended even as little as five minutes a day of mediation, perhaps going for a walk, to connect with yourself and crystallize your vision. When this happens, people are more successful, he explained, “When you work on

things you’re passionate about, it doesn’t feel like work.”

The pre-talk questionnaire also asked each audience member, “What is holding you back?” The top three responses were: lack of confidence, not enough time and fear of failure. Connell bluntly addressed fear, calling it a myth people are brainwashed to believe, especially through competitive school environments. He said fear is the difference between a life of mediocrity and a life of beauty. Personal growth of those people who live within their comfort zone plateaus

over time.

Connell again used the method of self-reflection as one way to combat fear, recommending that people put challenges into perspective by asking, “What happens if we don’t face our fear?” and “What’s the real worst case scenario?”

Furthermore, through a process of “progressive desensitization,” or baby steps outside our comfort zone, it becomes easier to tackle anything over time. Connell endorsed a system of “reward and punishment,” recommending the website “stickk.com” which

makes each user a “commitment contract.” If the individual does not reach their goals, a small amount of money they invest is donated to a charity or cause they don’t believe in (for example: the Republican Party if you are a Democrat).

In response to the question “not enough time,” Connell emphasized the importance of time management. Although one cannot possibly add an hour to the day, one can instead stop wasting an hour of our time by becoming more productive. By scheduling the day, creating a “project list,”

saying “no” more often to what one is not passionate about and monitoring activity, one can increase his or her overall effectiveness. A time management secret Connell shared was scheduling less time for tasks than one thinks they will take, as it is psychologically proven that the time pressures will make one accomplish things more quickly than thought.

Lastly, Connell stressed the important of confidence and loving oneself. The top two assumptions charismatic people make is assuming that the person they are interacting with is awesome, and that they themselves are awesome.

Disagreeing with the common confidence “fake it until you make it” mantra, he instead urged that it all comes down to changing one’s thoughts; to stop being your own critic and rewire insecurities to instead affirm what about you is awesome. He said the next step is translating this new outlook into changing your actions; eliminating the “vampires” in life, taking good care of one’s mental and physical health, and even pampering oneself by going on a personal “date.”

“The challenge to lead is the challenge to love,” Connell ended with. By finding what one is passionate about, and becoming more effective, one can make a desired internal reality match the external reality.

For more information on Jason Connell visit ignitedleadership.com.

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USG brings the focus New minor offered in medieval studies back to academics DAILY CAMPUS WRITING CONTEST WINNER

By Kathleen McWilliams Senior Staff Writer

A minor in medieval studies has been added to the University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ offerings, allowing students one more academic area to explore.

Established in 1967, the Medieval Studies Department at the UConn is the only department of its kind at a public university in New England to offer graduate level studies in the discipline. UConn is now one of the only universities in the region to offer medieval studies to undergraduates.

“There is a flourishing scholarly field devoted to this topic,” said medieval studies and English professor Frederick Biggs. “It may seem less relevant than studying genetics, but it advances our knowledge of the universe.”

The minor, which can be achieved by taking 18 credits across 11 departments, was added to give undergraduates the exposure necessary to go on

to graduate studies as well as provide the opportunity to start research earlier, said Biggs. A major will be added in coming years, but it is currently under discussion.

Previously, students could take classes with medieval studies content, such as 12thcentury Jewish literature or medieval history courses, but the minor was unavailable to students.

“They could have taken courses in departments that covered the middle ages. You could have taken a Chaucer course, a Middle English course or a history course,” said Biggs.

While the field may appear antiquated or a study best left to historians, the plan of study is interdisciplinary and encourages students to take classes in every

department, from classes in Art History to Spanish Literature.

“What this does is it encourages people to take courses outside one department. It is by definition interdisciplinary,” Biggs said.

Graduate student Brandon Hawk said that the interdisciplinary nature of the minor is unique and provides an extra dimension to the liberal arts education.

“It encourages people to take classes in music, art history and other subjects. It provides a greater spectrum of a liberal arts education,” Hawk said.

While the interdisciplinary nature would be appealing to students with varied interests, the head start it would give interested undergraduates looking to go to graduate school would be invaluable, Hawk said.

“There is a flourishing field devoted to this topic”

Frederick Biggs English Professor

Exposure to professors, research and resources that would otherwise be unavailable to undergraduates would help students looking to get a head start in the field, said Hawk.

“It allows for opportunities to expand,” Hawk said.

“Undergraduates will be able to look at manuscripts and network with professors in the discipline.”

The opportunity to build a stronger understanding of the medieval period before graduate school would also draw more students, Biggs said.

“If you start work as an undergraduate, you can do research earlier and quicker,” Biggs said.

Biggs also stated that the focus on the subject as an undergraduate would help undergraduates know what supplementary courses they should take to foster a better understanding of the time. For example, if a student decides that they’d like to concentrate on medieval Arabic literature in gradu-

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By Kathleen McWilliams Senior Staff Writer

This semester the Undergraduate Student Government is returning its focus on academics during finals week by ending the distribution of Sweet Emotions Candy.

The care packages, as USG calls them, are distributed in the library during finals week and for the past year have included academic supplies such as pencils, pens, post it notes and stress balls, as well as a buffet of candy for students to treat themselves to.

“As a committee we believed that it would be a fun and creative way to relieve stress during finals week,” said Elena Innes, chairperson of the Academic Affairs Committee.

“Students have generally been very receptive to care packages. Every semester student form lines outside of the library doors to receive free materials.”

In spring 2013, USG entered into a contract with the local

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store and because of this the annual finals week event became known as a Sweet Emotions event. The lack of academic focus and the promotion of a business prompted the committee to change its stance this year.

“As the chair of the committee I would like the focus shifted back to academic success during a stressful finals week. The committee is going to continue distributing study supplies and potentially food and drink items, but I am looking to move away from name brands,” Innes said.

The change will take place this spring and students can expect USG to bring the focus back to finals week and making it a less stressful experience for students.

“The change will take effect with spring finals week and students can expect that same array of academic supplies.

The purpose of care packages is to distribute study materials to students during a finals week,” Innes said.

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Austin, Texas: model state for restoration and progress The Daily Campus, Page 2

Jimmy Onofrio Associate Managing Editor

When most people think of vibrant American cities that are models for the 21st century, the first two cities that come to mind are Portland, Ore. and Austin, Texas. A few months back, I wrote a column for The Daily Campus about quality of life in Portland. After visiting Austin, I found many similarities between the two – though Austin has more of a cowboy flair that serves as a constant reminder that you are in fact in Texas (think hipsters in cowboy boots).

As the capital of Texas and home to the University of Texas’ flagship campus, the core of Austin’s economy is built on education, government services and, in recent decades, the tech industry. Like Portland, the city has a long tradition of active citizenship: the creation of a new master plan for city development from 2009-2012 involved over 25,000 residents, according to the National League of Cities. The result is a metro area respected for its quality of life and home to cultural institutions like South by Southwest (SXSW) and Austin City Limits music and arts festivals.

Though the city is more spread out than a comparable metropolitan area in the Northeast, it still receives high marks as a walkable and bikeable city: Bicyclist magazine ranks Austin at No. 11 on its “Most Bike-Friendly

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Cities” list, and daily bike com- schedule. mutes have increased by 60 “Getting around without a car percent over the last decade. in Austin is possible but not The international bike-share pro- preferable,” said Jackie Wattles, gram B-cycle has also recently a lifelong resident of Austin and expanded into Austin. Hand in associate news editor at The hand with the bike infrastructure Daily Campus. “It takes a lot of is the network of planning to get parks downtown around solely and along the riv- “To me, Austin is on public transerfront. port if you live unique because it “To me Austin puts such an empha- out in North is unique because Austin like I it puts such an sis on walkable do.” She said emphasis on walk- urbanism and the expanding bus able urbanism and to surdevelopment of green routes the development rounding comof green spaces spaces throughout munities would throughout down- downtown.” be of more town,” said Bili short-term benBili Yin efit than adding Yin, an Austin native and 8thAustin Native a metro line, semester finance which could major at Rice take years to University in Houston. “I do complete. think that it is more peopleCapital Metro is in the planfriendly (than Houston). … ning stages of its first metro Austin puts an emphasis on line, and the community engageshared spaces, which makes it ment process is exposing a rift easier to interact with people.” between the planning committee However, this city of nearly and some groups of citizens. The a million people has no sur- huge University of Texas camface or subway rail transit in pus sits just north of the downits core area (a commuter line town core, and the initial proserves the northern suburbs). posal called for the transit line to Downtown Austin seems well- be built on the east side of camserved by its bus system, Capital pus, serving both Texas Stadium Metro, which just inaugurated and a new, planned suburban a new limited-stop service, community on the site of an old MetroRapid, along its busiest airport. However, many students corridor. MetroRapid buses will and young people live in the use geolocation to tell traffic West Campus neighborhood and lights when they are approach- would prefer the line to be built ing, helping to keep service on along Guadalupe Street, the west

border of campus.

The new line will help connect campus and the northern parts of the city to the area east of downtown, like the popular shopping strip along South Congress, and Sixth Street, the center of Austin’s nightlife. Similar to Memphis’ Beale Street and Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Sixth Street becomes pedestrian-only after a certain hour, allowing pedestrians to safely roam the blockslong strip of bars, clubs and restaurants. Many spots have rooftop bars and stages, and nearly every establishment features live music, contributing to Austin’s title as the “live music capital of the world.”

Like the Pearl District in Portland, East Sixth Street (formerly Pecan Street) in the 1970s was a declining area of warehouses and small businesses just east of the downtown core.

Low rents and historic architecture inspired a rebirth into the vibrant cultural mecca that the street is today. Areas like Sixth Street coupled with green space and large institutional employers have established a reputation of high living quality that has made Austin one of the fastestgrowing metropolitan areas in the country.

“I think people who live there find there’s no place quite like it when they leave,” said Wattles.

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CVS takes tobacco off shelves nationwide (AP) — While CVS Caremark Corp. is removing tobacco in an effort to focus more on being a health care provider, don’t expect it or other companies with a similar focus to cut out other vices.

CVS chief medical officer, Dr. Troyen Brennan, said the company has no plans to remove alcohol.

“At this point, we’re dealing with cigarettes, which are unalterably unhealthy for people and different from any other substance that people either drink or eat,” he said.

And Morningstar analyst Vishnu Lekraj doesn’t envision

companies cutting out sugary or unhealthy foods, either.

Tobacco presents a different level of risk than those other products. He noted, for instance, that health insurers consider tobacco use when they price an insurance policy for an individual customer. Conversely, they don’t consider whether that person drinks or eats poorly.

“Tobacco is one of the most dangerous products that is legal right now,” he said. “So you can’t necessarily say to your customers that you’re trying to curb health care costs ... while at the same time you’re selling cigarettes out of your stores.”

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy is urging college presidents across Connecticut to adopt tobacco-free policies at their campuses.

The Democrat sent a letter Wednesday, suggesting they join the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Tobacco-Free College Initiative, which promotes tobacco-free policies at higher learning institutions across the country.

Gateway Community College in New Haven recently announced it would become a smoke-free campus.

In his letter, Murphy said the HHS initiative, launched in September 2012, has resources for colleges and universities on ways to implement a smoke-free or tobacco-free campus. Citing statistics from the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, Murphy said nationally there are nearly 1,200 smoke-free campuses, of which 811 were tobacco-free.

Murphy said colleges can help reduce smoking since approximately one-third of young adults between ages 18 to 24 smoke.

Murphy urges schools to go smoke-free

Terrorists suspected No jail time for drunk teen in ‘affluenza’ case in power grid attack SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman Jon Wellinghoff said Wednesday an April attack on Silicon Valley’s phone lines and power grid was terrorism — despite repeated FBI statements that it had found no indications to back that up.

Wellinghoff, who was in office during the incident, said he reached his conclusion after consulting with Defense Department experts about the attack that involved snipping AT&T fiber-optic lines to knock out phone and 911 service, and firing shots into a PG&E substation, causing outages.

“This is the most sophisticated and extensive attack that’s ever occurred on the grid to my knowledge,” Wellinghoff told The Associated Press. Similar statements were published on Tuesday

by The Wall Street Journal.

FBI spokesman Peter Lee said Wednesday that at this point “we don’t believe it’s an act of terror, international or domestic.”

The FBI is the lead agency in the investigation, and Lee said the agency has specific definitions of terrorism that involve motive, intent and political ideology. He said the investigation is ongoing and urged people not to jump to conclusions.

Wellinghoff said he was speaking out on the issue now because he’s concerned the grid isn’t being adequately protected.

He said he didn’t know what the motivation was for the sabotage, “but I don’t know what the definition of terrorism is other than when an extremely well-trained group attacks a major piece of infrastructure in an expertly planned attack.”

His concerns underscored earlier statements from high-ranking officials about the incident.

In October, former CIA director Jim Woolsey said in a Commonwealth Club appearance that video from the incident showed a group of three or four men, in a “disciplined military fashion,” had conducted the attacks. He provided details about how they systematically fired their weapons, and said they “quickly and professionally disposed of everything they had.”

“This wasn’t hooliganism,” he said. “This was a systematic attempt to take down the electric grid.”

In December, during an oversight hearing, U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., described “an unprecedented and sophisticated attack on an electric grid substation with military-style weapons.

Communications were disrupted.

The attack inflicted substantial damage.”

He said he would withhold details of the incident to avoid harming the investigation but added he had been in touch with the FBI about it.

Last April, a day after the Boston Marathon bombings, millions of people in Santa Clara County were asked to conserve energy after power lines were damaged.

At a news conference later that day, Sheriff Laurie Smith said someone had lifted heavy manhole covers at about 1:30 a.m. in two places on Monterey Highway south of San Jose, climbed under the road, and cut AT&T fiber optic cables, temporarily knocking out 911 service and phone service.

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered a Texas teenager who was sentenced to 10 years’ probation in a drunken-driving crash that killed four people to go to a rehabilitation facility paid for by his parents.

Judge Jean Boyd again decided to give no jail time for Ethan Couch, defense attorney Reagan Wynn and prosecutors told reporters after the hearing, which was closed to the public. Prosecutors had asked Boyd to sentence him to 20 years in state custody on charges related to two people who were severely injured.

The sentence stirred fierce debate, as has the testimony of a defense expert who says Couch’s wealthy parents coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility. The expert termed the condition “affluenza.”

Wynn and prosecutor Richard Alpert would not identify the facility where Couch will go or where it is located. The teen’s family previously had offered to pay for Couch to go to a $450,000-a-year rehabilitation center near Newport Beach, Calif.

Couch, who is currently in state custody, is expected to receive alcohol and drug rehab, and could face prison time if he runs away from the facility or violates any other terms of his probation, Alpert said.

There is no minimum amount of time Couch must spend in the facility before his release, prosecutor Riley Shaw said.

Wynn ripped the media and the public’s focus on “affluenza” and said that his client was misunderstood.

He said reporting of the Couch case had “so twisted the facts that were actually presented in court that I don’t think the truth will ever

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Cars drive past the scene of a fatal wreck. A North Texas juvenile court judge has sentenced 16-year-old boy Ethan Couch to probation for the crash that killed four people. Judge Jean Boyd issued the original sentence, but has not ruled on a prosecution request to give Couch jail time

be able to come out now.”

“It was ridiculous to think that we walked into court and said, ‘Oh, this is a rich white kid,’ and she decided to probate him,” he said.

But Alpert accused Wynn of hypocrisy, pointing out that a defense witness made the comment in the first place.

“His witnesses don’t say things by accident,” Alpert said. “So they thought maybe that would help — that’s my interpretation — and it blew up on them. It was a stupid thing to say.”

Couch’s parents did not speak to reporters as they entered the courtroom. Several relatives of Couch’s victims also attended Wednesday’s hearing.

“The families feel like the same

way they felt the last time they were here,” Alpert said.

Asking Boyd to give Couch jail time for intoxication assault was a last-ditch effort by prosecutors, who have said they have almost no way to appeal the judge’s sentence in the case.

Alpert said he hoped the Couch case would lead the Texas Legislature to allow juries to sentence some juvenile defendants.

The case has already spurred calls for potential changes. Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who serves as president of the Senate, has asked for a study of sentencing guidelines in intoxication manslaughter cases.

But Wynn lauded Boyd for giving Couch probation and recognizing the possibility that he could be

reformed better in a rehab facility that in prison.

“We recognize that 16-year-old kids are different from 25-year-old adults,” he said.

Couch was 16 at the time of the accident. His blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit for an adult and there were traces of Valium in his system when he lost control of his pickup truck and plowed into a group of people helping a woman whose car had stalled.

Seven passengers were riding in Couch’s truck. One, Sergio Molina, is paralyzed and can communicate only by blinking. The other, Solimon Mohmand, suffered numerous broken bones and internal injuries.

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Northeast freezes over after Wednesday wintry weather

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(AP) — More than a million homes and businesses were left in darkness and cold Wednesday after snow, sleet and freezing rain moved into the Northeast. The region’s second winter storm of the week canceled classes, closed government and business offices and sent cars and trucks sliding on slippery roads and highways.

Around a foot of snow fell in some states. Moving in overnight from the Midwest, where it wreaked similar havoc, the storm tested the region already battered by a series of heavy snows and below-freezing temperatures this winter.

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Ice and snow brought down trees and limbs and knocked out power to some 750,000 customers. Most of the outages were in the Philadelphia suburbs, and PECO, the major utility company, warned it could be the weekend before some people get their lights back on. The Pennsylvania Turnpike was closed around Harrisburg, the state capital, for more than 13 hours after a fatal crash Tuesday night.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Administration reported delays and some cancellations on suburban Philadelphia routes, while Amtrak suspended its Philadelphia-to-Harrisburg service indefinitely because of downed trees on wires and along tracks. Many schools were closed.

NEW YORK Up to a foot of snow fell in places upstate; hundreds of schools upstate were closed.

Four inches of snow and a quarter-inch of ice covered New York City. The state deployed 3,500 tons of stockpiled road salt to New York City, where supplies were running low, while plows and other heavy equipment aimed to keep roads clear.

A 65-mile stretch of Interstate 84 between the Pennsylvania and Connecticut borders was closed to all vehicles until mid-afternoon. The Metropolitan Transit Authority said Metro-North Railroad service was reduced by 18 percent on morning trains.

NEW JERSEY Gov. Chris Christie declared a state of emergency and state offices were closed for nonessential employees, as the state got snow in northern parts, sleet and freezing rain in some areas, and all rain in southern counties. Tens of thousands of customers were without power, and schools were closed or delayed.

NJ Transit operated on a storm schedule. Buses and trains were cross-honoring tickets.

MICHIGAN The state received more than 6 inches of snow in some areas, snarling traffic and keeping towing operators busy. AAA Michigan got at least 1,100 calls for service Wednesday morning. Authorities reported several multi-vehicle crashes after snow fell along Interstate 94 in the Jackson area; traffic accidents closed parts of Interstate 69 around Flint. The storm also snarled traffic in southern Michigan, including Detroit.

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A storm slammed Connecticut with snow, sleet and freezing rain on Wednesday, causing school and government agency closings, dozens of flight cancellations at Bradley International Airport and Metro-North rail service reductions.

Two planes became stuck on taxiways at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, requiring trucks to push or pull the regional Delta jets to free them.

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Most of Ohio was hit with heavy snow and freezing rain, closing hundreds schools and creating extremely hazardous driving conditions. Four to 8 inches of snow fell overnight Tuesday. Many counties declared snow emergencies. “I wish that groundhog would have stayed in its hole,” said Geoff Dunn, who took the bus to his downtown Columbus office. “Finding us six more weeks of winter was not the smart move.” The National Weather Service said most Ohio cities already have seen anywhere from 15 to 30 inches more snow than is normal at this stage of winter because of the frequent winter storms.

ILLINOIS A Chicago runner was credited with helping save a man who fell into icy Lake Michigan with his dog. Adam Dominik says he found twine and anchored it around himself while throwing the other end in the water, pulling the man onto nearby rocks.

Meanwhile, a skier called 911.

Rescuers pulled the man the rest of the way to safety. He was taken to a hospital. Both he and his dog were expected to recover.

KENTUCKY Freezing rain and ice that moved through Kentucky overnight Tuesday and into Wednesday left thousands without power, mostly in Jefferson County, where about 10,000 customers had no lights early Wednesday. The National Weather Service said the winter storm left about a quarterinch of ice over much of central and northern Kentucky. Several schools canceled classes. In one central Kentucky county, warming stations were opened for people without heat.

MASSACHUSETTS The storm dropped nearly a foot in parts of Massachusetts. In Boston, Worcester, Springfield and elsewhere, schools and colleges canceled classes. The

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Nearly all schools in Rhode Island were closed, and state police responded to several traffic accidents. The General Assembly canceled its sessions.

The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority warned of delays.

Snow turned to sleet and rain in some parts of the state.

CONNECTICUT The start of the General Assembly’s annual session was delayed from Wednesday to Thursday because of the snow. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy also ordered a delayed opening for state offices on Wednesday.

Many schools were closed.

Metro-North Railroad said the storm disabled a few commuter trains, forcing riders to transfer to other rail cars, while a few trains were canceled. Ridership was cut in half as thousands of commuters stayed home.

IOWA Authorities said snowy road conditions may have contributed to a vehicle collision in Des Moines that killed one person.

OKLAHOMA Classes were canceled at many Oklahoma schools, including Oklahoma City, because of subzero wind chills that reached 10 degrees below zero.

MISSOURI A Southwest Airlines jet arriving from Denver got stuck in a snow bank Tuesday evening at Kansas City International Airport. A Southwest spokesman said all 55 passengers on Flight 305 were placed on buses and taken to the terminal.

WISCONSIN With the severe weather, homeowners in far northern Wisconsin were urged to leave their faucets running 24 hours a day to prevent water pipes and sewer lines from freezing.

The 9,000 Rhinelander residents

won’t be charged for using the extra water. Temperatures in the area were expected to be below zero for much of the week.

NEW HAMPSHIRE At the Mount Sunapee Resort ski area, the lot was filling up with skiers undeterred by a trek through the snow. In Newport, the snow helped pick up the pace of ticket sales for an outdoor “Yankee Luau” on the town common Wednesday as part of the town’s 98th Winter Carnival.

The snow boded well for skijoring events this weekend, a popular attraction that had to be canceled the past two years because of a lack of snow. The sport features horseback riders towing a person on skis over jumps and through other obstacles.

INDIANA Indiana was socked with up to a foot of snow. Several major highways were closed for a time, including Interstate 65 north of Lafayette and south of Indianapolis, and Interstate 74 in southeastern Indiana.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The Maryland Transit Administration reduced the number of afternoon trains out of Washington on the MARC Brunswick line. Two morning trains hit fallen trees on the tracks; no one was hurt.

Passengers on the first disabled train were put on a later train that also hit a fallen tree about a mile down the line, and the passengers were transferred again.

FATALITIES: In Kansas, two traffic deaths Tuesday south of Pittsburg in Crawford County were blamed on the weather; a third, near Hesston, was believed weather related.

POWER OUTAGES:

By Wednesday evening, power outages remained above 1 million. They included: Pennsylvania, 750,000; Maryland, 140,000; New Jersey, 44,000; Arkansas, 48,000; Kentucky, 10,000; New York, 8,000; Delaware, 6,000; Indiana, 2,500; Connecticut, 300.

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increase its presence as a leading medieval studies institution in the region.

Among the department’s many accomplishments is the successful employment rate of its graduates. The program, which only consists of 15 to 20 students, turns out graduates who go on to tenure track teaching position, said department head and professor, Sherri Olson.

UConn is also turning out a lot of research in the medieval studies arena, said Olson, and has hired several new faculty members for the department within the past year.

Somerset and Einbinder were both hired last year as part of an initiative to strengthen the already robust department comprised of 22 faculty members, and will be the co-directors of the medieval studies minor starting in the fall of 2014.

Einbinder is a well-known scholar in her field of late medieval Jewish writing, according to Biggs, and was hired through the university’s initiative to keep strengthening the faculty presence in pre-modern language and literature. Somerset, a specialist in medieval literature, was also hired through this initiative and said that the department wanted two directors for the program to accurately represent the diversity in the discipline.

“We have got a strong faculty presence for medieval studies,” Olson said. “We have a lot of strength in pre-modern society.”

The two are working on adding 2000- level courses that focus on medieval studies so that first and second-year students can have the opportunity to figure out whether or not they want to explore the subject further and pursue a minor. The classes would also serve to widen the offerings for electives for students in the first half of their undergraduate career, Somerset said. The courses are currently being approved by the General Education Oversight Committee, but should be available in the next two years.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Octomom” Nadya Suleman was charged with a fourth count of welfare fraud Wednesday after prosecutors said they discovered she wrongly collected an additional $10,000 in benefits from the state.

When the single mother of 14 children was charged last month with three counts of fraud, authorities said she didn’t disclose about $30,000 in earnings from videos and personal appearances when she applied for welfare last year.

At the time, they said Suleman owed the state about $16,000.

With Wednesday’s charge, that amount rises to about $26,000.

Suleman’s attorney, Arthur J. La Cilento, did not immediately respond to a message left at his office Wednesday.

Suleman, 38, was released on her own recognizance after she pleaded not guilty to the original charges. She has been ordered to return to court March 11 for a pretrial hearing, and the Los Angeles County district attor-

ney’s office said she would be arraigned on the fourth count then.

Although she could face as much as six years and four months in jail, Deputy District Attorney William Clark said last month it was unlikely she’d serve that much time, if any.

“She’s got 14 children. We’ll try and work out a deal for her,” he told reporters after she pleaded not guilty to the original charges.

Suleman was originally charged with one count of aid by misrepresentation and two counts of perjury by false application for aid. The additional count filed Wednesday was another of aid by misrepresentation.

Suleman, whose real name is Natalie Denise Suleman, became famous in 2009 by giving birth to eight children who quickly became the world’s longest-surviving octuplets. They celebrated their fifth birthday last month.

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However, by the time the student reaches their senior year, it would be too late to develop the necessary understanding, Biggs said.

The minor would allow students to explore their interests within the field and also strengthen their skill set by exposing them to the skills they will need to conduct research in graduate school, Biggs said.

Professor Fiona Somerset, the co-program head with Professor Susan Einbinder, said that the minor would be useful to students in any major.

“For aspiring novelists, it’s a great way to get an edge,” Somerset said. “Much of the basis of our pop culture is in the middle ages. If you read fantasy, that’s medieval based.”

Somerset also said that popular games such as World of Warcraft and Dungeons and Dragons are created by people with strong backgrounds in medieval studies, making the application of the minor broad in its potential.

Madeline Caples, a freshman violin performance major, is considering adding the minor because she is interested in the period.

“I am eager to benefit from the university’s new minor, as I think it is an excellent way to broaden my horizons and delve into topics which intrigue me,” Caples said.

Caples said she is also anticipating that studying medieval studies will help her as she progresses through her career as a fine arts student, by making her education well-rounded, but also by lending a new light to her main focus, music.

“The medieval studies minor puts an emphasis on taking classes in at least four different fields, including history, art, language, literature and philosophy. This will give me a structured environment in which to go beyond the requirements of my major in music performance,” Caples said.

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UConn needs a procedure to report rape on campus

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ince the Title IX complaint was filed last October, the university administration has finally issued a formal response. On Monday, the official answer of the administration to allegations of mishandling cases of sexual assault was filed in U.S. District Court as a legal denial. According to the Hartford Courant, UConn admitted it lacked, “sufficient information to admit or deny” many of the charges lobbied against them by five UConn students, but did deny allegations of UConn employees knowing of a rape and failing to do their jobs as well as allegations of UConn police officers making insensitive remarks and not providing sufficient information to victims.

One of its chief issues with the lawsuit was the “failure [of the plaintiffs] to sufficiently exhaust her administrative remedies,” as reported by The Daily Campus. Looking at the resources UConn suggests, it would appear one can speak with Counseling and Mental Health Services, UConn Police Department, Office of Student Services and Advocacy, Office of Community Standards, Office of Diversity and Equity, Women’s Center, Student Health Services and Department of Residential Life to address issues regarding sexual assault.

The UConn Police Department handles the legal process; Student Health Services takes care of the medical side.

Counseling and Mental Health Services will assist with crisis intervention and therapy. The Office of Diversity and Equity investigates discrimination and sexual harassment; the Title IX Coordinator also hails here. The Office of Student Services and Advocacy takes care of one’s “academic and personal concerns that arise after an assault,” according to UConn’s Sexual Violence webpage. The Women’s Center is a general resource on information for survivors. The Office of Community Standards is in charge of violations of the Student Code, which includes sexual assault.

The issue with this is two-fold. Firstly, many of these resources are not advertised and, outside of orientation, there really isn’t an effort to make this array of resources known to students. So if a sexual assault happens, the student may have no idea of where to go or what each individual service offers.

Secondly, there needs to be clear and orderly university protocal for how to handle cases of sexual assault. With a clear starting point, students will have a better idea of where to go. Streamlining the process should also allow for the above resources to work in tandem rather than as individual bodies, giving victims more comprehensive and methodical assistance in handling legal procedures as well as personal health and well-being.

Hosting the Olympics is more trouble than its worth

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here is only one more day until the opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Preliminary rounds in three sports got underway today in the early hours of the morning. These are the most expensive Olympic Games ever, costing around $50 billion, according to an article from Business Insider.

Hosting the Olympics puts a huge financial strain on the taxpayers of the host city, and even the whole country. It is simply not worth it.

Some economists might point to the fact that bringing people into the host city will drive business sales and create extra tax revenue. However,

By Gregory Koch because of exclusive comWeekly Columnist mercial agreements for Olympic sponsors, many local businesses are unable to sell their products at all during the Olympics. During the 2012 Olympics, only corporate sponsors CocaCola, McDonald’s, Cadbury and Heineken were allowed to sell food products in areas where events were taking place. Other companies based in the area were forced to shut down. The one exception was made to allow Britain’s iconic fish and chips stands to sell their wares – but only if they sold both fish and chips together.

They were not allowed to just sell chips (french fries.) This actually takes away

revenue from local businesses at the benefit of international chains. This debunks the most common counterargument in favor of hosting the Olympics.

Hosting the Olympics causes far more trouble than that. According to the same Business Insider report, the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 were, at the time, the most expensive ever; costing an inflation-adjusted $18.22 billion in today’s dollars. In spite of all this money, Athens proved incapable of hosting the Games. Many venues were barely finished on time, and the swimming facility lacked a roof. Greece is still feeling the effects of this disastrous hosting experience today.

Just a few years after hosting the Games, Greece fell into financial ruin. The large amount of money put a huge strain on the small country’s economy and was one of the major factors in its collapse a few years later. Greece did not have the resources to put on such a big event and struggled immensely to pull it off. Now, it is facing the consequences.

Greece is the best example of a country’s economy collapsing due to hosting the Olympics, but it is not the only one.

According to CNN, Montreal accumulated $1.48 billion of debt due to hosting the 1976 Olympics. Most of this cost was due to building the new Olympic Stadium, nicknamed “the Big O.” This debt nearly bankrupted the city, and it took 30 years to finally pay it off. During that time span, Olympic Stadium’s retractable roof failed to work, was replaced by a new retractable roof that also failed to work, and finally was replaced by a permanent roof, all at the taxpayers’ expense. There is a reason locals now refer to the stadium as “the

Big Owe.” Furthermore, many Olympic venues sit empty after hosting the Olympics. The Bird’s Nest, the architectural wonder of a stadium that was built for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, now has no regular tenant. It was initially intended to host soccer matches, but there was not enough interest in soccer in China to use such a large stadium. It occasionally hosts track and field competitions, but that is it. Most other venues built for Olympic Games are also seldom used.

The only Olympic Games in recent times with many new venues still in use today was the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. A new tennis center was built in Stone Mountain, Ga. which is still in use today. Forbes Arena, which was used for preliminary basketball rounds, is now home to the basketball teams of Morehouse College, a Division II school. The Olympic Stadium was turned into Turner Field, today home of the Atlanta Braves. (However, in almost all cases, most Olympic venues built as part of the host bid are unused after the Games are over.

No sane city would ever want to host the Olympic Games if it considered all the facts. It comes with a large price tag attached and is simply not worth it.

Hosting the Olympics is not beneficial for the economy – it is destructive.

 Gregory.Koch@UConn.edu  8th-semester actuarial science  @gregoryahoch

Christie must deal with fallout of ‘bridgegate’ I don’t have class on Wednesday, so the snow day didn’t matter to me. Hey Jay Hickey can we talk about a Tuesday or Thursday snowstorm?

If I get a parking ticket today I swear to god.

When it snows it flows, best marketing strategy ever invented.

Week three of class is definitely the point when people realize which classes are skippable and the number of people who attend class is cut in half.

Anybody want to come dig my car out?

Your igloo in the side of a snowbank looks cool guys, but it also looks like a giant death trap.

Nothing better than getting snowed in with your sweetheart ;) Prayers for Curt Schilling, #BeatCancer #WinToday I’m due for a trip back to Mohegan Sun, but I’d rather buy groceries this weekend.

Almost Olympic hockey time! GO USA GO!

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ust a month ago, Chris Christie was hailed as the only Republican who could plausibly defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. He was deemed the unequivocal front runner for the GOP nomination, and political pundits pointed to the broad appeal that a fiscally conservative, forthright Republican, who is able to garner 60 percent of the electorate in a solid blue state, w o u l d have.

By Paul DaSilva N o w , Staff Columnist in light of the revelations in the George Washington Bridge scandal, people are wondering if Christie can even survive his chairmanship of the Republican Governor’s Association?

For those of you unfamiliar with the details of the scandal; in Sept.2013, Bridget Anne Kelly, Christie’s thendeputy chief of staff, sent an email to a Port Authority Christie appointee, David Wildstein, ordering the shuttering of lanes on the most traveled upon bridge in the world. After the story broke, connecting Christie’s office directly with the bridge lane closures, Christie gave the media a 108 minute press conference denying any involvement whatever in the ordeal, and terminated

Kelly’s employment.

More recently, Wildstein asserted Christie had knowledge of the lane closures as they were occurring, which runs contrary to the governor’s claim that “I had no knowledge of this—of the planning, the execution or anything about it—and that I first found out about it after it was over.”

To be clear, Wildstein is not claiming that Christie himself ordered the lane closures.

That would be the smoking gun Democrats and many in the media are yearning for.

However, the memo the Christie administration released in response to the accusations is further evidence for the assertion that Christie fosters a bellicose and pugnacious culture in his office. The 700-word memo, first disclosed by Politico, attacked Wildstein personally, and in part read: “As a 16 year-old kid, he sued over a local school board election.

He was publically accused by his high school social studies teacher of deceptive behavior.” Mind you, Wildstein is 54 years old. And also note that Christie commended Wildstein’s tenure as a Port Authority official when he resigned late last year.

If Christie is trying to shed the perception many have of him—that he is a political bully—then this is the antithesis of how to go about that.

As of now, we only have evidence that Kelly acted alone and had vindictive motivations—to deliver a political punishment to the mayor of Fort Lee, the city on the New Jersey end of the bridge, for his failure to endorse the Christie’s candidacy. Christie has not been directly linked.

If he is eventually connected his political career would be over immediately, and he would likely have to resign his governorship.

Nonetheless, Christie’s poll numbers have suffered a tremendous blow. A ReutersEagleton poll released on Jan. 22 revealed that his favorability in New Jersey has dropped to 46 percent, down almost 20 points since his re-election in November. Another poll, conducted by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 28, found that the number of Americans who view Christie favorability stands at 22 percent, down 11 percent since October.

In other words, Christie is no longer the indubitable frontrunner—at least for now.

The pressing questions remain: will any proof surface that the governor had any involvement prior to the closures? Did he, as Wilstein claims, know what was occurring at the time of the closures? And did he have any knowledge afterwards as to the real reason for the closures?

These questions sound familiar? If you thought of Hillary Clinton and the militant attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including an ambassador, then this is a central problem with Christie’s aspirations for the presidency. One of the areas on which Republicans plan on hitting Hillary hardest is on her selfprofessed “biggest regret”— Benghazi—during her tenure as Secretary of State. Having a scandal of his own, albeit far less consequential in nature, would make it difficult for Christie to chastise her. It would be reminiscent to Mitt Romney attempting to criticize President Obama’s healthcare law, when a similar plan was implemented in Mass. under Romney’s term as governor.

It is still early to arrive at definitive conclusions regarding the role Christie played in this scandal, but the fact that this hovers over his head will most definitely scar his chances in 2016. The degree to which he will be disadvantaged is yet to be determined.

 Paul.DaSilva@UConn.edu  2nd-semester political sci-

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Four-time Olympian and three-time gold medal winner, Misty May Treanor, kicked off SUBOG’s SnOlympics Winter Weekend 2014; the event was held in Jorgensen on Wednesday night. Treanor ended her night here at UConn by an impromptu autograph and picture taking session. Students were delighted.

By Emily Lewson Campus Correspondent

Four-time Olympian and three-time gold medal winner, Misty May Treanor, kicked off SUBOG’s SnOlympics Winter Weekend 2014; the event was held in the Jorgensen on Wednesday night.

“I want to tell you about my evolution into becoming an Olympian and journey through the Olympics,” said Treanor.

Treanor then walked through her history. Both of her parents were athletes: With her mom having played tennis at UCLA and dad having was in the 1968 Olympics. Treanor grew up in Santa Monica, where she competed specifically in soccer and volleyball. In her junior year of high school, she was forced

to choose between sports when both offered scholarships. Her senior year, she left high school as the number one volleyball recruit in the nation.

Following high school, Treanor experienced a whirlwind four years at California State University, Long Beach. During her time there, she also played for the U.S. National Team and upon graduation, joined the indoor volleyball team full time.

After playing without an offseason for years, Treanor felt burnt out. She then made the bold move to beach volleyball. Beach volleyball promised no money and was in its first Olympics in 1996. It was a new sport with very little financial promise.

Despite all the risk, Treanor dove right in. Her partner Holly

McPeak had a little bit more experience, and together they qualified by five points for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. That year, they missed the medal stand by two points. Around the same time, Treanor’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, but still made it to see Treanor play at the games. It would be the only Olympics her mom watched Treanor play in.

“I never knew about the hardships Treanor faced at home,” said 4th-semester molecular cell biology major Turner Stowik, “the constant pressure and struggle seemed to make her so much stronger though.”

Following the 2000 Olympics, Treanor paired up with Keri Walsh. Their differing personalities worked effectively and led to incredible winning streaks.

“We would win 21-5 and look at each other and say ‘phew that was too close,’” said Treanor about Walsh.

The two went on to win the 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing and 2012 London gold medals.

While that is easy to say, it was not easily done. During their twelve years together, Treanor lost her mom, married her husband Matt, went on Dancing with the Stars, tore her Achilles, recovered from her Achilles’ tear and lived between California and Florida. Walsh had two kids and a slew of her own troubles.

“The biggest misconception is that I’m a natural. I’m not,” says Treanor, “I’d workout for six hours a day, everyday. Hard work is the only way.”

Treanor’s talk demonstrated her as an inspirational, yet

grounded individual. She is a four time Olympian who easily engaged with the crowd.

“People were always telling her ‘you can’t,’ but look at all she’s done!” said 4th-semester undecided student, Sandi Zeoli, “every time someone tells me I can’t do something, I’ll just think of Misty.”

Treanor ended her night here at UConn by an impromptu autograph and picture taking session.

Students were delighted.

“She was just an amazing person,” gushed Brandon Luxkaranayagam, a 4th-semester physiology and neurobiology major. “If she wasn’t already married, I would put a ring on her.”

Emily.Lewson@UConn.edu

Super Bowl ad sparks controversy UConn literary magazine accepting submissions

By Carles Lopez Campus Correspondent

Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl commercial “It’s beautiful” sparked two very different responses.

The Coca-Cola ad portrayed the patriotic “America is Beautiful” song, sung in seven different languages. Coca-Cola explained that the ad was supposed to portray the “incredible diversity” in which the United States was founded.

A young woman named Christy, her last name was withheld since she is a minor, sung “America is Beautiful” in Keres, a language spoke by the Pueblo people “Translating the words to ‘America the Beautiful’ was difficult because Keres is not a written language, so we had to go back to our elders to help translate” said Christy in an interview with Indian Country Today Media Network. “I’m representing America, I’m representing my home. It just feels like I’m doing a good thing,” explained Christy who believes that the commercial was a celebration of the United States as a united and diverse community.

Many viewers shared similar opinions, and embraced the commercial as being a joyus representation of the United State’s diversity and acceptance.

Supporter of Coca-Cola’s commercial expressed their appreciation of the ad in different social networks like Twitter

By Kim Halpin Focus Editor

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Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl commercial sparked two very different responses. The ad portrayed the patriotic “America is Beautiful” song, sung in seven different languages.

and Facebook.

“I stand with #coke. Their commercial was a beautiful tribute to the wonderful diversity the US is blessed #speakamerican” tweeted Kelsey Elizabeth, a Twitter user supporting the commercial’s celebration of diversity.

However the commercial angered some viewers who described the ad as unpatriotic.

“Nice to see that coke likes to sing an AMERICAN song in the terrorist’s language. Way to go coke. You can leave America,” tweeted Tyler Wyckoff regarding the ad’s take on the song.

Other Twitter users expressed their opinions on the ad depicting a gay couple with a child.

“Why the hell did they have to throw gay guys into that coca cola commercial!?!? Guess what never buying coke again!”

Tweeted Kyle Sutton, expressing his discontent towards the featured couple.

The response of American viewers towards the Super Bowl ad has brought to light how divided the nation truly is on topics like immigration, multiculturalism and gay rights.

Carles.Lopez@UConn.edu

UConn’s Long River Review Literary Magazine is currently accepting submissions for this year’s publication through Saturday, Feb. 8 at midnight. All current students, including graduates or students in professional programs across all UConn campuses are eligible to submit.

A wide range of genres are accepted, including “poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, international pieces, translations, hybrid pieces and uncategorized creative works,” according The Long River Review website.

Submissions are not limited to a certain number, but students are reminded that the magazine is looking for quality over quantity. Krisela Karaja, the editor-in-chief of the Long River Review says that the team is especially looking for “submissions to our International Literature and Translations section.

Above all, we are looking for hybrid pieces that break the stereotypes of genres.

Surprise Us!” Artwork may also be submitted and visual art will be considered for monetary awards, funded by the

Gloriana Gill Art Awards and the Long River Art Award.

There are specific style guidelines available on the Long River Review’s website concerning the cover page that should be attached to each submission, and the information that needs to be provided with the creative work. Karaja notes that students can benefit from work to be published as the process is a key experience for writers. She also says “writing and art is meant to elicit emotion. But in order to elicit such emotion, you need readers. Just submitting to LRR (regardless of whether the pieces is chosen) guarantees you that a staff full of readers will review your work.”

Once copies are released, the magazine is available for purchase at the UConn Co-op for $5, or through the Creative Writing Department. “Just like we want this year’s submissions to ‘surprise us,’ we also want this year’s final product to ‘surprise’ our readers,” said Karaja. “I am confident that it will.”

Kimberly.Halpin@UConn.edu

As the writer of a food column, I think it’s obvious that I love good food. I love a good, hearty American burger, a nice spicy Indian curry and the always satisfying but never filling Japanese sushi.

I’m always willing and eager to try new foods, barring genitalia or potentially poisonous food. But there’s one recent trend in food that I’ve noticed in the past few years that I’ve finally made my mind up about: fusion cuisine.

Fusion cuisine is cooking that combines elements of different culinary traditions.

One example that I’m sure everyone is familiar with is Tex-Mex, which combines southwestern United States and Mexican culinary style.

Chili con carne and taco pizza (pizza made with cheddar, pepper jack cheese, salsa, refried beans or other classic taco ingredients) are classic examples of Tex-Mex cuisine.

I used to think that fusion cuisine was just shy of a culinary abomination.

Admittedly, I am a bit of a foodie and the idea of the authenticity of food matters a lot when I’m eating, especially when I’m very familiar with it, as is the case with Chinese food. As a result, I’m typically not a huge fan of most Chinese restaurants in the United States, because the Chinese-American population isn’t high enough for those restaurants to stay in business making food that Chinese people could potentially get nostalgic about.

Instead, most Chinese restaurants in the States that I’ve been to have Westernized their food so it’s more palatable to their average clientele. While sometimes tasty, the food that these restaurants/chains serve just doesn’t remind me of home, nor does it give me the impression that I’m trying something particularly new and exciting. It might as well be a hamburger, just dressed up a little different.

To me, there’s nothing more disappointing than looking forward to a hot Szechuan dish, only to be disappointed because the peppers they use aren’t spicy enough– aren’t the real Szechuan peppers that they use in that region of China.

Anyway, that’s how I saw most if not all fusion food: a mixing of culinary elements that simply diluted these used and added nothing new. I’m not going to say that I was completely wrong – there are some restaurants that I’ve frequented that I think use fusion ineptly, as a gimmick to draw in more worldly customers. That said, I will admit that when done creatively and correctly, fusion food can be as great an experience as truly “authentic” food would be.

One of my columns last semester waxed poetic about a particular soba noodle restaurant I love in New York City. On one such visit, I tried their Mexican soba, which contained jalapeno peppers among other traditionally Mexican ingredients.

The meal tasted as Mexican as any burrito I’d ever had, and yet the noodles and broth gave it a classic Japanese sense as well. In short, it was delicious, and it’s my hope that any other fusion food I try in the future is equally good.

Jason.Wong@UConn.edu

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The sophomore album from the Brooklyn, N.Y. group is a celebration of ornately arranged “Queen of the Slipstream” orchestral indie rock, much akin to Grizzly Vanorganic Morrison Bear. Digital and textures weave in and out of each other, creating a dreamy cocoon of warmth.

“Light as a Feather” Norah Jones “Light as a Feather” Norah Jones “The Age of Fractures” by Cymbals Fun and dancey synth pop with ultra-’80s influences,“The complete the 3” exasperated CranewithWife vocals and bouncing keys. The shimmering The Decemberists synths and tropical flourishes really set this record apart though, and it is certain to be a soundtrack for a lovely “The Crane Wifebeach 3”trip.

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“N.A.P. North American Poetry” by Juan Wauters The lead singer from The Beets brings “Theintrospection Story I Heard” some more to his songwriting, along withBlind somePilot usual weirdness.

The Uruguayan native talks of his home and his life in Queens, N.Y. along with “The Story I Heard” bringing some native instrumentation to Blind Pilot the songs.

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After my glowing review of Broken Bells’ new single two weeks ago, it’s hard to believe I’m giving the Feb. 4 album, “After the Disco,” a five out of 10.

Broken Bells was the answer to James Mercer, formally lead singer of The Shins, and his decaying band. It was project that allowed him to be creative in the way he couldn’t be with The Shins and collaborate with hip new producer, DangerMouse. But maybe Mercer’s time has come and he should retire from the music business. As much as it pains me to say this, Mercer needs to leave his legacy at five albums with The Shins and one fantastic piece of experimentation with Broken Bells.

“After the Disco” has an interesting and unique sound that differs from the group’s first album “Broken Bells.”

Unfortunately, what ruins the album is the fact that the sound is so polished and so refined that every song sounds the same. Now, I don’t know about you, but that bores me. As an avid music listener I know that an album should be different.

An album is like a book, if every chapter was the same in “Harry Potter” no one would be interested. The sound on the album is not

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“After the Disco” has an interesting and unique sound that differs from the group’s first album “Broken Bells.” Unfortunately, what ruins the album is the fact that the sound is so polished and so refined that every song sounds the same.

amazing that you want to thing from acoustic solos hear it on 11 tracks. on “Vaporize” to subtle synSpeaking of the sound, thetic harmonies on “Sailing if you choose to Nowhere.” to listen to it, The lack of expect ‘70s experimendisco themes tation and After the Disco and a groovy cross genre Broken Bells undertone to tracks makes 2/4/14 the melancholy this album a 11 tracks lyrics. The aesmajor disapthetic is imprespointment. sive, but again, The most I’d like to have shocking /10 seen some diverthing about sity in the songs. this album, The group’s first however, is album was stellar in this cat- the fact that I expected so egory and featured every- much more from two of the

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most talented 21st century musicians. Their discographies are amazing, but lend nothing to the current album.

Where did the talent go?

On the whole, I can’t even comment on individual tracks because they were that unremarkable. “Back to the Disco” sounds like “Holding On” which sounds like “Leave It Alone.”

Bono donates profits of new single to ‘RED’ campaign Kathleen.McWilliams@UConn.edu

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RED, an organization co-founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver in 2006, raises funds through clothing sales and other outlets to fight against AIDS. The new U2 single was on iTunes as a free single over the course of Sunday through Monday and is currently being sold via iTunes for $1.29, where the proceeds still go to the RED campaign.

By Brett Steinberg Campus Correspondent U2’s recent single “Invisible” has been having a visible impact on the fight against AIDS over the past couple of days. RED, an organization co-founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver in 2006, raises funds through clothing sales and other outlets—in this case music. The new U2 single was on iTunes as a free single over the course of Sunday through Monday and is currently being sold via iTunes for $1.29, where the proceeds still go to the RED campaign.

Rolling Stone says that Bank of America has promised to contribute a dollar

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to the campaign for every download and will contribute up to a total of $8 million for the cause if the downloads meet that number. According to Rolling Stone, the money raised will go to “(RED)’s charitable recipient, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.”

The track was debuted during the Super Bowl. Bono told USA Today, “We’re taking all the energy around the Super Bowl and interest in what U2’s doing and flipping it into the fight against HIV AIDS.” Just looking at Twitter, you could see the rising trend of fans and celebrities promoting the iTunes link trying to get the word out.

The RED Twitter (@RED)

posted on Tuesday that $3,144,477 was raised from the campaign, which “Equals over 7.8MM days of lifesaving HIV pills.”

Seeing these tangible effects that music can have when changing the world for the better is beyond inspiring. Bono has been a paramount player within the community of philanthropic musicians, using his notoriety and resources to help those who deserve our attention.

In “Invisible,” Bono sings, “I’m more than you know, I’m more than you see, I’m more than you let me be,” preaching the fact that there are so many people outcasted and underplayed as humans, but have so much more to

offer than what their condition can ever take away. He continues to sing, “There is no them, there is no them, there’s only us” uniting us all as people working together to fight against what ails our fellow global citizens.

This song and movement radiates the fact that every life is worth fighting for. As much as the profits made from the song will benefit the RED campaign against AIDS, the lyrics in “Invisible” can be just as powerful in the fight. Like many other U2 songs, this track’s lyrics have the potential to spark a movement and unite us all in sound, mind and heart.

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When I got the UConn Alert about classes being cancelled yesterday I was pleased to say the least.

A snow day is the perfect excuse to sleep in, watch movies and listen to music for the sake of listening. By that I mean, I’m not listening to music at the gym to power through my work out, or while I study to keep my sanity. I mean listening to music in bed just to listen. If you haven’t tried this before, I’m tempted to say you have a low appreciation for music, but the reality is we don’t often have time to meditate through music.

Music, at its best, is an experience. Listening to live music, as most concert goers understand, is an experience filled with adrenaline, and in the same vein, sitting back and listening to music can be incredibly cathartic.

When I listen to music I’m usually on the go. I’m listening to “Paris” by Magic Man while I work out, or “Wake Up” by Arcade Fire on my way to work. I don’t stop and listen closely to the lyrics; it’s just the background music to my busy schedule or something to focus on other than the biting February wind.

Admittedly, most music is not really contemplative thinking material. I think that one listen of “Timber”

by Ke$ha is enough for me to understand what is happening and what she means.

Other bands however, are more complex in their meanings and it takes a few listens to figure out exactly what the songs mean. Much like a good poem, a good song might take some effort to decode. I know my columns often focus a lot on “conscious” music choices, that is, making sure the music you listen to aligns with your values, but I challenge anyone who reads this (Hi Mom!) to take some time to spend with your music.

It’s often a healing experience and can leave a stressed out college student feeling refreshed. If you need a few suggestions of places to start, I’m going to recommend a few.

1. Andrew Bird- American songwriter and instrumentalist Andrew Bird is one of the few super popular indie acts that hasn’t risen to mainstream acclaim in the past five years. His exquisite blends of instruments (think violins, mandolins and obscure percussion) backs up cryptic, but truthful lyrics about everything from love to mental illness. His voice is amazingly soothing and he makes for a great listen on a snowy winter day.

2. Kate Bush- Now this artist is not for the faint hearted. If cookie cutter pop music is what you gravitate towards, Kate Bush is going to be unfamiliar territory. A British artist who is largely unappreciated for her contribution to pop and indie music, Bush is an ethereal songstress who takes experimentation to new levels. “Wuthering Heights” her most popular song, is a hysterical ode to Emily Bronte’s novel, and tells the story of Heathcliff and Cathy in an obnoxious, but artistic falsetto. The song is a terrible introduction to Bush and I’d recommend starting with her softer music, such as “Running Up that Hill,” “The Man With the Child In His Eyes” and “Snowflake.”

They are delightfully pensive songs that challenge

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Arrest made in Hoffman overdose case ‘The Biggest Loser’

NEW YORK (AP) — At least one of four people arrested during an investigation of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s suspected fatal heroin overdose had the actor’s cellphone number, two law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

Investigators zeroed in on the four after a tipster, responding to publicity about Hoffman’s death, told police he had seen Hoffman at the lower Manhattan apartment building where they were arrested on Tuesday and he believed that’s where Hoffman got the heroin, the officials said. In searches of two apartments in the building, police found hundreds of packets of heroin in one of them, according to a criminal complaint.

But prosecutors declined to pursue charges against one of the four, saying there was no evidence that he had control of the drugs or the apartment in which they were found, and two of the others were charged only with a misdemeanor charge of possessing cocaine, not heroin. Only one, jazz musician Robert Vineberg, was facing a felony charge of heroin possession with intent to sell.

Lawyers for the three people charged vigorously denied their clients had any role in Hoffman’s death and suggested they were being swept up in a maelstrom of attention surrounding the actor’s demise.

“This case and the charges against Mr. Vineberg have absolutely nothing to do with the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. ...

We’re hoping the (district attorney) will not use Mr. Vineberg as a scapegoat,” said his lawyer, Edward Kratt, who declined to say whether Vineberg knew Hoffman.

The arrests came two days into the high-profile case, reflecting the attention and urgency it has attracted. All three of the people charged were indicted within a day after their arrests, a fairly unusual step, and were being held without bail. The two charged with cocaine possession, Juliana Luchkiw and Max Rosenblum, a couple who are neighbors of Vineberg’s, were visibly dismayed when a judge denied them bail, though their lawyers

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At least one of four people arrested during an investigation of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s suspected fatal heroin overdose had the actor’s cellphone number, two law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

hoped to revisit the issue Thursday.

“She’s not a drug dealer. She’s a college student,” attending a design school, said Luchkiw’s lawyer, Stephen Turano.

Rosenblum’s lawyer, Daniel Hochheiser, said his client “has nothing to do with Philip Seymour Hoffman.”

Luchkiw and Rosenbaum had two bags of cocaine, while investigators found about 300 packets of heroin, a bag of cocaine and about $1,200 in cash in Vineberg’s apartment, according to criminal complaints.

Investigators have determined that the “Capote” star made six ATM transactions for a total of $1,200 inside a supermarket near his home the day before his death, law enforcement officials have said. Investigators are examining a computer and two iPads found at the scene for clues and recovered syringes, a charred spoon and various prescription medications, including a blood pressure drug and a muscle relaxant, law enforcement officials have said.

Police learned from phone records that one of the suspects had Hoffman’s number, strengthening the theory that they may have supplied him with drugs, the law enforcement officials said. The officials, who weren’t authorized to speak about evidence in the ongoing investigation of the death and

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Some of the packets found in Hoffman’s apartment were variously stamped with the ace of hearts and others with the ace of spades. Those found in the building where the arrests occurred had different brand names, including Black List and Panda, the officials said.

Police were waiting for a cause of death for the Oscar-winning actor from the medical examiner’s office, which said on Wednesday that more tests were needed.

There was no timetable for Hoffman’s autopsy to be finished, said medical examiner’s office spokeswoman Julie Bolcer, who declined to discuss the pending tests. Toxicology and tissue tests are typically done in such cases.

Hoffman, 46, was found dead Sunday with a needle in his arm, and tests found heroin in samples from at least 50 packets in his apartment in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, law enforcement officials have said.

Courts have found that under state law drug dealers can’t be held liable for customers’ deaths.

A 1972 state appellate division case found a dealer can’t be found guilty of manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide for selling heroin and syringes to a customer who later dies because, the court ruled, legislation enhancing

punishment for drug crimes didn’t redefine homicide to include the sale of an illicit drug that results in death.

And holding a drug dealer criminally liable for a customer’s overdose death could prove difficult for the district attorney’s office, said James Cohen, a Fordham University School of Law professor who runs a clinic that represents federal criminal defendants.

“It’s not just enough that you know, if you will, theoretically or academically, that heroin could kill,” he said.

Former police detective Scott Prendergast, who worked on the high-profile investigation into the 1996 heroin overdose death of Jonathan Melvoin, a keyboard player touring with the rock band Smashing Pumpkins, said it’s not uncommon for investigators to track down dealers following suspected overdose deaths especially when the drugs are stamped with telling names.

A private funeral for relatives and close friends of Hoffman is set for Friday, and a larger memorial service will be held later this month, his publicist Karen Samfilippo said.

On Wednesday night, Broadway theaters dimmed their lights in memory of the Tony Awardnominated actor, and members of the theater community held a candlelight vigil for him.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A day after Rachel Fredrickson won the latest season of “The Biggest Loser,” after shedding nearly 60 percent of her body weight, attention wasn’t focused on her $250,000 win — but rather the criticism surrounding her loss.

Experts cautioned that regardless of her current weight, the criticism being levied on social media about her losing too much isn’t helpful. A more constructive message is needed, they say, centering on overall healthy living and body image.

The 5-foot-4, 24-year-old Frederickson dropped from 260 pounds to 105 under the show’s rigorous exercise and diet regimen, and time spent on her own before the finale. She was a three-time state champion swimmer at Stillwater Area High School in Minnesota, then turned to sweets for solace after a failed romance with a foreign exchange student she followed to his native Germany.

Frederickson’s newly thin frame lit up Twitter on Wednesday, with many viewers pointing to the surprised expressions on the faces of trainers Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper during the show’s Tuesday night finale. Many tweeted that Fredrickson looked anorexic and unhealthy, while others congratulated her for dropping 155 pounds.

Jillian Lampert, senior director of the Emily Program, an eating disorder treatment program based in St. Paul, said Frederickson’s body mass index is below the normal range. But she said the criticism directed against her isn’t helpful.

“As a society we often criticize people for being at higher weights — that’s part of why we have the TV show ‘The Biggest Loser’ — and then we feel free to criticize lower weight,” Lampert said.

A more constructive mes-

sage to send young people would center on well-rounded health and the importance of eating well, moving well and sleeping well, she said.

“We certainly see a lot of people who struggle with eating disorders who use the same behaviors on that show to an extreme,” she said.

“That can’t be helpful.”

Joanne Ikeda, a dietitian and retired faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, added that focus needs to be on embracing body-size diversity.

“We are just obsessed with body size, women particularly. There’s just tremendous body dissatisfaction,” Ikeda said. “I’m sure even if she was the exact right size, someone wouldn’t like the look of her fingers or the length of her hair.”

“We should be happy we don’t all look like Barbie and Ken,” she said.

A listed phone number for Frederickson couldn’t be found by The Associated Press late Wednesday. During an appearance on “Access Hollywood,” Frederickson didn’t directly respond to the criticism but said she intends to live a healthy lifestyle going forward.

“My journey was about finding that confident girl again. Little by little, challenge by challenge, that athlete came out. And it sparked inside me this feeling that I can do anything I can conceive. And I found that girl, and I’m just going to embrace her fully,” she said.

In a statement released late Wednesday, NBC said the network is committed to helping all of the show’s past contestants live healthier lives.

Among the social media commentators was 36-yearold Shannon Hurd, who tweeted that Frederickson looked weak and unhealthy.

In an interview Wednesday with AP, Hurd said she became anorexic at age 16 and has been recovering since she was 19.

“Looking at her ‘after’ photo, I guess I saw ... a piece of myself way back when, and it really just struck something deep down,” Hurd said from her home in suburban Denver. “I don’t know if she’s anorexic, but I do think her weight loss is so extreme there is no way her loss can be maintained through normal habits, and unfortunately that leads to distorted thinking.”

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listeners to think outside of the box.

3. Lou Reed- I’ve said it once before and I’ll say it again- no one mastered song writing like Reed. Wit? Emotion? Pain? Delight? It’s all there and it all makes for fantastic listening. My go-to lazy morning in bed songs are “Perfect Day” and “Satellite of Love.” If you listen closely you’ll understand why so many mourned his death and why his music transcends the punk canon.

4. Blitzen Trapper- If there is one thing I need to make clear, it’s the fact that I hate country music.

I hate twang and flaming pickup trucks and everything else that belongs to country. Except country inspired music. Blitzen Trapper is a Portland, Ore. based band that mixes country overtones with classic folk music to produce some of the most lyrically captivating sounds in indie music. “Black River Killer” tells the story of a man wrongly accused of murder, while “Love the Way You Walk Away” discusses a toxic relationship.

On the surface there is nothing to these songs, but with a closer listen, the meaning is revealed.

Kathleen.McWilliams@UConn.edu

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UCONN CLASSICS: DID YOU ENJOY YOUR SNOWDAY? I KNOW I DID. I WENT SLEDDING, HAD A BURRITO AT MOE’S, HAD A GREAT Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- For about three weeks with Mercury retrograde, talk and plan with associates.

AFTERNOON WITH MONIKA Clean up the place. Don't take risks. Double check financial transactions. Review recent negotiations and decisions.

Increase peace through meditation.

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Today's Birthday (02/06/14). Health and service provide context this year. Listen to emotions and intuition, with Mercury retrograde (today until 2/28). Plan, practice and prepare. March and April favor home improvements, while the solar eclipse (6/10) brings romantic change. Aim for balance, even with travels and adventures. Young people inspire playfulness. Follow your heart. It's profitable.

To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Review data to find a hidden truth. Misunderstandings are plentiful for the next three weeks. Ask questions, even if you're nervous. Repeat what you said to be sure it gets through. Handle outstanding assignments.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 6 -- For the next three weeks while Mercury's retrograde, revisit creative ideas from the past. A temporary disruption could slow things... have a backup plan. Revisions are necessary. Take your act on the road (after double-checking reservations and roads).

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- For about three weeks, pay off bills. Don't confront authority or get into legal disputes... it would just get complicated. Watch for technical difficulties. Tune your equipment. Keep decreasing your obligations. Share food and fun with friends.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Secure what you've achieved over the next several weeks. Continue to increase your authority, although possibilities to advance remain static for a while. Keep practicing, and raise your skills. Make plans, and check equipment for repairs.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- For three weeks, confusion is more common in groups. Travel can get disrupted or interrupted. Accept responsibility where due, and stay patient. Review documents and sign again as needed. Avoid overspending. Free up some time for peacefulness.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- For three weeks, you gain most through old contacts and familiar practices.

The initial phase of a job is over. Fact and fantasy clash. Keep decreasing public obligations. Pad your schedule for unexpected circumstances, and take quiet time.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- For about three weeks, hold onto what you have. Better safe than sorry. Avoid risks. Have people over instead of going out. Travel and transportation can get disrupted. Pay extra attention to a partner.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Communicate carefully for the next three weeks. Save your insights for ater... avoid misunderstandings. This retrograde period is good for organizing, sorting and filing. Clean your desk, and complete old projects. Service breakdowns could slow things.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- For about three weeks, revise and refine your procedures. Review your notes, to simplify. Dig into a research assignment. Double-check bank statements and financial transactions. Today and tomorrow, play and have fun (especially with family).

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 6 -- Review the data and practice over the next three weeks. Sign papers and contracts after that, if you can wait. Increase support structures.

Handle home repairs, especially regarding plumbing. Travel could get tricky. Enjoy home comforts.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- For the next three weeks, renew old bonds. Review financial contracts and statements. Increase your savings with planning. Wait for a better time to take risk or make major decisions. Review the pros and cons thoroughly first.

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Sports

Which men's hockey team has the better shot at gold?

Team Canada

By Dan Madigan Campus Correspondent After narrowly defeating the United States 3-2 in overtime to win the gold medal in Vancouver in 2010, Team Canada is once again the favorite to be at the top of the medal stand in Sochi. As always, Team Canada is loaded with premier NHL players, captained by star center Sidney Crosby and supported by forward Patrick Sharp and defenseman Shea Weber. Simply put, it’s gold medal or bust for this team of superstars.

Daniel.Madigan@UConn.edu Team Canada has Shea Weber ...

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POINT/COUNTERPOINT Dan: Although Quick and Miller are certainly formidable between the pipes, they will still be hard pressed to slow down this offense. Quick has little Olympic experience, and Miller simply hasn’t been as good recently as he was 2010. This offense features 5 of the top 10 NHL points leaders this season and will push every defense and goalie it faces to their limits.

Elan: Team Canada is loaded with talent, no doubt. The thing is, as Herb Brooks so eloquently stated in “Miracle”, “You cannot win on talent alone.” Team USA has not taken home the gold since 1980. There is a hunger to win on this team. They are a grind it out squad, with three NHL captains (Dustin Brown, Ryan Callahan and David Backes), this team will fight with everything they have. It has to be mentioned, the Americans have lethal firepower. Patrick Kane and Phil Kessel currently sit fourth and fifth in points in the NHL. Dan: Team USA is well known for their heart and teamwork, and although this Canadian team is talented, they

White nixes Olympic slopestyle KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Shaun White jammed his wrist on one jump and watched the world's best snowboarders join him in tumbling down the supersized, super-scary Olympic slopestyle course.

Quickly, his choice became clear: Time to step away from the danger, and give himself a better chance in the event he knows he can win.

The world's most famous snowboarder pulled out of the new Olympic event Wednesday, saying that after

much deliberation, he has decided to bypass a chance at winning two gold medals at these games and instead concentrate on the halfpipe, where he'll have a chance to win his third straight title next week.

"With the practice runs I have taken, even after course modifications and watching fellow athletes get hurt, the potential risk of injury is a bit too much for me to gamble my other Olympics goals on," White said in a statement.

The world's most decorated

rider in a sport known for its risk-takers, White's decision was a stunner that dealt yet another blow to the still-tostart Sochi Games. They have been wracked by security threats and political dust-ups, along with the loss of at least one other headliner, injured American skier Lindsey Vonn.

White isn't leaving, but his departure from an event that was essentially introduced at the Olympics this year to take advantage of his star power certainly can't make the folks at the IOC or NBC too happy.

will also rely on their playing style to win gold. Team Canada picked players that would fit best their up-tempo style that they believe is necessary to succeed on the larger international ice.

This meant leaving stars like Martin St. Louis off the roster, but results in a team that will gel fast and wreak havoc on both ends of the ice.

Elan: When picking the roster, Team USA kept in mind the bigger ice surface. Their task was to add hardskating puck-movers both at the forward and defenseman spots, so players like Ryan McDonagh, Brooks Orpik and John Carlson, although not household names, will have a major impact on a shift-to-shift basis. However, the most important player on the ice is the captain, Zach Parise. He scored one of the most dramatic goals in USA hockey history in 2010. Parise, a hardnosed forward with a nose for the puck, epitomizes what Team USA stands for; effort, toughness, clutch.

If he gets going, Team USA will be tough to handle.

Team USA

By Elan DeCarlo Campus Correspondent Yes, Team Canada won gold in 2010, but Team USA is bringing back the defending MVP of that tournament, goalie Ryan Miller, the heart and soul of this squad. Also, former Conn Smythe winner Jonathan Quick is on the roster to solidify the goalie position. The strength of Team USA is their goaltending, which should be formidable enough to slow down the vaunted Canadian attack.

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... but Team USA has Zach Parise (and weird sweaters, apparently).

Mayfield: Heat, Pacers on Eastern Conference Final collision course 2. Miami Heat: The threetime defending Eastern Conference champions are starting to look a little vulnerable this season. The success of this team depends on the health of Dwyane Wade. Wade has already missed 13 games due to injury this season, which has started to become a trend in his career. Without Wade, Miami needs LeBron James to shoulder a much bigger load in

order for them to win. James still has been putting up crazy numbers this year, but you have to wonder if he will show signs of being human by the time the playoffs roll around. James has been shooting an insane 57 percent from the field and is competing with Kevin Durant for another MVP award.

This season seems to be on a crash course for an epic Eastern Conference final between Miami and Indiana. Indiana plays an old-school style of bas-

team with 19.4 points and 7.0 rebounds per game, respectively.

Kilpatrick was also selected on the preseason All-Conference team alongside UConn’s Shabazz Napier.

Meanwhile on paper, the

Huskies look like the better team as they hold advantages in points per game, assists per game and field goal percentage, with both teams tied for 36.8 rebounds per game. Yet, Cincinnati continues to find ways to win games, sur-

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ketball that gives Miami trouble. The Pacers understand that they have a huge size advantage in the post. However, Miami has the best player on the planet in James and the psychological advantage of knowing that they have defeated the Pacers in the last two conference finals.

Home-court advantage could play a role in this series and Indiana currently has a 3.5 game lead over Miami.

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Daniels key to UConn's chances against Bearcats from HEADING, page 12 Though beating Cincinnati on the road won’t be easy, as the Bearcats are a perfect 15-0 at home. Seniors Sean Kilpatrick and Justin Jackson lead the

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viving a furious Louisville rally, 69-66, last Thursday and holding off USF, 50-45, on Sunday.

In order for the Huskies to pull off the upset, DeAndre Daniels’ status is vital. The junior is the second-leading scorer on the team with 13.4 ppg but sprained his ankle two weeks ago at Rutgers.

According to UConn coach Kevin Ollie, Daniels’ ankle is about “85 percent,” but that the forward has also had back spasms in the last few days, and his chance of playing Thursday is about “75 percent.”

Last season, the teams split the season series with each claiming a win at home, but UConn holds the edge in the all-time series at 8-4.

The game will be televised on ESPN and the tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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Brancato: Manning still among the best of all time from MANNING, page 12

Regardless of whether Manning will retire or not it is safe to say he has made a legacy for himself. Even though he lost the Super Bowl he is still one of the best quarterbacks of all time.

Bill Polian, Manning’s old boss with the Indianapolis Colts said it perfectly in an interview before the Super Bowl, “ [Manning] needs to win this game or what, his legacy is shot? Let me give you a reference from another sport. Did Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine need another World Series to validate their own greatness of their own legacies? Maddux won 355 games. Come on.”

It doesn’t matter that Manning lost the Super Bowl; one game doesn’t justify a career. It also doesn’t matter if and when he will retire.

Manning is a legend whether he plays or not next season.

As long as he doesn’t pull a Favre and retire and then come out of retirement several times I will still look up to Manning as being one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.

Erica.Brancato@UConn.edu

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Sports

Diaco, Huskies welcome 14 in new recruiting class STORRS, Conn.

(AP) — UConn football coach Bob Diaco signed 14 players to his first recruiting class Wednesday, including one of the top high school running backs in the nation.

Arkeel Newsome is among three running backs who signed with the Huskies. The 5-foot-7 170 pound Parade AllAmerican ran for more than 10,600 yards at Ansonia High.

Diaco's recruiting class also includes four offensive linemen, a recent weakness for the Huskies. The 40-year-old former Notre Dame defensive coordinator took over the program in December, following a 3-9 season during which Paul Pasqualoni was fired.

"What we did is we kind of went with the right kind of guys," Diaco said. "We have guys that have strong grades, high character that have tough reports — people report toughness."

Most players, including Newsome, were recruited

before Diaco was hired and kept their commitments despite the coaching change.

Diaco said he didn't try to convince any of them to stay with the Huskies. He said he just laid out his vision for the program, and told them not to come if they didn't feel they would fit in.

Diaco also brought in several recruits late in the process, including another running back, Ron Johnson of Naples, Fla. The 6-foot, 215-pound Johnson had committed to Louisville, but re-opened up his recruiting after Cardinals coach Charlie Strong left for Texas.

The Huskies also signed 5-11, 195-pound tailback Brice McAllister, who played at Suffield Academy and was twice named the Class B New England Prep School player off the year. Diaco said all three have different running styles.

"We got three completely different tools in the tool box to get the jobs done, as needed," he said.

In addition to the 14 players who signed Wednesday, two other players, linebacker Chris Britton and defensive back Jamar Summers, have already are enrolled at UConn for the spring semester.

The Huskies also lost a few of Pasqualoni's recruits, including quarterback Logan Marchi of Winchester, who threw for more than 3,000 yards last season at St. Paul High School in Bristol. His scholarship offer was rescinded last week for academic reasons.

Diaco would not comment on his case specifically, but said making sure student-athletes can compete in UConn's rigorous academic environment is big part of the recruiting equation.

"Not that every student has to be able to launch a missile into outer space, but you have got to be able to read and write and communicate well enough to compete in these classrooms, and have a willingness to do it," he said. "And I believe

JON KULAKOFSKY/The Daily Campus

The Huskies, who went 3-9 last season under Paul Pasqualoni and interim head coach TJ Weist, welcomed 14 new recruits on National Signing Day Wednesday with new coach Bob Diaco at the helm.

there is a direct correlation between that attitude and that achievement and performance on the field."

Diaco acknowledged UConn didn't get everything on its

wish list, including a quarterback, and could still use "a bunch more" big skilled athletes on the defensive side of the ball.

But he does not anticipate

added any more recruits this season, and said some remaining scholarships may be used to reward walk-ons who have made contributions to the Huskies.

Men's track and field set for Sykes-Sabot Challenge

By Matt Kren Campus Correspondent

This weekend, the UConn men’s track and field team will be competing at the Sykes-Sabot Challenge at Penn State University. Last year, the Huskies finished second at State College, Pa. and trailed first-place Penn State by 27 points.

As a junior last year, and the senior captain this year, Darnell Cummings had two first place finishes as he claimed the top spot in the

200 meter and the 60 meter dash. Coming off of a first place finish last week in the Coaches Tribute Invitational at Rhode Island, where they won by a landslide, the Huskies will look to keep momentum going.

With such success in the start of the indoor season, this team looks prime to take home some trophies and victories this season.

Though coach Greg Roy said they still have a long way to go before they can be considered one of his best teams.

“You really judge a team by how well it competes in championships, specifically the conference championship,” Roy said. “We are doing the things we need to do in order to be the best we can be. I thought Rhode Island would be tough for us, and we really steamrolled them. This weekend is a very different level of competition.”

One athlete on the team who has stepped up all season long, no matter the level of competition has been senior sprinter Kyle

Twombly, who is coming off a first-place finish last week in the 500-meter.

“This upcoming Penn State meet is where we really need to buckle down and give it 110 percent,” Twombly said.

Echoing the sentiments of Roy, Twombly believes the increase in competition will be a good challenge for the team.

“This weekend is a great opportunity for all of us as a team and individually, to really put together something special,” Twombly

said. “We have a lot of talented guys on the team and with the increasing level of competition; I think we’re going to see a lot of breakthrough performances this weekend.”

This competition is just another measuring stick race for the huskies in which will hopefully help them one step closer to winning the AAC championship.

With a young team, the seniors will be the key in getting the Huskies the victory this weekend, in a place where the increase in

competition will be evident.

Teams such as Princeton, Penn State and Cornell will be there to challenge as it will be interesting to see who steps up on the squad.

“It’ll be a great competition,” Roy said, “and will really tell us where we are and what we need to do over the last month of the season.”

Matthew.Kren@UConn.edu

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The UConn women’s basketball team has won 30 straight games, tied for the fifth-longest streak in program history. » MLB

Schilling announces he has cancer

“I don’t see anything that we need to add.

We just have to get better. ” -Seahawks’ coach Pete Carroll

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Today Cincinnati 7 p.m.

Feb. 9 UCF 6 p.m.

Feb. 12 USF 7 p.m.

Feb. 15 Memphis Noon

Women’s Basketball Feb. 9 Louisville 1 p.m.

Feb. 16 USF 4 p.m.

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Feb. 22 Houston 5 p.m.

Feb. 19 UCF 7 p.m.

Feb. 20 Temple 9 p.m.

Feb. 25 Houston 8 p.m.

Men’s Hockey (13-8-4) Tomorrow Bentley 7:05 p.m.

Feb. 14 Feb. 11 Feb. 8 Feb. 15 Bentley Providence Holy Cross Holy Cross 7:05 p.m. 7:05 p.m. 7:05 p.m. 7:05 p.m.

Women’s Hockey (7-19-2) Feb. 8 Boston College 2 p.m.

Feb. 9 Feb. 16 Feb. 21 Feb. 15 New Northeastern Northeastern Maine Hampshire 2 p.m.

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Baseball Feb. 14 Ohio State 5 p.m.

Feb. 15 Feb. 16 Indiana Auburn State Noon 11:30 a.m.

Softball Feb. 21 Hofstra Noon

(0-0) Feb. 21 Wichita State 4 p.m.

Feb. 22 George Mason 5 p.m.

(0-0) Feb. 21 DePaul 2 p.m.

Feb. 22 College of Charleston Noon

Feb. 22 Feb. 23 UMass Illinois State 2 p.m. 11 a.m.

Men’s Track and Field Feb. 8 Skykes Sabock 10 a.m.

Feb. 14 Feb. 22 Lafyette/ Alex Wilson Ryder Invitational Invitational 12:30 p.m.

Feb. 28 AAC Champ.

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March 1 AAC Champ.

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Alabama Coach Nick Saban discusses the signing day successes of 2014 at the Mal Moore Athletic Facility in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Wednesday. The Tide pulled in 27 recruits in a class that has been deemed the best in the nation.

Major college matchups for the weekend ahead

Women’s Track and Field Tomorrow Feb. 8 Feb. 15 New New Brown Balance Balance Invitational 9:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m.

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Feb. 28 AAC Champ.

9 a.m.

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March 1 AAC Champ.

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What's On TV Olympics: Snowboarding, Freestyle Skiing, Figure Skating 8-11 p.m., NBC The Winter Games in Sochi may not have their Opening Ceremony until Friday, but the competition kicks off Thursday in Russia.

Snowboarding events kick off with men’s and women’s slopestyle.

Freestyle skiing begins with women’s moguls. Figure skating opens with the team event.

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The television broadcast of each will be a tape-delayed replay made for primetime by NBC.

NHL: Boston Bruins vs. St. Louis Blues, 8 p.m., NBCSN The Bruins will look to continue their winning ways tonight when they take on the Blues on the road at the Scottrade Center.

Boston is coming off a 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Garden ice. The Bruins top line as been red hot as of late after Milan Lucic, David Krejci and Jarome Iginla scored five points agaisnt the Canucks.

The Bruins will be without their captain Zdeno Chara as he has left early to cary his country’s flag in the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former star pitcher turned television analyst Curt Schilling announced Wednesday that he is battling cancer.

The 47-year-old Schilling, who spent 20 years in the major leagues before retiring in 2009, divulged the news in a statement released through his employer, Bristol-based ESPN. It did not indicate what type of cancer Schilling has, when he was diagnosed or what his prognosis might be.

“With my incredibly talented medical team I’m ready to try and win another big game,” he said. “I’ve been so very blessed and I feel grateful for what God has allowed my family to have and experience, and I’ll embrace this fight just like the rest of them, with resolute faith and head on.”

ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys said Schilling is taking a leave of absence. He recently signed a multiyear contract extension with the network and was to be part of the “Sunday Night Baseball” broadcast team, as well as contribute to the network’s studio coverage, including its spring training coverage, Soltys said.

“Our thoughts are with Curt and his family during this challenging time,” the Bristolbased network said in a statement. “His ESPN teammates wish him continued strength in his cancer fight and we look forward to welcoming him back to our baseball coverage whenever he’s ready”.

Schilling played for five teams during his Major League career. He won three world championships, with the Arizona Diamondbacks (2001) and Boston Red Sox (2004, 2007), sharing the World Series MVP award with teammate Randy Johnson in 2001.

He won 216 games and struck out 3,116 batters during his career, but is perhaps best known for pitching in the 2004 ALCS and World Series after having stitches to mend an ankle injury. His bloody sock was later put on display in Cooperstown.

Schilling has been in the news recently after the failure of 38 Studios, a video game company he owned in Rhode Island, with the help of a $75 million state loan. The company went bankrupt last year, leaving Rhode Island taxpayers on the hook to pay back tens of millions of dollars.

Schilling said he invested and lost as much as $50 million.

This is not the first time he and his family have battled health issues.

Schilling recently revealed he suffered a heart attack in November 2011. His wife, Shonda, successfully battled melanoma in 2001.

His daughter, Gabby, took to Twitter Wednesday to ask for prayers for her father.

“So i guess the word is out, if everyone could just keep my dad and family in their prayers it would mean a lot!” she wrote.

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For the Weekend Shootaround, we take a gander at a few matchups this weekend that carry massive implications in regards to conference standings. Will Cincinnati remain perfect in the American Athletic Conference after playing UConn and SMU over the next couple of days? After dropping its first Big-10 decision of the year at Indiana on Sunday, can Michigan regroup on the road by beating a dangerous Iowa squad? Plus, it took a Doug McDermott buzzer-beater for Creighton to escape at home versus St. John’s just over a week ago. What do the Red Storm have in store for the return game on Sunday?

THURSDAY: No. 22 UConn at No. 7 Cincinnati (7:00, ESPN): For the second straight week, Cincinnati represents the first preview in the Weekend Shootaround Column.

If you recall, the Bearcats got 28 points out of star shooting guard Sean Kilpatrick—including an 11-11 performance at the charity stripe—at the KFC Yum! Center to take down what was a scorching-hot Louisville team. Cincinnati has no time to breathe, though, as they’ll play host to UConn on Thursday night before heading to SMU for a Saturday date. UConn, who climbed back into the polls after clobbering Houston 80-43 a week ago, will hopefully get back forward DeAndre Daniels (13.4 points per game, 48 percent from “3”), who has been fighting both back spasms

and a gimpy ankle. Expect a highly physical, grind-it-out affair, despite the fact that UConn and Cincy now compete in the Americana and not the Big East. This will come down to which star shines brighter down the stretch: Kilpatrick or Shabazz Napier (17.9 PPG, 6 rebounds per game, 5.7 assists per game).

SATURDAY: No. 10 Michigan at No. 17 Iowa (2:00, ESPN): We all know the backdrop for Michigan by now. The Wolverines have responded beautifully after losing All-American center Mitch McGary for the year, as Nik Stauskas (17.8 PPG, 2.5 made “3’s” per game) has all-too-coolly stepped into the role of go-to guy—which is absolutely fine with the more reserved Glenn Robinson III, by the way. UM fell victim to the Yogi Ferrell show on Sunday (Ferrell finished with 27 points on 7-8 shooting from behind the arc), as Stauskas had an off day (6 points on 1-6 shooting) and Michigan dropped its first conference tilt. A Final Four sleeper, UM will face another potential dark horse March candidate in the Hawkeyes. Iowa, whose offense usually flows as smoothly as a Kyle Korver jumper, shot 3-20 from deep in a setback to Ohio State earlier this week. Roy Devyn Marble, the team’s best player, was heckled by OSU’s Aaron Craft all night long— Marble somehow netted 11 points, but it took him 11 shots to do so.

Back in January, Michigan took down then-No. 10 Iowa 75-67 at the Crisler Center. Stauskas scored 26 in that one, and Iowa’s normally-

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Nebraska guard Nathan Hawkins, left, defends against Michigan forward Glenn Robinson III on Wednesday. The Wolverines travel to Iowa in one of the biggest matchups this weekend.

elite bench failed to show up (The Hawkeyes had only 8 bench points).

For Iowa to return the favor, they must keep Stauskas from going off and get better production out of Marble.

SUNDAY: No. 12 Creighton at St. John’s (7:00, Fox Sports 1): Creighton possesses the best player in the country in Doug McDermott (25.0 PPG, 7.1 RPG), the best frontcourt shooter in Ethan Wragge (has made 2 two-pointers and 78 threepointers this season), and features an offense that is second-to-none when it coms to freedom, sharing the ball, and efficiency. So would it be ludicrous to say that St. John’s might be the more talented squad in this Big East battle? No. Creighton (8-1 conference mark) may be the darlings of the league along with Villanova, but St. John’s (4-6 BE) has won five of six after a five-game losing streak.

The Red Storm gave Creighton all it could handle in a 63-60 outcome back on January 28th in Omaha, and probably would’ve pulled off the upset had it not been for McDermott’s (39 points, 15-26 FG, game-winning “3”) performance— a performance, that is, that may have sealed the envelope in the Player of the Year race. In SJU’s most recent win over Providence, junior D’Angelo Harrison (18.3 PPG, 2 “3’s” per game) scored 22 points, while JaKarr Sampson (12.7 PPG, 6.3 RPG, attended same high school as LeBron James) chipped in with 21 points and 7 boards. The Johnnies are extremely gifted, and they’re currently playing their best basketball of the season. I think I’m smelling a shocker at Madison Square Garden Sunday evening.

Michael.McCurry@UConn.edu

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Manning not defined by dud

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Huskies head to first-place Cincinnati for AAC showdown

By Mike Peng Senior Staff Writer

Erica Brancato The Super Bowl commercials were better than the game itself and that’s not saying much. I won’t go into details about the game because there was already way too much talk about why this game was so disappointing, but I will say one thing. I can’t help but wonder if Eli Manning was playing in place of Peyton.

I mean seriously, after that first bad snap leading to a safety and two first half interceptions, it was bringing back terrible memories of Eli and the Giants this season. Even the close-ups on Peyton’s face every time he messed up looked identical to the permanent confused and disappointed look Eli wore all season. As much as I love the Manning brothers, it was a hard game to watch. I felt bad for Peyton.

But now lets get to what I really want to talk about.

How old is too old to still play in the NFL? Along with many other fans, I was convinced that if Manning won the Super Bowl this year he would retire. He would go out on top and end his career with the best season almost any quarterback has ever had. But since that went terribly wrong, now what?

Manning is 37 years old and has gone through several major neck surgeries, which could have prevented him from playing football ever again. He struggled with bad ankle sprains for several weeks this season as well. He has proven that he’s never really down and out, but his body is going to take a lot more time to heal compared to his earlier years.

Although Manning insisted he would be coming back if his neck checked out in March, it may be a struggle at times if he chooses to stay.

Despite his injuries and age, its safe to say Manning is playing the best football of his life. You can’t deny that after coming back from a severe surgery no one expected him to break records and have the best season he’s had in his career.

The five-time MVP broke the single season record for touchdowns and yards thrown. He blew his competition out of the water. No other quarterback compared to Manning this season when it came to offense.

However, I give Manning three more years until I think it’s time to retire. He doesn’t want to pull a Brett Favre and stay for way too long in the league. Although Favre retired at 41, I think he was past his prime and tried to be greater than he could be at that age.

Plus, Manning is a solid 11 years younger than the oldest football quarterback, so he still has a way to go before he is officially way too old to play. George Blanda of the Oakland Raiders was 48 when he finally retired from the NFL. Blanda’s age really isn’t that old in real life, but for football I just can’t see how someone that age could play competitive football for that long and stay healthy for the season. The cutoff for playing too long is around 40 years old. I think anything past 40 is excessive, so Manning has a few more years under his belt.

» BRANCATO, page 9

No one expected the Cincinnati Bearcats to be in this position, undefeated through 10 games in the American Athletic Conference.

It was supposed to be a three-headed race between the defending national champion Louisville, Memphis and UConn. Cincinnati was picked to finish behind all three of them, at least that’s what the preseason coaches’ poll said.

Instead, the Bearcats are having the best start in 12 years at 21-2. They lead the American by 2.5 games and just earned 17-4, 5-3 their highest AP ranking under head coach Mick Cronin’s eightyear tenure there at No. 7 this week.

Both Louisville and Memphis tried taking down Cincinnati and failed. UConn will take its shot on Thursday, and they 21-2, 10-0 will do that as a ranked team for the Thurs., 7 p.m., first time since Jan. 8.

ESPN, Fifth Third After winning six of the last seven games, Arena UConn returned to the AP ranking this week at No. 22. The Huskies currently stand at 5-3 in the conference and four games behind the Bearcats, but they will get a chance to make up that ground when they visit Fifth Third Arena to JESS CONDON/The Daily Campus take on their first Top-10 team of the season.

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UConn’s Shabazz Napier comes off a screen against Houston in a game at Gampel Pavilion last Thursday. The Huskies travel to Cincinnati this evening.

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NBA deals to look for at trade deadline

By Eddie Leonard NBA Columnist

The NBA trade deadline is only two weeks away.

Organizations will have to decide in the next week if they want to fall into the buying, selling, or tanking, I mean rebuilding category. That being said, there are several possible trades that should be happening within the next couple weeks.

The Kings are the worst team in the West, but they should have the Miami Heat’s attention due to Miami’s lack of post presence. The size and toughness difference will be even more apparent in this year’s playoffs due to the Pacers picking up Andrew Bynum. Bynum will be able to help out when Hibbert gets in foul trouble. The Miami Heat should pursue the King’s DeMarcus Cousins for Chris Bosh. Cousins is underrated due to his attitude, but he would be able to shoot from the perimeter like Bosh, and more importantly, cover David West or Roy Hibbert in the post.

The Houston Rockets should have got rid of Omer Asik before they picked up Dwight Howard. Unfortunately they did not, and he got injured, which caused many teams to back off from him. The Rockets should have traded him for a big forward that can spread the floor.

Evan Turner would have been a perfect option since the Sixers have been trying to trade him.

The New York Knicks are not in the West, but they should have a priority to trade more than anyone else in the league. The Knicks are paying Amare Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony $23 million a piece for pitiful 19-29 record.

They should get rid of Carmelo Anthony and receive some sort of compensation for him before he leaves them like LeBron James left Cleveland. I am sure he is tired of seeing Wade, James, and Bosh, all members of the 2003 draft class making title runs, while he remains winless with Chris Kaman.

The Lakers should make up their mind if they are going to

trade Pau Gasol or not. It is not healthy for a team to have trade rumors almost as much as Kobe Bryant shoots, and that is saying something. The Lakers are tied for last in the West, with a solid chance of getting a Jabari Parker next season. If the Lakers want to rebuild for next season they should look into trading Gasol for Boston Celtics’ Jeff Green.

General Manager Danny Ainge is not afraid to pull the trigger, and Gasol would be a great fit in the pick-and-roll game with Rajon Rondo.

Despite popular belief, the Oklahoma City Thunder should not trade Russell Westbrook.

Although Westbrook took over 100 more shots than Kevin Durant last year and Durant is playing at a unstoppable level without him, it is not in the team’s best interest to trade him. The game tempo is slower in the playoffs. Yes, the Thunder whooped the two time reigning champs, but they hit 16 3-pointers, including two bank shots from Fisher. The

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Kings center DeMarcus Cousins reacts after getting hit in the side of the head duringa game against Chicago Monday. Sacramento should look to offload Cousins in a trade for Bosh.

last time the franchise hit 16 3-pointers, they were playing in Seattle.

The Timberwolves should try to surround Kevin Love with some weapons before he leaves them like the last Kevin did.

There is not much more Love can do. He is averaging 25 points and 13 rebounds. Love

becomes a free agent in 2015, Minnesota should surround him with players instead of tanking. If they were in the East, they would be one game out of fourth place, all hope is not lost as long as there is Love.

Edward.Leonard@UConn.edu

Midseason review: Best in the Eastern Conference

By Spencer Mayfield NBA Columnist With the All-Star break approaching, it is time to take a look at some of the best teams in what has been a disappointing year for competitiveness in the Eastern Conference. The following is a power ranking of teams in the East that are capable of competing for a title, so basically just Indiana and Miami.

1. Indiana Pacers: The Pacers have been off to a strong start this season and are the favorites to upset the Heat and win the conference.

Indiana is the best team in the conference because of their well-rounded approach. Larry Bird has done an excellent

job building this team and their team chemistry has been getting stronger by the game as they continue to believe they are the best team in the East. Budding superstar Paul George who is having the best year of his career highlights the Pacers. George leads the team in scoring with 22.7 points per game and has solidified his role as the team’s go-to guy when they need a bucket.

Another reason Indiana has made the leap into first place has been Lance Stephenson.

Stephenson seems to have finally figured out how to tap into his great potential and consistently play solid basketball. Stephenson who has four triple-doubles this season to lead the team, is also

statistically having the best year of his career. Stephenson is averaging 14.1 points per game along with 5.3 assists per game and 7.2 rebounds per game. Stephenson will play with a chip on his shoulder for the rest of the season after not making the All-Star Game, which will provide the edge the Pacers need. Finally, signing Andrew Bynum from free agency can improve the team in the playoffs. Indiana’s biggest advantage over Miami has been their size and if Bynum can at least be effective on the defensive end, Indiana should be able to finally defeat Miami in the playoffs.

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Indiana Pacers forward Paul George, center, grabs a rebound against the Nets Saturday.

The Pacers are the East’s best team as the NBA season gets toward the All-Star break.