The Daily Campus: February 7, 2012

Volume CXVIII No. 85

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Students continue video protest

By Loumarie Rodriguez Staff Writer

TACKLING THE WALL ST. DREAM Women at UConn take an executive stance.

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RED ALL OVER BLUE AND WHITE Cardinals crush Huskies as offense sputters again.

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Students came together on Fairfield Way yesterday afternoon to continue rallying against the perpetuation of “rape culture” and bring awareness about it to the student body, which began with the UCTV “Shenanigans” episode.

State Rep. Gregg Haddad (D-Mansfield-Chaplin), who serves on the Higher Education Committee, was present at the event and spoke to the crowd of students. He said that when legislation begins this Wednesday, a bill will be considered for universities statewide to improve school policies on dealing with sexual violence. This bill will demand universities to report campus data on sexual violence cases that take place. Haddad wants to make sure that campus crime does not go unreported, emphasizing the point to elim-

inate sexual violence. The bill will gain a number, which will be easier for people to track the progress of it online.

“I think when good people see something wrong they feel they have the moral obligation to take a stand,” Haddad said.

“These people took a stand and I want to take stand with them.”

In order to address the more underlying issues aside from the UCTV “Shenanigans” episode, students wanted to inform the public on the fact that there is not enough talk or actions taken on the issues of rape culture at UConn.

“I hope that the attention this UCTV video received will bring a light to what is going on,” said Brenna Regan, 8th-semester sociology and environmental justice major and co-president of Idealist United. “It’s important that we bring attention on these issues.”

Many students and people were asked to step up to speak about what needs to be done in

order to change the policies that UConn currently has on reporting sexual assault and how cases should be handled.

Some students at the rally expressed beliefs that the blue light emergency systems are not effective enough. There was also the matter of the need for more open conversation on the topic to help people understand that rape culture is not funny.

Another point brought up was the need to stop victim blaming as well.

Many people who spoke at the rally believe that there are a number of sexual assaults that go unreported, and many ideas were suggested such as requiring all freshmen to take a violence against women class.

Many students at the rally supported the idea of making this mandatory in the near future.

“I think this rally was a success no matter how many people came out for the event,” said Jessica Diaz, 6th-semester communication disorders major and

a TA for the Violence Against Women Prevention Program (VAWPP). “I hope we gain more support from the administration with the struggles we deal with and prevent this from happening again.”

Diaz said that the UCTV board agreed to a training course offered by VAWPP in order to get a better understanding of violence against women.

There is also a partnership in the making with UCTV in order to spread more awareness of the VAWPP issues and help regulate their shows to prevent offensive material.

Another student who spoke, Cindy Luo, emphasized the point that their protest against the UCTV clip was not to attack or limit their freedom of speech, but that the video can cause harm to those who have fallen victim to sexual assault and rape. Another student advocated bringing these issues to the upcoming USG meeting this Wednesday.

Cards fly away in second half

SPORTS/ page 14 EDITORIAL: STUDENTS SHOULD LEARN FROM, NOT CONDEMN, UCTV INCIDENT Students should not be so harsh on those involved in UCTV video.

COMMENTARY/page 4 INSIDE NEWS: ROMNEY WORKS TO FEND OFF SANTORUM CHALLENGE Romney and Santorum criticize each other as the election draws closer.

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Marine sergeant’s hazing trial delayed

KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii (AP) — The court martial for a Marine sergeant accused of hazing a member of his squad who later committed suicide in Afghanistan was delayed Monday after the prosecution said it wanted to add to its list of accusations against the defendant.

Military judge Col. Michael Richardson delayed the start of the trial so Sgt. Benjamin Johns' defense could hear details of the new allegation from the prosecution.

At the center of the case is how the squad responded to a tendency by Lance Cpl. Harry Lew to doze on duty.

The prosecution says some Marines hazed the 21-year-old by forcing him to dig a foxhole, do pushups, and carry sandbags for no other purpose than punishment. In

some cases, Marines allegedly punched and kicked Lew and poured sand in his face.

Prosecutors had already accused Johns, the leader of Lew's squad, of ordering Lew to dig a foxhole when Johns had no authority to punish a Marine in that way.

Doing that made Johns derelict of his duty to ensure the welfare of Marines under his care, they argued.

But Capt. Jesse Schweig on Monday told the court the government wanted to expand its case by saying Johns was also derelict for failing to prevent other Marines from punishing Lew by forcing him to carry sandbags around their patrol base.

Richardson allowed the amendment, so long as prosecutors outlined their argument to the Marine's defense team.

Tim Bilecki, Johns' civilian defense attor-

ney, said prosecutors added new allegations because they realized they "don't have a case."

"I think the government sees the wheels falling off on their case over the weekend, realizing they're going to have a heck of a tough time proving these charges, so they want to expand the criminality for Sgt. Johns the morning of trial," Bilecki told reporters outside court.

The court martial is due to begin with jury selection on Tuesday at a Marine base in Kaneohe Bay, the home of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, which the accused are assigned to.

Lew, of Santa Clara, Calif., was a nephew of U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., who has called for congressional hearings on the military's efforts to prevent hazing.

There was also talk to get support from other clubs and cultural centers such as the Rainbow Center, PRLACC and many more in order to eliminate rape culture. Women are not the only victims of sexual violence, and the rally highlighted the point that men also fall victim to it.

Logan Place, a 6th-semester political science major and an administrator for the Facebook group “UConn students Against Rape Culture,” said that the UCTV video was the last straw that has led to all the rallying against rape culture.

There will be future events and protests taking place to continue keep UConn students well informed on stopping the popularity of rape culture. More information on these rallies can be found on the Facebook groups “UConn Students Against Rape Culture” and “Protest of UCTV ‘Evil Blue Light.’”

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Audio recording law under scrutiny in Illinois SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Tiawanda Moore didn't think she was doing anything wrong when she took out her smartphone and started recording a conversation with two Chicago police officers she says were trying to stop her from filing a sexual harassment complaint against one of their colleagues two years ago.

Moore was promptly arrested and charged with violating a strict Illinois eavesdropping law that bars audio recordings unless all involved parties agree to it. Moore, then 20, spent more than two weeks in jail and faced up to 15 years in prison.

In Illinois, documenting life in the era of smartphones and YouTube can result in felony charges. The little-known law could draw more attention come May, when thousands of protesters and journalists are set to descend on Chicago for the NATO and G8 summits and someone unknowingly may try to record a clash with police.

Some state legislators say it's time to rewrite the law, which faces state and federal challenges. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has asked the state Supreme Court to address whether it is constitutional.

Lawmakers want to include an exception that allows people to record police as they are doing their jobs.

"I don't believe there is an expectation of privacy for public officials on public property doing public duties," said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Elaine Nekritz, D-Northbrook.

Most states allow anyone taking part in a conversation to audio record it, a policy known as one-party consent. A dozen states require both sides of a conversation to agree. Illinois has an unusual version of the second type, requiring all parties in a conversation to consent.

The law, enacted in 1961, only applies to recording conversations, so it is legal to record an event with the sound turned off or an event in the distance in which voices cannot be heard.

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and charged with disorderly conduct. Police responded to a report of a dispute in Garrigus Suites. Police found Brzoza to be involved. His bond was set for $1,000 and his court date is Feb. 6.

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Conn. shoreline preservation task force announced

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — State officials are creating a new task force to study the effects of weather and erosion on the Connecticut shoreline and its communities.

The bi-partisan task force, announced Monday, will be chaired

by East Haven Democratic Rep. James Albis, and include representatives and senators from coastal towns. Officials say it’s likely the task force also will include climate and land use experts. The group will be responsible for making recommendations to the state legislature in December, addressing issues faced by shoreline communities.

A member of the task force, North Haven Republican Sen. Leonard Fasano, says he supports the group’s long-term goals, but more needs to be done immediately to help shoreline communities.

Connecticut signs Mims to 2-year deal

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Sun has signed free agent Mistie Mims to a two-year contract.

The team made the announcement on Monday, but did not disclose the terms of the deal.

The 6-foot-3 forward out of Duke has played five seasons in the WNBA for the Houston Comets and Chicago Sky, but did not play in the league in 2011. She is currently averaging almost 20 points per game for Challes-Les-Eaux in the French League.

Coach Mike Thibault said Connecticut had been looking for another front-court player because Jessica Moore recently underwent arthroscopic surgery on her left knee and may miss the start of the season.

Conn. elections panel questioned in staff pick

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The State Elections Enforcement Commission continues to be mired in politics in its selection of an executive director.

The Republican leader of the state Senate wrote Monday to Stephen Cashman, chairman of the commission, asking him to clarify how appointing Michael Brandi of Hamden as executive director and general counsel is nonpartisan.

Sen. John McKinney of Fairfield said Brandi served as a Democratic Party official in Hamden and was a paid political appointee of a former Democratic mayor of the town.

Brandi and a spokesman for the commission did not return calls Monday afternoon seeking comment.

The commission had withdrawn its previous selection of Sebastian Guiliano, the former Republican mayor of Middletown. Democrats in the legislature urged the commission to make a different choice for the independent watchdog agency.

» NATION

Univision, Disney look at English news channel

MIAMI (AP) — Two sources say Univision and Disney are close to a deal to create a 24-hour news channel for Latinos in English.

Both sources, who are close to the deal, declined to go on the record Monday because they were not authorized to speak.

The channel would likely be broadcasting before the November presidential election.

Univision is the nation’s largest Spanish-language media company. The move comes in response to the 2010 census, which showed U.S. born Latinos were the fastest growing segment of the nation’s Hispanic population. That means in order to retain its audience, Univision must reach out to second and third-generation Latinos who speak English as their first language.

The proposed deal also reflects the growing efforts of mainstream media companies to target Latinos.

Murder trial of LA police detective begins

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former police detective Stephanie Lazarus was either a heartbroken, jilted lover driven to kill her romantic rival, or she was an innocent woman snared in a web of mishandled scientific evidence.

The contrasting portraits emerged Monday during opening statements at the murder trial of Lazarus.

Both sides said the proof of the cold case, which lingered for 26 years, would be in the forensic evidence. The science of DNA, developed in the years after the killing, could hold the key.

“A bite, a bullet, a gun barrel and a broken heart. That’s the evidence that will prove the defendant Stephanie Lazarus murdered Sherri Rasmussen,” Deputy District Attorney Shannon Presby told jurors in the crowded courtroom.

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Jan. 30 Leah M. Delorenzo, 19, of Terryville, was arrested at 4:31 p.m. on North Eagleville Road and charged with disorderly conduct. Police responded to a report of a domestic dispute in New London Hall. Delorenzo was arrested when police found her to be physically and verbally involved. Her bond was set for $1,000 and her court date was Jan. 31.

Joshua Diaz, 20, of Plymouth, was arrested at 4:31 p.m. on North Eagleville Road and charged with disorderly conduct. Police responded to a report of a domestic dipute in New London Hall.

Diaz was arrested when police found him to be physically and verbally involved. His bail was set for $1,000 and his court date was Jan. 31.

Eric S. Howe, 21, of Washington, was arrested at 11:49 p.m. on Hillside Road and charged with failing to have headlights lit and driving under

the influence. Police stopped Howe’s vehicle for failing to have its headlights lit and suspected him to be driving while intoxicated. They subjected him to sobriety tests, which he failed.

His bond was set for $500 and his court date is Feb. 7.

Feb. 2 Sean A. Weir, 21, of New Milford, was arrested at 1:16 a.m. on Route 275 and charged with failure to drive right, failure to drive in the proper lane and driving under the influence. Police saw Weir drive over the double yellow line and pulled him over. Police suspected Weir to be under the influence and subjected him to sobriety tests, which he failed.

His bond was set for $500 and his court date is Feb. 13.

Victoria K. Gospodinoff, 21, of Stamford, was arrested at 11:29 p.m. on Hunting Lodge Road and charged with failure to have headlights lit and driving under the influence.

Police stopped Gospodinoff’s vehicle, suspected she was under the influence and subjected her to sobriety tests, which she failed. Her bond was set at $500 and her court date is Feb. 13.

Feb. 3 Timothy J. Fabian, 23, of Norwalk, was arrested at 3:15 a.m. on North Hillside

Road and charged with driving under the influence and violating a stop sign. Police stopped Fabian’s vehicle, suspected he was under the influence and subjected him to sobriety tests, which he failed.

His bond was set at $500 and his court date is Feb. 13.

Feb. 4 Jose L. Sanchez, 25, of Willimantic, was arrested at 2:51 a.m. on Hunting Lodge Road and charged with possession of a controlled substance. Sanchez was a passenger of a car police pulled over.

After a brief investigation, Sanchez was found to be in possession of 28.6 grams of marijuana. His bond was set at $5,000 and his court date is Feb. 17.

Feb. 5 Jarrett J. Morris, 21, of Stamford, was arrested at 1:58 a.m. on Hunting Lodge Road and charged with failure to drive right, driving under the influence and traveling at an unreasonable speed. Police stopped Morris’ vehicle, suspected he was under the influence and subjected him to sobriety tests, which he failed.

His bond was set at $1,000 and his court date is Feb. 13.

Matthew R. Brzoza, 22, of Floral Park, N.Y., was arrested at 1:31 a.m. on Alumni Drive

Rigoberto JuarezRodriguez, 19, of Willimantic, was arrested at 1:01 a.m. on Hillside Road and charged with possession of a controlled substance. Police were investigating a suspicious vehicle in Y Lot and found Juarez-Rodriguez in possession of 2.93 ounces of marijuana. His bond for $2,000 and his court date is Feb. 14.

Emanuel Isidro, 19, of Willimantic, was arrested on Hillside Road and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to keep drugs in their original container and possession of narcotics. Police were investigating a suspicious vehicle in Y Lot. Police found Isidro in possession of an Oxycodone pill stored in an unmarked prescription bottle. He was also found in possession of a digital scale with marijuana residue on it. His bond was set for $5,000 and his court date is Feb. 14.

Michael G. Morra, 20, of Pleasantville, N.Y., was arrested at 11:31 p.m. on North Eagleville Road and charged with failure to obey a traffic light, driving under the influence and driving through a stop sign. Police saw Morra’s car drive through a stop sign at Hillside Road and Alumni Road and then drive through a red light on Hillside Road and North Eagleville Road.

Police suspected Morra was under the influence, subjected him to sobriety tests, which he failed. His bond was set at $500 and his court date is Feb. 13.

» OCCUPY MAINE

2nd wave of evictions sweeping away Occupiers

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A tent city that's among the longest-lived Occupy protest encampments is coming down as part of a new wave of eviction orders against demonstrators aligned with the movement in communities including Miami, Washington and Pittsburgh.

Occupy Maine demonstrators removed several large tents over the weekend, and the city on Monday gave them additional time to remove the rest.

Demonstrators who established the encampment just two weeks after the Occupy Wall Street encampment set up shop in New York City vowed to continue their work to call attention to corporate excess and economic inequality.

"Just because the occupation is changing form doesn't mean it's going away," Heather Curtis, one of the campers, said Monday before she started hauling away her belongings from snow-covered Lincoln Park.

The encampments that were the heart of the movement are becoming scarcer. On Monday, a judge issued what appeared to be the final notice for Occupy Pittsburgh to leave. Over the past week, police began removing demonstrators in Miami; Austin, Texas; and Washington, D.C. The voices are still making themselves heard, though.

On Monday, about 20 demonstrators disrupted a legislative budget hearing in Albany, N.Y., shouting that millionaires should be taxed more. Albany's camp was busted up in December.

Occupy Maine, which already has office space elsewhere in Portland, plans to continue getting its message out

through other means, as well.

"You can only fight for so long and you realize at the end that it's a new beginning," said Deese Hamilton, one of the four named plaintiffs in a lawsuit aiming to keep protesters in Lincoln Park.

Hamilton was homeless before joining with the Occupy protesters.

The campers were supposed to be out

by Monday morning, and they dismantled four to five communal tents over the weekend. But 16 tents remained Monday morning, and the city granted the group's request for more time, giving them until Friday to finish the cleanup.

There was little activity in the morning. But by the afternoon, several people were raking, and others were taking down tents.

"They've asked for this amount of time in order to remove the remaining structures, so we're taking them at their word," said Nicole Clegg, city spokeswoman.

Occupy Maine started up Oct. 1 with a protest in Portland's Monument square and set up in Lincoln Park two days later.

Throughout the frigid Maine winter, when temperatures have dropped below zero, protesters rotated in and out to keep a constant presence, with those in the park keeping the cold at bay by huddling in communal tents equipped with propane heaters.

At one point, as many as 70 tents were set up in Lincoln Park, but that number had dropped by the time a state judge last week declined to grant Occupy Maine's request for injunction to prevent the city from enforcing an eviction notice issued

Dec. 15.

Like in many other cities, Portland officials cited concerns about disturbances, public safety and sanitation at the park, which is supposed to close between 10 p.m. and 6:30 a.m.

In Portland, the demonstrators were largely peaceful. But some of the city's homeless moved in, along with associated problems of substance abuse and mental illness. Police said the number of calls to the park jumped after the demonstrators set up camp.

Most big occupy encampments — including the flagship at New York's Zuccotti Park and in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Oakland, Philadelphia and Portland, Ore. — were forcibly cleared late last year by officials who cited problems similar to Portland's.

In the first big wave of evictions, police acknowledged consulting and sharing information and tactics with colleagues elsewhere. The level of consultation this time around is not clear, although a Portland spokesman did acknowledge talks with officials in Bangor and Augusta, other Maine cities with an Occupy presence.

John Branson, attorney for Occupy Maine, argued that the Portland campers were demonstrating their rights to freedom of expression. He said campers will decide after they finish the cleanup whether they want to continue to pursue the lawsuit.

For now, they're concentrating on getting the park cleaned up, he said, and they plan to raise money to plant new grass and shrubbery in the spring.

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‘Halftime in America’ ad creates political debate

DETROIT (AP) — People rarely pick a fight with Dirty Harry. But Chrysler's "Halftime in America" ad featuring quintessential tough guy Clint Eastwood has generated fierce debate about whether it accurately portrays the country's most economically distressed city or amounts to a campaign ad for President Barack Obama and the auto bailouts.

The 2-minute ad holds up Detroit as a model for American recovery while idealistic images of families, middle class workers and factories scroll across the screen.

"People are out of work and they're hurting," the 81-year-old Eastwood says in his trademark gravelly voice. "And they're all wondering what they're gonna do to make a comeback. And we're all scared because this isn't a game. The people of Detroit know a little something about this. They almost lost everything. But we all pulled together. Now, Motor City is fighting again."

Conservatives, including GOP strategist Karl Rove, criticized the ad as a not-so-thinly veiled endorsement of the federal government's auto industry bailouts.

Others questioned basing a story of economic resurgence in a city that remains in fiscal disarray, with a $200 million budget deficit and cash flow concerns that have it fending off a state takeover.

But is it political? That depends on who you ask.

"I can't stop anybody from associating themselves with a message, but it was not intended to be any type of political

overture on our part," Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne told WJR-AM in Detroit. "You know, we're just an ingredient of a big machine here in this country that makes us go on."

Last year was a pivotal turnaround year for Chrysler, which nearly collapsed in 2009. The company and its financial arm needed a $12.5 billion government bailout and a trip through bankruptcy protection to survive. Chrysler has since repaid its U.S. and Canadian government loans by refinancing them, but the U.S. government says it lost about $1.3 billion on the deal.

The ad with Eastwood, who previously publicly slammed the auto bailout, follows a highly popular one that aired last Super Bowl featuring hip-hop star and Detroit-native Eminem driving a Chrysler 200 through stark city streets — and introduced the tagline "Imported From Detroit."

This time around, the focus was on faces and factories — far less on cars. Monday editions of USA Today came wrapped in a four-page ad that features Eastwood and images from the commercial. It also touts investments outside Detroit, specifically in Belvidere, Ill., where it's making the new Dodge Dart.

That ad notes the company is "doing our part to move America forward. To help win this country's second half for all of us."

"It was very powerful, not only for Detroit but for the country and also for Chrysler," said Allen Adamson, a man-

aging director at brand consulting firm Landor Associates Adamson. "Of all the three, Chrysler was the least likely to succeed, the least likely to survive the storm. And they have come out with potentially the strongest story."

Adamson also compared the spot to Ronald Reagan's "Morning in America" ad in 1984, which tried to capture a feeling of American optimism during his re-election campaign.

Reagan's ad showed images of people going to work, buying homes, and getting married in greater numbers.

Rove told Fox News on Monday that he was "offended" by Chrysler's ad, saying it amounted to "using our tax dollars to buy corporate advertising and the best-wishes of the management which is benefited by getting a bunch of our money that they'll never pay back."

Obama spokesman Jay Carney told the AP that the White House had no role in in the ad's production, but said it pointed out "a simple fact, which is that the auto industry in this country was on its back and potentially poised to liquidate three years ago."

"This president made decisions that were not very popular at the time that were guided by two important principles," Carney said. "One, that he should do what he could to ensure that one million jobs would not be lost and, two, that the American automobile industry should be able to thrive globally if the right conditions were created, and that included the kinds of reforms and restruc-

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A view of downtown Detroit looking north on Woodward Ave. Feb. 6. What exactly is Chrysler selling with the “It’s Halftime in America” Super Bowl ad, which aired during Super Bowl XVLI on Feb. 5?

turing that Chrysler and GM undertook in exchange for the assistance from the American taxpayer."

Eastwood, a fiscal conservative who is more liberal on social issues including gay marriage and environmental protections, has mixed with politics before. The former nonpartisan mayor of Carmel, Calif., who supported GOP presidential contender John McCain in 2008, told the Los Angeles Times last November that he can't ever recall voting for a Democrat for president but expressed admiration for California's Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown.

On Monday, he told Fox News he is "certainly not politically

affiliated with Mr. Obama."

"It was meant to be a message about just about job growth and the spirit of America," Eastwood said of the Chrysler ad. "I think all politicians will agree with it.

I thought the spirit was OK." Eastwood's longtime manager Leonard Hirshan told the AP that any stance Eastwood took on the auto bailout "has nothing to do with the commercial."

He said the actor donated his fee from the commercial to a charity in Monterey, Calif., near where he lives.

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing called Chrysler's ad a bit of positive public relations for a city that rarely pats itself on the back.

"I think the history in Detroit is one that is gritty. People have been down, but they get back up and they don't quit," Bing said.

"Chrysler, they've been down more than once and they have not quit and they've come back."

Analyst Bill Carroll of New York-based Katz Media called the ad effective American and industry boosterism.

"I don't know that I would consider it political, other than if being pro-American is political, then it's political," Carroll said. "If underscoring the fact that the auto industry has made a significant comeback and is bringing back manufacturing jobs to the U.S. is political, then so be it."

» POLITICS

Romney works to fend off Santorum challenge

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.

(AP) — Sensing a possible threat, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized rival Rick Santorum's time in the Senate as "not effective" because of his past support for spending on pork-barrel projects as he worked to fend off an unexpected challenge in the next states to vote.

Santorum countered that Romney "should not be our nominee" because he was "dead wrong on the most important issue of the day" when, as governor, he signed a health care overhaul into law in Massachusetts.

The two sparred from afar one day before Republicans in Colorado and Minnesota hold nominating caucuses, the latest contests in what's become almost a plodding race for the GOP nomination compared to the rapid-fire campaign of last month.

Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul also are competing but neither was expected to have a breakout performance in either state.

Romney, who won both states four years ago, hopes to extend his winning streak though advisers acknowledged that a first-place finish would be more likely to come by in Colorado than in Minnesota. The Republican Party in Minnesota has become more conservative in recent

years and Santorum's strong conservative positions on social issues could resonate with the state's strong contingent of evangelical voters.

Santorum, a Catholic, has a strong anti-abortion record and consistently focuses on the issue. Romney, who once supported abortion rights, has struggled to win over those voters.

But in a sign that he's trying to do just that, Romney's campaign on Monday rolled out a petition focusing on religious liberty. The move was intended to challenge a recent Obama administration decision to require hospitals to distribute free birth control, a policy at odds with the religious teachings followed at many Catholic health care facilities.

Romney said the policy forced Catholics to distribute "abortive pills."

Clearly mindful of the shift in Minnesota, Santorum has been working that state and conservative areas of Colorado aggressively in the past two weeks while Romney campaigned in Florida and Nevada and scored back-to-back victories. It was clear Monday that Santorum saw an opportunity to rise in the GOP race.

In an appearance across the street from the highly regarded Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Santorum assailed Romney with gusto and said

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that making him the nominee would be "a devastating thing" for Republicans who want to see President Barack Obama lose in the fall.

He also complained that Romney was running an attack machine — and turning it on him. "Any time someone challenges Gov. Romney, Gov. Romney goes out and instead of talking about what he's for ... he just simply goes out and attacks and tries to destroy," Santorum said.

To squelch any rise by Santorum, Romney's campaign spent the second day in a row holding a round of conference calls hosted by surrogates and issuing a spate of news releases accusing Santorum of seeking earmarks when he represented Pennsylvania in the Senate.

Romney, himself, weighed in during an interview with WCCO radio in Minneapolis, saying of Santorum: "His policies are, in my view, those of many Republicans in Congress who went along with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling, to allowing earmarks and to growing the size of federal government to a level that is frankly choking off the capacity of our economy to grow at the rate it should."

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The state is unpredictable given its small, conservative electorate with a strong evangelical Christian component. And even though Romney won in Minnesota four years ago, advisers point out that he ran as the conservative alternative to John McCain, who then was the frontrunner and eventually became the nominee in 2008.

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Asked if he expects to win in Minnesota, Romney told WCCO radio, "I sure hope so."

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As he had earlier in the day, Romney emphasized the "protection of life" as a core American value during the portion of his usual campaign speech that focuses on America's national hymns.

He planned to spend caucus day in Colorado. Before leaving the high school gymnasium, he made a final appeal: "Don't forget to caucus! I need every vote."

Gingrich, who also campaigned in Colorado on Monday, attacked Romney's record in Massachusetts and said he "basically accommodated liberal Democrats." He added that Romney isn't a person "who goes in there with a force of will" to change the status quo.

Gingrich has little organization in any of the states that vote this week and is instead looking ahead to the spate of Southern states that vote on Super Tuesday, March 6.

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Students should learn from, not condemn, UCTV incident

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ast week, many members of our campus spoke up to express their disapproval of a video skit produced by students and shared through UCTV. In emails, online groups, public discussions, published works and other mediums, community members expressed their negative reactions to the video’s dismissive attitude toward rape and shared how they felt the situation should be handled.

Some said that they felt the students responsible should be expelled. Others maintained that UCTV was condoning the views expressed in the video by allowing it to be shown. Still, others expressed a desire to pull all funding from the group, shutting it down completely. At times, the comments reached levels of obscenity that rivaled the content they criticized.

But condemning the group in its entirety or personally attacking its members is not the way to encourage change. The only way we can move forward as a campus is to engage in a constructive and civil conversation that encourages understanding on all sides and allows for the personal and professional growth of all involved.

Student-run media groups have an unparalleled level of responsibility. Student media groups are held to the same standards as professional media groups and expected to produce the same quality content with just a fraction of the resources, oversight and experience. By design, student media groups are petri dishes; they serve as a place for students to learn and develop their skills, all under the watchful eye of the public. But like all individuals and organizations, sometimes student media groups must learn from our mistakes. While other student groups have the liberty of making their mistakes in private, the mistakes of student media are broadcast throughout the state, delivered to thousands of eager eyes around campus or posted on the Internet for all to see.

This is not a problem limited to UCTV, or even to this campus.

Recently, Suffolk University’s student newspaper, The Suffolk Journal, received negative attention for a headline that contained an obscenity. The space had been filled with the obscene “dummy text” before the final content was chosen and, in this case, the obscene headline managed to escape the eyes of the editors and make it to the print edition. It was a mistake – another instance of a temporary lapse in judgment and the system didn’t catch it.

When these errors happen, as they inevitably do, the organization should be given the opportunity to fix the error before it is condemned. In taking the video down and issuing an apology, UCTV has recognized that the content of the video was offensive.

They have stated that they are actively working to revise their policies to prevent further issues and they have opened the lines of communication with their constituents. Their reaction shows an understanding of the situation, an acceptance of responsibility and a willingness to grow and change as a result. As President Susan Herbst said in a statement after the video was removed, when “a healthy discussion is taking place… that’s not a bad outcome.”

We, as student media, cannot anticipate every possible way that our systems might fail, but when they do, we can work toward revising it to prevent further issues. No student media group can say with absolute certainty that our content won’t offend someone, but we can all strive to educate our members to prevent further insensitivity. We can’t promise that we won’t make mistakes, but we can vow to learn from them. As students, and as student-run groups, we are always learning. We all deserve the chance to make up for our mistakes and to prove that we are capable of growth and change, student media groups included.

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Video shows need for educational overhaul

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ecently, a video went up on The Huffington Post showing American high schoolers’ inability to answer basic civics questions. Over the course of the video, we find out that there are either 51, 52 or 53 stars on the flag for each state in the nation. There are no democratic candidates for the 2012 election. Independence was gained in the Civil War. Either Sarah Palin, George Bush, Bill Clinton or Bin Laden is the vice president.

South America is a country that borders the United States.

Canada is a state.

While these glimpses into the intellect

By Michelle Anjirbag of the American Weekly Columnist teenager might not be reflective of the whole, they should still be enough to scare every academic, every politician and every educator. Every parent should drop what they are doing and invest in flashcards, pull their children and teenagers from their extracurriculars and play-dates, and mandate at least an hour a day as family study time.

This performance is absolutely terrifying to me. To have high school students unsure of the number of stars on a flag, and therefore, the number of states in the union, is absolutely deplorable – especially after all the fuss that has been made about standardized testing and not letting any child get “left behind.” When my sister and I were growing up, my mom had multiple decks of general knowledge flashcards, which we were drilled in before starting

kindergarten all the way through middle school.

She did this as a single, working mother who was raised in another country altogether. For her, educating her children was a priority, as was ensuring that they had a strong foundation of knowledge regarding their identity as citizens of a certain country.

The foundation I was given was only built up further in school. We held our own presidential elections in elementary school. We debated relevant topics as well as recreated historical debates and trials in middle school. In high school, my freshman year history class took me from an in-depth examination of Ancient Rome all the way through the present day (at that time) in American history. We had a foundation from which we understood the importance of American history in the grand scheme of the world, and we understood the many traditions and philosophies that led to existence of the United States as it exists today. Taking tests meant more than spitting back dates, it meant understanding the lessons from the past and applying that knowledge to the present.

And while the creator of the video does mention at the end that these students were caught off-guard and out of a classroom, I still find this performance deplorable. This is not just history – this is the foundation of understanding what it means to live in a democratic country and what it took to establish this country. It is a problem that directly impacts the future of American economics and society in general.

Every administrator and politician looks to how American students compare internationally in terms of math and general reading, and then sanctions funding availability based on performance on standardized testing. Clearly they are all wasting their time, energy, breath and money. Obviously, the system is failing, unless

the measure of success is how much money the testing agencies are making. Education, not testing, not rankings, nor anything else, needs to become the byword of American growth – everything else will follow. After all, teenagers cannot become educated voters when they do not even know, automatically and without thinking in a certain setting, how many states are in the U.S. They cannot make informed decisions regarding their representation when they do not know if a party is fielding a candidate, or even what events precipitated America becoming an independent nation. They cannot understand America in the global sense when they do not know what countries share the American border. These are basic facts. These are the failures that should be signaling to the rest of the country that for the last five years, educational policy has been spotlighting the wrong things and attempting to tape over the wrong problems.

American educational overhaul needs to happen soon, and it needs to be extremely effective. Don’t just sit back and hope that things will change; find the video and send it to your representatives. Find your own examples of where the system is failing, and make your representatives aware of those as well. The only way to fix the problem is to draw attention to it, and demand it be fixed before we all fall through the massive intellectual sinkhole upon which every institution of American education currently rests.

Weekly Columnist Michelle Anjirbag is an 8th-semester English major with a creative writing concentration and an anthropology and indigenous studies double minor.

She can be reached at Michelle.Anjirbag@UConn.edu.

Social media distills Obama’s clout and message

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he power that a message can have depends on the message itself, not on how it is conveyed. One does not need to advertise in appealing ways to get the attention of others, especially if they make others look like an amateur.

“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” recently had Michelle Obama as a guest. During the show, DeGeneres and Obama did pushups together. As entertaining and impressive as it was to watch, it was also discomforting knowing that the presiBy Fariya Naz dent’s wife was Staff Columnist on the floor of some television set doing pushups for the tens of millions of Americans who watch the show.

Obama also appeared on a teen sitcom called “iCarly.” Although watching Nickelodeon is a great way to kill time, it is not what one should watch when he or she wants to see the First Lady address her fellow Americans.

Celebrity appearances are done by movie stars and other people with a cause who do not already have a solid platform to speak from. The First Lady does not need to cheapen her appearance on a show when she can be advocating her beliefs in a more appropriate, professional way.

Nothing is wrong with her message; it is how she is saying it that

makes it less important. When people search on YouTube for “Michelle Obama on ‘iCarly,’” they will not be seeing what she has to say – they are only going to see her dancing randomly. One of her lines on the show is “let the governor wait – come on, let’s go do ‘iCarly.’” She is blowing off her responsibility as the First Lady to play around with some kids. Is this the kind of figure we want representing us to others?

As the President’s wife, Obama should not appear in such a lax fashion to the youth. This in itself sends the wrong message. She has the authority to endorse any message and be listened to. A fine line must exist between the higher ups of this country and the rest of us. Understandably, even the highest authoritative figure is a person too; however, if he or she becomes “human” to the rest of us, then his or her message or even job might be compromised. When children watch a show, they are in a phase. A show that is “cool” one day will probably be “lame” the next. With this in mind, if Michelle Obama appears on a cool show today, then by appearance she becomes cool. When the show inevitably becomes uncool tomorrow, so too will she and her message.

The once priceless value of Michelle Obama can now be seen as tainted with the fail that is the show she appeared on.

The First Lady should not be associated with a fad, moreover, she should also not appear like a celebrity to the younger audience. The President and his wife should be listened to because they are whom we have chosen to be the head of state and government. They are supposed to set an example by remaining above us. If they were at our level, we would respect them less and their message would not feel as important. The youth will have more respect for Obama if they see her as the “First Lady” and not as the “guest star” on some television show. She has more power under her title, and she does not need to seek other avenues to reach out to people because what she says as an actor on a show is not nearly as important as what she can say as Michelle Obama, the First Lady.

Obama also made a Twitter account. Many celebrities have Twitter accounts, and that is their domain for a good reason.

Celebrities exist because of their fan base, and they need a way to stay in touch with their source of income. At first, Twitter seems like a good idea even for political figures to raise awareness about topics, but eventually it just seems like too much information.

Tweeting will actually be twice as hard for her because unlike the rest of us, she has to make sure to sound politically correct and keep that spell checker on, along with

making sure her words are grammatically sound. Political figures like Michelle Obama must have something more important to do than tweet messages on Twitter.

The more she puts herself out there, the more likely she will err, thus costing her reputation. She does not need approval ratings because she is not the one running for office, her job is secure. Even if her husband loses the election, she can continue to work for her set causes.

If she has to say something, she should find a more reputable stage to speak from. Then, her message will not be compromised because of her means of conveyance. Michelle Obama is supposed to set an example by getting involved in a few projects and doing her part, but she does not need to stoop to a lower level to do that. The privacy in her life is already so limited that she should not want to expose herself further.

Michelle Obama needs to realize that they may be different shades of lime, but she, along with many historically important American women, share the light.

Even if the light is dim, eyes are always going to be on her, so she must represent herself in the best, most timeless manner possible.

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

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Candidacy tests Mexico's Romania's government culture of machismo collapses after protests MEXICO CITY (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mexico's conservative ruling party is gambling that this country known for machismo is ready for a female president and have chosen a devout Roman Catholic and popular former congresswoman who says she sympathizes with the causes of the poor.

Josefina Vazquez Mota, a 51-year-old economist, became the first female presidential candidate from any of Mexico's major parties late Sunday when she convincingly won the National Action Party's primary.

Her victory marks a milestone for women in Mexico, a country where they were not allowed to vote until 1953. The first female governor did not take office until 1989. Only a handful have been elected since.

National Action hopes Mexico is ready to follow in the footsteps of Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile and other Latin American countries that have elected female leaders recently.

Vazquez Mota, who is still married to her high school sweetheart, won national attention after publishing a 1999 book titled "God, Please Make Me A Widow," which is described as a call to women to stop being afraid of developing their potential.

She has said she wrote the book based on her own experience after she went to work instead of staying home to raise her three daughters, defying the role she was expected to fulfill.

Vazquez Mota told El Universal newspaper in an interview published Monday that she has experienced Mexico's machismo first hand during her campaign.

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strual cramps?'" she told the newspaper. "I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender."

Born in Mexico City on Jan. 20, 1961, Vazquez Mota was educated at some of the country's more costly private universities and graduate schools, then worked as a financial consultant and business columnist for several years.

The fourth of seven siblings, she grew up in a middle class, traditional family. She is mar-

ried to businessman Sergio Ocampo, who was her first boyfriend.

A religious woman, she asked PAN members to go to church first Sunday and then go vote for her. But she is not a typical conservative.

She told El Universal that she is sympathetic with Liberation Theology, which advocates activism on behalf of the poor, and admires slain Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, whose fight for the poor during El Salvador's bloody civil war made him a national hero.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Romania's government has collapsed following weeks of protests against austerity measures, the latest debt-stricken government in Europe to fall in the face of raising public anger over biting cuts.

Emil Boc, who had been prime minister since 2008, said Monday he was resigning "to defuse political and social tension" and to make way for a new government. Thousands of Romanians took to the streets in January to protest salary cuts, higher taxes and the widespread perception that the government was not interested in the public's hardships in this nation of 22 million.

President Traian Basescu quickly appointed Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu, the only Cabinet member unaffiliated with a political party, as interim prime minister to serve until a new government is approved.

Basescu also nominated Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, the head of Romania's foreign intelligence service, as the country's new prime minister and asked him to form a Cabinet. Parliament must approve Ungureanu and his ministers in 60 days, or the legislature will be dissolved and new elections held.

Boc's party and his allies still have a majority in Parliament, but opposition parties late Monday called for Basescu to

resign and for early parliamentary elections to be scheduled now.

In a brief statement Ungureanu, a former foreign minister, said his priority as prime minister would be "the economic and political stability of Romania." He is considered a loyal ally of Basescu and proAmerican in his outlook.

But the opposition said it opposes Ungureanu and that it will continue the boycott of Parliament it began last week.

"We are not going anywhere with this new government," said Crin Antonescu, head of the opposition Liberal Party.

Boc's resignation came as Romania is starting to feel the effects of the widespread cuts that the government put in place in exchange for a euro20 billion ($26 billion) loan from the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the World Bank in 2009, to help pay salaries and pensions after its economy shrank by more than 7 percent.

In 2010, Boc's government increased the sales tax from 19 percent to 24 percent and cut public workers' salaries by a quarter to reduce the budget deficit.

Jeffrey Franks, the head of the IMF mission to Romania, said Sunday he is confident that economic reforms the fund demanded in exchange for the loan would continue, even if

the current government steps down.

On Monday, Boc urged the nation's feuding politicians to elect a new government quickly.

He said he had taken "difficult decisions thinking about the future of Romania, not because I wanted to, but because I had to."

Christian Mititelu, a political commentator and former head of the BBC Romanian service, said: "There is a lot of resentment. The austerity measures seem to have penalized those who worked for the state, retirees and people who depended on social security."

Political commentator Radu Tudor said Boc's resignation was merely a ploy by the president to boost the election chances of the governing Democratic Liberal Party, which Basescu used to lead, by getting rid of an unpopular government.

Basescu was elected president in 2004 and his mandate expires in 2014. Parliamentary elections are currently scheduled for November.

Romania's problems go deeper than its economic woes.

Strong hostility between the government and opposition parties is reflected daily in the media. Opposition politicians and journalists who are critical of the government claim they are harassed.

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Tackling the Wall St. dream Women at UConn take an executive stance

By Purbita Saha Focus Editor There are multiple student-led, business organizations at UConn.

But there is only one that specifically espouses the rise of women in the business world.

Women in Business encourages students at UConn to build their entrepreneurial presence and experience self development, said Vice President of Administration Yesha Doshi, an 8th-semester accounting major. The group works under a relaxed but informative atmosphere, she said, and has been molded to be a social club where all the members can get to know each other.

“We want everyone who is a part of Women in Business to feel a sense of ownership and attachment to the organization,” said President Gina Dai, an 8th-semester accounting major. Dai said that she believes in collaborating with the members, rather than having the executive board preach to them on a weekly basis. She and the other officers plan timely events during the course of the semester to create a channel of interactivity between UConn students and women in commerce. For example, last year the group hosted a mocktail night with a panel of former business majors who shared their internship stories with the club.

According to Doshi, the students were much more honest than the recruiters that most companies send. She said the event was particularly illuminating to those who find it intimidating to compete for internships and be a minority in the field.

Linda Van, an 8th-semester psychology major, said that the executive board also communicates with professional women from the community to set up small-scale lectures. Such individuals lead discussions on topics such as how to attain a post as a higher executive or

how to balance a successful career with family life.

Sometimes the guest lecturers will reach out to Women in Business directly; other times they will be recruited through faculty or personal connections. “Our contacts grow as people come in. I have a stack of business cards that keeps getting bigger and bigger,” said Anila Bakullari, an 8th-semester healthcare management major.

According to her, networking is an integral tool for the group.

Furthermore, the club participates in Women’s Center workshops that focus on leadership and the eradication of stereotypical gender roles. In the future it intends to volunteer with Hartford-based organizations. Dai said that she is currently in contact with a refugee organization that wants the members to come to the capitol to help the immigrants with their English and dialogue skills.

Women in Business welcomes everyone to attend its functions.

Members who take part in four events each year receive a certificate in “Women’s Professional Development.” Additionally, 6thsemester communications major Taylor Ansbro said that the club is a major résumé booster because it is such a unique and active entity.

On Sunday, Women in Business will be holding the “Suit to Impress Fashion Show” in the Rome Ballroom. Volunteers will be donning clothes from Gap, Island Time and Emma Graham Designs during the event, which will go from noon to 2 p.m. The purpose of the exhibition is to showcase the dos and don’ts of professional apparel. “Self-image is important not only in the business world but in any environment,” Dai said. “We want to define business-casual for UConn students and show them how you can be girly and sophisticated at the same time.”

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“Inception” from everything minus the technical categories.

The list goes on.

However, in a cinematic era as tumultuous as the present day, record low cinema attendances a testament to the current financial crisis, it is perhaps unsurprising that the Academy is seeking comfort in the nostalgic clutch of traditional cinematic tropes: the cheery, classy, harmless affair of Hazanavicius’ “The Artist,” the furrowed brow of George Clooney in “The Descendants “and, most tellingly, the amiable smile and charm of longstanding Academy vanguard Billy Chrystal, captaining the ship for his ninth time.

Yet, more than a sense of caution, this demonstrates a basic reluctance to progression. The tentative steps taken in previous years - are as evidenced by the misguided gamble on the Franco/Hathaway partnership last year - now bluntly abandoned. Recent history has proven – the frail fate of MGM, the now deceased UK Film Council that unless media institutions are willing to evolve then they will suffer. The same is true of Hollywood and, as BAFTA is proving in Britain, the Academy is paramount in creating the more progressive attitude demanded by film fans everywhere.

“I’m getting a little sick of seeing the Academy hiding in it’s shell,” says Rohan Mehra, a 6th-semester economics student from the University of

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Barstool fans crowd XL Center to Movie critics demand for bask in black lights and heavy bass Academy to be more brazen Barstool Sports started as just a free 4-page Boston newspaper and gained following as a website and is now popular with universities across the country. This past weekend, Barstool made it’s mark on UConn.

Saturday Night, the Hartford XL Center was bombarded with neon trucker hats, black light painted t-shirts, and glow sticks. The eyebrows on the Hartford police’s faces, as well as the concern of XL security, rose simultaneously. Thousands of UConn students and other college students from Hartford-area schools filed in with more enthusiasm than has been seen by the venue since last year’s basketball season.

Barstool Sports is scheduled to continue with their Blackout Tour through April. The startup company emerged from the work of David Portnoy, who writes under the name El Presidente and through social networking and master marketing, has become much more.

Before the event Paul Gulczynski and John Feitelberg, marketing representative and writer, respectively, from Barstool Sports said they have been traveling with the tour, working on the marketing and production of the tour. Feitelberg said this definitely qualifies as his “dream job.”

“I have a great work envi-

Childhood is more than a picture book

Starting in elementary school and lasting throughout my middle school career, part of my school day consisted of DEAR or as it was later called, SSR. DEAR was an acroynm for Drop Everything And Read and SSR was for Sustained Silent Reading. During this time, everyone would read a book they brought from home or a book that was part of the school library. This was probably my favorite part of my school day as a child. While reminiscing about what was once part of my daily life – and wishing that I had as much free time now to read as I did then – I remembered some books that were popular in the late 90s and 2000s when I was growing up and decided to investigate what happened to those popular books and their authors.

First published in 1992, the “Magic Tree House” series was a childhood favorite for many. I always remember seeing these books in the library and noticing the vast number of books that were in the series. Today, there are a total of 48 “Magic Tree House” books. They are still being written as frequently as they were when I was growing up, with one published on December 27, 2011 and one being released on July 24, 2012. In 2001, the books branched off into a separate series called “Merlin Missions”.

This newer extension of the series is different than the original books. Now, the books are much longer and complex than the original “Magic Tree House,” books but still feature characters Jack and Annie. Keeping in touch with modern technology, the books’ website features games based off of the books for readers to play.

Barbara Park, author of the “Junie B. Jones” series has also continued to write new adventures for her protagonist, just like Osborne has. Today, there are currently 27 books in the series. I remember reading Junie B. Jones’ stories that were narrated when she was in kindergarten but I was too old for the stories when the “Junie B. Jones First Grader” books were published. This year is the 20th anniversary of the original book, “Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus.” The anniversary will be celebrated with a special full color edition of the book, instead of the usual black and white illustrations.

Remember “Captain Underpants?” The hero in author Dav Pilkey’s illustrated children’s books, “The Adventures of Captain Underpants Series?” When I look back at this series, I find it funny to remember how something so ridiculous was so successful. Pilkey is has also continued to write these silly but amusing books. However, some people may not be happy about this. “The Captain Underpants” series have been on lists of the top ten challenged books in 2001, 2004, and 2005 according to the American Library Association. They have continued to be challenged since then but not nearly as much as those years. Pilkey’s newest books are the long awaited “Super Diaper Baby 2”, published almost ten years after the original book was published and the “The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future.”

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ronment and I work with great people,” Feitelberg said. Michigan Ann Arbor was his favorite show so far, but he said they have all been great.

The Barstool Blackout tour, originally scheduled to appear in Willimantic in October, was cancelled for reasons including weather and “production issues.”

With high anticipation, the event finally made its way back to UConn, in a larger venue than originally planned. The original event was planned to be at the Lucky Frog in Willimantic.

The final product was executed more or less as expected. The event itself ran from about 9:30 p.m. until around midnight. The venue seemed to be a bit too big for the event. The dance floor was barely half full although the event was sold out. The music at many times failed to be loud enough for the size of the crowd and there was a deficiency of blacklights for an event which called itself a “blacklight party.”

“I’ve been to a lot of events like this,” said Jessica Boris, a fourth-semester journalism major. “And Barstool can’t really compare to concerts like Avicii on New Year’s.”

On the other side of the same coin, the music selection was good, including Avicii, Skrillex, David Guetta, and other popular DJ’s. The energy of the event was also undeniably contagious. “I wasn’t originally planning on going, and I actually had a lot of fun,”

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said Christine Fleck, a 4thsemester psychology major.

The Blackout Tour has been provided an extra push from protestors, who find the website demeaning to women. With such contests as “Smokeshow,” and the promotion of explicit behavior at Blackout events, over 200 protestors made their voices heard about their opposition last week. Protestors argued on the platform condemning “rape culture” and the objectification of women by the website and associated events. All that is left is the awaited and infamous YouTube video that follows each of Barstool’s events, which manage to pick out the most explicit behavior at each of these events for the entirety of the internet world to see.

Overall, the event went off without a hitch. Selling out twice and exhibiting a high attendance. The XL Center was the place to be Saturday night, and it is safe to say many in attendance would agree. Barstool Blackout is a notable contender in the currently dominant market for large dance parties, like DayGlow and Foam ‘N’ Glow, both of which are coming to the XL Center within the next few months.

Even through the controversy, El Presidente is definitely doing something right, and this successfully marketed event is one to watch as it finishes out its tour.

Holly.Wonneberger@UConn.edu

By Zachary Fox Campus Correspondent The Oscars, more so than the other awards ceremonies clogging the winter television schedule, have been annually ridiculed as old-fashioned in its attitude to modern cinema.

2012 is no different.

Set to take place on February 26, the newest batch of nominations serves to highlight the frequent lament that the Academy are fast falling out of favor with a rapidly developing cosmopolitan audience.

Also, they are actively working towards the archaic plateau traditionally valued above the blockbuster shtick all too frequently ignored. In the words of Guardian reporter Jason Solomons, ‘what the Oscar nominations evidence is the entrenched lines now drawn in Hollywood between the blockbusters, franchises and multiplex fillers.”

The most nominated films of the year, Hugo, The Artist and War Horse, while affirmably part of the upper echelon of cinema in terms of critical and financial statistics, together form a triumvirate of cinematic ideals seemingly utilized by the Academy to justify the omission of truly modern cinema. It is an attitude that has been illustrated time and again, from the total lack of acknowledgment for Hitchcock (in his time a controversial moviemaker), to the shortchanging of “Pulp Fiction up against the far more conventional “Forrest Gump” and, more recently, the omission of

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Political ad A classic American tale with French flair spurs debate

By Joe O’Leary Senior Staff Writer

“The Artist” is a movie that reminds us of why we love movies. No one would have expected a silent film to be made in 2011, yet not only does “The Artist” overwhelmingly succeed, it thrives. Without relying on the tricks developed through nearly a century of sound in cinema, it must survive on its own merits. It does so wonderfully.

The film tells the story of George Valentin (played by Frenchman Jean Dujardin), the king of the silent movie, as his career peaks in 1927. As his latest silent film is released to rave reviews, Valentin’s boss shows off some brand new technology to him – they’ve discovered how to make talking pictures. Valentin assumes the new tech is a fad and is quickly left behind after it succeeds, with things only getting worse as the Great Depression begins.

Not only is “The Artist” a reverent depiction of a classic silent film, it’s meta enough to be about the classic conflict of silent vs. talking film. Allowing for a few tricks, most notably an excellent sequence in which Valentin has a nightmare full of deafeningly

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Silent movies are back in fashion thanks to ‘The Artist.’ The film features two French actors, one as a struggling star on his way out of Hollywood, the other a rising starlet on her way to the top. Many critics have predicted that ‘The Artist’ will take the Oscar gold this year.

man. He mugs for the camera when he needs a joke, and when he doesn’t need one,

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“Shrek” is a film that’s far less original than it thinks it is. The only thing that it has going for it is the role reversal of the traditional fairy tale, which is weak. The characters are standard fare and run on the voice actors. The story is supposed to be a parody, but it often can’t seem to decide if it is or not. The romance plot contains all of the basic clichés: characters initially hating each other, a verbal misunderstanding and the interruption of a wedding. The morals are basic, the jokes are basic and there isn’t a single song in the film that is original. “Shrek” doesn’t contain anything I would call bad; it just contains nothing I would call good.

Underrated: Watership Down (1978)

So much can go wrong when adapting a book to film, especially one like “Watership Down,” but in this case, all of the right decisions were made.

The premise is well established, the story is polished and the movie flows perfectly. The enormous cast is flawlessly balanced.

I have never seen a better application of animation for both atmosphere and storytelling.

The two combine to create an emotional, mesmerizing effect that places viewers in the mind of the rabbits. The screenplay is intelligent, mature and wasn’t afraid to push the boundaries for animated features at the time.

“Watership Down” is considered a literary classic and the same should be said about the film.

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loud sound effects, the film is otherwise silent, which means its actors must succeed without the usual tool of speech.

Of course, they do so very well. Dujardin is perfect to play the strong, silent leading

he’s impressively expressive.

He portrays Valentin with frequently-evaporating hubris as his career sputters.

Dujardin doesn’t have to carry the film, either. His supporting cast is just as strong as

he is. French actress Berniece Bejo, plays the young actress Peppy Miller, who is catapulted to fame by Valentin’s generosity. John Goodman as Valentin’s boss and even “A Clockwork Orange” star Malcolm McDowell, show up for a few minutes.

The wonderful thing about the “The Artist” is that as a silent film, it’s a throwback to the classics and was made with clear respect and admiration for the genre. Every shot matters, and director Michael Hazanavicius doesn’t waste a second of film. What can’t be expressed through sound or dialogue is instead revealed through tremendous acting, skill and wonderful mise-en-scene.

When Valentin and Miller fall in love, they shoot a dancing scene in a film over and over, Valentin more smitten with every take. Instead of

outright saying that Valentin’s career is over and Miller’s has just begun shortly after, they don’t confront each other; it’s expressed simply in a scene where Valentin is going down the same flight of stairs Miller is going up. The film rewards its viewers for paying attention, and it’s hard not to considering the skill put into production.

In a year filled with rehashed sequels and awful marketing ploys, a film like “The Artist” is a gift. Nothing about it rings false; it’s a loving tribute to the classics of silent film, and becomes the latest in the genre in the process. It’s currently a favorite for Best Picture at the Oscars in a few weeks, and I would not be unhappy if it wins.

Joseph.O’Leary@UConn.edu

Documentary-style superpower movie scores big

By Brendon Field Campus Correspondent Dramatic films on the subject of teenage psychology and the effects of the traumatizing institution known as high school have been done thousands of times before.

We have seen the same characters and the same screenplay clichés again and again. So what would be an interesting and entertaining method of refreshing the script?

Telekinetic superpowers, believe it or not, works out pretty well.

“Chronicle” begins with Andrew (Dane DeHaan), a victim of parental and social abuse, who begins filming every aspect of his life. He doesn’t really have a reason for it, although it’s clear his camera is the only thing in his life that listens to him. The closest thing he has to a friend is his cousin Matt (Alex Russell). He’s what one would call ordinary, but he as a character never becomes uninteresting, and he’s certainly the most complex person in the film.

The two are at a party one night when they discover a perfectly circular hole in a clearing in the woods. They are joined

by Steve (Michael B. Jordan), one of the most popular people in school; and it’s not hard to see why – he treats people well.

The three venture into the hole and find an energy force within it. What it is exactly is never explained, but it doesn’t really need to be.

The three acquire telekinetic abilities and while attempting to master them, form a close friendship. It’s at this point where most stories would depict their protagonists attempting to become comic –style superheroes. “Chronicle,” however, takes a much more realistic approach. The three use their powers for personal entertainment, which primarily consists of pulling pranks on bystanders, as well as each other. Eventually, their abilities become stronger and its side effects begin to take a toll on the already unstable Andrew.

The early and later sequences provide a lot of comic and thrilling entertainment, respectively. The characters all feel very real. The performances are natural, and DeHaan does a particularly good job of never allowing his character to become cartoony as he loses mental stability. The screenplay as a whole works surprisingly well. The dialogue is smart and matches the age and attitude of those speaking. It avoids most of the clichés associated with both science fiction and teen drama. It paces itself well and does just enough with the few side characters, particularly Andrew’s alcoholic father (Michael Kelly), who has gone through just as much unrest as his son.

“Chronicle” is filmed in a similar style as films such as “The Blair Witch Project” and “Cloverfield.”

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A teenage mutant (played by Dan DeHaan) unleashes his powers on some anassuming victims in the low-budget, action film ‘Chronicle.’

All footage is taken from an amateur camera. What “Chronicle” does differently, and smartly, is it doesn’t restrict itself to one camera. The film is seen from the perspective of whatever camera is available, including those of cell phones, laptops and news helicopters. This tactic proves useful in the final act, which consists of a 10-minute action scene that would have been impossible to produce from a single view. Additionally, the camera breaks free of the first–person perspective when Andrew begins using the telekinesis to control it, allowing for some variations in the cinematography.

Unlike other captured footage films, the camcorder is necessary here, as it seems the characters act differently when they are being

filmed. Andrew opens himself up, Steve plays to it and Matt becomes more reserved.

“Chronicle” does something new with a lot of elements that are very old. It provides an engaging and exhilarating experience without a single dull moment. It works very well off of a relatively limited budget for a science fiction film and disguises its potential shortcomings. A lot of credit goes to rookie director Josh Trank. A lot of directors make a good movie from what people like. Trank made a movie about teenage angst with captured footage, two things people normally don’t like. But the final product is a lot better than good.

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DETROIT (AP) – People rarely pick a fight with Dirty Harry. But Chrysler’s “Halftime in America” ad featuring quintessential tough guy Clint Eastwood has generated fierce debate about whether it accurately portrays the country’s most economically distressed city or amounts to a campaign ad for President Barack Obama and the auto bailouts.

The 2-minute ad holds up Detroit as a model for American recovery while idealistic images of families, middle class workers and factories scroll across the screen.

“People are out of work and they’re hurting,” the 81-year-old Eastwood says in his trademark gravelly voice. “And they’re all wondering what they’re gonna do to make a comeback. And we’re all scared because this isn’t a game. The people of Detroit know a little something about this. They almost lost everything. But we all pulled together. Now, Motor City is fighting again.”

Conservatives, including GOP strategist Karl Rove, criticized the ad as a not-so-thinly veiled endorsement of the federal government’s auto industry bailouts.

Others questioned basing a story of economic resurgence in a city that remains in fiscal disarray, with a $200 million budget deficit and cash flow concerns that have it fending off a state takeover.

But is it political? That depends on who you ask.

“I can’t stop anybody from associating themselves with a message, but it was not intended to be any type of political overture on our part,” Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne told WJR-AM in Detroit. “You know, we’re just an ingredient of a big machine here in this country that makes us go on.”

Last year was a pivotal turnaround year for Chrysler, which nearly collapsed in 2009. The company and its financial arm needed a $12.5 billion government bailout and a trip through bankruptcy protection to survive.

Chrysler has since repaid its U.S. and Canadian government loans by refinancing them, but the U.S. government says it lost about $1.3 billion on the deal.

The ad with Eastwood, who previously publicly slammed the auto bailout, follows a highly popular one that aired last Super Bowl featuring hip-hop star and Detroitnative Eminem driving a Chrysler 200 through stark city streets – and introduced the tagline “Imported From Detroit.”

This time around, the focus was on faces and factories – far less on cars. Monday editions of USA Today came wrapped in a fourpage ad that features Eastwood and images from the commercial.

It also touts investments outside Detroit, specifically in Belvidere, Ill., where it’s making the new Dodge Dart.

That ad notes the company is “doing our part to move America forward. To help win this country’s second half for all of us.”

“It was very powerful, not only for Detroit but for the country and also for Chrysler,” said Allen Adamson, a managing director at brand consulting firm Landor Associates Adamson. “Of all the three, Chrysler was the least likely to succeed, the least likely to survive the storm. And they have come out with potentially the strongest story.”

Adamson also compared the spot to Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” ad in 1984, which tried to capture a feeling of American optimism during his re-election campaign. Reagan’s ad showed images of people going to work, buying homes, and getting married in greater numbers.

Rove told Fox News on Monday that he was “offended” by Chrysler’s ad, saying it amounted to “using our tax dollars to buy corporate advertising and the best-wishes of the management which is benefited by getting a bunch of our money that they’ll never pay back.”

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‘Adult Swim’ artists make Potter actor faces hilarious debut on film another set of demons

By Jason Bogdan Senior Staff Writer

For anyone who has ever seen Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim’s gleefully disconcerting show on Adult Swim, “Awesome Show Great Job!,” the idea that a full-length motion picture could be made by the two maniacs seems like a

bad idea. After all, few can handle a whole half hour of their twisted skits, let alone 90 minutes. But premonitions aside, “Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie” turned out to be tasteful enough to both endure, and laugh, the whole way through.

The tastefulness comes from the titular duo’s rare use of a plot. After wasting away a billion dollars from the Schlaaang Company to produce a three-minute clip of nonsense that’s too hilarious to spoil, Tim and Eric decide to pay back their debt in the most reasonable way possible to them: becoming business owners of a torn down mall. Along the way, love awkwardly blooms, brief interludes are put in to emphasize the storytelling themes, and a random wolf adds conflict.

While the duo’s signature brand of humor is definitely not for everyone, fans of their unorthodox rib-ticklers will find plenty of funny moments. Whatever way

you’d like to describe their brand of comedy, the two continue to be masters at their odd craft.

Unfortunately, the larger amount of screen time brings in numerous gags that fail and scenes that go on for too long. But considering that jokes are rapidly churned out from beginning to end with no

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at the remote house, but actually follows Radcliffe’s character into the town which makes you wonder if he is ever safe from this “vengeful ghost”?

Kipps’ job is to settle the estates of an old house where, of course, it has a disturbing past that involves suicide and deceit.

Basically the typical story of a haunted house. However, the director, James Watkins, managed to take a cliché storyline and create a whole new level of thrills.

Leaving his young son behind, Kipps has the unfortunate job of figuring out paperwork for a house that the local villagers advise not to visit. Once the house is disturbed, the woman in black will come lurking causing havoc on the town and poor Kipps himself.

Seeing little creepy kids staring at you when visiting a new town that should be the first red flag to everyone. Kipps does pick up on the strange behavior of the local kids, but is reluctant to let that stop him. Even after a fair warning from a new friend, “never go chasing shadows,” doesn’t stop him from investigating further, which lead him to make discoveries that he wishes he had never found.

Radcliffe has certainly stepped away from adolescence and has hit a home run with this new horror flick. This movie will leave you feeling uneasy for the rest of the day and want to leave the lights on when going to bed for fear seeing the woman in black.

Nottingham and self-confessed film buff, ‘while a lot of these films won’t win, it would still be nice to see them supported.’

British film, widely and historically associated with the ‘indie’ label, has undergone a rapid growth, a veritable puberty in an attempt to tread water due to the closure of the Film Council and uneasy support of the BBFC and National Lottery. While, of course, BAFTA are very much a corporate institution much like the Academy, its signal of support for edgier projects such as Fincher’s Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Winding Refn’s Drive account for an extensive selection of the complaints shot at the Academy selection.

If British cinema, a tradition never before in greater need of stability and support, is able to acknowledge distinctly more modern and contemporary projects such as the aforementioned “Drive” and Michael Fassbender’s widely lauded performance in “Shame” (itself an omission that has not slipped by the venomous tongues of the Academy’s detractors) then the claim by many is why can the Academy not follow suit.

The problem, it seems, may be cultural. “I just don’t think the Academy are brave enough to risk losing any more money,” said Yichen Wu, a first year student of the Central Film School, London. “British film is at the point where it has lost so much it pretty much has to adapt or die.”

Big award ceremony nominations may not seem a big a deal and are often too easily dusted away as pomp, an excuse for the famous to celebrate the famous, but what they illustrate is the widening divide between cinematic sensibilities across the Atlantic, “At the end of the day the bigger films are always going to win, but the little guys are only going to start getting places when support from these massive institutions becomes more apparent,” Wu said.

The question to ask of now and the coming years is: how else is that going to be seen but in the nominations?

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time to catch any breath, all the bad jokes are immediately compensated by at least five good ones.

The other actors, from talented celebrities to random people, put every fiber of their being into bringing the insane dialogue to life. It’s no surprise that famous comedians such as Will Ferrell and Zach Galifinakis play the film’s otherworldly personas with absolute dedication. But it’s unbelievable that even Ray Wise, Jeff Goldblum and Robert Loggia keep a straight face.

Considering how much Tim and Eric epically bombed in their lengthy skit in the season two finale of “Funny or Die Presents,” I was absolutely dumbfounded by how well they composed an entire movie with their nonsense. Anyone with access to OnDemand who can’t get enough of Tim and Eric’s uncomfortable aesthetics really should go watch this film.

Obscure films look to catch a break from award shows

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Daniel Radcliffe’s lastest conquest in the movie industry did well in the box office during its opening weekend. The movie tells of the tragic story of a dead family and the young man who tries to settle down in the haunted house that they left behind.

By Loumarie Rodriguez Staff Writer Daniel Radcliffe has officially graduated from Hogwarts with this new horror film “The Woman in Black.” The once innocent wizard has grown up and has ventured off to different genres besides fantasy.

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“The Woman in Black,” originally a book

by Susan Hill, tells a story of a simple middle class lawyer, Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe), trying to make a living during the late 19th century.

The fact that it takes place in the English country side and the movie is dark and almost disturbing from the point of the opening credits all the way to the very end. There is never any sense that the situation will ever be ok, which makes this film amazing.

Throughout the movie, there is the feeling of uneasiness because you never what will happen next. The hauntings don’t just stay

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from WOMEN, page 7 Doshi said she has heard horror stories of how job applicants have been refused offers because they wore the wrong outfits to their interviews. Both she and Dai said that students

learn through first-hand experiences however.

The fashion show is free for all students and will feature speakers, an emcee, a DJ and a buffet lunch. The event is being funded by USG.

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As time has passed by, these authors have still been busy writing, allowing for younger children to read the books that their babysitters and siblings grew up on. Even though the books aren’t quite the same as the ones we read, it is good to know that the tales are being

passed on to younger generations. If reading this made you feel nostalgic, why not try to find your old copies of these books next time you go home? If you’re like me, they would be fun to look at and you can always pass them along to younger kids to help encourage them to read.

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Academy Awards Best Actor nominees Jean Dujardin, left, of "The Artist" and George Clooney of "The Descendants" are shown during a group photo of nominees at the 31st Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday. The 84th Academy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 26.

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(AP) – George Clooney says the best thing about Academy Awards nominations is not necessarily the prizes. It's hanging with old and new friends.

At the annual Oscar nominee luncheon Monday, Clooney said he's made new pals on the awards circuit this season and has been happy to catch up with longtime friends such as Viola Davis and Brad Pitt, his co-star in the "Ocean's Eleven" movies.

"A lot of people at home think we all hang out together. I think they think we're always at the Hilton drinking champagne. The truth is I hadn't seen Brad in about a year" until they crossed paths around the time of January's Golden Globes, Clooney told reporters before sitting down to lunch. "So it's fun to catch up, and it's fun to see people I like and haven't seen in a long time."

Both are up for the bestactor Oscar – Clooney for "The Descendants" and Pitt for "Moneyball."

Clooney said he also has had fun getting to know other

nominees such as best-actor contenders Gary Oldman of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," Jean Dujardin of "The Artist" and Demian Bichir of "A Better Life."

Pitt joked that like Clooney, awards season has allowed him to make a lot of new acquaintances.

"I met this guy named George," Pitt said, stumbling over the pronunciation of the name, "G-g-george, Jorge Clooney. Very nice guy. Very personable and very nice guy."

Along with Clooney and Pitt, others among the 150 nominees at the luncheon included "The Help" co-stars Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer; "Albert Nobbs" costars Glenn Close and Janet McTeer; "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" star Rooney Mara; "My Week with Marilyn" co-stars Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh; "The Artist" co-star Berenice Bejo; and "Hugo" director Martin Scorsese.

Davis, who appeared in Clooney's "Out of Sight" and "Solaris," has been such good friends with the superstar that

he invited her and her husband to spend their honeymoon at his villa in Italy.

She recalled having four- and five-course meals a day as the only guests at his 22-room home. But Davis said such romantic getaways and the glamorous get-ups she puts on for awards shows are not part of her daily life.

"If you guys could see me when I'm at home with my cornrows," Davis said. "I am not a glam woman. This definitely is a mask I put on for the public. My biggest fear is that paparazzi with some, like, lens is going to come into my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate."

Six-time nominee Close recalled coming to the Oscar luncheon when she was first nominated for 1982's "The World According to Garp" and "being astounded that I met some people who were really almost hyperventilating as to whether they were going to win or not. And I have never understood that, because you just do the simple math."

Close weighed being one

of five best-actress nominees against the astronomical odds against success in show business, with the number of actors out of work at any given time and the sheer number of movies made each year.

"And then you're one of five," Close said. "How could you possibly think of yourself as a loser?"

Spencer, the supportingactress front-runner, said she still remains star-struck being in the same room with superstars she has admired during a long career toiling in small TV and film roles before her breakout performance in "The Help."

"It's just a bunch of really normal people who happen to be named Glenn Close and George Clooney and Brad Pitt," Spencer said. "Sometimes, you just find yourself ogling them.

I still do. I think I've kind of mauled everyone thus far."

Though she's new to the Oscars, Spencer has old friends herself among the field. She and fellow supporting-actress nominee Melissa McCarthy, a rare contender in a mainstream comedy for

"Bridesmaids," have been pals for years.

McCarthy said the whirlwind of her Oscar success has made her reflect on her early career, struggling to land a TV commercial or two a year so she would not have to go back to waiting tables.

"It's been a pretty amazing, surreal year," McCarthy said.

"I keep pinching myself, and I really hope I don't get the call where someone says, 'Kidding, kidding.'"

The menu for Hollywood's most-exclusive lunch included chopped vegetable salad; hors d'ouevres featuring Indochina spiced beef and roasted Asian barbecue duck; a main course of Atlantic salmon; and sorbet with mango sauce and berries for dessert.

Nominees also posed for a group photograph.

The next time the 2011 nominees will gather is on Oscar night Feb. 26. The 84th annual awards show will be televised live on ABC from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.

Brian Grazer, a producer of the broadcast, told the luncheon crowd that the Kodak will be

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'Amazing Spider-Man' footage teased for fans

LOS ANGELES (AP) – "The Amazing Spider-Man" dropped in on hundreds of fans Monday.

Sony Pictures teased the latest incarnation of the webslinging superhero, which doesn't arrive in U.S. theaters until July 3, at preview events held Monday at movie theaters in 13 cities spanning the globe, including Mexico City, Berlin, Rome, Paris and Moscow, with the cast and filmmakers appearing in Los Angeles, New York, Rio de Janeiro and London.

The event began with the debut of the 3-D full-length "Amazing Spider-Man" trailer, which will hit theaters this weekend and debut online Wednesday. The trailer featured footage of Andrew Garfield as a charmingly awkward Peter Parker being bullied at school, testing out his new web-slinging gadgets and battling the villainous Lizard high above New York.

"I think there are a lot of things from the Spider-Man canon that haven't yet been explored cinematically," said director Marc Webb in Los Angeles. "This movie really

starts off with Peter Parker and his parents, which is something we've never really seen before, and I think that was something we were all really interested in exploring as filmmakers."

Garfield, who appeared in New York, said Spider-Man is more than just a character.

He's a symbol that was once portrayed by Tobey Maguire and now by himself, and he hoped the next person to play the crime-fighting superhero would be a "half-Hispanic, half African-American actor," referencing the latest incarnation of the character in the comic books.

Emma Stone, who plays love interest Gwen Stacey, told fans in Rio de Janeiro that Stacey and Mary Jane Watson, Parker's girlfriend portrayed by Kirsten Dunst in the previous films, are "polar opposites," while Rhys Ifans said in London that his character, Dr. Curt Connors, who becomes the Lizard, has "a very complex and emotional" link to Parker.

After the cast addressed fans, Webb unveiled extended 2-D footage from the film peppered with music from the

Rolling Stones and Coldplay.

The scenes included Parker asking Stacey out on a date,

Spider-Man humorously blasting a car thief with webs and the one-armed Dr. Connors

telling Parker that "your father and I were going to change the lives of millions."

NEW YORK (AP) – Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.

Verizon and Coinstar Inc., Redbox's parent company, said Monday that the service will be national and available to non-Verizon customers as well. It adds another dimension to Verizon's quest to become a force in home entertainment, and it looks set to compete to some extent with the cable-TV services it already sells.

Unlike competing services from Amazon.com Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the new service will combine Internet delivery of movies with DVDs, the way Netflix does. Dish Network Corp. also offers a similar bundle through its Blockbuster subsidiary.

Specific details and pricing of the new plan weren't announced.

Late last year, the companies were shopping around a $6-per-month offering that would give subscribers one DVD rental from Redbox per month as well as unlimited streaming of a certain selection of movies, according to a person briefed on the plan then.

The person was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

It's not known whether the plan has changed since then, though the price is likely to be less than the $16-a-month minimum that Netflix subscribers have to pay for a combined DVD-by-mail and streaming plan.

Although consumers would pay less, Redbox's inventory is limited to what's in its kiosks, compared with Netflix's library of more than 100,000 discs, including more obscure fare.

Redbox customers will also have to go in person to pick up a disc, which saves the company mailing costs.

Getting an extensive library of streaming content to rival Netflix's 20,000-plus titles will be expensive. The rising cost for streaming rights is the main reason that Netflix raised its U.S. prices by as much as 60 percent last year in a move that triggered a customer backlash. At the end of 2011, Netflix had video licensing commitments totaling $3.9 billion worldwide over the next several years.

Verizon will handle the streaming negotiations, Coinstar CEO Paul Davis told analysts in a conference call held late Monday to discuss the company's fourth-quarter earnings. He declined to answer questions seeking more details about how the joint subscription service might work, citing a desire to keep things under wraps for competitive reasons. The streaming service won't be available until the final half of this year.

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Jeremy Lamb silenced at KFC Yum! Center

By Mike McCurry Featured Columnist Jeremy Lamb was living the life.

A national championship in his freshman year, a quiet yet calm personality that even Barack Obama was fond of, and a season in which he emerged as the Robin to Kemba’s Batman. With Kemba leaving, Lamb was going to be “the guy.” You may be thinking to yourself, “What exactly is ‘the guy?’” Well, consider the fact that Lamb was already pretty much a household name by last April, was named a preseason First Team All-American and has been projected as the second overall NBA draft pick this June per various mock draft websites. With No. 15 off to bigger and better things, the soft-spoken sophomore from Norcross, Ga. was expected to put up Kemba-like numbers daily and lead UConn to an unimaginable second consecutive title.

Lately, I’ve told myself that I’m done taking trips down memory lane and, even more importantly, I think my Grandma could predict a more accurate NBA draft than the so called “experts.” What Kemba Walker did in Storrs last year, taking a team fresh out of the womb to unprecedented heights and

ultimately on top of the college basketball world, is something I will never forget. It was the dream season, and quite frankly I would have been more than satisfied if the pinnacle of UConn’s 20102011 year was upsetting perennial powerhouses Michigan State and Kentucky en route to a championship at the Maui Invitational. But no, Kemba had to take the entire team on his back, and maybe even Calhoun, and put together arguably the greatest individual postseason resume in the history of the sport. Lamb, playing sidekick to Walker all of last year, maybe hasn’t realized that Mr. Do Everything has moved on and is now a member of the Charlotte Bobcats.

Last year, Lamb was the quiet assassin. With all 10 eyes on the defensive end glued to Kemba, he was able to get wide-open jumpers, usually courtesy of beautiful dimes from either Walker or Shabazz Napier. When the shots weren’t falling, Lamb put it on the floor and finished with ease via what was the best floater in the country. The lanky star-in-themaking was active on the glass and in the passing lanes, using his freakish athletic ability to either poke the ball free from defenders or jump up and pluck hopeful lobs out of the sky. He was the

X-factor, the guy whom every opponent feared but could not key on thanks to the man who should have won Player of the Year over Jimmer. Lamb had a role last year, and he fit it perfectly. Almost too perfect, perhaps.

Flash forward to right now. It’s not worth dissecting the national championship team, because that seems as long ago as the last time my New York Mets were relevant. The reality is that, following an 80-59 loss to Louisville that will surely go down as two of the most frustrating hours of my life as a diehard fan, UConn is 15-8 overall and an embarrassing 5-6 in the Big East.

While I’m not putting all of the blame on Lamb in these desperate times, this is what I like to call a personal callout. First Team All American? That’s more of a laugh than saying Kyle Williams should be an All-Pro. No. 2 overall pick in the draft? Right now, if I were an NBA GM, I wouldn’t take you in the lottery. Last year, when we needed a stop or needed to end a shooting drought, we turned to Kemba. This year, you can’t guard a picnic table. And if being stuck in cement wasn’t bad enough, you’re missing the shots that were absolute money in the past. I think you’d rather give up basketball and pick up cheerlead-

ing than take a three from the left wing. Your last three games: 10-37 from the field (27 percent), 5-23 from 3-point land (22 percent) and most importantly a 1-2 overall record.

Let me be very clear that I am a huge Jeremy Lamb fan. I love the kid, will be forever indebted to him for his contributions to last year’s team and love the fact that he was an under-recruited skinny wing that, quite frankly, Jim Calhoun only took a shot on because of knowing Jeremy’s father. That being said, this is a personal challenge to No. 3.

I’m not telling you to be Kemba, because the killer instinct and ultra competitiveness that Walker possessed is unmatched, maybe even among all Husky greats.

Kemba is the past, and all you should take from him is being a team leader and knowing that teams feed off of their best player. What I am recommending is improving shot selection, focusing more on the defensive end and beginning to realize that with your talent, you should be able to take over any game you want. I just hope you get your swagger back, Jeremy, before the season slips away.

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Jeremy Lamb and the Huskies beat Seton Hall Saturday, but fell last night at Louisville.

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No. 4 Missouri holds on to defeat Oklahoma, 71-68

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — For an uncontrollable situation with 2.5 seconds left on the clock, Oklahoma's last chance to forge overtime against No. 4 Missouri went about as well as it could — until Steven Pledger's 3-point shot refused to go down.

Pledger slumped to the ground and put his hands over his face after his potential tying shot clanged off the rim to end the Sooners' 71-68 loss.

Romero Osby was forced to miss a free throw with 2.5

seconds left to set up one last unlikely shot for Oklahoma, and Pledger got the ball when the offensive rebound was tapped back to him on the right wing.

"It was perfect. The play was designed to miss the free throw and get the tip-out and we actually got the tip-out," said Pledger, who led the Sooners with 22 points.

"It was on line. It felt good when it left my hand. It didn't go in."

Marcus Denmon scored 25

points and Ricardo Ratliffe added 15 points and 10 rebounds for Missouri, which claimed first place in the Big 12 with the victory. The Tigers (22-2, 9-2 Big 12) had moved into a tie for first with No. 6 Baylor and No. 7 Kansas by beating the archrival Jayhawks on Saturday night.

"We understand that this game was just as important as the last one," Denmon said.

"Pretty much, we have a veteran group and we just wanted to make sure everybody

came out and understood how important this game would be for us to play after a big win like the one at home against Kansas."

Oklahoma (13-10, 3-8) still had the ball with a chance to tie with 5 seconds left, after Michael Dixon missed on a drive to the basket. Osby was fouled with 2.5 seconds left and missed both free throws, the second one intentionally.

That completed an uncharacteristic night when Oklahoma missed 14 of 23 free throws,

after making 75 percent on the season. Missouri, fifth in the nation at 77 percent, wasn't much better at 10 for 18.

"It's hard to explain because we have shot free throws very well," Sooners coach Lon Kruger said. "When you play the game long enough, it will happen. Unfortunately, it happened kind of with everyone, it seemed."

Sam Grooms had a careerhigh 17 points and matched his career best with 10 assists, and Andrew Fitzgerald scored

12 for the Sooners.

Michael Dixon chipped in 13 points for Missouri in a game nothing like the teams' previous meeting, won 87-49 by the Tigers on their home court.

Missouri held a 15-rebound advantage in that one but Oklahoma came out ahead 36-22 on the boards on Monday. The Tigers made up for it by holding a 28-12 scoring edge the paint and getting the only 10 fast-break points of the game.

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UConn hits road to face Louisville Stefanie Dolson and Tiffany Hayes, who led the team in scoring against Rutgers on Saturday, are both averaging double figures.

The No. 3 Huskies will be on Sophomore Bria Hartley and the road against No. 14 Louisville freshman Kaleena MosquedaLewis also claim that statistic. tonight at 7 p.m. at the “It’s a lot of aggresKFC Yum! Center. The siveness on our part,” Cardinals are undefeatMosqueda-Lewis said. ed at home with a 9-0 “We have to make record, and 17-6 overall record. They lost at Louisville sure we are taking some risks, we have to two consecutive road make sure we’re get7 p.m. games against Depaul in the leads and and West Virginia, but KFC Yum! ting being as aggressive as return to Kentucky in coach is asking us to Center hopes of keeping their Usually, coach is home winning streak CBS Sports be. saying we can’t keep a alive. guy in front of us, but The Huskies hold a 10-1 alltime record against the Cardinals, I think when you attack first and with the only loss being their first hit them first as he says, you get ever matchup in 1993. Since then, them on their heels and a little the Cardinals have fallen short nervous.”

The impressive UConn defense every time to the Huskies. is led by junior Kelly Faris with

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57 steals.

Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer commented on their ability to force turnovers and tally steals.

“They play out in the passing lanes and pressure the ball," Stringer said. "They play personnel as well as anyone I’ve seen. If you shoot the three, you better make sure that the screen is there. That someone else has a shot, it’s not an accident. They do a great job.”

And on the other end, it’s just as good. “Make no mistake about it, UConn can go on that kind of explosive run,” Stringer said.

UConn enters tonight’s matchup at 21-2 and 9-1 in the Big East. The game will be aired on CBS Sports Network and broadcasted on the UConn Radio Network.

Danielle.Ennis@UConn.edu

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Brianna Banks and the Huskies will try to win at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville tonight at 7 p.m. Banks and the Huskies beat Rutgers Saturday.

Huskies face Black Knights in mid-week contest

By Carmine Colangelo Staff Writer

Brant Harris and the UConn men's hockey team hosts a rare mid-week home game against the Black Knights of Army. The Huskies lost last week to Princeton, and only have Atlantic Hockey conference games left on the schedule.

the second time this season the Huskies lost after holding a lead at the end of the second period. Tigers forward Andrew Tonight the UConn men’s Calof scored two goals in the hockey team will play for the third period to secure the vicfirst time in a week as the tory.

Huskies host conference oppoNow the 12-13-2 Huskies nent Army. will play against the Last Tuesday, the 2-13-5 Black Knights Huskies traveled to for the second time Princeton to play in this season. The last their final non-conthese two teams vs. Army time ference game of the met, the Huskies won year. The Huskies 7:05 p.m. 2-0 in the opening lost to the Tigers 4-3 of the Toyota Frietas Ice round that night in regulaUConn Hockey Forum tion.

Championship.

The Huskies startSchneider scored WHUS ed the game in comthe eventual gamemanding fashion, winning goal for the scoring all three of their goals Huskies in the first period, and in the first period. Forwards forward Brant Harris added Miles Winter and Cole an insurance goal in the third.

Schneider as well as defense- Goaltender Garrett Bartus man Tom Janosz all scored record his second career shutfor the Huskies. They held a out with 19 saves that game.

3-2 lead over the Tigers going He now has four. into the third period, but for This game is the first of the

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Midseason awards filled with some surprises, some expectations met

By Ryan Tepperman NCAA Basketball Columnist With February now a week old and teams over halfway through their conference slates, now might be a good time to hand out the mid-season player (and coach) awards and make revised picks for conference winners.

Atlantic Coast Conference Pre-season coaches’ pick: No. 5 North Carolina (20-3, 7-1 ACC) Updated pick: No. 5 North Carolina (20-3, 7-1 ACC) UNC has a slightly tougher schedule than No. 10 Duke (19-4, 6-2 ACC), with two of their last three games at No. 19 Virginia and at Cameron Indoor. But it’s tough to see Blue Devils doing better than splitting their season series with the Tar Heels, which is likely what it would take to win the ACC crown. And while the Seminoles are currently tied atop the conference standings, expect their anemic offense to translate into a couple bad losses down the stretch.

Big East Conference Pre-season coaches’ pick: No. 2 Syracuse (23-1, 10-1 Big East) and UConn (15-7, 5-5 Big East) Updated pick: No. 2 Syracuse (23-1, 10-1 Big East) With a two-game lead on everyone else in the conference, it’s tough to see anyone but the Orange winning the Big East regular season championship, even with the meat of their schedule (game against No. 14 Georgetown, two games against Louisville and UConn) coming up in the final month of the season.

Big Ten Conference (or whatever it’s called these days) Pre-season coaches’ pick: No. 3 Ohio State (20-3, 8-2 Big Ten) Updated pick: No. 3 Ohio State (20-3, 8-2 Big Ten) and No. 11 Michigan State (18-5, 7-3 Big Ten)

Tom Izzo’s teams always seem to peak near the end of the season (last year notwithstanding). And considering how mightily OSU struggled on the road, the Spartans should be in good shape for the conference crown when they host the Buckeyes on the last day of the season. Expect at least a co-Big Ten championship for MSU. Big 12 Conference Pre-season coaches’ pick: No. 7 Kansas (18-5, 8-2 Big 12) and Texas A&M (12-10, 3-7 Big 12) Updated pick: No. 4 Missouri (21-2, 8-2 Big 12) With Kansas, Missouri and No. 6 Baylor (21-2, 8-2 Big 12) all tied atop the Big 12 standings, this should be the most exciting race to watch. Baylor has the toughest remaining schedule with a game against Kansas, one at Missouri and two against fourth-seeded Iowa State (17-6, 7-3 Big 12).

Missouri, meanwhile, is coming off a come-from-behind GameDay win over Kansas on Saturday, and has looked like the better team for the large part of the season. Expect the Tigers to come out on top of this race by a game.

Pac-12 Conference Pre-season coaches’ pick: Don’t care enough to do the research Updated pick: Washington (16-7, 9-2 Pac-12) Washington is currently leading this train wreck of a conference, so that’s a good enough reason for me to pick ‘em.

And now for the individual awards…

Player of the Year F – Thomas Robinson, Kansas: This one is a nobrainer. Robinson, the nation’s second-leading rebounder, has taken the least talented Kansas team in years and turned them into a Final Four contender.

Aside from West Virginia’s Kevin Jones, there isn’t anyone in the country that’s had to carry his team like Robinson.

Defensive Player of the Year F – Anthony Davis, Kentucky: The freshman is averaging a 4.8 blocks per game. Case closed.

Coach of the Year: Frank Haith, Missouri: The Tigers underwent a coaching change and lost starting forward Laurence Bowers to injury before the season…and still haven’t missed a beat. The former Miami coach has led the Tigers to a 21-2 record so far and the nation’s No. 4 ranking.

All-America First Team G – Marcus Denmon, Missouri (17.7 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 1.5 spg): Denmon has been the star of the most surprising team in the nation, and his 29-point, ninerebound outburst carried the Tigers past Kansas on Saturday.

G/F – Harrison Barnes, UNC (17.3 ppg, 4.8 rpg, 44.1% 3-point shooting): Barnes is the most dynamic scorer on the best offensive team in the nation.

F – Thomas Robinson, Kansas (18.0 ppg, 12.0 rpg, 1.2 spg, 1.2 bpg): His numbers only tell half the story – Robinson has single-handedly carried Kansas to a top-10 ranking.

F – Anthony Davis, Kentucky (13.9 ppg, 10.1 rpg, 4.8 bpg): “The Eyebrow” has already set the Kentucky and SEC freshman record for blocked shots.

C – Jared Sullinger, Ohio State (17.4 ppg, 10.1 rpg, 58.1% field goal shooting): No one can score inside like Sully, and his Buckeyes (No. 3 in the country) haven’t fallen off at all despite losing three starters.

Honorable mentions: F Kevin Jones, West Virginia; G Will Barton, Memphis; F Draymond Green, Michigan State; F Kevin McDermott, Creighton

Ryan.Tepperman@UConn.edu

Huskies’ final seven games in the regular season, all of which are against conference opponents. The Huskies have 23 points in the Atlantic Hockey Association, putting them in seventh place. Their conference record stands at 11-8-1.

The Black Knights are currently in 11th place with nine points. They are 2-13-5 in conference play this season.

The Black Knights are coming off of a 9-1 victory against Canada’s Royal Military College in an exhibition game. Eleven different players recorded points in that game.

Tonight will mark the third time these teams have played each other this year, with the Huskies taking both contests.

The puck drops tonight at 7:05 in the Mark Edwards Freitas Ice Forum.

Carmine.Colangelo@UConn.edu

Sixers stay hot, 'Beat LA'

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lou Williams nailed the go-ahead 3-pointer, scored 14 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, and spoiled Kobe Bryant's recordsetting night while leading the Philadelphia 76ers to 95-90 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday night.

With "Beat L.A.!" echoing through a second straight sellout crowd, Williams hit the tying jumper, then followed with the 3 for a 91-88 lead. He hit another floater to make it 93-88, part of a fantastic fourth that saw him hold off Bryant and help the Sixers improve to 13-3 Lakers at home.

Bryant scored 24 of 76ers his 28 points in the first half. He passed former teammate Shaquille O'Neal and moved into fifth place on the NBA's career scoring list. Bryant got 24 points in a hurry to pass O'Neal, but stumbled down the stretch and missed nine of his 10 shots in the fourth.

Andrew Bynum had 20 points and 20 rebounds for the Lakers.

Pau Gasol had 16 points and 11 rebounds.

The Sixers went 3-1 last week against a fierce lineup of Orlando, Chicago, Miami (the loss) and Atlanta. It's more of the same this week: San Antonio is here Wednesday and the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday.

The Sixers have proven they

can handle the rugged schedule.

They committed only four turnovers, a minuscule number that was enough to make up for getting pounded on the boards. Led

by Bynum and Gasol, the Lakers outrebounded Philadelphia 55-30.

Williams, one of the top sixth men in the NBA, has never been afraid to take the clutch shot.

While the Sixers have soared in the East this season with a teamoriented approach, Williams is the one the Sixers want with the ball and the game on the line.

Lakers coach Mike Brown served a onegame suspension for contact with a 90 making game official and fail95 ure to leave the court in a timely manner following his ejection in Saturday's game. He also was fined $25,000.

John Keuster filled in for Brown.

Bryant started like a shooter determined to score 50.

His first bucket saw the ball take a few whirls around the rim before plopping through the net.

Bryant buried a 3, then backed down Evan Turner and used a soft touch off a spin move for seven quick points.

He stared down Andre Iguodala for a 3. Bryant nailed two more 3-pointers — each one drawing more boos than the last — and had 22 points in the second quarter.

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cut toward the top of the 3-point arc, took as a fast feed from Matt Barnes and hit the 23-footer.

Originally called a 3, Bryant had his foot on the line. Three points or two, it was enough to pass O'Neal.

Bryant went 8 for 14 from the floor and made 4 of 6 3s in the first half to help the Lakers lead 50-46 at the break.

He went into hibernation until an up-and-under bucket late in the third pulled the Lakers to 63-61.

O'Neal and Bryant often clashed, even while leading the Lakers to NBA championships in 2000, 2001 and 2002. O'Neal won an NBA championship with Miami in 2006 to briefly edge Bryant in total championships.

Under coach Phil Jackson, Bryant won consecutive championships in 2009 and 2010, and had long ago cemented his spot as one of the NBA's all-time greats.

Kobe already had more championship rings than Shaq. He has more points, too.

The Sixers failed to acknowledge the special achievement.

Bryant, who spent eight years of his childhood in Italy before returning to the area to attend high school, had already been the youngest player in NBA history to reach 28,000 points.

Bryant led Lower Merion to a state championship in 1996 and still makes visits and donations to the school.

McDonough: Baseball funds may be tough to find from LONG, page 14 I’m George Springer or Matt Barnes, I’m not giving a chunk of my signing bonus to my alma mater just yet. I’ll wait until after arbitration. Aside from Charles Nagy, who is currently the pitching coach of the reigning NL West champion Arizona Diamondbacks, there haven’t been many UConn alums who have sustained a long career at the MLB level. The majority of the millions needed will, like the basketball facility, have to come

from generous families.

This improvement must take place, and sooner rather than later. With conference realignment, there is new recruiting ground and a beautiful on-campus stadium could wow prospects.

As the team continues to improve each season, they will need a ballpark, not a field, to call home. Unlike two seasons ago, they won’t have to host an NCAA Regional at the dump that is Dodd Stadium in Norwich. They won’t have to

have “home games” against Big East teams at New Britain Stadium.

Coach Jim Penders told the XL Center crowd last month that the Huskies will one day win an NCAA national championship on the diamond. I believe him.

And he added that it will be because of the fans.

Fans don’t like cold, backless metal bleachers.

Matthew.McDonough@UConn.edu

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The Daily Question Q : “What did you think of UConn’s game against Seton Hall?” me some hope but it doesn’t mean much if we don’t play well A : “Itthisgave next week.”

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Feb. 15 DePaul 7 p.m.

Feb. 18 Marquette 12 p.m.

– Associate head coach George Blaney on UConn’s loss to Louisville last night.

Feb. 26 Syracuse 9 p.m.

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New England tradition

Home: Gampel Pavilion, XL Center Today Louisville 7 p.m.

Feb. 13 Feb. 11 Georgetown Oklahoma 9 p.m.

4 p.m.

Feb. 18 St. John’s 7 p.m.

Feb. 20 Pittsburgh 7 p.m.

Men’s Ice Hockey (13-13-2) Today Army 7:05 p.m.

Feb. 10 Sacred Heart 7:05 p.m.

Feb. 11 Sacred Heart 4:30 p.m.

Feb. 17 Bentley 7:05 p.m.

Feb. 18 Bentley 4:30 p.m.

Women’s Ice Hockey (4-19-7) Feb. 11 Boston College 1 p.m.

Feb. 12 Boston College 2 p.m.

Feb. 18 Boston University 2 p.m.

Feb. 19 Boston University 3 p.m.

Feb. 25 Hockey East Quarterfinals

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Harvard forward Eric Kroshus (10) leaps out of the way of a shot as Boston University goalie Kieran Millan makes the save in the first game of the 60th Beanpot at the TD Garden in Boston. BU won 3-1.

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Away game

Men’s Basketball (15-7) Feb. 11 Syracuse 1 p.m.

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass (AP) — When New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft sits down with network executives to negotiate the NFL’s television contracts, he knows what they’re looking for.

On Sunday, he experienced the wrong side of it.

“Look, we’re all disappointed in what happened,” he told reporters after returning to the team’s stadium on Monday, the day after the New York Giants beat the Patriots 21-17 in the Super Bowl. “I can say this as chair of the (NFL) broadcast committee: The reason that the networks pay us the large fees that they do is that no one knows what is going to happen in a game. Head coach, quarterback, owner, D-linemen no one knows.

“It’s two or three plays that make the difference, that makes the game so exciting.”

Those plays went against the Patriots on Sunday, when they lost to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl for the second time in five seasons. Among the turning points was coach Bill Belichick’s decision to allow Ahmad Bradshaw to score the goahead touchdown with 57 seconds left so that the Patriots might have enough time for a comeback.

“I don’t want to get into the whole thing, the whole sequence there,” Belichick told reporters on Monday. “Basically, we felt like that was our best chance with the field position they had, to try to get the ball back and give ourselves an opportunity to have the last possession, rather than have the game end on a kick that (has an over) 90 percent success rate from the field position they were in.”

The Patriots flew back to Boston on Monday afternoon and rode buses to Gillette Stadium, where a few hundred fans greeted them.

Belichick said he appreciated seeing the fans who came out to see them in spite of the loss.

“It says a lot about those people and the fan base we have here,” he said. “It’s much, much appreciated by all of us.”

Only a handful of players were available in the locker room; spokesman Stacey James said most players met their families in the parking lot and went home without coming in. Safety James Ihedigbo said the flight home was especially difficult because he realized the team would probably not be together again as a whole.

“It’s the National Football League. The group of guys that are on that plane, it’s rare that all these guys are going to be back and be one team,” he said. “We have a very special group. We worked hard, we’re a family and we played like that. It’s a tough pill to swallow.”

Defensive back Antwaun Molden said Sunday night was rough, but by Monday he had taken time to reflect on the season as a whole.

“To see where we came from Aug. 30 to this point, it’s definitely a journey,” he said.

“I know we played well. We just came up short. It’s a good thing to learn from.”

Coughlin says he’ll return to Giants

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tom Coughlin is looking forward to the parade and a couple weeks off to reflect on the Giants’ second championship in five seasons. Then he will begin preparations for defending the title.

The 65-year-old coach sees no reason to retire now.

“I mean, it’s what I do,” Coughlin said Monday morning, hours after New York beat the New England Patriots 21-17 in the Super Bowl. “So the alternative I’ve never really given it a whole lot of consideration. (Just coach) as long as I can.”

Coughlin could be around for a while following his second title as a head coach.

He signed a contract extension in July that runs through next season, but it looks as the Giants could revisit that deal following the franchise’s fourth Super Bowl win.

It’s obvious he still wants to coach.

“I don’t fish, I don’t golf,” he said. “My wife keeps telling me, ‘You better have something to do, buddy boy. If you think you’re going to hang around here, you’re crazy.’”

Giants chief executive John Mara said it’s safe to say the team wants Coughlin to return.

“He might be 65, but he’s got the energy of somebody quite younger than that,” he said.

The Giants packed up early Monday morning and boarded busses around 11 a.m. for a trip to the airport and the flight back to New Jersey. Several players saluted the crowd as they departed the aircraft at Newark Liberty International Airport, and some used video recorders to capture the scene. Coughlin also had a big smile as he waved to the crowd.

The big parade up the Canyon of Heroes

in lower Manhattan is scheduled for Tuesday.

“If you’re any kind of historian, and you do have any recollection of this parade, the ‘Parade of Champions’ if you will, the ‘Canyon of Heroes’ - I remember John Mara looking at me and saying, ‘You don’t want to miss this now,” Coughlin said of a conversion with Mara in 2008 after their first title win over the Patriots.

“It’s the same thing I would convey to all of our players, you don’t want to miss this,” Coughlin added. “Heartwarming doesn’t quite cover this, what you go through and what your feelings are. When you are looking down the side streets, and there’s people forever down those side streets, and they’re all there because they are taking ownership of their team.”

Before he skipped town with the rest of the team, quarterback Eli Manning got the keys to the car he won for his second Super Bowl MVP award.

Manning, who led a game-winning 88-yard drive that culminated in Ahmad Bradshaw’s uncontested touchdown run with 57 seconds to play, spent the evening with family and friends. Like most Giants, he had little sleep.

Coughlin quipped he had 15 minutes of rest.

Manning said his brother, Peyton, congratulated him on his performance and the title. They also talked football, with Peyton asking Eli if he saw the middle linebacker on his touchdown pass to Victor Cruz.

Eli said no.

Peyton, whose future with the Colts was a hot topic in Indianapolis during Super Bowl week, also defended his little brother, Eli

said, referring to the 38-yard pass to Mario Manningham on the final Giants drive.

Manningham made a terrific catch between two defenders and managed to get his feet down in one of the game’s biggest plays.

Many associated the importance of the catch with the one David Tyree made against his helmet in New York’s winning drive four years ago.

It wasn’t as good, but it helped just as much.

“He (Peyton) talked about the throw to Manningham,” Eli said. “He was mad, he said everybody was talking about how great of a catch it was. He said it was a pretty good throw, also. It’s a brother looking out for me. He was proud of me and happy for me.”

Eli Manning didn’t want to hear anything about bragging rights over his brother with two championships.

“This isn’t about bragging rights,” Eli said.

“This is a lot bigger. This is about a team, an organization being named world champions, and that was the ultimate goal. That’s the only thing that’s important, is the team finding a way to get a victory. That’s the only thing I care about and Peyton and I both know that’s what the goal is every year. It’s not about anything else.”

Mara said everyone in the organization enjoyed themselves after the game.

“One thing that struck me just watching our guys all week was they have great camaraderie,” Mara said. “Everybody got along really well, and just great spirit. Really unlike any other team that I’ve been around. It really was a special group.”

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RED ALL OVER BLUE AND WHITE Cardinals crush Huskies as offense sputters again

Matt McDonough On Jan. 31, UConn announced that “Stadium Enhancement/ Construction” funds had been established for the soccer, baseball and softball teams. As the school continued to raise money (with $16 million raised thus far) for the basketball practice facility, it seemed as though the UConn baseball program was being left in the dust.

Thankfully, renovations to J.O. Christian Field will eventually take place. Renderings of the proposed improvement to the Huskies’ home field were released, and although “the projects are all still in the early planning stages and the full scope of these projects have yet to be determined,” the school is moving in the right direction. The projects, which will be funded by private donations, will help all four programs, but this was especially needed for the baseball team.

UConn is the state’s flagship university and advanced to an NCAA Super Regional – one step away from the College World Series in Omaha – last summer. So it’s shocking that two state schools in Connecticut have much better baseball fields than UConn. Eastern Connecticut State, which has won four NCAA Division III national championships, has a much better field in Willimantic.

The Warriors have a stadium.

Southern Connecticut State, which appeared in the Division II College World Series last summer, has better seating than J.O. Christian Field. The Owls’ fans enjoy sitting in seatbacks with perfect field sightlines in New Haven.

I find it hard to believe that this took so long to enter the planning stages. I know the university has had a lot on its plate since the football program became an FBS team. Between the basketball facility to the evaluation of our men’s hockey program, it seems like every team in the school needs more donations. The problem is that our baseball field looks more like a high school field than an up-and-coming college baseball program. Who wants to sit on cold metal bleachers in March?

I haven’t been to any of the other Big East baseball stadiums, so I can’t say if J.O. Christian Field has fallen behind the times. I can say that the field, which has had standingroom crowds of 2,000 in the past, needs a drastic improvement. The two pictures that have been released show improved and increased seating that wrap around the dugouts, a bigger press box with suites and a defined entrance to the ballpark.

As encouraging as the images are, it seems like the outfield would go untouched. I think that permanent outfield seating, or even a well-kept grassy hill beyond the outfield wall, would be a nice touch. The picnic tables in right field where the “K9 Unit” calls home isn’t enough.

But as high as the school’s and my own ambitions might be, one factor remains key: money.

If the basketball programs, with 10 total NCAA national championships and dozens of men and women who have played professionally, are having trouble securing funds, who will donate to the UConn baseball program?

This is by no means a knock against the team, but just a realistic thought. There are former Huskies currently in the big leagues, and there’s sure to be more on the way, but if

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Crevoiserat breaks school record in N.Y.

By Mike Corasaniti Staff Writer As the men’s and women’s track and field teams inch their way closer to the Big East Championships next weekend, they continue to perform dominantly.

The men’s team, coming off of two straight team victories, took second at the Sykes and Sabock Challenge Cup last weekend at Penn State, falling only to the hosting Nittany Lions.

Individually, the team was led by sophomore Darnell Cummings, who grabbed two top-five finishes in the meet in the 60-meter dash (second) and 200m (fourth). Also grabbing top-five finishes was junior Joe Clark in the mile with a time of 4:03.93,

freshman Bryan Fowler, who took fourth in the 3,000m with 8:24.93 and junior Tim Bennatan, who grabbed fourth in the 800m with a very fast 1:51.12.

The women’s side of the action this weekend was highlighted by some individual relay and team performances from the New Balance Collegiate Invite in New York, including freshman Lindsay Crevoiserat’s recordbreaking performance in the mile.

In the distance medley relay, sophomore Celina Emerson, junior Brigitte Mania, senior Heather Wilson and Crevoiserat grabbed third with a time of 11:05.77. That time was good enough for one of the 10 fastest distance medley relays in the nation so far this year.

Wilson also performed well individually for the Huskies this weekend, as she qualified for the NCAA Championship with her fourth-place finish in the 800m. Junior Ilva Bikanova, meanwhile, lept to fourth place in the high jump, and Crevoiserat broke her second UConn school record with a time of 4:41.49 in the mile.

The men return to action this weekend in New York City where they will compete in the Ryder Lafayetter Invitational, while the women head up to Boston for the Valentine Invite. The respective meets will be the last chances for competition for both teams before the Big East Indoor Championships, which begin next weekend.

Michael.Corasaniti@UConn.edu

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Chris Whyte and the UConn men’s track and field team finished second this past weekend at the Sabock Challenge Cup at Penn State.

Huskies beat Dartmouth in Natatorium

By James Huang Campus Correspondent

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Gorgui Dieng returned from a sprained right ankle to score 15 points and freshman Chane Behanan added 12 rebounds as No. 24 Louisville beat Connecticut 80-59 on Monday night, the Cardinals’ fifth straight win.

Louisville (19-5, 7-4) is quickly ascending the Big East standings after a rough start. While most of the 31 credential NBA personnel were scouting the Huskies, it was the Cardinals who outworked them all evening.

Dieng was questionable after Saturday’s injury in a win over Rutgers, but he clogged up the lane and kept Connecticut freshman Andre Drummond in check.

Freshman Ryan Boatright led the Huskies (15-8, 5-6) with 18 points. Drummond went scoreless, missing all six shots, and Jeremy Lamb finished with seven points, well short of his average of 17.6.

Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun missed his second game on an indefinite medical leave of absence after he was diagnosed with spinal stenosis.

Everyone contributed as Louisville looked similar to the team ranked fourth in the nation at 12-0 and nothing like the one that dropped five out of seven to tumble out of the poll three weeks ago.

Chris Smith scored 16 points, Kyle Kuric added 10 and Peyton Siva had nine assists while Behanan again made a mark coming off a 23-point, 11-rebound performance in a win over the Scarlet Knights.

The UConn men’s team beat Dartmouth this past weekend at home at the Natatorium.

The UConn men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams defeated their counterparts from Dartmouth this past Sunday afternoon at home in the Natatorium, with the men winning 172-128 and the women winning 158-142. With these victories, the men finished the regular season for the 2011-2012 year with a 5-2 record in dual meets, while the women finished their regular season with a 6-2 record in dual meets. Both teams won on Senior Day, and these victories capped off a streak of victories against Seton Hall, Colgate and Dartmouth.

This dual meet was fairly difficult for both the UConn men’s and women’s teams.

Dartmouth put up a good fight against the Huskies throughout the entire meet, but in the end, they just couldn’t come away with the victory. The Huskies were able to defeat

them thanks to several impressive races and diving performances by both the men and the women.

On the men’s side, both upperclassmen and freshmen made tremendous contributions. For the freshmen, Sawyer Franz had success in the 500yard freestyle and the 1000yard freestyle. In the 500-yard freestyle, Franz achieved a time of 4:36.39. Yet, even more impressive than that was his time in the 1000-yard freestyle, where he achieved a school record-setting time of 9:21.06.

Along with Franz’s performance, Lachezar Shumkov won the 100-yard breaststroke in 58.41 and the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:05.95.

For the upperclassmen, there were some great swims.

Sophomore Keith Piper won the 100-yard backstroke in 51.60 and the 200-yard backstroke in 1:52.37. Junior Kyungsoo Yoon won the 50-yard freestyle and the 100yard freestyle in 20.68 and 46.46. And last but not least,

junior Grant Fecteau won one-meter diving with 316.80 points, and junior Anthony Cortright won the three-meter diving with 285.00 points.

In regards to the women’s team, there were also several great swimming and diving performances. For swimming, senior Caitlin Gallagher won the 100-yard breaststroke, the 200-yard breaststroke and the 200 IM in 1:03.48, 2:21.10 and 2:06.66. Junior Jordan Bowen won the 500-yard freestyle and 1000-yard freestyle with times of 5:01.12 and 10:15.12. And to cap off the great performances, junior Danielle Cecco won the one-meter diving and the three-meter diving with 294.75 points and 318.98 points.

With the regular season over, the Huskies will now prepare for their upcoming championship competitions. Their first championship competition will be in the Big East Swimming and Diving Championship in Pittsburgh.

James.Huang@UConn.edu