The Daily Campus: February 8, 2012

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Graduate students put in jeopardy

By Amy Schellenbaum Senior Staff Writer

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Up to 150 graduate students will lose tuition waivers and health care coverage the next academic year if the university’s redefinition of graduate assistant position is applied as written in the proposal that passed in August.

The university is looking into ways to implement this redefinition to minimize the number of graduate students negatively affected by the change.

“It was never the intent to remove support from graduate students,” said Interim Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School Kent Holsinger.

The definition revision, set to take effect in Fall 2012, makes students who hold assistant positions not directly related to the disciplines they study exempt from the financial benefits of being a graduate assistant, most notably free tuition.

“Essentially, they wouldn’t be making enough money to pay their tuition, never mind buying food or paying bills,” said Chantelle Messier, president of the Graduate Student Senate pursuing a post-graduate degree in English.

The redefinition is “a preventative measure” to protect graduate assistantships from IRS audits. The federal gov-

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ernment’s Internal Revenue Code states that graduate assistantships must be directly related to a student’s area of study in order for him or her to qualify for the “special taxation status” of graduate school tuition waivers, according to a memo forwarded to The Daily Campus from UConn Spokesperson Michael Kirk.

“We’re looking to find a way

to both protect the tax status of students as well as find support for graduate students who need it,” Holsinger said.

“Exactly how we’re going to do that isn’t clear yet.”

Under this new definition, assistantships in university offices or athletic departments will be student labor positions rather than non-academic graduate assistantships. This switch

front of him, Renee Greenfield of the Educational Psychology Department, realized that the third car was engulfed in smoke.

“The smoke inside the cab of the other car was so thick we couldn’t see inside,” Dolgert said. There were sparks, but no visible flames. At that point, he went to the passenger side and tried to open the doors and windows, but they were locked.

This is when Kitch joined the scene, attempting to break into the window first with his elbow, then by kicking. “It was not budging,” he later told The Daily Campus. Dolgert said those at the scene tried a number of objects including a flashlight to bust open the windows, until a man produced the hammer that was used to successfully break the man out.

The operator of the third vehicle, Jeffrey Ogden, was uncon-

scious when pulled from the vehicle, but started to regain consciousness as first responders gave him treatment. “He was coughing a lot, like, pure black smoke coming out of his mouth,” Kitch said.

Dolgert, who had moved to the hill between CLAS and 195 after the car burst into flames, said that it took Kitch, the man with the hammer and a police officer to drag Odgen’s body out of the car.

According to a police report, Ogden “stated that he did not recall what happened and that when he regained consciousness he was in an ambulance.” After losing consciousness, Ogden’s Honda Civic accelerated into the rear of Dolgert’s car, also a Civic, which then collided with Greenfield’s Toyota Highlander

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On Jan. 17, the first day of classes, a three-car accident at the intersection of North Eagleville Road and 195 made headlines when a man had to be rescued from a flaming car.

Freshman ROTC student Robert Kitch became somewhat of a local hero for his attempts to rescue the driver.

Political Science Professor Stefan Dolgert was leaving campus after his first day working at UConn when he was rear-ended and pushed into the vehicle in front of him at the light.

“I heard this really really loud revving, then all of a sudden, I was hit from behind,” and became wedged in between two cars, he recalled. Upon exiting his vehicle, he and the driver in

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The aftermath from the destructive three-car wreck on Jan. 17, after which freshman student Robert Kitch saved driver Jeffrey Ogden’s life.

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means students in those positions will get fewer of the perks that allow them the means to pursue their degrees, like tax deductions and health care.

“It’s not fair to the graduate students who took these positions not knowing it would change,” Messier said.

Mohammed Khaliefa took a year off pursuing his Ph.D. in computer science engineering

Survivors recall near-fatal accident

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This picture of the graduate student senate was taken in September 2008. A revision of school definitions set to take effect next semester may prevent more than one hundred graduate students from receiving tuition waivers and health care.

to work, and is now worried he won’t have the money to go back to UConn in the fall because of this change.

At UConn, Khaliefa worked at the Roper Center for Public Opinion. If he went back to school under the same assistantship, he would not be able to get his tuition waived.

“My plan is to work and save as much as I can at least so I can have enough money – even if I’m not a GA – to be able to live,” Khaliefa said.

“There’s no way I can go back in the fall.”

Messier has spoken on behalf of graduate students with Holsinger and UConn President Susan Herbst. She also read a statement composed by the GSS executive board at the University Senate meeting.

“We’ve gotten good responses from the administration about this … They seem willing to enter into a dialogue with us,” Messier said. “I’m hopeful this will impact as few people as little as possible.”

“Depending on how we decide we can implement this, there might not be a substantial impact on students. I can’t promise there won’t be, but there won’t necessarily be,” Holsinger said.

Faculty have been “phenomenally concerned” with the potential effects of this change, Messier said.

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Dog Lane, where construction on the Storrs Center is ongoing, will be closed to through traffic for three to four months while utility work on the new complex is done.

Dog Lane closed to through traffic on Monday and will continue to be closed for three to four months during the day.

Local traffic for businesses and residents on Dog Lane will have limited access during regular business hours while the utility work is being done. Regular traffic patterns will resume following the completion of the work.

“The utility work should take three to four months to complete,” said Lon Hultgren, the director of public works.

The work will be on underground electric, telephone and cable wires, as well as water and sewer pipes. Deliveries of pre-

made concrete blocks for the new parking garage will also be made during this time.

“People can still access the retail and residential areas, we just don’t want through traffic,” Hultgren said.

Formerly 11 Dog Lane, the building for The Daily Campus has been assigned the new address of 1266 Storrs Road.

The building can still be accessed from the Buckley parking lot (B lot) entrance.

Questions or concerns may be directed to the Town of Mansfield Public Works Department (860.429.3331) or may be emailed to StorrsCenterInfo@ mansfieldct.org.

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Conn. group home worker charged in fire death

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — State prosecutors say an employee of a Hartford group home has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a resident who set himself on fire.

Faylene E. Wilson of Hartford was charged Tuesday with reckless endangerment for allegedly failing to adequately supervise the emotionally disturbed resident who died last June at a Hartford residential care facility. The offense is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison.

Prosecutors say the 69-year-old Wilson was the overnight attendant responsible for supervising residents and enforcing an overnight curfew.

Authorities say Wilson acknowledged she fell asleep and was unaware of what happened until a police officer responded to a 911 call.

Delay likely in police discrimination civil trial

EAST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A federal judge in Connecticut says she will delay a civil trial in a discrimination case against East Haven police until after criminal cases against four officers charged with violating the rights of Latinos have concluded.

U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton said on Monday she will grant a temporary stay of the civil proceedings requested by federal prosecutors.

Jon Einhorn, the lawyer for ex-police chief Leonard Gallo, says his client is disappointed because he wants to be quickly vindicated.

FBI agents arrested four officers Jan. 24 on criminal charges alleging they violated Latinos’ rights through false arrests and unnecessary searches. The officers have pleaded not guilty.

Malloy wants to cut 25 Conn. boards, commissions

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wants to eliminate 25 state boards and commissions as part of an effort to reduce the size of state government.

The Democratic governor said Tuesday that many of the panels served a worthwhile purpose when they were created years ago.

But today, many are no longer needed or another state body can handle their functions.

The list of proposed eliminations includes the Adult Literacy Board, the Advisory Committee for the William Benton Museum of Art, the Child Daycare Council, the Connecticut Israel Exchange Commission and the State Board of Examiners of Shorthand Reporters. There are 258 boards and commissions to which the governor can make appointments.

Malloy also wants to merge two commissions.

His proposal will require legislative approval. The new session opens Wednesday.

Six workers killed in Conn. explosion remembered

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — Family members, Middletown officials and union members are honoring six workers who were killed two years ago in a Connecticut power plant explosion.

The Middletown Press reports that City Councilman Todd Berch said at a City Hall ceremony Tuesday that family and friends remember the happiness the six workers brought.

The workers — Peter Chepulis, Ronald Crabb, Raymond Dobratz, Kenneth Haskell, Roy Rushton and Chris Walters — were killed Feb. 7, 2010. It was found that a welding torch touched off natural gas that had pooled at the ground at the construction site near the pipe outlets.

Workers were conducting what is known as a “gas blow” in which pipes are cleared of debris.

Attorneys said in November that lawsuits by families of five of the six workers have been settled.

Ex-P&G board member’s NY trial date moved to May

NEW YORK (AP) — The criminal trial of a former board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. has been moved from April to May after his lawyer grumbled that prosecutors want to keep changing the charges.

Rajat Gupta will now go to trial on May 21 on an indictment returned last week. Gupta, of Westport, Conn., is accused of feeding inside information from board meetings to one-time billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of the Galleon Group hedge funds. Rajaratnam was convicted last year and is serving an 11-year prison term, the longest ever given in an insider case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Reed Brodsky said the government planned to tell jurors about instances of insider trading that are not described in the indictment. After Gupta’s lawyer Gary P. Naftalis complained, the judge told the government it could not rewrite the indictment and must disclose to the defense any additional instances of insider trading within six weeks.

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Paul invests in Minnesota looking for first GOP primary win

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn.

(AP) — Presidential hopeful Ron Paul made his final appeal for Minnesota Republican caucus votes with drop-ins at two sites where ballots were to be cast Tuesday night.

The 76-year-old Texas congressman invested days of campaigning and money for television ads ahead of caucuses in Minnesota, where he hoped to eke out the first win of his presidential campaign.

In a brief appearance at Coon Rapids Middle School, Paul waded through a crowd to sign autographs, pose for photos and remind people to vote. He declined to make any predictions on the Minnesota outcome before heading to another suburban Minneapolis caucus site.

He planned a caucus-night party outside Minneapolis.

Paul’s strategy was to concentrate on caucus states where he

could amass national convention delegates even if he didn’t win. He hit on anti-war themes and cast himself as the candidate most committed to cutting government spending.

Paul said his candidacy was perfectly built for Minnesota.

“They love liberty, they don’t like wars and they certainly don’t like the Federal Reserve,” he said.

One caucus-goer in Coon Rapids, truck driver Rod Garberson, said if Paul isn’t the fall nominee the Republican Party won’t get his vote.

“I gotta tell ya, this time I’m pretty well stuck on not supporting the party even if it means eight years of Obama and we all stand in bread lines for five hours for a sack of potatoes,” Garberson said.

Paul finished fourth in Minnesota four years ago. Mitt Romney won the contest in 2008.

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, signs an autograph on a dollar bill as he visits a caucus site Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, in Coon Rapids, Minn.

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz.

(AP) — Police said Tuesday that they have arrested five people in the shocking deaths of an Arizona couple found tied up and burned beyond recognition in their stylish stucco home in a posh Phoenix suburb.

The murders of Lawrence and Glenna Shapiro, well-todo philanthropists in their 70s, were the first in nearly eight years in Paradise Valley, which is set among picture-perfect mountains popular with hikers and is home to some of the area’s nicest resorts and lushest golf courses.

Police have released few details about the crime, including what they think the motive might have been. But a murder weapon and stolen property have been recovered, and one of the suspects — Michael Lee Crane — is facing two murder charges, police Chief John Bennett told reporters Tuesday.

Four other suspects face theft or trafficking in stolen property charges.

Officers went to the couple’s sprawling home the morning of Jan. 30 after Phoenix police found their car on fire behind a strip mall about 20 miles away.

When an officer arrived at the house, she saw smoke coming from inside. Firefighters put out fires that had been set in two bedrooms, including the master bedroom, where the Shapiros’ bodies were discovered. The couple had to be positively identified using dental records.

Police did not say what the murder weapon was, how they tracked down the suspects who were arrested, and refused to answer reporters’ questions after holding a brief news conference. A judge agreed to seal court records in the case that could provide further details, and members of the local news media are contesting the decision.

Bennett said detectives didn’t have reason to believe that the Shapiros were specifically targeted. Also, police think that all the major suspects are now in custody.

Crane, 31, was arrested on two counts each of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and armed robbery, and one count each of burglary and arson, police said. It was unclear where he was from.

The other suspects were identified as Kelly Steward, 29, of Glendale; Shawn Nicloy, 29, of

Phoenix; Brittnay Beinhauer, 27, of Tempe; and Danielle Rossman, 26, of Phoenix.

Steward faces one charge each of theft and trafficking in stolen property, Nicloy faces one count each of trafficking in stolen property and hindering prosecution, Beinhauer faces two counts of theft, and Rossman faces one count each of possession of stolen property, trafficking in stolen property, and hindering prosecution.

Lawyers for the suspects could not immediately be reached Tuesday.

Tuesday’s revelations came the same day as hundreds packed a historic theater in downtown Phoenix for a memorial service for the Shapiros, who started their own charitable organization in 2010 and have actively supported many local civic organizations and charities.

Their family issued a statement on a website they set up after the killings.

“We are eager to see the perpetrators brought to justice so that they can be prevented from doing further harm, and the community may have some peace of mind,” they wrote.

“However, our foremost concern at this moment is coming

Arrests made in murder of Ariz. couple

Kitch said victim didn’t look good as he pulled him from car from ACCIDENT, page 1 SUV. Ogden and Dolgert were taken to Windham Hospital for treatment. Dolgert was given x-rays and released, and describes no lasting symptoms, though he said the event did cause psychological stress for a few days.

“There was a moment there where I thought we weren’t going to be able to save him,” he said. Kitch also said that Ogden “looked pretty close to not making it” when he was pulled from the car.

Kitch and Dolgert both expressed their gratefulness to

the first responders that arrived, especially the policeman who helped rescue Ogden from the car.

“The police officer had a crucial role in saving him,” Dolgert said.

President Susan Herbst thanked Kitch and the others in a statement two days later, when it was known that all three drivers were going to make full recoveries. “I’m so proud of them and thankful that they were in the right place at the right time,” Herbst said.

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to grips with the loss of our parents, which is very difficult.”

Lawrence Shapiro was a handsome doctor who had a gentle touch and fierce devotion to his wife. She was the picture of elegance and grace, a tall blonde Sunday school teacher who once reminded a child of Glinda the Good Witch from “The Wizard of Oz.” Their three grown children and other friends and family spent the afternoon reminiscing about the pair, who met on a blind date at a football game between rivals Arizona State University and the University of Arizona.

Though he was Jewish and she was Mormon, they fell in love and made the difference in their faiths work, and as one friend joked, Glenna learned how to make matzoballs.

In all their years 51 years of marriage, their children said the two never had a harsh word for each other and were very much in love. In fact, Steven Shapiro said the only issue that ever came up was how slow his mother thought Lawrence was behind the wheel.

“It drove her nuts,” he said.

Rick Santorum wins Missouri primary ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Republican Rick Santorum won Missouri’s non-binding presidential primary Tuesday and waited optimistically for a pair of state caucuses that could end front-runner Mitt Romney’s modest winning streak and launch his comeback for the party’s nomination.

The former Pennsylvania senator’s victory in Missouri was worth bragging rights but no delegates. They will be chosen beginning next month in caucuses expected to draw far more competition from Romney, Newt Gingrich and

Texas Rep. Ron Paul. Gingrich wasn’t on the ballot and Romney and Paul barely campaigned here.

Meanwhile, the 70 delegates at stake in Colorado and Minnesota combined were the biggest one-day total so far in the GOP race to name an opponent for President Barack Obama.

Earlier in the day, Santorum urged supporters to reset the Republican presidential race and deny the aura of inevitability to Romney. Santorum also said they must reject Obama’s secular policies.

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Appeals court throws out same-sex marriage ban

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Robin Tyler, left, who with her partner Diane Olson, not shown, became the first same-sex couple to wed in Los Angeles County in 2008, embraces her attorney Gloria Allred after hearing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision on the validity of gay marriage.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Same-sex marriage moved one step closer to the Supreme Court on Tuesday when a federal appeals court ruled California’s ban unconstitutional, saying it serves no purpose other than to “lessen the status and human dignity” of gays.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave gay marriage opponents time to appeal the 2-1 decision before ordering the state to allow

same-sex weddings to resume.

“I’m ecstatic. I recognize that we have a ways to go yet. We may have one or two more legal steps,” said Jane Leyland, who was gathered with a small crowd outside the federal courthouse in downtown San Francisco, cheering as they learned of the ruling.

Leyland married her longtime partner, Terry Gilb, during the five-month window when same-sex marriage was legal in

California.

“But when we first got together, I would have never dreamed in a million years that we would be allowed to be legally married, and here we are.”

The ban known as Proposition 8 was approved by voters in 2008 with 52 percent of the vote. The court said it was unconstitutional because it singled out a minority group for disparate treatment for no

Vending machine dispenses ‘morning-after’ pill

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. (AP) Students at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania can get the “morning-after” pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine, an idea that has drawn the attention of federal regulators and raised questions about how accessible emergency contraception should be.

The student health center at Shippensburg, a secluded public institution of 8,300 students tucked between mountain ridges in the Cumberland Valley, provides the Plan B One Step emergency contraceptive in the vending machine along with condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests.

“I think it’s great that the school is giving us this option,” junior Chelsea Wehking said Tuesday. “I’ve heard some kids say they’d be too embarrassed” to go into town — Shippensburg, permanent population about 6,000 — and buy Plan B. Federal law makes the pill available without a prescription to anyone 17 or older, and the school checked records and found that all current students are that age or older, a spokesman said. It doesn’t appear that any other vending machine in the U.S. dispenses the contraceptive, which can prevent

pregnancy if taken soon after sexual intercourse.

The machine has been in place for about two years, and its existence wasn’t widely known until recently. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is contacting state officials and the university to gather facts, agency spokeswoman Stephanie Yao said Tuesday.

The FDA’s sudden interest took place amid a furor over religious rights and access to birth control. An official resigned from the nation’s largest breast cancer charity Tuesday over Planned Parenthood funding, and Republican presidential candidates attacked the Obama administration for a recent ruling requiring church-affiliated employers to provide birth control.

Consumers have long been able to insert a few coins for the likes of aspirin, ibuprofen, antacids and other common overthe-counter remedies. But some experts see a worrisome trend in making drugs like Plan B, which is kept behind the pharmacy counter, available in a vending machine.

Alexandra Stern, a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Michigan, said she wasn’t questioning a woman’s right to have access to Plan

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B, but whether making it so easily available is a good idea.

“Perhaps it is personalized medicine taken too far,” she said. “It’s part of the general trend that drugs are available for consumers without interface with a pharmacist or doctors.

This trend has serious pitfalls.”

Taking Plan B within 72 hours of rape, condom failure or just forgetting regular contraception can cut the chances of pregnancy by up to 89 percent.

It works best if taken within 24 hours. Some religious conservatives consider the emergency contraceptive tantamount to an abortion drug.

The idea for a vending machine started at Shippensburg after a survey about health center services several years ago. Eightyfive percent of the respondents supported making Plan B available, school spokesman Peter Gigliotti said. The student government endorsed the idea.

The machine is in the school’s Etter Health Center, which only students and university employees can access, Gigliotti said in a statement. In addition, “no one can walk in off the street and go into the health center,” he said; students must check in at a lobby desk before being allowed in.

compelling reason.

The justices concluded that the law had no purpose other than to deny gay couples marriage, since California already grants them all the rights and benefits of marriage if they register as domestic partners.

“Had Marilyn Monroe’s film been called ‘How to Register a Domestic Partnership with a Millionaire,’ it would not have conveyed the same meaning as did her famous movie, even though the underlying drama for same-sex couples is no different,” the court said.

The lone dissenting judge insisted that the ban could help ensure that children are raised by married, opposite-sex parents.

The appeals court focused its decision exclusively on California’s ban, not the bigger debate, even though the court has jurisdiction in nine Western states.

Whether same-sex couples may ever be denied the right to marry “is an important and highly controversial question,” the court said. “We need not and do not answer the broader question in this case.”

Six states allow gay couples to wed — Connecticut, New Hampshire, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York and Vermont — as well as the District of Columbia.

California, as the nation’s most populous state and home to

more than 98,000 same-sex couples, would be the gay rights movement’s biggest prize of them all.

The 9th Circuit concluded that a trial court judge had correctly interpreted the Constitution and Supreme Court precedents when he threw out Proposition 8.

The measure “serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples,” Judge Stephen Reinhardt, one of the court’s most liberal judges, wrote in the 2-1 opinion.

Opponents of gay marriage planned to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling, which came more than a year after the appeals court panel heard arguments in the case.

“We are not surprised that this Hollywood-orchestrated attack on marriage — tried in San Francisco — turned out this way. But we are confident that the expressed will of the American people in favor of marriage will be upheld at the Supreme Court,” said Brian Raum, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal aid group based in Arizona that helped defend Proposition 8.

Legal analysts questioned

Missouri teenager described as “thrill killer” by prosecutors JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri teenager who confessed to murdering a young neighbor girl was described as a thrill killer by prosecutors and a mentally disturbed child by her defense attorneys as a judge heard arguments Tuesday on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or something less.

The small courtroom in Missouri’s capital city descended into chaos as Prosecutor Mark Richardson was making an impassioned, final request for a lifelong sentence for Alyssa Bustamante, who pleaded guilty to murdering 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten in October 2009.

Bustamante’s grandmother, tears flowing from her eyes, stormed out of the courtroom, followed by her grandfather. That prompted Bustamante — who had been staring blankly downward as Richardson recounted her crime — to begin silently crying for the first time in her court proceedings that have spanned more than two years.

Then as Cole County Circuit Judge Judge Pat Joyce announced that she would reveal her sentence on Wednesday, Elizabeth’s grandmother interrupted and cried out from her wheelchair.

“I think Alyssa should get out of jail the same day Elizabeth gets out of the grave!” declared the grandmother, whom a prosecutor later identified as Sandy Corn.

The disorder capped what was an emotional, two-day sentencing hearing highlighted by repeated references to words Bustamante — then age 15 — had written in her diary on the night she strangled, slit the throat and repeatedly stabbed Elizabeth. Bustamante wrote that it was an “ahmazing” and “pretty enjoyable” experience, ending the entry by saying: “I gotta go to church now...lol.”

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Richardson recounted in the courtroom how hundreds of volunteers had searched for Elizabeth near the rural town of St. Martins as Bustamante calmly lied — at least initially — to investigators about the girl’s whereabouts.

The prosecutor urged the judge to impose the maximum for second-degree murder — life in prison with the possibility of parole — and an additional 71 years in prison for armed criminal action, which he said would have matched the remaining life expectancy of Elizabeth.

Richardson also urged that the sentences be served consecutively, meaning that the 18-yearold Bustamante would be an elderly woman before she ever got a chance at parole.

Bustamante’s attorney, Donald Catlett, countered that the sentences should run concurrently and that the judge should take into consideration a presentencing report prepared by the state Division of Probation and Parole that apparently suggests something less than a life sentence. The judge said the recommendation must remain confidential.

Catlett cited the testimony Tuesday of mental health professionals who described Bustamante as a “psychologically damaged” and “severely emotionally disturbed” child. They recounted her family’s history with drug abuse, mental disorders and suicide attempts, noting her father was in prison and her mother had abandoned her — though she was in the courtroom Tuesday for the first time.

Various mental health professionals testified over the course of the two-day hearing that Bustamante suffers from a major depression disorder and displays the features of a borderline personality disorder. Some also said she shows early signs of a bipolar disorder.

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“In effect, the 9th Circuit’s decision allows the Supreme Court to continue the incremental, case-by-case trajectory of marriage for same-sex couples in the United States,” NeJaime said in an email.

Weddings appeared unlikely to resume anytime soon. The ruling will not take effect until the deadline passes in two weeks for Proposition 8’s backers to appeal to a larger panel of the 9th Circuit. Lawyers for the coalition of conservative religious groups that sponsored the measure said they have not decided if they will seek a 9th Circuit rehearing or file an appeal directly to the Supreme Court.

The panel also said there was no evidence that former Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker was biased and should have disclosed that he was gay and in a long-term relationship with another man.

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Students should take advantage of opportunity to donate blood

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n today’s world, it is easy for apathy or ignorance to win out over what human beings know to be good morals. As a result, when such an opportunity to do something good presents itself, it’s vital that UConn students take notice.

For the rest of this week, the American Red Cross, with help from the University of Connecticut’s “Red Cross Club,” is hosting a blood drive on campus.

According to the website’s homepage, “The UConn American Red Cross Club is a service organization that works with the local chapter of the Red Cross to bring multiple blood drives to the Storrs Campus each semester. We contribute to and participate in the Disaster Services of the Red Cross. Our blood drives are among the largest in the State of Connecticut and greatly contribute to the state’s supply of blood.”

This is followed by information about the organization for anyone who wishes to join as well as important information for those looking to donate blood this week.

This is an opportunity for students to do something great.

One donation is capable of saving up to three lives out of the countless numbers of men and women who need blood transfusions each day. The students and faculty on the UConn campus are in a rare and unique position to help save more lives with a single blood donation than any other in the state of Connecticut, due to the sheer size and volume of the drive that’s able to take place here. Therefore it’s up to them to make sure that every blood drive that comes to campus, including this one, maintains the reputation of being the largest in the state.

Giving blood is one way for students to do something significant for themselves and the world. Donations are constantly needed and the benevolence of people willing to donate is always encouraged and appreciated both by the Red Cross and people in need of these donations. On the redcross.uconn.edu website there is information on where to go, how to make an appointment and what eligibility requirements there are to give a healthy donation. All students and faculty are highly encouraged to take the time in the next three days to donate some of their blood and help save up to three lives. Making a difference isn’t hard, because giving blood is so easy.

Students in or near Storrs are able to sign up for an appointment online at redcross.uconn.edu to give a blood donation at the Wilbur Cross building located on campus.

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I think they filmed the movie “Cube” in the School of Business.

For all those who comment that the generator outside the new Classroom Building looks like a time machine… how do you know what a time machine looks like?

Pastanertia: (n.) The force preventing me from walking home from Towers after stuffing my face at pasta bar.

To the kid that knocked the broken stall door in the chem building to the floor, thanks. You literally scared the s**t out of me.

I wish I could fix stuff the way UConn does it. Paint it.

To all you pre-med girls who constantly complain about “orgo”: maybe if you spent half the time you spend complaining about it on actually work, you might find the class to be easier.

I want to get an apartment at Storrs Center next year so I can creep on The Daily Campus building and try to figure out who the InstantDaily is.

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Calhoun on his coaching future: “I’ll be back.” I kinda hope he means that like Schwarzenegger did in “The Terminator” right before he drove the cop car through the door and kicked everyone’s ass.

A horse walks into a bar, the bartender asks “Why the long face?” The horse doesn’t respond because it is a horse. It can neither speak nor understand English. It is confused by its surroundings and gallops out of the bar, knocking over a few tables. #antijokechickenforlife

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Minimum wage increase proposal risky

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our odds of being unemployed after graduation if you remain in Connecticut are potentially about to get much worse.

Democrat Christopher Donovan, the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives, has proposed raising the state’s minimum wage drastically. Under his proposal, the hourly rate would go from the current $8.25 an hour to $9.00 on July 1, then to $9.75 on July 1, 2013.

Even Republican House Leader Lawrence Cafero cautiously supported the idea.

In a bitterly partisan environment where the two parties rarely coalesce around legislation, this

By Jesse Rifkin proposal has Weekly Columnist raised little opposition.

Allow me.

Connecticut already has the fourthhighest state minimum wage, behind Washington ($9.04), Oregon ($8.80), and Vermont ($8.46). Under Donovan’s proposal, we would have the highest minimum wage… by a lot. Why is that bad? Because when running the numbers for current minimum wages in all states alongside their December 2011 unemployment rates (the most recent month for which statistics are available), higher minimum wage clearly correlates with higher unemployment rates.

Specifically, a one dollar minimum wage increase on average equals a 1.39 percent unemployment increase. While that may not sound like much, bear in mind that the difference between the highest unemployment state (Nevada) and lowest (North Dakota) is only 9.3 percent. Isolating the

extremes paints an even clearer portrait.

Nine of the 10 lowest unemployment states abide by the federal minimum wage.

Meanwhile, six of the 10 highest unemployment states have minimum wages higher than the federal.

Why does this phenomenon occur, economically speaking? Because the minimum wage puts people out of work. Let’s say a company plans to spend x dollars on total employee compensation. The more each individual employee must be paid, the fewer total employees the company can hire. For the unemployed, this lessens the likelihood of getting hired. For the employed who are hanging on by a thread, this lessens the likelihood of job retention.

Most states recognize this reality, including Colorado, which in 2009 became the first state to ever decrease their minimum wage. Thirty-two states currently refuse to raise their minimum wages above the federal rate, and these states on average have had 7.2 percent unemployment, compared to 8.5 percent nationally at the time. National politicians increasingly accept this reality as well. Candidate Barack Obama pledged to raise the federal minimum wage to $9.50 within his first term, which has not even come close to occurring despite Democrats controlling Congress during the first two years. And Obama’s likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney vetoed a bill as Massachusetts Governor to raise their state rate from $6.75 to $8.00. (Although the legislature overrode Romney’s veto.)

Still, Connecticut does seem to love a high minimum wage. When the last bill to overhaul the federal minimum wage passed in 2007, all five Connecticut representatives and both senators approved the measure. Meanwhile, our state rate has remained above the federal rate every single year since 1996. The question remains:

why does our state’s love affair with the minimum wage persist?

The answer seems to lie in one admittedly major flaw in my argument: Connecticut appears to be the exception to the rule.

Since Obama took office, Connecticut’s unemployment rate was equal to or lower than the national rate in all but three months. (Those three were March, April, and May of 2011.) Our high minimum wage does not seem to have adversely affected our employment rates as much as other states, likely due to our well educated workforce above all else.

The problem: Connecticut can only sustain this anomaly to a point. In 2004, Connecticut’s minimum wage was $7.10, or 14 percent less than today. Slowly but surely the rate rose. But this new proposed increase skyrockets our rate by $1.50, or 18.1 percent, within less than a year and a half. This is hardly a gradual adjustment as before, but a shock to the system of virtually every business in the state.

I am not opposed to minimum wage increases in principle. However, I am opposed to them in an economic climate such as the present one. If the minimum wage is to be raised, it should be during times of fiscal health and low unemployment rates, as President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich did in 1996 and 1997. Gingrich as a current presidential candidate is noticeably not proposing anything of the sort.

Nevertheless, the prospects that Connecticut will pass this legislation before the year is out are probable. Let’s just hope Connecticut continues to be the exception to the rule.

Weekly Columnist Jesse Rifkin is a 4th-semester political science and journalism double major. He can be reached at Jesse.Rifkin@UConn.edu.

Modern hip hop lacks the edge that Public Enemy exemplified

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onight at 7 p.m., Chuck D will be giving a lecture entitled, “Race, Rap, and Reality.”

Some people will read the first sentence and ask, “Who’s Chuck D?” The sad part is that some of these people will be hip-hop “fans.”

Ok, let me give you a hint: Public Enemy. Still, no? Ok, Chuck D is the front man/emcee for the hiphop group P u b l i c

By Joel Cintron E n e m y .

P u b l i c Staff Columnist Enemy is internationally renowned for its politically motivated and Afro-centric lyrics.

In their heyday, the late eighties to mid-nineties, they were considered “mainstream rap.” They released such songs as “Fight the Power” and “Don’t Believe the Hype” which exclaimed such lyrics as “What we need is awareness, we can’t get careless,” and “Don’t believe the hype – it’s a sequel/As an equal, can I get this through to you.”

However, if they released these same songs today, they would be considered “conscious” rap due to the positive message they encourage; thus these songs would not receive the same attention they did when they were released. In

my opinion, the “hip-hop” that is played on the radio today lacks the same awareness, voice or artistic expression that Public Enemy and similar artists exemplified in the Golden Age of Rap. Present-day hip-hop is a commercialized atrocity which focuses on subjects comparable to the seven deadly sins: Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Pride, etc. (at least we know Kevin Spacey would be happy). Every time I turn the radio on to Hot 93.7 or watch music videos on MTV Jams I hear rappers talk about how much money and luxury they have, the violence they take part in, drugs they sell, and of course, garden tools (think about it). This commercialized repetition only reinforces negative African-American stereotypes.

It’s a successful formula that both the music industry and rappers benefit from as Americans buy into it. Instead of combating African-American generalizations, KRS-One explains in his song “My Philosophy” how rappers, “Reinforce stereotypes of today/Like all my brothas eat chicken and watermelon/ Talk broken English and drug sellin.’” God forbid, they use a broader vocabulary and call for knowledge of self, for if they did they would not receive the

same success or popularity. It is no wonder “conscious” rappers like Mos Def (now Yasiin Bey), Talib Kweli, or The Roots lack commercial success.

I know all things must evolve and progress over time, but during the past two decades hiphop has slowly lost its true essence of creativity and social awareness. The same values it represented upon its creation have been forgotten as rappers and music executives cash in on hyper-masculinity, violence on the streets and the total objectifying of women. It seems to get worse as the years progress when rappers like Tyga say, “Got ya grandma on my d*** (ha ha).” Wow! Is this really on the airwaves right now? No one should be listening to this ignorance, especially the youth.

Then we have Nicki Minaj who has a song titled “Stupid H**.”

I would quote her lyrics but I would lose intelligence by merely writing them, so for my own well-being as well as yours I will spare you.

What happened to songs like “Doo Wop (That Thing)” by Lauryn Hill? On this track, Lauryn asks, “How you gon’ win when you ain’t right within?” She does not call any one a female dog or garden tool;

she respects herself and the audience she addresses. Where are songs like “The Message”

by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and “Keep Ya Head” by Tupac? At least these songs had real substance and spoke of real social problems.

I refuse to listen to today’s mainstream hip-hop; it no longer addresses me and degrades my intelligence. Like someone who screams at a concert, hip-hop has lost its voice. Mainstream artists soak up the spotlight with their profanity-filled rhymes and lack of knowledge while emcees who speak of truth and awareness like Common must fight for airtime. It is a disgrace that the “game” is saturated with rappers who say the same thing.

What is even more disgraceful is that people buy their albums.

I’ll stick to real hip-hop artists and groups like De la Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Gang Starr, and of course, Public Enemy.

For all the true hip-hop heads, Chuck D will be giving his lecture tonight in the Student Union Theatre at 7 p.m. Be there!

Staff Columnist Joel Cintron is a 6th-semester international relations major. He can be reached at Joel.Cintron@UConn.edu.

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Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- With Venus entering Aries, you’re even luckier in love. There’s more work coming in. Invest in your career.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Work’s getting more fun so enjoy it. Your friends are the best. Practice listening to expand your relationships.

Take care of a loved one’s dream.

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Plan an activity night at home sometime soon. You can profit from a new partnership. Double-check your schedule, and keep it.

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Susan Powell case called a murder

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Missing persons case revisited after explosion kills three

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities have been investigating the disappearance of Susan Powell as a murder for at least several months, while they publicly left open the possibility that the Utah mother might be found alive.

A Washington state search warrant obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request Tuesday showed that police were investigating three felonies in Utah: first-degree murder, kidnapping and obstructing a public servant.

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill acknowledged for the first time that they believe Powell is likely dead, but said the case remains a missing persons probe for now.

Gill wouldn’t discuss the evidence, but said authorities don’t have enough information to file charges in the case.

“I think when I talk about it as a missing persons case, that’s because we haven’t located the body of Susan Powell,” Gill said in an interview with the AP. “Do we think that she may have met harm? Sure.

“I think that’s been an ongoing assumption with law enforcement,” he said, adding that the case remains “open and active.”

Investigators are now reassessing the case after her husband and “person of interest” in her 2009 disappearance, Josh Powell, torched his home this weekend, killing himself and their two young children.

ABC News obtained what it says was a voicemail Josh Powell left for his family members. In it, Powell said he couldn’t live without the boys and didn’t want to go on anymore.

In the recording played Tuesday on “Good Morning America,” Powell also said he was calling to say goodbye and apologize.

“I’m sorry to everyone I’ve hurt,” he is heard saying.

“Goodbye.”

An autopsy showed the children also suffered hatchet wounds to their necks.

As authorities work to determine exactly why Powell committed the murders at the Washington residence, investigators said they’re no closer to answering the question they’ve had for two years.

“We still haven’t identified or found where Susan Powell is,” said West Valley, Utah, Police Chief Buzz Nielsen, who is in charge of the investigation into the young mother’s disappearance.

The father of the 5- and 7-year-old boys painted himself as a tortured man, ridiculed without reason in the disappearance of his wife, steadfastly insisting he was innocent until the end.

Powell’s horrific murdersuicide seemed to come out of nowhere. Just days before, in a motion seeking custody of his children filed with a Washington state court, Powell said he missed his wife, and would remain strong for the boys.

“A lesser person would fall under the intense scrutiny I am facing, but apparently my inherent resilience as a person makes it increasingly difficult for them to pursue their agendas,” Powell wrote. “I am standing tall for my sons, but it deeply hurts to face such ridicule and abuse.

“I know my own heart is free of any guilt regardless of what people claim,” he added.

Things changed dramatically when the judge ruled against him, ordering the children to remain with Susan Powell’s parents for now.

On Sunday, Powell’s boys came for a routine supervised visit. They ran ahead, the social worker falling behind. Powell then locked the door, used a

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Mourners float candles at McKinley Park in Tacoma, Wash., Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, during a candlelight vigil held the day after Braden and Charlie Powell were killed along with their father, Josh Powell, when, according to police, Josh Powell set fire to the house they were in on Sunday.

hatchet on his kids, and lit the house on fire.

Ultimately, Powell and both boys died of smoke inhalation, Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office investigator Melissa Baker said Monday evening.

But they also suffered “chop injuries” that contributed to their deaths — 7-year-old Charles was struck on his neck and 5-year-old Braden had injuries to both his head and neck, Baker said.

Pierce County Sheriff’s Detective Ed Troyer said investigators found a hatchet that they believe was used on the boys.

“We recovered a hatchet — a small ax,” he said. “It was right there with” the bodies.

Authorities also said Powell had made thorough plans well ahead of the murders.

“This was definitely a deliberate, planned-out event,” Troyer said.

He said minutes before the fire, Powell sent emails to several people saying, “I’m sorry.

Goodbye.” To others, including his cousins and pastor, he sent longer emails, with instructions on where to find his money and how to shut off his utilities. In at least one email, he wrote that he couldn’t live without his boys, Troyer said.

But, he added, “There’s no indication about Susan in anything that we’ve found so far.”

Nielsen said detectives want to question Powell’s father, Steve Powell, about Susan’s disappearance. He described Steve Powell as another “person of interest” but noted the elder Powell is “not in our sights” in terms of any potentially imminent arrest.

Steve Powell has been in jail on voyeurism and child porn charges since last fall after authorities found explicit images on his computers during a search of his home in the case of his missing daughter-in-law.

After his arrest, the state turned the boys over to Susan Powell’s parents, Charles and Judy Cox. Steve Powell claimed on

national television last year to have had a flirtatious or even sexual relationship with Susan — something her family has adamantly denied.

Josh Powell claimed that the night his wife vanished in December 2009, he took the boys from their West Valley City home, about 10 miles outside Salt Lake City, on a midnight camping trip in freezing temperatures — a story her parents never believed. Authorities searched the area in the central Utah desert but came up empty.

Less than a month after the disappearance, Josh Powell moved the boys to his father’s home in Puyallup, south of Seattle.

Sunday’s tragedy left the Coxes devastated. They spoke to reporters Monday to give a glimpse of the lives the boys led.

They said the boys played happily and didn’t want to visit their father when the time came for their weekly Sunday visit.

But Judy Cox said she talked them into going — and she now regrets it.

Charles Cox said he didn’t necessarily think there was any more the court could have done legally to protect his grandchildren. However, he said he didn’t like that there was only one supervisor during their visits with their father.

“We suspected that if he had the boys in his control, with him, and he felt the police were closing in, he was capable (of hurting them),” Cox said. “We didn’t like that there was only one supervisor. Frankly, she couldn’t have stopped him if he wanted to do something.”

The boys were emotionally distant when they first arrived at their grandparents’ home, Charles Cox said, but recently they had become warmer.

And that gave the grandparents hope that maybe someday they would be able to relate what happened to their mother.

“They were like little robots.

If you asked them about mommy, they would run away,” he said. But “in the last week, I could not sit down without them climbing up on my lap.”

Komen exec quits after Planned Parenthood flap

ATLANTA (AP) — A vice president at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure resigned Tuesday, saying the breast cancer charity should have stood by its politically explosive decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.

Karen Handel, a Republican who opposed abortion as a candidate for Georgia governor, said she was actively engaged in efforts to cut off the grants and said the charity’s reversal hurt its core mission.

“I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement in it,” Handel said in her letter. “I openly acknowledge my role in the matter and continue to believe our decision was the best one for Komen’s future and the women we serve.”

The grants, totaling $680,000 last year, went to breast-screening services offered by Planned Parenthood, which provides a range of women’s health care services including abortions. Under criteria developed by Komen during Handel’s tenure, Planned Parenthood would have been disqualified from future grants because it was under a

congressional investigation launched at the urging of anti-abortion activists.

Komen, the nation’s largest breastcancer charity, reversed course after its decision ignited a three-day firestorm of criticism. Members of Congress and Komen affiliates accused the group’s national leadership of bending to pressure from anti-abortion activists.

“Neither the decision nor the changes themselves were based on anyone’s political beliefs or ideology,” Handel said in her resignation letter. “Rather, both were based on Komen’s mission and how to better serve women, as well as a realization of the need to distance Komen from controversy.”

Handel said the discussion had started before she arrived at the organization last year. She said the charity was concerned that some Roman Catholic Dioceses had encouraged believers not to give to Komen because it supported Planned Parenthood.

“I was tasked with identifying options that would allow us to move to neutral ground about this so we weren’t on either side of you know, pro-life, pro-choice,” Handel said.

Komen Founder and CEO Nancy G. Brinker said she accepted Handel’s resignation and wished her well.

“We have made mistakes in how we have handled recent decisions and take full accountability for what has resulted, but we cannot take our eye off the ball when it comes to our mission,” Brinker said in a statement. “To do this effectively, we must learn from what we’ve done right, what we’ve done wrong and achieve our goal for the millions of women who rely on us.”

Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Andrea Hagelgans declined to comment.

Handel said the now-abandoned policy was fully vetted by the Komen organization. Its board did not raise any objections when it was presented with the proposed policy in November, Handel said.

The breast cancer charity cited a probe backed by anti-abortion groups and launched by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., to determine if Planned Parenthood improperly spent public money on abortions. Planned Parenthood says taxpayer money is strictly separated.

Until Tuesday, Handel had publicly kept silent about her role in the dispute.

“What was a thoughtful and thoroughly reviewed decision - one that would have indeed enabled Komen to deliver even greater community impact - has unfortunately been turned into something about politics,” Handel said.

“This is entirely untrue. This development should sadden us all greatly.”

A person with direct knowledge of decision-making at Komen’s headquarters in Dallas said last week that the grant-making criteria were adopted with the deliberate intention of targeting Planned Parenthood. The criteria’s impact on Planned Parenthood and its status as the focus of government investigations were highlighted in a memo distributed to Komen affiliates in December.

According to the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions, a driving force behind the move was Handel, who was hired

by Komen last year as vice president for public policy after losing a campaign for governor in Georgia.

Brinker, in an interview with

MSNBC last week, said Handel “did not have anything to do with this decision.”

Handel ran for governor in 2010. She received an endorsement from former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, but lost a primary runoff to former Georgia Rep. Nathan Deal, who won the general election.

Throughout the campaign, Deal accused Handel of being soft on abortion.

Deal repeatedly attacked Handel over a 2005 vote she took while serving on a metro Atlanta county commission to give more than $400,000 to Planned Parenthood, though not for abortion services. The Georgia affiliate of Planned Parenthood said the money went to a downtown clinic for services such as cervical cancer screenings, testing for sexually transmitted diseases and birth controls.

A longstanding law bans using federal money to pay for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to protect the health of the mother.

Anti-abortion activists in Georgia praised Handel’s decision.

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Author describes fusion of religion and government

By Holly Battaglia Campus Correspondent

The Cardinal Rule “You can use a little teeth but we don’t want to be a biter.” This is poor advice from the movie “Old School” that most people know better than to follow. Teeth are painful and scary, and can result in injuries to your partner’s member.

You might even be scraping a little bit without realizing it. Practice on your fingers, in a private setting. If you can feel your teeth, figure out what you need to do differently with your lips in order to not hurt anyone’s penis.

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Author Michael Sean Winters spoke to an audience at the Co-op Tuesday evening. Winters discussed his book, “God’s Right Hand,” and how politician Jerry Falwell’s fusion of politics and religion shape current values.

This was no ordinary church.

Besides a chapel, it also included aid services for various charities, primary and secondary education, and most famous, Liberty College.

Liberty College was established in 1973 and is currently considered the world’s largest Evangelical college. The college consequently lessened the strict laws enforced.

Because this church’s, or ghetto’s, barriers were let down to allow students into school and into the world after graduation, it also allowed outside influence in. Thus, the ghetto today has lower expectations to follow strict Evangelical beliefs.

Falwell’s influence is also

still seen, especially in present abortion arguments. In the 1980s, he further divided the split between Republican’s prolife beliefs and the Democrat’s pro-choice beliefs.

While writing “God’s Right Hand,” Winters decided against interviewing past companion of the late Falwell.

Instead, he wanted to focus on doctrinal accounts, so not to filter criticism the politician received.

Many claimed Falwell was an illegitimate political figure because he based his views on his religion. His orthodox ways would diminish any circumstances where

negotiation would normally be a possibility.

“Values are rooted in doctrine, not a race of ethics” Michael Sean Winters Author Some would also claim that by forming this Republic moral majority, religion was reduced to a matter of ethics, not doctrine.

“I have a problem with that,” says Winters. “Values are rooted in doctrine, not a race of ethics.”

“I don’t know how I feel about Falwell,” said Rebecca Pritchard, a 4th semester biology major. “I didn’t know much about him before this lecture.

I’m not very religious, so to me his views and actions seem very conservative and strict.”

“God’s Right Hand” is available in bookstores today. After reading it, join Rebecca in expressing her views on the subject on Winters’ blog at www.ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic.

Jamie.Dinar@UConn.edu

Students use coffee as professional and social networking tool

By John Tyczkowski Associate Focus Editor

When Steve Tao began his study abroad experience at the University of Hong Kong last year, he had no idea that it would inspire him to form a new club back at UConn.

While in Hong Kong, Tao took a class in human capital and social resources and learned about the value of meeting new people and exchanging new ideas. While taking the class, he would frequently grab meals and coffee with his fellow exchange students, which served to reinforce what he was learning. Upon his return to UConn, he decided to form a club that would offer others the same type of connectionmaking and learning that he had experienced first-hand. “[The Coffee Network] is all about meeting different types of people and learning new things from them,” said Tao, an 8th semester finance major and president of the organization.

The Coffee Network has two major components: gathering people together through social interaction (such as meeting over coffee), and then creating connections, both professional and personal.

“It’s ultimately about unifying students from different academic programs via social networking and interpersonal communication,” said Tao. Evelyn Zuk, an 8th-semester accounting major and friend of Tao, serves as the Coffee Network’s vice president.

“I joined because in addition to my love of coffee, I love getting to know people from all sorts of different backgrounds,”

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By Jamie Dinar Campus Correspondent Michael Sean Winters discussed his book, “God’s Right Hand,” which explores the political and religious views of politician Jerry Falwell.

Falwell was a controversial figure that infused his conservative, Evangelical views into his politics. He eventually formed the “moral majority,” or the Evangelical base of today’s Republican party.

It is called the moral majority because of the religion’s traditional values. After the 1960’s Scope Trials, Falwell set out to “galvanize” a group of Evangelicals who were alienating themselves from society.

This group believed the mainstream, tainted American culture would eventually tarnish their own pure beliefs. Falwell encouraged the group to take a greater stand in politics, hoping to avoid having future presidential candidates to further this cultural corruption.

Once a large portion of the Evangelical population joined the Republican party, Falwell then enforced a system called “Co-Belligerency.”

This means that whether you agree on doctrinal issues or not, common moral issues could join two opposing groups to fight a common enemy.

Falwell’s most tangibly colossal achievement was the creation of his Mega-Church in the 1950s.

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Steve Tao created “The Coffee Network” upon his return from studying abroad in Hong Kong. The club encourages students to meet for coffee to forge new connections.

Zuk said. “When Steve came to me with this idea I knew we could make it into a club that was about more than just coffee.”

Looking to the club’s future, Tao has recently introduced a resume critique session that he hopes to make a regular fixture at meetings. Playing on the social networking aspect of the club, the diverse background and experience each member of the Network brings is central to the sessions’ success.

“The point is to use networking and making connections to help each other find good internships or dream jobs,” said Tao. Zuk also mentioned her ideas for a future direction for the Network, chief among those being to maintain the club as a support structure for alumni to come and share their experiences with current students.

“I feel that students relate more to real people who just went through the college expe-

rience, found a job, and adjusted to the real world if they hear it firsthand, than if they ask an advisor on campus or the career centre,” Zuk said.

So far, The Coffee Network has met 3 times at coffee shops such as the local Starbucks and Tisane in Hartford. The Network started small at around 10 people, but is continuing to grow. Tao mentioned that plans for a visit to a famous coffee shop in New York City are also in the works.

Meetings are bi-weekly, and the next Coffee Network meeting will be on Thursday, February 16. More information can be found on the group “The Coffee Network” on Facebook.

“Some students love coffee, others love tea,” said Zuk. “Still, others just want a chance to simply meet new students and see what they share in common, even if it’s just an affinity for meeting new people.”

John.Tyczkowski@UConn.edu

Q: Is it okay to touch a guy’s balls?

A: In the words of Brian Coughlin, 8th-semester history major, “If you ignore the sack, that blowjob is whack. But, if you don’t play gentle, he will go mental.” This is one of the most profound things that I have ever heard. Basically, the general consensus amongst the males and females I polled was that everyone’s balls are different and some can be rather, er, testy. Ball-play can be the cherry on top of a good blowjob, when done right and both parties are comfortable with that sort of thing. On the other hand, an anonymous source described it as somewhat of a “doctor’s office examination.” The bottom line is to take time to get to know what someone likes.

Blowjob Horror stories and my interpretations: “She looked me in the eye and said, ‘Don’t come in my mouth, that’s what my boyfriend does.’” – David Art., 8th-semester English major.

This is not a question of technique. It boils down to the fact that cheating is bad and you should not go around giving blowjobs all willy-nilly.

“I know a girl that was giving head to a really drunk guy while they were hooking up in a closet and he peed in her mouth. She continued to give him head after he peed in her mouth.” – Victoria A., 6th-semester communications disorder major This might have been a practical joke, or a sad attempt at hastening a subpar drunken beej. There are so many reasons why this could have happened, but it is sort of a “choose your own adventure” that began with alcohol. Just remember that alcohol is like lube. A little bit helps to get things going and a lot of it ends up being a big mess.

“A girl was giving me head, and then pulled her face away and shot me in the eye with my own semen. That’s why I will never give facials.” – Tom N., 8th- semester political science major.

This seems like a freak accident, but you could always close your eyes if you think this might happen to you.

“I once tried to give a blowjob in the shower and I almost drowned.” – Mistletoe M., 8thsemester political science major Synchronized swimming lessons could help your breathing.

“I know this other girl that got semen in her eye, and had to wear glasses for a week.” –Victoria N., 6th-semester communication disorders major Semen can come out of a man’s penis at speeds as fast as 32 mph. No matter how much you would like to watch this phenomenon, you should close your eyes for safety when it is in close proximity to your face. Class dismissed.

Holly.Battaglia@UConn.edu

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Budget Gems: Dustforce The other day I decided to spend about a half-hour playing through some levels of a new game on Steam called “Dustforce,” a game that has you play as a janitor in charge of cleaning up messy areas as quickly and thoroughly as possible.

After only completing two levels, I checked the time only to realize that my “short” session had lasted two hours. “Dustforce” is a game where one can easily lose track of time while playing due to its addicting gameplay, beautiful artwork and a musical score that is nothing short of perfection.

It is a game that does not hold your hand, as even the tutorial fails to explain many aspects of the game, which just leaves the player to figure it out while playing.

Some may be put off by the game’s insane difficulty, but those who persevere will be rewarded with an immense feeling of satisfaction, not to mention a replay of their flawless run that can be shared with the world on the game’s leaderboards. The game is moderately priced at 10 dollars, and with more than 50 levels to explore, there’s no reason why anyone should pass it up.

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“Happy Action Theater” offers Kinect players 18 modes to play, a virtual stage for performing and different themes such as a winter scene and a disco dance floor.

By Jason Bogdan Senior Staff Writer Double Fine’s latest downloadable Kinect game, Happy Action Theater, is anything but what one calls a “game.”

Included in the package are 18 playable modes, but this collection is just a virtual toybox of activities, with no primary goals to achieve. Even so, that still doesn’t mean this $10 toy isn’t a blast.

What makes HAT work in its complete depravity of challenge is the uniqueness of each mode for plenty of fun variety. Each uses the camera feature of the Kinect to set up a televised stage that allows up to six people to just mess around in harmless glee.

Examples include a winter theme that lets players throw snowballs at one another, a lava level that will have people covered in graphical flames unless they gain levity like sitting on a couch and a disco dancefloor that lets anyone shake their moneymakers alongside a crew of 2D cartoon characters. For

the players who don’t want to solely rely on their imagination, there are stages based around Space Invaders and

as its downfall. Double Fine Happy Action Theater, however, is the exception to that unfortunate rule. In fact, the

Happy Action Theater

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The Good

-This isn’t a game, but that doesn’t mean these 18 task-deprived activities aren’t each fun in their own way.

-”Happy Action Theater” will probably be the only Kinect-enabled game that isn’t brought down at all by the peripheral’s mediocre stability. My golden retriever certainly has no complaints about that.

The Bad

-If you live in a house where only you’ll be the one playing video games, Happy Action Theater will most likely have limited appeal.

-I’ll most likely never easily find a specific activity in the ambiguous menu system.

Breakout, as well as twelve hidden achievements to find.

Since the launch of the Microsoft Kinect, each and every supported game has had the peripherals lack of finesse in tracking body movement

set up actually encourages unstable fidelity in its simplistic settings to make the flower seeds and birds fly about more freely. And without any restrictions in tracking limbs, even my dog became involved

in popping balloons.

Even though this game does succeed extremely well in its toy-like identity, there are a few setbacks. First and foremost, the unsurprising factor that HAT is not meant to be played alone. That isn’t to say I enjoyed watching my ugly mug get distorted in multiple ways.

But this “game” is meant to be played with multiple people, and it shows when creativity is key. HAT also gets some negative points in its menu structure where the tabs for each of the 18 activities are just a small picture, resulting in some awkward guesswork when selecting favorites.

Regardless, there’s no doubt that any party- going owner of the Kinect should immediately download this digital plaything. It’s the kind of thing that children, drunken people and anyone who wants to let their creative juices just mindlessly flow will return to for years to come.

Jason.Bogdan@UConn.edu

Beat cabin fever with multiplayer games

By Joe O’Leary Senior Staff Writer We’re smack-dab in the doldrums of winter, even if it doesn’t feel like it this year thanks to the screwy weather. And while most gamers would be content to escape from the blustery wind and cold rain by jumping into the worlds of “Skyrim” or “Skyward Sword,” there’s one major problem with those great games; since they’re both single player, they’d probably be playing it alone. In case a major storm does indeed hit Storrs, and you’re snowed in with a few friends and a gaming console, there are a few party games to help you survive cabin fever.

While the Wii doesn’t have a lot of graphics power, it excels in multiplayer fun. There are a lot of great dancing and mini game multiplayer games out there for the Wii, and while the market’s a bit flooded, games like “Wario Ware” and “Just Dance” (yes, I’m willing to admit it’s actually fun) are great with friends, not to mention classic Nintendo franchises like “Mario Kart” or “Super Smash Brothers Brawl.” And by plugging a few Gamecube controllers into your Wii, you gain access to some of the Gamecube’s greatest multiplayer games. From “Mario Superstar Baseball” to “Super Monkey Ball,” not to mention the dozens of other classics out there that don’t contain the word

“super,” these games will lead to a lot of happy and not-so-happy yelling.

But maybe your friends are positively hipster when it comes to games, and can’t stand anything made since Bush was in office. Turn no further than the Wii Virtual Console. For $10 a pop, you can nab some of the best N64 classics from your grade school days, ready and waiting for fourplayer insanity. The true classic of the service is “Mario Party 2,” though Nintendo didn’t release the first game on the service, its sequel is just as good. It has led to hours upon hours of anger, backstabbing and pain among my friends, the highest compliment a virtual board game can get. And that’s just scratching the surface of the console’s offerings; other classics include “Star Fox 64,” “Mario Tennis” and the original “Super Smash Brothers,” all of which will be a blast with your friends.

Of course, we don’t all have Wiis. The Xbox 360 and PS3 both have great multiplayer libraries, even only considering multiplatform standbys like “Castle Crashers” and “Rock Band” and newer releases like “Soul Calibur V.” 360 users with Xbox Live have shooters like “Halo: Reach,” which can, incidentally, be played over LAN networks in UConn dorms, while PS3 owners have similar exclusives like “Uncharted 3.” But owners of any of the three

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“Mario Party 2” is among a slew of quality games that have multiplayer options for a stormy day.

consoles should check out a game that’s been under the radar for a long time.

“You Don’t Know Jack” is a simple trivia game presented like a game show, but it is one of the most addicting, hilarious games in years. Your usual round of “Jack” involves four players attempting to answer a completely random question about useless trivia, while trying to find out if there’s a purposely wrong joke answer worth

double points, all the while the game’s moronic narrator berates them for incorrect responses. It’s chaotic fun that leads to lots of trash talking, confused yelling and uncontrollable laughter. And it only costs about $20, so it’s well worth your money.

Get these games now. You and your snowed in friends won’t be disappointed.

Joseph.O’Leary@UConn.edu

When I drove to my local GameStop to pre-order “Xenoblade Chronicles” and the 3DS Circle Pad Pro, it was a generally unpleasant experience. It wasn’t a result of the soulless interaction with the store clerk, or the unnerving thought that the Circle Pad Pro is an addition that should’ve been on the 3DS in the first place. No, it was because I had to go to this establishment to purchase both these items.

Yes, GameStop managed to buy the rights to be the exclusive U.S. seller of both those items. For Xenoblade, it doesn’t come off as too surprising, as the North American localization only came about from months of fan demands. But the Circle Pad Pro – a peripheral necessary for better dual-stick support of selected games – just reeks of desperation. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened, such as when WalMart exclusively sold the Chibi Robo DS game. But, it’s still disconcerting.

It’s not like retailers haven’t already dragged gamers between stores with the elusive pre-order bonuses. It’s gotten to the point where “Batman: Arkham City” included a complex, visual map of sorts going around that showed where you can find the specific bonus character skin. It’s a constant battle.

Yet, Best Buy easily gets the A for effort for going the extra mile by doing stuff like including extra songs in the “Just Dance” games. Amazon.com usually has the best deals with store credit bonuses because money always beats multiplayer maps. Yet when GameStop has a keychain instead of just DLC, people like me can’t help but sheepishly obey.

Exploited retail perks aside, there’s one aspect to buying games that has been complex for decades now: the existence of multiple consoles. Unlike all the other media that have multiple formats, video games have numerous systems sharing the same, general technical power.

Honestly, you can’t really be so harsh on GameStop solely selling “Xenoblade” in an industry where Uncharted is only on the Playstation 3. When it comes to “Final Fantasy XIII-2” being on both the Xbox 360 and PS3, a gamer has to debate for an experience that is essentially the same on both consoles.

So is it silly how Best Buy’s version of “Just Dance 3” had extra Katy Perry songs and The Simpsons Arcade Game became available on the Xbox a few days before the PS3? A bit, yes.

But aside from that rare situation like GameStop exclusively selling the Circle Pad Pro, I don’t have any complaints. In the end, having to choose between systems and retailers helps keep this hobby interesting.

Jason.Bogdan@UConn.edu

Marvel hits refresh button on Fantastic Four

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — It’s a familiar tale: Science genius, smart girlfriend, her hot-shot brother, and a football-player-turned-accomplished-pilot travel to space, get bombarded by cosmic rays and come back a foursome with fantastic powers.

But it’s a story born of the early 1960s when phones were on hooks, faces were in books and tweets were coming from the robin down on Jaybird Street.

Marvel Comics is updating the origin of the Fantastic Four this week in a sleeker tale dubbed “Season One” with a more contemporary vibe, while sticking to the roots of Reed Richards, Sue Storm, brother Johnny, and Ben Grimm, otherwise known for the past 51 years as Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing.

Think tablet PCs instead of roomsized computing machines.

The revision is part of Marvel’s push to add modern touches to its characters. Marvel also is bringing a modern spin to the origins of its other classic characters this year in similar “Season One” editions, including Daredevil, Spider-Man and the X-Men. “The aim is definitely to continue to keep these characters relevant in an ever-changing world, but also to tell a new story set within this time

frame, not merely recount or retell comics that other people have previously done,” said Tom Breevort, who edits the publisher’s Fantastic Four line of books.

“We tweaked elements where it made sense. Everybody in the ‘Season One’ books has a cell phone, for example, but we tried to maintain the spirit of the seminal stories that these tales are built upon,” he said.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, a playwright and TV writer whose credits include “Glee” along with several stories for Marvel, said “Fantastic Four: Season One” isn’t a reboot of the classic origin, penned by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby.

“It’s more of a ... refresh,” he said.

“The world’s changed over the last 50 years. How we tell comic stories, how we absorb them, so let’s update a great concept by setting it in the present. By giving it a contemporary sensibility.”

Artist David Marquez likened it to reintroducing classic stories to modern audiences.

“The storytelling techniques we use as creators and the expectations of readers have changed since the FF’s origins were first told. And because of this, it can be hard for people who didn’t grow up accustomed to the Silver Age style to find these stories as exciting and

inspiring as those of us who did,” said Marquez, whose first published comic work, “Syndrome,” came out in 2010.

Aguirre-Sacasa said the idea is to make the characters more relevant to a reader who navigates social media, consumes information and is fluent in not just pop culture, but entertainment of all stripes.

“Another example, and it’s just a little thing, but the Fantastic Four — after their ill-fated debut battling the Mole Man — are Internet sensations,” he said. “And Johnny, annoyingly, is burning up Twitter.

Again, it’s little details like that, which don’t alter the fundamental DNA of the Fantastic Four, but blow the cobwebs off a story that’s decades old. And have a slightly more pop flavor.”

Ultimately, however, no matter the year — be it 1961 or 2012 — the objective is creating a fresh and invigorating story with characters that have been a bedrock for Marvel.

“This was my first big project at Marvel, and it gave me a chance to draw characters I have been in love with since I first started reading comics as a kid,” Marquez said. “I really had to up my game to show everyone at Marvel that I could do justice to Roberto’s script, not to mention the high bar set by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.”

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Marvel’s “Fantastic Four: Season One,” the first in what will be a series of titles that take classic origins of Marvel characters, including Daredevil, Spider-Man and The X-Men, and refresh them with a contemporary feel evoking modern time.

Big names to perform for queen Designers lend their glamour LONDON (AP) — Some of the world’s biggest pop stars will perform in front of Buckingham Palace on June 4 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, palace officials said Tuesday.

The lineup will include former Beatle Paul McCartney, singers Elton John and Shirley Bassey and popular boy band JLS. Longtime favorites Cliff Richard and Tom Jones will also perform.

Concert organizers said that many more stars, including some from America and Australia, will also be on the bill, with details to be released in the coming months.

“It’s going to be fun,” Elton John said in a video shown to reporters at Buckingham Palace.

The event is a centerpiece in the queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, which have already kicked off to mark her 60 years on the throne.

It follows a raucous Golden Jubilee concert in 2002 that featured a rendition of “God Save the Queen” by Queen guitarist Brian May performed in the open air on the palace roof.

Take That star Gary Barlow, charged with organizing the gala event, said he hopes as many as half a million people are able to see the concert from the public areas in front of the

palace. It will also be broadcast on television and radio.

“The whole world will be watching,” he said, while acknowledging it may be hard to top May’s performance at the 2002 gala.

“We all remember that and we will try to come up with something newer and better,” he said.

Some 10,000 tickets will be awarded by lottery. Tickets will also include entry into the palace garden for a jubilee picnic, with food provided by the palace.

The queen and husband Prince Philip plan to attend along with other senior members of the royal family.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Can President Barack Obama’s campaign recapture the glamour quotient of four years ago?

Yes it can, says actress Scarlett Johansson — even if it’s one designer tote bag at a time.

Johansson, dressed in a black-and-sheer Stella McCartney frock, lent her own glamour quotient Tuesday to a launch party for Runway to Win, a fundraising initiative from the fashion world. A creation of Vogue editor Anna Wintour, one of the top Obama fundraisers in the country, it brings together 27 designers who’ve made relatively lowcost items such as canvas tote bags and T-shirts with Obama images and logos, now being sold online, with profits going to the campaign.

Johansson pronounced them “wearable, beautiful pieces.”

“To everyone I know with birthdays in between now and November: You’re welcome!” she quipped to the crowd, which sipped wine, munched on hors d’oeuvres and, of course, shopped. Also addressing the crowd: Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, who urged guests to “Buy everything you can get your hands on.”

Items piled on tables included a T-shirt designed by singer Beyonce and her mother, Tina Knowles, decorated with slogans such as, “I’m in!” (The

shirt sells for $45.) A gray long-sleeved T-shirt by Jason Wu, who famously designed Michelle Obama’s white inaugural ballgown, had a bird on a branch, in campaign colors (red, white and blue). A Marc Jacobs tee simply said: “I Vote Obama.”

And plain old canvas totes gained a lot of cachet merely from the tiny labels on them: Vera Wang, Derek Lam, Tory Burch and many others.

Johansson, chatting with reporters, said it was important for the campaign to “reintroduce that kind of cool factor to the re-election.”

She deflected a question about fellow actor Matt Damon, her co-star in the recent movie “We Bought a Zoo,” who campaigned for Obama four years ago but has been quite vocal about his disillusionment this time around.

Johansson said the president is “fighting an uphill battle.”

“He was always going to be a two-term president,” she said. “Change doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time.”

She said she was even more enthusiastic than last time.

“It’s so important that his vision continue,” she said.

“And the alternative is devastating. It just cannot be.”

Wintour, wearing a Thakoon silk scarf ($95), said she thought fashion designers “can be very helpful” this

election year — “As you see here tonight. These designers are going way beyond the call of duty. They should be working on their shows.”

Scoping out the merchandise was one high-profile designer who can’t vote in the United States — Frenchman Olivier Theyskens, of Theory, which lent its showroom for the event.

“Designers are like dreamers,” Theyskens said. “So it’s good for us sometimes to get into politics, into reality, into the real future. I can’t vote here, but I can say what I think.”

The Obama campaign says the merchandise has been created in full compliance with campaign finance laws.

Johansson had her own comeback to reported Republican concerns that the Runway to Win project might violate campaign finance rules if the items cost a lot more than they’re selling for, saying of the GOP: “They’re so unfashionable!”

As for her own candidate, she said, he and his wife “have a casual cool about them.

They’re a very stylish couple.”

Johansson sure looked great in her designer duds, but will she be attending shows during Fashion Week, which starts on Thursday?

“No,” she said. “Fashion shows can be a little highmaintenance.”

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First dance music segment for Grammys Grammy show producer Ken Ehrlich had considered putting dancing/electronica music into the ceremony in the past, but could never quite figure out how to incorporate the high-energy club feel in front of a sometimes staid audience.

He thinks he's figured it out this year. For the first time, the Grammy show will put the spotlight on the genre with a segment featuring Grammy nominees Deadmau5, the Foo Fighters, Chris Brown, David Guetta and Lil Wayne, all performing in a tent space amid 1,000 fans.

"We decided to go all out this year," Ehrlich said of the performance taking place outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where Sunday's ceremony will be held. "All we're going to try and do next week is to try and put the home audience in the middle of it. ... It is more than just sitting there and watching it."

Dance music did not receive its own category until 2003 with the best dance recording/dance field, and the music had not been featured with its own segment in the show.

"I don't know that I figured out a way to do it that felt right until now," Ehrlich said in an interview Monday. "My feeling about

dance is it's such an immersive experience for the participant, that to put it on stage ... where the audience is not a part of it ...

I don't know, honestly, until we came up with the idea of doing it this way, I don't know if it ever would have worked."

Ehrlich calls the performance the "most ambitious number that we've ever done outside the Staples Center." It will feature at least four cameras from audience level as Deadmau5 (pronounced dead mouse) and the Foo Fighters perform his remixed version of the band's song "Rope," which netted him one of his Grammy nominations, and as Brown and Lil Wayne perform with Guetta.

Ehrlich said the performance reflects the popularity of dance music over the past few years.

"As much as a recorded medium that it is, and the fact that it's selling a lot of CDs and downloads, it's really a live experience," he said. "It is more than just sitting there and watching it."

Other performers on the show include Adele, Bruce Springsteen, Chris Brown, Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift for what Ehrlich boasted would be a "pretty amazing show."

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In this July 15, 2011 file photo, singer Chris Brown performs on NBC's "Today Show" in New York. With his hit single “Look at Me Now,” Brown has dominated more than just the R&B territory: The track was Billboard's No. 1 rap song of 2011 and it's nominated for two Grammys in the rap category.

Two more autism-friendly shows planned for Broadway NEW YORK (AP) — Two more autism-friendly performances of Broadway musicals will be offered this spring and fall following the success last year of the first showing of a Broadway show specially altered for those diagnosed with the disorder.

The Theatre Development Fund, a nonprofit organization focused on providing access to live theater, said Tuesday it plans to offer specially designed matinee showings of "Mary Poppins" on April 29 and "The Lion King" on Sept. 30.

The move comes after the Fund got enthusiastic feedback from grateful families when it launched a pilot effort in October with an autism-friendly

showing of "The Lion King."

"It went so much better than any of us had hoped," said Victoria Bailey, the Fund's executive director. "The value of being able to go to the theater as a family with kids on the autism spectrum and their siblings in an environment that felt safe was huge."

Autism disorders strike one in 100 children, according to U.S. government estimates. Children with the diagnosis are often sensitive to loud noises and harsh lights and find it difficult to sit still or remain quiet. Autism spectrum disorders include both severe and relatively mild symptoms.

After news of the initial performance of "The Lion King,"

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Testimony concluded Tuesday in a trial that will decide whether the Golden Globe Awards remain on the NBC television network through 2018 with a federal judge strongly urging both sides to settle before a ruling is necessary.

U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz warned attorneys for the Globes' organizers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and its longtime producers that he would declare a clear winner, which could result in the Globes being tangled up on appeal for another awards season.

The case involves a $150 million deal that dick clark productions, also known as dcp, negotiated with NBC in 2010.

The glitzy awards gala has aired on the network since 1996, but the HFPA contends the company had no right to enter the deal or to continue working on the show without its authorization.

Attorneys for dcp, which is no longer owned by entertainment pioneer Dick Clark, argue a nearly 20-year-old agreement gives the company rights to work on the Globes for as long as it airs on NBC. After hearing nine days of testimony, Matz set closing arguments in the case for Friday and urged both sides to make another attempt at reconciliation.

"Somebody's going to win and somebody's going to lose," Matz said. "It's not going to be a compromise."

He said if he ruled it would leave a legal cloud over the Globes as faced during this year's show, in which both sides agreed to allow the show to be produced under the disputed terms of the NBC deal.

The contentious court fight wasn't apparent to audiences, but the HFPA has said it needs the case to be resolved so that it can plan for future broadcasts.

Matz said it was clear that a settlement could be achieved, and that the attorneys should speak to their clients about

"whether it's time for (them) to come to their senses." The judge did not signal which side he expected to prevail, and praised attorneys for both parties for the clear way they organized and argued the case.

The dispute centers on dueling interpretations of a 1993 agreement that dcp claims gives it rights to negotiate broadcast deals for the Globes and work on the show for as long as it airs on NBC. The HFPA disputes the so-called "perpetuity clause" and claims if it were deemed valid, the association would lose control of its sole asset.

The association sued in November 2010 after the NBC extension was inked and both sides have fought hard to confirm their interpretations of the agreement.

Among the witnesses called were longtime members and leaders of the HFPA, current and former dcp executives, attorneys and experts. It also featured the videotaped testimony of CBS CEO Les Moonves, who said he was willing to pay more for rights to the show and thought his network could better promote it.

Moonves testified he was prepared to pay $25 million or more a year for the Globes before the NBC deal was announced.

Moonves said he spoke with the HFPA's then-president about possibly bringing the Globes back to CBS, which dropped the awards in the early 1980s after a scandal over how the group decided to present Pia Zadora a best newcomer award.

He said after the NBC extension was announced, he was surprised to learn of its terms.

"It was odd," Moonves said.

"It was a very odd deal."

If the association wins, it would be the first time in nearly 30 years it will be able to negotiate a new production and broadcast deal on its own terms. The show had been knocked from broadcast television and relegated to late-night airings after

about 1,500 people expressed interest in additional shows, organizers said.

"It says to me that there is an enormous pent-up desire for this," Bailey said. "There's a huge need."

The Fund, which has bought out both theaters for the special dates, will offer tickets at discount prices from its website.

It said the "Mary Poppins" performance at the 1,797-seat New Amsterdam Theatre is nearly sold out and tickets to the performance of "The Lion King" at the 1,677-seat Minskoff Theatre will go on sale in late spring.

Both shows, presented by Disney Theatrical Productions, will be slightly altered to make those with autism more com-

fortable, including cutting jarring sounds and strobe lights.

Quiet areas with beanbag chairs and coloring books, staffed by autism experts, also will be created inside the theater for those who might feel overwhelmed.

To accommodate the special audience, experts identified several moments in "The Lion King" when the sound or lights needed to be toned down, but none was more than 30 percent softened. There were seven changes in all, including the volume adjusted down in the opening number, on steam blasts and on Mufasa's roar at the Elephant Graveyard. Actors walking in the aisles were kept, to the delight of the audience.

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In this Jan. 11, 2009 file photo, celebrities arrive at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif.

its members were accused of receiving favors in exchange for giving actress Zadora the award, although Clark's company was eventually able to get it a cable television deal and then bring it to NBC in 1996.

If the production company prevails, it will retain its right to work on a show that attracted nearly 17 million viewers this year and each year provides glimpses of top television and film actors mingling in a banquet setting.

The association and production company split the show's

earnings equally after costs are factored in.

Although the Globes aren't a reliable predictor of who will win on Oscar night, it has remained a key source of buzz in recent years as three-time host Ricky Gervais has lobbed caustic barbs at Hollywood's elite and the evening's guests and their fashion are analyzed for days.

Asked if he would still be interested in acquiring the Golden Globes if the rights became available, Moonves was direct.

"Every network would be," he said.

Zsa Zsa kept behind closed doors at birthday party

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After what felt like an eternity but was actually just a few minutes, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt emerged from a white door into the foyer of the oldfashioned Bel-Air mansion that he shares with his wife of 25 years, former glamour queen Zsa Zsa Gabor.

The self-proclaimed German prince held a chocolate birthday cake he said was a gift from celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck. Smoke from the expunged candles jabbed into the small cake was still drifting in the air.

Surrounded by paintings and photographs depicting Gabor when she was an infamously sassy Hungarian actress, a few dozen guests quietly sipped champagne and mingle in the common areas of the home overlooking the twinkling lights of Los Angeles.

But Gabor was nowhere to be seen — apparently celebrating her 95th birthday behind closed doors on the chilly Monday evening. Von Anhalt presented the cake to his bedridden beloved out of sight from the partygoers who had gathered for the occasion.

He paraded it around the room as he greets his guests.

Gabor hasn't had much reason to celebrate for nearly two years as she dealt with a broken hip, a leg amputated because of gangrene, blood clots, infections, pneumonia, a loose feeding tube. But that didn't stop the publicity-loving von Anhalt from throwing a good party in her honor.

There was food — German

dishes like warm pretzels and schnitzel — and plenty of drink. After emerging from the kitchen with his arms filled with bottles of pink wine, the endlessly eccentric von Anhalt scoffed at questions about unloading the mansion, having a baby or running for mayor of Los Angeles.

"This night is only a celebration of my wife's life," he proclaimed.

It was a seemingly lavish yet hardly A-list affair. Over in the sitting room, pianist Rei Williams filled the air with tunes such as "Wind Beneath My Wings" and "Moon River."

A young male singer named Caleb — just Caleb — who bears a striking resemblance to Justin Bieber, lounged outside near the pool.

In the dining room, there was a towering white cake for guests topped with strawberries and decorated with hearts and the letters "ZZ" on each tier. Over on another table was a framed letter that read: "The Consulate General of Hungary in Los Angeles sincerely congratulates Zsa Zsa Gabor on the occasion of her 95th birthday. We wish you many more years!"

So why throw such a party for Gabor after all she's been through, especially if she can't participate? Gabor may not know what's going on outside her bedroom door, but she can feel the energy, according to von Anhalt.

He said the celebration makes her feel good. He said she's getting better. He said she wants to live.

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New Chiefs coach promises to 'attack' on offense KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City's fifth offensive coordinator in four years is hoping to lend some much-needed permanence to his new team.

Brian Daboll said Monday that he considers stability to be very important.

"You look at teams, for the most part percentage-wise that have been successful over the years, one word I think is sometimes overlooked is continuity," Daboll said Monday at his introductory news conference with the Chiefs. "When you can have a system in play and you understand that your players are going to be in that system and they understand their roles, that gives you a little bit of a jump start.

The 36-year-old Daboll will replace the retired Bill Muir. He was offensive coordinator last

year at Miami and ran the offense at Cleveland the two years before that.

Since Scott Pioli took over as general manager after the 2008 season, offensive coordinator in Kansas City has been one of the most insecure positions in the NFL. Chan Gailey was fired a few days before the 2009 season began and replaced by Todd Haley, who spent his first year as a head coach also running the offense.

Charlie Weis held the job the next season, resigned and was replaced for one year by Muir.

"So we've got some work to do here installing our stuff and I look forward to it," Daboll said.

Like Pioli and head coach Romeo Crennel, Daboll's career roots are deep in the New England system, where he was a

young assistant from 2000-2005.

"I think a lot of people say he's another guy from the New England tree," Crennel said. "But it's been a while since he's been in Mew England, and I just happen to be from that New England tree also. Sometimes knowing people and knowing what they're about is important. In this case, that was important to me. Plus, I know he's a good person and a very hard worker."

Daboll inherits an offense that was devastated by injuries last year, losing Pro Bowl running back Jamaal Charles after only 12 carries and tight end Tony Moeaki in the preseason. A hand injury shelved quarterback Matt Cassel for much of the second half of a season that ended with a 7-9 mark and Haley's dismissal.

Daboll promised an aggressive approach.

"The first word I want to use is 'attack,'" he said. "When you're an offensive football coach, you want to try to really set precedent on the defense and attack the defense."

Daboll's best NFL offense so far has ranked 22nd in the league. Since Crennel plans to be defensive coordinator as well as head coach, Daboll will have more autonomy than most offensive coordinators in the NFL. "You know what, to a degree he will because I'm going to depend on him to handle the offensive side of the ball," Crennel said. "But that being said, because of our relationship, we're going to be able to sit down and say, 'This is how we need to attack an opponent,

this is what we need to do in a game plan,' and then expect Brian to implement those things."

Daboll shrugged off reports that he was hard to get along with and feuded with quarterback Colt McCoy while in Cleveland.

"With most of the players that I've coached, I have a very good relationship," he said. "Colt and I have a good relationship.

It's not a bad relationship. I think there's certain times when you're a coach and sometimes emotion can get to you. Maybe you step back and say, 'Boy, I would rather have handled it that way rather than this way.

But I think the job as a coach is to tell the players what to do and show them how to do it and really not accept any excuses.

It's an emotional game."

Attention returns to Tiger Woods

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.

(AP) — Bill Murray stumbled into the back of a crowded conference room Tuesday just as Tiger Woods was wrapping up his press conference at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. The "Caddyshack" star looked more confused than usual.

"Where's the other guy?"

Murray asked.

Murray, as it turned out, was an hour late.

He was supposed to be at the interview table with D.A. Points, his partner last year when they won the pro-am, and perhaps the most overlooked defending champion at a PGA Tour event since Nick Price at Colonial in 2003.

"I got here and I got the program and I looked at the tickets and I thought, 'Wait a minute. Didn't I win?'" Points said.

"And there are pictures of Bill everywhere. I'm driving down the highway, I see a billboard.

There's Bill. There's Tiger. I'm like, 'Where am I?'" It's the only PGA Tour event Points has won, so he was a little bummed at the oversight.

But he gets it.

"The celebrities obviously make this event larger-than-life sometimes," he said.

That's the effect Woods has this week at Pebble Beach.

It's not unusual for him to start a PGA Tour season along the Pacific coast, though it's usually at Torrey Pines. And there is a certain magic about Woods and Pebble Beach, which has been a big part of his career even though he has won only twice, both in the same year.

The first was the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, and it's a timely memory considering the last two weeks have featured wild comebacks and ugly meltdowns. Brandt Snedeker came from seven shots behind at Torrey Pines to beat Kyle Stanley, who made triple bogey on the final hole; then Stanley came from eight shots back and won in Phoenix after Spencer Levin shot 75.

Woods was seven shots out of the lead with seven holes to play in 2000, and still looked to have no chance until he holed a wedge for eagle on the 15th, nearly holed another shot on the 16th and beat a fast-fading Matt Gogel.

"I was just trying to somehow get in it," Woods recalled. "All of a sudden, boom! Three shots, two holes, I'm back in the ball game."

It was even more significant because that was his sixth consecutive PGA Tour win.

Then came the greatest single feat of his career that summer in the U.S. Open, a major where Woods was at the absolute apex of his game. On a course so difficult that no one else broke par, he shot 12-under 272 and won by 15 shots.

Now, the mystique has given way to curiosity.

Woods still draws the biggest crowd and drives attention in golf — Saturday's round when the celebrities are at Pebble Beach was headed for its first sellout — but no one can be sure what to expect. There is unpredictability about Woods that wasn't there before.

That, too, might be changing.

Woods began his 2012 season in Abu Dhabi, where he was tied for the lead going into the last day and was outplayed

by Robert Rock. What some might see as more evidence that Woods can no longer be the player he was, Woods sees as real progress.

His golf — and his life — has been a series of stops and starts since his last tour win at the 2009 Australian Masters, right before his personal life came crashing down.

The divorce. The new swing coach. The injuries. The new caddie.

Woods had to adjust to a new lifestyle as a divorced father of two children, but equally timeconsuming was the recovery from injuries. He finally got that sorted out late last summer, and then he missed two months because he was ineligible for the FedEx Cup playoffs.

His game has been trending up over the last few months.

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Kemba Tracker: Walker lighting up the NBA

By Nate Zielinski Campus Correspondent There is one glaring similarity between Kemba Walker’s play as a Connecticut Husky and his current NBA team the Charlotte Bobcats: he is the best player on each of the rosters. The only problem is that the Bobcats probably have the least talented roster in the NBA. There is no question that Kemba was ready for the league after the run he took UConn on at the end of the season last year that led to another National Championship.

However, he wasn’t prepared to carry a team in his rookie season.

He has his flashy moments where he reminds everybody why he was a first-round draft pick, but he looks overwhelmed to say the least.

Kemba was projected to come off of the bench and provide energy and scoring for this young team, but was forced to run the offense and be the main ball handler after starting point guard DJ Augustin went down with a toe injury. Walker needs to step up his production but it will be a struggle with the talent he has around him. He has been asked to be the star of a show with no supporting cast around him, and for all of the talent he possesses he is just not ready to carry the load for an NBA team. He had much of his success last year coming off the ball and outrunning and outlasting his defender. That is just not possible when there is no other viable point guard in the line up behind him. His mid range game is still the best part of his arsenal and he is becoming a better three point shooter as the year goes on. His speed is still up to par with the best of the NBA, but his height is hindering him against some of the bigger guards in the league.

Walker’s statistics are what most people expected him from him in his rookie season. He averages 12.3 points per game along with four rebounds and four assists. He is a well-rounded player that is not afraid of anyone on the court and that attitude will serve him well throughout his NBA career.

Kemba’s coming out party was definitely against the Washington

Wizards a couple weeks ago. He went off for 20 points, 11 assists, and 10 rebounds and recorded his first triple-double of his NBA career. This was impressive considering he was able to do this against the highly touted John Wall. It only took him 21 games to achieve this milestone so that in itself is a promising sign for the budding star.

However, there have been some rough moments for the former UConn star. Against the Portland Trail Blazers and the tough-minded Raymond Felton, Kemba struggled going 1-11, and only mustering four points in a beatdown. This is just a testament to how weak the talent is around him. When Kemba suffers there is no one else on the team that can lessen the load and provide a spark for the team. Even in his best game, the aforementioned triple double, no one else could support Kemba and the team lost by three points. You can sense that with each game Walker is learning more and more about the pro game and the adaptation process of being a leader and a floor general has begun. Walker proved this last night when he played against one of the league’s top point guards in Rajon Rondo. Kemba logged almost 40 minutes and was able to score 16 points and snag seven rebounds in a 94-84 loss.

This might not seem like a positive, but the Bobcats 3-22 record might be the best thing for Walker.

He needs another young player that can produce points. Kansas star Thomas Robinson is a prospect that comes to mind. He is a dominant power forward that has a lot of versatility and upside. Walker needs someone to be his wingman and with a formidable one-two punch the Bobcats would be able to contest for a playoff spot in the weaker Eastern Conference. Another championship for the UConn hero does not seem likely anytime soon, but look for Kemba Walker to keep popping up on SportsCenter as he is reaching his full potential and realizing he can handle his own in the rigorous professional game.

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Charlotte Bobcats guard Kemba Walker shoots as Chicago Bulls guard Richard Hamilton defends in Chicago on Saturday, Jan. 21.

Toss Up: What should the Colts do with Peyton Manning?

By Ryan Curto Campus Correspondent It is very difficult to talk about quarterbacks in the NFL without discussing Peyton Manning. Entering the league in 1998, the now Hall of Fame worthy quarterback is largely responsible for any of the success that the Indianapolis Colts have seen. With a victory in Super Bowl XLI, Peyton now commands respect and can be considered one of the top quarterbacks football has ever seen. However, a neck injury sustained this past year held Peyton to the sidelines for the entire season. Without him, it quickly became evident that he was the glue that held the Colts together throughout their success. With an embarrassing record of 2-14 this season, people joked that Peyton should still be in the running for the MVP because of how tremendously valuable he apparently is to the success of the Indianapolis Colts.

Nevertheless, his serious injury has now forced people to not

only question whether Peyton will remain in Indy, but if he will ever play football again.

Unfortunately for the 35-yearold quarterback, Indianapolis may now be in the rear view mirror.

The Colts have the number one overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft, meaning the Colts could draft Andrew Luck. Luck is widely considered to be the number one draft pick at the quarterback position. So what will the Colts do? Will they draft a new, young quarterback in hopes of trying to move on from the Peyton Manning era, or will they hope that Peyton can come back and continue as quarterback for the Colts?

The Colts have to move on.

Even if Peyton can come back, and play at the elite level that he has his whole career, he still only has a few more years left in the league. Eventually the Colts are going to be forced to move on from Peyton.

However, after two neck surgeries, there is by no means any indication that Peyton will be his normal self on the field.

With the doubt that Peyton’s

neck will hold up in the NFL, the Colts will draft the young quarterback from Stanford and hope to rebuild around him. It happens in every sport to every superstar athlete. Even Babe Ruth had to leave the Yankees when his prime days were over.

This is no knock on Peyton.

He is a Hall of Fame quarterback who can be compared to any of the greats in the game. It’s just what happens to everyone. A team cannot wait on something that is not guaranteed. Instead the Colts must try to rebuild their team, starting with Andrew Luck at quarterback. As far as Peyton is concerned, teams around the league will be interested in getting him to play for them.

However, Peyton’s days in Indy seem to be coming to an end.

Fortunately, not all the Manning brothers are under fire. Baby brother Eli is perfectly happy coasting down the Canyon of Heroes, hoisting his second Lombardi Trophy in four years.

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By David Marinstein Campus Correspondent The NFL postseason came to a close this past weekend with a victory for the New York Giants in the Super Bowl over the New England Patriots.

Ironically, the game was played in Indianapolis, home to the Colts and Peyton Manning (the older brother of Giants’ quarterback Eli Manning). This season was an eerily somber one in Indy. The Colts, who are usually championship contenders, were nothing more than a sinking ship all season long. The people of Indianapolis were able to celebrate a Manning, just not the one they’ve grown to love. Peyton Manning underwent two serious neck surgeries during the off-season that disallowed him from part taking in any games throughout this year. If he had played, the team would probably have won around 10 games for the season and had made the playoffs.

Without him, the Indianapolis Colts were an abysmal 2-14 and football fans throughout the country saw what Peyton

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Source: Memphis headed to Big East

Memphis is the latest school to sign up for a spot in the new Big East.

A person familiar with the decision says Memphis is joining the Big East for all sports in 2013.. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because an official announcement would be made Wednesday.

The Big East announced it would hold a teleconference with Commissioner John Marinatto, University of Memphis President Shirley C. Raines and Memphis Athletic director R.C. Johnson, though it did not give any details about what would be discussed.

Johnson said a new conference would be held in Memphis after the teleconference to dis-

cuss the university's athletic affiliation.

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) couldn't wait until the news became official to celebrate.

"I am thrilled that my hometown team and alma mater the University of Memphis is being invited to join the Big East," Cohen said in a statement.

"Joining the Big East will not only be great for the University of Memphis, but it will be an economic catalyst for the City of Memphis.

"Thanks to Louisville Coach Rick Pitino for his strong support. And Congratulations to Dr. Shirley Raines and R.C. Johnson."

The Tigers will become the fourth Conference USA team to

move to the Big East in the last two months, along with Houston, Central Florida and SMU. CBSSports.com first reported Memphis was on the verge of joining the Big East.

Memphis is the seventh future member the Big East has added in the last two months, but the first that brings more value in basketball than football. The Tigers haven't had a winning record in football since 2007, but the men's basketball team has been a Top 25 mainstay.

The Big East is trying to replace basketball powers Syracuse and Pittsburgh and West Virginia, and create a football league with at least 12 teams. Syracuse and Pittsburgh are leaving for the Atlantic

Coast Conference and West Virginia is headed to the Big 12.

The Big East has been adding new future members for the last two months. In December, Boise State and San Diego State agreed to join for football only in 2013, along with SMU, UCF and Houston.

Last month, the Big East announced Navy will become a football-only member in 2015.

When West Virginia, Syracuse and Pitt will leave the Big East is still up in the air.

West Virginia has sued the Big East in an effort to join the Big 12 in 2012. The Big East filed a countersuit trying to force WVU to abide by the conference's bylaws, which require a 27-month notification period for schools to depart.

Manning truly meant to his team. The Colts found themselves at the bottom of the AFC, tied for the worst record in the NFL. But with a terrible season comes a great first round draft pick. The Colts received the number one pick in the 2012 NFL Draft. Most are expecting the team to go after Stanford quarterback, Andrew Luck, arguably the best and “most NFL ready” player in the draft.

Without a doubt, this would be a great move for the organization. It is not easy to acquire such a great talent in a draft.

But the question remains, what will come of Peyton Manning?

Recently, doctors cleared Peyton Manning to play football once again. He is now allowed to return to the Colts as their quarterback…right? The controversy that surrounds this situation relates back to the possible drafting of Andrew Luck.

If the Colts scoop Luck (which they are expected to do), where does that leave Peyton? In my opinion, the Colts will keep Peyton around as the starter in order to provide a mentor for the talented Andrew Luck.

Although Andrew Luck is ready to jump into a starting position, I don’t see why he would have any problem with playing behind one of football’s best quarterbacks for a few years. The Colts know what they have in Peyton and would be very foolish to just give that up without seeing how he can produce following his surgeries. Peyton is 35 years old and beginning to near the end of his career. He has at least two or three more good seasons left in him. Luck will be groomed behind Manning for a few of these years and then eventually take the reigns of the Colts organization.

The Indianapolis Colts have won at least 10 games every year that Peyton’s been their quarterback (except for his rookie season). It would be unjust and a slap in the face for them to part ways with him now. I see the Colts sticking with the great Peyton Manning for a few more seasons before turning to their quarterback of the future, Andrew Luck.

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UConn's Bartus stops 26 of 30 shots in losing effort from FIGHTING, page 14 The Black Knights would score the eventual game winner off a shot from senior defensemen Bill Day. UConn pulled goaltender Garret Bartus with 1:16 left to play but could not find the equalizer. Army added an empty net goal by forward Kyle Maggard to secure the victory. “We only had 12 shots on goal, you can’t have that in your own building,” said Marshall

Bartus stopped 26 shots of the 30 he faced in the loss for UConn.

“It’s a team effort, we weren’t going 100 percent.

We have our off nights this was pretty disappointing,” said Bartus.

The Huskies will look to get back to their winning ways when they take on Sacred Heart this Friday at home as the playoff race continues in Atlantic Hockey.

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — It wasn’t the Canyon of Heroes and there wasn’t as much tickertape, but that didn’t seem to bother about 30,000 New York Giants fans who flocked to MetLife Stadium Tuesday to celebrate the team’s rousing Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots.

Some of them even got to touch a piece of history when Giants running back Brandon Jacobs capped the boisterous celebration by taking the Vince Lombardi Trophy and walking it around the stadium to give delirious fans in the lower rows a chance to lean over and put their hands on it. It was an impromptu moment that fit the mood of the afternoon.

“We just came from a great parade in the Canyon of Heroes, but when you pull into this place and see all the fans, there really is no place like home,” team co-owner John Mara told the cheering crowd.

Thousands of fans showed up hours early to tailgate in the parking lot as if it were a Sunday during the season. And with weather in the upper 40s and low 50s, it was hard to distinguish it from October anyway.

Carol and John Senatore of Stony Point, N.Y., near West Point, share a season-ticket package and didn’t even consider going into New York for the morning parade.

“We tailgate all year, so we figured why not do it today, too,” John Senatore said. “This is more intimate.”

Dennis Ubiles, a Manhattan resident, opted to come across the river instead of heading downtown. He managed to get son Andrew out of his elementary school for the day. And the two were ready to celebrate, Dennis in his Victor Cruz jersey like so many Giants fans, and Andrew with the No. 9 of kicker Lawrence Tynes.

“I like him because he’s Scottish and my mother’s Scottish,” Andrew explained.

Ubiles said he never doubted the Giants would rise to the occasion even when they lost four games in a row late in the season.

He said he chose to come to the New Jersey celebration because he thought it would have a little more edge.

“I think the players will really kick back,” he said. “We might see some salsa.”

It wasn’t salsa being performed on the players’ stage in the middle of the field, but there were some non-football moves being made when the rap group Naughty By Nature performed at the end of the program.

Afterward, Cruz, the wide receiver who became an instant hero this season with his long touchdown runs and end-zone salsa performances, signed autographs for dozens of fans who leaned over the front row of the stands to get close to him. At one point during the bedlam, he posed for a picture with 18-year-old Zack Pollack of Passaic, a cerebral palsy sufferer who watched the ceremony from his wheelchair on the field.

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Mired in its most disappointing season to date, the UConn women’s hockey team enjoyed a rare bright spot last Sunday.

When the final buzzer sounded, the Huskies had downed visiting New Hampshire 6-3 and snapped their twelve-game winless streak.

For Emily Snodgrass, that bright spot grew a whole lot bigger on Monday.

The Eagan, Minn. native was named the Hockey East/ Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week for her remarkable performance over the weekend.

Prior to the Huskies’ victory over the Wildcats, Snodgrass netted a powerplay goal last Saturday against No. 7 Northeastern.

The man advantage score gave UConn a 2-0 lead, however they could not hold on and eventually dropped a 3-2 decision in Boston.

Despite the bitter defeat, the first-year forward was able to ride her personal momentum into Sunday’s home game. In the middle period, Snodgrass

recorded her team leading eleventh assist on the season, following a Sami Evelyn goal. The score was one of four Husky pucks to find the back of the net in the second frame, which matched their previous season high for goals scored over an entire game.

Later, Snodgrass tacked on an insurance goal of her own, giving herself three points on the weekend. She now ranks sixth in the Hockey East in scoring per game for freshmen, at 0.68 points per contest, and leads her club in that category.

It was Snodgrass’ second time receiving the honor and the first time that any Husky had been bestowed with a conference award since December 5th.

UConn will return to the ice for a home-and-home series with Boston College this Saturday at the Freitas Ice Forum with puck drop scheduled for 1 p.m.

Sunday’s match in Boston will begin at 2:00 p.m. and can be heard on UConn’s student radio, 91.7 FM WHUS or online at whus.org.

Andrew.J.Callahan@UConn.edu

By Jimmy Onofrio Staff Writer Game of the Week: Oklahoma City 111, Portland 107 (OT) Oklahoma City has become one of the NBA’s marquee teams this season, and while Portland is considered underperforming, their 11-1 home record going into this matchup meant this would be a good game. Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge scored a career-high 39 points in Portland’s loss, while Kevin Durant dropped 33 for the Thunder. It was a goaltending call on Aldridge with three seconds on the clock that sent the game into overtime, where OKC outscored Portland 8-4 to secure the win.

Wish We Were There: Philadelphia 95, Los Angeles Lakers 90 Kobe Bryant moved into fifth place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list on Monday, passing former teammate Shaquille O’Neal.

Bryant has scored 28,601 points in his career, but needs almost 3,000 more to catch number four on the list, Wilt Chamberlain.

Bryant, who played high school basketball at Lower Merion High

School in suburban Philadelphia, has been welcomed back to the area with the familiar Philly greeting of overwhelming boos, in reaction to comments he made towards Sixers fans during the 2001 Finals.

Philadelphia improved to 18-7 with the win, while the Lakers are now 14-11, and just 3-9 on the road.

Game to Watch: Miami Heat at Orlando Magic, Wed. 7 p.m.

LeBron James is averaging almost 30 points a game for the Heat, who are a game and a half behind Chicago in the Eastern Conference. While he and Dwayne Wade have been playing well, the last member of Miami’s Big Three hasn’t been pulling his weight recently. Chris Bosh is averaging just 11 points per game in Miami’s last five games.

Meanwhile, Dwight Howard has made his desire known to get out of Orlando by the March 15th trading deadline. He is still the Magic’s best player, averaging 21 points and 15 rebounds, and the Magic are in sixth in the East at 15-10.

This in-state rivalry will be worth watching.

James.Onofrio@UConn.edu

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Talk about Chuck

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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FIGHTING IT OUT AT FREITAS Army skates past UConn in chippy contest in Storrs, avoids season sweep

By Tyler Morrissey Campus Correspondent

Colin McDonough My parents met and got married at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. So on Saturday we tuned in to ESPNU to watch our parents’ alma mater play Richmond. The Dukes were sporting throwback red jerseys to honor Chuck Cooper in hopes of bringing attention to the Chuck Cooper Foundation, which gives out scholarships to college students. This got me thinking.

What is the NBA doing?

Cooper was the first African American player to be drafted in the NBA. Owner Walter Brown of the Boston Celtics took him with the 12th pick in the second round of the 1950 NBA draft.

Upon further research, there are more heroes to honor. Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton was the first black player to sign an NBA contract after signing with the New York Knicks prior to the 1950 season. But neither Cooper nor Clifton were the first players to break the color barrier on the court.

Earl Lloyd was the first African American to play in the NBA. On Halloween in 1950, Lloyd stepped on the hardwood with the Washington Capitols.

Days later, Clifton and Cooper got their start with the Knicks and Celtics.

So my question is, why doesn’t the NBA honor these men with the same vigor that Major League Baseball does with Jackie Robinson? Every April 15th every baseball team wears No. 42 for Robinson, who broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947. The NBA needs to do something like that as well.

I realize that since its three players who helped make history in professional basketball, it’d be tough for everyone to wear three different numbers. In fact, Hank DeZonie was the fourth black player in the NBA. He played for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks that same season. Also, these players did not have the careers that Robinson did in baseball, but this doesn’t mean that Boston, New York or Washington can’t have tributes to these heroes.

Last year during Black History Month, I wrote a column about the heroics of Robinson and Bill Russell. I said that sports are ahead of everything else in society and I still stand by that. Cooper, Clifton, Lloyd and DeZonie played alongside white men before blacks were able to sit in the front of a bus in the South. These four players drank water on the bench with their white teammates before blacks and whites were able to use the same water fountain in the South. If people like Brown, Red Auerbach or Knicks coach John Lapchick were running the government, than maybe our country would’ve been even more progressive than it already is.

It’s impossible to glorify everyone who contributed to the Civil Rights Movement, or any societal evolution for that matter, but the NBA should do more. Recent studies have shown that African Americans make up about 76 percent of the players in the NBA. The MLB is only approximately 10 percent African American. Yet, baseball honors Robinson every year, and thrusts it upon the nation every April. Basketball needs to do this.

The black players in the NBA deserve to wear jerseys, patches, bands or something to teach the nation about Cooper, Clifton and Lloyd.

People shouldn’t have to watch a Duquesne basketball game to learn about this stuff.

Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu

The UConn men’s hockey team fell to Army last night 4-2 in an important Atlantic Hockey league showdown that would have given UConn the season sweep of the Black Knights.

The Huskies struck first off a power play goal from junior forward Miles Winter, his seventh goal of the year. Army answered with a goal of their own from freshmen forward Zak Zaremba at the 15:07 mark of the first period.

The score would remain tied 1-1 through the second period, but there was still plenty of action as both teams were searching for the go-ahead goal. A scrum behind the Army net lead to matching roughing penalties as play would be four on four. There was plenty of hitting in the second period as well, including a controversial no call by the officials as a UConn player was taken down in front of the Husky bench which could have been called a boarding. “It should have been a boarding call, but you have to move on from it,” said head coach Bruce Marshall.

Army would break the tie in the third period when junior forward Andy Starczewski lit the lamp for the Black Knights. UConn would respond with a goal from sophomore forward Jordan Sims, who managed to just squeeze the puck under the pads of Army net minder Ryan Leets for his eighth goal of the season.

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Members of the Army and UConn hockey teams take part in a scuffle on the ice at Mark E. Freitas Ice Forum on Tuesday night. The Huskies fell 4-2.

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UConn misses opportunity to climb in standings

By Carmine Colangelo Staff Writer As the 2011-2012 regular season comes down to the wire for the UConn men’s hockey team, winning games down the stretch is priority No. 1 as the Huskies look to climb their way to the top part of the Atlantic Hockey Association.

Last night the Huskies played conference rival Army with two things on the line: a season sweep against the Black Knights and a chance to put themselves within two points of third place. Neither feat was accomplished.

“I’d like to say it was one of those nights where we worked

really hard and really competThe beginning of the game ed, but I did not see a lot out looked promising for the there in us tonight,” said head Huskies as forward Miles coach Bruce Marshall.

Winter scored the game’s openGoing in to ing goal on a power tonight’s game, the play at 9:33 in the Huskies were in sevfirst period. The enth place in the AHA Huskies would lose standings with 23 momentum as the points. A win would Black Knights began have put the Huskies to pile up the shots in a tie for fifth place on goal until one with Robert Morris finally found the net and have them sitting with 4:53 remainjust two points behind » Notebook ing in the first. The RIT and Niagara. The Huskies were outshot top four seeds in the AHA all 13-2 in that period. receive first round byes in the At the end of that period as opening round of the tourna- the Huskies skated off the ice ment, making every point count you could hear one player yell as they finish up the tail end of “that was (expletive) embartheir season. rassing.”

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Frustration had set in for the Huskies. Things did not really look up for the Huskies as they lost to the Black Knights 4-2. The Huskies overall record stands at 12-14-2 and are 11-91 in conference play.

“Every game is going to be huge down the stretch,” said goaltender Garrett Bartus, who finished the game with 26 saves. “I think we got to realize that and not look past any team.”

Bartus had 26 saves on 29 shots last night, while the fourth goal came on an empty net with 44 seconds remaining in the game. “A lot of times when we lose we end up beating ourselves,” said Bartus, whose statement held true statistical-

ly as 3 of the Black Knight’s goals came off of turnovers by the Huskies. The Huskies were outshot 30-15.

All is not lost for the Huskies, however as they still have six games remaining in the season, leaving them with at most 12 possible points to gain. In the remaining games they play Bentley, who is currently one point ahead of them in the standings, American International, who is in 11th place in the AHA, and Sacred Heart who they play this weekend, is in 12th in conference.

The Huskies will host the Pioneers this Friday at 7:05 p.m.

Carmine.Colangelo@UConn.edu

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Huskies blow past No. 20 Louisville on road

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — “We couldn’t buy a bucket Caroline Doty made sure No. in the first half,” coach Jeff 3 UConn’s season-low scoring Walz said. “We missed point total was still good enough. blank layups to start the game She led the Huskies with and you can’t do that if you 15 points and the Huskies’ want to win in the Big East.” defense helped hold off No. The Huskies held Louisville 20 Louisville 56-46 Tuesday to just two field goals in the night. final 12 minutes of the first Doty, scoreless in her last half and led 33-17 at the game against Rutgers, made break.

5 of 11 on 3-point Louisville cut attempts.

Tiffany the Huskies’ lead Hayes added nine to 46-40, but Bria points and 11 Hartley made a rebounds before from the UConn 56 3-pointer fouling out for left corner.

UConn (22-2, 10-1 Louisville 46 “We went out Big East). there and we just “We made just kept working our enough plays in the end,” defense,” Schimmel said.

UConn coach Geno Auriemma “Our defense paid off for our said. “Caroline just bailed us offense.” out.”

UConn gave Louisville Shoni Schimmel led its first home loss this seaLouisville (17-7, 6-5) with son, snapping a 12-game 20 points and eight rebounds. home winning streak for the Sara Hammond added 10 Cardinals. Louisville has now points, eight of which came in lost three straight overall after the second half. dropping both its last two

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road games against DePaul and West Virginia by double digits.

The Huskies entered the game holding opponents to a national-best 30 percent shooting. They held Louisville to 25 percent.

“We’ve got to keep working the ball around and not play like our heads on fire, as Coach would say,” Doty said.

“We’ve just got to stay composed and know that they’re not going to back down.”

Louisville played without center Cierra Warren. Walz announced after game that the sophomore had left the team. A transfer from North Carolina, Warren had started 10 games this season and averaged eight points and 4.5 rebounds.

Warren’s loss is another blow for the Cardinals who previously lost two of their top three returning scorers, Tia Gibbs and Monique Reid, to season-ending injuries.

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Connecticut’s Caroline Doty, right, looks for an opening around Louisville’s Shoni Schimmel during the second half Tuesday.